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TIIE SUNDAY OREGOXIAX, x PORTLAND, OCTOBER 5, 1919.
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PLATtNO INTO THE ENEMT HANDS.
Those senators who oppose ratifi
cation of the German treaty over
look or wilfully close their eyes to
certain truths, which should be ap
parent to any man who has watched
the war's history.
Though Germany has stopped
fighting with arms, it still fight
with Drorairanda and intrigue. Its
one hope yet to win the world su
premacy Is to divide the allies and
to keep them divided; to weaken
them by Industrial and revolutionary
disturbance.
Germany's chief aim at present is
to cause dissension between the
United States and Great Britain. If
those two nations work tog-ether,
German militarism can never tri
umph. If they drift apart again,
Germany hopes that each may btr
beaten in turn.
The ready means of causing dis
sension is the quarrel between Eng
land and Ireland. As this quarrel
was used In 191 1 to start revolution
in Ireland with German aid. it is be
ing used now to stir up enmity to
England In America.
Every day's delay in ratifying the
treaty is a day gained for Germany,
lost to America and the allies. Until
the treaty is ratified, none of its pro
visions can be put in effect. Ger
many cannot be required to reduce
its army, to dismantle fortresses, to
surrender arms or ships, to evacuate
territory in Silesia, east Prussia or
the Russian Baltic provinces, or to
make any reparation payments. Ger
many has done all that can now be
required by ratifying the treaty, and
can be required to do no more till
three of the principal allies ratify.
The longer they delay, the longer
Germany will hold all it has.
The one part of the treaty which
has been put In effect renewal of
trade relations is all to the ad
vantage of Germany. It revives in
dustry with raw material and ex
ports, and it revives the spirits of
the people by putting imported food
in their stomachs.
Germany is more peaceful Inter
nally, more nearly united, than any
of the allied peoples. There are no
industrial disturbances of the pro
portions of those which disturb Brit
ain, the United States. Italy and
France. As George Pattullo says,
they are a well drilled, docile people,
even in their riots. Thus Germany is
tecovenng strength, while the allies
waste energy in strife. Germany is
today the most united nation in
Europe.
It is to the advantage of those
Germans who wish to make another
bid for world-power in a next war to
keep the allies Internally divided and
at odds with each other. The farce
at Budapest. D'Annunzio's raid on
Flume, friction between Britain and
France In Syria, disagreement be
tween the United States and Britain
about division of German seized
ships. all these things are water on
" the. militarists' wheel. They tend to
the ' wjne result that the United
States will be so estranged from
Britain and the allies from each
other, that future united action
against Germany will be difficult, if
not impossible. Then the way would
be open for Germany to make new
alliances with one or more nations
whose ambitions remained unsatis
fied by the war. and the vast re
sources of Russia would be open to
exploitation by the most united, most
determined and most geographically
convenient nation, which would be
Cermany. The foundation would be
laid for the next war.
Whether they intend it or not, are
conscious of it or not. the senators
who oppose or delay ratification of
the treaty serve the ends of Ger
many. They seem already to have
forgotten that, if the French had not
come quickly to fill the gap In the
British line on the Somme, If the
British line of the Lys had broken
and if the Germans had won the
channel ports, Europe would have
been at the kaiser's feet and the
text attack would have been made
upon America directly.
If the senators would consider who
is the greatest gainer by delay and
what would be the consequences of
refusal to ratify the treaty, they
would take second thought and
would consider whether their objec
tions are serious enough to justify
mem in even risking these conse
quences. They should ask them
selves whether they wish Germany to
be the one strong, united nation in
Europe, surrounded by neighbors,
whose distrust of each other Ger
many would secretly deepen and
who would have lost faith In the
readiness of America to aid them if
civilization should again be attacked.
like the senate afterward refuses
some concession for which an equiv
alent was given under the treaty, the
entire bargain falls through, and ne
gotiations must be either abandoned
or begun anew. Senate tinkering
with treaties caused the first Hay
Pauncefote Panama canal compact
to fail and made some arbitration
treaties practically dead letters.
Probably to avoid such contin
gencies, the constitution-makers pro
vided that, in making treaties, the
president should not only obtain the
consent but seek the advice of the
senate. President McKinley ob
served the spirit of that clause by
appointing the leaders of the senate
to negotiate the treaty with Spain.
They knew the temper of the senate.
could foresee what stipulations It
would approve and they made
compact which was ratified as
whole. President Wilson's troubles
are due to his having neglected to
associate the senate with him in any
way in negotiating the treaty, al
though there were far more openings
for disagreement and it was far more
necessary to have the treaty ratified
without change. The peace of the
world and the internal tranquillity
and prosperity of this country are
imperiled by the present delay, every
day of which redounds to the ad
vantage of Germany. Responsibility
lies with the president for not hav
ing obtained the senate's co-opera
tion from the outset, and with the
senate for being governed by Its
wounded dignity and by partisan
ship.
While the provisions of the French
constitution cannot be adopted in
this country, their effect can be ob
tained. The president In future can
collaborate so closely with the senate
as in almost every case to Insure rati
fication of a treaty unamended. In
case of rejection, the course of de
bate would reveal the reasons and
would guide the president In further
negotiation. But critical senators
would not insist on their objections
to the point of an adverse vote on
ratification, unless those objections
were so weighty as to justify rejec-
tion of the whole.
to the peace conference, upon his
return from France. "Today they
need such minds more than ever be
fore. In Europe there is an appall
ing shortage of that youth which
ordinarily furnishes, year by year.
fresh eager minds to be trained for
the work ahead of them. Consider
what a gap has been left In the ranks
of the men who had been destined
to go through the schools and col
leges of France and England. It Is
a trite thing to say that In the midst
of the extraordinary world situation
the opportunity for American lead
ership is unexampled, but it is so. We
entered the war for high ends. It is
equally our duty, with the same
ideals In view, to end the war and
to aid in the rebuilding of the
world."
Prior to the war the plaint was
common that college-trained Ameri
can boys, in a majority of instances,
must round out their careers In
clerkships, because every chance in
the call-board of opportunity was
plugged by another aspirant. There
was talk of "pull" and preference.
and a good deal of genuine -acidulous
envy. Whether that was true or
merely predicated on occasional in
stances Is with the past. The pres
ent is rife with opportunity. Failure
for the next decade or so will be
more largely due to the individual
than to circumstance. There are
more tasks than there are takers,
more timely projects than there are
trained men and more talkers than
anything else.
THE TURN OF THE TIDE.
The steel strike in this country and
the railroad strike in Great Britain
may mark the turning of the tide
against labor radicalism in both
countries. The bolshevtst inspira
tion of the steel strike has preju
diced it hopelessly in the eyes of
those people who always sympathize
with a genuine demand for redress
of a real grievance but are hostile
to any element which makes a strike
for slight cause the vehicle of revo
lutionary designs. That seems to be
the situation in the steel trade. The
American people will not stand for
continued series of strikes, the
true aim of which is to keep the
country in turmoil and to prepare
the way to overturn the constitu
tion.
The railroad strike seems to be
the climax of much the same state
of affairs in Britain. The determina
tion and success with which the
government has kept the roads in
operation and the popular support
that is given it are signs that the
British people are "fed up" on in
dustrial disturbance. The coal mln
era are incensed with their leaders
for keeping them on strike for
trifling cause, and their feeling may
be so contagious as to spread to -the
transport workers. The triple alii
ance has been renewed, and the
railroad men may rely on it to force
the government to submit. But suc
cess means cold and hunger for the
whole population, including the
strikers themselves, for the food
supply keeps the country at most
but eight weeks from starvation, and
the coal supply Is already below ab
solute need. Stoppage of coal pro
duction means a shutdown of almost
every industry, and probable strife
among workingmen.
In both countries the point may
have been reached where It will be
proved that the whole nation, when
fully aroused, is greater and more
powerful than any of its parts.
Neither America nor Britain is
ready to bow to bolshevism, and
they only need enough provocation
to crush it finally.
INSURANCE AGAINST BLOCKADES.
The house is just in time with its
bill to raise and continue beyond the
original limit of five years the duties
on dyes, for all the dye manufac
turers of Germany have combined in
a great trust and are ready to flood
the world with their product at any
price. They have been at the busi
ness for a long time, they are ex
perts at the chemical end of it, while
Americana are novices and, if all
bars were thrown down, the Ger
mans would soon kill off the new
born American Industry. Given time
to grow and learn, American dye
makers can soon supply all our
needs.
The dye Industry is' not great in
itself, but it is essential to the suc
cess of other Industries-which pro
duce nearly three billion dollars'
worth of goods a year. These indus
tries had great difficulty after the
blockade cut off the supply of Ger
man dyes in 1915. and they are will
ing to pay protection on American
dyes rather than run the risle of
having the imported supply cut off
by another war. Dyes also use coal
tar from coke ovens, much of which
has gone to waste.
Protection is no longer a question
solely of fostering American in
dustry. It has become national in
surance against being deprived of
essential commodities by stoppage of
the foreign supply. It makes the
United States economically a self-re
liant, self-contained nation.
WANTED AMERICAN ENTERPRISE.
Never since the pyramids were
built stupendous projects for pos
terity to puzzle over has the world
presented such an abundance of
giant tasks for genius, constructive
MODERN SUNDAY OBSERVANCE.
There was a time when frank en
joyment of living, if evidenced on
the sabbath, met with stern puritan
ical reproof and even with trial by
court. Most happily these days are
remembered only; in tradition and
history. In the progressive present
the churchman himself is more often
an avowed Iiberalist, asking only
that the Lord's day be observed with
piety and decorum by members of
the flock, and that the pastimes ot
the unregenerate shall not be such
as are offensive to the religious spirit
of observance.
When Sunday observance is dis
cussed the mind is prone to summon
the so-called Connecticut blue laws,
of the colonial era, as the extreme of
religious intolerance. But ordinances
of such severity, grim-faced statutes
of times when joy was sin, have
nothing in common with the attitude
of the churchly denominations of to
day. The measure of benignancy
with which churchmen now regard
Sunday enjoyment is best" set forth
in a recent article appearing in the
Congregationalism of Boston, an edi
torial avowal that the seventh day Is
no longer regarded as a period for
spiritual castigation and downcast
eyes.
We recognize the fact that there
are fifteen hours of daylight on Sun
day in summer," says the Congrega
tlonalist, "nor do we think that it is
possible for even a mature Christian
the church is no longer the dour-vis-
aged scold of the past, but a friendly,
happy, helpful companion of the
present.
THE SEX INSTINCT FOB ORDERLINESS
Approaching the subject in all
humility, 'and with respect for the
somewhat devious reasoning of the
Seattle Post-IntelUgencer, apropos of
the Instinct for orderliness and ex
actitude aa manifest In the sexes,
t, nrmlan feels constrained to
take what It hopes will be the last
word in a profitless argument. j.
,,it. not to suffer disap-
rtLllZ tt,a nosition originally
v - ! v.e ma ntn ned that
assumed win 7 r .
the gentler sex utlvelw"Sht;
ward meticulous order while her
hsband, brothers, cousins andg-
uiar bwj .. j a
their neckties on me Deuo
drop their collar buttons in the ash
tri- T-Tr.tins-eneer has made no
A 1113 i wot -j . . .
startling disclosure In presenting evl-
denco that some women
nt-otMsion and neatness,
" are more precise
Ind order than the lady librarian
who has Indexed tne wunu.
and affairs so minutely that she can
.... n vnn wait, the year and
day 'which marked the birth of Solo-
vouneest son. Comparative If
these are but the occasional, wh e
the ranks of sex march forward true
to general predilection. The woman
ish man and the mannish woman.
pUyThem both, are but he hapless
- fhat nrove the rule. By
fr i." " of the Post-Intelligen
cer's own argument, one sees them
set forth as singular subjects merit
ing unusual comment.
Tjf oe a hroadlv general proposl
tion. who will say that whiskers have
been wagged above tatting a most
exacting, orderly project to an ex
tent that threatens the domain ot
woman? Or that our genuer
oclffld and gowned for an
afternoon's calling, ever stopped at
the comer tobacconist's to purcnase
a fresh plug? Yet these are purely
-i- nnd disorder, as
i nnnnslte sexes, and
one might well expect, if the char.
... nt th two are so inex-
trlcably tangled, as our Seattle
neighbor presumes, to n me
than an occasional renegade, whisk
ered or lovely. embracing the
strange, unfitting pastime with the
eagerness of complete cou t.
By every instinct woman is chained
to the chariot of precision and de
tail From time so ancient that the
earlier records lie in siouo
was river ooze, the province of wo
man has been in the home. She is
.moVor. And the field of
the husband has been afar, on the
hunt and the foray. He Is the pro
vider. While the female of the spe
cies hustled the denuded marrow
bones to the front stoop and over the
precipice, her lord shouldered his
bludgeon and clambered down to the
chase, his leopard-skin, doubtless
hanging by one suspender b utton I
Is futile to contest against the laws of
heredity, against the billions of suc
cessive blows that have stamped the
coin of sex In the mint of nature.
ability and plain work. And while
the tasks wait, there is a pother of to spend all the day reading his Bible
conflicting interests, of selfishness, I or going to church. We would have
of labor and capital fighting strenu
ously, that impels the sane but help-
church members plan for the com
I munity or a section of the community,
less majority to wonder when this I some wholesome use of Sunday af-
bedlam will sink to tranquillity, and
when. If ever, men will turn to their
tasks again. At the close of the war
Europe was a land laid prostrate.
Armies in conflict had rifled and de
stroyed her mines, had battered her
cities Into litter and had obliterated
hundreds of industries to the last
cog. It is futile to orate against the
Hun and his handiwork, contribut
ing merely to the surfeit of words
from which the stomach of the world
revolts. The work waits.
Europe has turned to America fof
succor, from the very day of the in
vasion of Belgium to the present.
The country that has been charged
with dollar delirium responded to
each appeal. There was no profit in
ternoon. to counteract idleness and
unhealthful recreation and- the spirit
of lawlessness. We believe in a
Lord's day different from other days.
But it should not be so severely re
pressive upon others jis to arouse in
them antagonism to the basal idea.'
If churchmen are to plan and pop
ularize a recreational programme for
Sunday afternoon, they will need to
be liberalists in the broader sense of
a widely Inclusive term. Sunday
baseball, swimming, fishing, golfing.
motion pictures and theatricals are
but a few of the items of enjoyment
that the public will demand. For the
matter of that these means of spend
ing the seventh day are already the
property of the public. The mere
it, save the thought that millions of sanction of churches would achieve
fellow mortals had been lifted from little, save to release from qualms
the dustbin of war, their wounds certain members of the flock who
bandaged, their stomachs filled and "have hitherto held to the straight
their bodies clothed. Nor did Amer- and narrow Sabbath. And any such
lea seek to assume the role of Good I plan or programme would of neces-
A HINT FROM FRANCS.
Much trouble might be saved to
the United States and settlement of
international disputes might be ex
pedited if the American constitu
tion contained the same provision as
that of France that the senate
shall ratify or reject a treaty as a
whole without amending- it. The
power of the senate to amend has
been the great cause of delay in rati
fication of treaties, and a serious ob
struction to diplomatic negotiation.
The very nature of a treaty re
quires that It be a bargain ar
ranged between few men, who go
into all details of the questions in
volved. A bargain is a matter of
Samaritan. She gave in humility.
freely, with an apology that she
could do no more. And to the
United States today is passed in large
degree the task of arranging Eu
rope's household again. It is time
to set aside mere sentiment, though
there is room for it, and to consider
that an opportunity for American
constructive ability is presented an
opportunity such as has never before
been given to any nation.
There is a shortage of trained men
sity appeal distinctly to church goers
alone. The insouciant, wilful wan
derers from the flock would continue
to follow a path of their own choos
ing.
The Connecticut blue laws, while
never existent in the stern sobriety
with which they have been popularly
portrayed, were patriarchal ordinan
ces that served to make Sunday , a
drab and lugubrious day. Enacted
in 1C44 by the general court of the
colony of New Haven, they decreed
In both America and Europe. But that the "Judicial laws of God as they
on this side of the water, spared the
full four years of conflict, there are
more than on the other. And the
educational Institutions of the coun
try, equipped for the training of spe
cialists, are geared for the multitu-
were declared by Moses" should
constitute a rule for all courts "till
they be branched out into particu
lars hereafter." The theocratic
character of these ordinances as ap
plied denied the light of trial by
WHY IS A POETT
Many practical-minded folk have
not hesitated to suggest that poets
might be put to better service than
the rhyming of words and the con
triving of tinkling or sonorous stan-
. . nHnv.AiAa Tins been
zas. ueiving i jjuanw
named as one of the useiui puru.
to which all poets might turn, with
n.f;t in themselves and the eco-
m- offnirs of their time. These
are harsh critics, whose dictum will
not find general acceptance. The
fondness for poetry is kin to the love
nr m.tsirr. and signifies the possession
of those finer spiritual attributes
which alone lift the race above mere
brutish satisfaction with life.
Whv Is a poet? What Impulses
stir the mind and heart of those
thousands of men and women who
strive through verse for the expres
sion of beauty's truth and sem-hionr-o?
Writing in a recent num-
hor of the Independent, an anony-
mn nriestess of poesy candidly
analyzes her own impulses, and
clasps the Joy of failure with an ec
stasy of which only poets must be
capable. To this writer success has
been given In a measure that falls
short of fame, as a weakened bow
fails the archer. Magazines have
published her verse, but rejections
have been more irequeni man
checks. Volumes of her collected
verse have never brought a harvest
of royalties. In short the unnamed
analyst seems to have been dowered
to her own undoing with the artistic
temnerament. which has been not
Inaptly described as "just enough of
genius to make one miserable.
But not only do I Know mat i
am an unsuccessful poet," the writer
confesses. "My friends know It.
They ask me why I will go on writ
ine poetry that brings me no sub
stantial rewards of any kind, neither
money, nor fame, nor the conde
scending kindness of women's clubs.
I have wanted to burn my poems up
and then never write again
never, never, never. But I couldn't
find the matches. Since that time I
have not deceived myself. Poetry Is
mine, and I am poetry's for life. The
only true answer Is that I am a poet
because I cannot help being one."
To some the sweep of a ripening
grain field, bent to slowly undulat
ing billows by the west wind, brings
a calculation of yield per acre and
an estimate of grade and final re
turn. To another the same prospect
is a realization of Arcady. a scene so
transcendently glorious that the
mind gropes eagerly for words to
pay It tribute to grasp and hold it
fast in fetters of glowing sentences.
The old antithesis of materialism and
idealism persists. No statistician can
compute their relative value to the
world and its progress.
Strength or futility, great audi
ences or humble niches in the col
umns of the country weekly, seem to
mean but little to the passionate urge
that Impels the writer of verse. Most
of It Is very, very bad: some of it is
but mediocre; little of it all will last.
Every hamlet has its poet, like to
the "mute, inglorious Milton" of
Gray,s elegy. Before an unfeeling
public sentiment directs them to take
lage girl who wrote verse because
she couldn't do otherwise. And
thus she testifies, in part:
I am Mlnerra, the Tillage poetess.
Hooted at, jeered at by the Yahoos of the
street.
For my heavy body, cock-eye and rolling
walk. . . .
Will someone so to the village newspaper,
And gather Into a boaJc the verses I wrote?
I thirsted so for love!
I hungered so for llfe!
MARVELS OF THE UNANTICIPATED.
Hitherto only the little folk have
really believed that Jack ever
climbed that most preposterous
bean-stalk, helped himself to the au
tomatic harp, rustled the wonderful
hen and slew the giant as the se
quel to an unpromising cow trade.
Well, live and learn, as the old ladles
say at their knitting. Out on Ross
street, with Portland clustered thick
ly about it, there stands a bean-stalk
that is breaking down the tree on
which it chose to trellis. Lake so
many blunted swords of Damocles,
high above the heads of those who
come to see, hang two-score and
more great bean-pods, near to four
feet in length. If seeing brings be
lief, who of the many converts to
this marvel ever again will shed the
grin of superior tolerance, when the
infant terror of the home talks of
Jack and his derring-do?
Tou never can tell. Around al
most any corner, down any lane, the
notions of staid, deliberate maturity
may be jolted from dome to founda
tion by some startling manifestation
of the odd, the unusual, the bizarre.
As some knight incognito, his sur
coat embroidered with strange de
vice, the new idea comes tilting to
the Joust. Down in the dust of the
tourney tumble the old notions, van
qulshed for the first time. And lo,
when the victor lifts his visor, there
in the saddle sits the commonplace
the old, familiar, , snubbed and
flouted commonplace, cast In a new
role.
From beans to British peers, once
this principle of surprise has been
fixed in the scheme of affairs. Is but
a short stride. Dukes in disguise
princes wandering in rags, fair ladies
of title washing dishes in the palace
scullery, are all acceptable as just
what one might expect. Fiction nev
er created an honest situation that
fact could not eclipse. For there is
this about fancy that the poor child
of faerie cannot pluck silk for her
own weaving, but must ever take the
materials at hand and toil at a queer
pattern that, after all, Is broldered
with flossy bits of the obvious. Even
as Jack's bean-stalk lacks not for
modern evidence, so the fanciful
plight of the nobility, theme of many
a dog-eared thriller, is set down in
the cold print of the news. There
is a railway strike in England. Pres
to! Down Piccadilly drives a duke,
chauffeuring a motor lorry. Among
the fishwives of Billingsgate a belted
earl the correct nomenclature of
fiction pilots a truck laden with
herring and haddock. At Padding-
ton station the sixth Earl of Portar
lineton is wrestling with milk and
churns and household whatnots, the
simple sweat of the roustabout upon
his noble brow. Pact transcends
fiction. The unusual is always happening.
Along about June the hazel thick
ets of Oregon are broidered with
eep hedges of the wild brier-rose.
A lovely sight, a fragrance delight
fully ditto, but far,, far too common
for aught save the affectionate pi
racy of children and the occasional
comment of nature lovers. The milk
trucks trundle past practical en
terprises, sponsored by practical
men, and guided by practical farm
hands, who quite as practically bite
off another chew and expectorate
cityward. On a fall day Oregon is
visited by a genial old gentleman
who plays with roses, and whose pas
time has led him, quite practically,
to ' become the foremost rose cul
turist in all the world. And in the
neglected wild rose of Oregon, riot
ously plentiful, this casual guest
beholds a great opportunity. He
tells the city which specializes in
roses that the wild brier is regal
beauty in disguise, and that its roots,
when grafted, will give to the state
all the lovely varieties that the rose
is heir to. For roots no better, says
he, rose culturlsts have long been ac
customed to trade with the lands of
the Mediterranean.
Bean-stalks, royalty and roses
all in a day's news and all dressed
in raiment of strange pattern. It is
the unanticipated that is always hap
pening, it is the unusual that is ordinary
dtnous production of as many more Jury and established the death penalty J up the shovel or the dishclout, the
as may be required. War made no
distinctions when the scythe was set
for slaughter. Of Europe's skilled
artisans and university-trained pro
fessionals the toll was proportionate
with the loss of common laborers In
uniform. And it was, in the aspect
of the future, more critical for
training is not won in a day.
"Europe and America have always
needed trained men for their un
building." said Thomas W. Lamont
give-an-take. which can best be ar-j0f J. P. Morgan & Co., member of
ranged in this mpner. If a body Jibe American flaanuai commission
for minor offenses, as well as pro
hlbiting the pursuit of pleasure on
the Sabbath. They were a dlrefully
direct application of the old Mosaic
law.
Since the church has seen that the
refreshment of the soul does not pre
clude the joy of living it has taken a
long step toward a saner, more
feasible doctrine of man's duty to
ward the Creator. That this attitude
has done much to insure the per
manency of the church is without
Question, To the public, conception
brief of the anonymous songstress
should be heard. "If I achieve
nothing more," she writes, "I may be
able to light a little flame of imag
ination that will leap into warm ac
tivity, that will grow until It blazes
upon the world In glory that I have
never known "
In "Spoon River Anthology," a
most distressingly human revelation
of little lives, from the viewpoint of
the graveyard, the compassionate
genius of Edgar Lee Masters has
traced the sordid tragedy of the vU-
A GLORIOUS UPLAND GAME BIRD.
The setter swings on the last curve
of his ranging circle, his head high,
his eyes glistening. Against the rusty
mullen and the background of flam
lng vine maple he pauses in full
career, the poise of his breed when
the wind brings down the scent of
feathered game. His flanks tremble,
he answers with an eager glance the
soft command of "Steady, boy!" And
inch by inch, across an Oregon farm
field, with the potent 12-gauge back
ing his heels, he moves toward some
patch of silent covert. There Is a
rush of strong wings lifted, the sun
light strikes on' plumage of orient
splendor, and a lustrous pheasant
flees from the deadly pellets that
pursue.
Few hunters as they pull trigger.
with zest in the gift Of sport unparal
leled, find time for reflection that
the splendid foreigner of Oregon
game families, the ring-necked Chi
nese pheasant, came to them
through the foresight and public
pertinacity of the late Judge Owen
N. Denny of Portland, whose death
occurred In 1900 and in whose honor
this oriental ward is often termed
the Denny pheasant. 'There is scant
time to ponder on origin or debts of
gratitude when the cock-bird zooms
upward in his hurtling flight. The
requisites of that moment of mo
ments are coolness, a steady pull,
rare judgment, and a gun that makes
the proper pattern. Death takes the
quarry in mid-air, a bird caparisoned
like some mandarin In robes of state.
Admittedly the stocking of Oregon
with ring-necked pheasant was the
first widely successful attempt to in
troduce an oriental species in North
America. And even today the suc
cess which answered Judge Denny's
initial efforts stands without parallel
in the archives of American game
culture. It was in 1877 that Judge
Denny accepted the appointment of)
American consul to Tien Tsin, where
bis administrative ability won for
him, in 1880, promotion to the post
of consul-general at Shanghai, in
which capacity he served for four
years. Only fancy can reconstruct
that Chinese vista in which Judge
Denny first saw the fervid markings
and proud carriage of the game bird
he destined for Oregon sport. But
from his earliest residence in China
the former Portland jurist worked j
with enthusiasm for the day when
this pheasant should be common to
the coverts of his own state.
It is of record in the biological
survey that In 1881, through the en
terprise of Judge Denny, ten cock
pheasants and eighteen hens were
liberated in Linn county, the parent
pilgrims of the vast flock that was
to possess every section of the state
before the close of the century. And
from that day, when the foreigners
smoothed their voyage ruffled plum
age, and the cocks sounded their
queerly piercing jargon across
stranger fields, the ring-necked
pheasant literally adapted the state
that had taken him to raise. So swift
and certain was the increase, so
thorough the accllmitization of the
new game bird, that the biological
survey Is sponsor for the statement
that 50,000 pheasants were slain on
the opening day of the Oregon sea
son of 1892. Assuming that these
figures are approximately correct,
and deprecating an inroad so mur
derous upon a species then in the
trial period, the observer Is com
pelled to accept the record of suc
cessful adoption as one of the most
remarkable' instances in game cul
ture. Casting a wishful eye toward Ore
gon, our California cousins took up
the Introduction of the ring-necked
pheasant at approximately the same
time. But their labors were never
crowned with similar reward. For
some reason the Imported bird did
not take kindly to California and his
transplanting has never been an en
tire success, though the ring-necked
pheasant is now comparatively com
mon in that state. But as lately as
1916, when a census of Chinese
pheasant was conducted by the Cali
fornia game commission, the number
of birds in any one county was not
more than several hundred, while
areas of three counties could muster
not more than 2000. Oregon is pe
culiarly adapted to bird-life, as in
stances the fact that several species,
common to other parts of America,
have claimed this state to an extent
that lends variation to their plum
age and habits, and that has given
the birds the prefix of "Oregon.",
While Judge Denny was consul-
general at Shanghai he lent his aid
lo California as well as to Oregon.
A shipment of 90 birds from Judge
Denny to Game Commissioner Red
ding, of San Francisco,, reached the
wharf at the very moment that Mr.
Reddlng's funeral was in progress.
There was no claimant for the gor
geous strangers. Commission men
speculated on their identity, and sail
ors of the vessel which brought them
distributed the pheasants along the
waterfront. In many a dingy board
ing house California's first Chinese
pheasants met a greasy doom. Later
the stocking of the state was
achieved by purchases of Oregon
birds.
The Denny pheasant is prevalent
now throughout Oregon and Wash
ington. In this state it is thoroughly
distributed. Seasonable reports are
that the birds are exceptionally plen
tiful in Umatilla county, while Hood
River, Wasco, Baker, Wallowa and
Union counties have a larger quota
than ever. Throughout the Willam
ette valley and southern Oregon
there is an abundance of the lordly
cock pheasants and their self-effacing
consorts. Gradually but thor
oughly the breed is taking possession
of the coastal counties. It is pleasant
to know that Mrs. Denny, widow of
the late Judge Denny, is perma
nently and substantially remembered
by the state game and fish commis
sion for her husband's public-spirited
benefaction.
The ring-necked Denny pheasant,
an oriental that assimilated without
a bit of racial dispute, is forever Ore
gon's. Sensible game laws and a
proper spirit of sportsmanship will
insure his residence long after the
last valley has been planted. The
bird thrives in the vicinity of man.
Sportsmen will play their part in the
unwritten amendment to the game
code, as voiced by State Game War
den Shoemaker "Game protection
sentiment is in the heart."
BY-PRODUCTS OF THE PRESS.
Episcopalian Propose Refusal of Re
marriage ta Divorced Persona.
Revision of the book of common
prayer of the Episcopal church, adop
tion of a new canon touching church
unity and revision of the canon on
matrimony are three important mat
ters to be brought to the attention of
the delegates at the triennial con
vention of the church that will open
at Detroit, October 8. It. la anticipated
that upwards of 8000 delegates and
many of the leading churchmen of
this and other countries will attend
the convention, which will last two
weeks or longer. The proposed re
vision of the cannon on matrimony
would make it impossible for an Epis
copal clergyman to re .arry divorced
persons, even the innocent party to
a divorce. It has been anticipated
that this question will provoke much
debate. The proposed new canon on
church unity, It is dated, would make
It possible for a minister of another
communion to be ordained In the Epis
copal church without first giving up
his original affiliation. The revision
and modernization of the prayer book
is expected to take much of the time
of the gathering.
The Bible, from cover to cover, is
to be put into films and shown with
the purpose of combatting bolshevism.
J. A. McGill, owner of a etring of
theaters in the northwest, is credited
with conception of the project. He has
not only formed a corporation of large
capital to see it through, but has en
listed the active co-operation of prom
inent clergymen on the Pacific coast
. to aid in the research work entailed
by the large scope of the undertaking.
The completed work will consist of
52 2-reel episodes. The creation, the
deluge, the building of Solomon's tern
pie, the raising of the Tower of Babel
and so on down through the line of
historic or legendary events that gave
us the sacred book will be put upon
the screen in serial form, scheduled
to run for a year. On location near
Los Angeles the ancient holy city of
Jerusalem, the Babylonian halls of
Belshazzar, the ark on Ararat, Solo
mon's temple all are to be erected
in heroic replica, according to the
best conceptions of archaeologists em
ployed as expert guides.
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Bible students are much Interested
in recent photoplays brought to the
United States of the reputed ruins of
the Tower of Babel, that wonderful
structure spoken of in Genesis, as
erected in the valley of Shinar, when
all men spoke a single language. The
people were fired with a hope to
build a tower which would reach to
heaven, and being visible everywhere
would prevent their being scattered.
Genesis xi., 7 says: "Go to, let us go
down and there confound their lan
guage, that they may not understand
one another's speech. So the Lord
scattered them abroad." The word
Babel does not mean confuse, but in
reality "Gate of God," from bab
"Gate") and llu ("God.")
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"Old Mortality," Scott's fine story
of the covenanters, makes interesting
collateral reading with the president's
speeches. Those "troublesome Scotch
men," from whom Mr. Wilson is proud
to claim descent, bore as little re
semblance to quitters as any set of
people that ever lived. They were
all of the type of their leader, Rich
ard Cameron, whom "Clavers" " men
hunted down and ehot like a stag at
bay. Cameron's head and hands were
displayed aloft in Edinburgh in ac
cordance with the approval custom of
the day. Looking upon the handiwork
of the butcher, one of the dead cov
enanter's enemies gave this testi
mony: "Here are the relics ot a man
who lived praying and preaching and
died praying and fighting." The cov
enanters themselves gave no quarter,
nor were there any provisions for
arbitration in their covenant.
The Country Church.
By Grace E. BaU.
One of the so-called games of
chance at the recent state fair was
opportunity to pitch three baseballs
into tomato cans and receive a box
of candy as reward. If there was a
grown man on the grounds who did
not believe he could do it he was a
wonder. Whoever called it a "game
of chance," though, does not under
stand words or men. To win re
quired more science and skill than
pitching horseshoes, but it was pos
sible. It was not gambling; it was
educational, for it taught man hu
mility in the second lesson of the
'sucker" came back.
General Wood says the I. W. W.
were behind the Omaha trouble of
Sunday and says further they are be
hind all the disturbances that are! name of Christ, wake up! Wake up!
"Is the Christian church of this
country completely dead, or only dead
tired out and asleep?" asks a corre
spondent of the New York Globe, who
continues thus: "Cannot the Church of
Christ be galvanized into life? or be
aroused out of the deep, deep sleep
Into which it has fallen? Wake up,
wake up! Christian ministers and
Christian churches in the name of God
and of his Christ, who was to be
called the Prince of Peace, wake up
and speak out! In the name of the
Lord's Christ, who came to teach
God's truth to men and to lead them
to freedom, righteousness and peace,
speak out, denounce the shameless In
famy that would bind humanity for
ever to war and hate and in favor of
the league of nations which brings
hope to the human heart and promises
that "war shall be no more." In the
Upon the painted window there la
tracery of nails.
Where the email boy clambered up
to peep and pry;
The board in front announces, o'er
a pile of rotting rails.
The services for Sunday, you espy;
Within the square white belfry the
swallows build and dwell.
The weeds grow wild against the
crumbling wall,
While a-top the queer old structure
wings the cracked and rusty
bell.
Sending forth to erring mea Its
ancient calL
Out In the greenery beyond and back
behind the church.
A million woodland wonders wave
and woo;
The firs and pines reach up and up
and seem to softly search
For little breezes playing 'neath the
blue;
An orchestra of woodsy th'ngs strums
ever in the shade.
Unnumbered crystal springs send
forth a voice:
Bright verdant ferns like fairy wands
of lacery are made.
To lift their fronds and bid the
the stars rejoice.
Just at the edge of wooded tract the
horses tethered stand;
They doze with half closed lids
and flicking ears;
A curfew In the distant field Joins In
with nature's band.
And his piping notes across the
epace one hears;
There drifts through open window
sweet old songs from out the
church.
The organ's mellow harmony Is
heard;
A lark trills of his rapture from the
pine tree's hidden perch.
Voice of man a bit less musical
than bird.
A soft "Amen"; there Is a stir; they
come with looks serene.
The air Is heavy with the wood's
perfumes;
The buggies take the dusty road and
vanish from the scene.
And the edifice its quiet peace re
sumes. 'Tis Just a little country church that
nestles by the way.
Without pretense or any kind of
show;
But you know those who assemble
come to worship and to pray.
And the memory lingers as you on
ward go.
YOUR PRAYER.
I thought you slept, but I, I could not
sleep.
And paced your garden, in sweet
dew drenched deep
My heart aflame with love of flag
and thee.
Aflame with wonder at your love
for me.
What matter what the morrow bring
of life or death?
lived for now alone, and felt a
joy in every breath.
But suddenly my heart was stilled by
that calm, holy air.
And like a soothing, holy touch, I
bowed my heart, and felt your
prayer
In thick of fight and battle, where
cannon rushed and roared.
Fighting for right and decency
against a Hunnlsh horde;
Where men, now stripped of culture.
fought in desperate primal
haste.
And all was lust, and blood and war,
and awful human waste,
Where hellish things went screaming
past, with eyes of liquid fire.
With stinking, crawling things near
by, entrenched in slime ana
mire;
Through sudden darkening torture.
and pain-infested air.
With calm and soothing holy touch.
I bowed my head and felt your
prayer.
Through weeks of pain and darkness
when day was like the night.
And even God seemed farther from
a man without his sight.
As helpless as a baby, who must take
and never give,
With all Joy gone from living, yet
doomed to live and live.
With ne'er a means of knowing, but
sure or pitying gaze.
Wearily il passed from night to
dreary, dismal days.
Then, like the resurrection, through
the haze of dark despair,
felt your lips against my own, and
bowed my head to hear your
prayer.
JEAN SALISBURY.
happening altogether too often. In
that case why not begin the breaking
of a few heads with nightsticks at
each riot? A policeman can spot the
chief offenders" every time. Theman
with the big mouth has tender
cuticle.
The president's secretary and the
president's physician should take the
public into their confidence and tell
of the president's condition, going
into details. Woojdrow Wilson is
president of all the people of the
United States, and while all may not
agree with him, all are concerned In
the personal welfare of their chief
executive.
With side meat selling at 20 cents
a pound, there is little wonder the
army" store has to close its doors
to catch up. The "army" store pays
no tax, has little "overhead" and Is
not In fear of passing a dividend, so
who should worry?
Mrs. Pringle held a position in the
schools for five years and her citi
zenship was not disclosed until she
got a job wanted by others, which. Is
about always the way of such
doings.
A young man, said to be a "fre
quent" offender, was indicted Friday
for stealing. an automobile. Why not
this time remove him from tempta
tion for a long, long time?
As soon as enough negroes have
been killed in Arkansas the trouble
will cease. Then it's the firing squad
for the white Instigators without tak
ing them into court.
Why not go to church today for a
change? There is wholesome enter
tainment offered, as well as oppor
tunity to get rid of accumulated
pennies.
This old shell will be turned inside
out if Mauna Loa keeps it up then
what?
and speak out!
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Three men working on a piledriver
in the East river at the foot of Pidg
eon street, Long Island City, at dusk
the other day, saw what they first
thought was a huge sea lion swim
ming about 50 feet away. They
launched a rowboat and threw a
noosed rope around the horns of the
creature. It took ten minutes to tow
the beast alongside the piledriver,
where it was discovered the animal
was a 3-year-old bull. With a der
rick the animal was lifted on deck.
and It immediately lay down, exhausted.
The police were notified and found
the bull had jumped off a dock at
the foot of Noble street, Brooklyn, at
8:30 o'clock the night before. The
exhausted condition of the animal
would indicate that it had been in the
water for nearly 24 hours.
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There had been a long dry spell and
the new pastor of a country church
decided to read the prayer for rain.
To his surprise, however, the deacon
was against the Idea. "But the har
vest, my good man; Its a prayer for
the harvest," reasoned the minister.
"You misunderstand," returned the
deacon; "the summer visitors are our
harvest and we don't want any rain."
Boston Transcript.
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"Boys," said a teacher to her Sun
day school class, "can any of you
quote a verse from the scripture to
prove that It Is wrong to have two
wives?" A bright boy raised his hand.
"Well, Thomas," encouraged the
teacher. Thomas stood up. "No man
can serve two masters," he said very
proudly. Brooklyn Eagle.
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The bachelor vicar of a garden sub
urb declares that husband and wife
should, wherever possible, take their
holidays apart. With that elusiveness
peculiar to the celibate clergy, says
the London Punch, he cleverly omits
to say which party should take the
children.
THK FALLING LEAF.
Down on the breeze sails the withered
leaf.
Like to a sad little elfin barge
That, for its Journey so hapless and
brief.
Is tsken by some tipsy sailor in
charge.
First it glides smoothly, then fidgets
and frets,
Movlne; uncertain. as lost to the
helm;
Then it turns turtle completely up
sets. Much like a fisher that tempests
o'erwhelm.
Next on its hull Its tries once more
to ride.
Zlgzairs about and acts utterly
queer;
Tl en it gains balance and drifts with
the tide.
As If determined to mend Its career.
Soon It grows wobbly again and so
swerves.
That it is vain to surmise where
twill land:
Then it shies sideward, pitches and
curves.
And of a sudden does hopelessly
strand.
PETER FANDEL.
A DOGWOOD TREK IN AUTUMN.
Framed In my window, I wake and
see '
The red and green of a dogwood tree;
A lace of leaves and a sky of blue.
And the truant sunlight stealing
through.
Berries of red and leaves of green.
Tall and slender, the forest queen;
Airy, fairy, rustle and sway.
Queen of the woods today, today.
Oh, for a palette of colors and brush
To sketch my queen in the morning
hush:
With the spangles red In her gown
of green.
And the patches of sky and sun be
tween.
Hall to the queen of September morn!
Soon to be stripped of her beauty .
and thorn;
But a queen today in her color gay.
And the blue and gold of an autumn
day. ANO.V.
GOD'S ARTIST HAND AT MORX.
Look! the morning light is breaking.
And the night's her place forsaking.
And the morning sun Is waking.
And the starry dome is shaking
As the day her place Is taking.
What a glorious scene its making
Silent, patient hand of God!
Draw upon thy scroll of heaven
In thy marvelous colors seven
Such a scene as I In seeing
Can but know that In thy being
There is that of angels dreaming:
Endless power and love and m-eanlng
All-knowing, loving, faithful Clod!
r M. A. YOTHER3.
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