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on the Tuscanla. An hour after thi I greatest gain ever made and has added
short-sighted military censor had put I mora to the wealth of the Island than
on the lid. It waat wisely taken off by I any equal expenditure of funds at any
loe Aajuiani-ueneraj. ana tne rosier i urn, iso account u taaen oc tne
of military units was disclosed. I greater economic worth of a soberer
There la a fiction that no one In people, but this, too, must be very
Ores-on knowa where the Oregon f large. Guam Is fortunate In being
l m troops are located: yet The Orego- I under the American flair, and In hav-
it nlan has heard from several sources. I lng Roy C Smith for Its Governor. If
in ways woicn II anows are win m-
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I-UBTLAU. SC.XDAY. MARCH s. ISia
tub croR-iiir.
General March, chief of staff of the
American Army, returns from France
with the declaration that the press
censorship la Its operation Is lamcnt
able" and that he purposes to see
what can be done to "Like the muzzle
off.
There ts extant a letter addressed
ty Mr. Creel, chief of the Bureau of
Information at Washington, written to
an Oreffon Congressman la reply to a
complaint by The Orenoclan that Its
taff correspondent with the Ameri
can
formed, where certain units are: and
. many others also know; and doubt
1 on .M ths first to be Informed waa the
Kaiser. Well, what If the Kaiser
knows? We have a pretty well-ma
tured opinion that the Kaiser knows
a treat deal about America s prepa
rations for war; but that he does not
know It all. If he knew more of the
determination of America, and under
stood better the vast scope of Its
plana, and If he knew that, despite
many serious mistakes, the purpose of
America Is firm and the movement
Into the war tremendous. It would be
the worse for him and the better for
America.
A censorship Is necessary, and no
patriotic citizen or newspaper would
have It otherwise: but It should be a
for no other reason than that these
factors have enabled It to rid itself of
the triplet economic pests rata, lg-ua-
naa and Intoxicants.
Judicious censorship, thoroughly un- T'L"". w"
derstood and firmly and Impartially 'Jif -t
administered There are certain mill- f'?" f ,wa
tary plan, and facta which should not mcd men make Vood watchmen,
be made public: but It must never be I .V. Tv. "TJ . "...V". ... k"
JOBS rOB CBIPPLES.
Solution of the problem of finding
work for war cripples will be facili
tated. In the coming readjustment of
Industry, by able-bodied workers, in
the opinion of students of the outlook.
It Is suggested that those who have
possession of all their limbs and facul
ties owe a duty to their less fortunate
fellows to refrain from learning the
trades which can be filled as well by
thoee who labor under disadvantage.
It has been found most difficult of
all to secure places for one-armed
men. Even the blind, with both hands.
are being provided rapidly with trades
and the legless have
hlch they can earn
a living. If they care to master them.
but there are not always enough jobs
of this kind to go around. They are
also efficient In tending certain types
of machinery, and some of them who
l l" ', ' , . ,, . " " velop high skill at mechanical trades.
have wise reneralahlp. gallant con- . ,, ,ia,ioi
forgotten that It ts the people's war,
not the war of any nicer, or depart.
ment. or class, and that It la Just as
Important to have popular and en-
duct and complete organization on
the field.
A good many clerical positions are
open to the one-armed, also. The Gov
ernment proposes to conduct schools
for the education of cripples, and re-
LR IUW AIX TAX. I lief for them will be contingent, in a
The propaganda to procure from I measure, upon their willingness to do
publio officials who are by law exempt 1 their part la their own reconstruction.
xiut worx must do given mem alter
been found feasible to utilize struc
tural features to make the buildings
Interesting. Structural features In
clude door and window openings,
chimneys and porches. The porch Is
one of the concessions made to Ameri
can taste. It Is not prominent In the
English type at Port Sunlight, but is
viewed as an Important part of the
life of the American family. The case
ment window has been adopted for
hygienic reasons. Desire to encourage
ventilation la strong, and the casement
permits 100 per cent ventilation as
compared with 60 per cent for the
sliding window. Artistio effects, both
exterior and Interior, are produced by
window groupings. In which the trim
Is carried around the entire opening.
and by similar devices which do not
add to the cost of the building.
Value of attention to architectural
detail lies in the permanency of the
communities now being created, and
In the example they furnish for the
creation of similar housing groups In
the future. Even under the pressure
of war it Is desired that the building
of "shack towns" shall be avoided.
There la a utilitarian as well as an
esthetic reason. It has been found
that substantially built communities
attract and retain a better grade of
workmen, and that these men do bet
ter work while they are employed.
Proof that art has a definite utilitarian
value ought to remove the last ob
stacle to sane city planning every,
where.
frnm tha. Infim. lav a vnlnnl.r, A it-
. -- v. w-""lona f f VSa nuaatlnna an a Ma-hnH lri
amount they would be required to m.n , k. nr,Bd to -sk hiraaeIf
pay. If they Had been placed oa the the future la whether the trade he Is
ame tax basis as private citizens, la I considering la one that could be filled
commendable, and timely, too. The I approximately as well by a cripple. If the mines and who began this fight
fact that the example of voluntary I it la. he will avoid overcrowding Its for the mines which the expelled Co-
aio,!itioruirv farces Is hampered I lvln WM et y candidate for Gov- ranks, and exercise his own wider lumbla University professor regards
IX)RBAI-E AND ITS MEXES.
Because the value of the Lorraine
Iron and coal mines has been given as
a reason for Germany's determination
to hold Alsace and Lorraine and for
France's determination to recover
them. Professor Scott Nearlng sneers
at the war as merely a fight for the
lnes. With that phrase he won the
applause of a recent Bolshevik meet
lng In New York.
Recital of the historic facts will
show how much more Is Involved than
ztecdleaaly both la getting legitimate
news and la getting It out, wherela he
says:
Bat ava whtli DsTtnr a eaatral evar
ttla caoaorahlp la Franc J am ramlilar
wtta Ua aorliai. and 1 da know tnl lna
carraaaandaa la "r'rmAca. accradUad aod
tujMcraditad. ara aot kapl frum arums to
aaaa. but aa Iha atbar baad ara siva
a.anr laci:!:r. I him arito yoo thai it
aaaal lot k. p tba Mopil ta Isaoraaca. and
aai-t tram ta inbr of troopa. t&atr lo-
caiina. aad ai&ar mi.ltarr aacraca. ao
acrwtia la a.acad apoa a a-af.a xnaa. If
rl w ul raa4 Iba artlc.a wntiaa by aocb
maa aa Harria. lt-aoa and aortm Paltu.a.
In tba Saturday JLvantas Foal, you wl.l fiod
taal Ibaa m. a aad ba Iroub. wbatavar
4a avaryt.-ilaa aad writ ovarytblns.
Tba aama bo;oa tru a-ttb racard to avary
acbar aaa la Irraac. Soidiara ar aacour.
ad I arlt lallar la lb aaaapapara. W
aaar bava tbra llmaa tba Rualwr of cor-
raapoad.ata a.:oad by attbar tba 'raacb
r tnj.ian. aal thara la aa canaorablp at ail
la taa aaaaa taat rsa kaaa baa sa t
the plan. Indeed, it helpa Possibly
the candidate for Governor, now hold
ing a fat position, might not have
thought of doing It If he had not been
a candidate. There la nothing com.
parable to the publio spirit of a can.
didate.
We have no Idea, of course, that the
I officials who have hurried forward to
pay an Income tax have neglected
their duties to give to good causes
heretofore. There Is and has been no
law exempting them from the meral
obligation to make contributions to
the Ked Cross, the X. M. C A. and the
like, or to subscribe for the various
liberty loans. Doubtless ail the o fa
cials who are so severely pained to
No posaible fault can be found with I think that they need not pay the la
the statements of Mr. Creel. In his I come tax have corrected the over.
understanding of the censorship, and light of the Government la their own
the American prera la. bcal iea, la gen- I way, and have more than done their
era! harmony with the rulea for the I full duty aa volunteers In these good
publication of free news matter and causes. .Ooubtlesa. It may seem just
for the exclusion of certain other la trifle Impertinent, but Inasmuch as
non-prtvtlcired matter, laid down by some of our public officials who are
the Creel bureau. It U to be added I candidates, and who have painstak-
that, so far aa arbitrary or authorita- tngly notified the tax collector to come
tlve control by the Creel censorship around and see them, have told us
goes. It does not exist for news origl- about It, they will also let ua know
sating la America; but there Is a com- Just how much they have given the
ptete military censorship over events I Ked Cross and the T. M. C A. and
both la Great Britain and France, and I how large were their liberty loan pur.
elsewhere la the war zone, and the I chases.
American newspapers may receive I It will be fine If they all caa assure
cabled reports and comment only I their constituents that they will be
through grace of a uniformed critic. I Just as generoua as ever for such
mentor and watchman, otherwise a I beneficences, even though they may
censor. .Not many newspapers have I have assessed themselves for an ln
ought. however, to violate the cen- I come tax. which, by the way, need; not
eorshlp. actual or voluntary, and few I be Included la the official report of
have beea out of harmony with Its I their campaign expenses.
announced principles: but practically
all have united In a proteat against
various phases of Its operation.
ernor, and that the other candidates I range of choice. So long as the mak-1 with such contempt. France began
for Governor, or for re-election to I lng of cripples la a cart of war. these I the annexation of Lorraine from the
various offices, are falling la line I victims ought to have first chance at Holy Roman Empire in the middle of
does not detract from the merle of I least to earn their own living as a re- I the sixteenth century, and completed it
ward for their sacrifice.
GOVERNMENT MONOPOLY OF CAPITAL.
The American people have traveled
far since the days when any little
group of men for the cost of lncor-
flcatea could go into the money market
In' 1766, but for centuries before that
time the province had been French in
language and civilization. In 1871 the
people wished to remain citizens of
France, not subjects of Germany, but
because she had discovered that the
country was rich in iron and coal and
for capital to finance an enterprise
without restraint by any authority
whatever. When laws were first pro
posed to prevent promoters from capi
talizing everything up to the bright
blue sky, there was a great outcry
against any restraint on individual en
terprise. It Is now proposed that no
corporation, state or municipality shall
bo permitted to offer securities for sale
without consent of a Federal commis
sion, and scarcely a murmur of pro
test Is heard. Such Is the revolution
of our mental attitude which war has
caused.
It Is conceded that all our resources
In money as well as In everything else
should be devoted to success in the
war. All other things must be subor
dinated to that end. and preference
must be given to undertakings which
senaa It. So great are the direct
financial needs of the Government that
even great corporations which must
supply Its needs In material cannot go
directly Into the money market to ob
tain capital without paying exorbitant
rates of Interest, which would enhance
the cost of the war.
Germany took the province against the
will of Its inhabitants. In demanding
return of Lorraine, together with Al
sace, France merely seeks to take back
her stolen citizens and the stolen
mines. Germany wants to keep the
mines la order to use their products
in stealing other people and provinces
In the same way.
The Bolahevlkl, whose plaudits Pro
fessor Nearlng won, have proclaimed
the principle of self-determination of
peoples. On that principle Lorraine
belongs to France, for its people, ex
cluding "German officials, soldiers and
immigrants, are French, but this sham
friend of liberty woujil leave them
under the German yoke. He has the
Impudence to Blander France In exer
cise of that right of free speech for
which he Is so jealous and which
would be denied him in Germany. He
should be deported to the land he
seems to love better than that which
gave him birth.
Those best known for their military
prowess had vaulting ambition, and
some had greed for personal power,
bnt no one spared himself, and all
buoyed themselves with the Jelief,
vain thoughit may have been, that
the world wo'nld be better If the sys
tems which they sought to establish
should prevail.
A good deal of the fundamental
philosophy of the whole question is
comprehended In a bit of verse In the
readers of our boyhood days
How bis was Alexander, Fa,
That people called him sreatt
It is true that it 'misses Alexander's
conception of a great empire, and
does slight credit to his plans for the
development of trade intercourse
throughout the world, and Ignores the
fact that he broadened the outlook of
his own people and made the Hellenic
less provincial than he had ever been.
But his Idea of a great empire was
none the less than of an empire built
on the Alexandrian model. Justinian
ranks high among legislators, but as
a codifier of laws rather than as the
proponent of a system of righteous
living. Impartial historians are con-
much, but with the guarantee of the
United States it is the safest form of
investment conceivable. It need not
wholly supplant in our ultimate finan
cial life the spirit that seeks big en
terprise, but it ought to constitute a
"safety fund" in every man's strong
box. The desire of every normal man
is to avoid dependency; and the cold,
inexorable statistics show that con
servatism is a safer prop than luck in
a vast proportion of Instances.
The Peripterous.
Perlpterooa A Structure Having Rows
of Columns on All Sides. Dictionary.
GERMAN NAMES OJf THE MAP.
The pastime of eliminating German
names from the maps still furnishes
pleasure to the geographers of the
allies. Berlin, O.. having changed its
name to North Canton, "and Hutchin
son, Kan., having decided on Funston,
instead of Bismarck, as the name of
one ofgfts streets, it is proposed by
the more ambitious to abolish North
Sea, known to sailors everywhere as
the "German Ocean," and x British
Ocean has been suggested in its place.
Nord' See is the German name, and
Mare Germanlcus the one given it by
the Romans in a period when they
S (Synopsis of preceding; synopses.)
The OreKoniao, a great morning news
paper, employs a distinguished literary
architect to construct a peripterous.
He does It. It has rows of columns oa
east. west, north and south.
The Peripterous becomes a Free Audito
rium for the expression of incompetent. Ir
relevant and immaterial opinion aei
versa and anecdotes.
thought it was a Erreater body of water
lent. o creau xsapoieon wicn a em- tharl It has since Droved to be. The
cere desire to make the world better Danes call It the Western Sea. which
after his own fashion. And Charle- shows how much depends upon the
uuigua uenves a certain amount ol i point of view.
real glory rrom his patronage or sci- The Bl.ltlSn claim to the new name
ence and the arts, which was lncl- i. baser! unon lpnrth of shoreland
dental to his conquest of peoples who which from the Shetland Islands to
difTered widely in their political tra- North Foreland is 875 miles, while
ditions and in their own desires for thn rnmhinod mtnrals of all other
self-expression. But people then, nol countries measure onlv S40 miles. But
more man now. wantea to do upniiea the ultimate decision, like that of
by force of arms. The world will manv other minor issues of the war.
never get over its aversion to having nrobablv will be made on the western
any special urana at xunur crammea I front.
down its throat. Charlemagne s pat
ronage of the scholars of his age, and
the churches that Justinian built and MORE LABOR TO BUILD SHIPS.
Napoleon's dreams of an agricultural I By this time every well-informed
millennium probably will not be held American knows that ships are the
to atone for the essential cruelty of first requisite to full participation of
the methods they adopted to impress the United States in the war. We have
their own personalities upon history, the men, the natural resources, the
There are, as has been said, three I industries and the military and in-
non-military names on the Camp I ventive genius, but these are of no
Lewis list Lincoln, Edison and Shake- I effect until they reach the battle front
speare. The greatness of these men I in France, ana 6hlps are needed to
will not be questioned. Whether they take them there. We have enough
redeem the lists on which they appear, I food to supply our allies as well as
or whether those lists need redemp
tion, it would not be the part of pru
dence for us to attempt to decide
The difficulty lies in the utter absence
of a rule of measurement. Americans
like to think that there was in Lin.
ourselves, but ships are needed to
take it to them. "Ships, ships, and
yet more ships," is the burden of the
speeches of British statesmen.
The United States has enough lum
ber, steel and machinery to build
KAT9, IGCA.HA9 AND BOOZE.
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The trouble appears to be mainly " l"c,unt a.urs
too many censors, aad too few censor "I" w"or cl ur
w,lvmvu ui ms racuic, uimid.
Is turning his attention to ridding the
territory of two other nuisances, rats
and Iguanas. With the rat and Its
destructive propensities the people of
all countries are familiar. It Is not
known to so many that the Iguana Is
a kind of llxard. comnrisinr some
fifty-five genera and more than 250
spec Ira, which lives largely on a vege
table diet. It has been making heavy
Inroads upon the crops of Guam,
Our Governor of Guam began his
campaign against the rats and Iguanas
at a time which would have seemed
to some leaa optimistic administrators
to bo unfortultous. Without booze
upon which to levy a tax. It might
have seemed that the Island would be
sadly put out for funds. That Is the
way some folks reason It out. Not so
the Governor, who takes a refresh
Ingly broad view of the economics of
the situation. For example, as re
ported ta the Guam New Letter, he
said:
who know how to censor, even ac
cording to a prescribed formula. There
la la France the French censorship,
and la Great Britain the British cen
sorship, and la both countries the
American censorship, and there ts also
la America the Ameriraa voluntary
censorship. General Fershing has con
trol la France, and nobody has con
trol la the United Sutra, but every
body assumes to have It. Time and
again publication of an article for
bidden by on department has been
prmittel by another. Time aad again
Information oa the Index expurga
tortus of the Creel bureau has been
given out oy Secretary Daniels or Sec
retary Baker or Srcretary Lansing, or
somebody elsak There Is confusion.
perplexity, contradiction, It has
lately been relieved somewhat by a
revuioa of tha Creel rules and by a
better understanding la working ar
rangement among the Washington
bureaus. It has beta said, too, that
greater liberties are to be given to
accredlte-1 correspondents In the war
Bone. But have restalts shown It?
The Oreconlaa had yesterday a
cabled account, through the Asso
ciated Tress, of a lively .encounter be
tween American and German forces
on the battle front, wherela aa Amer
ican Captain was killed. The la for
mation was voorhsafed that he was
a graduate of West Point, class of
Sill. The name, however, was mlsa
tnir, having been carefully deleted, no
doubt, by some overxealous censor.
What Is the result? There are prob
ably a hundred, or more, graduates
of West I'olnt. class of 1J17. and the
families, friends and relatives of
very one of them are thus thought
lessly and needlessly thrown Into a
panic of apprehension. No doubt the
name will come along In due time.
But why the alarm and anxiety thus
caused among so many people?
The Tuscanla was sunk about (
o'clock P. M. Tuesday, February S;
and the news waa announced from
Washington twenty-four hours later.
The first Information was that more
than a thousand American soldiers
were lost or missing. But the mili
tary censor notified the Inquiring and
Insistent newspaper reporters that no
names would be given out until com
plete reports had been received, and
also that nothing would be dlvulcrd
as to the military units aboard the
ship. The censor appeared to have
a notion that he would thus spare
Biany -jwople unnecessary worry. But
the first consequence, of course, was
that every person In the United States
who did not know the exact where
abouts of a son. or brother, or father,
la the service, but who knew that he
was either oa his way to France, or
about to leave, was thus to be put
vpoo notice that the soldier la whom
he or she was most Interested may
have bee'n drowned on the Tuscanla.
Where hundreds may have been given
uneasiness, or even outfight apprehen
sion by the facts, so far as known,
thousands upon thousands were de
ld the relief that might well have
been afforded them If they had beea
glvaa the opportunity to assure them
selves that the company to which any
certain soldier had belonged was sot
Taa great Joea af revaaaa la do to
chaaaee la m liquor law. Ooa-thlrd of
in reveau or la laiaad waa derived form
arly from tba llooor taa. Tbie haa arad
a.:y fat, .a off aad wiu la um diaappaear
entirety, irui la a aardsblp in tha matter
ei administration, out It la la ether re
spaets a distinct yala for lha Island. The
money that would have beea paid la taxes
la still la tbe Islaad. la addition to the
mac a lers.r amount taat wauia have baa
speal lor liquor.
So it has been found necessary to
levy new taxes. In order to complete
the rat campaign. But "though we
have lost In revenue, we have gained
In wealth, and we caa now afford the
special tax that will be necessary."
Ia other words. It is not necessary to
sell a man several dollars' worth of
booze In order to extract a compara
tively few cents to be devoted to rat
extermination or some other benefi
cent purpose without apprising him of
the fact that he Is being taxed. The
frank, open and direct tax finds the
people with money la hand to pay it,
and no doubt the time will come when
the people of Guam will look back at
the old custom of alcohol-coated taxa
tion and wonder why they ever toler
ated It.
The Ingenious plan has been adopted
of taxing the people "one rat per an
num for every dollar's worth of su
burban property at Its assessed valua
tion. To obviate the expense and
compilation of tbe elaborate book
keeping system that otherwise would
be required, the tax Is commuted Into
a money value of 2 cents a rat. which
! la subject to Immediate refund on
presentation of the rats, without re
gard to the number presented by any
Individual. Thus the expenditure ts
practically nothing, for the total
amount goes back at once to the peo
ple, "who," says the Governor, "thus
have all they had before, leas the
rats."
The bounty on Iguanas ranges from
5 to 15 cents, according to size, and
an arrangement haa been made to
sell the skins of the larger ones In
Japan, thus adding to the Island reve
nues. Perhaps some day similar dis
position will be made of the rat skina.
In the sixteen months ended with
December. 77.(7. rats and H.J71
Iguanas were destroyed. The ridding
WHAT IS GREATNESS?
"The leisure hours of a soldier's
Therefore the itf0 writes a correspondent of The
uovernment must icno. tneni its creoit, 0resonian at CamJ) Lewis, "often
moadera?.r.nrereilaVe " P- many exchange, of opinion on
There follow twin schemes of Gov- Breatness or men tnrougnout all
emment control over capital. A com- history." As a result of such a dis
mission haa been established without I cussion at Camp Lewis, three young
the consent of which no securities ex- I men have prepared lists of five names
ccedlng lioo.ooo, other than those or each, arbitration of which is Invited.
trie isovernmeni may oe oucreu iui
sale. A corporation financed and di
rected by the Government Is to make
loans to persons and corporations en
gaged lb activities essential to the war.
By these means those who help di
rectly la providing material for war
are assured capital on about the same
terms as the Government borrows, and
those who help Indirectly are per
mitted to borrow on the best terms
which they can obtain, but all others
are shut out.
Ia adopting these measures the
Government risks grave abuse, but
that Is one of the unavoidable risks of
war. How great that risk is may be
Inferred from the Hog Island shipyard
scandal. The plant is being erected
by a private corporation with money
supplied by the Shipping Board, and
was supposed to be under such rigid
Inspection that the estimated cost of
about 121,000,000 could not be ex
ceeded and that no money could be
misapplied, but the cost threatens to
be two or three times that sum, work
haa been delayed and there la talk
of padded payrolls. The risk is much
less with concerns to which loans are
made, but vigilance will be needed to
prevent waste of money so easily ob
tained and to Insure repayment.
Only a general raising of the stand
ard of public Integrity will cause many
citizens to apply the same standard
of honesty to their dealings with the
Government as they practice with each
other. That should be a valuable by
product of the general stimulus which
the war has given to the sense of pub
lic duty.
It Is desired that greatness In its
most liberal Interpretation" shall be
considered, and It is specifically stated
that by common consent Christ has
been omitted, because "all agree that
he ia first-' The debaters also solicit
consideration of the men who have
"covered the largest field" la making
a choice.
Then follow the lists of names. "A.
L." puts Alexander first, then Charle.
magne, and after him Justinian, Na.
poleon and Julius Caesar, In the order
named. "W. R. B." names Justinian
first, Caesar second and then Charle.
magne, Abraham Lincoln and Thomas
A. Edison. "W. R. W." heads his list
with Napoleon, then gives place to
Shakespeare, and follows with Edison,
Justinian and Lincoln. Justinian
alone finds a placA on all three lists.
Alexander the Great and Shakespeare
are the only ones to receive only a
vote apiece. Charlemagne, Napoleon,
Caesar, Lincoln and Edison stand
equal in votes, although allowance for
their relative prominence in each list
gives Charlemagne and Napoleon the
lead and puts Lincoln at the bottom.
There is a slight advantage in favor
of Julius Caesar over Thomas A. Edi
son.
The subject Is Interesting because
It raises the entire question, what con
stitutes true greatness? Emerson has
given us a guide by saying that "great
men are they who see that the spirit
ual is stronger than any material
force: that thought rules the world.
And Milton helped a good many men
to put their own thoughts into words
when he said that "he alone is worthy
of the appellation who either does
great things, or teaches how they
may be done, or describes them with
suitable majesty when they have been
done." He has fortunately illuminated
this with a definition of what "great
things" are. They are, he says, only
those "which tend to render life more
happy, which increase the innocent
HOCSLNQ WORKMEN.
Appropriation by Congress of $35,-
000,000 to finance the construction
of homes for workmen in large indus
trial centers has given American
architects an opportunity which they
long have sought to plan community
development In which It could be
demonstrated that speed In building Is comforts and enjoyments of existence,
not Incompatible with regard for the I or which pave the way to a future
esthetic side. It Is recognized that state of blisa more permanent and
wails and a roof alone do not const!- I more pure.'
tute a satisfying home. Families who It is one of the enduring merits of
are desired as permanent residents I such subjects of debate as the relative
are Influenced by the artistic appear- greatness of men that they furnish
ance not only of the house In which material for agreeable and Intellectual
they live, but of the entire group. conversation without any danger that
One of the features of the exhibit the subject ever will be exhausted.
of the Architectural League held re- I The Emersonian definition would seem
cently In New York was a series of I to put greatness upon a higher plane
plans and models of a typical Indus-1 than that of Milton, for It takes Re
trial village projected by the mer-! count of the value of spiritual force.
chants of a Pennsylvania Industrial in its broadest conception. Of those
town which has been greatly expanded who accept literally Milton's interpre
wlrhln a year by demands for a large tation of great things as those which
output of finished war material. The "increase the Innocent enjoyments and
builders have been guided by the ex- comforts of existence," there in ex
perience of English promoters of si ail- tably will be some who will argue that
lar enterprises, and notably by the enjoyment and comfort are not the
example of Port Sunlight, near Liver- I chief ends of man. This will always
pool, which la now regarded as a be a vale of tears to those who view
classic In Industrial village architec- the present life as a period of prepa-
ture. The result has been to create ration, who rejoice in the spiritual
a town resembling an English town benefits of suffering and who accept
la many particulars, but with certain martyrdom as a crown. We doubt
changes as concessions to American whether any of the eight men named
taste. designated on the three lists submit-
It Is particularly Interesting to I ted by the correspondent cherished
architects to note that although de-1 any such ambition for themselves.
mands for economy have dictated the None, so far as we are aware, set
omission of unnecessary exterior nrna. I much store bv either the innocent en.
of the Island of the J cats la the I mentation. o far as possible. It has Joymeats or the comforts of exiatencej
coin something very nearly akin to many more ships than are now on the
the spark of divinity. It is certain ways. The sole limit on production is
that he was one of those "who see lack of labor. The testimony of all
that the spiritual is stronger than any I the officials in charge of the Govern
material force." But they would not ment shipbuilding programme was to
decry the genius of Edison, who has the same effect that further contracts
added so much to the comforts of ex- I for ships were not let because labor
istence, or that of Shakespeare, who I was not available to man more yards
is still incomparable in his own pe- I and that to begin work on more ships
culiar field. I would only delay completion of those
There Is a kind of greatness which already under construction without
is estimated by the hold it takes upon adding to the tonnage afloat in time
the imaginations of men, rather than for use in the war.
upon its influence, beneficent or other- Hence it is the patriotic duty of
wise.upon the material world. "Thever- I every man who has skill useful in
diet of mankind," says a philosopher shipbuilding to register for such work,
whose name has escaped us, "awards subject to call whenever he is needed,
the highest distinction, not to prudent and it is the duty of everybody who
mediocrity that shuns the chances of knows of such a man to urge that he
failure and leaves no lasting mark, register. Labor Is the one thing lack-
but to the eager soul that grandly lng to speed up and. increase produc
dares, mightily achieves and holds the tion of ships.
hearts of millions amidst his ruin and I By doing this, citizens of Oregon and
theirs." By any of the classic deflni- of Portland will render a service not
tions of greatness which we have only to their country, but to their state
cited the list could be indefinitely ex- and city. When men are available for
tended. It is a pity that Winter is a second and third shift, ships now
over. It would make a fine subject building can be hurried to completion
for debate in every college and can- and contracts will be let for more
tonment and camp and field In the
land-
ships to occupy the ways. When men
are available not only for existing
ways and yards but for new ones,
ships will be ordered from men who
stand ready to build new ways and
new yards. The present limit to the
expansion of the industry is the limit
to the supply of labor.
SAFE EN-VESTMENTS AND OLD AGE.
In order to emphasize as strongly as
possible the value of the Government
bond with its assurance of regular
payment of interest, by comparison
with nthAr InvMrmonte. xvViich nrnmisA
"biff returns." but keep the promise MaJr F- H- Albee- of the United
only part of the time, the American States Medical Reserve Corps, says
Bankers' Association has prepared a tflat mankind in the long run will be
striking summary of the financial life greatly benefited by the discoveries in
history of several thousand men of reconstruction treatment 01 wounueu
more than average business capacity, made in the present war. While
The list excludes the notoriously H mav ta0 tne Peoples many years
hnfrTooa fr,o inzv nnri rha iinamhi. to recuperate, he believes that the
tlous, and deals with men of good
earning, capacity who desire to get
ahead in the world.
One hundred of these men are enu
merated at the age of 25. Ten years
later five have died. Of the remain
der, at the age of 35, ten are wealthy.
ten are In "good circumstances.
forty have moderate means and thirty-
five have saved nothing.
effect of this new knowledge will be
folt for a thousand years. The most
important development, from the point
of . view of the victims of Industrial
accidents, has been the substitution
of appropriate physical tasks in a
laboratory workshop for manipula
tion by special apparatus The pas
sive exercises were found to fix the
attention of the patient upon his dis-
At the age of 45 sixteen have died, abilities, whereas the work takes him
three are wealthy, sixty-five are self- ut OI nimsen as ne Decomes more
supporting but without resources, and and more eager to master it, and he
The Department of Scientific Investi
gation has secured the services of Dr.
Josh Allguyer. the well-known savant,
to head an expedition into the remote
sartorial past. Dr. Allguyer sends his
first report from Astoria, but it is not
exactly what was expected. Probably
the good doctor, who is a little hard of
hearing, understood the Department,
when It gave its instructions, to say
"crinoline age" when "pliocene age"
was the term used. However, the De
partment cannot afford to throw away
the doctor's material, as he Is a high
priced man.
ASTORIA, Or, March 1. (To the Per
ipterous Censor.) Herewith I hand
you a short treatise covering a long
period of time and incidentally the
human form divine partially. If my
memory is not faulty, along about A. D.
I860, Just prior to .the Civil War, wom
en's wearing apparel waa very differ
ent from that seen at the present time.
Then her gowns were made with a
high collar, extending close up under
her dimpled chin, trimmed with a ruf
fle, waspish waists, immense skirt (I
think it was called a hoop-skirt) 9 feet
3 inches in. diameter, 27 feet 9 Inches in
circumference. We get the dimensions
by the use of the Infinitesimal Calcu
lus, same as used by Newton and Lieb
nitz when they wanted to get at things
like the fourth dimension, the Irreduc
ible minimum, the ultimate maximum,
etc I had no intention of getting off
the trail of the skirt, and will endeavor
to stick to it closely.
The split skirt had no trail, but it
had a full visible waist and is much
in evidence yet It seems to have dis
placed the V-neck end peekaboo al
most entirely. The bustle was intro
duced .to posterity about two decades
after the Civil War. I am not prepared
to make anything Ilka a detailed de
scription of it. All I can say of it is
that it was a posterior .adjunct, capable
of exaggerated effect
As to lingerie. In legal parlance I
confess my evidence would be imma
terial, irrelevant and incompetent; tha
curtain drops, the bewitching vision
fades. We need not much concern our
selves about such things. What lovely
woman wants she will have, don't you
think? We know she will, and has.
ever since the Fig-Leaf Episode.
JOSH ALLGUYER,hD., LLD.
Addendum: Red. white and blue hos
iery was worn with the spilt skirt, and
so far as my observation went, it waa
not gartered below the knees. Honl-
soit-qui-mal-y-pense, E pluribua unum,
sic-em-tlge.
sixteen are no longer self-supporting.
Then, as life progresses, riches con
tinue to take wings. One man, at the
age of 65, has become very wealthy;
three are in good circumstances, forty-
six are self-supporting but without
means, and thirty are dependent on
relatives or on charity. Twenty have j
died at this age, some of them in de
pendent circumstances.
uses the detective memoer uncon
sciously without flinching from what
would .otherwise be discomfort. Dr,
Albce thinks that the fact that we
are at war should not blind us to the
fact that German surgeons were first
to see the value of this system.
Austria has bowed to the will of
Germany and reconsidered her deter.
The proportion of those still living mination not to join in the attack on
who are dependent on others Increases I Russia, which clinches the opinion
rapidly in the subsequent years. Sixty- heretofore prevailing in most quar-
four are still alive at the age of 65, ters that Austria is reduced to a state
but fifty-four of these are not self- I of vassalage from which only a vie
supporting. Fifty years from the be- tory of the allies can rescue her.
ginning of the count, sixty-three are
dead, of whom sixty left no estate. The alleged theosophist who claims
and thirty-rour or tne tnirty-seven iiv- exemption on .the ground that 100
lng are dependent, of whom 95 per nersons are dependent upon him for
cent win not nave sumcieni means to spiritual advice is Interesting chiefly
defray funeral expenses. aa a curiosity. The excuse is not as
This constant decrease In the pro- remarkable as the state of mind which
portion of men of even moderate thought that any one would accept it
means as the years pass is attributable as valid.
to the fortunes of business and the
quest tor greater returns on an invest- winter wheat dolnff weU and
ment than are compatible with abso- tTin ...,. of SDrinir wheat mounting
lute safety. The gambling spirit per- outi0ok for our allies brightens per
sists, even though blue sky laws are ceptlblyi but stay-at-homes needn't
eiiaciou lu -' ,." V", think they are going to be turned
yruic.. invBOLuia loose ia the granary yet awhile.
gigantic frauds as the South Sea bub
ble and the Mississippi scheme of John
Law in the early part of the eighteenth
century have, perhaps, been made im
possible of repetition, but ordinary
business still has its ups and downs.
The statistics prepared by the Bank-
era AOOUUttUUU AClAbO Ll.il.il .v r,,.-l I 1 . , 1. iV1n
71 'rL V, left that la free, since it has come to
First we need inland waterways, and
when we get them we have no barges
to put on them. Wouldn't it be a
pleasant world if everything could be
finished together and on time just
once?
their protection, who have more than
average ability to look out for them
selves, and who accept their risks with
their eyes open.
But these same figures show that If
all of these men had pursued a more
conservative course from the begin
ning, as to the disposition of at least
part of their earlier accumulations,
they would have been much more
prosperous, considered as a whole. The
Government bond and the land mort
gage have not figured to a sufficiently
large extent in their calculations. Four,
five and six per cent have seemed un
attractive In early and middle life.
Later these men, living upon the
bounty of relatives and the charity of
the community, have a different view,
but it Is then too late."
The lesson of the statistics is ob
vious at a time when the Government
is offering thrift stamps, savings cer
tificates and bonds for Investment to
people of small, as well as average.
mean 3, x our. per. ficat may, te
the point where even .a man with a
pass to the movies must pay a war
tax on it.
Now that we are being urged to
eat bananas as a substitute for other
foods, it is almost a cinch that ba
nanas are also due for a rise in price.
A proposal to give Siberia outright
to the Japanese would not be without
popular support at this stage of the
game.
The man "with a vacant lot and no
time to plant can do his bit by lend
ing the land to some one who can
use it-
March came In like a lamb this
year, and it will be all right with the
farmers if it will go out the same way.
Even the hopyards are being turned
Into wax. gardens this season,
Major Bleeder on Spy Hunt.
Somewhere north of Judklns Point
and south of Skinner's Butte, March 1.
(To the Architect.) Major Bill Bleeder
was In from Long Tom yesterday and
your correspondent, after dodging him
all forenoon, finally secured an inter
view with him. As the full typewrit
ten interview Major Bleeder furnished
was too long, same has been condensed.
The Major, who is a cousin of Pancho
Villa, the great Mexican strategist, and
who has studied the situation here on
the Coast very thoroughly while cam
paigning with his famous relative, la
of the firm opinion that Oregon Is In
grave danger of being overwhelmed and
captured by Germans, making an at
tack, not from the outside, but from
the inside.
The first step in this fiendish scheme
was taken, he says, last Summer, when
he says it will be remembered (and no
doubt It will now that he mentions it;
that several suspicious and unknown
parties of men of Teutonin cast of lunch
basket were observed prowling about
Mount Hood. Fragments of pretzel
were found by guides in unfrequented
places and once a dill pickle was seen
sliding across the face of a glacier. No
doubt exists in Major Bleeder's mind
that at that time the great mountain
was tunneled from some remote spot
and vast quantities of chemicals and ex
plosives stored in this subterranean
chamber, sufficient when the appointed
time comes to blow off the top of the
peak and produce a tremendous erup
tion or series of eruptions which will
destroy the city of Portland and Intimi
date the citizenry of that whole section.
In the meantime large numbers of
German reservists have been slipping
Into the country camouflaged as Irish
men with green whiskers and clay pipes
or Swedes with loggers' boots and
boxes of snuff. The Major himself saw
a suspicious character on the train the
last time he went to- Portland. This
person aroused the Major's suspicions
by the English he used in replying to
the peanut butcher, and for the rest
of the Journey our military friend gave
him close attention. Although the
stranerer carried on a conversation with
a fellow passenger almost constantly
for two hours the Major, who Is quite
a purist himself, detected not a single
error of grammar or diction. 'He is con
fident this record could not have been
made by anyone less than a German
officer of high rank, probably one of
the rankest. To resume. The erup
tions of Mount Hood the invaders will
make use of to manufacture large
quantities of deadly gas with which to
repel attacks. This Is a frightful pic-,
ture. but Major Bleeder believes he is
justified in painting it if by eo doing
he may avoid the catastrophe. He is
now busily engaged in selling stock in"
a company which he has fathered which
will manufacture gas masks so that the
population of this fair commonwealth
may be protected In the hour of need.
He also recommends the formation of a
volunteer body of detectives to ferret
out and expose all claiming to be Irish
who are not Irish or who are excessive
ly Irish and all Swedes who say John
son instead of Yonson.
If this Interview Is printed the Major
will likely have another ready soon in
fact, it is probably ready now, since he
is quite forehanded in such matters.
E. PLURIBUS ONION.
Furthermore and moreover, she's go-,
lag away.
Mara.
A trip to Mars I'll have to take.
Because this world's a grand old faket
The cops down here are always bent
On making us poor souls repent.
It's me for Mars up In the sky
Goodby, old earth, goodby.
In Mars the streets are curbed with
gold
And there it's neither hot nor cold.
Some parts are wet and some are dry.
So then it's mo for Mars, up high.
This earth's too bum a place for sne
A better world I'm bound to see!
Why, up in Mars the grub Is cheap
And there you have long hours to sleep!
No shrieking whistles wreck your nerve
Nor summon you some man to eerve;
Then what's the use of living here.
When Mars looms up so very near?
ril kick this dust from oft my feet.
And hie away to Mars' Main Street;
Up there, serenely In the sky.
I'll watch you earth-worms crawling by.
un, yes, i n go witnout on sign.
For I'm cure giad to eay 'moodby'!