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THE OREGON SUNDAY JOURNAL, PORTLAND,,' SUNDAY .::inc novi 1:1: litJOURNAL f.1 I N lK PENDKNT KKW3PAPE8. "jiusos Pa"1"""1! Ml rf rntn( "pt Bnntr Sunday mornli.f at Tba Jooroal BuUO , Ttb and Yamhill t Portland Of. "i mi tbe poatofflce- at "4lJl iLiiMtntnloB through the mails e0BO matter. ' I'HONES Main "TS! Hon .i department reached by th-e BDb' tb operator what department yo fMUH ADVERTISINU BKPRBSttNTATl VK. :j Hftb Tnne. Re- Xork; 121S I'wpl uu Building. Ctlogo. Subacrlptlon Term by mall o to may la tbe United Statee m Meiico. - i . DAILT. , " . Od rear.. v..,;. 15.004 soath....i...S ou 8TJKDAT. - - One ear,, ...... 88.50 t Om month I , DAILY AND 8UNDAY. On pMr....i.'.'fT.S0 ) On month. ....... I .68 T" Amblton 14 the spur that makes man struggle with des tiny. It is. Heaven's own In centive to make purpose great and achievement greater. Don ald a Mitchell. v fluence is felt wherever 6teol Is Bold and In whatever form. Ita financial strength," direct and indirect, exceeds that of any.CQrporr atlon In the world. This results not only from Ita own enormous capital izatton, but from the world-wide in terests by which its securities are held. A blow struck at United States Steel ,is felt in Ita vibrations in every smoney market, and stock exchange In every r civilized nation. ....From all which it follows that a monopoly may be no less teal If it owns less than one half of the man ufacturing enterprises of an Industry. Control may result from completely organized influence no less than from overwhelming ownership: . Such control may be no less dan gerous to the best Interests of a na tion, which demands equal oppor tunities for all Ita citizens. , - - - THE CONTESTED PRECJXCTS B' A SANE "HRIST3IAS ''f'tE HAVE made the Fourth" of I A I- July sane. Why not sanlfy Vf Christmas! ' . Mrs. Belmont and Miss Ann Morgan are leading a movement for such a result. , Under their lead ership, an organization of New York working girls will wear badges pro claiming their opposition to useless giving on Christmas . Many of us have been making the jreat holiday a tragedy. We have fought beyond our means. We have b?Btowed beyond our power to give. "We have plunged ourselves Into Jraanclal straits. We have copied the program of those with heavier pocket books. We have discounted the future in buying sifts.'. We have been lavish" beyond discretion. We have mortgaged fu ture endeavor to gratify the impulse for Christmas giving. If we could all remember certain truths, Christmas would quickly be come sane. It would lose Its terrors and become . the delightful holiday Its traditions and proper observance should make it. It is not the price tag that makes the gift welcome. Christmas Is not a dollar-mark occasion. . The kind liness of the giver is not to be fixed by a measuring stick. Affection is cot counted off in dollars. Good m ill is not symbolized by a cash reg ister. ' A ' All this la truth, and If applied. It will convert unnstmaa into a season of gladness. - The patient face of a tired mother" wilt change to smiles. The burdened' life of' a struggling father will be translated into thanksgiving. , Christmas will ,be re stored to a day of peace) on earth and good will to men.'' WHERE'S THE MAN? a WOMAN'S organization at A Chicago 'proposes a department r of government for regulation of woman's attire. What a (strain to put oh govern ment! . We put down a civil war, and we licked George III. We have 'chained the lightning and harnessed ettam. we can dig the Panama canal, and defend ourselves against ul the world. But have we the cand n our governmental craw to attempt to regulate woman's tailoring and .Jailllnery? i ' We had our General Washington nd Yorktown. We had our Gen eral Jackson and New; Orleans. We iaa our uenerai urant ana Appomat tox" We have gallant men ; of iron Jiearts and noble 'souls. But where -Js the chieftain, where the warrior, Jwhere the diplomat, where the states man who would go to the national Vanital. and vftceent the hazard of Vegulatlng the glad rags of Ameri can women? 4 We have men who dare to ride the jvlldest broncho. We have men who will gaze undismayed into the glar- Ing eyeballs of a fierce Kumidian ton. We have men who will walk ip to the cannon's mouth. Hut un ifier the proposed scheme where "would Wfl Aver ect a .anrlMato in i-nn . for the presidency of these United JStatcs? ECAUSE 96 "Blank A" votes were attested by , a notary in stead of election officers, there is suggestion of throwing out of " the Portland' count 28 precincts aggregating 9000 votes. The Journal doe not hnow tne law. But it haB some views on common sense, it would regara me proposed action as an absurd And grotesque travesty on sane pro cedure; v.-'" . The law requiring acknowled- ment of "Blank A" votes before elec tion officials is a good one. It was passed because of great abuses that formerly prevailed at elections with such acknowledgments by notaries. Its purpose was to prevent frauds, not, as the proposed action would be, to invalidate legally cast votes. This provision of the law can be perfectly applied without throwlns out 9000 ballots. , Every ballot cast at the election is rapabl . of Identi fication. The 96 that are said to be illegally cast can be found, and be destroyed without even disclosing the identity of the candidates. If there Is any provision of law or court decisions that stands in the way of such a process, it ts a foolish pro vision and should not stand; The claim that 28 precincts with 9000 ballots should, be invalidated because of 96 illegal votes, when every one of the 96 can be identif ied ought never to stand. It Is not a contention that can be made to square with common sense, decisions or,, laws to the contrary notwith standing. , If hot here now, the time should speedily come when law and com mon sense will mean the same thing. American women been content, to play so" small a partiri the political life of the country? Partly because whatwe call politics has been a game' played by professional play ers, and .those not of the highest type of men. Moreover the issues have been , until recently both com plicated, artificial,, and mostly,, eco nomic. The average woman has known little and cared less about the tariff,: currency, banking, trusts, transportation, and even the labor questions which have stirred Ameri can men to the depths women have regarded as out of. their sphere. v But tojthe distant critic a marked cfiahgelhthe national attitude In dealing with social problems from the moral standpoint ' has become more apparent than to the American people themselves. Social ' reform, the conditions under which the mass es of our people itve, questions of housing, ' sanitation, the minimum wage congestion In cities and towns, both city and rural life, have grown to burning issues in out politics, and morals, apart from money, are to day rthe chief factors In their solu tion, - - , ' In all these women have been aroused to take a decided part. The recent election has given them scope, and their right to both In fluence and part In the new, politics has -been admitted without dispute. T ORE'.ON'S INSANE A -4r- WHAT IS A MONOPOLY? IT IHE United States Steel Corpor ation strives to convince the American public that it is not a monopoly. It attempts to frrrove its case by showing that !t jfloca not own fifty per cent of the fsteel making enterprises of the na tion. Granted that this is the fact, Is the Corporation less of a nionopo 'JrttierStjyr , - - That it governs the world of Bteel Jtt all its departments,, from the ore oed to the armor plate, from the keg of nails to the structural steul """of the" building, from the stove pipe "to the steel rail and car, and that all Its competitors follow the decrees ' It issues cannot be doubted. I The ore 1 teds are so completely its "property that any competition deal ing with the sources of supply is out Of the question. While its acfual . , from ore beds to furnaces may be - - flenled, yet the Individuals Mho con . jrol and, manage the corporation ex tend their ownership and power over that transportation. j Its manufacturing and financial and office management are so effi cient that it risen,, iu its relations With labor, superior to all general i ules,' and makes ' regulations and x ayrwu Esrio"snft-itscif." ir - enter s both home and foreign, market, and fota the tune for prlceg of Us out put, to which leaser manufacturers ftnd tt J9 thejp interest to conform, lis saWTtShrer wry 'Item otinaBti Isi'turrs from steel, so that Its in- TOTAL of 1372 patients was received at the Oregon Insane asylum he past two years. Forty-vwo per cent of them were discharged aa cured. One, meats of cure was useful em ployment. Hundreds of patients were kept at work about the farm with ; the result that ofi'tinqsual' per centage of recovery is an .onnced. A contemporaneous statement is that the cost of keep per capita is $13.71 per month. This covers all expense of foodV-Xlothlnmfidlcal attention, cursing, heat, light, amusement, upkeep of buildings and all Incidental expenses. The showing is excellent. The percentage of cures Is gratifying. The low cost of keep in these times of. expensive living raises the Issue of how it was rxconiplished. At Salem, Superintendent Steiner has discovered the curability of a heavier fraction of insanity, and by practical methods has translated that discovery. Into actual results. It Is In keeping with the great move ment just launched in the East, in which alienists have begun on in sanity a war akin to that on tuber culosis. The campaign is expected to do much to prevent lunacy, to in crease the number of cures and to lessen its prevalence. The showing of; the Oregon asy lum for the past two years is har monious with the two preceding years under Dr. Steiner. It recalls the partisan effort In the 1911 leg islature to harass and discredit his work, but two years of further ad ministration have Increased the wide public confidence In the aBylum man agement and shown the leglslatiVa attack to have been unwarranted and unjust. CAMPAIGNING FOR 1014 HE campaign of -1914 has al ready been opened by the Bull Moose party In Illinois. The opening was a banquet at which more than 1000 men and women were present. The enthusi asm was unbounded. Jane Addams of Hull House expressed the spirit of the occasion as "jubilant." Three notable messages were de livered to the confident banqueters. Medlll McCprmlck. fresh from Saga more Hill, made known the attitudo of the man who led the new party in Its opening fight. He said the Colonel is devoting ,hls en'.'.re time to the task of making the new move ment permanent. "He appreciates more than does anybody else the tre mendous victory that has been won." Miss Addams testified to her own faith In the future of the third party. 'There are qualities of genuineness in the vision and practicality that as sure the future of the new move ment," she said. Charles E. Merriam, late Republi can candidate for mayor of Chicago, and prominent figure in the third party affairs In Illinois, was another, notable speaker. He warned the banqueters not to play" the kind of politics either in or out of office that has been "played by the old parties." It waa enthusiastically declared by those present that the meeting "starts the' campaign to capture con gress In 1914." - - ThoBe who look for the Immediate disappearance of the third party will bn f noted. Ovster Bay is not in mood for abandonment it the pro gram. The great conflict of-1912 will not reach its climax until 1916. There are those who claim that there can only be two great partiss In the United States. Perhaps j If id, the"BtfuggIeTo? survlvar iB itm on hetween the Republican party and the third party. We have apparently reached an extraordinary political situation In this country. of every grade the popularity of ths republic will rise high. " The Merchants' Associations of the great Chinese cities entertain no riided on men earlv training. Why have the minister of the Kospel or priest at the scene of execution, in- ivoklng God's mercy on poor wretches, doubts aa to the future of the reftu-fc-"! to W "?.J,T!,f0!l?r; .. . . , , i slon on them and receive their souls? Yes, while the state of Oregon Is carry- in ho hud the Ix-st of lie. They are planning to send a large steamship to the porta of the world, giving each Chinese city space for an exhibit of its products and industries. A motion-picture In the ship's saloon is to tell the story of farm and home life, of cities, in dustries, and of . the openings of the new China.- It is to have a place in San Francisco In ,1915. ' The work of American mission aries lq China Ms opening out ' as never before.-' Not only are recruits going forth, but' schools, colleges, hospitals, and medical teaching of all kinds, are being extended, and even multiplied. . ' Y MARRY YOUNG, WHY NOT?, tET the common observation of Y our times is that the courage ; I of the older generation, and of "'their parents,, fails today, and that the young man fears to ask the girl of his choice to marry him until his struggle for the prizes of money and position has raised him to the level on which her father and moth er stand, now, and which she, as, a member of their household, shares,, The young man's hesitation is nat ural enough if he knows, or at least confidently believes, .that the gew gaws of Vanity Fair, the high living, which . absorbs so much effort and money today, are of prime necessity to the happiness of the girl and that her fine feathers make the fine bird. So he fears to put her and himself to the test, retires into his bachel or's shell, and takes the chance of losing her to some bolder swain. The truth la that the blame is very often divided . between three. The man, the girl, and her parents. The young man earns, as a rule, far more than his father at his age bnt spends so much more that light come, light go, Is the rule of life. Clothes, meals, theatres, flowers, ex cursions. , rlul) to say nothing of billiards and cigars, and various oth er " ' uncalculated out-goes -account for the week's earnings. So that he need the douche ef a faithful friend to say to him, as to the hero In the effective Btory in last week's Post, "Save up a hundred dollars, you fool, and marry her." ' ' What about the girl? The pros perity of her father ia reflected in her dress and in er life.., Costly lux uries are become to her necessities. She would be honest if she an swered the young man she favors "If we can have a six bridesmaid wedding, a trip to Europe or the Bermudas, and return to a fifty dollars a month home, and two hun dred dollars, a month Income, I would marry you next week." And to him pleading she vould have to say, "A small house, not in a fash ionable neighborhood, and to ' do most of my own work, that I cannot face.", .-. v , .-i....fv-r.v , The girl's mother is yery apt to require for the daughter on whoa bo much has been lavished that mar riage shoutd keep her In her father's set that the father's deep in out that Just and rood law the con demned men's spiritual adviser Is ask ing the heavenly Father to do something that they or the people In general would not do themselves. The writer has heard' this subject ' discussed In the saloon. He has heard it said by. the saloon man, who of course ; haa a, 11 cense to kill people- off by slow degrees, that those fellows t' Salem shoutd be hange'i for their crimes. Ho, has heard it froin the saloon lounger, that those fellows at Salem ought to be hanged, and I think wa have had it demonstrated I to us In the last few days how other people ,have been filling In the time while waiting for .that final chapter to be enacted at Salem.' . " THOMAS M. WRIGHT. ; downtown anJ nUMn fio.n one to five blocks of every mai curllne in the city. No one would be required to-transfer to reanh this location, and that is a great thing when you think 'of 10,000 people all starting for home at the same time, especially after night. When Main street Is closed between these blocks there will be room enough for the building and about SO feet at each end to take care of the crowd as It leaves the building, : This property Is not needed for parks, as there Is a row of park blocks only four blocks west. , I would like to, hear an expression on this subject from The Journal and others. C DANIELS. ' Scaring thg Voters., ' Portland, Nov. 20.-VTO the' Editor of The Journal Scaring the voters with ghost stories Is an old game. The panio scare was worked successfully in sev eral presidential elections, and Mr." Taft thought it would work this year, Op ponents of .single tax worked the ."con fiscation" scare very successfully this year. They may work It successfully in 1914; but it Will lose' Its, effect,, . The same ghost story won't work alt the time. l ' ,; ' Inasmuch as the majority of the farmers wens scared - this year and voted their scare, it is Just as well that the cities and . towns did ' not give a majority for the graduated tax measure. It Is better that single tax come in Oregon as it has coma in Alberta, not only with the consent of the farmers but with their enthusiastic support? It will come that way in Oregon when the farmers get over their scare and look at the matter- without prejudice, , as they . would look at a new piece of machinery for Increasing product and decreasing cost of produotion. ',. - - There is no desire on the part of Single taxefs to force single tax down the throats of the people. It would be useless to try to trick the people Into single - tax, even if the trick could bo temporarily successful. The men who have abused the confidence of the peo ple are those who willfully deceived and frightened them In the recent cam-, paign. If the farmers and home owners wish to learn the truth about taxation of land values, with exemption of personal property and improvements, all they need do Is to send committee to Al berta and to those municipalities in British Columbia where that system of taxation Is in force. ' ' ' W' - EGQLESTQN.- s Site for the Auditorium. ,4 Portland, Or., Nov. 20. To the Editor of The Journal -it seems difficult for the commission to select a site for the auditorium. The market block is ob jectionable on account of the surround ings and the fact that In purchasing a part of the adjoining block any kind of a structure might be placed alongside. The Washington " and Nineteenth streets property is the most Inconven ient location mentioned on " the west side, for four fifths of the people in the city, but as yet I have heard no objection to: the plasa-blfcks at Third and Salmon streets. These blooks are the best In point of location, being News' Forecast of tke Week Washington, D. C Nov. S8. The af fairs of the nation and the business throughout the country will, come to a pause next Thursday, while the people Join , in ': the : annual . observance ; of Thanksgiving day, the most widely, ob served of any of the national holidays. In every community the day will be ob served, with family gatherings and spe cial church' services,, while In many of the larger centers football games and various forms of festivities will be add ed to the celebration. President Taft will spend the day at the White House, where all of the .members' of his fam ily and . several intimate -friends will assemble to share the 15-pound Rhode Island turkey that will, grace the. din ner (able. President-elect Wilson, for the first time in his 'life, will spend Thanksgiving ' day outside" his' native land, in far-off Bermuda, where he is spending his Vacation, he will doubtless be able to enjoy a yery food imitation of the, American turkey dinner - Immediately after. Thanksgiving the senators and representatives, some of the victors and many of the vanquished in the recent election, Will pour into the capital In readiness for the final session of the Bixty-second congress, which will be called to order on JMonday,, Decem ber 2. ' - i , Wednesday will be observed -throughout , the south as "Knapp Agricultural day," In every agricultural school and farming community special exercises will be held to survey 'and review- the agricultural resources and achievements of the south, and to express apprecia tion of the services Of the late Dr. Seaman A, Knapp, the founder of, the demonstration work and the boys and girls' clubs in the south. .Prelates and clergy of the Anglican church in Canada will assemble in Win ntpeg Saturday for the consecration of the venerable Archdeacon Robins i blahop of the diocese of Athabasca, The diocese lies In the great country to the far north of Edmonton, where the bishop will be obliged to travel hun dreds Of miles ' by canoe or wagon in making his round of the church mis sions. .' - , -.- ' ' Other news Of the week will be fur nished by tlie opening of the grand opera seasons in Chicago and Boston, the annual army-navy football game at Philadelphia, the inauguration of the In ternatlonal chess championship tourna ment In New York city, the fifteenth an nual session of the American Mining congress at Ppokane, - and the opening of the International Live Stock exposi tion at Chicago. A WAR GLOSSARY AS OTHKRS SEE US 0 PROGRESS IN CHINA 0 NE of the most influential of the London weeklies comments on the recent election. It finds the greatest point of in terest in-the share taken in It by American women. It sketches the advance of our women to power in mOst depart ments of national life. In Indus trialism they have gained an Import ance far surpassing anything known in Europe. Their rank In the pro fessions, especially in teaching, is unquestioned. They are recognized as writers, lawyers, physicians, min isters, architects and designers. Their legal security in matters of contract and property, in inheritance, and in divorce has been advanced by legislation to such a degree as, per haps, no other women enjoy. Cus toms which formerly stood in the way of their free competition with men have been broken down. In matters of education their in fluence has become bo marked that in schools In various great cities among us the new danger of "feml- ninism is proclaimed. In religious auIhnanlhip'Ic"'acUvltiei"' th'ey have become guides. ' In social prob lems and public morals they are leaders. But nolitlcs has been for Ihem until recently a forbidden, and unncsirca Hold For., hat , reason ? Why have N OCTOBER 10 the first an niversary of the outbreak of the, .Chinese" revolution oc curred. It was celebrated with much rejoicing in Peking. Yuan Shi Kal delivered his presidential mes sage In approved style. He was re ceived with much popular applause, which nleased him greatly. Mean while, according-to the Peking cor respondent of the Times of London, he is as much a mystery as ever. Whether he Is the self-seeker, op- portunlst, turncoat, painted by his critics, or whether thte .master Intel lect.,, guiding the vast republic through the troubled waters of rev olution and evolution drawn by his admirers, the fact remains that he is the mail ofthe hour, and holds the unchallenged primacy among the leaders of the revolution... Just as many conflicting opinions as there are on the character of Yuan Shi Kal there arc on the question of whether the "Republic is gaining steadily, or is fast losing ground. But, even apart from the triumph won by Yuan and the republic In the success of the unsp-woya s Bank Loudon loan as against the machina- tioria. of . the six Dowers, It ha plain that the machinery of government, by the republic is in full operation The budget, prepared by the Min istry of Finance, in printed pam phlet form, has been referred to the National Council and is now being considered. The estimated Income of the nation for the year is $207,- 872,000v and the estimated, expendi ture la $233,072,000. The deficiency stands at only $25,200,000, no great sum for a great and Immensely wealthy nation. The pay of troops and police amounts to dver $2;i00;- 000 a month, and this is provided for by the London loan. - The vast mass of the Chinese peo ple plods on its way, tilling the little fields, eating freely when harvests are good and starVing more or lesa when nature is unkind. But the im pulse of the revolution is gradually m?king itself felt, even In distant provinces. Sun, Y at .Sen- is heart and soul :n his great work of, drawing in capi tal from the west to build the rul roads and highways, and start the factories, of jJia-jaw-China .of the revolution. , As the golden 1 stream husband's and that the man's in come should support her "in the mode of life to which she has been accustomed." , The only recipe that can effect the conversion tf the young man and woman to the simple life is Just love, pure and deep. If an'elder who knows talks thus to a young man he is apt to smile, and answer, but I don't know how t. find the girl I want. It depends on the man. He must have a pure and respectable life and good habits, must prize his health, and keep It by bodily exercise and that in the open air. Ve must deserve the lik- From the Taooma Ledger. f Adrlanople Turkish city of 85,000 in habitants near the Bulgarian border, which, it la believed, must bear the brunt of the Bulgarian advance toward Constantinople. Adrlanople was the capita) of the Ottoman empire until 1453 and was the principal fortress of Eu ropean Turkey. Albania District of western Turkey, which has recently been in revolt. Armies Estimated strength of fight- 100,000; Montenegro, 60,000; Servia. 175, ooo; Turkey, 1,000,000. Article 28 (Berlin treaty) The fa mqus article which provides for the government of the Turkish provinces, but which has never been put into force. According to the program which was outlined by Lord Edmund Fltsmaurice, the Turkish provinces were to have complete , local government with gov ernors holding office for five years and elective assemblies. Because of the ref erence to elective assemblies Abdul Hamid never enforced this provision. The present Turkish government pro posed to carry out the program and in that way satisfy the Balkan states -and He avow war. . Aran bb 111c Ki l uj. wioincuii.rr- ranean which lies between Asia Minor, Greece and Turkey in Europe, Arta, ,Bay of An Inlet from the Ion wvi B&xor A mountain province lying between Montenegro and Servia and south of Bosnia. It was the scene of the dual occupation by Austria and Turkey following" the Berlin treaty. Austria evacuated the country la 1008. - Old Servia A district lying between Albania and Servia. It ' contains' the field of KorovO, Where the ancient Ser vian empire went down in defeat in 138V. A Freed Palestine Orient Express The Transeurobean tZ f, -C'ia r xu7r.i a "u fQrcei Bulgaria, .mn.nno; - . f? J.l-'l tE0pe -1. poclfet should he exenan&ed fof T3et10fo00. Motenro. sa.ooo venna, uuaapeat, Belgrade and Sofia, Redlf The reserves of the Turkish army; 7 Military service begins at the age of f80 and lasts for 20 years. The first line or active army la called the nhsam, And service Is for nine years, but In practice man la Soften keDt a longer period with the colors. JJ"he sol dier next passes to the redlf, or second line, and remains in it for Mother nine years. Finally he completes his service with v two years , in the muatafls. The redlf Infantry exists In time of peace and these soldier are used In common with the nizam Jtor the suppression of disturbances. ' , . . Khooope-: mountains A ransfe Lthaf rorms part of the frontier between Bui. garla and Turkey. " . Salonika The most important town of western Turkey) the birthplace of the xountr Turk movement and the position of a large Turkish fore. It Is consid ered as the objective tofnt of Austria Hungary advance to the east, Which stao would reach by .means of a railroad across Novi Razor to Mltrovltsa. - w Scutari-Capital ;of Albania and" ob jective point toward which the Monte negrin amy m two division is punn ing its way. Skupshtina-Servlan parliament. (. Uskub Capital of the vilayet Of Kos- sovq at the junction of the railroad from Nlsli to Salonika, , Paint of strategic im portance on account of its ' position, which severs .tw.o mountain ranges. vilayet A division or the Turkish empire. The bead of each vtlayet is a vail, or governor general. Sanjak Is a division smaller than a vilayet. Young Turk party Tho revolutionary party which , brought about the over throw of Sultan Apdul Ham id in 180, It .has., been acting through-a seoret committee of - union and progress. It fins not greatly Improved the material prorePs of the empire. Its principal reforms have been effected in the army, Three, great religious consequences, all Of world Wide importance and In terest, may result from the present war in Turkey. These aro the neutraliza tion of Palestine, so that Jews may be free to return-to the land of tlielr fathers, as the Zionists have dreamedj the control of Arabia, containing Mecca and Medina and other Moslom holy cities , by Great Britain, and the Chrlstianisa tlon of Constantlnople-under the Joint agreement and direction of the powers. If. as seems likely tho long expected breakup of Turkey Is near, these results , 10 vtmivijr icapviiau'Mi vjjvwm The dream of Zionism allures potn Jews and Christians. That" the children of Abraham should ba permitted to re turn to the only fatherland they have seems' but fair, yet tho Jews who are , , now in Palestine are there on sufferance, each one with a red passport which marks him Xor deportation, after a short -' period. ' These oppressive Turkish regu-.' latlons nave been rendered tneriective . only by a constant stream of backsheesh. The money of : Judaism alone lias main . talned the few Jewish colonies that now " exist in the Holy Land. Zionism .1 a larger factor In the poli tics of the near east than the uninitiated ' ever dream. . One of the charge . that the reactionary Ottoman have brought against .the Young Turk party Is that ' they are dominated ,ny Kaionma jews. . and -that they contemplate' selling out Syria.. Because of the influence of Jew iBh banker lii the world's money mar- ' kets, Turkey has for many years, found ' it expedient, to traffic In privileges for th Jew In Palestine. " The ancient dream of a Jewish' state, with Jerusalem for It capital. Is no -more engrossing to the descendant - of the patriarchs than la th sanctity of, , the Christian holy place In Palestine to million of Christiana, especially of the Roman Catholic and Greek faiths. This spirit caused the crusades -of the middle ages,, At the present time, Jeru salem, and most ef the other sacred sites In the Holy Land, bear a multitude of Christian buildings. Certain powers, ' like Russia, France and Austria, have systematically fostered the immense yearly pilgrimages to Jerusalem. Because of the common Interest which all nation have in Palestine, it 1 alto gether likely that the neutralization of this territory, under the joint authority of the great powers, will be the outcome . of the present upheaval. ' Russia, France and England, in ad dition to their religious interest in this little trip of territory whioh ha yielded greater influence upon history ; than all the continent combined, have a common determination to keep Ger many from the possession of Syria, For 1 Germany has earmarked Palestine for her own. Zionism would combat the German aspirations, because of the anti Semitic feeling at Berlin, and through out th German empire. , The Zionists would be content with neutralisation, because they ask only a fair chanea and freedom to worship, work, trade and travel. The one great deslderation Is freedom from repressive ' Turkish rule. The consclousne - of Christendom and of Judaism i slowly waking to the fact that the fate Of Palestine is immediately Involved in the present near eastern situation. This 1 the hour of opportunity; and alert Zionists at all the world's capital are not blind to it. The citadels of Moslem power are not In the great cosmopolitan cities ' like Constantinople and Cairo, hut in the great shrine cities in the deserts, such as Meo&a and Medina, Kerbela and Meshed AIL It wa in Mecca that, Ma hammed .was born, and In Medina -that he lived and died. Toward Meoca all Moslem turn when they pray. The an nual pilgrimage to them two oitia aion I estimated at 800,000 persons, from all part, of the-Moslem world. ' . r- - These cities are the springs or fan aticism and intolerance. In Mecca, la the parent altar from which the fires of pan-Islamlsm are distributed 'widely. No Christian may enter either Mecca Mr Medina. Swift death overtakes all who try this, and it I reported that every year some- bddy make the attempt. Now. in addition to being the dis tributing center of Moslem bigotry, ing and respect of his fellows, and t be industrious lit his calling. He must cherish ' wholesome ambitions, and live, not for one day only. His has a worthy life to give. Letters From tke People successfully ran past Tuikiah forts to a 5reek harbor. Balkan league or alllence Entered attitude towards women, and no less , Buigar,a with the avowed purpose of to girls, must be, of unvarying re- j freeing from Turkish oppression Chris spect. Such an oue will have no d4f-, tiaha arid people of their own races lli flculty in marrying young, for hej in?J i-r Bin wnauut MUIU1VI 9 UVtUMQMin v the irregular Turkish troops who have been credited with much cruelty, BelgradeCapital of Servia, sltutfted on the Danube at the mouth of the Save. City of about 90,000 inhabitants, and a station on Oriental railroad. Berlin treaty Tho mojpt important of the agreements entered Into by the great powers of, Europe with a view to the settlement of the Balkan question. It was signed July 13, 1878. - Bosnia and Hersegovina '- Turkish provinces with about 1,900,000 . Inhabi tants, which were given b the terma of the Berlin treaty to Austria-Hungary for administration. They wero annexed by this monarchy in 1908. Crete Turkish Inland in the Mediter- Tancan sea Wliicli is governed tinder the supervision of the powers by a commis sion. The Cretans wish to be annexed to Greece and are taking advantage Of the present crisis to break away from Turkey Eastern Rumella Region between the crest of the Balkan mountain and what Is now Balkan Humella, It was pro claimed a part of Bulgaria In 1885, and formally annexed In 1908, when Ferdi nand took the title of czar of the Bui gars. : ' Irade A written decree of the Turk1 ish sultan. 1 Kotchana A town In Macedonia Which was the scene of a masKaore of Bulgarian Christians by Moslems. This massacre had much to do with Inciting the Bulgarian people to war Macedonia Important Turkish prov ince, of which a considerable portion of the population are Bulgars, Serbs, Greeks and Vlachs. The dissatisfaction Of these people with the Turkish rule and tueir own racial ana religious alt ferences have for years kept the land in almost constant turmoil, iviuusBoru a nonnern AiDanian mm, mostly Christian, that has be3n In re- flows In to pay an army of workers K nromniilpntloit" to T Journal fofl pahllMtkm In tilt deportment abonld b written oa only n tlda t tlx pa par. abonli) I not nwd 800 word In length and moat be! aecompanlod br tba name and addraaa or the 1 endar. It the writer duet not dealra to bar tbt earn publlabed, be eh, aid aa itate Those Salem Hangings. Portland, Or., Nov. 22.TO the Editor of The Journal ln The Journal of No vember 20 appeared an article by W. K, Morris, who assumes to answer the question, "HqW "Would Yqu Like to Ba the Hangman?" by quoting from the Old Testament the passages, "He that smiteth a man so that he die, he shall surely die," and, "if he smite him with an Instrument of iron' so that ho , die, he Is surely a murderer and shall surely die." Would Mr; Morris have Us be lieve that those laws were given by an, Inspired man who saw and understood as Jesus and his disciples did? If so, would lllte to have him compare the passages , with the passage, "God is 1 love," If God Is love, then it is quite evident to the writer that love Is God; ana it uoa is good, then it is also plain to me that good Is God. Then I might ask; Whatttiai know about evllt What does love Know about hatex - X might also refer Mr. Morris to the pas sage, "Lova your enemies, do good to them that persecute you." We will never work this problem out on the ba, i of two wrongs, making a right, nor will we work it out by lying awake nights and worrying for fear that those wretches at Salem, won't get their lust deserts. - !-,,.-.,-, ,'; .:-,". .'l. Mr, Morris state that he has Home pity to extend to those Salem conviot for lack of their early training' and tUlnkjjtbiiparenU, snould, baJieldabso. lutely to blame until the child ha reached an age to distinguish between right and wrong. I .might ask about What time that age is going to be. Lets "hang the parent of that whole bunoiMn Efele-m; for.lt ts quite evident that, none of them , has reached that age yet. I think there have been oases where Jthe death penalty has been la? TVtlrdlUs One of -the iwaesl ofTTi Albanian tribes, participants In the re cent' uprising -against Turkish rule. Mustapha PaBha Place of strategical Importance on the Turkish frontier Just over the Bulgarian border and on the railroad between Sofia and Aalrlanople, uere tne. Bulgarian troops are concen ,trijtingt.,j Mecca ts also th greatest plague spot on earth. Not to mention Its colossal Immoralities, it i the home of cholera, and once in recent years, Egypt haa been ravaged with the plague borne In a cruso of water from th well of Zera 55em. ' To police and to clean up Mecca and Medina would be a world service, which Is really made necessary by the mod ern conditions of social contiguity, TO introduce modern sanitation and free dom of travel In Mecca,"-would break the back of Moslem intolerance. Inci dentally, the nation that gets these sacred cities will control the Sues canal, the Red sea, the Persian gulf and the only remaining approaches to India. It Is' written in the destiny of Great Britain that in the dlwmemberment of Turkey ' U must needs have Arabia, with all that this involves. Thua, at one blow, it nullifies all the toilsome diplomacy of Germany in the near east. 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