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THE SUNDAY OREGOXIA3f PORTLAND, OCTOBER 20, 19 J 8. t I satisfied. to gain their end by attack- 2 : . i .. too . 3.2 . .0 . 2-50 . 8.40 .10.00 7. SO IBS .63 PORTLAND. OREGON. Entered at Portland lOregon) Poatofflca acond-class mall matter. Subscription rim Invariably In advance (Br aiL la!Ty. Sunday Included, one year $ 0 Daily. 8unday Included, SIX months .... - Daily, Sunday Included. thraa months. Daily, Sunday Included, one month ... Dally, wlthoat Sunder, one year ..... Daliy. wl'hout Sunday. six months ... Iaily. without Sunday, one month .... Weekly, ona year handay. ona year tianday and weekly (By Carrier.) Tal!y, Fanday lnrludrd, ona year ..... Daily, Sunday Included, ona month ... Dally, Sunday Included, three months. Dally, without Sunday, ono year - laily. without Sunday, threa months.. Daily, without Sunda. ona month .... It aw a Rmlt send poatofflce money or der. axDress or personal check, on your local bank. Stamps, coin or currency are at own er's risk. Give postofflca address In lull, in cluding: county and state. (tan Kmtra 12 to IS pases. 1 cent: IS fit S- nai-j - rental 31 to 4S Pages. 3 Cents &n in ati & a rental 62 to 76 paces, 5 cents: 7S to 2 paces. cents. Foreign post- axe, double rates. v-.t-n. lum nfrlra Verree Conk tin. Brunswick building. New ork: Verree Conklln, Steger bulldlnir. Chicago: Verree Conklin- Free Press building. Detroit. Mich.; San Francisco representative. R. J. Bidwell. MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS The Associated Press Is exclusively enti tled to the use for republication of all news diapatches credited to it or poi .-.--eredlted to this paper, and also the local news published herein. All rights ol republication of special dis watches herein are also reserved. ' PORTtAND, 81TXDAY, OCT. ISIS. GERMANS MAKE A GET-AWAY. After gazing longingly but impo tenUy toward their porta of Ostend and Zeebrugge, the Belgians have at rod them, and German oc- rn nation of the Belgian coast is no i one authorizing an Increase ing the common enemy of freedom anywhere they find him. The Belgians were fortunate In re taining a foothold in their own coun try and in finding a refuge among their neighbors, but they have had to endure the spectacle of their peo ple enslaved, ravished and tortured by their enemies, with the consciousness that they were as yet powerless to ef fect a rescue. At last they have ad vanced shoulder to shoulder with the French and British, and mile by mile they are recovering their native soil. while they take vengeance.on its In vaders. The heart of America is with them, fervently hoping that the Hun will soon be in full flight beyond their tion grow increasingly difficult. borders. I The index svstem of nu r ETeat Armv aii nonor to tne litue nations, mar- I mav be less imnortant than the enuin tyrs to the liberty of the world, but ment of that Army, but it will help to coming to life again from their, mar- bring home to usthe enormity of the tyraom. iney have done incalculable whole task of organization. It is a service to the cause of democracy, for detail, yet it is a huge job in itself, their valor amid suffering has been I Not onlv the soldier must be ahsn- sucn an inspiration to their greater lutely accurate in giving the facts of ana more fortunate neighbors as to his name, his emergency address, the stir even tne slacker and the sluggard names of his dunpnrtcnts. etc.. hu into action. When they, who are so few every hand through which the data ana so wean in material resource, pass must be enuallv free from error. perform such deeds, who dare hane I and finallv thn innnirnr must expmisa buck: I eaual caution or the soldier to all in tents and purposes is lost. The pos TOCB MILLIONS BiDimy or error may be minimized, gave his home town as "Post Office,' having had a dim idea that he had seen the name over the door of an im portant building. Obviously, a card-index system which fills 4000 or more trays pre sents especial difficulties of its own. when our expeditionary forces num bered onU- 900,000 men there were 1080 tras for them. If there were too many Smiths and Johnsons, there were also too many of the old-fashioned given names to help very much. John, 'James, -George. Frank, Charles and Henry do not do much toward identifying a Smith in an institution like the American Army. The prob lems of arrangement and classifica- .As another reminder to the. voters but il does not seem possible to elimi Of thir dllltr It rnqir 1m oi V I- I "tO It. J " uc DUlu lUUb lb IS a many-million-dollar election that is coming on for the voter of Portland. TECHNIC OF THE SOFT DRINK. The total of monevs It in nmnnt. -tteiease or a hundred thousand or raise in bonds, taxes and direct 80 ' bartenders by the enactment o ppropriations in Portland alonu is I National prohibition naturally causes about 15,750,000. inquiry as to what will be done with Foremost in amount is the bond these men after the war. when the ssue or Is. 000,000 for port improve- Question of man sower mav not be so ments. For about 95 per cent of this acute as it is now. and when all will issue, if it shall be approved, the city be looking- for work in lines for which 01 -oruana will be liable. they are best fitted bv Drevious train- Ihere are two other port measure's, I ing. The answer obviously would be in port that many of them will be absorbed longer a gun aimed at tngiana. -n." r nmumiuus to u,uuu a year ana into tne sort-drink Industry which is h. .ni.nriid Tan-German dreams of tho other an increase amounting to expected to take the nlace of the commanding the Knglish Channel as isu,uuu. saloon; but those who have had prac- aa outlet to the Atlantic Ocean and On the city ballot will be a measure tical contact with both kinds of places of holding Antwerp have vanished, tor autnorizing a tax or one-hair of one will not regard it as quite so obvious, the Germans must realize that loss mill for the purpose of building a re- The art of concocting soft drinks has of that coveted port la certain. Tur- construction hospital if the Govern- never except in a few Instances cotng. too, ia lost, Roubaix must soon ment shall select Portland as a proper risen to the plane occupied by the follow, then Ghent's turn will come 1 location, -x ne equivalent in aouars is dispenser of alcoholic beverages. It Is and Flanders willbe free. arout $142,000. not clear why it should be so, but Thai one feature of their victory There is- also a city tax proposed of where the two industries have flour- which must be unsatisfactory to the I one-tenth of one mill for a police pen-lished side by side, the technic of the allies Is the success of the Germans sion and relief fund. The equivalent bartender has always been superior to in withdrawing with relatively slight 1 is goo. that of the soda clerk. loss. The final retreat was so rapid! The two-platoon system in the fire The reason, as has been said. Is not that removal of heavy artillery and department is again on the ballot for I plain. One would suppose that alco material must have been in progress approval or rejection. Its adoption I hoi would have inhibited the sense of for some time, and even cavalry have means an increase in fire department nice discrimination in the drinker, and not been able to keep up with tne cost 01 aooui im.uuu. made him less Insistent upon a per- main body of the enemy. The stub- Portland's individual interest In the fectly blended and artistically gar born resistance offered by the Ger- state measures that carry appropria- nished product, but in practice the mans between Roulers and courtrai tions or tax levies Is about one-third I reverse was true. One never encoun and along the Lys River seems to have the total sum to be raised. ters behind the soda fountain a dis- bcen intended only to cjelay the allies For the two new normal schools penser whom one by any strength of until the Germans had drawn out 01 1 szoo.ooo in a lump is to be appro-1 tne imagination can visualize as the the coast district and the IJlle salient, I priated and a tax of about $ 75,000 a potential inventor, for example, of a and they have almost made what year imposed in addition. (mint julep or a James Rickey, into lesser criminals call "a clean get- I There is an appropriation proposed I which the intrusion of gin was an in away." This is true also of tho Laon of 1200,000 to establish a home for spired afterthought. salient. Though the offensive power dependent, delinquent and defective The technical skill of the expert of the German army is gone, its de- I children. I mixologist of the barroom was a not fensive power is still strong, and its I Prom the State Tax Commission I inconsiderable factor In delaying the Generals show high skill in retreat. I comes a proposal that additional state I coming of the saloon s day of doom. The allies have inflicted terrible loss taxes in the sum of $940,000 be au- So long as one in search of so harmless of men. guns and supplies' on the uer- I thorized by the people for war emer mans in the course of their three gency work and expenses, months' offensive, but they have not The state as a whole Is Interested broken through the army's lines on in the election in the amount oi a wide front and advanced rapidly to $1,465,000.. such depth as to envelop and capture The city of Portland alone is inter large sections, destroy its organization ested in an amount which reaches and make it no longer an army. Such about five and three-quarters millions demoralization as is apparent has been of dollars. produced by continued defeat and re-I The voter who. thinks he can safely 1 never attained the high degree of per- treat, by heavy loss at many points I trust his interests to others in the I fection that marked the disciples of and particularly by air raids on lines 1 forthcoming election needs to study I the late lamented Jerry Mulligan in ' of communication and supply depots. I the foregoing statement. I tho "best places"- where alcoholic exaggerated, will not long exist. One of many things which the Army au thorities know how to do well is to fit the punishment to the crime. Penalty of twenty years' imprisonment imposed upon a drug peddler is an illustration of this. It strikes terror to the hearts of the criminals, which the average civilian sentence does not, and it puts the law violator out of the way for almost a generation. The present Federal laws regulating the sales of nabit-forming drugs are almost strict enough, if they are enforced, and the Army can be counted on to get results in tne way of enforcing laws. 1 BUTTERFLY GIRLS AND OTHERS. It requires no more -than a super ficial analysis of the so-called "butter fly type" of girl to discover the reason why Mrs. William K. Vanderbilt, re turning home' after having been en gaged in canteen work in France, says that this kind of girl has proved the most effective canteen worker. For the prototype in nature of the butter fly girl is a busy creature, and a beau tiful one, whatever else may be said about it. Even those solemn and didactic persons who like to preach reveling and jeering at the all but des perate gardener. About that time also the ground began to harden; the Summer baking process was on, and between heat overhead and a steadily stiffening, weed-choked earth under foot, the front-line trenches began to look untenable to a good many of the gardeners. It was then when the salvation of every growing thing in the garden hung solely on the vigorous use of the hoe that the zeal of too many of the gardeners petered out completely. It was then that the gardener who had failed to start the hoe before the ground began to dry out and before the weeds had a chance to get above ground saw that the earth was getting hot and dry, and forthwith concluded that what was needed was water. Mopping his brow, he went sullenly to the basement and dragged out the garden hose. Thereafter, at specified hours, and at specified rate of pay ment to the city for the privilege, lie squirted water on his withering truck settle once and for all who was "boss" aboard the ship, and he deprecates the efforts of young officers who made what he regards as the mistake of supposing that sailors would work more willingly if decently treated. He holds that the maintenance of proper order is "only possible under a rule of autocratic severity, demanding in stant obedience to orders and quick punishment for the first departure from the iron bonds." But even the crew of which Reisen berg writes was a harmonious one, and the friendly atmosphere of the forecastle suggests that the men had in them elements which would have responded to different treatment. As a matter of fact, it has since then been demonstrated that the brutality of officers and the cold-blooded thievery of shore vampires and crimps never were needed to bring a good ship into port. Both of these have been pretty well done away with with in less than a generation, and it is safe to predict that they will not be Ravings of a Recruit. By Private Ii. B. Grow a. Spruce Pro duction DiviHion, I . S. Army. of toil, was hung up If he had gone over his garden daily with a feather duster the chances are about the busy bee and admonish us to that ne voul11 have accomplished Go to the ant, thou sluggard," have aDoul as mun s e did teeaing nis patch. The hoe, that hated symbol revived with the growing up of the a concoction as a lemonade found better one at the place of the brass footrail than the soft-drink dispenser was able to produce, the bartender had a certain excuse for being, quite apart from the facility with which he robbed men of their faculties. And it is substantially true that tho blending of soft beverages and confections The German army is defeated but not yet utterly beaten, and is, there fore, still a formidable organization. If it persists in fighting, lack of raw material and food may render its re pulse easier as each day passes, but the junkers may hope that reluctance to prolong the war and make further sacrifice will induce the allies to make moderate terms before the army is OLD MKX IX NEW JOBS. A recent number of the Bulletin of liquors were sold Yet the opportunities for art and science in the new business which it the Uni'ted States Employment Bureau ' hPed has diven ut the saloon to cites some inspiring examples of men stay are almost boundless. The sundae who, although past middle age. have and "s upside-down companion, the ntiir.il Intn th n rit of Krvir hv !". fcot.it ..u.iuiou starting all over again to learn trades variations to one for the cocktail o s hlh lit moko th.tn iiuf.il in wrnr "Id WIUSKy Hour. X no uiuue, werin . 1. t . , 11 , gue and the fruit-juice flip are quite titterly smashed, and that thus the 1 ,ndibato that these deferred as worthy of meticulous care as the array will live to fight another war. LDDrenticesnil,s contain reat D08sl. punch or the sangaree. It would be biliUes. It would seem, however, that "' " "uuiu th Vnr.ntic ore, exr-entinnal mon. louna necessary to can upon our ex- They are willing to begin at the bot- bartenders to aid in the work of popu tom and "work up," and to take the Arising the successor of tho saloon, various stens as anv other aDDrentice We are a socially inclined, if not a The best means of blasting thfs hope may prove to be the American-French drive on both sides of the Meuse, in the Argonne and in Champagne. If they should succeed In rolling up the German line along the Meuse. while King Albert's army drives through Belgium and Haig hammers his way to Valenciennes and Maubeuge, the allies may yet catch a large force of Germans in a pocket with railroads rut or under heavy fire, and may cut it off before it can get back to the Meuse. That is the best hope of an early end of the war, unless uncondi tional surrender should follow revolu tion. would do. Thus, in New Haven, Conn., there was a painter aged 60 who entered a trade school and in the course of time became an adept machinist. A farmer of 68 who had had mechanical train ing in his youth entered the training room of a munitions factory and quickly qualified for skilled produc tion. There was a patternmaker, mill bibulous, people. We demand places at wljich we may foregather from time to time and exchange experiences and tell our troubles to one another. It was a charge frequently laid at the door of temperance folk that they did not offer an attractive substitute for the social institution which they were seeking to destroy. It requires only superficial observation to detect a dis- wright and stonemason who said thatUn.ct effort on the part of the soft- I THREE HEROIC LITTLE NATIONS. he always had "had a hankering" to be a machinist. When his opportunity came he made good quickly. His pre- Military events of the last month vious training had given him Insight have reflected most glory on three into general mechanical principles, -ri.roif small nations, whose valor The factory managers are going to shines the brighter through the in credible disasters and privations they have endured Belgium, Serbia and Bohemia. The armies of these little nations, fugitives from their own countries, have been dependent on their greater allies for means to renew the fight- The Belgians and -Serbs onnK panor to nu tne mil. still, we miss something, and it is ntt alto gether the "kick." It is the art. The soft-drink brethren ought to bestir themselves, have returned as conquerors and de- not do much skylarking during work- make an instructor of him. The predominant factor in the sue cess of these young old men seems to be that they are deeply appreciative of the necessity of learning the trade. and, consquently, willing to apply " sa,ra l" ' - " " the first draft were drug addicts. The hardly necessary to say that they do ia tfla- , tfoI Jf, oon ko-, DRCQ ADDICTS IN THE ARMY. Another bogie has been laid, this time by the report of the Surgeon- General of the United States Army, who has authorized denial of the re port that 200,000 of the men called in truth is that of a total of 990,592 men examined In the draft up to December 9.1 in? itniv in waa -J - tiecno-MovaKS nave naa to ngm "' " " - drug addiction. To this number may tneir way across tne widtn or a revo- t" """". "- ''-' be added seventv-six who were dis- lution-torn continent to get help. aie only in the exigency or tne hour. h - f drue'addieti .ftfiP i,av. . . I rri-.r. e- 1 1 . v bam irt rtr-irlA n -rSJi t hAtr I " mere never was a more splendid ".i"" " . tng been inducted into the service. achievement in history than the vie- l" ""T . The report probably was due to a tory of the remnant of the Serb army It is being proved that age alone mixture of pr0-Hun influence and mis- over int Kuirara. Tnrpft vpnr nt-n '3 .i.ic.ia-v. ct . - . . I va rv 11 vj u fa,aiiuta uil bilO LcLI L tl I eil th.v rnirnt.il dented i-a-c-.d linn, ciency in a new trade. But, as has .u. ........ years ago " ihuaioclin 'S ol, ' rpt, .1 gry. cold, through the Albanian moun- been said, these men were exceptional. not have been " consclous enemlea f tains to me sea. tarnea away to Italy "Tr ' I VAV their country, undoubtedly played into and France, they were fed. clothed, "linds. and so they were not, as a tn former,s handa- lt jj, teen a rested, armed and re-organlzed by mat er of fact, as x.ld as their years fayoHte contention of some that ,f their allies. With incredible valor wouId lndicate' men were denied the stimulation of iney won oacK jionasur ana a little alcohol they would use narcotics in comer oi tneir country two years ago, a card index of the army. stead. But there is no evidence that men were compenea to await tne close Friends of our soldiers who wonder any appreciable proportion of the ad or the discreditable Greek episode and occasionally why their letters go diets who were rejected came from the preparation of Greece for her part wrong. or why details of depend? nts' dry states. The fact seems to be that u mo i. "uu tno time came to benefits and other matters appear to they were recruited largely in con strike, tney named great guns up pre- be' muddled, will find an explanation gested centers which are still on the cipitous mountains, surprised the Bui- n ih. account of a librarian, attached wet map. In anv event. th nnmhur gars, put them to flight and after a two to the Adjutant-General's office, of is comforting. The average of one K" campaign loroeu mem to sur- tne efforts of himself and his assist- narcotic habitue in each 2024 of the render. They have now advanced ants to maintain the most elaborate population Indicates that we have across ineir ravagea iana IO 113 an-1 r-nrd.indrx svstem evw known. For nothmer much to worrv nhnnt ctent capital, isn. and will soon the exteditionarv forces alone this If the proportion held eood thrnnirK now makes provision for approxi-1 out the population, it would be less niately 2,000,000 names. Our troops! than a quarter of the number said to in the training camps at home and in exist in the Army alone, but it will various stages of mobilization also j not do that. The age from 21 to 30, make a formidable arrays inclusive, probably takes in a large The librarian illustrates the point Proportion of the whole number of hv thai incident of a rjrivatA anlHiAr I these unfortunates. Th. fimir.. n -A uuiuiuauio "ciuij is cnieny i mxmed rrzasdzyusKi. it would not be encouraging because they point to the due. I anrinoRpd that in the course nf an nr- I Dossibilitv of brinsins- nhnnt mi i - The Czecho-Slovaks had not even dinars business a "x" mora or loss la large number of cases. Th.r. a nm buuis iitwe at. nana, would make much dirrerence, but in too many addicts to warrant hope that but were marooned in a chaotic for- this case failure to spell the name they may be given intelligent trt. cign country, the anarchic government I correcUv mtirht make the . difference ment and in manv cases rpstnr.fi t. of which was in covert sympathy with between success and failure in find- their former places in society. If there cuemiera. ici mcy am tn ere a in ing him. There was another soldier were millions of them, as the panic the heart or Russia and fought and who gave his home address as "Shay- spreaders would have us believe we argued their way by turns across Si-I shear. Conn." At least that was the might well stand aghast, but a 'tow beria to Vladivostok. Others of this wiv some comoanv clerk had tran- thousand can be handled hv tha inm usuuu 111,111 uraiua me itanans. oiners i scribed His pronunciation, or the town I munitles in which they live. beside the French, still others beside I of "Cheshire." which was natural It is safe to predict that the pur the Americans, but all far from the I enough when It is considered that the veying of . narcotics in Army camps, land they love and seek to liberate, soldier was an Italian. Still another rumors of which have also been greatly a place In their hearts for the butter fly. It would be a sad world if it were otherwise. The butterfly girl, for one thing. Is not brainless. She derives her name from the fact that her enthusiasms are constantly changing, but they are enthusiasms nevertheless. Mrs. "Van derbllt explains her effectiveness bv saying that she has no preconceived notions on any subject, which is quite an advantage in ai war which has upset our preconceived notions of about everything except the funda mental principles of right and justice. It is another way of saying that she,! is exceedingly open-minded, and, con sequently, fit raw material for dis cipline. Her boundless spirit has al ways kept her young; there has been endless variety In her days; there is perpetual freshness about her, the contagion of which it is impossible to resist. She is the antithesis of the type of men and women in whom men tal and spiritual sclerosis has set In unwontedly ahead of time. While her enthusiasm lasts she exercises a pow erful influence. And then we come to the steadying effect of responsibility. It is impos sible to escape the conclusion that this is very real. No person not of subnormal mentality can undergo the experience through which our girls are passing in France without being sobered thereby. And so we have the butterfly girl at her best, her enthusiasms remaining, but under con trol; she reacts to discipline, adjusts herself to the peculiar needs of the moment, and goes on diffusing sun shine as she passes. Presently she will cease to be called a butterfly, put she will have performed her mis sion. Mrs. Vanderbilt compares this type witn the girl who has crossed the ocean with her own ideas of how the work ought to be done.' She accepts existing regulations with reserve and presently finds herself out of tune with the system. She is not disloyal to tne organization, but she appre ciably declines in value. It is for this reason that the call is out for more butterfly girls real butterfly girl for canteen work In France. It must not be supposed, however, that our serious-minded young women are to be shelved. That there is still plenty for them to do is indicated bv a specimen report of the work of th6 Smith College relief unit, which went over primarily to rehabilitate French homes, and whose work was nearlv all undone by the German drive last March. They filled in the time while the ground was being won back with most serious efforts to ameliorate the lot of our wounded soldiers, and now they are going back to the special task for which theywere sent abroad. This is an enormous one, and truly gigantic labor is being expended upon it. There is plenty of room for indi vidual initiative and for execution of consistent plans. Here the Smith girls shine. There is ground for optimism in the accounts we are receiving of the per formances of all our workers who are imbued with the idea of service. There are places, it seems, for all with whom this idea is uppermost. As has been suggested, not the least of the benefit has been conferred upon the workers themselves. It is not reasonable to suppose that one who has tasted the joy of doing for others will ever be wholly selfish again. spuds and beans water when they were literally crying for cultivation for a chance to send their rootlets out in search of food. t There was not a vegetable garden in Portland this season that required ar tificial watering. The rainfall here is invariably sufficient for all vegetable crops. But there were hundreds that needed cultivation by means of the common, hated garden hoe, the most despised of all the instruments that man has yet devised, yet the most im portant. There is no implement. weapon or utensil in all the realm of mechanics that in importance com pares with the hoe. It is the one in dispensable of agriculture. For it there is no substitute. With deep and thorough cultivation throughout the growing season the success of the war garden in Portland is all but a certainty. That price has to be paid, but it is an easier price than many imagine. If the gardener will but do his part nature will re spond, freely and generously, but she is not the simple-minded, easily gulled old Lady Bountiful that many garden ers appear to think. A garden well cultivated is easily cultivated.' For the intelligent care and encouragement they get the grow ing things fairly shout "thank you," and the gardener has his reward. reach the Danube and the modern cap ital. Belgrade. All this has been ac complished in little more than a month. They have had the aid of a powerful army of the allies, but to them fell the most arduous work and the hardest fighting, and to their in- TIIE HATED HOE. There Is an old saying that without toil one can never go ahead or up, but always back and down not maintain ing a fixed position anywhere. In the garden this ancient bit of wisdom holds with particular force. There one must pay the price. There is no "getting by" through short-cit means, nor any royal road. This fact so simple, so rudimentary and so old a very great proportion of the war gardeners have yet to learn. Strange, yet, but true. It may as well be admitted that the war gardens in Portland to date pretty largely have been a failure. Last year and this there was much ado ,over the war garden enterprise, and at times it looked as if a mighty effort would be made to produce food at home. This was especially notice able in the Spring, when the call of the Boil is so urgent as even to move the indurated city man, and the gar. den drive at times really looked as if it were going forward. In March and April back yard hundreds of them and even lawns in many parts of the city were plowed for the gardens that were to be in many cases very improperly when the ground was still wet; the city gardeners at the outset went bravely to the front in the campaign for food production. Truck crops of all kinds were planted, and in too many cases before the soil was in any thing like the right condition for seed. The gardeners were terribly in earnest and they simply could not wait. Their zeal and morale at the beginning were splendid. Later came the inevitable season for cultivation. The progress of the va rious vegetables at this time in many cases did not appear to be just what it ought to have been, and it was noticed also that the weeds were doing pretty well. The gardeners went to work, but too many meantime ap peared to have gone on the theory that planting was the main thing and cultivation secondary in importance, and delayed cultivation until well. until cultivation was real toil. Even then they kept at it most of them but in the latter part of May and early in -June the appearance of a good many gardens seemed to suggest that the gardeners' enthusiasm was ebbing. By the Middle of June It was getting pretty hot overhead, and under foot the pestiferous weeds -were rioting, LITERATURE OF THE SEA With a prospect that by the end of the coming year there will be an American merchant fleet weighing 20,000,000 tons, and still growing, it is only natural that there should -be a revival of interest in the literature of the sea. Of real masterpieces deal ing with the past, there is now no lack; but these will not be enough. The sea is still what it used to be, but the conditions under which it is navi gated are far different. With a light house on every cape and a shower bath in every forecastle, and with the wireless flashing appeals for help and the meteorological service, giving warning of hurricanes and storms, it is a profession de luxe by comparison with the old days. And yet there is plenty of the old spirit. There is promise of a return to the times of the vikings, of the British of the time of Nelson, of our own forefathers of the early New England Coast, when there was democracy on shipboard, combined with the sternest discipline, but only intensified by the character of the men who sailed the sea and by the perils they shared in common. It is a return to the spirit of those days, rather than of an intervening period which almost brought the busi ness of seafaring into disrepute. The phase of life on the sea, par ticularly in' the forecastle, which will most deeply impress the reader of a realistic tale of about the middle of the last century will be tho unneces sary cruelty, the needless hardships, of the calling. As good an illustration as can be found is recorded in "Under Sail," the author of which is telix Reisenberg, a New Yorker who has written a book about a voyage Re made from his home city to Honolulu as recently as 1898. This was prior to the demand for reform in the treat ment of sailormen which resulted in laws which retaliated by inflicting some unnecessary hardships upon owners, but- which represent under standable reprisals for the conditions of other days. It was only twenty years ago, as has been said, that Weisenberg made his voyage. He tells a familiar story of food that was coarse when it was not actually bad. There were cockroaches in the tea, weevils in the hardtack and maggots in the "salt horse." The cook was a Chinese who frankly made no effort to please the men. The author draws a striking contrast be tween him and the cook of Marryatt's day, who was a person of parts and wore a sword. The men furnished their own bedding or went without; thev were wet to the skin two-thirds of the time, and half frozen when the weather was cold. The discipline con sisted of hard language always and sometimes blows. This is a fair sample of the way it was maintained: .. At the order "Belay!" riven by the mate. and the sharp "Come up behind" ot tne sec ond nffirer. Tonv tailed to hold on to the rope, and the consequence was a slight loss new merchant marine which is now making an appeal to the best young men of the country to fill its ranks. There is so much that is fine in the life of the sea, and there are so many reasons why the open life of adventure ought to be made attractive to the right kind of youngsters, that it is to be hoped that the time will never come in which a seatale, in order to be true to life, will nee to be even incidentally a record of man's inhu manity to man. The tens of thousands of ships now built and building will mean hundreds of thousands of offi cers and men. There was a time when our clipper ships were the fastest ever floated, and that time is about to re turn. There were times when the mates and the sailors, hailing from the same home towns, dwelt in amity, and these times will be restored oi else our maritime adventure will fail. We do not despair even of seeing the sea attract those classes which we refer to as members of the first fam ilies and as "college men," but we think there will be a different tale to tell about the treatment of them. The sea story of the future will have more of the flavor of Marryatt, perhaps, and less of that of Dana and Reisen berg. It is being called to the attention of sportsmen that the Federal migra- tory bird law enacted in furtherance of our treaty with Great Britain does not authorize anyone to hunt in viola tion of the laws of his own state. The Federal law is supreme only where it extends the existing closed season. If a state law opens the season earlie or closes it later than the dates pre scribed by Federal regulations, the hunting season in that state is jus that much further shortened. The treaty act also prohibits the sale of any migratory birds except for scien tiiic or breeding purposes. Maximum bag limits are prescribed, and when permitted by state law two days' limit of migratory birds may be shipped from one state to another in a calen dar week. The burden of informing himself as to the provisions of all the laws is upon the hunter himself, and the Department of Agriculture has completed its organization for the en forcement of the act in practically every state of the Union. A little incident is related by the Army and Navy Journal which illus trates how American ingenuity comes to the aid of aviators in emergencies. At Ellington Field there was a scarcity of wrist pins foruirplane engines, these pins being subjected to a tre mendous train and causing serious accidents when they break on a ma chine in the air. A Lieutenant found an axlo of an abandoned jitney in a seraph iap, treated it by a special process and cut it into a number ot wrist pins. These were used on several engines and tested in actual flight. Some of them have had 170 hours of service, and they hold up as well as any others. Much material is now saved, and engines fly more hours. The other night at the Y. M. C. A. a soldier by the name of Cohen hit mo for the loan of a five-spot. a a a He said he wanted to take a "peach" to town the following Sunday. Being tho corporal of my equad, Co hen had the best of me. I let him have the five. However, I took his I. O. U. a a I only had ten myself and wanted to take my girl for an outing Sunday. a . It was some time Sunday that I found out the the "peach" Cohen took to town was none other than my girl. a a a Think of touching a fellow for five iron men and then making a date with his girl. But I have the laueh at the end. a I found out Monday morning that she left him flat after the five-spot was gone, and that he had to walk back to camp. Next payday he will have to pay me that five. I may be out a girl, but I am in five dollars. Anyway, it was worth twice five bucks to find out what kind of a girl she was. a a I'll bet the corporal relt like 30 cents walking home alone. I should have said 33 cents. I forgot to add the war tax. Next time I make a date with a girl I'm going to ask her how much money she has 'to spend on me. Safety first, a a a All the boys in this camD read The (jregonian for latest war news. The other night we read of the six greatest men in Germany. Von Turpentine. Gen. Hindenbug, Bethman Bowleg, Gen. Diss Order, Gen. Bumluck and the Turkish Embarrasser. a a a The soldiers here are so sure that the Huns are licked that they are fighting among themselves to see who goes home first. a When the war 'is over I'm going to New York, hop a trooptraln back to California and tell the folks that I'm home from France." a a I wish they would bury the Spanish "flu" along with a couple of Huns They make me sick.' a a a Our camp is quarantined. We can't go out and the "flu" can't tret in. The only man the Commanding Officer will trust out of camp is himself. a a a Eat, work and sleep that's all we can do now. It reminds me of the eighth paragraph, 13th chapter of He- Drews in the Bible. Look it ud for yourself. One of the boys was AWOL fabsent without leave) for two days. When he returned he told the Captain that he was only taking his next furlough on the installment plan. a a The next day he was prtsentcd with an extended vacation in the guardhouse a a The other day at rifle practice I sked the Lieutenant what I should do when my ammunition is all i-nn Cease firing replied the Lieut. a a On my way back from target practice accidentally passed a Major without giving the proper s-alutc. I discovered my mistake in time, ran back to where the Major stood and bpgRcd his pardon. Oh, thats all right," replied the Major, "I'm only a Major, but don't let it happen to a Second Lieutenant." as the man next the lead block hitched the halyard over the pin. "tou lazy aago wny aia you The German threat to retaliate for sale of German-owned property in the United States will not have much weight, for it is backed by only $14,000,000 against $700,000,000. It amounts to no more than a pair of deuces. Hohenzollern means something equivalent to "high tax collector," but the way the last German loan is going indicates that he may not be so much of a hohenzollern, after all. ' The Cologne Gazette may be rlgh in saying that "only military reasons' would impel acceptance of our peace terms, but they are going to be ac cepted, just the same. What a world it would be if all the energy the Germans have put into destruction of one kind and anothe had been diverted into the right channels. The Italian draft treaty is largely matter of form. Most of the Italians in the. United States who would be affected by it are already in the service. Maior-General Kenly says that the allies would rather have 10,000 Amer ican airplanes than 500,000 American soldiers. What's the matter with both let go ot that rope?" shouted Mr. Stoddard, at the same time making a lunge for Tony, and smashing him on the side of the face with his fist. The Dago blocked as best he could, and the second mate drove home a second blow on the Dago's nose. Tony clinched, the blood spurting right and left as they went to the deck, rolling over and over, first one on top and then the other. "What's this?" shouted the first mate. "You dirty bum, you!" he ex ploded. Jumping into the scramble, while all hands lined up In a threatening attitude, determined to see some sort of fair play. The mate grabbed Tony by the shirt, as he was on top, and yanked him over. The fact that the Dago had Mr. Stoddard down seemed to rile the -mate beyond all reason. He ripped off the shirt of the Dago, and as he threw him across the deck a knife flashed and the mate kicked it Into the scuppers, at the same time digging his heavy sea-boots into the side of the Ital ian. The second mate staggered to his feet, a Jagged streak of blood on his face where Tony had landed, and his Jacket covered with gore. There was "iron discipline" also in the times of which Richard Henrj Dana wrote. It was in 1840 that he made his hide-trading voyage to the Southern California coast, which he described in "Two Years Before the Mast." The intervening period is filled with a record of "hell ships" that made romantic reading but were highly uncomfortable for their crewa It is this period of maritime litera ture which reveals the reason of the decline of sea-going among Americans. The writers were candid enough in their treatment of the subject, but not very sympathetic with the underdog, who was the sailor. The author of "Under Sail," for example, sympa thizes with the officers who picked quarrels with their crews in" order to. Let us not judge the bond slackers too harshly. Perhaps they were sav ing their money lor the "welfare drive," which is soon to begin. King Ferdinand of Bulgaria has taken up botany. Perhaps he will learn that the German scheme to get him into the war was a plant." A literal instance of the turning of the worm is furnished by the attack made by worms upon the castor bean plantations of the South. Closing of the movies-will have its compensations for the folks who haven't taken a book from the home library shelf for months. After all, the Huns didn't reach Rheims, which may account for the extra pains they took to deface the cathedral at Soissons. The Belgian exile will not be an exile much longer. The country he is returning to will look different, but it will still be home. The weight limit on holiday gifts to the soldiers does not prohibit the in clusion of an unlimited amount of Christmas spirit. Mr. Hoover is calling for more war gardens in 1919, and these fine days are just right for the work of getting ready for them. Smyrna doesn't care a fig what the Sultan does, but wants peace, anyway. The other night our Commanding Of ficer was returning to cami when ho as halted by a sentry. "Halt!" said the sentry. Then "Halt!" again, and this time the sentry put up his riflo and took aim- 'What tho blankety-blank-blank are you doing?" asked the Captain. "Well, sir," said tho sentry, Tin a ew m.. here and tho sergeant in truded me to say 'Halt!' three times and then fire." The next day that sentry was doing K. P. where he couldn't do much harm, a a a That's not half as bad as the one I sprung on a Lieutenant the night I was on guard duty. The Lieutenant approached me and I failed to salute. "Don't you know who I am?" said the Lieutenant.. "Why, I'm the Officer of the Day." And 1 an swered, "Well, what are you doing out so late at night, then?" a a ' a In case of fire, the sentry gives the alarm by calling out, "Corporal of the Guard, post number ,so and so, fire!" The first time I tried it another eentry thought I was talking to him and he took a shot at me witli his rifle. ,a a a" 'Captain, why is a slacker like a custard pie?" asked Private Montague. 'Give it up." replied tho Captain. "Why?" "Because he's yellow all through and hasn't the crust to go over the top," replied Montague. a a a Advice to a private: If an officer calls you down, don't salute next time you meet him. He may still be mad at you and not want to speak. a a a Captain, call a sergeant to call a cor poral to order a private to lead me to my padded cell. ' SMITH OF THE THIRD OREGON. Mary Carolyn Davies in October McClures. Autumn in Oregon, is wet as Spring. And green, with little singing in tha grass, And pheasants flying, Gold, green and red, Great, narrow, loveiy things. As if an orchid had snatched wings. There are strange birds like blots against -the sky Where a sun is dying. Beyond the river where tha hills era blurred cloud like the ona word Of the too-silent sky, stirs, and there stand Black trees on either hand. Autumn in Oregon is wet and new As Spring. Ann urns a fever like Spring's In the cheek That once has touched her dew And it puts longing, too. In eyes that once have seen Her season-f iouting green. And ears tnaL iibieueu to ner Strang birds sing. i Autumn in Oregon! Til never see Thn,. hilis again, a blur ot blue and raia Across the old Willamette. I'll not stir A pheasant as I walk, and hear it whirr Above my heai. an indolent, trusting thing. When all this silly dream is finished here. The fellows win go noine, to wnere ther fall nA-Detals over every street, and all The year is like a friendly festival. But I shall never watch those hedges drip Color, nor see the tall spar of a ship I In our old harDor Tney say I am dying! Perhaps that s wny it an comes Dai-x again; Autumn .in uregon, ana pneasants Hying. 4