TITE ' SUNDAY OREGONIAX, PORTLAND;-- MARCH 10, 1913. DREAMOFGONQUEST FILLS GERMAN SOUL Gerard Notes Psychologies Development of Teutons During Progress of War. GREAT REJOICING AT FIRST "Period of Iote Exaltation Ended k-y flattie of M arne, 1bn Temper of People Changes to -lt-titado of Depression. CtHM t.l SOCI. ClOOKT. German soul turn not toward light and say and graceful thins, but toward bloodshed and S iruMwmfflna, tery. Gerard. ghost and mys- BT JAMES W. OMARD. Aaiertees AmUmdor at the Grnaa Tt Prta Court. Ju )r il. 1KI3. In February 4. 1917. Author "Mt Four Tear In Her 4r." ti'xpjdsht. 11.1. by Public Leaser lempaay. ARTICLE XV. It was Interesting to not the psyeho Ktckal development of the Oermaoa during the war. For the Terjr ahort lima while war nung In tha balance there was a period almost of rejoicing among the singing crowds In the streets a universal release of tension after it years preparation for war. Next came tha busy period of mobili sation, and then, aa the German armies wept through Belgium and Prance, trongbold and fortre falling before them. there rams a period of Intense eiaitetioa and eiuliatlon, a period when tha most reasonable Germans, the light of success and conquest la their eyea. declared German Kullur would Bow be Imposed on th whole world. The battle of tha Marne ended this period of rejoicing, and through the Winter of 11-I1S. when it became apparent that Germany would not win "Maria Magdalena." Tha character war tha father, mother, son daughter of a German famll ems. I town and two young men with tha daughter. In the first act the m AIRPLANE STOCK 10 act the pollc arrest th son for theft, giving rip rilllfil ITr. UTTtV the mother such a shock that she dies I UL LIPJIwULII ULUL of apapleiy on the stsge. Jn the sec- I flT f I If I tl ll 1 1 111 111 ond act tha two lorers hara a duel and UL. lllllUllLeJ IILIIL one is killed. In the third act the sur viving lover commits suicide, and in the fourth act the daughter Jumps down tha well Tha curtain descends. leav log only tha old man and the cat'a'.ive, and tha Impression I given that If tha rurtaln were ten aeconds later either tha cat would get tha old man or tha old man would get tha rat! The mysterious play of "Per Oyot' waa given In two theaters during each Winter of tha war. All of Ibsen a dramas plared to crowded houses. Kelnhardt, during tha last Winter I as In Berlin, produced Strtndherg s Choet Sonata" In quite a wonderful way. The play waa horrible and grue some enough, but aa produced by him it gave a strong man nightmare for day afterward.- brraai -Kaltar Arraigned. Tha German soul. Indeed, seems to turn not toward light and gay and graceful things, but toward bloodshed and gruesomenees, ghosts and mystery f feet doubtless of tha long. dark. bitter nlghta and gray days that over shadow these northern lands. I think the only time I lost my tem per In Germany waa when a eeem- ngly reasonable amd polite gentleman from tha Foreign Office, sitting at my desk one day In 11. remarked how splendid It waa that Germany had nearly J.OOO.ovO prisoners of war and that these would go back to their homes bued with aa intense admiration or German Kultur. I said that I believed that the I.OOO.- 04 prisoners of war who had been In suited and underfed and beaten and Oregon Planing Mill Owners Take Contract for Manu facturing 25 Carloads. INDUSTRY SURE TO EXPAND Satisfaction " of KeanlretnenU of a Colonel Dlsque) and HI Experts AVI II Result In Work Being- In creased at Least Tenfold. Colonel Brie F. Dlaqna. represent ing tha Government, yesterday closed contract with the Oregon Planing allll Owners' Association for tha manu facture of 25 earloada of aerolane atock into wing beams for tha use of the Government in building training ma chines. This contract ia in tha nature of an experiment, and waa obtained only as a result of weeks of effort by the orced to work aa slaves tn factories Chamber of Commerce co-operating and mines and on farma would go back to their homea with such a hatred of all thlnga German that It would not be iafe for Germane to travel in countries from which these prisoners came, that other nations had their own Kultur with which they were perfectly satis fied and which they did not wish to hange for any made-In-German y rand! with tha planing mill owner. If the work can ba dona satisfactorily, which the mlllmen declare will unquestion ably ba the case. It is to be followed by a rapid axpanalon of the manufac ture, locally of the wood parts for aeroplane construction until all the product of the large reaaw plant at Vancouver, which la destined for use by the American Government, Is made Certain Germane hava pirated much of I Into finished part here by a sudden assault, tha temper of t people began to change . aa attitud f depression. , Ctraaai P 7 r.Jy Life. It has been at atl times the policy of the German autocracy to keep the peo Pie or Germany iroiu amusing them elves. I know of no class In German which really enjoys life. The counts and Junkers hate their country estates. Life on these estates, whlrb are ad ministered solely for profit. Is -not Ilk country life in Kngtand or America. The hooena are plain and for the moet part without the conveniences of bath rooms and heating to which we are ae customed in America. There are vlr tually no email country bouses or bun galowa, although at a few of the sea Place rich Jews hava villas. Tha wealthy merchant takes hi va cation In bummer at Carlsbsd or Kls- stngen. or la some other resort where hi physical constitution, disorganised by overeating and overdrinking, ran be regulated somewhat. Many Germans taka their families to Switzerland where tha German of all agca with knapsack aad Alpine stick I a faaw.tar eight. TCata.ataia Craa Watrkwwrd. TTarncstnesa Is the watchword. For houid th people gel a taste of pleas are they might decide that the earth rfer-d fairer po.stblltttee than life In the barracks or the admiring con tern platioa of fat and complacent grand dukes and princes. Much of this sycophancy Is due to the poverty vf the educated cl Salaries paid officials are ridiculously smalt. The German worklngmen. both In wages and living, are on a lower s ale than those of other Wester aa tlon. with the possible exception of Jlussia. Italy and the Balkan states. The profeastoaaj and business classes earn very little. The reason for the superiority of the German In the chem ical Industry Is because a chemist, a graduate of fhe university, ran be hired for les than the salary of ao America a Chauf (eur. And this earnestness of life waa In atsted upon even to a greater degree by the autocracy with the opening of war. The playing of dance music brought a visit from the police. The theaters at first were closed, but later opened. Only plays of a serious or patriotic na ture were originaty permitted. len- Ing was tabooed, but In the Winter of ll-l r.etnhardt was allowed to pro duce a ballet of a severely classical na ture, and at the opera performances the ponderous ballet girla were permitted to cavort a usual. Rellglae) Is Fa II ere. I saw no signs of any great religions revival, no greater attendance at the churches. Terhsps this wss becauee I wss In the Protestant part of Ger wanv. ' where the church Is under the direct control of the government and where the people feel that In attend ing an extra church they are oniy at tending an extra drill, a drill where they will be told of tha glories of the aatocrocy and the necessity of obedi ence. In fact, religion may ba said to fca failed in Germany, and many late-paid preachers launched sermons f hate from their state-owned pulpits. Alwaya fond of the drama and opera, I waa a constant attendant at theaters In Berlin. The beet-known manager la Berlin la Relnhardt. who has under his control tha teutsches Theater with its annex, the Kammersplel. and also the People's Theater on the Bue'ow Flats. I mad the acquaintance of Mr. THeinhardt and his charming wife, who takea part In many of his productions. I dined with tbem In their picturesque house on tha Kupfel Grahen. In the Ieutsches Theater ehe great revolving stage makes change of scene easy, so that Relnhardt ia enabled to preeent Fhakespeare. a great favorite In Ger many, la a most picturesque manner. He manages to lend even to the most solemn Irssedy little touches that add greatly to tha Interest and keep the at tention fixed. Foe Instance. In Ms production of Mjcbth. when I.aty Macbeth comes In la the sleep-walking scene, robbing her hands and saying: "What, will t.iee bands ne r be clean?" the actress takinr this part In Berlin gave a very dtttnct and loud snore between every three or four words, thue moet effect ively reminding aa asudienc that ah Was asleep. Trastewl Flare Fopwlar. As the wsr rontlnued the taste of the Germans tamed to somber, trsglcal and almost sinister plays. Only a death on tr-e stage seemei te bring a rsy of animation to the stolid, bovine faces of the audience, la my last Winter In Berlin tha hit of the sesson waa "FJrd geist." a plav by Wedeklndw which aa "Spring's Awakening waa given In New York la the prtag of 117 and horrified and disgusted the most hard ened Bmadwey theater-goers. The principal fern a a ro'e waa played by a Ferbiaa actreea. Maria Orska very tnucb on tha type of Naxlmova. lo thla play, presented to crowded au dience, only ere of the four acts was wtthont a death. Aaotber favorite during wartime, atajeta at Relnhardt theater, was German "Kultur," hava boasted of lm posing this "Kultur" on the world by one of arms. bat is this German Kultur? A certain efficiency of gov ernment obtained by keeping tha ma Jorlty of the people out cf all voice In overnmental affairs: a certain lo cost of manufactured products or of carrying charges In the shipping trades made possible by enslaving tha work men who toil long hours for small wages: a certain superiority In chemt- production because trained chem lata, willing to work at one aeml-rae- hanlcal task, can be hired for less than Fifth-avenue butler la paid in Amer lea, and a certain pre-eminence In mil itary affairs reached by subjecting the masa of the people to the brutal, boor tsh nnn-commtssionsd officers and the galling yoke of a militaristic system. Real Calter With Jew. Subtract tha German Jew and In tha lines of real culture there would be little of the real thing left In Germany. Outman. Welchroeder. Von Swabach, Fiiedlander-Fuld. Kathenau. Simon. Warburg. In finance: Barchardt and others. In surgery, and almost tha wbele medical profession; tha Meyers, tha Khrllchs, Bamberger. Hugo Schlff. New. burger. Berthelm. Paul Jacobson. In chemistry and research: Mendelssohn, Wagner, etc- In music; Harden, Tbeo- dor Wolf. George Bernhard and Proles mo r 8tein. In Journalism. But why continue? About tha only men not Jewa prominent In tha intel lectual, artistic, financial or commer rial life of Germany are the pa tor of the Lutheran churches. And tha Jew have won tbelr way to tha front In almost a generation. Still refused com missions In tb standing army (except for about 114 sinca the war), still com pelled to renounce their religion before being eligible for nobility or a court function, still practically excluded from university professorships. considered socially Inferior, tha Jewa of Germany ontll a few years ago lived under re strictions that had aurvlved from the Middle Ages. They were not allowed to bear Christian names. The marriages of Jews and Christiana were forbidden. Bardea Isspssed ea Jewa. Jewa could not own house and lands. They wsre not permitted to engage in agriculture and could not become mem bers of the gullda or unlona of hand icraftsmen. When a Jew traveled he waa compelled to pay a tax In each province through which ho passed. Jews attending tha fair at Frankfort on the Oder were compelled to pay a bead tax. and were admitted to Lelpilg and Lresden on condition that tbey might be expelled at any time. Berlin Jews were compelled to buy annually a certain quantity of porce lain, derisively called "Jew'a porce lain." from tlie royal manufactory and to sell it abroad. When a Jew married ba had to get permission aad an an- Another Step Forward Takea. Consummation of this contract 1 considered another forward atep by Colonel IMsque In his efforts to meet tha deraanda of tha Government for sprue. It not only Insures delivering the lumber, where, netded. but effects a saving In th maximum number or railway car now required for It ship ment to more distant manufacturing plants. At tha outset, 100 workmen will be employed by. tha mill receiving the contract in manufacturing the COO.000 feet of lumber assigned for the first experimental order. If this order meets tha requirements of Colonel Disque and his expert, th work will be expanded until more than 1000 men will be em ployed before the close of the war In local wood-working plants majnufac turning the wood parts of aeroplanes. It promises to prove a most important industry, growing out of spruce pro duction and war operations, which is regarded as a business properly belong ing to Portland, situated in the heart of the great spruce-producing section of the United Htates. - "This final success has come after mouths of effort with- the Aircraft Board at Washington, in which the ChamberOf Commerce, the Mill Owners' Association Senators Chamberlain and McNary, Congressman McArthur. Colo nel Dlsque. Major Lndbetter. Captain Russell Hawkins. cx-Governor West, C C. McColloch and 'others all have taken a part." said W. D. R. Dodson, executive secretary of the Chamber of Commerce, yesterday. -"It was a strug gle with many variations. At all timea local Intereats aought to hava Colonel Dlsqua given, first, authority tj investi gate and recommend upon local manu facture of aeroplane parts, and then that he b given full authority to act. Mr. West put tba finishing touches on tha effort recently while In Wash ington, backed energetically by Sena tors Chamberlain and McNary. After having Colonel Dlsque vested with au thority. Manager Mclntlre. of the Mill Owners' Association, with a commit tee of hla people, went to Washington, visited tha aeroplane factories, and in an extended conference with all inter ested worked out full details as to how tha work should be arranged. what the "mills would hava to do to undertake the aame and the epeeiflca tions upon which the local plants should operate.' Thia finished. Colonel Dlsque. who had made a careful ap praisal of the local plant seeking th business, computing their capacity, mechanical equipment and ahlpping facilities, signed an agreement with the association for .nauguratlon of manufacture, and this Is to be under taken iraynedlatel). I Fvadasaeatal Farts TOged. Tn all tha argumenta presented, a few fundamental facts were urged In duced here, tha Industry rightfully should be developed to the maximum here, the same as the metal trade is given greatest encouragement in the region where mined and manufactured. "When Colonel Disque put in the big re-saw plant at Vancouver, he accom plished some of the ends that had been argued by the Chamber and Planing Mill Owners' Association, but did not take the process to completion. He recognised thst it would be very bene ficial to take the final step, and as soo aa authority was granted him, he closed the contract with the mills that con stltutes the initial work in he finish Ing sage. Local men who have studied the situation declare thia another e-i dence that Colonel Diaque rises to th situation along thoroughly practical and most economical lines as soon as he get the power for action. PS rare Will Be Saved. . "Or of th important feature of the work as It wil be conducted in local finishing plants wil be a much improved saving In clear spruce itself. Those who hav visited1 eastern aero plane factories declare that the waste of the precious wood is appalling. Workmen do not seem to appreciate its scarcity and cost, are unfamiliar with handling spruce, aad do not get out of 1000 feet of atock nearly aa much northwestern manufacturers wllL Just how much saving will be accomplished. cannot be foretold, but the forecast I made that it will be considerable. "In order to handle the initial order and others to follow, according to Government requirements, dry kiln orocesaes are being adapted to Gov ernment requirements in some of the local mills, and dry kiln' capable of handling about 100.000 feet of lumber at one time have practically been con verted. Colonel Disque Is building one big unit of a dry kiln at Vancouver, having 40 kilns each of SO feet length and having a monthly capacity of about 600.000 feet and. when thia unit is oper atlng, will probably build a second unit of the same six. With the Government dry kiln plant running at capacity, the kilns of the local mills will merely be used as auxiliary Institutions where needed to handle the lumber sent to them. 'In executing the Initial order, only a few mills will be chosen by the Gov ernment for the work, selecting -those with the most complete equipment. After this initial order proves the cer talnty of the work being don properly here, it is estimated that all Portland mills and perhaps some outside, will be kept running at capacity. In spread ing the work out, it will be the pur pose to take those nearest the van couver resaw plant to save time in transit, transportation facilities and costs. As the nearer mills are occu pied, those next nearest will be taken. where properly equipped and organized. Government Has Supervision. As to factory conditions, there will be a eight-hour day, wages to be estab lished by the Government itself to pre vent conflicts of any kind, and com plete Government supervision and in spection of the manufacturing process In the mills. In administering the work, the Gov ernment will direct the same through Captain O. P. XL Goss, of the Vancouver resaw mill, who is a woodworking en gineer of year' experience, and who for a long time was the engineer of the West Coast Lumber Manufacturers' Association. He has shown keen in- erest in the problem since Colonel Disque was given authority to proceed, and mill owners expect much valuable help from having one so well informed in immediate control for the Govern ment forces. In the early days of the Govern ment aeroplane construction pro gramme. W. C. Chydean,. superintend ent of the Curtis plant at Buffalo, was Interviewed repeatedly by the Cham ber and th mill owners to have the finishing work on the wood parts done here. He declared it could not be done satisfactorily. Other construction ex perts were approached, and declared against the finishing manufacture be ing undertaken on the Coast for planes to be built in the East. Only when the rase was exhaustively and repeatedly . ?J -a A U er; , v r" Vf fXLLU J 3 . v v. A :, r S .3r i V?s I . C -VK f It t ,r,,A h-v: my '1 r iimrni-'fBriiff,'fii''JCT TyTEN, here Aare real clothes SPRINGTIME fashions and fabrics in clothes for men are here on display. You . , ' will find it profitable to spend here a pleasant half hour in selecting: a suit that meets your idea of what is becoming to your personality. These clothes have been selected with great care they have my cus tomary guaranty of your entire satisfaction. The price range will meet every desire. $13, $18, $20, $22.50, $25, $27.50, $30, $32.50, $35, $37.50, $40 i ' . f All the New Spring Styles in Hats Are Here IDenSellin JLluSMorrisonStreet at Fourth? Q presented to the Aircraft Board was it possible to get recognition lor the Coast. Governor West made a special trip to Washington to unravel the tangle, and before leaving got the board to sign an order giving uoionei jjisquo au thority, and from that time it has been merely a matter of detail, working out 11 requirement to the satisfaction or the chief of the spruce division iu the Northwest." Brooks Woman Honored. BEXD, Or.. March 9. (Special.) Mrs. H. K. Brooks today learned of her appointment aa chairman of the women's committee of the next liberty loan drive. Dend Boys Sel Many Thrift Stamps. BEND, Or.. March 9. 'Special.) Lyle West and Roy Kutch, members l, the Rainbow" regiment by selling- $101 and J60 worth of thrift stamps, re spectively. They are the first from this county. 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Delicious Coffee An Excellent Turkey and Chicken Dinner Today ual Impost was paid on esch member of cessantly: Loeal woodworking plants had been rendered largely lale through falling away of ordinary building oper ations Incidental to the war; skilled men in these plants, among the best of the country, art especially familiar with spruce, were not doing their best for the cause wben switched to other lines; that woodworking plants in the East would have to be converted or built to manufacture the wood parts of airplanes If the work were not done here, and that the men employed there would be less efficient with spruce than thos of the Northwest: that there was no congestion. Industrial!)-, In the North west, housing waa plentiful, food cheap, and climatic conditions favoring the maximum efficiency; that the reduction In space required on cars when ship ping finished airplane parts would be very great, varying from 60 to 80 per cent, according to the specifications on which the raw material waa cut; and. lastly, that the raw material being pro- the faml'y. while only oc son could remain at home, and the othera were forced to aek their fortune abroad. The Jewa could worship In their own way. in some states, provided they used only two small rooms and made no noise. The reproach that th Jew Is not a producer, but Is a mere middleman. taking profit aa goods pass from band to hand. 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