Scenes attending transaction
WITH the parcel post Uncle Sam
is "bridging the distance be
' tweeh producer and consumer.
Before the coming of the
parcel post this distance
amounted to a gulf.
Hundreds of families in Portland are
buying their eggs and butter direct
from the farmers of Oregon and
Washington.
But these are only two of the many
articles that are handed to the rural
carrier In the country one day to be
left at the consumer's door by the city
carrier the next. Dressed poultry,
baby chicks just from the shell, honey
jelly, fresh and dried fruit, nuts,
.cheese, pickles, potatoes the list in
cludes virtually everything that Is
produced on the farm, from a head
of lettuce to a leg of mutton.
Fifty pounds may be shipped for
64 cents by parcel post to Portland
from any point within the first and
second zones an air line radius of 150
milB embracing about half of the
tat of Oregon, and north to and in-'
eluding Seattle. Prinevllle, Bend, and
other central Oregon towns are in the
second zone.
Before the parcel post the express
rates averaged more than double the
parcel post rate to the offices within
the second zone.
.All the poeloff ices in Oregon beyond
.the second zone are within the third
zone an air line radius of 300 miles
with the exception of less than a half
dozen towns in , the extreme south
eastern corner of the' state.
-.- Twenty pounds,may be shipped from
AMERICA WIELDS TREMENDOUS POWER
in the first article of his series on
America and the War." published in
The Sunday Journal, April 11, Norman
Angell undertook to explain the rela
tions existing between the United
States and the warring powers. In the
second and concluding article of the
series, published herewith, he sets
forth the end to which this country
may. exercise her tremendous power.
Vis that t
By Norman Angell.
(Copyright, 1913, by The International News
Serylee.)
IN a preceding article I attempted to
show two things: first, that the no
tion .of America being so self-sufficing,
so remote from Europe that she
could afford to be indifferent to what
went On in the world around her was
a. fiction; and, secondly, that the no
tion of America having-acquired the
right tor her citizens to go about the
world unmolested, to have her ships
tail the seas and have her flag re
spected, was also a fiction. So little
was ; it true that America, was inde
pendent of the conduct of the rest of
the world that, because some fanatic in
an obscure Austrian province assassi
nates an Austrian nobleman, the whole
Industrial life of America Is disorgan
ized, the New York stock exchance is
closed for four months for the first
time in its history, the American con
gress, has to vote special measures for
meeting the commercial distress. And
so little Is it true that America can by
virtue of her own power guarantee the
freedom Of tho seas to her ships that
no American merchant can deal with
the. merchant of any other foreign
country, although that country, may be
at peace with us and the rest of the
world, without the permission of a
British admiral, who judges whether
such commerce will be for the military
and commercial convenience of Great
Britain. - . '
. Military Increase Wot Hecesssry.
I have further pointed out that
America -, was in no way entitled to
make a grievance of this, in that it had
grown out of a condition which she,
together! with the rest of the world,
had accepted, and which she had made
little effort to change: and that no
mere Increase of military power on
America's part would of itself Improve
matters. Her quarrel, if any,! was for
the moment with England; yet to take
an action which would ensure Eng
land's defeat would raise up a power
which she has far greater cause to
fear. If she joins the allies she im
poses voluntarily upon herself the re
strictions now imposed by others and
in no way ' obviates the possibility of
finding herself in her present posi
tion as the result of some other great
European war in which she has no
concern.
For; the victory of England, France,
Russia, Japan. Belgium, Serbia, Monte
negro and Roumania over Germany,
Austria and Turkey does not, in the
present condition of International, re
lationship,' obviate the possibility of a
reshuffling of the roles when the very
mixed . allies - shall get to, quarreling
over the spoils; and, if America. sets
out to play for the whole world that
role of holding the balance of power.
of Uncle Sam's parcel post business,
Portland to these third zone towns, or
vice versa, for 44 cents, which is about
a third, on an average, of the express
rate prior to parcel post.
Plrst aad Second Zone.
. Nearly alt the producers listed In
the new list who wish to sell by par
cel post, are In the first and second
zones. j The list was issued by Post
master j Myers April 1. A few pro
ducers are in the third zone, one in
the fourth zone at Boise, Idaho and
one in the fifth zone, at Santa Ana,
Cal.
The parcel post rate on eggs, ac
cording to Mr. Myers, Is about one
cent a; dozen to Portland in crate
lots from any point in the first and
second zones. ,
The Portland postoffice is handling
about 5000 parcels a day, of which
about 75, at present, are of farm prod
uce. This Increased business is han
dled without additional clerk hire, the
same number? of clerks being em
ployed "as before the inauguration of
parcel post. Additional delivery ser
vice has been added, however, so that
the delivery of packages is assured
on the 1 day they are received.
The ; list of producers, copies of
which will be furnished by the Port
land postoffice on request, has the
following explanatory introduction:
Closer Relations Sought.
"It is the desire of the postoffice
department to bring the producer and
the consumer into closer relation
through the facilities afforded by the
parcelbost system.
which England has in the past at
tempted to play for the continent of
Europe,! she will expose herself to just
the political risks which England has
faced only on a much larger scale and
she will find herself going to war and
taking sides on matters as remote from
any American concern, as, for instance,
the very mixed racial and linguistic
politics of the Balkan peninsula. For
American blood and treasure to be ex
pended in struggles arising out of ob
scure racial feuds in southeastern Eu
rope is! certainly not to achieve condi
tions either of security or of independ
ence. On of Three Ways for America.
'Let us face the facts. You are either
going to be concerned with European
affairs : in that muddled hopeless way,
putting your trade and industry, your
freedom of movement about the world
at the mercy of foreigners or you are
going to take part in wars which have
arisen over conflicts in ,whlch you
have no concern; or else you are going
to accept the fact of the internation
alization of the world, the fact that
you, a! hundred millions of the most
active, -the best educated, the alertest.
the most forward looking people in
the world are not and cannot be In
differeiUowhat become of the re
mainlngpglPHhousand million odd In
habitants of the planet and are going
to use yourinfluence to see that your
relationship thereto is based upon
some reason and understanding, some
rule of conduct which shall make for
the common good. As I have said, the
choice ifor you is not between isola
tion and independence- or definite and
increasing contact with the rest of the
world; ! that decision has been settled
over your heads.- The nations are in
any case interdependent and form,
whether they will or not a single or
ganism and are brought, whether they
will or, not, increasingly into contact.
The question for you is whether this
contact, this world society, shall be
anarchistic, uncivilized, erratic, the
sport of changing circumstances or
whether it shall be definitely organ
ized like any other society in accord
ance with laws and rules which shall
represent the common good.
Howl does a disorderly group of in
dividuals an early community of
western pioneers, for instance become
an orderly society? .Not by each of
the individuals going as heavily armed
as possible and taking his own view
of his own rights and his own means
of enforcing them. That gives you a
mining camp, where they "have a man
for breakfast every morning," or those
Carolina mountain counties, the coun
ties of; the "crackers," where a feud
about a. strayed hog will wipe out a
dozen families. ' When we say, there
fore, that civilization is based upon
physical force, the statement is incom
plete; there is plenty or physical force
in a mining camp and among the Caro
lina ' "crackers"; plenty of guns, ar
maments, "defence"; much more, in
deed, in proportion, to-population than
in New York or Boston., And yet the
physical force does not give us order
and civilization; it gives us chaos.
What, then, makes a society out of a
fortuitous gathering .of units? The
at' station at Fifth and Glisan
i "It Is suggested that to 6ecure the
greatest benefit from this service con
sumers select from the list the names
of several farmers, correspond with
them, and give them an opportunity
to demonstrate which is the most sat
isfactory" todeal with. "When such a
producer has been found the proper
financial arrangements should be
made. It would be a good plan to
give the producer the current prices
in Portland as a guide to his own
charges. The question of a proper
shipping container should also be set
tled. It Is well in shipping eggs to
use a special container made for the
purpose.
"In ordering the time of delivery
should be specified so that goods may
be shipped in harmony with the de
livery system in Portland. If possi
ble do not order goods to arrive later
than 8 a. m. on Saturday. In Port
land goods arriving by 8 In the morn
ing are delivered that day.
"In ordering from the producer it
is suggested that it Is most satisfac
tory to order in quantity, as this re
duces the postage materially. The
rate in the first and second zones is
five cents for the first pound and
one cent for each pound thereafter, up
to 50 pounds. Several families order
ing together can make up a large
order and therefore can command
much better service. The expense for
postage and containers is much less,
and the situation is much more sat
isfactory to the producer.
"Information on certain elements
law courts and police? But that only
pushes the question a little further
back. How do the law courts and
police come there? The police do npt
descend from the skies ready made;
they do not impose themselves upon
the community. They are the creation
of the community. Before you can
have the police' the community must
get together and decide to create ic;
before you Can have the police you
must have' law, and before - yotr can
have law the community . must de
cide what it is to be. The step which
turns the group of western-' pioneers
Into an orderly community is their
coming together and agreeing to en
force such rules as are necessary to
the tommon good. And there is no
mystery as to the oolnt t which rum.
SmonNagreement starts. There is one
, matte-Qn which all are agreed. There
is not one of us who wants to be wiped
out. Many want to wipe others out,
want to make victims; nobody wants
to be a victim. So that you have
here, in this desire for protection, an
absolutely universal agreement.
It is the least common denominator,
and it is from that starting point of
common agreements that ail societies
are created. That is why any society,
even the most primitive, will protect
in some degree the weak against the
strong, because each is aware that
he may at any moment find himself
accidentally weaker than some one
else. A degenerate loafer with an. au
tomatic pistol on some dark night is
more "mighty" than the finest athlete
or physical giant who happens to be.
unarmed. We have decided that the
superior physical power of any one
individual the fact that any one man
happens to have his sixshooter with,
him while his neighbors have not--shall
not give him by virtue of that
a fight to impose his point of view.
The community has agreed, if it Is on
the road to civilization, that such a
strong man shall be restrained. They
will cancel his force by throwing the
whole force of the community against
It and in favor of his victim. They
may, like the "crackers," be unintel
ligent, suspicious, like most ignorant
folk, unable to organize the mechanism
for achieving what they want, but they
all want this, security.
"Ah," you may say, "that means po
lice, and there is no police ifor the na
tions." Neither was there a police
for that early community of pioneers.
The pioneers got together and agreed
to make a - police, and until you . had
that agreement among them the clear
decision that op the one point of per
sonal security they were ; agreed to
stand together and enforce It, ? you
could not get a police. Their agree
ment on that point did not mean agree
ments upon all points. You may have
had in a community Democrats. Re
publicans. Socialists, f Populists, Pro
testants and Catholics, atheists, home
opaths and allopaths, Latins and Anglo-Saxons,
; every imaginable differ
ence of race, religion and opinion, but
they were all agreed on the one point
that they did not want to be the vic
tims of some one else's gun. So they
decided that any one who attempted
to use his gun. to enforce his own view
streets, showing variety of goods
of the parcel post service are of vital
interest to the postoffice, in order that
the service may be checked up, cor
rected, and Improved. This office,
therefore, solicits correspondence from
producers and consumers on the fol
lowing points: . '
"1. Name and address of farmers
who are giving particularly satisfacv
tory service. 2. Articles which seem
particularly adapted for parcel post
traffic. 3.Condltioit In which ar
ticles, when well packed, are delivered.
4 Promptness of the postal service
in delivering parcels. 6. Comments
on the value of different containers
and method of packing. 6. Comments
upon prices charged by producers or
offered by consumers. 7, Reports of
failure of the system through neglect
or inattention on the part of -producer
or consumer. 8. Suggestions for the
improvement of the service."
The list of producers, arranged by
zones, is as follows:
First Zone.
Mrs. Cora Adams, R. R. No. 4, Au
rora, Or. Farm produce.
Oeorge A. Anderson, Battle Ground,
Wash. Butter, cottage cheese, etc.
C. F. Allen, Newberg, Or. Farm
produce. -
Bethshan Poultry Farm, C. O. Perry,
proprietor, R. R. 5. Oregon City, Or.
Eggs day after laid; thoroughbred S.
C. White Leghorn baby chicks; hatch
ing eggs.
Mrs. R. M. Brash, Barton, Or.
Fruit, jelly rhubarb.
Brownada Farm, Hubbard, Or.
Eggs, homemade sausage. country
cured hams, bacon, vegetables in season.
IN THE AFFAIRS OF EUROPE AND IS CERTAIN TO ACQUIRE MORE
should be restrained; all would protect
his prospective? victim.
Individual Uw as Applied to Nations.
The fact that the stronger man be
lieved himself right was right in tho
dispute between the two would make,
no difference. The individual New
Yorker who should attempt to settle
a biusiness difference with his grocer
or his insurance company or his bank
er with his six-shooter, wouid be re
strained. The fact that he believed
himself entirely right and his opponent
wrong; the fact. Indeed, that he was
right as to his contention on the dif
ference that he was a college professor
and the grocer an ignorant person
none of tuis would be accepted as the
slightest justification for settling the
matter in that way; the plea that he
was using might on tne sight of right
would be most summarily dismissed.
For if each were his own judge as to
what was right against his neighbor
society would go to pieces. It is the
essence of a social group that no in
dividual shall be permitted to make
himself the judge of his own cause
and the executioner of his own ver
dict.in any difference 'that he may have
with a neighbor; and that the whole
social group shall combine to prevent
1U
Now the difference between- the
"peace man" and the "war man" Is
generally taken as being that the first
is opposed to physical force and the
second recognizes the need for It; and
that the "peace man" is Inconsistent
because he approves of the police, and
that, as the police uses physical force,
he should thereby sanction and ap
prove of armies, and i their multiplica
tion. About as reasonably could one
urge that in some way a, horse chest
nut is related to a chestnut horse.
What is the difference between an
army and a police force? It is very
simple; armies are for the purpose of
fighting one another;Jthe police forces
are not. If the New York police force
were raised for the express purpose
of fighting the Chicago police rof de
fending New ' York against an attack
from the Philadelphia police it would
be an army. An army Is not for the
purpose of maintaining order and re
straining crime; the German army did
not need to maintain order in ,France
and did not go there for that purpose.
Nor did the French army need to main
tain order In Germany, a country which
normally has less crime in it than any
country in , the world. In our chaotic
society of nations the army of each
is fdr exactly the purpose that the six
shooter of each individual is in the
case of the Western disorderly pioneer;
it is that each may enforce his own
view of . his rights, as . against his
neighbor,'.- .
Civilised lw Wot Used by Hatlons.
The army of -Germany or Britain is
not 'like the police force of New York,
the creations of the community of the
community t nations, that is. It is
merely the arm which each individual
has created for himself which he uses,
not according to law or rule upon
handled by new method of transmission and part played ' by auto truck In delivery' of packages from
Charles H. Chapman. Woodland.
Wash. Apples, dairy products.
Charles Collaer, box 115, R. R. No.
2, Vancouver, Wash. Chickens, but
ter, eggs.
Cooper's Poultry Farm, R. R. No. 1,
box 69, Hubbard, Or. Eggs.
Mrs. C. G. Coupland.-Estacada, Or.
Canned fruits, wild blackberries, dill
pickles, apple butter, mince meat, jel
lies. F. M. Crabtree, Laurel, Or. Soft
shelled almonds, 15c lb.
Florence W. Dayton, box 28, R. 1,
Milwaukie, Or. Farm produce.
Fay F. Dean, Tigard, Or. Butter
eggs. r
Mrs. A, B. Dentel, box 18, R. R. 3,
Aurora, fe Farm produce.
J. T. Everest, Newberg, Or. Eggs;
day-old chicks;, eggs for hatching.
. Miss Luella A. Fleming, McMinn
ville, Or. Cottage cheese, seasoned or
unseasoned.
. L. Fones, R. R. No. 1. Carlton, Or.
Efgs. poultry, honey bees. r
Hubbard Creamery Co., Hubbard,
Or. Butter, eggs and poultry.
Fred Hullman. R. R. No. 2, Estacada.
Or. General farm produce, eggs,
chickens. '
Hurlburt Farm, R. R. No. 2, Trout
dale, Or. Farm produce.
Mrs. T. Price, Edgewater, Wash.
Potatoes, sack or ton lots; high class
jellies and preserves.
H. J. Reas, Hubbard, Or. Dressed
hens, milk-fed; fresh eggs.
Mrs. Altha Roberts, Marquam, Or.
Butter, cream, chickens.
S. Saulser, Houlton, Or. Potatoes.
C. H. Schunter, R. R. 1, Newberg,
Or. Fresh eggs daily; salted or un
salted butter; daily fresh cream.
Frank Seidl, R. R. No. 2. Troutdale
Or. Two carloads Hubbard squash. -
Mrs. Albert Smith, R. R. 1, Lox 37,
Hubbard, Or. Eggs.
which the community have agreed,
but according to his own no
tion of right or justification. Each
Is quite sure, and passionately believ
ing itself to be right, that it is en
titled to use Its might to enforce its
view. But such a plea would never
for a moment be accepted In any civi
lized community of men. And it Is
because it is accepted in the com
munity of nations that that community
is not at present civilized. And until
we realize that no Individual nation
as against another Is entitled to be
its own Judge of What Its own rights
are, we shall not make much progress
to creating a real society of nations.
We are so much the slaves of words
that I am afraid my use of the word
police force will distort my meaning.
We have heard from time to time, a
good deal of an international police
force, and immediately we have in
mind a permanent international army
and navy controlled by an international
body, taking their instructions from
some international council or court. But
this somewhat Utopian development is
not by any means the sole alternative
to the present condition of chaos. The
object of the homely Illustrations that
I have just been giving was to make
clear this one outstanding fact: that
the beginnings of all society, the be
ginnings of all civilization, are the
agreement of a community to. ensure
for each the security and protection
of each;- common action, on at least the
one point which Is common to all; the
desire to protect our lives and what
we have earned In the way of civiliza
tion, to secure safety and respect for
our children, for their health and their
future.
One Flan for Permanent Peace.
! Now that principle in interstate rela
tions can be enforced without the
creation of that : international organ
Which we conjure up the moment that
we speak of an International police
force. It would be sufficient that the
great powers should agree simply on
one thing: That any one of them
which should attempt to wage war
upon another without first having the
difference at least examined by coun
cil of dilation should find all the other
great powers ranged against it. Such
an agreement could exist between the
eight or ten chief powers of the world
without anything in the way of a per
manently organized international, po
lice, or even a permanent international
body" of any kind,: without any agree
ment for the limitation of armaments.
Without any scheme for the federation
of Europe or the application of any
far-fetched plarf of world organization.
Some two years since, when the
conflict between England ahd America
became acute over the Panama, tolls
question and it looked as though
America would exempt her shipping
from tolls and denounce the treaty. I
wrote in a London ' paper arr article
which I headed, rwhy Not Fight?" I
take the following passage from that
article as bearing on the relationship
of America to Europe.. .
; "We have not gone to war, we shall
J. H. Stephenson, Cornelius, Or.
Fresh eggs in winter.
A. E. Van Eman, R. R. 2, Cornelius.
Or. Fresh cream, dressed poultry and
eggs.
Octav Voget, Hubbard, Or. Butter,
eggs, poultry.
Walnut Grove Farm. J. T. Everest,
manager, Newberg, Or. Eggs, chick
ens. Mrs. H. Wilvermuth, "Amboy, Wash
Farm produce.
Seoond Sons.
Mrs. A. M. Arant. Monmouth, Or.
Farm produoe.
"Eugene Atkinson. Sandlake, Or.
Farm produce.
F. S. Baker. White Salmon, Wash.
Eggs, chickens, fruit.
"W. R. Baker, box 32. R. R. No. .
Salem, Or. Strictly fresh eggs.
Charles E. Barclay, Alsea, Or. Eggs.
D. . D. Bathrick, Hillsdale Ranch,
Goldend ale.. Wash. Fresh dairy but
ter in 1-lb. prints.
R. C. Bemrose. Nortons, Or. Egg,
cured and smoked meats, chickens,
butter.
Charles M. Benedict, R. R. No. 4, Al
bany, Or. Chickens. -
E. B. Birkenbeuel, Kozynook Egg
Farm, Alrlie. Or. Table eggs, fresh,
sterile, large, white, clean.
M. M. Burtner, Dufur, Or, Diversi
fied farming.
John Brown, Metolius, Or. Poultry,
eggs, butter.
W. W. Chadwlck, Grays River, Wash.
Eggs and poultry.
Mrs. P. R. Crutcher, Welches, Or.
Honey, butter, poultry, eggs.
Mrs. P. Deakins. Rose Lodge, Or.
Butter, eggs.
F. A. Durrah, Grays River, Wash.
Eggs and poultry.
Elmer Ecklund. Chinook. Wash.
I Salted fish.
not go to war, we are not even think
ing of war.
"And it is not because 'blood Is
thicker than water.' For when the
blood was a good deal thicker, when
America really was of English blood,
which it now is not, we went to war,
not once, but twice; and, curiously
enough, we fought with Germans (who
have never been oiir enemies In war,
but always our allies) aeainst A meri.
I cans. So it is not for that reason that
we submit to, affronts from America
which, if committed by Germany,
would make war inevitable.
"The reason why we shall not go to
war is because war would be ineffec
tive; we could not impose our will by
war; America Is not only impregnable
in so far as military force is con
cerned, but what is perhaps more im
portant In this connection, she is quite
obviously impregnable. We could, it
is true, destroy her. navy, bombard her
ports, blockade her coasts, and by so
doing create a position far more oner
ous for us than for her. She would
be embarrassed, we 'should starve
Lancashire from lack of cotton, other
parts or our population from high
prices of food; our finances would be
chaotic from the havoc which this
state of war would make with the
British millions sunk in American in
vestments; while America, a self-contained
continent, would be much less
seriously hit. She does not depend
upon -foreign food; the foreign money
she has already secured; ,her foreign
trade is but a drop in a bucket com
pared to her internal trade; she can
far better afford to be looked in than
we can afford to be locked out. By
bombarding her coast towns we could
do some damage (not much, as all
bombardments ; proVe) to property
which is mainly ours, and which in
the end our insurance companies would
have to pay for. But beyond that
nothing. There we should stick. If
we landed armies they would e swal
lowed up in the very spaces of the
continent. Do a little sum in arith
metic: If it ' took three years and
nearly 600,000 men to reduce a popu
lation of about 100,000, inhabiting a
territory which could not support them
and having no means of manufacturing
arms and ammunition, how long would
it take to reduce a population of 100,
009,000 (something like 1000 times as
great) inhabiting a territory perfectly
able to support them, possessing per
fected means of manufacturing the
best, arms and ammunition in the
world; a population, moreover, which
possesses just those frontier qualities
which were such a source ot strength
in the Boers, and which has already
beaten us In war, not when they were
numerically superior as they are now,
but when we outnumbered them as a
nation five to one. (I am leaving out
for the moment the little element of
German hostility, which would alone
prevent the simple naval seizure of
the canal, even if the other factors did
not make that Impolitic creating more
trouble than it would remedy which
they do.)" V
James R. Forden, Hood River, Or.
Fruits in season;-home cured pork and
sausage, eggs, dressed poultry.
r C. W. Foote. Metolius, Or. Poultry,
eggs, butter, vegetables.
I KV. A. Gilkey, Thomas, Or. Eggs,
dressed hens, geese,
i II. II. Hann, Parkdale, Or. Fresh
eggs.
1 J. M. Hanslmalr, R. R. No. 2,box
60, Salem, Or. Eggs, butter, poultry.
' Robert R. Harris, Nortons, Or.
Eggs the day after laid,
i J. C Harrison,; Sbedds, Or. Chicken
and duck eggs.
i Fred Henske. Metolius. Q. Poultry,
eggs, butter, vegetables,
i C. F. Higbee, Turner, Or. Egga
(strictly fresh); dressed chickens;
garden vegetables in season.
J. C. S. Holoomb, White Salmon,
Wash. Jellies, jams, canned peaches
and -cherries. . i
i Alfred Holden, Grays River, Wash.
Honey, eggs, vegetables.
i T. H. Horning, Otter Rock, Or.
Fresh vegetables in fall and winter
months; peas, green onions.
i George A. J&dwin, Lacomb, Or.--
Fruit, butter, eggs, berries.
i Mrs. E. M. Johnson. Beaver, Or.
Dairy products and eggs.
i, W. G. Langsey, Silverton, Or.
Poultry, eggs.'
i Maple Leaf Farm, R. 41. No. 1. Sil
verton, Or. Eggs, poultry.
R. M. Morris, Terrebonne, Or.
Eggs; turkey - a j specialty; Orpington
duck eggs. ! ' , l
G. W. Newberry, Newberry, Wash.--Eggs.
.
John Orr, Metolius, Or. Poultry,
eggs, butter, vegetables.
II. N. Paul, Mabton, Wash. Extract
ed honey. ,
B. Peterson, Chinook. Wash. Eggs.
1 Pippin Fruit Co.. The Dalles, Or.
"We raise what i we sell." All kinds
j I was purposely provocative in this
article in a London paper of very wide
circulation in the hopes that the mili
tary pundit in Europe' would point out
how he proposed-to impose his will by
military means upon the United States,
and although the article was a good
deal criticised its central position was
never for a moment challenged: Eu
rope knows that it-cannot impose its
will by military means upon the united
States. And yet the United States is
in so many circumstances in a position
to exercise enormous pressure of an
non-military kind upon Europe.
Tremendous Power of America.
Why is it then that all the combat
ants in this present war are so obvi
ously courting the United States? Why
are powers like Germany, w"ho do not
apparently attach great value to the
moral respect of 'other people, so des
perately anxious! to secure America's
good will and to prevent tnat gooa win
being given to the other side? Well,
certain reasons are sufficiently obvi
ous: A conflict of thexdlmenslons now
racking Europe will be in its later,
stages perhaps it is throughout a
conflict of resources. Indeed, Ger
many has made no secret of her belief
that is almost obvious from her re
cent agitation that America has It
within her power, without firing a
single shot, perhaps, to determine the
issue. To refuse to supply any ma
terial that could be turned into arms
or ammunition of war material might
at a certain juncture paralyse the al
lies. Indeed, if we could Imagine
(which personally I certainly cannot)
America being brought into conflict
with the allies, it is quite conceivable
that she could defeat them without fir
ing a guri or without mobilizing a regi
ment. To place an embargo upon all
exports to the enemy countries would,
in the position in which they now find
themselves, be all but paralyzing. Such
a factor thrown into the balance might
conceivably suffice to tilt It one way
or the other. Obviously it is not a
certainty, but it- is something which
either combatant: would have to take
into account. i
It Is the sub-conscious realization of
this situation which in some measure
at least accounts for all the Courting
that the combatants in this war have
Indulged in with reference to the
United States. And ( believe that
America wields' herein an Immense
power. I do not pretend to measure
its strength or the ease with which it
can be wielded or a certain loss to
which she would- have to reconcile her
self in using it. 4 I only urge that the
existence of such a power is admitted
even by those most apt to think of in
ternational relations in terms simply
of physical force.
If the older nations are as anxious
as they are to secure her good will in
war, they would.be just as anxious to
secure .her weight on their side In any
alliance which they .might form In
peace. It has been a commonplace in
the .chancellories .of Europe during the
last ten years that either England or
Germany -would have given Its eye
teeth to be able' to claim the United
States definitely as Its ally. There is
stations to the train, depots.
of fruit specially packed for eastern
shipment.
J. G. Reed. Kpringbank Ksrins, Leba
non, Or. Turkeys fattened on beets
and grain.
Mrs. Jf. V. Romlnger, Underwood.
Wash., Sunnyslopo Orchards Egg,
and fancy poultry; baby chicks and
hatching eggs.
A. W. filler, Vance, Wash. Dressed
hens, turkeys, hogs.
M. C Smith. Walker, Or. Eggs, but
ter. Mrs. Fred Stopf, Terrebonne, Or.
Butter and eggs.
Mrs. Otto Btrasser, Metolius, Or.
Poultry, eggs, butter.
J. P. Summer. Metolius, Or. Poultry,
eggs, butter.
H. R. Swanson. Alpha, Or. Strictly
freah eggs in 3 doz. lots; fine young
roosters, dressed.
V. T. Vernon, Alwea, Or. Eggs.
Marion P. Wheeler, Greenleaf, Or.
Choice evaporated apples, hand culled,
evaporated Italian prunes, 8c lb.- de
livered. John W. Yates, box 120a. R. R. 4, Sa
lem, Or. Eggs; fruit in season.
Third Zone.
W. L. Martin, R. It. No. 1, Wilbur,
Or. Garden produce, poultry, eggs.
Grant Hamilton. Chewelah, Vasti.
Eggs, butter, garden produre.
Mrs. J. Dafoe, box 473, Ontario, Or.
Choice ranch butter.
-Albert C Jov, Ashland, Or. Fruit. ,
J. M. Hanslmalr, box 90. R. Ii. No.
1, Roseburg. Or. Eggs, butter, poul
try. Fourth Zone.
Sterling Dairy Products Co., Twin
Falls, Idaho Butter, turkeys.
rifth Zone.
Charles If. fcipangier, 63S Birch St.,
Santa Ana, Cal. Fancy California wal
nut meats In 1-lb. boxes, bOr. pat h, de
livered any address in Cinitcd States.
not a first class diplomat In Europe
who would not regard such an achieve
ment as historic, as valuable beyond
all political calculation. .
How Powers Would Pall Into Line.
Well, she should give her good will
and economic support to the nation or
group which undertakes definitely to
delay any military action for the six"
or twelve months necessary for an In
ternational council or conciliation to
attempt to compose the differences.
Whichever power or group precipitated
action by mobilization during that
six or twelve months would find the
United States and its economic power
ranged against it. If America were to
take that line probably all the great
powers would subscribe to the under
taking and be quite remarkably care
ful not to break it, save under the very
severest pressure.
That would be the beginning of a
world arrangement for peace. In all
probability the congress of the nations
which will settle the terms of this
peace that meeting which will corre
spond to the congress of Vienna of just
a hundred years since wiil meet this
time in Washington. From' that con
gress should develop some more per
manent council, and out of that coun
cil in its 'turn something still more
authoritative, so that fro.m American
soil would gradually grow the new
world state, giving to America still
more of real Influence and power to
guide aright the growth of the new so
ciety of nations. ,
A HAPPY BALD
HEADED I0AN
Well-Known- Politician Nearly Bald
Now Has New Growth of Hair.
Tells How He Did It
A western politician, well known i
account of his baldness and his ready
wit, surprised his friends by appearing
with a new growth of hair. Many of
his old friends did not know him and
others thought he had a wig. on be
ing asked bow he did it,' he made -the
following statement: "I attribute the
remarkable growth of my hair to tne
use of the following simple recipe,
which any lady or gentleman can mix
at home: To a half pint of water add
1 oz. of bay rum, a small box of Barbo
Compound and V. op. ot glycerine.
Apply to the scalp two or Ahrce times
a week with the finger tips. It not
only promotes the growth of . the lialr
but removes "landiuff. scalp humors
and prevents the hair from falling out
It darkens streaked, faded, gray hir
and makes the hair soft and glossy.
These ingredients can be purchased
at any drug store at very Utl cost
and mixed at home." Adv.