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TIIE SUNDAY OREGOMAy, PORTLAND, MARCH 16, 1919. 6 member that the first purpose of the clear. David's Bonaparte" is one of63 per cent of the amount formerly to destroy labor unions; This these. M. Marguillier says that this paid. His proposal that the average irpose can best be thwarted by ag- was stolen from the chateau of St-1 be doubled in the next ten years does ve action on the part of those Cloud by Blucher in 1815. It is not not, however, represent a doubling or PORTLAND. OREfJOK. 'ho are loyal to the republic to sup- specified whether this ana otners in cost to me people, ior no wouia m me Eotsred at Portland (Oregon) Foeteffiee as l press the radicals and to cast out the a similar category are to be included same time increase tne school term )t (Dmnmtmt g; sseond-clasa mail matter. Subscription rates Invariably la advance: (By Mall.) ral!T. Fanday Included, on year ...... -Xf 00 rai.y. Minday Included, six. montm. ..... la!ly, Sunday tnclutird. three msnths ... 2X Lrailv. Sunfim Included, one month .. Xally. without Sunday, one year 6.00 I'i!y. wilhout Sunday, six months ...... 3.23 I'aiir. wltnout Sunday, an monta ...... .v Week. y. one year l.vo f undiy. one year fc unsay and weekly S.&0 (By Carrier). Tal!y. Sunday included, one year Lai:v. Sunday included, one monl I'ally. Sunday Included, three months Iai!r. without Sunday, one year ... lt!y without Sunday, three months 2aaly. without 8unday. ona month. tm vtmlt Reml nostofflee monv or der, eapreea or persona: cneclc on your local bank. Clamps, coin or currency are at " - tr i risk, ijive postorrice saaresa in xuu. w ciudlng county and state. bolsheviki who have joined unions in the list of works of reparation, or by at least 25 per cent. The average onlv to disrupt them. In these days simply appropriated on the ground term is now less than 160 days. His we can best serve ourselves by serv ing the community, the nation and the civilized world. EXALTE O. JCSTICK. It will profit those who urge the traditional aloofness of America as reason for rejecting the league of na- th- " tions plan to read in full the now oft churcn or gallery. He ruthlessly and ,nthi".""i:i'i quoted farewell address of George wlth almost German thoroughness enu- that they belong to France. most convincing argument is that The Prussians seem to have been I teaching ranks are now being depleted, especially inept in their establishment j and that unless the profession is made of precedents all along the line. The more attractive there soon will be a French critic recalls that after this teacher ramine, a prospect not to be war began certain works were taken regarded with equanimity by a people back to Germany solely for the sake I who pride themselves upon their edu- of old times, because they had graced, cational system. in some remote day, some German 7. so 1. Washington. It will interest lovers of exactness in quotation, too. to dis cover that there is no admonition therein against "entangling alliances.' Washington s expression is perma nent alliances. The words en. merates a long list of paintings and statuaries which Germany will lose if this rule is followed. The Flemish masters figure prominently. The total reaches some hundreds, all works which their market value In money Postage Kate 15 to l pages. I cent: 18 tangling alliances" so frequently put could not atone for OP replace. Co D.. cents: 34 to 4 paga. 4 cents Atwo no mm: 4 cents: 412 to 7H pares. cents: 7 to panes. cents. Foreign poet ace, double rates. twm ftnaineaa Office Verro A Conk tin. itrunswick buildins. New York: Verre 4 Conkiin. Sieger building. Chicago; Verro Conkiin. Free press nullum;, ueiron. iun., Can Francisco representative, K. J. xiiaaeii in Washington's mouth were uttered by Thomas Jefferson. One may as readily read Into Wash ington's farewell address a sweeping condemnation in every time, place and circumstance, of political parties as one may read therein an equally sweeping condemnation of foreign alliances. He urges repression of un it will be noted that France Is lay- ing no claim to works of German art. These in themselves are not inconsid erable; and if art is international, as INFANT PRODIGIES. Precocity in children has long fur nished parents and jokesmiths with material for conversation' and para graphs. But mere precocity is no more than normal, for every average child is certain to show, at .times, flashes of brilliancy that are startling in their luminous insight an insight that does not tally with the record of birthdays the- mental vision, so it seems, of one far older in years and If EMBER or THE ASSOCIATED PRESS. r.. . i . . .4 !-.. J I. rcluatvelv entl- t'ad to th use for repudiation of all news due party spirit but admits that It is oprmon misternlpre also It is ulainlv tiated records of many such. ;i.5!-" L" '1 -".'J ",2L ?Lh '"separable from our nature. InJ 5? TlVJslnuTZra gifted, almost from ba will be conceded where it Is possible experience, to be removed wholly from the in- nfantf P"f how TW fluence of chauvinist a good deal different mental temper than the ordl could be said in behalf of a policy of """J, bright tot of the nursery and stripping the German galleries of their ' o ' leading up to his admonition against permanent alliances his long discus sion is with marked singularity of "inveterate antipathies against par ticular nations and passionate .attach- merits for others." no more than the Germans would have done in the case of French art .if they Some babyhood, with an uncanny, intuitive compre hension of mathematics. While their rnn V. ii .,-1 r. T-titf GVnra will Via content If reparation can be enforced Playfellows were stumbling through onlv in French and Belgian works. it h. wh,t,or tho manner cr. con f -n.rrr.Kserf in mat- Prodigies were soaring in the bright Washington recites tne obvious re-I mnmonr con ho, in. etner oi mgner caicu-ius. credited to this paper, and also the local news published herein. All nrlits of reouhllcatlon of special dls- .patchea herein are also reservea. PORTLAND. SCNTJAT. MARCH 16, 1919. OTR DCTT TO CIVILIZATION. Washington recites the obvious re- I .. , ' , , I ether of higher calculus. They will Frank A. VanderllD is not only suit of an habitual hatred of one for- L. i . ;.. iaim serve for examples of the type. president of the biggest bank In the eign country or an habitual fondness wnlcn are deeply sentimental but at Clatsop county is said to have United States: he is a well-informed, for another. Fear that the young ma ,.m m(,iv reared a child marvel a boy of 6 broad-minded, farseeing. patriotic I nation might be inveigled into politi- I I years and 5 months, now attending a citizen, as he proved by dropping his leal or commercial relations neither I I country school in the Walluskl dis own business to take up management open-handed nor impartial seems to I BACK TO THE "JOB." , J trict. By the standards of age he of the war savings campaign. For I have been the main current of his I As final and conclusive evidence 1 should be articulating. ' 1 eee the cat. ' these reasons the following passages thought. Thus he uttered a caution I that the war is over, the old-time hobo I But his puzzled teacher cannot de- frnm his statement of the condition against Implicating ourselves by arti- has begun his wanderings again. He termine what grade he should enter. of Eurooe should have the earnest ficial ties with the "ordinary" vicissi-I had disappeared into the ran Its of In- Given 75 words, chosen from the fifth attention of every good citizen: I tudes of Europe's politics or with the dustry for a time, impelled by the I grade speller, he failed to Bpell but ,. w h.w. i. wictnrw wtth near. I ordinary combinations and collisions I work-or-fight order to violate his code. I four. Production has ceased and. nniesa produo- I of her friendships and enmities." "It I The professional tramp never did I With inrant nonchalance he named tlon can be epeedtly resumed, one'a lmar- I i cite trim rinlicv" no snlrl tc ciAprlcnnctitntA a snnlnl nrnhlpm' no uenst I the ca.ritta.ls of manv states, and ICry'0.,nsC"n" comprh""1 ,h ellio' whlcb clear of permanent alliances with any an individual one. Prosperity or the located them, as well as many of the if production Is not resumed, the horrors portion of the world." reverse of it had nothing to do with principal cities of the world. 'Several ef war may be exceeded by the horrors of The league of nations embraces a his existence. He believed that the prominent characters in world affairs """rr.-C?:" --T permanent alliance, but not a discrtm- world owed him a living, and he was of today were known to him. That is, inatory one nor one wnn any single wining io compromise wnu jl uy ue- uo wu.o aum i.u lucumy bxicui uj ap portion of the world. But were one 1 manding- only the satisfaction of ex- curate data other than- the mere to concede that Washington had In-1 ceedingly simple wants. , names. He told his teacher of the eluded in his thought an impartial! The true hobo should not be con- discovery of America,, named the and world-embracing alliance fori founded with the "migratory worker" date, and discoursed upon the natives insurance of peace and had warned I or anv other kind of worker. The as Columbus found them. The crops against it, it will not and it cannot be I present problem of the hobo is how of the world were an open book to denied that "our detached and distant I to pass himself for a war hero with-I him he knew where they were grown situation" upon which he then re-1 out subjecting himself to the plans I and to what purpose they were de- lied now exists In fact. In the light being made to furnish returned sol- I voted. of recent events there is in truth diers with Jobs. He doesn't want a Certainly, in this instance there Is no departure in the league pact and I job. All he wants is to eat each meal I evident a marked degree of precocity, there will be none from this advice I in a different place and not to be I at the least. It may even be that the of the first president: compelled to work for it. His return chyd is entitled to entry in the prodigy Observe good faith and justice to his for-ier status will shorten sev- class. But with most observers, un toward all nations. Cultivate peace eral payrolls without effecting a cor- less additionally startling and con and harmony with all. Religion and I responding reduction in production of I vincing evidence is offered, the case of morality enjoin this conduct. And can I world's goods. the Clatsop county boy will be set down as one of normal gifts, plus a somewhat remarkable memory. It of civilisation. In the face of snch appalling disaster every p.irtlsan consideration, every nnessen. tial difference of opinion and every per sonal ambition should be Instantly Xor- aotten. Hunfr can lead any eonntry to bolahey !m. and hunger Is what Central Europe Is faclnv. Allevtatlnc conditions of starvation does not set at the root ef the thing. That root runs down Into tne rrouna or production. If the situation Is to be aaved, every effort must be bent toward solvlnc the problem and arain alerting production. What can America doT There la certainly one thine that cannot be done, and thi Is to withdraw Itself to rest In the belief that this chaos Is remote and that America can avoid p.aylnc her part In International responsibility. We must think In International terms as we never thoucht before. . . There la no WT0.rh.nomury m of t be that good policy does not equally this altuatlon la not charity. It Is not I enjoin it? loans. It Is the organisation or production I "it will be worthy a free, enlight and distribution. ened anrj at no distant period a great The soundness or tnose conclusions nation to give to mankind the; mag. cannot be successfully disputed. Alnanlmous and too novel example of a duty is Imposed upon eacn one or us. people always guided by an exalted We must help to save the world justice and benevolence. order to save our own country; we must helr to save our country in order t nave ourselves from the fate which IXDEMXITT fob ART. at this dav befalls millions In Russia. The sense of Justice of most per t ia i-t. to ronsider kov this I sons will be strongly appealed to by chaos might have been averted. The the proposal, now seriously made in study of some one language, yet to be consistency is lacking. . . , I W1U UC L V Cell Ul OU, CDU ill XI IK U The quest for a common speech may w Mmof, ,,, be accelerated by desire to promote ment bo e(L In Ug present ltUri "A?: I the case Is unusual, but scarcely io iina its goal in i K There have Deert scor.s of ,nfant cenuy suDmiuea oy a lassuciiusetu. prodigie3. If jn jater jife ran uu... y.vw.. j true to form tne geat names of his peace tuuici eura no nuuiu ,aa hun fmil, o agreement by all the powers joining , exten fe these BupeT.cb;ldreD. the league of nations to make the Tne facts dQ not Uy The pr0Qf of By far the France, that the Germans be com- chosen, compulsory in all countries ter number of ,ofty perches were pelled to make reparation in kind This would not interfere with present gained by studious endeavor, by a con. for the works of French art which languages or dialects, but would pro- ot.t Hh. .nd h they wantonly destroyed during the vide future generations with means of wm to conquer apparent limitations war. ine principle was enunciaiea " 0f mind and body. uy tne Acaaeraie aes iseaux Arts sev. i u iwo t-wuiwom-K, .vuA,.a.uvu, legislation or commerce. thing to consider now is the situation as It exists and to decide how to save civilization from wreck. Having gone so far toward organiz ing a league of nations as the founda tion of peace, the Paris conference ia .-i. i .iov cnitte nn a a it I eral months a co. the Fine Arts com has begun perfecting the league con- mission of Paris has formulated a The scheme embodies an Ideal whicli THE ANGLO-FRENCH TT7NNEI, PROJECT. Mitutlon by removing the defects similar claim, and the French cham- lns has actuated well-meaning theor- Revival of efforts to put through which criticim has revealed, and ber of deputies has before it a resolu- ists, but never has been fulfilled and the Dover-to-Calais tunnel project, as ...Kikkin, c.etalntv to the future, tion urging "payment In works of art is likely never to be. Growth of the an after-war measure of relief of the French people, but has been even more greatly influenced by completion of plans for defense of the proposed tunnel. Provision has been made. In abundance of regard for the future, for flooding a dip in the tunnel by a device to be operated independently from each of two inland forts, for the construction of mines by which the tunnel could be destroyed In emer gency, and by control of the operating electric current from either end. These provisions have disposed of the agita tion against the tunnel which was waged for more than thirty years, be ginning in 1882. News from London that the government is now prepared to go ahead promptly with the work, therefore, is highly credible. The Panama canal has so surfeited us with gigantic engineering accom plishment that the channel tunnel will not give us the thrill which it would have caused even a decade ago. The Panama canal has cost between $360, 000,000 and 400, 000,000. The tunnel may be built for $100,000,000. The cost of two tubes was estimated In 1906 at between $40,000,000 and $50, 000,000. Costs of labor and material have largely increased since then, and the present project contemplates four tubes instead of two. The outlay, how ever, seems small by comparison with the billions that have been expended for war. Early estimates were that the tunnel would pay a profit of $28, 725,000 francs a year by 1925, but these were estimated upon a two-track basis. The enterprise presents no en gineering obstacles, and financiers re gard It as no greater relative task, say, than amortization of the cost of our own interstate bridge. The effect of the Dover-to-Calais tunnel upon tunnel-building in general may be momentous. Another tunnel enterprise, which would connect Gib raltar with Morocco, has gone beyond the preliminary stages, and a subway under the Bosporus is also being seri ously considered. To the-engineer all these enterprises are simple enough. The outcome depends solely upon abil ity of the nations concerned to co operate to the end desired. There is no room for party animus In considering changes that will strengthen, not destroy, it. Preslden-I tial slights, real or fancied, are incon- sequentials beside the duty to recog nize that the overwhelming opinion ot the people favors the league, that the salvation of the republic and the world is bound up in it. Tresent talk of what the allies shall I of indemnities for the artistic losses number of literary languages has been employment situation in both England which France has suffered at the s0 largely influenced by the spirit of and France, recalls some interesting hands of Germany." nationality that it would be practically memories. No other projected enter- Auguste Marguillier, In a recent I impossible to overcome the jealousies prise of modern times has hung fire article in Paris L'lllustration, covers that selection of any existing language so long, or experienced so many ups the ground thoroughly. He cites the I would engender. Efforts to invent an I and downs. It is 117 years since the ambition of Frederick II to "create artificial language, which found ex- French engineer Mathieu first pro. in the depths of Germany a little pression in Voiapuk, Esperanto, Idiom I posed the scheme to Napoleon I, cerner of France, filled with its archi- I Neutral and perhaps a score or others, eighty-six years since Thome de Gra. tecture. its gardens, its furniture. I grew out of knowledge that to exalt I mond dedicated his life to the enter. do to punish Germany is Immature paintings and books." M. marguillier any misuiik iuhkub iu nm ram ui a prise-ana oegan a series oi exnausuve and Inopportune. As an organized thinks it is time that this "corner of world-language would give its nauve studies of channel geology, and sixty- state Germany is a corpse in which France" was moved back to France, speakers such an advantage over other th.ree years since Gramond submitted decomposition has set in. It has be- and most persons will agree with him. nationalities" as to make the project detailed plans and specifications come the feeding ground and breed- Our own Ambassador Morgenthau is humanly improbable of adoption. But which, together with a scheme for tne place of bolshevism. and threatens drawn into the discussion through the even these efforts failed, as did an- financing the project, were approved statement maue to mm uy ii.i ro n i uiuLi. -j. . u.-. ... . y navuicvu m cictcu yeo-to xaici. Wangenheim at Constantinople that tno world in adoption of a ''neutral" I Bills on preliminary measures passed the influence of Great Britain. Russia but existing tongue. Norwegian was both the French and British arlia and Austria In 1871 had saved Paris suggested as an example. Norwegian, I ments in 1875, and a political protocol from being completely looted, but that I being comparatively simple in struc- was drawn up in 1876. in this war there would be a different ture, yet answering the requirements This was two years before the begin result. "We shall transport to Berlin." ' a cultivated people, would nave Deen to become the bridge over which that disease will cross to all surrounding countries. The thing for the allies to do is to fix the boundaries and the armament of Germany, sell food and raw materials to it, set it on its feet and put it to work. It will be time cnou; h when this has been done, to he exulted, "all the treasures of art id theory ideal. In practice the sug- discuss the question of indemnity for damage done in the war. AH agree that Germany is a multi-murderer, but politically and economically the country in a corpse, and damages can no more be collected from such a corpse than from a dead murderer. His watch and clothes can be taken, but nothing else. After the allies have supplied the elementary neces sities of life and Industry and have set Germany to work, they may collect Indemnity from anything that re mains after the people have fed and clothed themselves. There are symptoms that the Amer. which belong to the state." But still more convincing, from the point of view of created precedent, is the quoted attitude of a Bavarian minis ter. Baron Kerryn de Lcttenhove, when ning of preliminary work on the Panama canal, which we used to re gard as a monument to red tape and delay. But while the Panama canal which cost nearly four times as much gestion did not strike an answering chord A prime obstacle, aside from sent! mental jealousy and impossibility of as the estimated cost of the channel agreement upon tho language to be I tunnel, was passing through various being solicited by Belgian artists foraaPteat is that no natural language political stages, the Anglo-French a lo:in of several paintings from 13 in truth easy of acquirement- The project encountered an unexpected Munich for an csrhibition at Brussels facility with which certain persons storm of opposition. The reasons why in 1910. If the works were lost, said possessing a highly developed language the latter was not completed are the baron, it would be impossible for sense acquire alien speech does not largely psychological. The British the Belgians to make restitution in apply to the great body of the peoples, people, who we have been taught are monev. This would be possible onlv construction oi languages is in tne a phlegmatic race, developed a striK bv choice of works of eonal merit main irrational. There is no escape ing tendency to "nerves." It was this from Brussels. from the arbitrariness of their vocabu- and this alone which defeated the So the Germans, heedless of thel'aries. There is not and never can be I tunnel project. England became ob- day when they might be hoist by their a royal road to language for all peo- sessed with the bogey of Invasion. lean people imagined their duty done own petard, went on creating prece- Pies. ine advantage ot aaopting Nothing could quiet Its fears. J,ven hen fighting with Germany stopped. I dents wnicn now rise to confound 1 c"-" "a ui ueviarauon ot tno uormnu noiu c.w i. ,. fi.inv intoroQt n the them. M. Marguillier cites a Berlin I pcuvica, msiuuius umiiiii, i marsnai, von hioiikb, tout a iuuuci fund for relief of the Armenians. AVe magazine wnicn in ISM began to pre- i " a.iBcijr iv mo iwiu- unaer ms i.ngiiau cnsmui, cuunreuus d-,r. m. h th chnna in Dare public opinion lor the bountiful " 1 Jngiana witn r ranee, win nut uo ui results not merely in monev which aiuvann, iu uieuuuii umy tt icw ui wn any use tor tne invasion oi-.cngiand ight be expected to flow from the peoples wno wouia De inciuaea. n,ng- but it would play the very devu witn nvasion of Belgium. Liece. Namur. Ilsh is not easy to learn, failure or Germany in case of a war," failed to Brussels. Malines and Antwern already I millions of foreigners In the United restore the British equilibrium. had fallen. The kingdom of Belgium States to acquire it Illustrates the It is now seen that If work had might soon cease to exist. "The Pint- I been prosecuted with vigor from the descendants of Van Evck and Rubens Logic of the adoption of English as time the first test shaft was sunk, have preserved many paintings . . . 11,6 universal speech is furnished by near Folkstone In 1880, the recent war assu me Europe is none of our business. It will remain our business until the after-war troubles have ended. If any doubt this lot tl.eni look in the column of The Oregonian next to that which contains Mr. Vanderlip's statement. It tells of an anarchist society of Rus sian peasants which had been or ganized in New York under the nose and upon this part of the national the fact that it is now the most widely might have resulted differently. The of the police. A similar society of other nationalities was raided in Port land, men of the same stripe gained control of the labor unions in Seattle with what results wc know, and proof has been presented to a senate coin mittee that other like oVganizations czist in other cities and that these combinations work together to de stroy the republic. Tho doctrine of these revolutionists was made In Ger many, transplanted to Russia and has apread all over the world. It is propa gated by the condition of Germany, Jlussia and all other war-wrecked countries of Europe. To fight it esTfec tivelv we must fight it at its source, by the means which Mr. Vanderlip suggests. Fighting it in America is only fiKhtlng symptoms. The duty described comes home to very person in Oregon, rich or poor. The highest obligation ts on the em ployers, because) of the greater knowl edge, ability and means which have made them employers. They can prove the falsity of the outcry against "capitalism" by paytng their em ployes the fair value of labor and by dealing with labor as an organized body on the principle of collective bargaining. Workmen seed to re- patrimony the hand of the conqueror spoken language on the globe. But vital influence which a two-track tun- will fall." The German went so far 'OS"2 does not always govecn, as is nel might have had when tne urst as to catalogue the expected treasures. I manifested in the construction of the 1 detachments of the British army were It is hard to see how the Germans I language ltseir. 1 he oosacles to com- making a valiant stand with Insura- now will be able to escape from the I pulsory education in a world speech I clent equipment and munitions, is now justice of reparation in the form which seem to be inherent in human nature, j easy to imagine. But speculation goes they themselves proposed. " 1Qer Knowledge Dy an peoples or tne further than that, for it also takes ac- French and Belgians are now tak- languages oi one anotner undoubtedly count of the cattle of Jutland, and tne Ing their turn at cataloguing. The would aid in fostering understanding, possibility of a more conclusive out- ittle corner of France" has been con- possession or a common language, for come if a good share of British naval siderably expanded. The eighteenth example, probably has simplified the effort had not been necessarily ex century French school is particularly maintenance of a 3000-mile unfortified pended in maintenance of right of way well represented in the imperial pal- Iino between Canada and the United across the channel. aces of Prussia, where, now that the States. But the mutuality of language That existence of the tunnel In the imperial family has been elected, it lnls instance nas not been com-1 Intervening yeare would have put a would seem that there would be less pulsory. Maintenance of peace through different face on the war is also de- sentimental consideration for the art language channels possesses the para- ducible from figures which have re treasures there reposing. Watteau, doxical property that in theory it prob- cently been prepared by the tunnel ljincret, clisciple and imitator of ably would succeed, while it would be advocates. That one track each way Watteau, and Jean Baptiste Joseph Impossible to put it Into practical 1 would have made it possible to trans- Pater, pupil of the master, are eIlect - port 163,000 men and their equipment represented there in numbers. La I I in one direction every ten days, and Brun. La Tour and David are some rr. Claxton, federal commissioner on the return could have taken care of the others. A good many paint, of education, makes a strong point for of 24,000,000 of the 28,000,000 tons of ing. it I true, were acquired by higher salaries for teachers. jarticu- food which England Imported annually purchase, but it will be kept in mind larky in the rural districts, by his pre- gives some indication of the great that France does not propose to ap- sentation of statistics which show that relief which would have been afforded propriata them In revenge but as com. the average purchasing power of to shipping and the simplification of pensatioa for works which, having money haa so greatly decreased in the the war organization which would been destroyed, cannot be paid for in nast four years that 'their pay, which have been made possible, mere maner. There are works the nominally has Increased 12 per cent Fear ' of Invasion has been much Germaa tlUea to which &i not yo since then, has an actual value of only modified by greater friendship (or the HRS. AMELIA BARR. The life of Mrs. Amelia Barr was remarkable in many respects. She was not a great author, although she was a pleasing one. She ranked in literary merit somewhere between Mrs. E. D. E. N. Southworth and E. P. Roe. It is unlikely that any of the sixty-three novels which she wrote will long sur vive her, but it Is a good deal to say that they exercised a wholesome in fluence In their day. And she has left behind the inspiration of a life which triumphed over many tragic obstacles. She was born in 1831. William IV was then on the throne of England, The battle Qf Waterloo, as one of her most appreciative reviewers has noted was still fresh in memory. Charles Dic'vens was only 19 years old; Thack eray was 20. No steamer had ever crossed the ocean using steam exclu sively as its propelling power. There was not a single free school in the Lancashire town of Ulverston, her birthplace. In one village near Ulver ston, as was disclosed by a parliament ary inquiry in that year, there were 113 children of whom only ten could read or write. The life of the working people of the world was a continued struggle against the most sordid kind of poverty. The status of women of that day Is illustrated by an incident related by Mrs. Barr in her auto biography. After her father had lost his fortune, a brother of Mrs. Barr's mother gave his sister a row of cot tages, but she could not hold title to them in her own name. They became the exclusive property of her husband as a matter of course. This does not seem to have aroused indignation then it was one of the penalties of existence which women, philosophically accepted. Perhaps who can say otherwise?- the secret of Mrs. Barr's later distinc tion lay in the fact, as she explains it in quaint theosophical formula in her own story of her life, that she was "born with a soul." I entered this in carnation," she says, "on March the twenty-eighth, A. r. 1831." And she goes on: My soul came with me. . . . This is not always the case. Every mother of s large family knows that the period of spir- ltual possession varies. For days, even weeks, the child may be entirely of the flesh, and then suddenly in a twinkling; of an eye the mystery of the indwelling spirit is accomplished. The miracle does-mot come by observation; no mother ever saw it take place. She only knows that one moment the child was ignorant of her: that at the next moment it was consciously smiling Into her face, and that then, with instinctive gladness, she called to the whole household. "The baby has begun to notice." I brought my soul with me an eager soul, Impatient for the loves and Joys, the struggles and triumphs ot the dear, untorgotten world. Doubtless there are other and more scientific ways to account for the uni versa! phenomenon which Mrs. Barr recounts, but mothers will be caught by Mrs. Barr's fancy, and the fact stands out that Amelia was a remark able child. Reared in a time when it was unfashionable for little girls to read, she read omnivorously. - Her early pabulum could not be much im proved upon in its main features today. Arabian Nights," Cook s Voyages," 'Robinson Crusoe" and the travels of Dr. Mungo Park were some of the first books. In her "Hints to Young Authors' she has given credit to her parents for an understanding, which is too uncommon even now, of the value of biblical and imaginative lit erature in the formation of the in tellect. As to this.she said: The men and women whom I knew first were those of the Hebrew 'world. Sitting before the nursery fire, while the snow fell softly and ceaselessly and the mountains round were white, I could see the caravans and -camels of the Ishmaelltish merchants passing through the hot. sandy desert. I could see Hagar weeping under the palm and the waters of the Red sea standing up like a wall. Mtrlam clashing the timbrels. and Ruth singing under the oak and Ruth gleaning In the wheat fields of Bethlehem were as real to me as were the women of my own time. Before I was six yeara old had been with Christian to the celestial city and had watched, with Crusoe, the mysterious footprint In the sand and the advent of the savages. Then came the wonders of afrites and genlt and all the marvels and miracles of the Arabian tales. These were the mind builders, and. though schools and teachers did much afterward, I can never nor will forget the glorious com pany of men and women from the sacred world and that marvelous company of caliphs and kings and princesses from won derland and fairyland that expanded my whole nature and fitted me for the future miracles of nature and science and all the marvelous people of the poet's realm. This was a preparation for her life work, but it is a singular circumstance that Mfer serious literary career did not begin until she was 51, First her par ents met with money reverses; then her husband lost everything he pos sessed and came to America to begin life over again. She spent the years of the civil war in Texas an ardent champion of the confederacy. A pes tilence in Galveston killed her husband and two sons, and another son born soon afterward lived only a few days. In these calamitous circumstances she turned to her pen for a livelihood. Then it wai some years before she won material success. She alludes to $30 which she received for a story of her break-up in Texas as a priceless boon. In 1885 she finished the novel which paved the way; to. her subse quent success. It was "Jan Vedder' Wife." The most widely read of her novels was "A Bow of Orange Ribbon The sequel to this, "The Maid Maiden Lane." was a comparative failure, as most sequels are. But Mrs. Barr was never idle afterward. It' is interesting, and entirely to be expected, that Mrs. Barr should have given whole-hearted indorsement the gospel of hard work and pains. taking preparation as the only reliable guide to success in writing. She says that "success is the reward of those who "spurn delights and live laborious days. One of the great secrets of suocess is 'pegging away.' " It is fatal mistake, she says, to imagine that success is some stroke of luck. "Everything good needs time." "Don do work in a hurry," she said, although she completed one novel of 404 pages between January 1 and March 19 of the same year. "There is this pecu liarity about writing, that if it has merit it will surely find a market, she wrote after years-of experience with not always responsive publishers, She lived in a city of books. "I must always read more than I write" was her motto until the end. The book which Mrs. Barr regarded as her best was a failure, measured by publisher's returns. Perhaps sho appraised it most highly because in preparation for it she read some 124 volumes. This was in keeping with ber view that "whatever is worth doing at ail is worth doing with considera tion." But the real foundation for hef work was laid in her childhood. The years in which she was massing facts and fancies, developing a crude in. telligence, waiting for the vitalization of the heart, and in which it is doubt ful that she even dreamed of personal literary celebrity, bore fruit after nearly half a century. It was a valid argument in behalf of the daylight-saving law that it greatly accelerated the home garden movement in cities, but the latte ought not to be permitted to lan guish, law or no law. The house holder who is duly impressed with the value of fresh vegetables, pure air and wholesome exercise will find ways of obtaining them, if he is wise, without setting up the clock. One need not go to the extreme of the Indiana pro feasor who has made a plot of land six feet square yield $10 worth of produce to derive both pecuniary and physical profit from the venture. The prime advantage which the cul tivator of a backyard garden has over his "competitors" is that he is assured of a market on his own table for every. thing that he can raise, and at th highest market price, while he ellm inates at one stroke the middleman with all his overhead and the trans portation agencies as well. The Oregon Agricultural College de partment of dairy husbandry per forms a service for both the dairy in dustry and the public in calling atten tion in a recent bulletin to the desir ability of considering the food value of milk in connection with price, and is probably right in predicting that with education along this line consum ers will be less ready to discontinue its use when the product, in common with other commodities, becomes more ex pensive. The number of those who are interested in milk only when it is low-priced has been shown to be sur prisingly large. That it may be rela tively cheap even when high-priced by the standards of other days, does not seem to occur to them. There is a minimum in consumption, espe cially where there are children, below which it is not safe to go, a fact which the experiment station is wise in point ing out. Ex-President Taft Is not less a re publican because he supports a leagu of nations proposed by a democratic president, but he proves himself greater American than either Mr. Wilson or the latter's republican critics in the senate, Mr. Taft excels both the president and the senators in broad Americanism by recognizing that, when the relations of this nation to other nations are concerned, party lines should be broken down in allegi ance to the country. That is espe cially true'in the present crisis, when the fate of civilization is . in the bal ance. A man who comes up smiling after abuse and defeat such -as he suf fered in 1912, and who cheerfully joins hands with the man who defeated him in work for the people who rejected him, Has many elements of greatness. Soon woman suffrage will be uni versal. The North Carolina senate has passed a bill permitting women to vote in municipal elections, and when it is considered that neither house ever be fore has acted favorably on the ques tion the size of the majority 35 to 12 makes it look like a landslide. What soldier returning to a western Oregon farm can restrain the wish that some of the energy which was expended in blowing holes in the bat tlefields could not be utilized under our fir stumps? President Wilson is said to have spent $2000 for tips on his first trip to Europe, which suggests another subject that we wish might.be taken up by the peace conference. The ides of March have passed, so far as the income taxpayer is con cerned, and there will be nothing but regrets for the chaps who failed to file their returns. The Russian bolsheviki have a lot to say about self-determination with out at the same time making any progress in determining anything for memseives. The man who puts up $750 for a prospective thirty gallons of whisky- which he doesn't get will receive only the sympathy which we extend to those who are so unfortunate as to be feeble minded. The province of Limburg will be all the more acceptable to Belgium with the understanding that the well-known cheese is the product of another Lim burg. Carranza should remember that his friend the kaiser is in no position to help him, and that, anyway, there is an open season for dictators. Soldiers will pot be charged for beds at the Atkinson school, but here's hop ing that the place will fail for want of patronage, anyhow. Even Cook's advises people not to try to visit Europe in 1919. Begin planning now to "see America first." Even half a league wouldn't be so bad, if we could make sure that it was half a league onward. Wonder what the Russian for "vox gopuli" is Baby Mine. By Grace E. Hall. I bargained with the stork one day regarding you, my dear. And as I meant that you should etay I made my points quite clear; He promised with a cunning look that my demands he'd meet. And guaranteed a fairer babe no mortal eye should greet. Tour eyes were to be soft and brown, your skin like creamy peach; Tour hair, a mass of golden down, and - to your waistband reach; Your nose, though not quite specified, . was still to be a feature; In short, the rascal promised me a dainty, witching creature. And then you came a scarlet mite. wrapped in a flannel pinner,. And had I caught the stork that night Well, heaven help the sinner! There never was more cruel joke played on a trusting mother. But though my heart you almost broke, I tried my grief to smother. Two shifty and uncertain eyes you blinked at me and screamed; And, judging from your mottled skin, it never had been creamed; Your nose was just a shapeless smudge; and as for golden hair Not e'en a sprout was sticking out, for your wee dome was barel But oh, the changes time haa brought. my baby true and sweet! You are a lovely creature now from head to dainty feet; And though your eyes are deep, dark blue and brown, not gold, your hair. You're what the stork first promised me a being wondrous fair; With girlhood's halo 'round your head, I'm proud to call you mine. wise men bow before you now and worship at your shrine. And THEY'RE COMING HOME. They're coming home, the boys whq crossed the sea And ahed their blood upon the fields of France To save the lily from the Hun'a ad vance, Aad" keep the Stars and Stripes above the free. They're coming home, and how shall they be met? With band and banquet, then forgot lext day. Forgotten till their forms are laid away And with belated tears their graves are wet? . They ask no favors, nay, they do not ask Even Justice, for the soldier learns to bear His fate in silence, though neglect may tear His heart as did no trying, bloody task. But will there be a place where each may go Where, in the eight of home and with old friends. The threads of life may be rewound whose ends Were scattered when ho left to face the foe? What does the khaki mean to yon. the name Of safety alone, or gratitude and love? If safety only, when the flag above Your head Is flying, bow that head in shame! RAYMOND E. BAKER. LOOKING ACROSS CHASMS. In an everyday place for eating, Where salads and pies are doled. Stood a waitress with daydreams ', a- fleeting. Midst visions which sensed bitter sweeting, And a destiny pigeon-holed. A chorus girl came for her ration; And the dreamer was led to infer That this songbird was some constel lation With her camouflage ornamentation. She softly sighed, "Wish't I was her." The show girl wa'n't strong on day dreaming. Her seventeen per was enough. She cared but for spotlights a-beamlng O'er her wealth of veneer and creaming, And the cheers and encoring stuff. For her lunch came a grocer's girl. sunny: Gladsome eyes, and a spirited step. And a won't-come-off smile, sweet as honey. The singer'd give a month's alimony To know how she come by her pep. Oh, this clerk from the store of the grocer. Fain with her to the altar you'd prance Though archly she'd answer you: No, sir; You're a year and a quarter too slow. sir. For my heart is somewhere In France. Then there stepped In for luncheon a lady, -Somber-gowned, and white, wavlnej hair: An evangel to those who are shady Nor was the plump girl unready tier place and her mission to share. She had long been to outcasts a mother, To those whom rites failed to suffice. Good angels many rogues had no other. For she dealt as with son or with brother Neither deigned to uphold nor de spise. ' Anon, for a wee, dainty dinner. .entered one, with a golden-curled 1 lass. Her bright, baby face was a winner; Dancing eyes, like a diadem's shimmer u", a-uu pure as tne aew in the grass. All the others sat up and took notice ur tnis innocent, naive little tni- And their looks plainly said: You may quote us. As wishing Father Time would Just tote us Back to that gentle child's happy lot ERNEST STEWART. MY PAL. Pal o' mine, O do you see The streak of luck that's come to me? Fame and fortune, health and strength; Friends make short the lournev'a length. New and great friends, strangers, too, All admire the things I do. Fal o' mine, you're proud of me? May God Bless you always be My pal, Pal o' mine, O do you hear Slanders whispered In your earT Words of envy, biting deep. Fearful harvest sure to reap. eel Tne friends of palmy days Slide into uncertain haze! Pal o mine, you're deaf ahyes To such slander! Father bless My pal. Pal o' mine, O do you see The kind of deal Luck's banded me? Stead of fortune and success, o w stalks misery and distress: Friends deserted, luck all gone, Now I face the world alone. Pal o mine, you're still with rnel God be with you always be My pal. ANNA F. JERZYK. Portland,. Oregon. March 1L j iJ