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THE SUNDAY OREGONIAX, PORTLAND, SEPTEMBER 12, 1915. UN BETWEEN 2 VIEWS AS TO ARABIC Officials Advise For and Against Accepting Pro posal to Arbitrate. SECOND NOTE IS ON WAY Berlin Said to Have Explained At tempt to Sink Orduna, but This Is Xot Likely to Become '. Subject of Controversy. WASHINGTON, Sept. 11. The issue with Germany has been turned to a lens acute stage in the last 24 hours through consideration of the proposal to take the dispute in the questions of fact in the Arabic case to The Hague. One set of officials believes to do bo would amount to arbitrating the prin ciples for which the United States has been contending and would, open the way practically to unlimited submarine operations, with disputed questions of fact and arbitration in each case as a result. Another set of officials believes that without taking in the principles in volved. The Hague might properly be allowed to decide, not whether the submarine commander thought he was justified in sinking the Arabic because he believed she was about to ram him, but whether the liner actually was at tempting to resist or escape, and if so, whether that justified the com mander's act in international law. Two Views Urged on W ilson. Both sets of views aTe being urged cn President Wilson, who will decide what shell be done. Secretary Lansing refused today to indicate his view. The course to be pursued, it is believed, may not be determined for a day or two. Generally, the indications in of ficial quarters were more favorable. Despite the fact that all officials con sidered the German explanation un satisfactory and disappointing, there appeared to be more of a prospect for finding some ground on which the two countries could meet. Another note unofficially reported to have been delivered to Ambassador Gerard by the Berlin Foreign Office last night failed to arrive today. Sec retary Lansing said he had no official knowledge or intimation that another communication was coming or of what It contained. Note Probably Concerns OrdunA. At other sources it was reported that the note is Germany's explanation of the unsuccessful attempt to destroy the Cunard liner Orduna on July 9-. when a submarine sent a torpedo within ten yards of the ship's stern and then unsuccessfully shelled her until she was out of range. The Orduna was on her way to the United States and had 22 Americans aboard when attacked. In the Orduna case there is a con flict of statements as to whether the ship had warning or tried to escape. It is not an issue between the United States and Germany and is not likely to become one. The German note is in re sponse to inquiries made by Ambassador Gerard at the direction of the State Department. It is not regarded as hav ing any bearing on the present situa tion unless it contains some declara tion of principle new to the contro versy. In the case of Dr. Duraba, Captain Franze Von Papen. the German mili tary attache, and Alexander Nuber von Pereked, Austrian Consul-General in New York, there was no change. The United States still Is waiting for Aus tria's reply to the request to withdraw Ir. Dumba. BEACH FENCE DEFENDED Cbicago Man Says Structure Is to Prevent Lute Loitering. CHICAGO. Sept. 8. A fourth hearing will be held in the case of Peter F. Reynolds, builder of a fence on the beach near Lafayette parkway. Neighbors have been endeavoring to force Mr. Reynolds to tear down the fence. He will produce deeds, permits and other documents to support his contention that he has a right to main tain the fence. "The fence is not a 'spite fence', " said Mr. Reynolds. "The persons op posing do not know that I have a deed to several feet of land now be neath the surface of the lake and have been paying taxes on that submerged property. "The fence was not designed to keep out bathers during ordinary bathing hours. That is the reason the gates were constructed. "I merely desire to prevent men and women from loitering there until 2 or 8 o'clock in the morning, as they did before the fence was built." Mr. Reynolds asserts that personal grievance enters into the enthusiasm of some of the neighbors opposing his fence. SCHOOL OPENING HASTENED Independence Classes Will Begin Probably September 20. INDEPENDENCE, Or.. Sept. 11. (Special.) Independence schools will open probably September 20, a week earlier than intended at the close of the- last term. This is due to the hop reason being earlier than usual and shorter. B. A. Teats, formerly of Sheridan High Si-hools. will be City Superintend ent. Several, new teachers have been added and special courses are to be of fered in High School work. DOCKET CLEARED QUICKLY Judge Stevenson Disposes of All Cases in 3" Minutes. Record time was made by Municipal Judge Stevenson In disposing of the daily grist in Municipal Court yester day morning, 37 minutes being the time necessary to clear the docket of cases. H. A. Stiles, real estate man. was the defendant in six separate cases, all of "which charged the defrauding of a taxtcab driver toy failure to pay a bilL He pleaded not guilty, but received the alternative of paying the debts or be ing fined the amounts of each bill, and "settled up." CURB ON MARRIAGE ASKED Governor Digresses In Picnic Speech Before Indiana Crowd. GREEXCASTLE. Ind.. Aug. 31. "One of the greatest misfortunes that has overtaken this country is the movement or i arm coys to the city, said Gov ernor Samuel M. Ralston in an address at the first annual Putnam County pic nic and homecoming near here. "Not that I would argue that all boys should be farmers," added the Governor, "for not every boy has brains enough to make a good farmer" The Governor's speech was largely a eulogy of Putnam County and its citi zenship, the greatest factor in which he declared to be DePauw University. He laughingly declared that Putnam County also was held high in his es teem because it was the third county in the state in the production of mules, the emblem of his political party. Part of his address was devoted to a discussion of a few of the problems be fore the state today. He declared him. self strongly in favor of a law prohib iting the intermarriage of diseased and mentally deficient persona asserting that such a law would do much toward decreasing, the number of wards re ceived at state institutions. The war in Europe was referred to when he paid a eulogy to President Wilson for his peace policy and to former Presi dent Taft for his public addresses call ing upon Americans to support the President in his stand. Governor Ralston arrived here at noon and was entertained by a com mittee, consisting of James L. Randel. the Rev. Demetrius Tillotson, J. N. Hol loway and Ferd Lucas. More than 2000 persons attended the picnic. Judge Jo seph "Williams, of Martinsville, was an other speaker. The picnic was held in S. A. Hazelett's grove, a mile east of the city. IS WILLIAM EDE.VS, CHICAGO BANK ER, IMPRESSED BV ROADS. Columbia River Highway Will Pay Cor Itself Hundred Times, Is Declara tion After Inspection. "William G. Edens, prominent Chi cago banker and a supreme- represent ative of the Knights of Pythias, who will hold their annual convention here next year, visited Portland yesterday and indulged in his favorite hobby of viewing the roads. In company with his friend. Senator Gus S. Moser, he drove out to the Co lumbia River Highway as far as Crown Point. They had lunch at the Automo bile Club. "This road work will pay for itself a hundred times," declared Mr. Edens enthusiastically when told of the plans for extending the highway system of the county. "It is what every community needs. Good roads are an absolute necessity now that the automobile has come to be such an "important factor in our everyday life. "Out her in this western country where there is more need for rural development the need of good roads is ven more emphatic than it is in tha East." Mr. Edns was particularly delighted with the view that he obtained from Crown Point. He expects to come to Portland for - the Knights of Pythias convention. Last year he organized a party that went from Chicago to the convention at "Winnipeg by special train. He promises to bring another special train party to Portland. Tons of Wild Berries Canned. CHEHALIS, Wash., Sept. 11. (Spe cial.) A large tonnage of evergreen blackberries is being received daily at the cannery in this city. Arrange ments have Just been closed whereby an automobile truck may make a daily trip from Swofford, 40 miles to the east ward, leaving that place at 5 o'clock each evening, and bringing to the local plant its capacity of the wild evergreen blackberry which grows so profusely in that section. Woman Saves Sister From Drowning. Presence of mind and quick and ef ficient action on the part of Mrs. Katherine David saved the life of her sister, Dolly Holsman, of Chicago, when the two women were swimming in the Willamette near Brierwood yes terday morning. Miss Holsman, who Is not a strong swimmer, swam beyond her depth before realizing .it, and her sister effected a daring rescue. The young woman was unconscious when taken from the water. The development of water power In JCor av has made electricity clieaoer than steam in that country. RUSSIAN PLAN MAKES GULF HEAVY DOTTED UNS 'NQICATE THE F,NNISM INSIDE ffeSSAGG WfTH fTS NUMEROUS EX(TS INTO THE 3UCF OP FINLAND :7.LP;!SI""'i':, . -C1 ejr -wsT s 5? ' - -A 7 MOST C "jv, , , JLNL') 0AfS5UJ S u lif SEES "75" KIPLING French Gun, With Supreme Gift of Occasionally, Is Equal to Every Emergency. TEUTON HELD AS OUTLAW Author Says Iron. Xerve and Endur ance Are New Inheritance of French People, "Fightlny Against Wild Beast." (Continued From First Past) but understood instead of blinking drowsily at one's plate would give a day's history. But tiredness and the difficulties of ,a sister, not a foreign, tongue, dims everything, and one goes to bed amid the murmur of voices, the rush of single cars through the night, the passage of battalions, and, behind all, the echo of deep voices calling one to, the other along a line that never sleeps. n. A long ridge with scattered pines it might have hidden children at play. Certainly a horse would have been quite visible. But there was no hint of guns except a semaphore which announced that it was forbidden to pass that way, as a battery was firing. The Boches must have looked for that battery, too. The ground was pitted with shell holes of all "caliber, some of them fresh as mole casts in the misty, damp morning, others where poppies had grown from seed to flower all through the Summer. "75" Is Equal to Everything. "And where are the guns?" I de manded at last. They were almost under one's hand, their ammunition in cellars and dugouts beside them. As far as I could make out, the 75 millimeter gun has no pet name. The bayonet, of course, is Rosalie, Virgin of Bayonne: but the "75," the watchful nurse of the trenches and the little sister of the line, seems to be always the soixantequinze. But even those who love her best do not say that she is beautiful. Her merits are French logic, directness, sim plicity a-nd the supreme gift of occa slonallty. She is equal to everything on the spur of the moment. One sees and studies the few appliances which make her do what she does, and one feels that anyone could have Invented her. "As a matter of fact," says a com mandant, "anybody, or rather, every body did. The recoil is after such and such a system, the patent of which has expired, and we improved it. The breech action, with slight modification, is somebody else's; the sighting is per haps a little special, and so is the traversing; but at bottom it is only an assembly of variations and arrange ments." That, of course, is all Shakespeare ever got out of the alphabet. French artillerymen make their own guns as he made his plays. It is Just as simple as that. Day Too Misty for Shooting. "There is nothing going on for a mo ment," said the commandant. "It is too misty. I fancy that the Boche, being of all things methodical, introduces the amateurs' to the batteries in ' the in tervals. At least there are hours, healthy and unhealthy, which vary with each position. But," the commandant reflected, "there is, let us say, a place and a distance." He gave a range. The gun servers stood back with the bored contempt of the professional for the layman who in trudes on his mysteries. Other civilians had come that way before, had seen and grinned and complimented and gone their way, leaving the gunner high up on the bleak hillside to grill or mildew or freeze for weeks and months. Then she spoke. Her voice was higher pitched, it seemed, than ours, with a more shrewish tang to the i OF RIGA FIRST LINE OF PETROGRAD'S DEFENSE; GUARDED COAST OF FINLAND BASE OF FLEET'S OPERATIONS. SEA. The holding of the Gulf of Riga has constituted Russia's first line of defense for Petrograd. Russia always has planned a retreat through Moon Sound into the Gulf of Finland in case of -a. defeat in the Gulf of Riga. This is what the Russian gunboats that battled the Germans recently appear to have done. The channel Is narrow and crooked and a danger to all who are not used to it. This passage might also be used to cut the enemy from his base by a fleet operating from the Finland coast. speeding shell. Her recoil was as. swiff and as graceful as the shrug of a Frenchwoman's ehoulders. The empty case leaped forth and clanged against the trail; the top of two or three pines 50 yards away nodded knowingly to each other, though there was no wind. "They'll be bothered down below to know the meaning of our single shot. We don't give them one dose at time, as a rule." Somebody laughed. . We waited in the fragrant silence. . Xothing came back from the mist over that clogged lower ground, though no shell of this war was ever launched with more earnest pray ers that it might do harm. Guns Chnge National Psychology. They talked about the lives of guns, what number of rounds some will stand and others will not, how one can make two good guns out of three spoilt ones, and what crazy luck sometimes goes with a single shot or a blind salvo. A shell must fall somewhere, and by the law of averages occasionally lights as straight as a homing pigeon on the one spot where it can wreck the most. Then the" earth opens for yards around, and men must be dug out. some merely breathless, who shake their ears and carry on, and-others whose -souls hav gone loose among the terrors. These have to be dealt with as their psy chology demands, and a French officer is a good psychologist. One of them said: "Our national psychology has changed. I do not recognize it, myself, what made the change. The Boche? If he had been quiet for another 20 years the world must have been as rotten ae his. But it la all his now. He is saving the world. How? Because he has shown us what evil Is. We, you and I, Eng land and civilization, had begun to doubt the existence of the evil. The Boche is saving us." Then we had another look at the ani mal in its trench a little nearer this time than before, and quieter on ac count of the mist having picked up. And where you please you shall find the same observation post, table, map, observer and telephonist. It is always hidden, the guns are always ready, and the same smeared wisp of trenches is smoking and flaring from Switzerland to the sea. Tools of War Unaltered. The handling of the war varies with the nature ' of the country, but the tools are unaltered. One looks upon them at last with the same weariness of wonder that the eye receives from an endless repetition of. Egyptian hiero glyphics. A long, low profile with a lump to one side means a field gun and its at tendant ammunition case. A circle and slot Btand for an observation post. The trench is a bent line studded with vertical plumes of explosion. The great guns of position, coming and going on their motors, repeat themselves as scarabs, and man himself is a small blue smudge, no larger than - a fore sight, crawling and creeping or watch ing and running among all these ter rific symbols. But there Is no hieroglyphio for Reims, no blunting of the mind at the abominations committed on the Cathe dral there. The thing peers upward, maimed and blinded, from out the utter wreckage of the archbishop's palace on the one side and a dust heap of tumbled houses on the other. They shelled, as they still shell it, with high explosives and. with incen diary bombs so that the statues and stone work still in their places are burned the color of raw flesh. The gargoyles are smashed, statues, crockets, and spires tumbled, walls split and torn, windows thrust out, and all tracery obliterated. Wherever one looks at the tortured pile there is muti lation and defilement; and yet it had never more of-a soul than it has today. Inside ("Cover yourselves, gentle men," said the sacristan, "thl3 place is no longer consecrated") everything is swept clear or burned out from end to end, except two candlesticks In front of the niche where Joan of Arc's image used to stand. There is a French flag there now. Briton Honors Joan of Are. The last time I saw Reims' Cathe dral it was in a Spring twilight, when the great west window glowed, and the only lights within were those of some candles which a penitent Englishman had lit in Joan of Arc's honor on those same candlesticks. The high altar was covered with carpets; the pavement and tiles were cracked and jarred out by the rubbish that had fallen from above. The floor was gritty with the dust of glass and powdered stone and little twists of leading from windows fnd iron fragments. Two great doors had been blown Inward by the blast of a shell in the archbishop's garden until they had been bent grotesquely to the curve of a cask. There they had Jammed the windows. But the record has been made and will be kept by better hands than mine. It will last through the generations in which the Teuton is cut off from fellowship with mankind and through all the long still years when the war Jf the body is at an end and the real war begins. Reims Is but one of the altars which the heathen have made on which to commemorate their own death through out the world. It will serve. There is a mark well known to the world by now which they have left for a visible seal to their doom. When they nrst set tne place alight there were some hundreds of their wounded in the Cathedral. The French saved as many as they could, but some had to be left. Among them was a man who lay with his back against a pillar. It has been ordained that signs of his torment should remain. An outline of both legs and half of his body is printed in greasy black upon the stones. There are very many people who hope and pray that it will be respected at least by our children's children. French Civilization la w Marvel And in the meantime Reims goes about what business it may have with that iron nerve and endurance and faith which is the new inheritance of France. There is agony enough when the big shells come in; there is pain and terror among the people and always fresh desecration to watch and suffer. The old men and the women and children drink of that cup daily, and the bitterness does not enter into their souls. Mere words of admiration are im- PROGRAMME TO SAVE CZAR'S CAPITAL pertinent. . But the exquisite quality of French civilization has been a marvel to me throughout. They say memseives when they talk: "We did not know what the nation was. Frankly, we did not expect it ourselves. But the thing came, and 'you see we go on." Or as a woman puts it more logically: "What else can we do? Remember we knew the Boche in '70 when you did not. We knew what he has done in the last year. This Is not war. It is against wild beasts that we fight. There is no arrangements pos sible with wild beasts." This is one vital point which we in England must realize. We are dealing with animals who have scientifically and philosophically removed them selves Inconceivably outside of civiliza tion. When you have heard a few tales, only a few tales, of their doings, you begin to understand a little more. When you have looked long enough into the faces of the women you are in clined to think that the women will have a large say in the final terms. They have earned it a thousand times. Toledo, Wash., Will Vote Tuesday. CENTRALIA, Wash.. Sept- 11 (Spe cial.) To vote an additional lS-mill levy to raise money to take the place of lost saloon licenses a special elec tion will be held in Toledo Tuesday. If the election carries Toledo will have a 25-mill levy this ear. The Town Council also is considering the passage of an ordinance creating occupation and dog taxes as a further means of Increasing the revenue. Copyright Hart Schaffner t Marx BAKER FAIR BIG SUCCESS ATTENDANCE OF 13.000 PROTE5 CO OPERATIVE FLAX'S WORTH. Many Records Brkea During: Week. Vote of Visitors Decides That Can ty Will Continue Show. BAKER, Or., Sept. 11. (Special.) That the co-operative plan of conduct ing a county fair is a success was proved tonight beyond a doubt, when Secretary Walter E. Meacham, of the Baker County Fair board, ' announced that more than 13,000 people attended the, "people's fair of Baker County" this week ,and that the receipts would not only pay all expenses, but that a sub stantial sum would be left to put into the surplus fund for the fair next year. The decision to have a fair next year came when Announcer S. O. Correll asked for a rising vote from the more than 3000 who attended the last day's event as to whether a fair should be held or not. With rousing cheers every person arose and waved hats, handker chiefs or anything handy. Records of -all kinds were broken during the week. The opening day's attendance was the largest ever in the fairgrounds on an inaugural day. The second day's attendance of nearly 4000 was the largest county fair crowd ever here. There were ngore and better ex hibits of agricultural products and livestock than ever, and the races and events far surpassed .previous years. The plan of having a fair board com posed of farmers and city people and of raising funds by subscription came after County Judge J. B. Messick re fused to grant the usual $2000 given IS SECOND by the county. The $2000 was raised among the farmers and merchants. GERMAN ATTACKS FAIL PARIS SAYS 100,000 HAVE BEEN LOST IX ARCOWE ATTEMPT. Crown Prince's Attempt to Break Through Lime Declared to Have Left Situation t ockaDRcd. PARIS, Sept. 11. The violent fight ing in the Argonne on Wednesday and Thursday was the result of an effort of the army of the German Crown Prince to break through the French lines. The attempt was made with powerful artillery and a large number of troops. The Germans were able to penetrate the French trenches on & portion of the front, but were checked immediately. They renewed their attacks, but with such severe losses that they gave up the effort. This offensive movement, it is said, has not modified the situation in the Argonne. The statement is made here that this army has lost upwards of 100,000 men, one corps alone losing 40, 000 from tie ranks, which are being continually depleted and refilled. Last night saw uninterrupted artil lery fighting at several points along See the New FqII Styles in Hart Schaffner & Marx Suits and Overcoats Youll like them for their style, their quality and their individ uality, and you'll find the choicest . run of fine imported and domestic fabrics to select from in all the latest colorings. The price, too, will " suit yQu. Priced from $20 to 35 See the New Hats for Fall You'll Like 'Em Stetson, Trimble and Multnomah Newest Colorings, $3, $4, $5 Everything; New in Furnishing Goods A New Store With New Goods Sam'l Rosenblatt & Co. , Our New Location 266 Morrison, Bet. 3d and. 4th Sts. SL ; ; ; : th lino in France, accordingr to the communication given out by the French War Office today. There has been a particularly violent artillery engage ment in thfi department of the Meuse and along the front in Lrorraine. DOGS AND CATS GET HOME Will of Sew Jersey Woman Slakes Provision for Her Pets. ELIZABETH, N. J.. Sept. 6. Occupy ing a house in Ashiand avenue. East Summit, a company of dogs and cats, which were the pets of the late Mrs. Mary Roraaine Wright will be allowed to enjoy undisturbed their present abode until they go voluntarily to an other home. In the will of Mrs. Wrieht, Mrs. Wright's daughter, Mrs. Frederick C. Kelley, is asked to see that this wish is carried out The nome is kept heated and the animals fed regularly. They seem to be waiting expectantly for the return of their protector. Mrs. Wright was noted for befriend ing dumb animals. With her husband, the late Seaman L. Wright, she lived for more than 40 years at the old home stead. HOOD RIVER SHOW NEAR O. A. C. Professors Will Judge Stock I VI da y and Saturday. HOOD RIVER, Or., Sept .11. (Spe cial.) Apple crops for the most part will be forgotten next Friday and Sat urday by Rood River orchardists. who will visit the first stock show ever held in the valley. The animals will be exhibited in a huge tent near the business distirct. The exhibits will be judged by Pro fessor Fitts and Professor Reynolds, of the Oregon Agricultural College. The annual industrial school fair will be held here on next Saturday. CASE IN COURT 50 YEARS Federal Tribunal Asked to Construe Will of liong Ago. CINCINNATI, Sept. 6. United States District Judge Howard Holllster began a hearing upon the supplemental bill of complaint brought in the General Samuel F. Vinton (Washington, D. C.) trust estate matter, asking for a con struction of the will of the late Gen eral to determine whether or not cer tain great-great-grandchildren of the testator are entitled to a share in the estate. . This i. a matter that has been in the REGISTRATION DAYS University of Oregon Tuesday, September 14th Oregon Agricultural College Friday, September 17th Limited. Lv. North Bank Station 8:25 a.m. Ov. Jefferson-st- Station 8:40 a.m. Arrive Corvallls. 11:30 a.m. Arrive Eugene 12:25 p.m. Parlor cars are carried on limited trains and sleeping car on the OwL Trains stop at Stark and Morrison streets, on Tenth street arid Fifth and Second streets on Salmon street. Tickets and details at: Fifth and Stark sts., Tenth and Stark sts., Tenth and Morrison sts., North fiank Station, Jefferson-st. Station. local Federal Court here for over half a century, being one of the few cases wherein a Federal Court has been called! upon to exercise tho usual function of a Probate Court. Busse Woes Get Alrinjr. WATJKEGAN. 111., Sept. 8. The finan cial troubles of Mrs. Fred Busse, widow of Chicago's ex-Mayor, and members of the Busse family were aired In a hearing before Master in Chancery E. J. Heydecker. William Rosing and George Stanford, of Round Lake, testi fied that Fred and not George Busse al ways paid for the insurance on his big farm buildings at Fox Lake. 00-y! My Col-V., H-m, Use Gets-It, Then You'll Have No Corns to Bump! Tour Corns Will Come "Clean Off," Quick! Did you ever see a corn peel off after you've used "Gets-It" on it? Well, it's a moving-picture for your life! And you hardly do a thing to it. Put a little "Gets-It" on, it dries at once. There's nothing to stick. Put shoes and stockings on right over it. No pain, " no fuss, .48 hours corns gone. "Gets It" never hurts the true -flesh, never makes toes sore. If you. have tried al most everything else for corns, you will be. much more surprised to see how quickly and easily your corns and calluses will come right off with "Gets It." Quit limping and wrinkling up your face with corn-wrinkles. Try "Gets-It" tonight on that corn, callus, wart or bunion, and you'll be glad you read this. "Gets-It" is sold by all druggists, 25c a bottle, or sent direct by E. Lawrence & Co., Chicago. Sold in Portland by The Owl Drug Co., 21 stores on the Pacific Coast. Again! Uso f Gets-It,' Corns , J I Fast Trains for Students EVERY DAY, via Oregon Electric JJy. Express Express. Limited. Owl. 10:40 a.m. 2:10 p.m. 4:40 p.m. 11:45 p.m. 11:00 a.m. 2:30 p.m. 4:55 p.m. 12:05 a.m. 2:30 p.m. 6:00 p.m. 8:00 p.m 7:05 p.m. 8:50 p.m. 7:50 a.m.