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- I'ank'in. fr-e I"'-., bnllritng. Ietrotl.
moot important phase of this changed
attitude toward life la that men are
already thinking- anil talking about
whore thev will go after the war. They
have learned to shoot, have overcome
the horror of death, have become re
sourceful, and are able to take care of
themselves In any context with man or
beast. Wearing of practical, com
fortable clothea has made them "hate
the eight or a tall collar and a hilly,
cock hat." They can cook and subsist.
If need be. on nearly nothing. The
are Ideal oiuterial for a new pioneer
movement which shall eventually
Mr1. sn
Fran'-iaeo repraaaataUva. K.
' lrfc.t afrrat.
rrs" control over the livestock and time looking1 Into Its past. Tt Is the
meat markets was approved and It present .he Is very much, concerned
was stated that "in the past twenty with. His biography Indicates that
years the production of livestock for he Is a competent man for his job.
meat purposes In the United States He had seen 25 years of service on
has not kept pace with the Increase every kind of deep-water vessel when.
In population" and that the last year in 1893. he came ashore to conduct a
"has witnessed the greatest slaughter mission in Boston, and made chantey
of breeding cattle iu our history." singing a feature of its entertainments,
about 3.000,000 head of immature He has been In both the Navy and
cows and young steers having oeen I the merchant marine. His Manors
killed. This has "cut into the beef Haven has been a unique Institution,
supply of the immediate future." Two I and one of the few places in the world
of the three crops of beef marketed I where in recent years an old salt could
since 1814 are said to have shown a I go and join in a real chantey. The
bring the whole world under the in- j loss to the feeders at a time when I place has done its share toward the
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MtKC'M or 1-KOHIBtTION.
A ground half way between prohl
Mtnn un.l opn saloons has not infre
quently been siiKjfewted In the past.
tut It now comes forward definitely
as a 'alifomia Idea. The California
plan is. of course, founded primarily
on economic argument, with the fate
of the California vineyard particu
larly in mind. Uut it is also alluringly
presented by the Washington Times
s u "combination of real temperance
nd common sense." Thla Is the ex
' joMtlon of the plan as tuUcen from the
t-.n Krancl!co Call:
We ira through with hlakr In railfor
r 'a, and w ar. going to b through Uh
lh nlmiu laat oulralr aa ran.
rrohlnitmn of win ana boar to. bowwr,
utt a iltffarvnt mattar.
a want to no awar with the American
rarreom and tho Amartni aynt.m of trrat-
lng. aft tn taaa Ita plana w. hop to pat
In a aartoo of vlna and bear gardana, such
aa aro run la arT Koropaan nation.
arant to k opan plaron wh.ra
grandpa and grandma and huaband aad
wlfa ran coma and nring in. lamur
ap, nd f n. a.anlng llatmlng ta mu.le and
on bona afl.r a glaaa of mild bar or light
.in. anno ro for thair hoar or ta
f plaa.anf companfonahlp.
Th natmna In Fompa which lira aftar
th faahloo aro tamparatr patlona
Wa want tampwranco la California, not
alronaanoaas.
w . do not want prohibition In nam and
aa.rot drinking tn fart.
We- So not want to fill oar ntate with
Tllnd tlgara" and paak-oaale and to
eriog ottr children ap In an almnaphere not
anli of deceit, hut of actual law-breaklng
-ohh-kj mua enrtoualr aubvert thalr moral
waturoa la mora waya lima on.
It is an ambitious programme, that
f transplanting a Kuropean custom
to America. The American concep
tion of a beer garden Is a place where
in drunkenness may be combined with
free carousal and loose morals. There
Is now no general demand from
grandpa and grandma or husband and
wife for a place where thejr may hear
music by buying wine or beer to drink.
Music Is not inseparable from gratlfi
ction of DhvstcaJ appetite. It Is
erved with the moviea In aa good
ouatitv as in the beer garden.
There would, however, be a popu
Ixr demand In some places in America
for beer gardens If the saloons were
abolished. But that demand would
rome from persons who desired drink
and cared'naught for the music that
might go with It. It does not require
rreat discernment to discover tha
tho who most admire the famll
gatherings about sloppy tables In Ku
rone are either those who miss accus
tomed haunts or have an eye out for
twctintary profits. If they were sin
cerely In search of a national custom
to transplant for the encouragement
of family communion in America they
-mould rather take up the Japanese tea
. garden.
Put, withal, it is. perhaps. n idle
tlisrtisston. Action In Kentucky. Mls
BiMtnnl and even Maryland on the
National prohibition amendment Indl
rates that the drinking garden would
liave a short life even if established.
Nor Is It astonishing that this Is so,
The saloon has tripped the brewery
and wine grower as well as the dis
tiller. Their severance of relations Is
too late. They are as one in the pub
lic uund. A people which has wit
ne -.e. I the fall of prof"sed saloon
reformation time and again cannot
now be convinced that the proprietor
f any wine or beer garden that might
). established would not be the same
old saloonkeeper.
Blind tigers and speak easies there
will doubtless be when National pro-
pihition comes, but their atmoj
There of deceit" will not be Taunted
tefore the children of the country as
was the vice of the saloon or as the
iee of a beer garden operated on the
American plan would be. The Idea
that prohibition can now be halted at
a way station is hopeless. Terbaps
after giving it a trial we shall come
back to something that will take the
place of mountain stills and secreted
bottles, but we srem destined to un
dergo a period of drouth.
fluence of civilization
There ought to be no problem of
overpopulation for some time to come
if Corporal Holmes has correctly ap
praised the new spirit of the soldiers
on all the fronts. The areas as yet prac
tically unoccupied are vast enough,
and fertile enough, for all purposes.
Mn who penrtmte the new countries
will take with them their knowledge
of modern Industrial .methods, and of
science, and will make progress with
fewer difficulties than confronted our
own pioneers of half a century or so
ago. The lure of the open lire Is cer
tain to have Its effect upon the future
development of the world, and may be
manifested in the most striking
change In the current of emigration
that we have ever known.
HIICM E WAR MLOtiAN Wll-L COME.
We continue to participate In the
war without a battle cry. No slogan
inspires our troops to Increase already
superhuman efforts ,1 wrest more ter
ritory from the enemy, or stubbornly
to hold fast to trenches under attack.
Thus fur nothing has developed that
is comparable to the phrase "They
hall not pass!" which nerved the
French and no doubt helped to save
Verdun.
That we are still voiceless on the
battlefront is not due to slacking on
the part of civilians. They have been
free enough with suggestions. It Is
due to psychology and chance. War
slogans simply are not born at home,
are not "tried on the piano" and sent
out In leaflet form, nor even made to
order by soldiers in camp. They are
the spontaneous product of occasion.
and when there is need of them they
come. They follow no rule and are
oblivious to higher criticism.
Whether It shall be wordless, like
the "rebel yell." or a clean epigram.
or just a word, like "America!" it Is
Impossible to foretell. But we know
that when our boys get into action
there will be a war cry for them, and
they will Invent It themselves.
every part of the animal is being sold I preservation of such classics as "Blow
to consumers at the highest price in I the Man Pown," "Rolling Down to
the history of the country." Tho same Rio" and "Homeward Bound," the last
statement Is said to be true of dairy I of which ran
cattle.
It Is as important to Increase pro-
durtion of cattle aa of wheat by as
suring a profit to the producer, for
this country must not only supply
meat to the armies. and the allied na
tions during the war. but must supply! much music to it all. but it curiously
both meal and breeding stock after served its purpose, ana a good cnan
the war. American herds should not I teyman was always assured of a ship,
We're homeward hound to Liverpool town.
Good-bye. fare tliea well; good-bye. fare
thee well!
Were homeward bound for Liverpool town.
Heave, no. my lads, were nomewara
bound '.
Neither rhyme nor reason, nor
knighthood that so many would, covet.
Yet it is unlikely that he is wholly
insensible to the approval of others.
It is his fancy that knighthoods do not
amount to much. Nor do they, for
themselves. But it is easy to conceive
a man who. viewing them as the ex
pression of the kindly appreciation of
the people, through their Govern
ment, would accept them in the spirit
in which they were tendered, and lose
neither self-respect nor the affection
of those around him.
only be maintained, but should be
vastly increased, for this country will
be called upon to restock the Kuro
pean countries whose cattle have been
well nigh exterminated by the war.
This can best be effected if Mr.
Hoover will take control of the dis
tribution and sale of meat, beginning
with the producer and following it
down the line to the consumer. The
livestock Industry should be built up.
not only for the duration of the war,
but for the period after the war. A
prime condition ts a living profit, but
no more, to everybody all along the
line.
even when other sailors waited long
ind more or less impatiently for
berths. The chanteyman and the per
former on the accordion, or "sailors'
piano," have been honored in a past
generation, and. It would seem, are
coming again Into their own.
or.u.irTio rein tht rRoxrir.it.
The new life in the open 'which our
soldier are living, and the new les
sons ef self-reliance that they are
le.imlng. promise to have their effect.
after peace retnms. on the develop
ment of the waste places of the earth.
The primitive life of the soldier, strip
ping every-day routine cf its non
essentials, has not been without at
tractions. This. It seems, has been
the feeling of a good many city men
In our National Army, and of some
farmers, as well, although the con-tn-t
in the rise of the latter has not
been n marked.
Corporal lerby Holmes, who writes
on the subject In the New Tork Kven
Ing Tost, predicts that after the war
there will be a wide scattering of sol
diers of all countries to the wild
places. There are plenty of these,
particularly in the tropics, where ma
terial extstentfw would be easy If cer
tain fundamental problems could only
be solved. There are wide stretches
in Africa. Central Asia and South
Am-rlea. The last-named country
should be particularly alluring to
North Americans, and Africa to the
British and French, while there al
radv is evidence that soldiers of the
central powers are looking toward
Russia and the FCast as home pros
pects. There was a manifestation of
the same spirit In our own country
after the Civil War. which was fol
lowed by a momentous movement to
ward the West. A good many peasant-natures
will be transformed into
pioneers hr the experiences of this
war. Oesire for adventure Is being
stimulated, and capacity for It en
larged
A TKIANCIXAR COMT.ICT.
Beginning with defense of national
ism against imperialism, the war soon
developed into a struggle between de
mocracy and autocracy, but the rise
of the Bolshevikl In Russia has
changed it into a three-cornered con
test with International Socialism as the
third combatant. The central em
pires would subdue nations and hold
them as subjects to be Germanized
The democratic nations would liberate
them and make each an Independent
state with boundaries defined as close
ly as possible on racial lines, and
would then combine them In a league
to uphold international law and to
maintain peace. The Russian inter-
tlonallsts would amalgamate the
workmen and peasants of all nations
In one ruling class, breaking down the
national dividing lines.
This policy explains the attack of
the Bolshevikl on the newly estab
lished republics of Finland and the
Ukraine which have been carved out
of Russia. The policy of the demo
cratic allies is In general favored by
these republics, by the Tartars of the
Crimea and the people of Transcau
casta, who have also established re
publics in opposition to the Bolshevikl,
for these peoples are dividing on 'ra
cial lines. With the same end in
view, the Roumanians, deserted by the
Russians and hard-pressed by the Aus
trluns and Germans, have overrun
Bessarabia, which is Inhabited by
their kin and was taken from the
kingdom by Ruasia in 178. A freak
of fortune is the rise of the I "k mine to
Independence. Its people ere Ruth-
enlans. who also occupy Km tern Gu
ilds. Hoping to annex the entire
I'kraine. Austria has for many years
cultivated their national sentiment by
propaganda, hut It has now borne fruit
In the founding of a nation to which
Austria has reded a part of Galirla.
These young republics seem to aim
at establishment of a federation on the
American plan, composed of the sev
eral parts into which Russia Is split
ting. So do .the Slav nations of Austria-Hungary.
So also do the Balkan
states with the exception of Bulgaria,
and that country may be glad to full
In line after It has received its well
deserved chastisement and has cast
out Its German King. If the allies
should finally triumph, and should
be faithful to the principle of self-
determination of nations. Roumania
would gain nearly all of Transylvania
and part of Bukovina from Hungary.
nd Bessarabia from Russia, thus
forming a compact country of 15.000,
000 people, the most populous and
therefore the dominant member of the
future Balkan league.
All has not gone well with the ef
forts of the Bolshevikl to establish
their supremacy to the north and
south of their capital, for the Red
Guard has been beaten In Finland, and
the hated bourgeois are in power In
the Lkralne.
The old map of Eastern -Kurope Is
wiped out, and the American Federal
principle may play the leading part
in making a new one.
Ol'R "INLAND PANAMA."
The achievement of France, which
completed the great Rhone tunnel in
face of its devastating war, has just
been equalled, if not surpassed, in the
United States. The famous barge
canal connecting Lake Erie with the
Hudson River, an enlargement of the
Krie Canal, which was originally be-
RAKDS OF THK KORKCASTXE. gUn in 1817 and finished In 1815 at a
By enrolling a "chantey man." the I cost of 17.602.000. will be ready for
United States Shipping Board recruit- use next Summer. It may be com
Ing service has created the only war! pared as to size, importance and cost
job of its kind in the world. But I with the Panama Canal. It will be
doubtless the service knows what It is I prepared to carry 10,000.000 tons of
about. The chantey Is Inseparably I freight to tidewater this year, thus re
associated with the traditions of the I leasing thousands of freight cars for
sea. It declined as our merchant nag I use in other sections.
began to disappear from the ocean. I Importance of this' waterway, com
This may have been only a coincl-1 pletion of which Is especially timely
dence, but there are students of sailor I at this hour. Is hardly realized by most
psychology who aver that It was more I of the people of the United States.
than that. The Shipping Board evi-I D. B. La Du. a New ork deputy state
dently agrees with them. nThe board, engineer, writing in the Scientific
in any event, is taking no chances.
If chantey singing will help to restore
our maritime power, let us have it.
by all means.
"Singing and steam," said one of
American, explains that it is not only
within half an hour's walk of the
homes of 7 per cent of the people of
the United States, but is a link in the
greatest water system in the world.
the modern writers on the lore of the! At its western extremity He the Great
sea, "are Irreconcilable." The rattle I-akes. The projected Lake Krie and
of the steam winch. It was supposed. I Ohio River canal would join the Ohio
would take all of the nrtisic from the River at Pittsburg with Lake Erie, and
pulling song. As a matter of fact, it thus connect the Lakes and the Gulf,
probably would do so, but there are The Lake Erie and Lake Michigan
still occasions when the steam winch Canal would join the heads of those
Is not used, and there is even a pros- lakes by a route only one-third as
pect that the sailing ship will be re- long as the present one. But at the
stored to a semblance of its old place eastern end an even more ambitious
In the scheme of things. There will project is under way, an intracoastal
will be sheets to haul on square rig- canal which would give an inside
gers, and the hand-windlass and cap- passage along most of the Atlantic
stan have their places, even now. Coast. There are already 1500 miles
They are prosaic affairs without the of navigation in the Great Lakes and
beguiling camouflage of the song, of 800 miles in the waterways In the
the chantey man. state of New York.
Calling the sailor of the prescnLday The Government is confronted, in
a "marine brakeman" and other hard this instance, with the same problem
names, and constantly reminding him which is proving vexatious in the
of his incompetency, is obviously no West. This is the need of adequate
way to go about making the new sea- I barges. The purpose of enlarging the
faring life popular. There is plenty I old canal was to give accommodation
of evidence that only a small propor-I to bottoms of capacity commensurate
lion of the old-time sailors ever with the times. The old boats, says
adopted the career because of the I Mr. La Du. are small and nearly worn
high wages it paid or the chance of
promotion It held out. It was the ro
mance that drew them, the adventure
that tempered the hardships, the con.
out. New ones have even not yet been
built. Individuals find it difficult to
obtain either labor or material for
building them. These barges are as
stantly shifting scene, the change of necessary as freight cars in the trans
companlonshlps with each voyage and I portatlon scheme of th country.
the uncertainty of reward. It would VUthout them, the ?100, 000.000 ex-
be hard to tell why this should have I pended on the canal itself would prac
developed a kind of minstrelsy, but tically go for naught. The old canal,
the fact stands out that it did. And antiquated as it is. would serve every
the chantey was quite the most in- purpose if the former types of barges
comprehensible bit of folk lore that I were to be continued in tho service
we have ever had. It was a hodge- In one respect, at least. New Tork
podge of languages. It was neither has been fore-handed in its work. It
poetry nor free verse. It had no must- has not neglected terminal facilities.
cal consistency, and it has been well I These have been built or are being
described as "studied unlntelligibility," built In fifty localities. Only the boats
In which respect it may be said to re- remain to be provided to reduce the
semble a futurist painting. But it chances of a future food and fuel
precisely did what it was Intended to famine on the Atlantic seaboard to
do. It got co-ordination of action the lowest terms.
when it was adapted to the use of
many men pulling on one rope, and
at the windlass It deceived the work
era as to the passage of time and the
arduoiH nature of their task. It served
somewhat the same end as the corn
field melody, but It was a scheme of
captains and mates Instead of the
men themselves.
There are still left a few salts of the
old school who can remember how
much easier the work seemed under
the inspiration of one of the chanteys,
for example, of the "Old S.ormy"
cycle. "Old Stormy" belongs to the
mythology of sailing-ship days. It
would be useless to attempt to trace
his origin. Probably no sailor who
ever sang of him had the slightest
Idea what he was singing about. Sail
ors are not given to literary criticism
and research, anyway, or their blood
would not quicken to such a bit as
this:
THE AlMiOl'ACY OF THE CHTRCH.
Questions as to the sufficiency of
the church in the present world crisis
have not waited to be raised by lay
men, and it is perhaps one of the most
hopeful of all signs of a coming awak
ening that the clergy are taking up
the task of self-criticism and analysis,
and are asking themselves what ought
to be done and can be done to meet
the emergency. It is only normal that
some of them should now be passing
through the stage of moral wrath,
which in the natural course of events
should be followed by constructive
action.
The issue of the exemption of theo
logical students, together with or
dalned ministers, from the operation
of the draft served as a text for
good many sermons and discussions
upon the duty of the clergy. ' It is
several months since the Rev. Shailer
Mathews declared that exemption
could be regarded either as "an insult
or a challenge," and the assistant rec
tor of a New York Episcopal Church
not only waiving his claim for exemp
tion, but refusing a tendered appoint
ment to a chaplaincy, preferred to
serve ,as a private soldier because he
believed that he could do more good
as a man beside other men than as a
representative of a church. His point
of view was interesting, and bis ex
ample was followed by others hi this
country, as had been conspicuously
done in France before that. Now the
Rev. Joseph H. Odell, pastor of the
First Congregational Church of Troy,
N. Y., In an article in the Atlantic,
has made a fiery arraignment of the
Christian ministry of the United States
for what he terms its failure to rise to
the situation. He asks "what became
of the spiritual leaders of America
during those 32 months when Europe
and parts of Asia were passing
through Gehenna?" What convoca.
tion or conference, he asks, spoke so
convincingly that the National Con
ference must perforce listen? What
book from a clerical study gave the
sanctities of humanity and the sanc
tions of law the foremost place in cur
rent thought? In answer to the sug
gestion that the President of the
United States had counseled strict
neutrality in speech and thought, he
says: .
Even so, the very first question a vigilant
spiritual leadership should have asked would
concern the riKht to issue such a command.
There may have been an international sense
In which the Administration Itseir was
bound to be scrupulously circumspect, but
since when has diplomatic usage become
liinding upon the souls of the successors of
Moses. Elijah. Isaiah. Micah, John the Bap-
list and Paul? Since when, and by whose
authority, have prophets and apostles sur
rendered their spiritual function of Inter
pretation Into the keeping of rulers and cab
inets? Has It not been ever the chief glory
of the Christian ministry that its heights of
grandeur and service were found in such in
dependent souls as Thomas a Becket. Savona
rola. Hues. Wycllffe, Knox and John Robin
son? The authority of the prophet is with
drawn when he sits on the steps of a throne
or the porch of a White House, and becomes
the echo of the civil 'power; or, at least, so
history seems to teach.
called doctrines which our fathers
taught and believed are not important
In this age."
But the stormy petrel serves as a
warning to the prudent mariner ofMhe
approaching gale. It is inconceivable
that the church should not eventually
measure up to its responsibilities. It
is significant that there is no charge,
even by the severest critics, that there
is corruption within, or lack of devo
tion, or willingness to serve. It is
only that there is lethargy, with, per
haps, an element of doctrinal stand
patism that may be-rritating, but is
not necessarily impossible to over
come. The best sign of all is that
there are many ministers who are al
ready awake, and there will be plenty
of leadership from now on in the fight
to strip true religion of its theological
non-essentials, according to the de
mand of the hour.
After all, there is no reason why
persons who like snails should not eat
them. They are esteemed by the 'ing and scrubbing
The Peripterous.
Peripterous
of Columns
A Structure Having Rows
on All tildes, Dictionary.
Synopsis of preceding synopses.)
The Oregonian, a great morning news
paper, employs a distinguished literary
architect to construct a peripterous.
He does it. It has rows of columns on
east. west, north and south.
The PerlDteroti hMom. a TTr.A AnHlto.
nuiii jor tne expression of lncompeten
ici.vrm ana immaterial
verse and anecdotes.
opinion.
ir-
new
Tae Great American Sport.
It will be universally recognized that
it is impossible to keep the politicians
out of so unrestricted an auditorium as
the Peripterous. Therefore these brief
announcements:
.Darius Snipe, candidate for Governor,
makes it known that, although under
no legal obligation so to do, he has de
cided that this year he will contribute
to the support of his step-grandmother.
The old lady lias heretofore been left
to rely on herself and has rained a.
precarious livelihood by washing, iron-
Mnr n n H unrnhkln-
Old Stormy he Is dead and gone!
To me way hay alnrm along John!
Old fcUormy he Is dead and gonal
Ah, ha! Coma along
ut along!
Storm along!
John:
Rlll.U IP THE CATTLE JNDCHTRT,
importance- or .economy in con
sumption of meat by the Americnn
people appears In the statement of Sir
William Gnode. of the British food
ministry, thnt Food Administrator
Hoover has 150.AnO.000 pounds of ba
con and Z5.000.000 pounds of frozen
meat more than the Britieh repre
sentatives estimated to be available
In this country. The' aJ lies' reliance
on this country for meat renders the
more necessary an increase In Its pro
duction, and gives weight to the reso
lutions on that subject which" were
adopted by the recent convention of
the American National Livestock As
sociation at Salt lake.
Holding that the war will be decid
ed "by the ability of our Nation ade-
uately to furnish food supplies for
our allies," the convention urged Its
members and 1 the ranchmen and
farmers "to produce to their maxi
mum rapacity this season feeds, food
stuffs and animals fitted for slaugh-
er" and expressed Its conviction "not
only that tho profiteers will receive
heir just dues, but that justice will
be accorded the producers." so that
hey will make a reasonable profit.
uch a profit was defined as "not less
han the producer Is charged on his
long-time mortrsge loans or forehort-
tme accommodations from his local
bank or merchant."
Corporal Holmes believe that the; The pending Investigation fit pack-
It is impossible, to be sure, to re
produce the subtle tonal variations of
the chantey. There are not many
trained singers who could do it.
There is a characteristic changing
from chest tones to head tones which
quite baffles description, and which
distinguishes the art of the chantey
man from all other lyrical accomplish
ments. Sometimes, but not often.
there was cnnsecutlvenesa, or a thread
of reason. In the chantey, as in one
of the old ones that began, "I'll sing
you a song of the fish of the sea," but
a doxen men might have coaled a bat
tleship in the time it would take to
tell about the adventures of the fish.
A feature of all standard chanteys
was their economy of ideas of
rhymes of words. T.inrs were re
peated, and phrases anthem-like as
It for the sole purpose of killing time
There was another, which Is a fair
specimen of the lot, which once was
sung on every ocean, and which ran:
I wlah t was In London town.
O. say. where are you bound to?
I'd rrulea that highway round and round.
Across tha Western ocean.
The Atlantic is always the Western
Ocean to the sallor--even to the
American who wishes to appear trav
eled and blase and sophisticated.
There Is evidence of negro ori
gin in some of the chanteys widely
sung on British ships. There is one
about "Shannon, O!" which there is
reason to believe is a corruption of
"Shenandoah." and every "my honey"
In a chantey and It occurs frequent
ly Is reminiscent of the cotton field.
Even W. Clark Russell, who set
down the facts about sea customs with
greater accuracy than any other writ
er of any day, was unable to trace the
chantey to Its beginning. Nor. It may
be surmised, will Mr. King, who has
been eniwtrd to revive It. spend mnch
AN HONOR DECLINED.
The popular attitude toward John
Galsworthy's refusal of a proffered
knighthood, after his name had ap
peared in the list of New Year's hon
ors, win be governed by individual
estimates of his reason for refusing,
as well as by estimates of the value !
of titles in general. Galsworthy him
self was at least consistent. His so
cial studies, presented in the guise of
fiction, as In "The Freelands," and
his character sketches, as "The Little
Man and Other Satires," give us the
impression of a man, somehow, who
would not fit a title, or whom a title
would not fit. It is wholly in keeping
with the spirit of the man that he
should scorn what he evidently re
gards as an "empty honor," with the
lecla ration "I have a very strong
feeling and conviction that literature
is its own reward."
Yet there Is no deep moral princi
ple involved. The various ornamental
titles and degrees and marks of dis
tinction that are bestowed from time
to time on those who may be regard
ed as worthy of being set apart In
some way from their fellows at least
do not detract from the recipients.
One may easily go to an extreme in
denouncing "man-made honors" that
becomes ridiculous. And of the vari
ous forms of snobbishness, there is
none more offensive than that of the
man who self-consciously and vocif
erously proclaims his fancied supe
riority to all things mundane. It is
as if one would say: "Lord Tennyson
might have been caught with such
chaff, but not I." The intrinsic merit
of Tennyson's work does not suffer,
nor is he held less in reverence bv
readers of poetry, because his Wholly
pardonable vanity led him to accept,
and to appreciate, the honor bestowed
upon him by his government.
It is not a mark of Innate superior
ity to. flout every polite convention,
like honorary university degrees and
evening clothes. It is much common
er among the "Cyclone" Davlses and
the "Sorkless Jerrys" of the world
in literature. In science, in statecraft
and Industry, than among those of the
better fiber of Iord Bryce and Lord
Shaughnessy. We may not think
more of Mr. Taft for his string of
honorary LL.D.S, but we certainly do
not think any less of him because of
them. The resolution of appreciation,
the visit of the local committee of
one's townsmen, the birthday honors
and other special tokens, empty
though they are to one whose
thoughts are always on immortality.
are garlands of life. With those who
prefer to wait for their flowers until
they are dead, however, no one will
be seriously disposed to quarrel.
It is. as we have said, a matter of
personal sincerity. No one believes
that Galsworthy was moved by any
desire for the minor notoriety that
would nttarh to a refusal to accept a
In support of 'his declaration that
exemption of clergymen was either an
insult or a challenge. Dr. Mathews
had said that it meant either that
"ministers are engaged in a work so
important that the Government was
rfot warranted in calling them frorftl
it even for the defense of the Nation."
or that they "are not as ready to serve
their country as other citizens, or that
they are so effeminate that they would
not make good soldiers." He declared
that If they went about their work
with no increase of labor, making an
excuse of a holy calling, they accepted
exemption as an insult. If they took
it as a challenge, it was their duty, he
added, to render special service to the
people in their time of need.
Mr. Odell accuses his brother min
isters, "while millions of individual
Gethsemanes and Calvarys were merg
ing into a real Armageddon," . of
preaching comfortable sermons upon
Isaiah xxx:15: "In returning and in
rest shall ye be saved: in quietness
and in cenfidence shall be your
strength." This he calls "expounding
the gospel of the lotus leaves" while
the German pastors were "justifying a
debauchery which would have been
considered immoral even before a
word of our Bible was scratched on
papyrus." He cites the example of
Bishop Ambrose, of Milan, in his de
fiance of the Emperor-Theodosius. As
to the German clergy, he says that
the Kaiser is what he is "because the
preachers are what they are." and
that "notwithstanding the most damn
able circle of atheistic conspiracy that
the ages have ever known," the
preachers of America "never uttered
an 'indictment loud enough to cause
the male members of their churches
to foozle a drive in their Sunday
morning foursome at the Country
Club."
. It is strong language, but it is lan
guage uttered by a church leader,
who avers that things distinctly are
not as they are because of any dis
inclination on the part of normal
Americans to accept Christian leader
ship. Their eagerness to do so. he
says, is proved by the success of a lay
organization, the Young Men's Chris
tian Association, in obtaining funds
greatly exceeding the united annual
budgets of all the home and foreign
mission boards of all the churches of
America. And he goes on:
French, and the edible variety, known
to scientists as helix porata, is a real
delicacy which would have an impor
tant bearing" on our food situation if
widely cultivated. But it probably
will not be in this country, except by
i the foreign-born population. A mani-.
fest advantage is that the snail can be
kept on waste vegetables. A plot of
ground, which should be called an
"escargotei ie" by the owner, only thirty
or forty feet square, is sufficient for
10,000 snails. They will eat the waste
material from the green grocery, dan
delion leaves and other greens. On
larger areas they will do well on wild
plants. The Agricultural .lepartment
wants to encourage their production,
and says that if they have sufficient
food and a reasonable range there is
no need of fencing them, as they will
not leave their homes. The female
lays fifty to sixty eggs in June and
July, the young hatch in twenty days,
are able to shift for themselves before
cold weather sets iu and are ready to
eat the following Fall
"Chemically cool and physically
cold." as a standard for ice cream
during the war, has been indorsed by
a professor of the University of Min
nesota, who has estimated that by re
ducing the percentage of butter fat
from 14 to 9.4 a saving of perhaps
$35,000,000 worth of this valuable
food substance for other purposes can
be accomplished during the coming
Summer. Ice cream consumption in
the United States is about two gal
lons per capita a year, and on the
basis of 14 per - cent butter fat,
there would be 145,600.000 pounds
of fats consumed, while reduc
tion to about 9 per cent would
effect a saving of 52,000.000 pounds,
or more than half a pound per capita.
It is contended by food scientists that
this would also effect an improvement
in ice cream as a hot weather food,
since the paradox exists in this in
dustry that although people eat ice
cream for its supposed cooling quali
ties, it is in reality a "heating food."
The fat adds heat units to the diet at
a time,, when they are not needed.
Feterita is one of the grains recently
introduced Into the United States by
the Department of Agriculture. It is
especially commended by its drouth
resisting qualities. It is not recom
mended for planting by farmers in dis
tricts where its merit has not been es
tablished, because there is strong de
sire that growers shall not enter upon
expensive series of experiments at this
time. But the other grain substitutes
have been established in several states.
and it remains only to extend their
growth and to provide methods for
preparing them for human consump
tion. Food experts believe that their
use will not withdraw large quantities
of food from animals, because the
stalks can still be used as silage.
JMr. fenipe says that in view of the
high cost of living, brought on by the
entrance of this great and glorious
country into the seething battle for the
freedom ,of democracy, he deems it a
patriotic duty to assist, as far as his
means will permit, this indigent mem
ber of his family. He wishes it dis
tinctly understood that whatever ho
may contribute is not wrung from hini
by political considerations.
Isaac Heehawtery, well known for
many years'and still yet, as . candidate
for office, has decided to adopt in the
rormcoming campaign the signally
successful plan of the Non-Partisan
League of North Dakota.
Candidate Heehawtery has come to
the conclusion that his lack of success
in past campaigns has been due to the
cheap valuation put upon himself.
Heretofore he has begged for votes
and spent his owu money for advertis
ing. In this race he will make a nominal
charge upon all who give him political
support. Anybody intending to vote for
Mr. Heehawtery must first eend
him $16.
The novelty of the non-partisan
scheme appealed at once to the prac
tical mind of Candidate Heehawtery,
and he is very grateful that the state
of North Dakota has produced the first
man since P. T. Barnum who has a real
insight into the overmastering desire
of the great American public.
Senator Gluten announces .hat he is
in hearty accord with the Non-Partisan
League idea. Senator Gluten was much
disturbed by the loss of the Pacific
Coast League franchise and has been
doubtful about the success of the Pa
cific Coast International League. "The
thing most needed in Oregon is a good
strong league," says Senator (Huten.
'What if it does cost a million dol
lars? The great National pastime
must be preserved in its purity regard
less of cost."
When questioned closely Senator
Gluten refused to state for publication
which he considered the greatest
pastime, politics or baseball.
We must learn to think in big fig
ures. It is now revealed that our stu
dent aviators are flying about 102,000
miles each day, or a distance equal to
about four times around the world
Looked at in another way, it is also
about two hundred and fifty times the
distance from Verdun to Berlin.
Another thing about those sausage
that are being used as envelopes for
messages to the German soldiers:
the Germans could be persuaded that
we have an inexhaustible supply of
them, they probably would be ready
to quit. The moral is to raise more
pigs this year.
A Prussian inventor says he has per
fected a device for utilizing electricity
drawn from storm clouds. Now if h
will Invent a device for bottling Bol
shevik energy and turning it against
the Germans, all will be well.
Portland is to entertain the Ro
tarians in 1919, by which time it is
hoped by all that there will be noth
ing going on in the world to distract
the city's attention from the primary
duty of hospitality.
Those Zeppelins which have been
equipped with apparatus for making
artificial fog cannot be contemplating
another raid in lxndon, where the
real fog would seem to make camou
flage unnecessary.
Husbands who have trained nurses
for wives will confer a favor on the
country by postponing their own
crotchets for a while. Nurses are
needed for more serious business
everywhere.
Tt tt true that here and there a clergy
man has temporarily dropped his parochial
duties to work with the Young Men's Chris
tian Association or the Knlglats of Colum
bus, and a few have become regimental
chaplains, hut It Iu equally true that the
majority have not even sensed the unique
trasredy which convulsed and confused world
conditions have made possible. There are
ministers everywhere who are still busy
building their denominational fences and
feverishly staking their denominational
claims.
Some of the young women who are
so anxious to be mobilized for war
work would be just as patriotic, even
if not quite so romantic, if they would
help mother with the dishes once in a
while.
The I. W. W. do not seem to last
long in the camps where soldiers are
working. And they won't in any other
locality where patriots predominate,
after the people wake up.
It is a good indication of the sport
Ing spirit in America that even the
most violent political opponents of
Colonel Roosevelt are rejoicing in the
news that he is getting well.
"Only essentials count" is the moral
of the wrathful arraignment of the
church by this one of its ministers.
Redemption, in both a physical and a
spiritual sense, he says, has ceased to
become a dogma by becoming the
most thrilling fact in present-day con
sciousness. "Men and women have
done with shibboleths." "A manumit
ted mob," he concludes, "has crossed
the Red Sea and asks the nearest way
to the Promised Land."
The same appeal for the discard
of all non-essenrtals is made by the
Rev. Johnston Myers, emeritus pastor
of Immanuel Baptist Church, of Chi
cago, in the Standard, a Baptist week
ly. He says that the fraternities, the
Young Men's Christian Association
and other modern institutions, are
taking the place of the church, whir
"must, be absolutely reconstructed and
reorganized to meet the new world i .
conditions." It Is even more signifl-p 'A'thrift stamp in the hand is worth
cant that he adds: "Many of the so- two wildent investments any place.
With the rule against selling hens
modified to permit disposing of the
slackers, it is clearly up to biddy to
do something if she would prolong her
life.
It is safe to predict that our bridge
across the Atlantic will be finished be
fore the Sultan gets the one across the
Bosphorus in shape for use.
That bridge of ships from the United
States to France will never be built
if the Baltimore plan prevails.
The German offensive on the west
ern front has been posfponed, so Paris
can breathe easy once again.
That Fearful German Raid.
That 40.000 German troops cun land on
the Pacific Coast, near Seattle, while jO.noo
Huns from Mexico Invade the Pacific states
from end to end, is tho opinion of John
Leader, military instructor at the Univer
sity of Oregon. "They will leave. South
America In small camouflaged steamers, join
at sea. land in some vacant part of the
Northwest, cripple the railroad, plllago
Seattle, and proceed down the coast." News
item in dally paper.
The foregoing hair-raising predic
tion has caused animated discussion at
Gutf University, located in the busy,
thriving and patriotic city o. Whoopla.
It served for two days completely to
disconcert Major George W. Shortfel
low, military instructor in versifica
tion and dean of the faculty of war
poets. On the third day Major Short- .
fellow revived sufficiently to write
down what might happen, just as if it
had happened:
Listen, my children, and you shall hear
Of the dangdest raid in many a year!
And that which gets our goat the most.
It happened on this very coast!
The Germans came sailing tip the sea
They were camouflaged to the last de
gree; And forty thousand went sweeping
down
On Old Hi's famous open town!
I've wondered why they picked that
place.
For the. cute old man was making the
race.
And the lid was on as lids will he y
When the Boss is out for the Mayor
al tee.
They rushed the town with a guttural
cheer
Perhaps there was still a smell of
beer
And. in time that seemed but scarce
an hour
The Kaiser's flag was on L. C.'s tower.
The railroad, tunnels were sealed like
wax;
Like roots they pulled out the iron
tracks:
They spread to tho east, they spread
to the south.
And soon wero at the Willamette's
mouth.
A fierce upi"oar just halted them
there
Twas Moser, McGinn and the six-cent
fare !
A moment, but one, and the uproar had
died
But one, and McGinn had learned to
subside!
They called for Carver! He plead for
dlay.
But, wonder of wonders, his Jitneys
made way!
The Detitchers passed on, right up to
the Fall.
Ere troublous U'Ren could invoke the
recall!
The initiative, too, before them fell.
Why they were not referred I cannot
tell.
But on they kept, up hill and down.
Till .'at length they came to Salem
town.
All silent the house and bare each
street.
No living thing did the Herr host meet
Till they got clean up to the Capitol
ground
And there the throng of candidates
found.
Thirty who'd sit in the Governor's
chair!
And fifty who'd Senator's toga wear.
For the short term some, and some for
the long.
And each was singing the same old
song:
My business is good, O yes. indeed.
But can 1 forget the public need?"
And he waved his platform, catchy and
sweet
The same old stuff that fool flies eat.
O,. children, I grieve, T do. indeed.
At the way they used that patriot
breed!
They said tbey were rakes and cheats,
And what they wanted was just the
eats!
nd they set' them to work a-pounding
stone.
And put in the offices men of their
own!
hate 'em big, pudgey, spectacled
men.
But steady and handy, quite, with a
pen !
es, straight and lair are the records
they wrote.
But gosh! for a year we couldn't vote!
It simply was hell till the year had run
And the Coast was sav"" br bove "ith
a gun!