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POEM PAYS TRIBUTE TO AMERICAN
FLAG, SEEKS SYMPATHY FOR FRANCE
Edmond Rostand Voices Plea for Nation Gripped by War Lyric Tribute Calls Forth Wide Attention and Trans
lation Is Made by Sterling Heilig.
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The Song of the Stars
Edmond Rostand, French poet and author of "Cyrano," the "Aiglon" and "Chantecler," has written a remarkable
lyrjc tribute to the American flag-. It is written from the French viewpoint and seeks to show that the sympathy
of the United States should be with France in the present world conflict. The poem was published in 'Illustration
and attracted wide attention. The accompanying translation was made by Sterling Heilig.
"Sir," said the Man of Frightf ulness, "I've found It."
"For six months long I made myself to look
Like an American citizen, to find a way
To make his Flag wave in the air for us
And never could I get the Flag to stir.
I spoke to it spoke, taking off my hat.
To the white stripes, but, mostly, to the red.
And then, when I said: 'Here, now, you Flag wave!
For Germany wave!' Sadly it stayed still. '
"Twas like a stuff with lead hemmed into it.
It seemed as if each breath of air stayed from it.
But, if I spoke a word of France, it thrilled,
And I had Just the time to stop my mouth.
Feeling the Flag was on the point of waving!
"Sir, for six months I've sought a way. I sought
To understand how, all along this pole -
You call a Staff, it comes that, at the end,
A stuff you call the Flag when everything
rihould tremble to each wind from Germany
Would not allow Itself to show one thrill.
But, stubborn, stayed set in what men call Honor.
"Yet I, superb and insolent, suborning
Twas Wagner taught me how to master souls,
And Treitschke wills, and Bismarck telegrams
Heavy, but with industrious rhowraan's heft.
Harnessed with Hartmann, Haeckel, and Von Harnack,
And, mornings, Just to cultivate my strength.
Having the masseur Zarathoustra rub my bust,
I thought, proud-hearted, sandy-haired, hard-skinned.
That I might well pretend seduce a flag
Which deems itself Standard of Strenuous Life.
"Well, no! No sooner did I speak of Belgium
Than its folds tightened round the haughty staff
Like the robe that enfolds a maiden. And, one morn.
As I explained Louvain. it fell to half-mast!
The faot that all our soldiers carry in their knapsack
A staff of phosphorus, stopped its floating free.
And from its folds a murmur always came.
Astonishment at cruelties and cunning.
And that, for marching off to throw in Russian eyes
Vitriol, after drinking ether ourselves,
Odin should have hia helmet blessed by Luther.
The Staff said: 'Never Nelson nor Ganteaume
Could have supported, through their nights, the phantom
Of a drowned woman." 'And do they, then, drown
Women?' asked the Flag; and the Wind answered: Ti!"
Then the Flag shrunk and held herself aloof.
This Flag resists me, and desires to make me feel it.
There's Something under this. Or, rather.
Above it.
"What, then, without cease, on high.
Inspires this Flag in such a manner that y
It" has a banner's strict Idealism?
I know. What is it that resists? I know
What is it that, at each wind from France,
ioiiii'uih our, as wuen one is lurvaa ig
To tie this Flag to its start l Know,
The Stars.
f'l had not calculated with the Stars.
They it
"tn the corner, on high, is it not? so placed
That we oft forget them. We believe strong-marrowed
Slugged Anglo-Saxons have no need of stars.
And that in sport they put them in the corner.
Never to be used. But they do need them.
Stars they must have. When he weaves a nag
The workman knows that Honor. Justice, Pity
There, on high, must palpitate and heed;
And, gravely, through the silk, he passes silver threads.
"So you see. in five rows, beside the Staff's head.
Shining white stars, all in their silent lines.
"My troubles came from those old generous Stars!
'Tis they start up hostility against us.
That corner 'tis speaks ever ill of Force.
Tis there the place where Feeling plots, the spot
Where Love's forever whispering with Right.
The square where Fancy places hor forget-me-nots.
(The Man, while speaking, lost his accent of the States.)
"Again he spoke up "What can I do?' was still.
And then: I tell you, sir, I have found a way!"
"Then, quickly, taking from a sow-skin pack
All sorts of things, he showed, explained, wiped clean:"
A fine, extensible ladder, rubber and iron.
To mount the pinnacle where this folk keep
Their Flag. . . . Hooked gloves, to climb the Staff,
Roof-colored clothes, invisible, and steeped
In lead. Soft-sneaking shoes, to walk along the roof . .
And, at last ...
"His Frankfort accent came out strong,
"Scissors. Mein Herr, scissors of biggest kind.
Kxpressly made to cut througfi the thick silk!
'Tis steel from Solingen. which beats all hollow
Sheffield. 'Tis superior quality!'
"Extravagant was his commercial traveler's air!
Then he began again, with perverse grace:
'These good Americans, they took me to their bosom:
What's to be done in a shelter given by friends
Unless I swipe their Stars?'
"Then, bluntly: 'Get out, French stuffs, poetasters! :
'Tis done, the deed is done! I did it! Why
Conceal it longer?' Leaping high, he howled:
Where the blue square was. there is a square hole!
Their Stars?' His anger now was Jubilant.
'Good Barbarism! They call me a Hunt
Well, so I am. And, even, I am, too,
A Vandal and. if you desire It, I'm a Boche!
As lor their Stars. I've got them in my pocket!'
"And drawing from his pocket a shining rag
Which he mussed in his fingers like a treaty:
'Here they are all! Strike up our Nietzsche's dance!
Ladies and gentlemen, where are your Stars? No use
RACE PRIDE, HIDEOUS FETICH,
STANDS IN WAY OF PEACE IDOLS
Rabbi Wise Says if Men Are to Be Won Over to Cause of Peace, Their Code of Life Must Undergo Great Change
America, as Melting Pot of Nations, Is on Right Path.
BY RABBI JONAH B. WISH.
Of Temple Beth Israel.
THE pacificist of today is facing
a situation that is most annoy
ing. The hideous debacle of Eu
ropean war alone would hasten his end
as & philosopher were it not already
made imminent by the obviously un
tenable nature, both of his premises
and conclusions. He argues two things,
the one that the white man's present
civilisation seeks peace and the other
that the ethics of the Caucasian makes
for peace. Neither of these assump
tions are at all near the truth. The
white race has, since time was young,
considered itself peculiarly fitted to
rule the world. The lighter the color
of the human being, tne bluer his eyes
and the blonder his hair, the more he
argues himself a dominant individual.
It is seriously pointed out that there
CHANT DBS -ASTRES'
tun a salt.
Is,
are no successful rules (see Barbarossa
with his redgold beard and the blond
kings of the Franks and the Mue-eyed
Angloeaxons). who are not blonds,
therefore of the dominant strain.
It is not to be refuted that this will
to mastery is a part of the white man's
burden, and that be carries it with him
in all of his activities, domestic, po
litical, religious and commercial. One
of the sacred privileges of a white skin
is to plunder all . persons of black,
brown, red and yellow colors. This is
a privilege Intensified by the convic
tion that any other than a white man
is a bad man and therefore an accept
able sacrifice to the God who is in
sympathy with the dominant race. We
Americans unqualifiedly accepted the
opinion of a professional mankiller
that "there is no good Indian but a
dead Indian." This epitomizes the at
titude of the Caucasian toward his fellow-inhabitants
of the globe.
The white races do not only think
Soppfcwox 4 L'LLUSTPATOS d. " mi 191 S
.
To look for them. They're gone!' JHis fingers snapped
Like a swelled-head magician's. Then more calm
He set himself; as with a sordid Joy
To tear the white spots in the square of silk
Saying: "Therein I hold your Scruples! There
Your silly Good Faith, absurd Prejudice;
All that resisted: all that held us back!"
He looked a fisher like one
Shaking pearls till they shine in his blue bandana,
t
'In Victor Hugo's poem, 'Satan's End.'
You find a blank space and these five words in it:
'The Song of the Stars is lacking.' Greedy Death.
Alas! took off the poet's soul wherein the song lived!
Ever these words to me seemed a great cry;
' For is it not the greatest of disasters
That men should not have the Song of the Stars!
I said the words low thinking of the Flag:
The Man frisked like the crazy boob in Edgar Poe:
Laughed like a tramp who has Just broke the bank:
The while I mourned 'The Song of the Stars lacks!'
" 'Come and see!' he cried.
"The Flag amid the night
Hung low, as a proud soul hides its disgust;
Concealing its wound in its folds. The Man
Said: 'See If it waves now when they name
iJTour land!'
"And he spoke the Name.
"The Name
W'here Roland has his horn: Joan of Arc her Banner.
He spoke. And Saints and Heroes, poets, too.
Dwell in that name. The Cock and eke the Lark
And Eagle lodge within it. Aye. he spoke the Name
Not knowing all he said but grew green-pale
To feel its sweetness spite him in the mouth.
The man said 'France' with the same accent wild
Which damned souls must have when they cry out: 'God!
"At once the Flag waved forth to the blue sky.
And in their corner, at their place, by the Staff-head,
The Stars they all were there and vigilant
Throbbed all together, as their splendors grouped
To say that it should not be possible
To cut the heavenly scutcheon from the Flag
Except to make it bluer, deeper, heavenlier still.
Sprung from itself again; and the Man understood
How, through the empty spot where now the sky
Was framed in, just like water in a pool.
You saw real stars where pictured stars had been.
And he was silent. In the Flag he cut
The Heavens had placed a piece of their own blue.
Then with fresh voices, as when shadows lighten.
The Stars of Heaven sang through the silk Flag,
The Song of the Stars. it shall lack never
"Bear witness. Mountains blue. Heights, Summits, Peaks,
We are become part of this JPlag! Pure Night,
Permit us to pass in the narrow space cut vainly.
To pass in our slow ranks, innumerable.
To signify that the whole Firmament
Feels itself threatened, now, in all its Stars!
Fvil's immense ambition, thou'rt unveiled!
So be it! We are no more simply names
Altair, Vega but what in us Hate hates.
Reason are we 'and Libertyfor we
Are .still more representative than men.
Emerson, be witness we are Goodness, too!
K'en up to us the Beast's breath has arisen.
Watch well! 'Tis the same Beast with bloody chaps.
Whom Roosevelt, charging heavily his guns,
With hunter's clear eye saw come from afar.
Shine, thrill, maintainall that is sweet and needed
To the Ideal of the People strong and free.
Karth's gold has need, to make fair equilibrium.
Of our diviner silver for light counterweight.
And while we're there, O Matter, 'tis in vain
Thou think'st to conquer with dark stratagems.
No, for we follow Wililam James' course!
All the Flag's height remains mysterious.
We're its immortal freshness. And we, too.
Are its eyes that read through all guilty plans."
Watch well. Who could have dreamed us capable
To quit the post which Washington assigned us!
Soon as a traitor's near, trembles a Star.
We know the plans of races never frank:
Instead of the blue square sewn with silver stars
In the Flag's upper corner, they would fain replace
Some yellow square with a Black Bird adorned.
Watch well! Let not Rapacious Wings
Hide the sublime square in which all space breathes.
Ah, Lincoln never yet was buried quite.
So that, when slavery afar begins again.
He would not rise. Walt Whitman flings his felt.
Angry to neutral stand when wounded men are killed.
And roars, with head bare, like King Lear!
What is the Empire that could make grow pale
The Empyrean! O Flag, with the Stars adorned,
Float out. No man hath heard it said as yet
The Stars are like to lose their memory.
And Franklin's heart beats in America for France!
France strove for us. Let us take heed for her.
Stars. Washington had five swords to his sheath.
Sing; sing that Joffre has his five swords as well:
That they already shine, the World to save;
Maunoury, Sarrail, Foch. D'Espery. De Langle!
Their victory is ours! In this blue square
Let us sing as with lutes and psaltery!'
"'And laugh!' said suddenly a Star.
And laugh
"At all who, like Von Kluck along the Marne,
And our Man of this night, incarnate Pride,
With method, scientific, big hands sure.
And sure big tools hammered by German hands.
Sure plans enwoven like coarse webs of cloth,
Sure there were never, just beyond the Stars
Their big eyes see, other and other Stars,
Sure they would never see return the blue
Their scissors with big blades have cut away
And so are stupefied when we shine out.
For they foresee well all save what's essential.
They have foi gotten but one thing the Heavens!"
themselves specially appointed to quell
or exterminate the colored, but they
conscientiously apply themselves to the
task as a mission. They exploit them
and steal their lands, they introduce
amongst them their own diseases and
vices, and then Insist unon convert
ing them to a form of religion no
tably unsuited to the dominant race,
therefore hardly acceptable to the
others.
Since the white man has set out to
conquer and destroy the individuality
of all other forms of civilization he has
incurred the deep distrust and lively
enmity of the rest of the world. The
white nations cannot live at peace with
their neighbors and therefore must
continue the art of war. The ideal of
peace is so remote from the policy of
their state and society that it cannot
even be mentioned as a part of the
political ideas of Caucasian society.
The difference between the militant
and the pacific nations is a matter of
degree of candor. Germany candidly
accepts and expresses the white man s
theories of government, England ob
liquely yields to the pressure, but re
sents the imputation of being a part
of the whole which she tries to domi
nate. The difference between them
seems to be that one is bold while the
other is conscientious.
Selfishness Is Blamed.
No pacifist can unblushingly tell his
fellows that peace is a thing in itself
to be desired. He can only argue that
peace Is profitable and pays. Therein
lies the dilemma of the peace move
ment. It consciously proclaims that
it is seeking peace with profit, not
peace with sacrifices. Industrial lite
and our general social organization re
flects this attitude or rather is the
source of it. -
We have a general philosophy of
profit not of benefit. Now the basis
of profit is selfishness. It raises the
hope in the individual that he mav
succeed in culling wealth from the ne
cessities of the mass of humanity. Our
economic and social organization places
a premium upon those qualities which
muKe lor war, that is, it rewards rst-
gressiviness, cunning and greed. The
qualities which make for peace such
as self-denial, candor and generosity
are lauded in church on Sundays but
are honored in the breach on work
days. Some thousands of years aero Jere
miah saw through the veil of social
convention and pointed out the funda
mental cause of war. He said, "From
the least of them even unto the great
est of them every one is given unto
covetousness; and from the prophet
even unto tne priest every one deal-
etn falsely. They have healed the
wound of the daughter of my people
only slightly, saying peace, peace,
when there is no peace."
War Is Laid to Race Pride.
It seems to me that the mission of
the pacifist is not to remove the symp
toms of our distemper by praying lor
disarmament, but to get at the organs
themselves and by conscientious diag
nosis point out the sources and suggest
a remedy. If men are to be won over
to the cause of peace they must believe
in it. They cannot do so as long as
they are committed to a form of life
that is its antithesis.
Race pride, that obtuse and brutal
shibboleth, stands in the light of day
as the most hideous fetich of our
time. It is the spark that exploded
the present war. America offers an ex
ample of how this miserable remnant
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Thirteenth and Clay street Very Ke-v. H.
M. Ramsey, dean. Holy communion, 7:46;
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Sunday school at 10 A. M. ; evening service
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METHOIHST.
First Methodist Episcopal Church, Twelfth
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1., pastor. 10:30 A. M., Sermon, subject "The
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subject "A Memorial to Patriotism. '
Mount Tabor, corner of East Stark and
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Services Sunday as follows: Preaching, 11 A.
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Rose City Eark, Sandy boulevard and East
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II. "Memorial Day, the Unfinished Task";
:45, Young People's meeting; 7:45, monthly
musical service.
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9:4.V, morning sermon,- "What Is It to Be'
iu Christ J ejus'.'" 11; class meeting, J
of gavaaery can be tamed. Here in
the Melting Pot all races and nations
are combining to work out the salva
tion of the whole. Europe must come
to the ame viewpoint else it is doomed
to destruction.
The organization of society must be
such as to live up to the idea of bene
fit, not wofit. Until that time comes
there will be no chance for the co
ordination of the powers of the white
race. Our unco-ordinated. mutually
distrustful and therefore quarrelsome
social organization makes for war as
surely as the waters run into the sea.
It seems to me from these disjointed
observations that the work of the pa
cifist is clearly the rectifying of the
mistakes of our system, not the spik
ing of guns. - .
Solution Expected In America. a
I firmly believe that America is on
the road to such solution. In the ideals
of democracy there is room for the
broadly fundamental changes that are
essential to the pacificist goal of last
ing peace. We cannot bear with the
programme that asks for a truce. We
must set our faces firmly toward the
direction of complete change, not tem
porary alteration. All arguments are
in favor of peace, all men seek it and
where there is such unanimity as to
the end, there should be a possibility
of uniting upon the means. While
the changes must be fundamental they
need not be radical. That is they need
rob no one man to pay another and
they can only come gradually unless
they do come through the misery of
such myriads of men as shall dwarf the
hideous suffering of even this war.
When the remnants of the victors
and vanquished reel toward their
homes; the maimed, the blind, the
idiotic, the orphan, the widow, the im
poverished, the great unconsolable
mass of those who are suffering from
the mistakes of humanity; there will
come a gleam of consciousness into the
murky vision of men, that if men can
make such sacrifices for temporary
gain what can they not do for the
permanent uplift of humanity.
This war has shown us that there is
in the white race a virility, courage
and strength that led astray brings
misery. The pacificist can well afford
to take assurance from this test that
humanity has in it a larger vision, a
greater power of sacrifice than the
philosophy of peace heretofore has
imagined and knowing that build for
eternity and not for time, not the tem
porary palace for the trice of despair
but the permanent structure for the
peace of hope.
Epworth League, 6.45; address, "In the
Steps of Jesus in the Holy Land," by Dr.
John Lewtas, S; midweek service, Thursday
7:45; stereopticon lecture on the European
war by Dr. John Lewtas. Friday 8.
First African Methodist Episcopal 5Slon
Church. SS Williams avenue. W. W.
Howard, D. D., pastor. Preaching at 11
A. M. and H P. M. Sunday school 1 P. M.
C. E. Society, 7 P. M. Miss Kate A. Morri
son, president and leader. Prayer meeting
Thursday 8 P. M. Everybody welcome,
come.
Ceutenary, Eat Ninth and East Pine
streets, the downtown church of the East
Side T. W. Lane, minister. Sunday school,
U:45 A. M. : morning worship, 1 1 o'clock.
Sermon by pafotor to G. A. R.t "The Great
Peacemaker" ; class, meeting immediately
lifter morning worship; Epworth League at
i::0 p. M., the Young People's service;
evening worship at 7:40, theme, "The Divine
Forbearance."
Swediah service will be held In Oregon
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are most cordially invited to attends John
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SunnypUle, earner Eat Yamhill and
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memorial service. 1 1 A. M. ; Epw orth League,
6:30 1. M. ; stereopticon lecture on "Mexico,"
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Wood law n. Kaat Tenth and Highland
streets Louis Thomas, pastor. S. S., 10 A.
M.; E. L., 7 P. M. ; services. 11 A. M.. 7:46
P. M. ; Gordon Granger Post, G. A.
numniial service, "Speaking the Truth";
praver service Thursday evening.
Trinity, East Tenth and Sherman streets
Rev. A. B. Calder, pan tor. Sunday school,
10 A. M. ; Epworth League, J::n P. M. ; 11,
"A House Built in Silence;" 7:30, "A Path
to Success."
METHODIST I: PI SO OPAL, SOUTH.
I'n ion avenue and Multnomah street
W. J. Fenton, pastor. Sunday school at 10
A. M. ; preaching at 11 A. M. and 8 P. M.
NEW THOUGHT.
Templo of Truth, Eilora building, Broad
way and Alder Perry Joseph ire n, teach
er. Morning service, 11 o'clock; Truth school,
10 o'clock; Young People's meeting, 7 P. M. ;
lecture "The Man Who Can Succeed," to
P. M.
MiW CHURCH SOCIETY.
New Church Society. Knights of Pythias
Hall, Eleventh, and Alder street a Rev. Sam
uel Worcester, D. D pautor. Services at 11
A. M ., subject, "The Need of Beiug Bon,
Agiiin." tounday school at 10:15.
V IwKSl YT EK 1 A N.
Vhird, East Thrteenth and Pine streets
Rev. a. L. Hutchinson, pastor. Services at
10 :30 and 7 :4.
Rose City Park Church, corner of Forty
fifth and Hancock streets -Morning wor
ship. 11: evening worship. 7:4f; church
school. 9:45 A. M. ; Junior C Sunday
afternoon 3:ao; Senior C. E, 5:45 P. M;
mid-week meeting. Thursday. 7:43 P. M-
piedmont, corner Cleveland and Jarrett
streets Rev. J. R. N". Bell will preach at
loth services 11 and 7:;iu. Sunday school,
U:4J; Christian Endeavor, 6:30.
Calvary. Eleventh end Clay streets -Rev.
Oliver S. Eaum, pastor. Preaching at 10:30
and 7:3u.
Hawthorne Park, corner East Twelfth and
Taylor streets, E. K.. Grlmuu, pastor Morn
ing, 10:at, "The Story of All"; Sunday
school, noon; evening, b, "The Redemption of
Time."
Hope, Seventy-eighth and Everett streets,
S. W. Seemann. minister Morning subject,
"The Pr-xfit of a Good Life"; evening sub
ject, "That In Which the Blue and the Gray
Agree."
Fourth, corner First and Gibhs streets.
Henry ;. Hansen, pastor. 10:30 A. M-,
preaching; 1. Sunday srhool, .1, Juniors; ,
Ch risiian Endeavor, s, preaching.
Kcniiworth, East Thirty-fourth and Glad
rfone avenue. Rev. Leslie Kirk Richardson,
pastor Bible Bchool, u:4.rt- 'morning worship
11 A. M. ; Y. V. S. C. E., 7 P. M. ; eveuing
worship, 7 :43.
Spokane-avenu. Eat Sixteenth and Fpo
kane J. E. Youel, pastor. S. S. at 10; wor
ship at 11; sermon, "Thou, God. Seest Me";
memorial service for local post of G. A. R. at
8, address, "Our Fallen Patriots."
Vernon, corner Nineteenth and Wygant
H. Js. Mount, pastor. Sunday school, 9:46 A.
M. ; Junior Christian Endeavor 4 p. M.;
Christian Endeavor, 7 P. M. ; preaching" serv
ice at 11 A. M. and 8 P. M., morning sub
ject, "Memorial Day and Why We Keep It";
evening subject, "Too Bad, Too Bad, He Is
a Jew," reviewing Steiner's "Against the
Current,"
REFORMED.
First German. Twelfth and Clay O. Hef
ner, pastor. Services, 10:45, preaching by Dr.
J. P. A. Nordin; no evening service; Sunday
school, 9:0; Young People's Society, no
meeting.
SEVENTH-OAS' ADVENTIST8.
All meeting of the Seventh Day Advent
ifds In Portland will be held on the camp
meet ing ground at Crfntun station, on the
Mount Scott car line, from May ttO to June 8.
(1 tegular services of this denvnlnaUoa are
held on Saturday).
Central. East Eleventh and Everett streets
Elder Milton H. St. John, pastor. Preach
ing. 11 A. M.; Sabbath school, 10; prayer
meeting. Wednesday. 7 :30; Y. P. 8., 7 :0
Friday evening; special services Sunday
evening at 7:30.
Aihiita (German) Skldmore and Mallory
avenue Henry Block, elder. G. F. Kusrh,
local elder. Sabbath school is at 10; preach
ing. 11:30 and 8. Preaching Sunday night
is at 8.
Montavllla. East Eightieth and Everett
streets. J. F. Beatty. elder. Sabbath school,
school is at 10 A. M. and preaching at 11.
St. Johns Central avenue and Charleston
street Elder. E. D. Hurlburt. Sabbath
school Ls at 10 with preaching at 11; mis
sionary Society meets at 3 o'clock.
Mount Tabor East Sixtieth and Belmont
streets -Rev. C. J. Cummlns, pastor. Sab
bath Mchool is held at 10 with preaching- at
1L
Lents Marlon avenue and Blumauer D.
C. Chitwood. elder. Sabbath school is at 10
with prearhinp at 11. Preaching Sunday
niht 4s at 7:30.
Scandinavian Churrh. Sixty-second and
Thiny-mnth avenue Elder O. E. Sandnvs,
pastor. Sabbath school la at 10; preaching,
11 and Sunday service at 7:30.
SPIRITUALIST.
Church of the Scui. 208 4 Third street
fclev J. H. Lucas, pastor. Conference meet
ing, 11 A. M. ; med! i urns' meeting, 3 P. M ;
lecture by Max Huffman, 8 P. M. ; mediums'
meeting Wednesday, 2 to 5 P, M. weekly.
First, 20() AUnky building, corner Third
and Morrison I regular services t 3 and 8 j
P. M. This will be the last meeting of the
BETTER BUDGET SYSTEM
FOR SCHOOLS FAVORED
Dr. E. A. Sommer Advocates Method
Adhering Strictly to Programme
BY ADDISON BENNETT.
IT IS pretty penerally known that
the School Board of Portland Is
one of the largest business organiza
tions In the state. It employs capital
of nearly $10,000,000 and annually
spends about $3,000,000. Perhaps It
would be nearer the truth -to say that
the business bas now reached those
figures.
The money invested belongs to the
taxpayers of Portland and the same
taxpayers of Portland annually provide
for the running expenses. No matter
how hard" times may be. no matter
whether everybody is flush or pinch
lng every penny he can set hold of
the school expenses go on and mount
up with the regularity of the striking
of the clock. About every ten days
the Board has to provide a hew school
room at a cost of about $8000. or say
$300,000 for the year, which expense
will soon be increased by leaps and
bounds.
Another tbing to remember is that
the members of tho School Board serve
without compensation. They are all men
of affairs, men whose time is valuable,
but they give of their time lavishly
for the benefit of the city.
Opimlon Difference Kapeeted.
It should also be remembered that
never has Portland had on its School
Board a man who has even been sus
pected of acting dishonorably. They
are often criticised, sometimes sharp
ly and severely. That will happen al
ways, or until the day comes when
men wear wings like the angels do.
We will not reach that epoch for a
few years yet, anyhow.
In looking about for the strong
points and the weak points in our
School Board system I went to Dr.
E. A. Sommer. a member of the pres
ent Board, whose term soon expires.
He has been a member of the Board for
two years, having been appointed in
191S to succeed I. N. Fleischner, who
resigned. I found Dr. ommcr im
mersed In an article In the School
Board Annual, a New York publication,
and, as its name indicates, devoted to
the business side of the school ques
tion. Going over this article with the doc
tor I found that it brought out sev
eral matters that I have heretofore
mentioned about our schools, and gave
information that our taxpayers ought
to have brought to their attention. Tt
get at the root of the matter it may
not be amiss to mention that three
years ago our Board spent $7500 on
what was called a school survey. Sev
eral leading educators and others were
appointed to do this work and tney
did it, probably as well as the 30 other
bodies of the same caliber did In SO
other large cities of the country. For
it was a sort of fad or system that
spread all over the country.
BuMlaesa Feature IaapluiMiaed.
It was not what this survey resulted
in, not the recommendations of the
survey committee, that the doctor was
to deeply interested in or that I intend
to advert to; it is to the deductions
made In the article mentioned in re
viewing another sort of eurvey just
completed in Minneapolis. This was
culled the Minneapolis school business
survey.
Just note that word business. Then
remmber what a great business organ
ization our School Board is. Think
of the fabulous sum they have under
their control and what a treat sum
they expend every year! Why. it is
the second largest concern doing busi
ness exclusively in Portland. Should
It not, therefore, be conducted along
the best business lines possible to em
ploy? Let the taxpayers answer that
question.
In Minneapolis, a city of about
300,000, and presumably with a school
machine" 45 per cent greater than
ours, the taxpayers seem to have had
an idea that it might be well to spend
$10,000 or $15,000 .to look into the busi
ness end of this vant machine. Not
the education end. mind. The strictly
educational side of the question la not
difficult to handle, or rather would
not be If the bupinefs side were run
strictly along modern business lines.
Faults Are Belated.
In the report this survey commit
tee made tn the JSc'nooI Board and the
taxpayers they confined themselves to
ten qualifications and they indicted
the Board on all ten count. Briefly
those indictments were as follows:
A lack of planning, the business ex
ecutive has not sufficient authority or
clearly defined duties, a lack of busi
ness policy, no satisfactory system for
determining what repairs are to b
church in the Allfky Hall. Th church U
moving to the Manchester building, SSS
Fifth street, between Stark nd Oak streets,
fur services beginning Sunday, June 0. Mr.
and Mrs. Bleduoe, National worker., will
verve the church in their new location
thrnueh th. month of June.
Christian Spiritualist Church. Hevonth and
Hasalo tttreels At 3 and 7 :4 P. M.. Kev.
lr. J. H. Dickey will apeak at !t o'clock on
"The Brotherhood of Man." Mwiic In
the evening by local talent. All welcome.
TITKOSOPHY.
TUeosophlcal Society. 72 Morran bull'l
1ns At 6 P. M.. Mrs. A. Taylor will Bpeak
on "Tb. A wakening. "
I'MTEO KVANGEUCAL.
Firwt Church. East Sixteenth end Poplar
KtreetH PieaohinK bunuay. May 3o. u.t 11 A.
M. aud 8 P. M.. Dr. J. A. (londa will preat h
at It o'clock, and C. C. Pollns will apeak
at 8 P. M. Evening subject, "Marvelu of
trace." Tbe Sunday school will meet at lu
A. M. and the Christian Endeavor Society
will meet at 7 P. M. Uood music will be
rendered.
Ockley Green Church, corner of Columbia
boulevard and Gay street O. 1. Lovell, pas
tor, will preach both mornini and evening.
Sunday school at 10 A, M. and Christina En
deavor at 7 P. M. Good musio will be pro
vided. St. John Church Preach In r at 11 A- M.
and P. M In the morning: Presiding Klder
Pnling will preach. Subject. "Fullness la
Christ." In th. evening; A. P. Layton, the
piiator. will preach on tbe 'Closed Door."
The sacrament of th. Lord's Supper will I.,
administered after the morninr sermon.
Sunday school at 10 A. M. and Christian JSu
deavor at 7 P. M.
VJchita Church. H. H. Fsrnham, pastor.
The pastor Is visiting; hi. parents In Califor
nia and P.ev. N. Shupp will fill his appoint
ments both morning and evening. Sunday
school at 10 A. M.
CMIVER8AU9T,
Church of the Good Tidings. Broadway
and East Twenty-fourth street. Kev. lr.
Jaines Corby, minister Worship with ser
mon at J0:45 A. M.. "How to Kind Joy in
Your Work." Oregon Humane Society
mercy service. Sunshine hour Sunday srhool
at 12, noon. No evening preaching service.
Alameda Community Church, East Twenty-fifth
and Prescott streets Sunday Bible
school at S o'clock. Sermon at 8:30 by Dr.
Corby. Visitors mad. welcome.
UNITARIAN.
Church of Our Father, Broadway and
Yamhill streets Rev. Thomas L Kllot. Jr..
minister emeritus; Rev. William G. Eliot.
Jr., minister Service, at 11 A. M. and 1 :45
P. U. Morning. "Human Nature"; evening.
"America s Duty." Sunday school. 9:30 A. M. ;
adults' class, 12 M. ; Toung People's Frater
nity, :30 P. M.
otted brethren.
First catted Brethren. East Fifteenth and
Morrison streets John D. Nlsewonder. pas
tor. Bible school. 10; sermon, 11. "Patriotic
Comhlned Bervlce"; Endeavor, 7; sermon, o.
"Keeping Rank."
l-XITED PRESBYTERIAN.
First, Sixth and Montgomery streets
Frank D. Flndley. minister. Morning wor
ship, 10:30; evening service. t:i.
MIMIfLLAXEOVH.
Divine Truth Center, Divine Truth Chapel,
Selllng-Hlrsch building, corner W.st Pars
and Washington streets. Rev. T. M. Mlnard.
pastor Services. 11 A af.
Chrlstadelphlans. T21 East Washington
street -services. 1:0. Sunday.
Rose City Park Church, corner East Forty-fifth
and Hancock streets Church school.
M'Ao A. M. , morning worship and sermon.
It A. M.a isrmou subject, "Tbe Power of
of Laying Plans Year Ahead and
Business Manager Is Proposed.
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Dr. E. A. Sommer, Who DUcusses
School Administration.
made, unnecessary clerical work in
the principals' and busineHS executive's
offices and too much petty detail, du
plication of work by repair force, in
adequate control over heating and veni
tilating plants, lack of centralization
of power in purchasing, lack of modem
budget system enabling the bnslnesn
executive to plan a year ahead, a chief
defect in tlie business organization.
The tenth refers to the auditor s and
business executive's duties and is not
applicable to our present system.
From the tenor of these imlictmenta
it will be aeen that the Minneapolis
Board docs business along the same
lines as ours, with this .difference:
They have. In addition to the school
clerk, an auditor and business man
ager, which seems to be an Improve
ment on our method of having th
school clerk attend to all these duties.
On the other hand, we have a pur
chasing agent with a well-organized
system, which is a great saving over
tbe Minneapolis system.
Suggestions f.r Budget Made.
In going over the matter with Dr.
Sommer I found his ideas were decided
on the recommendation as to a better
system of budget forming for the year,
lie thinks that If our Board should lay
out definite plans a year ahead and
theil closely adhere to thone plans tne
school business could be conducted with
belter results, lie Is al.so strongly in
favor of letting all of the a.i'oiu-.tlng
fall under tho direction of the school
clerk and employing a busings man
ager, lie thinks tlie multiplicity of
duties asked of tbe present clerk dors
not make for economy or efficiency.
Another question discuased by the,
doctor was that of finances the upper
most subject with tlio Board, l.ant year
the Board got along awiinmlnrly be
cause somebody fearful of a bond issue
got up at the school meeting and
boosted the levy to 7 ',4 mills, irlvlnc
the Board more money than It asked.
This year the levy is Z mills. The last
of the money on the levy of 1911 lias
Just been expended and the present
levy will just about see the Board
throuah the school term.
What about the future? iy a law
enacted at the lat eMoti of tlte ls
islature there will be no more school
meeting lor levyins: the lax; the Board
hereafter will do tnat. But lliey have
a Ktrlnar to their authority: they can
not at any time increase tiie levy more
than . per cent over tlio Mvcrace of
the two previous years. The doctor
thinks more than likely the Hoard. will
have to use its credit for the thsuirjjr
of bonds. It can do this to the extent
of about $1,200,000 of its own volition.
If a laraer amount is needed tlie tax
payers must order it.
It is more than likely that a copy
of the Minneapolis Business Survey
Iteport can be had by writing to tbe
School Board of that city. It i a docu
ment that ouirht to be in the hands of
every educator, every friend of our
public schools and every heavy tax
payer in the city. It would not be
ainltis. perhaps, for our Board to have
several thousand copies printed for
rcratuilous circulation, .for we are
surely cominfr to the point when we
raurl turn our attention more closely
to the business management of our
schools.
Personality": Junior C. E., 3:110 r. M. ; Senior
C. E., 0:45 P. M-; evening worship and ser
mon. 7:4 1'. Al., sermon subject, "llio Ap
proach to tlie Kinguorn."
Christian Yoga, room. yih--0 Ahinaton
bclldlng Sunday services, K p. M. Topic,
"llve of Creat Maulers." Medlf mlnn meet
ing Wednesday evenings at a o'clock.
The rexuiar Bahai meeting will be held
In room 402 Kllers building. Sunday, ft P. M.
JITNEYS MUST BE MARKED
Philadelphia Police Head Orders
Hear hi;tis Kxhlbitcd.
PHILADELPHIA, May 23 The words
"jitney bus" inuet be placed on a con
spicuous spot on the rear of all motor
cars which make frequent stops for
taking: on or discharging passengers,
under a special order sent out recently
by Superintendent of Police Koblnson.
The order wag issued In the hope
that it would decrease the number of
rear-end collisions.
SHORT RAILROAD IS SOLD
Line 15 Miles Long In Michigan
Transferred at Bis I'lgure.
ESC ANA B A, Mich., May 4 A deal
involving the transfer of the Garden
Bay Railroad, a line of 15 miles, for
a sum said to reach six fin urea, bas
been -completed here.
H. P. Bpurke, Escanaba, prenldent;
J. C. Wood. Manistique, vice-president,
are nmor.ir the officers elected.
How You May Change
Your Face Completely
Any woman not satisfied with her
complexion can easily itmnio it and
have a new one. The thin veil of
stlfllnx. half-dead cuticle is an encum
brance and should be removed to mve
the fresh, viKoroua, young kln under
neath a chance to show itself aud to
breathe. There's a simple, old-fashioned
remedy which will always do the
work. (Jet an ounce of pure mer
collzed wax from your druKKiat and
apply at niht like cold cream, wash
ing; it otf in the morn i mr. The wax w ill
Kently absorb all the lifeless skin and
leave a healthy and beautiful com
plexion, as fresh as a child s. Naturally
It takes with it all such facial blem
ishes as freckles, tan, moth patches,
sallowness. liver spots, pimples. It Is
Pleasant to use, and economical. The
face so treated soon looks yeais
younger.
To keep the skin free from wrinkles
there's nothing; quite so good as the
old reliable saxolite lotion. It is onlv
necessary to dissolve an oum e of
powdered saxolite in a half pint of
witch hazel and bathe the face In this
as required. Adv.