THE SUNDAY OEEGOXIAX, PORTLAXD, JUNE 6, 1915.
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Charley. Jim is Edith.'s husband
Liiquor. tobacco, cabarets, love of a
kind, marriase, but principally divorce.
The latter ts the real text of this radi
cal, bold novel. "Jim" wilL astonish
most folks. It has a gasp all its own.
WAR FIGURES IN PICTURES OF MEN
SNAPPED BY ACTIVE PHOTOGRAPHERS
J. P. Morgan Refuses to Comment on Lusitania Lieutenant-General Nealon at Front for England Edison
Thinks America "Will Avert War With Germany Duke of Genoa Directing Italian Navy.
Arms and the ftce, by R. M. Johnston, (X. 1
Th Century Company, New York City.
Mr. Johnston is not a military alarm
ist, because it pays to be one. Ha is
assistant professor of history at
Harvard University, is lecturer on mili
tary history at the Wax College, Wash
ington, D. C, and is considered to be
one of the greatest living authorities
on Napoleonic history.
Mr. Johnston has written this book
to prove and he does prove that the
United States should instantly take
steps to secure and train an adequate
army, regular and militia, of 305c,20G, to
be doubled in six months, for defense.
He would take this new army out of
the control of all politicians and es
pecially of Congress, and pla.ce it in
the- hands of a. trained Army Bureau
under .Federal supervision. Hie would
investigate the cause of our 'military
unpreparedness Congress. To get a
sufficient amount of interest in Con
gress on army reform, the great Ameri
can, public must first be converted, and
then Congressmen and Senator a will be
elected, with a plain mandate from the
people to call the new army into being.
Conscription is not proposed, in fact
Mr. Johnston leaves the method of
obtaining this army, open. The little
book is one with a mission. May it
succeed.
These extracts will be fbun-d, of in
terest: , No nation, ever receiver nort definite
varnlns that hor hour was -L hand than
licJgium.
"How did she meet it Her attitude was
most characteristic, and bad ni"ny points
cf resemblance with chat of in is .country
toward the military problem. Sha was en
grossed In one of the xnoeL remarkable out
bursts of industrial energy that the world
has seen. Iabor problems and social re
forms had become urgent. She concentrated
her attention on herself. Xeyond her bor
der there was nothing to interest her, for
her ambition did not lie that way. She
was impatient,' one is almost tempted to
aay naturally impatient, at any thought of
spending -money and foresight on anything
so irreconcilable with her thoughts as an.
army. And the up si t mas & haphazard,
neglectful. ineffective treatment of the
problem. Then she woke up one fine morn
ing to find her country wrecked and m
aahes."
"Blood and Iron! All Germany shuddered
at this cynical and brutal formula, though
at the present time people are a littitt apt
to forget this quite important fact. All-
Germany shuddered. Bismarck stood alone,
.with a few thin-lipped soldiers drawn up
at attention behind him. And even among
hish-placed. official in Uterlin it was wlim
ptred that he wa demented, a lunatic who
ought to be locked up. lnfortnjiateiyK there
was more in what he said than they could
realize for the moment. The policy he in
tended to carry out by violence was irre
sistibly driven by deep-acting ware flowing
steadily toward that very Mhore on whlci
Bismarck had set his over-eager eyes. And,
to make things worse, the intellect of Eu
rope happened at that time to be captivated
by those theories of men struggling In na
ture which Darwin had made fashionable.
In the struggle fur the survival of the fit
test were not blood and iron Inevitable
factors German Intellectuaiism pressed in
where plain people would not have ven
tured." "One of the gravest; obstacles (to dis
armament lies in the fact that no- two
nations are situated in the same way. Will
Germany disarm? This means the surrender
of her ambitions to epepand over the less
well-occupied regions of the world. It
means the arousing off a fear that the hos
tile alien elements within the empire, the
Danes, the Poles, the Alsac-Lforraiuers, even
the Bavarians or axons, might then at
tempt to assert local sovereignty. It means
fear that the superier numbers of Russia,
which could not be wholly disarmed might
prevail asainst her.
"It has Just been said that Russia could
not wholly disarm. Her Cossacks are the1
f nest raw cavalry in the world, though
useless in organized armies for lack, of
training- But if organized, armies were sup
pressed they might, then easily prove the
decisive force. For even If these primitive
tribesmen could be made to surrender car
bine and sword and ammunition, even If
the manufacture of arm were declared
illegal, it is obviously they who could most
rapidly hammer oat from the plowshare the
pear bead of the sword; and the days of
Attlla might be on us again.
"In the case of England (Great Britain)
the difficulty is even greater. The Knglish
army has long been maintained for colonial
and not for E uropean purposes. Won id
she be required to put it down on a Euro
pean disarmament, or might she retain it?
To pu It down, would open the Khyber pass
and create a new Mogul empire. Will
Afghanistan be required to disarm, and
will Arabia, and if so, who will enforce
the decree and now?
"To say that war is stupid and wicked
may be tru; moat people nowadays are
a -reed on this point. But it does not dis
pose of tha question. it is only in the
kindergarten text that it takes two to make
a quarrel, aa every page of history, ancient
and modem, demonstrates: and we have
some ve ry recen t cases. If war is trt u d id
and wicked, to encourage others to make
war by remaining defenseless Is stupid,
wicked and criminal. And to avoid that
crime it ls not necessary to threaten, it is
nut necessary to arm to the teeth, We have
merely to. raise our army to a standard
that will place (t about on a level with
those of the second or third-rate European
powers, sar somewhere between those of
Holland and Ruumania. To Imagine that
this would be. a uepaxture from our old-
time pacifism, that it would alarm Europe
lose us our moral power, and eo forth, is
cheap clap-trap for very ignorant and fool
li-h aartiences. It would, of course, btvi
precisely tha opposite effect. It would
show European statesmen that we can face
the issue of peace- and war, and that if
grave problem like that of Mexico, should
be thrust upon us, we are capable of solv
ing it wnicnt now appears q.uite doubtful.
"The fact Is that no subject Is m6re dif
ficult In tt range of historical, psycho
logical, and technical factors, than the mili
tary art; yet by one of those strange hal
lucinations to which man is subject, there
1s none on which the layman feel so com
petent to pass an opinion. And the less he
knows about it, the more drastic is hi:
into the theoretical and practical difficul
ties that surround the soldier that his views
become more tentative. Until we have per
uaded Congress of this fact, until it has
become willing to delegate some authority
to boards of experts, as it might in ques
tiocs of engineering, sanitation, forestry and
so on. -there is- little hope of wiser views
prevailing.
"The seizure of the Philippines from
Fpain may be ranked among the worst mili
tary blunders committed by any American
Government it is diificult to put the matter
more strongly. It is a weak, ex-centric.
m ilitary poeiMon, fundamentally indefen
sible asainst any strong trans-Pacific power.
but inevitably a magnet to draw troops and
ships away from our shores. A popular
clamor might at any time result in a weak
Administration sending the battle fleet from
the Atlantic to Manila- And the result
would be Instantly to lose for us the in
calculable influence our fleet has given us
these last 10 years in all North Atlantic
questions: while at the same moment we
should Jeopardize for no adequate purposes
the safety of that fleet at the other end of
the world by attaching to it a base far
too weak to g-iv it the Indispensable maxi
mum of support.""
"Whatever their dangers, materialism and
pacifism find man in his most developed
state. However much we may admire the
primitive virtues of courage and generosity,
however much we may despise greed and the
far of death or even pain, we are bound to
tske a man's advance in terms of the In
tellect It is by thinking and reasoning that
we have advanced, and by th Inking and
reasoning we have reared a civilization that
snake for happiness and abhors destruction
and bloodshed. Our great problem is one of
balance, of advancing wisely without im
pudence, lest we slip back Into the primitive
brute, or on the other hand lose our foot
hold in a too-eager search for happiness."
Tbfl I.le. y Henry Arthur Jones. J 1 . George
H. Doran Co.. New York City.
Tt is stated that this emotional Eng
lish play, with Margaret lllington as
star, has been one of the few dramatic
euccessea of the New York season, and
that in it Miss lllington is hailed as
the American Sarah Bernhardt."
What is the play about? Two sis
ters ono saint, the other sinner and
is reckoned that during the War of Independence there
were 355,000 enrollments for service, many of them, of course,
of the same man presenting himself again- Yet Washington was
never able to place 20,000 men in ine and was generally so
hopelessly inferior that he could not venture on decisive oper
ations. R Af. Johnston. .
nr
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liar, rhe sinner is a mercenary wretch
and idler, and palms off her baby born
out of wedlock as her sister's child.
That's where the lie is. The Puritan,
sister's love story is superbly told.
Tb Breath of Ufe. by John Burroughs.
Sl.la. Houghton. Mini In Co., .Boston.
One dozen essays on the serious side
of things, written with that grace of
expression of which Mr. Burroughs is
master.
"I crave and seek, a natural explana-
ation of all phenomena upon this earth,
writes our author. "An explanation of
life phenomena that savors of the lab
oratory and chemism repels me. and
an explanation that savors of the the
ological point of view is equally dis
tasteful to me. But the word "natural"
to me implies more than mere chem
istry or physics. The birth of a baby.
and the blooming: of a flower, are nat
ural events, and .the laboratory methods
forever fail to give us the key to the
secret of either.
"Science can only deal with life as a
physical phenomenon; as a psychic
phenomenon it is beyond its scope, ex
cept so far as the psychic is manifested
through the physical. Not till it has
produced living matter from dead cart
it speak with authority upon the ques
tion of the origin of life. ... The
scientific explanation of life phenomena
is analog-ftus to reducing; a living body
to its ashes and pointing; to them the
lime, the iron, the phosphorus, the hy
drogen, the oxygen, the carbon, the
nitrogen as the whole secret.
"Chance is a man lost in the woods;
he never arrives; he wanders aimlessly.
If evolution pursued a course equally
fortuitous, would it not still be wan
dering; irt the wildernass of the chaotic
nebulae?
"The whole organic world is filled,
from top to bottom, with one tremen
dous effort. It was long ago felicitous
ly stated by Whitman, in his 'Leaves of
Grass,' 'Urge and urge, always the
procreant urge of the world.'
"If we are merely mechanical and
chemical accidents, all the glory of life,
all the meaning of our moral and spir
itual natures go by the board.
"Life is like a bird of passage which
alights and tarries for a time and i
gone, and the places where it perched
and nested and led forth is brood know
it no more. Apparently it flits from
world to world as the great cosmic
Spring conies to each and departs- as
the cosmic Winter returns to each. It
is a visitor, a migrant, a frail, timid
thing, which waits upon the seasons
and flees from the coming tempests and
vicissitudes.
"I cannot get rid of, or hold in abey
ance, my inevitable idealism if I would;
neither can I do violence to my equally
inevitable naturalism, but may I not
hope to make the face of my natural
ism, beam with the light of the ideal
the light that never was in the physico
chemical order, and never can be there?
"After we have reached the point of
the utmost divisibility of matter In the
atom we are called upon to go still
further and divide the indivisible. The
electrons, of which the atom is- com
posed, are one hundred thousand times
smaller, and two thousand times lighter
than the smallest particle hitherto rec
ognized, namely, the hydrogen atom. A
French physicist conceives of the elec
trons as rushing about in the interior
of the atom like swarms of gnats
whirling about in the dome of a cathe
dral." An American Fruit Fterni. by Francis New
ton, illustrated. $.otf. G. P. Putnam's
Sons. Is'ew York City.
Mr. Thorpe is a member of the State
Horticultural Association of Pennsyl
vania, and his book, "An American
Fruit Farm," its selection, and manage
ment for profit and for pleasure, is a
record of a famous fruit farm that
lies in the Lake Shore Valley, on the
southern shore of Lake Erie, in Penn
sylvania, a region rich in. horticulture.
The book is one of actual experience,
its advice is worth following and the
talk is like that of a friend engaged
in actual conversation. "How; to use the
land" is often pointed out.
The chapter heads: "Time and the
Tree"; "Selecting the Fruit Farm";
"The Planting of the Fruit Farm";
"Getting Along With the Help"; "The
Cultivation of the Fruit Farm"; "Feed
ing the Land": "The Fruit Farm and
the Young Folks"; "Ten Thousand a
Year"; "Birds and the Fruit Farm";
"The Fruit Farm and Old Age."
When Blood I Their Argument, by Lord
lladox Mueffner. SI. George H. Doran
Co., New York City.
Scorchinir, fierce and illumining, this
book of S54 page.", with index, gives
a powerful and deep-probing account
of what German ideals really are to
day as viewed by Mr. Hueffner, who is
of German ancestry.
The book is a decided eye-opener,
and after reading it one cannot but
come to the conclnsion that if Ger
many wine the present war and that
will mean a prostrate ' Britain, with
I V,
m
shattered Anglo-Saxon aims the fate
of all -mankind in the future will be
as Germany wills it.
German "kultur means something
like our English words "thorough
efficiency," with the conviction that the
individual is subservient to the state,
and that public service comes befoie
everything.
The three, main theses Of this re
markable book are:
(a) Under the auspice's of Prussia,
the standard of culture in Germany has
steadily and swiftly deteriorated.
(b) The deterioration of the standard
of culture- in Germany has caused a
deterioration of culture throughout the
whole civilized world.
(c Germany has produced no art
of a really capital kind since 1870, and
all German art. and learning have been
steadily on the down-grade since 1818.
Tt is safe to- say that many Germans
will dislike this book.
The- loulle Traitor, by- IS. Phillips Oppen
heim. SL35. Utile, Brown A CoM Boston.
Mr. Oppenheim is again up to date.
His newest novel, bright and clever,
correctly describes the principal, actual
events of the recent German attack on
Belgium and France. before they hap
pened.
Frances Novgate. a British diplomat,
offends the Kaiser by rebuking a
drunken German prince, and is dis
missed from the British diplomatic
service. He becomes acquainted with
Herr SeliDgmann, a secret German spy,
and is engaged to ljelp Selingmann.
Norgate discovers astonishing German
secrets, but in reality he is loyal to his
own country. England, and he turns to
England in her days of peril, early In
August of last year. '
Several personages in the novel can
be recognized easily aa famous mem
bers of the present British government.
A Way to prevent War, by Allan L. Benson.
50 cents. Appeal to Reason. Glrard. Kan.
"The power to declare aggressive
war should be taken from the ruling
class and deposited in the people, to
be exercised by tbem only by direct
ballot. The electors qualiiied to vote
upon a proposal to declare war should
consist of all the men and women In
the United States more than 18 years
old."
This quotation is a. fair sample of
wnac is contained in this book, which
Is socialistic, impractical and radical.
ISO pages.
Teatlt the EndT by Rev. John Raynes
-no.meii. ji.au. j. f. futaam s Sons. New
Tk City.
Our gifted and Interesting author is
minister or the Cnurca of the Messiah
New York City. His book appeals alike
as a. means of mental comfort to lav
men and churchmen, and is a fervent.
Dut sensioie ana sane, series of argu
ments that death does .not end all. and
that we-are, in spirit, immortal. The
conviction is expressed that life is at
toe Dotcom spiritual, or It is nothing.
The Whole Year- Round, by Dallas Love
Sharp. S2. Illustrated. Uoagiiton, Mif.
min uo., .Boston.
Happy is the home with a, child or
children where this book Is. It tells
of th joys of the open, of birds, flow
ers, frogs ami life generally. There are
aozens oi cnarming pictures. To read
me doo-k, wftrcn is a new and improved
edition of a favorite, is next to experi
encing aa enjoyable holiday iri the open
Jaffery, by William J. Locke. SI. 35. John
x 1 1 1: u. , new igrK iLy.
Jaffery Chayne is a war correspon
dent newly returned to England from
the wilds of Albania. He ia accom
panied by the widow of a man he cared
for and awkward questions arise.
uosna. tne Aioanlan widow, moves
around la a storm circle. The novel
has brightness and cleverness.
Stothers' Day, compiled by Susan. Tracy Ttlce
ana eaireu oy itooert fiavea Schauffler.
a. stoirat. Yarn fc Co.. Mow- Tork City.
A valuable, well-selected book fnr-
nishing- the history, origin, celebration,
spirit and significance of Mothers' day
as related la prose and verse. The dif
ferent authors from whose thoughts
tne book ts made up are representative
and cosmopolitan. 357. pages.
SusidowK SUm, by H. H. Kribbs. RJi.
Illustrated. Houghton MllTliix Company,
This enjoyable. glad -to-meet-yon
novel of cowboy life in the Southwest,
where the Concho cattle ranch is oic-
tured. was reviewed" recently ' la The
uresonun.
Mi-s ,lat and Her Sister, by Pemberton
;intr. cents. The John C. Winston.
Cov. fntlaaelpnot.
A winsome, safe story for young
girls of school age. 32a pages.
Jba. by Reginald Wright Kauffman. SI. 35.
jioxiar, xara fc en, pew xorK dty.
Edith, married woman, and her lover.
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Play, of the Pioneers, by Constance-
D'Arcjr Mackay, $1, eeveral admirable page- j
ant piaya meant lor nurniai siiu luicuvn
training; schools, in colleges, villas, aud city
drsaalic clubs and In the junior and senior
years of high schools where the festival
spirit reigns, with directions Irom a master
hand (Harper's, N. Y-).
Tha Chalk Une. by Anne, Warwick, fl.25.
a daring; love story, with a theme of af
finities skillfully worked out. A wife leaves
her husband and. oes to her lover's house
In Shanghai and a physician and the irate
husband arrive shortly afterward. The
house is quarantined against cholera and
the four people must remain together.
(John Lane Co.. X. Y..
The Kim of the Desert, by Amy Wood
ruff Anderson. $1-35, a splendid novel de
pleting love and devotion, with stirring pic
tures of life in Washington and Alaska.
(Little, Brown & Co.. Boston.
The Gardenette. or City Backyard Gar
dening by the Sandwich System, by Benja
min V. Albougb, Sl.&, illustrated, a third
edition of a first-class book on vegetable
gard-inin; and flower gardening on a small
but sensible scale, on limited areas; and
Sketches of Great Painters, by Edwin Watts
Chubb, finely written, appreciative
sketchee of fifteen painters of the middle
apes and our own day, splendidly illustrated.
(Stewart A Kldd Co., Cincinnati. O.)
Miss Pat at School, by Pemberton Ginther.
35 cents, a story of good . influence, for
young girls (John C. Winston Co., Fhila.V
Sleep and. Sleeplessness, by H. Addington
Brace, $1. an exact account In which sleep
Is experimentally and clinically studied, with
descriptions of modern methods how to
treat Insomnia; and The Meaning of Dreams,
by Isador H. Coriat. M. t.. St. first assist
ant visiting physician, nervous diseases, Bos
ton City Hospital, an expert book in which
the psychology and psychopathology of
dreams are discussed, with reference to their
value in the treatment of nervous disor
ders a book of surprises to a layman. (Lit.
tie. Brown & Co.. Boston).
The Future of World Peace, by Roger W.
Eabson. 1, sv well-reasoned argument that
world-peace- must come through economic
channels with plans far a commercial fed
eration, and help from The Hague Court
as a judicial body and also from police
armies and navies of nations to compel
obedience (Babson's Statistical Organiza
tion, Boston).
Our t'nele William and Nate Fawyer,
by David Skaats Foster, two readable, old
fashioned stories. (fc'raaklin. Book Co.,
Before the Gringo Came, by Gertrude Ath
erton. $1.35, romantic, stirring stories- of
California in the glittering days of Span
ish rule written with the attractive skill
of the trained novelist. (Fred A. Stokes Co.,
X. V.).
Girls' Trade School
(Continued From "Page 10.)
eon given in honor of Queen Sybil and
her attendants had to be abandoned.
The date of the luncheon was to have
been the Tuesday before the Festival;
as every day up to that time is taken,
however, Mr. Bates could not be pres
ent that day. The girls In. the domes
tic science department assert that the
royal rose and her buds know not
what they have missed.
Miss Holmes' textile class has en
gaged In a new industry the past few
days, that of reeling silk from tie
cocoons through the crossieur. Follow
ing the method used in modern facto
ries, they soak the cocoons In water,
then with " the silk fiber from several
cocoons In one opening through the
erossieur and onto a spool. The bars of
the reeling machines are of chalk
crayons, with holes drilled in either
end. Some very original devices are
being used in this work.
An indoor baseball team has been
organized, which answers to the name
of "The White Sox." The captain is
Grace Mathieson and the nine follow:
Catcher, Iva Clark; . pitcher, Grace
Mathieson; first base, Agnes Bryan;
second base, Ellen Thompson; third
base, Doris Fletcher; left field, Olvwe
Larrdigan; center field. Cora Harding
right field, Grace Cayo; substitute, Lil-
Iie Uhlman.
The second term girls are giving a
candy sale for the boys on Thursday
The boys have complained at the
dearth of candy at these sales and the
girls hope this time to leave them en
tirely "candied.
Our principal, Mrs. Alexander, spent
her vacation at Gearhart by the bea,
returning Monday. On her return trip
she enjoyed a visit to the Booth Can
ning Works at Astoria, where she saw
the fish being brought In and prepared
for canning, the cans manufactured and
salmon and shad canned and packed
Her account of the trip was very in
structive. Miss Ruth Dunn, one of the
primary teachers, spent her vacation
at Seaside.
The cafeteria class served luncheon
every day of last week. Mondays are
reserved for book and account lee
sons, but as last Monday was a holi
day tiie usual torture was omitted.
Two debates in Miss Iverson's tex
tile class proved very interesting last
week. The first question was: Re
Bolved, That Oregon Women Should
Patronize Home Industry." The nega
tive was composed of Muriel Smith and
Anna Scherainger and the affirmative
was supported by Emily Baxter and
Elizabeth Schmidt. The second ques
tion. "Resolved. That Girls Under 18
Should Not Work in Factories," was
debated by Elizabeth Borsch and Val
ma Johnson on. the negative and May
Meehan and -Thelma Hardy on the af
firmative side. The negatives in both
debates won,
Miss Laura Riley and her domes
tic science classes visited the Pacific
Coast Biscuit Company recently. The
girls were much interested in the de
partment where the stick candy was
made. The candy. Instead of being
shaped by, machinery, is rolled out
with unusual dexterity and cut by
hand. The large amount of crackers
that baked at one time-in the revolving
ovens attracted attention.
V
The fame of the cafeteria lunches is
spreading and many of the boys are
finding their way up "those awful
stairs," where the delectable dishes are
served with a cafeteria smile at bed
rock prices. Like ail good customers,
they return and brin their class
mates.
Llewellyn School Notes,
The Llewellyn School garden has
been supplying for several weeks fresh
radishes, lettuce, beet greens and spin
ach for school lunches and home use
The placing of painted corner stakes
for each bed adds a finishing touch to
the appearance of the garden and as
sures correct lines for next year's beds.
m
An outdoor entertainment in celebra
tion of the recently ilnished playground
Is to be given June 18, beginning at 3
o'clock. Gymnastic- work and play
ground games will be a feature. Judg
ing of gardens and awarding of prizes
will be a part of the afternoon exer
cises. There will be a picnic supper,
and stereopticon entertainment in. the
evening. The community gatherings at
the schoolhouse are always, popular
events.
CliiCpman School Notes.
The pupils In many of the rooms are
much interested this term in birds,
The boys of the manual training class
have made bird houses for the various
rooms. These houses have movable
roofs and are hung near the windows
so that the nature and habits of the
birds can be studied from the nesting
time to the time when the little brds
appear.
Two- very desirable-- families of tree
swallows have recently moved in.
On Thursday, May 29. the girls of the
graduating class, with their .teacher.
Miss Sarah Allen, visited the girls'
trade schooL The boys at the same
time visited the boys' trade school with
Principal Hughson.
It has about gotten so that silence hi the
mast impressive oi an means ox expressioa.
;- . .. . f II - ' f '
l ' i " .2r , s U f .-
Jf. MOKtfAN returned to America
on the St. Louis .after being
abroad for six weeks to consult
the British government about war pur
chases, for which he is acting as
American agent. He had no comment
to make on the Lusitania disaster.
Lieutenant-General Sir Bryan T.
Mahon. who is at the front for Grea4
Britain, was born in April, 1862, and
received his hrst commission in Jan
uary. 1883- He has seen service in
the Dongola expedition, three Nile ex
peditions and the South African war.J
In the first he was decorated with the
Distinguished Service Order and he has
received since the decorations of K. C.
V. O. and C. B. for bravery.
The Franklin medal has been pre
sented to Thomas A. Edison at Frank
lin Institute, Philadelphia. Mrs. Edi
son was present with the wlaard and
they were photographed together.
Edison is quoted as saying that he
does not look for a war between this
country and Germany.
The Duke of Genoa, a member of
the royal family of Italy, is president
of the Council of the Italian navy, a
position which corresponds to First
Lord of the Admiralty in England. He
will direct the operations of the Ital
ian navy in the war.
Camille Saint-Saens, the famous
French composer and the first dele
gate of the Franco-American Commis
sion for the Development of Political,
Economic, Literary and Artistic Rela
tions; arrived in New York aboard the
steamship Rochambeau. The composer,
who is 80 years old, looks forward
with uncommon pleasure to revisiting
the United States. During his stay in
this country on his mission from
France he will be entertained exten
sively by the French societies in the
many cities he expects to visit during
the three months of his stay here. He
will go direct to San Francisco, where
he will represent his government at
the Panama-Pacific Exposition.
Dr. Frank Johnson Goodnow was in
stalled as -president of the Johns Hop-
494 Birds Counted on Tract
of 40 Acres Near Eugene.
Data Obtained by TTBlvemltr Stu
dents for Federal Department
Show 40 Species Represented.
UNIVERSITY OF OREGON, Eugene,
June 5.- (SpeciaL In a 4J-acre
tract near Eugene five university stu
dents have enumerated 494 birds be
longing to 40 species.
According to A. C. Shelton, of the
university biological department, this
is a greater number of birds than- can
be found nesting in any other tract in
the state and it is doubtful if the
record is surpassed by any similar
tract in the United States.
The count was made en request of
the Department of Agriculture and is
part of a movement to ascertain the
number and variety of migratory birds
in the country.
Following the Instructions sent from
Washington the students spent tour
mornings from early daylight until
about 6 o'clock counting the male
birds. At that time of day the male
bird sings close to his nest and it is
easy to locate each songster. The
count is repeated for several morn
ings so that errors may be avoided.
The more common varieties showed
by the count were: Tolmie warblers,
20: Bob White quail, 10; oireo, 34;
thrush. 3; towhee, 40; yellow warblers,
52; robins. 60, and song sparrows. 72.
Psychology Class Spells
"Psychology" 10 Ways.
University oC Oregon Professor
Finds- Casus oi Minapelltns; -ioed
Headers i'onnd More Accurate. -
EUGENE, Or., lune 5. (Special.)
That correct spelling may be more
efficiently taught by the school reader
than the spelling books is the Infer
ence drawn from a series of experi
ments and "research, covering more
than a year, conducted by Dr. K. M.
Dalleirbach, of the psychology depart
ment at the University of Oregon. He
is about to- publish- the results of his
investigation on. the "Psychology of
Misspelling."
He finds that two-thirda of the er
rors in spelling are due ta pronuncia
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kins L'niversity In the presence of a
large number of distinguished educators-
Dr. Goodnow was formerly con
stitutional adviser of the Chinese Re
public In Pekin. He is 56 years old
and a native of Brooklyn. He was at
one. time Eaton professor of adminis
tration law and municipal science at
Columbia University and was acting
dean of political science there in 1906
and 1907.
tion, and that good readers invariably
are good spellers. In making his ex
periments he made a study of the spell
ing of 172, University students and 1200
children in the Eugene schools. In ad
dition he had similar statistics regard
ing spelling and reading from the
schools of other cities.
"Those who get good grades in read
ing are the best spellers." says Dr.
Dallenbach. "Twenty per cent is re
garded as a high degree of correlation
In making comparison, but in this case
it is 75 per cent.
"I am not offering any recommenda
tions regarding the teaching of spell
ing, but I shall turn the results of my
investigation ever to the department
of education In the University."1
Dr. Dallenbach was struck by the
astonishing amount of misspelling
among the mature University students.
He took his examples largely from his
examination papers. In a psychology
class he found the word "psychology"
spelled in I different ways. In one
class of slightly more than 100 stu
dents, the word "basilar" membrane
was misspelled 7 times In 24 different
ways.
Dr. Dallenbach divides the causes of
misspelling into three classes: pro
nunciation, 66 per cent; haste, 32 per
cent, and miscellaneous, 2 per cent.
QUAKERS SEEK EXEMPTION
Military Service 3fot to LJkin- of
Friends Society.
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NEW YORK, June 1 An appeal to
exempt Quakers from military service
was forwarded to the State Constitu
tional Convention by the Hicksite
branch of the Religious Society of
Friends.
A resolution will be sent to Presi
dent Wilson calling upon the Nation to
prohibit traffic in an muni tion with
belligerents in future wars.
The Friends received information
from Australia that several Quaker
youths who had refused to enlist in
the Australian army had been impris
oned there.
Munition-Makers Songht in Canada.
OTTAWA, Ont., June 1 In a eaest
for as many of 30,000 skilled mecban-l-cs
as the Dominion can supply,
George N". Barnes, member or the
British Parliament from Glasgow, and'
W. Windham, of the British: Board of
Trade, reached Ottawa recently to con
fer with government officials. The
workmen will be employed In the
manufacture of war munitions in the
British Isles.
VASSAR GIRLS WIN RIGHTS
Dining WitU Men Companions With
out Cliaperone Gets O. K.
POLTGHKEEPSIE, N. Y, June 1.
Students of Vassar College are rejoic
ing because tbe college authorities
granted their request for the abolition
of certain strict social rules. Here
after there will be Sunday boating on
the college lake. The girls will be
permitted to dine oat with men com
panions without a faculty chaperone
at private houses and certain inns and
tearooms.
The girls' request for permission to
entertain men friends at the college
on Sundays was denied.
Woman, 82, Asks Divorce.
EVANS VILLE, Ind- June 2 airs.
Polly Anne Strodes, 82, Is suing to rid
herself of her 13th husband, Harrison
Strodes. tJhe says he hasn't bathed
since their marriage in 1911, and that
he seldom misses a -day throwing a
bucksaw at her. She wants the court
to restore her name to Hoyden, the
husband she loved best and married
twice, until she can find a 14th hus
band. Adults Urged to Play.
CHICAGO. June 1, It is the solemn
belief of Dr. Anna. Dwyer that this
would be a more moral city if the
adulfS played "Ring Around Rosie" and
other children's games. They might
even skip rope. In a report, she said:
"As a people we have almost for
gotten how to play; If we ever really
knew. Rich and poor alike we have
need of instructors, and no one is too
old to play pamss."-
PIMPLES AND ERUPTIONS
MEAN BAD BLOOD
People who have impure or impover
ished blood should be careful to take
only a vegetable and temperanee rem
edy such aa Dr. Pierce's Golden Medi
cal Discovery is and has been for over
40 years.
The first day you start to take this
reliable medicine, impure germs- and
accumulations begin to separate in the
blood and are then expelled through
the eliminatlve organs.
In place of the Impurities, the ar
teries and - veins gradually get fresh
vitalized blood and the action of this
good blood on the skin means, that
pimples, boils, carbuncles, eczema, rash,
acne and all skin blemishes will dis
appear. Then you must remember that
when the blood is right, the liver,
stomach, bowels and kidneys become
healthy, active and vigorous and you
will have no more trouble with indi
gestion, backache, headache and consti
pation. Get Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical Dis
covery today at any medicine dealers;
It is a powerful blood purifier, so pene
trating that it even gets at the impure
deposits in the joints and carries them
out of the system.
Depend upon this grand remedy to
give you the kind of blood that makes
the skin clear, the mind alert, the
vision keener and puts ambition and
energy into the entire body. Yeu
won't be disappointed. For free ad
vice or free booklet on blood, write Dr.
V. M. Pierce. Buffalo. N. Y. Adv.
Dr. Pierce's Pleasant Pellets not onlv
the erla:inal but the best I. if tic Liver
Pills, first put up ever 4 yearn ago, by
old Dr. R. V. Pierce, have been mock
Imitated but never eaaalesl, as thou
sands attest. They're purely "vegetable,
being, made up of concentrated and re
futed medicinal principles, extracted
from the roots of American plants. Do
not gripe. One or two for stomach
corrective, three or four far eatnarrle.
Adv.