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Jill f SECTION FIVE Pages 1 to 6 Wft men's Features, Schools j Churches and Books, vol. xxx rx. PORTLAND. OREGON, SUNDAY MOIiXIXG, JANUARY 4, 1920. NO. 1 ANCIENT STAINED-GLASS WINDOWS OF PARIS, SHOWN IN GORGEOUS DISPLAY, DECLARED UNPRECEDENTED IN ART Treasures From Five Famous Churches Are Washed for First Time in 500 Years All City Is Running to See Gloryburst Created by Artists of Early Dajrs Sunlight Plays Through Color Scheme. ' ... ucaoi Full Size Metal Bed Complete With Spring and Mattress Especially Featured at $32.40 THE bed in handsome' ivory finish. Two inch continuous -post style. - Fitted with steel link spring that remains springy without sagging for an exceptionally long period. Forty- five-pound mattress trovered with fancy, art picking of good wearing quality. Finished with roll edge. This bed in full size. ) An, exceptionally substantial outfit offered at:a' wonderfully moderate price. ' Take immediate advantage of this opportunity. 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Palais, on a level with the eyes and so close that you can' touch them, side by side, continuous, the vast his torical Btained-glass windows of five famous old Paris churches have been inserted Into walls which are all win dows. So the sunlight plays through in this glory-burst of color. And "beneath one which is absolutely extraordinary it represents "Christ the helm; Jesus conducting the at ship, of the church" from h't. Ktienne, by-auV unknown, artist, . ilia-' following ' words burnt, into .white, glass pf tie ancient decorative border will-remain a memorial forever: - "The present windows belonging to the'. cjiUrches of St.' Severin, St. tier main i'Auxerrois. iSt. Merrie, 'St. Ktienne du Mont and St. Gervais. put In safety during the period of Ijoiii bSVdmenls, have been restored. by the care of the city of Paris." Thousands of ' Americans were in Paris on llood Friday, 1918, when, in particular, St. Gervais beint? struck by a high explosive Big Bertha shell, an ntire section of its massive stone roof came crashing on the worship pers, killed 65 and wounded 250 six American women and two men. Here are the splendid old windows of St. Gervais, now. photographed for the first time In historv: but their floods of inimitable color did not mingle with the blood of victims. The gj picture stories of its gentle "Scenes from the Life of the Virgin Mary" dtd not come splintering down in the 'super-tragedy of German fright fulness on the most solemn day of the Christian year, when churches are all crowded. The treasures. of stained glass of Paris, belonging principally to t'he five' churches above" namerf. bad been taken' do wit and - put "."in safety in. another city.w Jt was:.au. .enormous" and difficult Iwork, ; worthy, of the municipality' of Pari, .bgca.u.e these winows are vast in size, deli cate in composition - irreg-ular chunks of colored glass held togethef by leads); extremely .heavy in weight (stone tracery frames decorates and divides themi, and high set in the ancient walTs their lowest parts be ginning, at twice the height of a man's head. -and many ' being placed as hish as the galleries. Indeed, their height.' of setting in the old churches makes the present exhibition 'unique an unprecedented sight a wonder. Such stained Iass is not made . at present, and the secrets of certain rich or delicate, tints have been lost. ' Parisians of five centuries beheld the great jew eled story pictures high up, craning their necks and. reduced In size by distance. When each window was new fat varying epochs between HiO and 16S0), the king, prince, noble family, confraternity, trade union, or, as ofterA enough happened, rich bur ghar, vho ordered and paid for it. conceivably (and. at times, as an his-torl-al fact) made a public varnishing Kday or private iew .of Its glory on the ground .floor, so tt speak; set in some i window prepared for th ' pur pose, '.a the height of the eyes,' in the master glaxler's studio.. Yes, each . time, they saw one' such window, .'new, , at close rantre.'. But what no kins, prince, cardinal, arch bishop, great religious order or the .people of Paris ever, .had an oppor tunity to see was the collections of five grandest Paris churches all to gether in one blaze of .beauty, so to speak, witlriir touch f the hand, all bra'tid new -at the same time, spat tered, their splendor in a color riot. These stained glass windows have been -washed. Washed for the first time in 500 years. - . There's window, washing -for you. Ho could it be 'Otherwise? So long as they, remained in place, high up. immense in size, and very delicate (as delicate as precious) what pious woman, the best of housekeepers, with every good desire, could be en- trusted with bucket and long-handled mop at the top of a 40-fpot ladder, risking to come down like Bertha's own while punching holes in immor tal beauty. Kroni which it follows that thesw rainbow scenes (which were never theless the art galleries of art gal leries of art-loving ages), never be fore seen in their brightness, had yet more surely never been photoKraphed. Most of them were completely out of place for photography, and yet more out of adequate litrti tintr. But. you will trV, they're light itself all light. Yes, hut when dust collects and rain transmutes to mud Jts myriad layers, through the centuries, you ' get' effects which John Milton, writing iq the year J6.4D (when most of, these were less than 100 years old) such ". .' .' storied windows right dight. Casting a dim religious light." The Tetit Palais (which is enor mous) was built new for the world's fair of '100. It 'is' a rich, graceful, spreading one story and basement reminiscence of some imperial villa of Italy, with flower beds and lily pools In an interior courtyard around which curve' pillared porticos. These halls circling inside its exte rior walls are pierced with windows everywhere for the light needed by exhibitions. It was W great idea, to set the stained glass masterpieces in them. The treasures of five old Paris churches. CIVILIZATION DECLARED CONTEST BETWEEN GOVENRMENTS OF CONTRACT AND STATUS System Under Which Individual's place Is Forced by Officers Described; Military Rule Provides Supreme Head Whose Word Is Law, W rites Portland Attorney. This is -the third Jn a series of articles by Mr. Benbow on fundamentals of gov ernment. Another one will appear in an early issue. BY W1KLIAM C. BENBOW. Portland Attorney. THE i present civilisation means a contest between certain systems of society, the industrial, or con tract . system, and the militant., or tyrannical and communistic systems; that Is, a contest between a govern ment by contract and a government by status. The communistic system is as much a government by status as the militant system. A system of society by status is a government Where ' eacli member is born or- Is placed by force in a par ticular strata of society and is unable to rise 'or get out of that condition, except by' the permission of an offi cer or member of the stratum above him or by force. ' ... The' military system contemplates, in its primitive meaning, a supreme military head, or chief, from, whom flows all' the powers of government. His word ls law. He enacts, Judges and executes the law. He is legis lator. Judge and executive. The mem bers of society below him are elevated or reduced in caste or grade at his Will.' Various Grades ' Kxplalned. -;The grade Just below the ruler, is generally composed of his officers and immediate attendants. The next grade is usually the soid'ers and then follow the free workers, commoply; so called, -and the slaves. E;aclw:aste, or grade. Is generally permaneW. and fixed. No one in any grade can rise to a higher grade without permission of those above him. This is brought about by the fact that the caste is based upon military or tyrannical powers. n Those whe are captured-are at the i will -of their captors. .Not only their life, but their families and property. The captive may be put to death or spared as his captor chooses. His pos sessions may ' be taken away from him or he may be permitted to retain I them as his captor wills. The same I is true of his women and children. I This power is one of the fundamentals of a military system of society. The advantage of such a system is the celerity and energy with which the members of such a society, under the direction of one person, can be controlled and concentrated. When societies are simple In their construc tion and small In numbers, frequent contests with neighboring states make it necessary that the members of each society be quickly brought into action. This can be done by having one su preme head, who has full authority to compel immediate obedience. This makes, the individual member a part of a machine which moves at the will of a -superior. The militant system of society thua prevents or kills the personal initiative of its units. As the society grows in numbers and lit the complexity of its activities, such rapidity of, concentration is not pos sible and is rarely - necessary. Other Siyatrm I oimldrrrd. The other system of government is sometimes termed Industrial or government by agreement or contract. Under this plat), the members of the government 'are .recognised to be equal, "free and etiual," as is stated in a certain declaration of Independ ence made in one of "the most recent industrial . societies. The members agree among themselves, each man having . an equal say, upon the kind and form of government under which! they shall live. No one has any gov ernmental or. class supremacy over any other except by agreement of all, and. then, he usually receives such supremacy for certain reasons and under certain rules., and ' restrictions ! Imposed by the other members. These rules and restrictions are termed laws. The members of such a society not ! only, agree among themselves as to the form of government under which they shall live, but they agree among themselves as to the method and in what way they will make their laws, or rules, to conduct their govern mental .business. They choose the persons to make thfir laws or they enact ttvem themselves; they, choose the individuals to Judge their, laws or they Judge them themselves, and they choose, the, persons to enforce their laws or enforce them them selves. One of the basal principles of an industrial or contract- system of so ciety is that each member must-rec ognize the rights of the other mem bers and respect them and, if he does not do so, there are provided sure and certain penalties for violations of such rights. ... , In the military systems of society independent thought on the part of individuals, except for the purposes of some military -exigency, wat dls courased. . J n - the. contract system in dependent thought by the individual member is encouraged. In the mili tary system there was no inducement to the individual member of the com munity to think out any plan or de vice to control the "powers of nature and relieve himself of work or re lieve his fellows of. labor; because both the slaves and those immediate ly above them who did the work of the world had no interest in or title to 'anything they invented. If they invented anything it became the property of their masters. Hencu there, was no inducement to think out or invent anything except, it might be. something of a military nature. They cosld not own anything, hence they did not try to get or accumulate anything. There was no incentive to labor. Again, the units in a military so ciety were In continual wars and contests with their enemies, both In ternal and external, the same as Rus sia today, and in danger, of loss of their lives, and had no time in which to think out anything; no time to devote to study and no means of ac cumulating facts sufficient to clear up -a problem or to invent anything. No chance was grven for education or ' thought. Hence no substantial progress was possible under such a system rs? government. There was neither time nor opportunity nor re ward for the thinking members of a military society, especially where those members were in the serf or slave classes.. As It has nearly always been found to be true that the greatest, clearest and most accurate thinking comes from the classes near the bottom of the social scale, not being corrupted with . things that tend to destroj thought, , they are the" ones in whom the great inventions of the race must originate. Therefore, under, a .mili tary system of society - very little progress was made. .As the success ota tyrannical form of government depended, upon the' destruction of its enemies, cruelty and inhumanity and the feelings going along with such actions prevented the softening of the cruel or savage characteristics of tho Individual members of the race. Men who are taught to kill their fellow men have little regard for the rights or feelings of such men, hence they have none of the mild forms of feelings and thoughts which are nec essary to cool and collected reasoning. Men who are in the rage of battle cannot study out the deep and intri cate problems of nature. For the fore going reasons militant systems of so ciety are becoming obsolete. The mili tant plan is more recent in the devel opment of government than Is the communistic system to be discussed, later. J. G. FL00K AT. SESSION Solon AVlio Hacked College Land Grant Kill in' 1867 Attends." OREGON AGRICL'LTUTtALi COL LLGK, .Corvallis. Jan. 3. (Special.) After having been Instrumental ; in saving the- legislative bills drawn to make the. land grant college federal laws applicable to Oregon, J. G. Flook of Tigard returned to the college 6 years later to take the Farmers" week short course. Mr. Fiook was repre sentative from Douglas county in 1867. when tne question of taking ad vantage of the land grant act was up for consideration. He supported the measure by speech and vote and now considers it one of the best things he could have done for Oregon. Mr. Flook has lived at KosebuiK much of the time since, but has been engaged in farming In Tigard for tho last seven years. He recently moved to Corvallis. RABBITS CROSS ON ICE Migration Over Columbia lo IU-ii-lon' County Is Hcportotl. PKOSSKR. Wash., Jan. 3. (Spe cial.) Taking advantage of tho tem porary bridge across the Columbia, formed by the Ice where the river froze over at White Bluffs, a laree number of black-tailed jackrabbits migrated to the Benton county side of the river. Prior to this very few black-tailed rabbits have ever been seen on the west side of the Columbia. They art a much smarter animal than the old fashioned white-tailed Jack, but are apparently much more vigorous Those versed in rabbit lore predict that It will not be long before thev exterminate the white-tails, as has been done on tho east side of the river.