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' ' Dramatic, Photoplays and Automobiles SECTION FOUR. Pages 1 to 10 VOL.. XXXVI. PCRTJCAXD, OREGON. SUNDAY 3IORXIXG, SEPTEMBER . 3, 1917. NO. 3.. WAR SERVICE TO BE GONFERENGE TOPIC Pacific Northwest Library As sociation to Hold Three Days' Session. HIGHWAY TRIP SCHEDULED delegates Will Be Shown Scenic AVonders of Columbia Route on Wednesday Programme 'of Elaborate Character. War service will be- one of the topics that will be given a big place in the programme of the eighth annual con ference of the Pacific Northwest Li brary Association, which will open to morrow and close Wednesday. This topic will occupy practically the whole of the Monday night session. The sessions will be held in the Port land Central Library at all times, ex cepting Tuesday morning, when the conference will be at Reed College. Luncheon will be served at Reed Col lege Tuesday noon and a dinner will be held in the evening at the University Club. "Wednesday morning will be de voted to a trip over the Columbia River Highway. Following is the programme f or the cessions: First session, Monday. September 8. 2:30 e clock Addres. of welcome. R. H. Strong, trustee. Library Association, of Portland presidents report. Cornell Marvin, librarian Oregon State Library. Salem: secretary's re port Corlnne A. Metz. librarian. Wasco ounty Library, The Dalles. Or.; "Library Progress in the Pacific Northwest." three minute reports from librarians and trustees reports for states will be given by the chair man of each state, executive committee; Libraries for Alaska." committee report, Judson T. Jennings, librarian. Public Library Heattle, Wash: "Books in the Country." Mrs' C. M. Stites. Mulloy; "Library Exhibits." committee report. J. M. Hltt. librarian, Washington State Library, Olympla; ap pointment of committees on resolutions and dominations. Second session. Monday evening, 8 o'clock Libraries and the War," address. Gov ernor Wlthycombe; "Public Libraries and the vVar." John B. Kaiser, librarian. Public Li brary. Tacoma. Wash; discussion of plans of the war service committee of the American Library Association. Judson T. Jennings; Books for the Soldiers." Mary Frances Isom, librarian. Library Association of Port land; "War Service Library Week. Announce ments and Plans." Charles H. Compton. ref erence librarian. Public Library, Seattle, Wash.; -Poetry of the War." John Rldlng ton, acting librarian. University of British Columbia. Vancouver, B. C. ; "Technical Books for War Time Demands," Anna K. Fossler. assistant in charge of technical room. Portland Library. Third session, Tuesday morning. Septem ber 4, 9:30 o'clock (at Reed College) Round tables, 0:30 to 11 o'clock: "College and Ref erence Libraries." chairman, W. E. Henry, librarian. University of Washington Library, Seattle, Wash.; "Public Libraries." loan system problems (registration. statistics, readers' cards, fines), discussion In charge of Flora M. Case, librarian Public Library. Sa lem, Or.; "School Libraries." instruction In the use of books in grades and high schools, discussion led by Ruth Paxson, school li brarian, Salem; "Special Libraries." confer ence in charge of Mrs. C. L. B. Kelliher, municipal reference librarian, Portland Li brary. General session. 11 o'clock "Teaching the Use of Books, Programme and Plans for Elementary Schools." Ruth Paxson. school librarian. Salem, Or.; for high schools, Helen Wilkinson, school librarian, Kallspell, Mont.; for colleges, W. E. Henry. University of Washington; for the "general public," Loa E. Bailey, librarian. East Portland Branch Library: "School Libraries," committee re port, Harriet A. Wood, school librarian, Portland Library; "Subscription Books." committee report. E. Ruth Rockwood, refer ence librarian, Portland Library. s Luncheon, at Reed College. Fourth session. Tuesday afternoon, 2:30 o'clock tat Public Library) Session for library trustees: "Financing the public Jiorary. juason t. Jennings. Seattle Public Library; "A Model Library Law. Citv and County." W. L. Brewster, trustee. Library Association, of Portland; discussion led by Mrs. ti. lv. Page, trustee. Public Library, Salem, Or.; "County Libraries." committee report. Mary Frances Isom, Library Assocla- tlon or Portland; "Library Publicity," com mittee report, Charles H. "Compton, Seattle Public Library. There will be ample time for discussion of these topics and for for mulation of the policy of the association In regard to library budgets and laws. Election of officers; instruction in mending and re pairing books will be given at the close of the Tuesday afternoon session. Fifth session, Tuesday evening State con ferences, 7:30 to 8 o'clock; general meeting, 8 o'clock: "A Talk About Books," R. W. Montague, trustee Library Association of Portland; "Notes on the Historical Liter ature of the Northwest," C. W. Smith, as sociate librarian. University of Washington: "Librarians and Inspiration." Mrs. Ida Kid der, librarian Oregon Agricultural College; "Inspiration in War Literature," Ethel Sawyer, director training class. Portland Library: "A Book for You." symposium on books read and worth passing on. led by Zulema Kostomlatsky, of the Seattle Public Library. Wednesday morning Trip over Columbia River Highway. Headquarters of conference at Portland Hotel. INVESTIGATOR IS COMING Federal Department Will Investi gate Child Labor Conditions Here. SALEM. Or., Sept. 1. (Special.) Grace Abbott, director of the child la bor division of the United States De partment of Labor, has advised State Labor Commissioner Hoff that for a period of six months Oregon will be permitted to Issue certificates of age, which will be accepted In accordance with the provisions of the Federal child labor act. This ruling applies to age certificates only, the standard of hours and ages as provided in the Federal act to be observed strictly. Miss Abbott also writes that either herself or one of her associates will be in Oregon within the next six months to investigate conditions here as to child labor. NEW BUILDINGS ORDERED Quartermaster-General Authorizes Additional Quarters at Vancouver OREGONIAN NEWS BUREAU, Wash ington, Sept. 1. The Quartermaster General today authorized the construc tion of new buildings at Vancouver Barracks as follows: Officers quarters, officers lavatory, two company barracks, one company mess building, one company lavatory, eight stables, two wagon and one motor buildings, motor ambulance gar age, fTre engine garage, permanent bar racks for bakers. FROM LITTLE FLOURING MILL AT PATAHA, WASH., TO EXPORTER OF 35,000,000 BUSHELS OF WHEAT IS STEP IN SUCCESSFUL CAREER Max Houser, Name of Miller's Son Now Known in Every Part of World Commerce, Gives . Formula for Making One's Way in World as Thrift and Hard Work" Healthful Recreation Required He Takes His on Little Farm in Tualatin Valley. m . ' j. - It f V f i , ' v. I 1 1 1 - ,v yfec -; - ' - " r" 1 1 i ' M W N ' BT BEIT HUR LAS1PMAN. THE little flouring mill at Pataha clacked and clattered. It contrived to make a great deal of fuss and dust about its business, which it knew to be the most important work in the world. The boy who heaved on the plump sacks of provender was as dusty as the old rafters overhead. He toiled as a part of the mill, a cog in the ma chine that gave bread to several coun ties of Washington. And, Just as sure ly as the mill, he knew that the day's work would not wait. The boy was Max H. Houser, and the mill was his father's, and the dusty days at Fataha, Wash., are not of the long ago, as grist is measured in the hopper of time. Scarce a score of years were to pass before the boy was to be come the largest individual exporter of grain, on the globe, and to hold as his trust, for America at war, the post of Northwest representative of the United States Grain . Administration Board. The interval that rests between the odd chores of Pataha and a time when scores of ships sailed with the cargoes that Max Houser gathered from the fields of the West, is plainly the prog ress of a career that has been singu larly successful. Today the name of the miller's son is known in every port of world commerce. Mill Manager Next Step. Yet the first promotion was not one to cause a flurry in the markets. Max Houser, who was said by the farmers of three counties to know grain and Us whims from the sprout to the oven, be came the manager of a small mill at Pomeroy, Washington. - He ground good flour, such as the housewife delights in and he grew. There came a day when the gossip of the farmers was repeated by men of prominence in the Washington grain trade. And there came another day when Houser, of the Pomeroy mill, had fairly won that trade in the lists of business. The prices he paid were often over the market quotations, and com petitors forecast ruin for hi. . again and again. Those who knew Max Houser in the old days, and those who know him in Portland, unite in agreement. They say that he saw, literally and clearly, through the millstone of proverb to the unmapped fields of the future. He out grew the grain resources of Garfield County, fertile and favored as the dis trict wan, and took new territory by the conqueror's rijrht. - Ana, alter a Unie, because the tide ' I two of grain flowed seaward with the Co lumbia. Max Houser came to Portland. As in the time of the Pataha and Pom eroy mills, when his entrance of the local lists was unheralded by fanfares, so the young man from "somewhere in Washington" established his local of fices. That was in the Fall of 1908. "Who la Hoaaerf" la Qnery. Within thfe month of his arrival puz zled queries . of "Who is Houser?" slipped from office to office, for the combine was strong and of more than passing efficiency. The newcomer was a country dealer and shipper, it de veloped, with a knack for winning trade at an alarming rate. - In the fine old days of history the barons in dispute leveled a pointed and pertinent lance and came pelting over the turf. If the ubiquitous stranger lingered in the vicinity they ran him through, and the troubadors made some highly diverting lays anent the hap pening. . With regard for the, statutes of an effete day, the wheat' barons of the Northwest equipped themselves with such financial arms as came to hand and the tournament was on. No troubador tells the story of that en counter, though lances were splintered with reckless abandon. Yet when the lists were cleared, the grain-laden . ships, of Max Houser's loading were slipping away from the Port of Portland to the broader mar kets of the-world. The young fellow from "somewhere in Washington" had entered the export trade, which he soon was to dominate. . . - . If you were to ask Max Houser Just what achievement he holds to be the coup of his career, the- gray eyes of the boy who was raised in- a flour mill would lighten with recollection. "There was a time." he would answer, "when I had 20 vessels in port at once, and loaded them-all without incurring one cent of demurrage." Exporting; Work Stands. And, lest you are prone to hold that lightly, visualize If you may that fleet of carriers, with their holds gaping for more than 5,000.000 bushels of grain. Glimpse for your better understanding the fields that fade In distance, waving with the growth of that stupendous cargo. Hear the racket of a thousand threshing machines and the rumble of the long trains that turned toward the distant docks. And. lastly, vision for yourself the ports of Europe, the Orient, South America and Africa, for which that fleet scattered and fled at one man's word. In his first season as an exporter. In and 1910, Mr. Houser chartered essels. laden with 152. 618. bushels of wheat and 113,556 bushels of barley. The following season his business in creased to the export of 344,827 bushels ot wheat. In 1911 and 1912 he took first place as an exporter, shipping to Europe a total of 1.873,920 bushels of wheat In 1912 and 1913 he sent to Europe wheat to the amount of 2,978,623 bush els and 1.558,389 bushels of barley.-The following year his exports consisted of 2.642.066 bushels of wheat, and barley totaling 2,175.240 bushels. During the season of 1914 and 1915 he shipped for export 6,847.170 bushels of wheat and over 1,000,000 bushels of barley. The season of 1915 and 1916 was principally to points in the United States, but he shipped that season over 4,500.000 bushels of wheat and 2,250,000 bushels of barley from the Pacific Coast, and equally as much from the Atlantic. During the season of 1916 and 1917 more than 65 per cent of the grain shipped East came from Max Houser's office, and he was recognized as the leader of grain exporting from the Pacific Coast. Season'a Work Enormooi. Last, season,' which closed in July, presented the enormous total of 35.000, 000'bushela of grain.-and more, with a value of 870.000.000 plus. Here is Max Houser's formula for making one's way in the world: Hon esty, thrift and hard work. . Honesty is to be all-inclusive and based upon the arbitrary requirement that one should be "square" with others and with him self, to the minutest detail. Thrift is the conservation of ' a part of one's earnings, according to. Mr. Houser's definition, in order that the runner may enter the race without handicap. And hard work is hard work, neither more nor less. . "Whoever applies these principles," declares Max Houser, "cannot fail to Inspire confidence, and the confidence of his friends and employers will carry him . far. -Thrift does not preclude healthful recreation, for recreation Is a part of the game. It keeps the player fit, physically and mentally. I take mine on a little farm in the Tualatin Valley." An integral of the Houser business policy is adapted from that admirable Chinese custom of paying all financial obligations on the first of each year. When July 1 bursts through the office calendar it is his Inviolable practice to have each account settled and the ship of business cleared for another year's action. Snereaa Vievra Given. Success, by the standards of the Pa- I cifio Coast's greatest grain exporter, "Honesty, does not necessarily bear the dollar mark. To have conquered one's task, to have held a trust and discharged it with a record of faithful steward ship, to have smiled over one's desk and looked a frowning situation fairly In the face, to have closed the ledger without a debit these are the compo nents of success. Mr. Houser attributes a great part of his success to the co operation of hard-working and loyal lieutenants. "Many failures have unlimited wealth," declares Max Houser, "and many men whom the world grades as failures, because they lack financial rating, have balance sheets of such success as money cannot purchase. Suc cess is the living of life to the fullness of the opportunities presented, with out a whimper when the luck goes wrong. And no man of material wealth is successful, or can be, unless he real izes that his position affords a broader field for helpful service." Max Houser is 43 years of age. His eyes are clear and level in their glance, and gray. When there is a smile in them the lines at their corners wrinkle with sheer friendliness. And friendli ness and friends, says Max Houser, are the worth-while things of life. H4s education was afforded by the public schools of Pomeroy and Pataha with one year at Willamette University, and enhanced by that dusty, clacking old " mentor of boyhood, his father's mill. From such a course, unaided and unattended, he stepped -forth into af fairs with the confidence that comes to those who have held counsel with their own spirits and found them strong and unafraid. His residence in Portland is at 445 Montgomery Drive, and his only ap parent impatience with the daily stint is when it promises to delay a motor ing trip or Jaunt with Mrs. Houser and their three boys, John, Alton and Mark. For the coming season, as a gift to his Government and an expression of his loyal faith in the principles for which America is at war. Max Houser has announced the contribution of all profits of his private grain business to the Red Cross. . . Profit Are Exasperated. Mr. Houser depreciates that gift. The profits in the grain business have been exaggerated largely, he says. But those who can best estimate the sig nificance of his generosity assert that the total of his wartime offering to the cause of mercy will prove epochal. His private grain business has been turned over to the management of the Pacific Grain Company. Mr. Houser's administrative offices of the United States Grain Board were opened on the fifth floor of the Board of Trade building yesterday, but it is expected that Congressional delay in the passage of the food bill will retard active operation for at least 10 days. "We shall strive to administer the affairs with absolute Justice to all who are engaged in the grain industry, either growers or manufacturers, and with entailing as little hardship as pos sible," declares Mr. Houser. "At the same time nothing will be left undone that will serve to strengthen the posi tion of Mr. Hoover in the matter of food control." From tending a hopper, not more than 20 years ago. to issuing a state ment that vitally affects the Northwest and all America, and even the armies of democracy in faraway France, is a stride that casts deep shade on the Justly celebrated performance of the seven-league boots. LABOR DAY TO BE ONE OF RECREATION Union Social and Religious Or ganizations of Portland to Celebrate. HUNDREDS GO TO BEACHES Mazamas AV1I1 Climb ?lount Ch i Hi de rc At Vancouver There AVill Be Street Tarade and Pro gramme of Fpecchcs. Headed by the Central Labor Coun cil, practically every labor, social and religious organization of the city in tends to give or participate in an out ing of some kind tomorrow. In recogni tion of Labor day. Stores and business institutions will be closed for the en tire day, so that the working forces may participate in the day's events. Members of the labor unions will have three celebrations from which to choose. They are invited to Join with the papermill employes at Camas, Wash.; they are also invited to help swell the attendance at the Oregon City celebration; or they may stay nearer home and Join In with hundreds of their number who are planning to make a day of it at Columbia Beach. Many Leave City for Day. Some organizations, such as the Mazamas, the Motor Boat Club and the Yacht Club already have left the city to spend today and tomorrow at points far out of town. Hundreds left on the 2 o'clock train yesterday afternoon for Seaside and North Beach points. Intend ing to return on the late train Monday NURSES' WORK IN INFIRMARY IS HARD AND HOURS ARE LONG Wounded British Soldiers Have Exciting Drawing for Tiny Candy Box! Ribbon of Red, White and Blue From America. BY EDITH E. LANYOX. SOMEWHERE IN ENGLAND, Aug. 10. (Special.) I am back hard at work once more. Came to the In firmary about a week ago and was on day duty for five days. In addition to the civilian patients, the infirmary has taken in about 50 wounded soldiers. My duties are mainly in connection with them, although I also keep in the civ ilian wards. The hours on day duty are longer and more tiring than I have had be fore, which is saying a good deal. We start work in the wards at 7:30 A. M. and do not end our day's work until 9 P. M. Fourteen hours! No wonder one's ankles ache. Out of this long stretch we get two hours off duty. Either from 5 to 7 P. M. or 7 to 9 P. M. usually; sometimes 2:30 to 4:30. The 7 to 9 P. M. off duty did not ex actly appeal to me, because, as I am in billet and supper is served at the in firmary at 8:3d P. M., I spent most of my off-duty time walking backward and forward to my room, unless I pre ferred a supper of crackers and mar malade "on my own." This, by the way, after trying, I found was against the rules. Infirmary la Crowded. The extra nurses have to have rooms out because there is not room for them in the infirmary. If one's legs and an kles did not ache so the little walk in the open air before beginning and after stopping work would be pleasant. I have a very comfortable room up a long hill, and my landlady is very kind-hearted and bucks me up by ad ministering a cup of tea to me before I start out. She always brought me a tray at 6:15 A. M. when I was on day duty. I have it now at 6 P. M. (and if she Is out the young man lodger makes It for me!) There Is only one other Red Cross nurse at the infirmary. One of us is on by day and one by night. When I was on day duty I had a ward con taining eight soldiers and a little ward with two, under my special charge. We kept these wards in true military style, with all the beds tucked in trim and tight, and not a speck of dust allowed in the premises. One of the most able-bodied soldiers always swept thoroughly early In the morning, and I swept at intervals all day long. "Jock," our Scotchman, had lost the use of his right arm. so he superin tended operations, being unable to do any sweeping hilmself. He was quite a martinet, and no little wads of fluff could hide away from his watchful eye under beds or in corners. They are grand boys to help. There was also another big military ward on this floor and the big male civilian ward. All meals were served in the wards and it was a grand rush to get those meals around four times a day, and a light lunch at 9 A. M. as well. Tea-Pouring Task Enda. Now I have only breakfast to wres tle with, but also help nurse on the floor below, where there are about 17 soldiers as well as the female wards. All the nurses and sisters have their meals together in the big dining-room downstairs. The Junior nurse, or the latest comer, pours the tea or coffee for everybody. Up to now this office has been mine, but I believe a Junior probationer turned up today to relieve me of this arduous task. A day or two before I came the ceil ing suddenly fell down on top of the poor nurses' heads at dinner-time. Am glad to say that it has since been re paired and is quite safe again. The meals are quite good and we all come to them remarkably well pro vided with good appetites. I regret to say that granite stairs abound in this hospital. There are even more than at the naval hospital, as it is a four-story building. I ar rive at the Infirmary for suooer at 8:30 P. M. I have to get there in time to mount eight nights of granite stairs. 13 steps to the night, to the humble little boxroom set apart for the Red Cross nurses, to remove my hat and coat and put on my cap and apron be fore supper! It is undoubtedly the sudden change of altitude which ren ders one so breathless. My work throughout the night is divided between two landings, with 26 of these beauteous stairs to climb up and down between. I am sure that throughout the rest of my life granite night. The Spokane, Portland & Seattle Railway states that the biggest crowd of the season is now at Seaside. St. Patrick's Church is to give a benefit excursion down the river to morrow on the excursion barge Swan, leaving the foot of Jefferson street at 9:15 and returning at 7 P. M. Refresh ments will be served. Dancing will be the feature of the outing. The Mazamas and their friends left on the 6:15 train last night for the Her man Creek Ranger Station, where they camped for the night. They will climb Mount .Chinidere the goal of the out ing this morning, and will camp at the base tonight. Tomorrow they will hike to the railroad over the new Eagle Creek trail, recently completed by the F'orest Service. They will catch the 5:15 train in the evening, arriving back n town at 7 o clock. Parade la Planned. Vancouver also plans to do Justice to the occasion. A street parade with over a thousand people in line will take place in the morning, together with speeches by Mayor Evans and others. The many employes of the Spokane. Portland & Seattle shops at Vancouver will greatly swell the number partici pating in the events. A ball game and athletic contests are scheduled for the afternoon. The Portland Motor Boat Club and the Yacht Club combined for their Labor day outinr: this year. They left Saturday night for F'aradise Point, on the Lewis River below Astoria. Some of the craft intend to stop over at Astoria and compete In the regatta events. The fleet is expected back in the harbor tonight, though some of the slower boats may not arrive until Tuesday. Ascension parish, at East Seventy sixth and Yamhill, will serve a lunch eon at noon in the parish yard, after which an athletic programme will take place. St. Stanislaus' Church also plana an all-day picnic at Councl Crest for to morrow. Klma Schools Open Monday. ELM A, Wash.. Sept. 1. (Special.) The Elma public schools will open J Monday. The faculty includes S. A. Claflin. superintendent: W. T. Wait, principal high school; Clara Minard. 1'. E. Beal. Zella Swartz, Francis Madden, high school teachers: Jessie M. Sigrist, Lulu Hufty. Sadona Kittlsby. Rosmary McDonald. Charlotte Driskell. Alice E. Parker, Marie Sticklin and Ida Olson, grade teachers. and marble stairs will have lost all my respect and admiration. I draw the line at wearing bedroom slippers in the night now. but wear rubber-soled tennis shoes, which seem to break the shock of the contact between the hard granite and my tender feet. Pneumatic soles would be still better. I am sure. When we get too tired to go on an other minute we take a cup of tea and are wonderfully revived. What nurses would do without tea I am sure I do not know. I am certain that they could not stand 14 hours of duty with out a stimulant of some kind. Six times a day is a very reasonable esti mate of the number of times one has tea. I am even allowed a ration from the infirmary for the tea my landlady gives me before I go on duty. Next day. The new probationer did not stay long. She tried just one day in the wards, the work I was doing there, and left trie next. Decided she never could stand such hard work. If she is so easily overcome by one day's trial she would certainly be decidedly unsuitable for a nurse. A nurse's life is one long round of hard work. I told her to try a whole week be fore she gave it up altogether, but she refused to try even another day at it. Perhaps she thought a nurse's life was one blissful dream, and that her duties were to look sweet in her uniform, hold a'wounded soldier's hand and pass him a cooling drink sometimes. I dare say her "dream" seemed but a regular nigtmare when realized. Life is certainly one constant rush. I sometimes wish that my soldiers all lived on one floor, instead of 17 down stairs and 20 upstairs! I took some lovely little rosebuds to them last night, presented by my land lady. There were Just enough to go around for buttonholes next day. Sail ors and soldiers both love flowers more than any woman. (I mean more than any woman loves flowers. I certainly do not. for a moment wish to imply that any sailor or soldier loves a flower more than he loves a woman!) American Chocolates Please. One of the exciting momenta in my ward when I was on day duty was when the big box of chocolates arrived from America. It was a lovely big American flag box, and it held fiv pounds of chocolates. They were highly appreciated both by the soldiers and the nurses. The men asked if they might have the red, white and blue ribbon which tied it up, to share between them. Each man was to have a little bit for a sou venir. Then they finally decided that they would rather draw lots for the whole piece and wear it for a neck tie. It was won by a big grenadier guardsman to his great delight. I was requested to lend the box to the ward, as those embroidering belts with the flags of the allies wished to copy the Stars and Stripes from it. Altogether the box of chocolates gave a great deal of pleasure. I enjoyed them myself, too. In an upstairs ward together with II soldiers is one poor little scout boy who injured his leg so badly that it had to be amputated. He is quite happy, though, there amongst the sol diers, and they pet him and are very good to him. He felt that being a Boy Scout he ought to be in a military ward, and the hospital authorities agreed with him. He is a dear little boy and we are all fond o him. I quite think that by this time he feels that'he was injured in battle like the other men. Vanity is not a vice cultivated in Red Cross nurses at this hospital. We do not even boast of a looking-glass, and have to pin our caps on and trust in Providence that we have got them on straight. As we never are on duty at the same time we cannot even get each other's opinion on the subject. New Nurtte la Coming. I hear rumors that another Red Cross nurse is coming in place of the easily dissuaded "pro" who found the work too hard. I am glad to say that the was not a Red Cross nurse. I am writing this letter in bed with my tired and aching feet propped up on a pillow. My friend, the sergeant gun ner, has been home on leave and I hear that a commission was offered to him. but he did not accept it because he did not feel that he could afford to keep up his position as an officer. That is a pity. I must write and give him some good advice. It is a shame that England should lose a good officer for any such reason as that.