THE OREGON DAILY JOURNAL, PORTLAND TUESDAY EVENING. AUGUST 18. 1914. !; the jou rn al!-?; .:ef: marked tip txuitj.ne mauds Jrt money, the highwayman i cousins la blood as art the King i . la.CaU9i PublWhaf BttJiitll rtj TU arapt B0D(UJ nd aer StIBda BWQlnf itfli. Journal Bvlld. k. UrM4wtf an4 XaraUUI at.. I'ortUnd. Or. Jtstaraa a Um iKMludlv at tfortiaad. or.. r trtmaaiiMloa laruutfh tba Bulla teaeosd ciaaa Biatter. fcLS"HUNJ Mato ?17il; Uotaa. A-oOftt. All atpartaaauu raachaa br tbcae ambr. Tall ta a ayacatoa wttiit aparHnaa yon Pt. I H a4U N A U V Kl U WISF at W KM-.! v It Haajamla Ktuo Co.. Bruntwlcfc BW.. if lftb Aa.. Naw lfekj 12i faopla'a Uaa Uldf., Chicago. . ubx-rlptWa twain by aaal) o ta any u araaa U Ua Uoitad ti'- ue Maslaoi DAILY . Out faay., ..... 00 I Oo DOOtk f -W ' 8UKPAT . . . Oaa raar 13.60 Ooa iotb. .....I DAILY AKU UOSl'AY Dm taaa 11.60 I Ota moots a 00 When You Go Away Have Tbe Journal sent to your Summer add ret. ; Times of general calamity end confusion have ever been productive of ths greatest rm ml. The purest ore la from the iwttcKt furnace, and the tf)rM.i thunderbolt from the Klarke.it cloud. Colton. a disgrace everr important elty in takes a chance. the country.. It la not the pro-1 Not bo with : the employment ducera that are to be elven thefagencr which takes a fee from a benefit of the advance. With their i heart beating for avarice and their eyee riveted on the great combat In Europe, the gluttonous gamblers trained their artillery on the buyers and ordered an assault all along the line. There is" a Just law of supply and demand by which the values of things should be measured. There are criminal law in the na tion, states and cities that pro hibit the arbitrary control of prices by gamblers in the necessaries of life, and If there was ever, a time when these laws should be In voked for protection of the peoplet it is now. Since the food monopolists be gan hostilities, let the country en gage in a great war of national defense. S THE rivers and harbors bill was reported to the House Febru ary 2 4. It passed that body March 2 G. There 1b doubt as to whether it will pass Coiu;reHS at this session. Such is tho view of the United States Chamber of Commerce as expressed in a telegram printed in yeeterday'8 Journal. The hold-up of the bill is by a minority of filibusters. Senator Burton baa been delivering in in bailments, a speech which began the latter part of June and Is not jet finished. He is aided by other 1 interests senators who make the point of no quorum and as a means of harassing the advocates of the bill Insist each time upon a yea and nay vote. The proceedings are a disgrace to the Senate. Burton 13 a dis grace to the Senate in resorting to such tactics nt a time when Con gress has been iu session almost continuously for a year and a half, when the country is In uncertainty pending the passage of the anti trust bills, and when the war in Europe thrusts new and pressing problems upon the president, the cabinet. Congress and the country. While Senator Burton and bis factionlstB employ a highwayman's tactics to kill the Senate's time, Issues of great moment are kept unsettled, many senators and con gressmen are prevented from re turning to their homes to take part in their own campaigns for reelection, and almost every water way project In the country Is at a standstill, with a prospect that each will remain idle for a whole , year. There has never been In the United States Senate, - a more in defensible, a more ruinous, and a more unpatriotic spectacle. Every man who has taken part In It, ought to be driven from the Senate. HARVESTING THE CROPS T HE women and children are harvesting the crops in Ger many, says a dispatch from Berlin. It is the same in Fran.ce. in Russia, in Servia. in Austria and in Great Britain. The man marches to where glory awaits but the woman remains at home and harvests the crop. The : part played by her in war is greater 1q - Importance than the part en acted by the man. She is the pre serving power. It is her planting and harvesting of the crops that sustains the army In the field. It Is her planting and harvesting of the crops that enables an lmprls oned land to raise a ransom of millions. Ifwas the French peas- ant woman that enabled France to pay an Indemnity of over a billion within a few months. The sound of the measured march of millions of men, the sight of great conflicts on sea - , and land, the recasting of the boundaries of nations all fade away ; before the vision of the girls who will never be wives, the wives who . ! will never be mothers and the ' mothers who will never be grand ', mothers harvesting the cr6p. AS OTHERS SEE II LM ENATOR CHAMBERLAIN'S power in the senate and his popularity in the East are the frequent subject of Eastern newspaper comment. In a reeent issue the Clearfield, Pennsylvania, Public Spirit says: The people of the East recognize the great influence of Senator Cham berlain of Oregon, and are deeply anxious to see him reelected by his state constituents. There should be no opposition to this brainy, patriotic member of the upper house, and there would be none If the people of Ore son were Informed as to the power he wields in the national halls of legislation. Of similar purport is an editorial from the National Tribune, the favorite paper of the G. A. R., pub lished at Washington, D. C. It says; Senator Chamberlain has, during his five years in the senate, justified the choice of the people of Oregon, and has shown himself a man of unusual ability and devotion to the public He is far from being a "rubberstamp" -for southern politicians, as one northern member of congress proclaimed himself to be. but has carried his own sovereignty and done his own thinking under his own hat In this way he has attained a very flattering prominence among his col leagues as a man of light and lead ing, and whose utterances must be listened to with careful attention. This led to his being given assign ment to the Important committees of military affairs, agriculture and for estry, appropriations, commerce, pub lic lands, and the territories. There are few senators who have an equal place on so many committees of the first rank. These are views of Chamberlain by those near or at Washington. They are disinterested testimonials to bis influence and standing in the senate and are bound to carry weight. They show that Chamber lain in the senate is a powerful asset for Oregon. The same traits of character that have won him so many friends in Oregon, win him friends on the floor of the senate. Of this, there Is fullness of proof in his high committee assignments. Rarely does a senator rise to such positions of influence In so short a time. As chairman of the - committee on millitary affairs, he Is at the head of one of the most authori tative committees In the body That was probably what prevented the abandonment of the Vancouver barracks as a military beadquar ters, a proposition of important bearing on Portland. As a member of the committee on appropriations and of the com mittee on commerce, he is In posi tions peculiarly placed to render great service to Oregon. It is, in part, because of his high committee assignments that Sen ator Chamberlain refuses to leave the capital and come to Oregon, to take part in the campaign for his reelection, notwithstanding the fact that he has been in almost can slant attendance on Congress for nearly eighteen months. Jobless man, knowing beforehand that the "men are to be kept moyng. THE CORKED CANDIDATE HERE are governors and4 gov ernors, and candidates and candidates. It is not often that a proud commonwealth has the distinction of a gubernatorial candidate whom the advising politicians" have corked up so tightly on state issues that he will not even tell himself what ho thinks of things. It Is a perfectly legitimate plan. and far be it from The Journal to say one word in derogation of Dr. Withycombe for running for of fice, closed up as tightly as a Ya- quina Bay oyster. The scheme Is at least to be commended for Its novelty. Dr. Withycombe is, of course, per mitted to tise his well known speech, "A Greater Oregon; and wfcan the inquiring voter looks to the candidate for light on the late Governor Pennoyer and the Chi nese, or on the single item veto, or on the relation of the governor to the legislature, or on the ap propriations and the executive ve toes in the 1913 legislature, or op some way to lower taxes, or on other great current Issues, the candidate thus addresses them; Oh, my friends; Oregon Is a great state. Its rivers teem wih fish. - Its fir-clad mountains are yet untouched, and onjy the beginning has been made in agriculture. Boon, oh. my good friends, the mines will be but holes in tho ground. And, ruminating on the holes to come where the mines now are, the palpitating voter asks himself. "what, then, oh, my good, friends; will become of the watermelons on the, vine?" of England and the Csar of Russia. King Albert of Belgium is a son of a Hohensollern princess and his wife was born Duchess Elisabeth of Bavaria, Should Greece, Roumania and Bulgaria be drawn Into the con flict it would involve other mem bers of the German family. A FEW SMILES PERTINENT COMMENT AND NEWS IN BRIEF The lady of the house was explain- j ins things to the new maid. "An what's this, .missus?" asked i the girl. Indicating a metal bottle. "That is a bottle which will keep things etiher hot or cold, which ever you When the history of .ae great lr" "5 tne a-i uuw involving a wauia conti nent is finally written, it will be recorded that it was not peoples but rulers that brougLt on the con flict. Could there be a more ter rific Indictment of our civilization? There is no longer a Mexican problem. It was settled without war. It was settled without war because, while the Jingo politicians and Jingo newspapers worked for war, Woodrow Wilson worked for peace. Letters From the Peopla (Oomroeaieations seat t Tbe Journal for publication in tai department aboald be writ, ten oq only ene aide of tbe paper, abould not exceed 300 words in length and mast bm ac. compaaled by tb name and addreas of tba aender. If tba writer doaa not desire to bare the name published, be should so state. "DiaenaatOB Is tba greatest of an reform, era. It rationalises everything it tonchea. It root principles of all falao aanetitr an"1 throws them back on their reasonableness. If they have no reasonableness. It ruthlessly crushes them out of existence and sets up its own conclusion in their stead," Woodrow Wilson. "Well, fob the land sake!" ejaculated the girl, gwine to know whether things hot or cold?" sT "How Is it you want The students of Oxford stand much upon punctilio in the matter of mak ing acquaintances, in s eo much that one will not noia the least Intercourse with another unless the proper formula of Introduction ha been gone through. It Is told as a quia upon them for this peculiarity that a young gentleman who had recently entered one of the colleges happening to be seized with a cramp while bath ing in the Isis and being on the point of sinking, probably to rise no more, a youth of older standing who leaned over a bridge near the scene thus soliloquized: "Dear me! What a pity I was not Introduced to that fresh man perhaps I might have saved Mm." USING THE RIVERS F EOPLE of the Mississippi val ley are awakening to the pos sibilities of that river as a route for traffic. A steel barge has Just traversed the stream from New Orleans 'to St. Paul and has laid down 1000 tons of freight at a carrying price under that charged by the railroads. There is to be a fleet of these barges, thus Insuring cheaper rates to a large class of tonnage. Another company has inaugur ated a through line of transpor tation from the Great Lakes to the Gulf of Mexico. It has estab lished a service consisting of steamers and steel barges for han dling traffic along modern lines of water transportation. All-water rates will be put in, with through transfer to ocean ports at New Or leans, thereby affording Inland Shippers a material reduction in freight rates and equal privileges of the Panama canal with shippers of seaport towns. In spite of the complicated route, it is estimated that water rates will be 25 per cent cheaper than rail rates. Barges of light draft will be used on the Drainage and the Illi nois and Michigan canals, for han dling freight between Chicago and La Salle. From La Salle, head of navigation on the Illinois river, to New Orleans a through line of steamers and barges will be used. The company will arrange for dockage and wharfage at all points along the route. There will be a terminal and warehouses at La Salle, equipped with modern ma chinery for handling freight. The Mississippi river has been practically closed to through traf fio for 25 years. Railroads have done the carrying while the river remained unused. A CRUEL PRACTICE I Recreation League Camp. Portland, Aug. 15. To the Editor of The Journal. I wish through your col umns to draw tho attention of the pub llo spirited people of Portland to th great good being done by the Recrea tion League CarriD. located ahrmf Kft miles from Portland on the bank of tbe Columbia river. The camp is most beautifully situated. It 1b about 180 feet from the station of Cascades, on the S. P. & g. railroad, and about 800 feet from Moffett's Landing. I have Just returned from a trip to this camp. As a father who has placed his son In tills camp, I cordially indocse the management, and testify most grateruny to the skillful care and at tention given to the boys. There are four roomy, well ventilated tents. In each of which six boys may be accom modated, In double-decked sanitary steel cots and In each tent there is a leader a student of Reed coUpcr whn understands boys and Is responsible for their conduct and welfare. The boys make their own beds and share the work of the camp, In squads. Games of all kinds are Dlaved and about half a mile away is Jiagle lake. wnere tne Doys are allowed to fish and swim, always under the careful supervision of their leaders. Mr. Arthur Evans Wood, who is in charge of the camp, together with his efficient assistants, has redueed the friction of management to a minimum. Mr. Wood needs $600 to continue the camp until school Opens. If this can not .be raised he will be compelled to close down much earlier. The charge of S3. 50 a week pays only tho bare expenses when there are 25 boys la camp. Will not many of the Portland peo ple contribute to this camp, especially as all the money is spent for the welfare of the kiddles and none is used for clerk hire and office management? If you cannot send some money, per haps you can. send some boys and In this way show" your appreciation. Checks should be sent and made pay able to Ray Small. Lewis building, Portland. I shall be pleased to give detailed information to any who call on me at 774 Hoyt street. Home phone A-3340. A. a NEWELL. A young man dining in a restaurant one day ordered some noodle soup, and while eating it came across a needle. Immediately upon the discovery he called the waiter over and said: "Look here, waiter, I found this here needle in my soup." The waiter, with a s u r p r 1 sed look, glanced at the needle and then picked up tho menu card, looked up and down the printed columns a moment, then a broad smile crept over bis face and ho exclaimed, "you see, sah dat dat am Jest a typographical error 4at dat should am bin a noodle." Na tional Foed Magaslne. fJMALL CHANGE , A true martyr doesn't advertise. a Most family hotels have all the dis comforts of a home. a Many a good story has been spoiled by sticking to facts. a . An agreeable prson is the one who talks to you of yourself. a The easiest way nut to settle a dis pute Is to go to law about It. If forced to eat their words, more men would have Indigestion. a Beware of people who are easily convinced; they are dangerous. a a What some villages need is fewer street fairs and more fair streets. Necessity knows no law. and it is usually too poor to interest a lawyer, a a When a man aauanira 1 1 . rlage lloeuae, heisbuylnff troubje. ,.LJvAa ?f f"et men oft remind us that the book agent hi still on the Job. Most DCODla talk t always because they have something m a Man was made to mourn, and woman was made to see that he keeps ever lastingly at it a a Don't Imagine that because a man is short in stature it was brought up on condensed milk. a a Jou may break, you may shatter the old tien if you will, but the landlady serves it aS spring chicken still. a a And some women wouldn't enjoy liv ing In a heavenly mansion unlens they could clean house at least once a month. OREGON' SIDELIGHTS IN EARLIER DAYS tty Fred Lockley. To keep pae with Albany s growing! At Morrison street you wUl . telephone needs, $6000 has been ap- ' se sn which reads, "Alexis Malrct, . proprlated to put in additional equip ment and local extensions. a It is practically pertain, in the opin ion of the Kxanilner, that a state rih hatchery will be stabliahed in the vi cinity of Lakevlew in the very near future. Swiss Watchmaker." A day or .two ago I spent an interesting hour witn Mr. Malret. "Ten, 1 have been in Portland quit a while," he cal For 33 years 1 had ; my place in the St. Charles hotel, which in its day waa Portland's lead The Raele. colntlnir with pride to lPg hot.cl- 1 . wa" born in NeuchateU Milton's city tax levy, says: "A 4-mlli j -Switzerland, 74 years ago. Our coun' tax is the lwiut tins city has paid for try will .defeml its neutrality In th 20 y-ars, and the smallest of any city great upheaval in Kuroj-e. We have in the county, with th possible excep- aylng that a handful of Swiss, on our tion of fccho. ,own 8oil Sit)d among our on moun- "The dry wefither thin summer." says lil"s-can defeat an heading army." the Ashland Tidings, "is causing many!&n1 lh saying is a true una, ws are a farmer who lust year looked askance j an M country and we have much to upon tne piaiiB tor irrigation projects c proud or. Six hundred and sixty- h.thllt I1? hacl "u BUtnmarlly six years ago Rudolf of !at.aburg was turned down the promoters. There is Dorn in our ,.,mfrv n. .. little doubt that many land-owners , ;" coun,tcy-1 became a would sicn up today who would not a Kencrtt'' and late' ln emperor year ao." a a Bandon Recorder: The Bandon beach and city park are regular cities of tent, tiiere beini? rows of them along the beach extending from Tupjier rock to Dennett's beach, about three miles. There are people from as far north as of Uermany and the founder of a royal una. "After the battle of Waterloo, niv canton, Keuchatel, with Geneva and Valois, sent delegates to the congreas of Vienna to becoui a part of 8witr- iand in faot as well aa in heart. On Grays Harbor, Washington, to as far ' March 16, 1816, thy granted our re quest, and it was then agreed that In all future wars In Europe the neutral ity of Switzerland should b reapected. Our canton had belonged to the Jiaba bur:a up to J70T, whon it was taken by Prussia and became a Prussian province. In 1S31 a revolution oc curred to secure complete independence from Prussia, which still Claimed to ue our overlord. Moat of ihnu uih.i sou tii as Stockton, California, and from tne interior of Washington, Oregon and California. a a The Condon Times, in an article on grasshoppers, Bays: "Does anyone re member the year the crickets took every green thing in sight along the John Pay river, soma 22 years ago? Talk about the little visitation of prasshoppers this year! They are not 10 ue mouKm those crickets ui poa vine, iney lasted about six weeKH, then disappeared, and have never come back, to our knowledge They were very plenty in the Cow. ic this county enough to fatten hogs." of in comparison with I rose T were VmV.i V, , . . V. . Kverythlm? went hut t?, ,,T . ". ,U"od a,Hi Put to-death, They lasted about six ' ' ut ' '""-! .'S-l-'oiuls, itu Inaur- FOOD SUPPLY MUST BE PROTECTED many other such examples. Of course, in some cases they were not found guilty. That did cost the county some J have been declared in Europe, in tha From the Philadelphia Public Ledger. The supremtv duty of the govern ment, in pursuit of its well recognized powers of regulation, is to prevent any starvation of this people. If spec ulators attempt It. Our storehouses are bursting with harvests. There is no scarcity, but great abundance. In practically every other country in the world the ordinary nrocesaes of business have stopped. Moratoriums APPEAL TO POLAND AN AMERICAN WAR W AR has been declared on tbe American people. In some aspects, the struggle is aa fierce and 1 Gi0nars the eliect as terrible as the de vastating conflict over the 6ea. It is a war by the food gamblers ' whose attacks are directed against ' thA dlniner tardea nt thn TTnttnri 1 States. Hostilities began with the . boosting of food prices at the mo , ment when all the power of the t government and all the energies of Congrees aa well aa the unsel ' fish endeavors of many great prl - I vate interests were bent to provide a way for transporting our great surplus of products to the hun- gering peoples of Europe. In an hour when ocean trans i j portatlon is paralyzed and the " whole Influence of the American republic is moving . heaven and : i earth to restore transportation and prevent our products from rotting t In the warehouses, food gamblers " : commission their admirals and call " out their generals to begin a war 6f piracy upon the whole American if people. : - It was not by accident thatfood T WAS charged that a Portland employment agency offered to "split fees" with an employing contractor, . at a hearing before the city council Friday. C. A. Duncan, a contractor, made affidavit that the agency made a proposition to him to "keep the men moving, , one band going and one band coming," all. the time, and split the fee charged for the job, as the agency had plenty of men. James Harbick, a sub-contractor on the Columbia Highway, made affidavit that tho agency offered to buy him a $40 suit of clothes and 'make ther presents it. he would keep his men moving, as the agency had plenty of men. There was testimony in rebuttal, but on a tie vote the city commis- refueed to renew the agency's license to continue in business. Of course, there are honest em ployment agencies; But they are in danger. The unquestioned abuses practiced by dishonest agen cies is rapidly creating a sentiment for substituting publio for private employment bureaus. Here was sworn testimony at a publio hearing, in which there was statement that the agency wanted the men kept moving. It wanted employed men discharged by the contractor so the agency could have more fees for supplying more men, and in order to make the plan successful was willing to di vide the fees with the contractor. What a cruel process! What a brutal program, to take the fee and then by collusion with the contractor, get the men discharged so other fees' could be extorted from jobless men! When he thrusts a pistol in the face of a belated pedestrian and de- 0 UT of the European war may come a partial atonement for one of the greatest wrongs in history, the destruction of the Polish empire. In hla extremity the Czar of Russia has promised to grant to his Polish subjects a boon for which they have struggled for genera tions. Not only to Russian Poland but to Austrian Poland and to German Poland he has proclaimed that if they will come to his assistance he will restore the ancient kingdom of Poland and give it an autonomous government. The fire at Polish altars will be- rekindled and the tongue of the mother will be heard on the streets as well as at the hearthstone. Whether the Poles will accept the Russian monarch's proclama tion as a sincere one or not re mains to be developed. If it is so taken and all Poland unites it will have been a master stroke on the part of Nicholas and it will have a decisive effect on the result of the war. To paraphrase a familiar quota tion, Sarmatia, which fell unwept without a crime may find a gen erous friend, a pitying foe, strength in her arms and mercy in her woe. Revenue Prom Liquor Traffic. Newport, Or., Aug. 15. To the Ed itor of The Journal Not long ago W. S. Hollls propounded three very fair questions to be solved by the wets. On August 6 W. J. Bishop undertook the Job. On August 8 Ella M. Finney evidently thought she could do bet ter. To Mr. Hollls' third question, "If the saloon Is such a good thing, why charge a tax to allow It to operate?" Mr, Bishop replied, "The main reason Is to get revenue enough to run the government," which is the popular opinion of many, and always advanced by the saloon element. Ella M. Finney replied to the ques tion thus: "The tax is too heavy. It is an imposition on the man who han dles our produoe. Our new saloon will be as attractive as a drug store, have pure liquor, better laws, no druitk ards, lower taxes and greater respect." .What a blessing her new saloon will be. To obtain this wonderful bless ing she tells us to "vote wet." Every saloon man and every drunkard sings, "Vote wet." In conclusion she says. "We, the producing people of Oregon, demand it, and It will have to come." Will the honest farmers of Oregon re buke this demand at the polls or will they line up with her and the alums? According to the report of the com missioner of internal revenue for 1912, Uncle Sam received from the liquor traffic 1213.042,840. This is tha rev enue Mr. Bishop says wa get to run the government, and the commissioner of Internal revenue said, "Witheut it the wheels of th govrnment could not go." These are false statements. for they fall to tell us that the traf fic robs the people of more than 10 per cent of which gets into Uncle Sam's treasury as revenue, which Is the price- of protection. In other words, we are paying out more than t2. 100, 000,000 to collect $212,043,340. an annual loss of revenue of $1,S87,- 957,660. National prohibition would save it. Vote dry. E. W. DURKEE. money. He still raises that old cry that Oregon going dry will ruin Oregon's hopyards. Not one liquor advocate, so far as I have seen, has ever at tempted to deny that not over 2 per cent of Oregon - raised hops is used in Oregon. Then how will t per cent of "destruction" kill a business when 50 per cent loss of grain, vegetables, fruit, etc., does not destroy those in dustries? Any business that cannot stand a 2 per oent decline is, to say the least, on a small margin. Then, as to the xetarding of Ore gon's development for 50 years by th hop destruction, that is nothing but buncombe. There is no foundation for any such talk. Let both sides stick to the truth. Truth will prevail, and when truth prevails such evils as the saloon and the brothel will be done away with. F. M. CANFIELD. Treaties of Little Value. Redmond, Or., Aug. 13. To the Editor of The Journal Your editorial in Wednesday's Journal entitled "Laughing Stock" is surely laughable. You say, "What If they" (Bryan's arbitration treaties) "had been in ef fect at the time Germany was ne gotiating with Russia?" Well, suppos ing they had have been In effect Do you think any more attention would have been paid- to said treaties than was paid to the treaties guaranteeing the neutrality of Belgium? If you do. will you kindly explain why you think so? As of Belglt treaties, duly signed, sealed, witnessed and acknowledged, sworn to by both Germany and England. But what did the treaties amount to when con fronted with the exigencies of war? And I opine that would be the fate of Bryan's treaties in case of war. Treaties are all right and look nice on paper and help us to advertise our selves as a "most Christian nation," and all that, but under the stress of war, either existing or in contempla tion, they amount to but little. J. A. WILLCOX. Belgium is a little nation of 7,000, 000 population. The Wilson-Bryan ar bitration treaties, if engaged in by all the big nations with all tha big na tions, would have been observed, and there would have been no wax. Editor. orient, and in South America. The United States has become the granary of the world.' It can ask and get al most any price, in gold, for its food stuffs. This abnormal foreign de mand, there is reason to suspect, is being usod to lift domestic prices, to euchre Americans out of their heri tage, to make them pay tribute. E4ch nation in Europe Is protecting its food supply. We may be com pelled to do likewise. Before we feed others we must feed ourselves. Of that right we are deprived if in any manner tha, catastrophe in Europe ia used to lessen the purchasing power of a dollar in the foodstuff markets. Before our abundance is sold abroad at an extravagant profit, there must be assurance that the supply at home Shall not be sold for a fictitious price. In quantity and in price, our own market must be assured. Bxport duties will not remedy the situation. Those who suggest them forget the provision of the constitu tion that "no tax or duty shall be laid on articles exported from any state." The emergency, on the otbr hand, endows the government with ample powers to protect itself. It at one time went so far aa to put a general embargo into effect. Its functions broaden in crises and the fundamental law is automatically stretched to clothe with large remedial authority the federal government. It cannot exorcise powers specifically denied It, but Its competency by Implication be comes complete. It has been sugRebted if the com mon law is not sufficient t prevent an outrageous attempt to saddle our citizens with the burden of the great war. if public opinion due not suffice, to deter it, that the president be em lowered, within his Judgment, to pro htiit exportations of any foodstuffs when such exportation: will reduce the domestic supply below the normal consumption in this country. That would be extraordinary legislation, of a kind only expected under martial law, and would not be Justified unless the emergency were' vastly greater than it now threatens to be. There is no reason to becom ex cited. The lack of carriers may spned- (1,7 rnniri rii iri.wii In 1 1 r a that th.v i , n not base prices on the European de- i i(Ml, viand. The difficulty of exportation may Itself be a depressant sufficient to assure a reasonable market. It is evident, too, that publio opinion may be effective. The country is already making itself heard. But It la well that speculators should understand that the nation is not without means of self defense. A permanent holdup of the country is not possible; it la even inconceivable. ioc lion occurred mul I m iru..Un eagle was haul..! down and replared by the Swiss fla. ,v t!lu nftXt feW years there wan much plotting by tho royalists to regain NfiiclmtM for tha Jiohenjolleriia. in l S52 the royalists made an unsuccessful attempt to re store it to I'rUntiian rule. In IMS thai royalists took the chateau of Neuoha tel and ruptured tiie ttate council. The republicans recaptured the cha teau, taking over 000 royalist prison ers, all of whom were released but less than 30. Prussia made ready to Invade Neuchatol. AU Switzerland prepared for war with Prussia. Hwlna in other countries leturned to right for their country. Boon we had 30,00'J men guarding our frontier, while our women were at home taking care of the crops and makinc line n !u twin a-M ' to drons the wound!. "Oeiieral Dulour became commander-in-chief and all H v.-l tzerland rang with "ltufst du, mcin Vat. Hand ?' "NnpolroPi III became mediator, ami in May. 1m;o. in l-arls, a mity wun iKned releainB Neucl.aiel from all al legiance to Prtisxia. "When i ai a liy I went to tha hospital at Ponla-ir-Mnrt-l and gt" the body of my oijcr brother, who had been killed in defejisc ..f the neutral ity of his country. "We have nern many changes In our canton, but nowhere I tin re. more pa triotism iMid loyalty than anion;; th people of Nc'ichatel. As we did In tha Franco-Prussian war, so we will do arm and fight to tl.e death, if need be. to maintain our neutialitv." HOO'S H00 Iy John W. Carey. NEW ALLY IN BIG THRIFT CAMPAIGN By John M. Osklson. Now the Y. M. a A. is going to take up thrift boosting! Hera and there among the more than 2000 as sociations in this country, with their f understood it, the neutrality i membership of more than 500,000 men, dm was guaranteed by solemn the thrift idea is getting Into clrcula- tion, and the men responsime ior out lining the big campaigps this organ ization undertakes are trying to for mulate plans for making this one broad and appealing. From "what some of the Y. M. C. A. officials have said to me, I should Judge thawac somebody has a fine op portunity. It is to come forward with such a plan as will catch ths atten tion of thoss who work for wages and then show them how to translate the impulse to save Jnto effective action. If the Y. M. C A. proves half as enterprising in going after the sav ings of working Americans as the saloons have been, it will make a record to be proud of. Think over what I said. Remember that the Y. M. C. A.'s of this country C THE SAME FAJIILY ONSIDERED as a conflict be tween rulers merely the Eu ropean war is literally a fam ily row, exclnding the French, It is a quarrel of a big German family. The British royal house ia German and the Romanoffs of Russia have intermarried with the Hohenollerns for two centuries to so large an extent that Czar Nich olas 1$ more German that Frahi Joseph. The - King of England and the Emperor of Germany are first Suggesting a Rapprochement. Portland, Or., Aug. J6. To the Edi tor of The Journal. The members of the A. O. H. are formally to open their new hall In the near future. Their fellow countrymen in Ireland, after centuries of active and passive resistance to English rule, have in this hour of dire peril to England decided to withdraw this resistance, extend the hand of friendship to their former oppressor and offer even their lives if necessary to uphold the honor of England's flag In the present conflict In order to follow in soma measure this splendid example of pa- have nearly 8800 general secretarlea and other paid officials, and that they spent last year over 113.180,000 ' in the big tak of trying1 to make men more effective as citizens of this coun try. This organization wants to find a plan for encouraging thrift. It wants to put the subject before the youns men so graphically that not one can tail to see that thrift is worth while. And In thinking about any plan to submit to the Y. M. C. A. nearest you. don't make the mistake of thinking that it must be a sermon. Probably a motion picture, a map, or a diagram (better still a mechanical device) for showing the actual results of thrift practice would be preferred. This thrift movement in the United States is pne of the fine new actuall- ties we have in charge you and I. Unless we back it up with help and ! counsel, unless we are willing to pass I along what we find out about It, it ! will cease to Interest people. j Haven't you, a suggestion to make to the Y. M. C. A-? 1 PLftTVoRrA, J tr-i HERVARlQtJS fpRM 3 I, era. Worse will befall all lines of business If the nation's liquor pro i.otton is changed into what is al ready too much of otner products;. 163,194,700 of eastern and roretgn money for our Oregon hops, and our own local millions, is the cornerstone of our hop industry. Add to this a hoavy percentage, imported and lo cal, for our fruit, grain and potatoes, liquors. Shall we retrograde, or shall we make the valley black with the loganberry and golden with hops? The folly of the drunkard Is dis gusting. The folly of prohibition is i n..rkr in its rirst acr n ia triotlsm and forgiveness, it might betion. in jtg. final completion it de- stroys tus runaameniai pnuipiua existence. Vote wet for prosperity, for lower taxes, pure politics and good fat pock Jt7.ook ELLA M. FINN Ex . suggested that the A. O. II., as the most representative and important Irish organization in the city. Invite the kindred British organizations to participate in the ceremonies Incident to the opening of the new hall, have British Cop8ul Erskine, leading Brit ish subject in Portland, as president of the day, and in the scheme of decoration have the English flag take preoedence over ' all flags, except, of course, the Stars and Stripes. This will show the world that the Irish men of Portland who in the past have contributed so generously to help win Ireland's lpng battle for In Reply to air. King. Shedds, Or., Aug. 14. To the Edi tor of The Journal. Tn Tha Innmol i of Auirust 12. Charles H. K"tn , v ! Justice, are as willing to forgive anrt that if Orecon soes drv mnnnshin. forget as their countrymen at the whiskey will be made on every other I otner ranch in the state. This la a state ment without any foundation what-1 , , ever. Such a condition exists no. Whiskey as 8 Core. where and it is a reflection upon the 1 Gervals, Or Aug. 14. To tha Edl Bide of tha P. Atlantio. J. SCANNELL. iarmers that should be resented by eevry man and woman In the state, by voice and vote. I am well aware that some strong statements are mad by temperance roias, perhaps too strong sometimes, tor of The Journal Addle. Steadman is right. Love, and not whiskey, was responsible for the young man's shooting himself. If Mr. Hollls had ever been a rejected lover, he . would know, tha heartache seemed unendur- but I never saw anything that equalled I able. He needed some ona to care that statement, j for him, and to rest tbe mind give Mr. King also stated that under such j him heavy doses ef whiskey. Whiskey, a condition many arrests would be i rightfully administered, would have made and the taxpayers would have to foot the billa. Now, Mr. King must know that tha fines of guilty parties far exceed the cost, therefore money is put into the treasury instead of taken out. was a resident of a dry city some years ago where a man sold five bottles of whiskey.- The trial on tha first one cost the county about S100. The fine was S500. He confessed In the other four cases. Here was quit a balance in favor of the county, l was in another dry town where the deposed saloonkeepers un dertook to "blind ig it." , Their fines were over $2000 and the costs about $500. Here was a balance of about $1500 for the county. X could give saved his life. The world's greatest crimes, and its greatest number of crimes, are sober. Answering- Curtis P. Cos. the church is a dependent, not a producing ele ment. It depends on prosperity; pros perity depend on production; produc tion consists of food and drink; both are necessary for financial success. Many churches induce many people to hear the word of God. Teach them temperance. The same Is true of tho home and the school, Tell them thai since their foundation, and since the beginning of time, we hava always voted wet It was overproduction that eauaed I the financial ruin of some hopgrow- Wives Collect the Pay Checks. Dakota from the Bismarck Com mercial club. Both of these articles ably pointed out the vast benefits . and urgent needs of the early pass-; age of the pending rivers and liar- , bors bill, but why was the telegram i from the Bismarck Commercial -club only printed in part? Why was it thus censored? Because It pointed cut the man whose record as a standpatter and obstructionist is fast paving the way for his retirement ; the man who has been first and fore- 1 most in delaying tbe passage of ih : rivers and harbors bill Senator If ir ton of Ohio. It Is such men and their delaying tactics that have pre- vented the passage of the rivers and harbors bill, and other measisreH of ; By John W. Carey. Who finds in nature's festal halls that wonderful outdoor more Joy than iu palatial homes of kings and emperors? Who, too, prefers the birds and bees for steady coni any to dukes and earls and ladiex grand of IiIkU society? Who hoards not all th hupplneas he finds in tthr.dy nooks, but shares the tamo with fellow men In leafy iadeo books? Who, Incidentally, forsooth, is utrong for one T. R. whene'er on nature fak rl he declares a cruel war? Who's narlng now his four score mark? (M.iv skies cerulean be his for years and years to come!) Good old John Burroughs man. The Ragtime Muse Sylvia's Way. Mylvia is of charming losses Quite the heel o( any. But her thoughts are of "the masses" And ahe. chiIh me "Henny"! i-hi is an alarming srir I, Although Mia in pretty Ke-ps rny senses In a wfilrl. For she ttiinkd she's witty! relief favored by President Wilson, and It is due to such men that this j n with her I ask to go session of congress has been pr- j To some siiow or other, longed, making the presence of Sen- ! Sylvia hiug'?' and fay. Oh, no! utr.r f'hnmherlaln In Wpshinston ner. s- . J"1 " l. lJ "'-' . n,JU't' . . ..... f I I . a. ia. ... x . vi i i I s Pi lu , i v iTiii v. 'J iatrai oflBary lo "Je """Ke "l.r.. II. ' ::?. Socialistic Mrlctures. rui uaiiu, uB. - . I lalion. AiN i l-oiib 1 nit-i iu.-si.-Jt, latest ining "in Th a Journal i tie comes to me regarding discrimination , of employers against men wnw ;" is that of an employer on the Portland docks For some time he has refused to employ men who drink but has re cently made an exception in the case of a few men who have large families, making a condition that the wives shall collect the ' checks. I suggest that Ella M. Finney make a point or visiting this office about the time the Wives come to receive the checka for their husbands' work. It might occur to them to make an estimate of the lumber of men who are kept out of employment because of drink ana a comparison of this number with those whom they so pathetically plead will be put out of employment when Ore gon saloons and breweries close. " By the way, is it not amusing and also illuminating as to the character of those engaged in the rum traffic, to hear so much from their own friends of the manner ia which law Will be violated when the state goes dry. Does it occur to them that this is a sad confession? ADA WALLACE UNRUIt Kun alorii-r now, that's a dear. l To t!i moving pictures:" 6 Standpat Obstructionists. Portland, Or.. Aug, 15. To the Edi tor of The Journal. I notice on nage 14609 of the Congressional Rec ord of August 7 two remarkable documents. One is a verbatim copy of the editorial contained In the Sunday edition of your paper of Au gust 2, entitled: "Underlined With Oold;" the other, a -part of a tele gram to . Senator tsronfta of North '--' - f , - Sylvia aasuines that she Portland. Aug. 14. To the Lditor of ' ln ,(J mi3 HUrK.rir. The Journal I hope that the next . Tl.is iw what nil 'says to me: time I come to Oregon your editorial i "Vou' u fine exterior!" in this evening's paper regarding Ye. h knows more than I do. Mount Hood mn v have acconiDlIshed . "(i she earns more money; tt nurnn.. T h.v. ririvn ii from '. "". W you California br way of Crater Lake, and thought that I had experienced every thing one could -experience by way of bad roads. But yesterday I tried to ! drive to Mount Hood to find that the spike-studded fragments of shattered , plank which alternate with the dirt- j filled chasms on that road made a Well. now. what's so funny? About 3'e.twms. A. C. Cooper of Denver, blind, has made brooms for 60 years in spite of his affliction. Gcorgo Taylor, laborer, of Cottage Grov. Oregon, has fallen heir to 2$0,. brand new experience in auto torture S 000 by the deatli of hia father in Chi- posslble for the most hardened tour- ! cago. 1st. I endured it for a few miles be- j John It. McVey, a bachelor who died yond Brightwodd. and then gave up. ; In Newcastle. Pa,, bequeathed to a Of course, it was possible to go on. j nephew $300 to be used for baseball but the discomfort of the struggle, as education in cae he should decide to well as a regard for the car, made it make a profession of that iport. more of an effort than it would be worth. F. C. FISHEP.. I A Letter of Thanks. i Portland. Aug. 15. To the Editor olj The Journal I wish to take this , means of thanking you and letting you know that I appreciate your edit orial of a few days ago relative to Christian Science practice. It certainly was a good article and to the point and I want you to know that not only myself but a large ma jority of people1 ho believe as I do appreciate your efforts in defending what we believe is right. Again thanking you very kindly and wishing you success, I am yours very truly, T: W. WATERS. 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