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THE OREGON SUNDAY. JOURNAL,. ' PORTLAND;' SUNDAY MORNING MARCH 19,: 1916.
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. WOODBOW WILSON. .
Million for defense, bat not a cent for
tribute.. CHARLES C. TINCKNET.
Bebold yon servitor of God and afanv
- awn.
Who, blading Op hlB Bible with hU
ledger.
Blends Gospel texts with trading- f am
nion, A black-leg aatnt, a snlrlrasl hedger,
Wbo backs his rigid Sabbath, so to
speak.
Against the wicked remnant of the
week,
A earing bet against bla alnful bias
"Borne that I am," be whispers to
himself,
"I lie I cheat do anything for pelf.
Bat who on earth can as I am not
pious r-
Hood.
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ARE YOU FOB IT?
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ULTNOMAH county's share
of such a school fund as
the Chamberlain bill would
create out of the grant
lands would be $256,902 every
year.
It is nearly three times what
the county' now receives annually
. ; from its share of the Interest on
the irreducible school fund. The
- sum received by Multnomah under
last year's apportionment Was $87,-
- 696.25. Is the trebling of this
" ' - -- i t , i , ,
auuu&i scuout mcume, waicn wouiu
' remain fixed forever, worth any
thing to Multnomah county tax
payers, to Multnomah county
schools and to Multnomah count7
children through the generations
. ; to come?
i Baker -county i;wouid g-t every
year from the fund that the Cham
berlain bill would create $31,43ti,
.Umatilla. $35,978; Union, $29,101;
Waacn 121 OfiS v Mirinn. ifiP, 72fl-
l unn, , lammu, i6t,26i,
and other counties in proportion.
- - The sum that each county would
f receive every year appears on an
... other page of The Journal today.
t A quarter of a million fixed in
Z come every year for - the public
'-schools would seem to. be a suf
, Jficlent prize to move every citizen
- of Multnomah county to action.
-A fixed income of more than a
: ; million dollars a year to be divided
. pro rata among the counties Tor
T.. support of the schools would seem
, to be enough of a prize to move
every citizen of the whole state to
f 'action.
It would be more than a million
, a year saved in direct taxes for
support of the schools. The ln-
credible thing In the situation is
: that" with - this -rich prize to-be
: won, the people and public bodies
-'of the State have ramnlnsil Inert
iu sccura il gecms imur inaan.
' gered.
. Are you for the Chamberlain
. bill? Or against It?
Blessed Is the man who invented
sleep, said Sancho Panza, and may
"blessings light upon him who m
. ri vented ill health as a reason for
reslrnlhr from nubile off ton.
BAD ADVICE
o:
NE piece or advice which Dr.
Nicholas Murray Butler gives
the public is that we should
;turn our, attention away from
lnte rnal problems C and , devote our
I ' attention . to International affairs.
"Tbis ; is what usually happens in
- ,timet .war. - . .
V ; . Whart the trumpet sounds and
'.' " the flag Is waved we forget such
; trifles as the; welfare of tLe labor
X V' ing man, the problem of, internal
' Improvements, the feminist dispute,
and think of nething but, fighting.
- We have no- war of our own on
; : hand ; but Dr. - Butler thinks we
. might make the-- European serve
i . , the same . purpose. . His . advice is
to stop thinking about the affairs
that Intimately concern us and give
. our znlnda to such matters as con
": - cern the whole wofld- -. - ;
i - In a way this is good advice.
I For; we .' are learning - the 'lesson
- ' now-a-days , that, the big world
i- The-housewife, "who nas to;pay tea
. prices 'for .chloride 'of lime to'dis-
' infect the sink feels the vibrations
C . of. the? European war-quite acutely.
' But. it is pertinent to: remark that
-: the international , 'questions always
- 7 grow out of ;.d.omwtier questions,
The- most pressing domestic" ques-
t ' i. tion '.in -every civilized - country - is
f that,, of- paying41abor '. adequate
' wages. - With adequate wages labor
2, , ; could buy. and consume. th.e entire
manufacturing output of the country-
! The struggle for, foreign mar
kets would then .qulec ; down. - and
there would be no apparent motive
for wars.'1 ? r -
Thus the settlement' of the ques
tion of International peace depends
npon justice to labor at home. And
this is as true In Germany, England
and France as it is -in the United
, o
tOMies.
But - Dr.- Butler counsels
us to forget the domestic question
upon which everything depends
and fix our minds on a mere corol
lary of It This seems to show
that even college presidents some
times hitcL the., cart before the
horse. ' , .. -' . -
The soldiers are off on the hunt
for Villa. The force includes no
military editors or warlike mine
owners who have labored so long
anTs uproariously to enlist some
body else for the fray.
THE PITTSBURG INCIDENT
t:
HE Pittsburg could have come
to Portland for ' the troops
from Vancouver barracks.
i. Vessels of equal draft have
been nere'when the stage of water
was far lower and the water at
the Columbia entrance far 'more
shallow. If the order of the navy
department ' was based on any
other theory as to the accessibility
of Portland, it was based . on in-
accurate information.
The truth is that channel condi
tions in the Columbia should be
such that suoh vessels could go di
rect t to Vancouver. The people
of Vancouver ought, to lead the
movement to make it so. 1
.Their delegation at - Washington
seems solely interested In Puget
Sound. Yet the Columbia river-is
more to all eastern and south
western Washington than is Puget
Sound.'.
It Is in the power of Vancouver
people to unite Eastern and South
western Washington in "a ereat
endeavor to get full, advantage out
of the Columbia river, , and when
that is once done, the Washington
delegation in Congress will listen
more to appeals to them for aid
mat win De reai am.
That aid would consist in Buch
an improvement of the Columbia
as will give Eastern and South
western Washington water level
instead of over-mountain freight
rates .to the ocean. Then Van
couver will secure a channel by
which the Pittsburg could go direct
to the barracks and carry soldiers
wherever desired without trans
fers and railroad- hauls. That
would be a reason for perpetuating
the military post at Vancouver.
The present favoritism of the
Washington delegation to Puget
Sound la seen in the passage by
the Senate of a more than two-
million-dollar appropriation for
preparing the Bremerton navy yard
to build battleships, and that in a
harbor whose entrance 'a com
manded by the British guns at Es
quimau.
Some think that the "judicial
temperament" said to be needed
On the bench is something pos
sessed only by lawyers vwho have
long served a certain kind of law
breaking corporations.- That belief
is the backbone of . the opposition
to Brandeis. -1
A SMALL EDITION
T
HE federal department of la
bor has published a-' bulletin
on the "condition of women
and child wage earners in
the United States." The bulletin
is not a particularly -small volume,
but It is a mere abstract of a
much more expansive report. Congress-authorized
the secretary of
commerce 'and labor In 1907 to
look into the .circumstances of
women and child wage earners
and he proceeded to do so, limiting
his inquiry to the states east of
the Mississippi. His full report,
in 19 volumes, suffered the fate of
some other interesting reports
dealing with subjects unpleasant
to the Invisible government.
A small edition was put out for
the benefit of congressmen and
so forth,, but "from motives of
economy" no more copies were
printed. In the same way Reed
Smoot of Utah tried to smother
the Industrial Commission's re
port, but. he did not succeed. . The
bulletin of which we are speaking
Is a sort of resume prepare! to
give sparingly of the information
which abounds in the full report.
It is not well for the public to
learn too much of. these risky mat
ters, i
Of course the . Inquiry covered
only a comparatively small num
ber of manufactories, stores and
so on. i It was . impossible to in
vestigate all of them. In the es
tablishments actually covered the
employes numbered 335,000. More
than half of these ...were females,
many of whom were young girls.
But many again were - married
women, the mothers of ' families.
The report says that married worn
en seldom go out to work unless
poverty drives them to it.,-. We
may, therefore, infer;, that these
thousands of mothers '. were at
work to help support "the home."
.What waa happening ; to the
home while; they were away at
their tasks? V The white slave re
port issued In Illinois not long ago
tell part of the tale.;; Girls jwho
work for wages and those who are
left at home without' a n.others
care; seem to be "the natural -prey
of men who fatten on sin. ""Ignor
ance, misery and "the love of life,"
too often render them ' facile vic
tims. 4 Those who are solicitous
for the welfare of the home should
seek " some - way to- restore these
wage-earning .. mothers -n to their
proper sphere. ;
As matters stand,, they hav the
choice ; between starring . at home
and working in - mills while- their
amines go e-- to destruction. ;. It
seems a Uttle , hard npon them.
From facta! like these, with which
tie reporfcjbounda, we can under
stand quite readily why the Reed
BmoOts : of . the ' senate ; cculd - not
find any money for a large edition.
Carranza believes Villa was in
duced by; American; interests to
raid Columbus in order to provoke
intervention In . Mexico. ; "Many
otters believe It too.;
BRITAIN AND FRANCE
A
CONTEMPORARY justly re
t marks ; that ; the world has
never seen anything quite
like the current British in
vasion of France- The men of the
island ' empire,, -English, Scotch,
Irish, Canadians, Australians and
so on, now 'hold something like
120 miles of trenches along the
Belgian frontier. -The French have
thus been able to withdraw large
bodies of troops for service at Ver
dun. As their men moved off to
the focus of the fighting-the raw
British recruits filled In the gaps
so that the front- has been kept
Intact.
There must, as our reflective
contemporary remarks, be as many
as 1,000,000 British soldiers now
in France fighting side by side
with the troops of the republic
and doing their full duty by their
ally. The Germans predict that
these British soldiers never will
be withdrawn from French terri
tory, but will fasten upon key
fortresses, such as Calais, and keep
them. Calais was garrisoned by
British' troops up to the reign of
Bloody Mary," Elizabeth's sister,
when the French took it and they
have kept it ever since.
Mary Bald bitterly that when she
was dead they would find "Calais'
vritten on her. heart. But at that
day the fortress was of no particu
lar value to the English. Condi
tions are different now when the
big guns can shoot across the
Channel, for a German garrison
there could greatly Inconvenience
British navigation, while a naval
station at Calais would be a posi
tlve menace to .Great Britain. Still
it Is not to be believed for a 'mo
ment that the British will retain
Calais or any other French fortress
after the close of the war. The
Boldiers will go back home when
peace is signed.
There are several reasons for
this expectation. One is that a
genuine friendship has grown up
between France and England. It
is not mere romantic sentiment.
but a friendship based on a deep
community of trade interest and
nauonai laeais. uotn countries
stand for democracy in cflntradls
tinction to the autocracy of Ger
many and Russia. This friendship
will not tolerate foul play by the
government of either country.
Another reason is the traditional
dislike of the British for continental
possessions. They havo had many
opportunities to acquire fortresses
In France and elsewhere if they
had wished, but they have resisted
the temptation. In the days of
Edward III and Henry V, England
held wide territories in France but
without the slightest benefit from
them. Indeed, they led to the mis
erable Hundred Years War which
all but ruined France and greatly
weakened England. The lesson
was so thoroughly learned then
that England has remained satis
fied within her sea walls ever
since. She would not keep Calais
from considerations of sound mill
tary policy even If she . had no bet
ter reasons. The fortress, would
be a source of weakness, not of
strength.
The presence of so many British
troops in France on the friendliest
terms with the people will bring
the two countries nearer together
than they have been since'the Nor
man conquest. . Many British boys
will marry French girls, for the
troops are welcome everywhere and
associate freely with the young of
both sexes. Some will then make
their homes In France, others wil
take their wives back to England
or . Australia It may be. There will
thus ensue a genuine mingling of
the two nations, a "melting pot'
process on a wide scale which will
knit new ties between them. Just
as It has been said for many years
that a war between. England and
the .United States is unthinkable,
so we may now believe the same
of England and France. To the
ties of common feeling and Interest
will be added the ties of blood.
In her helpfulness ; to France,
England has set the world an ex
ample of International friendship
which, will not be' soon forgotten.
It may be .said, of course, that the
friendship is not disinterested,1 but
it is as much so as we can expect
in this falliblei world. If it ulti
mately unites the1 two . countries
in a federal union the "republic of
the world" may not be bo far-away
as some affect to believe.
Spring - bonnets are smaller, bu
the size of! Dad's bill Is not.: '
'BURDENS f
EPORE the war most of our
dyestuffs came from Germa
ny.; The Germans could make
them better and cheaper than
we could, so the exchange. - was
profitable on both sides.- When
the war .broke out this source of
supply was cut off and for a. time
we had no ' dyes' to speak of. No
body went cold or hungry for want
of them, ,buW the nation was upon
the whole somewhat less beautiful
than aforetime! ,1 . ' j
Then some of our -more enter-!
prising countrymen started up dye-
works and began in a feeble and
tentative way to put ; forth " the
means - whereby t we - might make
ourselves gorgeous again. It Is a
new ; infant Industry - trut, properly
nurtured, it may sometime become
full grown. But the men who have
gone into the - dye business " are
nervous about the future. ; What
shall they do- when . the . war is
over? The Germans with their su
perior skill and resources will be
gin' making dyes again. They will
dump" them on our shores and
drive our : infant industry to de
struction. -
Dyes procured from the infant
ndustry cost us a great deal more
than we used to pay the Germans.
If we keep out the foreign dyes by
a big tariff we shall continue to
pay more. We shall have to tax
ourselves for the next century or
two in order to place the Infant
ndnstry on a secure foundation.
Will It pay? The war will be over
before long. Why not get along
the best we can -with ; pure white
garments until that happy day
dawns and then import cheap dyes
from Germany as we did of yore?
Why burden ourselves with war
prices forever in order to build
up an Industry for which we have
ittle aptitude?
Much fear of "dumnlne" is
abroad in the land. Having tasted
the blood of war prices our princes
of trade are unwilling to go back
to a peace diet. They are eager
to build up a high tariff wall so
that they can continue to wring
exorbitant prices from the con
sumer. .To the man who has no
axe to grind it looks as it we could
stand a little dumping of gasoline,
drugs, copper and beefsteaks with
out much real cause for grief. If
Europe wishes to sell us these arti
cles at moderate prices why should
we be offended?
On the ground that her face has
been so disfigured by injuries in
an auto accident that her chances
Of being asked to marry have been
destroyed. Miss Catherine Murphy
of Jersey City has brought suit for
damages against the owner of the
machine. One is sorry for Cather
ine, but the eligible young men
and juries of mere men are subject
to 'the same influences.
ARISTOCRACY
a
G. WELLS' new novel, "The
Research Magniflce nt,"
tackles the old question
whether aristocracy or de
mocracy is best for the world. The
story clusters round two contrasted
characters. One of them inherited
great wealth. The other was more
or less dependent upon a mother4
who was a dressmaker. The
raonled hero set out on the "re
search magnificent" for true aris
tocracy. The other began as a
slouchy. democrat but finally
adopted his friend's theories.
To Mr. Wells democracy, means
slouchinesB" in mind and body.
Tbe masses are necessarily un
trained, he tells us, cannot think
clearly and are too Indolent to act
vigorously. The laboring man can
hardly be--expected to shave him
self every morning, curb his brute
passions or subject himself to any
hardships for the mere Bake of self-
culture. .The aristocrat can do all
these things because he has the
time and money to fix his desires
on excellence for the sake of ex
cellence. Mr. Wells is a very prolific as
well as a very popular author. He
began his -career by writing queer
stories of a semi-scientific cast,
something like those with which
Jules Verne delighted the world.
Then he passed on into socialistic
speculations. Now-he has adopted
the old Greek Ideals of aristocracy,
quotes Aristotle, and mingles doc
tines from the sophists with his
modern incidents.
No doubt the aristocratic ideal
is .a good one. So Is the. Ideal of
absolutism. But aristocracies nave
always degenerated - Into cruelly
selfish cliques and good despots
have had Neros for successors.
History affords no warrant tor
abandoning democracy and wort
shipping , aristocracy. The only
Lope for mankind is to cure de
mocracy of its faults. There Is no
necessary reason why the masses
should be unkempt, careless of
their minds and' bodies, indifferent
to ideals. Give them . enough to
eat and wear, educate them as
they might easily be educated, and
these defects will disappear.
The British aristocracy has a
finer mind and body than his labor-
class fellow man chiefly because he
has better food, clothing and home
surroundings. The world has
reached a stage . of ; production
where theso excellent things might
be "available for everybody. Pov
erty has become a curable disease.
According - to" all accounts the
Berger-Jones color, pictures arouse
interest in the east There will be
a greater surprise whe it Is re
alized that our magnificent scenery
is only a' small 'portion-of our re
sources. ' i v
".The shipment to Villa from
America of arms and ammunitions
with which to kill Americans is
the latest report. What kind of
people haven't .we? . .' ;
"J A' fall from his horse so jolted
a "Connecticut man that e forgot
his wife for 23 years. Still, It is
claimed that the dog is, man's best
friend. .,).". . x
NOTHINJS THE MATTER
j WITH PORTLAND ,
Tre oftea seen reo. but never aaaa year
eqnatetaiKe." la wbat one -SBight aey est be
ing Introduced to tb nrpcse described la
No. 81 of the "Nothing tbe Matter With Port,
land" eeries. ; Tor It haa to do with the man.
ner of converting the popular peanut Into
the peannt - batter of commerce.
uota
process
and prod act are weU presented la this article.
ueiayj
GOVERNMENT bulletin says that
thj; .-American peopl last year
pent $25,000,000 to pe&auta and
peanut products,, and goes on to de
clare that the consumption of peanut!
la) In Its infancy. ; v . '
, And -A. P, Grohens, a noted author
ity ' "on peanut culture and peanut
products, write to Simmons' Bulle
tin: ' - . '
"If 20 years ago anyone had ven
tured to make the statement that
the humble peanut WU' destined to
become, a few; years hence, one-of
the , most popular of table food pro
ducts) a product , at once' delicious as
well as .wholesome and- nourishing,
he would have been called a 'vision
ary. ; Twenty years ago peanut butr
ter was unknown. It" Is claimed that
tbe ' first effort to place' it on the
market was made in 1898. For' sev
eral years It was regarded . merely
as a table delicacy, or of the nature
of a. so-called health food. Its, con
sumption was thus necessarily limited
until aft?r the breakfast food wave
of 1900-1904 had somewhat subsided,
or was put on. a more rational foun
dation. . Thus the real growth of the
peanut butter industry.- dates from
1904. Before that time .there; were
about a half dozen peanut butter fac
tories via the., whole United States.
GROWTH; OF, THE"": INDUSTRY.
' j''oday ttiere is'. hardly city iu
the , northern states of 30,000 -popu
latlon and over which does not have
one or more peanut butter factories
doing a thriving business. In fact,
so jpopular has It become as a regu
lar table food that the consumption
of peanut butter during the last three
years more than equals that of - all
the previous years combined."
Mr. Grohens continues with rela
tion to circumstances attending the
establishment of a small peanut but
ter plant. He was asked how much
of an outlay it would' require to start
with as small an equipment as he
would recommend, and replied that it
would cost about $800 to $1000. His
questioner began the manufacture of
butter on that scale. This was three
years ago, and the" writer -adds that
since then , "thousands and tens of
thousands of dollars have been added
to the equipment off this plant, and it
Is said that at the present time the
concern turns out on an average of
15 tons of peanut butter per day.
Men and corporations who first
engaged in the manufacture of pea
nut buttor as a side line soon found
this product the most popular, profit
able and largest of their productions,
and thus made it the leading article
of' their busines.
MANY GRADES ARE ' MADS.
The Hoody, peanut butter factory In
Portland was established in 1918 by
the nian whose name it bears. It
is at this time, however, owned by
Glenn Q. Townsend, who, in addition
to the butter, puts out salted pea
nuts, nut lunch (a 5 cent package)
salad dressing, Saratoga chips and
horseradish. In his peanut, products
he consumes nearly 8000 pounds of
shelled peanuts weekly, tbe goods
belnr sold to Jobbers and grocers. He
does no retail business. .He occupies
two floors of the large brick struc
ture at East Oak and Union avenue.
and employs from five to seven hands
With scrupulous regard to cleanli
ness and sanitation, all Hoody pro
ducts are put up under most health
ful. conditions, and are guaranteed to
fulfill all requirements of the pure
food act.
The average consumer, it Is said,
Is probably not aware that there are
many grades of peanut butter. It lit,
therefore, well to explain that there
are many different kinds and grades
of peanuts, and that ' each variety
will produce a butter of a quality
and flavor distinctly its own. The
same may be said of butter made
from blends of two or more . varieties
or grades of peanuts. Also that the
care used in the cleaning and prepara
tlon of the peanuts has its effect
on the quality. Thus, to the expert
enced person the difference ' in the
taste of the butter Is as noticeable
as that of the beverages prepared
from different grades or blends of
coffees. , Just as the "cheaper grades
of coffee produce an inferidr drink,
from a standpoint of flavor and quel
ity, as compared with the .better
grades, so it is with the use of cheap
or Inferior peanuts.
VARIETIES TJI PEANUTS. '
Hoody factory peanuts are. grown
in Virginia, Texas, China, Japan and
Java, the greater . portion being Im
ported from-the Orient in ships com
ing for grain' and lumber cargoes.
These peas cost 1 ' cents, shelled,
per, pound for . the Chinese product,
about for the Japanese and
for the Javas. Machinery In the
Hoody plant first brushes . from the
shelled nut the. thin dark covering of
the peas. ; They are placed In a hop
per above the revolving brushes and
come forth clean as a newly coined
dime.. Defective peas are then picked
out by hand and are not used in but
tor making; "And, by- the way, that
peanut butter Is made by some secret.
peculiar process, and that peanut, flour
Is mixed with -oil in order to give' It
its moisture, - is - the 'general opinion.
None of tthes ; surmiaes Is correct.
Anyone can mane peanut butter, it
it probably , one , tale product entirely
free from concoctions, V being'' made
Obly . from - clean and first, class pea
nuts.- It can be made - with a meat
grinder. .The . nuts : may be roasted
before or. after shelling, but fa . either
case the' oven" should be only, moder
ately, hot and .the ..peas shquld be
frequently stirred. After roasting
THE MAKING
By William Shakespeare
THERE, my blessing with youl .'
And these few precepts in thy memory
, See thou chiricter: Give thy thoughts no tonruey
Nor any unproportion'd thought 'his act
Be thou familiar, but by no means vulgar.
The friends hotf hast, and their adoption tried,
Grapple them to thy soul with hoops of steel;
But do not dull thy. palm with entertainment .
Of each new hatched, unfledged comrade.
; . Beware - - - .-V;."
Of entrance to a quarrel; but being In,
Beart, that the opposed may beware of thee. . .
Give every man thine ear, but few thy voice:
Take each man's censure, but reserve thy Judgment
Costly thy habit as thy purse can buy, s
But not expressed in fancy; rich, not gaudy;
For the apparel oft proclaims the man.
Neither s borrower nor a lender be,
For loan Oft loses both Itself and friend, .
And borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry.
-This above alk to thine own self be true,
And it must follow, as the night the day,
Thou canst not then be false to any man.
A HUNDRED YEARS AFTER FRANCIS ASBURY
From .the Philadelphia North American. '
One' hundred-years -ago this month.
in s the peaceful Virginia "town of
Spottsylvanla, which yet - was to wit
ness the bloody battle of the wilder
ness, died a man whose countenance
still, was. fresh at threescore and ten.
For more than; 4Q years he bad
served God by serving hlsr fellows. In
that time had traveledaf oot or on
horseback, a quarter million miles in
this new land,' visiting every nook and
corner of its then existent domain. He
had preached S more than H.000 ser
mons, -vOrdalned 4000 , ministers in the
church founded by bds co-worker, John
Wesley, and presided, at 224 confer
ences., , ' , . - ;
Such, s. record.-unapproached in the
annals of religion, would have been as
impossible as it seems had not this
man subordinated every-other consid
eration to this work of his choosing.
At 28 he bad come to America from
England, with his aim clearly defined
and thus set down in his note book:
"Whither am I going?. To the new
world.. -
"What to do? To gain honor? No;
if I know my own heart
"To get money? No; I am going to
live to God, and to bring others so
to do."
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Such was the high and simple pro
gram of the first bishop of the Metho
dist -church ordained in this country:
this incessant laborer for-the good of
others of whom it fitly has been said
that "aa Kt TV&ncIa nf Asalsi took
-poverty for his bride, Francis Aabury
espoused the road."'
Without scrip or belongings he took
to the road on his arrival. Just prior
to the outbreak of the , Revolution.
Three years before he came the first
Methodist chapel had been built, and
the total, membership when he Teached
these shores was about 600, mostly In
this city and New York.
When the war came he sympathized
with the people, but. like many other
nonjurors, was subject, to suspicion
and at one time was imprisoned, He
soon -was released, however, and in
spite of all obstacles, ' went forward
with his work; how well may be reck
oned from the figures which, at the
close of the struggle, showed 83 min
isters at work and a membership of
14,000.
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From that time bis progress up and
down the roads of the new nation.
mr-ny of them mere trails, beset with
hideous dangers, was a continued tri
umph for his cause. .
The religion he preached fitted well
with the unleashed spirit of a-people
newly freed from tyranny, for Method
ism as then it came fresh from the
broad mind of Wesley was a model of
brotherly tolerance.
The eloquence he loosed and the ex
rub off the skins and screen out the
hearts. In grinding use the finest
plate on the grinder end screw up the
tension -until the crank will be quite
hard to turn. If the pulp is too
coarse after one grinding, it may be
run through a second time. ' It will
not be necessary to add anything but
a little salt to the butter, but if de
sired the butter may be. thinned by
the addition of a little olive or pea
nut oil. This, however, is merely a
matter of taste. Raw peanuts may be
bought at any of the large groceries.
BUSINESS RAPIDLY GROWING.
There are three extensive peanut
butter factories in Portland, two op
erated, by wholesale grocers, and ail
are doing a good . business which Is
expanding with great rapidity.
"It is only a question . Of educat
ing tbe people up to the real value
of peanut ' products," Mr. Townsend
says, "to make peanut butter produc
tion quite the equal of that of the
milk dairies. This will come in a
few years, and likewise peanut deli
cacies will take the place of many
now containing matter not at all ben
eficial to the health. Our own busi
ness is prospering beyond all expec
tationsso much . so that It Is tak
Ing the greater part of our profit
for additional 'machinery.'' Itf amount
ed to $18,000 last year, and will like
ly be $26,000 this year. "
Letters From the People
Oomntanteatfons sent tt Tbe Joornal for
publication is this department ssxmld b writ
ten on only one aide of tb paper, should sot
exceed 300 words la leasts and mast be ac
companied by tbe name and address of the
sctder. II W writer ooes sac oesire to tc
the same poDiisnea. ne suwas swie.j - ,
"DlscnsaWm is tbe rrsatest of aU reformers.
It rationalises everything it tenches. It robs
prlncipes of all false sanctity and throws the in
back on their reasonableness If they hsve no
reasonableneas. It ruthlessly crashes them out
ot existence and acta np its own couckialooa
la their stead." Woudruw Wilson. ,
.-Britain's Irish Volunteers. "
' Portland, March 17. To the Edi
tor of The Journal The Oregonianhas
seen a great light. It has discovered
that opposition to recruiting, exists tn
Ireland "and advises the Irish" to -show
honesty ;:jot Purpose, J integrity and
faith in their dealings with England!
r This refers to an editorial in today's
Oregonlan, bat' it is by no means the
first slur that it . has sought to cast
on Ireland's loyaltyi -Each time it has
done so I have written in protest, but
my letters have not been published.
Since l am debarred from a hearing
in Its columns, I shall ask for one in
-yours. If you had occasion to take a
crack at the Irish. I do not think you
would hit below the belt. i'
Before' the war, and while the op
position to Irish home rule was active.
OF A MAN
ample set by his firm purpose and
sturdy frame not only moved people
to a spiritual awakening, but pointed
a way to better ideal ox citizenship
in a day when such ideals traveled
slowly and did not penetrate deep into
the wilderness.
The record of our national begin-
nings presents few more inspiring pic
tures than this "great itinerant"
prophet oU an army of circuit riders
whose final remnant today is carrying
on hlsr work riding from - coast to
mountains and back again; from lakes
to southern bays; dipping Into the vir
gin forests as yet barely touched by
the axe of the pioneer; seldom rest
ing for even a whole day, and never
for' an Instant losing his faith in the
power of the creator to bring out of
the scattered settlements such a com
pleted -whole as some day shall be
presented by the United States!
Always poor and always generous,
he typified the master he served, ana
in no way more -than this that he
had no place to lay his head.
Accosted once by a stranger as he
rode through the wilds of Ohio, and
asked "Where are you from?" he
answered truly. "From Boston, New
York. Philadelphia, Baltimore or al
most any place you please!"
None I can doubt what would : have
been his answer had the question
come "Where are you bound for?" for
his faith was of that sublime sort
which sees a "home beyond" more
clearly defined than eyes of sense ever
see walls of brick or stone In this
realm of matter.
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Though his name is. as it should be.
Imbedded In the structure of American
Methodism as the chief human cor
nerstone thereof, also it la strongly
set In the foundations of our exist
ence as a free people. For as he
journeyed along the roads of the new
nation, he . scattered seeds of democ
racy which have sprouted and grown.
It was no theologian, hungry for
dispute, who held the saddle between
leathern bags worn till they shlned
aa if varnished, but an apostle of that
democracy which first had been
preached among the hills of Judea.
And without regard for his relig
ious Inclination, no student of Ameri
can history can fail to see in this
strange and powerful, figure one of
the active factors in our progress,
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The centenary of his death shows us
a body of Methodists in the country
of his adoption 7,600,000 stroag
next to tbe Roman Catholics, tha
strongest, numerically. In the land.
So much of this remarkable achieve
ment has been due to his life and la
bors that we may view, this Increasing
host as a living monument to his
amazing energy and common sense.
the Irish nationalist leaders opposed
Irish enlistment in the English army.
It is not necessary now to say why
they did so, but there was a reason,
and a good one, too.
When the war broke out John E.
Redmond declared for the empire. He
agreed to postpone further discussion
of tbe home rule bill and has been
actively engaged in recruiting ever
since. The result of his labors has
been in Kitchener's words, "magnifi
cent." There are at present in the
British army and navy 150,000 Irish
men from Ireland. This is accord
ing to Lord Wlmbourne's own figures.
He gives no data on the number of
Irishmen enlisted outside of Ireland,
but that number is large.
Now, why not give the devil his
due? Canada is justly praised for its
loyalty in seSding 200,000 men out of
a population of over 7,000,000. Why
not give poor Ireland a little praise
for sending 150,000 out of a popula
tion of 4,000,000?
But perhaps with the Oregon! an
nothing" good can come out of Naza
reth. There is another point that the Ore
gonian seems to have missed. If tbe
Irish are opposed to recruiting, why
has the government excepted Ireland
from the conscription act? Perhaps it
was because there is more truth than
fiction in the utterance of my name
sake in the house of .commons during
the debate on the conscription bill: "It
does not need any compulsion to make
an Irishman fight-"
We have fought against England
often enough, God knows. This time,
since Ireland is convinced of the jus
tice of England's cause, we are fight
ing for her. J. T. DILLON.
Auto Signals.
Portland, March 9. To the Editor
of The Journal The Portland public
service commission having reported to
the. city council-approving tbe use of
certain mechanical auto signals, but
advising that such use be made-op.
at ... , . nrIlMv
i ., , r -
legalize ineir usw kuu iumj iosimi ia
a demonstration of their value, The
argument that no other city requires
their use and that their effectiveness
has not been proved, .are merely nega
tive arguments. If the use of a safety
device were entirely negligible -989
times out of 1000, but should be the
means of averting an accident on the
thousandth occasion, it would be a
good - insurance investment . ',
It is true that men are becoming
more expert in handling these - ma
chines without these signals and so
lessen' the death rats by greater pro
ficiency, but, there are limits to, their
watchfulness and efficiency. .
A railroad can operate its ' trains
without a block signal system, but ex
perience proves that the roads which
have installed gooa mock systems nave
lower accident records than roads op
erated under similar conditions with
out a block system.
My idea is that these signals will
prove of greater benefit to those afoot
than those awheeL b- eliminating un
certainty as to what the man at the
wheel is going to do next.
- F. R. WALKER.
TKeQnce
THIS is a story about a cat named
Ntoodemus and . three girts
named Eleanor and V Elisabeth and
Mary. , : -.
ff And their kind and loving parents
Mr. and Mrs. William F. Woodward.
J And Marsh Davis and the Povey
twins. ,4 ,, , , - '-;r,;rtV-;
J And Incidental relatives and
others. ,
J And the scene of this little dray
man is irvlngton where they all live.
end the time is the present or
not very long ago.
J And quite a long time ago 11 H
tie black kitten came to Woodward's
and didn't go away.
and .grew up to be aorta eat a
regular fellow of a cat.
J And everybody In lrvlngton-got
to know him. '
ej And a while ago he went away
and didn't come back.
and they thought something fcad;
nappened to him.
J And last Sunday I guess it waff
the bell rang at the Woodward
home.
U And when Mary came back frovrl
tne door she was crying.
ff And She told tha nfhnra in a-n anif
iOOK.
,, --
- er And there was a black cat on arl
old picture frame with a string tied
to it. -
J And Marsh Davis and the PoveJ
twins had dragged it to the Wood
wards front door.
J And there was a general Wood
ward wail.
fJBut Father Woodward said "W
snouia not grieve for NJcodemus.
ff"IIe came unannounced he reJ
mained uninvited we treated hlmwel
he waa a good cat and now he haJ
left us."
fJAnd Katherine who used to be
Woodward and lives next dooH
came over with her children.
ft And her boys said "Let's bun
mm."
and one waa going to be under
taker.
and another preacher,
and so on.
J But Father also Grandpa Wooct
warn sua no i win bury ivicoa
mus."
It And Elizabeth got a corset b
because.it was the nearest thing tl
the shape of a cat that she coull
think of.
JAnd they put the cat In the bos-J
and tne oox in the hole and fiowerl
on the box and dirt on the flowers-l
under the cherry tree In the bee
yard.
JAnd the children wept g
JAnd as Father was rounding 0
the grave Elizabeth sobbed:
J "Mother do you think that reallf
was Nlcodemusr
JAnd Father said "Ves It Wil
Nlcodemus and he's used up, the verl
last of his nine lives.
"and he's officially dead at
burled."
. flAnd that night Elizabeth sa
that it seemed to her that the
wasn't any white spot on tjie rig
foot. j
J But Father checked debate arl
went on reading the Literary Llgt
JAnd the next evening early
Father was washing the dishes.
which he'd rather do than
M
because he gets through first.
JAnd Mrs. Woodward was try 11
to be cneerrm.
J But she said "William do y
know I've been thinking that may
that wasn't Nicodemus-jafter all."
JAnd Father said "Oh don't w.
ry about that Suzanna It sun
was !'
JAnd then he stopped because
J LISTEN Up the back wall o
ear back--and one ear rorwara e
his tall waving proudly aloft ca
Nlcodemus the prodigal.
JAnd both Mr. and Mrs. Woodwn
say that he actually grinned at tne
TEE HOKE-GKOWH MUSE.
A Pressed Flower,
O. dainty little flower tht lts
Wlthhr my book so rkwely pressed; -?
Thou brins'st tne thoughts of nuuny skies
- and fragrant blossoms, wind caressed.
Of lakeside paths and woodland ways
Where hane tbe Tines in ssy festoon
And feetbered songsters trilled tbPlr 4y
. Through lone, sweet, sunny axiernooos.
Of ber who walked beside me there
And lookrd down shyly ss I pressed
The hand that took thee from ber hair
: And trembling, pinned thee to mj breajtj
Though resre hsr fled.- I still can sea
. Lore's tender look from satire ryes
And fee the touch thst swung- for me
The pearly gates of Paradise.
Ben. W. Mtlllie
Strategy.
from the Kansas City Times,
Tha (ilt rea-in-ient of Nets"
Hampshire college is to go out and
dig battle trenches an a par o
.mllltirr training-. Withou
wishing to combat any accepted
axioms of military defense 11
might be suggested n view of thd
j: character or tne ixew uampsmr
soil that a rood way to wear oul
the enemy, would to wait antf
let him dig ineirencnea.
; Uncle Jeff Snow Says
Soul eulture Is what some peoj
annaldar being- religious Without go
to church. Seems like to me the ej
fellers need credit ss bva as,
rural sections.
yuynaaa Vote. )
. Wilmington. Ohio: JoorDalr-RepnbUcaa
Oris and bear It, bet If yea can't best
grin anyhow
' .- Why Pick on Sammy?
PORTLAND has a very wlde-aw
salesmen's club. The club-has
least one member who in the-p
never intended to attend any meet
without letting all others pre
know he had been there. Ills m
is Sam Werner, now ne maxes
exception. Future meetings in
county Jail he will not attend at
This is the reason;
Not long, ago the salesmen's t
held a meeting and by roll call as
talned that scarcely any or its tn
bars ever ' bad been in Jail, x; So
rangements were made with She
Hurlburt for inspection of the coun
bastUe, After looking over the p
oners and the cells the salesmen-
taken -to the top floor to view
men who were , being held overn
en route to the asylum at Salem.
subject was extremely- violent i
Consequently very , entertaining. 1
men crowded around the bars. $ I
denly . the door . burst open.
maniac sprang into their midst.i
men scattered. - Wetner was first!
run and fastest To the lunatic
seemed an invitation. Just w
ingot was masing me situation -ious,
the maniao quieted and exple
the Joke. ' "But," said Sam Wei!
"It was too much like the real tK
for me." - j