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TITE STJXDAT OTIEGONIAX, PORTLAND, NOVEMBER .". 1910. HUMANITY AND ID) FtThim? I N this great crisis of our country I am more interested in measures than in men, I am not interested in parties at alL But measures can only be put into force through the men in office. We must therefore' make a choice of the man and men who will put the measures in force. In the first place we should guard against Wall Street influences again securing the control of our Government. They hare been rooted out during the last four years, and they are working hard to get back. The eight-hour day should be extended to all our industries where pos sible. Women should be given the rights which in justice belong to them. For years the argument has had some force with me that women should be discouraged from working in factories and stores, and, hence, they have been discriminated against in wages, but I have slowly come to the settled conviction that this practice has been unfair, because equal work deserves equal pay. Hence, all women in our employment who do equal work shall receive equal pay. " I regard war as the greatest curse of mankind that it has done more to retard the progress of the race and its material well-being than any other single cailse. We want to see war abolished and we believe it can be done, and we must try to choose the man for the head of our Nation who will do the most for these ends. ALTHOUGH NOMINALLY A REPUBLICAN ALL MY LIFE. I AM FOR WILSON, AND URGE MY FELLOW CITIZENS TO STAND FOR HIM, BECAUSE OF HIS POSITION ON THESE AND OTHER GREAT QUESTIONS. BECAUSE HE HAS KEPT US OUT OF WAR AND HAS DONE MUCH TO BRING ABOUT THE REMARKABLE PROSPERITY WHICH WE ENJOY, AND BECAUSE WALL STREET IS AGAINST HIM. He is entitled to be rewarded for his great service to mankind, and the only way we can reward him is by giving him the opportunity to be of still greater service. The greatest reward for doing a good thing is the privilege to do more; that is why Mr. Wilson wants to be re-elected; in other words, to be paid for what he has done by the privilege of doing more. I have much admiration for Mr. Hughes personally, but he is sur rounded, influenced and advised by nearly all the evil influences of selfish ness and greed which I feel have retarded our progress for so long. I fear his election would restore the old crowd to power and put back the cause, of humanity for fifty years. In my mind, the most undesirable citizen in the world is the man who will buy another man's vote, and the next most undesirable is the man who will sell his vote because he not only injures himself and his family, but the community at large. . I AM FOR MR- WILSON BECAUSE WITH A WORLD AT WAR HE HAS KEPT US OUT OF WAR. ALL OTHER GREAT NATIONS ARE BEING CONSUMED AND DESTROYED, BUT WE HAVE PEACE WITH HONOR, ANDUR BOYS ARE AT HOME. SPECIAL INTERESTS ARE DEMANDING WAR AND THE PRESIDENT IS BEING CRITICISED WITH MANY WORDS, BUT STRIPPED OF ALL UNNECESSARY WORDS THEIR RI?AL COMPLAINT IS THAT HE HAS NOT PLUNGED THE COUNTRY INTO WAR FOR THEIR PROFIT. There has been much talk of the attitude of the so-called "hyphenates. To my mind these are merely sentimental Americans, men and wmen, who, like myself, have a feeling of love for the place of their birth. My observation has shown that among the best of Americans are these citizens. To all these let me say: I know from many conversations with Mr. Wilson his absolute neutrality among all the nations at war, his intense devotion to peace, his deep desire to serve all the peoples of all those coun tries impartially. Any single act apparently against any one of these countries is made only in pursuance of his duty as President of the United States and his duty to mankind. y HENRY FORD I know positively he bears no ill will to Germany or to England, or France, or Austria, or any of those countries at war, but he does under stand and is opposing that invisible government, that unseen hand which caused this war. I Relieve those same selfish forces that caused the war are opposing the President's re-election. I AM FOR WILSON because he caused to be passed a large number of wise and humane laws, most of which had been promised by the politicians of both parties for many years without fulfillment. No one class has been favored, no one disregarded, nc has served the United States as a whole. Among these laws are: THE FEDERAL RESERVE LAW, which wrested from Wall Street its monopoly of finance, released credit, forbade usury and dispelled the fear of money panics, which hung over every business. It has done away with the concentration of money in the hands of a few men in Wall Street, and distributed it among twelve Government-controlled reserve banks through out the country. The passage of this law alone, from the viewpoint of the honest business man, should entitle Woodrow Wilson to re-election. THE EIGHT-HOUR LAWS The eight-hour day issue has suddenly sprung into great prominence. I say to you from experience and not from guess work, that the eight hour day will help both employers and employes. We have had the eight hour day in force in the Ford factory for nearly three years and it has been a complete success from every point of view. I AM FOR WILSON because he favors the eight-hour day. The Presi dent has declared that he is in favor of the eight-hour day in all kinds of I business, except a very few in which it is impracticable, as, for instance, farming. The President has been criticised for the passage of the Adamson eight hour law, which applies to railroads, but that law averted the wholesale ruin which a universal railway strike would have brought. A strike had been ordered. It meant the closing of factories, violence and the enforced . idleness of millions of persons and the loss of millions of dollars. Neither side to the struggle took into consideration the one hundred million people who would have to bear the burden. Every business man in the country was trembling with fear. The President acted as the representative of all the people and the strike was prevented and the principle of an eight-hour day indorsed. Seventy-four Republican Congressmen voted for the bill and no word of protest came from the Republican candidate, although the law was under consideration for several days. Mr. Wilson showed great wisdonr and courage in preventing this strike, which would have paralyzed the Nation. The commission which has been appointed to study the effect of this law will, I hope, report that with increased efficiency the railroads will not need higher rates. But in any case this action is, I believe and hope, the first step towards the Government ownership and operation of railroads. THE RURAL CREDITS LAW, under which the farmer is enabled to borrow long-time loans on small payments, at low rates of interest; and it promises an annual saving of $150,000,000 to farmers M-ho were formerly the hopeless victims of loan sharks. These rural credit banks are now being established by the Commission in various parts of the country. THE CHILD LABOR LAW, which prevents employment of young children in factories and stops the coining of dividends out of the lives of little children. There is no factory and no institution that can possibly give any care equal to a mother's care. (Paid Advertisement by Henry Ford.) A WISE WORKMEN'S COMPENSATION LAW, providing compensa tion to those injured while in the service of the Government, which measure will lead to "safety first," THE LAW CREATING THE NON-PARTISAN TARIFF COMMIS SION, which will go into effect very soon, and which has taken the tariff out of politics and placed it in the hands of a commission of different parties, so that tariffs can be altered as conditions change. THE GOOD ROADS LAW, which provides $73,000,000 for improving highways throughout the United States under adequate safeguards, which will facilitate transportation. This will help the country feed the city. The farmer will be greatly benefited by not being compelled to waste his energies on bad roads. Fruits and vegetables today are rotting on the farms from lack of good roads. THE INCOME TAX LAW AND THE INHERITANCE TAX LAW, which readjust the burdens of taxation, compelling the wealthy to bear a fair 6hare of the load which has hitherto rested all too heavily on the backs of the poor. THE AGRICULTURAL EXTENSION LAW, which provides an annual appropriation for the direct education of the farmer, in order that the farms of the land may be worked with greater efficiency and upon a sound and scientific basis and produce larger crops for the benefit of all our people. , THE ALASKAN RAILWAY LAW, which provided a railroad built and operated by the Government, and which has opened up the resources of that great territory in the interests of the PEOPLE, not for the benefit of the few. THE FEDERAL TRADE COMMISSION LAV,, which creates a non partisan Board to arbitrate commercial disputes, to prevent unfair compe tition and to stand as a barrier between the consumer and extortion. THE GRAIN ANTI-GAMBLING LAW. which provides better grain storage facilities, and enables the farmer to obtain certificates on which loans may be secured. He is thus enabled to borrow on the products of his labor and is not compelled to sell during unfavorable times. THE SAFETY-AT-9EA LAW, through the passage of which ships now carry more life-saving equipment, and the general living conditions of sailors at sea have been improved. THE COTTON FUTURES LAW, which prevents gambling in cotton in stock exchanges and establishes standards for cotton. I hope the Prcsi den will find some way to pass a law to prevent all speculation in stocks. THE CLAYTON ANTI-TRUST LAW, which does away with interlock ing directorates, prevents railway looting, ends the abuse of the injunction, and declares the great truth that a "man's labor is not a commodity, but a part of his life." THE ABOVE RECORD OF PROGRESSIVE LEGISLATION in the interest of all the people and not of the few, far excels any ever before known in our history. THOMAS A. EDISON SAYS THAT PRESIDENT WILSON AND HIS COLLEAGUES IN CONGRESS, BOTH DEMOCRATS AND REPUBLI CANS, HAVE ENACTED MORE LAWS FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE INDUSTRIOUS PEOPLE IN THE PAST THREE YEARS THAN THE REPUBLICAN PARTY HAS IN ALL THE TIME IT WAS IN POWER; and it is because of these laws and his leadership in the interest of all the people that the President is being fought by the special interests, by every master of Wall Street, every monopolist, every munition maker, every man with a special interest to serve. No business man should oppose Wilson, because Wilson is the greatest friend honest business ever had in the White House. GREAT PROSPERITY COVERS THE LAND AS NEVER BEFORE, LEGITIMATE ENTERPRISE IS ASSURED A PROPER REWARD. THERE ARE NO BREAD LINES, AND EVERYBODY IS EMPLOYED THAT WANTS TO BE. OUR PEOPLE ARE CONTENTED. PROSPER OUS AND HAPPY. WHY SHOULD WE MAKE A CHANGE? In order to carry out his work President Wilson will need the co-cpera-tion of a Congress thoroughly in accord with his own far-seeing policy. It is our plain duty as voters to send back to Congress the right men, irre spective of party, to assist the President in the great tasks that face hint. IN EX.SECRETARY POINTS OUT FAULTS IN NAVY Daniels Misleading Public, Says Mr. Meyer, and Is Taking Credit Which Rightfully Belongs to Another. BY GEORGE VON L. MEYER. (Secretary of the Navy in the Taft Ad ministration.) DURING the campaign In Maine, which has just taken place, the Secretary of the Navy, Mr. Dan iels, has been, according to his custom, making- from the stump misleading and evasive statements in answer to Mr. Gardner's queries. He has also taken credit for actions to which he has no claim. " For instance, in his speech of August 25 at Millbridge. Me., he said: "Mr. inrunt'i, ana, manKs 10 ms propagan da, all the world knows that owing to" Secretary Meyer's parsimony and lack of conception of the Navy, the elementary target practice was dis continued and our gunnery practice did fall off lamentably. Mr. Gardner should know, if he is serious in his in vestigations, that it has improved since I (Daniels) restored the elementary practice." Reatored in 1012. Now Mr. Daniels should have known quent misinformation that elementary target practice was restored by Secre tary Meyer in September, 1912. Testimony to that effect appears In Captain Sims' evidence before the House committee on naval affairs March 3 0, 1916, and in his letter to Secretary Daniels, dated July 9, 1916: "I wish to make it entirely clear that the mistake f abolishing the short range practice was duo exclusively to naval officers. It had nothing to do with the admin istration of the Navy Department at that time. The Navy Department act ed upon the advice of a limited number of officers and these officers made the mistake above referred to." Confirmed by Meyo. Admiral Mayo, in his letter of the ame date to the Secretary of the Navy, stated: "In 1911 no elementary practice was Jield, that Is, no practice at short range. 'J'hls practice was omitted because many officers thought It was a waste of ammunition to Are at such . ranges, . . . The effect of omission of the short range practice for the year was rioted at once and the practice resumed In 1912." As to the parsimony of Secretary Meyer, which Mr. Daniels refers to, the world does not remember, but Mr. Dan iels knew when he made his statement that it was not my parsimony, but that of the Democratic party, which had grained control of the House in the mid dle of the Taft Administration! Schools on Battleahlps. Now, as to my lack of conception of The Navy. Throughout my administra tion I publicly stated before Congress and in the press that "the fleet was the Navy" and the aim of the department would be preparedness and the military efficiency of the fleet. Now let us see as to Mr. Daniel I Conception of the Navy. One of his I Jfirst statements was: "It is m v nmhi- ' tion to make the Navy a great univer lty." He thereupon issued an order establishing a grammar school on every battleship and compulsory at that, overlooking entirely that every detail of training that does not tend to pre pare the personnel for actual battle conditions and any part of the material that cannot be used in action must be eliminated, and that battle efficiency is the main and necessary object of the training of the personnel in the Navy. In fact, he has assumed an attitude of personal ownership towards the service, to which many of his errors can be traced, and he has failed to grasp the importance of leaving tech nical decisions to technical men. He has demoralized the Navy by ad ministrative delays and by ignoring or suppressing important reports of offi cers. The greatest fault with the present Secretary of the Navy is that he has not the confidence of the naval person nel. He has deceived the people and the press in the past by saying that the fleet was ready for war, when it was undermanned, untrained and poorly equipped. He even misrepresented con ditions to Congress. Confident in Public Talk. In December. 1914. in the hearings before Congress, he stated that "there was no need of additional men; . . at the present moment we can man every fighting ship we have imme diately with the present number of men. . . . All thus ships in active commission are fully commissioned. In consequence of Mr. Daniels' rec ommendations the active battleship neet dropped at one time to 11 battle ships and the torpedo fleet from 25 to 40 per cent undermanned. Now the commander-in-chief of the fleet stated they were short 5000 men and many officers. Deceived the Public- Mr. Daniels deliberately deceived the people and misstated the condition of the fleet through the press in Boston August 26. 1915, when he called atten tion to the fleet as being in a high state of efficiency. Yet 10 days pre' viously he had received a report from Admiral Fletcher, commander-in-chief, calling the Secretary's attention to the principal weaknesses of the fleet, as follows: Shortage of officers. Shortage of men. Lack of fast cruisers. Lack of air craft. Lack of radio finders. Iseed of mining and sweeping ves sels. Need of battle target practice. Need of anti-aircraft guns. Necessity of maintaining full com plements In active ships of the fleet. Too frequent overhaul of battleships This report should have been issued to the fleets officers,- but by Secretary Daniels' orders its circulation was for bidden and the document suppressed. Deficient in Submarines. : December 1, 1914, Secretary Daniels in his annual report stated: "As far as submarines are concerned. It is be lieved that ours are on a par with any in the world." A few months later Ati- miral Fletcher gives a true statements "The condition of the submarine flotilla has been very unsatisfactory only 10 were available, at times not more than five were ready for duty and some even of those not ready to undertake sub merged work! All but one had ma chinery casualties. He is responsible for upsetting the discipline of the naval academy by in jecting politics. He removed the ma. jor part of the clothing factory from Brooklyn yard to Charleston for the purpose of increasing the political pat ronage of the South. Due to political reasons he reopened the Navy-yard 100 miles up the river at New Orleans! Too Slow With New Ships. His continued antagonism towards private shipbuilders has resulted in de laying construction of new ships. Bat tleships 43 and 44, authorized over 18 months ago. have not yet been started In the Navy-yard. It will be Ave years from time of authorization before they are now completed, and two years could probably have been saved a concrete example of time wasted and a lack of comprehension on his part of the fleet's requirements! Among the things perishable are na val designs. Battleships which have been built 10 years almost automatical ly go to the second line. It is, there fore, of no small consequence, this po litical delay of Mr. Daniels. In the con struction of these two superdread noughts. Up to date no ship authorized during his administration has been put in commission, with the exception of two torpedo-boat destroyers built in private yards. Spurred by Public Sentiment. For the first 18 months of the European war the Administration dep recated any action for preparedness. it was not until public sentiment had been aroused by the Security League. the National Defense League, the Navy League and numerous individuals that President Wilson took any notice or interest in the movement. Finally Secretary Daniels, having suppressed for some time the general board building programme, came for ward with a five-year shipbuilding programme. But Congress ignored Mr. Daniels' five-year building pro gramme and urged that five battle cruisers, four scout cruisers, 10 de stroyers, 50 submarines, together with fuel, hospital and ammunition ships. should be laid down at once. While the Senate was considering the t FORjIER JUSTICE OF IDAHO SUPREME COURT DIES HERE. i ' ' i i . jf't -z. ; t . r - , I ' h 'O J ' . it f -,WVV- It V ' TV- 'V 1 r 1 g ri iii'-f1 hi rMtMfcr - -hi -'"-'-milji , , I John Cummins. Jobn Cummins. John Cummins, who died Octo ber 30 at his home, 1172 Carlton avenue, had occupied prominent public offices in Oregon and Ida ho, having been at one time As sociate Justice of the Supreme Court in Idaho. He was admitted to the bar in 1862. From 1866 to 1868 he served as United States Justice in his district. He served as a member of the Oregon State Leg islature In 1862 and was at an other time a member of the Ida ho Legislature. At one time he was Collector of Internal Rev enue for Idaho. He was born in Indiana May 13, 1838? Surviving him are his mother, a widow and a son. His parents moved to Oregon and located In Lane County in 1S53. naval bill, the battle of Jutland was fought, and we can Judge of its effect on public sentiment, as the Senate wen: beyond the House of Representatives' recommendation, adding four super dreadnoughts to the first year's build ing plan of the House, and. in addition, added a building programme to be completed in three years, to which the House of Representatives consented. Hits Building Programme. , The following statement gives the number of ships Mr. Daniels proposed. that which the House of Representa tives proposed should be laid down at once, and what the Senate demanded and the House finally agreed to: General Board Secretary of Navy DanleU'plan. 1st plan. 2d plan Dreadnoughts 2 4 Battle cruisers ......... - 4 Submarines .to 37 Dentrovera -S Sundries 7 -4 (I 10 's 4 2 ii) 10 (Plan No. 1 of the reneral board was turned down and suppressed by Secretary Daniels tor several inontns. Tho building plan, as paused by the House was as follows: Five battle cruisers, four scout cruisers, 10 de stroyers, 50 coast submarines, one fuel ship, one hospital thip, one ammunition ship. what Consress Approved. The building plan, as carried by the Senate and concurred in by the House, was as follows: First Three Yr. Yrt. Battleships 4 10 Battle cruisers ' Scout crullers 4 Destroyers .2 Fleet submarines ............... . ' Coast submarines .27 Fuel ships 3 Repair ships 1 Transports 1 Hflfiulla snips ................... Ieptroyer tenders ............... 2 - Fleet submarine tender ..........1 1 Ammunition ships - - Gunboats - - - In addition to the Senate bill au thorized one submarine to be equipped with the Neff system of submarine pro pulsion and to cost ?250.uoo. exclusive of armour and armament. Deficient in Men. On account of Mr. Daniels' evidence before the committee in Becember, 1914. the United States Navy rsvstill short of men. and. while an IncrXase tip to 71.000 has been made this ytar, the problem of enlisting the lncrefi.se in one year is much more difficult than if It had been spread over three years. In case of war the requirements of the personnel would be more than dou ble what we have at the preaent time. One of the difficulties that the Navy has to contend with is the length of tho United States coast line. This ren ders the local defense scare very easy to be aroused (as we found out in the Spanish war). It is conceivable that our enemy might create, if war were declared, spurious local agitations for the. local defense and that political in fluence might be exercised to such an extent as to embarrass our ueet Our Fleet la DUnd. Today our fleet is blind, because it is conspicuously lacking -in the kind of shies that would enaDie it to see. mere fore aa a line of offensive defense it has demonstrated Itself In the maneu vers of the past two years to be ex ceedingly weak. In its target practice Mr. Daniels has endeavored to deceive the puonc as to the number of actual hits by enlarging the target from an actual 90 feet to an imaginary 600 feet the lengtn or a battleship and including tne pnoto graphic hit within that area. As that has not been counted heretofore, it is imposssible to make any comparison with former records. In 191S Sl.000.000 was appropriated for air craft, but Mr. Daniels did noth ing and turned it into the Treasury. In 1914 he failed to make any recommen dation for an appropriation, therefore little or nothing has been accomplished In the past two years la aviation, asd this year the general board recom mended $5.0u0.000 for aviation; he only asked for $2,000,000. Behind In Airships. We are lamentably behind as com pared with other countries, yet there is the future aerial warfare. The ob jective point with us could be the Pan ama Canal. That temporarily blocked or destroyed would compel any United States fleet to round Cape Horn to reach the other side. Consrress has been suddenly aroused by public sentiment and recent naval contests, and authorized a building pro gramme which transcends anything ever done before. There remains much to be done In legislation in the way of increased personnel, the establishment of a Na tional council of defense and a general staff equivalent to the power and du ties of a general staff In England and Germany. All possible enemies are now far away, but as years go by the overseas attacks become easier and isier. Until the war is over no problem can test the value of the United States Navy as a line of defense. But what then? CO-EDS TAKE AGRICULTURE Six at Corvnllis Enter for Several Special Studies. OREGON AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE Corvallis, Or., Nov. 4. (Special.) That the science of agriculture is not limited to men only is shown by the fact that at the Oregon Agricultural College there are six co-da who have chosen to follow this line of work. Miss Florence Holmes, of Portland, is specializing In landscape garden- "Goodnight Corns! We Use 'Gets-It!'" 3 Drops in 2 Seconds. That's AIL "GETS-IT" Does the Rest. Never Fails. "Really. I nivr could see how some few people use the most difficult and painful way they can find to get rid of corns. They'll wrap their toes up with bandages into a package that fills their Mate W Your Feet "Get. yVS"K ; gtCT shoes full of feet and makes corns so painful they've got to walk sideways and wrinkle up their faces. Or they use salves that eat right into the toe and make it raw and sore, or they'll use plasters that make the corns bulge, or pick and gouge at their corns and make the toes bieed. Funny, isn't It? "GKTS-IT" is the simple, modern won der for corns. Just put 3 drops on. It dries instantly. No pain, tana or trouble. The corn, callus or wart loosens and comes oil. aiiiiiona use nothing else." "GETS-IT" is sold and recommended by druggists everywhere. 25c a bottle. or sent on receipt 01 price, oy ju. iaw rence & Co.. Chicago. 111. Sold in Portland at all stores of The Owl urug v. ing and expects to apply the knowl edge she receives after graduation. A general course in agriculture Is being taken by Miss Jean Kelly, also of Port land. Both of these young women are freshmen. The production of orchard stock is the field chosen by Miss Mil dred Aumlllor, of North Yakima, and she is specializing in horticulture. Miss Alice Moore, of Cor-allls, ia a. Junior In agriculture, and Miss Klisr i-'ree-land. of Parkplace, is a sophomore. llwaco Man Burled. ILWACO, Wash.. Nov. 4. (Special.) The funeral services of Andrew Par rett. who died at the heme of his daughter. 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