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THE OREGON DAILY JOURNAL, PORTLAND, THURSDAY, AUGUST 26, 1915. ;the journal w . AM INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPER "C. 8. JACKSON . . . pabllsber Published eery ereulng (except Sunday) and f eery Sntiduy morning at Tbe Journal Build r lug, Broadway ami ifamblll sts., Portland. Or. "Entered st the posfifflee at Portland. Or., for tratiismlsHirtii through the mails aa secoud . m vlux matter. " t TELEPiUJNJES Main T173; Home, A-SU51. All ' department reached ty these numbers. Tell the operator what department jouwaut. j FOREIGN ADTEttTISINO REPRESENTATIVE I BenJtinla Kentiior :.. Brunswick Bltig., T Kiftb Ave.. New York; 1218 People's Cldy.. Chicago. ' (subscription term iy mall or to any ad . dress la tbe L'alted Klatja or Mexico; DAILY One year $5.00 One month $ .50 i 'One year ..$2.&0 i One month $ -23 DAILY AND BCNDAY fOne year $7.50 On month $ .63 s America asks nothing for her jself but what she has a right to ask for humanity itself. WOOD ROW .WILiSOX. ts- It Is an excellent- rule to be found In all discussions, tliat men should give soft words and hard arguments; that they should not so much" strive to alienee or vex as to convince their opponents. Wilkins. WHAT? AKING cotton contraband is a desperate expedient. it is a heavy" blow at the trade in a great American staple. The American cotton states are the chief producers. In 1913 14, their yield was more than 14 million bales against five million Jn India, a million and a half in Egypt and 390,000 in Brazil. In morals, such a blow at Amer ican producers is indefensible. It is of kind with the German inva sion of Belgium. Great Britain defends it as a war necessity. Germany defends the violation of Belgium neutral ity as a war necessity. Both acts evidence the lengths to which gov ernments maddened by war will go. Great Britain's pledge to pro tect the cotton market,, yet to be made good is apology for her great offense against the peaceful inter course of America with neighbor nations. As Germany tore up her treaty with Belgium for strategic reasons, 60 Great Britain turns the cotton trade of the world awry for strate gic reasons. This is a war of high explo sives. Gunpowder plays only a minor role. Cotton is the base of nearly all the compounds which expell shells and projectiles from modern weapons. Cotton to be come highly explosive must be nitrated by use of chemicals. All the chemicals so required are ob tainable In Germany and Austria. Experiments with wood pulp as a substitute for cotton have not been satisfactory. Attempt at such substitution in the midst of a great war would expose a nation in a fatal weakness. A great German howitzer shoots away a bale of cotton in two shots. A six-inch field gun Bhoots away a bale of cotton in 400 discharges. Heavier cannon expend cotton in proportion. A machine gun, of which Ger many has 100,000 in the trenches, has with it reserve ammunition containing half a hale of cotton. Every German company of 300 soldiers carries with It at all times three bales of cotton in the shape of cartridges. David Lloyd-George calculates that Germany and Austria fire 250,000 shells aday on all fronts, r quiring in all 1660 bales of cot ton ndaily for artillery alone. It is further calculated that the amount of cotton fired from rifles and machine guns is not less and probably more. It Is easy to see why the London government lists cotton as contra band. It is easy to see the war strategy yof German occupation of Belgium. But what of the American cot ton producers? What of the Belgians? JUSTICE AND "LAW IN his address to the Oregon and Washington bar associations Judge Turner said: It Is not the province, of Judges6! or courts to administer substantial Justice or In fact to administer any kind of Justice. It Is their duty to administer the law. - Whether the law will promote justice between litigants is for the legislature to determine. As an abstract proposition prob ably Judge Turner has stated it correctly. The fact should not be lost sight of, however, that the law is supposed to be an efficient instrument of justice. Lawyers are responsible for the ,-most of legislation. Every legisla- i ' tare contains lawyers to whom j . at. 11 . A. M ! ineir coueagues turn ior aaviee son legal questions and the phrase ology of bills to be introduced. . Lawyers appear before commit tees in favor of or in opposition to certain measures. In ways. open and secret, lawyers influence leg islation. .On them is the respon sibility for the laws under which - AN IRREPRESSIBLE CONFLICT A FAIR. and able presentation of proposed water power legislation " was made Monday before the bar associations by Senator Cham berlain. A war over that legislation is on. The storm will break at the conference called for next month in Portland by the late Oregon legislature. No legislation to come before Congress has- greater significance Water powers are the-cheapest known energy for use in industries ajid transportation. The general potentiality of hydro-electric energy costs about one-third that of steam under present devices. Invention may further reduce the cost of applying water powers as, motive agencies. These admitted , facts create tremendous possibilities. Motive power so cheap becomes at once a great factor in life, and one of which far-sighted men .want to become possessed. The very cheapness fills men with great, desire to secure holdings of these powers because to have such holdings means enrichment. . And the powers last forever,, and If once owned, would be a means of taking tribute from fellow men from generation to generation. It is a great stake that is to be played for. The streams will never cease to flow, the wealth in the water powers will never grow, less, but always, with increase of population, become greater and greater. The stakes that seme men are playing for is to get control of these powers for personal ends so they can be used for great per sonal enrichment. On the other side in the controversy are those who want the powers so affected by legislation that the great public, now and hereafter will be fully protected against extortion and oppression. Those who are planning to get control of the powers are making their campaign in the name of "state development." That has always been the cry, when the public was to be exploited. Shrewd men who have axes to grind always talk '"state development" when they want to get something for nothing. The Oregon school lands were recklessly squandered in the name of "state development." Oregon timber lands, now largely controlled by timber barons and syndicates, were sacrificed in the name of "state development." The gift of millions of acres of land to the Oregon & California railroad was made with the understanding that the lands were to be sold at low rates in small lots to bona fide settlers, as a means of forwarding "state development," but the railroad did not sell them that way, and the highest court in the land has indicted the corporation for its failure to keep faith. Wagon road land grants were given away in the name of "state development" and the roads were never built, but the companies kept the lands. The crimes of cunning that have been committed against the public in the name of "state development" are uncounted, and to them it is desired to add another in the case of the water powers. Oregon has one warning as to water powers that should be suf ficient. The magnificent water fall at Oregon City, with its enormously valuable potentiality of hydro-electric energy, has passed into the pos session of private ownership under rights that can probably never be disturbed, and the. title is almost entirely in a single corporation. The attorney of that corporation gave public notice some time ago that no water for irrigation that would reduce the flow at the falls could be taken from the Willamette river. In that notice, there was practi cally asserted an ownership of the flow from the falls to the source of the river. These known facts as to the Oregon City falls ought to be an all convincing, warning for the people to be on their guard in the present controversy. To prevent other outrages of the kind, the Washington administration proposes legislation by which all water powers shall be leased on ong terms and be kept under federal and state regula tion. In his splendid address which every citizen of Oregon ought to read, Senator Chamberlain declared: Those who have selfish Interests oppose federal and state regulation; those who have no . selfish Interests support state and federal regulation of water power. And so it is. The big men in the corporation that owns the Ore gon City falls, the corporation that has served notice on farmers above the falls not to reduce the flow of the stream by taking out water for irrigation of their farms, are all against the administration bill, are all against federal and state regulation. courts adjudicate. On them is the responsibility of insuring that law promotes justice between litigants. EXPERT TESTIMONY DR. PAUL ROCKEY, address ing the Oregon-Washington Bar Associations, attacked the present method of secur ing -expert testimony in medico legal cases. He said: Any physician familiar with the facts, who has seen dishonest medico legal cases In the making, knows that many such cases would not be made, or would be made differently, if it were generally known that if the case came to trial the medical testimony would be able and honest and would be accepted. Dr. Rockey proposed that all medical witnesses be appointed by the court itself. It is a good sug gestion, in line with the best thought concerning our trial courts. There is no reason in the world why justice should be clouded by conflicting "expert" testimony which can be had for a price. Doctors may disagree honestly on many conclusions. But that is not the main trouble with expert medical testimony. Medical experts In court disagree largely because some of . them are employed for what they can be hired to say rather than for what they know. Expert testimony of all sorts is being discounted because it is had for a price. It does not necessarily follow that the expert is dishonest, but he will not be employed unless his views fit in with his client's requirements. The better way would be for the court to appoint the expert wit nesses. They should be officers of the court, chosen for their knowl edge and fairness, just as judges are chosen. Unless there is some such ar rangement, -the medical experts might as well be dispensed with, for Juries are more and more re fusing to believe them. USING THE RIVERS COLONEL DEAKYN. army en gineer in charge of Missouri river improvements between Kansas City and St. Louis, has reported against further ex penditures by the government on those projects. He says the $ 6, 000,000 already invested by the government has not brought ade quate return in a revival of river commerce, and his conclusion is that future river traffic will not warrant further appropriations by the government. The De&kyn report is of especial Interest to shippers in the Colum bia basin, for it is being used as an argument against development of navigable inland waterways. The Seattle Post-Intelligencer says: The river towns are . all keen for heavy appropriations for river im provements, but none of them, not even the largest, seems inclined to invest any of its own money in es tablishing transportation - lines on the improved rivers.. If the rivers are not used now, what assurance is there that they will be used after additional millions are dumped into them? The Seattle paper might have added that some of the towns do not even protect their water front against a monopolization employed by railroads and others as a means of strangling water competition. Anyway, non-use -and meagreness of river traffic is an argument which has more and more to be met by advocates of waterway im provement. It is a specious argu ment, but its effectiveness is dem onstrated in the attitude of an army engineer in the St. Louis Kansas City project. On the Columbia river, we ought to be prepared to face this con tention, and full use is the only effective preparedness. The Columbia river is the great est asset of the Columbia basin. It is of priceless value in the enor mous service it can render that vast territory. Let the people of the region study the recommendation of the engineer in charge of the Kansas City project. Because of his batting eye and dependable legs, the Honorable Ty Cobb Is offered $33,333 a year for three years by the Federals. It is worth more to Mr. Cobb to run the bases than to George Washing ton to run the nation. The city health bureau Is to determine the amount of sickness more or less directly traceable to the kind or condition of employ ment. It will probably be found that the less the work the mora the illness. Somebody got their dates mixed ! for once. Portland business ijen ' were ahead of time. Although they! were a day earlier they had a pleasant visit to Centralia, just the same. It was so warm that an editor! pulled off his coat last Sunday I evening while occupying a Forest ! Grove pulpit. Still there are those i who think the pulpit is. not the 1 hottes(t spot editors are to find, j President Wilson has issued a proclamation of neutrality as be-i tween Italy and Turkey. It is to i be hoped those belligerents will j understand its meaning better than I have their allies. j Booker T. Washington says the 1 Black Republic needs Uncle Sam's strong guiding . hand In its affairs for a few years, and the Indications are that Haiti will get what it needs. Portland's visiting lawyers are j excellent talkers, and after their trip over the Columbia highway they have something worth while to talk about. It Is too much to expect that i lawyers will agree that the pres-j ent judicial system can be greatly i improved. They live on the disa greements of others chiefly. The Pennsylvania federation oTf liquor dealers; meeting at Reading last week,- voted to give financial aid to the anti-suffragists. "With women voting," the dealers said, "the vote against the saloon will be so big as to sound the death knell for the business." Four - California hunters took eight pot shots at a companion, thinking him a bear, in spite of his loud protests to the contrary. Guns' in the hands of such men make us wonder whether the con stitution makers were wise in de creeing the right to bear arms sacred to all Americans. Elihu Root was elected president of the American Bar association by unanimous vote, but that does not necessarily mean he would win even by a scratch running for an other presidency. "WAR ORDERS" AND PROSPERITY From- tbe Philadelphia North American. AN investor seeking informatiop from bankers upon the prospects of business in the United States in the near future would gather some encouraging reports. They would dif fer, however, in their , nature. The New York banker would point Impres sively to the advancing stock market quotations, especially the phenomenal rise In Bethlehem Steel and other "war order" securities. He would tell his caller of contracts for war supplies aggregating fabulous sums, and of extraordiqary expansion in certain industries; and would explain that the railroads must benefit in directly from the sudden bulge in special manufacturing lines. The Chi cago banker very likely would have optimistic assurances to offer also; but his stimulating advice would be based upon the encouraging crop re ports, and he. would impress upon the investor the argument thai the farm yields constitute the true index of fundamental conditions affecting pros perity. If the inquirer sought en lightenment among Philadelphia bank ers, he would hear, we think, a combination of both stories. And al though the New York view is falla cious, we fear that that would re ceive the greater emphasis. Habit is a powerful factor in finan cial affairs, and a great many Ameri cans have been taught to take their financial theories from the money cen ter of the country. These ideas gain wide currency and acceptance through the New York newspapers, which echo the opinions of the speculative bank ing interests, and through the Wall street news services, which convey the inspired utterances, reports and rumors to every bank and brokerage house. Yet only by disregarding fun damental economic laws can an in telligent observer persuade himself that the flood of war material busi ness is calculated to produce sound, continuing prosperity. In a general way, the influx of new business of this character tends to strengthen the economic position of the couatry by increasing Its favorable trade balance with Europe. But there are obvious factors of disadvantage. Against the tremendous totals and high prices of the contracts must be placed the costly requirements for fulfilling them. Plants must have new equipment, in many cases must be virtually reconstructed; big enter prises must be expanded rapidly to meet demands which are obviously temporary and which are- subject to sudden collapse; as a result, Import ant departments of the industrial sys tem are being disorganized by forced adaptation to emergency conditions. Helpful as these special activities are in compensating for some of the business losses due to the war, it is idle to argue that they form the basis of enduring prosperity. It must be remembered that, while high profits are being made, the goods produced are for the destruction of life, and their use means a steady reduction in the population of Europe, the United States' chief customer. Moreover, the purchase moneys are raised by loans at high rates, assessed against the living, which means an" impairment of their purchasing power. The interdependence of nations in these days is so close that this coun try is bound to be adversely affected by the impoverishment of the bel ligerent peoples. The view which we credit to the Chicago banker, on the other hand, is scientifically sound. His calculations are based not upon an exceptional and temporary boom in certain industries, but upon the creation of vast volumes of new wealth; upon the products of th earth's bounty, which, with wise methods of agriculture, is literally in exhaustible. ' This new. wealth, cre ated by nature's own alchemy, is the product of the oldest, the most im portant and the most diversified of human Industries. Agriculture makes not only wealth, but homes. It is the fundamental life-giving and life sustaining work of man, the basis of his social organization and the foun dation of stable government. And It serves and stimulates every other activity; upon it depends the welfare of manufacturing, of merchandising, of transportation and of 'their mani fold subdivisions. The -true basis of calculating the business future of the country, therefore, is to be found in the official estimates just issued by the department of agriculture. This year's harvest is ' to be a veritable flood of wealth' for the nation a bil lion bushels of wheat. Worth as many dollars; 1,500,000,000 bushels of oats and 3,000.000,000 bushels of corn, the latter item representing J2. 500. 000, 000; 75.000,000 tons of hay, 431000,000 bushels of potatoes and so on through the staggering records of plenty. The figures are bey-end mental comprehen sion, but the forces they represent will be felt in the remotest parts of the nation's being. In them shines the real promise of the future for the factory, the railroad, the shop and the home. There is much truth In the criti cism that American bankers and busi ness men, like the , rest of the popu lation, pay less heed to economic prin ciples than do the people of any other nation. The reason is that the coun try's natural resources are so vast that the problems of existence have never been so acute here as in the older and poorer communities. Some experts go so far as to say that we have never been a self-sustaining na tion; that we have prospered by prodi gality, by consuming our capital, and that only a complete change of pol icy can save us from economic disas ter. There is nothing this country needs so much as a realization, on the part of business and financial in terests, that permanent prosperity de pends upon certain fundamental eco nomic laws and that attempts to set aside those laws, and substitute ar tificial systems or devices, must even tually bring upon us drastic penalties. Temporary booms may be reduced by speculative audacity and finacial In genuity, but in the long run It is certain that no enduring structure of prosperity can be erected except upon the foundation of rational economic procedure. The banking and commer cial interests of the country would perform a lasting service if they would let the "war order" prosperity speak for itself, and use their great influence to impress upon Americans the supreme significance of the, farm crops and their all-important bearing upon the permanent welfare of the nation. Tonce Over BY TKX.X. LAMPMAW K TIGHT before last about seven IN I saw a crowd at the corner of Sixth and Alder. and I shoved in to see what was doing. j I thought maybe Bill Goldman was making a speech on what to do for woolly aphis. j He has an orchard some place. and doesn't know. J Or I thought maybe it was Abe Hochfelt telling a story. only when Abe tells one the crowd goes the other way. j But anyway there were shouts of encouragement. and I asked the red-headed news boy with glasses who takes It per sonally if you buy your papers else where what was the matter. and he said "Oh this happens eveYy night now and hurts business. "It's a nut named Krantz get ting his new automobile started. "and the other chauffeurs help him. JAnd there were more cheers. and the crowd opened. and out came a. little bulldog of a car. with a lot of chauffeurs all around it pushing and pulling. JAnd at the wheel was Ol' Shad Krantz the plutocratic reporter. and he as calm as a cold boiled potato. and about the same expression in his eyes. JAnd then I knew it was true that he'd set aside six week's salary. and bought a car. making a small payment down. JAnd Just as the car passed me the engine began to cough. like a child that wants cough drops. and the crowd cheered. and Shad lifted his hat. and sped away. down the wrong side of the street. J And I've since learned from a friend of Mrs. Krantz who promised not to tell that the other night she and Shad started out to come over town. j And the neighbors were out to see them off. and they got a block. and the car stopped. j And the neighbors pushed it a block. and they stopped. JAnd an automobile came along. and it stopped. and the policeman came along. and he stopped. JAnd of course they got down town all right even if they did stop traffic on the Broadway bridge. but they didn't know what was the matter and Mrs. Krantz didn't go home and get her bottle of gaso line for cleaning gloves until the chauffeur looked at Shad's car in just one place and then turned and glared at , Shad and said: j "Listen What - dVu think this car's going to run-on its reputation yours T Letters From the People (Communications Bent to Tbe Journal for publication In this department should be writ, fen on only one side of the paper, should not exceed 3u0 words In length and mutt be ac companied by the name and address of tbe sender. If the writer does, not desire to hare the name published, be should so state.) Discussion is the greatest of an reformers. It rationalizes eTery thing it touches. It robs Erinclples of all false sanctity and throws them sck on their reasonableness. If they bare no reasonableness. It ruthlessly crushes them oat at existence and sets op Its own conclusion in their stead.". Wood row Wilson. Navy League Members. Weber, Wash., Aug. 20. To the Ed itor of The Journal We can general ly arrive m.t a pretty fair conclusion as to the alms, objects and good In tentions of any organization, by a partial list of its officers and mem bers, without becoming a member, aa recommended by Dr. -Bullitt and by John McNulty, of the Navy league. The headquarters of 'this league is in the Southern building, at Washington, D. C. General Horace Porter, for many yeara an officer of the Pullman company, is ita president, A. H. ' Dadmun is secretary, and Her bert L. Saterlee, a son-in-law of J.. P. Morgan, is general counsel. J. P. Morgan Sr., was one of the directors, and very deeply interested in its workings. J. P. Morgan1 Jr ' is a di rector. Charles G. Glover, president of the Riggs National bank, a branch of the National City bank, of New York, is its treasurer. Colonel Robert Tjl Thompson, a high officer in the International Nickel company, and PERTINENT COMMENT SMALL CHANGE St. Louis Star: The self reliance of Galveston cannot be hurrlcaned nor flooded out. Seattle Times: The Baltic seems to have a monopoly this year of old-fashioned sea battles. Boston Globe: One phase of the pres ent contest in Europe is to see which side will be first to get the balk out of the Balkans. Atlanta Journal: President Wilson is an example of a man who, with all the provocation in the world, has not talked too much. Chicago Post: Complete "movies" are to be taken of the British army. Perhaps this is in response to the de mand that it get a move on. ' m Philadelphia Telegraph: The deter mined man that Villa wants to rule Mexico has probably appeared to him several times on looking in a mirror. Wall Street Journal: Russian armies may be safe, but they probably feel like a pedestrian who haB Just ducked across a motor highway on a Sunday afternoon. New York Evening Post: One argu ment against the disbanding of the Progressives is that it would leave the diplomatic abilities of Mr. Perkins without adequate employment. New York Globe: A panic in a Mas sachusett theatre was averted when the orchestra played "The Star Span gled Banner." Never were the sepul chral strains of that admirable dirge employed to better advantage. Los Angeles Express: By all odds, the hottest fight in the coming session oi congress promises to take place over the plan to rout the war munitions trust and establish a government mo nopoly. Kansas City Star: Senator Theodore Burton of Ohio is such a complete standpatter tliat he probably cannot forgive the Missouri river for flowing forward. Now if he could only get a river that would flow backward! SHAPING CONSTRUCTIVE LEGISLATION From the Christian Science Monitor. The reports that come from Cornish about the way in which President Wil son is preparing to discuss, in his ad dress to congress, the issue of military preparedness, and then to follow up his recommendations with a bill back of which he and the congressional lead ers as well as the war and navy de partments can stand, are doubly inter esting. For, besides the light they shed on a phase of future national policy altered and shaped by the rec ord of the year in Europe, they also illuminate the process by which he usually compasses his ends as a party and a national leader. Many people still ihave the notion that President Wilson is essentially egotistic fn his theory of official con duct and that his policy for the na tion and for his party is the outcome of an intellectual process worked out in isolation from other officials. In short, these critics would have It that he scorns advice, resents counsel and falls to consult with men who know about affairs for which he asks con gressional action and popular ap proval. This is not the verdict of individ uals who worked with him for the remedial legislation which he carried through the legislature of New Jersey, nor of those who labored with him in shaping any of the major acts of con gress since he became president. - It is true that he defines executive re sponsibility in shaping as well as ex ecuting law more positively and ag gressively than most of his predeces sors have done, and he is not averse to deciding for himself issues that other men would distribute blame or praise for "becauso made a mutual af fair with cabinets. But his country men elected him knowing his theory president of the New TOrk Metal Ex change, Is chairman of the league's executive committee. George Von L. Meyer, former secretary of the navy under Taftf is a director and also a large stockholder in the New Haven railroad, a Morgan concern. He Is also director in the Amoskeag Manu facturing company of Manchester, N. H., and on the same league board as an associate is F. C. Dumaine, who was in on the deal with J. P. Morgan in the Boston & Maine railroad hold ings company, by which the New Haven was enabled to hold the Boston & Maine rjad. in spite of a Massa chusetts law strictly forbidding it. Mr. Dumaine is also a director in the Fore River Shipbuilding company, which is on friendly terms with the group, and affiliated with the United States Steel corporation and the Charles M. Schwab properties. These are a few of the bunch who direct the destinies of the Navy league, which Is now appealing so strongly to the American people for an enormous army and navy pure ly for protection, you know, and pure ly from motives of patriotism. And in order to push this game through they are enrolling as mem bers the most influential men In all parts of the country and posting them to write their congressmen strongly urging "the very important matter of a- very large appropiation for, the amy and navy." And should they suc ceed, in so arming and bringing on such a war as Europe now has, how many of them or their sons, would be found in the front ranks? C. J. M'LAIN. The Iiaurelhurst Concert. Portland,' Aug. 24. To the Editor of The Journal I am one of those fortunate ones . who enjoyed last week's concert at Laurelhurst park. Fortunately, we lived near and walk ing was a pleasure, and there was a happy expectancy in our hearts which sprang info almost exeitement as we neared the park and saw the throngs of people pouring into the grounds from every point of the compass. We were conscious that there had been placed thousands of benches and seats and were also immediately aware that our seats would be in the great lap of Nature. How glad we were to have brought some newspapers along. Dig ging our heels into the ground to keep Ourselves from- sliding Into the good natured backs of our front neighbors, we reposed comfortably on a bank near the music stand and en Joyed the ever Increasing crowd of music lovers. It was an Interesting sight to look across at the long flight of steps that- lead, into the park from the AnJteny car line. I could think of but one thing, an army marching, and with this . thought I. could not but breathe a prayer of thankfulness that it was an army of happy people, seeking to appease their hunger for the beautiful, longing and eager to honor a mellow voiced, gen erous hearted woman, to respond - by their presence to her genius, her ex pression of the divine within her and to the freedom with which she gave, of her best; -i-' Our glorious flag hung high, in numbers, from the great trees that surrounded the stand. They were quiet, sometimes, as If they listened. AND NEWS IN BRIEF OREGON SIDELIGHTS Salem Statesman: Three big days in Salem this week. Safety first day to day; circus day Friday; dollar day Sat urday. The Medford Sun beams as follows: "Hats off to Gold Hill, at present the liveliest community in Jackson county! May she secure the reward her ener gies and courage Justify." Baker Democrat: The .matter of quick transportation between isolated sections and the city is being solved by the auto truck. No longer is hope for a railroad necessary. The auto truck is meeting the long felt want. , The editor of the Monroe Leader recognizes in Otis H. Grlswold. who lately bought the Newport Review, a former office devil who served him when he was a publisher in Iowa, 33 years ago, and says. "We will Jaave to go over to the seaside and swap reminiscences with him." "Probably the greatest factor in the work of improving and beautifying Dallas," says the Observer, "has been the street paving. In Itself a long step forward, the better streets have exerted a great influence in other ways. A well paved street compels ad jacent property owners to spruce up, and so the silent influence extends to all parts of the city." How to heal town rivalry, as the Eugene Register would go about it: " 'The row between southern Oregon towns over tourist travel has become quite bitter,' say a the Medford Mail Tribune. Tut. tut! Won't you boys ever learn to be good? Unless you do better we will be forced to atop all the tourists in Eugene when we get our camping grounds in running shape." Snake story in Medford Mall Trib une: "Harvey Fields killed a rattle snake with 10 rattles and a button Sunday while walking on the desert. The reptile was coiled ready to spring; with all rattles rattling when Fields sighted him about six feet away. He whipped out a revolver, and the first shot clipped off the head of the ser pent. The skin will be preserved as a trophy." . of executive responsibility and power. He had defended It as a theory for many years while only a student of constitutional government; and as a state governor he had shown that what he taught in theory he put in practice when in office. The fact is that, while It Is true that he is firm, there also is the rec ord which cannot be Impeached, of an executive who. when it comes to giv ing form to policies of state or nation, insists upon collection of facts and opinion of all kinds before final ac tion is taken, and who recognizes that the final outcome must be the wisdom of many advisers. The general form and outlines of a policy he will en deavor to define as clearly as his pre vision will admit; but when it comes to constructive legislation and mating the Ideal with the actual and the de sirable with the possible, then he la all for consultation, for conference and for practical statesmanship. Conse quently when In its tentative form a bill enters congress it is his, but also other men's; men who have the same reasons for championing it that he has, namely, because they have helped shape it and have argued their case in the conference room. -. How shrewd this policy of combined manufacture of law la, and what a momentum It gives a measure, some of the president's opponents would per haps be the first to testify. They might defeat a measure more egotis tically made and championed; but a bill that starts with a minimum of of ficial opposition to it from depart mental heads or from congressional committee chairmen Is difficult to block or defeat. It Is such a bill on army and navy extension that the president apparently la getting ready to champiorr. Again, as If thrilled with the sight of the thousands below who rever enced their stars and stripes, they waved gracefully and wound them selves in the evergreen branches, as though caressing them and acknowl edging the bond existing between the great souls that created them, and the creator of the woods. Yes, those great trees were a wonderful part of a wonderful scene. I am one of those happy thousands whose heart the singer touched with her sweet tones, and I am thankful for that touch. A READER. For Concerts Out of Doorg. a Portland, Aug. 20. To the Editor of The Journal Taken as a whole the great concert In Laurelhurst park last Thursday nrffTt was a magnificent af- f-falr, and one never to be forgotten by those who were there. The extraordi nary setting among the scattering firs, the vast audience, the beautiful music of the band -and the golden notes of the great singer, all made a scene and an event inspiring beyond words to express. But It demonstrated one thing of which Portland is greatly in need, and that is the proper faculties for holding great open air concerts of this kind during the summer time something on the order of a shell stage to reflect the sound waves out so that all may hear. . While the singer was successful In making-her voice heard by all the large audience to a remarkable degree, many of the softer passages of tbe band's music were "wasted on the desert air," for many people could not get near enough to hear it. A shell stage on the order of that In Golden Gate park at San Francisco, located on the lower side of the grounds used for Thursday night's concert, facing the gradually rising ground south of it, would form a natural ampltheatre making'tt possible for many thousands to hear perfectly. The city should provide something of the kind, or some wealthy person should immortalize his name and bring blessings upon his head - for all time to come, by providing it. J. W. CREW. His O K. on Roger Williams. Portland. Aug. 24. To the Editor of The Journal I am so glad "Rog er Williams" visited Portland and went to Council Crest. He told us what he saw, and honestly that Is all he or anyone else can see. Shacks and catch penny obstructions that mar what God intended for a supreme outlook. Our philanthropists and' officials can serve our population and the thousands of .visitors best by planning and working 1 toward the securing of Council Crest or some contiguous site giving the view, tor a public park, and making a clean sweep of the ob structions now in evidence. In this banner year of tourist travel many of us, have been so ashamed of the condition prevailing on the heights that we have taken our visit ors elsewhere. Thank you for your good message, sad also for the light on th con ditions along our docks. As a lover of neatness and beauty I am glad for the message of the man who sees things as they are. .J, Dv CORBY,. V' XSCaV COUNTRY Sy mi Loekl.T Spatial Sfeu'S Wrtur ( TV. iMnul 1 5 PORTLAND and Oregon ara ricU in literary material. Ve - have no lack of literary shiiues at which to worship, and tn days to come they doubtless will be; pointed out to generations yet unbortj. The (fenera tion that was thrilleU by the ' elo quence or such men as Colonel E. D. Baker, J. W. Nesmi(lth, Ben Hayden and Delacoh Smith li rapidly parsing away. When Edwin vMarkhanv a na tive son of Oregon, Wrote "The Man With the Hoe, lie wrote for all ages. Edwin Markhani wal born on April 28. 1862. at Oregon Olty. Stop'for a moment and listen to the heart-wrung cry of the Industrial slave wIioho sweat pays for the unearneil luxuries of 'thS rich: Bowed by the weight of centuries, he leans Upon his hoe and gates on the giound. The emutlnesn of uif-tu In fu. . And on his back the burden d the world. Who made him dea-J to raptnre and despair, A thing that grieves not and that never hopes; Stolid and stunned, a brother to the ox? Who loosened and let down thla brutal Jaw? Whose was the hand that slanted back thin brow? Whose breath blew out the light with in this brain? Through this dread shape the suffer ing ages look. v Time's traKedy is in that achlnjj s.toop. Through this dread shape humanity betrayed. Plundered, profaned and disinherited. Cries protest that is also prophecy. O masters, lords and ruler in all lands. How will the future reikon with this man? How answer his brute question in that hour ' When whirlwinds of rebellion hake the world? How will it be with kingdoms and with klne-s? With thone who shaped him to thel thing he ; I When this dumb Terror shall replyl to Uod After the silence of the centuries? There is no sunlight in this poem; It has the sombernesn of a December dsyl In the vast and solemn .forests of Ore gon. Its shadows are as deep and sl black as a moonless and starless night on Memalooae island, "where reposel the unburied Indian dead of countlessl ages." Sam Simpson's noems of Oregdn will live long. lie was born in Mlaaouri on October 10. 1845. Before he wan a year old hi was a resident of Oregon His father, Ben Simpson, was em- ployed on the Grand Ronde Indian reservation. Here Sam spent his boy hood. After being graduated from the Willamette university, he read law and was admitted to the bur when 21 years old. He moved to Albany, where he formed a partnership with J Quinn Thornton. In April, 1887,' the Albany State Rights Democrat . pub Halted a poem contributed by Mr. Simp son, entitled. "Ad Willametarrf." or, to put It in English. "To the Willamette.' It Is now known a "The Beautiful Willamette." If he had never wrltt?i another line his place as one of Ore gon's sweetest (lingers and truest poets would be established by the plaintive and haunting beauty and melody 6f this poem. Every lover of Oregon knows it by heart, ao I will quote only one fltanaa: Spring's' green witchery is weaving.' Braid and border for thy side; Grace forever haunts thy Journey, t-t Beauty dimples on thy tide; Through the p-urpla Rates of morning, Now thy roseate ripples dance; Golden then when Dny departing. On thy waters trails his lance. , Waltzing, flashing. Tinkling, splashing. Limpid, volatile and free Always hurried ' 4 To be buried In the bitter rnonn-mad sea.' Ella Rhoadea, or Ella Hlgglnson, an we best know her, was born In Kansas but, like Sam Simpson and Joaquin Miller, came to Oregon while she- -wm.f a baby. Her parents aettled near. La Grande In the Grand Ronde valley. Here she spent her girlhood. She spent her young womanhood at Oregon City and when he moved to Portland' she was wooed und won by Rusnell C. Hlg glnson, who hulled from New England Mr. and Mrw Hlgglnson moved to Nw Whatcom. Wash., in the early eighties Both Mrs. Hlgglnson' and her sister t'arrle Blake Morgan, have added much to the literary fame of Oregon, . Though Mrs. Hlgglnson "hs pub lished many readable and interesting stories in the leading magazine, ann will be best remembered forher poetic feeling and Insight. She haa pub lished several volumes of poems. Pos sibly the best known of . her shorter poems 1 the "Four-Leaf Clever,' which follows: I know a place where the sun ts llkel gold. And the cherry blooms burst wlthl snow: And down underneath la the loveliest! nook. Where the four-leaf clovers grow. One la.f Is for hope, and one la fori ralth. And one ia for love, you know; And God nut another in for luck If you search you will find where! they grow. But you must have hope, and you mustl nave Taitn, You must love and be strong -and so If you work. If you wait, you wfll find me place Where the four-leaf clovers aTOW. J Roody to Learn. From the Boston Transerint. Lady fin bird store:) 'Does thlal narrot swear? ' Clerk: No, madam; butyou could I reacn mm in wee. INDEX OF ADVANCING TIDE OF PROSPERITY Chicago Indications of the be ginning of a buying movement on the part of furniture manufactur ers seeking stocks for early fall requirements were reported in the Chicago lumber market yesterday. In the local hardwood yard dis tricts It was reported there was good demand for material required in the manufacture of furniture of f the cheaper grades. Oak, birch. maple and red and sap- gum, es pecially the one-inch boards, were in demand, and it also was re ported that elm moved In' good volume to the same industries. This wood Is used in the manu facture of furniture crating. It also is being consumed in good volume in chair factories. Incon sequence of Improved conditions in . the furniture industry,- In creased demand was reported for veneers and some of the Imported woods. The wholesalers reported some improvement In the demand for hardwoods In -- carload. lota J from th outside factory trade.