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THE OREGON DAILY JOURNAL, PORTLAND, THMSDAYAgRlLl 2711916. -8 m ft 1 ?i It r;. i i THE JOURNAL. , 'AN INDEPENDENT' SSKWSPAPEft. PasHaS l'WbKthed rfrrj day. aft-ruooo aad morning Uxeept Sunday aftroooa, at Tla Journal . Uulldlaa. Broadway and Yamhill ata.. Port, land. Or.-- - - - . Wred at U poatotf tea -Portland, ot.. tor : triwiamiattioa Uiroo-., ta walla a access 4nu isattn. , ' . J laXKi HUMia Mala ?JT8 r Borne. A-S061. all , Opartmenta readied by theae number. Tell tfc opart tor what department you want. UKKlU3i AOV KHTISlAU ttKUKSlfiNTATlVie t. kteBjaiBta fceataoc Co.. Bnmawick BMf, t. tM fifth in. New Xora; 1218 Peopta'a i. '. . Hi P. Ida;.. Cnlmro- - I SubeetipUoa terra by mall oc to any aOV 4 raa ta tba Doited states or Masieo: it DA1L.X (MOBMNO OR AFTERNOON) - Oo, year.. ...... .15.00 On moots. $ .00 If PUKDAX. J fna year.. 2.60 Ooa montfc. .....$ .29 r DA1LX 1MOKN1NO OR AITSBNOON) AND -My 6DNDAT . Z'i flneVaar . -'. . i . . -f JJO I" Ona monfa S ' America ack nothing for herself but what "be. baa a right to aak for hnmantty itelf. WOODROW WILSON. Mllllona for defense, but not a cent for tribute. CHARLKS C. FINCKNEY. t have done the state some aervtee, and tbey know't. Shakeapcare. A CRAVEN SON-IX-LAW H OCH der Colonel. He is all ready for war. He has of fered himself witli his sons and sons-in-law a bleeding sacrifice for his native land, though - he confesses that he thinks the sac rifice -will be in vain. The supine . ly verminous Wilson administra Jtidn has brought the country to 4tBuch a pass that it is doornod to ;N destruction. Not evto the death - of the Colonel and both his sods Si In-law on the stricken field can avail to save it. p "I will go myself," swears the Colonel, gallantly waving his sword in the face of the shrinking heav :. .ens, "and my four eons will go." JjHe is sure, too, that one of his glsons-in-law will go, but he seems fidoubtful about the otner. Which , 'ia the recreart son-in-law who will iSsit calmly and supinely at home ' while his doughty father-in-law fights and dies on the bloodstained Sbattlefield? Can it be Nicholas fkLongworth? We have always suspected Mr. -Longworth of supineness and cow- ,:ardliness. It is just like him to j i ' stay at home basely billing and "cooing with his wife while the RColonel bleeds and dies. The Colo- nel says he would far rather aee this recreant non-in-law dead than ; ; thus flinching from his duty to fight the kaiser, Sut he comforts himself with the reflections that ? sons-in-law are as heaven makes them. One can not always choose. j Sometimes one's daughter chooses. :-- The Colonel is well armed by ? I nature for combat. He needs no : j more artificial, preparedness than i the lion and the unicorn. Remem 1 ber what Samson did to the Philis- P tines with the jaw bone of an ass. L He slew 3000 in one day, and with out any previous practice. The Colonel has had much prac tice with the same weapon. He has been using it day and night on Mr. .Wilson for months. When he turns it against the kaiser and his hosts, fearful will be the slaughter. w A Watseka wife declined to live ;- in that town because there were no streetcars and no proper sewage fj8ystem. Alleging her refusal as ' sufficient grounds, the husband gsued for divorce. The judge de- clinefl the divorce petition, holding that a woman has a perfect right to refuse to live in a town which ; has no streetcars and in which the sewage system is Inefficient. A DRAMA LEAGUE PL.AY NATOLE FRANCE'S n 1 a v. "The Man Who Married a Dumb Wife," was prettily performed at the Little The ater Tuesday night. The acting was better, upon the whole, than we had any right to expect from amateurs. The "judge" had a truly artistic conception of his part and worked it out to perfection. His climax at the end of the sec 'ond act was a erenultie trinmnti t' Everybody burst into laughter at V I , : exactly the right point with a thor- f - , ough understanding of the play " and a hearty appreciation of Mr.. Riley's acting. . No elaborate stage setting was I Sat temp ted and none was needed, vftt liThe audience enjoyed the simplic- - IJ - lty of the performance quite as ( . much as the capable acting, it is t - pleasant to see a good play - pre- "'". . , sen ted on Its merits, and the en-' ; " joyment of the audience was enough K Wjift o h o w that the "intellectual 1 .drama" ; can" win a place In our ! ; life if it has half a chance. This play is not painfully intellectual S .t cfehy:' ;any - means ; but neither is it silly. It mingles satire and pure tun with a spice of buffonery, mak- - j . . . lng something of an appeal to many tastes. " ' - - f , V We confess to a good deal of j? . V pleasure in the incidents of the I 'performance, such as the lads who I b - sold cresses to the tune cf a melo- Tf " dlous song. They agreeably re- , ,;j placed the candy boys more com fit " c5nionlr seea: in Mr theatres whose i I ' ' ' voices ..are not alTrayo melodious. actors - coming - ap through the au dience on hfei? way ta the stage This little device makes the drama domestic afid - intimate. . It ' has al ways been ..employed In the circus bnt: the theatre has just begun to learn it. '-'i' - : -;S , The r audience 'enjoyed the play all the more because they felt per fectly free - from' any apprehension of .eeHrg a hideous smudge of ad vertisements shoot down at the end of the act. ' The Drama League Players de serve well of the public. May they go on to greaterthings. Commander-in-chief, the Colo-; nel; adjutant general, -first son; quartermaster general, first son-in-law; chief of artillery, .second son; commissary general, second son-in-law, provided he will serve; chief of intelligence department, third eon; director of balloon as censions, fourth son; paymaster general .Vacant. Destination of ex peditionary forces, Germany. T1IE SHIP FAMINE T HE world is short cf ships. The normal tonnage is 50, 000,000 tons. About 11,000, 000 tons of merchant vessels has been requisitioned for war pur poses. Five million tons that we know of has been destroyed. About 6,000,000 tons is interned in Ger man and Austrian ports. The 11,000,000 tons of requisi tioned ships, because of the hard usage to which the vessels have been subjectod, will mostly go into the scrap heap at the end of the war. In place of the 5,000,000 tons destroyed, less than 30 per cent has been replaced with new ships. Except in America, Norway, Sweden, Japan and a few other smaller countries, the shipyards are devoted to other purposes than building merchant vessels. At best, the world's tonnage will remain 12,000,000 to 15,000,000 tons under the norm:.', for a con siderable period after the close of the war. One of the leading firm3 of managing cwners on the Pacific has announced thnt it expects to net a profit of 100 per cent on its vessels in the two years following the end of the war, and thereafter for several years a profit of 25 per cent. With lurge areas of Europe to rebuild after the war, and with the United States necessarily the store house for most of the materials that will be required, there are ob servers who insist that it will be 20 years before the supply of ton nage can catch up with the ever growing demands for ocean car riers, and earnings be brought back to the normal status. As not before in this generation. naval architecture is returning to the new type of wooden ship.' There are claims that, on account of its Leconomy of operation, it is to al most work a revolution in ocean carrying. It is a five masted schooner of about 3000 tons capacity with aux iliary power. It carries a crew of only 12 men and is operated for about half the cost of a tramp steamer. It carries 2,000,000 feet of lumber, or when fitted for It, other cargo of equal tonnage. Impetus is also given construc tion of this type of vessel by the impossibility for the steel plants to turn out enough steel. The Union Iron Works at San Francisco- is now 22 months behind in steel de liveries. With the world clamoring for ocean carriers and steel plants turning away orders every day, the new type of wooden freighter is turned to as a solution of a weighty problem. Portland is probably the best lo cated city in the world for build ing the new type of ship. The big trees and other materials are all around. At the city's doors is ev erything that the builder requires. The spars from our trees are shipped half way around the world to England to go into ships. Why not do some building here? I After a careful scrutiny of the list of candidates, one is involun tarily drawn to the conclusion that it is time to prepare for the can ning season. RICHES AND DYES T HE German government has authorized the exportation of 15,000 tons of aniline dyes to the United States. If the shipment reaches Amer ica it will spoil the game of specu lators whose gambling in dyes has vied exploits at Monte Carlo. Five hundred persons in Philadelphia alone have made fortunes. A bank cashier invested ; $1000 in dyes a yea ago, and his account is now one of the. heaviest handled by the bank. One man with little ready cash in. hand a year ago and who knew nothing about dyes, is now worth over $200,000 as a result of his speculations. Colors formerly obtainable at 15 to 16 cents a pound now bring $15 to $20 r. pound. Certain "vat" colors noted for their fastness have mounted "to $30 a pound. Barbers, bankers, salesmen men from every calling have for saLen their normal vocations and dipped into dye stuff gambling. The cost of dyeing hosiery in Phila delphia factories haa jumped from seven cents a pound to -35 cents. A Philadelphia decorator fell badly in arrears with hiti creditors, and, his home was levied ori by the sheriff. .At the sale of the goods, four-: pounds of a well known dye wat .discovered. It brought $200, satisfied the claims of the creditors and ; saved the -rest of the decora tor's goods v -But i one -dollar ; was originally paid for the dye. ' - The ends to which this country is going in its rummage of the earth for dyes appeared when it was discovered that there was a quantity ?of rGerman dyes in China. A Patterson, New Jersey, silk dyer sent; a chemist to China, and after a test, -the entire lot was purchased for $300,000. One-third was used by the silk dyer, and the remain der, was, sold to cotton dyers m Philadelphia for $600,000 r at a profit 'of 300 per cent. A Detroit ttreetcar conductor al ways gave his pay envelope to his wife. Once he opened it and took out 25 cents. Now she is suing him for divorce. He was too good. PLUCKED A S RELATED in The Journal tndnv A F! Rsrha has nuit-i loaay, a. tu. rscne nas qun ted Oregon, a piucaea ana penitent man. He swallowed the bait that a bogus orchard company threw out to him in far away New York. He was one . of many wl o were sim ilarly hooked. Esche contracted with the North western association, of Oregon City, for a ten acre orchard, for which he was to pay $3000. At the end of five years the land was to be In bearing trees. When that period had expired Esche, after payment of $1500, packed his belongings in New York and, full of anticipation and hope, came out to Oregon to take possession of his orchard, from which, according to the represen tations of the sellers, he was sure to have an easy living and abun dant profits to lay by for a rainy day. Then followed the old, old story. His arrival was a day of disillu sionment. Instead of the bearing fruit trees that were to be on the land, there were only stones and bis stumps. The home that he had planned and the happy and profitable life work he had so often pictured to himself were a delusion and a snare. He did not even have title to the property. It was so heavily mortgaged that there was no chance for him ever to get title. Swin dled, baffled and beaten, there was nothing to do but to set about to earn enough money with which to get out of Oreson, and this he has done. The harm done Oregon by such happenings is irreoarable. The jailing of the swindler, as was 1 done in this case, doesn't return the money to the swindled. In view of that late statement of a Missouri judge from Oyster Bay, it cannot be assumed that because Root and' the Colonel are both fighting the president they are al lies. GOOD OLD SMOOT GOOD old Smoot. He is al ways on the job. If the old guard must have some candi date to push the Colonel out, why not take' Smoot? Nobody else has ever served them so well in the senate. He would do equally well in the White House. We nominate him for president on the old guard ticket. Reed Smoot's latest exploit is to object to printing the Industrial Relations committee's rennrt. Thpra was a resolution to print 100,000 copies before the senate. But Smoot -objected" and it could not be voted upon. The private washes of a single senator outweigh the fare of the country. Such is sen- ri,i .ri.o A good many other senators ob- lected secretlv to nrmtine thn r-! port, but they did not dare say so openly. Smoot did dare and the rest of the reactionary band took refuge behind him. If any mem ber of that predatory crew is made president it should be Smoot, for he at least has the courage of his convictions. It is said that the boom of the big guns at Verdun can be heard 100 miles away. But the shot fired at Concord was heard around the world. GHASTLY FIGURES T HE latest estimates of the dead and permanently incapacitated from th wr r 9 nnn nnn for the allies and lSoioOO!0' enters In finding his tools and for the central powers There was not a time in the Napoleonic wars - on either side when the entire armies in the field totaled as large a percentage of the populations involved as the dead and wholly; disabled already total in1 Germany,5 France and Aus tria. Yet, until this conflict, we have been wont to look upon the Napo leonic wars as extremely devastat ing to Europe. What must be the verdict of his tory when the figures of death, debt and " devastation of this war are cast up? : .Ar.Qne explanation of the Portland baseball scopes is that the Beavers seem to play too much Pacificist ball. A CASE SETTLED THE JOURNAL recorded a lew days ago that a Chicago judge had w issued a temporary in junction against a man who was ' about to ; publish.:. . plea for Bacon agatast Shakespeare. ; The suit was begun by a' theatre man wkoiteMubis financial interests Ira case has now heen decided. Judge Tuthill, who has been try ing it, settles the vexed question of the authorship of the i-lays once jfo- all just as we hoped be would. I Henceforth, it is of no nse for any ibbdy to "uphold the theory that Shakespeard wrote his own works. We can put him to craven flight by quoting Judge Tuthili who says, "T h e name and character o f Shakespeare were used as a mask by Francis Bacon." . The , learned judge adds his opinion that Shakes peare was "an impostor."' This may all be true, but we can not eet rid of the suspicion that Judge Tuthill is just the "least ( little mite" of a fanatic. NOTHING THE MATTER WITH PORTLAND IThooe 'ho have long been urged to own thelr own bomeM may ere iong be addition- ytlly advised to build them alao. since all tbere is to It now la Uie hammer ana rails. The simplification of domicile erection, aa set forth in No. 120 of The Journal 'Noth ing the Matter With Portland" articles. Is indeed a novelty and. aa prevented, an un commonly attractive one. THE Ready Built House company is the name of a corporation with an office at 980 East Broad way and workshops located on the tracks of the O-W. R. & N. railroad in Sullivan's gulch. Its secretary, James E". Brockway, states, "This is the only company on the Pacific coast selling buildings made to or der and which may be put together by anybody with common sense and a hammer." J. H. Fenner is president of the company, and Ae and Mr. Brockway manage its business. The gentlemen came to Portland a few years ago from Bay City, Mich., a town located in what once was a famous lumber region. The white pine of that state, however, was long since practically exhausted, only scrub trees remain ing. Considerable hemlock, however, is now sawed into lumber and this is largely used for building purposes. But hemlock is a brittle, shaky tim ber, in n wise comparable to. the fir of Oregon, yet there are two or three ready built house companies in Bay City, each doing a considerable busi ness. THE READY BUILT PLAN. It is only rrlthin the last few years that selling ready bui.it houses has attained any great proportions, yet when one reflects uno the idea its feasibility will grow upon the mind. Great steel buildings and bridges are fabricated in shops sometimes thou sands of miles from their destinations or places to which they are to be erected, and if this can be done in steel, why not in wood? It would be a curious spectacle to see mechanics fashioning a steel bridge on the banks of the stream it was to span, or a steel building on t.ie streets of a city wherein the structure was to be erected. So again, why not fabri cate wooden buildings in shops Where exist mechanical appliances for cut ting their timbers and boards by steam or electricity, Instead of by hand? From any angle one looks at It, It seems the real solution "of construct lng homes and office buildings, churches, schoolhouses, etc., at the smallest expense. MACHINES DO THE WORK. Asked as to the territory covered by the sales of the company, and why It could sell the material for -a build ing ready prepared for erection, at an advantage to the buyer. Secretary Brockway answered: "We sliip these ready built houses to all parts of the Pacific coast and j east t0 the Atlant,c. we have made severalhipments to the Haw- aJian Elands. We have sent a great ' many to astern tates and to the wel-iprairie relon8 of tno west- nd Uke- wlse to the mIddle west- In fact " is the economical way to build for anyone distant from lumber produc tion, for the reason that it saves nearly a third of the freight, and a second large saving is made in the cost of construction. We do every thing by machinery, and in our shopa with our appliances one man will do the work of 15 to 18 with hand tools. Our power operated saws will accom plish more in 15 minutes than a hard working man with his hand saw In a day. And if there be mortises, by our system a man can accomplish more In ten minutes than he could In ten hours by the old, antiquated augur, mallet and chisel method. Where an gle cuts are to be made have ap paratus set to the accu.acy of a hair, ! and have not to wait for a try-square ; and pncil mark- , The scantlln or board ,s cllpped off ln a Jlffy' or ln lsa tlm than consumed by the best ALL BUILDINGS MACHINE CUT. "The day is speedily approaching, and I believe not -more than 10 or 15 years distant, when all Wooden build- lngs will be fabricated in shops ex actly as steel is now. Builders - are realizirig that the ready-made building business Is here to stay, and you will find contractors procuring their ma terial from, shops like ours, instead of from the sawmills,? or if they buy from the mills they will have machine-equipped hops eut and frame their stock. Those who do not will have to work so cheaply there wlll be no profit in the business." An Important saving in the ready made house plan Is 'that there is no waste of lumber. The short pieces are all worked in. It is to the profit of the sellers of the buildings not to waste. If there be . few odds and ends left from one building they will be used in the next one, or can be made Into pieces of furniture or bric-a-brac of use of in every home." Mr. Brockway 5 says there Is not waste enough -in their thops to feed a 10 inch airtight heater, and there are 10 ormr ; men at work all the time, the. payroll . averaging over ; $900 a moBtlwThiarj lsj.; en o - th claims made by Mr.; Brockway -for th com pany's ability to ' sell ready built buildings at a very low price and yet at a reasonable profit to his company. ALONE WEST OEt CHICAGO. "We are the only corporation west of . Chicago," Mr. Brockway declares, "engaged exclusively in selling ready built buildings. There is one other company, I believe, selling unframed lunfber filling lumber orders but none other shipping them ready for setting up. We actually eliminate both the contractor and tbe architect, for we furnish the plans aa well as material, and anybody can at -up the structures. We also eliminate the necessity of keeping an eye open for poor material sec-eted in out-of-tlie-way places, as we handle only the best lumber and it is open to the ln spection of the buyer befon a nail is driven. We buy or handle no second class material of any character, and as we sell for cash only we have no losses to bear ana to charge up pro portionately to those preferring the cash system." WHAT BUTERS GET. Buyers of ready built houses get sills, joists, headerc, studding, top and bottom plates, and rafters all cut absolutely to fit. Strictly Star A red cedar sh.'tgles, or ready built pre pared roofing if desired. Oregon fir vertical grain tongued and grooved flooring, 1x4 inches, finished 13-16x 3 inches, or 1x3 Inches, finished 13-16x2 4 Inches f preferred. Porch columns, rails, balusters, brackets, Wfc.ter table, cornices, barge boards, stepping, risers a.-d baseboards. High grade Oregon fir for Inside finish. Window and door frames, doors mor tised and fitted with locks, and win dows with glass fitted and glazed, with trim both inside and outside. Locks, hinges, flashing, sash locks and lifts, nails, screws, etc. Paint, stains and varnish sufficient for two coats inside and outside, together with shellac, putty and oP-j required. Lath nd plaster are specified, but ready built lath and piaster wall board may be had, if de3i-ed, at from $20 to $80 per house more than lati and plaster. With the material is furnished with out charge numbered diagrams and building Instructions for erecting the building. Plumbing supplies and heating ap paratus are not included; nor are fix tures, foundations, chimneys, roof or Inside wall paint. Illustrations and designs, with prices, may be had prior to ordering. Messrs. Fenner and Brockway are practical lumbermen, having spent about all their adult lives In that business. Letters From the People . ,-. . .i ... ,M . fli a Imrnll fur lunDmaoiuuew " w -- - - publication iu thia department should be writ ten on only one aide of tne paper, should not exceed 300 words in length and must be ac companied by tbe name and address of the aender. If the writer does not desire to baa the name published, he should ao ktate.J Dlscuealon i the e-eutest of all reformers. It rationalises erery Uilng It touches. It robs principles of all false sanctity and throws them back on their reasonableness. If they haa no reaaonablenesa. it ruthlessly erushea them out of existence and aeta up Its own eonciuaioaa ln their stead." Woodrow Wilson. Judge Tuthill's Decision. -Portland, Or., April 25. To the Ed itor of The journal Taking the view that Judge Richard S. Tuthill, of the circuit court of Chicago ought to be commended for his decision that Shakespeare was not the writer of the plays that bear his name, it occurs that possibly Judge Tuthill had evi dence before him that was practically irrefutable. The best evidence to be found today on this Question of the 'feacon-Shakes-peare controversy is ln the educational library of Harvard university. It con sists of the research work and original manuscripts pertaining to the English school system of the time of Shakes peare. The school system that Shakes peare had recourse to is fairly well known. Much of the work accom plished in the schools of Shakespeare has been retained, and can be com pared with a degree of certainty. It is Just as well to remember that the English school of 300 years ago was a wretched affair. It Is well to remember that the system under whicn Shakespeare thrived was one not con ducive toward the creation of phil osophers. To further investigate, young Shakespeare's record, it can De fairly ascertained that he cultivated no studious habits, and that his ap pearance in the Cook county courts last week was not his first offense against the majesty of the law.' For a number of years it has been the custom at Harvard to give certain advanced students in Shakespearean drama a thesis on this very point. Much research work has been done to determine whether Shakespeare was an impostor. The prevailing opinion among the research students and professors in the department is that Shakespeaie did not write the plays. As a matter of sentiment. Shakes peare may have the honor. As a mat ter of evidence, he is not in position to claim a good title. Regardless of the authorship, mod ern people care little for Shakes pearean drama. Not a single big the atrical producer is sending out Shakes peare this year. In past years few people could be drawn into a theatre to see the plays, and most of them have been withdrawn before the sea son was well started. J. B. COTTINGHAM. Refuses Mr. Hutton's Pledge. Klamath Falls, Or., April 22. To the Editor of The Journal I am 'in receipt of a communication from R. P. Hutton, In the interest of the Anti Saloon league of Oregon, requesting me, as a candidate for the legislature, to give specific answers to questions framed and propounded by this league. In declining to answer any and all of the questions, 1 -have done so on the grounds that Investigation Is necessary, ajjd that I consider It Im proper to give any specific pledges or promises to any association, sect or individual. I wish to state, over my signature, that I thoroughly dis approve of the methods adopted by this league, as such appear to me ar. effort to coerce candidates for the legislature to conform to its will, and I venture to say no one who has any Independence, who has any positive traits in his character, will submit to Its dictation. Prohibition has been In effect but a short time. It Is no fundamental reform, but merely a palliative meas ure, designed to counteract and" reg ulate the evil effects which have re sulted -from encroachments on per sonal liberty and the spoliation of our national domain. For the short time it has been a law it has done remark ably well. The diminution of : crime PERTINENT COMMENT SMALL CHANGE Should consumers quit putting sugar down, producers would have to quit putting it up. Both sides agree that the war will end at Verdun, the only difference of opinion now being as to how it will end. New York Is complaining about soar ing Bible prices. There must be some explanation other than an increased demand. Ambassador Morganthau will not go back to Constantinople, and ln view of reports from the Turkish capital, no body blames him. Germany Joined in the Shakespear ean celebrations, so it will be up to England when the Schiller anniversary rolls around. The children's parade has been re stored to the east side. Now, all to gether, hip, hip, hurrah for the Rose Festival! The real pessimist is the man who insists it would be Just our luck to get into the war after everybody else has quit fighting. a a How times have changed! Only a short while ago farmers worried about the price of hay; now they worry about the price of gasoline. A premium of 7.18 per cent, the high est ever paid for Portland improvement bonds, again demonstrates there is nothing the matter with Portland. If foreigners In this country would use ambassadorial privileges strietlv for ambassadorial purposes, there would be less danger of Americans losing the society of some very estima ble gentlemen. THE MESSAGE Washington, April 27. (WASHING TON BUREAU OF THE JOURNAL.) The Jingo, the pacificist and the mod erate seem to have merged more com pletely Into common Americanism at this time than at any period since re lations between the United States and Germany became strained. The ap pearalcrce of President Wilson in the halls of congress, making frank dis closure of the progress of negotiations, was the unifying note. The message was delivered under most Impressive surroundings. Only a few of the leaders knew in advance what the president came to say. There was tremendous pressure in every part of the galleries. When the president entered there was a burst of applause. Then came a hush and the president's first words were heard in every corner of the great hall. After that, as he proceeded calmly, gravely and decisively, the intentness of his hearers was intensified with each moment. There was no inter ruption to applaud. Applause would have disarranged the succeeding waves of the indictment, however well timed it might have been. The complete, tense silence that allowed every sylla ble to reach every ear in well rounded sequence, was far more impressive than any demonstration. At the close members of senate and house began to rise, to applatid and to cheer, first on the Democratic side, then on the Republican. Probably two thirds of the Republican membership of the house Joined in the demonstra tion. It was a tribute to the presi dent, an expression of the. common good will in a moment of historic con sequence. Restraint Is now the general atti tude. There Is no such Babel of tongues as ln the confusing days of the McLemore resolution. In the gen eral recognition of a situation where patriotism can best be shown by mod eration of speech there has followed little comment. There are a few par tisan exceptions. a James R. Mann. Republican leader of the house, is one. He offers the opinion that the president's message "shows he expects, if he can, to force war with Germany.' Mann's conception of the president's attitude is so far-fetched that It has failed to gather force. It does not co incide with previous partisan abuse, ln which the president has been painted as "spineless," a note writer without resolute purpose. Serious opinion on all sides, divorced from partisan declamation, agrees that and the depletion of our jails Is proof of that. The arrests for violations have been comparatively few, and even the most exacting critic must admit that the law. so far, has been reasonably well enforced. Yet there art some zealots who can never be appeased. Like the instigators of the blue laws, they are never satisfied until every one has been made a crim inal, and they are not overscrupulous ln the methods they employ. I have been, and still am, a sup porter of prohibition, but if. to en force It, our state government is to bo turned over to fanatical men and impractical measures. If the state of Oregon is to be turned Into a huge inquisition and the rights and liber ties of the people trampled on, I, for one, will be found In the wet column on the first opportunity. Such missives as Mr. Hutton has sent out to each candidate will do more to injure the cause of prohibi tion than all of the propaganda sent out by all of the liquor interests com bined. Following Is the text of my letter in reply to Mr. Hutton, omitting ad dress, salutation and signature, for brevity's sake: "In thanking you for your commu nication of April 16, I will say ln reply that I do not care to answer your questions, either in the affirma tive or negative, without further in vestigation, which I have not the op portunity to make just now. A fur ther reason I should consider suffi cient for declining to answer, is that to do so would commit me to a specific pledge or promise, which circumstances might render inexpedi ent or impossible to fulfil, and which I do not consider proper to expect of any candidate. I will say. however, that, as the prohibition amendment wau'adopted by the" people and is the law of Oregon, I will favor any meas ures that will aid its execution arid oppose any measures that may limit its effect, consistent with the rights and liberties of the people." I wish here to commend the Mult nomah candidates In tbe stand they have taken In defense of their rights, and I will say to them that I have formed a defense league for the same purpose, in which I am the sole mem ber, that I intend to retain my rights as a candidate and citizen, and that 1 will hold nfyself responsible and give pledges to no other interest than the voters of the district for which I seek to be a representative. FRED W. HYNDMAN. The Duty of Democracy. Vancouver, Wash., April 25. To the Editor of The Journal President Wil son has met official duties more ardu ous than have devolved upon any other president since Washington and Lin coln. We believe that partisanship has no Just place in national affairs this year, and that this patriotic stats should east its ; electoral vote for Wilson., tf m : : : -k ;-o vTbese reasons t grow -partly out 1 of AND NEWS IN BRIEF OREGON SIDELIGHTS Lebanon's eighth annual Strawberry fair has been dated for June X and - The city council of Enterprise has authorized the purchase of an automo bile to be converted into a fire truck. It will be kept in a garage, ready for Instant use. The Civic Improvement club of Sher idan offers a prize of $3. B0 for great est improvement and general upkeep of parking on streets; also a prize of $3.60 for greatest improvement of any iiome surroundings. Case of extreme rapacity, reported In Joseph Herald. "One day tnls week while at work on the Lake road Stanley Legore saw two huge bald eagles swoop down and tear to pieces a 3-months-old calf belonging to S. P. Wil liams. When they sot through with their veal feast there wasn't much of the carcass left, outside of bones. "A group of gypsies," says the Med ford Sun. "passed through Aiedford , Saturday morning from California, i They were traveling in autos, a change from the old order. Thev stopped but a few minutes. They reported that the main body of the gang would come into the city next week the tame way." Salem's paving progress, as Indi cated ln the Statesman: "When Church street has been paved, the last of the downtown streets will have been im proved. This street, leading a it does to the very heart of the city, should have been paved long aKO. One of our state institutions is located on this street and it is entitled to the im provement, and now that Bush's Pas ture park is a reality, the pavement is needed more than ever." THAT UNIFIED the president does not want war. It is also agreed that the president knows his course, realizes his responsibility, is willing to assume it, and i? deter mined that America's solemn protest3 shall not be derided and held for noth ing. He has dealt with the German gov ernment on a basis of frankness, and of mutual credit. Assurances given from time to time as to the conduct of submarine warfare have been ac cepted without reserve, andtbe failure of submarine commanders to square their conduct with these assurances has been a matter of keen disappoint ment. That, it may be said. Is the most per plexing feature with which the presi dent has had to deal. Even ln his la.st message he does not take the position that the German government has de sired to deceive, but says the conclu sion cannot be escaped that the im perial government has been unable to put any limits or restraints upon Its undersea warfare. It Is conceded that the message is one of the great state papers that will be remembered. Whatever the outcome of the controversy, it will stand as a clear and powerful summing up, rank ing as a splendid expression of the thought jot all the neutral nations. Signs that the Philippines are again to be made a political issue are seen ln the minority report uhmltted on the Philippine government bill in the house. The report is signed by all eight Republican members of the com mittee on insular affairs, headed by Towner of Iowa and tailed by McAr thur of Oregon. It consists of an ex tended argument against the granting of independence, based upon the con tention that the United States has ob ligations to remain in the islands. Th Clarke amendment, which was attached ln the senate, providing for independ ence in from two to four years, is the special object of attack. It is declared that the islands are an asset econom ically, and It Is declared that they can be made an element of military strength by .training an army of 200, 000 Filipinos for their own. defense. The question of bonds issued to pay for the friar lands and for public im provements la touched upon, and thn United States Is asserted to be moral ly i-id substantially bound to main tain their integrity. The report ig nores the announcement made in thia connection by Chairman Jones, for the majority, that another bill will be brought in authorizing the president to take steps upholding these bonds. the fact of Wilson's eternal fitness for the time and the place, and partly out of the long abuse of public affairs by the factional "Grand Old Party," that is now a mob of warring factions. Who does not remember the Taft administration, and its partnership with wealthy malefactors? On March 2, 1913, his last day in office except Sunday, Mr. Taft pardoned Helkie, the sugar refinery thief of New York, who was convicted by a federal court of -cheating the government out of millions of dollars, also remitting his fine Of $5000. Back of this, the great "Judicial mind" had pardoned bank wreckers by the score, and home wreckers like Hillman. It is not pleasant to say these things, nor Is it. right to forget them and go through the danger of allowing the party to return to power for another term of plunder. THOMAS HARLAN. The Contumacious Colored Boy. Portland. April 24. To the Edltorof The Journal Having noticed a fcmaj! article on your editorial page not long ago regarding a colored boy in Des i Moines, Iowa, who haC been expelled j from school and sent to a reform school for not saluting the flag, I wrote to the superintendent of schools i in that city regarding the matter, as it! Is my home, and I was Interested. j I have Just received hie .evly- It j seems that the boy's- parents belong to a very peculiar religious Beet who j were being imposed upon by a white j minister who was contlnuallr teaching ' his little flock that they were not under the -ules or laws of the achools or the state, but under "grace," end that the latter should be the rule for governing everything. Fillwd with this idea, the boy" went to ch(-ol, and absolutely refused to obey any of the requests of the teacher. He did not want to sing with the other pupil; ob jected to the lesson ln reading, snd in sisted that he be .permitted to read the Bible Instead; also objected to taking part in the openinar exercises, .t part of which was saluting the flag. Upon his refused to do all of these things, th narents were visited. Thev sua rlalned him and were afterwards, by the Juven .e officer, taken into the Ju venile court. The sentence of the judge was that he snouia oDey tne ni!s of the school or attend a private school. The latter h"! Is doing. MRS. FAY 8. HIQLE5 diildren's Rights in Property. Illahe, Or., April 16. To the Editor i of the Journal Do children hold equal shares in their deceased father s prop erty while their mother Is living? What part of the taxes does each chll4 have to pay? A. B. T. In their dead father's rear property the children , hold equal shares subject to their mother's dower right, which is the right to nse one-half of the real property during her lifetime. Of taxes, the children's burden is equal, there being no will. a TKPnce Qer C OMBTIMESin my lighter, mo-a-' menta when the sky has seemed all blue and even the street nolaea seemed to weave a harmony I have had 'high hopes and rainbow .dreams. JAnd at such times It has seemed to me it might be -osalble to change a few things Just a little to.- the better. without disturbing the peace. l or having somebody yell "Too radical!" T For Instance I have dared . to hope that some time some how before the living present becomes ths dead past there would be a Candid Candi date. a candidate for tha legislature for Instance who would come right out and own up that he wanted the job. not to do something for the dear people. : but to them. IT Ami Buch a man might admit that he wanted to be elected not so he could brlnj,- about some Needed Reform. j , - but to bring home the bacon for himself. - or get some tree advertising for his law practice. or something like that. J Hut the time isn't ripe I guess for caudor in pollt'cs. J It's too Utopian. JAnd another of my vaprant" no tions has been, that some time some place there'd be a- vaudeville pro gram. with a song-and-di-nce team tcOm- poned of a man and woman or a boy- arid girl who could get through 15 minutes without falling In love and get ting musny and singing silly songs. J And I don't wonder that so many of these people who compose vaude ville teams don't speak to each other off stage. ar.U that when they are on-thy swear,, at each ot er softly under their breaths between the lines. which are enough to make them swear. J Hut times change. JAnd the reason I know .1e a girl and a boy that I . saw yesterday over at the Orphtum. JAnd the girl's name is Aleen Bron son. - and I don't remember the boy's., but he's lucky to be her team mate. JAnd I hope they won't quarrel about what I've said. - because he's funn.- too. J Rut Aleen 3s no funny that Nick PU-rong heard abo t t.r and went to see her yesterday. JAnd with Nick us everybody knows being pleH.ud is a dissipation. and sm'.lng Is a luxury.- ' ' J But Nick got to laughing at Aleen. and lost control of hlr.-.self. and lifetime hyt.terl al. - and stopped the show. and nobedy know what to do. JAnd Carl Reller ard Curtis Mer- rifr-k and Frank McGc-tllgan and I overpowered hlrn. and took him out In llio hall -and threw h.'m down- -ard nat on bin-land threw water on liim--and fanned him and rubbed his -vrists. until he Eoi all right. JAnd of cou.-se this isn't what-"! wanted to b xy. nor w.iat I woui 1 have said If it hadn't been for Nick. J Hut anyway now that Aleen and her partner h ve proved '.ht.t ' there's something r.ew under the sun in the way of a vaudeville act that's different from nil the others anything seems po.-slble. and the world does move and 5T LISTEN Next thing I know- there'U be a capta.n of industry who doesn't get sentimental when his profits are tareatened. or some vtl.cr miracle like that. Stori9r or StreetiTowri Can You lieat It? NK evening last week Frank V. Cnmp, secretary of the Lumber mens Trust company, was called to the telephone by the janitor, taylng that he bad found a Siooo municipal bond in the waste basket and desired to know if It should be destroyed, or If it was valuable. His description of the signatures on it aroused ln the mind of Mr. Camp, who is exceedingly technical about the. care of securities, visions.-of robbery, theft and wanton destruction of wealth, and heuickly secured' a taxi and rushed to the office, rescuing the 11000 bond, which, upon investigation of the sales records, proved to be one sold to a woman customer several years ago, and which, when the coupons had all been removed and cashed, she consid ered useless. . Next day Mr. Camp called the cus tomer by telephone and asked her If she had lost her bond, and was greatly surprised to have her reply; "Oh, no; It's all finished, and L threw it away yesterday afternoon when I cashed the last coupon ln your office." . "You did whet?" h asked, gasping' for air. " - "Why, I threw Jt away," were the words he heard as lie went under tor the third time; "It was ail finished. 1 took off all my coupons and got the money for them.' '- Tie Eats Ktantng Up, BARNETT GOLDSTEIN, asslatant United States district attorney. Is now taking his meals standing up.'and wants to be transferred from the cav alry division of the militia to the naval division, all because of .a horseback trip he made wltb Troop A. O. N: O., " last Sunday. Although Goldstein has been a member of the troop for many months, he had never been astride horse. When the troop had its mount ed drills, Goldstein was not present, and as a result knew nothing of han dling a horse. The call came for ma neuvers Sundays, .and Goldstein went , with the troop. He found riding rath er Interesting at first, but by the time the troop reached Beaverton, Goldstein was ready to dismount. lis was un comfortable and got off ths military steed. ' He nearly collapsed and had to be assisted back onto the horee. Re turning, the troop came through Gar den Home, and It, was- there that Gold stein quit, lie left his horse and tbe troop and cams back to Portland rJd- lng on a soft-cushioned seiat in ths chair car. Now Goldstein makes It a point to stand "up Instead of sitting down, and is seriously considering ap plying for a transfer to ths naval di vision, where horses are a minus Quan tity. ,. ! . . - -