THE OREGON DAILY JOURNAL, PORTLAND, SATURDAY, AUGUST 21, 1915.
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America asks nothing for her
elf but what she has a right to
ask for humanity Itself.
WOODROW WILSON.
All human situations have
their inconveniences.- We feel
those of the present, but
neither see nor feel those of
the future; sand hencewe often
make troublesome changes
without amendment, and fre
quently, for the worse. Frank
lin.
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NATIOXS GOXE MAD
THE einking of the Arabic calls
attention to the lengths to
which Berlin and London are
going in presuming on tra
ditional American friendship in
this war.
'Great Britain, in utter disre
gard of International law, is main
taining a so-called . blockade in
which no attempt is made to make
It that close and effective blockade
of German ports necessary to es
tablish it as the blockade recog
nized by rules of civilized warfare.
She justifies it on the ground of
new -weapons and engines of war
fare. Germany establishes a war zone
and, In utter disregard of accepted
. .. rules of warfare, notifies the
United States that her vessels using
this zone will do so at their peril.
She justifies her extraordinary
course on the ground of new weap
ons and new engines of warfare.
Great Britain, contravening all
her past history, has signified her
- intention of declaring cotton con
traband of war and prohibiting
its exportation to countries from
which it may fall into German
hands, all to the destruction of a
$600,000,000 exportable American
surplus. She justifies It on the
ground of new weapons and new
engines of warfare.
Germany, In complete disregard
of all rules of civilized warfare,
, is destroying ships carrying Ameri
can passengers without giving
warning and affording safety to
non-combatant and neutral passen
gers. She justifies it on the ground
of new weapons and new engines
of warfare.
Great Britain, in violation of
known and long accepted rules
of warfare, is claiming., the right
- to . Beize American ships,destined
' for neutral ports, and is Insisting
on supervising neutral cargoes and
v determining what shall and what
shall not be the trade between the
United States and neutral nations
with which this country has long
been associated in amicable and im
portant trade relations. She jus
tifies her highly aggravating course
' on the ground of new weapons and
. new . engines of warfare.
After sinking the Lusitanla and
destroying many American lives,
." and after being inforjned that
repetition "of the act' would be re
garded by the United States as
"deliberately unfriendly," Germany
einks the Arabic, imperiling the
- lives of. 21 Americans and destroy
ing the lives of two. She justi-
: .lies her course on the ground of
new weapons and new engines of
. warfare.
That Is to say, In tho madness
and desperation of their combat
- nrith each other, both London and
Berlin ' are assuming that the
United States has no rights on the
High seas and that there are few
- if any rights that they are bound
to respect. Each is making inter
national law from day to day, and
Is paying little regard to the rules
. , tfiat centuries of history have set
up as the standards of Christian
civilization.
'. Both are presuming on ancient
aad oft . demonstrated American
Xriendship. Both are relying upon
;the forbearance of a great neutral
' .nation.; whose . ways are the ways
of peace and whose ideals are the
Ideals of : justice and equality
among men. Both, in their mad
ness and desperation, are trespass
ing upon the rights and straining
the good will of an old and tried
friend.
And each, by. her act,glves pre
cedent and encouragement to the
other tocontinue in this exasper
ating" and unjust policy. When
ever "Great Britain justifies her un
lawful course by a. plea of new
weapons and new engines of war
'. fare, she provides precedent and
v encouragement to - Germany, and
whenever Germany ple'ads new
weapons and . new engines of war
fare,' she affords precedent and en
couragement to Great Britain.
Between the two, a great over
powering burden is thrust upon
the president of the United States,
and a great and profound anxiety
is pressed down upon the .Ameri
can people. 1
HAIL TO THE FISTS
FIST fighting has been sug
gested to Secretary Daniels
as a means by which the cadets-
should settle disputes
between themselves at the United
States naval academy at Annapolis.
Why not? Why employ such
maudlin sentimentalism as com
mon sense and reason in settling
disputes? Why be faint hearted
and womanish and gentle when
the true way to settle a dispute
with a brother cadet is to square
away and knock Lis block off, or
get your own knocked off?
In this day and age, there are
altogether too many mollycoddles.
Too many people have a growing
sense of refinement, and too much
desire to use reason and brains
rather than clubs and fists, and
too many of them hesitate to drink
raw blood or kick a -friend's ribs
loose. If the national military
academy Is not maintained at
heavy cost to encourage one cadet
to smash another in the face and
close his eyes with a short arm
jab or knock him out with a left
swing to the jaw, what is it main
tained for?
What a mistake it is to spoil
a fine cadet by teaching him at
the government academy to be re
fined instead of brutal and coarse
and to use his brains instead of
hin fists! We are undermining
our free . Institutions by develop
ing our minds instead of brute
strength and by our criminal dis
regard of that fine old doctrine
that misht makes right.
By all means encourage the fist
fights at Annapolis and let the
bully of the school be the popular
hero, and let him require the weak
lings to polish his shoes and press
his trousers.
Down with the mollycoddles!
THE LAW OP NATIONS
GREAT BRITAIN S signified in
tention to declare cotton con
traband is a reversal of a
Jll! 1 T 1 T4. ill T
ira.uiuoua.1 puiicy. it win ue
recalled that during the American
Civil war Great Britain protested
against the blockade of outgoing
cotton from the South and also re
fused to recognize it as contraband
during the Rueso-Japanese war.
At the outbreak of the present
war the allies expressed a desire
to avoid inflicting hardship on the
Southern planters and the conse
quent loss of sympathy in the
United States. It is now contended
that American cotton shippers, in
many cases alleged to be backed
by German capital, have been ship
ping cotton to Germany through
neutral ports.
As a justification for the aban
donment of its former policy Great
Britain will argue the radical
changes in the conditions of war
fare and in answer to expected
American protests- will cite the
proclamations of Presidents Lin
coln and Johnson designating as
contraband of war "materials for
the fabrication of ammunition."
The suggestion is made that the
allies will propose to allow cotton
to be shipped to neutral countries
in proportion to their normal con
sumption. But how about the nor
mal shipments to Germany end
Austria.
These are to fall before the old
doctrine that might makes right,
it would seem.
International law will be a sorry
looking object at the close of the
war.
TRADE EXTENSION
A FEW years ago when Dr.
Cook made his claim of dis
covering the North Pole, we
learned that the Eskimo is
very fond of gum drops. This was
a suggestion for the extension of
American commerce.
Another suggestion comes from
the American commercial attache
at Shanghai. It seems that the
Chinese are fond of sweets. The
attache thinks that they might be
easily introduced into the gum
chewing habit.
While several million of them
are already addicted to chewing
the betel nut there are something
like two hundred million that are
innocent of the pleasure of chew
ing the chicle.
If density of population counts
for anything here is certainly a
great market for the product of
the American gum factory.
As an encouragement of what
might be accomplished in this di
rection, the attache points out that
It was not a long time ago when
American condensed milk was un
known to the children of the ce
lestial empire. Now one finds
empty milk cans everywhere. If
condensed milk can ' make such
headway how easy it would be for
chewing gum.
Why worry about capturing the
trade of South America when such
an opportunity beckons from
Chlnar?
The estimate Is that there are
now 750,000 American tourists in
the three Pacific coast states. After
paying your bill for a day's accom
modations at a hotel, after settling
with the: chauffeur for a few auto
trips to show places, after buying
souvenirs at the stores and 1 stock
ing up .with, things needed for a
'traveler's wardrobe, after disburs
ing cash for the score or hundred
I things f Incidental to a pleasure :
I uur, yon wouia do in posiuon w
! form "an estimate, of what seeing
America first means to the Pacific
coast. Figure out how much each
tourist ' spends a day and, after !
multiplying the total by 750,000,
you will have an enormous sum.
THE MEXICAN PLOT
I
T is charged that a publicity or-
eranizn.t1rn has been nerfected
in Mexico to deliberately mis
inform this country as to the
i actual status of affairs In that
troubled republic.
The story has been repeated in
several quarters, but has not been
officially confirmed. The aim, of
course, is to secure American in
tervention. The Vera Cruz up-
I rising as well as the border
troubles are declared to be a part
of the program. Paid lobbyists
and paid publicity agents in this
country are alleged to be in the
service of American interests who
clamor for intervention.
The stake in Mexico Is large.
The exploitation of the country
could be enormously advanced by
the dislocation of affairs to come
from a war In which we should
send armies of subjugation into
our sister republic. In the great
gambling game which moneyed
i men In the United States are play
ing in Mexico, they would have
everything to gain and nothing to
lose by a war. It is mainly Ameri
can mothers whose sons would be
shot on the battlefields who would
be the heavy losers.
Of equal Importance but from
wholly different motives, are the
errors of American official agents.
It has, for Instance, been widely
stated that the Tampico Incident
might never have assumed inter
national importance had Admiral
Mayo not been over-quick in his I
ultimatum. It has been similarly
reported that the naval captain
who reported disorders at Vera
Cruz was stampeded.
It is a situation to infinitely dis
tress those charged with adminis
tration of American affairs. To de
cide, out of the conflicting reports,
as to what is true and what false
Is a trying and delicate duty. To
have such distressing perplexities
thrust upon the government at
a time when events over seas are
peculiarly tense and delicate is
cruel.
Not in a generation has there
been a time when poise, discrimi
nation and sound Judgment were
such necessary assets In the Ameri
can White House, and to the agree
able reassurance of the American
people, rarely have those price
less traits of character been so
pronouncedly in evidence in that
great clearing place of American
affairs.
It looks good to see the gentle
men of the Rivers and Harbors
committee making personal inspec
tion of projects, and ascertaining
from actual observation the merits
of each. By that test, Oregon has
no question as to the future, for
6he has nothing but first class
goods to show. Where in the whole
world is there a waterway serving
so great a back country and capa
ble of such development as the Co
lumbia river and Its tributaries?
The Journal now prints seven
editions daily. The noon edition
is exclusively for distribution by
the Portland newsboys. The after-
Phoon editions are timed to catch
outgoing "trains in such a way as
to present the very latest news
to up-state readers. No other
newspaper on the Pacific coast. is
as active and aggressive in serving
its readers with lightning-like
promptness and comprehensive ef
ficiency. Among the legends which clus
ter around Bancta Sophia at Con
stantinople is that of the bishop
who was celebrating mass when
the hordes of Mohammet-II broke
into the church. The bishop es
caped by walking into a niche in
the wall which closed behind him.
Here he awaits the day when
Sancta Sophia once more comes i
under Christian power. It is be-;
ginning to look as though he will
have a long wait.
The thirty-million? bride and her
husband are to visit Portland again I
next year. Mine Host Ober of the
! Portland, took pains to have them
see some of the city's show places,
and thereby made them a public
ity committee of two to spread
the news of Portland's attractions
abroad. The incident is eloquent
of how to induce Americans to see
! America first.
Of course, Americans are within
their rights when they travel on
! the high seas. But, after all, time
and events are demonstrating that
they are far better off at home.
In America, where there is no war,
there is room enough for all us
Americans, whether on business or
pleasure bent.
The Arabic was west bound. She
was not carrying munitions or re-f
cruitff or contraband, of any kind
to the allies. Her crew" -and pas-1
sengers were non-combatants. ' If
Berlin ; thought her destruction a
necessary act for military ends,
what has war come to? I
In a letter to the? Albany police
a Cleveland, Ohio, man says that
he is looking for his missing wife,
and thai he wants her to return
home to receive the "tender care
(she deserves." He adds that his
wife "took a $ 4 0 0 ? diamond pin
and forged a check hef ore she
left." ',
War In any circumstance Is a
terrible thing but when viewed in
the present height of the thermom
eter the struggle of the Anstrians
and Italians 11,000 feet above the
sea loses some of Its horror.
It is probably true as Judge
Pipes says that prosecuting attor
neys see criminality in' every ac
tion but how about the lawyers
for the defense? Can they pre
serve an unbiased mind?
The fact that the ex-president
will bring with him tomorrow that
smile which never wears off, adds
to. the welcome that Portland al
ways has for him.
The visit of ex-President Taft
will have an added interest. He
is now Grand'addy Taft.
ENVER PASHA, THE
INDOMITABLE TURK
Lawrence Blgelow In Philadelphia Ledger.
ON SEVERAL accounts Interest In
the war operations is again
strongly , directed toward the
Dardanelles region and the military
condition of Turkey. A change of
French commanders Is followed by a
change of German commanders. The
allies have landed fresh troops at
the Dardanelles, and Germany Is said
to be massing a foree to cut a road
through Servia Into Turkey- The
Russian ambitions in southeast Eu
rope are receiving renewed attention
In discussions of the International sit
uation as a whole.
Undoubtedly the Supreme power be
hind the Turkish defense Is Enver
Bey Enver Pasha now. He has had
an almost entirely free hand In Turk
ish military affairs, and to him, as
much as to the German officers, is
unquestionably due the magnificent
resistance the Turks have offered the
allied fleets and armies in the Dar
danelles operations. He is a man to
whom many sobriquets and epithets
have been applied "the Beau Brum
mel of Asia," "the Gunman of the
East," "the Napoleon of Turkey,"
"Turkey's Man of Destiny," "Savior
of Islam," "Satan in the Moslem
Drama," "Sawdust Hero," "dictator,"
"patriot." Whatever else may be said
of the 33-year-old minister of war
of the Moslem empire, no one has
yet called him a weakling. He is. In
fact, the one strong personality that
Turkey has had since Abdul Hamld
was overthrown by the Toung Turks
party in 1908. Enver Pasha, then
little more than a boy, led the revolt
against the wily old sultan.
Abdul Hamid, when he was sultan,
made Enver many offers of high gov
ernment positions, with the objeot,
it is said, of getting him where the
sultan's assassins could find him , at
a convenient time. He wisely kept
away from Constantinople, spending
his time In Berlin, where he was
military attache at the Turkish em
bassy, and a confidential friend of
Emperor William.
It was on his return to Turkey that
the world heard of this neat and dap
per young man, with his clean-abaven
cheeks and curled, waxed mustache.
The old sultan sent for him in July,
1908, to come to the capital and be
pardoned. Abdul Hamid had become
alarmed by the secret propaganda of
the now powerful Committee of Union
and Progress, in which Enver.. was a
leading figure, and in characteristic
oriental fashion pretended that he
wished to honor rather than to pun
ish the suspect. But Enver, a. Turk
with an Arab ancestry, was too
much of a Turk not to know what
that kind of pardon meant. 'He fled
for his life and abandoned all pre
tense of loyalty to the government.
His histrionic talent led him to put
on peasants' clothes and grow a
beard, this get-up being more pleas
ing to the villagers-of the Interior
than the Parisian fashions he had
formerly affected. He spoke well,
and1 enrolled thousands of young men
under the banner of Liberty, Fra
ternity and the Constitution. Other
officers were active throughout Eu
ropean Turkey and Asia Minor, but
when the revolution swept everything
before it all the credit was given to
Enver. He became the patriot and
liberator, the Toung Turk hero par
excellence. He would not allow him
self to Jte photographed, and when
praised to his face remarked that
there had been thousands of heroes
in the ranks.
The new sultan, Mahomet V, of
fered Enver Pasha entrance into the
imperial family through a marriage
with his favorite 16-year-old niece,
daughter- of Prince Sulleman. Ac
ceptance by Enver meant - that his
princess would. Insist that be re
nounce his right to four wives. But
he agreed, only asking for two years
in which to perfect his study of mili
tary tactics in . Germany. At the
end of that period the marriage took
place. The imperial alliance, how
ever, made Enver Pasha the power
behind the Hhrone and the virtual
ruler of Turkey. Or did it Enver
made himself the power behind the
throne and the virtual ruler of Tur
key. When the first shot In the great
war was fired Enver saw an oppor
tunity to launch a patriotic-venture.
Turkey at this Juncture of events was
governed by a secret society. . Men
in -office even the highest were
dominated by the Committee of Union
and Progress, of which Enver was,
and still is, the head. Ministers obtained-
portfolios only mpon condi
tion that tbey would obey implicitly
the behest of the , committee or I
promptly: produce their.: resignations!
at the Invitation of the organization.
The sultan was figurehead, as be
had been since the committee had led
him forth from the palace in which
he had been beld a prisoner by his
brother, Abdul Hamid. for . many
years, and Installed him, blinking in
the unaccustomed light of day, upon
the throne of the kaliphs vacated by
Abdul. The minister of war and
his name was Enver was the whole
government. It was he who sought
to enlist the entire -Moslem world ip
a holy war, but failed.
. ' a
Enver is a marvelous swordsman, a
fluent linqulst, a man of ascetic sim
plicity of life, possessed of a re
markable combination of the Qualities
of Idealism and practicality, of the
mystic and the man of action.
Of his forceful personality an Eng
lishman said before the war: "He
is without a single exception Z can
recall off hand, save possibly Lord
Kitchener, the most forceful Indi
vidual I have ever known, and for
sheer raagnetlo attraction . stands ab
solutely alone in my experience. In
any other country besides Turkey in
England. Germany or the United
States he could not fail of a great
career. Here the higher a man climbs
the surer he is to be marked for a
fall, and Enver Bey has been in dan
ger of assassination ever " since his
progressive spirit began to manifest
itself in his early teens. Some day
it may be tomorrow or it may not
be for a number of years the agents
of his enemies will kill him, and when
they do there will pass the sincerest
patriot that Turkey has known since
the days of Mldhat Pasha."
Tonce Oveii
BY FLE.X LAMPHAK
IN MANUFACTURING the munitions
for this howitzer of hilarity
from day to day it is necessary once
in awhile to overlook some of the
most important things that happen..
J For Instance there's the sugges
tion from Johnny Reed who plays
Jeff with Fred Dodge as Mutt down
at Gold Hill.
and it is that I write something
about the resemblance between Com
missioner George Baker and Caruso.
TBut why should I?
J And I haven't mentioned that
Elizabeth Chapin who has been danc
ing at the Empress this week.
has more discoveries that she
really needs.
and a controversy is raging al
ready. J And I suggest so that all may
share-in the honor of bringing Eliza
beth and her pink toes into the spot
light. that they organize the Elizabeth
Chapin" Discoverers' club.
with a membership limited say
to 35 or 40.
and barring some pretenders as
Rosle Rosenthal.
J Tom Conlon might be president.
and Nick Pierong vice-president.
and Frank McGettigan treasurer.
and Frank Harwood something
else.
and so on down to Rosie.
whose claims Franks says are
Dr. Cookish.
J And. of course they'd have to take
turns at being president.
and the club could never meet.
because that would disrupt the or
ganization.
aj Frank McGettigan and Charley My
ers will scarcely speak to each other
as it is.
tj Neither of them has anything to
say.
aj I've listened to them both.
arAnd another thing that I
shouldn't overlook in this mad strug
gle to get money to buy commuta
tion tickets to Oak Grove.
and that is the scenario staged
by Pike Davis at Sixth and Morrison
the other night entitled:
aj I Look Good to Myself Just As I
Am But How Wouldn't I Look Good
People in Henry's Judicial Kimono?"
j And then there's a nice letter
that came yesteraay rrom a dear iaay
who is here from Seattle.
JAnd she didn't sign her name -but
ehe says that I should make a book
of this stuff.
and get it out Just before Christ
mas.
"because" she says "you have
no idea.
"how many people would send it
back east.
"when they can't think of anything
else. x
"that their friends back there-
don't want."
aj And she says when she read the
story about the-woman witn tne yel
low feather at the publio market,
she just cried.
and the tears splashed all over her.
and her husband said she should
put on her rathlng suit.
before reading my literature but
J LISTEN, dear lady Won't you
please write me" another letter and
tell me why you cried? because Laura
Jean Libby is one of my favorite au
thors toot
Letters From the People
(CommtiDicatione aent to The Journal for
publication in this department should be writ,
tea on only one aide of the paper, should not
exceed SuO words in length &Dd must bm ac
companied by the oame and addresa of the'
sender. If the writer does Dot desire to have
the name published, be should so state.)
Discussion Is the greatest of all reformers.
It rationalises ererythlns; It touches. It robs
principles of all false eenctity and throws them
back on their reasonableness, if they hare no
reasonableness, it ruthlessly crushes them oat
ot existence and sets np its own coucluskais
U their stsad." Wood row Wilson.
The Owner of Property.
Portland, Aug. 18. To the Editor of
The Jourftal In an editorial in the
Sunday Journal I found very interest
ing matter regarding the property
owner, or rather, 'about a certain piece
of property on Washington street that
is leased at $5003 per month. While
I don't know where the property Is. to
whom it belongs nor what it is worth,
yet I suppose it was leased at about
six per cent on its valuation. If the
party who leased it thought it was
worth that much money, the owner
surely would have been able to sell it
at that time at the price he leased it
for.
I would like to ask the editor. If the
owner bad sold the property instead of
leasing' It, and had loaned the money
at six or seven per cent, would , not
this have paid the owner also a life
pension? I don't see why a property
PERTINENT COMMENT
SMALL CHANGE
Atlanta Journal: Not only In war or
ders, but in peace orders also, the
country Is showing an. Increase.
Los Angeles Times: There is a man
In Long Beach who uses an automobile
to collect the clothes for his wif to
wash. V.- v
.
-Detroit "' News: The -Standard Oil
company has struck a. snaK in China,
but will probably buy it and order it
removed.
,
Tacoma Tribune: Justice Hughes has
now ten LL. D.'n. Nobody will ever
be able to accuse him of doctoring
laws without a license.
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New' ' Orleans States: Hogs are
cheaper than they have been for a
long time, says a Chicago paper, but
it is impossible to make-our butcher
believe it
Chicago Herald: Of course he hasn't
done it as yet, but it is certainly up
to Uncle Sam to be the man who puts
the order in border as far as Mexico
is concerned.
Pittsburg Chronicle Telegraph: It
is announced that a Norway syndicate
has agreed to furnish Germany with
10,000 reindeer a a meat supply. How
about this Santa Claus?
Philadelphia Ledger: "Cost of Ger
man - family's food has risen S3 a
week." The American ' vacationists
pay about the same bonus for their
own "place in the sun."
New York Evening Post: The career
of John L. Sullivan teaches us that,
after we have squandered a fortune in
riotous living, we can still keep the
wolf from the door by lecturing on
what a fool we were.
Philadelphia North American:
France has more rifles thaa men, so
she wants Russia to send unarmed
troops to the western front. From a
distance, it looks as If. Russia would
prefer to have France send the rifles
tc the unarmed troops in Russia.
e e.
Philadelphia Telegraph: Speaking
of the copy of th Philadelphia Aurora
of August 17, V79. owned by a Park
ersburg woman, wo presume that it
contains a paragraph saying that the
previous day was-vthe hottest August
16 in the history of the weather bu
reau. NATIONAL
By Oaks.
Senator Henry F. Ashurst, of Ari
zona,, declared in Detroit the other
day after a 14.000 mile' auto trip,
that President Wilson is now 2,000,
000 votes stronger than his party.
"It will be Wilson in 1916 with the
rest nowhere," said the senator.
"Woodrow Wilson will, run because
he will have no other choice. I meas
ure my words when I say that he
will be re-elected president without
any trouble. The people will have
no other leader.". Senator Ashurst
does not believe the tariff or the
currency will Vlay much part in the
campaign. "For the massF of the
people there Is but one question,"
said he. "and that relates to the
war In Europe. The people know
they have the one man to lead them
safely through. Woodrow Wilson is
that man."
Sarcasm, bitterness, personalities
and some humor are being injected
into the gubernatorial campaign In
Massachusetts. Congressman Gard
ner, the original advocate of national
preparedness, has come out 4n favor
of Lieutenant Governor Cushing for
the nomination, with the result that
ex-Representative Samuel W. McCall
has fired a few broadsides at Gard
ner, and former Governor Eugene Foss
has come out attacking both McCall
and Gardner. This means that a fine
little battle is raging betwen the
three in the Bay State, which bids
fair to disrupt the Republican organ
ization. It is believed that McCall
intends to come out next year for the
seat of Senator Henry Cabot Lodge,
fathef-in-law of Mr. Gardner. At
present he Is regarded as the likely
Republican nomihee'for governor this
fall, Massachusetts people choosing a
chief executive every year.
A member of the Michigan legisla
ture recently made a canvass of po
owner should not have the same right
to Just interest on his money Invested
as the man who loans his money at
six or seven per cent. The property
owner has to pay taxes. Insurance and
street improvements, the man who
loans his money doesn't pay taxes or
any other expenses. Tet the property
owner should not be entitled to Just
interest on his money Invested, and
you call it a "life pension." Or does
the editor expect the property, owner
to rent his property free to the people
and pay taxes and other expenses out
of his own pocket? There are property
owners in this town now that don't
get two per cent on their Investments;
and some don't get the taxes out of it;
whereas if they loaned the money out
they could get from six to eight per
cent, and it would not be called a life
pension paid by the community.
PROPERTY OWNER.
' Birds That Have Vanished.
Albany, Or., Aug. 17. To the Editor
of The Journal I certainly indorse
the article in last night's Journal by
my friend W. H. Addis, In his plea for
our song birds, especially the lark.
I commend his verses. His poem rat
tles oft quite the same as mine would
be, perhaps : "more truth than poetry";
as I have learned in all my attempts
that there is no danger of my rivaling
INDEX OF ADVANCING
TIDE OF PROSPERITY
From the Philadelphia Ledger.
Philadelphia is entertaining Just
now the most enthusiastic group
of merchants and buyers that has
been welcomed at hotels in two
years. They are enthusiastic be-
An no- Viav SavA rnme to town with
the fattest order books it has been a
their pleasure to. tote arouno
ii. a. vsr before the European
I war began. These heralds of
4 trade say there lsevery lnaicawon
f that the coming months will wit
ness a general betterment or dusi
r... o 1 mr, that ths business will
be of substantial proportions.
MAkM ev Vint! rrtA-n wfark rater
especially to merchants and buy-
ers.i. It was pointed out yesteraay
by: f well known bonif ace that,
despite the war and the general
business depression, the buyers
came to Philadelphia last year ac
cording to custom, but they came
with long faces and lean pocket
books. A . buyer, who cracked a
smile, was considered either a fool
or a. bore, r and probably both.
From all accounts, matter have
taken a marked turn for the bet
ter. Buyers are talking business
and doing business, and have
brought to town the story of bet
ter business everywhere. -
AND NEWS IN BRIEF
OREGON SIDELIGHTS
One of La Grande's general stores
having broken the early closing agree
ment, a return to the closing hour of
H o'clock is threatened.
-
"To make things perfect," says the
Bend Bulletin, "we should now like
the address of the Redmond man who
last fall jeered at the possibility of
ttiere ever being sawmills at Bend."
Business men of Sutherlln are taking
steps to protect citizens of Sutherlln
"against people who fail to pay their
bills, solicitors' working in the interest
of various organizations, peddlers who
go from house to house and traveling
men who never spend a cent in the
town."
'.mm.
Specimen of unveiled sarcasm in Eu
gene Register: "Knowing that large
bodies move slowly, tho Register be
gan advocating a municipal camping
ground for tourists several months
ago, in order that the arrangements
might be completed by the middle cf
winter, when the real good weather
sets in and when there will be an
abundant demand for a place to stay
out all night."
a
Salem Journal: While the swimming
beach on Minto island la doing a big
business, and while the grown folks
are enjoying themselves, there is a
noticeable absence of the young boys,
for whom the bach was primarily es
tablished. In fact, the kiddles objeot
to .paying the nickel fare, and they
may now be found in bunches every
afternoon and evening, about one mile
down the river, a short distance this
tide of' the poor fsrm. The river at
this place is rather treacherous, and
not especially "adapted for swimmers,
old or young.
.
Lake County Examiner: George E.
Good, of La Pine says that a skeleton
had been found at the Prospect tav
ern, south of Crater Lake, which is
causing wonder. The skeleton is com
plete and normal except the lower jaw,
which is exceptionally L.assive, and in
which the teeth are set cross-ways to
the usual setting. According to Mr.
Good the skeleton was found in a bed
of charcoal which underlay a bed of
pumice rock in an excavation made for
a road. He states that the party of
geologists from Columbia university
who visited Crater Lake and passed
through Prospect Monday, viewed the
specimen, and were unable to account
for the strange jaw and teeth.
POLITICS
litical leaders- in the Wolverine state
and found that sentiment among Re
publicans favored ex-Senator Root
for the presidency. '
Senator Theodore E. Burton, pos
sible Republican nominee for the
presidency next year, is one of the
most studious men in the senate. In
hs youth he learned to read Hebrew
and he stijl reads Latin, Greek, French
and German. It is written of him
that when 10 years old the old men
in the village where ho lived con
sulted him about the generals, armies
and battles of the Civil war, then
being fought. He is said to have
read all Shakespeare's plays by the
time he reached 13, and to have
graduated from Oberlin college when
he was 20. Tho initial of hrs middle
name stands for Elijah and some say
he intended early In life to be a
preacher.
It has been suggested that some
of the states begin weeding out thetr
favorite sons,, and settle on one maih.
Ohio has four. Senator Burton, former
Ambassador Herrick, Governor Willis
and Senator Harding. New York has
Mr. Root, Governor Whitman and
Senator Wadsworth. Illinois has Sen
ator Sherman, Jim Mann and Mayor
Thompson of Chieago. Other states
have single favorites Massachusetts
her Weeks; Indiana, Fairbanks; Idaho,
Senator Borah; Iowa. Cummins; Mis
souri, Hadley. The time has come,
say the wise ones, to concentrate on
one and to get behind him if it is
expected to- make any d'-nt on the
forthcoming convention.
Despite the ' fact that ex-Senator
Lorimer, of Illinois, "Boss" Lorimer.
was expelled from the United States
senate and has discredited himself in
other .ways, he Is far from being po
litically dead. He is said still to
control many votes end to have many
candidates for office seek his favor.
Longfellow t al. On one of our
coldest, frostiest mornings last win
ter. Just as I had driven through our
rarm gate starting for church in Al
bany, a lark In a tall poplar tree over
my head burst forth in song. Addis
says larks have several songs. This
one is expressed in the notes sounding
much as VLjee-coo-qulch-quich," . I
never heard a bird'a song that so 1m
pressed me as did that. I told the
Sunday school children about It. for
in spite of the cold it was a Joyona
song of praise. We human beings can
well gather a lesson from it.
The other day I was telling a friend
not long on the Pacific coast about
our song and other birds in the pio
neer days, that are seldom if ever
now seen, at least In the Willamette
valley. ;
In my boyhood days, in the late fall,
the cries of immense flocks of geese
and the long whoop of sandhill cranes
filled the air on frosty mornings as
they arose from the stubble fields.
Then in the spring time the wood'
lands resounded to the notes of in
numerable song birds, to the hooting
of the grouse and the drumming of
the native pheasants. We seldom if
ever bear them now. Of evenings We
no more hear the "whoop," as it might
be called, of the nighthawk when
swooping downward, probably to catch
some winged insect. Gone is the
plaintive call of evenings of the whip-
poorwill. Gone, from our midst, at
least, is the mournful song of the tur
tledove. Quite gone are the wild pig
eons, once mo abundant- I nave not
seen either dove or pigeon for several
years. Quite gone are the black wood
peckers, once so common on our oak
trees where they nested. The cur
lew that In 1863, when I resided in
Umatilld county on Birch creek, was
so plentiful. Is but seldom seen.
Much as we glory in our wonderful
progress and upbuilding, we cannot
but say that -sad changes have com a,
for we cannot forget our pioneer
homes of log oabblns, nor the loved
ones that nestled there, nor our bird
friends that thrilled the very air
around those' homes.
CYRUS H. WALKER.
The Swiss as Belligerents.
Portland, Aug. 19. To the Editor of J
The Journal I noticed in yesterday's
number of your valuable paper a news
item, in which one Miss Edith Nance
(Nanz?) of Switzerland, who is spend
ing her vacation at Breakers, 'Wash.,
states that, out of a total of $0 of her
relatives, 10 are dead and an equal
number are wounded. It also says that
is the price even families in neutral
countries such as Switzerland are pay.
lng. .
i take it for granted that these pec
ple met their death and got wounded la
their native country, or am X unable to
grasp the right meaning of this item?
Would Miss Nape be kind enough
and enlighten me as well as a lot of
other readers of my class as to how
her relatives) got killed and wounded?
X am receiving letters and newspapers
" KAaiT turr
9r fred lootler. Special SUXf Write al
; ' THa laaraaJ. - ' -' '
1 OSEPH HARDIN CORNWALL was
I appointed Oregon's first cadet to
J west Point.
r.?,J80, Lhen 1 u years old,
Samuel R. Thurston, our delegate to
congress, asked Prairian . t-.-
L.t0 "PPf111 cadet to the United
States militarv arsriom., . nr...
fiVJ1:". mld Mr Cornwall when I vis-
" "'j" recently at his home in Dal
las. I received th inr.Mnlm.nt
which was conditional upon my being
t JtJ paBB th Physical examination.
I did not take the physical examina
tion, as I had no taste for a military
career. My father was a Cumberland
Presbyterian minister, and I had set
my mina on Deing a minister also. I
declined the appointment. I do not
ramemoer who was given the appoint
ment in my place. I know Medoram
Crawford's son was one of our first
cadets, and so was John Adair, now
living at Astoria. He is the son of
Colonel Adair, an early .day collector
of customs at Astoria.
We came to Oregon in 1846 when X
was 14 years old. I was born in In
dependence county, Arkansas, on Octo
ber s, is3z. My father, Josephus A.
Cornwall, was a native of Georgia. My
mother. Nancy Hardin Cornwall, was
born In Arkansas shortly after her
parents moved-there from Kentucky.
On the tenth of April. 1846, We started
by ox team for Independence, Mo., to
Join the emigrants who were assemb
ling there to form a wagon train for
Oregon. There were about 80 wagons
in our train. Captain Russell was
elected to have command of the wagon
train. Captain Russell took the Cali
fornia trail, going on horseback. After
the Donners and the other emigrants
for California left us at the branehlnjr
of the trail our party was cut down to
21 wagons. Captain Dunbar was put
In command? after Captain Russell took
the California trail. My part of the
work In crossing the plains wae to
drive the lootse stock. My assistant in
the work was a boy about my own age.
George Donner.
"The Donner family had a terrible
experience. They were overtaken by
winter In the Sitklyous. They camped
by the shores of a lake, later known as
Donner lake. They ran out of food
and killed and ate several of their
party. Georgro Donner survived thia
cannibalistic experience. I met him
later in California, but he wouldn't
talk of it.
ae
"When we reached Oregon, there
were only six counties tn all of Ore
gon. What is now the state of Wash
ington was then h part of Oregon.iand
was divided into two counties, Lewis
county and Vancouver county. What
we now know an Oregon was divided
into Yamhill. Clackamas. Tuallty and
Champoick counti-H. Father had the
only carriage in our wagon train, mis
carriage led to one having some odd
experiences. Near Fort Larlmle we
met a large war party of Sioux Indians
on the warpath against some othar
tribe of Indians. We gave a feast to
20 of the r.rincfpal chiefs and sub-
chiefs. When we pulled out next morn
ing these chiefs brought about 1200
of their warriors to nlve us an escort
of honor. The chiefs rode ahead of,
behind and on both sides of father's
carriage. One of the Indians who
talked some English exp4ained they
were doing this as an honor to th
white chief, the head of the party.
Father told them that he was not the
captain, but the Indian chief said 'You
are the head man or you woufd not
have the best rl:.' After traveling
with us for several hours they lined
up like copper or bronze statue along
the road and stayed in line till we
had passed by when they wheeled and
rode off across the prairie.
"At Fort Hall we were met by JeHSe
Applesate and sotne others. Captain
Levi-Scott, Jesse and Lindsey Apple
gate and some others hud surveyed or
rather cruised out u new road by what
has since been trrnod t ho . 'Appleyate
cutoff." We followed their guidance
through central Oregon by way of
Goose lake and Klamath lake. They
left us there to co ahead and work
on the road throuuli 'the canyon near
what Is now Canyonville. While we
were traveling down the Humboldt a
messenger came back to us asking us
to hurry forward as their wagons
were attacked by Indians. We hur
ried forward but when we arrived the
Indians were gone leaving; several of
the emigrants wounded. . One of them,"
Mr. Sally, died of his wounds.
"The Indians shot some of our cati
tie near Goose lake. We were so late
that we decided to winter. in southern
Oregon. The Kennedy family and our
family wintered about where the town
of Oakland now is. My cousin, Isreal
Staley, who was 21 years old that win
ter, kept us well supplied with veni
son. He had the only good gun in ths
party and he was an extra good shot.
In the early spring of 1847 Si Ntlson,
now living at Newberg, with Mr. Hess
and Mr. Rogers, came with their teams
for us and took us to the Chehjtlan
valley. Rev. Harvey Clark,, a mission
ary minister at Forest Grove, invited
father to stop, with him for a while.
We moved into a vacant log cabin of
his and father supplied his pulpit for
a while. While we were staying with
Rev. Clark. Dr. Marcus Whitman and
his nephew, Perrlne Whitman, visited
Rev. Clark. I was more interested in
their horses than in them, for of
course, I did not know that Dr. Whit
man would be massacred in less than
three months. -
"I went to Forest Grove to school.!
Rev Harvey Clark the year alter we
went there, started Tualatin academy,
now Pacific university. Here is - a.
book of poems given me by president
S. H. Marsh In 1854, I entered the
ministry and for 40 years I was a pas
tor in the Presbyterian church. I have
had charges at Lebanon, Enterprise.
Eugene, Stockton and elsewhere. . I;
retired in 1896 on account of impaired
health.
-In 1869 X Was married to Mary Fin-
ley, a cousin of the first president or,
the Oasgon Agricultural college. OiV-
of the -preachers I used to enjoy lis
tening to nearly 70 velars ago la Rev.
John Fllnn, or i'ortiana. wno, now
years old. is still with us. and is
still hale and hearty. X will be 84
my next birthday and next year will
mane my seven uwiii y eai m wi
from Switzerland, but never heard or
read of any fighting or accident of
such dimensions in that country. If
these 20 of her relatives have been
fighting in the ranks of one of the
wsrrtne nt (on a. thev cannot be con
sidered Swiss citizens any more. : ,
It Is a Sign of Approval. ...
'-n-.i.. 18 To ths V.A itrve sf .
The Journal Is it an indication of ap
n.no.1 nr- nf diaaoDroval. of what Is '
being said when a voice from the audi
ence calls 'Har, bear!" during a pub
lio address? A BOOB,
' -The Lure. , : -From,
the New York Sun.
Hint to big game hunters: 1 In call
ing a Bull Moose make a noise like
an elephant.