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7 . ' WESLEY HAILED AS PROHIBITIONIST AHEAD OF HIS TIME Total Abstinence and Non-Participation in Manufacture and Sale of Intoxicants Fundamental Principles of Methodism. THE. SUNDAY OREGONIAN. PORTLAND, AUGUST 3, 19191 BT CLARENCE TRUE "WILSON. Ceneral secretary of the board of teraper nr. prohibition ana public morals of the Methodist Episcopal church. ' H r ETHODISil, founded by John l Wesley. a prohibitionist 200 J.YJ. Wesley, a prohibitionist years ahead of his time, made total abstinence and non-participation In the manufacture and sale of intoxi cants conditions of membership in his societies and in the general rules of the Methodist Episcopal church trans planted from his societies across the Following the revolutionary war there was a letting down of the stand ards in this country. All wars are periods of demoralization, and that was no exception; we had a, period of skepticism in our colleges, falling off of membership in the churches, pro fanity, gambling. Sabbath desecra tion, lewdness and drunkenness unim aginable to people now living. Even our church was caught in the general swirl, and in 1800 the general confer ence rescinded the general rule against buying and selling of spirituous liquors and drinking, except in cases of extreme- necessity and it took 34 years of agitation to get this rule reinstated where Wesley had put It. Methodism in the Lead. IMethodism took the lead among the Churches in the creation of temperance sentiment; and every movement for total abstinence or prohibition has re ceived its impulse and leadership from Methodism in this country. The crusade was conducted by women, nobly backed by Methodism. After leading the world In resolu tions that flamed in the dome of human thought like stars at midnight in the blue above us, the general con ference of 18S8 appointed a. permanent committee on temperance. In 1904 the general conference changed Its name to the Temperance society, and estab lished headquarters in Chicago. Left without means of support, its work fWas limited. The general conference of 190S asked all the churches for free will offerings for the Temperance society, and in 1910 the board of managers elected two field secretaries, Clarence True Wilson and Alfred Smith. In 1912 the gen eral conference indorsed the adminis tration and aggressive leadership of the cause by these men, gave the so ciety an adequate apportionment, moved the headquarters to Topeka, Kan., where it had the basis of the great faith experiment that Kansas had made, showing that a state can grow, live and prosper without a dollar of tainted liquor money in its treasury. This state had needed a means of com munication with the outside world and all the publicity agencies and platform opportunities of the board began to be freely used for the exploitation of the wonderful Kansas experiment. Katiiu the Storm Center. It was a strategic thing, when the states were just coming to their cam paigns all of which hinged on the suc cess or failure of prohibition in Kan sas, that our general conference far sightedly Put our board at this storm center in the crucial hour to make known to the world through the Clipsheet going to all newspapers, the Voice going to all ministers and our speakers into every campaign that the Kansas experiment had been a mar velous success. The last general conference broad ened the work of this board, changed its name to the board of temperance, prohibition and public morals, fixed its headquarters at the nation's capital for its national and international in fluence. doubled.,its apportionment and authorized it to procure a suitable site and build a permanent headquarters where it could represent Methodist millions in the exertion of their in fluence upon the moral legislation that is destined to help make this a better world. When our board started Its work we determined not to do anything that any other organization was then doing well. We have only stepped In where there was an Imperative need either because something was overlooked or because a lack of vision had prevented the acceptance of the most aggressive movement for the reform then in sight. Board's Policies Set Forth. We found the foreign speaking peo ples of our country neglected by the temperance reformers and their organi zations. We began to publish millions of leaflets in their tongue. One of them was the' speech of Emperor Will iam in German, .in which he predicted that the nation that used the least amount of alcohol would conquer In the next war, and that the nation that used the most would bo the first to go down. This seems almost like the words of a prophecy now, as the great est drinking nations of Europe are utterly demolished, and as Uncle Sam, most of his states. dry and getting his boys from, our total abstinence army, trained every one of them under total abstinence and prohibition conditions, stationed most of the camps in prohi bition territory, put a day zone around the rest, and made it a crime to sell intoxicants to a man in uniform. These boys then went up against the most famous beer drinkers of the ages, and the man does not live so dull as to fail to see that, man for man, Ger many's beer-guzzling soldiers were no match for America s prohibition men. Another neglected field was the 10, 000,000 colored people of the United States, without one man supported among them to promote their temper ance life. We organized a department for colored people, selected a noted and eloquent leader, and have sustained that department of work, publishing literature adapted to their needs, and sending our man where the fight was thickest in the various ..campaigns among his people. Antl-Advertlslna; Flsrht Waned. We next saw that the newspaper world was againsl us. In six states that had prohibition fights on, seven and eight years ago, there were only two daily papers that were on our side the rest were sopping wet. Although four of the six states carried dry, the newspapers were against us. Why? The brewers' etrangle-hold on the editor through his grip on the business management settled the policy of the newspaper. We made up our minds to take upon ourselves the breaking of that strangle-hold. We began to send our Clipsheet to every editor in the United States every week. We began to appeal to them in personal .letters, "stop insulting the decent men of this nation, their wives and children, and their home life, by purveying lying liquor advertisements advocating beer as a blessing and boon to old people, sick people, babies and to nursing mothers, that they might blight with prenatal damnation of the innocent, the generation yet to be." How happy I was when 18 dally papers were registered at our office as signing the pledge, never to take another dollar of liquor money or to give another 'inch of advertising space to the liquor interests of the United States. One year from that date the number had gone up to 1600 newspapers; a year from then it was 3800 newspapers thus pledged; the third year it was 8600 and more, and then we secured. through Representative Randall of California, the submission of a bill for anti-advertising, making It a crime to put Into the mails of the United States books, papers, letters, cards and circu lars advertising intoxicating liquors; and we laid down on the table of the postal appropriation committee more than 11,000 newspapers, or half of the newspapers of the United States, that were pledged In our office neither to take liquor money nor to advertise In toxicants, and had actually signed our petitions to congress requesting the making of such advertising a. crime in the United States. Street Stomp Speaking Feature. A feature of our work that Is more picturesque than any other was an attempt to reach by curbstone oratory the man on the street. Temperance meetings ten years ago had drifted Into a series of formal visitations of the churches by repre sentatives of the organizations to pre sent their claims and take a collec tion. The out-of-door world was not being reached by the human voice or the printed page. We determined to go for the man on the street. More than 4000 street meetings. In campaigns. in automobiles and parks have been held under the auspices of our board. not only reaching the vast number of people that heard our voice, but popu larizing this mode of campaign; so that now numerous organizations are doing effective work In taking the gospel of prohibition to the men that throng the streets, who loaf around the corners and frequent the stores on Saturday afternoons, and there are a number of states that could not have been carried apart from this aggressive mode of propaganda- There came a time in our experience when, having mingled with the men on the street in 25 state campaigns, we concluded at our office that we had reached a period when the average man did not want to pussyfoot on this ques tion nor did he want to see us handle the question with kid gloves. Bonr-Dry Prohibition Aim. He was ready to vote for a straight prohibition of manufacture, sale, im portation, transportation, having in possession, carrying on the person. selling and giving away. The so called Hobson amendment, which only prohibits "for sale," never created an enthusiasm among the consistent tem perance people of this country. We be: lieved the time had come for an up ward step, and on May 8, 1916, put into our Clipsheet "Advices to the states that have liquor fights on." One of them was: "Use the term alcoholic liquor and not intoxicating liquor In all future legislation." If this had been heeded in the formulation of our pres ent amendment we should have been saved all our present embarrassment. The seventh advice was this: "Make your legislation dry, bone dry." This particular issue of the Clipsheet went to "o000 of the editors In America and 2000 in Canada and within a week that new term, bone dry, had struck fire. It appealed to the imagination of the writers-and managers of magazines and the press and was soon editorially han dled, put into the news columns, into communications, and "bone dry" had become a word to conjure with. It was the first time that that term had been used, either in addresses, speeches or temperance literature, as a scientific term with a specific meaning descrip tive of a kind of legislation. You may have heard the term "dry as a bone," but that had reference to sermons, not to prohibition legislation. I myself was campaigning In a Reo Six down the full length of the state of California. At our outdoor meetings men asked questions, and frequently I was asked: "What do you Methodists mean by the term 'bone dry'?' I wired our office and Mr. Pickett sent a night letter saying: "It means stepping man ufacture, sale, importation, exportation, transportation, having it in possession, carrying it on the person, selling or giving away." Then I knew. When we arrived In Portland, Or, we formu lated such a term into an amendment to our constitutional amendment, by which we had been under prohibition for eight months. In a few days the petition was completed to put It, on the official ballot. The dry federation of Arizona wired us for help. We offered help on con dition of their putting up a bone-dry bill similar to the Oregon one to offset the liquor dealers' amendment, and on that notable day. November 7, . 1916, when ten states had the liquor fight on, when Michigan, Nebraska, South Dakota and Montana went dry; when all the liquor dealers' amendments were voted. down In the five states of Oregon. Washington, Idaho, Colorado and Arizona, two states inaugurated I new kind of prohibition bone-dry pro hibition in Oregon and Arizona. Tou should have seen the letters that came in warning us against reaction if we pushed this matter. "Be very careful. they wrote us. And I have often wished I could hate the wickedness of bad people as much as I do the fearful timidity of good people. This was the reaction: Two months from that day many state legislatures were In ses sion, for In January, 1917, and before the 30th day thereof,- 16 more states, making a total of 18, had enacted bone dry prohibition at the behest of their people and an overwhelming public sen timent. "Then the popular feeling swept up to the nation's capital and "bone dry" was a term of honor. . The following month five . prohibition bills were Introduced In congress and overwhelmingly passed. Bone-dry prohibition for Alaska; bone dry prohibition for Porto Rico; a dry District of Columbia and capital city bill, which later had to be changed to bone dry to make it effective; the anti advertising bill, and a bone-dry provi sion for all the dry states in the union and all that should thereafter become dry. Then the Hobson amendment with its inexcusable compromises was put under the table and the bone-dry con stitutional amendment to harmonize with that for which we had stood was put in its place. ' passed by the neces sary two-thirds of senate and house, and now is the overwhelming choice of all the states of the union except the three little ones that have not been able to break away from the brewers' strangle hold. This "bone-dry" crusade has made prohibition logical, consistent and srstematized war on prohibition, con stantly misrepresenting the congress of the. United States, while the vast majority of the army itself, trained in prohibition camps, are radical in their advocacy of this cause and overwhelm ing in their sentiment for absolute pro hibition?" When we,' as a nation, undertook to train this army, the regulations around the American camps were superb. We trained mostly in prohibition territory or !n dry zones,-and the total absti nence regulations making It a misde meanor' to sell ljquor to any man in uniform, the first, -' absolutely sober army that ever shook the earth with its tread. But when our boys went across the water to France there was no such condition and no such regulation at tempted. We looked up this condition, getting accurate and full reports of it from authoritative sources; and were compelled to reject all the soft-spoken representatives of those who would rather haje the privilege of shaking hands with General Pershing In France than to tell anything unpleasant about what they- saw. Finally, consulting with such men as Theodore Roosevelt; Charles M. Sheldon, the author of "In His Steps"; Sherwood Eddy, -the great leader of the Y. M. C. A., we became sure of our facts, told the war department, and, when we could get no action or even attention from- Secretary Baker, we told it to the American people; and. while all hell was moved from beneath, the president at once cabled instruc tions; Fosdick and then Baker went over and a new order of things was established. Wo are now In the midst of . great congressional '.'ght, I trust happily culminating, in which we are as a board Insisting that the term "intoxicating liquors' in the federal amendment shall be defined as including all "alcoholic liquors." - -Whether, we succeed or fail In this. It will never change the fact that the amendment should have been "alcoholic," rather than our trust to luck to get the Indefinite term properly defined. We are asking that if a pro hibition commissioner is to be appoint ed, he shall be appointed by, and work In conjunction with, the department of Justice, now happily headed .by that most stalwart, able and consistent pro hibitlonist, A. Mitchell Palmer, attor ney-general of the United States. World-Wide Move Next. We are insisting, also, that the en forcement of national prohibition for the United States, territories and de pendencies, shall go farther still and include withdrawing the protection of the American flag from any citizen of the - United States who attempts to transplant the implements, the mate rial, and the workers of a trade that has been outlawed in his own country into Mexico, China, Africa, or anywhere else, that our treaty provisions will permit such prohibition. It will seem strange, indeed, if our government must protect men in conducting an out lawed trade in a foreign land, which swear that he goes to preach the gos- to be wooden-headed and stone-hearted, winner In America, and will type the j trade has no rights under the American kind of legislation that will soon pre vail around the whole world. When the American army, the finest young men that ever saw the sun, was being exploited by the American to bacco 'trust as the prey of cigarette poison, our board was the first to utter an organized protest, start a campaign of education, publicity and pledge sign ing, and has succeeded in turning the tide of sentiment so that today it is tafe to criticise and ask the question: "Why was our army exploited in the selfish interests of the Amer'can to bacco trust, and why have official pub lications of the American army in France been made the medium of a constitution or flag. Our board is co-operating with all organizations that have a programme to make prohibition world-wide next, and to stop the exploitation of our weak neighbors in Africa, China and Mexico by the discarded beer trade, and I hope we will do something to stop its exploitation by the almost equally infamous American cigarette trade now seeking to exploit mankind to J promote their own gain. It is difficult to get passports 'now; many well-meaning citizens cannot se cure the rights to voyage either east or west, and when a missionary goes he must raise his hand to heaven and pel, has no other business, etc, and then sign his name to various docu ments required by our government be fore be ' can go and have old glory float over him for protection. Well, what I want to see our Christian na tion do is this: When a pro-German beer exploiter holds up his hand be fore Uncle Sam and says: "I want to go to China to open up mine pig brew ery in dot land und sell mine beer to the heathen." I want my uncle to say to him: "No, sir, you are an outlaw here, and my flag shall not protect you while debauching our weaker brethren: ou shall not press upon the brow of China this outlawed cross of thorns; you shall not crucify mankind upon a cross of greed: you shall not misrepre sent America's mission among the na tions of the earth; you shall not pass." Lessons From the World War. Recently we heard a conversation In car. A gentleman was emphasizing the statement, "Germany is a pagan nation." We wish that this were true. but the facts of history compel the admission, Germany is a Christian na tion, secularized, or, as a Methodist would say, "back-slldden A hundred years ago Germany was the' bulwark of Protestant Christianity in Europe; the most Christian in her institutions, her professions, traditions and the hold of her Bible on the litem ture and thinking of her people. We boast of our King James version, but Luther's translation gripped the Ger man mind with equal strength. Then the native conceit went to work through a process it called "higher criticism" to undermine the faith of the people in the integrity of their own book. Before they were through, in the estimation of the masses the book was n shreds. She next adopted a system of rationalism by which, she sought to explain away every eacred thing In her own religion; the Inspiration of 'the prophets and the miracles of Jesus the virgin birth and the resurrection, the ascension and the pentecost, all went out of the faith of the people. Then the adoption of the materialistic philosophy dismissed God and annihi lated the souls of men in leaving the spirit a nonentity, and thought but the result of physical forces at play. When religion had evaporated there was noth ing for morals to stand on. You can not have a moral system without religious basis. You cannot build brotherhood of men unless you have a fatherhood of God to establish the relation. Morality and Rellsrloia. Religion is morality in relation to God: morality is religion in relation to man. When religion and morals were no more the brutalizing effect of beer drinking completed the task of obllt erating a great Christian nation. Now the temptations of a world war cam upon these people, denuded of thel religious faith, and what happened Why. the brutal Hun outdid the un speakable Turk; deeds that would make a devil blanch with 6hame character ized her whole conduct In her attempt to murder Christian civilization. What are the lessons of this down fall? What beacon lights can we sight in this world war? We ought to see that Uncle Sam puts his foot on every one of these steps by which Germany went to ruin, and walks in the opposite direction upstairs'. If we do not wish to go the way Germany went, we must i urge that American civilization pause. get her - direction, and build on the foundations that Germany rejected. This will be programme enough for the reformers of the United States for the next decade or two. If the lessons of the war are not lost upon us, it we do not prove ourselves we will take this opportunity: irst To re-establish Americanism on a firm and clean basis, by insisting that German beer shall be eliminated trom the population of the United States and every dependency thereof nd every country that we can Influ- nce as a nation. We should then re trict immigration until Germanv cava ndemnity and we make our own peo ple Americans. Bible ia Schools Advocated. Second By the keeDins- of tha Rnr. ' lish language in the public schools and tne compulsory attendance thereof, so that we shall get over this little sepa rate language groups with rival civil izations plotting disloyalty in peace times and treason in war time. one language would be a unifier among us. Third We should see to it that the whole Bible, the fountain of classic English, the book that has given us our national Ideals, our moral stand ards, the book that stands for the moral betterment of mankind, shall be put back Into the public schools of tho United States as it was before the Huns and certain others, led by- a foreign potentate, crowded It out of tho back door in four-fifths of our American states. This for the nation's good and tor tne sake or decent courtesy to the prevailing religion. i-'ourth we phonld see that the- American Sabbath Is pot uson s firm foundation in all our cities, states and rural places, as it was before the Huns, through the German-American alliance, trampled it in the mire to establish on its ruin the continental Sunday, for eign to our forms of government and inimical to the morals of our people. Fifth We must stand for a clean American home, and with these institu tions, pillars of support for our civil ization, the gates of bolshevism and tho I. w. w. anarchy, and the no-beer-no-work rebellion shall not prevail against us. Building Project Explained. Our board wishes to commemorate the hundred-year battle with the saloon and the monumental victory of consti tutional pronlDltlon by erecting a suit able building in the nation's capital to memorialize the struggles and suffer ings of the past century and localize the agencies and furnish a center for the activities of the struggles of the yet greater century to come. We believe there Is no causa for which Methodists, are asked to give their money which will result in larger dividends for the kingdom, in the es tablishment of civic righteousness, in the furnishing of a medium for activi ties of Methodism in the nation's capi tal, in signalizing the Influence which God calls us to exert upon the greatest representative of democracy among the nations of the earth, than the erection of this temperance, prohibition and pub lic morals center of world activities Just fronting the doors of the capitol of the United States, diagonally across the street from the senate chambers, a block from the congressional library and between the two great marble buildings, the senate office building and the house, office building, four blocks from the union station and five blocks from the postoffice. These are our centers, and we are In their center.' We have this building site clear. We have the plans perfected. We have. marble in keeping with the capi tol buildings. Toward raising J100.000 by October 1 we have $25,000 pledged by the- Woman's Christian Temperance union for a permanent home in our building. We have $20,000 pledged by two generous laymen. We have $10,000 cash In bank and we have $45,000 more to raise. We want your help today. Pacifism, by Poultney ti. P. Putnam's Sons, pruAsianigra and Uiselow. $1.50. New York City. It is reported that at least two men who once were warm personal f rlends the fqrmer German kaiser and Poultney Bigelow do not writ-e or speak in terms of affection to each other any more. The reason Is that our author 13 dis gusted with his former friend, the kaiser, and the latter's recent war policies, in -which Germany acted the part of the prize bully of the world and lost out in the conflict. In this book of 273 pag-es, Mr. Bige low, in brilliant style, shows up the cruelties of Prussianiam and presents historical facts showing the remark able family resemblance between Wil helm I. emperor of Germany, and his grandson, as princes who both ran away from their own soldiers, to save their precious skins. It is recorded that twice had the first Wilhelm to seek refuge ' under the protection of a foreign flag. The first time was when Napoleon I marched his army into Berlin, after bis crushing victory at Jena, in 1806. At that time, Wilhelm fled with his mother, along the Baltic to the Rus Ftion border, when the czar, Alexander I. hospitably received them, as a brother autocrat. In 1S4S, Wilhelm, as Prussian crown j prinoe, was again chased from Berlin. That is, he actually sought refuge and safety in flight a second time. His own people voted themselves a liberal constitution and proposed to make a federal Germany somewhat after the pattern of this country. "Wilhelm was offered up as a sacri fice to the popular clamor and he was conveyed secretly at night from the big Berlin palace to Spandau, a fortress ov-erawing the capital. Thence he was driven to Potsdam and concealed on an Island In the Havel, where he found shelter in a gardener's cottage. In disguise he made his way to Hamburg and was concealed in the house of the Prussian consul, who secured passage for the escaping prince, under an as sumed name, to England. "But Wilhelm was only two months in exile when a loud clamor arose for his recall and with him came the same regiments who had fired upon the people. The latter had had a momen tary brain storm like the tantrums of a child, but it was soon over, and the same mob that yesterday yearned for a republic today glorified their absolute monarch and hastened to forget all but the hereditary loyalty of a servile race. Wilhelm once more commanded his well-drilled Prussians." It is shown later that Wilhelm I, king of Prussia, was at his wits' end how to govern his people until he found the blood-and-iron policies of Bismarck. The great quartet of Wilhelm, Roon, Bismarck and Moltke made Prussia Wnneim I died in 1S88, more than 0 years of age. His son, Frederick III. was not emperor long enough to place his stamp on history, authori tatively. On page 207 it is observed that "Wil. helm II became kaiser in 1888 and 30 years later fled from the midst of his troops on the battlef ront." This Wil helm is sketched, at first, as a pacifist, until the Kiel canal was opened in 1895 and German warships could play hide and seek in the Baltic and North seas at their leisure. It was then that Wil helm became a fire-eating fighter. That Is. he made othc- people do his fight ' tng for him. Mr. Bigelow complains that the pres ent ex-kaiser owes him money for on coining to the throne the ex-kaiser im- iif f ' :: -A - :: 1 - ' y -: i: h ' f ' Yj AS "I if . ' 1 author of 1 .. t instructive study of this great Irish statesman, with such skill that the Redmond portraiture will be vividly remembered in the minds of persons who heretofore may have read little on the subject- Mr. Wells writes that the subject of this memoir stands out as- a fine figure f a great Irish gentleman 'who played for a. high stake gallantly and lost without dishonor." We recall the fact that the late Mr. Redmond's great par liamentary predecessors of the 19th century Daniel O'Connell, Isaac Butt and Charles Stewart - Parnell lost be fore they died, as John Redmond did, the "confidence" of a majority of .their people. We know, however, that even among the Irish themselves the reputa tions of O Connell, Butt and Parnell have not been lessened by that fact. The crown of romance adorns their memories. The chapter heads are: The leader and trwe man; ancestry and youth; early political life; the mantle of Parnell; towards home rule; the home-rule bill; Redmond and Sinn Fein; Redmond and Ulster; the war and Redmond's choice; clouded ending. Poultney B I sr e 1 o w. "Prnsaianlsm and Pacifism.' mediately started an Imitation of the English royal yacht squadron, and con strained his faithful to become mem bers. Mr. Bigelow complains that he joined, and found the club so uncongen ial that during his 25 years of life mem bership he was only once in the club rooms. Our author-thinks that the ex kaiser is a victim of the disease known as paranoia "a species of chronic un rest, neuro-psychopathic in its nature and marked by sudden desires reversed with equal suddenness. As for the future, Mr. Bigelow thinks that Germany will renew hostilities, as soon as she has repaired the war dam age done to her own people and prop' erty. As for the proposed league of na tions, our author thinks it .means noth ing but material for college debating societies, and that our best safety as nation lies in maintaining an adequate military force all the time. A courageous, able book. On the Threfthold of the Spiritual World, by Horatio tv. Dresser. George Sully & Co.. New York City.- There Is much comfort and hope in this book, not only to those people who have lost relatives In the late war, but who are themselves puzzled about living. Mr. Dresser lights a new lamp when he gives us such a splendid vision con cerning life in the spiritual world- thoughts that have come to him largely In association with soldiers on battle fields in France. One soldier told our author: "The most difficult enemy to conquer is not opposite in the German trench, but in each one of us. The doctrine is taught that the re llgion of courage is the religion of guidance, justice, faith, love and light- Tbe I4fe of John Redmond, by Warrt Wells. With portraits. Ceorgs H. Do Co., New York City. many thinkers,- the late John Redmond was believed to be the great est Ir:-h parliamentarian of his day. It Is singularly unfortunate that Mr. Redmond dted in London, England March 6, 1918, at a time when- it seemed as 'if his life would be crowned by th granting of home rule to Ireland. But fate said "No." , Mx. -Wells 'has written a faithful and tlanity. Sketches are made of the labors of Theodore Leighton Pennel, Christine Iverson Bennett, Fred Douglas Shepard. James Curtis Hepburn, Joseph Plumb Cochran, Catherine L. Mable, Peter Parker, John Kenneth Mackenzie, John Scudder and others. Self -Government In the Philippines, by Max- ine Al. Kalaw. The Century Co., New York City. ' In August, 1916, congress passed the Jones law, or Philippine autonomy act. which marked a new liberal era in the Philippines, and created a sound plat form for Filipino-American friendship or what is better, relationship. The author of this Jones law was the late Congressman William Atkinson Jones of Virginia, and a monument has been erected, to his memory in Manila by grateful Filipinos. Our author Is a Filipino, chief of the department of political science. Univer sity of the Philippines, and secretary of the Philippine mission to this country. He lays emphasis on the fact that the preamble to the Jones law promised the Filipinos their independence as eoon as stable government could - be estah lished in the islands. That the time has now come for a get-together meet ing between Americans and Filipinos to grant such self-government is the opinion of our author. This book reports the concrete evi dence as to the Filipinos development of the qualities of mind and character that justifies the belief that they can govern themselves Independently of outside assistance. It indicates how In a little more than 20 years a backward eastern race, with patient guidance and constant assistance from a big nation that played the part of a brother, has grown up to the estate of responsible manhood. The book is an up-to-date account of what the Filipinos have ac complished in the Industries, agricul ture, education, self-government, and in all those fields wherein civilized peo pie must achieve results, if they are to live progressively and happily. Mr. Kalaw is himself an argumen that 'runs in line with his book. He was born at Lipa, Batangas province, He attended the public schools of his home town, then the University of the Philippines and finally Georgetown university in this country. His educa tion is all American. Since his univer sity days he has worked for the Inde pendence of his country, and with an energy, a sane temperatenees, a re sourcefulness that has won for himself and his cause in America, our respect At the same time Mr. Kalaw's plea will create agreement, for we are not all agreed as to what our author so Ronwftean and Romanticism, by Profossor Irving Babbitt. BouEhton-Miff Un Co., Boston. Our author Is professor of French literature in Harvard university, and in this volume he presents Jean Jacques Rousseau, Frenchman, as the most im portant single "intellectual" figure In great international literary move ment, extending from the 18th century to the present day. This study of Rousseau is polished. exhaustive and informing. We are In structed as to tne terms classic and romantic' as affecting Rousseau's wrlt- ;& also romantic genius, imagina tion, morality, love, irony, nature, mel ancholy, etc. The appendix Is a valuable essay on Chinese primitlvetsm, and the biogra phy is voluminous. No stress is placed by our author on Rousseau's life. Other biographers agree that Rousseau, wlille he created new social order in France and was recognized as a great democrat, had little idea of morality. He scoffed at marriage although father of several children quarreled with- all friends. and while he wrote books that stamped him as a man of education, the puzzle is to find where he received an edu cation. But the world accepts Rousseau as great. So be it. Rousseau literature is scarce. ,18 k-SiH A Sample Csse of Humor, by Strickland Glirtia.il. Forbes & Co., Chicago, III. Filled with sunny laughter. The book is one of Mr. Gilfilan's lectures, and the message in addition to being funny is clever and refreshing. Our author says in his preface: "My hope for this book, from the viewpoint of results, is that It may increase the public s appreciation of humor by in creasing its powers of obsevation in that direction sort of an every-man- his-own-humorist proposition, you see. There is as much fun in the world for you as there is for me. All you need is eyes to see it, a heart of kindly appre elation, and a mind sufficiently devoid of rheumatism to enable it now and then to jump out of the rut and kick up its supple heels. It is. in other words, in the hope oi enabling people to have a lot of cheap and harmless fun, from the eyebrows up, that I have prepared this book. Chicago. ' The Shipbuilding Industry, by Roy Will marth Kelly and Frederick J. Allen. II lustrated. Houghton-Mifflin Co., Boston. With an Introduction by Charles M. Schwab, this valuable book of much technical importance fills a public want. It is stated to be the official book on American - shipbuilding and written with the assistance of the ship ping board. ' The brave story of how America helped to win the war by its bridge of ships is a thriller. firmly believes. Ministers of Mercy, by James H. ' Franklin. Illustrated. Missionary ducation Move ment, New York City. It is a privilege to read a quiet, refreshing book such as this is. It is a recital of the labors of medical mis sionaries who left homes of ease and love to go to foreign lands, such as China, Persia, Afghanistan, etc.. to heal the sick and spread, tne gospel of Chrla- The Man Who Discovered Himself, by Willis George Emerson. Forbes A Co., Here we have a stirring tale of ref ormation of character, a -story that is well. told.. Marsh Gordon, a cobbler, who mends shoes at Venice-by-the-Sea, Cal, has a bad cough and a wife who is a shrew. Husband and wife are com celled to separate. How Gordon re gains his health and under a new name prospers exceedingly .make up the story. - - - The NIrht Operator, by Frank L- Packard. George H. Doran Co., New York City. ' ' This' is a man's book- It'a an enter taining railroad story, and baa plenty f visor' to- recommend It-- - IN Centenary Methodist Episcopal church. East Ninth and Pine streets, at tonight's service a concert of sacred music will be rendered with the assistance of Mrs. Florence Wuest Lyons, harp; Roscoe C. Lyons, cello, of Santa Barbara, Cal., and George D. Hieb, organist, of this city. The pro gramme! Trio, harp, cello and organ. 'Ave Maria" (Bach-Gounod); vocal solo, Out of the Depths" (Scott), Mrs. S. E. Mountain; duet, harp and cello, (a) Berceuse" from "Jocelyn" . (Godard), (b) "Song" (Grieg); harp solo, (a) "An- gelus' (Rene), (b) "Chanson Sans Pa roles" (Dubez); vocal solo, "My Re deemer and My Lord" (Buck), M. Wal ters; duet, harp and cello, "Andante Sostenuto" (Luigini. In private life the name of Mrs. Silas Vann, vocalist, who is now visiting in Oregon City, Is Mary Adele Case not Anna Case. , Miss Genevieve Gilbert, soprano, for merly of this city, is visiting in this section for a few days. She passed last season in Montana and Idaho. , J. William Belcher has been re-en gaged as musical director of. the choir of Central Presbyterian church for the coming year. His services have been so satisfactory that an increase in his al lowance for the music was granted by the church authorities. Francis Richter, the Oregon pianist and composer, has reached Philadel phia on his trip to the east, and hopes to hear his new concerto played In that city in October. pianoism might have been different. David Campbell, pianist, who is pass ing a part Qf the summer at the home of his mother in Monmouth, Or., gave a piano recital In the normal school chapel last Wednesday. Mr. Campbell was a student under the best masters at home and abroad. - Dr. Emil Enna, pianist, who has been passing the past month hunting and fishing in -the Cascade mountains and a short trip to the Newport beaches, plans to return to this city tomorrow. Dr. Enna played recently the wedding maTch for his friend, Charles South, at Corvallis, Or. The French-American Association for Musical Art, which has done remark ably Interesting and effective work In presenting in the United States and Canada the best musical artists and organizations of France, has a notable committee, with a central office in New Tork city. Otto H. Kahn is the chair man and serving with him are Freder ick G. Bourne, James Byrne, Andende Coppet, Henry P. Davison, Henry C. Frick, Robert Walton Goelet, Myron T. Herrlck, Clarence H. Mackay. John D. Rockefeller Jr, Charles H. Sabin, Will iam K. Vanderbilt, Henry Walters and George W.' Wlckersham. A plan Is being worked out in Los Angeles. Cal.. to amalgamate the two orchestras- In that city the Los An geles Symphony, orchestra and. the Los Angeles Philharmonic orchestra. It Is, considered that Los Angeles is not Dig enough for two large orchestras and that all musical symphonic forces In that city should be fused into one. A suggestion is heard In Los Angeles that Walter Henry Roth well be made conductor of the reorganized orchestra. Mr. Roth well visited the Pacific coast when Henry W. Savage gave the first presentation. --of - "Madame - Butterfly about eleven years ago. It is known that Mr. Rothwell is a director of finesse and has a thoroughly cosmo politan style. He is almost what might be termed a typical American, although not actually born in this country. He has the reputation of being tempera mental. Mr. Rothwell's experience as a sym phony conductor in this country has been with the St. Paul's orchestra and with the Civic orchestra in New York, also as guest conductor at Cincinnati and Detroit. He is considered one of the finest conductors for accompanying in the country. The Oregon Conservatory of Music presented in violin recital at the con servatory hall last Thursday Miss Grace Astrup, daughter of Captain and Mrs. H. F. Astrup. The young miss Is a recent arrival in Portland from Astoria, Or., and her musical talent is unusual. Carl Denton, director of the Portland Symphony orchestra, accompanied by Mrs. Denton, left for New York last Sunday night In connection with sym phony orchestra matters for the 1919 1920 season of the Portland Symphony orchestra. Mr. Denton expects to pass one month in New York and Boston and as a result of his trip he will be able to procure for the Portland Symphony orchestra some of the latest and most modern compositions of American and foreign composers, some of which were unobtainable during the war period. Music lovers of Portland are prom ised exceptional entertainment during the coming winter, and a most suc cessful symphony concert season -is assured. s Mrs. A. E. Gardner, a well-known Portland pianist who is now in Ithaca, N. Y., is a student in Cornell univer sity. She is deeply interested in cul tural and educational work and for this reason she is passing her summer at this university. In addition to the study of languages she Is taking special normal course in piano lessons. This material and plan of teaching is be coming generally popular asastandard and is a recognized basis for music credit allowance In many high schools. colleges and universities. It was source of surprise and pleasure to meet at the university J. S. Downey, who for several years lived in Portland and was associated with Eilers piano house. Mrs. Gardner will remain at Cornell university until the completion of her music course and will return to this city about the middle of September. Professor T. S. Roberts, head of the department of organ music, Wiilam ette university, Salem, OK, gave an ad mired recital recently on the new $4000 pipe organ in the First Christian church. On the same programme there appeared Mrs. Leland R. Porter, reader Miss Lena Bell Tantar, contralto; Miss Lena Osburn Peterson, soprano, and Mrs. R. W. Slmeral, soprano. One of Mr. Roberts' most pleasing numbers was the "Grand Processional" from Gounod's "Queen of Sheba." Mr. Rob erts was taught pipe-organ playing by a distinguished American authority the late Dr. D. D. Wood, once organist of St. Stephen's Episcopal church and the Baptist temple, Philadelphia. Grand Army of the Republic, of this city, will leave the latter part of this month for Columbus. O., where he will represent-the local post in the national encampment. Mr. - Lovelace will do a little Oregon advertising while on his trip, the necessary literature for which is being supplied by the Dallas Com mercial club. Mr. Lovelace was taken prisoner one time and spent some months In the Confederate prison at Andersonville. repair directory TUNING ASX REPAIBrXO. Pianos and Playor- Planos, Talking Ma chines. Prices reason able tor expert work. IV. Sherman.ay &Ca Cor. Sixth and Morrison. Dallas Veteran Is Delegate. DALLAS, Or.. Aug. 2. (Special.) B. Lovelace, adjutant of U. S. Grant post. John Claire Monteith Sons Interpretation: Koreliro tictlon. Operatic. Concert and Choir Sinsins. ' "Voices Tried by Appointment IMaily. - Pianos and Talking Machines 1 " All All other Musical Ib itmmenls R ep4)rtd Polished. Etc by Expert Workmen. Very reasonable Prices, All Work Guaranteed. FIT rpc now in LltLlW JTFW BLDti. Entrance 87 Waahlnt'n YTE CAN FIX XT FOB TOU. Band and orchestral Instruments, pianos, p h o n o s r apha repaired. SEIBERLING-LUCAS MUSIC CO., 125 Fourth St. F. X. ARENS of the ARENS VOCAL STUDIO NEW YORK CITY Will Conduct His FOURTH ANNUAL VOCAL COURSE in Portland, Oregon at The Calbreath Studio 860 Belmont St. TOICE CCLTl'KB AND KEPEBTOIKK tor COJiCKBT, ORATORIO AKD OPERA. For particulars apply to IV X. ARENS, HOOD RIVER, OB, Until Auruit 20, thereafter to MISS H GLEX CALBREATH. ace BELMONT STREET. PORTLAND. Owing- to overcrowded condition at former courses, early reservations seem indicated. Send 25 cents for booKlet, "MY VOCAL METHOD." Complying with urgent requests, tho course will be extended from four to six weeks, i. e, from September 1 to October 11. V A LAIR CONSERVATORY K nale Dramatic Art Lasturn SUMMER TACATIOX All classas closed until September 1st. Early reservations for the fall classes advised. Address secretary or call SS4 TENTH BT. - J MA IX 7S98.