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V 1 THE OREGON DAILY JOURNAL,' PORTLAND, TUESDAY, JUNE 13, 1916. . 5 vr r WOMAN SUFFRAGISTS' 'SILENT SERENADE' BY t NO MEANS NOISELESS Two Miles of Vociferous Cos tume Will "Yell" at Demo- ? cratic Delegates, CONVERSATION IS TABOO : ' . r W1U Be One, It Xs Bald, Which i';'';v,' Would Make lOXB lutud te'?:V;' Travel Twtoo Around World, f' " By George Martin, r- St. Louis, un IS. (U. P.) Mum's V tbm word among suffragettes here to . r day. Squad of them rora every n wh era ara scooting around getting ready for their allant serenade of 'j the Democrats Wednesday noon. General Florence Updegraff of New York, a long, narrow woman, in a white shirt waist and In a hurry In directing preparations, la marshaling her forces for the silent supplication. Aiding and abetting the general Is : Corporal Alma Saase, of New Bruns ' wick. Mo., who looks very much as though she might be. How many thousand womm will take part In the stand-there-and-stare-at-'em demonstration is not yet known. But the general, who Is long on upper lip and short on conversation vouch safed the remark that there'll be enough In body to reach from the Jef ferson hotel to the Coliseum and enough in spirit to reach from suf frage headquarters to the November , election. Two miles of women, silent for two r'ours! Think of It. To witness auch an absence of sound. 5 "Some noiseless aggregation," ven- t tired a reporter. - , "Noiseless," ejaculated the general, "not on your royal male prerogative. ' Talkless doesn't mean noiseless. Why, . Our color scheme is a shriek. ."Corporal," she added, turning to . Corporal Saase, "brlns out a uniform ' and let It yell for the" gentlemen." As a riotous demonstration that out- . fit Is louder and more prolonged than ' national convention. AMERICA-NOT JOKING, SAYS PRESIDENT (rnntlnmvl From PK On eponslbllity are the only days that count In time, because they are the only days that Rive a test of quality. They are (he only days when manhood and purpose ate tried out, as if by fir. Tonr Uves Are laid Ottt. "I need not tell you young gentle men that you are not like an ordinary graduating claps of one of our uni versities The men in those classes lotlc forward to the life which they ars to lead after graduating with a great many questions in their mind. Mont of them do not know exactly what their lives are going to develop '. Into. Some of them do not know what occupations they are going to follow. -AH of them are conjecturing what wp, be the line of duty and advance ment and the ultimate goal of success for them. "There Is no conjecture for you. -Tou have enlisted In something that does not stop when you leave the academy, for you then only begin to realise It, which then only begins to do tinea with the full richness of us meaning and you can look forward with absolute certainty to the sort of thins that you will b obliged to do. "This has always been true of gradu ating classes at Wett Point, out the certainty that some of the older classes used to look forward to was a very dull certainty. The old days in the army, I fancy; were not very interest ing. Sometimes men. like the present chief of staff for example, could fill their lives with really knowing and understanding the Indians of the west ern plains, knowing what was going on inside of their minds, and being able to be the Intermediary between them and those who dealt with them by speaking their sign language, could enrich their lives. Possibilities Are Many. "But the ordinary life of the aver age officer at a western post cannot have been very exciting, and I think with admiration of those dull years through which officers who had not a great deal to do Insisted, neverthe less, upon being efficient and worth while and keeping their men fit and read for the duty to which they were assigned. "But in your case, there are many extraordinary possibilities, because, gentlemen, no man can certainly tell you what the Immediate, future Is going to be, either in the history of this country or in the history of the world. It is not by accident that the present great war came to Europe. Contest Sad to Coma. ""Every element was there and the contest had to come sooner or later. And it is not going to be by accident that the results are worked out, but by purpose; by the purpose of the men who are strong enough to have guiding minds' and indomitable wills when the time for decUloi and set tlement comes and the part that the United States in to play has this dis tinction in It. that It is to be; In any event, a disinterested party. "There Is nothing that the United States wants that It has to get by war, but there are a great many things the United States has to do. It has to see that its life is not interfered with by anybody else who wants something. Oar Duty to Be Prepared, "These are days when we are mak ing preparations. The thing most commonly discussed over every sort of table, In every sort of circle, In the shops and in the streets, Is prepared ness, and undoubtedly, gentlemen. It is the present Imperative duty of America to be prepared. But we want to know what we are preparing for. I remember hearing a wise man say once that the old maxim that every thing comes to the man who waits Is all very well, provided he knows what he is waiting for, and prepared ness might be a very hazardous thing If we did not know what we wanted to do with the tor'Re that W6 mean to accumulate and to get into fighting shape. America Has a Purpose. "America, fortunately, does know what she wants to doi with her force. America came into existence for a particular reason. When you look about. upon these beautiful hills and up this stately stream, and then let your imagination run over the whole body of this great country from which you youngsters are drawn, far and wide, you remember that while it had aboriginal Inhabitants, while there were people living here there was no civilization which we dis placed. It was as If in the provi dence of Ood, a continent had been kept waiting for a peaceful people who loved liberty and the rights of men more than they loved anything else, to come and set up an unselfish commonwealth. United States History Is Strange. "It is a very extraordinary thing. Tou are so familiar with American his tory at any rate, in its general char acter, I don't accuse you of knowing the details of it, for. I never found a youngster who did but you are so familiar with the general character of American history that It does not seen j stsange to you; but It Is a very strange history. "There Is none other Use It In thai whole annals of mankind, of men gath ering out of every civilised nation of the world on an unused continent and building a policy exactly to suit them selves, not under the domination of any ruling dynasty or the ambitions of any royal family, 'doing what they pleased with their own lives on a free space of land which God had made rl with every resource which was neces sary for the civilisation that ,wav meant to build up. There is nothing like it - All Its Pores Behind Moral Idea, ' "Now, what we are preparing to do Is to see that nobody mars that, and that, being safe Itself against Inter ference from the outside, all of its force is going to be behind its moral idea and mankind is going to know that, when America speaks, she means what she says. I heard a man say to another. 'If you wish me to consider you witty, I must really trouble you to make a Joke.' We have .a right to say to the rest of mankind, 'If you don't want to interfere with us, if you are disinterested, we must really trou ble you to give evidence of that fact.' "We .are not seeking any selfish end and we want the whole mighty power of America thrown into that scale and not Into any other. You know that the chief thing that is holding many people back from en thusiasm for what is called prepar edness is the fear of militarism. I want to say a word to you young gentlemen about, militarism. Tou are not a militarist because you are mill tary. Militarism does not consist in the existence of an army, not even in the existence of a very great army. Militarism is a spirit. It is a point of view. It Is a system. It is a purpose. Militarism Impossible Here. "The purpose of militarism is to use armies for aggression. The spirit of militarism is the opposite of the civilian spirit, the cttlsen spirit. In a country where militarism prevails, the military man looks down upon the civilian, regards him as inferior, thinks of him as intended for his, the military man's support and use, and just so long as America is America, that spirit and point of view are lm possible with us. There Is as yet in this country, so far as I can dis cover, no taint of the spirit of mili tarism. "You young gentlemen are not pre ferred in promotion because of the fam Hies you belong to. You are not drawn Into the academy because you belong to certain Influential families. You don't come here with a long tradition of military pride any of you. You are picked out from the cltisens of the I nited States to be that part of the force of the United States which makes lift policy safe against interference. You are the part of American citizens who say to who would Interfere, 'you must not and you shall not. But you are American citizens and the idea I want to leave with you boys today is: "No matter whatever comes, first of all remember that you are citizens of the United States before you are officers and you are officers because you represent in your particular pro fession what the citizenship of the United States stands for. Ton At Citizens First "There Is no danger of militarism if you are genuine and I for one do not doubt that you are. When you be gin to have the militarist, not the military spirit that is all right then I begin to doubt whether you are Americans or not. "You know that one thing In which our forefathers took pride wan this. that the civil power Is superior to the military power in the United Slates Once and again the people of the Unit ert States have so admired some great military man as to make him president of the United States, to become com man der-ln-chief of all the forces of the United States; but he was commander in-chief because he was president not because he had been trained to arm: ".V " v3 (! ill;. ' ' -V- Extreme for young men and men who feel young, at conservative pnecs. Kuppenheimer of course ; $10 $25 Airy clothes for hot weather the sports and beaches, with an air of distinction char acteristic of this shop Styles JO -i s f .J.S. .; Cofjrrltt1916 Tie Houm of fcopsenbcisiet Doable Trading Stamps Wednesday and Thursday fmwith each pur- Chase of one dol lar? and over. 'when this cou pon is presented. J. 6-13-16 Morrison at Fourth A Likable Place That Men and Boy Prefer and his authority waa civil, not mili tary. . Blstlaotiom im vox rnu. I can teach you nothing of military nowcr. but I a.m Instructed by the con stitution to use you for constitutional and patriotic purposes. And , toat is the only ubo you care to o pui 10. That is the only use you ought to care to bo put to, because, after all. what is the use in being an American if you don't know what it is? You have read a great deal in the books about the pride of the old Roman citizen who always felt liku drawing, himself to his full height when he said" 'I am a Roman' out as compared with he pride that must have risen to his heart, our pride nas a new distinction, not the distinction of the mere imperial power of a great empire, not the distinction or being masters of the world, but the distinc tion of carrying certain lights for the world that the world has never so dis tinctly seen before, certain lights of liberty and principle and justice. W&at Americanism Zs. "We have drawn our people, as you know, from all parts of the world and w have been somewhat disturbed re cently, gentlemen, because some- of those, though I believe a very graau number, whom we have drawn Into our citizenship, have not taken Into their hearts the spirit of America anu have not loved other countries more than they have loved the country of thcjir adoption and we have talked a great deal about Americanism. It ought to De a matter of pride with us to know what Americanism really con sists of. Americanism consists in ut terly believing In the principles of America and putting them first as above any other that might by chance come into competition with It. Test IS a Spiritual One. "And I, for my part, believe that the American test is a spiritual test. If a man has to make excuses for what he has done as an American, I doubt his Americanism. He ought to know at every step of his action that the motive that lies behind what he does Is a motive which no American need be ashamed of for a moment. Now, We ought to put this test to every man we know. We ought to let it be known that nobody who does not put America first can consort with us. But we ought to set them an example. We ought to set them the example by thinking American thoughts, by enter talnlng American purposes, and those thoughts and purposes will stand the test of example anywhere in the world. for they are intended for the Detter- ment of mankind. Must All Stand Together. "So I have come to say these few words to you today, gentlemen, for a double purpose, first of all, to express my personal good wishes to you in your graduation and my personal interest in you and second of all to remind you how we must all stand together in one spirit as lovers and servants of Ameri ca. And that means something more than lovers and servants merely of the United States. "You have heard of the Monios doc trine, gentlemen. You know that we are already spiritual partners with both continents of this hemisphere, and that America means something which is bigger than the United States. and that we stand here with the glori ous power of this country, ready to swing it out into the field of action whenever liberty and independence and political integrity are threatened any where in the western hemisphere. And we are ready nobody has authorized me to say this, but I am sure cf it we are ready to join with the other nations of the world in seeing that the kind of justice prevails everywhere that we believe in, so that you are graduating today, gentlemen, into new distinction. Wider World How Opens. uiory attached to all those men whose names we love to recount, wb.o have made the annals of the American army distinguished. They played the part they were called upon to play with honor and with extraordinary success. I congratulate you not because you will be better than they, but because you 'ill have a wider world of thought and conception to play your part in. "I am an American, but I don't be lieve that any of us loves a blustering nationality, a nationality with a chip' on its shoulder, a nation with its el bows out and its swagger on. We love that quiet, self-respecting unconquer able spirit which does not strike until it is necessary to strike and then strikes to conquer. Never, since I was a youngster, have I been arraid of the noisy man. I have always been afraid of the still man. I have always been afraid of the quiet man. A Dignified America. "I had a classmate at college, who was most dangerous when he was most affable. When he was maddest, he seemed to have the sweetest tem per in the world. Ho would approach you with a most ingratiating smile and then you knew that every red corpuscle in his blood was up and shouting. If you work things off in your elbows you do not work tHem off in your minds, you do not work them off in your purposes. "So my conception of America is a conception of Infinite dignity? along with quiet, unquestionable power, r ask you young gentlement to join with me in that conception and let us all in our own spheres be soldiers to gether and realize it." Early Pioneer of Lane County Called Prominent Figure la Klstory of the Territory Dies at Cottag-e Grove at Ago of 88 Tears; Bon Survives. Eugene, Or., June IS. David Eby, early pioneer of Lane cointy and pres ident Of the Lane County Pioneers' association, died at Cottage Grove Monday. The remains will be interred In Muddy cemetery ner Harrisburg, Wednesday. Mr. Eby was a prominent figure in the early history of Lane county. He is survived by a son, O. D. Kby, of Oregon City. Another son, B. F. Eby, died at Goshen a few days ago. Mr. Eby was aged 88 years. 'GETTES THREATEN DEMOCRATIC PARTY WITH "BIG STICK" Radicals Say Congress Must Pass Anthony Amendment Now or. Fight, By Karl A. Bickel. St. Louis, Mo.. June 12. (U. P.) "Enact the 8usan B. Anthony amend ment before the end of the present session of congress or fight. Half a million dollars la available for the fight." This is the ultimatum that will be handed the resolutions committee of the Democratic national committee by a delegation of the National Women's party on Thursday. The woman's party will not ask that a plank favor ing suffrage be placed In the Demo cratic platform. They state that "favorable mention" by the Democrats has no attraction for them. The Anthony amendment to the na tional constitution puts tha question ' of nationwide equal suffrage up to the states for approval. In taking , this attitude the women's party la , favoring "direct action as against the plan of the National American Women's Suffrage association, headed by Mrs. Carrie Chapman Catt, who Is here to ask the resolutions committee of the Democratic national conven tion for a plank indorsing the prin-! ciple of suffrage, but demanding no J promises on the Anthony amendment, j If the administration falls to act, 1 the women's party plans to campaign through the twelve suffrage states in an effort to swing every woman voter against the Wilson ticket As an indication of how seriously the leaders of the women's party make this threat, they assert they have a campaign fund of half a mil lion dollars, guaranteed by Mrs. O. H. P. Belmont of New York. Mrs. Catt is very optimistic of the chances of a suffrage plank going Into the Democratic platform. She believes that it will read similar to the one in the Republican platform. A tele gram from Senator Borah has been received at the National American Women Suffrage association head quarters declaring that the plaink in the G. O. P. platfornjus awyunquali- fied indorsement and places;' the Re publican party ji the position of fa voring the extension of suffrage aa a "matter of justice." Nurse's Body Found; Believed a Suicide Empty Bottle Harked CarboUo Add, round by Side of Mra. Wialfrod Oa bHI's Body. , v The body of Mrs. Winifred CahlU. 428 East Washington street, a nurse, we- found by school children In a gulch 100 feet south of the intersec tion of Powell Valley road and Ejst Fortv-third street yesterday afternoon. An empty bottle marked carbolic acid found by her side Indicated sui cide The vimaA had been employed as a nurse at the home of Mrs. Magee.' whose residence Is near the gulcn. She left the house at 7 o'clock yesterday morning. Mrs. Cahlll was about 62 years old. For about five years aha had been sep arated from her husband. She has two daughters, Nellie Cahlll. t!J Easv Xwelfth street north, and Mrs. H. T. Martrin of Gladstone. 6he bad been employed by Edward Magee, East Forty-third and Powell valley, to cars for his aged mother and George McDonald, a young nephew of Mrs. Magee's, came upon the tody when the searching party went out Washington Moose Mostly for Wilson Seattle, June IS. (I. N. S.) In'the opinion of Ole Hanson, former Pro gressive senatorial candidate, and other leaders more stato of Washing ton Progressives will support Wilson than Hughes for the reason that they are chagrined because of the manner in which the so-called standpat Repub licans denied Roosevelt, not only the nomination, but refused to give any heed whatever to his counsel. Austin E. Griffiths. Washington member of the Progressive national committee, favors a continuance of the party. W. T. Beeks, one of the organ ize ro of the Progressive party in this state, said he wanted the Progressives to tako such action as would hurt Hughes the most Judge Campbell Cited. Salem. Or., June 11. Circuit Judge Campbell was cited MonJay by the supreme court to appear June IS and ahow cause why he should not allow a bill of exceptions, as prepared by I the Portland Gas and Coke company. Peaper Estate 950,000, -An estate valued at 160,006 was left by Joseph Peaper, who died Juno I, according to a petition for the appoint inent of Charles 0. Moak as admin istrator filed yesterday afternoon. The petition was by Olive M. Peaper, widow, who lives at 784 Wasco street The heirs, besides the widow, ara two minor children. No will was left. 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Pennsylvania Put in Commission j Ttatonic Flags and Stan and Stripes Hotter From Interned German Crols ers at JTorf oik In Celebration. Norfolk. V-., June is. (U. P.) While banners of the Teutonic allies and the Stars and Stripes flattered from the fore peaks of the interned German cruisers Eitel Fricdrich and Kron Prins Wllhelm, the giant battle ship Pennsylvania, Uncle Sam's new est and biggest sea fighter, was placed in commission at the navy yard Mvnday. The Pennsylvania will remain here until her armament is adjusted. Player Rents $4 An elegant- SS-note pianola piano player rent or sell.) Price $200. Like new; "Bench and it rolls included. Graves. HI 4th at. at Morrison, (Adv.) - - . " - Britain Must Take Her Hands Out mOw Mail Bags The sharpest note yet sent by the United States to any of the belligerents for the violation of American rights, was Secretary Lansing's protestgainst Allied interference with our mails. The. Philadelphia Record regards it as "merely a sample of the ammunition this Government has in reserve." In THE LITERARY DIGEST for June 10th, the views of the leading newspapers of the United States upon Secretary Lansing's note, are presented. Among other articles which make up an unusually interesting number of this favorite American weekly, are: The Greatest Naval Battle in History With England and Germany Disputing the Question as to Which Shall Reap the Fruits of Victory, tho New York "Sun" ironically observes that "with Germany in command of tho soa and Britain deprived of her supremacy, Teutonic commerce will resume its ante-bellum freedom. Tho merchant ships tied up in neutral ports will load and ail; the vessels idle in their home harbors will set forth oa their accustomed voyages. ' Until this is accomplished, "the rulership of the seas cannot be ssid to hsvo shifted from the Island Kingdom to the Central Powers," despite the blow that the great naval battle has dealt fb British prestigo. President Wilson's Peace Plan James J. Hill and His "Empire" Germany's Food Dictator Japan Sticks to Britain Medicine: A Profession or a Trade? Identifying an Automobile Dandelions as a Crop Will Authors Take Out Union Cards? The World Turning to Christianity Turkey Chuckling Carranza Again Orders Us Out of Mexico Ireland Seen From Germany Land That Runs Away How Heayy Firing Affects Animals The Shakespeare Community-Mask A French View of Modern German Poets A University for India's Women Verdun's Underground Chapel Many Impressive Illustrations A World-Mirror of Public Opinion This is the magazine of America, showing more accurately than any other, American public opinion. 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