The Sunday Oregonian. (Portland, Ore.) 1881-current, July 18, 1920, SECTION THREE, Page 6, Image 46

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TIIE SUNDAY. OREGONIAN. PORTLAND. JULY 18, 1920
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R. J. Bldwell.
barn, he devoted his puppyhood to
making- that residence widely unpop
ular among rats. He moved to the city
and won a blue ribbon In a metro
politan dog- show. In rapid sequence,
during two years, he performed
these voluntary feats of valor: Res
cued a child from drowning:, chased
and cornered a kidnaper, tore the
seat from a trespassing hobo's trous
ers, discovered a fire in the basement
ot an old folks' home and roused the
janitor, caught and held a burglar
until assistance came, rescued an
Italian baby from a burning tene
ment, led a searching party to chil
dren lost in the woods, and joined the
Red Cross service In 1917 one of
the first to enlist. Fido In the field
was doubtless gallant, however his
heart may have hammered at the
amazing boom of the shells. For his
war. a gallant death. On April 18,
1918, while succoring wounded
Americans, he was slain by an enemy
bullet.
They are talking of rearing. In that
cemetery, a monument to the dogs
who died in the great war. It seems
that Fido, the terrier, was only one
of many.
territory has been formed into the I army In France and that In Poland,
far eastern republic, the independ- i to open tlfe way for the allies to
ence of which has been recognized j make a successful offensive 'from
by the soviet, and the Japanese both east and west and to win the
WHY SUCH A STRIKE?
A moving-picture firm of Port
land is under boycott by the "movie"
unions through the proceses of the
sympathetic strike? because the op
erators in certain allied houses at
Tacoma want an increase of wages
$1.25 per hour, to be exact and are
denied it. They have struck. The
Portland firm says it has only a
M ARMED TEACHERS.
Marriage, according to a ruling of
the Portland city board of education,
la nnt n bur to teachlne. ObViOUSly,
in view of the present shortage of minority Interest in the Tacoma
competent teachers in the country as uses and is not responsible for
a whole, the problem has lost some thei,r. operation or management, and
... . wwh it wns could not compel the Tacoma con-
Involved when there was an over
I cerns to' grant their employes de-
condone and commend in his loyal
attitude to the fatherland. But the
Lusitanla ah, there was a day
whereon the gardener talked volubly,
pathetically, to scowling auditors, to troops are restoring order and pro-i war in 1915.
neighbors who refused to listen, to ' tect the railroad as far as Lake1 In January, 1915, the allies cora
friends who' turned their backs. Like I Baikal. This republic has been de- mitted themselves to the disastrous
an evil malady the uneradicated can- ' soribed as outwardly pink, but red Dardanelles campaign. Fisher op-
cer of Prussianism ate Into his heart at heart, yet Japan's demand that it posed it from the first, holding with
maintain order as a condition of 'Nelson that sailors should not attack
and,' in the dark days -that ensued,
completed the metamorphosis. So
that when America caught up the
arrogant challenge and called to her
defenders to take the field, Martin
Erlwein was a citizen in name only,
with Teutonic stubbornness voicing
the opinions that- damned him.
The process of a just and liberal
naturalization law has taken his
once-prized papers from him. For
the remainder of his life this man
will walk a clouded pathway, in all
probability. It is difficult to moral
iza. to speculate, concerning the
blame and where it rests. Martin
Erlwein was a failure In American
ization, that much is certain. But
to some ' extent his neighbors born
on the soil, were also failures. For
surely there must be some method
of so expressing, in daily life and
letters, the principles of our patriot
Ism that none can misunderstand
them and that all must accept. There
must be some means of indelibly in
scribing on the thought of the can
didate for citizenship the sacred val
ue of the obligation he undertakes.
We do not know what it is unless it
is th 1st that every utterance at va
riance with our national conscience
should be given the lie at the mo
ment it is heard. That too easy
toleration of opinions inimical to our
own tradition-s and affairs should be
replaced by aggressive and logical
championship.
It 1b too late to save the admirable
material for citizenship in the caae
of Martin Erlwein. He claimed the
evacuation may lead it to abandon
communist plans.
supply. It is now admitted that V ...w , -
" iiw nn nnn t,r r the power to control the Tacoma sit-
reouired to meet the needs of the nation, the essential merits of the i freedom of America, came to love
schools in the United States, and that case jould. not be materially and in an hour of stress misin
terpreted It as license. in one una
n nnn innnt launct n r I chan ged.
suspended, or incompetently taught, Th motion-picture employes' at drawn the distinction for him.' and
foi want of Qualified teachers to take f B' "6' before it was drawn Bis tongue naa
charge of them. Expediency, if
nothing else, calls for reconstruction
of the ancient prejudices, for adap
tation of the old practice to the new
conditions.
The whole thing would be ab
surdly simple if appointing authori
ties were always omniscient. In the
abstract, there should be but one
consideration that of capability.
When two applicants present them
selves, and there Is only one. va
cancy, it would be ideal if by some
psychological process it might be
determined unerringly whicll is the
better teacher. The interests of the
the film concerns. They are well
paid. They are regularly employed.
All conditions' of unionism have been
fulfilled. Yet they strike and place
pickets Irt front of the houses to
notify the public that they are "un
fair." They are "unfair" to whom?
led him to disgrace. But it is not
too late it never is to make the
most of a tragic mistake.
TRADE WITH HCSSIA.
Removal of restrictions on trade
They are unfair because somebody I with Russia, as announced by the
at Tacoma not in - Portland does state department, is In substance a
not do what somebody else at Ta
coma not in Portland thinks
should be done. .
A strike may or may not be Justi
fiable. A sympathetic strike is near-
notice to American exporters that
'You may trade with. Russia, but
you must take all the chances. ,The
government will not protect you
against being murdered or robbed.'
That is the answer to the merchants
IXVENTOR8 IN THE BALL OF FAME.
- The unanimous vote of the Amer
ican Newspaper Publishers associa
tion by which the name of Ottmar
Mergenthaler has been presented to
the electorate of the Hall of Fame
reminds us that inventors have not
fared In proportion to their deserts
in previous elections. Of fifty-five
noteworthy men thus far. chosen.
only four have been inventors. These
are "Robert Fulton, Samuel F. B.
Morse and Ell Whitney, who won
admittance in 1900, and Elias Howe,
who was not chosen until 1916. Of
a total of 120 who have been nomi
nated but not elected, only eleven
forts, but he yielded to duty to his
country at Kitchener's solicitation.
When on May 14, 1915, it was de
cided to reinforce the fleet at the
Dardanelles in support of the army,
he would remain silent no longer and
"This is the much to be regretted'
passing of a very gallant gentleman!"
raid Spain.
To the Spaniard the bull ring is a
stage of heroism, where mighty
hearted men meet animals no less
courageous and stake their lives on
the issue. "We give the bull a
chance to die heroically," explains
the Spanish novelist, Ramon Perez
de Ayala. "Americans seem to think
that a bull should always end unro
mant fcally from a sledge-hammer
blow between the horns in some Chi
cago slaughter-house." The points
of view will not amalgamate, though
resigned. Many of the "hush-hush" I there is admitted logic in the Span
ships which he was building had been
, diverted to other services, others
were abandoned and his Baltic
scheme .was abandoned. He has
since been the target of venomous at
tacks, to which he retaliated in his
book with stout, sailor-like blows,
but the estimation in which he is
held may be Judged by the honors
paid him in Westminster Abbey.
Though a lord. Fisher was a thor
ough democrat and in derision of
decorations he compared himself to
a Christmas tree when he wore them.
aVA Kdcii ln,-nntrt ' I "Ti . r 1. n i ,n ii
eluded Goodyear. Hoe. Cyrus Hall ?lL8?waf ldeal sea-fighter and.
McCormick, Robert McCormick and
John Ericsson.
Of the new names of inventors of
fered this year for the first time,
that of Mergenthaler will seem to
be the most deserving. His new
running mates are Stockton Borton.
William Austin Burt, Walter Hunt
and Robert L. Stevens. To Mergen
thaler, a plain mechanic, Is due the
most amazing development of the
printing industry since the invention
of movable types. The typesetting
machine immeasurably multiplied
facilities for the spread of knowledge
and the enlightenment of the world.
Authors now far outrank all others
in the Hall of Fame. It is a little
singular that a nation noted for its
industrial and mechanical rather
than its literary exploits should have
left its inventors so comparatively
unhonored.
ly always questionable. If one sin
gle valid argument exists to support! who clamored for freedom to trade.
pupil, which are paramount, would "le Present sympathetic strike The in the belief that a rich field was
' . . n ,.P,t n(1 Oregonian would like to hear what It neglected and to those friends of
the bolshevists who protested that
nothing else. Unfortunately it does '" """""""J 6'" "
not invariably eventuate that way.
A good deal of the discussion of the
economic bearing of election of mar- REBUKE to unreasonable women.
ried women which beclouds the main I Senator Harding's statement should
issue Is due to this fallibility of the put to silence those incorrigible and
l,l'U"' 11 iJ " ' .t.fc.Vl.M.M.V Willi, li l 1-, 1 LU. L U 1 O " 11U I .
c n it ,o- i.Mv.H Li.mn .v. v.,. not encourage this hope. In effect
that the schools are confronted with party to force ratification of the suf- u relegates Russia to the category of
a "crisis." It is said that 50,000 or frage amendment by those republican those Peoples among whom
we maintained a blockade which ag
gravated the sufferings of the Rus
sian people and who also hoped that
trade relations would lead the gov
ernment to recognize the soviet.
The government's statement does
so of teachers wltnout adequate states which have not yet acted. In
training, or with no training at all, the light of the facts the attacks of
have been pressed Into service. A. O. these women on the republican party
Neal of the United States bureau of are unwarranted and .unjust, and
education, who has conducted an their threats will intimidate no one.
extensive inquiry among the high The facts speak for themselves.
schools of the country, in which more I The amendment has been ratified
than 7000 high schools have written by twenty-nine republican and six
of their needs, estimates that there I democratic states, and only two re-
are 25,978 places to be filled before 1 publican states -Vermont and Con-
the next school, term begins, with a necticut have not acted. Six demo
prospect that there will be only cratic states, but only one republican
10,620 competent applicants ' for state, have refused to ratify. Iq
tnem. xne mtiorence, io,3ss places, view of these facts, the woman's
"must be filled in ways that are not party has no right to accuse the re-
now apparent, or that number of publican party of hostility to the
classes will be without proper. In-I suffrage cause because its leaders re
struction." The "only alternative is I fuse to coerce the states which ad-
trading ships went armed, ready to
fight the war canoes which gathered
around them. The Nootka sound
massacre and the murder of Captain
Cook were Incidents of that trade.
The peoples among whom the trad
ers and explorers of the seventeenth
and eighteenth centuries voyaged
had no organized, responsible gov
ernment which could be held to ac
count for wrongs committed against
citizens of civilized countries. Where
redress was obtained it was usually
by conquest and annexation. That
was easy, for the savage tribes were
small and had no- modern weapons.
It Is not practicable with Russia,
which is a great nation possessing
to employ persons below the standard here to their party, and Mr. Harding modern implement of war and great
armies commanded by able generals
Conquest is not practicable, not be
cause it could not be accomplished
if the American people set their
minds to it, but because they have
no desire for it.
American differs from British pol-
prescribed by experience and general I doer right in declining to be intim-
practlce. '- But is it the only alter- 'dated by means which proved effec
native? As between those who are tlvo with President Wilson. It should
admittedly "below the standard pre- I turn its attention to the democratic
scribed by experience and general states. If one of them should choose
practice" and teachers who are qua).- to become the immortal thirty-sixth
ified. fi n rl tried, hut who riannpri to rntifiHnr stnto If to n-olnnma n
be married, who shall say that the honor. The score would still be lcy ln the fact that the Btate dePart
latter are not Instantly to be pre- twenty-nine republican to seven dem- ment merely leaves Americans free
f erred? No one, we hazard the ocratic states. . to trad8 at tneir own rlsk wh,le
guess, who has sons or daughters in The pretense of the woman's L1yd George directly negotiates with
school. party that it speaks for 17,000.000 aents of the soviet for trade rela-
Thi situation nrnsnnta n niimhnr of wnmon is nhsnrrl Tk. ontl.a t it tions and gives implied recognition
Individual problems, all of which can little knot of rants nitrons hnsv. bv negotiating also for release of
r cniv.H witvi tio o-roroica of tor-t hi urii? lk. prisoners. He is also believed to
but in the exercise of which nothing party which they denounce than it have discussed an agreement for ces
ls than tno ictormtQ of the soViooi I will oiionnta Tf ati a ii tj ,,i j s&tion of bolshevist agitation in Brit
svKtnm rlAservps th Kiin-Tntcst non-lvior Mono ,.oii oft.mn ish dominions and Persia - in ex-
sideratlor.
been said
ried teachers Vusurninir" r,la-es ' motive for this British policy, but
sought-by unmarried applicants, con- -.nrll - . there is none for the United States
ditlons have since been rreatlv mod- THE FAILURE OF A C1TIZE. to lmitate It.. There is danger that
lfied. Nor Is it desirable that at any
BITLDES OF" BRITAIN'S KIW JJAVT.
By the death of Lord Fisher Great
Britain loses the grand old man of
the British navy. He was the builder
of the modern navy, and to him is
duw the power which kept the Ger
man high sea fleet cooped in harbor
and which sent it scurrying home
from Jutland when it ventured to
give battle. Fortunately Fisher lived
long enough to publish his "Memoirs
and Records," in which his critics
are answered, mainly by his friends,
who were able to speak with author
ity. They leave the reader with little
doubt that, but for Fisher, Germany
would have wrested naval supremacy
from Britain and would have been
free to challenge the United States to
decisive combat.
Fisher wrote in the forcible style
ln which a sailor talks. He worked
his way up by sheer merit in "active
sea service, then was' called ashore to
use his experience in revolutionizing
the navy, which he saw transformed
from the wooden sailing ship to the
dreadnought propelled by turbines
using fuel oil. He gives this graphic
description of his hard training:
I entered the navy penniless, friendless
and forlorn. While my messmates were
having jam. I had to fro without. W"hi:e
tneir stomachs were lull, mine was erten
empty. I have always had to flight like
heli, and fighting like hell hue tmule me
whaf. I am Hunger and thirst are tne
w. to heaven.
Modernizing of the navy was bet-
gun by 'Fisher as first sea lord in
1904 and he was. the driving force in
overcoming the opposition of the fos
sils. He built the dreadnought ln
record time, many other ships of that
type and the battle cruisers; he
scrapped 160 ships, he established the
naval war college, he democratize'd
the naval service and made every of
ficer learn engineering, for he real-
ion. Whatever might have mailing tactics on Mr. Harding, he chan,ra for cessatlon of ald to the
Lid a few years ago as to mar- should show them the door. Soviet's enemies. There is a strong
decision of the board to give pref
erence to the unmarried "where
ability and capacity are equal" is
sufficiently elastic for practical pur
poses, but It would be a mistake in
times like the present for the board
referring to the government's ingrat
itude to and the people's love for the
victor of Trafalgar, he says:
Give me the common peoDle and a fl
for your atate "ceremonial.
He pays this tribute to a great
American principle:
This Is what Dure and nnadtilterateA
democracy Is, and we haw not sot it in
Kriard:
r ni-a. opportunity for all.
For Instance, no parent with lesa than
1i0 a year can now send nls biiv into
the navy as an officer.
Nature is no respecter of birth or money
power when she lavishes her mental and
physical gifts.
He also says:
Hereditary titles are ludicrously out of
date In an modern democr-icy. and the
sooner we sweeD awav all the flmcraeki
and gewgaws of snobbery the better.
Tne only pact that ever holds, and the
only treaty that ever lasts is community
of Interest, and we can only have com
munity of Interest in the masses of a
people always being on the side of peace,
because It's the masses who are massacred,
not the kings and generals and politicians.
Well, the only way the masses of the
people can act effectively i ny means of
republics. Because then no secret diplo
macy ever answers, and no one man can
make war, or no coterie of men. . Jn a
republlo we get "government of the peo
ple, oy tne people, lor tne people. '
. Because he held these opinions
Lord Fisher was a sincere friend Oi
world.
WHO GETS THE TIPS?
The decision of an Illinois judge
that "a hotel Is entitled legally to the
tips given to its employes" removes
some more of the underpinning from
the tipping system. It shows the
customer what he is really doing
when he thinks that he is paying for
exceptional service. The case in
which the decision was given was a
suit brought by a hat-checker to re
cover $3339, which he alleged had
been given him by customers of th
place, but which he had been forced
to turn over to his employers. "Noth
ing," said the court, "would please
me better than to decide against a
hotel which profits by tips given its
, employes; unfortunately, I have no
law to back me up in such a de
cision." The public have a recourse, though
diners downtown are ..slow to avail
themselves of it. Nobody seems to
hesitate nowadays over declaring a
strike or a boycott, with the lone
exception of the brigade of reluc
tant tippers. But even these will
take heart from the circumstance
that a monthly pcribdical has been
started in their interests. It is pub
lished in New York, and it has for
its motto the declaration of Charles
Cotesworth Pinckney, "Millions for
delense, not one cent for tribute."
Despairing of attaining the ideal
through legislation, it is conducting
ish contention if one chances to be
a Spaniard. American ; critics will
reply that the bull has no choice in
tho manner of death, no wit to-make
the decision, else he might bellow
for a demise less cruel, a death more
expeditious, though the splendor of
the arena were cheapened to the
prosaic, drab efficiency of the pack
ing plant.
What the Spaniards might retort,
with more effect, would be that full-
blooded sport selects its sacrifice
In America and elsewhere as it does
ln the land Of the Dons, and that the
Romanesque fancy for sanguinary
thrills is not peculiar to Spain alone.
They might point to our prize ring,
as doubtless they do, to our motor
races, our gridiron classics to a
score of sports that take their toll
with more or less regular spectacu
laiity. They might remind us that
I.uther McCarthy, world champion
ln the lists of heavyweight pugilism,
drew his ticket to eternity with one
murderous clout from the glove of
Arthur Pelkey, and that this fatality
of the prize ring Is among the many.
Turning to our newspaper files and
consulting the front-page headlines,
they could demonstrate with ease
that automobile and v motorcycle
races are scarcely successful and cer
tainly are not typical, unless each
claims its human sacrifice to the
grim gods of sport.
The clement of risk cannot be
entirely dissociated from sport. If
It were to be eliminated the epic
feats of clean athletics would recede
to mere " May-day gambols, pretty
enough but wholly incapable of
arousing enthusiasm. And while the
American .sport realm has its fatall
ties there is a marked difference be
tween these incidents and those of
the Spanish bull ring. Death in
American sport is always accidental
and Is not the incentive for attend
ance. In Spain it is a concomitant
of the bullfight and every senor and
senorlta anticipates and applauds
the bloody finale. El Gal 11 to dares
the horns once too often. Just as
everyone knew he would, and lakes
of Spanish tears do not disprove the
contention of the outlander that an
essentially grim and sanguinary pas
time reached its emotional climax ln
a human death
BY - rRODl'CTS OP THB TIMES
Geographer Reveals Baptismal Font
f America In Voices Mountain.
While millions sing "America," com
paratively few know the origin of
the name. Its history and Its sym
bolism are described in a communi
cation to the national geographic so
ciety by John H. Finley, as follows:
"'America,' a name that was first
heard on the planet, or at any rate
first put on a printed page, according
to th best authorities, in the village
of St. Pie. among theVosges moun
tains, in the east of 'France, often
called the baptismal font of America.
"On a pilgrimage to this valley of
I the Vosges some years ago, I found
still standing. the cloisters where the
scholars had lived who wrote 'The In
troduction to Ptolemy's Cosmography,
the book in which it was suggested
that the name America' be given to
the newly discovered fourth conti
nent, und who prepared the now fa
mous map on which the emerging
continent was identified. There, too,
I found the plte of the old printing
shop, and the house Itself in which
the printer, Jean Basin, had lived.
"At the beginning of the war the
Germans had occupied it, and in 1917
their guns looked down upon it from
the "blue line of the Vosges." Th
cloisters, close under the mountains, I
found in a recent and second pilgrim
age, had not been damaged, but there
were many houses that had been de
stroyed by shell or by wanton fire.
though Jean Basin's was still stand
ing.
But the printer, who a few years
ago reproduced ln facsimile the fa
mous book, lad had both legs shot
off while crossing the bridge one day
between tho two parts of the vil
lage. 'Alas!' he said, when he learned
that he must die. "alas!! I shall not
be the first to carry flowers to Strass-
burg!" For h! had dreamed of the
day when Strassburg. where rests
one of the original copies of this fa
mous book, again would be withi
French borders."
Our Insignificance.
By Grace E. Hall,
They say that the Lusitanla may
be raised from her grave on the
ocean floor that it is practicable to
hoist the gloomy hulk, with her
freight of death and memories, to
the surface and the sunshine, where
sho floated when the torpedo drove
home. What purpose would be Served
ln breaking the sleep of those who
rest with the Lusitanla the great
shin that suffered outrage and be
came a' cause celebre, a symbol of
retributive justice against Germany?
Irrevocably she should be the prop
erty of that very sea that swallowed
submarines. When the Lusitanla
sank she became a surety, held in
trust by the ocean, that thereafter
the seas should not be stained with
murder. The shattered liner holds
her, the same that was to be coursed
ty vengeful destroyers sinking the
that the nrocesa mav be lone and
ized that a warship had become a ! tedious. But It thinks that the time
mmnrv with ft flrmsr crin. thr on
a campaign of education. It admits the floor of the 8ea than ir sh.
Martin Erlwein, gardener, surren- bolshevist literature and agents will
tim .minictrotion f c,i dri his citizenship papers in federal be smuggled to this country in con-
system shall operate as a discour- curt, ono if y receny- Attainment nection with trade, but direct travel
agement to matrimony. Tentative "J y v"e" ol, igu win d forbidden, ana special vigi-
ui mo ii.teviiiK liu- a.ncc win Gouotipss De enioinea on
cedures of our commonwealth, but customs and immigration officials.
so frequent and ordinary are these The prospect of extensive trade
adoptions that they escape general with bolshevist Russia so long as the
comment, it 19 a rar ourerent mat- soviet lasts is not irood. Orjinions
ter, however, to witness the reversal conflict as to whether any large
not to avail itself of the services of ot th8 naturalization process and be- amount of goods available for ei
the exceptionally qualified wherever hold one striPPed ot his citizenship, port exists in Russia, but the best
they may be found reft of tbe Pnza f or which- he sailed informed seem to agree that it does
io aiiiciiut iuu unicn ns epeni yeara not, Krassin. tne envoy to the al
in winning. There is drama ln the I no enira thnr ia mncii vht fia-r
r0 DOGS have sonsr latter process that grips the imatrlna- iim'h anil nil. hnt tb sinn. nf
To lovers of the dog, and they are tion and brings one to wonder what wheat are Kairi to have been snoiled
more than legion, the thought recurs manner of man it was who cast away or to be imaginary and peasants have
loiav. uwauiM w in ue wanting ii naoes tne iinesi -gut oi an. ceased to grow a surplus, flax Is
not find a friend, a nook, a bone, for Before the war Martin Erlwein grown in provinces which have se
the shades of these mute friends with was, as many citizens of German nerlprl. and forests have "been laid
eyes of loyal eloquence. In a New birth, a substantial, honorable, hard- n, o n TirnviHa fnpi tio raiirnnria
Toik suburb there is a cemetery for I working, jovial and friendly mem- are such wrecks that, if goods for
uuga, ana more man isuuu covers, Der or. tne social community. On a nnnrt rlirl ist thov could not bn
and Spots, and Sports, and whatnot few acres of land broidering the transported to port. The first goods
muniuer oeneatn its careiuny tenaea Kogue river at tiold Hill, in southern which Russia would import would
turf and its carven headstones. Why! Oregon, the citizen gardener grew I rn locomotives, cars and railroad
not. my practical friend? Do you find prodigal quantities of garden truck, material, for repair of the railroads
it m jour ueart to toss asiae as car- There were no larger, firmer cab- la nesrv in order tn mk py.
iriM tia KNir fhat .. : . ! i 1 i I ..
j oo mmiaio uuum, nu muio Blowing tomatoes, ports possible. Bolshevist money
nn love, merely Because it was tne no celery more stately and crisp being worthless, only goods or told
physical habitat of an intelligence I than those that . Martin Erlwein I wr iilrl arrpntAfl In nn vm fnt arid
Bomewuaness man yours.' ir you ao, gathered from his tiny acreage and until the railroads and industries
xnen you yourseu are a throwback to peddled to his neighbors. He pros- had been revived gold would be de
vutj remote ages wnen men lirst nered. ne and his brother, not onlv I inri -M-nr ihon -hoif fh m
learned friendship, and beyond. At in worldly wealth, but in the esteem perial gold -reserve has been dissl
an rate, there they sleep a goodly I cf the several hundred native-born I pated, the working of the gold mines
tuuiu, ui ougs, ueiovea in mem- Americans wno Knew mm. , under the soviet is miserably inef-
ory by coalheavers and college pro- For there was a fine fraternity in ficlent, and the country might soon
esors. suop gins ana society aames. tne character of this man before the come to the end of its gold supply
Hiucaers ana millionaires. I War. l'O BIS Uerman thrift and in- Ihv r.avHmr It fnr ImnnT-ti
Ana mere are lessons or assurance dusrtry, his Innate understanding of Russia has a hard road to travfl
n the point of spiritual survival for the soil, was joined a sociable phase before it can get into a position to
uogs in uie epiiapns aDove mat quiet or expression a friendliness that trade on any but a very limited scale.
jiosi ot quondam bone-chasers and 1 could not be met with aught, save If its people would work, they could
laii-waggers. ao one Inclined to- friendship. To talk with him, when gradually build up trade on surplus
ward partisanship there is quite as he came of mornings to deliver an from their great resources, but they
much proof of spirituality there ad- order of green peas or new potatoes, do not work because the methods of
cucea, ior me aog. as many a master was to rejoice in his light-hearted the soviet have removed all inren
znignt eiaim. mere are brave. Intel- philosophy of life, his easy accept- tive to work. Workmen in the cities
ligent records, that will not analyze ance of toil, and his more than av- are enslaved and rationed, have little
by the theory of instinct but stand as erage concept of men and affairs, raw material, " disable machinery,
testimony to reason and discriminat- You would have said, as many did, steal tools and desert the labor armv
ing gallantry. Stoop to this stone, I that America was fortunate in pos- by wholesale. Unable to get the
ior instance, ana scan tne record of sessing this citizen. . I manufactures they need and un-
1do J., terrier, son of Rover and I Then came the war and the first I williner to accent bolshevist monev.
Woofie, who entered this world of blight on Martin Erlwein for Gold the peasants produce only enough
ram ana rainoows ana rain in Hill was pro-ally in common with all for thpir own neoda.
191 Z, and who die-i in the last year
of the war.
Fido was true to type as an annl
hilator of rodents. Born in a nay
distinctively American communities. The prospect Is better for trade
It bore with the opinions of Martin with eastern Siberia, by which the
Erlwein, and declined to quarrel with Pacific coast would chiefly profit.
them, Indeed, it found much, to &an with. European Russia, That - to Ue in tne rear bota th German
great machine; he foresaw the im
portance of destroyers and built a
fleet of them, he reorganized the
dockyards and got more work done
by 6000 less men, and he scrapped
160 obsolete ships which could
neither fight nor run away. His work
won him the intimate friendship of
King Edward, who steadfastly sup
ported him.
His remarkable prescience was
shown by his realization since 1902
that Britain would fight Germany
and by his deliberate preparation of
the navy for the war. He quietly and
gradually concentrated the fleet ln
home waters, bo quietly that the
world was startled when Mahan said
that 88 per cent of the guns of the
British navy were aimed at Germany.
He foresaw the important part that
submarines would play in the war,
and he built them by scores. He had
equal foresight as to aircraft and
mines anr1. applied himself feverishly
to overcome tbe "fools and asses," as
he called opponents of change. In
overcoming, resistance and in saving
money from useless, things for those
which he held imperative he was, to
use his favorite adjectives, "ruthless.
relentless, remorseless.'
He was displaced in 1910 and in
the next four years saw much of his
work undone. He hal foretold Ger
many s use of the submarine so ac
curately that his description, written
in 1904, would have fitted many ac
tual sinkings of merchant ships. The
war no sooner began than the need of
him was felt and he was called back
on October 30, 1914, the day before
Cradock's ships were sunk off Coro
nel. He immediately sent his pride,
the battle cruisers Inflexible and In
vincible, which "went 7000 miles
without a hitch in their watertube
boilers or their turbine machinery"
(which he had introduced) "and ar
rived at the Falkland islands almost
simultaneously with Admiral von
Spee and his eleven ships" and sank
all except one of them. But for that
victory, he says, Germany would have
made the Falklands a naval base,
would have cut off the nitrate sup.
ply from Chile, would have com.
manded the Pacific and South Atlan- j
tie oceans, would have sunk the Brl
ish squadron off the Cape of Good
Hope and Botha's transports going to
conquer Southwest Africa and would
have exterminated British trade.
Fisher's strategy was summed up
by him in these words:
War la tha essence of vlo'ence.
Moderation ln War Is Imbecility.
Hit ftibt. Hit hard. Keep on hlttlnsr.
In accord -with these precepts he
prepared a plan for the invasion of
Germany by co-operation between
the British navy and a Russian army.
With the approval of Winston
Churchill and Lloyd George, he be
gan to build at record speed a great
fleet of 612 ships of various types,
which, led by five fast battle cruisers,
wa to have forced the entrance to
the Baltic sea, taken a Russian army
of a million men to the shallow coast
of Pomeranla and landed it within
90 miles of Berlin. Thus he planned
will come when legislation will be
unnecessary.
The estate of a "bellhop" who died
in San Francisco the other day has
been appraised at $28,775. No heirs
have been found and It Is likely that
it will escheat to the state. It would
be Interesting to know how much of
the $28,775 was obtained for service
foi which the patron also paid the
bellboy's employers. But if the fate
of tipping hung on the evidence
against it, it would have succumbed
long ago. We await with curiosity
the outcome of the new movement to
abolish the practice. We have our
hopes but our doubts, also.
ZEST OF THE ARENA
Upon the spectacle of the Spanish
bullfight the northern races have
looked with shuddering disapproval.
They cannot comprehend the deriva
tion of pleasure from a contest of
blood, that infallibly must end with
the butchery of the bull, goaded and
tortured to blind rage, and not in
frequently with the dramatic death
of the matador beneath the venge
ful thrust of the deadly horns. The
color and pageantry of the episode
are to the foreigner in Spain or
Mexico, shadowed to eclipse by
blood spilled in brutality. Disem
boweled horses scream their agony
from the splotched sand, a picador is
tossed to mortal injury as his mount
fails to evade the charge all is
dust, death and confusion, set to an
accompaniment of laughter and
cheering. If the outlander feels the
spur of any sentiment other than
sickened disgust it is one of parti
sanship for the beast.
"So Nero laughed," say the travel
ers as they study the incomprehensi
ble temperament of the Spaniard at
his bullfight. And it is true that the
bull ring is more than a reminder of
the Roman arena, where gladiators
buffeted and slashed their comrades
to defeat and death, giving the coup
de grace at the mandate of the
lustful spectators; where naked men
their thews playing and rippling with
alert, desperate resolve, met the Nu
midian lion with the sword. The con
troversy is centuries old and is no
nearer to mutual understanding
than when it began. It wanes to rise
again with each new episode of the
bull ring.
Joee Gomes, beloved In Spanish
sport as El Gallito, or. "the little
cockerel," died in the provincial city
of Talavera, Spain, on May 16 and
with his passing the conflict of
Spanish and outland opinion surged
up again. El Gallito was a veritable
maestro of the bull ring a youth of
twenty-five years, skilled in tech
nique and keen of wit, with a thrust
that bad butchered 1430 savage an
tagonists. This in eight-years. Spain
and Madrid Idolized "the little cock,
erel." And Spain mourned, with'
Latin extravagance, when the black
bull of Talavera caught the intrepid
gladiator in a single slip and drove
its keen horns through his pros
trate body. "This is the toll of the
i bull ring!" exclaimed, tho outlandero.
cruised again. And an unimpaired
memory of the Lusit&nia is worth the
keeping.
I've stood in silence underneath the
sky.
When not a cloud was drifting o'er
the blue.
The sounds of day all hushed, tha
breeze a sigh.
The distant mountains like dark
castles; few
Of which had e'en a star gleam over
' head;
The pines upon the far peaks, black
and tall.
Like watchmen with their eyes turned
straight ahead.
Who guard the trails where un
tamed creatures calL
And eeeing, feeling, sensing all these
things.
Sublime, eternal, vast, spread for
our view.
Hearing tbe unnamed music of the
strings
In nature s orchestras the whole
world through.
I've bent my head, acknowledging to
him
Mr emallnesa and my helplessness
to give
E'en thanks, such as I should, save
deep within
My heart, where I rejoice he lets
me live.
O man! If you would get one estimate
Of your real value, compass once
your size,
Obtain on scales of accuracy your
weight
Stand on the mountain peaks be
neath the skies!
And if indeed you be not wholly blind.
if you have living soul, then shall
you fling
Aside your eelf-importance, and shall
find
A new song ln God's symphony to
sing!
We are more than ever impressed
with the Inadequacy of our merchant
marine when we read that the de
partment is unable to obtain trans
portation for' all the undesirable
aliens It wants to deport.
There is a short acreage of grain
this year, but a fine crop so far as it
goes. The consumer will not omit
his regret that there could not have
been a big acreage and a big yield
at the same time.
Friends of Mr. Wilson propose to
put Mr. Cox on the grill. Sorrows
multiply. It would have been bad
enough if only the- opposing party
had carried out its programme in
that regard.
The alacrity of democrats in Ore
gon In responding to appeals for
money to carry on the state cam
paign will be wonderful to those who
know the democrats who have the
money.
It may be Vermont and it may be
Tennessee, but suffragists who can
count know that it, was the repub
lican states that overwhelmingly
made the amendment possible.
How do you know that It is so?
"A certain party told me."
With this introduction of a sadly
kicked-about -loun. our old frlena
."parly," the purist of the Columbus
Dispatch lectures interestingly on the
proper use thereof.
Th fi.rprnine conversation was
overheard recently, narrates the Dis
patch. The second speaker should
have said: "A certain person told me
not "a certain party."
This use of the word "partj- for
person" is quite common, but it is
condemned oy all authorities on jing
Ush grammar as being incorre't.
Some, indeed, go as far as to call i.
vulgar.
It should be remembered, howevei,
that the word "party." meaning an
individual, has a proper place in Eng
lish. We may ipeak of "a party to a
contract," or "the party of the first
part." or "the parties to" the mar
riage." Wooley's Handbook of Com
Dositlon" gives the following sentence
as an example of the correct use of
the word: "The parties to the mar
rlage were both young." The follow
lng Is given as incorrect: "The, party
who wrntn that article must have
been a scholar."
When King Solomon in all his bore
dom cried. "Triero is no new thing
under the sun." cigarettes, chewing
gum, the thermos-bottle and the
tnapper" for fastening ladies' frocks
(a-n Indispensable thing when one
has several hundred wives) were yet
to be invented, writes Oliver Herford
in Leslie's.
So far as wo can learn, had Solo
mon, who knew and could address ln
its own language every flower and
tree in existence, ever heard of the
Tuttl-Fruttl tree?
There Is to my certain belief only
one tree ln txlstence aaswering to
that name, and I christened It myself.
I am Its godfather.
In the heartrnost heart of the fruit
ful parad.'se of New Jersey stands a
small but ancient stoned cottage that
has come to regard me as Its lord, and
on Squire Williams's estate, whose
verdant acres lie just outside my gar
den fence, grows this Tuttl-Frutti
tree.
Once it was a young apple tree. It
Is still young, but as the result of
series of sap transfusions it is also
several other kinds of tree, and when
It grows up it will rear appiea.
quinces, two kinds of pears, peaches
and, I believe, plums almost every
thing In fact except watermelons.
It's quite absurd, of course, but just
suppose the tree of knowledge ln that
first garden had been a Tutti-Frutti
tree instead of an apple tree! With
seven separate kinds of fruit to
choose from, all equally forbidden
and, for that reason, equally desir
able, how could Eve ever have de
cided which one to pluck?
And with Eve's hesitation sin would
have ben lost to the world!
Let us give thanks that the tree
of knowledge of good and evil was
not a Tutti-Frutti tree!
HOMESICK FOR MOTHER.
Tes. I'm homesick for mother today.
1 hough the grave closed between us
long ago.
There are many tender things Td like
to say.
And I would kiss her hands and
temples gray.
And stooping down I'd whisper deep
and low:
I miss you. Mother, O. I miss you so!
And I am sure the words would
sweetly fall
Upon her heart Just homesick, that
is all!
I'm tired out with the big game of
things.
The heat, the rush, the feverish
ways of men;
My brain Is tired, I'm sluggish with
the stings
Of human scorpions. Oh, to put
again
My head upon her knee as I did
when
My young heart's wounds unto her
love appealing.
Closed their red springs ln her soft
touch of healing
And her dear words "I understand
it all":
Just homesick for Mother that's all.
I've had my little share of praise and
blame;
My hands have not been emptied
all of gold;
A slender spray of myrtle binds my
name.
And many of my thoughts have
been retold;
And love has filled my breast all it
would hold;
I've traveled far by land and ocean's
foam.
All tribes my kindred and all spots
my home;
To sea you,"' Mother, I would give
It. all.
For I'm homesick for you homesick,
that's all.
The home brewers say ln one
breath that theirs is better than the
real article and in another that com
mercial brewing ought to be restored.
There Is a flaw somewhere.
It is a curious thing that these
famous people take the trouble of
going to faraway states to get their
divorces. Publicity pursues them
just the same.
We wonder how many of those
who stopped to pray when the earth
rocked at Los Angeles were doing so
for the first time In their lives.
We have the permission of the
advertising department to suggest
that 's lotion is excellent for
a blistered neck and arms.
rd like to feel your fingers slipping
through
The towsled tangles of my boyish
hair;
And hear you calling through the
dusk and dew
Tour brood around you from the
cool night air.
And have you tuck me ln with kiss
and prayer.
Ah, for that bliss I'd give Golconda's
store,
And Montezuma's fabled mines of
yore,
And all the jewels of the Inca's hall.
For Im homesick for you. Mother,
that is all.
part the tangled grass above your
tomb,
And put my face close down against
the earth;
break the eilence of thy sunless
room.
Where lies so still you who once
gave me birth.
And taught me honor's ways and
heaven's worth.
I call thee and tell thee all Tve borne
In life's red school, where each Is
taught to mourn.
While hot and fast my tears un
numbered fr -I
For I'm homesick for you, mother-
that is all.
GUT FITCH PHELPS.
Cherry growers of The Dalles put
$150,000 in the bank, according to a
news dispatch. Just a few that the
robins didn't get, perhaps.
The opening chapters on summer
bathing accidents Indicate that not
everything has been learned when
one knows how to swim."
Anxiops Inquirer: No, the Oregon
boy who won the discus champion
ship did not get his training in a
debating society.
One reason why automobile thefts
are fewer may be that autos are not
worth stealing while the gasoline
famine is oh.
Searchers have recovered one arm
of the man who went, over Niagara
Falls ln a barrel. They'll never find
his brains.
As the shade of Alexander Pope
observes the belated financial tribute
of modernity, as evidenced in the cur
rent rates for famous manuscripts,
the departed author of "Lo, the Poor
Indian" must feel that some portion
of his anthropological . sympathy
might well have been reserved for
himself. The .New York World notes
that three books of Pope's "Essay on
Man," in the manuscript, have just
been sold ln Philadelphia for J55,000.
This is undoubtedly a great improve
ment on the terms offered by the
poet's publishers. Still, It would
hardly have paid Pope to wait 187
years for th advance. He had in
1733 a sufficient fortune to assure
his personal independence and to en
able him to afford the luxury of vis
its at great houses. And little did he
dream of a nation growing up across
the Atlantic to furnish a market for
40 musty pages of his handwriting.
Modernizing some historic utter
ances that have gone ringing down
the corridors of American fame, the
Boston News Bureau presents revised
versions In a satirical thrust at the
spirit of the times.
Thus the cynic misquotes:
"I have not yet begun to strike.'
John Paul Jones.
"I am sorry I have no more strife
to give to my country." Nathan
Hale.
"My country, right or wrong. If
right, to-get her in wrong." Stephen
Decatur.
"Turn, boys, turn! We're going t
ouit." Phil Sheridan at Cedar Creek
"I propose to idle it out on this lia
l If It takes all summor."t B. Grant.
MOTJJf-
BEYOXD THE SHINING
TAIXS.
Here I am a-sitting, watching, ever
watching.
The golden sun a-sinking, in the
western sky;
Thinking of my sw.eetheart, far be
yond the mountains.
Far beyond the mountains where
spring will never die.
Here I am a-longing, a-longlng to be
with her.
In tbe land of sunshine, by the Pa
cific sea;
Where the shining mountains stand
in majestic splendor.
And in the evening sky, a lark's
sweet melody.
All my soul is aching, aching for a
homer ire.
Deep in a sweet scented valley Til
build a little nest.
Redwood and green spruce shall be
our leafy bower.
Beyond the snow-capped mountains
of the golden west.
CARL FRANKLIN BANGEKT.
SUMMERTIME.
The gentle winds are singing
In the happy summertime;
The joyous Dirds are winging
With their notes of love sublime;
The air with rapture's ringing
In glad forest chirp and chime;
Earth's music's heavenward springing
In the happy summertime.
But sweeter than the bird's song
In the harjpy summertime.
Than harmonies of nature
Is the voice of love divine.
And ringing through the whole year
With melody sublime.
Love's song brings back the beauty
Of the happv summertime.
EMILY GRANGER.
THE HILLS.
Blue and green they lie.
The guardians of the old world's
tale:
Sentinels, silent, majestic and high.
Hiding toe path from the eairth to the
sky.
Stretching cold, and endless and
pale.
Seek'st thou great secrets, heart of
mine?
They lie in the hill's embrace;
Not in the man-world, but the line
Of blue-gray hills; there thou and
thine
May learn to know God's face.
LOIS SMITH.