'THE' OREGON DAILY JOURNAL, PORTLAND, FRIDAY. NOVEMBER:' 12, ' 191&
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lf but what aba baa a right t
sk for ha inanity Itself.
WOODROVV WILSON.
A arrest war leaves th
country with three great armies
an army of cripples, an army
of mourners, and an army T
thlevvs.- -tirman Proverb
P.WIXG THK PKK'K
jHKAT to the value of $3.-
iiAi ,r,o'oo ,b beins heM by
yy the farmers of Umatilla
ronnty for higher prices,
fl'he cah that sale of the stock
fwould yield ia equivalent to $150
(for every man, woman and child
the coiinty.
f It Is an unfortunate situation.
ifio much money kept out of the
rhannelB of trade baa a depressing
rffect on business.
It ia caused by the ship trust.
fThe trust beat the Wilson ship bill
n the last Congress through the
Senate filibuster, and thereby
ained control of the ocean. It
lies the prices of wheat charters,
inrt thv nr nnur four Hnipu lit
jhlgh as before the war on the Pa
tcific Coast and ten times as high
'as before the war on the Atlantic.
Secretary McAdoo said in bis
Portland address that if Congress
had promptly passod the shlp-pur-,
chase bill last winter. It would
Siave been easy to have secured
jplenty of ships, ships which would
fcow be carrying American wheat
"ko famishing Europe at reasonable
Sfrelght rates with higher price
for the wheat of American farmers.
jThe chances are that the supply
3of such ships would have been suf
ficient and the example of their
treasonable freight rates bo effect
ive oh privately owned steamer.
ttbat Umatilla wheat would all have j
een sold, and the $3,160,000 be
n the channels of trade.
Secretary McAdoo charged In his
ortland address that the sub-
Idy hunters, who are of course the
dipping combine, caused the de-
eat of the bill. He said:
What ia tha real fight In this mr
hant marine controversy ? It la a
tflght for subsidies. What are suh-
tasldles? They are gifts from the
f'nlted Btatea to favorite eorpora
lona, firms and Individuals who op
rat ships.
Why should we give away mil
lions or dollars or trie peoples monev
ach year to favored ship owners
var whose rates and servlcs wa
av no control?
Wouldn't It be more sensible for
ha government to spend these trill
ions in building- up a splendid naval
uxillary merchant marine which can
controlled and operated In tha ln-
erest of all tha peoplaT
Every amp owner ana every snip
enopolist wants subsidies. They
ould profit by them and they are
lnr to make a desperate fight for
cm la the next Congrasa.
They fought for subsidies and
gainst the Wilson ship bill in
e last Congress,' and the Umatilla
jtrmers and all other American
armers are now paying the price
ff holding their wheat or selling
fat greatly decreased figures.
VERMONT IX THE LEAD
ERMONT is a small itate not
particularly wealthy and not
remarkably progressive as far
11.1 J a
; as pun iics is cuncerneu. am
Jthas some excellent idnas regard
ing the public health and, what
a great deal more wonderful.
t has the courage to put them
nto practice. That class of d Is
aacs which the dramatist Brleux
scusses in some of his nlava has
Usually been allowed to lurk In
llark places. Public mention of
Jhem has not been deemed polite,
fjedlcal treatment has been fur
tive. The afflicted concesled their
rouble as well as they could and
en the secret finally came out
he culprit Blunk away while his
fiends blushed for him. Physl
jans have often made light of
hese disorders. ' The danger of
contamination has been belittled
&be necessity for public protection
as been slighted. It is onlv in
jcent years "that thff disagreeable
A 1 .a,..l.t If.
W
uujwcv lias . rOTneu evil cuius I'ae
t i proper " attention in the press and
fit i tha; discussions s of social re-
i formers.-
a- Those who believe that preven
, Ion is-better than cure long' ago
Xpoktthe stand that the sanie leg
i .fFlitiye? precautions should be ap
f lied to these diseases as to others
fvhich,- are likely to be conamunl
iated from -one person to another.
They often poison the mostintl-mate-
family relatione and lead
to the permanent Impairment of
health. '
In recognition , of ; these facts
Vermont has. required ' physicians
to report cases of these diseases
Just, as they do others of a con
tagious nature. And it is made a
crime for persons who have ac
quired such maladies to marry be
fore they have been "cured. The
same rules of quarantine apply to
them as to smallpox. This law is a
long step forward. Adequately
enforced it will greatly increase
the security of the public health
In Vermont and remove one seri
ous menace to the welfare of the
family.
WOMEN AND DRINK
STUDENTS of English condi
tions have noticed among the
curious consequences of the
war an Increase of drinking
habits among women. Many work
ing men are at the front. Their
wives receive an allowance from
the government. The allowance
is moderate, according to Ameri
can notions, but to these hard
worked women It is opulence.
Never before in their pitiful lives
have they had so much cash in
their bands, paid so regularly.
They do not think of laying any
of it up for a rainy day. That
is not the mental habit of the
English poor. The only question
with them is how to spend their
overflowing wealth, and the only
Indulgence that appeals to their
imaginations Is drink. So the grog
shops are enjoying unparalleled
prosperity. In the same way the
Saxon peasants took to drink when
coal was disoovered on their farms.
88 Hauptmann depicts In some of i
his plays.
The English women are not
alone in their-" growing predilec
tion for liquor. Modern condi
tions seem to predispose some
classes of women to that form of
Indulgence in our own country.
While one area after another goes
dry in the I'nited States statistics
show that women in the large
cities consume more intoxicants.
The same economic changes that
free suffragists from domestic toil
for public agitation leave multi
tudes of their Bisters stranded in
apartments with nothing In the
world to do. Untrained for useful
vocations and often desplsing.them,
nothing is left to these unhappy
women but personal Indulgence.
Fashionable frivolity claims some
of their time, trashy novels claim
another part of it, and in too many
Instances drink fills all other gaps.
"The devil finds some mischief
Btill for idle hands to do." If
every human being were obliged
to earn a living by moderate and
well paid industry we venture to
believe that the "drink problem"
woyld disappear almost of itself.
THESE ARE THE CHARGES
H
AS anybody heard that a
Chamber of Commerce com
mittee, in an official teport
after investigation, strongly
condemned the methods of the
Multnomah county board of relief?
Have not the Multnomah county
commissioners heard of it?
The report was made October 14,
and was published in The Journal.
It made definite and very impor
tant charges. It said that the board
spent nearly $16,000 of public
money last year with questionable
efficiency.
The committee charged that due
to "overlapping duplication anc1
lack of proper organization and
methods," the relief board is "un
doubtedly spending more money
than necessary." It charged
that the board drifts along and
follows the old beaten Tath of
"charity relief."
It charged that "the record sys
tem is cumbersome," that the "rec
ords are not extensive or detailed
enough," and are "without facts
which give adequate knowledge of
the case."
These and other damaging speci
fications are set forth in the re
port. The definite suggestion la
made that the county could ren
der more efficient charity at less
expense by cooperating with regu
lar charity 'organisations.
Twenty-nine days have elapsed
since the report was made, and
things go serenely on at tha court
house without a ripple on the qule;
surface of public affairs.
Do the county commissioners
propose tp ignore the report? If
so, why?
MORE ABOUT BILLY SUNDAY
W
E HAVE heard many more
or less plausible explana
tions of Billy Sunday's
power over his audiences
Some people say he Seta up "psy
chic vibrations" which affect other
minds as a violin does a piano
string tuned to the same pitch.
Perhaps this explanation is as good
as any. It leaves the mystery of
the persuasive evangelist Just
where it was in the beginning, and
Ithat is a great merit in an expla
nation. Too many of them darken
counsel and leave matters more
perplexing than they were In the
beginning.
Whatever may be the cause of
Billy Sunday's Influence, it is in
creasingly powerful. Today he is
praised in circles which a few years
ago;' spoke -of him contemptuously.
No doubt he. is .the expression of a
profound . -national mood which
seeks ; in the ;'deep assumptions of
religion .a balm for the oppressive
evils of life.
Billr . Sunday is particularly Jn
terestin g Just now because his men
tality seems to be transforming.
Hitherto his theology has been ab
stract, and, as some saw it, a trifle
antiquated. He has appeared to shun
the urgent problems of the time
and deal exclusively 'with" celestial
history and geography. But his
thought Is changing. For some
time there has been a rumor that
he was going to take up "social
topics," and it baa been Justified
by the facts.
Billy Sunday said at a meeting
the other day, "many men will
gladly draw their check for $10.
000 to establish a children's hos
pital and see nothing wrong in the
fact that the money came out of
$200,000 made from a system of
child labor which crushes more
children in one year than the hos
pital can heal in ten."
When an evangelist has pro
gressed to this point we can say of
him that has spiritual state is more
than hopeful, he is converted.
Billy Sunday championing the op
pressed and speaking for the help
less will be a potent force on the
right side. More power to his el
"bow and -more grace to his tongue.
IT IS UNFORTUNATE
M
ANY who bought Red Cross
Seals In the holiday season
a year ago. and two years
ago, are surprised If not
pained, to learn that $4000 of the
money then procured remains tin
expended In the treasury of the
OregfJn Federation of Women's
Jubs. v
Meanwhile, the trained workers
of the Visiting Nurse assoclatlon
who go from house to house, nurs
ing and giving relief, pointing out
Improper living conditions and
carrying on educational effort,
have been all along hampered by
lack of funds in their ministrations
to the incipient tuberculous.
While those in the early stages
of tuberculosis were slowly but
surely drifting into the incurable
stages, $4000 of the money con
tributed for succor of the sufferers
has not been applied.
It is unfortunate, unfortunate In
Its effect on future Red Cross
sales, and unfortunate in the lives
that have been allowed to pass on
and out through failure to apply
the saving agencies for which the
money was contributed.
The State Tuberculosis Sanitar
ium is now overcrowded with those
in the last stages, and there is a
waiting list. Starting with those
in the incipient stages, the great
white plague relentlessly gathers in
its recruits. There is constant need
for every cent of Red Cross money
that can be made available and it
is very unfortunate that any of it
has ever been permitted to remain
idle.
THE PASSING SHOW
ONE of the revelations of the
Land Products Show is the
Tokay grape product of South
ern Oregon.
In color and flavor California
can not' equal it. In else, the Cali
fornia Tokay slightly excels, but
Southern Oregon will remedy this
defect as Its vines grow older. The
lusclousness of the Josephine coun
ty Tokay is the marvel of all.
Strangely enough, though Port
land has this year consumed sixty
carloads of Tokay rraDes. but three
came from Southern Oregon, twon
from Josephine and one from Jack
eon. The other fifty-seven cars
were California Tokays. The over
whelming sale of the California
product is said to be due to the
better organization of the Califor
nia sales agencies, a defect that
Josephine county will undertake to
remove next year.
The very excellent display of
Josephine Tokays at the Land Prod
ucts Show has already done much
to herald the advantages and won
ders of Oregon grapes.
There are many fields in which
the passing Products Show has ren
dered high service to Oregon in
dustries. EMERSON AND BROWNING
IT 18 a sign of the times that
another life of Emerson should
be published almost simulta
neously with William Lyon
Phelps' new book on Browning.
There is a growing demand for the
older and graver authors. War lit
erature has not been particularly
satisfactory from any point of
view. It is for the most part mere
flashes in the air without much
light or comfortable heat. It dis
turbs the mind without settling
anything. Its reasoning is vain for
the most part, its prophecies shal
low, its arguments trivial. Torn
from their accustomed anchorage
by the ruthless violence of war and
war rumors, many men seek for
spiritual consolation which is not
to be found in the superficial liter
ature of the day. So for better
satisfaction they turn to the au
thors of larger caliber and more
serene philosophy.
It Is more than commonly pleas
ant to believe that Emerson and
Browning are winning new read
ers. Both of these writers were
deeply concerned with eternal ques
tions, Both of them passed over
the trivial solutions wbicti flow
from personal or national interest
and sought for truth in the bosom
of changeless reality.
s To Emerson the world U a cham
ber of justice where in the long
run right shall prevail and wrong
Shall wither. His "Essay on' Com
pensation" is the most uncompro
mising profession of faith in God
that any writer has ma.de. Brown
ing was less mystical that Emer
son but not less true to the great
creed of the ideal.
Neither of these prophets be-
tiered that the world was ruled by
physical force. Neither donbted
that the universe is founded on
everlasting Justice. When Brown-
Ing wrote "God's in His Heaven.;
all's right with the world." he
meant the same as Emerson does
when he assures us that for every
human account, 'by the very nature
of things, an Inralllble balance and nobler inai. eace is not aegen
inust be cast. The old song has eratln. It is merely a harder test
it, "Unjust gains are dearly bought, for men than war.
retribution sure will come." Em-
erson would not say "retribution."
His word was "compensation." The
main point is that the scale will
swing even before tha Almighty
lays the case aside.
IS WAR NECESSARY TO
PRODUCE BRAVERY
Prom tba Boatoo Glob.
HERE are atlll in this world, es
pecially In those parts of It which
the war has not touched, a great
men and women who believe j
many
that warfare is an unnatural. Inter
national disease, anil that the human
race will sometime throw off the
shackles.
They believe it la their solemn
duty to combat influences which they
consider unjustifiable, tnfluencea which
tend to the enslaving rather than the
freeing; of mankind. And the most
unfair charge which has been leveled J
at such persons is the charge that
they are actuated by the basest and
most selfish of impulses, that they
treasure their own Uvea above every
thing else.
From an intelligently formed pub
lic opinion which honestly holds that
reasonable protection is necessary for
this countrv. which understands Just
. . -
wlist such protection means, how it 1
mint be rJd for and maintained. Just
why It Is necessary and for what pur
poses It may Justly be used, there is
little danger. j
From the subtle spreading of a
spirit of uneasiness, which has its j
roots 1n the vague fear that Aroer-
leans today are missing In some way i
a great moral uplift because they
have no part in the horror across the
seas, whose lnstigatora Intimate that
peace brings m
degeneration and brand all who differ
with them cowards, there la no end
of danger.
a
A ,ess tactful, militarist philosophy 1
haa found expression through men
like Bernhardt, and the oommon sense
of the world has repudiated such non
sense with infinite disgust But the
very name doctrine In the hands of
Mn4. 4. :
V. L.l m mUI.LIUl,l ..HUB un
way Into our souls and rankles there.
It is absurd to argue that phyalcal
courage Is ao rare a thing, and that
the war has resulted In the renais
sance of heroic qualities In men which
were smouldering t their death in
peace. This war proves of course
that men are not afraid to die; but
every day here in America men die
just as nobly, give up their lives for
their fellowe, and we pass it by with
hardly a thought.
A factory in Pittsburg Is In fHmes.
A young fellow, garbed In the unin
spiring uniform of an American work
lngman. rushes Into that dreadful
furnace and oomea out. oarrylng an
unconscious yoting woman. He gom
back six times, and each time stag
gers to the street a human Ufa
saved. He goes back a seventh time
and surrenders his own life. And in
Boston, where because of distance the
Pittsburg firs has lost something inimt to 1865 this nation wasted $10,
news value, we read that "Peter Val-
ion lost his life after bringing etx
unconscious girls to the street."
In that horrible tragedy at Peabody
small . children risked their Uvea for
others. No greater heroism Is dis
played on any battlefield than that
which Is so frequently displayed by
the modest and modestly paid firemen
of our American dtlee. They are
heroea of peace.
a a
II is not the fashion to celebrate
heroes of peace. The warrior Is more
often extolled In song and story,
though It Is safe to say that Jew chil
dren 'leave school without knowing
wv"" "u w v . nm rrunn
Belle," "a man that died to save men,"
clad In overalls and Jumper at his
post In the engine room of a i,.
,
Uamer-
In war the gallantry ef the men of
one nation Is pitted against tha self
sacrifice and devotion of men of an
other nation. Human lives, enormous
wealth, the concentrated Intelligence
of one country are devoted to crush
ing some other country which matches
these self-same resources. But at
home we hesitate about cleaning up
"the dark places" because It costs
money. How much good would re
sult If these resources were used In
as whole-hearted, as determined, as
united a fight against evil and tyr
anny at home!
If men wish to risk their lives for
humanity, to fight desperately for
righteousness, there are unlimited
opportunities in every country.
William Lloyd Oarrlsoa hated war
no less than slavery, yet the words "I
will not equivocate, I will not excuse,
I will not retreat a elngle Inch, and
I will be heard" did not issue from
the throat of a cowardly sentimental
. . M , ,
1st. He was assailed for his lack of
religious ortnoaoxy, he was dragged
through the streets 'by a mob of en-
tlemen of property and standing."
but he lived to see ths cause he Cham.
pioned stir a natlonlo its vsry depths
and to see the triumph of mor.1
, . . . r
the hero of peace.
Wendell Phillips had the courage
to wage his fight for human liberty,
te face ugly mobs, and the sneers of
his own people, to fight on. though,
as he said, "every tile on Cambridge
roofs were a devil hooting his words."
Phillips was a hero of peace. There
are heroes of peace today and they
ar not all men.
Self-sacrifice, devotion to a cause.
physical and moral courage are nobl
qualities, but they are displayed la
other struggle than those of nation
against nation, and ustially for higher (
Letters From the People
nnrKrMEf .ZZJJZ
C,taon?,r
.ced SOO warda la leasth and moat be ae-
comnanied br tha nam and, addroaa of tb
sander. If the writer does not deaire to aava
tha name published, be should ao state.)
DlacnaaloD la tba areateat nf all refnnnara.
i It rationalises tTerytbtcc It touches. It robe
principles of all falae sanctity and tbrowa them
. back on tbeir reaaoaableness. If the bare no
I naaonableneas. it rutbleaslr crushes them out
of existence ami aeta un Its own cooclaaions
In tbeir stead." Woodrow Wilson.
Authorship of Good and Evil.
Salem. Or.. Nov. II. To the Editor
of Jrnal To one who is not
weaaea 10 tne view mat ancient writ
ers, even of the Bible, had an Infalli
ble hold on knowledge, the controversy
running in The Journal In regard to
the authorship of good and evil la
somewhat' amusing. i
I, am not conceited enough to im
agine that I ahall be able to settle a
controversy which has been troubling
us for the last 6000 years or more; yet
a little observation and thought should.
It would eem, convince anyone that in
nature, outside the mind of man and
possibly the higher order of animals,
there is no such thing as good and
evil. Most of us regard it as wrong
for one man to injure another, but
few are so primitive as to brand the
sea as a sitjner if it knocks a rock
into smithereens, or to regard plarfts
as wicked on account of their death
struggle with each other for existence.
The idea of good and evil is a purely
human conception. Moreover, we do
I iiul r v rn ph mm in wi ht i im.M, n i
,.7. V. " " i
... iui vAanipir, lujiiv irsaiu (
punaav amusements as good and some
as evn- There Is. of course, a fairly
principles of human nature, but these
are purely conceptions resulting from
human experience. This by no means
implies that they are of no value.
Man has made Innumerable helpful
inventions, and the idea of good and
evil is one of these, even If men do
not always agree about It.
I Vl m iaa flnnfa Kl ancnTAf than Via
question as to who created good and
evil, la that man created both; and I
may be allowed the observation that
i i Hiit. . i. , i ...... i .
"tuuio i v n it cmiri lu vxifu
or the devil. W. F. FARGO.
Evil Further Considered.
Ashland. Or., Nov. 10. To the Editor
. T 1. T . . 1 T If T I .
iUre Wah ' 4iT II to
45:18, written about 210 years before
"Cyrus, my shepherd" destroyed Babj'
lon, they will learn how evil la the
direct result of violating some law.
He wrote, B. C. 708. Then read Jere
miah 60 and 61. written B. C. 695.
finA. fulfil T r ' RAll whn t Vi - mrra t
. " v. wvw. .... ... m -
; city was leveled. Jehovah named Cy-
rus, and called him out. (Ia. 55:1)
"whose right hand I have held." He
was a "war lord." For her sins the
kingdom of Babylon was to be
Wf rvaati ttf th man- an th- nniv un.
r nan tieaata anil hind, nnulri llv there
It was war. This brings evil. Yet
out of it cams deliverance to the Jew.
The war from 1776 to 178 was the
birth agony of a new nation. Up to
1S12 we had wars. During 1812
to '14. We cut our Incisors. In
i Mexico we got our eye teeth: God
raised up Lincoln against Davis, Grant
against Lee, Sherman against John
Btone, Sheridan against Jackson, Thom
as sgainst Hood, to wipe out this
nation's sin, slavery. In this .war we
cut our molars, and two bites, Manila
and Santiago, used up Spain.
"Without shedding of blood is no
remission for sin," Heb. 9:22. Great
sins require the greater punishment,
and as a nation cannot be punished
in tha "Judgment of the great day,"
it la punished here; hence war's hor
rors. In this sense God creates evlL
The Innocent suffer for the guilty.
Out of this awful hideous eastern
war will come a higher humanity. In
' 000,000,000 and over 800,000 men. and
, is today solldfled and rich beyond Com-
I pare. lei nui riu. o. i u i cm iviiun c-u
In the wake of that war.
AMOS DA HUFF.
"The Great Hope."
Portland, Nov. 11. To the Editor
of The Journal Dr. Chapman's article
In The Journal of Tuesday under the
title, " A Lovely Fight and a Great
Hope," was Inspiring. It stirred
thought for the highest democracy.
For democracy has not yet granted its
greatest boon to humanity Just right
living, in which all humanity must
share, one with another.
If the masses did not suffer from
grinding poverty would the politician
the banker, the lawyer, the doctor and
the minister have the power they
now wield In the destinies of the
i people?
j xnd the soldier, whom we long have
1 Idolized in song and sentiment, glorlfy
i ing his courage and his strength, and j
supplying him with weapons for de- !
Btructlo-re w. not reaping results i
in this colossal strife in Europe?
lords fighting for control, for power,
are the crowning evidences of war
worship.
The Great Hope freedom, the sense
of Justice and fair play must be the
outcome of Europe's rebellion, or It
signifies greater destruction.
Life is our supreme effort. What
Is this gang spirit of boys? A livell-
It out.
Does fining poor men for minor
offenses or fining segregated women,
lessen these evils? How must they
procure more money to pay those
fines? '
I have heard It said that war Is hell.
I know poverty is hell.
M. A. BUCKLEY.
"Safety First" Discussed.
Portland, Nov. 10. To the Editor
of Ths Journal It was proper that
your editorial this evening should .
tone down the extravagant statement '
of the officials of the Oregon-Wash- j
, . n n 1 1 . 4 ft. V.triratinn mam. na n v I
aut the wlsaom of th; "safety first" i
propaganda. Recently I saw in
saw in an
engineering Journal the surprising
t1' bcked r fljures, that of
every 100 persons killed by accident on
raiiroad prowrty stations, yards and
tracks 87 are
killed .elsewhere than
at road crossings.
In short, for every
iM m eiMwhere on or about
I ths railroad, tracks. But tbe safety
' first campaign covers too thinly,
howeer7t mUltitU&i V.
i quently I have seen Fifth street cars
bearing Tths 'Safety First" sign cross
Taylor street while running at least
SO miles an hour. A train on this
railroad sails irrte town at 60 miles
an hour, hits a wagonload of passen
gers and knocks them galley-west
without th-engineer or fireman no
ticing ths. accident or knowing about
it till informed later; and the manage
mem allays public-sentiment by re-
PERTINENT COMMENT
SMALL CHANGE
Eb,u4 com, over here aak-
in- for another half billion dollars,
J& TreSVnV of"ur
neutral commerce T
Portland' dance hall Inspector Is
wondertnar whether some of the new
dances should be prohibited by ordi
nance. If he wonders a little longer
the dances will probably go out of
style. ,
The Journal's photograph of wrecked
i street cars on Eleventh street showd
S8a7.ty iTfit" Ttindlng odt wmpToS
tu.Wr.nldni5n-t"UrVlV th
crash, but the cars dlan t.
A ' beauty doctor tells girls to eat
mors onions and fewer bonbons if they
want to become prettier. The very
ambitious might try something strang
er garlic, for instance.
New Tork City. Is thinking of spend
ing; $385,000 killing off mosquitoes. If
It costs that much to exterminate the
small bloodsuckers, what would it cost
to wipe out their financial cousins?
President Wllnon has indorsed apple
pie whipfe.ls all right, but hardly
necessary.
a
Judge Oantenbein rules that cakes
made with Chinese eggs must be so
labeled when offered for - sale. The
bakers e-hould not defy the law; let
them use China eggs.
Great Britain has put
inlnit Trlah Amlffratlnn
up the bars
If. the order
had been issued earlier a lot of
would not be here.
Umatilla county having raised 1175
worth of wheat this year for each
Umatilla man. woman and child, no
body should go hungry up around
Pendleton.
JOHN HAY AND
From Collier's Weekly.
In these hyphenated times one Is
momentarily tempted to disbelieve in
i .. ., .... - . . , ,,
1 possiwmy or transmutm an ine
metals into Americanism, even in a
miracle-working melting pot. "Let "s
go slow from now on In this matter
of welcoming to our shores all sorts
and all nations of men," is what a
good many people are Baying;, and are
Justified In saying. And yet transmu
tation Is possible. Americans are t.he
product of the mingling of many
stocks. In the new "Life and Letters
of John llay." as composer! and com-
ku H ' 1 I t ; D H 1 - T- m
have Just reread a fragment of one of
Hay's addresses spoken st a dinner
of the Ohio society of New York 12
I , 1 1 C 1 1 X IOTA uaulL VII L li a ,uu ii.'h
acenes of my life," said our rreat
secretary of state. "If I am not that
altogether deplorable creatwre, a man
without a country, I am, when It comes
to pull and prestige, almost equally
bereft, as I am a man without a state.
I was bdrn in Indiana, I grew up In
Illinois, I was educated In Rhode Is
land and It Is no blame to that
scholarly community that I know so
little. I learned my law in Springfield
and my polltloa In Washington, my
diplomacy In Europe, Aala and Africa,
r - - - -
' I have a rarm in nw narapsnire bjib
. desk room In the distriet of Columbia.
And Mr. Hay has this to say about Ma
, honest forbears:
I "When I look to the springs from
wtilch Dir blood descends, the first
ancestors I ever nemo
of were
Scotchman, who was half English, and
a German woman, who was nan
French. Of my Immediate progeni
tors, my mother was from New Eng
land and my father was from the
south. In this bewilderment of origin
and experience I can only put on an
rawed stress on "safety first." An
other engineer admits he did not blow
the whistle when approaching a road
crossing where he knocked a wagon
and made a killing, but after he was
Interviewed by higher-ups he remem
bered that he had blown the whistle,
and would swear to it. And the safety
first movement was again llroellghted.
And yet, H would appear that notwith
standing such recklessness in the
operation of trains, the oommon road
crossing Is relatively a very safe
place.
While on this subject, kindly permit
me to enter a proteat through The
Journal against the Oregon tax con.
misslon's allowing the Southern Pacific
company to knock nearly 19.000,000 off
the assessed valuation of its property
in this state, because some of its small
branch lines did poor business last
year. Property owners generally did
poor business last year, but taxes have
to be dug up some way. Last year
the Southern Paclfio company had
8187.000.000 In Its repair and better
ment fund.' which It refused to expend,
although that fund was Increasing at
the rate of 16,000.000 annually. One
year of such Increase would complete
the Natron cutoff; but that would
benefit Portland cspeclaly and Oregon
generally, and ts out of the question
with the Southern Pacific company.
No. Treat all property owners alike.
; it the railroad
take its medicine
along with the rest of the taxpayers,
W. 8. CHAPMAN.
The Preparedness Issue.
Yoncalla. Or.. Nov. 10. To me
Of The Journal The letter in
ssue or rovemoer enuuru
Y . w- Pra,n ttm m T'nclfiat.
Lvuu mt. J
migni i" uu ' -
I of years ago, say In the SO's or 40 s,
' when the country had no particular
' interests outside of Its borders as fsr
as territory was concerned, out u
seems a decided anomaly at present.
As far as the future reputation of
"Wilson and Bryan is concerned. I for
one am willing to haaaurd a comparison
the two 10, 20 or 4U years nence
The dictum, or advice, or wasning-
ton on the war or peace question,
"In time of peace prepare for war."
is good enough for me, and I believe
it will be approved by the American
people In the present circumstances.
Mr Bryan may be a good orator, but
In practice hegeta off on the wrong
cue, brilllan aS he Is. in some ways.
Wilson, a man of fine education and
INDEX OF ADVANCING
TIDE OF PROSPERITY
Philadelphia That the Pennsyl
vania railroad is straining every
effort to put into operation every
possible piece of equipment on the
system to handle the record
breaking traffic moving eastward,
is evidenced by an official report
stating that the number of
freight cars stored for repairs has
besn reduced 14,124. or 41 per
cent., sines April 1. On October
80 there were 20.182 bad-order
ears in shopa, compared with 24.
856 on April 1. Of this number
834B were on the 'lines east of
Pittsburg, and -1L788 en the
lines west. There have been no
good-order cars stored on the
system for a number of weeks,
ever since, in fact, the heavy
freight movement set In.
ss-e
AND NEWS IN BRIEF
OREGON SIDELIGHTS j
In one of the hottest and most
Closely contested elections ever held
In Bay City. W. H. Ulmore has been
reelected mayor for the fourth consec
utive term.
The Lane county court has ordered
60 iron road signs, to be placed at
prominent crossings of the main roads
of the county. The signs will be two
and a half feet long by elg-ht inoher
wide, with letters four inches high.
"What la believed to be of no leas
Importance than any of the many
state conventions of which t'orvallls
has had the honor to be the host," '
the Gaiette Times, "Is the Hoit.
Show which comes to Corvallla No
vember 16-1 7-1 S. The convention Is
that of the State Horticultural society
and combined with it will be the State
l1 .oral association.
In an editorial on the Herrniston
Hog and Dairy sl:o- the Pendleton
Knst Oregonian says thtre are boyn
at Hermleton who have already learned
moro about how to judge stock than
some practical farmers learn In a life
time. Complimenting the grown-ups,
the Cast Gregorian sayn: rThere are
settlers on the project who are taking
evory possible step towards securing
efficiency in the selection and handling
of dairy cows and 1iok. Safe and
gratifying profits constitute their
reward."
The Salem Journal reads a lesson
of the Iind Products show, as follows:
"Eastern Oregon carried away four, out
of the five prises tor county exhibits
at the Manufacturers' and I-and Pro
ducts Show In Portland. Polk, which
took second place, was the only county
west of the Cascades to get "placed. '
This Is a showing of which the bunch
grassers may be justly proud, and
which serves notice on the famous
Willamette valley that it has a com
petitor in the agricultural line that
will keep It hustling to excel."
THE MELTING POT
aspect of deep humility In any gather
ing of favorite sons, ancl confess that
1 am nothing but an American."
How familiar, we wonder, are the
words spoken on this text by Rt. John
do Crevecoeur, in that fine old book
of his. "Letters from an American
r'irmr?" 'revecoeur's book came
out 133 years before this life of Hay,
and in It he describes the American
of colonial and revolutionary daya as
"either an European or the descendant
of an European, hence that strange
mixture of Mood which you will find
In no other country. I could point out
to you a family (sic whose grand
father was an Englishman, whose wife
Was Imti:h. whose son married a
frenchwoman, end whose present four
sons have now four wives of different
nationa."
a a
And the farmer letter writer con
cludes that:
"He la an American who, leaving
behind him all his ancient prejudices
and manners, receives new ones from
the new mode of life, the new govern
ment he obeys, and the new rank he
holds. He oecomes an American oy
being received in the broad lap of our
great Alma Mater. Here Individuals of
all nations are melted Into a new race
of men, whose labore and posterity
will one day cause great changes in
tha world. Americans are the western
pilgrims, who are carrying along with
them that great masa of arts, sciences,
vigor, and Industry which began long
since In the east; they will finish the
great circle."
a
The picture la enthusiastically but
not. on the whole, untruthfully ren
dered. John Hay would have enjoyed
Crevecoeur' s "Letters" of 1783; one
wonders if he ever knew them In all
their friendly quaintnasaT
the capacity to reavson, oan get down
to ths facts on large questions a man
of statesmanlike quality.
The gentleman's argaant referred
to would be also a rooffona for doing
away with the use of firearm or clubs
by the police or sheriffs of ths coun
try, as also any police or other force
at all for the protection of society
against only "possible" dangers from
lawbreakers sr the unjust la general.
J. E. LUTZ.
Multnomah Falls.
By Luther Laurence Pratt
In the wtld western woodland, where
nature la free,
Where Columbia roils te Its turbulent
sea.
Where the mountains majestle are
dazzling with snow,
And the blue hills are fair as ths
valleys below.
There's many a prospect te make the
heart thrill.
The bosom to tremble, the rapt eye te
fill;
But this scene is fairest, ef lowland
or high.
Where matchless Multnomah redls
down from the sky.
Thy waters, Multnomah, thy White
misty spray,
Have fallen as age after aga swept
away,
A wilderness treasured thee deep ia
Its heart
Long, long ere the Indian earns near
with his dart.
His taut, straining bowstring mmi
sharp, cruel spear.
To kin his red brother or fell the
swift deer.
But even the savags in awe hashed his
cry.
Where mighty Multnomah pours down
from the sky.
The red man has vanished; the white
man. Instead,
Looks up at Multnomah with unsov-
ered head.
Though thousands below these whits
waters have stood.
With hearts gay or grieving. souls
evil or good.
All, all see the work of an Infinite
Hand
In this fair falling splendor, so peer
less, so grand.
While to none does ths rainbow Its
promts deny
Where mystlo Multnomah flows down
from the aky.
Portland, November 11.
The Occnlt Science of Lew.
From the Saturday Evening Post.
Law more especially criminal law
has usually been an occult science.
It la still the practice In Burma, we
believe, to give two disputants candles
of the same six, to be lighted at the
same time. The one whose candle
burns longest gets Judgment against
the other.
Leas than a hundred years ago a de
fendant tn an English criminal trial
appealed to the ordeal ,of battle, and
the court was more or less surprised
to find that the ancient law on which
he relied had never been repealed. De
termining a man's guilt or Innocence
by bis ability to walk on hot plow
shares, or carry a hot iron, or drink
a poisonous decoction, or by throwing
him bound into water, has been prac
ticed for ages among many peoples.
Ths medieval method of letting ac
cused and accuser fight It out with
weapons was common over Europe.
Our modest sncestors confessed their
Inability to ft no tha merits of tbe
cause, and so relegated the whole af
fair to the intervention of supernatural
agencies. Ths main differences Is that
we ar Jess modest. Instead of th
ordeal of battle or the old key-and-Blble
test or the "sieve-witch," w
have th defendant play a gam of
trlp-the-court. If h can catch th
Jucig putting down an I -dot over an
he wins, and Is pronounced innocent
Tonce oven
YESTEKDAY AFTKRNOON out In
South Portland I was trying to
find a man who had moved away.
or had changed his name.
or they had changed the sum
bers on the houses.
or something.
I Anyway I was coming down
Bancroft street.
- And I saw itelth Greenwood
aged six.
and his little brother John.
and their tittle sister Kathryn
and some other kids.
51 And they were holding a small
piebald dog with a stub tall under
a faucet In Greenwood's yard.
f And I said 'What you doing -Keith?"
fl "Washing him" said Keith.
and I a.iked what for.
"Going to take him to the Mut do
I Show" s.ld Kelt h.
51 And I asked whose dog it wa.
and Keith said h didn't know.
' "Had a hard time to ketch him,"
he said.
JAnd it s that way all over town
guesa.
Every boy who has s dog is
; going to take him to the Armory-
I tomorrow night.
I f And sum, little girls have dogi
'that they're going to take too.
I know thry are becauae Iorr
! Keasey got a letter from one of
them.
i 51 Iorr ia one of the doges of the
1 dog ahow .
and there's Sam Hewitt
and young Phil Matechen--
and Tommy Bwlvel
and John Mann
and Frank Watklns
and Charley Berg -
and Ed Warleln- -
and Ivan Humason- -
and Bill Strandborg -
and a lot of other Mute -
who feel that the Mut dog tha
dub of do(tdom--shouM have his day
as the proverb hath it.
5fAnd the little girl -who wrote
the letter -to Iiorr Keasey is named
Emma Vahlbusch.
and she lives at 107 East Twen
tieth street.
5j And this is what Kmnia wrote:
I am a little alrl 13 yrara old
and want to know If 1 can enter
mv dog tn the show, as the paper
only aald boys. I have a very dear
little doele. that I would like to
enter. Mis name is Patsy, which
represents the names of the towns
he has been in before he was two
weeks old. He was born on the
twenty-third (28) of rvcember.
nlneteen-fourteen, on the Willam
ette river Just before the boat
landed In, Portland. The flrht letter
of his riuine stands for the first cltr
he wasi in "Port land." "A 'the second
I stands ror Astoria "T Is the third
I for Tillamook "g" the fourth
stands for "Siuslaw" and "Y" for
I "Yaqulna" the last city.
! 51 And IKirr wrote to Emma and
i told her to bring Patsy.
And no dog with any pedigree
can get in.
i And Buddy and Jean have a dog
t named "Pup" out at Oak Grove.
and we'd like to bring him in
except
51 LISTEN W' re afraid we'd lose
hifh and everybody out at Oak
Grove would miss hint so.
EMINENT WRITERS
DISCUSS THE WAR
in
THE SUNDAY JOURNAL
ARNOLD BENNETT ana!yie the
economic aspect of the colos
sil itrujfle.
EDMUND ROSTAND, frejh from
s visit to the French trench!,
stes victory for the illlei.
FRANK H. SIMONDS 18 impre8fd
with the striking parallel be
tween the experiences of Bel
glum ind Serbia.
THOMAS B. DONOVAN writea of
the splendid feats performed
hv the mountaineer soldiers
that guard the Swiss frontiers.
A WOMAN'S PACE
PAR EXCELLENCE
la Section four Nst SasteWy
Newest Notes of Fashion By
Mm. Qui Vive.
How to Avoid Winter Cold
By Lillian Russell.
Why Dancing It Not a Mere
Fad By Louis Pruning.
An Embroidered Design for
th Guest Towel.
MAGAZINE FEATURES
OF RARE MERIT
"Tragedies of th Hap8bar'r,
The story of Franclt Joseph's
mammoth opal.
"War's Bitterest Irony" An
ton Lang, of Oberammergau
fame, killed in action.
"The Riddle of Memnon
How It has been solved after 3000
years.
'Thieves Amonf Honor" A
novelette with s moral by Jack
Lilt.
"How Portland Removes the
Hyphen" An account of tbe
Americanization school.
"Ths Housekeeper's Council
Table" Suggestions that make
the day easier.
"Science and Near-Science Up-to-Date"
A page of Interesting
articles.
"Cartoon agrams" For the
boys and girls, by Charles A.
Ogden.
'Tom Tit Tot" By Georgene
Faulkner, The Story Lady.
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