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THE SUTCDAY OREGON! AN, PORTLAND, JUNE 22, 1919.
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the Martin bomber which has been
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is perfect for the purpose, bat it is the
aim of the heads of the service to ob
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ments. The sporting element, and the
factor of early construction which sub
ordinated safety to quantity construc
tion, will not be present. It is to be a
calculating, mathematical and me
chanical enterprise throughout. The
country is quite prepared to believe it
will succeed on first trial, and it is
sure that the army will succeed before
it stops try in e;. But it does not, per
haps, fully appreciate the Important
consequences which will follow. The
flight is the most significant step
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INSPIRING.
Eighteen months ago Senator Cham
berlain of Oregon, began saying un
kind things about the administration's
conduct of the war, and particularly
about President Wilson's war depart
ment. Immediately the president re
taliated with unkind words about
Senator Chamberlain's purpose and
veracity. A notable remark by the
president was:
tists that a commission be organized
to go to the countries affected, to
give attention to the large problems
involved, and in particular to the great
sanitary problems of water supplies,
refuse disposal and sewerage systems.
There still survive a number of Rus
sian scientists capable of doing ef
fective work in co-operation but
powerless to accomplish much alone.
American experience in organizing
warfare against epidemic diseases.
notably in Cuba. Colombia and the
been another question upon which the
Jurors differed.
. On the whole, the plaintiff probably
is fortunate in being rid of a prospec
tive husband who loved her so little
that he was willing to abandon her
in her time of stress. Tet to hold this
would be to attack the propriety of
allowing money compensation for
breach of promise in any instance.
There are a good many men who
would have only been stimulated to
constancy by a tragedy such as the
Philippines, is superior to that of any London case depicts. Probably the
other nation. We are fitted in this I fair plaintiff is lucky to have seen
and other ways, economic as well as I her lover in his true colors before it
scientific, for leadership in this re-1 was too late. He was at best a fair
gard. I weather friend. But the law and the
The reasons which would prompt I ethics and the romance and the
such a course are selfish as well as I eugenics of the affair are hopelessly
humanitarian. It may be that the I mixed. It is no wonder twelve ordi-
diplomatic difficulties are not insur
mountable. It is conceded as a prin
ciple in epidemiology that preventive
measures which are effective in the
case of individuals are good also as
to communities. If we could confine
nary citizens were unable to reach a
solution.
Senator Chamberlain's statement as to the
I present Inaction and lnaf f iciencv of the eov
Conklln. Steser boi.dinc. Chlcaco: Verree A farnment Is an aetooiahinf and absolutely un-
-AnL-nn ei Press bulldlns. Ietrolt. Mich.;
K.n Francisco representative, R- J. Bidwell.
Justifiable distortion of the truth ... I
a m bound to Infer that tha statement sprang
out of opposition to tha administration s
whole policy rather than oat of any serious
lntentloo to reform its practice.
Senator Chamberlain's rejoinder was
BOLSHEVISM ON THE DEFENSIVE.
Refusal of the American Federation
. i -i MMinUn In trtvnr
of f ? - SSVtate
eia la ail imiui mu
ter-offenslve against the noisy claims
of this pretended latest improvement
in democracy. Advocates or tne com
munist Utopia were on the offensive
until they seized the opportunity to
make Russia the victim of a prac
tical application of their theory. The
results of that experiment have put
them on the defensive. They began
to lose from the start, for their barbar
Now we hear the Oregon democratic
state central committee voicing "its
full indorsement of the eminent lead
ership, wise statesmanship and high
purpose of the acts and administration
of Woodrow Wilson" and also resolv
ing that "we are proud of the splendid
services rendered our state and nation
by United States Senator George E.
Chamberlain," and "that his construc
tive record in the senate is without
the ranks of the nation's leading
statesmen."
From all of which It may be in
ferred that in the estimation of the
democratic state central committee
Senator Chamberlain achieved won
ders by pointing out the shortcomings
of the administration and that the
president properly and truthfully re
buked him,
This earnest effort of the democratic
state central committee to make Ore
gon safe for the democratic party will
not go unnoticed by advocates of po
litical uplift, or fail to gain the ad
miration of those who believe
leagues to enforce peace and all that
- l ., -e rn ne
iff JT I T i. eX,-HmTr.nw parallel in history and places him in
which led believers in true democracy f. . , ,f .;.,. i j:
to change from a passive to an act
ively hostile attitude. Their theories
are being subjected to higniy critical
examination In the light of their per
formances, and even radicals are turn
ing against them. Chrlstabel Pank-
hurst the suffrage leader, sa'.d of
bolshevism:
It denied tha rlrht of the people to elect
their own representatives. nd was not even
class government. It was fowmment by a
dancerous International sans, posing
workers, wire-pulled by Cierinan 'nterna-
tiooal maenataa. German international
financiers hsd called bolshevism on to the
stage, and they would order it off when It
had worked Its pro-tiermao wors.
The Independent labor party of
Britain is the most outright socialist I sort of thing.
party in that country, credited with
bolshevist leanings, but last April it
rejected unanimously a resolution in
favor of the soviet system, which was
handled without mercy in the discus
sion. Ramsay MacDonald called the
resolution "a magnificent example of
the attractiveness of meaningless
words." and he struck a blow at the
soviet by saying that the first soviet
was the British, house of lords. F.
Jowett gave this merciless definition
of the soviet system:
It la a system of delegation; Its outlines
are clearly set forth in tha amenament.
The plan Is this: first, delegates of hun
dreds, then delegstes of delegates or hun
rireria. next delesatca of delegates of dele
sates of hundreds, and. finally, delegates
of delerstes of delegates oi delegates oi
hundreca.
That Is the system which the Amer
ican people abandoned when
AMERICA TO FINANCE ZCKOPB.
To those persons, whether senators
the plagues, we might find it cheaper or not. who talk of the unknown dan-
than to fight them after they had
gained a foothold in our own coun
try. At least it would seem to be
worth trying.
IF IT'S A PLATFORM. IT'S A COOO ONE,
A speech of General Leonard Wood
at the commencement of Union col
lege at Schenectady defines his posi
tion on so many questions now before
the public that the Xew York Even
ing Post says "careless readers might
take it for the platform of a presiden
tial candidate." A very good platform
It is, as far as it goes, containing at
least one quotation from Theodore
Roosevelt and being filled with his
spirit, as we might expect from his
intimate friend and comrade in war.
General Wood calls for fair treat
ment for the men who are returning
from the war and the training camp,
for galvanization of the spirit wrought
by the war into a more intense and
they I creative American patriotism, for co
turned from Indirect to direct election operation of capital and labor in
of senators. They rightly called it transforming war industries Into peace
progress, yet the bolshevists propose a industries. Welcome as is the spirit
return to the abandoned system in ex- or international co-operation, he says.
asperated form, and they call our I it is no substitute for patriotic nation
progress reaction. I alism. We must "speak softly, but
In their efforts to gather all work- I carry a Dig suck, mat is, De just ana
ingmen into the one big union and to I fair but also be strong and ready to
destroy the practice of collective bar- support the right" We must "put
training by the union of each craft, the down the red flag, and turn our
bolshevists have undertaken to destroy faces against those Immigrants "who
the labor unions to which is due all come to us with ideas repugnant
that labor has gained in the two last I to our civilization and with purposes
generations. They have thus given a I and ideals hostile to our form of gov-
challenge to battle and have suffered I ernment.
a crushing defeat. American labor has I We want a "sound system of nation
been fighting successfully against class al preparedness which will be an as
rule, and does not advocate rule of I surance against war, a system
the "proletariat" an essentially un-1 not unlike the Swiss in Its general
American word nor progress by I character, but embodying much of in
means of bombs and bludgeons. It I dustrial and vocational training." Any
cannot be deceived by meaningless I arrangement to talk things over be
fore resort to force is gaed, provided
It does not interfere with our essen
tial sovereignty," but "arbitration will
be far more successful if we are not
only right but also have strength
We want a good navy, always
ready.
"We must do an we can to maintain
words into accepting anarchy as an
Improvement on liberty.
CBOSS-COUNTBT AVIATION.
The projected airplane flight across
the United States, which will be made
in two stages if all goes well, will
mark the next step in development of that fme feeUn(? that between
aviation etUUK IiraLllcai juic-a. lur
ourselves and the allies. . . founded
not only upon a community of inter
ests, but also a community of moral
ideas. Let nothing arise to drive a
performances of Hawker, Alcock and
Read over the Atlantic have robbed
the coming event of some of its antic-
-ipatory thrills, yet the military flight 1, bMwe6n us nd tne allea
xo uio nxtsillK win irisus-a uio way iui
aeronautical development as impor
tant as that which was expected from
the earlier experiences. The Hawker
venture can be set down as a pure test
of sportsmanship. Tha others con
tributed much to the science of naval
aviation, but not enough to warrant
Immediate duplication of the attempts.
We should adopt a budget system.
We must adopt a sound system of
conservation of our national resources.
We must provide for the better
physical development of our youth.
We must pay more attention to
our schools," paying the teachers
much better salaries. ,
The cross-country flight on the other lmmend ltee,f M j, lta
mmu 13 eiiieciru lu result m ecu ly w
tension of mail and express service.
In establishment of regular routes of
passenger transportation and in wide
use of the airplane for exploration.
surveying and sporting purposes.
The army air service indicates I
builder would be true to it, for his en-
Itire career marks him as a man who
suits the deed to the word. One of
I the best things about it is that it con-
I tains no suggestion of hatred, except
of the red Hag. It breathes the true
. k a r.vTTv, ,r ,vT I no room for clash between classes.
-"l . " . 7 """ and which Is Americanism.
at lue airpiaiiB ill mo uctu imuia win
be chiefly military, but it naturally
points out that these may be impor
tant. If the result of the exacting test
is to show that a heavy plane can be
depended upon for a radius of 1600
FIGHTING r LAG IE AT THE SOURCE.
It is a thought-provoking sugges-
I tlon which has been made by a former
1 lieutenant in the United States army
miles in eighteen hours, it will to that I and a member of the American Asso-
extent increase confidence in the fu- I elation for the Advancement of Sci-
intBEB'S DAT OF PROSPERITY.
The most sanguine predictions' of
prosperity for the lumber industry
ore confirmed as to the present time
by the editor of the American Lum
berman, who has been touring the
southern field. He foresees "a season
of heavy demand at high prices." for
"the greatest building boom in history
is sweeping over the country, with the
country four years behind in its nor
mal building programme." "Railroads
are coming into the market for large
quantities of ties and other material.
There is already apparent an unsually
heavy demand for lumber for export.
which would develop tremendously in
volume if transportation facilities
were available and ocean rates more
reasonable. ... The demand is so
urgent that the question of price does
not enter into transactions so much as
the question of delivery." Of the Pa
cific coast he says:
Mills on the west coast are largely over
sold, stocks are not up to normal and In
that territory the Inevitable result has fol
lowed of rapid increase in market prices.
the advances in west coast lumber in fact
within recent days having been even more
spectacular toan tnose in soutnern pina and
other woods.
This condition of the lumber indus
try means prosperity for the Pacific
northwest, for lumber is the greatest
staple product of this section. Lum
ber and woodworking employ SO per
cent of the industrial labor of Oregon,
and are a source of profit to every
other industry.
There is no reason to expect any
material abatement of this wave of
prosperity. Not only are there arrears
of building to make good, but the gen
eral expansion of industry and in
crease of wealth will swell the total
of current building. Reconstruction
in Europe will absorb a large part of
the American product, erection of a
million workmen's dwellings in Brit
ain will consume a great quantity, and
destruction of French forests will
cause more lumber to be imported.
When Russia settles down, it will sup
ply much of the European demand,
but several years will pass before it
can do its part.
The timber of the middle west Is
fast becoming exhausted, and the best
days of the southern forests will soon
be past. To an increasing degree the
main reliance of both domestic and
foreign markets must be the Douglas
fir. The eastern consumers learned
more about the merits of that lumber
when their wood shipyards had to
gers to the United States with which
they imagine the league of nations to
be fraught and who would have the
peace conference begin again the
work of preparing the peace treaty in
order that the covenant may be sepa
rated from it, the speech of Frank A.
Vanderlip is a stern reminder. It re
minds them that the condition of Eur
ope and Asia will not endure further
delay of measures to prevent the en
tire old world from slipping into chaos.
Help on a great scale, thought out by
the best brains of the nations, this
nation most of all, must be given in
or repudiate debts. For that reason
Mr. Vanderlip's suggestion that the
French customs revenue be pledged as
security for a loan is unwarranted and
is a reflection on the honor of a nation
which never broke financial faith. It
would lower French credit at a time
when our own interest demands that
it be strong and would be deep ingrat
itude to a nation which has fought
valiantly, suffered deeply and incurred
a mountain of debt for a cause which
we have recognized as our own.
Extension of large and long credit
to Europe is in the highest interest of
the United States. The loans would
be spent principally in this country,
for this is "the reservoir of raw ma
terial." They would quicken industry
and commerce, and take up the slack
in industries expanded for war. They
would stop the generation of bolshev
ist fumes which spread to this country
across the Atlantic The situation
which Mr. Vanderlip describes im
poses the most imperative duty on
America, and at the same time offers
the greatest opportunity.
WHO READS BOOKS?
The American Library association
has before it the problem of making
a survey of the reading habits of the
public as a preliminary to cultivating
that habit in quarters where it is
likely to result in the most good. It
being conceded that, as Lord Bacon
said, "reading maketh a full man," it
it in fiction. After all. one does the
same by fact." But De Morgan, who
by some standards was an "elderly
if not an old man when he began to
write, was one of the conspicuously
successful authors of his time. The
invalid performed prodigies of labor.
"Alice for Short" followed by "Jo
seph Vance" in 1907, "Somehow Good"
came out in 1908, and "It Never Can
Happen Again" in 1909. His last work
was "When Ghost Meets Ghost," pub
lished in 1914.
Mrs. DcMorgan's work, although
published posthumously, promises to
duplicate the performance of her hus
band as the beginning of a new career
in later life. The plot of one of the
novels which she has completed she
is known to have discussed fully with
her husband before he died, so that
she will have had little difficulty in
continuing his train of thought. The
other was less developed. But nearly
forty years of married comradeship
created a bond which is about to have
an interesting development. The spir
it of both De Morgans is certain to be
found in the forthcoming novels, as
no doubt it existed less obviously in
the published work of William De
Morgan himself.
The various appeals for funds for
religious purposes now being made in
the United States aggregate more than
$500,000,000, which is a sum greater
than the total cost of maintaining all
rha pliimihea rtt tha cnimlrv Trtr a VAAr
will be admitted also thout waiving The Methodist centenary movement
heads the list with $150,000,000. . The
Self Reliance.
By Grae) K. Hall.
the rest of the quotation that it is
desirable that good books should be
read even more widely than they are.
Baptists come next with $100,000,000
flni t)ia Snnttiara tl'inli. bfa innfl-
The library association seeks a basis dent that ttey wm ralsa the ,75i00o,-
of exact knowledge upon which to
. . t mi,;, uiud wauAic.au.
N. T., told the American booksellers'
nation can and must do more than all
others combined, for we cannot say
we are not our brother's keeper. Not
only does humanity forbid: our own
vital interests forbid, for the conse
quences would react violently on us.
That Is a terrible word picture
which Mr. Vanderlip paints. Across
Europe stretch two great scars, one
from the English' channel to Switzer
land, the other from the Baltic to the
Black sea and the Aegean, where the
soil itself has been destroyed in addi
tion to every trace of human habita
tion and industry. Elsewhere factories
convention In Boston the other day
that the percentage of people in the
average American city who read books
000 it has set as their goal, although
their field is more or less restricted
The Presbyterians, with permission
from their assemblies to go as far as
they think best, are talking of hun
dreds of millions. The figures are not
mere dreams, as the drives have
. - aia I a-uxjj ? Ul caUUh BLS3 HID la 4 r SPSS altae V
was much larger than would be com-f tn havJ Tne
monly supposed. In the farming re- Lffort to induce tne chUrches to take
f"u. wr lmv" t,Illa"er " what has been termed "an adequate
worth while is even smaller than in the
cities, notwithstanding comparatively
fewer conflicting diversions. On his
own account, the librarian made a
survey of a small school district. Only
the Bible was found in every home.
The extent to which it was read is not
measure of their responsibilities" is
meeting with unexpected success. This
furnishes a splendid counteractant for
the notion that the devil is the most
active agent af work in this world just
now.
are dismantled agriculture is without revealed There were rour dictionaries Psychical research is having an un-
in twelve housed1. The fiction was expected etrect on tne value or nitner-
seed. implements and cattle, and rail
roads and canals have been wrecked.
Millions of people are in idleness for
lack of the things with which to work
machinery, tools, raw meterials of
money wherewith to buy these things
and of railroads and ships to carry
that which they would produce. Many
of these have been pauperized by liv
ing on public doles which give a bare
existence, and have become listless
from habitual, though enforced, idle
ness. Many others in unreasoning
rage or despair are turning to bolshev-
scanty and uninspiring. Only by let
ting in James Fenimore Cooper did the
classics get any representation. The
only encyclopedia found was one treat
ing of human and animal diseases.
There was not a good book that might
have inspired patriotism among the lot.
to undesirable real estate in England,
by stimulating demand for supposed
ly 'haunted houses for purposes of re
search. The number of persons pos
sessing money who are willing to pay
liberally for the privilege of estab
lishing terms of intimacy with ghosts
And who are you that you should in
dicate To me the path that leads to yonder
gate
Through which pass others, bound for
great success.
When of my nature, purpose and Intent
you merely guess?
And what have you, amid this earth's
turmoil
Accomplished? Is your victory mare
spoil?
Or Is it precious worth that you alone
can give?
But even then my life is mine to live.
What have you done that you should
pause and say
To me or any man, "This Is the way?"
The path that led you up might be our
fall :
The Inner self -no other knows at all.
And when a boaster proffers free ad
vice.
I shun him, knowing well he might
entice
My thoughts to fields wherein I would
but sow
A few unfertile seeds that would not
grow.
I would not ask another one to guide
My wandering mind: the sign-board is
Inside:
If I its lettering shall fail to read.
No other then shall help me to succeed.
No one. once given brain with which to
plan.
Need turn and ask advice from any
man;
For what he tells you. is the thing that
he would do.
And may not work at all with one like
you.
I'd rather use and follow my own mind.
-Than ask my way of others Just as
blind;
They are as prone to err, to slip anil
fall.
To lose a guess; so why then, after all.
Not trust the little wit that I possess?
I might, in trusting others, find e'en
less!
There is one record of a survev of surprising, ana is tne outcome oi
the reading habits of young people on ne serious spirit of investigation Into
farms. In a southern' Minnesota dis- lne me alter aeatn tnat nas louowea
trict only 45 per cent were doing any the war. Opportunities for study of
reading-. In fortv-two houses there ln8 occuji cunuuue rare ana tne usual
were eight small collections of books, auiicuity exists in aistinguisning db
ism or at least seize the opportunity of ajjd five famjiies in which library tween those who are actuated by good
general unrest to make impossible de- books wer6 found- only 65 per cent fath and the mere charlatans. In the
""""" -"ciu uj, on...- .f farm ownera -were classed as readers latter ciass may De piacea wnn a gooa
ing.
The most effective cure for this dis
tress is remunerative, productive werk.
in any degree, and hardly ever read deal of confidence those who adver-
books.
It may be that the library associa-
first requisites except human labor I
are lacking. The farmer has seed in I
some countries, in others not, but he
lacks all else. Many factories need
machinery and, after getting that, they ,r.).i
win uccu law uiALciiai. iieuijr limits I
factories may have machinery, but I
they too need raw material. The gov-
tise that they will exorcise the spirits
from haunted premises for a stipulat
ed fee. And the pressure upon hous
ing accommodations has led to much
noring of haunts by persons who
used to think they -feared them.
send west for big timbers and when
their railroads called for so many ties emp,0yment pay.
lull wwii Biiipa vjr 1110 bvuid iuiu lu
be used in carrying them. We are
just beginning to get the benefit of the Xhe people e idle for ,ack of
rauauia utucu aia u menus vi ucajj,
direct shipment to the Atlantic coast.
It also opens to us all the countries
around the Caribbean sea.
There is abundance of it to do, but the tion Jn attempting a survey such as
has been suggested will lay itself open
to the charge that it is playing into
the hands of the book makers. Yet
there would seem to be a field for co-
The changed attitude of
book publishers toward libraries in
recent years is a fine example of in-
(rsaiilnff hrAadlh rtf nolirv. There was I and sicn. A clausa should be added
ernments need steel and other mater- a Um6 when those wno were interested to the treaty requiring the Germans
V "D1?"a aas. x-rouiit;iiiB in books primariiy for commercial
reasons regarded libraries as competi
tors. They do not do so now, but see
rather that the community with the
best library is likely to be the best
book market. And the prime purpose
of the library is educational. Its main
object is to stimulate reading; its mci
Hantnl mimosa tn mirtnlv the created
The one thing required to set things rt-mart Tf it fostrs book buying, so
in motion m an countries is money. ,. v n-u- writing nd
nHntlnir rf hnnk); r-nriRtiriitfi an industrv
implement u maieiKii iu ""'"- Wyorthy of all encouragement.
only a fraction of their own food, the
British rely on sale of manufactures
made from imported raw material to
buy food and many other commodi
ties, but their foreign markets are de
moralized by the conditions described
and millions of them are living on un-
'The army of occupation should not
be cheated of Its trip through Ger
many If the boches should eat crow
to take the soldiers on a sightseeing
tour in what has been named "the
land of deepening shadow." They
might lighten up the gloom.
A NOVEIJST'S WIFE.
Two new De Morean novels which
nortion to the irold behind it that the I are nromised durine the coming year was lifted was a proposal by Ameri
whole machinery of exchange with will possess more than usual interest cans to sell a quantity of barley for
nations, especially the United States, because they will represent the real malting purposes. But as the reply
which is not thus burdened, is out of collaboration of a husband and wife is not given out, it is just possible that
gear. The governments must have I to an extent not heretofore paralleled
more gold to strengthen their paper I In literature. William DeMorgan died
currency. The people must have I a little more than two years ago, ana
means of buying that which will set I his wife died last month, but not until
them to work. All that they can pay I she had completed two stories which
with is the goods which they will pro-I he had either left unfinished in the
with. They lack them because they
have not money to buy with nor goods
to exchange. They have paper money,
but its volume is so enormous in pro-
ROMANCE AND EUGENICS.
A conflict between romance and
eugenics recently arose in a London
court, in which a breach of promise
suit was tried. The defendant had
promised to marry the plaintiff, a
promise which he repudiated but did
not deny. After the engagement had
been announced, the young woman in
the case was discovered to have con
tracted tuberculosis. Notwithstanding duce with the machinery and material
this she insisted that her betrothed that they now need to buy. In sub-
keep his promise. He refused and she stance, they want unusually long cred
sued him. The Jury was unable to I it for unusually large sums, given in
agree. I commence tnat iney win De ame to
Aside from the broad Issue of the I sell the good and thus obtain means
expediency and the ethics of breach of to pay the debt-
promise suits in general, the case pre- I The one country, above all others,
sents a number of interesting and con- to which the people of Europe turn
flicting aspects. The question whether with confidence that they will be there
a contract, such as is a promise to able to obtain this credit, is the United
marry, entered into without qualifica- States. Vast as has been the increase
tion, is inviolable will be raised by in our national debt, it is trifling by
those possessing legal minds. The I comparison with onr national wealth,
eueenists. holdinar that the his-hest It is less than ten per cent of our na-
tnterest of the race is the 6uDreme tional wealth and is only half of our Charles Dickens died. It and others
law of the universe, will contend that national income, while the British like it are lustinea oniy Dy puoiisners
o person suffering from a trans-I debt is equal to half of the national I exigencies. But Mrs. ue xviorgan proo-
It seems that congress in estimating
possible sources of revenue forgot to
figure in the loss of liquor taxes, but
the people, who have always paid th
liquor tax in the last analysis will
find it much cheaper to contribute
direct than through the coffers of the
various "middlemen."
THE ORCAS GRINDER.
He was old and bent and feeble,
A pitiful sight to see,
With his palsied hands
And his stumbling feet
As he wended his way
Through the busy street.
And played for the -pennies
To buy his bread
And a shelter for bis weary head
When night was come.
When the day was cold
And the frost bit deep
The rickety organ groaned and shrieked
"In the good old summer time."
Or he played of the birds
And the babbling brook.
Of the f'weet spring flowers
And the shady nook.
As he dreamed of his r stive clime.
Time was when the organ
Was bright and gay.
And Its musio was passing sweet.
And the children flocked
To hear him play
And followed with dancing feet.
Then his eyes were bright
And full of fun.
And he bowed so low with a
"Tanks for the mon' "
As he wandered from street to street.
The organ long since hasost Its tone.
Its beauty has vanished quite.
It is still his support and friend by day.
His sole companion at night.
Soon the poor bent form
And the weary feet
Will pass from this earth
To the Golden street.
We will watch for his coming in vain.
And though heaven he gain
And a harp of gold
His spirit will wander
Away from the fold .
To play hi loved organ again.
Clara L. Holt
The first commercial message sent
to Germany after the cable censorship
even the Germans now prefer food to
beer.
We begin to think that a reformed
conscientious objector makes about
the best possible material for a good
manuscript or had only outlined in citizen when we read that Sergeant
his thoughts. It is said to have been York after deciding not to take a wed
the wish of Mrs. Evelyn Pickering De
Morgan that these should be published
under her husband's name. The pub
lic, notwithstanding this will, out of
pure regard for the facts of history,
take note of the actual circumstances.
There have been few other wives so
well equipped to continue the work
which their husbands began. As to
ding trip, has also refused to be ex
ploited by the vaudeville managers.
Repeal of the daylight saving law
need not prevent anybody from sav
ing daylight. He need only get up
and go to bed an hour earlier ia sum
mer than winter without making the
ilork rieceiva him. and he will still
the completion of an unrinisnea worK, i save, daylight.
lit is in the main not satisfactory. The
"Mystery of Edwin Drood" is still as
much a mystery as it was when
Sectionalism has broken out among
the democrats. A Bay Stater says
things about the Texan, Burleson,
which are usually heard from mem
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to marry. xUt Cm va i ry IS not wnoiiy I uouai uitDuin. j: ravutra, ALttiy uiu me I ueany une mvoo wiuv.il ""u i.5
dead and there are still some romantic lesser allies are far more heavily been written if William De Morgan
nersons who will maintain that the mortgaged. Germany is in as bad a I had lived.
brldee-room-to-be ousrht to have held I position, the former Hapsburg mon- That De Morgan wrote at all was
to his bargain in all circumstances. I archy and Russia are bankrupt- Japan I probably due to the influence of his
Esoecialllv when his fiancee had fallen I can help, as can the European neu- I wife. His was the most remarkable
Europe, says Mr. Hoover, can be
made orderly if It is permitted to re
turn to work, which is another reason
why there ought to be quick action if
into misfortune, and when more than trals, but America remains the great case in literary history of dormant Ji Germans dont sign on the dotted
ever she needed his help, it will be reservoir of capital and or unimpaired capacity tor production wmcn was un
contended that she had the rieht to I credit. We have one-third of the world I employed for almost & normal life- I
look to him for support. It is an old- supply of gold, and it has become time. De Morgan was born in 1839 A New York grocery firm talks of
fashioned notion that the betrothal a burden to us and an obstruction to and did not begin to write until 1905, using airplanes to deliver its goods,
mnrira an nhiir-ntinn nnt mnr.?i ions I resumption of commerce. By lending I when he was sixty-six years old. He and Its customers no doubt will be
sacred than marriage itself. I a large part of it to other nations, had been a famous artist in stained willing to lurnisn tne paracnutes n
Yet if tuberculosis is not a lee-al bar we should fortify their inflated cur- I glass; his ceramic and luster ware prices snow a tendency to come aown,
to matrimony, which it was not in the I rency, restore the at present lopsided I works were known an over tne woria.
case in point, and if the doctrine of exchange to a balance, and start com- He married n,velyn dickering in isos,
free choice is accepted, and the couple
were permitted to wed if both were
merce moving.
In extending
credit to ' Europe,
ture of long distance bombing oper
ations, coast and inland patrols, and
raids in which considerable numbers
of mobile forces may be employed at
ence for forestalling threatened plague
by carrying the fight to its source.
He points out that typhus, cholera,
plague and other epidemic diseases
strategic points. But these are over- I are already widespread in Russia and
shadowed for the present by the seven that the mortality is appalling and
principal uses to which aircraft may frightful. It is unsafe to assume that
be put in civil life. . I "the pestilence will remain confined
The first of these, the carrying of to the Russians only." Spanish in
mall, is now being demonstrated ex-1 fluenxa has shown that Infection
perlmentally between New York and
Washington. Cleveland and Chicago,
and Atlanta and Macon. The second,
carriage of packages by express, la an
extension of the first. It will find a
knows no habitation. Cholera al
ready has been reported In the Baltic
ports of Russia, and in Germany,
France, Sweden and Spain. Typhus is
reported in the Balkan states, Ger-
commercial field in transportation of many, Italy, France, the Ukraine and
securities in which interest and ex- particularly in Russia,
change run into considerable sums of The steps to be taken would involve
money, and lu other cases where time removal of the cause, rather than
is the essence of the contract. Pas- waiting for the plagues to spread so
eenger transportation by air will be I extensively that the problem would be
called for where speed is worth paving
a premium for.' As a freight carrier
the airplane will serve a purpose in
reaching now inaccessible points. Its
use in exploration and surveying has
long been the dream of geographers
and prospectors.
With a safe demonstrated radius of
J 500 miles, the plane will have proved
Its suitability for all of the pnrnoses
mentioned. It is not contended Alia-t
further complicated. The scientist
rotes that the chief causes of these
diseases are famine, exposure, lack of
clothing and shoes, improper food and
chaotic transportation. - Ignorance of
the laws of nutrition and sanitation
are, of course, at the very bottom of
all. and this prevails more widely in
Russia and the Balkans, perhaps, than
in any other countries on the globe.
It ia the dream of American scien-
willlng, then it will be regarded by America must not be guided by the
many as a logical consequence that,
having exercised his freedom of choice
the man in the case ought to be held
to his bargain. It is nowhere argued
that consumption discovered after mar
riage would entitle either of the par
ties to a divorce. Is the betrothal as
binding as the marriage contract it
self? The principle of permlttting
damages for breach of it almost makes
It so. Yet there is a differenceone
upon which lawyers are not of one
mind, and upon which a jury, which
we must presume to have been com
posed of average men, could not agree.
Still another aspect is presented by
the modern medical opinion that tuber
culosis is curable in a large proportion
of cases, and in nearly all cases which I
can be approached in their early stages.
The view of many public health au
thorities is that it should be isolated,
provided communities were prepared
to supply facilities for sanitarium
treatment, but popular prejudice
against separating the members of
families precludes such drastic meas
ures for isolation as the extremists
would like to see enforced. Had the
young plaintiff the right to expect her
affianced to wait for her while she
ordinary principles which govern in
such cases. As Mr. Vanderlip says:
"We have got to loan in the measure
of the necessity rather than in the
when he was forty-nine. She was an
artist of distinction, who looked with
I sympathy on his experiments in the
field of ceramics.
It was not until 1905 that Mrs. De
Morgan came upon the partly finished
manuscript of "Joseph Vance, which
Miss Ruth Law proposes to make a
non-stop flight from continent to con
tinent, and this being Women's year
she probably will succeed if she un
dertakes it.
It is evident that Mr. Carranza has
been doing some powerful thinking
measure of the security, because there her husband had begun when a young smce our venture across the border
man, and persuaded him to complete I back tn 1917
it. It was an instant success, not-
is no security anywhere as long as you
have part of Europe idle, in want and
hunger." Europe is in the position of I withstanding its length, and it marked
was undergoing cure? This may haveSuch nations do not shirk obligatit.
a prospector who is dead broke, but is
a good worker, knows minerals, is
honest and needs only a grubstake to
start him again. We must grubstake
Europe in order to set it to work
again. The reason is imperative
"we have got to do something about it.
If we do not, it will do something
about us."
The security would be good. , The
whole world is ravenous for the com
modities which these idle people
would produce, and is a ready-made
market. The moral risk is slight, for
as moral security we should have the
character of he most industrious, in
genious, skilled, highly educated na
tions in Europe, people who are scru
pulous in meeting their obligations.
They have proved their quality by
equipping themselves in four years to
overpower a military machine which
had been building for forty yeacj.
Those fellows in training for the go
at Toledo have demonstrated that they
can do a good day's work If the prop
er incentive is furnished them.
It would be a pity if those six-cent
articles were reduced to the old five
cent basis for want of enough pennies
with which to make change.
an epoch because it showed that the
decline of popularity of the long novel
to have been due rather to poverty of
content rather than unwillingness of
the public to devote the necessary time
to reading it. There are other excep
tional circumstances in the lives, of the
De Morgans. One is that the period
of his life should have been prolonged
greatly by the stimulant of a new and
agreeable occupation for he was an
invalid when his wife, partly out of
concern for his health, suggested that
Via taltA un "JoseDh Vance" again, and
another that he should have increased "Will the campaign to add locusts
in literary power with the passage of to the menu also include provision
his remaining years. "An Affair of for supplies or wua noney
Dishonor," which he published in i
1910, created historical atmosphere if
it did not cling too closely to history.
"Of what use is history," he said,
voicing his disregard for that which
already . had been , called "fiction
agreed upon," "if we may not pervert
If the one-half of one per cent alco
hol bill passes, a lot of "Jamaica gin
ger" will have to be condemned.
What's the use of writing histories
anyway, when they must all be done
over again so soon?
This is the kind of weather that
makes optimists of us all.
OUR FKIBNDg OF LONG AGO.
To departed faces mem'ry lent
A charm as yesterday
Their eyes with ours In friendship
i blent.
And made their image stay.
Their amtlea sending gloom and sorrow
Where sunbeams send the night.
They helped each day to reach the
morrow
By making moments bright.
Their voices we hear in rapture
Now greeting us once more
Much the richest of all treasures.
Mem'ry's ear can store:
As each merry peal of laughter
Rings out in silv'ry notes!
Liuten. now, ju6t read a chapter
Of that book which mem'ry wrote!
C cherished list on mem'ry's scroll!
While lingering o'er thy pages.
Wo turn responsive to a call:
"Forsake the sullen ages!
For 'tis but just their trail we see;
In their flight they left it so.
When fleeing to eternity
Those friends or long ago."
Thank God for rnem'ry which, alone,
May brine them back to us.
Yes, bring them back when they have
gone
And mouldered into dust! v
But may we hope that they still live
As mortals come and go,
That we, in turn, may yet be with
Dear friends of long ago?
T. P. KENDALL.
434 East 11th street
THE CUP OF MERCY.
Long-lasting mercy that hath spared
The sinner from the judgment oar.
And lifted up the promise shared
By generations that have fared
The evil way alar.
Let the abundant source of old
Full uardon for my weakness yield,
And give me faith and strength to hold.
Author of mercy, sevenfold
Against the satin shield.
Oh, lift me up from the dark wave
That closes round my last retreat.
Lone without thee I cannot save
My soul front the Infernal grave
That yawns beneath my leet-
For I am nothing, yet the soul.
Secure In mercy, must prevail.
Even unto the utmost goal.
Though thunders rave and water rols
And all things earthly fall..
Then take and lead my by the hand.
Lord God, I plead on bended knee.
And hold me fast to thy command,
For thousands in my pathway stand
To shake my trust "In thee.
SERGEANT CLAUDE WEIMER.
THE LANGUAGE OF LOVE.
We talk of all beneath the suns.
And on and on our converse runs.
And Ob! so swift the hours fly
There Is so much for you and I
To say we cannot help but speak:
And yet withal our hearts are meek.
Then, lo! I gate into your eyes
And see the love that in them lies
The light of love that never dies
n that pure blue robbed or tne skies:
And your soul floods out into me
That light that ne'er on land or sea
Shone with such a wond'rous light
Melting to day my inner night.
And then our lip-words cease to come.
But our heart's own words go wan-
d'rlng on:
And though our words none else can
hea r.
T our own heart's sweet Inner ear
There Is a converse low and sweet
In tune with our two hearts that beat,
A converse none but we can know,
Of love's sweet music soft and low.
And though our lip-words cease to
come,
ur heart s own tnougots go singing
on.
.. M. A, YOTHERS,