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prospective advantage. Italy must
choose between Germany and Aus
tria on one side and Great Britain,
France and Russia on the other.
For the Italians it Is a question
of guessing whichr way the cat
will jump. ,
against the French frontier, but 'better Portland
military experts have always main
tained that the Germans would
mask these forts with skeleton
armies, and deliver their real at-
Orders were Issued by the gov
ernment today suspending work on
the north Jetty at the mouth of
HOO'S H00
By John W. Carey.
PERTINENT COMMENT AND NEWS IN BRIEF
tack upon the Belgian frontier, the Columbia. Three hundred
hoping, to march through that workmen are thrown out or em-
THE KOSB FESTIVAL
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country and enter France by the ployment. An equipment is ren-
i comparatively unfortified Belgian j dered useless. It la the beginning
rside door 01 ine navoc uurton, Boran ana
ITH much enthuslasn, it ir x,iege, and Namur are. two Bel-
has, been determined to gian fortresses of the first class;
continue the Rose Festival-therefore the day's news contains
There la no1 doubt of its i gecounts of fierce fighting between
value to Portland. The only dif-; German' and Belgian troops at
ficulty about it is the equitable these points. Possession of Bel-
aisiriDuuon 01 ine uurucu ui gium would save tne Germans a
the railroad newspapers are trying
to bring about.
Letters From the People
-a
Irresolution Is a worse vice
than raHhness. He that shoots
bet may sometimes miss the
mnrk; but he that shoots not
at all tan never hit It. Felt-ham.
MItK. WILSO.V
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1 HE nation mourns with the
president by the bier of his
dead. Its great heart Is sur-
-.v.. it .to capital as a good place for
and sorrow of a loyal and loving v to
, ' ... . , . . investment, and commend it to
fteople for their chief in his agony. . . .... , . .
' . vi nf' people as a healthful and happy
For a near eeneratton his life,, . ,. .
financing it.
Generally, It is largely under
written by business establishments.
Yet, it is not the business estab
lishments that derive the chief
benefit.
Of course, hotels, restaurants
and kindred activities profit heav
ily. But In a large -way, it is the
whole community as a community
that is benefited. This means
that owners of office buildings,
apartment houses, and other great
landlords, in the advanced values
that come to their properties reap
a rich harvest from the greater- in
terest in Portland and the more
people? who come and settle in
Portland as a result of Rose Fes
tivals that widely and popularly
advertise the town, and commend
road into France and a strategic
point for operations against the
British. .
The disarrangement of the Ger
man operations is the first sur
prise of the war, surprising to Ger
many, surprising to France, sur
prising to the Belgians themselves,
and surprising to Christendom. It
is an eventuation that comes out
of the fact that the Belgians are
not fighting because their govern
ment is involved in any alliance,
neither are they fighting for ter
ritorial aggrandizement.
'They are fighting to protect the
neutrality of their soil, to pre
serve the inviolability of their
property, to defend the sanctity of
their homes.
When men fight for these things,
it is not a question altogether of
numbers.
and .hers ran side by side through
green pastures and by still waters.
From, the sunny southland, she
brought to him the devotion and
companionship thai strengthened
his manhood, nourished his pur
pose and led on his hope and in
spiration. She wag th sharer of his trials
and encouragement in his strug
gles when, as an unknown youth,
be -faced the unfriendly world to
contest for a foothold in the groat
battle for recognition. She was
still his companion and encourage
ment when hl reached the heights.
where from tie high pinnacle of
the presidency, he looked outt on
his country, to be the leader in
its progress, the Bhleld of its
hopes, the friend of its people,
the bulwark of their peace, and the
keeper of their liberties.
There la no limitation on the in
fluence and power of womanly wo
man. Her guiding instinct, her
companionship, her encouragement
and her sense of the infinite have
held many a career on its char
tered course, onward and upward
when discouragements threatened
to turn It aside. Many a states
man, many a philosopher, many
s,n advocate owes his distinction
and his triumphs to a woman.
The country mourns the more
deeply now, because it knows what
It did not khow before. But yes
terday. Its patient president was
assailed and calumniated because
he Insisted upon a peaceful policy
In Mexico. This unjust burden
was added to the other momentous
problems that w;elghed him down
as he. struggled along with, the
tremendous responsibilities of his
great office.
"He patiently and uncomplaining
ly fared thetie Issues. As his
countrymen behold the peace
agreements between federals and
rebels In Mexico and then contem
plate the awful conditions In hap
less Europe, they know that he
met the Mexican problem like a
statesman and' a Christian. And
they fofther know that while he
was weighed down with all these
TlclBsltudes, there was all along
as an iron hook in his soul, the
constant knowledge that she was
lowly, swiftly slipping away, slip
ping out of his life and Into the
Impenetrable night of the great
beyond.
In sympathy and sadness, the
nation views Its chief. Where wo
man reigned, mother, daughter,
wife, there Is no, hand to strew
. flowers along the path of life.
place to live In.
These facts are directed to the
attention of those who are to be
managers of next year's festival.
They are facts about whfch there
is literally na room for dispute.
They are facts out of which
the next board of festival gov
ernors should conduct a campaign
of education, for by such a cam
paign it Is probable that landlords
and other great interests who
profit heavily, could be brought
into the group who annually
finance the festival.
The Journal is not narrow
enough to believe that every great
interest in Portland Is a wholly
selfish interest. Hit believes that
an intelligent festival committee
can, by an intelligent effort,
make festival contributors of many
wealthy and powerful interests who
have hitherto been non-contributors,
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THE KAISER
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(Communication sent to Tb Journal for
publication tn this department abould be writ
ten on only one aide of tbe paper, abould i"t
exceed 30U .words la .length and must b ac
companied by the name and address of tbe
sender. It the writer does not desire to
bare the name published, be Viouid so state.)
"Discussion Is the greatest of U reform
ers. It rationalizes everything it touches. It
robs principles of all false sanctity snd
throws them back on their reasonsbleness. If
they have no reasonableness, it ruthlessly
crushes tbem oat of existence and sets up its
own conclusions in their stead." Woodrow
Wilson.
I
N DISCUSSIONS of the war and
its causes, many are unjust to
Emperor Wilhelm.
PORTUGAL'S REBUKE
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Answering Mr. HoUls.
Portland, Aug. 5. To the Editor of
The Journal W. S. Hollis, who dis
agrees with me as to the qualities
which make strong character, who
does not believe efficient self-control
attains the highest ideals, and who
believes in that Old saying. "Lead a
horse to Water and make him drink,"
had an article containing three ques
tions, under date of July 28, in which
he defies Mrs. Duniway, Mrs. Finney,
Mr. Ruth, the Women's Liberal league
and the rest of the so-called booze ele
ment to answer.
His first question was: "If the sa
loons help Portland, why does not tha
chamber of commerce advertise to the
country at large, telling how and why
the saloons benefit the city or stajte?"
Mr. Hollis either doesn't understand
the tactics of boosters or this question
is silly, inasmuch as saloons are a re
tail business, the same as milk, gro
ceries, meat, candy and other retail
L
He is the greatest Gernmn of
his day. His extraordinary versa-1 industries, aid are not generally re-
tility makes him the natural lead- rerred to in their pamphlets. Agricul
By John W. Carey.
Who took a patent out upon the mo-
called hunger strike and fixed her
name In history as with a railroad
spike?
Who goes to Jail for cutting up and
scorns to break hay fast until the
Judge says, "Let her out before she
breathes her last?''
. Who Hps upon Hank" Asquith's stoop
and grows so pale and thin the king's
prime minister at last succumbs' and
asks her in?
Who stamps her foot and says he
will not eat one blooming thing, and
gets whate'er she asks for from his
majesty the king? Who. like as not,
if good St. Pete should say, "Thou
canst not pass," will pull a hunger
strike on him? That Sylvle Pankhurst
lass.
flttAH. CHANGE
Between two arrmfts a. heeler rraha
both.
If It Is necessary to make anemia.
choose lazy men.
Only a foolish man will refuse, to
laugh at his wife's jokes.
Some lore affairs end at the altar
though few ever get that far.
Nothing Interests women more than
a man who refuses jto explain things.
There may b a lot of credit due a
man's wife, but she usually demands
cash.
Nothing pleases a homely woman so
much as to have a man compliment
her figure.
It Is said that brains will tell, but
usually the more brains a man has the
less he tells.
s
It's useless to grasp an opportunity
If you are merely going to stand still
ana noia on to it.
Don't be alarmed If a child takes to
writing poetry at the age of seven;
there la always a possibility of living
It down.
Our Idea of a snob Is a man on a
ladder who kisses the feet of the man
on the round above him, and kicks at
the man on the round below him.
Our Idea of a small town Is one in
which business is entirely suspended
when a stranper arrives wearing a
silk hat end a Prince Albert coat.
A great many things are being said
to the governor of South Carolina
these days, but they do not refer to
the length of time between drinks,
and are not so pleasant.
OREGON SIDELIGHTS
IN EARLIER DAYS
By Fred Lockley.
To accommodate growlnsr Bostal Pt
ronage at Dallas, 400 new combination at her home In Scottsbur
lock boxes have been installed In the 1 Mv hl1,v,a "...
1 Tea me something about Cyrus
Jleddon, I said to Mrs. John Heddoiu
poa toff ice.
A mass meeting at Drewsey ha de
cided unanimously for a new county.
to be called Davis county, in nonor or
I
My husband s father. Orandfs.ths.r
Heddon, as he was Called by everyone
nere at fccottsburg. was a perfect
storehouse of information about the
early days of Srottsburg," Mrs Hed-
ai. ljavis. a Drommeui. umtu ui . aon rem left "u t i .
Drewsev and an ardent new county , tnilnA, .... ,, ...
booster ' . . m n oecame
1 .y v .... ... v l v i . m suuutem
The Burns Timen-HeraM opposes j eon nd th county Beat of Ump
arabbit bounty, proposing Instead a, 1 -u county, and then saw its gradual
hnnii ihii tn nrovlde a farmers loan
fund wherewith to buy rabbit tight
fencing and put the pest out of busi
ness that way.
Hood River News: "Ish ke btbble
remark local dairymen, when asked If
they are afraid of the war. Nothing
else worries them, now that a site has
been secured for the local creamery
and work is to be started at once.
uerune till the high water of 18B1
wiped out most of the town and the
action of the legislature wiped the
county of Umpqua clear off the map.
"My husband was born here in
Scottluri R8 years ago and during all
that time h9 father Cyrus Heddon,
lived here; that Is, until lils death
something over two years ago.
"Cyrus H'-iIdon was one of the little
group of men who were left at th
flt- .T klKk
weekly la .16 number. oWwIll henre.!''';' ln of Port Orford hy
forth Issue as a semi-weekly, due to;aPlal Ucnenor to form the nucleus
rapidly Increasing patronage ana iarg
amount or news aiscoverea in mt van
ous channels of life in Morrow county.
IVallas Itemlier: Independence has
given Dallas cause to be ashamed. -f-
ter. our good people had -turned don
an opportunity to entertain a consign
ment of "fretshair children" from Port
land, the neighboring town sent word
to the city to send the bunch to them.
-
Hervev P. Bennett, retiring editor of
the Canbv Irrigator, in his valedictory
hurled this Parthian dait: "The edl-
01 Hie Settlement i)r TKv u .....
attacked by the Indians and took rt-f-uge
on a high rock near Port Orford,
and their Moody battle there gave Bat
tle Rof k its name. A fw months later
he was one of the men who. with W. .
T'Vault. made the perilous and disas
trous surveying trip for Captain Tirhe
nor. When the nine mm, of whom
Mr. Ileiidon was one. had esfapod from
the Indians after the fight of Battle
Hock. Captnln William Tlchenor en
listed a nnmher of adventurous mln-
OUt.
THIS WAR MAY SWEEP AWAY ITS MAKERS
wholesaJe whiskey houses. Who own
the rest? The authorities say they
are owned by bootleggers. I knew one
man in Oklahoma to pay into the state
treasury over $2000 for bootlegging in
dry territory. How about the boot
leggers of Portland, and Denver?
W. S. HOLLIS.
ITALY AND AUSTRIA
LIVEIRA COELHO is in a
Liverpool jail under sentence
of death. He was convicted
of having killed his wife on !
a British boat in the vicinity of
Rio Janeiro. He was held until
the ship reached Liverpool, and ',
was then turned over to the court,
and his conviction and sentence
followed speedily.
The Portuguese authorities have
protested against Coelho's execu
tion, pointing out that Portugal
has outgrown the barlarlty of the
Tegal taking of life. They abol
ished the death penalty many years
ago. Coelho, a Portuguese sub
ject, could not be hanged if his
crime had been committed In Por
tugal, and his countrymen hold
that the accident of his having
been on a British ship when the
crime was committed should not
subject him to the penalty of
British law.
Were it not for Europe's war
conflagration, Portugal's rebuke to
England would have greater at
tention. But when war is demand
ing the lives of almost countless
men convicted of no crime, the fate
of Oliveira Coelho attracts little
attention.
However, Portugal's protest Is a
rebuke to England as well as to
all nations and states which as
sume the divine right to take life.
Portugal charges England with
being the less humane country.
The case Is a singular reversal.
v England, the greater and more
enlightened natron, is criticised by
little Portugal, a nation not yet
out of the danger of revolution.
er of German thought and action
in many fields.
There is grandeur in the leader
ship of the German empire with
its tremendous war power, Its co
lossal development of wealth and
industry, Its brilliant cultivation of
knowledge and the arts and: Its 44
years of peace with Europe. This
grandeur is Wilhelm's, for he is
a devoted and intelligent support
er of German art, German liter
ature, German education, German
music.
He has been the eager leader In
the immense development of Ger
man technical and scientific train
ing and of German commerce. Not
in half a dozen generations has
any monarch in Europe so com
pletely realized that political power
must rest on a 6olid basis of In
dustrial development, or so identi
fied himself with that development.
He is an object lesson to the na
tions, in the rriore than 8000 miles
of inland waterways classed as
navigable in his country, which re
i quires the addition of West Vir
! ginia and Maine to give it an area
as large as the 6tate of Texas, all
forwarded under his patronage and
encouragement.
He is much referred to as the
German war lord
ture, manufactories, etc., are generally
boosted. Referring to this subject, I
would ask Mr. Hollis to look in "The
On Fighting in the Open.
Sacramento, Cal.,- "Aug. .6. To the
Kditor of The JournaJ I wish I knew
the names of all members of the
Oregon Almanac," published by the i "Woman's Liberal League," of Port
state of Oregon under the direction j land. I notice that the "league" la
of the Oregon state Immigration com- I represented in the newspaper by one
G"
mittee, in which it says: VThere is no
other industry In the state that can
compare with the hop Industry for put
ting foreign monty into general circu
lation." To his second question, "Why is the
saloonkeeper not proud of -his best cus
tomer?" I say It is silly and" In line
with other emotional appeals by the
prohibitionists.
I saw another silly question the
other day "Why do prohibitionists
hate themselves and everybody else?"
His third question Is: "If tVe sa
loon Is such a good thing, why charge i
a tax to allow it to operate?" The
main reason is to get revenue enough
to run the government. Thay also put
a tax on streetcars, moving picture
shows, billiard halls, fish markets -and
corporations of all kinds for the same
reasons. W. J. BISHOP.
person, with no Intimation as to now
many members it has or the names or
occupations of those composing It.
Now I do not mean for an Instant I territory
A Challenge.
Lents. Aug. 4. To the Editor ef
The Journal Three very Important
questions to be voted on at our com
ing election are prohibition, tax ex
emption and abolition of the senate.
They are so well known and so clear
ly formulated that all Of the argu
ment and persuasion that can possibly
be put up cannot defeat them. I, for
one, believe we have reached a day of
moral enlightenment, when a majority
of the people are adverse to selling
morals lor financial
The stigmatism heard some old fossils remark that
is by those who forget that Bis- when Oregon goes dry they will leave
marr.k created the emoire of Ger- i .thJ 6tate- 1 believe the state will be
ERMANY la attempting to
coerce Italy Into taking up
arms in behalf of the Triple
Alliance. Italy is In an un
enviable position. Austria-Hungary
13 a menace to the southern
nation, and one reason why Italy
has refused to take up the cause
Of the Triple Alliance is that the
Italians do not wish to fight for
the aggrandizement of Austria
Hungary in the Balkan peninsula.
. Another reason Is that Italy has
a large army in Tripoli, which is
exposed to the risk of being cut
off, if Italy fights on behalf of
the Triple Alliance. But more
serious than all Is the internal
situation in the third member of
the alliance. Italy's recent rail
Toad strike was more revolutionary
than industrial, and many experts
on the European labor situation
Bay that for the Italian govern
ment to enter into another war
would mean the beginning of a
revolution against the monarchy,
'ii Austria-Hungary is Italy's he
reditary enemy. One of the chief
services of the Triple Alliance to
ward European peace has been in
preventing Italy and Austria from
; going, to war. But now that Aus
tria has precipitated a general Eu
ropean conflict as the result of
which national boundaries may . be
changed, Italy is slow to promote
the cause of her northern neigh
bor, possibly at the expense of her
lf. . ,
' The situation Is peculiar to Eu-
ropean politics. Alliances are made
only '. to . be broken treaties . and
THE FIGHT FOlt BELGIUM
G'
many out of battle, and left as a
legacy to the young monarch the
conviction that bayonets and can
non are the implements by which
national unity is aroused and pro
tected. Bismarck handed to him an em
pire founded on medievalism, with
its clanking sabers and its denial
of rights to the German citizen,
and it s alone the genius of Wil
helm that has taken such a sys
tem in times of world unrest and
revolution and by commercial and
industrial development, lifted the
German empire into its present
commanding position of wealth and
prosperity.
Whatever private opinion may
be of his activities in the present
conflict, Wilhelm's art of speech,
his gifts of common sense, his
breadth of view and his hold diplo
macy make him the most com
manding statesman in continental
Europe.
to intimate that the "Woman's Liberal
League" Is not composed of most ex
cellent citizens, but for myself, I like
to fight in the open. If I recollect
correctly, I was the first to sign my
true name to communications rn the
prohibition side of this campaign In
your paper, and would feel it beneath
the dignity of a gentleman to ask the
publication of anything of a public
nature the parentage of which should
be obscured.
But anyway, even If it did cost a
million and a half to prosecute law
breakers In Oklahoma, Is that any rea
son why they should go free? It Is
the constant and continual threat of
the liquor Interests that "if you pass
laws to put us out of business we will
violate that law without any com
punction of conscience." It is their
boast, and the unblushing threat of
their backers, that they have, and ever
From the New York Times (Aug. 2).
All that Kurope is preparing to
fight for Is "not worth the bones of
one Pomeranian grenadier." It shrinks
to nothingness when compared with the
loss already Inflicted upon civilization
by the disturbance of commerce
through the obstruction of its flow in
accustomed channels. What a fright
ful price Germany would pay for any
thing. 6he may gain, the price of de
stroying much that she has gained in
40 years of wonderful Industrial de
velopment, a period of expansion in
which her commerce has outgrown her
capital. Yet now she is to destroy
hundreds of millions of capital. Will
the fruits of a war of vengeance, on
the hated Servians, even If Servian
be acquired, compensate
the ambitious designs of chieftains
clad in skins and drunk with mead.
It Is mediaeval, it is barbarous. It Is
horrible, that men should turn out at
the behest of sovereigns and war
councils to be shot to death for pur
poses wholly unrelated to their own
welfare. In Russia the absolutist
principle of government survives; It
la still in a large measure vital in
Germany and Austria. If war must
come, the only compensating benefit
It could bring to Europe would be the
crushing out of the imperial idea, the
end, once for all time, in those three
tor of the Irrigator will now be able to "rs at Han Krancls-o to restablish the
take that vacation that everyone has j town of Port Orford. Landing his sec
been nagging him about, and w-hen we j ond and l.ircrr partv at the site of his
come back from It in a few weeks, look ) proposed city. Captain Tlchenor went
on to I'ortland. whore ho hired W. (1.
T'Vault to tiurvey a road from Port
Orford to the wouthern Oregon mines
near Jacksonville.
"Of the party who were hired to art
with Captalp T'Vault only on or two
kn-w anything about wowicraft. I..
1 William. Cyrus Heddon and Cap
tain T'Vault had some experience, hut
none of them were thorough woods
men. "When Taptaln T'Vault left Port Or
ford In the middle of August. 1851,
there were 23 In the party. Their plan
was to strike eastward and make con
nections with the the Oregon and Cali
fornia trail. The men soon discov
ered T'Vault knew nothing about the
country. They held a meeting and de
cided to return to Port Orford. By
empires of the absolute rule and the I promising them lofl a month, Cuptain
Austria for the hatreds she herseir
will incur as the power primarily re
sponsible for the destructive conflict?
Can the trophies of victory, even
though she carry forward her policy
of control In the Balkans, make up for
Russia's loss, a half developed country
whose chief need is that Bhe set aside
her age-long foreign policy and de
vote herself to internal development?
What can England and France gain
that will reimburse them for the in
calculable material and moral loss of a
resort to war? The moral loss Is
greatest of all, for the friends of peace
have counted upon the highly civilized
nations like England. France, with the
United States, to dlseuntenance war,
to make great wars Impossible. It
will be a frightful backsliding.
There Is the molderlng old tradi
tion of the balance of power. Intend-
will, bid defiance to laws and the will : ei to serve the Interests of peace. It
of the people. If there were no other
reason for voting Oregon dry this fall,
that one repeated warning of the
liquor people ought to be enough to
put every .man and woman with an
atom of red blood In their veins on
their mettle. In consequence voting
Oregon dry as a bone, and then seeing
to It that they jailed the law's vio
lators right and left.
H. S. HARCOURT.
WHAT IT IS
ERMANY'S plan of campaign
makes possession of Belgium
almost a- necessity. The
French frontier from Belfort
to the Ardennes is defended by a
line of fortresses each of which
might ' require as much besieging
as Port Arthur. The Germans do
not care to pass between these
fortresses, leaving them
tured on the invading army's
flanks, and time is the essence of
German strategy.
Germany's purpose is to over
whelm the French, inflict upon
them a paralyzing defeat, and
then turn around with the bulk
of her army and meet the slow
moving Russians from the east.
Germany began fighting at once.
She could not afford to await at
tack, and thus be caught between
I the two sides of a vice. With a
centrally placed army of superior
strength, she Is intent upon taking
A'
GREEMENTS between nations
are mere paper to be burned.
Industry has ceased. Com
merce is paralyzed. Neutral
soil is bathed in, blood. Food
prices are climbing. Want is lurk
ing. Men are fit food for powder,
women for insult. This is war.
Hundreds of ships have been
seized. Battleships have been
benefited by such people's leaving, as
a person who cannot make a livlnff in
this country without the aid of the
booze traffic Is undesirable in any
moral community, both morally and
progressively.
I am convinced that 75 per cent of
the men who frequent the saloons of
Portland will vote for prohibition. The
confirmed drunkards and the slaves
to booze are the people who know the
evil of the saloon. If you can show
me that 25 per cent of the people at
the Multnomah poor farm now are
there not directly on account of
booze, if you can show me the sam
number at the Oregon Insane asyium
that were taken there .for mental de
fects not caused by booze, or if there
are to exceed 10 per cent of the people
who appear in Judge Stevenson's court
or any municipal court in Portland for
all other causes not emanating direct
ly from booze, I will vote against pro
hibition and try to induce my friends
to.
The people of Kansas, Oklahoma and
other prohibition states are certainly
a very ignorant bunch, or they would
repeal their prohibition law if it Is
not a success. Those states are pros
pering. They are becoming more mor
al and more prosepus every day.
Oregon and Washington now have the
same opportunity, and we will avail
ourselves of It In November.
T. W. WEDDLE.
uncap-1 gunk. Thousands of soldiers have
been killed. Millions of dollars
of property has been destroyed.
Thousands are starving for food.
Reason has- been dethroned and in
her stead the triumvirate of ter
ritorial greed. International hatred
and the delirium of brutal war
fare reigns.
This is war.
Cannon are belching, fortifica
tions are crumbling, aeroolanes
are duelling, submarines are grop
ing, torpedoes are flying, shells
are bursting, wounded are bleed
ing, children are famishing, crops
two converging enemies Jn detail. are perishing, wheels are stopping,
much aepenas upon tne iignt ion This is war.
possession of Belgium. If . King
Albert's troops can hold their for
tified positions until French and
English reinforcements come up in
sufficient strength, the German
plan of campaign will fall. It will
mean that the Kaiser's troops, in
stead of gaining what they wished
for an easy victory over the"
French because of quicker mo
bilization and superior striking
strength may be required" to her
come defenders of their own coun
try rather than invaders.
The capture of Belgian fortresses
It may be "dulce pro patria
morl" and war may be glorious
but, It Is what Sherman declared
it to be.
The Portland Rotary club has
sent telegrams to 110 Rotary clubs
In the United States, requesting
each to wire their senators and
congressmen urging passage of the
rivers and harbors bill. It Is a
patriotic and purposeful action for
which the Portland club deserves
highest commendation. It is ' the
kind of action that trends toward
Liquor Law Enforcement.
Portland, Aug. 5. To the Editor of
The Journal The Woman's Liberal
league, by its president, has a state
ment In your paper under date of
July 29 regarding liquor law enforce
ment in Oklahoma, which is wildly
erroneous. I lived in Oklahoma threa
years, and on arriving in Portland I
saw more drunken men in three hours
than I saw in the state of Oklahoma
In three years, and I traveled over the
larger part of the 6tate during the
time.
This same statement implies that
prohibition has depreciated property in
Oklahoma, which is an absurdity, and
the statement was made by one alto
gether unfamiliar with facts. . May I
ask some questions? If prohibition
causes the depreciation of property,
why is it that Oklahoma City, since
the state adpoted prohibition, has built
more 20 story bHUdings than Ro
chester, Memphis, Dallas or any city
in the United States of the same pop
ulation, none excepted. Oklahoma has
fewer inebriates than any other state
in America. Land values have in
creased during six years, from 200 to
500 per cent. In some places the valu
ation of property has decreased fduring
the past year or two, due to local con
ditions and crop failures, yet its valu
ation is two to four times wlhat it
was when the state was eoaked with
whiskey.
I know something of Mr. Johnson's
labors in law enforcement against
bootlegging, and incline to think the
number of convictions during the four
years, a little more than the number
stated.
if it Is legal and right to sell whis
key, why does the federal government
spend over $100,000 per year to pre
vent its sale to Indians? The govern
ment had Mr. Johnson employed to do
this work in Oklahoma,
Over 1700 federal licenses to sell
whiskey are owned in Denver, Colo. In
round numbers 600 of them are owned
by saloons, 500 by retail drug stores
and 100 by wholesale drug stores and
The World's Evils.
Sllverton, Or., Aug. 4. To the Edl-
becomes the moving cause of war. If
that principle was to be asserted, was
to be fought for, the time to begin
the fighting was when Austria rent
the treaty of Berlin in twain by an
nexing Bosnia and Herzegovina. Ger
many countenanced that lawless act
and protected its perpetrator. Noth
ing that Austria now threatens can so
seriously affect the interests of Rus
sia as that foray. The great nations
of Europe are showing & belated sen
sitiveness about the balance of power.
They have reverted to the condition
substitution for all powerful sover
eigns and their titled advisers of an
executive with power to carry out only
the will of the people.
It is fortunate that between Aus
tria's declaration of war and the pos
sible outbreak of general hostilities
there has been an Interval in which
such thoughts could pass through the
minds of men. These days of delay
have not been unprofitably employed.
tor of The' Journal In regard to the J of the, savage tribes roaming the for
exlstence of the liquor traffic, I have j ests and ailing upon each other In a
different idea from many others fury of biooa ana carnage o scnieve
who stand for the cause of the wets. I
I admit there Is a tremendous evil in i
the liquor traffic. The prohibitionists
hold that It 'Is something that has
done humanity very little good and
has always brought misery and woe.
To a certain degree, this is true; and
it is also true that we are confsonted
with the great social evils of the
world.
According to the word of God, if we
indulge in any evil it brings misery
and woe, and the more we Indulge the
more misery it brings. Is It posslDle
that prohloition will do away with the
evil of the liquor traffic? If it would,
the prohibitionists cannot consistently
deny that it would not do away with
all other evils. If this is true, that it
will, I can see no further need for
the churches. All we have to do is
Join the prohibition party and do
away with all tne evils oi tne woria.
This doctrine is not only illogical and
impractical, but it Is impossible to
prove our assertion.
Prohibition would mane it more in-
A LIFE INSURANCE QUESTION FOR JONES
By John M. Osklson.
Jones needs help. In deciding be
tween three courses. Will you please
read what follows and write to me?
Tell me what Jones ought to do, and
I'll pass the advice on to Jones.
Jones is about to take out a life
Insurance policy for $10,000, payable
to his widow. He's going to take it
from a company whose premium rates
are low, that pays no "dividends."
When Jones dies there'll be Just $10,
000 due, no more and no less.
How to make that $10,000 payable
Is the question that bothers Jones.
The company offers three methods:
First If Jones says so, it will pay
Over the $10,000 at his death to tlie
widow, get a receipt, and let the
widow do as she pleases with the
money.
Second The company will pay the
convenient for those that use liquor, money out in as many instalments
and for those that do not use It, .it as Jones specifies. If in 10 annual
should not make any difference wheth- instalments t,he widow will get $1162
er It Is sold secretly or openly. a year for 10 years (that Is the com
The prohibitionists tell us the fires pany-s estimate of what It can af
of the breweries will have to go out i ford in view of the fact that a de-
when Christ returns. The fire of every
evil In the world will go out, ana
that is about the time the fire of the
breweries will go out. When you find
n. nrosDerous, thriving city.
commercial activity, you will find in
it everything God created.
EDWIN A. LINSCOTT.
T'Vault Induced nine of the party to
stay wrtli him. The other 12 men
went buck to Port Orford.
"Of the Kmaller party who derided
to press on moat were newcomers to
the country. They were recent ar
rivals from pastern cities, who would
become lobt If out of sight of camp.
The party soon lost their hearinua.
game became rarcc, their food sup
ply ran out and at last two of the
men. Ryan and Murphy, nlaved out and
. .w . i refused to go anv. farther. Williams
The war speech or tne uerman am, one of oUer
men went out to
emperor from the window of his sc,ire om,. Rame Williams did not
palace was a piece of pompous rP,urn but the othr nian hot a wood
humbug. The sword has been forceo , rat w)loh thf.y dlVdert among the
into our hands." forsooth, and he de- ; par,y. Po,n(. tlme later wintams came
mands of Russia and or France an ex- , rnto ramp Hn1 toid t,im h ha5 klIiP1
planatlon of the mobilization of their an eik They movod lnHr t.arnp 1o
troops, when from many sources It ! where the elk waa and stayed up near
has been disclosed that German mobl- j ly atl nKnt cooking and eating the
lizatlon has for days been under way. nieat.
All the powers within the vortex of j - Next morning the men decided to
war have been making ready, aa the I make their way to th coast. They
world well knows. But candor and ran across an Indian, who guided them
straightforward dealing are not to be j lo t;,e Coquille river, where they came
expected In countries bristling with upon three Indians In their canoes,
bayonets and studded with fortresses. This wan nt noon n September 13.
The trouble lies deeper. The' world's J 1851. The Indians were hired to take
great bankers have often been counted . the mr-n In their canoes to the coast,
upon to check the war passion, and j Not far from the mouth of the Co
lt has usually been disappointed. , In , qullle they came upon an Indian camp,
the really civilized an advanced na-J T'Vault wanted to go ashore and buy
tions the common people are a great some salmon from the Indiana. Mr.
resource against the passion for . Heddon, L. L. Williams, Gilbert, Runh
slaughter. Unfortunately, the peopl ; and Pepper protested agalnet going
who would become food for cannon In -ashore on account of the dinger of
a great European war are in a larg? , trouble with the Indians. T'Vault had
riaraiy isnaeu tin tney w-re attacked.
Ryan, Murphy, Pepper and Holland
were knocked down by the Indians
war clubs. T'Vault Jumped Into the
river and was helped across the rtver
by one of the Indian boatmen and es
caped. Williams was shot with seven
or eight arrowa; so was Doherty. The
Indians overtook Doherty as he ran
I with Williams and shot over 40 ar
I rows in hia back as he lay on the
ground, thn beat his head In with a
dub. Williams killed two Indians who
wf-re pursuing him and crawled Into
the brush and hid. Mr. Heddon had
been left for dead, but had crawled
into the brush and came upon Mr. Wll
llnms. Mr. Heddon pulled the arrows
out of Mr. Williams' back and arms.
He got them all out but one that had
gone in and broken off In his groin.
For the next eight days Mr. Heddon
dragged and carried Mr. Williams, who
part a dumb nerj, anven Dy win
other than their own. There Is a prob
ability, -historically Justified, that a
general European war would be fol
lowed by changes which would make
the herd vocal.
creasing amount of the widow's
money is left on deposit with il for
nine years).
Third The company will undertake
to pay the widow $562 a year as long
as sne lives ana to continue u u.j-
ments of $562 a year for 20 years
after the death of Jones, whether or
not the widow lives so long. Lnder
this i mode of settlement," says the!
compVny, "a man can be certain that
his wife will not want during ner
I U I l (i K ' J BIIU XZtM 1 I H-fJ J1 I . TV 111 I mill r WMU
lifetime, and should she die leaving , nfl Mm tQ km h, and t h,
children the Income would continue
to them until 20 Instalments are
paid."
As between these thpee modes of
settlement, which should Jones pre
fer? In certain of these little ar
ticles, when I have mentioned the
subject of life Insurance as one of
the desirable investments for the av
erage man of family, I have expressed
my own preference.
I won't repeat what I think here;
I want to find out what you have to
say about it.
If you were In Jones' place what
would you do?
Why the Warm Water.
Portland, Aug. 5. To the Editor of
The Journal Why is the Bull Run wa
ter so warm this year? It was never
so before, when the weather was just
as warm. Is It true that the pipes
are broken and that river water has
filled the main: or that the builders of
the nine line were permitted to lay the
pipes on the top of the ground for
miles wnere tne waier is uumug m
the sun, Instead of laying the pipes
down in the ground? That there is
something" wrong is plain.
TAXPAYER.
Overlooked.
Portland, Aug. 5. To the Editor of
The Journal The Oregonian has not
tVin far held the Wilson administra
tion responsible for the present Euro- j
God made is more beautiful than the
city which man made; that life out of
full of f doors and in touch with the earth Is
tne natural me oi man. i oeueve ui
work with nature Is more Inspiring
than work with the most intricate
machinery. I believe that the dignity
of labor depends not on what you do,
but how you do It; that opportunity
comes to a boy on the farm as often
as to a boy In the city; that life is
larger and freer and happier on the
farm than In the town; that my suc
cess depends not upon my location, but
upon myself; not upon my dreams,
but upon wnat I actually do; not upon
luck, but upon pluck. I believe In
working when you work, and in play
ing when you play, and in giving and
demanding a square deal in every act
of life."
"Iron sharpeneth Iron." Who knows
a more succinct phrasing of tho aspira
tion which this' country needs through
all its length and breadth?
print the news first. The difference in
time makes this not only possible, but
certain. At 4 o'clock on the Pacific
coast It la midnight in England, and over $50,000
later in the other countries Involved In
the conflict. The great volume of
news in Europe will be accumulated
late each day and the service of the
afternoon paper will therefore be prac-ti-aiiv
onmniot l l!a the newa of
tv.. niininr win not break- earlv I Emily Test, daughter of Daniel and
enough for the morning papers in this I Mary Tf-st of Junction City, all the
country. This situation undoubtedly ! residue of my property aftr tbe other
gives the evening paper the supremacy Dequems are paia. Aiier umnanwier
out of his misery. He would neither
kilt him nor leave him and at last,
after living on bugs and snails for
more than a week.1 they met some
friendly Indians, wfio took them to
Gardiner.
"For the next eight years I. I
Williams was helpless and Mr. Hed
don nd others helped support Mm.
Finally the arrowhead and the broken
wood worked out and Mr. Williams re
covered. Mr. Williams was made
county treasurer of Umpqua county,
serving two term, and Iatr served
two terms an county clerk of Umpqua
county. When Umpqua county man
absorbed by Douglas oounty he served
for five terms as county clerk of th
consolidated counties.
"When Mr. Williams died he left
Here Is a copy of his
will. Listen to this paragraph: "To
my frlnd. Cyrus Heddon of Bcotts
burg. for kind care and attendance
while suffering from wounds received
from the Indians, I give and bequeath
the sum of $5000. To my friend, Mary
in the publication of the news first.
Getting the Xewj First,
vrnm th uient Guard.
pean conflict or the forest fires. JVhat Thft deVelopments in the European
1 the matter? bPlKL. j crisis during the last few days have
" " ( served to emphasize the value of the
"The Country Boy's Creed. evening newspaper. Every important
, From Collier's Weekly. a wnno lincement during the last ten days
We came upon it first In the Green- (has appeared first In the evening paper
wood (Miss.) Commojj wealth. But no
source was given. We traced It, how
ever, to its publication in the Pro
gressive Farmer of Memphis, Tenn.
The. declaration of war by Germany
upon Russia, the Invasion of France
by Germany, the verdict in the Cail
laux case, the freight rate decision by
That! Is aa far as we have got, al- j the Interstate commerce commission.
tbe closing of the-stock exenanges oi
the world as a result of war panic, the
acceptance of medation by the mana
gers and employes of the 98 western
railroads, averting a gigantic strike.
are among the many events whicn'have
been announced first In the evening
paper, 12 hours before the morning
papers were in circulation.
The evening paper throughout the
European war may be expected to
though a query to that paper brings
the information that very likely the
"creed" was first used by a Boys'
Corn club In Virginia, and was later
adopted by- all the corn clubs In that
atate. It would give us real pleasure
to learn where and how this expressive
statement of an ideal crystaliaed into
words. " Perhaps by this time you are
curious to read it for yourself:
"I believe that the country which
The Ragtime Muse
Heddon had received his $5000 and the
i other bequests had been paid, Mary
Test, who was a teacher In the publle
' school at Portland, received the rest.
amounting to something over $20,000.
they
His Specialties.
"Do Just one thing at a time.
said;
"Devote your talents to that alone."
That's what 1 have done, although my
head
Some say Is nothing but solid bone.
The advice waa excellent, for I raised j
By devoting my self to that one ,
task.
The finest whiskers, and
praised
About Person.
Late Mayor Gaynor, of New Tork,
left an estate valued at $750,000.
Melvln Blender killed himself re
cently in Goshen, Ind., because Of his
sister's decision to marry.
Chart Elliott, of M uncle, Ind..
gave up bis car seat to a woman the
oftenest other day. Fell from running board
I into river and irowned.
II
' In all tiiis region. If you would asfc
Btlll later In life that "one thing" pla
I thought to prove in another way, i
And eo fm doing the best I can i
And toilhog earnestly flay ny aay.
I keep at the task and do it right:
While others have dabbled at this
and that,
I have worked amain with all my
might.
To' sit around and just grow fat.
When that's accomplished there's one
thing more
That I want to do ere my lira is
done;
I've demonstrated the magic lore
Of deing one thing and only one.
So. late in life, when 1 need the rest.
Of lighter tasks, I may make bold
To devote myself at my very best
To the task of peacefully growing
old.
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