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AX EAST ELECTION.
It would be hardly safe to' assume
from the number of measures on the
ballot in one year that the Initiative
and referendum are on the road to
disuse. And if it be assumed that our
Indulgence in direct legislation Is on
the decline it would be far from accu
rate to blame it upon a waning public
interest. The interest was only ap
parent. It was not there to wane.
The number of measures on the
ballot in the past has been no reflex
of a public desire for their submission.
A few there were upon which the
people welcomed a chance to express
their opinions, but the product in the
main was that of experimenters and
hobby riders, or else of multiplicity
due to conflicting views of various
groups as to the form laws should
take concerning some principle which
all the groups approved.
In the former class were the single
tax measures and the bills and amend
ments upon other subjects which the
single tax group supported. These
measures brought out opposing meas
ures, and the ballot became burdened.
Of the type that produced conflicting
measures upon the same subject the
road problem was once prolific. In
one election there were seven road
measures eight of them if there be
counted a proposal to use prisoners
in road work.
This year the law givers have al
most let the public alone and the road
and several other issues that produced
measures are settled. Prohibition
woman suffrage, the uniform tax rule
all formerly appeared in one or more
forms. Happily, they have been dis
posed of.
Of the old friends of the ballot two
remain. There is the fisheries issue
with its several ramifications. Through
the recent ramification of the Colum
bia River fisheries treaty, legislation
on the main river has become a matter
for Joint action by Oregon and Wash
ington, and this action must be ap
proved by Congress. Alteration of Co
lumbia fisheries laws is, therefore,
so complicated an endeavor that it
does not invite initiated laws. But
the Willamette and the Rogue do not
come under the treaty provisions. So
this year two of the six bills on the
ballot pertain to fishing in those
waters.
The normal school measure, another
old acquaintance, is again with us in
the form of an amendment submitted
by the Legislature. The Legislature
has also presented a proposal, carry
ing an appropriation, for a home for
dependent children.
The sole representative on the bal
lot this year of the law-giving type
are the two expressions of an an
tipathy between a Portland publisher
and the country newspapers. They,
pertain to legal advertising. Like many
other measures that have been pre
sented in the past,' they got on the
ballot solely because their sponsor had
the money to pay for circulating the
seriously affected by their sojourn on
the ocean bottom have added Im,
mensely to the account of the marine
salvors.
The methods employed have been
technical, and have reflected much
credit upon the highly educated engi
neers who developed them. Unskilled
labor has played a relatively insigni
ficant role in accomplishing the result.
But for the inventive genius and the
skill displayed, these ships would still
be resting on the bottom of the sea.
And the world is still vcalling. more
and more insistently, for trained men.
PREPARE FOB WINTER.
One kind of forehanded man Is the
one who has the furnace repaired in
August, a duty that is all the more
urgent this season because of the
shortage of fuel and the probable
greater shortage of labor later in the
man told her he thought "women
could easily learn the trade and make
good workmen."
Prevailing impressions that certain
occupations are closed to women are
founded on the necessity of lifting,
moving or holding great weights, but
much of this work requiring "main
strength and awkwardness" is now
done by machines, which men merely
guide, and women can do that as well.
Long periods of standing are injurious
to women, but men sit at many me
chanical occupations, while at others
they change posture so frequently as
to develop their muscles generally and
escape especial strain from standing.
The objection to woman's perform
ance of much work that is now done
by man is not that she is physically
or mentally Incapable of doing It, but
that she can only do it by neglecting
her higher duty as a mother, while it
falls In with a man's duty as a father.
the instrument he employed was a
stick no larger than his thumb, pre
vailed. These contrasts are a testimony to
the progress of the world, and are also
highly suggestive of the possibilities
of the future. There will be no such
struggle to complete the victory. for
women as marked the initial battles
in which women like Mrs. Stone
played so important a part. But it
would be interesting if one could
visualize conditions in 2018 If women
continue to advance as they have done
since Lucy Stone was born. '
:TZT. .Z::, Z. iStil JL f emergency like this it may
. ......... -'"' ....... mo I be necessary for woman to do much
pea ranee of cold weather, and this
of man's work, but after the war it
rush is hard enough to handle in nor- I , be more ever nece8sary fo
mal times. Now it is the part of wis
woman to do her proper part in fill-
demand also of patriotism to have the lng the in tne popu,atlon whlch
WOrK. QOne early. . -ir will hove marie Women fan
It would also be a good plan to look
build ships, but they cannot at the
same time do the nobler work of
after the repairs, to the house, to
tighten the loose window casings and j mothers.
in general to prepare to conserve neat.
All this is apart from the injunction
to avoid overheating when Winter does I ' s LUCY STONE.
come. ' " Observance on August 13 of the one
TheAverage American family keeps hundredth anniversary of the birth of
its dwelling warmer than is needed for Lucv Stone recalls a good many inci
health or comfort. Sixty-eight degrees dents of the movement for the eman-
is more than ample; sixty-five is better, I cipation of women which are happily
and those who have tried sixty will jn the past, but which suggest that
testiry tnat wnen tney nave Decome the world has made real progress in
accustomed to it it is quite enough. I tolerance witnin considerably less than
a century. There is in Mrs. Stone's
ERRORS RUN into BILLIONS. case the reminder that her appearance
The need of a budget system is as a speaker against slavery in Boston
clearly shown by the huge discrepancy I was once heralded from a fashionable
between appropriations and expend!'
tures by the Government in the last
suburban orthodox pulpit of that city
In these words: "I am requested to
fiscal year. Senator-Smoot puts the at a hen wiU attempt to crow
whole case iJt a nutshell when he says
in an article in the New York Sun
that "the total payments for the year
were $12,691,692,471, while the ap
propriations were over $21,000,000,
000.'
$4,733,029,750 consisted only of pur
chase of bonds of the allies with pro-
hall. Those who like that sort of
music will attend." This was in cul
tured Boston, and In a time when that
city was not unreceptlve to anti-
Ai .U to "the amount of .I'TS'
feeling against the appearance of
ceeds of the sale of United States wmf n '""i0..?!. eW!f
bonds, "the actual expenditures of the
Government were but $7,958,662,721."
No nation having a budget system
would have so wide a divergence be
tween the amount which it under-
presumed to be usurping the places
of men. The suffrage cause as such
had not then gained great headway,
but women's efforts to gain recogni
tion, even simple justice, were passing
t lTe ,7" th. mo. t through the stages of ridicule and mob
takes to spend and the amount which rn wo min,
J V. tUlOe J,UO ' a i i V V M A f w us. ww wsa
afterward, did much to hasten the de
dine of excesses in ruffianism by pro.
moting co-operation between men and
women in works of charity and mercy.
it actually spends In. a given year.
A similar miscalculation ,is likely
to develop as to appropriations and
expenditures of the present fiscal
........ . i. a. r n i
""' H"l'iuUu auirui e lo frth,. ,-emoHno
000,000,000. exclusive of loans to the " k;. .;"; "
XliMlMoinr tor mutual efforts in every
$16,000,000,000. leaving a difference rv.li.e- i,
industrial barriers by increasing the
of eight or nine billions between the
amount of actual and expected ex
penditures. In providing for loans to
the allies Congress has erred in the
other direction. Though the total for
last year was nearly five billions and
though that for this year may be ex
pected to be as great. Congress has
authorized the Treasury Department
to raise only two billions for that pur
pose, and will be called upon to pass
a new bond bill in December.
The consequence is that the Govern
ment raises a higher proportion of its
war expenses by taxation than it in
tended higher than any other bel-
The life of Lucy Stone is deeply
Interesting because of the contrasts
which it brings to mind. There were
at the time when she was born no
public high schools for girls in the
entire country. Girls were not ad
mitted to college. The professions
were closed to them. In time for her
to enjoy its advantages Oberlin Col
lege was founded, a pioneer in educa
tional freedom, making no distinction
of sex or color in admission and in
struction, but it had not at the time
of her graduation in 1847 progressed
to the point of permitting female
graduates to read their own com-
Jigerent. For the last fiscal year the mencement essays. Mrs. Stone was
' ... ' r to Imoneo1 xcttrt the. snlrlt of resistance
that she declined to' prepare her essay.
percentage of all payments provided
by taxes was 36 per cent, while, if
loans to allies are excluded, it was 54
per cent.
The effect of this discrepancy be
tween the actual and the expected re-
slnce she would not be permitted to
read it in person. She was one of the
first women in the country to insist
upon retaining her name after mar
quiVemenVorthe-vTmmTnt is thai F' J"1 uher.a"Ifr
lh nonnla sea ml.l.H tn. Ih. " J"""v-'v
which they must provide and are pre
vented from making proper provision
for both their future war obligations
and their business. Mr. Smoot says
that, if his estimate of this year's ac
tual expenses should prove correct.
well in 1855, she -continued to be
known as "Mrs. Stone" until the day
of her death. This resistance to a
custom which Involved little more
than a mere social convenience at best
did not find many Imitators, however.
and it has been noted that the name
. -. . . . ..; -wt I which she retained was the one which
petitions and was willing: to spend
for that purpose.
From thirty-seven, the high water
mark in number of measures presented,
to six is a long drep. But those who
believe that the machinery of dlrec
legislation should be used only for
real emergencies, should, before they
felicitate themselves upon the appar
ently declining number of measures.
recall that had it not been for the
special election held in June, last year,
there would have been sixteen meas
ures on the ballot this year. Seven
of the problems were disposed of at
that time.
SALVAGE.
The Important part played in the
war by technically educated men is
nowhere better illustrated than in the
reports now being compiled of the
success of salvage engineers in recov
ering vessels which - have been sunk
by German submarines. For oceano
gTaphlc reasons, they have been most
successful near the ' coast of Great
Britain and along the shores of France.
Here in many places the waters are
comparatively shallow. The deep
waters of the Mediterranean, unfor
tunately, have kept their secrets.
But success of the British Ad
miralty, with the assistance of Amerl
can experts, has nevertheless been sur
prising. Vice-Admiral Sims, U. S. N.,
reported last December that the Brit
ish had reclaimed more than 200 ships,
of a total tonnage of more than a
million. The rapid progress made in
this science is shown better in later
reports, which indicate that between
January. 1915. and May, 1918. 407
vessels had been recovered. 147 of
them in the first five months of the
present year. This is the equivalent
of a ship a day, and it has been esti
mated that the time requlredto build
the same vessels under ideal work
ing conditions would have been 688
months.
If it be accepted as approximately
accurate that the toll of the sub
marine between the declaration of war
and May 31 last was a little more
than thirteen and a half million tons,
it will be seen that marine salvors
have restored more than 11 per cent
of the loss. But the figures do not do
Justice to the efforts of these engi
neers, since salvage has been organ
ized on an effective basis only about
half of that time, and is only now
beginning to get its stride. Compari
son of ships recovered with the time
It would take to build an equivalent
in new tonnage also fails to tell the
entire story because in many instances
cargoes as well as ships have been
restored. Raw materials of the metal
industry and many other products not
two or three billions more than ex
pected would be available for expand
ing the Nation's business to earn more
Income, which would help to meet the
necessities of war, but many persons
are restrained from Investing money
because they have been wrongly led to
believe- that it must be paid in taxes
or invested in liberty bonds
The financial operations of the Gov
ernment have attained such magni
tude and have such a bearing on our
had been "imposed by her father upon
her mother." The name of her hus
band recalls also the work of other
noted women reformers of the perloca
One of her husband's sisters was
Elizabeth Blackwell, the first woman
to take a medical degree, who when
she started practice in 1849 in New
York was forced to buy a house be
cause no "respectable" boarding-house
would harbor a woman doctor. Ah
other sister of Mrs. Stone's husband
Vwas the Rev. Antoinette Brown Black
A NATION OF SKILLED MEN.
What sort of people the Americans
will be after all able-bodied men be
tween the ages of 18 and 46 have un
dergone, military training and experi
ence of war is indicated-' by a con
tributor to the Infantry Journal, who
says that- "this army training has
raised the efficiency of -every able
bodied man within its confines about
100 per cent." This is true because
"after the war we won't be too proud
to work; we'll be too proud not to";
also because: . -
The old days when a soldier was an autom
aton!, composed of two arms, two legs and
a pair of sharp ears, have passed Into the
limbo of forgotten things. It Is still true
that a good soldier must obey first and I
reason afterwards, but machine guna.
tiioate artillery, grenades, gas trenches and
high explosives nave changed warfare.
The army not only teaches men to
fight; it gives them technical training
in numerous lines which will prove
valuable in civil life, and it combines
with this teaching the habit of obey
ing orders, the habit of work and the
habit of working in a team. For ex
ample, at Camp Humphreys, Va 30
000 men are undergoing rigorous train
ing as engineers. They have learned
to build railroads by building their
own five-mile spur to camp with all
its bridges and culverts, and they have
built their own sewage and drainage
system and rifle range.
When those men are turned loose
after the war they will be primed to
carry out the great scheme of irriga
tion and drainage which Secretary
Lane has laid out, or to build water
power plants or to do other public
improvement work. The Army will
also turn loose hosts of men who will
have learned much about chemistry,
explosives, gas, the mechanics of steam
engines, automobiles and airplanes. In
civil life also we shall have new armies
of shipbuilders, seamen, clothing mak
ers, workers on guns, rifles, engines,
radio and electrical apparatus. Ac
quisition of skill in many lines will
have been increased and speeded up
This will be one of the incidental
benefits. Its magnitude is incalculable.
It might conceivably swell our Na
tional income by a sum sufficient to
pay the interest on our war debt.
ntiAajAn n n rl iitn sv Tnnneltir a e mm
our ability to bear war's burdens that we"' D" l""1 mn 1 "l
they should be reduced to system be
fore those burdens have grown much
heavier.
dained a minister. There are now,
according to the census, more than
5000 women doctors and more than
3000 women ministers in the United
States.
WOMEX AS Siiipbi elders. The incident of the refusal of New
On reading of what Mrs. Margue- Tork boarding-house keepers to give
rite B. Harrison, of Baltimore, has I asylum to a woman doctor is also - a
done, the question arises: "What can-1 reminder of the obstacles encountered
not a woman do?" Mrs. Harrison may by the eloquent woman reformer,
be assumed to have been brought up Abby Kelley, one of those who pre-
In ease and luxury, for she is a daugh- I pared the ground for the work done
ter of Bernard N. Baker, the great I by Mrs. Stone and others, and whose
Baltimore ship owner, but Just to I appointment as a member of a corn-
prove that the work of a shipyard is I mittee with two male members of an
not too hard for a woman, she worked I abolition convention caused the editor
for a week as a helper in various de- I of the Christian Mirror to protest
partments of the Bethlehem Steel I against the disreputableness of such
Company's plant at Sparrow's Point, a "closeting." The committee never
Md. She had some difficulty In ob-1 theless prepared a memorial, which
talnlng permission to work, as the I was rejected by the Rhode Island Con
New Tork Sun tells the story, being gregational Consociation on the ground
informed that "It Is very rough and that it came from an unscripturally
very hard," but she answered: I woman-ruled convention. All through
women have been doing It in Eng- the early developments oi the worn
land for three years, and I guess 1 1 an's movement the affinity between
can stand it for a week." the abolition of negro slavery and the
And she did. , First she helped In demand for civic justice for women
the drillers', riveters' and reamers' de- I is emphasized. It is again brought
partment, where she was "told to hunt I to mind that women have made their
clips and stepneys for a transverse I way by demonstrating their lndispen
frame," of which there are lefts and I sabillty in co-operating with men in
rights. To a green man it is a com- I humanitarian enterprises rather than
plicated matter to learn where they I in the more prosaic everyday work of
all go, but she was "used to patterns I the world.
in dressmaking," so it was "compara- I Mrs. Stone was not a pioneer in the
tively simple." Who would have 'sense in which the famous Grimke
seen any connection between dress
making and shipbuilding? Next she
worked In the mold loft, drafting
templates or molds from which plates
or shapes are fabricated, and In the
stock yards, marking the plates. She
found that she had "struck another
dressmaking proposition, combined
with the use of mathematics such as
any high school girl knows," and both
Jobs were "suitable and interesting
for women."'
She was called upon to drive rivets
with a pneumatic hammer having a
pressure of a hundred pounds to the
square Inch, and was "a bit appalled,"
but- about fifty men were watching
me and I never would take a dare."
After the first few rivets one man '
said: "She sure can do it," and the
foreman made her keep on till she
had driven twenty-five. She helped
to camouflage a ship and she passed
rivets. All kinds of aches were the
penalty; she had housemaid's knee
from kneeling in the mold loft, the
noise made her stone deaf for twenty
four hours, and she had difficulty in
climbing the frames of a ship. She
tried her hand at adjusting the pan
eling, furniture and fittings to the
sheer and curve of a ship, and a fore-
sisters were pioneers in the cause of
slavery, nor was she first to take part
in the definitely organized movement
for woman suffrage, but she per
formed a part very nearly akin to
that of a pioneer in both great na
tional efforts. The Grimke sisters, as
is known to. students of the anti-
slavery movement, were South Caro
llnans who freed their slaves nearly
thirty years before the opening of the
Civil War. But Mrs. Stone had the
distinction of being perhaps the first
woman in the United States trained in
higher education to take large part
in the anti-slavery and woman's rights
movements. She began her work in
public for woman suffrage some five
years before Susan B. Anthony, and
was acttve.in the most Intense period
of hostility to the bare idea of the
appearance of women in public places.
Popular tolerance has so increased
since her day. that it now is difficult
to realize that in her girlhood it was
regarded as "unwomanly" for a woman
even to be a member of a temperance
society, that all a woman owned or
earned was the property of her hus
band, and that in many states the
common law rule that a husband had
the right to chastise a wife, provided,
VACATION READING,
The members of the staff of the
Chicago public library have performed
a service for vacation readers by com
piling out of their own experience a
list of vacation books. In Its very
nature, such a list Can be little more
than suggestive, but it can be that.
Something, it seems, has been needed
to dispel the notion that there is any
thing in common between a real va
cation book and the so-called "ham
mock" type. And the Chicago list has
done this. It Is surprising to find how
far one may go in obtaining books
which entertain while they dq, not
waste -one's time, which combine just
the right proportions of relaxation
and mental stimulus, yet do not
overdo the latter. We have always
suspected people who carry the "Medi
tations of Marcus Aurelius" or "Lu
cille" with them on their Summer
trips of being posers. But there is
plenty of sincere vacation between the
extremes of the super-classic and the
current best-seller.
The lists point to the conclu
sion that, as the Library Bulletin
says, "there are at least as many kinds
of vacation books as there are kinds
of vacations." They justify the con
clusion also that there Is no such
thing as a vacation book in any ex
clusive sense of the term. And they
also suggest that one need not wait
for a formal vacation to read a "vaca
tion book," once one's taste in those
matters has been determined. What
could be pleasanter than for those
who incline toward reading to plan
a vacation schedule and enjoy it at
home 7 There are innumerable ex
cursions one can make trips into the
great outdoors via the library route,
"seeing America first" in the same
manner, or even pursuing one's fancy
into dreamland's clouds. There is
something especially appealing in one
list of ten books prepared by a library
assistant who evidently likes to travel
in the manner last suggested. He
heads it with Temple Bailey's "Glory
of Youth" the "sort of story you wish
were true" and varies It with such
as John Burroughs' "Under the Apple
Trees," Sara Teasdale's "The Answer-
ing Voice" . and Frtfncis Lynde's
"Stranded In Arcady." Mrs. Burnett's
"T. Tembarom" and John Ames
Mitchell's "Pines of Lory'v are suffi
ciently "light" for all practical vaca
tion purposes, and Berta Ruck's "The
Boy With Wings" and William Butler
Yeats' "The Land of Heart's Desire"
are restful enough for anyone. Un
fortunately the list is limited to ten.
The two books which complete it are
Gcrhart Hauptman's "The Sunken
Bell" and Alfred E. Housman's "A
Shropshire Lad." Others might have
chosen differently, but it Is not neces
sary to be critical. There is, as has
been shown, a book for every taste.
It would be as difficult to select a
universal library as to nominate the
candidates for any other "half shelf
for Summer reading."
It is surprising how some of the
old favorites endure. In some thirty
eight lists of ten books each one is
confronted with constant repetitions
of the names of Kipling, of Stevenson,
of Stockton and Conrad and Joseph
C. Lincoln. "Vacationists" are catho
lic in their predilections. Sometimes
there is system in their reading and
often there is not, but there are no
narrow boundaries of prejudice. The
writers of several nations are repre
sented. There is a healthful inclina
tion toward outdoor subjects. The
great American desire for travel is
manifest everywhere. Quite fre
quently this season it has taken a
westward direction. We are reminded
by another of the lists that this part
of the United States Is at last begin
ning to win the recognition that we
believe it deserves. Mrs. Strahorn's
Fifteen Thousand Miles of Stage"
will remind us of a period which has
almost vanished, but it will give
the right kind of background to Effle
Gladding's "Across the Continent
by the Lincoln .Highway." The two
Grey and Hamlin Garland and Helen
Hunt Jackson. t
There is a good deal of boy in the
most of us, as we shall find if we
analyze the kind of reading we like
in our moments of relaxation. It is
Impossible to gather together a shelf
full of books of adventure which
might not as well be labeled "For
Juveniles." For . example: Conrad's
"Nostromo" and. Snaith's "The Sailor"
and Franck's "Vagabonding Down the
Andes." Or almost 'any of the works
of W, Clark Russell, and anything that
Joseph Conrad ever wrote. We would
like to see a. revival of Interest in
George .Borrow, who is peculiarly a
vacation type but has been wholly
neglected by -the Chicagoans.
It is encouraging to be able to note
that, although the long list, in the
aggregate, contains very few of the
so-called "classics," which goes to
prove the sincerity of their compilers,
there Is, on the other hand, nothing at
all which would be classified as rub
bish. Our modern writers, upon the
whole, are doing creditably. Those
who like to mourn over the decadence
of literature will do well to revise their
opinions, it is true that a vast deal is
being produced that does not deserve
to survive, but the number up to stand
ard is still large. ,
There is another type of vacation
reader who needs no guidance, whoe
delight it is to employ this period o'f
leisure in renewing the literary ac
quaintances of his youth. There Is
With Oregon Poets.
A CHANGE IV VALUES.
There was a "big" man in our town
when I was young and small;
Among the wisest he. stood firBt, In
fact, he knew it all.
And oft I worshiped him afar, as one
above my class.
And stood In reverent silence as he
chanced my way to pass.
But I went back, the other day, and
looked this Idol o'er;
The years have wrought a" difference
in the scenes I knew of yore;
It is though that man had shrunk un
til today he seems
A dwarfed and comic pigmy, to that
creature of my 'teens!
There was a "river" near our town,
when I was but a boy;
It rushed and roared, so angrily it
thrilled my soul with Joy;
And oft I felt that fame were mine if
once I Dravely crossed.
But Always -fear my efforts, stayed, 'til
I the impulse lost.
I wandered back, the other day, and
viewed that stream once more.
And found that I could heave a rojck
across from shore to shore;
The current that was fierce and strong
had lost its terrors, too;
A little creek was all I saw, I can't tell
why can you?
GRACE E. HALL
TO THE SOLDIERS GOING OVER.
nothine to be said airainst thn nractire.. ooa-oye, you lucky stiffs, good-bye,
., w i . - . , , i .
There are men and women still who 7 . . l" I nun.
regularly read "David Copperfl
and others who go through the "Three oh, would that we could go along,
Musketeers" or "Les Mlserables" every Right now. to meet their furv
year. They find real joy In It, which We'd surely give It to them strong.
is enough to justify the practice. For . or "we are from Missouri
the pleasure of the reader is, after all,
a matter of the state of his mind.
The Peripterous.
Peripterous A Structure Raving Rows
of Columns on All Sides. 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 OH
east, west, north and south.
The Peripterous becomes a Free Audita
rlum for the expression of incompetent. Ir
relevant and Immaterial opinion, new
verse and aDecdotea.
Just show them what we're here for,
see
TV.-, ii in .1. . I "J manu new Buii
iiio uiiisiuuii ui uie uuvciiimciii Tn nrnvo thai r. e
to cause me least. possiDie aisiuruance Toshoot at anv Hun'
to industry' while conducting the war since Germany declared ths war
is shown by tne compromise effected I It is the open season;
with manufacturing Jewelers, to whom! If they ask what we're fighting for
has been. returned a portion of the ve this excuse and reason:
Rtnr-lr ftf nlfltinum whlrh hH riApn
commandeered, yet it will be well to ''Dm"a.cy,mu.,8t bf "ecure
observe extreme conservatism in the ."".''.''""" f t'
. , , . , . . . . , I All emperors must be demure.
use oi mis important metal, nitmum Like Georee the Sth or flee!
is highly important to the manufacture The Prussian caste we shall efface,
or suipnuric ana nitric acias, witnout from earth it must be driven;
which a modern war could not be I The world must be a decent place
waged successfully: It is used in 'the For decent folks to live in!
manufacture of iemition noints for air-1 . S. D. MARTIN.
planes, and Die: guns cannot be made
without special apparatus for gauging I '. 3m.3ifc.s13,
extreme temperatures, into which plat- 0nce on a tlme three kla(Jie. bold who
inum enters. Tne plea or the jewelers . -lived next door to me
was that their business employed sol Went . off to take a Summer trip with
many people that its sudden discon- many things to see
tinuance would work a real hardship. They had a pretty cottage with thei
Th Government is now said to have I mamma by the sea.
a supply of 25,000 ounces. of platinum And everything to make them Just as
in the mints and to have 15,000 ounces L( 1.'
more under control, but if the domestic
supply should become exhausted the
situation would be serious. Little
platinum is produced in the United
States.
yelled and screamed quite shock
ingly:
"Oh, Mamma! Mamma! Mamma!'
Now, near this house old Mother Crow
was sitting- on a tree.
There will be more" than academic Her husband close beside her Just as
Interest in the order of the War In
dustries Board which simplifies the
styles of spring wagons and buggies,
limiting manufacturers to two of the
former and ono of the latter. An ef
fort has been predicted to revive these
plebeian- vehicles, in view of the in
creasing cost of automobiles, and it
was said that the makers were plan
nlncr tn tmnt niirhnjiern with snndrv
designs in red and yellow paint, and Thelr mtheT thought 'twas hives and
" r I d-svb tham rMnnvrnval -
other devices understood by the mod- And sm they cried and howled the
cosy as could be.
Said she: "Put on your spectacles and
please look down and see.
For thejjre calling, calling, calling and
some trouble there must be.1
Said he: "They speak our language, but
they don't belong to me.
"Macaw! Macaw! Macaw!"
But now pin-feathers 'gan to grow, as
everyone could see,
era salesman. There is to be little
more from breakfast until tea.
luxury" in buggies if the War In- Till there wasn't any neace at all in
austries .tsoara can neip it. Ana tnisi that community.
again recalls the fact that "luxury" I At last they turned to crows and cawed
and cawed most dreadfully:
Macaw! Macaw! Macaw!"
MARY ALICE OGDEN.
is a relative term. There was a time
when the, height of the average coun
try youth s ambition was to own a
sidebar buggy with a shining black
bodv. and vellow wheels and a solid I EACH DAY.
v. 1- mv..v . . ..it, : 1. n I
,Ua..u.iU. x,i ,""1"' " , Each day I scan the columns long
Is not in the fighting line today, is where nme of h.m hin
looking upon any sort of horse boat Half fearful lest mv eves shall find
as a thing to De used only on baa The name I bear as mine.
roads. It is a luxury no longer, but
only something to be tolerated impa- Each day I know some mother's heart
tientlv until the dawn of better davs. as criea out in ner Breast
1 j.ne Tiame ene aare not speaK aioua
The Munich Post's exasperation over Tt sacred is his rest.
naf'fir.i-ino ottitnlr. vf . Prinnfl
lZ- "r-.:...."rl Each day I wait as others do
nH.i, u. Ad pray with eyery breath
irom tne war is easy to unaerstana. For strength to know that come what
we wonaer wnen tne wnoie uerman 1 may,
people will come to resent the Kaiser's In faith there is no death.
hypocritical expressions Of sympathy MRS. NATHAN HARRIS,
for those who have lost sons in the
War, while his whole precious family HEART'S DESIRE.
is safe and likely to be for some time I White, white moon in the open sky
to come. I (A song for my heart s desire)
Why do you ride so slow and high?
Weary am I of the eights I've seen
Weary of fields where the reapers
. , k ni,nnnnJ MD.1, TJ1 i I Kivau
. . . ,.. ., . . . . Souls that were brave and sweet and
After nearly five months, the Ger
man soldier's cry of "On to Paris!"
And when the allies really get started
on to Berlin there will be no going
back to Paris until the job Is finished
clean!
(Clean Is my heart's desire.)
Pale, pale stars in the far-away
There is no use crying over things (Brave is my heart's desire.)
that didn't happen in the past, but Why do you tremble and watch for day?
there are times during the present Tired are we of the endless Jest
drive wheh we can't help wishing our And th. J8ter 8 latter by mirth un-
war preparations had started a couple And the wlthcrea arm that wl never
OJ. years or su owure tney uiu. 1 rest
(Tired, my heart's desire?)
it is proposea Dy secretary tsaKer
to relieve draft registrants of the duty I Sad, sad wind from the crowded sky
of Claiming exemption. What a few I (Gay is my heart s desire.)
of the claimants would like to see Is why d you whlmPer and hurry by T
9 rnlo roliavlns- Hrnft hoard of the lune your iiie to a strange retrain
Atv of dnvinB- thnlr nlaim Your P8 to laughter, your heart to
Pnr the AttaA that fall eonnnt rtA
lurts are saia to ue ugnting in tne acaln'
Caucasus In violation of German (a dirge for my heart's desire!)
wishes. Having acquired the looting GERTRUDE ROBISON.
habit from their masters, the Turks Dallas, Or,
are going to be mighty hard to manage I
from now on.
THE TESTING TIME.
Thos BAVpn million letters receiver! Nations may live in peace a while
from the soldiers in France show that And tread the Pth f.rom day to day
- heoo thei, r-t Wherein the flowers of ease beguile
T 0 The wanderer on his way.
AT THE STATIOJf.
Mister Kaiser with the suitcase, what's
your hurry?
Whither away now. Mister Kaiser, tell
us whither.
You are leaving? Well, I guess the
world should worry.
Can't you tell us when you think
you'll come back hither?
This Is your train, is it. waiting; at the
8tatlon7
Step aboard then, wave your kerchief
at the world.
Time is hustling you away, sir, with
elation.
And your bloody flags of battle all
are furled.
Where's the friends that should be
weeping here about you?
Where's the Crown Prince? Hinden
burg? Both dead, you say?
Gone like smoke, you say, your armies?
I don t doubt you.
Every dog, you know, must have his
little day.
Swing aboard this waiting train if you
must go, sir.
Hark, the porter says you cannot
take your crown.
Cast aside your royal robe. Don't be
so slow, sir.
Hear the whistle? Fling your gilded
sceptre down!
When jthls Special halts beside the
darkling river.
And the ancient boatman wafts you
over yonder.
Maybe claims of your divinity will
flivver.
Maybe God won't be in that place
where you'll wander.
But the ghosts of old Sennacherib and
Sargon
Will chat with you of the Belgian
. babes you slew, sir;
Doddering Nero will demand in manlaa
jargon
That big 'Lusitanla Joke' to hear from
you, sir.
.
You can tell old Nebuchadnezzar In the
gloom there .
That his 'fiery furnace' was a poor
Invention.
Show him, earth ablaze and guns of
death that boom there.
Streams of living fire, red-hot gases
mention.
Spanish Philip will be glad to hear your
story,
Caesar Borgia, Caligula, Robespierre,
Pontius Pilate, still with hands un
washed and gory,
Herod, drenched with blood of chil
dren sweet and fair.
Tell them how you shook the grounded
world with thunder.
Tell them how you scattered corpses
through the earth.
All your barbarous deeds recount.
Agape with wonder
They will hear you, or applaud witl
. fiendish mirth.
But your train, sir! Here's your hat.
You must have dropped it.
Speak up. Kaiser Are. you asking
who am I sir?
I'm conductor of this train. For you
I stopped it.
Fate, they call me. Now we're off.
Wave your good-bye, sir!
EVERETT EAP.LE STANARD.
Running Harder Than Ever.
Mr. Heehawtery, the well-known can
didate who has been running for Con
gress for several years, announces that
his election is now positively imperative.
Mr. Heehawtery calls attention to the
fact that Inasmuch as he Is the only
simon pure representative of the com
mon people on the ballot, the common
people are likely to be deprived of
even the satisfaction of having a can
didate by the operation of the now
draft law, if they do not now vote
in their own interests.
It should be distinctly understood
that Mr. Heehawtery is not thinking ef
himself frt the matter. For a Ion
while he has had on file in the office
of, the Secretaary of War an offer to
serve his country as Brigadier-General
or anything higher.
The truth is that Mr. Heehawtery
feels that he could be of more value to
his country in the halls of Congress
than on the battle fields of Europe even
though a distinguished service medal
and a cross of war undoubtedly there
wait him.
The working man who wants a home
f his own with a piano in the parlor
nd an automobile in the garage, is
reminded that his hope lies only in
Mr. Heehawtery's election and that this
is his last chance.
Every man must now work or
fight," says Mr. Heehawtery, "and I d
e an awful good worker If given the
chance that has been so long denied
me by the plutocratic press and the
nscrupulous corporations.
Minslne On the Field f Battle.
The Society for the Preservation of
Titles by Courtesy has become alarmed
ver the continued absence irom tne
ublic prints of Col. House and Gov
ernor Harley. It is disturDea in oniy
lesser degree by the strange disap
pearance of Private John Llnd.
Any information regarding tnese ais-
tlnguished members will be gratefully
received, as it is recognized that, due
to the competition of the Government
training camps, only the closest co
operation by all Interested will pre
serve the pleasing custom of conferring
titles for distinguished civilian service.
Are the folks at home doing as well ?
And men may praise the quiet hours.
Uurecking that the peaceful time
It is evident from certain Federal Is robbing them of olden powers
Court ceremonials that are reported
from time to ttme that American citi
zenship is still highly prized in some
quarters.
And fortitude sublime.
But to all peoples proud and vain.
The testing time of war will come
To try their souls with tears and pain.
And strike their boastings dumb.
What a howl there would be If the I
allies should commit a tithe of the G listens long to boasts of men,
depredations of which the Germans 1
Then says.
deeds.
"I want not words, but
have been guilty, after the allies haveTf you ,ov-- freedonii march a(?aIn
crossed the Rhine.
Let us hope also for the speedy
arrival of the day when the grand old
ruin of a cathedral at Rheims will be
out of range of the German guns.
books ought to be read . together.
Washington Irving's "Astoria" is a
Western book and a vacation book,
too. Clampett's "Echoes - From the
Rocky Mountains" recalls a romantic
age the memory of which ought never
to die. There are Bret Harte and
Owen Wister, of course, and Zane
The Kaiser is said to have raised
the, pay of his men, but it will take
something else than high pay to give
them a good stomach for their job.
Pity the situation of poor little Hol
land, which fears even to offer media
tion for fear of giving offense to one
of the participants in the struggle.
The population of Poland Is de
creasing rapidly, another testimonial
to the blighting effects of German
rule.
Are you doing your duty toward the
veterans who are to be Portland's
guests?
Where freedom falls and bleeds!
"Have you known sacrifice and pain?
(Upon what cross have you been
nailed?)
Or given your sons in battle slain
For liberty assailed?
"Prove now that you are sons of sires
Who gave their all In freedom's cause.
Arise, defend your altar fires.
Your fields and homes and righteous
laws!"
Thank God that In the noble way
We fight for things of far more
worth y
Than easeful hours of yesterday
Could bring a flowery earth!
EVERETT EARLE STANARD.
When Criticism Hurts.
Washington (D. C.) Star.
"It kind o' riles a man dat prides his-
self on seein' how much work he kin
do," said Uncle Eben, "to hear some
man braggln' cause he doesn't have to
do no work at all.
The Poet Laureate of the Peripterous,
having dared to advocate the feeding of
green apples to children In order to
harden their tummies, now peeks
through the bathroom keyhole, which
all will admit is even more daring:
GOODY!
Oh, I heard his heels loud clicking,
Far above the vacuum's ticking.
Just inside the bathroom door.
Then I fell to thinking
Of the cause of such a clicking.
On that new-oiled bathroom floor.
To the door I hastened, creeping
Softly, lest he hear the creaking
Of, my slippers on the floor.
With a heart fast leaping,
At the keyhole, I stood peeping.
But ah, never! never more!
For the sight appalled my seeing
I found refuge in swift fleeing
From that hateful bathroom door.
While I felt like Jeering,
I refrained from even sneering
At his antics on that floor.
Military tactics trying
Yes, he tried a round at flying
(Though his age is full two score)
Nipped all thoughts of dying.
Or his wifie's future crying.
While he practiced on that floor.
On the wall in fiendish gloating.
Near the latest draft bill floating.
"Female help ads hung galore.
With a temper quoting
High degrees of heat I gloating.
Bade him speed to yon French
1 shore.
ALY
iCE ROSALYEE RUSTUKO.