The Sunday Oregonian., October 13, 1918, SECTION THREE, Page 4, Image 36

THE STTXDAY OREGOXIAN, PORTLAND, OCTOBER 13. 1918.
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PORTLAND, OREGON.
btatement of the Ownership, Management,
Circulation, Etc., Required by the Act
of tonrrsu of Auinat 24, 11)12.
Of Sunday Oregonian, published each 6un
1 19ls' oruand Oregon, for October
State of Oregon. County of Multnomah.
.Beore me. a notary public In and for the
state and county aforesaid, personally ap
peared C. A. Morden, who. having been
duly sworn according to law, deposes and
says that he Is the business manager of The
.Morning Oregonian and that the following
is to the best of his knowledge and belief
a true statement of the ownersnip. manage
ment (and if a daily paper, the circulation),
etc.. of the aforesaid publication for the
date shown in the above caption, required
by the act of August 24. 1012, embodied in
section 443, Postal Laws and Regulations,
to wit:
1. That the names and addresses of the
publisher, editor, managing editor, and busi
ness managers are:
Publisher, H. L. Pittock, Portland. Oregon.
Editor, E. B. Piper. Portland, Oregon.
Business manager, C. A. Alorden, Portland,
Oregon. .
2. That the owners are (Give names and
addresses of individual owners, or, if a cor
poration, give its name and the names and
addresses of stockholders owning or holding
1 per cent or more of the total amount of
Etot-k) :
Owner. Oregonian Publishing Company,
Inc., Portland, Oregon.
Stockholders. H. L. Pittock, Portland, Ore
gon; The Scolt Company. Portland. Oregon.
3. That the Icliown bondholders, mort
gagees, and other security holders owning
or holding 1 per cent or more of total
amount of bonds, mortgages, or other se
curities are: (If there are none, so state.)
None.
4. That the two paragraphs next above,
giving the names of the owners, stockholders
and security holders, if any, contain not only
the list of stockholders and security holders
as they appear upon the books of the com
pany but also. In cases where the stock
holder or security holder appears upon the
books of the company as trustee or in any
other fiduciary relation, the name of the
person or corporation for whom such trus
tee is acting, is given; also that the said
two paragraphs contain statements embrac
ing affiant's full knowledge and belief as
to the circumstances and conditions under
which stockholders and security holders
who do not appear upon the books of the
company as trustees, hold stock and se
curities in a capacity other than that of
a bona fide owner; and this affiant has no
reason to believe that any other person,
association, or corporation has any interesL,
direct or Indirect, in the said stock, bonds,
or other securities than as so stated by him.
5. That the average number, of copies of
each Issue of this publication sold or dis
tributed, through the mails or otherwise, to
paid subscribers during the six months pre
ceding date shown above is 97,706. (This
Information is required from daily publica
tions only.) C. A. MORDEN,
Business Alanager.
Sworn to and subscribed before me this
4th day of October. 1918.
(Seal) W. El HAETMUS.
(My commission expires May 25,. 1919.)
The comparative showing", with the
statement issued one year afo, is as
follows:
Oct. 1, 1 9 17. Oct. 1. 1 91 8 .
Daily. e.i,4l 7-1,306
Sunday 84,488 97,796
J OUT LAND, SUNDAY, OCT. 13, 1918.
1 TILE PERIOD OF RECONSTRUCTION.
Senator Weeks, of Massachusetts,
!who has introduced a resolution in
the Senate providing for a preliminary
Etudy of after-war problems, has per
formed a distinct public service by
giving us a glimpse of the magnitude
of those problems, which is only dimly
comprehended by a large number of
persons. Only to enumerate them is
to apprise us of their gravity. . The
vague notion that when the war is
over the country will readjust itself
overnight, that the feeling of pleased
relief which will pervade the people
will at once be translated into an in
dustrial boom, and that all agencies
of production, distribution and con
sumption will proceed to function as
if nothing had happened is a mis
chievous one. Nothing could be more
damaging to our prospects than fatu
ous overconfidence in times like these.
Whether, as Senator Weeks says,
the end of the conflict is near or
not, no one can foresee when that
end will come, and when it does come
It. will not leave much time for prep
aration. And unless advantage is tak
en of the present to prepare for the
future, the country will find itself in
precisely the same condition with re
gard to peace that not only this coun
try, but others, were in when war was
precipitated by our enemy. On the
other hand, other nations have al
ready adopted measures to meet peace
when it comes. Great Britain, in
deed, has even rehearsed a demobili
zation, and certain of our allies held
conferences upon post-war trade con
ditions as long as three years ago.
These conferences, while not binding,
have at least served to set in motion
the machinery of preparation: and as
to internal affairs the other nations
are in advance of us. Whatever may
be the modifications required later, it
is something to have laid the ground
work. This by itself is a great task.
Let us enumerate a few of the is
sues all requiring highly technical
knowledge for their solution which
will confront us. There is shipping,
for example. There will be a great
merchant fleet, largely owned by the
Government, and there will be many
incompleted vessels on the ways.
What shall be done with the ships,
and who shall own them? WTiich
yards shall be retained for future en
terprise? Oregon has a local as well
as a National interest in this. What
shall be done to provide cargoes for
our ships and crews for them? The
question of shipping is intimately as
sociated with that of trade, and trade
is a problem for the expert.
As to building: Senator Weeks
thinks that it is a mistake to assume
that because building has been de
layed by the war it necessarily will be
revived suddenly. This will depend
upon general business conditions. The
building industry seldom or never
thrives in the face of uncertain finan
cial conditions. Certain ultimate econ
omies will be made possible if Gov
ernment buildings, shipping plants
and other factories can be converted
to peaceful uses, instead of being
abandoned or scrapped. Economies,
of course, are essential, and can be
accomplished only by co-ordination,
which implies organization which does
not now exist.
Evidence indicates that workers
liave not improved themselves mater
ially as the result of high wages which
have been paid,- and for two reasons.
High cost of living is partly respon
sible for this, and there undoubtedly
has been some lack of thrift. Those
who have taken care of their savings,
the buyers of liberty bonds, for in
stance, who will then be free to sell
them if necessary, will be fortunate,
.but the others will face "hard times"
unless the wheels of industry are kept
moving. The problem of keeping
them continuously employed, while at
the same time the demobilized soldiers
are being reabsorbed into industry,
will be worthy of the attention of our
best business men and economists. It
must be remembered that no one
wants to see a bread line, that charity
is neither sought nor deserved, and
that all that the millions of workers
involved will ask is the opportunity
to earn a living.
When we approach the problems of
assuring ourselves sufficient supplies
of raw materials and of reutilizing
the material purchased on war con
tracts, we find still more uncertain
ground. Shall unlimited immigration
be permitted, or, on the other hand,
will rir-r ronditici- "i Europe make
this inadvisable or unnecessary? To
what extent shall Government owner
ship continue and how long? It is
true that many Americans have the
ories as to this, but meanwhile effi
cient systems of .transportation and
communication must go on. The
whole question of social welfare and
of education will require careful and
enlightened attention. It will be best
if there is no lost motion in this re
gard. Conflicting agencies, however
well-meaning, represent waste which
ought to be avoided if possible.
Demobilization, re-employment, the
whole question o' the readjustment of
industry, is intimately associated with
trade, both foreign and domestic, and
this in turn brings up anew the issue
of what shall be done with "big busi
ness." As to this, much may depend
upon the policies of other countries.
Our views may undergo change as the
result of the things which the Gov
ernment has been able to accomplish
on a large scale which could not have
been done by the small units of pri
vate enterprise. Labor and business,
trade and banking, price-fixing and
credits, housing and social insurance,
and especially the distribution of la
bor, are matters not to be settled in a
moment and without a vast amount of
accurate data. It. is well to be fore
handed. It will be deplorable if issues such
as these are permitted to be lost to
sight in a partisan quarrel, such as
would be indicated by the introduc
tion of an opposing resolution in the
Senate by Senator Overman, heralded
as the "Democratic measure." The
Weeks resolution provides for a joint
Congressional committee, with full
power to delegate its duties and to
employ experts; the Overman resolu
tion authorizes the President to ap
point a Federal Commission on Re
construction. The resolutions are
identical in purpose. If the Overman
resolution is a gauge of partisan bat
tle, as has been stated, it was a mis
take to introduce it. If it was meant
simply to obtain the measure of Con
gressional opinion as to details of
method, there ought to be found a
way to unite the forces behind both.
There will be as little room for mere
partisanship after the war as there
has been during the war. The prob
lems of peace will call for all of the
patriotism which we can command.
ADJOURNED AGAIN.
We understand that Brother Oz West has
returned to his native habitat after a fly
ing trip to Europe, which was Intended to
give him the atmosphere of a returned war
hero, and that he is to wrap the flag of his
country around him and tour the state for
that eminent promulgator of the Non-Partisan
League, the Hon. Walter Pierce. Demo
cratic candidate for Governor. We trust
that the story is without foundation, for. if
Oz is coming out strong against McNary,
let him come on his own splendid military
record across the water and not in the
guise of boosting Pierce. Seriously, the
Times had hoped that there would be no
state campaign on either side ttis year, not
that we believe that either the Wizard of
Oz or the Hon. Pierce has the slightest
chance of getting to first base, but be
cause, just as sure as they start something,
there will be a general melee which usually
causes more or less hard feelings. Were the
war not laglng the Gazette-Times would
care little about feelings that are fairly and
justly produced, but it believes that nothing
snouia nappen to divide our people Just now
in the slightest degree about anything.
inink it over. Fut the campaign in
quarantine. Corvallls Gazette-Times.
The Corvallis newspaper has more
Influence with providence and the
lesser authorities than we imagined.
No sooner wished than done. The
campaign is now quarantined because
of Spanish flu.
The public meeting is prohibited.
Therefore the public will not witness
the Hon. Pierce shedding tears over
the terrible prospect of Oregon under
Republican Administration. Like
wise the public will hear naught from
the lips of ex-Governor West of his
perilous adventures among the duds.
God moves in a mysterious way his
wonders to perform.
DISCIPLINE.
Two years ago. it is possible that
an order closing all public places in
a city as large as Portland would have
been received with resentment if not
open defiance, whatever the reason
for the order might have been. That
it is now accepted philosophically, in
complete understanding of the prime
necessity for it and with not even a
murmur of dissent, is due to the fact
that we have learned the value of dis
cipline, as well as a few other things,
since the war began. Nor is our obe
dience that of the cowed Prussian,
who needs only to know that a thing'
is "verboten." The quarantine here
is cheerfully obeyed because the rea
sons for it have been made plain and
the public taken into the full confi
dence of the authorities.
There are few persons in the city
who are not themselves surprised by
the ease with which the thing was
done. Even those who favored it may
have had their doubts as to how it
would work out. But all doubts have
now been resolved, and it is seen that
we are a people capable of disciplining
ourselves in a degree of which we were
wholly unaware.
The country will be permanently
better for the experience. Discipline
has its value in peace as well as war.
and there is likely to be more cheerful
compliance with reasonable regula
tions in future years.
ALLIED SUPREMACY IN THE AIR.
News that American airplanes took
part with those of France and Britain
in "the greatest aerial operations ever
attempted" will relieve the sense of
mortification which Americans have
felt at the eacly failure of their air
craft programme. The great air fleet
which soared over the enemy's posi
tions, observed his movements far to
the rear and bombed his batteries,
supply depots, reserve forces and lines
of communication was an earnest of
what is in store for the boche as the
American air fleet grows in strength.
Our airmen are ready in thousands
and they only await machines to rise
from the ground which they strain
to leave. The boche has already been
pretty effectually beaten to earth, and
the air fleets will soar unimpeded to
spread terror through the heart of
Hunland.
The terror which has already been
caused by air raids across the Rhine
confirms the opinion expressed by
Frederic "Villiers in the Forum that
"the war will be won by the side hav
ing the largest number of powerful
airplanes, which, of course, means the
Rallies." He believes that "the quickest
and most economical way to win the
war is by aircraft." Next year "we
shall be able to push home sufficiently
to win this war by infantry, yet it will
necessarily be at a great sacrifice as
compared with what might be done by
a great fleet of airplanes."
The chief factor in allied victory
has been the gasoline engine, for it
drives the airplane, the tank and the
auto truck. The tank was a chief
means of victory on the Marne, on
the Somme and at St. Mihiel, and it
now accompanies the cavalry in the
advance east of Cambrai. A constant
stream of auto trucks carried men
and supplies to Verdun during the
cwm-rt pnglausliti filter; every r-"-
road had been lost, and it has done I which has been translated Into Ens
like service throughout the war. The I lish as "The Child of Pleasure." in
airplane has spied out the enemy's po
sition and movements, has directed
the allied artillery, has carried de
struction and dismay far to the
enemy's rear and has wrecked the
submarine bases at Ostend and.Zee
brugge after the blockade ships had
bottled them. All these things have
been made possible by invention of
the internal combustion-engine.
The spruce of the Pacific Coast has
had as large a part in the triumph, of
allied aircraft as have their other
component parts. It has supplied, in
quantities which Germany could not
approach, wingbeams which do not
shatter when pierced by a bullet and
bear all the sudden extremes of stress
and strain imposed by aerial acro
batics and currents. Oregon had a
large part in that raid, for its spruce
entered into construction of the planes
of all three nations.
This command of the air was made
possible by command of the sea, for
that cleared the way for the allies to
gather materials from distant coun
tries and to obtain oil from the United
States, Mexico and Persia. It Is the
final demonstration of sea power. -
HAVE YOB A VACANT ROOM f
In one or two respects the housing
survey which begins in Portland. Mon
day resembles the liberty loan drives.
No one is to be asked to give some
thing for nothing. Wherever sacri
fices are made there will be a money
recompense, not alone in rentals re
ceived but in a greater development
of Portland as well.
The survey is to be general.' Can
vassers will visit every occupied house
to ascertain if one or more war work
ers. can there be supplied with accom
modations. The necessity that rooms
be found is immediate. Workers al
ready here find it difficult to house
themselves. Thousands of others would
come if housing conditions 1 were ' im
proved. Additional Government con
tracts for Portland industries depend
upon the availability of places for the
workers to live.
To make the survey a complete suc
cess a great many householders must
abandon the old notion that to "take
in a roomer" deprives one of social
status or indicates that one is finan
cially embarrassed. True patriotism
will make the private rooming-house
fashionable, just as true patriotism
has given the vogue to old shoes.
made-over gowns and. last year's auto
models.
If the survey has the success hoped
for, the family that exclusively oc
cupies a residence several sizes too
large for it without good reason for
its exclusiveness will find itself un
popular. The survey is a Government work
undertaken by Portland citizens. Its
purpose should insure for the can
vassers courteous and patient consid
eration. D'ANNUNZIO AT ntTY-FOCIl.
If all men were as young at 54 as
Gabriele d'Annunzio, novelist, play
wright, poet, infantryman, sailor and
aviator extraordinary, the question of
what shall be done with our gray
haired men would solve itself. In all
of the things which he has under
taken, D'Annunzio has excelled. It
does not seem to matter now that he
was once criticised as producing lit
erature of a "decadent" school. He
was at any rate a master of the Ital
ian tongue and he possessed a "style
which has done much for letters. To
this, since the war began, he has
added accomplishments which show
that his spirit is far from decadent.
The poet predominates, but the man
is there, also. A man of war he is
in his devotion to duty and his de
fiance of death, but there are times
when he prefers messages of peace to
bombs.
D'Annunzio is a practical propa
gandist, too. It is significant that
when he made his sensational flight
from well within the borders of Italy
to Vienna, a flight in which he trav
eled more than seven hundred miles.
and crossed the Alps twice and dared I
the stormy Adriatic, and when he
might with no added peril to his life
have dropped half a ton of high ex
plosives upon the Austrian capital, he
chose literary missiles instead. And
these were messages of a character
nicely calculated to serve their pur
pose, printed on postal cards and
leaflets, and scattered to the winds.
This was only a little more than a
month ago, and who shall estimate
the part they played in impairing the
morale of Austria-Hungary? There
was one, for illustration, bearing the
title. "Meditate on These Three
Truths." It said:
(1) Tou have the whole world against you.
Tour government, after the smashing defeat
of last June, has lost all hope of victory.
Today one million and two hundred thousand
Americans are fighting in France. By Sep
tember they will be two million. And Amer
ica is building double the number of ships
that the few German submarines succeeded
in sinking.
(2) Tour poor crop will hardly last enough
to give you poor bread, for the next few
months, but next Winter ou will suffer as
you never suffered before, because Germany
has taken for herself nine-tenths of the
grain of Rumania. Russia. Galicia. and a
great part of your own crop.
(3) After the treaties of Brest-Lltovak and
of Bucharest, after the way Russians,
Rumanians. Ukrainians, and Finns have
been and are being betrayed, no one believes
in tho good faith of the governments of
Austria and Germany. That is why the
entente -will never make peace with the ex
i.-fting governments of Germany and Austria
Hungary. As a pure example of political effi
ciency, this could hardly have been
excelled by a practical man of affairs;
yet D'Annunzio almost surpassed it in
another leaflet, in which he notified
Austrians that the entente was "ready
to make peace with a free German
people," and with the free peoples
of Austria-Hungary, Germans and
Magyars included, the moment their
oligarchies had fallen and were no
longer in a position to let loose other
wars. He informed them also that
the peace would be of freedom, of
work and of reciprocal respect, that
the wealthiest nations of the world
would guarantee that property would
be respected, as well as employments.
social legislation, pensions and ac
quired rights that will arise from the
ruins of those tyrannical and militar
istic empires. The further statement
that the entente had command of the
seas and would send great quantities
of food from South America, Australia
and Asia as soon as peace is concluded
also put the truth in a form that
must have been highly attractive to
the people of the dual empire. A
professional propagandist could not
have done it better.
D'Annunzio was precocious in youth.
He published his first volume of verse
when only 16 years old. and attracted
the attention of critics before he was
20. Some admirable poems in which
he took the sea and his native Abruzzi
landscape as his subjects were pro
duced while he was in his early twen
ties. Then for a period he chose a
style which brought the critics down
upon him. He was charged with per
verting public morals and was still
under a cloud when he entered jour-iilt-rrL,
He wrote his first novel.
1889. when he was 26. By 1892 he
had attracted the attention of foreign
critics and had become a world character.
His dramatic period began in 1897. j
His "Citta Morta," written for Sarah
Bernhardt, is still read, and his
"Francesca da Rimini" is perhaps the
most widely known of his plays. Like
Shakespeare, he received psychologi
cal inspiration from many sources,
but was independent in thought and
style. It has been said of him that
he performed his highest service for
his country by making its past life a
source of inspiration and hope for its
future. He popularized history and
made the classics understandable to
all the-people. He was a firm believer
in a new Renaissance, which he be
lieved will begin by "re-establishing
the worship of man, and exalt above
all things the beauty and power of
man, the conquerer."
These are the poet's own words,
written long before this war began.
Tet D'Annunzio is not irreligious, nor
militaristic. He exalts man as the
conqueror, not of other men, but of
the elements and of circumstances.
This glorification of man took a pe
culiarly poetic form when he made
one of the most noteworthy flights in
all history to bombard a capital with
tracts. It had a similar manifesta
tion when he flew over Trieste at the
time of the first Italian drive and
dropped messages of encouragement
for his compatriots. Nor were these
the only occasions when he carried
leaflets instead of dynamite. Vet an
other time he was with an expedition
consisting of three motor launches
and three seaplanes which forced its
way into the harbor of Bucchari and
torpedoed an Austrian warship at
anchor. D'Abruzzl shared in the
perils of the venture, but his con
tribution consisted of three bottles
containing a message to the people.
"The Italian navy," he said, "laughs
at every kind of net and barricade
and is already to dare the impos
sible." D'Abruzzl is an interesting study.
There is not another man like him in
the world. He is the strangest com
bination of idealist and man of prac
tical understanding, of poet and sol
dier, of the present generation. It is
easy to conceive him as wielding a
mighty influence in the reconstruction
of Italy after the war.
SYMPHONY CONCERTS.
We all admit that the one single
task before this Nation is to win the
war. Nothing must be allowed to stand
In the path of that stern resolution
and its fulfillment. But, although we
are at war, man must work, cat and
insist on his hours of relaxation, rec
reation, rest and sleep. Otherwise the
human machine will run down.
It is not wise to say that because we
are at war music, including symphony
concerts, should be stopped. Distin
guished Americans such as General J.
Franklin Bell, Charles M. Schwab and
others have voiced the thought that
music is necessary to win the war, and
that a singing army is a victorious
army.
A canvass for funds to finance six
symphony concerts this season has
been begun by the newly appointed
manager of the orchestra, Mrs. Donald
Spencer, who has agreed to work with
out salary as her contribution to the
war.
The symphony concerts are pleas-
ureable. instructive, restful, educative
elements in the Winter and Spring
seasons of the city of Portland and
other portions of the Willamette Val
ley. They should not be suffered to
lapse. The only way to make it pos
sible that they be held is to subscribe
enough money to pay the cost of oper
ating expenses. Professional musician
must live, as do other people. It is
desirable also that the informal re
hearsals previous to symphony con
certs be continued, for the benefit of
high school students and others.
Days of trouble and personal loss
may be before us, and we need the
happy change of mind that comes from
practical acquaintance with symphony
and the rendition generally of high
class orchestral selections.
THE PROrOhEI) SHORTENED LOOP.
People who live in the East Side
districts served by the cars coming
to the West Side by way of the Haw
thorne bridge have thought for a long
time that provision ought to be made
for routing those cars to a- point
nearer the business center than is
done by turning them back on the
Second and Alder streets loop. Now
a proposal la pending to loop them
back farther from instead of nearer
to the business center, by turning
them on Yamhill street instead of Al
der. The change is proposed on the
ground that It would relieve traffic
congestion at Second and Morrison
streets, and enable shipyard workers
from South Portland yards to get
home more quickly than they now do.
While the change is now proposed
by representatives of the Emergency
Fleet Corporation as a war measure,
people of the districts affected point
to the fact that the same change was
proposed several years ago by the
street railway company, when no
question of wartime expediency was
Involved, and that it was abandoned
as the result of public protest, based
on the objections of patrons of the
Hawthorne bridge cars to being forced
to walk two blocks farther when com
ing from and going to their cars.
The point also is raised that if it is
expedient to turn back the Hawthorne
bridge cars at the nearest point after
entering the West Side district as a
means to averting traffic congestion
farther up town, it ought to be equally
expedient to loop back the Sunnyside
and Mount. Tabor cars by way of First.
Yamhill and Front streets; to loop
back the cars coming in over the
Burnside-street bridge at Third street,
and the Harrlman and Broadway
bridge cars similarly by way of streets
near the western ends of those
bridges. None of these changes would
be desirable or tolerable' from the
standpoint of people living in the re
spective districts that wouad be af
fected. No more is the proposed
change affecting the Hawthorne
bridge cars desirable or tolerable from
the standpoint of the people affected,
they say.
There ought to be full consideration
by the Public Dock Commission, be
fore which this project has been laid,
and by the City Council, which has
been asked to sanction it, as well as
by the Public Service Commission, ol
the effect such a change would have
on the permanent patrons of the
streetcar lines affected before action
is taken.
One of the prices we must pay for
cheaper shoes is that we must hobble
along with fewer varieties that is to
say. a few dozen instead of a few hun
dred of them. "Standardization." about
which we are hearing so much in every
industry, is the road to shoes within
Lb. means pi .the average man. . The
woman who still insists that she can't
possibly be seen on the street in black
shoes when she is wearing a gray
skirt may have her choice between
paying an even higher price than ever
before and going without, but it is
more probable that she will just go
without- People will not begin to
form in line for the new standard
make and standard price footwear for
some time yet, however, us manufac
ture has only just begun and two
months are allowed for distribution of
the new goods and for distributing
present stocks without loss to the
merchant. The new deal in shoes is
another example of what can be done
by voluntary co-operation. There has
been no compulsion about it, but it
wfil be in effect as soon as the pre
liminaries can be arranged.
A STATUE OF MR. DEPEW.
In attending, on his eighty-fourth
birthday, the unveiling of a statue of
himself and delivering an address
which the reporters despribe as "ap
propriate to the occasion." Chauncey
M. Depew eradicated a chance that his
own conception of himself would be
misrepresented to posterity. Whether,
however, the effigy to which by his
presence he gave approval is a true
likeness of Mr. Depew is an entirely
different matter. Many a portrait
painter has testified to the total unfit
ness of his sitters to judge dispassion
ately of the merits of a work of the
brush. Is there any greater likelihood
that a man is competent to criticise
the product of the chisel where he
himself is the object? Probably there
is not.
There are physical reasons why a
man does not recognize the sound of
his own voice, and there is a more
subtle cause for his incapacity fot
knowing just how he looks. There is
vanity enough in the most modest ol
men to make them hope that they re
semble in some measure their ideal.
a hope that is always translated into
belief by constant association. Men
do not see themselves as others see
them, as Burns has intimated. This is
as true of the outward, physical aspect
as of the other self to which Burns
undoubtedly referred.
It is :t curious fact that a man may
stand in front of a mirror every morn
ing of his life to shave or tie his
cravat, and then pass unrecognized on
the street a chap whom all the neigh
bors will declare to be the perfect
Image of him. The double whom he
does not see as a double is not nearly
so handsome as he Is. of course. At
least there is lack of an indefinable
something which he knows that he
himself possesses. What can folks be
thinking about when they say they
see a resemblance?
Mr. Depew has pronounced his
statue "a happy combination of artistic
merit and resemblance." It is safe to
deduce from this that it flatters him.
which means that it is giving posterity
dishonest deal. If posterity is in
terested in us at all. it wants to know
what we looked like, not how we
thought we looked: to see the light
that is forever hidden from our own
eyes: to glimpse the soul that if we
recognized we would perhaps not ad
mit we had. Statuary is something
more than sidewhiskcrs and an atti
tude. It Is the replica of the image
produced upon a million retinas, but
never upon ttiat of the subject him
self. Mr. Depew may have succeeded
in purchasing a very good example of
the sculptor's art, but he has cheated
posterity of Its dues.
There is a shortage In the country
of about 20,500 rural teachers and
6000 other teachers, according to esti
mates of the Federal Bureau of Edu
cation, and the proportion of those
who will teach classes for the first
time with the beginning of the pres
ent school year is abnormally large.
Many states report as high as 35 per
cent of teachers without previous ex
perlence, some of these being without
normal school training. The only state
which does not report a teacher
shortage is California. The situation
is regarded as grave because it disor
ganizes the educational system at a
time when especial efforts were being
made to hold pupils in line, and add!
tional work is planned to make the
schoolhouses centers of patriotism and
community welfare enterprises. There
are indications that the supply of men
teachers in the country schools will be
exhausted before long, the average
loss being four men to each county
in the districts reporting.
The point should not be lost sight
of that it is "linen" from the home
closet that is most wanted and not
goods from the factories now over
burdened with war orders. The genius
of the drive is the effort to get the
people to contribute from their stores.
It can be done with a little sacrifice,
and the sacrifice must be made.
It seems Just to employ Germans to
do farm work in the shell-torn re
gions, where they will run the danger
from their own unexploded shells, but
the t rench and Belgian peasants
doubtless would rather bear their own
risks than have the Huns around.
The recent arrival In an American
port of a schooner from the Cape
Verde Islands with forty-four immi
grants seeking work makes us. brush
up our geography. Who has before
heard of the Cape Vcrdes since he left
school?
If a rule were made and enforced
that no man should be employed at
work that a woman can do, a lot of
fellows who now think themselves se
cure would wake up jobless.
Another good thing about the S. A.
T. C. 13 that it is putting a crimp in
the notion that going to college is a
mere subterfuge for getting away from
home for a jolly good time.
The Huns are reported In another
pocket, and some of the best little
pickpockets on the allies' side of the
line are about to relieve them of their
valuables.
If the K-aiser receives a short an
swer to his next note, it will be mov
ing day In a lot of towns along the
banks of the Rhine.
Nine thousand dollars worth of po
tatoes from sixty acres may explain
why so many persons have given up
gold mining.
Rats know when a ship is unsea
worthy, and a Turkey, it seems, is as
intelligent in this regard as the rat-
At least they are not calling it "lib
erty" influenza, as they did with the
measles a few months ago.
Yesterday's news from the front in
dicates that our soldiers did not get a
Saturday afternoon off.
Kissing will also be suspended, we
suppose, lor the period of the epidemic
ALL BELIEFS SHOULD OBEY RULE
Advice Utveai to Tktae W 'be Practice
Mrstal or Sotrttoal Com.
PORTLAND. Oct. 11. (To the Edi
tor.) In a time like this it is hlghly
desirable that the entire community
shall present a united front against
the invasion of disease. To do this.
advanced individuals ought to be will
ing to accommodate themselves In all
reasonable mays to public sentiment
as It has so far progressed In lis on
ward and upward climb. To do this and
at the same time to preserve one's
ideals may easily become a real prob
lem. Every community has a considerable
number of people who believe in and
loonit extent practice what la loosely i
known as new thought. Some one of
their own number ought to state In
clear terms a course of action at once
Just and fair both to themselves and
to the community at large. Hence
I ask space for this letter in your col
umns. There are three planes upon which
disease Is being met and mastered to
day the material plane, the mind plane
and the plane of spirit. The achieve
ments on each plane are astounding.
New thought people are at liberty to
utilize the good available upon each
of these planes, but It is self-evident
that as the possibilities or a higher
plane open before them they will resort
less and less to even the great good
there may be on the lower plane. Pro
gressive men will move out of the most
comfortable shack if a fine dwelling is
available. They will not cling to medi
cine after they have proved the healing
power of mind. Indeed, they will not
cling to mind after they have proved
the tremendously superior power of
spirit.
This is a simple matter of progress
so long as the Individual alone Is in
volved, but when his course of action
may affect the community and the
community's rights are involved the
sincere and honest new thought citizen
Flrst-lTnew thought people should j
cheerfully and promptly comply with I
looks for litrht.
the orders and the aujrgestioiis of the
Board of Health. The Board of Health
acts for the entire community, in which
are a vast - variety of beliefs, opinions
and practices. In times of stress like
this the Individual must act with the
community, which speaks collectively
throuKh the Board of Health.
Second All new thought people, aft
er having done their duly to the com
munity on the material xtde as set
orth by whatever rulings the Board ot
Health may make, should strongly com
bat the fear and dread which are fili
ng the minds of many people at this
ime. All agree that fear both in-
ltes disease and weakens the resist-
ng power of the system. New thought
people should do all In their power to
calm their alarmed neighbors and
riends, to turn their thoughts away
rum the details of disease, to awaken
them a sane yet strong expectation
of perfect immunity. They should help
many people as possible to vision
health, will health, feel health and pre
serve health.
Third All new thought people should
spend a Utile time each day in treat-
ng mentally (or spiritually, if they
have attained to this level of under
standing) the entire community. The
effect of this united work on the part
of all the advanced thinkers In a com
munity is very great. One thinker like
r. L. Raw son, of London, might stem
he tide. Ten thousand lesser thinkers
united can surely become a real power
for prevention as well as for cure.
Lastly All new thought people
should make this exigency a time of
self-development. To cure disease or.
better still, to prevent it. Is something;
but to make great strides in the under
standing of truth Is everything. Iire
exigency is what stimulate us to ourj
best. H. EDWARD MI
AMERICA. THOU SAID.
America, my thrice loved son
Thou asked and I didst give
Nor questioned I. 'twas thou who said.
"He goes that I may live
whom to freedom first was wed;
I. haven of tired slave
O mother, give thy son to me.
A world we go to save!"
America, thou said to me.
And so told thou my son.
Across the sea a mad beast reigns
And kills and kills a Hun
Defiling maids and murd'ring babes.
And breaking wills of men.
We go to conquer this vile thing.
Not to return till then!
We trusted thee, as trust we God.
My hero son and I
For thee he faced the monster's horde
And fate ordained he die
On shell-pocked field, in gas-drenched
trench.
With cmile he met thy foe.
With faith in thee if he should fall.
That thou wouldst onward go:
A million mothers" brave boys marched
With him down vlct ry s road
And millions more are marching up.
To carry on thy load.
For yet foes' banners proudly wave.
And desecrate the air;
Where freedom would shine over all.
The beaat s still In his lair:
O moth'rlng nation to all lands
Beneath the tyrants heel
They hero dead and living sons
Join In with my appeal
America, heed not false plea
hor cravens peace as pled.
We go to conquer this vile thing,"
America, thou said!
GENE SMITH.
THE SURFEIT OF SATAN.
Come, nameness Hun, unspoken scourge.
Unrivaled thing of foul deceit.
Come that my stygian flames may
purge
The memory you sought to cheat.
Come, faithless beast, whose craft I
thought
Personified my sense of hell.
Whose cunning seemed part of the plot
That held my fame so long and well
For untold time my wiles have earned
The plaudits of my hopeless throng.
And shrewd deceit alone has burned
The stamp that kept my subjects
strong.
But where my clever ruse has drawn
The millions to eternal blast.
Your clumsy sense and brutal brawn
Have wrecked the glory of my cast-
Where blandishment has kept me fit
And added to my fold so well.
Your clumsy disregard of wit
Has wrecked my very pride in helL
I have at least a form and code.
By which my victims choose their
doom:
Your plan would people my abode
With victims of a senseless gloom.
Come, blasphemer of Satan's power.
Foul outcast of a ravaged age.
The Lord haa doomed you to this hour.
And featan loathes you with a rage,
J. A. CLEMEXSON.
TO THE AMERICANS IN FRANCE.
Say. Yanks, we knew you'd take the
line
And dally give the Huns their dues.
Yet still, O lads, your exploits shine
Transcendently in dally news.
Your prowess cowes the boastful Hun.
And fills your allies' hearts with song.
You've sped the day when freedom's
sun
Shall blot the night of Teuton wrong.
With Tommy Atkins and Poilu
You've won a name of equal rank:
The. way you've smashed that hellish
crew
Immortal shines the name of Yank,
The splendid way you play the game
Reads like a page of old romance.
The days when great King Arthur came.
God! we're proud of you in trance!
C. IX. bHOLES.
Ravings of a Recruit.
Br Private L B. Grass. Sprace Pro
aartloa imiaiom.
It's great to be a soldier nowadays.
Everybody loves a man in uniform.
General Fublic is always doing some
thing for us.
General Public either does something
for us, or does us.
The other day a kind-hearted lady
from Portland thought she would give
a tew or us soldiers a treat.
She rented a cottage at Newport by
the Sea and invited us down for a
house party over the week end-
It certainly . was a party. I
can' t
vouch for the house part of it,
After hiking for about five miles,
more or less, we found the house.
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There were two rooms and a kitchen.
If two of us had tried to enter the door
at the same time one of us would
have been killed.
So the 14 of us formed
and marched in.
single file
We found two chairs, a bench and
the hostess at home. Two of us sat
on each chair and 10 cornered the
bench.
These house parti, s are the bunk.
I'd rather have a lawn party; there's
more room outdoors.
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Then our hostess called in a half
doxen young ladies and we soldiers had
'fa"J "d . to
s
the
It was Just like a crowded streetcar,
only nobody ever got off.
The two rooms were S by 1 1 feet
each. We answered rollcall in one
room and tried to dance in the other.
They kept the piano in the kitchen.
The couples fairly walked upon each
other. Every moment I expected to see
someone go through the lone window,
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We continued the riot until about C
P. M. Then I thought of food, not to
mention the rest of the crowd.
Then the dear old lady discovered
that the grocer had failed to deliver
the eats.
Right there I wanted to declare peace
and return to camp. But the girls in
sisted that I stay.
mm
They said they would all run home
and return with something to cat. The
14 of us voted aye.
When the girls returned one bad aa
egg. another a biscuit and a third a
slice of ham.
We hashed the haru. scrambled the
gg and then the fun commenced.
We could only get 10 portions of the
combination, so we divided the biscuit
between the other four.
If that egg had only been old enough
to have been a chicken, what a meal
we would have had.
Speaking of Army meals, that ham
and surely was a "mess."
After dinner, so-called, we again
tried to put a little Jazs iuto the affair.
After three or four rounds of catch-
as-catch-can dancing the girls left and
we prepared to retire.
We bunked In single file across the
floor of the two rooms.
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We were so close together that when
one of us wanted to turn over we
would command "squads right turn"
or "squads left turn" and we would all
turn together.
If I ever attend another house party
while I am in the Army 1 am going to
take ray bedtlck along.
After one night on that floor. It's me
for an Army cot for life.
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Talk about going "over the top." It'
nothing compared to this "over the
floor" plan.
At 7 A. M. one of the boys had a look
outside and spotted a gas wagon going
in the direction of camp.
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The last our hostess saw of us we
were tearing down that road after the
"Lizzie" at double-quick time.
Parts of our uniforms were left be
hind. What's a uniform when a man's
hungry?
Army chow that morning certainly
went over big".
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Hereafter house parties for me will
have to be held in an Army tent, a
stone's throw from & mess-house.
With all due respect for General Pub
lic, It's me for the rear rank.
INCONSISTENCY,
Long, long ago, when life was very
new,
I dreamed a dream that etlll seems
strangely real;
In visioned land I dwelt alone with
you
Contented by your side through woe
and weal.
You ruled as king my Joy was to obey:
The spell of Springtime held us in
its thrall.
Alas, that brightest day-dreams fade
away.
And castles built in youth-time needs
must fall!
In dreaming, we forget all time and
place.
Forget that dreams were never sent
to keep.
Although all future time may not erase
Their Impress, which is graven keen
and deep.
The years have wakened me, alas, 'tis
true.
Those tender, golden fancies long have
fled:
And yet 1 search the hurrying throng
for you.
Although 1 vow that Spring-time
dream is dead!
GRACE E. HALL.
Publishers of CoagreaaloBal Chart.
TACOMA. Wash (To the Editor.)
In an editorial October 5. The Oregonian
says: "A chart prepared by the Na
tional Security League, a non-partisan
patriotic organization, chows the record
of each member of the last two houses
on eight questions of preparedness and
war." Will you be kind enough to tell
me where I, can secure the chart and
Us correct name? O. E. REYNOLDS.
Write to National Security League's
Copgresslonal Committee, 13 West 44th
street. New York City. Refer to chart.
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