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4 THE OREGON DAILY JOURNAU PORTLAND, SATURDAY. SEPTEMBER 18, 1815. THE JOURNAL AN IKDE?ENDSXT NtWSPAPtS C. . JACKHON... ... -. .Publlhr Published every evening (icepf Sonday) tod - every Buudsy morning at The Journal Build Inf, Broadway end ismnlll m Portland. Or. bntered et ttte postoftlea et Portland. Or, for . treaemlMlua through tbe Bali second risa matter. IJCLICPUONKS Mala T17S; Bom. A-O061. All departments reached by these nombera. Tail . ae operator won oepartroem jou want. rOUIJOM ADVIETISING EEPRESENTATITB BsnJ-mta A Kontsor Co.. Brunswick Bids., 228 Fifth Are,, New Xort; 121 PeopW'a Oas Bldg.. Chicago, . ubecrlptlon terma by mail or to any ad dress U the United States or Mexlcoi DULY One year., $3.00 ' One month I J 8UNDAI ' One year....... 1X60 One month $ M DAILY AMD SUNDAY Out year $7.60 l One month $ .01 America asks nothing for her elf but what she baa a right to aak for humanity Itaelf. WOODROYV WIXSOX. ES Let us not forget that every Station in life ia necessary; that each deserve our respect; that not the station itaelf. but the worthy fulfillment of ita duties, doea honor to man. Mary Lyon. ANOTHER MIDNIGHT AFFAIR F I ORTUNATELY, there is a higher authority than the grant land conference. In the resolutions adopted and in the whole attitude of the bare majority that controlled the deliberations, the conference at tempts to reverse the decision of Ihe supreme court of the United States. Thus, the resolution demands that the railroads "shall perform the terms and conditions" of the act under which the lands were granted, "and sell and dispose of said lands according to the true In tent and purpose of said act to such actual settlers." At least 1,000,000 acres or one half the grand land, is mountain ous, barren, rocky and wholly unfit . for settlement or cultivation "by such actual settlers." It Is valu able for Its timber only, and can never be used for other than tim ber purposes. ; There is no good faith in any demand that such lands be devoted to so-called actual settlement. Oa Its very face, the plan of selling such lands to so-called actual set tlers is . puerile and absurd. If done, the laryls will pass Into the hands sf Brna'.l buyers dummy buyers perhaps-and at once be gathered together by timber barons and other exploiters of public re sources at e prices far below the .actual value of the timber. If the conference was trying to play Into the hands of speculators, ' timber monopolists and exploiters, It made a tremendous success of the undertaking. Governor West, Mr. Strain, Mr. Spence of the grange and Mr. Stack of the Federation of Labor, and others, urged that in these vast timber holdings all value over the .railroad's $2.50 per acre should go to the public, preferably to the . building up of a great irreducible BChool fund for the benefit of the ehool children of the state now and hereafter. Instead, the majority, deceived and cajoled by "kept" leaders in toe packed conference made recom ' mendations that, if followed, will throw the really valuable part of ' the grant lands within the easy reach of the despoilers and looters Of the public domain. They have done over again the thing by which over and over again the valuable public lands in Oregon . have passed Into tho hands of swamp land rings, school land rings and the other buccaneers who -. have fattened npon the public re- , sources.. There were honest men at the conference: But many were unin formed. Others were deluded by the sophistries of those who, pre tending to act In the public inter- v eat were playing the frame of the railroad and the allied timber in terests. . VANCOUVER'S BUSINESS V ANCOUVER business men met the other day to consider "what's the matter with bust ness?" ' In the building of business Van eouver has responsibility well de fined and opportunity clearly stated. .tit la not necessary for Vancou , var a business men to assemble ' for the purpose of asking hazily ' Wnat wrong with business?" ' Vancouver must fulfill her mis ion or be nothing. The mission of Vancouver is to ' be the distributing center of east ern and southwestern Washington. ' ' To be the distributing center - of this great and productive area Vancouver must be equipped. ' . Equipment involves a terminal plan whore there shall be public control of waterfront, water and rail connection, and advantageous sites for Industries. ; To . have imblle docks ud rail THE FERRIS BILL-NO. 2 WE ARE told in advance that the water power conference will protest against the Ferris bill.'. . Yesterday, The Journal showed that the Ferris bill re flects the effort of Secretary Lane and President Wilson to secure legislation for development of the West, that It is an effort to open western water powers to use without dissipation, that the key note of the bill Is use of undeveloped western resources, that It pro poses to permit the use of, these resources only by firms and corpora tions as will use them, that the government will enforce use and de velopment by making the grants revocable for non-use, and that it will not allow these public resources to go into private ownership and be held In non-use for speculative purposes. Is it against these provisions of the Ferris bill that the conference will "protest," nd if so, why? What is to be the mood of the con ference if, in advance, we are Informed that these desirable and whole some provisions aro to be spurned by the delegates? There are other equally wholesome and desirable1 provisions In the Ferris bill. Thus, in that measuie, the government says to hydro electric developers and investors: We will lease you a power site for 50 years at a fair rental for the land based upon the value of the use to which it is to be put. This rental will be fixed at the beginning of the lease. You will get your water rights from the states. The government will charge you no taxes. If you do interstate or territorial business where the state has no power of regulation, we will regulate your business to see that you give your consumers a fair deal. Where there is state regulation, the Btate will regulate the business. All that will be required of you to keep your lease for 60 years will be to develop electricity, pay your rent, which will be nominal, and obey the law. At the end of 50 years, We will either renew your lease on terms which conditions at that time make reasonable, or will see that you get paid the fair value of your property If the government, state or community wants the plant, or if you fail to renew and somebody else gets the new lease. An assurance of being allowed to do business for 50 years, with a guarantee of full value for the property if the lease is not renewed, seems like an unusually fair and even liberal provision for a lease. A business that cannot be made to pay a fair return in 50 years Is not a business in which any sane man should invest money. To the people of the state in which the power site is located, the Ferris bill says in effect: The federal government proposes to retain title to this property, and to lease it for 50 years. As the property now stands, it is not taxable, and Is doing nobody anjr good, despite its great potential value. By leasing it, the federal govern ment will make possible the creation of new industries and new riches for the people of your state. The leasing will be followed by the con struction of buildings and plants that will be valuable and taxable. The lease Itself may be taxed if the state so desires. The state will Qo&trol the water, and whenever there is state regulation, the Etatfl'will be given full power to regulate the intra-state business of those who make and sell this power. What fairer provisions for legitimate investors! What fairer previsions for the state and the public! Is it to these provisions that we are told in advance that the gentlemen of the conference will object? If so, what do they want? With its terms so reasonable and so Just, why will the Ferris bill be protested by the watc power conference? terminal facilities and well chosen locations for industries will be a great step forward, but it will not be enough. Vancouver must measure the field of possible business. Her business men should set about learning with exactness the wants and products of the area. It is excellent to have handling facili ties, but the work is not complete without commodities to "handle. Vancouver has opportunity far beyond that of most cities. It is an opportunity that has been neg lected too long. ' It is an opportu nity that indifference, apathy or sluggishness may lose. It is an opportunity that prompt and de cisive action will materialize be yemd the reach of any present pre diction. Vancouver had a waterfront of 13 00 feet but let the railroads ob tain .control of it. Vancouver should not rest until control has been recovered and a definite ter minal plan has been started. Let Vancouver do the obvious thing for business and there will he no time for any such question as "What's wronej with business?" CANADA'S WHEAT DUTY CANADA is unable to get top prices for its wheat, and the dominion's duty on Imports of the cereal Is blamed. The Winnipeg price is lower by several cents than the Chicago price, and Canadians are wondering whether protection can always be depended upon to protect the producer. The Toronto Globe says: If ocean tonnage to carry out Cana da's (treat crop this season is scarce, aa it promises to be, and if the banks refuse to make liberal advances on wheat held in storage, -the grain rrowers of the west will be con fronted with the necessity of selling aome part of their magnificent crop at sacrifice prices, and the spread .be tween quotations on Canadian and Untied Statea markets will Increase. Canada is not hampered by the lack of ships more than Is the United States. Removal of the duty on American wheat was re fused, largely in the interest of companies engaged in transporta tion by way of the St. Lawrence, and for that reason there is a duty on Canadian wheat entering the United States. The plan has not worked out to the advantage of the wheat growers. He has "protection," but the price of his wheat is lower than he has a risht to expect. He has been feeding the transporta tion companies, rather than taking full advantage of the world's mar kets. It is another illustration of protection working to the advan tage of favored interests rather than the people as a whole. THE LIBERALIZED DUMA JUST what is happening In Rus sia is obscure, but the proro gation of the duma indicates that the country may be facing an Internal crisis. There is a contest between lib eral and reactionary Russia. The liberals had secured control of the lower legislative body, displacing the conservative working majority upon which the government rested. The new majority is said to have agreed upon a program of reforms, Including autonomy for Poland, larger freedom for the Flnn3, lib eral treatment for the Jews, am nesty for political and religious prisoners, and recognition of trades unions. Some of these reforms have been definitely promised, but the time and method of granting them in volve a question of power. No re form program can be put into ef fect without the approval of the council of the empire, which is the upper house in Russia's legislative system. The council is controlled by the reactionaries, and, the pre sumption is that they do not care at this time to assume the respon sibility of rejecting the duma's pro gram. It is probable that proro gation was decided upon to avoid lacing definite issues. When the war started it was pre dicted that Russia would come out of it a more liberal nation. But it Is evident that the progressive ele ment has the Russian autocracy to fight. The situation is Interesting, and especially so because members of the Liberal party have an nounced their determination to have the duma meet again in a few weeks just as the French cham ber of deputies met in 17S9 after Louis XVI had ordered the mem bers to go home. If tho Liberals carry out their promise, what will the reaction aries do about it? Evidently Rus sia stands on the threshold of eventuatlons that nay involve con sequential change. Lafayette Young, editor of the Des Moines Capital, and former Republican senator, from Iowa, de clared In Portland that President Wilson is entitled at this time to the undivided support of every loyal American. If Mr. Young was right, what about the president's carping critics here in Portland? The American merchant marine is .now placed second among those of the nations. But this position is given it by including in the total our coastwise and lake ships and boats that ply the rivers. It sounds good to hear that we are second, but the statement hardly stands analysis. District Attorney Neuner, of Roseburg, wants to know whether the Oregon Sunday closing law ap plies to baseball games where ad mission is charged. It may be a live question in Roseburg, but Portland fans refuse to worry about it, or about the score, either. The president of the Women's Homestead association wants ste nographers protected by iron cages during working hours, but the St. Louis Star asks whether baseball masks would not do as well. The entire membership of Aus tralia's house of representatives have pledged themselves never again ta buy German goods. Such a pledge is foolish, for it won't stand the test of time. Jane Addams has Just celebrated her fifty-fifth birthday anniversary, something few unmarried women of 55 care to do. But everybody says Miss Addams is exceptional. A New York young woman with ftage aspirations has sued the grandson of John Wanamaker for $100,000 damages for alleged breach of promise. There has been a lot of peace talk in the air, which causes the Chicago News to say that is where the peacemakers are, too. American meat products valued at J15.000.000 -shipped to Den mark last October, have been con fiscated by Great Britain. House wives are not Interested so much in the International law question as they are in the. possibility of beefsteak going up in price to re imburse the packers, for their losses. The big argument against the pacificists just now is "it won't work." Well, militarism has been working overtime for a considera ble spell, and yet nobody is brag ging about what it has done for nations or for humanity as a whole. John D. Rockefeller has been decorated by Serbia in recognition of relief work in that country by the Rockefeller Foundation. That's good news, for now it can't be said John D. has no admirers. KEEPING GOVERNMENT CIPHER CODES SECRET From the Literary Digest. WHEN von Jagow and Lansing exchange correspondence con cerning; neutral shlppinr and submarines, the notea, aa we know, ere laboriously coded and gent to the (sender's representative in the other'a country, there to be as la boriously decoded and translated before they can be presented to the addressee. What would happen should such messages be sent in plain English or German nobody seems to know. "Abracadabra" la the accepted language of diplomacy, and continues to be used without question. Manifestly, however, there are many messages sent by this government to its various departmenta and represen tatives concerning the purport of which secrecy is the prime essential. To this end, each department of the government has its own code, and these are guai4ed with the utmost vigilance. Copter of these are en trusted only to the chosen few, but in 6pite of this and other precautions several copies have at different times escaped. In the Ban Francisco Times Illustrated Weekly, Harry B. Klrt land. former military code expert of the war department, states that fKe war department has been the one to suffer most, aa when, for example, several copies of its code disappeared in the San Francisco eathquake. He gives us one story to illustrate the pains taken at time to frustrate code thefts: "When Secretary of Embassy O'Shaughnessy and his party left Mex ico City for Vera Crus in 1914, Cap tain William A. Burnslde, U. S. A., our military attache, fearing theft of his baggage, carried his copy of the war department code In his hands. His trunks were broken Into and searched surreptitiously, and while on the train the attache, in the presence of American witnesses, burne his code, leaf by leaf, igniting it "from cigarettes. The witnesses swore to this, and on filing their affidavits at the war department the officer was relieved from all responsibility." In contrast to this story, however, is one of rare opportunity lost by for eign spies: "Not long ago, a thousand copies of the war department code, lying in a covered, but unfastened, box In the war department attic, in an open room, visited daily by hundreds of curious tourists for a view across the city, were accidentally discovered by a clerk. Bound in gold and mo rocco, they would have been rare sou venirs of Washington. Investigation proved that they had lain there, for gotten, for eight years. Not one was missing." We are told that the navy depart ment code is weighted with lead, and every commander is supposed to throw it overboard in the event of capture. But in spite of this rule at least two copies have disappeared. Only one code appears to have been kept wholly inviolable that of the bureau of in Bular affairs, and this one has never bee.n printed. We read: "Its compiler, an expert codist In the office of the chief of that bureau, personally typed It on thin sheets, making four copies, which were then bound. One was sent by special mes senger to the governor general of the Philippine islands, another to the governor of Porto Rico, a third was retained in the bureau, and the fourth is in the hands of a trusted govern ment officer who, for confidential rea sons, can not be named. No other copies exist, and the four made are guarded with the utmost vigilance. It Is the vehicle of secret communica tion between the government and our colonial possessions, and is the only government code in whose certain secrecy absolute confidence is placed. Only the most vitally Important mes sages coded in it are further protected ly enciphering, and its use obviates the delay inevitable in enciphering" end deciphering Important messages coded in the more widely distributed departmental codes. It Is the one really secret code of the United Staters." But a code discovered does not necessarily mean that all efforts at secrecy by the particular department affected are completely frustrated; for a message already coddd can later be enciphered, whereupon the posses sion of a specimen code book Is of no avail to the apy who waylays the message. He must have the cipher key word aa well, and, aa we learn, these are kept secret most effectu ally: "These key words are never pot into writing. High officers leaving Washington for foreign stations re ceive them orally, and commit them to memory. One famous commanding general in the Philippine, at a criti cal stage of our foreign relations sev eral years ago, forgot the key word, and a young officer mads the lone trip from Washington to Manila to repeat It to biro. This Is common rractlce In the navy, and .it is not unusual for officers whose only mis sion Is to deliver orally a cipher key word to be sent on such missions half round the world. The secrecy of our government ciphers, as used in con nection with the codes, is, for all practical purposes, absolute. It rests In the honor and fidelity of trusted and patriotic officers, and not one iota on any written book or paper." Letters From the People I Communication sent ' to The Journal for llcation In this department should be writ, tea on only one side of tbe paper, sbuuld not exceed 800 word In length and must b ac companied by tbe nam and sddress of tbe aender. If tbe writer doe not deilre to have lb uame published, be should ao lUtl.) Discussion la the greatest of all reformer. It rationalises everything It touches. It rob Srlnclples of all falsa sanctity end throw them ark on their reasonableness. If they bar u reasonableness. It ruthlessly crushes tbem out ot existence and sets up It own conclusions in X&mu stead." Woodrovr WUson. Safeguarding Munitions. Albany, Or., Sept. 14. To the Edi tor of The Journal It is certainly all right for us to sell munitions of war wherever we can; but, now, on the square, ia it not Just a little bit raw to insist on a safe conduct for them? It begins to look as if the munition manufacturers and some shrewd He publicans are putting one over on our president. He is easily the most popu lar man in the country today; but a war over a few foolish people who un necessarily insist on riding on bellig erent vessels, and the munition chaps, would certainly queer him when we all found out what it was really about. We all know that there is quite a noisy bunch that is taking good care of our honor -when it comes in contact with certain people. For any publica tion to try to convince its readers that any of these great nations now at war would commit any act that the others under similar circumstances would not is all foolishness. We shouldn't blame England for trying to influence us against Germany; we should blame ourselves if she does. We are too, great a nation to play into the hands of any country. I rather think most of us care very little for any of them. But we do care a very great deal for our old flag, and are always ready to show it, but there is a certain class of people in our good land that I, for one, would most awfully hate to die for. MURRAY B. COLE. Accuses Grocers' Association. Portland, Sept. 16. To the Editor of The Journal If the Grocers' associa tion had their Just deserts, they would have been convicted under the Sher man law. They set prices and forbid their members to sell under these prices. I bought flour for J1.36 per sack at a time when my grocer told me he could sell it at $1.15 and make a fair profit, but the association would not allow it. Public policy de mands the free market, and not a few property-holders. Publlo policy is against supporting so many stores in our residence districts, because their overhead expenses have to be made from a handful of customers. People show they favor the market by their patronage, and are blockading the street for their own benefit. WILLIAM WHISTLER. Grocers' Association's Position. Portland, Sept. IB. To the Editor of The Journal It has now been given out to certain sections of the press that the campaign being carried on for the regulation of the Yamhill street public market by the Portland Grocers' and Merchants' association is an at tack on the commission form of gov ernment. This statement is at such variance with the facts, that the Grocers' asso ciation feel It incumbent upon them to make denial of any such intention. There has not been one -word of dis cussion among our members relative to the commission form of government, and we cannot but see in this state m'ent a subterfuge to aetract from the importance of the question at issue. The campaign being waged for the regulation of the Yamhill street mar ket is entirely separated from any other political activities, and has for its aim and object giving a square deal to vested interests that may be des ignated as landowners, wholesale and retail grocers, wholesaler's salesmen, telephone companies, railroad com panies, commission merchants, ped dlers, clerks, delivery men, accountants, laundry owners, fuel dealers, auto deal ers, steamship companies and, in fact, every form and kind of business in which capital is required and help em ployed. What we are after is a square deal for sound business. The form of gov. ernment under which We obtain this is of no consequence, but if it should happen that the commission form of government Is conducive to demoral ized conditions, we, of course, would be impelled to tackle that also; but to this date not one word has been breathed relative to the form of gov ernment. We feel that we have too mucn form, and too little aubstance, as H now stands, and we propose to get some of the substance. ROBERT O. DUNCAN, Manager, Portland Grocers' & Merchants' Asso ciation. Tho Highly Critical Visitor. Portland. Sept 15. To the Editor of The Journal Once this "grouch" stuff gets into a man's system, it workd wonders. Cocked and primed with a "grouch" a man unwittingly looks out, and frequently down, upon a bu.-sy world through his anamorphoscope and is wholly unaware of his topsy-turvey point of view. Getting away from home, eating food cooked by so-called "chefs," sleeping in stran;e beds, all help to change the point of view. Lov ing bands at home take every precau tion to see that the "lord" has every thing Just as he wants It. Abroad, it is som different; Just the difference, however, between domestic .love and commercialism. What we call a "grouch" seems to arise from unusual conditions and everything to which we are not dally accustomed is unusual. Some recent tourist rakes Portland over the coals for its lack of enter tainment offered strangers. The water is too cold, the charge for suits too high, the Heights are pretty on- the way up (5o per way up), but bum stuff on top. The soo is filled with half-sick stock and the municipal band is not playing music. And so on. It Is quite a popular thing to roast residents of a city or town, on the part ot people coming from other cities and towns. So far as an ordinary observer can see. all cities and towns look pretty much alike, and all are deficient in about the same things. W might reduce the price of bathing suits, but how are we to make the river warm? We admit the top of the Heights is not an elysian garden and that we might give the soo pets more meat, but how are we to play better music than Suppe, Donizetti, GrftsT, Rossini, Weber, Rubenstein, Puccini. Wagner. Verdi, Sous, Floto. Straus and Mendelssohn? Our music is free, the water is free, the zoo Is PERTINENT COMMENT SMALL CHANGE Los Angeles Herald: Onr idea is that naturalized Americana should "See America first." Pittsburg Press: Perhaps Invisible government is so called because it is in everybody's plain view. Birmingham Age Herald: In a short while the ultimate consumer will be advised to do bis Christmas shopping early. e Philadelphia Telegraph: Speaking of the state of preparedness, you had better get busy and have your furnace fixed. Springfield Republican: That today President Wilson may finally succeed In restoring peace in a neighboring country by the methods of diplomacy is surely the widespread hope of tjs countrymen. Philadelphia Ledger: Lloyd-George Is going to tell the workers of England that the munition manufacturers are not making excessive profits from their war orders. If that's the case, why not stop the war? Baltimore Star: Belt example of the truth we have seen was that Georgia judge's statement that the grand Jury convened to investigate the Frank lynching was not expected to turn aetecuve. . Seattle Post-Intelligencer: An In dianapolis newspaper has a lengthy editorial commending the program of the war department for the abolition of the many useless army posts and the concentration of troops at two or three different real posts; but says, of course, under such a program Fort Benjamin Harrison, in the vicinity of Indianapolis, must not be abolished, but made one of the great camps of the country. That's what they ali say. MAORI WAR DANCE AT THE DARDANELLES From the Chicago Herald. About a month after the first land ing of the allies forces at Gallipoll a group of men sat round the entrance to a dug-out on the seaward side of Gaba Tepe. In their midst squatted a Greek Interpreter translating into bad English 'some of the newt, con tained in a copy of the Constantinople newspaper Tanin. The article said, inter alia: "Information is still lacking as to the composition of the enemy's forces, but it appears from indications re ceived from Europe that they must consist chiefly of black men from America and Australia. Thus the straits for the first time in history have had to endure attack by can nibals." No wonder the listening Australians and New Zealanders laughed uproar iously. The many-colored British furce at Gallipoli has now been strengthened by the arrival of the Maori contingent, direct descendants of most chivalrous and warlike ancestors, to whom the poaka-roa, or "long pig," as a human joint was termed, was a much esteemed delicacy. Nowadays the Maori, In stead of fattening his slaves on Mana Island, spends his tmet If he ia ambi tious, In getting his M. A. deg.ee or In passing his accountancy examina tions. These men who landed at Gaba Tepe, says a New Zealand officer in the London Times, are the first Polynesian troops to be brought oversea to fight for the mother country, and if the spirit of their ancestors still lives they will fight well. Back in the Maori wars the forbears of these dark skinned, khakt-clad warriors were be sieged by British troops. The Sixty fifth regiment, it was, sat down round the fortress gates and prepared to starve out the men Inside the pah. The hikite peep, as the Maoris called the besieging regiment, ran out of water first, and the situation was get ting eerious when the pallisade gates of the pah opened and a line of brown figures carrying gourds filled with water approached the British tranches. Fearing a ruse the colonel of the Sixty-fifth ordered hie men to stand to arms, but the chief leading the water bearers smiled. He made a cour teous Fpeech, in which he said naively thru both parties hitherto had heen en joying themselves, and it would be a pity if eo small a matter as lack of water should put a stop to what was really a most pleasant siege. Puch a free, and, thank goodness, the columns of The Journal. If a tourist wants t-, he can have a pretty good time for 13 cents. Portlanders do. When it comes to pleasing all these tourists, we have some occupation. There's nothing "funny" about the clown business to the circus manager, nor is there anything easy about pleas ing all kinds of travelers. We are get ting alorp as w'ell as we can, under the circumstances, from day to day. We admit that we haven't the "best show on earth," as that always travels on wheels. We offer what We hate, and have to let it go at that. Because we are not fastidious and our wants are few and small. Is no reason to think we are dead ones. We know a few things, all right. Some tourists appear to be over-critical, but they should remember that it is a hard proposition to provide a man with a home away from home especially the kind he is used to having. X. Y. ZEE. The True Americanism. Portland, Sept. 15. To the E iitor of The Journal Having been a reader of your paper ever since it started. I will say I am pleased with the true Amer ican spirit in which you handle the present critical situation. Also with the way you stand by our president. I am sorry to note In your Issue of Sept. 13th the utterances of a resident of the United States citing ns to hi ancestors for authority for his claim of patriotic allegiance to the United States. I am glad to know that we have only a few of this class of citi zens to contend with, as we are enjoy ing the freedom of the grandest coun INDEX OF ADVANCING TIDE OF PROSPERITY Cjjrc, r. F. Gruninger. deal er in railway ties and other rail way material, says the demand for poles, piling and ties on the part of the railroads is increas ing There is considerable ac tivity also In dimension and heavy timbers, mostly in yellow pine, with some oak. One of the lead ing railroads Is in the market for about 1,000,000 feet of car material Inclusive of some track and bridge stock. The order In cludes an Item of 300,000 feet of kiln dried yellow pine car siding. Another railroad order is for 400,000 stanaara wiiiio utut ucwu a ties and for 1,500,000 feet of f sawed switcn ties, wnicn it is understood wiu oe piacea xnia week. An eastern trunk line has recently bought in this market 40.000 wnita oax newn ties. " AND NEWS IN BRIEF OREGON SIDELIGHTS The municipal bath house at Grants Pass has been closed for the season the cool nights having put a chill in the Rogue river that makes it too cold foi comfortable swimming. Superintendent 8teel. of the Crater Lake National park, reports that up to September 14 the tourist travel et the park totalled 10.468. against 657 y in 1914. The number of autos regis tered totalled 2064 against 1183 in 1W14. An effort will be made by the grange public market committee to secure, the use of the old city ball building at Eu gene to house the market during the winter. The question will be taken up with the county court as the county owns the ground upon which the build ing stands. C E. Ingalls, the Corvallis Gazette Times' new editor, has opened a funny column, which is funny, and in it, among other things, he says: "We had our first experience with the famous Oregon mist this week. .Not so tad. In fact we wouldn't have mist it for any thing." It is announced in The Dalles Chron icle of September. 15 that Clarence Hedges, the new owner of the Chron icle, will arrive in The Dalles Saturday or Sunday fromCallfornia and will assume active cfcrarge of the property next Monday. r. Hedges has been publisher of the "Salinas (.Cal.) Jour nal. Medford Mail Tribune: Indian sum mer weaker prevails over the Rogue river valley today with bright sun shine and hardly a breath of air stir rlng. Grouse, quail and deer are plen tiful in the mountain districts, but most of the hunters are waiting fur .1 heavy rain, before uroing to t lie wil.ls. A few more chilly nights and the leaves will begin to fall rapidly. thing was unthinkable. There wes abundance of water in the pah for both besieged and besiegers. With further complimentary refer ences he took his leave, and the thirsty hikite peep watched the brown backs for a minute or two in amazement and then burled their faces in tho cool gourds. The next morning the pah was empty, and the garrison had walked out a back way through wh.it had looked like an impassable swamp. Only a few old women were left to shout and make a noise during the night. Now the Maori fights with the Eng lish. He has exchanged his old Tower musket for the "Mark II Star L. K.." with which he is a phenomenal shot. In the afternoon the Maoris started to dig themselves in. They madu their bivouacs in an old watercourse on the left flank. Near the beach two swarthy young privates, working with :i will, dug into a Turkish grave a grim re minder of the first days of the attack. It was their initial experience of the realities of war, and they went hur riedly and dug elsewhere. Then the Pakeha (white man) gen eral came along and addressed them. Afterward occurred a scene that haa no counterpart in the weird and varied annals of the Dardanelles. The Maoris, privates and officers, lined up. With protruding tongues and a rythmical slapping of the hands on thighs and chests, with a deep con certed "a a ah," ending. abruptly, they began the Maori haka the war dance. Shrill and high the leader In toned the 'solo parts, and the chorus crashed out. Aa the dancers became more animated the beat of their feet echoed through the gullies of Gallipoll. The leader now declaimed fiercely, now his voice sank to an eerie whisper, still perfectly audible, and as he crouched low to the ground fo the men behind him posed. Suddenly after a concerted crash of voices, the chant ended with a sibilant hiss, a stamp of the right foot, and the detonation of palms slapping the hard ground. A hundred yards away in the Turk ish trenches perplexed Moslems list ened to this blood cnrdllng serenade, and one of them in explanation pro duced his copy of the Tanin. Omlnoui nods and head shakings followed its reading. "For the first time In history the straits have had to endure attack by cannibals." And the leader of the haka, a 'lull blooded Maori, wrote M.A., U, D., after his name, and spoke better Eng lish than many a white man. try on earth, with one of the greatest men at the helm. Though I have been a Republican all my life. I shall cast my lot and influence with our presi dent. The utterances of such a citi zen as this, writes Mr. Addis, only in cite ipnoiant foreigners to such dis graceful riots as the Llnnton affair. The iKnorant only use such argument as an excise to insult our wives and daughters. W don't lih" such patri otism. V.'e have so culled German Americans distributing literature on our streets today, but they are not helplnc themselves nor their cause. We helleve we have the most trust worthy and capable msn at the head of our government, and do not ask the dictation of foreigners. We would only ssk them to be true American citizens. A READER. A Rijfger Sunflower. Portland, Sept. 14. To the Editor of The Journal I saw In the paper here a week or so ago that L. Taylor had a sunflower that couldn't be beaten. Well, I have one taller than his. The dimensions are 12 feet 7 Inches tall; thickness of stalk, 8 Inches; the head measures 15 Inches across the middle, and my sunflower Isn't full grown' Anybody who wishes to see It may come, a$y time soon, to my residence, S36 Grand avenue north. TEARL LEONHARDT. The President's Great Victory. From the Philadelphia Ledger. Nothing can be said of President Wilson's magnificent victory In his controversy with Germany which will add in the slightest degTee to Its ef fect on the people of this country. They trusted him In the gravost of crises with a confidence and unanim ity thn were Inspiring. At the very moment! when old antagonisms might well have sprung to new life, the president found himself supported by an overwhelming" number of his fel low citizens. The United States found ilself in that crisis. By the privilege of democracy it found Its detractors at th same tims. Those who would have rushed to war who spoke with sardonlo words of tiote writing, of national cowardice and of national fetrayal have now to rejoice at the failure of their worst hopes. Without the slightest fores to make good his words In blood and desolation, the president has wrung from a belligerent, and ruth lessly belligerent, country a complete disavowal of its acts. He has, in the simplest trms, reasserted tbe rights M Kiimgnlrv -He has accomplished this astound ing thing without preaching or prat ing, without hypocrisy and without condescension. He has saved his own country from war and saved all other countries from a new barbarity. With an Instinctive precision he has read tho hearts and minds of tola people. ronce Over! 1 LAVIPMAM BACK TO TO WW. W hhjflsCOm dc"Vn Irom th qul,t To P'""6 more in town. From 8wir the forest soothes' an4 From whers the North Forks purrs and Its moss-green ro. k adown; We turned our bai ks on the canyon green. And the sweetest river that ever wai seen, And. we're back to mix in town. Our feet almost forgot the feel Of the p&vument hard una trray A week in the woods and the whols town deal A.a dfam fnote. a game unreal At which w used to piny And now we're buck, it doinn't seem right To-rr,ush,l,', l,aT and s,l,y "P t night That tan t the woodland wu. Sound W'e slept, after drowsy talk By our littio pineknot lire No clang of cars, no Jitney's 'smmwk. To get any place it was Just plain walk What matter If we did tire'' We're back In town now, lean and I But we had our look Ht the open hky. Our taste of heart's desiio. Uncle Jeff Suow Says: "It la a matter of personal pride with some fellers when their name fallows up In the papers as co-respondent lu a divorce suit; but when 1 wn.i young thein kind of fellers had their names engraved on tuomstones qulm a sight oftener than printed ag co respondents. You can't always tell the size ol a rooster by his crow. Polite hollos Court News. Marshal Dave Heavert accom panied EuKuert Gerald Hoedefer to the county jail Wednesday where he left Edgbert to serve the 12 day sentence Imposed upon lilm by Judne Sam Willis. Stan field Standard. FASHION 2TOTB. Postmaster Myers has bad his trousers pressed. One Way of Getting Well. From "St. Elmo " "A week after my return I was at tacked by a very malignant fever, and my life was despaired of, but I exulted in the thought that at last I should find oblivion. I refused all remedies, and set at defiance all medical advice, hoping to hasten the end, but dtath cheated me." The ressimist. This fellow, wilh his rueful wall, 1 like a firefly in the vale. His hefldlinht flathinn from hi tail. Lighting the wrong end of Ms trail. C. F. Flnley. ('hid ula Jvo Perplexity. By Philander Johnson in Washington SLtr. Some citizens were nine annoyed By things which went awry. A erave loninutUe they employed To learn the bow and why The question rwilly seemed quite clear. Till that committee quit. But their endeavors all sincere Had mussed it up a bit. Those citizens were stout of hen it And never feared the worn A new committee made a stHtt To straighten out the first. It isn't ha id to understand Some feelings rathur sore: They took that poor old question and Just mussed it up some more. Polygamy at Estacads. The JCstacnda Progress tells how a calf got tangled Up with a hummock, and liow things were merry Cor a time, and how a school teacher, a pink parasol and a mother-in-law ti led to un tangle it. Editor Slandlsh of the Progress, frunkly concludes the story: "At each Approach the enmeshed minimi would charKo its rescuers and but for the timely arrival of one of Estueada's editors wives, sell o u u d.iin.il-'e iniKlit have resulltd; but the heroine's vast experi ence wilh csltle. coin. led with a. knowledge of which end of the crltnr to avoid, f I rial I. v untangled t he bonds." Interlude. 'Twas only a. bar of an old. old tune That I heard in the hurrying street. Tt It took me back to a day in June, To a time when life ws sweet As the blown pettuine of the clover bloom In the lane where we used to tnee. Concerning Hreeze Gibson. Thursday I mentioned the stories Breeze Gibson and Joe Sibley huve been telling me. Breexe told me how he went to the Round-Up last year. Ana toon a valise, wnn sn n;s nvui shirts, except the one he h'd on, In It. And his toothbrush. Am; a lot of other things he thought would be necesnary. J And he wss therms week s "And what do you think," said Breeze, "when I started to go home. I looked In the drugstore where I left that valise when I got Into Pendle ton, and It wasn't there." Breeze also told me about going to P.clknup Springs, up the McKenzle river. The technique1 of the telling Is some thing thaOcan't be expressed'ln mer words, because Breeze Is something of an artist ss an actor as well an a story teller. But here is the way he told his ad venture at the springs to Editor Lew Cates, ot the Polk. County Obherver: "Its s turn hot place," lire Gib son, who returned r-ently frm lulkusp Bprinst, where h took th bollln,- wsLer cure fot 111 he didn't know b hl. "My friend told n ht th ret best would loon up weaken! cuticle sbd tbtt it v would peel from rur limb nd body. After I got thoroughly 'het up 1 heirsu to nib, for Setttns what the frlnd bad Mid. Prsttjr soon omethlni! .! to roll. Bars, end it vii tbst wssk nlJ. in urirs i ruDDWO ana rolled and the etitlrle kept cumlnj. I puabed it tl'wn oTr mv bel and It dldu't appear to be tearing. I j'i' pulled tbe wbole tbtng off OTr hit font nd lold It Sway oa a ahelf to examine It heu 1 sot out of tbst terribly Jot wafer. Ttt'n I robbed the other leg, and f diligently eixrclelng my muscles, atrtd another roll of cuticle, wblrh I also laid on the shelf. Then I took U nibbing toy neck snd shoulders rhere It wasn't so hard to surt tbe cuticle rolling. I rolled, and filled and rolled It. and finally bad to psll s great ma off eer my feet. This I also laid on fh helf. 1 took my euticlo specimens (loug with me to examine them' fb tbe llgbt of day. "There th bide I bad rolled eft was a per fectly good la,lr of socks and an ondernhlrt that I bad bees wondering aboot for 30 yar. and I weighed myaelf to determlna bow tntik I bad sained. Instead of galoiag, I had VJ& 15 pounds." Breeze la as blithe-hearted ss hla name, and is one of the reasons why Cary Hayter doesn't sell more books Of fiction in his bookstore- : . - C. l n namn-ffrown innniT l ina Plentiful ' . ; n;