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Newspaper Page Textrim OHZGOI? DAILY JOURNAL, PORTLAND, WEDNESDAY, JULY 1, 1C1S. f HE JOURNAL A INDEPEKDtKT KBWSPAPKB : . PnbltrtMt Hbed vary avanlus (aceept Bandar) and "r wnoij mo re in at i Da jooraai iroua ' T, Broadway and YarahlM ata.. Portland. Or. terrcd at tba poatorriee at Portia. Of, fur tracamiaauHi larwta uw out Lis aa accooa ihm matter. - I.KPHONE3 Mala ITS; Baa. A-SOBL. AU uepartmaata rcacbad by tbea numbers. Tell "i operator wnat de partroent yoa want. 1 v-iiEJGX adtektis:no bkpresektativ i.nro!n Keatsor Co.. Branawlck Bldf., 1 J Flfta ; At.. Nw lock;, 12 la People's ra mi.. CBicato. Subacrljjtloe Urgii fcy maU or t ny ' ad- creas in ue uniiaa State or hsimsi ; . DAIt.T 0n .".$3.a i Ona month. ...... S .so SCXDaY - Oca yaa.....,.i.50 1 Ona moats.;.....! 43 DAILY AHB SUNDAY 0n year S7.CO I Ona atontb. ....... ft M ; - America ask nothing for her I self bat what she has a right to i ask for humanity itself. , I j woodrow ; vvixsoN. Mankind,- in the gross. la a . gaping monster, that loves to be deceived, and has seldom been disappointed. Mackenzie. .TO THE SKA A SHIP with a draft of 28 feet can now cross the . Columbia bar at nJean low water In , perfect safety. Such la the report of Colonel UcKInstry, United States engineer In charge of the Columbia river improvement. With seven and a half feet of tide, a vessel of 35 feet draft could cross the bar at high water. It means that the largest vessels! afloat can' enter the river, and the end of the deepening; process is not yet. . The same "report cays the chan cel of the Columbia to the mouth of the Willamette Is '30 feet.ieep except at a few shoal places, and at ; these places ' the dredges are carrying on the deepening process. Ia the , Willamette to Portland, there is a datum depth of 24 feet, which means a usual depth of 31 feet "and ; a lowest-water depth In the dry season of 26. " In the Wil lamette dredging ls constantly pushed with a certainty of an ulti mate channel that will float any vessel. V-'Such In effect Is the finding of the engineers. , The showing Is In strong contrast with conditions be fore improvement of the bar and river channel was undertaken. ,.. In the ' beginning, the available water on the bar was only 22 feet. In' one of the bar channels there is now 32 feet which means an In crease of , 10 feet with - only eight feet more necessaryrto" secure the 40 feet contemplated by the project. - The same remarkable Improve ment appears In sthe fiver channel. Twenty-five years ago vessels draw ing 17 to 18 feet of water, were fre quently compelled to lighter a con siderable; portion, of their cargoes, and. often had to wait for tide to get over' the shoal places in the river. The difference beween the 16 foot' and the present 30 foot channel from-Portland to the sea is the fruit of the work done by .the people through J the Port of Portland. For practical purposes the river channel is almost double its original . depth, and ; with the deepening J agencies 1 constantly to action, we are passing to a position In which the old clamor of rival ports about the Inaccessibility of Portland from the sea can no longer be used effectively-against us. The things v that ; have been ac complished in openingtoe harbor entrance and the river to 1 vessels of x the deepest - draft should en courage portlanders to- strive for that great maritime ' commerce which is within .... Portland's easy reach for the effort. ' 4 A PROSPERITY FACT G' IVEN Its first impetus by war orders, but stimulated since then by ther business, the Bteel Industry of the TTnltsd States la reported running at max imum capacity." ' The June report , of . the Steel iCorporatlon saya - employment "- la ; being given to a quarter of a mil lion men, and others are being taken on as fast as facilities can be enlarged. As many, more men are, said to be working with the -independent companies.' The figures are proof of a com plete revival of . Industrial activity, for "the steel - Industry has - long been recognized as the country's business ' barometer. The Steel Corporation's books at the end of June showed an' increase of almost ten per cent in unfilled orders as compared with the end f of ; May. This Is the -second consecutive monthly increase, the May gain being 2.46 per cent. In March and April there Were losses of 2.06 and -Y.19-per cent; respectively"." The. significance of these figures Is shown by comparison""; wlthre turns for -the past 15 months.' in that time there were eight In creases and seven decreases. ; The J une f unfilled: tonnage 4,678,196 t-ns was 400.00O larger than it - S3 on April 30, 1914. In the CITY AUTOMOBILES AND CITY .BANKRUPTCY! ,-.YXATION lor the coming year will have o take a decided ll-J " I upward" in Portland, says a new. article. "It adds: - , . 'AJSSL and sane birth- l ' This leaveT the city- up against the. only alternative, of d e-l ' . , " , ' ' : faulting for a period In payment of it. deb ta, iaaddltlon to eattias ; United States has developed verythlnt to the bone between now and then (March 1) and on top of both, . ml)maLtinB ft crullng radius Of Increasing the, fax levy, for next yer. , . ; ' I of S500 IwilW tbii.h t fnrthr I. A. c i inrjner euwa m ibu ww i.ua.v v.- assurance that we are not so on- can be made,, there wlU.be: a period of several weeks the first of the iprepared for defense as some peo yearwhea the, city will be without money to pay salaries and.current ple tryIng ta make out, expenses.. - , ,. - . :- - . . . . : ? ;What about the. $3000 automobile? Why not save that t S3000 Cold .storage bread la the latefit and apply iC to payment Of salaries when the city treasury goes emptyT.-.i2UOTation...at i tna TjnTersity of .Why buy automobiles ' and buy and nay chauffeurs with the city on ; :. There are "city commissioners who oppose these automobile pur chases. " Do , the commissioners who are pushing these purchases ever stop o think that waste in automobiles means to the Portlands public j that there lswaste in other things? Does the public not unerringly Is extravagance' in automobiles there is extravagance elsewhere? - ... - There is something higher in this controversy than the mere buy - Ing of a S3 000 automobile for tne Is the hig principle of commission government efficiently and econom ically administered, f - . - - HODes have been raised in this town that by the adoption of com mission government we were to have more economical government and ; they, are hopes that, .if -realized,' mean .new confidence; by' men, audi women in government. What higher than by so conducting public affairs win come true? TV But whatsis the status when automobile 'while we know, that tomorrow the city. Is to be without funds to pay salaries and expenses? ' - Why go on purchasing unnecessary things and hiring unnecessary employes without stint when.' we are the biggest tax levy, in history?" ' The ' Journal is a supporter of whole aim is to aid them. It therefore appeals to them in the name of the people of Portland to make good the claim' that commission government' is economical ' government. ... , Interval the unfilled; tonnage de clined to 3,324,592 tons, on "No vember 30, 1914. June 30, 4915. seven months , arter tnat ' aate. scored an Increase of 40 per cent. Foreign ' business , has been ? a large 'factor In this gain; but It does not account for the total ; in crease. American rauroaas ana other Lbuslpess Undertakings Pare nslnK larger ; Quantities ' of : steel. There is s steel boomU and business depression cannot 'exist ' In compe tition with It.. WHICH WOMAN? a SPEAKER at the' Purity Con A gress says woman's charm is r all --above her chin.' DUIUClUlUg, UL tUUIBO, UC" pends oh the woman.: 1 For In stance, that traditional and widely heralded tongue is located but a short distance above " the h chin-. There have been,, tongues in that geography that b.ave set the neigh borhood,' Into a status that could never,bev called charming. . Far be It from the purpose here. to deny that the loveliest things ever -Bald and. the f sweetest notes ever v' uttered , fell ; from , woman's tongue. s . But, there-? are i i tongues and tongues, : and then ,some more tongues. There are tongues with a cracker like a cattleman's . whip and there was a flady ' to whom an American poet referred as Vthe woman with a serpent's tongue." There Is the tongue that butts In and spoils the crack story some one is telling in the social gather ing, and there is the pulsating, pal pitating tongue that 'can only be stopped by death or dynamite. There Is the tongue that , back bites : the village preacher, that buzzes over everybody, in the com munity with the swish of a wood sawt . an everlasting tongue ... that never ' wearies ' or tires or takes an hour off. ' - 4 .. Our purist - can' indeed ... blow strong on the charms above a wo man's chin but, like Becky with the bear, he must be a prudent enough to exercise a little discrim ination, as to which ' woman. AROUND THE MOUNTAIN a . UKMi , x,uuu-acre p i a y A ground is a . benefit that -I comes to Portland as a result of the building of the Co lumbia River -Highway. It is :: the ; federal government's gift of a recreation park to match the efforts ,of-r Multnomah-' county In constructing the pike.. ,j The ded ication ' of the 14,000 acres adja cent to the highway was ordered by Chief Forester ; Graves ' aa soon as, by a - personal ? visit, he ; had glimpsed the fitness and the broad purpose of the program. - Along with, the park. Is the prom isepby' the "chief j forester, of . all the; influence of the forestry de partment, in behalf of the : road around Mt. Hood." . There Is In this the beginning :of a scenic de velopment to ' make Portland one of 4 the ;most assiduously , sought cities on the continent. : In the slow ascending trip of a day from Portland around the mountain - the summer traveler 'will pass through the ;: flora - of every season from midsummer back ; to early spring, and behold: every' form . of nature from the bold crags on a mighty river or the deep fastnesses of the wild mountains tb the f, far-flung wheat fields and the . rich . perspec tive of l civilization' and , "nature blended In their . loveliest moods. ;' Man in such ' a playground gets a " new " glimpse of freedom and from k nature learns anew that he Was born "more i f or liberty and living and less for blood and' Iron. , CONSTRUCT1TB POLICIES v WO important announcements iave been made -at; Washing ton One is that postof flees and other -federal buildlnes will be constructed in accordance with the needs and" importance of cities where they are situated, in stead of spending' all that congress appropriates. ; ; The' other announcement, by A . l,aV.aV 'a..a,1AaM ' avAaVWl Afl a r -Cr4 "T OP gasoline ana nire Tepairjj uiaa , the verge of bankruptcy? and inevitably reason that : If there commissioners - - exclusive use. xnerw.to be anven out or even a xiauonai end can the commissioners serve i that these dreams of better things "t - today there is purchase of-a costly told "that next year there is to be - ' . all the city commissioners and its Postmaster General Burleson; i Is that the size limit of packages for parcel post shipment has been In creased. The old rule was that a parcel must not exceed 72 inches in combined length and girth. The new rule adds ; another foot to the limit making it 84 inches, : The purpose of this change Is ' to admit eastern standard sized fruit and berry boxes to the mails, but it is of general application and. will prove acceptable to , people gener ally. If a person wishes to know whether a large parcel : is within the size limit, a tape line; or a string 84 v inches : long should be used."- First measure the girth, and then it the remaining- string , cov ers the length the parcel-is within-the limit. . , 7 , -" These two announcements have been commented upon favorably, even by anti-administration papers, as indicating a constructive policy -CtHt'T a MAnavenrn aiAi amt mYama. with a conservation reserve .clause that will benefit all the people. The. Pittsburg; 'Chronicle thinks the resident of a rural community would prefer to have a market for his products than to have his town burdened with . an ornate public building.' ' - . , HEIRLESS WAR ESTATES T HE importance-Tf -birth -regis trations has been illustrated by the registrar 1 of the Kan sas department of vital sta tistics. He has been asked to fur nish, proofs as - to the ; identity of Kansas people whom the casual ties of : war have made probable heirs to estates in Europe. But he says that on account of - the in completeness of the 'records : these reports could not always be se cured. ' . - i It Is pointed out that the war will affect the landed interests of hundreds of 4 ' thousands : and In many eases' develop a new line of descent. In Belgium, : Gallcia and Serbia, and in portions of France and Russia, whole families have been wiped out; of existence.. . The result is that estates must go to distant relatives, some of - whom live in the United States. , : In 1910 our foreign born popu lation was 13.6 : per cent of the total, and those of foreign or mixed parentage was 23.1 per cent. : - It Is the latter class that will be af fected I by conditions such as are reported from ; Kansas. The lack of birth registrations may not throw these people out of their right of descent, but It will, prove to be a serious handicap on ; assertion of the right. Vital statistics . are what their name implies, "vital" to the peo ple's welfare. The European ;war has . shown ' their value to ; manyj people, and the : lack; of sueh rec ords s has . often worked hardships in suits over wills and inheritances in American Courts. ' - New York " city's" population, ac cording to the state census just taken, Is - 5,245,812, -.n .increase of 478.929 In ; five ' years,' New York now claims to be the largest city in the world,-, unless the met ropolitan - and police - districts of London are counted. - In 1911 the population bf registration, London, was 4,522,964, but with the met ropolitan and .city police districts combined it' was 7.252,963., f Orville Wright says the ; United States needs 2000 ' aeroplanes for national defense. He estimates that the averaga life of a-, flying machine in war time Is .seven hours, and if that. Is so the 2000 would be Junk before trouble got fairly started. : A , newsy eight-page, six-column newspaper has made its . appear ance at Newport, and Is called the ; Independent Enterprise. ... It la a jcredltable publication -under the editorship of Otis H. Griswold and the business management of Cecil J. Emery. - I- ' T A.-j'i" ... -f, ' " ,i " ---"..;5- .To . celebrate her seventy-ninth birthday" anniversary a Goshen, Ind., - woman rode ' a bicycle 12 miles with the mercury at 100 de- - 7 P1Se?B,,T tlum re work T ""r ..U" . . " w" w Minnesota Agrlcnltural school." It Is said that bread thus kept will remain fresh and palatable for-at least Hve days. i The first tourist automobile to .enter " Yellowstone i Part legally iwlll' begin operations there August "L Is:It'a sign that the hoTse Is playground? - EVEN THESE VACATION DAYS ARE MOMENTOUS W. It. Chenery hi Chieage -Herald. ; pUMMEH, being a proper silly sea- son,' has -v wilting effect 1 upon ,, serious thinkers. , They retire who may to some sweltering Arcadia, sub stituting flies and mosquitoes for the minor irritatlonsrbf the routine world, Bvea editorial writers - are "bitten, by the vacation bacillus. : Tet it is a strange time for "vaca tions. 1 Was" ever the world so full of a, number of things? Nobody ' has leisure for . holiday making in Europe. A year ago and. whe across the con tinent but the workers with a capital W thought of plodding ooa. through summer?. . ".' Where today thousands of men are living in boles, scratched into the surface of the earth shooting at each 4 other 13 months ago- happy parties were a-picnicltlng. r Tonng- men were taking walking trips, knapsacks filled with books and glasses for the study of birds and flowers and strange insects. What does It aU mean? The world was 16 a year ago. Maturity seems to be approaching. The same thing has happened more than once. Eight een hundred' and forty-eight was a great year for freedom among men. Nineteen fourteen marked the begin ning of an 'epoch. ' What 'changes are being ushered In some - of us may live to know.- , , - . America ia as full of momentous happenings a is Eftrope,- Many of us now would, like to. have lived at the time of Lincoln. Whoi would not count it ' an - Immeasurable privilege to - have - stood bare-headed on . the field at 'Gettysburg and . to have listened to the priceless words of the immortal Lincoln. - "".". Tet less than decade before the great president had been "repudiated fby Illinois, when he ventured to enter the lists . with Stephen. A. ..Douglas, the idol of "a section of the nation. All : the world knows . IJncoln" and Douglas Is becoming stuff fit only for, historical societies. Who would not thrill at . the thought of having been present when Jefferson was drafting V'the Declaration ; of i Inde pendence? . Today we may be stand ing on the eve of greater things. ;r Our blood: quickens when we read the : sentencea o( Woodrow Wilson. Who, before him,' - has loosed such winged words in behalf of all human ity? Where can ' eloquence and statesmanship be found to match the president's, notes? ; The picture, of the' great max re- tiring for solemn " thought that herxcaed &0O word in length and moat b ac- may better serve .not ,, only hie own people but all mankind will sot soon be forgotten.'" ' ' - ' Or what can enkindle, men's spirits more ; than the sight r of that lonely woman gathering representatives of the nations to " mediate' upon war? For the ; first ' time in history one woman has meant so much to men that the greatest powers have deemed it wise to give her audience. ; . Miss Addams is so close to Chi cago. Her career , has . been Inter woven, warp and woof, into the des tiny of the', city. " It Is hard to get perspective. ; Tet humbly, without il lusions, she has made a beginning. . : Once at least .women have found their voice, and they have expressed an opinion that . is not man's.; The races are nobler for Miss Addams' effort. - "Bh- has not brought - the magician's peaee. But ' she ; has es tablished one of those Inspiring prece dents ' Which gain -' momentum . 'and power as time . moves on,. . -Chicago . has f Just ' passed through two ,: Important ' strikes. They . were relatively " without violence; one -was completely peaceful. That is a new thing among men. - s ..' - - , - Testerday a great strike among the Welsh miners and another among the munitions . workers at the Krupp factories , were announced.. 1 . Such - events could not have - hap pened a generation . ago. ' Partisans of each side 7 will' resent ' the action of .the strikers, and1 naturally. But that Isn't important. - , Why do the miners and the gun makers want to - strike? For higher wages and ' easier hours? 'Certainly; but 60 years ago, .with much longer hours and much lower wages, strik ing would ; have been inconceivable. The strikers would have been v shot or hung for,, high treason. r Some, it Is" true, may- be today, , but aj: the minute England Is wondering how it. is possible to Ifine 1S0.0OO men., , At this distance it Isn't possibl to' look critically 'at the strikers de mands. Of one thing we may be cer tain. . The . shoe is pinching some where For no group' of people are more national, none are more loyal . Tet - some, principle animates them which they deem of greater value than , unquestioning obedience to the government. What is that principle? jDoei lt mean i greater humanity? . Subdam - all th wortrra 'went on a . a , . jrmsDurff rrtRi; oee America iirac peaceful strike when the next war Is (But -wherever you go, travel with your uggeated. Not the -workers of,naJw coUapsxble dnnking cup. nation, but 'the skilled men from 'all J Baltimore Star:. Seems' strange for the countrfea. ' ' I ai,Laf ni2.k?J"1?;?,1i? There-could be no war. There must bea consclousnes of great power or else the miners and the Krupp work men, would - not take : the present chances.' That power is' a new' thing In the "world. ' " t11-Once Over, BY REX 'UA.-W-PT-LATT ' YESTERDAY I had a dream which " was not all a - dream -because it had a local habitation and contained the names of many persons seen often in the publio prints. -' J Th bright sun was extinguished. ' --and in its stead there rolled across , the ' heavens a great bowl of orange ice.' with frost fringing It Ilka rays. '. and all the asphalt streets that had been crawling in the heat turned into smoothclean sheets of gleam ing ice, and all the streetcars were fitted with runners: and instead of clanging gongs had sleigh bells that tinkled a merry music as the conductors rang up the fares. and the automobiles had runners too and skidded terribly. - and all the traffic cops were frozen solid in the ice. and the Benson fountains were cascades of solid crystal. . and the people were breaking the ice with hammers furnished by Com missioner Daly to get a drink. . . T And along cam's Kernel C. E. 8. Wood looking like, a Russian general In great fur coat, and cap. and on his feet were skateswith blades that turned up at both ends. and he cut .'the corners with a swoop and did the figure eight in front of The Journal building. . " v. "J He set the fashion. - and pretty soon -every one : had skates. ' nd i Claude . McColloch , swung round the corner with icicles on his beard. . , and stopped and told, me I knew what he was going to say he had never seen such a cold day-in - Ore gon. J And Oswald West came up and he and Claude shook hands- cordially. like BUI Hanley and Wes Cavi ness when, .they have 1 just made - a horse trade. , and each knows he has the best of it. - - J And across the street was Com miselorrer Dieck with an ice cream cone in each hand eating first from one and then the other. and Commissioner George L- Baker came : along on . a sled and Claude asked him why' Mr. Dieck was do ing .that. and George , said "Don't you know? ."iWby, he's Just - trying-- warmi up.": . " - '-T- " J And Jt' A. Carrey, slipped and.-f ell on upper Washington street and bruised his elbow. - V . - and said hex would . start suit -against the city for damages. , and City Attorney La Roche save a statement to the papers saying Mr. Currey couldn't 'get a cent. because his skates were dull. . J And when X woke up there was cracked ice on my head and I asked the nurse where X was and she said kindly: - - ' , J GLISTEN Just before you ' came to you said you were a strawberry nut jrundae -and must be eaten to be Letters From the People (Communicatlona gent to The Journal tot publication in thia departmsntjtaould be writ tou on onl on aid t tbcSaner. ahonld not eompaaied by U name and addreas of tba leader. If the writer does not desire to bATf tae same pnousneo, at anouia so state.; - , "IMaeosaioa is the graateai of. all reformer. It ratkmallses cverythinK It touches. - It rob principlea of all false sanctity and throwa them back on their ra-oubl9n. If they have ne reasonableness, it ruthlessly- crashes them ont of existence end sets up its own conclusions In their stead." Woodroir Wilson. - , Back to the) - Farm. Portland.. July 17, To ' the Editor of Ths Journal "Back . to the xarra" will apply only to those sons of the farmer that have left their - homes to gain experience in the . cities and find the cijties already ? overcrowded- with mechanics and laborers seeking some thing to do, and many, because they can't find it in the . country and ' if they do it is undert long hours and small : wages. The lures of the eity ar wages and pleasures and in seek ing these the sons of the former squan der what they take with them, and which they would be likely to ; place in the bank were they- to stay on the horns place In contentment. : What is wanted is to make the country - more attractive for, country life. Education can do Lthat, Just as well! as it can In the fi city, with - less extravagance. Build more school houses, build nice halls and have 'y nice picnic grounds in the yicinity of th school building. Instead of Just a bare lot for a play srround,, and not eyen ' that in some places. . But when you say back to th farm to a Worklngman it is -unreasonable when - he cannot get ; work.'.:- It - takes as much to run a farm as -it does to run a small business and a great deal of experiencs besides. What is wanted Is to get me it upon land now vacant and start them up. It takes money to get a start on a piece of land,- and a man .without any is up against It Just as much as he Is in a city, .with the dMerence that be doesn't nave to pay rent, and all the "rates" of - the city. - . . 1 ' ': OSBORNE TATESi - ' ' Peace Plan Reiterated. . Portland, July 80.-r-To the Editor of The Journal I observe some three or four - writers have Commented on my theory,. of the means by, which uni versal peace may be vsttatned, most of them unfavorably. And I notice a pessimistic editorial -of your-own, as if no earthly power can be availed of to' prevent, the diabolism of .war. ' If right minded men are Imbued with the desire tfor peace on earth ' and good will to men. so- earnestly protest ed, the task is not an impossible one. But If Mr. - Frank, one of my critics, is right, that it Is man's nature to break out in' occasional tantrums and do as much deviltry as be can on one pretext and another. Which may. be true, then the only resolvent pf this unfortunate - situation must be illus trated In a national sense. Just as we exhibit it in the police court in this city. The oulprlt must be drarged into court, cudgeled into court, if neces PERTINENT COMMENT SMALL CHAXGE , oklahomani" ' A aoaedonatar Im't a ; license for reckless drivlxvgr. 1 .' . . ...". . i ..1 . v Seattle Post-Intelligencer: What the man who has no vacation needs to do is to demonstrate the power of mat ter over mere mind. . , Chicago -Post: The big German ships of war can't ro out to work, but they seem to have found some fairly eiucienk uiue leuowg ,w ud . lor them. , . . .- ' New Tork American: Just as a man has proved that- tea can be success fully raised in this country, along come the police and threaten to abol ish the tango. - New Tork Globe: It seems an invii tat ion to disaster to name war vessels Lightning,.. Terrible,. Invincible and the -like. Tortoise, Lady Mary and Vulnerable might fare better. Boston G4obe: Marked intelligence is said to be a eharacteristlo of the immigrants now comlug into our coun try t ronvEurope. ,. It was so when the Pilgrim fathers came. s-. -.; : ... iSCi?. i-'Hi, ''.-'V. i Chicago News: Too many cooks and uousemaias nave an idea - mat tnese "Typhoid Mary" cases are all moon shine. .They-are nothing of the sort, and cleanliness ought to be universal, anywayc - . - " Philadelphia, ' Telegraph: - One can hardly- blame Ambassador ' Marye ' for resigning his post . at Fetrograd. It must, be rather tiresome to sit around al day with nothing to break the mo notony of llsteninr to the natives tell ing each other how it happened. MUNITION MAKING AT From the Philadelphia Ledger.' : Thirty cars, loaded with projectiles and cannon for the allies, are shipped from- South Bethlehem, Pa., every 8 hours by the Bethlehem' Steel com pany. The three mile works, in which 1 5, 0 0 0 men are employed night and day, are reaching their.- highest ef ficiency. Military - experts predict it wiU be possible to double the out put ' of war munitions by August 1. Charles M. Schwab,-; the president, is reported -to have obtained contracts from the allies amounting to 100 mil lion dollars. - He has astonished steel men by the rapidity of - his exten sions ' to ' transform the plant- into a bristling ' arsenal, the peer of the Krupp - works. Hundreds "of . men are at work in buildings, the foundations for which - were undug ? six months ago. - Furthermore, improvements -. to the works; including the Saucon plant for rails and structural steel, and a new Bessemer plant on the New Jersey Zinc .company site, -' are about com pleted, and will be running soon. . With 16,00 employes receiving an aggregate monthly salary of , $770,000. and the Lehigh Valley profiting by the boom,' South Bethlehem is a calm city. - Visitors may " form an impres sion In daylight -of an endless stream of. begrimed workmen,: each with a lunch basket over his arm: ' By. night, the skies are lurid ; with the glare from the blast furnacea " -- Officers-of .the allies, whose task it' Is to , inspect war materials, form the most ; picturesque -v of , South - Bethle hem's added population -s There are 15 Russians, 16" French and 10 Eng; lish officers. The inspectors former ly were 'quartered in hotels, but now have' apartments. - :v-;:.-rP The mills, it is said, "have been con centrating .ion Russian? contracts, and since June 1. 600 freight cars loaded wjth . materials for the czar," have sary, fined and Imprisoned until over his attack of rabies, by which time he will be willing, to conform to the so cial status, i Recalcitrant nations must be treated in the same way. Soothing syrup and; prayer are innocuous and vapid.: rjrorce must, unui tne tiger in man's nature is thoroughly lambasted out of it. be the only recourse for us. If civilization is r an exploded fa tuity.; andA all our protestations of civic virtues awhumbug. there is notn- Ini, h J9i ii - 11a A n-arn and wait fnr the final cataclysm, which cannot be far off. -The opportunity yet remains for s the- nations not engaged in car nage to gather under the panoply- Of peaceful brotherhood, intent on the -one purpose of perpetuating the rights of man, in which no despot or Inflamed egotist ; may set - up his - decretals against the; commonalty.- The peace compact must be ' ready , and alerts to assert its prerogative with every en gine of- destruction it may command, so that -"out" of ; the nettle danger we may pluck the flower -safety. One stern repressive lesson will suffice to make the - final disarmament close at hand. . And this day is the one to set its machinery in motion. CHARLES P. CHURCH.;. The Navy League.. Portland, July 17. To the Editor of The Journal C. J. McLaln at tacks the propaganda of the Navy league again. In the absence of Dr. Bullitt, to Whom he addresses a ques tion, please - allow me to answer for Dr. Bullitt. The question is,, "if the government wr to build . its .. own warships and merchant ships and manufacture its own guns and ammunition, . does ne think there would - be any. Navy league?" - - - . - First, to wipe awsy a few i errors: Some of the best ships of war we havs were built by the government, within its own yards and by lts5own men, the latest being the superdreadnaught Ari aona, recently i launched in Virginla. The great naval gun . factory in the Washington navy yard turns out gov? ernment made- guns, and . has done- eo for yeara 'Despite this fact, the Navy league survives the blow, if such it be INDEX OF ADVANCING ' TIDE OF PROSPERITY : ' - From the Chicago Herald. United ; States' Steel corpora tion orders full operation of sub-: aldiaries' plants.;, with total an nual pay roll of - about 1450,000, 000 - and totar working . force of about 600,000. Ner earnings for June quarter expected to exceed $26,000,000. - ' - -.. . Gary plants of American Sheet and Tin Plate company put at full capacity, "AH iCoke ovens there in operation. , 1 :',' r "War - orders - - recently - enabled American Locomotive to pay divi- t dends; -and concern now has 18, 000,000 -contracts for engines. Ir respective of -war munitions con tracts it sublet. - Backer, enjoy best year's prof Its because -of -war. : - . - The General Motors company earnings are at high rate and melon cutting in near - future is hinted. - .- AND NEWS IN BRIEF OREGON SIDELIGHTS The Democrat ' says home building Is going on .' in Baker to a much greater extent than for several years past. , . , ... The Salem Journal, havinr observed I that Portland is busy entertaining ex- jwutin iBiwrs, reiuaraa mti luey ail leave Oregon "with the idea tnat there is one city in the state and nothing more." Building note in Albany Democrat: The Wallace block is now up one story. The first floor is IS) feet, with vlenty of room lor the mezzanine floor,-and this is being gotten ready for the second story. - No better booster for the town band than the Grants Pass Courier, which thus exhorts the- townspeople: "Let's dress it up and give it some more new tunes.' Let's not take it Just as a mat ter of course, but let us make it really and truly a 'town band.'" - "Reports continue to come from the Greenhorn country," says the Sumpter American. "Indicating increasing ac tivity in the mines of that district. The reports are generally encouraging and point to still greater mining activ ity and ' consequent Increased prosper ity for that section' - . ? ; - Medford Sun: The farmers of the Lower Rogue near Grants' Pass built their own irrigation system and with the aid of a pump will put water on 2000 acres at an initial cost of about $3 an acre.. As a last resort why not dig for water in the floor of the valley as they , formerly drilled for oil? . ' a Baker Democrat: In the search for dredging ground there Is great activ ity manifest in Baker and Grant coun ties by representatives of western cap ital, and It looks like some of our most, fertile and picturesque valleys were yet to be turned into heaps of f ravel to appease the ravenous maw of he gold hunter. . - SOUTH BETHLEHEM been shipped to Vancouver.- At that port the ,-, munitions are ; transported to Vladivostok. !- v. v; ;:"" ,.--- - -v: A French officer,' who left here a few days ago, commented on the de nial by the French government that American i shells were being fired. "1 can state that no projectiles have been shipped - from"; this plant for roy nation in time to be used up to date," he , said. "But that does not mean that no - projectiles and " cannon are on their way to France." The munitions are shipped from Redington. 'the lower 1 end of the works, where - are situated' the fuse and - loading plants. - Sightseers are halted half a mile away. A tall board . fence, topped by several strands of barbed wire, forms an Impassable barrier. .Behind - them and at gates are-uniformed guards.-. -v A secret - police composed of more than one hundred detectives is main tained by the company to supplement Its . watchmen. The t detectives -r are sprinkled over" the plant and the ma jority of them work in departments where shells are made. : South Beth lehem residents, conversant with pre cautions taken to safeguard the plant. say; a -stranger .could not penetrate the ' property more than 100 feet at any point without being detected. In some of the plants workmen not only must present a number' or card, but also .must whisper, a "watchword" to the i gateman. The watchwords are changed daily. . - Although the company, maintains a discreet silence and questioners are informed - that the Bethlehem Steel eohjpany -is strictly in . business and Is not telling its secrets to the world. It is common" gossip that many cranks have visited the offices. Their num ber, however, is exceeded by- letters, each mail bringing scores of missives from , peace propagandists and pro Germans. " w ..-:..;- v."-: in Mr. McLain's conceptionr and In an swer now to his - question, if all the ehlDs. euns. shells and ammunition Nwers government made the great mass of people would yt require to be sys tematically educated on the great poli cies of government, none the least im portant being that Of national defense which the Navy league is carrying" on. u During times of war, peoples .; are educated on thins military by the enemy. . They pay a terrlfio price. During times of peace, like children, nations rest secure and agitate them selves? not with that which appears to be ' remote. - At such times, the most important for defensive preparation In fact, as the great Washington said, it requires a systematic course of edu cation to keep before the public eye the needs of the military arms of gov ernment. - ' The Navy league is not composed of military, men. Its personnel is civil. There are, of course, honorary mem bers from the army , or navy, but 99 per cent are, from the voting citlxenfy of the nation. This la proper for the same reason" that Civil v heads -were given the army and navy in the cabinet.- The fervor of professional men is eliminated in this way, allowing the full play of disinterested people to dictate the affairs , of the league. If Mr. McLaln desires to learn from first hand the alms ofhe Navy league, X will - very gladly " enroll him In our membership. . No one can have a basis for criticism of any organization until he has been stnember and studied It from the inside, whether Navy league or church or society it be. The Navy league is simply gathering together, and ..'making effective, the demands of patriotic citizens who. have been conscientious enough to keep an eye on things, relating to national de fense. This ? concentrated demand, based on study from' official informa tion, may then : be listened to by ths governmental 'leaders. ? Whether the navy -is 4 publicly built - or privately builtt this necessity to represent things naval - to the government remains the same, and the Navy league; rests upon this basis only, and not Hpon that of contract seeking firms, as stated by Mr. McLaln. JOHN M'NULTY, . State Secretary of Navy League for Oregon. V ; Oregon's' Wonderland. From th Venison (Texas) Herald. For distribution at the Panama-Pacific exposition, f tho t Portland Press club has issued a neatly bound volume entitled "Pictorial Oregon, the Won derland,"; which presents both by illustration-and description some; of Ore gon's' prettiest scenery; and especially along ' the f Colu rnbia highway, where the views are said to equal the best in Switzerland. A copy of this book-has found ' its ' tray'tx this- office,! through the courtesy - and-, kind remembrance of Colonel I. M. Standifer of Poftland, wbo-for long- years was an' honored citizen of Denlson, and who takes oc casion to invite all of "his old friends to visit the exposition and take a drive over this famous highway, a port'on of" which - is v being constructed by , the Standi fer-Clarkson company. There is no ; question but what such a trip would be orfe of the great sights to be seen ; by those ' fortunate enough to visit the Facifie coast, and in addition to meet Colonel Standifer again and with him go over the Interesting events or j jemBon s f.jt.riv navn wnn! mnr, i tnan. compensate one ror tne trials of such a long- and tedious Journey. i ir "U AUt CAII" 1? rrad taakler, SpaolaJ SUf Wrltar l - -'. Tba iomrrL "Uncle Burn" and "Aunt Jane" Veatch are .two of the beat known, most re spected and best loved . of Cottage Grove's citizens. While there recently I went to their home where 1. spent several hours very pleasantly: TJucla Burn, in spite of his S? years, was out in his garden with his hoe putting the weeds to route. Pointing to the dirt on his knees he said: "I have been on my kne)s after the weed. As a mat ter of tact it wouldn't hurt most of us to spend more time on our knees.. You want to know about. the early days of Cottage Orove? Well I will knock ff and call it a day's work. The sun is pretty hot and I was Just looking for a good excuse to go to the houso aud sit on the porch in the shad." . ? A little later we were seated in a couple of comfortable chairs and Uncle Burn said: "My name is Harvey Clai borne Veatch, but everybody calls m Uncle Burn.' My father was a Ken tucklaa. He was born in 1799. My pother, Mary Miller Veatch, was bom In South Carolina. v tier folks-were Scotch Presbyterians and come of the id covenanter stock. , I was born on November -10. is 2 8, in White county, Illino s. , I had, la all, three months' schooling while a boy. After I was grown 1 went to a writing school a term and also to singing school and I have been married "vyer 60 years and that i a school of experience that beats ail the other. .5 "From 1847 on for the next few years each spring the divides between the streams in ... Iowa bloomed with the white canvas covers of the pralrU schooners as the emigrants gathered for their start . across the plains to Oregon. The spectacle gripped a roan's imagination and it was harder not to go than to go. In the winter of 186. when I was 24 years bid, I went to writing school. One of my classmates was Martha Jane Knox. I wish 1 could .make you see her as I saw her then more than 80 years ago. She was 21 years old. he was a regular f ron- ' tier girl, large, strong, a'good band Hi theihouse or in the field. Ready to do her share and then some. Khe al ways seemed glad to be alive. She waa a Scotch girl, buxom and overflowing with life and vitality. When I saw her I knew that I need look no further for a companion for life if I could get her. "Next spring her father, Samuel Bar ton Knox, prepared to go to Oregon. I decided to go along. If he had de cided to go to China and his diuirht 'wnt aln I would have decided that v,iuua was wnere l wanted to go. Air. Knox hired me to drive one of hi teams. - Mr. Knox was well fixed, lie had Scotch thrift and was a good man ager. ' There were 10 in the Knox fam ily. He had several wagons, sn J brought along 100 head of loose cattl and 10 blooded mares. Jane, my in tended, rode horseback and drove the loose cattle every day of the nix months It took u to cross the plains. I drove the team one day and helped Jane drive the cattle every other day. "On Still dava the fine alligll Im.i kicked up by the hoofs of the hrd of loo, cattle rosef like 1 the pii lar c f V..V.UV, u uy viia.1 jea me Israelites. ' At the end of the day Jane and I wero the same complexion dust color. How much dust we swallowed I don't know but it was a plenty. We wintered hear Ralston's, . not' far from Peterson's Butta, near what Is now the town of Lebanon. i 'ln the spring of 1854 I took up 320 acres a ralie and half from what ia now. Cottage Grove; - On the day before Chrlstma in 1854 Jane and X we,e married.' Wm were- married In a lo cabin on . what is now known as tlm Harding' place. John T. Gilfrey, the county Judge, kept ar store at Clover dale and owned a mill onBar creeK. He-married us. ' "My wife had a good voice. It ha.i lots of volume and power so she was pretty mojeh in demand at cUurches and entertainments. I sang pretty fair myself. Hugh George, a brother of Judge M. C. George of Portland, and of Pressley George, had a singing school.- I - went to his school. lid came to me and wanted me to take a principal part In aji entertainment ha waji getting up. I C&ld him I only sang by . ear and . that l would not reaa music. He soon taught me the differ ence between sharps and flats and be fore long 1 was teaching a singin? school myself. I taught singing school here or hereabouts for 10 winter. r The J'resbyterlaos, Christians and Methodists went In together and formed a union church here. I w the clioln leader. , "We used to have some exciting" trials in the early days here. I was a ' Juror in the celebrated 'Hen' Mulkey case. Twice the Jury had disagreed. This was the third Jury. Mulkey had a habit of getting drunk and going to town and hurrahing for Jeff Davis and iub wwjii.BucraA.-y, ie was arrested ry the military authorities and taken to Fort .Vancouver . and confined for a month. , "He sued for $10,000 damages. Two of one Jury wanted to award him. tha full sum sued for; two wanted to allow him $30 for his month's loss of tinvj and eight of us wanted to award him $600. The Jury was discharged an.i Captain Rinehart settled' with' him out of court for $600, "I was a Juror in the trial of John Southwell for killing his uncle, George Clark, on Row- mountain. It was the result ofa feud. The neighbors took sides, and3 the coroner's Jury nearly come to blows over thecae. Campbell Chrlstman ltfd one faction of the Jury. I led the other. He was smarter than I was and won out. Z wanted to say in our verdict that a crime had been committed, lie didn't: think it was a crime to kill a person In a feud. The final result was the murderer was sen tenced to three years In thV peniten tiary for killing his uncle. I have served on Juries when United -States Senator John H. Mitchell, Judge R. f Stratton, S. F. Chadwlck, George 11. i iTiuiauin, Atva Williams euliu ffU4Je Vv. PW. Thayer were the attorneys.- Senator Mitchell was a master hand with a Jury. He could make a witness who was telling the whole truth ana notfc ing but the truth seem an If li was telling nothing but lies. Jls gcoeral! won bis cases." . - ' . They Wouldn't Be Surprised. From the Chicago Herald. Independence Day brought forth in many, quarters the expression of tha conventional idea of how greatly the founders of .this nation would be sur prised if they could today ee how much it has grown. " They wouldn't be half as surprised as some people Imagine.- They would find that the countryr in population and area, approximated what they had believed it would come to In a hundred years and more. They would be mora surprised not to find a nation such r i this than they would b to find it. They believed in America and its destiny. They would see- in this coun try merely the results of their faith. Result, of Publicity. From the Hartford Times. "Has the Income tax made any C ' ferenc in your affairs?" Theatrical Star Tea. Ihav io maKfl p nnii r rt t ' a . n. ... . to maKe good to the me salary my mana.r advertising.