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THE - OREGON SUNDAY rjOURNAt. PORTLAND,: SUNDAY 1 MORNING, DECEMBER 12 1915.
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America asks nothing for her-
5;elf bat what she has a right to
S ask. for humanity itself.
W00DR0W WILSON.
Knowledge and goodness
thse make degrees in heaven,
and they must te the graduat
ing scale of a true democracy.
. Miss Sedgwick.
LKCOLX AND HEIXE
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N. A LECTURE at Birmingham.
. England, not long ago, Sir
Herbert Tree enumerated some
humorists who in his opinion
Jihad influenced the currents of his
ftory. Among them he, mentioned
4j Abraham Lincoln, Goethe, Heine,
j Charles Lamb, Emerson and By
J"rroa. Lincoln's humor was no help
:to him in his early political adven
1 tores. It was rather a hindrance.
IThe starchy eastern statesmen, and
'financial dignitaries could not
' make themselves believe that a
j, man whose manners were so home
ly and who told such funny stories
! could be Bafely entrusted with the
helm of the 6hlp of state in 6tormy
seas.
But It turned out in the end that
Lincoln's humor was a rock of
safety to himself and his country.
Ilia gift of seeing the grotesque in
I the tragic stood him in good stead
1 on many a weary night watch at
l the White House, while the very
I homeliness of his mind brought
j, him near to the people and finally
y, made him dear to them. Humor
-j Is not much else than the capacity
! to understand the common man. It
i is the power to recognize with
. sympathy the universal in us.
I Sir Herbert Tree may be mls
i taken In classing Heine among the
J. humorists. Some would be more
- I Inclined to call him a wit. His
- satire is keen, his detection of
humbug pitiless, but we dare say
j this was superficial in him. No
1 doubt Heine's real nature comes
out in the immortal Lieder and
these are as tender as Lincoln
himself. No modern has written
. S such lyrics as Heine except Robert
2 Burns, but these two poets, though
they both sung the depths of th3
human heart, are as far apart as
- the poles. Burns is occupied with
his own soul and its sorrows.
- Heine always sings a double trag-
; - edy. Was it because the Jewish
f .nature is more inclusive than the
I Scotch?
JOAX OF ARC
T
HE Statue of Joan of Arc
which has just been unveiled
on Riverside Drive, in New
York, is the fifteenth to be
set up In honor of that wonderful
I woman. Thirteen of them are hi
. France, the fourteenth In Phila-C-elphia.
The city of brotherly
love and Quakerism was, strangely
5 enough, the first in the United
J States to commemorate in endur
? Ing marble the splendid heroism
I-of the Maid of Orleans, the poor
j peasant girl of Dom Remy who
1 rescued her country from foreign
2 tyranny and crowned her ungrate
5 fill king at Rheims. After the in--capable
and vicious Charles VII
" was securely seated on the throne
2; that he never could have won for
i' himself, he devoted his time io
X. hia mistress and left Joan to shift
j as she might. When the English
finally took her prisoner, France
had not a word to say in her be
half and the noble conspirators
t .who held her fate in their hands
r were allowed to burn her at the
The scene of her martyrdom, as
the historians describe if, is the
saddest in all the annals of blgot-
s.ij, BuyeiBiuiuu uuu corruption
Joan, was still only a girl and all
t unbefriended she was compelled
f -to . walk between rows of brutally
. hostile faces to the stake. When
S she saw the fagots which were to
. burn her to death, she cried."
t- Can you not hear her sobs after
all these centuries? Do her tears
hot scald your racial conscience?
Alas - and alas that such things
ever could have been.
Tardy justice has been done to
the Maid of Orleans in these lat
ter, years. ,. Schiller long ago told
t her tale, not without sympathy, in
j - his" lovely -German. The church
- that - did .not, intervene to save . her
has cannonlzed her and some day
she will be enrolled among the
saints of God, where she belongs.
The first modern woman in the
hlstorv of the world. Joan of Arz
' . , ,.. . ' .
ercuasuug B'" . i bcv-
We bow to the gracious splendor
of her memory. We mingle our
tears with those wept for the good
and beautiful who have died as she
did. We rejoice to see her win
ning the fealty of shining souls
the whole world over.
THE BOYCOTT BANKER
H
AS it ever occurred to those
who are responsible for tho
carrying of boycott banners
that their activity may do.
those attacked more good than
harm?
Do they know that there are a
great many people who do not ap
prove of boycotts, who hook upon
boycott banners as bludgeon meth
ods instead of reason methods, and
who accordingly array themselves
on the eide of the enterprise or
persons boycotted?
As generally understood, thp
boycott banner at the Lipman,
Wolfe & Company store is carried
about because the building was
built under open shop. Lipman,
Wolfe & Company are not "even
owners of the building. They are
merely tenants, who are in no
sense responsible for the manner
of the construction.
Yet, it is against the Lipman.
Wolfe & Company business that the
boycott is directed. It is done In
spite of the fact that every fixture
in the store and every repair or
improvement made since the struc
ture was occupied, has been in
Stalled by union workers.
Organized workers of sagacity
know that a boycott under such
circumstances is inadvisable, and
there is not the slightest doubt
that many anch are opposed to the
plan. They know that success for
organized workers Is to be at
tained by always having a cause
so just that it will, on its merits,
be an appeal to the public.
Union labor deserves to alwaya
have its purposes so reflected, by
its action that the causa cannot be
misunderstood. Such workers and
their dependents have an appeal so
righteous that it is a bad mistake
for that appeal to be made to ap
pear unworthy through a boycott
that is fundamentally unfair as in
this case.
The organization should take
stock and Btrike a balance. An
organization founded on 60 ial jus
tice should always be just.
TODAY
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ODAY haa been designated
Anti-Tuberculosis Sunday and
from church pulpits will issue
appeals to purchase the Red
Cross Christmas seals which are
being sold throughout the 6tate
under the auspices of the Oregon
Society for the Prevention of
Tuberculosis. The seals are on sale
in two hundred towns and cities
and ninety per cent of the pro
ceeds are to be expended in Ore
gon. While one of these seals individ
ually Is of but little Importance
as a weapon against the great
white plague, the millions of them
sold throughout the United State
yearly constitute a force that is
far-reaching and pregnant with
benefits.
The money derived from their
sale represents only a small part o'
their service. They have a great
educational value. They carry a
message of good 'will and a re
minder of duty in assisting in the
stamping out of a disease which
it has been demonstrated can be
eradicated. "We could stamp out
even the scourge of tuberculosis
within a very few years if only we
could educate every one regarding
it," said Dr. Van Hise, president
of the University of Wisconsin.
'Knowledge is the deadliest fo?
that can be fired against disease
of any sort."
These little seals are a reminder
of a prime duty, that of stamping
out the most destructive of dis
eases. They are a reminder that in this
work the greatest weapon is fresh
air, nourishing food and Banitary
surroundings.
They impress upon those who
are in some way responsible for
the conditions that breed poverty
and disease a deeper sense of their
responsibility.
These little seals are harbingers
of promise, bearers of light into
dark places where lurk disease,
born of ignorance and Bocial in
justice.
DIMIGRAXT ARTISTS
T
HE war has set up a positive
exodus of European artists
to the United States. Some
of them come because thev
cannot earn a living at home,
others because they do not wani.
to fight. They bring their genius
with them and are likely when
all, is said and dope, to give our
lart a substantial uplift. It needs
sometmng or the sort. Among
the immigrants are both orthodox
and heterodox artists, the latter
including cubists, futurists and
post-Impressionists.
The cubists number in their
migrant band Duchamp, Glelzes.
Piccubia, Crotti and the like, men
whose work was exhibited in New
York at that famous cubist show
of yesteryear. Glelzes is the man
who painted the "Nude Descending
the Stairs" which looked like a
pile of old tin pans. It is inter
esting. therefore, to , learn that
Glelses greatly admires thev tall
buildings of New York. Prom his
taste in pictures one would have
expected some such opinion. He
says the sky-scrapers "equal the
finest old world creations." such
as the Parthenon and the Gothic the pedestrian is never to be cen-j "w- 3- c'" la '
cathedrals. We hope his compll- sured. Een the most careful and THE statement credited to Henry
ment to the metropolis will help prudent of us will take a chance J Ford, that a college man haa just
sell his pictures. and try to cut the corners. If hurt aa good a chance as one who haa
American art has been a good in this we ought to find fault only never attended college, ia the whim
deal of a "fizzle" thus far beoause with ourselves. In any instanc . slcal expression of a certain point of
It has been so much occupied with
Europe. At the risk of losing !
something in the way. of technique1
It ought to forget the old world
for
a tImA nnrl thlnlr In nnrelv I
American terms. It ought also to
forget those fascinating nymphs.
goddesses and Greek temples and ;
begin to paint American farmen
and their wives and daughters. No
art ever amounted tp much thatj
was not firmly attached to the Boil
of its country. Perhaps the im
migrants from European studios,
who know this lesson perfectly ,
well, will teach it to our Americau j
artists.
THE YEAR'S BEST BOOK
A
S USUAL at about this time
of the year literary peoplo
begin to feel agitated over
the question of the "best
book" published within the last , the heart of the timber or on the
twelve months. The diligent and ; e(jge of the sea, how often does
Intellectual Evening Post, of New ! ne manage to avoid paying his
York, has collected the views o;!just 6hare of taxes?
divers eminent authors upon thia
riiirnlnc tnnlc as tn-r nt 1 91 S l-i
as
concerned and their opinions are
as diverse as their predilections
and habits.
Henry Mills Alden, who edit3
Harpers' Magazine, is inclined to
think that Booth Tarkington's j
novel, "The Turmoil," is the best )
that has appeared. Among war ;
books, which are in multitude as I
f rtA canHc r f (ho coa QTr1 olnnt !
valuable, Mr. Alden awards the
prize to Owen Wister's "Pente
cost of Calamity." "The Turmoil"
is a fascinating
tale and it dips
raiut-r ueepiy iuio tue sea or Amer
ican life, that real life which lies
below our social climbing and
ton's books have exhibited an in-
crease of serious purpose and lit-!
erary power for some time bach, i
There is nothing unlikely in the!
prophecy that he will some day I
rise above the ordinary "Indiana '
novelist" and become one of our
bright and steady literary .lights,
destined to shine forever. ;
Agnes Repplier, the witty and
Incisive essayist who writes so
entertainingly for the Atlantic ,
Monthly, puts the Bryce report on
the Belgium horrors ahead of
everything else for the year. It
is a thrilling book and, cominc
from Lord Bryee's pen, its literary :
merits can hardly be mediocre, !
but the chances are that the brill- j
lant Miss Repplier has missed ths
mark a good deal in assigning it j
to so high a place. We diffidently
advance the opinion that no book
on the war that has yet been writ-
ten or that w ill be written for at (
least fifty years has any show
whatever of winning immortality.
Miss Repplier is a valiant pro-ally j
pen fighter and her zeal is quite
likely to have warped her usually
excellent judgment a trifle. For
our own modest taste the most en
tertaining book of the year is Dr.
Anna Shaw's autobiography.
HOUNDING MR. MANX
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REGO.V DAILY JOURNAL: I !
have been using your advertis
ing columns for many yets
and I firmly believe you have
th best advertising medium '.n
the Northwest. An ad in The Journal I than the great prophets Hko Row
always brings results. I land and Edison dreamed twenty
The officers of the association and s Th foresaw many
mvself desire to thark you at tins.-' J . .
time for your great assistance to us things but they had no vision of a
and the breeders of this great state. town which should be lighted, heat
in placing the poultry and pet stock , e(j an(j carrIed to and fro by elec
industry in the high position which It ..,.
holds a
at the present time.
You have
done more for the nd-
vancemcnt of Paltry than any other
newspaper in the Northwest, and &' 1
your continued work the people Orjuldo6uw. " otunauu. me owicti
Oregon will soon know that we have j are pretty progressive in their ur
here at home better poultry both m ; .an arrangements. Thev are ahead
show and egg producing qualities
worid. 1 The .tat. of" Oregon "ma
the world sit up and take notice at
the Pr.nama-Pacific International ex- j
position.
Yours truly.
jonx
M. MANX.
Secretary.
The above letter was published
in The Journal December 5th. Tho
next day, the Oregonian calle.l i
Mr. Mann and demanded to know
why he was "boosting The Jour-j
nal's stock as you did in your let-
ter yesterday?" j
The Oregonian is now making They are of moderate size, econ
attacks through its columns on Mr. i omically arranged and well pro-
Mann's printing business. It is try-:
ing to destroy Mr. Mann because
Mr. Mann acknowledged in a pub
lic letter the service The Journal
has rendered the Oregon Poultry
n-rA Pot CtrwV connsl Inn o n A t b o
poultry industry of Oregon.
Is free speech dead in this coun-
trv? What is the kind of con-
science snd what is the moral
standard of the Oregonian when it
seeks to hound a man out of busi-
ness because he commends a rival
newspaper :
STOP. LOOK. LISTEN
T
HE blame for accidents in therenulre ong purses, but Wiey man-
' "-w " -
tach to teamster, chauffeur
or motorman. The contribu-
tory cause Is often the pedestrian t if a county official should in
himself. There arej traffic regula-j vite you to go to lunch with him,
tions to govern th'e crossing of please attribute it to the Christmas
streets by pedestrians but they are
more honored in the (breach than
In the observance. '
Intent on personal affairs the
pedestrian darts across the street
ln the middle of the block, or at
the first point of contact at all
angles, fn front of automobiles.
'horses and street cars In Imminent
risk ' of life and limb. It Is not
to be wondered at that there are
so many accidents, but the wonder
Is 1 that under such circumstances ,
we are to blame whenever we
disregard the traffic ordinances,
There are many careful drivers
and many careless pedestrians..
RAILROAD TAXPAYERS
Y
EARS ago to aid in the con
struction of a railroad to
Yaquina Bay, the legislature,
gave to the company that
wan In hnilrl tho line, all the tide
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and marsh lands lri what was then
Benton, now Lincoln county. Thj
railroad accepted the grant and
ior more man a Quarter oi a cen- i
tury has claimed the granted lands
and derived revenue from them.
But not a dollar of taxes has It
ever paid.
How long would the little tide
land, owner escape the asseBBmei.t
roll with his small holding? The
small hnmn nwnpr whn nioneers In
It is instances like these, of
j gross discrimination in the admin
istration of tax laws that cause
to be brought forth radical meas
ures tnat the railroads declaim
against as vicious and unwise leg
islation. It Is all very well to talk about
harmony of interest between the
public and the great public service
corporations, but so long as the
i uunues oi ine cuuuiry are uuuer
j the management of men who re
' fuse to recognize for them the
t same obligations of c.itizenshin bv
f . navment and otherwise
that are accepted unmurmuringly
by little business, there is apt to
i be restlessness for public owner-
I
ship of these enterprises and the
people will meanwhile count them 1
to some extent, at least, as ad-
versaries.
The Southern Pacific, by succes
sion in interest Is the owner of tho
Lincoln county tide lands. Through
its representatives, this company ;
is protesting today that in the
disposition Of the O. & C. grant
l.no O .lncirno in act In hurmnnv
with the wishes of the people of
the State and promote those poli- j
cies that will advance Oregon's I
hcc interests i
The law says that every tax
payer shall return a sworn state
ment of his holdings to the asses
sor. Let the Southern Pacific per
form Its full duties of citizenship
and return these properties for tax
ation, which the public officials
lonS ago, by their own initiative,
should have put on the assessment
rollB. Then will the people of
Oregon have more faith In the sin
cerity of the railroad's claim to i
partnership in interest with them.
SCOTCH THRIFT
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RQFESSOR HENRY RO
LAND, one of America's great
scientific geniuses, used to
speak of electricity as "an
Imperial science." He meant that
when we came to know all about
electricity we should probably un
derstand everything else. Both
theory and practice in this realm
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i of wonders are going ahead faster
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But there are such towns. One
Qf them Dumbreck. a suburb of
of us in the matter of street cars
w-S
city planning, public lighting auditing of the need of scholastic dis
so on. In the use of electricity
tb,. fBr -heoH m l.cct In
directions, though not in all. The
town of Dumbreck has not a soli
tary chimney. There is no need of
any because electricity makes no
smoke. The canny citizens warm
themselves
by charming electric
stoves which radiate heat
and
beauty at the same time.
The houses' were designed espec-
lally for the use of electricity.
tected from tire weather, which is
ntfan tovom Qt niaccrrv Tb i.
con -f fhimn o-Uocr tK r,io.
a sightly air. The little narallel -
epipedons of brick and mortar with
I -u.-b !cb .- PTrnrn line A u-oll r tra AAt
I nothing to their loveliness. If w'
J could get rid of them beauty would
be enhanced and money saved.:'" suboroinate positions, wnue un
Most country fires begin in chim -
neys. In these model houses the
people cook, warm themselves.
heat water and so on. all by elec-
i tricitV
How expensive it all may be we
i are not informed. In thfl Ignited
States we fear such luxuries wmtlil
iage inings or that sort a little
j better in Scotland,
.
spirit. It's
primaries.
a long time to
the
A simple, modest, courteous gen
tleman was Eben F. Wells. May
the fragrance of his many good
deeds hover above his eternal -pillow.
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THE VALUE
OF THE COLLEGE
view, and really says much, better
than many paragraphs could do that
an exaggerated. Importance Is some
times attached to the higher educa
tional training. Perhaps it would ba
better to eay that the exaggeration
exists with regard to the expecta
tions held as "to the effects of the
higher training.
1 am writing this In response to a
letter I have received, in which the
writer states that he is about to In
...
vest In a college education, contrary
j to the advice of his friends, and be
i lleving his position to be that of
many other young mn. he suggests
that something of general interest
might be said about it.
Now, at the outset I wish to
affirm my belief in the college, al
though I entertain no illusions what
ever as to what the college can do
for the student. I think the first
thing it does for him is to prevent
the feeling that he is missing some
thing by missing college. Many men
have been handicapped all their lives,
not so much by the fact that they
have missed the fuller training of
the college, as by the fact that thev
feel that somehow they are out of
It by never having had the college
experience. It Is worth something to
remove this possibility from any
young man's life, and to free hlrc
from a sort of defiance he might
otherwise feel. The college has be
come so regular a part of the com
mon educational system that In fu
ture years the boy who has missed
it Is likely to feel it more keenly
than boya hitherto have done. And
all this without any reference at all
to the inherent benefits of a col
lege course.
a
As to the advice against college
which my correspondent has received,
that is a very common circumstance,
one of the most successful men I
know, and one of the brainiest too,
consistently advises young men not
to go To college. He lias assisted
"me who would not
vlre, but he usually
heed his ad
declares that
'their experience has spoiled them,
j And. In a way. It has 'spoiled" them;
1 that If. It has changed them from
what they were, into something else.
It has, perhaps, taken away some of
their spontaneity and made them
more deliberate. Or. where they were
I venturesome In their thought, draw
ing their conclusions out of the very
air as it were, they now build mora
slowly and with more method and
reach their conclusions more soberly
and less audaciously. They have been
tamed for that Js one thing that
training does for us; it tames us.
And in some respects the untamed.
untrained vigor of the young is more
attractive . than a tamed or trained
attractive
to the man I
ed.
t where a young man nas earn
the tight to give the college a
chance at him, and where he hai
thought out his path as clearly as he
is able to do, I think the decision
must re3t with himself and I think
he need not be too unselfish about It
either. There Is an unselfishness that
works harm all around both to the
young fellow w-ho displays it and to
the elders who demand it and there
is a sacred eeparateness about each
life which permits the great decisions
to be made by oneself. Certainly, If
a young man seeks the higher edu
cation in order to be able to put
more into life and get more out
of it. In order to draw his share
of the tored-up treasures of ths
ages, 'in order to train his faculties
to efficiency and power, none of us
can charge him with following a low
ideal. And I should be inclined to
say that the very desire, the very
cipllne, is itself a determining factor
which we can seldom frustrate with
out doing irreparable harm. If H
were a case of a young man being
forced into college against his will
there might be two opinions express
ed. But in the case of a young man
who ts himself Exceedingly desirous
to get to the schools, I think there
is only cne.
"But what good will it do him
ask the practical-minded. Unfortun
ately, the question dies not usually
I ,nPan wna 11 1,16 coa ln
'quired about is sometimes a too ma-
tprial Rood. In the economic sense it
! nia' do ,llm " at aR That
i u may not enabIe to wcar broad-
cloth. In th'.S Ci'.V there are hun-
a reds- of men. who have their B. A
1 Rnd M- A- TrorklTl& witn the,r hands
! trained men of native power are their
I super,ors
But 1 do not personally know one
of these coiiese men who would
I trade the value of his college training
for Increased dollars. The "good" that
they have received is measured by
, quite another settle of values. They
havo outlooks and Insights which
) some untrained men do not have,
j They have become aware of their
mental machinery; they "know their
I own ' mind ln a much deeper sense
j than others do: they know how to
I think and if so be their thought
...... .
1 does not coin itself Into dollars,, it
Is none the less valuable because of
that. They have won citizenship ln
a wider world: their horizons have
been extended: they are on speaking
terras with the great and the good
of all ages; they can go a little way
Into all the tnrsteriea into which
j it ia more
have, mention
THE CHILDREN'S HOUR
By Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
B
ETWEEN the dark and the daylight.
When the night is beginning to lower,
Comes a pause in the day's occupations
That is known as the children's hour.
I heir in the chamber above me
The patter of little feet.
The sound of a door that is opened,
And voices soft and sweet.
A sudden rush from the stairway,
A sudden raid from the hall:
By three doors left unguarded
They enter my castle wall!
They climb up into my turret
O'er the arms and back of my chair;
If I try to escape, they surround me;
They setm to be everywhere.
They almost devour me with kisses,
Their arms about me entwine
Till 1 think of the Bishop of Binpen
In his Mouse-Tower on the Rhine!
Do you think, O blue-eyed banditti.
Because you have scaled the wall,
Such an old mustache as I am
Is not a match for you all!
I have you fast in my fortress.
And will not let you depart,
But put you down into the dungeon
In the round-tower of my heart,
i
And there will 1 keep you forever,
Yes, forever and a day,
Till the walls shall crumble to ruin,
And moulder in dust away.
NO TIME FOR SELF-EXALTATION
From the- Omaha World Herald.
In the gospel according to St. Luke
is recorded a parable which, though It
Is one of the most familiar and oft
quoted of all those uttered by the
Savior, American citizens might with
profit read over again:
"And he spake this parable unto cer
tain which trusted ln themselves that
they were righteous, and despised
others:
"'Two men went up into the temple
to pray; the one a Pharisee, and the
other a publican.
" 'The Pharisee stood and prayed
thus with himself, God. I thank thee,
that I am not as other men are, ex
tortioners, unjust, adulterers, or even
as this publican.
" 'I fast twice a week, I give tithes
of all that I possess.
"'And the publican, standing afar
off, would not lift up so much as his
eyes unto heaven, but smote upon his
breast, saying. God be merciful to me
a sinner.
" 1 tell you. this man went down
to hia house Justified rather than the
other; for every one that exalteth him
self shall be abashed; and he that
humbleth himself shall be exalted.' "
a
The temptation to self-exaltatlon Is
great. Across the waters we behold
our kinsfolk at war. We see them the
victims of the mbst destructive
scourge that has ever befallen human
ity. More than fifteen million of the
flower of their young manhood have
been killed or crippled and scores of
billions of their wealth wealth they
have been generations in amassing
has gone up in smoke. The awful
process continues without sign of an
end. Europe is a land half of mad-
. , . i . ..
ness and nan at mounnuiis, n
homes are the abode of woe ad deso
lation, its men face extermination, its
women and children cry unavalllngiy
to a heaven that does not respond. And
when we look at home w-e see peace
peace that Is fat with plenty peace
that Is actually tnriving on mo uoun
tiful profits that spring from provid
ing the material which war consumes,
The Amrican mother finds her sons,
not In the trenches, but with her in
the home. Little children behold their
father at the head of the table. They
are not waiting, as are the children
of Europe, ln an agony of dread, in
a home on whose threshold the wolf
Is lurking, for news of their father at
the front.
But it Is not ours to thank God
that we are fortunate and blessed be
cause we are not aa other men: be-
cause we are ueuer
our cousins who are dying ln the lands
where the cradles of our forefatthers
were rocked. We are no better than
ih.. .n little d fferent. unr oeseris
are no greater than theirs even though
an Inscrutable Providence ha blessed
us far more abundantly. Ana it. is
spirit contemptible when it is not fool
ish that prompts the vaunting of our
selves as a people on naving "rousm
men nave torcea jwruai pai". m
world ln which they live is more
alive, more wonderful and mora en
chanting, than it would otherwise
have be?n.
They may not be able to have as
many or as costly pictures .-vs boihu
others have, but such rlcturcs as
they are able to own will be choice
ones. ror may tncy us auie m
as many and as costly bound book
as other have, but such books ar;
they own will belong to the aristroc
racy of letters. They may not be
able to live in as beautiful houses
and cat as rich food aa others, but
their lives w-111 be more ordered and
their plain fare will nourish a richer
life.
This is the answer I make to the
question, "What good will It do
him?" In such a question I stress
the words "good" and "him." but.
after all he himself will be able,
later on, to give the best answer to
it.
And I .must not omit to say that
the boy who has the desire for col
lege and is hindered 'In obtaining It.
haa been very considerably blessed
In the der.lre itself. It is his certlf
Icate of brotherhood with the ongoing
spirit of the race. It Is his entrance
qualification into the world cf the
Ideal. Such a desire is never 'wholly
balked. He may n"t see the college
halls, but he will seek and obtain in
other ways the discipline of his spirit
and his mind. For these higher crav
ings never go unsatisfied. They are
potencies in themselves.
Letters From the People
In the IXaJ Hand.
Portland. Dec. 9. To the Editor of
The Journal Tour editorial. "Mort
main." was greatly enjoyed. New
thought Is fctlrrlng today. New
ho much more successfully for the
happiness and security of our horn, s
than our Kuropean cousins have done
for theirs.
The advantage the enormous, in
calculable advantage is all with us.
God has been more than good to us
and our praises should ascend to Him
without ceasing, but they should le
the praises of the publican who hum
bled himself and said. "God be men '
ful to me a sinner." It is to what He
has done for vis, not to what we have
done for ourselves and with the oppor
tunities he has given us that is due
the startling contrast in conditions
dlstingulfehing this shore of the Atlan
tic from the other. Tho follies they
have practiced over there we are prac
ticing even now. The tasks they have
left undone are the selfsame tasks to
which our own hands have not been
set. The conditions, steadily growing
and hardening conditions due In large
part to glaring faults and evils ln so
ciety, Industry and government that
brought on their calamity, are the
same that are becoming more and more
noticeable and more familiar to us
with each passing year. We scold
them for what they have done. We
presume to fix the blame, to name in
dividual culprits, to make them the
objects of our scorn and hate. Yet
we have not one good reason to assert
that, transplanted from our morning
to their evening, from our vast spaces
to theiF cramped quarters, from our
one-ness to their many-ness, we would
do any different or any better than
they have done,
George W. Perkins said recently, on
the subject of preparedness for war,
that this country Is not even prepared
for peace. Now George W. Perkins Is
a very wealthy man, he has been a
very successful man ln the world of
big business, but when Mr. PerkinR
said that he told the truth, and It is
a truth worth pondering. This coun
try is not prepared for peace. In time,
if present tendencies continue. It -will
be as little prepared for peace as was
Europe In the early summer of 1914.
And it is lack of preparedness for
peace that brings on war. It was
such lack of preparedness a lack the
statesmanship of Kurope was unable
to supply and that it found it impossi
ble to cope with that brought on this
war. The fault was no more Europe's
than ours, since we are traveling the
beginning of the way of which Europe,
groping now in blood and tears, Is
finding let us hope the beginning of
the end.
a a
Let us be thankful for the blessings
and advantage a.nd immunities we
enjoy. Let Us humbly resolve to strive
to do more in the future than we have
done in the past to make the most
of them. Lot ns not. In God s name,
stand posing before the world with the
boast that we are not as other men,
'for every one that exalteth himnelf
shall be abased" abased because he
has lost wisdom. ,
thought was the name by which our
Reformation of a few centurle ago
was known; and reformation is at hand
today.
The benefactions to old monasteries
wre examples of mortmain. How they
began in spiritual influence and ended
in. greed, history reveals. Monastic
retreats were the romance of their day,
and our admiration today.
In my travels I hai opportunity to
study the monasteries of two English
counties. Some are in ruins and some
have been turned into great houses sit
uated in beautiful parka There were
40 monasteries in Nottinghamshire and
20 ln Leicetstershlre. of the greatest
attractiveness, befcldes little parish
churches, often one, two or three miles
apart, of varied architecture. One Is
lost in admiration of the old church
of HOP, snd the reverence and respect
back of it is greater than words can
convey.
Now England faces "a war to th!
death. Will new thought be stronger
than war? Bernard Shaw and Arthur
r.enson sre two writers of new
thoughfModay. to let everyon have a
chance to live. Capitalism Is the con.
ces-tion of the world's goods, and mili
tarism Is its power. M. A. B.
A Cord Is 128 Cubic Feet.
Madras. Or.. Iec. 8. To the Editor
of Tiie Journal I want to know the
standard of measurement for cordwood.
I bought seven conis H inch length,
it was not ricked 1171 and when I had
hauled and ricked it there were onlv
four and t hree-fourtha" cords, allowing
12S cubic feet per cord (or The
man I got it from says that 118 cubic
feet are allowed as a cord. Please let
me know. SUBSCRIBER.
Chapter SI'i. section 20, laws of
191.".. provides "the standard of a cord
of wood within the Jrtate shall be 1:1
cubic feet of wood, well piled."
Mr. famecJe'ts Addra.
Portland, Dec. 6. To the Editor of
The Journal. Could you publish 'n
The Journal Andrew Carnegie's ad
dress? In what city In the United
States dooa he make hlg home?
A READER OF. THE JOURNAL.
I Mr. Carnegie's home Is in New
Tork city. His address Is No. S East
Ninety-first street. .
once Oven
- r TU.X 1.AHPMAN
LAST SUNDAY I wrote a letter U
Santa i Cluus about all the littli
boys an4 glil.x who in confldini
faith write him Utters every year
and mail; them at the Portland post
office, H And t told him about the funnj
things thy aslc ior.
like Ishoc an. I stotklnga and
warm ciiliB ami m-.ttens.
And With SantH I'laus' permissloB
wirelessed to inr-tmni the Norta
Pblc 1 am going to print tome of th
letters that are wailing for him al
readyat the ponofice.
One boy wi itts
Dear Santa t'lnux I n i l try and
write you a few .. see ;f you
will be a good to n i.- , ou was
lHst yrr. I will i, .: M.v any
money to pay oi. : my pnpa
has been si k In !.: ; t" nearly
. thrt-e yea fn ami ii.;i:n.ni -i s per-
r.aps you wool. I i-iii.l; a few
things. ?n 1 will teil
what I -J
a pair oi
feet dry
a ra'r ol
would like to have.
51 And then he ask f.
high-top shoes to k-ep i
T And he savs he nr.
overalls vtry badly.
- ami he would like to haw- .1 1 air ol
leather gloves.
And he w ishes his sister- r, year!
nla could have .1 hair ribbon- and
hat to wear to Sunday school.
and some Hto.k.uKs.
"And If it Isn't ask:ne too much
he gis on - "I wish ou would bring
my pjfpiif somethmi; to eat and m
mother a pair of fl." knis and
wrapper number and 1 would Ilk
sunie nuts and landy."'
J And his sister w rite a letter Ilka
bis almost word for word.
And each letter closes "Hopping
you will not forget me."
j And a little Klrl named Louise
wants some Mocking and pink rib-
I l.ons and a little table and chair anc
1 a set of dishes fo she can play house-
I ar And there are other letters ask
ing for stockings.
And their writers are going to get
them.
1 know they are because last
week a merchant wrote me a. card
and told me to tell postmaster Myen
that he would help Santa Claua out
if he wat short of stockings.
jAnd another letter the back ol
which is all covere.i with drawings
that look like spiders but which ar
labeled "sTaUs" rubs like this:
I 'ear Sat: t; pleas send me but
ter soup ntdpes flying machine
and one thiasning machine Dear
fanta so lon merry X-mas.
Another letter .says:
lear Saiit;i K'a: I am Eva and
I want a dol.. I want it as big aa
a little haby with blue eis and
rerl mouth with red clippo" that
w.ll koni of.
a And they ak for kewples and
darkey dolls- and handken hlefa and
story books -and red wagons and alr
fihii.a atij automobiles and nuta and
can.iy-- and oh e cry thing.
J And of course some of these chil
dren need not worry.
because their parents have wrlttea
to Santa ("la us too.
J But a great many of them whet!
Christmas dawn makes sray the win
dows will wake to empty stockings
unless
J LISTEN 1'nless ouite a few peo
ple Ko to nee Postmaster Myers and
let him appoint them tmnta Claus' dep
uties. which Santa ( laus writes me ha
has full authority to do.
Skooktun Heard From Again.
lCti..tnm 'nrreiniH.'e Illicolu I .-tint
Cnrrei'r..e'-e
Leaflet. Tjie.l.
Or 1
p.". t- M .!
The SkikMUi mid 1 '
ball eaul miv 1
breaking Uie Oreifn sun
Similar hid tlie f..!ll
Mr. ilv ik.ru ldll-.u i
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l!.-,t ! In 1..-M-i:..,t.
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with be line r"V ami Lik
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biii t!x?r ffrrf feT
wilier ..n tre sr.. una-
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KjM.rl, of i-ourse Ti.'
im.i hTe r.-jH.rti-i! th
Our I'ItIc (Uilj l'L
ilelit et lat tueetii::
Ieb. Andrew Jink"
S.L- 'k Li Lis wen
, -Ti.v. Tel.. f-.r .rel
Tcli'' V iin.li.. li.j an.
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tr, 111. h.l. ef p-l.r---:.ltl'
Ti- ft m a ii'.t
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any wbo ahail I- r- I'l.-nl
t.a.t Sunday .-nnminlen t.
Sk..kna. cliur'h. M lln. M- I" ''
IVrooerat. .umJ -he .r"..nh .1 err,
Julre fur the im . I"1' ' . :"!
the jar for m.e of Jelly i-u uu.r.i-J I"'
t v. K.Hir.l.iu-h 'l'n tt" J" ,of ,.
SrV. bkU-trle. w bleb be trie, o -t ab,
,..1 Knt 1UeT nail ieriii.-iii-'i -'
......I, rtlluti-d tbe Jell
nflef Ira ate
let to 'Tore It not noIaoneJ.
Ira feaU
sore OTer mat irica ii..".
.-11-- C..M.-f ur... !..! All
ekxpient f-
mon on
umf i-f'iii.c rT. ..
piece more fuiun
iIit did. Annul
lnlmliitm.! tEn -other
(V-. be alfl thera
wan mi ."in - ...... - .
1. h-he. I mean? I'Hi ' o"W. d"""'
1.. n.rlitl.i. lit
mir cotinuouae. n urn
t, 1 Wl....lrll1llfM CTflli tO
Toledo laal
the r,,pcorn d V kJ
i.r..i.i We aekty.wieijiie in-
eern
. ' 1 u..... 1h,.r v.. t the
lironm
when
they reached tlnlr Ivetter
a ini.nr'i Tribnt to
Port-
land Child,
cir- A stranger, in a strange
City passing, and fearing he majr
"never pwn th. way again'
wishes to drop a word of apprecia
tion to a little Portland child
ami to the glad. ay heart of
childhood, the same the world
y ' "t)o yrni want a flower?
Ho asks a little miss of rx or
seven, as she hold oit a brlht
yellow flower.
O . little one. and who would
not. when given Dy iracn an
qulsite little human flower,
sweet a baby spirit?
TVirnnirh the teauty of
ex-
o
th
1 umtl anil her Sine.ry
voice, as she says, "bu u want
a flower?"
v.. l.abv. we all want your
iufii lltilA Ki.iril. and any
one
1 1 V " n -. ' - - ' . .
nor wo;,rt OC
indeed
spirit Mind. wit'. - for i?'1,
vour flowers and with yw little
presence vrn brine "f a jnd or.
ihadows bright l-rirht sunlight,
snaao j.1" stoker LKWIS,
East 1 f 1 4 M-.i 'on ae.. Spokane,
hpoaklng of Pirate.
Don Sei'? if the New York World,
an autho.itv on pirates and piracy
that is Sfi'z Is i quoted In tn
IJoston T. ipt a saying that
Captain Knid wasn't much of a pirate,
after all-
"Captain Kid'l was s-rt out to stip
prers pir;it. backed l-v some of the
n,ot influential men in colonial New
York."
That
backf d
leading
Ih. Kldd,
by some
citizens.
not the pirates, waa
of early Gotham's
"When he found success slow on
his expedition, he began to pick op
booty- himself.
"He wa hanged in England, osten
sibly Sot kllli.ig a mutinous gunner,
but the great Kidd of bloody legend
was really "framed up' by his partner
to kf-p. their share of the proflti ,
quiet," :
Then Kidd. so to speak, was really
mads the goat! -
' " -' -
little yellow flower "there lann
a solicitude not its ow n, ' yt a
far greater beauty 1 ; m from
v.- i,..,.ii Rahv V lower with
1 Is thrvt the idea, DonT . ' .