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TIIE SUNDAY OREGOXIAN, PORTLAND, OCTOBER 27, 1918. 2.5 .75 6 HI) 1.-3 . l.OO . . 2.311 PORTLAND. OREGON. Entered at Portland (Oregon) Potoffic aa Kcona-cnn mail mauer. Eubscripiic-n rates Invariably In advance (Br Mall.) Xs!ly. Eandar Included, one. year ...... $9.00 Jjajiy. bunday Included, six months .... 4.J.t Haily. Sunday Included, three months. X'aily, Sunday Included, one month ... liaily. without Sunday, one year ..... lisiiy. without Sunday, six months ... laily. without Sunday, one month ..... te-Kiy. one year . .......... Sunday, one year .............. feuauay and weekly IBr Carrier.! I'ally. Sunday Included, one year $3.00 litlly, Mir.day included, one month .... .10 Xiatly. Sunday included, three months.. 2.25 li:y. without Sunday, on year 7.0 liaily. without Sunday, three months... 1.95 Lajly. without Sunday, one month .63 How to Remit Send postoffice money or er. express or personal check on your local bank. Stamps, coin or currency are at own. era risk. Give postoffice address In full. In cluding county and state. . Posts Kates 12 to 16 psges, 1 cent; 18 to 3'J paces. 2 cents; 34 to 43 pages. 3 cents; & to 60 paves. 4 cents; 62 to 70 paxes. & cents: 73 to paxes, G cents. Foreign post age, double rates. Eastern Business Office Verres A Conk lin. Brunswick building. New York; Verres c 4'onklln, Steger building. Chicago; Verree c lonklin. Free Press building, Detroit. Mich.; ban Francisco representative, R. J. BidwelL would pet still less if popular fury should be let loose upon them.- The militarists may become as eager to submit to the allies in the hope that foreign armies would protect them from an . enraged people as the people would be likely both to appease the enemy and to gratify their wrath. The allies would at least let the Ho- henzollerns and the junkers live; en raffed Germany might slaughter them as ruthlessly as the Krench terrorists slew the old nobility. THE CITY ELECTION.' The coming city election of fens pe culiar and unsatisfactory possibili ties. Commissioner Kellaher. as an ap pointive officer, will retire immedi ately following election in favor of the candidate chosen for the short term. Mr. Kellaher is a candidate for the regular term beginning July 1. Whether elected or not he will not serve for the intervening eight months. Mr. Bigelow, being a regular elected Commissioner, will serve out his full term, which ends July 1, whether re elected or not. It Is possible therefore that we shall have a swiftly changing personnel on the commission. A new Commissioner will go- into office at once, in any event, for eight months. - On July 1 he will retire with the further possi- 3IEMBER OF THE ASSOCLVTED PRESS The Associated Press Is exclusively enti tled to the use for republication of all news bility that not only he, but Mr. Bige low, will be replaced by an entirely dispatches credited to it or not otherwise credited to this paper, and also the local sews published herein. All rights of republication of special dis patches herein are also reserved. PORTLAND, SO DAY, OCT. 17, 191$. ALAS! WE CANNOT HELP. Let us confer together a moment, follow citizens, to ascertain, if we can, what the state of Oregon can do to trrant the President the great boon of candidates for the place is Mr, new man, inexperienced in city gov ernment. Mr. Bigelow has. made an accept able Commissioner. His qualities are known and it is natural that he should become more valuable as his experi ence grows. In the interests or un broken and efficient service he should be re-elected Unbroken service is not possible as to iae oxner posmou. auiuhs mo S. C. Democratic Congress. I pier. Mr. Pier possesses certain quali- There is Senator McNary. Repub- fir.itinn not alwavs obtainable in a lican, who is up for election. Of him Commissioner. He has successfully the Democratic candidate said on managed large business affairs, has April 30: "Senator McNary is giving been a citizen of Portland for many xne rresiaent his unqualified support years, possesses found judgment and in the prosecution of the war." So I keen understanding, and his integrity rieasea is air. west wnn senator Mc- nri momi rhnrarter are above aues- isary s record and capabilities that he tion. declines to make a campaign in his Th. nres-nnlan believes that it would own behalf. There is Representative Hawley in the First District. Hawley has been standing by the President and it is not to be suspected that he will kick the war programme overboard for politi- be to the interests of the city to elect Mr. Pier and Mr. Bigelow. PATRIOTISM AT $1.25 "PER. "Is it a crime punishable by penal cal reasons, inasmuch as he has two I servitude for Walter Pierce to accept sons in the service, and would not I the usual remuneration for service on do it, anyway. There is no Democrat I the draft board?" asks Adah Wallace out to oppose him. . I Unruh in a letter in another news- There is Representative Sinnott in paper. the Second District. Representative I It is not a crime, dear lady, but here Sinnott has been stiDDortine the Presi-I is what the President of the Lnited dent, and his only sin is the unnardon- States says about it. The quotation is able one that he is a Republican. But from page 102, section oi me se- the Democrat against him is making no I lective service regulations, issued by visible impression. I President Wilson November 8, 1917 In the Third District is Renresenta- I The. duty of members of district and local tive McArthur. The National Security boards and other persons appointed to per l n .... , ' form duties in the execution of the selec- League. a non-partisan patriotic or- tlv. .erVCe iaw is a patriotic service of so r;ttuuuuu. gives Ji i in a luu per cent I blgn ana important s cnarwcier mat m K i ml record on war and preparedness I majority of those acting in timi capacity measures. I V- V;- .... hi . ,.r,t Now, Will everybody who recalls trrelsurh gratuitous service wherever it ran be name of McArthur's Democratic odim. rendered without great narasuip to mo is. ripnt nle.ise rriiso tha rifr-t hnnilt ih fourteen. No. only thirteen; the' gen- JIr- plerco is a wealthy man. He tleman in the far corner seems to be describes himseir in an aavestisement danbirni shuihni- it i Tn nr Rrnnn las a "big farmer." He could have But in th Thirri ritri rendered the service on the district Lafferty. an independent and a few board w'thut sreat hardship for that other thinir-. If w rir.w Meinh.., reason and lor tne runner reason mat we get Lafferty. What of Lafferty's his war work on the board was per- patriotism 7 workers may be most advantageously and economically made self-support ing and the public welfare farthest advanced." This blending of the in terest of the worker and that of the public, by adding as rapidly as pos sible to the sum total of useful pro duction, goes to the root of world reconstruction. Repatriation of refugees and re establishment of the family and the home are gigantic tasks, when it is considered how widely scattered these people, particularly in Asia and the Balkans, have become. The attempt to supply the raw materials of new industries will be watched with espe cial interest, and will constitute a fascinating study. It is already de signed that there shall be ample pro vision in the scheme for vocational and technical schools for the training of the young; in a word, for education in the most practical sense. There runs through the entire plan the idea of making the beneficiaries self-supporting as quickly as possible. The peril of fostering pauperism by Indis criminate and unwise benevolence will be avoided at the start. There is still another phase of the undertaking which will appeal strong ly to the imagination the "gemiluth Chasodim," or extension of loans without interest to the deserving to aid them in engaging in useful indus try. This seems destined to become a major part of the plan, and the fund which will be set aside for the pur pose will accomplish a great deal of good because of its revolving nature. It is the greatest purely humanitarian project in history to be attempted by individual effort, but this is not alto gether because it mentions a billion dollars as its financial goal. The prob lem is infinitely complex, for geo graphical, economic and other rea sons. A good ground for believing that the project will succeed, how ever, is that an early beginning has been made, and that it is taking con crete form in a time when other sim ilar enterprises have hardly entered upon the formative stages of their ex istence. of military information, at least of comprehension of the spirit of the men and women who are winning the war. . There is a certain art in letter-reading, as well as in letter-writing. It is necessary to see between the lines. Even in their intimate messages, our boys are much given to modesty in self-appraisal. If they write of deeds of heroism, it is not commonly Of their own. There is commendable stoicism in their refusal to admit that they ever suffer, and whatever their lot may be, they do not complain. But this in itself is a revelation. It is part of the genius of the organization, oi the spirit which is being fostered while a new democracy is being built up. The stay-at-home who wishes to form a complete picture of our Army at work will read as many soldiers' letters as possible. Taken together. they form a perfect mosaic. Men have written letters before now, but this is the first time a nation ever has taken to letter writing in the mass. APPROVED BY THOSE WHO KNOW. Those misguided persons who im agine that the wooden ship Is in tended as a rival of the .steel ship and that every wooden ship that is built will displace equal tonnage of steel, never weary of dwelling on the defi- ciencies of wood or giving circulation to every story that reflects on the .. worthiness or carrying cananitv nf wuouen snips. The best guide to a sound opinion Is the action of those who know about ships and who would lose in pocket ana reputation by making a blunder. The 5000-ton Columbia River wooden ship has been approved by the Ameri can bureau of Shipping and bv Uovrl-. also by Joseph Isherwood, designer of steel ships. It has been approved by mo riinersencv .fleet rnmnrotinr, Lafferty failed to get a commission I in the first training camp and he I would not go as a private, although I he is healthy, young and has no wife, no children, no dependents. The first draft age limit let him out of com pulsory service, yet the Government! was still taking volunteers of his age. I business without, i Did he engage in war work? He did iff" ',h"8.nf " formed in the early months of the year when his wheat farm did not de mand his personal attention. On the matter of payment the Presi dent's regulations further state: There are citizens whose services the coun try needs In this capacity, but who cannot without disproportionate loss and hardship longer absent themselves from their private compensation. The serv- np in war wni-bl VT AlA OI tn8 ""n cannot oe sparea Dy tno . . . I UVTCI II 1I1TTU k Bl will IllilVi A US3 1 AbO Ut sins not. mourn representing nimself to pensstlon for members of local district oe tne candidate of the common peo- I boards, prescribed in sections iu4 and iu, pie, he WOUld not go down tO the Ship- Prescnueu mis condition. yards and work among them when his " was under the provision espe country was crying for help. He I dally provided for those not well-to-do loafed in his office and wrote a piteous I that the well-to-do Pierce drew pay- letter to the Portland Journal in which I ment from tne uovernment. ho complained that his law practice 1 asking office as further pay for had vanished and he was cooking his patriotic labors the predominating own meals. He wouldn't fight and sentiment of the Pierce campaign wouldn't work. I does Candidate Pierce contend that Lafferty promises a still hopeful $1.25 an hour for draft board work public that if elected to Congress heor J2.20 a bushel for wheat he "grows will go to trance as a private, if in no I for the Oregon boys in JTance," is not other way. But the public need not I enough for his signal services? He will go as a rrivate if not worry. elected. The new draft will get him at last. Does the President want Lafferty from this district? Is his the quality of patriotism that is needed in Con gress? There is the list. McNary, Hawley, Mnnott. McArthur, ail Republicans, and all headed straight for election. A BILLION FOB RECONSTRCCTION'. Many thoughts are suggested by the project, recently announced in New York by leaders of the American Fund for Jewish War Sufferers, to raise billion dollars for the reconstruction of the Jewry of the world, and chief among these is that it has not awaited the end of the war, but proposes to be ready for peace when peace comes. GERMANY'S DREAD. I It is a vast undertaking, not only be- There is reason to believe that the I cause so many individuals will need ngns of weakness betrayed bv the I help, but also because their require military party in Germany arise as I ments are so various. Kach country much from fear of Bolshevism at home I presents its peculiar problems. The as from terror of the allied armies. I kind of aid which would be prac Tho radical Socialists point to the tical in Roumania or Russia might Kaiser as the author of the war and not be applicable to the Jews of the demand that he sacrifice himself, or Holy Land, and the situation of those be sacrificed against his will, in or- in Russia is far different from that der to save Germany from invasion, ot their coreligionists in Bulgaria or Tho seed which the military party's Poland. The effort now being made tools sowed in Russia has been car-1 seems to be to make all the neces- ried to Germany, and has spread rap-lsary inquiries and consult the experts idly. I in industry and philanthropy ana ioj- The twin dangers of revolution and I mulate all needful plans well in ad- invasion have driven the militarists to vance. With the preliminaries out of make concessions to liberalism, but it the way, it is easy to imagine that the Is doubtful whether they will be any scheme will move rapidly when the more, successful in imposing mod era- I final call is made. tion than were Lafayette and Mira- The magnitude of the task will be lieau in"Krance or Lvoff and Miliu- seen from the estimate that of the fcoff in Russia. Precedent and the 9,000.000 to 12,000,000 Jews in the particular circumstances of Germany world outside of the 3,000,000 in the give warning that, if Germany should United States, at least a quarter are be left to work out her own problems, starving and homeless ana pernaps revolution will take its course until it I half will be in need ot assistance wnen ends in a bloodbath, wherein mon archy and aristocracy will be drowned and the middle class will be deci mated. Those who raise the objection that this would be contrary to the German character forget that Bolshevism Is broad in the world and that circum stances aid it in shaking even the solid foundations of Teutonism. Having been carerully tutored in the doctrine of force, the German masses have in little more than four years run the whole course from the intoxication of invincibility and world-empire to the disillusionment of defeat and world hatred. Probably every family has lost at least one man, millions hve been crippled, many have died from lack of food and all have suffered in credibly. The people blame the Kai fcr and his bodyguard of Junkers and plutocrats. President Wilson points to the Kaiser as the cause of their suf ferings and tells them that, unless they destroy his power, they must continue to suffer until the allies crush him. They may turn upon him and all his supporters and make a clean sweep with all the brutality which militarism has taught them and which has been their daily practice for four years. Little cause as have the militarists to expect mercy from the allies, they peace comes to make them self-supporting again. It is obvious that any plan which contemplated a pro rata distribution of money would be a fail ure from the start. Kven a billion dollars would be pitifully inadequate if divided among 5,000.000, or there abouts, of needy people. But with practical philanthropists possessing both vision and experience in every day affairs in charge, it is not hard to understand the great good that can be accomplished. It is re-establishment of industry and restoration of ODDortunity which are desired, and not charity. The immediate needs of the starving and the sick and the per manent welfare of the ablebodied who have been made destitute by war pre sent separate problems. The broad outlines of this billion dollar undertaking are especially in teresting now because they are cap able of being adapted to the situations of other war sufferers. They begin with "Immediate and temporary as sistance," but this will be extended, as it ought to be, as the basis of perma nent reconstruction. There will be no homilies or political tracts for the hungry and the naked, but food and clothing, shelter and medical attend ance where needed. And then there will be provision for permanent em ployment, "through projects by which . BETIYIXO THE ART OF LETTEB-WKITLSG. Who was it that said the art of letter-writing had fallen into deday? Certainly it was not a constant reader of the messages that have been com ing in a steady stream from the boys 'Over There," and probably not one who ever enjoyed the privilege of read ing many letters from the home folks. A year or so ago something might have been said with truth about the decline of our social correspondence. But the war has changed all that. Four million young men, on land and sea, and a good many times four mil lion at home are beginning to find out that "the way to learn how to write is to write." It is simple enough, and there is no other way. The beauty of the formula is that it works. The letterwriting art is something else than mere facility of composition and something more than a literary accomplishment. It may be that our letter writers are not authors of books; we know that most profes sional authors are highly unsatisfac tory correspondents. The thing about letter which we most admire is its quality of telling us precisely that which we want to know. When brother Bill has gone to war, we are concerned not so much with his tech nic of grammar and strophe as with the intimate details of the situation in which he finds himself. We would like to visualize Bill, if we could, fig uratively speaking, as he rises in the morning and as he goes to bed at night, and in all the attitudes - he strikes between. There is to us a wtrange romance in his adventure though to him this may be tempered by contact with cooties and too mo notonous rations of Army beans. So the thing we look for in the soldier's letter is the plain, untarnished narra tive. We knew Bill at home; we have our own private opinions about how he will conduct, himself in a scrim- maere. We know that he will be hero, of course. We do not know" so much about what he is likely to be doing, say, at 6:30 o'clock, when If Bill were at home he would be milk ing the cows, or, perhaps, washing his hands preparatory to leaving the of fice for his cottage on the edge of town. These revelations of the common place are the things which form the groundwork of the perfect letter from the soldier to his friend. Descriptions of the scenery are wholly incidental. his abstract philosophies count for less than nothing, his opinion on the outcome of the war already has been discounted. But there can scarcely be too much that graphically depicts his personal association with events, and helps us to visualize our former fellow citizen in his new role of sol dier. One needs only to read the extracts from the soldier's letters which are printed in the home newspapers to see that our correspondents are uner ringly hitting the mark, and telling us the very things we wished to know. If the language is a bit colloquial, so much the better. It is this form of expression, by the way, which is help ing to cement our bond of union with the French, who know a thing or twe about idioms themselves. It aids our understanding of the spirit of democ racy to read about an American cor poral who is "chummy' with a French Captain, both being in a convalescent camp. We get a fine insight into the accomplishments of our engineers not a birdseye view, but an interest ing glimpse of detail from the letter of one of them to the home folks. No technical article on aviation is more revealing than the account of the per sonal experience of one of our own boys aboard a trick flying machine liavigated by a daredevil pilot. We learn a vast deal about the farming methods of our allies, and their ways of doing other things, all written from the point of view of the American craftsman. The comparative method of description is the most graphic to the ordinary reader. Only a few pro fessional writers understand the value of it. which will prove its faith by contract ing ror Duuaing of ships of this type. That counts for more than all the yarns which originate no one knows wnere, condemning the wooden ship. These yarns may have some basis of truth when spun in regard to vessels built on other coasts of small timber, but they have no application to vessels of the size mentioned, built of Pacific coast timber. They may be true of some or the first vessels launched aicer inc present era of activity openea, ior wooden shipbuilding is an old industry revived and much had to be learned over again and modern methods had to be adapted to the in dustry. But so much has already been learned by experience that the wooden ship has surely come back to stay on the Pacific Coast. Those who say otherwise do not know how to build them or have not the big timber. FlOWEEDiG PLANTS IN OREGON. One need only consult the of any Portland nurseryman to con firm the statement that we live liter ally in a land of flowers here in Ore gon. iature naving so favored us, it would be a pity not to eniov our ad vantage to the limit. It is because of this that the Red Cross Plant sale, one of many devices for obtaining money tor a cause whose worth is recog nized, possesses especial interest and is endowed with peculiar merit. At the same time that it serves the imme diate purpose for which it is designed, it also aids in beautifying the eitv. dis seminates a culture with which nn fault can be found by anyone, and ex tends opportunity and hospitality to the newcomer. -It is a high privilege to be taken Into full communion with those who have made Portland one of the garden cities of the world. Almost every plant of the temperate zone will thrive in Oregon, with a lit tle care, and many of the loveliest flowers, in the hands of those who are kind to them, are to all intents and purposes perennial with us. Fu chsias, geraniums and lemon verbena are among those which repay atten tion by covering the earth with gor- geous or fragrant bloom. The gera nium seems to have prospered espe cially this season, and to have vied with the salvia in making the land scape gay far into the Autumn. The Scotch daisy, more modest but not to be despised, deserves a place of honor in the list. The lilac and the hydrangea, both are hardy on the Pa- ciiic coast, jno one who loves our woods- and all the beauty that they contain will have failed to be attracted by the spirea, which also grows in cultivated forms. Our flowering al monds are at home with us as they would be in Japan, which also has given us the wistaria and other plants which seem even to have been im proved by their change of habitat. Only in the Pacific Northwest, on the ocean side of the Cascade range, does the dogwood regularly blossom three times a year, vying each time in size and intrinsic beauty with the dog wood of the East. Not even in Scot land is the broom more gorgeous. The native variety of goldenrod is fully worthy of its name. Where else in this latitude will the violet be found blooming all Winter long, even in protected nooks? The azalea of south ern Oregon would grace a garden in any section' of the state. The Oregon grape and its cousin, the barberry, at tain perfection and the rhododendron is nowhere more tropical in its gorge- ousness. The flowering currant is oui very own, and it ought to be preserved against the day when its native woods will be desroyed. It is Oregon's-peculiar harbinger of Spring. It is not as widely known as it ought to be that the wild currant responds gratefully to cultivation and that when hospit ably treated it is even more Spring like than before. So the list runs on. Aster, carna tion, chrysanthemum and coreopsis, delphinium, sweet William and forget-me-not, and peony and phlox. Thera are old favorites as well as new. It would seem peculiarly appropriate just now to cultivate a taste for the fleur de lis jf any cultivation be necessary. Every variety of iris, indeed, thrives in Oregon. Among the lilies, we have native variety, the- Mount Hood. Bulbs, roots and tubers, all are at arrayed than any lily, convey also a message of tender regard from those who are gone. Early Oregon history, indeed, is filled with instances of this desire of the newcomer to make nore beautiful the home which he was building in a wilderness. The joy-dispensing prop erties of a lily, for example, may be almost endless'. There is a St, Jo-, seph lily owned by Mrs. June McMil lan Ordway, the original bulbs of. which were cultivated by a great grandmother, who conveyed them from Pennsylvania to Ohio, from where certain of their descendants traveled to Oregon, to be planted on a historic donation land claim. It will not do to say that such a lily with such a history is no better than a com mon flower. There is woven into these especial offerings a great deal of the thoughtful spirit which prompted the perpetuation of the original. One may be quite sure of that. Our flowers, as well as our peo ple, have their historic memories There is, for another example, the fine old white lilac bush, given by an older settler to Dr Lindsley, once pastor of the First Presbyterian Church of Portland, and planted in the yard of Dr. Lindseys home at Tenth and Mor rison Streets, in the early "70s, which still blooms in the yard of his- daugh ter, Mrs. J. Thorburn Ross, where" it has for companions a Japanese quince and a. golden crocus transplanted from the same yard, now occupied by a business block. There is, as we have suggested, a very special merit in this practice of passing the bounties of nature along. There goes with each, as there does not go In the sordid transaction of everyday commerce, something of the genius of the original grower, as wen as of the beauty of the first flower. It is a good thing to think about, anere are endless possibilities in the plan. be deterred by considerations of capi tal outlay. The preliminary outlay is negligible and the resulting product, in nine cases out of ten, is clear gain. SEDAN MAY BE THB AMERICAN GOAL. Sedan, not Metz, may be the feoal at which the first and second American armies are driving, suggests the Army and Navy Journal, and it dilates on the vast artillery preparation as prob ably intended for that scene of opera tion. That conclusion is drawn from the diversion of the American attack from the direction of Metz, after the St. Mihiel salient was wiped out, to the Argonne and Champagne in the general direction of Sedan, which Is not 40 miles northwest of Romagne. As the precedent of Verdun shows that field fortifications will be con structed to defend fortresses and that vast concentrations of artillery will be needed to demolish them, the Jour nal predicts that "we shall have to make such artillery preparation as the war has not known as yet." These preparations are already under way. There are at Camp Zachary Taylor m ono candidates for commissions in the artillery, and the number is to be increased to 18,000. The United States la tn nroduce in the next year 30,- 000,000 semi-steel shells, and Winston Churchill said a few days ago tnai British workmen would have to make a greater effort than ever to carry out the commitments of the British gov ernment to the United States for shell Droduction. In an "interior" French town the United States has built an artillery plant which is 90 per cent complete and which is surpassed in the United States oniy oy xvuun. in land. More than half of the latest army deficiency bill, totaling nearly ts 700.000.000 is for artillery, and General Horney told the House com mittee that the programme calls for 14,600 new guns. All of these preparations-forecast a concentration of big guns and a storm of shell at Sedan, or any other point ,,iT, Tnav become the object of a major attack, such as will excel what Germany did at verauu. . edge of these plans has leaked into Germany, it may well explain the anxiety for peace which has seized that country. Perhaps it is well that the plan to extend "daylight saving" to the Win ter months has been abandoned. There were phases which recommended it, particularly the promise that it would enable stores to close an hour earlier in the afternoon, but sentiment of the country was far from unanimous and it probably was not worth the acri monious discussion which was threat ened. The contention of Professor Jacoby, of Columbia University, that early rising in Winter was conducive to pneumonia probably would be re ceived with skepticism by our farm ers, but these were a class which al ready was utilizing all the daylight there iS without reference to the clock. and the plea of a war munitions con cern in Pittsburg in favor of the law came too late to carry weight. Day light saving in Summer probably has come to stay, however, and we shall look for the setting ahead of the clock each Spring without further protest. Meanwhile there is nothing to remem ber except that on October 27, at 2 o'clock in the morning, the clock is to be set back an hour. Most of us will find it convenient to change the hands at bedtime. Ravings of a Recruit. By Private L. B. Gross Spruce Pro duction Division, U. S. Army. The British government has recog nized the importance of maintaining its supply of dairy products by com mandeering the output of butter ot several Canadian provinces, the point being made that genuine butter con tains certain . elements necessary to health which do not exist in substi tutes. The jper capita consumption of butter in Canada is twenty-eight pounds a year, while Britain is on six-pound ration. It is proposed to re duce the Canadian allowance by 2.5 per cent, which will still leave that country more than three times the amount consumed in the mother coun try. It is proposed to export 56,000 000 pounds of butter a year to Europe, and at the same time to encourage greater production in Canada, as it is seen that for a long time to come the dairy herds of Europe frill be inade quate to tne . aemanaa umuo uijuii them. home in the soil of Oregon. Of vines, There Is much !n these letters, too. J the honeysuckle, the ivy, the wood- that isareal "literature," but this does Dine, tne ciemaus aim lao jasuime. not have a serious bearing upon the I Ferns innumerable. There are hedge art of letter-writing, which is what we started to write about, and which we insist Is distinctly being revived by this war. When one contemplates the spectacle of thousands of young men learning to write for no other purpose than to be able to communicate with family and friends, and of those other hundreds of thousands who make letter-writing a religious duty because they know that reciprocity is the life of correspondence, and when we read the bald statistics of those millions of sheets of letter paper furnished by the T. M. C. A,, the Knights of Columbus, and other wel fare agencies and know that some thing like a million letters a day are traveling eastward overseas, we know that this practice will not come to naught. The future historian will not neglect this important source it sot plants for every purpose, and grasses and bamboos. It is a pleasant thought, as has been said, thus to pass the pleasures of life along. Some of this spirit actuated the pioneers who brought with them to Oregon the flowers which now blossom as if this were their native soil. The apple tree at Fort Vancou ver, fruit of the thoughtful foresight of a party of English merrymakers in the old Hudson's Bay Fur Company days, is a typical example. Vancou ver's other arboricultural celebrity, the Mission rose, said fb have been planted by Dr. McLoughlin, possesses, we think, a sentimental quality quite in addition to its intrinsic merit as a flower. If the "meanest flower that blows can give thoughts that do often lie too deep for tears," what must be said of those yhicht more gorgeously j THE SMOKEHOUSE ON THE FARM. The waste on farms, due to short age of labor which makes the old-time care In harvesting well-nigh impossi r,iB nntrht to give new impetus to the raising of products which are gath ered with the minimum of effort such, for example, as hogs, which in certain seasons of the year forage for their own food? They are me gleaners .of the agricultural world. and it is impossible to travel iumub.. farming country nowadays m which the harvest has been lmperiectiy made without wishing that provision had been made for turning the waste grains and vegetables and fruit mto it is true mai me iuib'"s hog is not the very best of pork, but he is nevertheless a beginning toward it. - The man who tries it for the first ti.me will be surprised by tne growiu t-ht ,i i-minir animals will make upon Lilt. . mu J - - . v,n innnnsidered trifles which now t clear waste. There is another factor in small farm equipment which is too much neglected, and that is the home smoke house and packing plant. The farmer who in these times buys hams ana bacon at the store is standing in his own light, and is making unnecessary inroads upon the country's supplies at the same time. Pork products are high in price. It seems strange to see a farmer paying 50 cents or so a pound for bacon which he might have made for himself for next to nothing in the way of cash outlay. Yet- it is being done every day. The fine old art of smoking one's own pork ought to be revived. There is no excuse ior neg le.ctine it. For the benefit of those farmers of the new generation who have backslid from the conservation methods of their fathers, it should be said that the farm packing plant is neither ex pensive nor restricted by technical dif ficuties. A good many prime flitches have been turned out with no more eniitnment than a barrel, and our grandmothers, who superintended these enterprises, thought themselves lucky to obtain the use of an a dan doned woodshed. Each had her own formula, and all vied with one an other in the excellence of their prod ucts. But it all simmered down to a matter of having pride and taking pains. There was a time wnen Duying winter meat at the store was a high sign of thriftlessness. We are coming back to those days. The homemade saugage, the home cured bacon, the dry salt side and the family "pickle" barrel represent money in hand as much as if hogs have been driven to market and sold for cash to the packer. They mean more than money, however, for they relieve the pressure upon the supply of food for those who are not so for tunately situated. Food counts, these days. A well-meaning contemporary has i been at pains to explain that a desir able smokehouse can be built on the farm for a "few hundred dollars." A few hundred cents in most situations would be an extravagance. Let no one It is a grotesque form of punish ment that a Leipzig editor predicts for us. Germans, he says, will fight shy of emigrating to America after the war, which will "cause terrible gaps in the American Nation." German Americanism being no longer enforced by this emigration from the homeland, 'this noble element will gradually dis appear." But that is not all of the terrible tale. We shall be compelled to rely upon a Slav-Mongolian admix ture to maintain our vitality, and these elements will gradually become para mount in our political as well as in dustrial life. In time our complexion will become a blend of yellow, brown and white, our Germanic features gradually fading away. This is to be our punishment for "flippantly em barking upon the war" in utter dis regard of the wishes of the Prussian war lords. In the language of the street, the Leipzig editor is kidding himself and doesn't know it. . - The Germans have adopted new tactics to combat tanks. They blow up bridges and replace them with lighter structures, dam streams to create marshes, mine roads and bring anti tank or even field guns into the fight ing line. They also instruct infantry to combine against tanks in parties, of half a dozen riflemen or two or three mine-throwers and to throw bunches of grenades under the caterpillar wheels. But these tactics require them to go out and meet the tanks at much higher cost in casualties than if they are attacked from cover. American infantry meet these new tactics by moving to the attack far in advance of the tanks. As- Fall advances, the wet condition of the ground will make it more unfavorable to tank opera tions. Fiv pro-Bolshevists in New York, all unnaturalized Russians, who-have Just been sentenced to long terms in prison for disloyalty, will serve as ex amples to those other Bolshevists who have been threatening to come over here and overturn the country. And it probably would be just as well for Trotsky if he never came back. Those Alaska caribou, so numerous that they make river navigation diffi cult, are a reminder of the days in the West when one couldn't see the sun for the flights of wind pigeons that obscured the sky. Those were the good old days. "In spite of everything," says the Neueste Nachrichten, "we believe that this answer brings us nearer to peace. Well, the Neueste Nachrichten is in ; position to know what unconditional surrender, with guarantees, means. The other day our C. O. marched us out to drill. Said he wanted us fit for overseas. mm I don't see why. The only sea we ever cross is the Taquina Bay. The top Sergeant took command of us. First he'd eay "Forward march." and then "Halt," and once again, "For ward march" and then "Halt!" s I can't understand that fellow. He la always changing his mind. The C. O. asked mo If I knew how to command a squad. Think of being a commanding officer and having to ask questions of a private. He commanded "to the rear march!" and I tried to execute it before the command "March" and the fellow be-' hind me put his left foot In my face. Then I wanted to "charge." At the command "Squads left!" I turned to the left. Then I was the only one in the squadron In step. The rest of the fellows had deserted mc. At -the command "Company front Into line!" I turned the wrong way again, and there was no company in front for me. It was all to the rear. s 'Present arms!" was the next com mand. I tried to present mine to every soldier in the squadron but none would accept. The top Sergeant told us that a red lantern at night was a signal to re treat, and a green lantern a signal to advance. He wanted to know what we would do over in France if we ran out of red and green oil? . But I was too smart for him. I told him that I would use port wine for the red light and creme de mentho for the .green one. Tou have to be very smart to be a top Sergeant. The Government could save a lot of money by firing all the officers anfi placing the top Sergeants In command. - But then, I'm not running the Army. The Second Lieutenants do that. I read a headline in The Oregonian the other day as follows: "Two Million Men to Be Drafted at Once for United States Army." They don't need to go to all that bother. All they need do is to call a meeting of Second Lieuten ants and reduce them to privates. I should have enlisted In tho aviation service, as the other day the Captain told me I was no good on earth. This branch of service would be & good place for a traveling salesman. He would get plenty of "orders" around here. The other day I wired to my Dad as follows: "Please send me $10 at once; I'm on the hog." Here is Dad's reply- 'Ride the hog home, son, we're out of meat." Speaking of counterfeit money. What do you think of the Kaiser Bill? If Kaiser Bill has the last word to say when peace is discussed, I'll, bet he will say "Kamerad." Army doctor (examining Private Fen- ton) "Got any scars?" Private Fen ton "Nope, but I gotta cigarette." Speaking of Army doctors, they al ways Insist that we keep warm. The woolen uniforms we have are very hot. But then it's uniform heat. I am sure the war will be over by Christmas because I never held a job longer than six months in my life. I'm in the Army now! IMMORTALS. The command to "shell out" must be heeded. A million pounds a day of nut shells and fruit pits must be fur nished. How would ycru like to know that your boy was in the advanced zone with an Inadequate gas mask on? Production of hand grenades in the United States passed the 3,000,000 mark more than a month ago and now exceeds 8 4,000 a day. The last million was produced and shipped in exactly a month. Daniels' programme will cost J800,- 000,000 more, and if that will make our Navy the greatest in the world which it must be, he can have it and enough more for a possible deficiency. Sun, Earth loves your shining In the early days of spring, When buds are just unfolding And birds are on the wing; And she loves to feel the warming Of your breath upon her face, When sjie yields in full-veined beauty To the Joy of your embrace. And though there's mete of sighing In the days when you are gone. She knows you'll always love her. And will just keep shining on. m Dear, I see you gently smiling In those first sweet days of bliss. When you set my heart a-throbbing With the rapture of your kiss; And I feel the wondrous cheering Of your smile through all the years. When life brought to us its treasures With thffr garnishment of tears. And though you've left me longing. Now that youth and you are gone, I can feel your spirit's nearness And your soul keeps smiling on. MARY HESTER FORCE. BEAUTY, Oh. Those crowds before the Reichstag building in Berlin mean business, , in which the Kaiser will not be taken into partnership. Nebraska has the first snowfall of the season, but Oregon has been first with about everything else since the war began. It was the Kaiser who coined the phrase, "yellow peril." Now he knows just what it is, from experience right at home. 'Yankees gain objective" is coming to be a familiar phrase in the news. It is a winning way they have "over there." Ferdinand, ex-Czar of Bulgaria, has taken up" botany. It is never too late to plant a war garden The speechless campaign is not half so unpopular as a meatless day would be. The influenza mask would even Im prove some faces we have seen. how passionately I love it of every form and kind. From the tiny nodding floweret to the blossom of the inind; From the sunrise in the Springtime to the Autumn leaf, red-gold. From the radiant face of childhood to the kindly one grown old; In the mountains, dank and woodsy, where the tall ferns swing and 6way, On the seashore, where the tides tease lovingly the sands in play; In the krain field where the study is of colors yellow-green In tho daffodil and daisy yea, in every Nature scene. Brilliant blotch upon the bird's wing, softer shades in beckoning trees How I love the beauty everywhere that God has made, to please GRACE E. HALL. THE RED, RED ROSES ARE- M0R Tou may have the violets That grow by the singing brook, And all the other spring flowers That crow in the cool wild-wood. And those that bloom in Summer time, And those that bloom, in Fall, v The asters and chrysanthemums You may have them all. Ami T will srive you roses. The yellow, the pink, and the white. And the little moon-flowers That bloom In the summer night. And the gay little dancing daffodils. The pinks, and the columbine, t iviu irive you all of these. But the red, red roses are mine. DOKUX11I i. UALiU Censor Interferes. Washington ,(D. C.) Star. Are you writing regularly to your How much ahead are you on seven i'7i' .-t vimm ' hf months of daylight saving? been writjn' to the censor. After the censor takes out the news he wants, Jfpw is the time to conserve onIce.jhe lets Josh keep the change.1'