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THE SUNDAY OREGOXIAX, PORTLAND, JULY 13, 1919. "
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tion of your roof, you had better rest your
case oa decovertura of domlctl see Per
kins v. Duboulay). We sympathise with
youl but the sight of the 24th was stormy
and confused, and yon may hava to anchor
oa a suaBsar'a chlmaer yourself worn nliht.
The lot; of the R-J4 reveals strik
ingly that already, as is the way with
men of our race, the once marvelous
is aecepted as a matter of routine.
LORD R.4 T LEIGH A"D OTHERS.
John William Strutt, in his later
years known as Lord Rayleigh, died
the other day. but the event passed
unnoticed except In the restricted
circles in which the work of abstract
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most perfunctory of official greetings made up from the Greek equlvaien
:ml at the conclusion of th. voyage, we for 0t work. ctHh had re-n-
seem to see the real Night Mail an vld th rr,v..- .i.,
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.rsk. O.V pctof.-ic. addr. la established institution. It would hardly .7 m "!T k?, '...f0"
feetac Baisai to is pafes. i cent; i. ..-..5" i '"'' v""6 remained for Lord Rayleigh and
d.ss. J cents; 4 to 4s wni eenu; I mav live to realize every salient fea. I d . . ,6
to to -) pises; 4 s.Bts; 2 to 7o ,p.s. s . " , ... .,, ,,iirl en ' conrirm mis ana to per-
su: ts to sj psiss. 6 csots. roreijfu post-i - ; - I iect a process of Its isolation.
.d.:V.r" o,nev con.- f:, !e,,;,5Very Cean- Til. . done jut a quarter of a
in. Krr.r...,rk ou.M-iia. k.w Yorn; vrr. A I century ago. It has not yet been
scown that argon in its isolated state
HOW IT IS ALWAYS DOVE. u a utility to mankind, but one never
Kvery once In a while a missionary can tel what results will flow from
goes from the far northwest to tell "urf aoDO c men "worKing witn
the wise men who guide the destinies "P"'11 view- "
of the American government of th. fter6 was nltrwn the atmospnere
Conklin. Meger bulldlr.r. Chlcano; aire
ConkMn. Free Press bui:d!n(. Ketrolt. Mich.:
aa Francisco represeniatlve. R- J. Biowell.
ncno.v almost ot tdoxe.
As Adam was a-worWlns outside, of Eden.
wa:t
lie tued th Zsrth. hs nscd th Seas, Bs
used th Air and all;
And out of black disaster
H arose to be the master
rv Ejirth and Water. Air and Fir.
But never reached his heart's desire!
wonders of this remote region. First I ajld onIv 145 r in-. iha
luo ,u,cu.omcu .uiu, , oxjgen was detected by Priestley,
Into the wtlds to educate the Indian, both men sorbin. n,.
to Christianize him and who found of knowledge, vet it i mh
BLxteen years ago Kuayara .ipiina; i otro mo yoisuuaa svoecut ui . sreai to say that their efforts have pro-
Wrote the story, "With the ast aiau.- American btaie; ana mey tuijtea. m duced a revolution in industry
which developments m aeronauUcs their appeals to Washington for at- Helium, which Ramsay succeeded in
wile ui tne past rew oayn mue umrnj . producinir in 1895. in similar rircnm,
train. PurDorticc to have been printed Then again it was the hardy pio- stances, ulrearfir riv m-nmi tnt.
in a mararine of date of 1000 X P.. neera who formed a provisional gov- inf! from ballooning the dans-or rin f
It shows Kipling to have been Inspired ernment In the disputed territory and the high explosiveness and expansive
as a prophet, but not without the later caused the American flag to bequaiity of pure hydrogen gas. There
conservatism of an Englishman of his raised over it. It is not forgotten js reason to suppose that argon in the
time. Barring- the refinements or air mat in me irouoiesomo times oi me course of time will nrova Itself nsofiil
travel about wnicn tripling wrote, me uvu r wio uienauo ui reoeuiun i to man.
vents which he visualised in the reared its ugly bead in the west, and it is not easv to .nnri r re
form of fiction have largely come to that a movement was well under way value the work of scientists of the
pass, a little more than eignty years to aei up a. new oauuu on tne racmc class to which such men as Lord
ahead of time. The air mail, if air. coast- It was crusned by the prompt Rayleigh, Ramsay, Sir William
planes be considered (Kipling was and courageous service of patriotic I Crookes, Cavendish. Priestley and
rriting about dlrigiDie Danoonsj, nasi men. I Kutherford belong. They are re.
been in existence a little more than a Through long years the only effec- minders of the more recent researches
year. Its first anniversary was ceie- live, way to get wasmngton to do Its of other physicists who have been
brated on May 15 last by two planes tun auty Dy uregon, in pudiic im-iseekinsr a simDle wav of measuring
with the same motors wnicn raa provemeni oi narDors, was to oner a the millionth of an inch. It is' next to
Inaugurated the service and which had partnership arrangement by which 1 impossible for the untrained Individ
done continuous duty in sunshine and the state put up half the money, and Ual even to form a conception of this
srale. Their record of a schedule in this fashion much has been accom- measurement. H. L. Van Keuren. of
maintained to 92 per cent of pertec. pnsnea. xei alter tne state bad the bureau of standards of the United
tion almost makes the fantastic dream 1 progressed tar in its material develop- I states government, helps us to under
cf Kipling an accomplished fact. I ment, largely through self-help, the stand it by explaining that if one will
Certain Interesting parallels found ieaerai government m a panic iook visualize a round piece of steel half
In the story of "Postal Packet 162." over vast areas or its lands, ana re. an inch In diameter and a foot long
the Kipling ship, and that of the R-J4. dedicated them to neglect, isolation projecting horizontally from a solid
which anchored proudly at Mineola, and decay. vise, and a house fly were to alight
N. the other day, will reward the Now a new band of missionaries Is on the end of the bar. the downward
reader of both narratives. "I wonder." at Washington ambassadors and deflection of the bar caused by the
said one of Kipling's personages, "if I plenipotentiaries of the sentiment and I weight of the fly would be approxi
any of us ever know what we are interest of Oregon to speak for the mately a millionth of an inch. But
really doing." He was philosophizing Roosevelt highway. They found there obviously this is not a method suitable
over the proposition that the Inventor an atmpsohere as usual uncongenial, for a bureau of standards, and scien-
cf a steering device had perfected I the attitude of congress indifferent, tific men are seeking one that shall
his rudder to help war-boats ram each not to say hostile. But they told their be Invariable.
other: "and war went out of fashion I story, and they made a real impres- I Insignificant as this measurement
Ufa, or whatever it was, did make a independence upon their demonstrated
self-reliant people, with whom the capacity for education,
idea that they were their own law The most encouraging feature of the
was, perhaps, an incident. It was an data is the showing made of constant
ideal soil for the growth of individual- increase of educational facilities. The
ism. Virtue was apt to be as intense total number of children attending
as the faults that set it off. If the school increased 54 per cent between
mountaineers were more fierce and 1912 and 1918. There was in the
bitter than others, they were also more same period a gain of 160 per cent in
intense in their pride, their hospitality intermediate pupils and of 220 per
and their friendships; It was the mis- cent in high School pupils. The island
sion of Fox to interpret them to the government now supports 4700 schools
world. Such stories as "The Little with 12,105 teachers, and is preparing
Shepherd of Kingdom Come," one of to bring in more teachers from the
his best, is good dialect, good descrip- United States. It is highly significant
tion and almost lyrical in the quality that all Instruction is in English. No
of its prose poetry. "The Trail of the I foreign language issue has been pre.
Lonesome Pine" was his most popular I cipitated to impair the unity of the
work. Hell-for-Sartin" and "X Cum- I school system. In this respect, our
berland Vendetta" were others worth I wards have given us something to
reading. I think about. They seem to have ar-
In all these stories it is made plain rived by intuition at a conclusion
that the mountaiaeer was the product I which is only recently being forced by
or circumstances, mainly of the pro- I sad experience on the people at home.
found necessity for righting his own
all weak (
the worst I
wrongs in times when there was no I
one else to right them. It is also made I
clear that he was also a potentially I
good American, which has lately been I
ABRAHAM IXJfCOU ON THE STAGE.
News that the American rights of
Abraham Lincoln, John Drink
demonstrated by the account which water's play now making an amazing
the mountain men gave of themselves uuuuu
in the world war. experience at Birmingham, have been
purcnasea ana mat me piay win oe
eiven in this eountrv next fall, brintrs
'Ut" V. HOIWIIIEB AT riOHTl. I . ,- co,m in ho an annma.lv.
At SO years old, John D. Rockefeller that we have had to go abroad, after
is a figure of Interest to the philo- I fifty-three years, for a drama on this
sophical. Some of the bitterness with highly promising subject. It is true
whir-h h t... that Lincoln Has teen presented on
hn fonr,. k ii, r stage, although justice has
' not been ,jone him, and he seems not
the young have for the old: some of to havo causnt the fancy of play
it is modified by the fact that many wrights 'as the possible hero of a
of the abuses for which he stood as I great drama. Yet enough has filtered
a kind of symbol have been corrected, I across the ocean concerning the play
while others are in process of reforma- now running in England to make one
tion: and resentment is further abated wonQe5 Twnelner V"nKT"e" concfP
by the preoccupation of people with
other things. The ruthless Rockefeller
of half a century ago merges into the
pathetic figure of an old man, who,
now that he has amassed vast
"wealth," Is deeply puzzled over what
to do with it, for the good of others
and for the comfort of his own 60ul.
At 80, the oil man, for some time
past turned philanthropist, must be
giving some of his time to reflection
pon what course he would take if he
had all his life before him again. That
e realized a long while ago the truth
oi tne old adage that there is no
pocket in a shroud was shown when.
in 1901, he founded the Rockefeller
Institute for Medical Research, whose
splendidly endowed departments un
doubtedly have made possible the
doing of much good. This institute a
short while ago possessed a total income-bearing
property of about $15,
000,000. The spirit of giving, which
feeds itself, prompted him two years
after this to create the General Educa
tion T?i.-.t . . . . . . . : i I n
tion of Lincoln will make a favorable
impression on the people here.
The fact seems to be that Lincoln,
as Americans regard him, is frankly
too large a subject to be attempted
by a writer of plays. Dealing with
a British public, Mr. Drinkwater has
been able to take certain liberties,
not irreverently but, nevertheless, in
volving numerous omissions, which
would be taking chances if the audi
ence were Americans. A good deal,
we suppose, will depend on the actors
chosen for the American production.
and on the tact of the stagfl manager.
The critics who have seen the play
and judged it from our point of view
(notably, those whose opinions are
summarized by the Boston Trans.
cript) agree that there are certain
minor features that will need to be
ironed out. They mention, among
other things, that Mr. Lineoln is made
to receive, in the first act of the play,
a "deputation" from the republican
convention. On this side of the At
lantic his visitors would constitute a
delegation,
and Masniac went out of his mind sion.
because he couldn't help his country that the congressional committee I sary in the race for industrial su
any more." The voyage of the R-34 learned that the new highway will premacy. It is the age of standard!
Is distinctly an outgrowth of war. and penetrate and develop vast stretches I ration, and the nation which would
we hope with Kipling that war will ef government lands, and will con- gain and hold trade must be prepared
have gone out of fashion by the Ume trioute greatly to their accessibility to give service, in the form of inter-
that trans-Atlantic flights are as much and value. So the Roosevelt high- changeable parts, for its machinery
a matter of course as those which are (way is an investment of direct benefit land instruments in every country on
lions more have been devoted, all for , tl . .
various forms, part of which,
being
The reason seems to have been! seems, we are assured thai it is neces- contingent on self-help by the aided
institutions, resulted in subscriptions
depicted in "With the Night Mall.
"Heavy traffic hereabouts," the
Kipling record says, and "mail boats
have the fiv thousand level to them
selves." This is a slightly higher
level than the R-34 sought, but it
will be borne in mind that necessity
for revising traffic rules does not yet
exist. Postal Packet 163 took its
time about ascending to the higher
altitudes, as did R-34, although for a
different reason. "Wind in east, seven
miles per hour," says the chronicle
of the actuality, "and so we are mak
Ing a good forty miles an hour and
resting three engines." "There Is,
says the Kipling tale. "no sense -in
urging machinery when Aeolus him-
r elf gives you good knots for nothing.
There is a slight difficulty with the
cylinder water Jacket of the R-34,
wWh. however, is repaired. Kipling
permits his perfect bit of machinery
no such lapse, but he suggests possi
bilities, and long before the world
war he has his fling at German work
manship:
"Now look at our thrust collars. Tou
won't find much German compo there. Full
Jewelled, you see. m-s Captain Hodsson.
as the enslneer shunts open the top of a
rap. Our shaft bearlnfs are C. M. C (Com
mercial Minerals company) stones, ground
with as much care as the lens of & tele
sope. . . . They are a shlnln reproof
to all low-rrade German "ruby enamels, so-
called "boort" factnfrs. and the danfferoua
and unsatisfactory alumina compounds which
plase divlilend-hunUna owners and turn
shippers crazy.
But we shall look rather for the
parallel of the spirit which actuates
these men than for identical experi
ences, and it is easy to imagine the
Impatience with which the crew of
the R-34. if they were men of lmagi
nation, as no doubt they were, re-
carded their progress across the
ocean and longed for the day, which
no doubt they were able to see In
the distance, when to the dependability
cf the dirigible would be added the
speed of the airplane. Kipling's ship,
making her ":ghteen-second mile."
and then speeding up to a mile for
every sixteen seconds, awakened the
same longings in her men. "Some
fine day." says Kipling's Tim, "we'll
be even with that clock's master.'
He alludes to the sun. "He's coming
now," says George, over his shoulder.
Tra chasing the night west,"
The enslne-roem Is hot and stuffy: th
e'erks In ths coach ar asleep, and the tfave
f the Rsy is resdy to fo.low them. Tim
a id open the after-collold and rTala th
curt of the world th ocan a deepest pur
v e . dtd with fuming and Intolerable sold.
Then the sun rises and ttrough the colloid
s.riites out oar lamps. Tlu scowls ta his
face
"bquirrels In cafe." fa mutters. "Thst's
1 we are. Squirrels In a case: He's solns
teles aa last as us. Just you wait a few
years, wt thinlns frterd. ard we'll take
aeps that'll amass you. We'll Joshua
oul"
Tea. that Is our rfream: to turn a!! earth
l-.ta a Vs. of Alalott at our p'easur. ffo
far. we csn dree out the dtt to twice Its
normal lecrta In these latitude. But some
l-iy sva cn th equsmr we shall hold ths
Ban Isvel In his full stride.
There are other fanciful but we
sheil not now ray unreasonably fan
cifulconceptions in the prophecy.
"K"ur:ny how the new things are the
eld things." says Tim. and goes on:
"Tv read In bocks thst savages used to
su! their strk and wounded up to the tors
cf th b!"s because th Ritcrone were fwer
taer. W hoist 'em tare sterilised a:r for
a shils Sam Id- How much do the
doctor ssv we've adjed to the averas U:e
( a man?
"Thirty years. says Geore. wita a twin
a:s in his es.
The mayor of Atlantic City, with
his ultimatum, "fly high or keep off
altogether." makes real the vision of
tne new law of the air that Kipling
rltmpses for us. "Deeoverture of
domicile." the principle invoked." ought
to interest lawyers who also have
svs for the future. For. in reply to
"Pater-famillas" (It seems that there
are "Answers to correspondents' even
in A. D. 2000) the urns magazine
that prints the story of the Night Mall
has this to suggest:
Xona whatever. He is liable to direct dam.
ce both to your chimneys and any cuat.
al damaaes ceased by falllns ef bricks
Into your rarden. etc., etc. Bodily laeon
aacuasa asd csataj angiilta cay. be (a,
to Uncle Sam. the globe. The millionth of an inch
There is even a better reason becomes the symbol of scientific ac
several better reasons. One of them curacy. And the instruments for
is that the Roosevelt highway will measuring it with precision have been
have military and strategic value, and, made possible only by the physicists
in case of war, it may prove to be in- who in their studies of the action of
dispensable to national defense. Why light had not even the slightest notion
should such considerations be for-1 that they were later to exert an in-
gotten or ignored ? Are we never to
have another war? Or are we to as
sume that there will be no more wars.
and not even a chance of them?
on the direction of world
fluence
trade.
Lord Rayleigh's scientific work was
done almost wholly in the field of ab
straction. But he showed that a
pyify rtrrPT rv EnnTq aticuuat limy uisu ua iluulall vy ut-
The war ended with the signing of conllns' th? "roUkman of London "
the series of armistices with Bulgaria V-a eo reducing iniani mortality in
on September 80, with Turkey on ln cuy Dy aDoul -"-e-nan. a aeea
October 31, with Austria on November that had '-"--reaching effect because
s And with Hormanr s"wAmV it the example was widely followed. It
and hostilities are supposed to have
ceased then, but
Poland is at war with the Ukrain
ians in eastern Galicia, with the tiol
shevists in white Russia, has been
was his scientific training which led
him to turn milkman. He compre
hended certain broad principles of hy
giene which would not have been re
vealed to him had he labored in a
at war with Germany in Silesia. Posen more Poetical and restricted field.
and west Prussia, with the Cecho
Slovaks in Tescben, and threatens war I
with Lithuania at Vilna. For a newly
THE ORIGIN Or FEUDS.
John Fox Jr., who died recently at
liberated country that has been under his home in Big Stone Gap, Va., had
the heels of three despots for a cen- an interesting theory to account for
tury and a half and that has been the blood feuds of the southern back
swept bare by the Russo-German cam- woods districts about which he wrote
paigns, Poland displays a surprising with sympathy and into which he in-
amount of military activity. stilled so much charm that he deserves
Roumania is fighting the bolshev- to be rated among the few noteworthy
lsts on the Dniester, the Hungarians American authors of the present cen-
on the Theiss, has almost come to tury. It was his notion that there was
blows with the Jugo-Slavs in the & direct relationship between the
Banat, and is threatened with attack mountains and the spirit which bred
by the Bulgarians in the Dobrudja. the feud. "It Is not a wild fancy,"
The Jugo-Slavs are fighting Austria he wrote once, "that the Kentucky
for Klagenfurt and a district .along mountain feud takes root in Scotland."
the Drave river, Hungary for districts I He alluded to the instincts of revolu-
between the Drave and Danube and tion, to whig and tory wars, to clans-
on the Theiss, and Albania for Pris-1 men's codes handed down from gener
rend, Jacova and Ipek, and are almost I ation, to generation, which he believed
at war with Italy for Fiume and Dal- I it to be capable of proof were asso-
matia. I elated with the wildness of the regions
The Cechc-Slovaks are fighting the among which feud people dwell. The
Hungarians on their southern border, early Highlanders were of such as
and have a war brewing with the these, and the people of Sicily and of
Ukrainians in the eastern Carpathians, parts of Italy and the Balkan moun-
while an armistice has suspended their tains and the Caucasus.
war with the Poles for Teschen. I It. is a modern lasnion to seek a
In Russia the bolshevists are at- "psychological" reason for every trait
tacked by the Letts, Esthonians, Finns Perhaps the mountain theory will
and General Yudevitch's Russian serve as well as any other to account
army in the vicinity of Petrograd, by for the unlovely custom of shooting
the allies and Russians in the Arch- one's neighbors because one's great
angel district, by Kolchak's army in grandfather once had a falling out with
the east, by Gregorieffs peasant army the great granduncle of another
in the Ukraine and by Denikin's army I against whom he could have no pos-
in the southeast, while there is fight- tibia ground for personal grievance,
ing at epots in Siberia. I "Rugged mountains make a rugged
The Afghans have attacked India I people." says a theorist. The moun
and are being driven back by the I tains aro cruel and lonesome, and they
British Indian army. I deny a living to all but the most hardy.
Egypt is In rebellion at heart and the people who dwell among them
against Britain, though the armed up- absorb their traits. But there is an
rising has been suppressed. I other possible, or probable, reason.
In Tripoli the Arabs have forced and that is that the mountains make
the Italians to retreat to the coast. travel difficult, that they automatic
France in Morocco is fighting tribes ally Isolate the people who live In
which have teen Incited to rebellion I them from the outer world, and so
by the Germans. I restrain ths march of civilization. For
A large part of Ireland is in such no specious reasoning can make the
rebellious mood against England that I blood feud anything else than a bar
martial law prevails. I barian institution.
The great war is over, but it has Fox himself pointed out once that
been succeeded by many little wars. I the Rothschild money panic was fol-
Many of these can be traced to Ger- I lowed by a revival of feudism in re
man and bolshevist influence, which I gloria from which it had almost dis
ras left free when the German army I appeared. The relationship between
was compelled to cease fighting. In a tight money market in London and
order to stop German hostilities it assassination in the Highlands of a
was necessary not only to overpower southern state was this, that it checked
the German army and navy, but to the building of railroads and left the
destroy the power of propaganda people to themselves again when they
which still remained in the hands of were just beginning to get a glimpse
the Germans and bolshevists. If that of the outer world and to learn the
requirements of self-adjustment to
conditions of a modern social order.
dacy." These may be, as has been
suggested, only small blemishes. If
Mr. Drinkwater is not unduly over
come by pride of authorship, he will
permit them to be corrected. But it
is not so small a matter that General
Grant is made to use "My word!" as
benevolences. The Ple,u,ve' We can easily imagine
amounting to some fifty millions more.
The Rockefeller Foundation, with its
gifts of more than a hundred millions,
represents the most extensive field of
this rich man's
International Health Board and the
this evoking a laugh in the wrong
War Relief Commission, also with their pIaC6' and "Abraham Lincoln" is by
millions, should not be omitted from "V
But accounts agreo on the point
that the drama has been seriously
conceived and that it deserves that
the catalogue.
These gifts betoken dawning con
sciousness on the part of a great
money-maker that money is not every
thing. There was a time in our history
It was nearly coincident with the
VAItth H f .- Pnnlraall.. ...1.
richest man" in the community. The " " y l , L TV? LZZZ
its minor defects be overlooked if
they cannot be blue penciled. There
must be something in a play which
took theatergoers from London to
wrong- possible. But we are
and jealous and foolish. Some of th
of us are sullen, assressive still Just
sraedy pirates. Some of us have grown
out of that. But the beat of us have an
instinct to resist agsreesion If it won't listen
to persuasion. You may aay Ifa a wrong
Instinct. I don't know. But it's there
and It's there In millions of good men.
I don't believe it's a wronc Instinct. . .
We must strive to pnrtfy the world, but
we must not think ourselves pure abov,
the world. When 1 nad this thing to de-
cide. it would have been easy to say, "No.
I will have none of It: it is evil, and I will
not touch It." But that would have de
cided nothing, and I saw what I believed
to be the truth, aa X now put it to you,
ma am.
And so on, in quite a long speech
for Mr. Lincoln to address to a guest
in his own home. It is hardly to be
expected that any playwright would
rise to heights of which Lincoln was
capable. We shrink instinctively, in
deed, from the thought of putting
fictitious words into the mouth of so
great a man. But Mr. Drinkwater
here has probably caught the spirit
of Lincoln and his real feeling toward
war. Which, as it is the feeling of
most of us, will do very well as it is.
The play, and its vogue in England
may have a good result. It may show
to Americans the possibilities they
have overlooked. It would be worth
something to have a real American
Lincoln drama, truly worthy of the
name. As has been suggested, it is a
tremendous subject. But it is worth
thinking about. -
It is not an ordinary bugaboo that
is raised by the nurserymen of Ore
gon in their prediction of scarcity of
stocks for future plantings, but the
plain statement of a condition that
prevails quite generally not only in
America but throughout the world
Even the domestic nursery industry
has been interwoven in the past with
the foreign business; certain supplies
of seedlings and other necessaries
were based upon production abroad
and the business in this country
thrown on its own resources by the
war has hardly had time to adjust it
self to conditions such as never have
confronted it before. High prices for
fruit, such in particular as prunes and
cherries, are bound to stimulate plant
ing, and it takes more than a season
to replenish a nursery. It is normal
to expect an increase in prices with
everything else trending upward. But
it is to be hoped that nurserymen will
be able to resist the temptation to go
beyond that limit, by putting on "all
that the traffic will bear." A fair
price and wide distribution of the
young trees will in the long run mean
development of the fruit-growing in
dustry on the soundest basis in the
end will be in the best interests of
nurserymen as well as others.
most prosperous man was a
celebrity. There was a certain emula-
played the game for the sake of th. T"irr;r,
has been playing to the' British equiva
lent of standing room only in
Drinkwater has made a disarming
appeal in a prefatory note in which
he says:
My purpose la not that of the historian
or the political ' philosopher. My concern
is with the profoundly dramatic Interest
nd with the In
game even men who could not be
charged with use of questionable
methods in their accumulations. Many
men have dreamed of power, and in
the time when money seemed to the
superficial to reDresent the heisht of of Lincoln's character, and with the
power they were led to various ex- Pl"ng example of a man who handled
, j i war uoDiy ana witn irnsi-iiia.Lioii. x nu-ve
ucmcb iu uiutiu meir eiiuo. iwr. xvuu.e- written m an EnKlishman. making no at-
feller, viewed at this distance, appears tempt to achieve a "local color" of which
nathor o a o T.tr.sii-t f f im than 1 1 have no experience, or to apealc in. an
,u.a.uwa mm w - w w. a-aww vatuu I ,jnn1 j --;rtK T have nnr hrttfl
aa a rrincn4fTiriiia ftfft.nr1s.T op-nincf tViA I
hitrh mcraiitie.. It will be asked, perhaps, why there
Rut It will TMr ll,fl T, nkn " UOUBMlty lur luioiu.
seen the vanity bf it all. He would ?ola was c"a,sea tp'"Ii5. I.
give vastly more than he already has language oi me piam ppi nm
given to be known to posterity as neighborhood, and though an English
something better than the "richest crit c. complains that the actor who
mn" t-V,.k,l- T,. ,rn (nn lsto depiCtS Lincoln, a JUr. XIC,
The name, for example, of Dr. Alexis
Carrel, whose researches have been
form of speech which might be taken
"for that of a Belfast butterman,'
had been done and if all the German
frontiers had been occupied by the
allies, that propaganda could have
been stamped out and the little wars
could have been prevented. Because
the war was stopped before it was
finished. Bolshevism gained time to
organize and to spread its poison and
therefore still lives, and the great war
has been followed by many little wars.
The world is officially at peace, ac
cording to the treaty which ha just
been ratified at Weimar, but in fact
it U thickly, spotted. jviUj. wars, Xhe
There was once, as Mr. Fox related,
a thirty years' local war as the result
of a boy's making fun of the patch
on another boy's trousers. In the
conflict men were killed who had for
gotten, or who never had known, how
the trouble started. Only among a
people eo self-centered that they could
not realize the comparative pettiness
of their own little grievances could
this have been possible.
But the mountains, or the isolated
v..ihi. i, vt- wtfoiio. and which is not at all like "the dialect
donations to the institute, is likely to of110-?" Lincoln in his Gettysburg
be widely honored in the history of "--"-
science when that of the benefactor u'u "u- unm u,.
i ii w frttn. .nj tw win guage common to all who own Eng.
always be Inclination to contrast the fh as eir, mother tongue. The
life of Rockefeller with that of such Playwright might easily enough be
men as Dr. Vincent, who specified Pardoned, especially in dealing with
when he was called to the presidency a classical subject in a heroic way. if
of the foundation that his salary a -""-" "
.hrmiri h. o rrtr than that nairt at all. This would have been safer
by the university which had previously he. bad had in mind a future produc
employed him. Mr. Rockefeller can, "on in the United States
a-a . h hii ,r These and some other imperfec
as in instances such as these, he must ons r nted Americans who
greatly envy them. ve maQO n" P"fr'-a-se
There is denied to the mere accumu- Bennett's theater at Hammersmith to
lator of money the durable satisfaction se "Abraham Lincoln" produced. But
which attends on personal participa- at one.iIEnllfh bseryr-
j ' rn i or ovirin srif tits RattlHav T? sTs
tion in a great work. In the extended "- " " , " " . V,
r.mirainn. e tv,. wtofeii,. v...-,.. view, makes a point that will hold
-i.i.e .-t i. ik.i o especial interest for Americans. He
signer of checks. It is not as large a ntes that the playwright has wholly
part as many ambitious men would Hmored the humor and the qualntness
wish to have. We wonder how much ot Lincoln and has Preserved only his
Mr. Rockefeller would give and what earnestness ana tenacity, xnert,
I a. at 1 M eha tnlA s rT s-i am 1t 1r A
he would do if the miraculous power
trace of humor in the play. The joke
were given him to turn the clock back about Grant's brand of whisky is. not
aa evea fifty years. a J"" ""!",;" X, v k T7v
actor. j. 11 o paiuiD r iiii-ii fioucui.il
Dourlaes is made to emclov is unin
FIXIPEVO UTEBACX. tentional. for Douttlass is not a comedy
Seventy per cent ot the entire popu- character. As a matter of fact it is
la tion of the Philippine Islands ovei unfaithful to life, if accounts of
10 years old can read and write, ac-1 Douglass are to be believed. And a
cording to a report received by cable Lincoln devoid of all humor, or at
least, ot any quaiumeM, wui ecoiu
from Vice-Governor Teater at Manila.
The population is estimated at 10,-
500,000, of which roundly half a mil
strange to Americans who hold him
in reverence. Not a minor reason for
the great president's hold upon his
U0,? ftZ,?1.1 nn-Cnrirt-a- r "- people was that even in the moments
laiiou vviiw u luca. a uwi aivvvvci,
are included in the illiteracy estimate.
The proportion of literates to illiter- I .,.
axes i ii uieat laiauue, ta n ii 11 l n o
American system of education was
not Introduced until 1899 and was not
of his greatest concern for his country.
he did not take himself with excessive
There are some fifty speaking parts
in "Abraham Lincoln," a fact that is
tn nail fn. mt. JM lace itATlhllnD'
'""""-. "I " 1 - 1-1- - f , th(J road an(, tbBLt
tlfn vA i m as I rtr-i act aTXttlTJ' -. at al m " ...
. " ' . . at the same time will call for a revival
in Louisiana, the most illiterate of
all the states in the United States.
The percentage of illiterates in the
total population of the latter state
was 29.9 as shown by the census of
1910. There are several southern
states in which Illiteracy runs about
20 per cent. The Filipinos now have
a considerably higher standard than
Russia or any of the Balkan states.
It will be suspected that there is a
of the talent that actors used to
possess in the old repertory days.
This, too, is a subsidiary matter. It
appears on the whole that the run of
the play In England is due to Mr.
Drlnkwater's success in indicating
that Lincoln did. Indeed, "handle war
nobly and with imagination." There
are (in the play) at the White House
two women guests (who are not his-
l..i.nl nh.Mpl.rfll t vrliAm Ttti T.ln-
trace of self-determination propa. .., n Kov,.
ganda in the statement that "literacy f 80Utn wh,cn ,h ,
in these Islands is also lower than I fCl, n t tv,.
in any of the countries whose inde- thought of all war. and because of
P.;?denCibeinS reco?ze,d bVh8 the suffering which it causes she
allies. The figures nevertheless stand h t ded forthwUn To
for themselves and it wiU be conceded Lincoln says:
that the Filipinos have adopted a; safe " ' v , t
-..v.,! - nrnxsine- these, Pl,im. If Ma am. I too believe war to be wrong,
method Ot pressing tnese Claims II It u th, wealtness and the tolly and the
they, are basing their frWnjj f or. larger jealousy oi maa that make a ttu&c a?
We commend -to all suddenly-made
millionaires the example of the Texas
farmer who is in receipt of an income
of $1600 a day as the outcome of an
oil lease which he gave on a corner
of his farm. He has decided to go
right on farming as if nothing had
happened, except that he will have a
new farm wagon and a span of mules
and will buy a few labor-saving de
vices for the house. Mother and the
girls are to have a share, it seems, in
the new prosperity, which is as it
should be but not always is in the
rural districts. One of the pleasantest
evening pastimes imaginable would
be to sit with pencil in hand and
make a list of the devices that a
woman could use to advantage around
a farm house and that could be
bought with a single day's Income
from that oil lease. Even fly screens
for every window in the house could
be included without stretching J1600
a particle.
The drys are alive to the possibility
that the wets may steal a march on
them by making prohibition unpopu
lar through excesses of enforcement
that no reasonable temperance advo.
cate ever thought of. It is an ancient
trick, not unknown to the politicians
of the older school.
The Wedding.
By Graee E. U all-
Life still Is very young; the morning
light
Is filled with many tones that most
delight.
As from the river bank two chlldrea
gaze -Across
the rippling blue where hanga
no haze
Foretelling coming storm or cloud or
gale
To Interrupt the Joy of promised sail.
They know, In vaguest way, that rivers
all
Speed toward the sea, where thunderous
voices call;
They cannot grasp einoe in street
youth none knows
The scenes this morning Journey shall
disclose;
They only head the impulse of the star.
Which is the tender urge of loving
heart.
If they could glimpse the stops along
the way.
How hesitant the start at break of day!
They little dream the frailest kind of
craft
Is love in early youth (we ail have
laughed
At pallors who have sailed the course
before
And warned of breakers fretting near
the shore):
And so, with neither compass, chart nor
guide.
They anchor weigh and down the river
glide;
While hapless ones who long since
made the trip,
Behold, through tears, the sailing of
their ship.
Mere children setting forth sense not
Intrigue
Which lurks beneath the surface; league
by league.
They shall be called to bait, and oft in
pain
Shall pay the price of passage o'er
again;
Together they shall stand upon the
deck
Of their frail craft and witness many
a wreck.
If theirs itself shall not be cast ashore.
A hopeless mass, disabled evermore!
And yet. all signals hoisted at the start
Shall not suffice to daunt a loyal heart;
And those who hold their course
throusrh storm and Blast
Shall sail in sweet contentment to the
last.
BETTER THAT SCCCESS.
O, brother, you who have etood firm
and true
To principles of right, in ail plans
laid.
Has the god of fortune frowned upon
you
At eacb turn in life you've made?
If so, have you, weary, despondent.
grown
While plodding on along the dark
some way.
As each defeat with ever deepening
gloom
Belates the dawn of hoped-for day?
Has the decree passed like a mournful
dirse
From your weary soul that you're a
failure;
That success for you is but an idle
word.
Tour longed-for goal an empty measure?
Ah, brother, suppose Fate could seal
your doom
And eo filch from you the well
earned treasure,
Though you are worthy, tested and
stand true,
Deserving to the fullest measure?
Then, In the strife, you'll gain some
thing greater;
For honest worth true merit you'll '
possess.
Though bereft of life's fleeting pleas.
ures.
You'll be deserving of success.
T. P. KENDALL.
Has anybody noticed that the
Mooney strike produced any increase
of sentiment in favor of Mooney? As
the strike included the Fourth of July,
a Saturday which is a nau-noiiaay
and a Sunday, it was actually only
for two and a half days,' and passed
almost unobserved.
Holland is indignant over the im
putation that she would let a Hohen
zollern ret away. Still, it must be
hard to resist temptation to take an
easy way of getting rid of an unwel
come guest by leaving the door open.
When it is remembered that even
at the high prices they are paying
for raw products the canners expect
to 'sell them at a good profit, the
home canning movement ought to
take a new start.
There is a "big surplus" of food in
warehouses, according to the war de
partment, but it doesn't seem so big
when we realize that it amounts to
only about J1.27 per capita of the
population.
There is talk of improving the cable
service across the Pacific, but an in
vestment in new cables seems about
as attractive as money spent for
stage coaches In this wireless age.
That red, white and blue lizard at
Hood River is being displayed in a
milk bottle, which is not the kind of
bottle strange animals were seen
through in an olden day.
When a blind man pays $60 to "see"
the Willard-Dempsey fight, it is
either the height of extravagance or
the height of optimism, according to
the point of view.
The crown prince says that war
will be resumed within ten years,
which .people will bear in mind who
are in a nurry to resume traamg
with Germany.
If Pershing had only had ths air
planes we now are trying to get rid
of. that campaign against Villa
would have ended differently a few
years ago.
Even at the risk of depriving the
coffee trade of a few ships, we want
every vessel available to be used in
bringing our soldiers home.
We hope that Mr. Bryan can be in
duced to give our Justly celebrated
loganberry Juice a boost while he is
in Oregon.
WHERE QUALITY COUXTS.
When you enter the door of a grocery
store
And the clerk bobs up with a bounce.
It isn't her size that dazzles your eyes.
It's a case where quality counts.
And so If you please, with the pump
kins and peas,
It Isn't the pound and the ounce,
Not the size of the pile, but the class
and the style,
It's a case where quality counts.
If the pumpkins are punk, and the gin
ger is junk.
Your pie is a pill I announce.
So be a wis man, and trade while
you can
In the city where quality counts.
If the cherries are old, and the berries
are mold.
Pray what have you saved that
amounts!
The boys whipped the kaiser on good
appetizer,
Twas a case where quality counts.
WILLIAM STEWARD GORDON.
THE PROFITEER.
trembling, tottering frame, care
worn and old.
Sways to and fro amidst Its glittering
gold.
The eve seems dark a gloom hangs
over the masts
Toward death life's eetting sun a shad
ow casts.
A man, aghast, at hade's threshold
falls:
Awe-stricken, he feels the crumbling of
the walls; -
With feverish hands he grasps his gold
en sum
A clattering clang, and then his work
is done.
A etranger enters, beckoning him to
come
T am Death! Thou comest must with
me along:
A shuddering grin, a prayer of no
avail
The tottered, withering wreck lies cold
and Dale.
The ship of Death bears now the mol-
dering frame.
P. K. ENEBO.
Courses in Americanization are
among the hopeful features of the
summer school curricula this season.
Another of the beauties of the Ore
gon weather is that no hot spell lasts
more than three or four days.
Talk about evading the prohibition
Javt i-mostly, moonshine,
DAISIES.
I took a stroll where daisies grow
Daisies, we all love them so!
Nodding gaily by the way
Subtly with the breeze they sway
Bits of fleecy summer grace -With
their emlllng, wistful face
Multiplied beyond the span
Of the reckoning of man.
Merrily they skip and drill
O'er the meadow, down the hill.
In a fairy-like quadrille.
Soulless, inarticulate
Yet they somehow seem to wake"
Thoughts of childhood's happy days;
Of its carefree, artleser ways
Mirrored here again we see
Truth and sweet eimplicity.
G. F. B.
GROWTH.
A seed burst in the ground, a form
Grew high and higher in the wood
Till, ages old, a great tree stood
Triumphant over beast and storm.
A spirit in the earthly clod
Grew strong ana curst its prison bars.
Till o'er the azure of the stars
It reached celestial heights of God.
And big things are of little thlnge.
Have their beginning drops of rata
That penetrate the surface plain-
Rivers make seas of little springs.
EJltiiiA-M 1' ClaaVLlDJi .WEIMPIB., .