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3 TIIE SUNDAY OREGONIAN, PORTLAND, MAY 13, 1917." Ip IiOTfi" lien and Hot I Itetkodr (BP iThe Big Work of the U. S. War and Navy Departments in Fitting the i Great Fighting Force "Against Time" Y .tZTZ- -How Implements and Men Are Being Prepared ' - a II ' II I 'II 'I I rill I ' I n ii ' mi hi I II ill I i ii I IP i W " ! rrr-"-j ' . " : i- A . ' V-. ' "i'-i . ' j I i - , -' 1 V '' :-' : -: rr Xj- 1 '.-v y k v - " ,;fi r . .:..:r?'.v: I ; V -,- ' . r- 1 v is y t - i i : -' '" " -X Sy ssL -l -- ' - . . I Law.S-sS& -w: rjta. ...w,. mmr-m.n, . .i Hi. i.a r ,1 . -41 1 '-TS'Z-Oi SJi-J I JAn .nuril L'mmJ . - , . Afc. J - - ' COMTlNEf? GRENADE g -- - i i-i i-n..-, i i. --, m - t ... i - Xt-T EW men end new methoas. the call that foes out from Washington at the outset of the war Into which America has en tered, and every ingenuity the Govern ' ment can employ la being directed to that purpose, and to the fulfilling of that call. The true American, with the buoy ant optimism which is his inheritance, and with pride In the achievement of those who have fought to a. victorious conclusion all previous wars, is confi dent that neither the men nor the methods they devise will be found lacking In the one great essential the ability to "put It over." But who will the men be "What will be the methods employed? Like the snows of yesterday, the heroes of yesteryear are gone. The old instruments of warfare have gone Into the discard for the most part. Mod ern menaces demand modern methods . with which to meet them. Heroes of the Past. It Is barely 20 years since the Spanish-American war since last American courage and American Ingenuity were put to the actual test since Uncle Earn was forced to meet fire with more lire, cunning with greater cunning, bravery with greater bravery. Just 20 years, but those in the war of today must leaxn their lessons from the writ ten and printed word the heroes who could tell, and whose word would be given attention, are nearly all gone. This is particularly true In the naval branch of the Government's fighting force, and it is on the sea that America most likely will be called upon to con tribute her greatest share. The three most conspicuous heroes of the Spanish-American war on the sea were Ad mirals Dewey, Schley and Sampson. By example alone will that great tri umvirate be or assistance in the pres nt conflict. The heroes of Manila Bay and San tiago Bay will furnish inspiration to those who have taken up their com' mands but what a strange, unfortu nate freak of fate It was that took from America Just before she entered this war the two conspicuous figures on whom she would have relied so strongly in this one the old sea war- rlor who cut the cables and "waded in," " and the great land fighter, the rug- ' gea little uenerai through whose strat ' egy and courage the Philippine insur rection was ended and Aguinaldo was captured! ' What an inspiration and help they would have been Dewey to the sailor boys in blue, and Fnnston to the khaki-clad infantry in the struggle with the Teutonic hosts! It is worth while noting also- that the hero of the Merrimao is no longer : actively in the Navy, but a member of - Congress. It would be lust as Impossible to forecast who the heroes of this war ' will be as it would have been to have singled out in advance Richmond ; Pearson Hobeon and Ensign Worth Bagley as heroes of the Spanish American conflict. The bravest of the brave may not have the opportunity that is presented to another, and the mildest, gentlest of all soldiers may .' when the great occasion comes, prove the most heroic. Uncle Sam's Place. One takes no desperate chance In prophesying that la methods, as weU x.-TiTl-? "tit" ... .fe t,i TvCi" . ' . A-- a" i . I a i -'11 jm irt v --ft - , cii'-'fi - - - '' r,v v. - - C y r . jj---vm.c ,. - j ' 1 f r a jJK";'',M,'lW'''''lft' fa-aHj A.'sr IS tVi" " -' - J"T " ' " TIM "Yf nfl tl llign -ll -i- ' ' J - -- ... iiJh f,-.,i n . i I I I 1 1 i m ri iii'i ii it 1 1 sssBBaaBaBSSBBsssssisssssBssBssBBSsssss"" 1 - mi men, America wUl take a, leading place among the belligerents. Uncle Sam looks to his inventors to contrib ute more to the solution of the prob lems pressing on the allies than to any other single group of men. America, which gave the world the submarine, the great new fighting fac tor of the seas, and the flying ma chine, which has done more than all else to revolutionise the land warfare. may well be expected to furnish the best means of meeting the menace of the former, and also the most perfect adaptation of the airplane to war pur poses. If American Inventiveness can per fect a submarine catcher, or can de vise any way of protectingshIps from the deadly torpedo; or if the flying ma chine can be made an effective ally in detecting the presence of subma rines, if not in destroying them, the re sult as far as hastening the end of the war is concerned would be greater than could be accomplished In any pitched battle on land or sea. Uncle Sam has a habit, in common with European countries, of not di vulging the inner workings of his War Department to any great extent, but it is known that for many months plana have been going on to perfect meth ods of conducting warfare, with a view of overcoming the menaces that have confronted the two groups tt Euro pean powers. A super-Ericsson is not an Impossi bility, la an. aa and La a country that has the brain of Edison turned in the direction of improved fighting ma chinery. A super-submarine Is far from an Improbability in a country which pro duced a mere college boy David Bushnell able to construct the first submarine boat actually used in war fare ; Robert Fulton, the Inventor of the steamboat, also an American, was the next person to contribute to the development of the submarine, and to John P. Holland, still another nephew of Uncle Sam, is given the credit for bringing the submarine to a stats of practical value. The rath for Invention. A super-airplane may well be ex pected from the Nation that gave to th Wrights and Glenn the world Curtlss. America has contributed most to the development of the submarine and the airplane, and in times of such stress as these it may reasonably bo expected that she will furnish the material for the most important chapters on the history of both as employed in the world war. One invention by two young Call fornlana is called a periscope gun. It allows the marksman to fire over the edge of the trench, taking careful aim. and yet remain fully, covered. Those who doubt that the call from Washington the call for -new men and new methods will be filled promptly, fully and glidly, need to study a little history. They do not know the ways of Uncle Sam and his "minute men." LEGAL SIDELIGHTS FOR LAWYERS AND LAYMEN BY BEYSELLK O. B. COHMSU, OF" PORTLAND BAB. SOK Promises Must Father Pay? Is a father responsible for the promises of bis minor son? Can be be held on the theory that the rela tionship creates an implied authority by virtue of which the son's acts may bind bis parent? This Question, la squarely put In the case of Harbegger v. King, 135 N. W. It appearM from the facts that Charles King, the minor son of the defendant, had acci dentally run into and injured one Karge. Toung King at the time was using his father's automobile for his own pleasure or convenience, but under his father's general permission. It was stipulated on the trial that this was purely accidental and without fault on the part of Charlea King. Young King took the boy to the nearest hospital and then wont after the doctor, the plaintiff in this Case, and requested him to give the injured boy every attention to save his life. He did not. however, attempt to contract on bbalf of his father, the defendant In this action, nor did the doctor communicate with the defend ant at any time before the completion of the services for the value of which this suit was brought. Just before the injured boy was dis charged from the hospital, the hospital superintendent told the defendant that the boy's mother was poor and would probably not be able to pay the hospital charges, and asked the drfendant to do something toward paying the bill, whereupon the defendant paid the hos pital bill, informing thte superintendent that he was not responsible Tho sec ond day after this he received a bill from the plaintiffs for their services. He bad beard that doctors were attend ing the injured boy at the hospital but did not know that they were making a claim against him until he received this bill, which be refused to pay. On the above facts, the circuit judge stated that while Charlra King had no actual oral or written direct authority from his father to employ the plaint iffs for the purpose stated, he had implied authority as. & matter of law. On appeal this ruling was reversed on thn ground that a minor child has no Implied agency to act for his parent in the making of a contract. "A parent will not be bound by an unratified con tract entered into on his behalf by a minor child. In the absence of express authority to the child to make, the contract, or of evidence of a course of conduct from which such authority may be inferred. ' ' "The law relating to the agency of servants to bind the e-rnployer to pay for physicians or nurses in attendance upon persons injured by the negligence of such servants requires that the em ployment must have Iwen of such a nature that this act of the servant is reasonably within its scope, as in the case of a general superintendent of a railway company, general manager or agTOt, ... A mere chauffeur or automobile driver In a town where the employer Is known and can be readily reached by telephone or by other speedy and cvtain means of communication, would not ordinarily possess such au thority. Neither would an Infant son using his father's automobile under like circumstances." i The Torrens System. To those who wonder why the Torrens system of land registration, hailr-d a few years ago as the cure-all and end-all of every diffi culty attendant upon the owning and transferrins ot land, nas met with so little popularity, the following extract from 137 N. W. 390 may be enlight ening: "The Torres system of reglstratioa of land titles was named after Sir, Robert Torrens. of South Australia, who first introduced it into use amor.g English-speaking people, though a sim ilar system had been in vogue in some parts of the present German empire for many years. It is worthy of notice. In this connec tion, that Sir Robert was not a lawyer. He was a collector of customs, and very probably he worked out his sys tem through analogy to the method by which the government furni?hd a cer tificate as evidence of one's owner ship of a vessel. Manifestly his intent was to free land titles from the indict mont of common sense which is often framed In the impatient and seemingly unanswerable question: Why must there be any greater uncertainty of ownership of land than of personalty, and why should land titles have- to bs searched through a 'godless and profit less Jungle"? "The system was Introduced Into South Australia in 185S. and while since that time It has found more or less favor with pnople of English ex traction. It seems that it yet has thorny paths to tread. Its author, as aptly said by the writer of the learned and ineresting article on this system In t Cent. L. J. 285. 'little knew, as we. may i .iCuuclutlvd on I'aiia S.A
