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THE OREGON SUNDAY JOURNAL, , PORTLAND. SUNDAY. MORNING,. JUNE ,18. 1916.
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A BISHOP AXI THE HOME
B'
,ISHOP HUGHES' remarks
about the 'home in a recent
sermon were pointed and
some of them were true. The
i . home, or more properly Bpeak
j v lng, the family, is the basis of
f society and every good lnstitu
i tlon that society cherishes. So
!Jt is the plain duty of all of us
to do what we can to confirm the
j "stability of the home.
; Bishop Hughe3 directed his ar-
. rows mainly against apartment
dwellers. In his opinion, as we
i ' gather from the report of his
sermon, he thinks that the influ-
, . ence of apartment life is against
I children, connubial love and every-
thing else that helps ta fortify the
j, family. No doubt he has studied
.'.the subject profoundly and speaks
j . from adequate knowledge. We
j may say. however, that it is idle
i to think of persuading people to
1 go back to the old type of iso
I lated residence. The apartment is
a great deal wore convenient than
5 the separate house in the matter
J ' of light, heat, water and cleanli
' ' ness and it has many other ad-
vantages.
We will mention one or two of
them. For less money than it
takes to keep up a house in a re
mote suburb far from lectures,,
Ood churches and the center of
life a family can hire an apart
ment in the heart of the city with-
in easy distance of all that is
worth while. This saves carfare,
time and strength. Many people
who live in the suburbs are de
prived of much that they would
: enjoy because it la Buch a hard
ship to ride home on crowded and
uncomfortable cars late at night.
Bishop: Hughes could do more
, for the suburban home by reform
ing the Btreet cars than by preach-
' ing against apartments. Scolding
never has accomplished a great
'deal for the home or any other
..valuable institution. A little ecb-
r somic justice would be found to
go somewhat farther. The Ameri
can home is falling into decay be-
y- cause breadwinners do not earn
enough money to keep it going.
The minimum annual expense of an
- average family Is not less than
' $800 a year. The majority of
wOrkingmen earn lees than $600.
- Here lies the secret of the de
, cadent home. Much of what we
often call vice is really poverty.
Frank Hitchcock says he wants
to see Hughes elected because he
believes it will mean "the restora
tion of national prestige and hon
or." If Mr. Hitchcock lived across
the water and intimated that the
flag under which he lived had
neither national prestige nor honor
his fellow countrymen would not
. acclaim him as a hero or a leader
of men. And he said it just after
flag day.
THE METEORITE
ONCE upon a. time there lived
a great and good prince on
the south slope of a moun
tain beside a clear and placid
.lake. On the eastern side of his
palace was an orange grove. On
the western side was a park where
-many deer disported themselves..
,In - the middje of the park was
a band stand where the prince's
musicians played on moonlight
-nights for the pleasure of the
peasants and their children who
: -were freely admitted to the park
as long as they did not pick the
flowers or worry the deer.
, The prince lived happily with
his wife and beautiful daughter
for many years until on an un
lucky day a meteorite fell from
the sky and lighted on the piano
In his best parlor. The piano was
crushed to splinters and the me-
teor fell on down through the floor
-; into the cellar where it XinaUy
came to rest close to a mighty
hogshead of beef. This was sin
gularly disagreeable to the prince
because he liked that -particular
Soeer better than any other. It
had been given to him by a witch
of his acquaintance who had cast
a spell upon it such that it it
were drawn from any other place Ua the same way. This is a rough renins, like Shakespeare or Na
than the faucet ia the side next; outline of the nebular hypothesis poleon, elves us a glimpse of our
to the meteorite it would turn
whoever drank it into an ass. And
the meteorite prevented 4nybody
from reaching that faucet.
So the good prince was in de
spair until his vizier sent for a
&as engine with a crane to lift
the meteorite out of the cellar.
The vizier wanted to hitch the
crane to the top of the meteorite ,
and haul it straight., up and out
but the prince said no. There
must be a rope hitched under it
and one at the right and another
at the left with an engine to pull
on each. The vizier grumbled but
he sent for three more engines
and fastened them to the meteor
ite as the prince ordered, digging
a well for the one underneath.
'When they were alLjset going the
meteorite did not move, for one
rope was pulling it down, one to
the right, another to the left and
a fourth upward.
"We shall never get the meteor
ite out of the cellar in this way,"
wailed the vizier. But the good
prince smiled and replied, "Per
haps we never shall but you must
confess that we have applied a
beautiful system of checks and
balances."
Today is the day when the city
officially goes into the "swimmin'
hole" business. Youngsters will
swim under official direction, in
official pools officially sanitated.
Some difference between the new
and the old when we used to fol
low the frogs across the pond to
learn the leg stroke.
PORTLAND WILL? CELEBRATE
T
HE EAGLE la coming back
to his own, so the Fourth of
July committee says. We
are going to have a real old
fashioned celebration with march
ing columns, flying flags, brass
bands and patriotic music, fun and i
noise, pink lemonade, red fire and
firecrackers. We are going back
to the good old days when the
email boy had some rights; when
the toy cannon, the giant cracker
and the "Chinee bum" woke the
startled day and soothed the ex
hausted night to belated dreams.
It is a temporary goodbye to
the community picnic and the
Chatauqua salute. Both young
and old America are in a heroic
mood. .
They want to smell the powder
and to hear the bray of brass.
They want to watch the boys
march by with swinging stride
and bayonets fixed as they did in
the days of old. They want to
whoop 'er up and see the bird of
freedom stretch her disused wings
and soar aloft above the ruck and
din.
It has beeo a long time since
Portland heard cannon challenge
cannon with mock defiance across
the valleys, or saw sweating mil
itiamen advancing from bush to
bush to attack a friendly foe. It
will be an inspiring sight and
as we watch it we will look back
across the years to learn anew
the Btory of our country and our
flag. We will see through the
panorama of play and realize the
stern realities which couched its
birth. We will know more vivid
ly, perhaps, how, and why, the
starry banner floats above us, and
with a freshened mind yield it, if
rossible, still greater reverence
and love.
But the picture will have an
other side. It will take us across
the sea to where uncounted mil
lions have died, and more will
die, to hold aloft the battle flags
of their native lands. It will
visualize to the imagination, faint
ly, the awfulness and the horror
of war. It will paint the canvas
with boitow and suffering, with
death and .desolation, shattered
lives and disrupted firesides. ' It
will teach us to pray that those
who shape the destinies of this
great country that we love' will
be given 'the strength, the cour
age and wisdom to guide us safely
through the years, away from the
welter of war.
The real feelings of the stand
patters in welcoming the Pro
gressives back into the fold are
thus expressed by the Los An
geles Times: "Boys, isn't it fun
to see them tumbling over one
another and busting their galluses
in their frantic efforts to get in
where the band Is? Well, well,
well, it is about time for us old
standpatters to have a little un
diluted amusement."
EVOLUTION OP THE EARTH
P
ROFESSOR CHAMBERLAIN
of the Chicago university has
given a new and ingenious
account of the origin of the
earth.
He applies the evolution theory
a little differently from his prede
cessors. He does not believe that
LaPlace's nebular hypothesis, of
which so much has been written,
quite meets the exigencies of the
case: LaPlace, following the Phil
osopher Kant, taught that the uni
verse had been formed by the con
densation of a vast , nebuja. The
force of gravity acting between the
particles drew them together. Their
clashes generated heat until the
mass became molten. The final re
sultant of all the varied motions
of the particles was nearly circu
lar, or perhaps spiral as we see
It in the great nebulas now con
densing. The central maBs of the nebula
became the sun. By its rapid
whirling enough centrifugal force
was generated to throw off the
planets one by one. Finally some
of .the, planets threw off moons
nuicu rruieoour (jaamDeriaui uas i tuner potency vut wo bvuiiuw
somewhat modified.. In his opinion , falls to see the meaning of the
the planets were rery small' bodies ' revelation and meekly resigns
when the sun first threw them off . himself to mental impotence,
into space, but they have since, Helen Keller's education has un
"grown." j fettered her mind. It has opened
Their . food has been meteoric new modes of expression for her
bodies such as we may see any powers. It has set her free. This
clear night shooting across the ; is all that education can do for
sky. A great many millions of
these meteors fall upon the earth
every year and in the course of
ages their weight must be consid
erable. SInee they have been ac
cumulating for countless millions
of years It is easy to" believe that
they have actually built up the
earth as Professor Chamberlain
teaches. In the same way the
other planets have been formed.
The process is strictly evolutionary
and not essentially different from
the nebular hypothesis. Only the
details are modified.
LaPlace taught that all the ma
terial of the solar system was con
tained in the original nebula and
condensed Into the central sun.
Professor Chamberlain
believes
that much of it has been collected
from space since the planets were
separated from the sun. Accord
ing to the nebular hypothesis the
earth must have had a very high
temperature for many ages. Only
when it had cooled down was life
possible. Professor Chamberlain
believes that the earth never has
been a great deal hotter than it is
now.
If this is true then the sun must
have been a cold body when it
parted with the primitive earth.
Since that time it has been grad
ually growing larger by attracting
meteors and its heat has accumu
lated from the energy of their
fall to its surface. So there is no
reason to believe that the sun is
cooling. It may even be growing
hotter and will continue to do so
until the radiation from its sur
face outbalances the heat received
from falling meteors.
This theory of Professor Cham
berlain's postpones for an indefi
nite time the realization of Byron's
famous dream in which "the bright
sun was extinguished and the icy
in the moonless air." According'' hU "J188' '
to Professor Chamberlains view
there is nothing to hinder the uni
verse from being born and reborn
millions of times over in endless
cycles of existence. Tho planets
break up into meteors and the
meteors reunite to form new plan
ets. Nothing is lost but something
mow Ka trainari Tho nrnnnrtfl nf
the mind may possibly survive
wreck of worlds.
Intending settlers are already
beginning to make inquiry as to
procedure for getting a home on
the agricultural portion of the
Oregon grant lands. The way is
opened for making Oregon a great
er state. Does the railroad pro
pose to Btop it' by litigation?
HELEN KELLER.
E
VERY little while we read
something new and wonder
ful about Helen Keller. The
world was astonished and de
lighted when she broke the shell
that enclosed her mind and showed
that she was an intelligent being.
Then came the marvel of her edu
cation. She mastered the ordinary
school studies as well as normal
children ever do. She not only
committed them to memory but
she developed extraordinary pow
ers of thought. As Bhe learned
what was going on in the world
she became a radical. Modern so
ciety with its cruelty and injustice
has no sterner critic than Helen
Keller, who neither Bees nor Hears
but feels intensely.
When she learned to speak ar
ticulately everybody was aston
ished. We have all heard her
from the platform and forgetting
the miracle of her speaking at all
we have been moved by the power
and beauty of her thought. How
is It possible that a woman, with
scarcely any of the senses that
give us our hold upon life and
nature, should feel so profoundly
and reason so well?
Now Helen Keller has worked I
another miracle. She has learned
to sing. Was there ever another
such a victory of mind over matter?
And It is all a question of educa
tion. She ha3 had good teaching.
That explains the mystery. Edu
cation and nothing else has trans
formed her from a mindless lump
of clay into a bright and happy
woman capable of thinking great
thoughts and expressing them for
the instruction of the world.
If education has done so much
for Helen Koller with all her hand
icaps what might It not do for
the normal child whose senses are
acute and faculties active? Helped
on by her teachers she has caught
up with the normal children of
her generation and passed them
by. Could she have done it if
they had been taught as well as
she was? Why are they not as
well taught?
If a burdened, -fettered, blinded
mind like hers can go so far,
should not the free, unfettered
mind go a great deal farther? And
yet it does not.
The powers of the human mind
are like, the world's electrical
energy which lay hidden for thou
sands of years. Hardly anything
was known about It, nobody
dreamed what It could do until a
line of scientific men brought its
powers to light and harnessed
them to machinery.
The mind's ..powers slumber as
electricity did. They have been
slumbering century after century.
Now and then some wonderful
anybody. For -most people it does
a good deal less. It does not un
fetter them. It binds' on new fet-j
ters, It does not ojen new modes i
of expression. , It closes .the old
ones. It does not set them free.
It enslaves them to servile tradi
tions and dead superstitions.
"If we took education serious
ly," says a writer in the June At
lantic, "if we thought It as im
portant to keep alive the minds
of children as to win victory in
war, we should conduct education
quite differently." Indeed we
should. Helen Keller's teachers
bave taken her education serious
ly. Unhampered by precedents,
theories and creeds thev havA conn
directly to the end they wished for
and the results are a world's won
der. Any child taken at random
would become a greater wonder
if he could be as well taught.
There is an old poem that tells
of the lightsome happiness of
youth, how it dances and sings
and trips merrily through the
years. But by and by life shuts
down upon the bright being. He
sings no more. He forgets how to
dance. "Good bye for aye to Money
Musk, and the heavy march be
gins." Why should life be a heavy
march? Why should not mankind
dance and sing down to the very
edge of the grave? Why should
life grow sour and somber for
most of us long before nature de
mands the last debt?
The reason is evident. We do
not learn to use the powers of
our minds. If we were half as
well educated as Helen Keller life
would open so many new and
wonderful doors to us that we
should never think of gloom. Gen
uine intelligence has never been
persistently applied to the affairs
of the world. We have stumbled
fighting, wasting, plundering
When we learn to give all our
children as good an education as
Helen Keller has had each hu
man being will know how to get
out of the world his fair share of
happiness. Life will not then be
a "heavy march" for the majority
of us but a gay frolic so full of
K-
dena will hardly be felt at all.
The forty per cent of grant land
proceeds set aside for reclamation
shbuld be spent on Oregon rec
lamation. Oregon has contribu
ted enough for reclamation in
other states.
MISSOURI'S POVERTY
T
HE Missouri state university
is soon to close its doors for
want of money to pay its cur
rent expenses. It has been
running for several months on bor
rowed funds but, of course, that ex
pedient must come to an end be
fore long. Next fall, unless some
great piece of good fortune Inter
venes, the university will not re
sume its classes.
It has been a pretty good uni
versity. No fault as far as we
know has been found with its
courses of instruction or its dis
cipline. The law school is partic
ularly commended. But for some
reason the state of Missouri can
not provide the money to keep it
in operation. What can the rea
son be? Have the resources of
that wealthy 6tate been squan
dered by "political crazes"? No,
they have not. The Missouriana
have not been subject to political
crazes. On the contrary, they have
been more than commonly "safe
and sane."
The astonishing fact Is that
Missouri is poor because of its im
pregnable virtues. Its finances have
been continuously managed in the
I good old ways of the fathers,
j Graft, thriftlessness, waste, lack of
i System, all those dear old American
blessings have ha4 free swing in
i Missouri for these many years.
The surprising consequence is
that the state is bankrupt, or near
ly so, and must shut up its uni
versity. No political crazes and
no reforms for good old Missouri,
thank you. It prefers to go safely
and sanely over the hill, to the
poor house. The Missourians may
have to let their children go un
educated but they won't adopt any
crazy fads and they won't listen
to any half-baked agitators.
Some half-baked fads are now
held out to the state in its ex
tremity The voice of the tempter
is ever heard when man is hard
up. Some wijd agitators make the
incendiary proposal that Missouri
should adopt the budget system
and thuB get its finances into the
shape that a good man of business
prefers. Hitherto nobody has ever
known or ever could know where
Missouri's money came from or
how it was spent. A budget would
easily answer all such questions.
But will Missouri be weak enough
to adopt any such unpatriotic and
un-American expedient?
Another fad proposed by sedi
tious agitators Is that Missouri
should revise Its laws so as to
make Justice in the courts "cheap
er, swifter, and surer." It is fool
ishly Imagined that this wild
scheme would make the state more
prosperous. The same crazy chi
mera has been proposed elsewhere.
We have heard something of it in
Oregon, but we are glad to say
that this state has thus far es-
caped that blight, though It suf
fers under plenty more.
Other frenzied fanatics propose
that Missouri should reform her
tax laws so as to make the wealthy
pay their fair share of the state's
expenses. This would -fill the
treasury but It would grieve the
souls of so many excellent citizens
that there is no danger of its
adoption. In Missouri as in other
states it Is a good, constitutional
principle that the taxes must be
paid by those who work, not by
those who live upon others', work.
This principle sometimes causes
inconvenience in practice. It may
even compel a state to shut up its
university. But what matters a
little trouble when one's conscience
is at ease? To make the rich pay
taxes is, as everybody knows, not
only unconstitutional but also
frightfully Immoral. We rejoice
to announce that Missouri is not
likely to rush into any such un
natural scheme.
Some folks refer to it as the
whiskers ticket. Referring to its
iciness, one paragrapher calls it
the zero ticket and predicts a cold
summer.
NOTHING THE MATTER
WITH PORTLAND
(Coffee, tea and anlcea are araln the tonic.
Intereatlnc facta concerning preparation pro
cesses ana supply aonrcea are preaented in o
168 of The Journal's '"Nothing the Matter With
Portland" series. A sound diaaertatlon on 'the
good buslneaa of home buying of home prod
ucta la appended; also, mention of a new but
energetic coiiee, tea ana spice pusineai.j
H'
ERE is a coffee .story, and it
relates to the D wight Edwards
company, Front and Couch
streets, manufacturers of "Dependa
ble" brands of coffees, spices, ex
tracts and baking powder, and packer
of teas.
The concern, grinds more than 2,-
000,000 pounds of coffee annually.
It manufactures thousands of gal
lons of flavoring extracts.
It grinds and cans nearly 100,000
pounds of spices.
Its baking powder output will run
up to 120,000 a year.
The corporation was founded 12
years ago by Dwight Edwards, with
a .force or three to five in the fac
tory and two traveling salesmen.
That "crowd" is increased to 25 in
the factory and 14 travelers, cover
Ing the states of Oregon,' Washing
ton, Montana, Idaho, Utah, Alaska
and parts of ' California.
Mr. Edwards died on April 7. 1915,
since which time his son, Dwight Ed
wards Jr.. has had charge of the
business as manager, and he has with
him Frank "tV. Howell, who is in
charge of the sales department. To
day their business Is expanding be
yond all (heir expectations, and so
far as they are concerned dullness
of trade is a1 forgotten dream.
' DIRECT IMPORTERS.
The coffee handled by this house
comes direct, from Brazil, Central
America, Arabia arid the East Indies,
in 2000, 3000 and 4000 sack lota. Each
sack will weigh from 100 to 150
pounds, and Is worth about $15, so
it will be seen that Portland coffee
dealers must be possessed of plenty
of the "long green" in order to get
on in their business.
All this coffee Is roasted and
packed In the company's own plant
In this city, and it would be mighty
convenient for some of us fellows
if we had an Income as great aa this
concern's outlay for gas consumed.
One must actually see the flame, and
the coffee falling through It like a
Kansas -hail etorm, in order to get
an Idea of the amount that's burned
Just to think of it Is enough to make
Father Pabst,' of the gas company.
enjoy life to the full.
The raw materials from which the
spices ; are elaborated come direct
from the countries of ' production
and are manufactured by the latest
Improved machinery. In all 'its de
partments the company's appliances
are absolutely the latest produc
tions money will buy, and the goods
It sells are not surpassed for quality.
WHAT'S THE MATTER WITH
ii BUYERS?
These articles have so persistently
advocated the consumption of home
made products that a repetition may
be wearisome. But It wouldn't be If
the reader ad in the last six or
eight month become acquainted with
things as ttie writer has.
He has seen the best things sold,
and they were made in Portland.
He has inquired prices and found
them as low as any.
He has sought for a reason why
oonsumers failed in their loyalty to
their own 'manufacturers, and has
discovered none other than careless
ness on the part of the buyer and
tniiff.i.nA, n th na.rt nf th Heller
He has seen advertisements for
bids for supplies published at the
instance of V1 state, and they have
specified foreign teas.
"It Is because these teas are more
lavishly advertised," Mr. Edwards de
clares, "and pot for the reason that
they are better than our teas, or
that of any other Portland manufac
turer. And this is the key- which so
mysteriously unlocks the state's
treasury. If'fhelr roods were super
ior to ours, or those of any other
manufacturer, I'd say go to it But
they are- not. .
"And this; is what the Portlafrd
manufacturer' if up against, not only
in this, v but ; all other lines.
"Some day, maybe, these customs
will change.".
Clossett & Co.
Clossett AvCo- Alfred A. Clossett,
manager, also conducts a wholesale
coffee roasting, tea packing and spice
making plant at 128 Twelfth street,
north. ' This young concern Is full
of life, always on the-square, and Is
building up an attractive business.
Mr. Clossett and an assistant are
their own salesmen.
THE BROOK
By Alfred
I
come from hiunts of coot and hern,
I make a sudden sally,
And sparkle out among; the fern,
To bicker down a valley.
By thirty hills I hurry down.
Or slip between the ridges
By twenty thorps, a little town,
And half a hundred bridges.
I chatter over stony ways,
In little sharps and trebles,
I bubble into eddying; bays,
I babble on the pebbles.
With many a curve my banks I fret
By many a field and fallow,
And many a fairy foreland set
With willow-weed and mallow.
I chatter, chatter, as I flow.
To Join the brimming river,
For men may come and men may go.
But I go on forever.
I steal by lawns and grassy plots,
I slide by hazel covers;
I move the sweet forget-me-nots
That grow for happy lovers.
I slip, 1 slide, I gloom, I glance,
Among my skimming swallows;
1 make the netted sunbeam dance
Against my sandy shallows.
I murmur under moon and stars,
In brambly wildernesses;
I linger by my shingly bars;
1 loiter round my cresses.
And out again I curve and flow
To Join the brimming river,
For men may come and men may go,
But I go on forever.
JOURNAL
48--Oneonta Gorge
COLUMBIA RJVKE HIGHWAY NO. 13.
Just beyond Multnomah falls are a
series of fine Columbia river highway
features that very conclusively war
rant continuance of the conventional
half day trip over the highway.
me rirst or the series Is Oneonta
gorge. Like a knlfecleft In the moun
tain wall it Is. narrow and deep and
the aides lean toward each other. From
Oneonta gorge issues a strong stream
and at the mouth of the arorEa is room
i&r picnicking. If you have rubber
boots or are not afraid of getting your
feet wet, wade up the bed of the
stream a few hundred feet to falls all
th more romantic for their narrow
home with the sky as the high ceiling.
oneonta falls might have been
reached by a hanging trail safely
above the water, but the owner of the
property so far has refused to let those
who would meet the cost perform the
service. People who would appreciate
the witchery of this place could not
harm the solid rock walls or take the
beauty of the scene away merely by
looking at it, so that his attitude of"
mind is not understood.
A few feet beyond Oneonta gorge
the highway passes under the bluff
through a tunnel. The rock above
the tunnel Is several hundred feet
high. It is weathered by the centu
ries. At its top, sheer above the rail
roai, stands a lone fir. How did It
find earth for foothold; whence does
Its nourishment and moisture come?
Emerging from the tunnel, there
bursts upon the eye one of the most
wonderful views of earth. It Is as
though you had suddenly come into
THE AMERICAN IMPULSE
Charlton Andrews In New York Times.
The distinction between the modern
Herman Ideal and the Ideal of the.
Anglo-Saxon Is essentially the distinct
tlon between classicism and romanti
cism. Classicism stands for the state.
romanticisim for the Individual, first
and last. Therefore I believe it fair
to assert that, roughly speaking, Ger
man Ideals, once eo thoroughly ro
manticised, are today essentially clas
sic atnd that the American Ideal Is es
sentially romantic. On the one hand.
there is a fundamental social and po
litical cred of discipline and self sac
rifice; on the other, an insistence on
freedom of thought, feeling and action.
The true American, since Patrick
Henry, and before, has never hesitated
and will never hesitate before
choosing between liberty and Its his
toric alternative. This remark of
course raises the Instant question as
to what liberty really is, as well as
the obvious fact that excess in the
classic German attitude means slavery,
and in the romantic American attitude
means anarchy.
This is not to say that the average
American bothers his head greatly over
distinctions among national Ideals. The
majority of citliens are obviously con
scious only of conditions. The man In
the street, the shop, the factory, the
ditch, of course, does little abstract
thinking the concrete Is so much eas
ier! What he is keenly aware of Is the
pleasure he finds In a democratic and
non-milltarlstlo country as contrasted
with conditions in a paternal and mili
taristic nation. The average citixen
knows he likes to be free to speak his
mind on any subject, without danger
as to lesemajeste. He knows he would
rather work for higher wages and
spend his money as he pleases, choose
his own occupation, have a chance to
raise himself to any station In short,
exercise with a minimum of restraint
any and all powers and faculties he
may possess. If he realises that his
opportunities for complete self-expression
are purchased at the expense of
a considerable degree of national ef
ficiency, he contemplates the fact with
regret but with equanimity. If he un
derstands that, after all. It is geo
graphical and political necessity, cou
pled with natural human egoism, that
has forced the efficiency ideal on mod
ern Germany, he thanks Ms stars that
thus far, at least no such determin
ing conditions prevail on his side of
the Atlantic. Few besides the leaders
see far In the abstract; but the citizen
who deals altogether with things In
the concrete is at no special disad
vantage on that account. Sticking to
facts, indeed, he runs little of the
theorists' risk of flying off Into fan
tasy. Of these two national attitudes the
romantic and the classic, the Ameri
can and the German which Is the
better? Which is right?
ByMhsir fruits shall ye know them.
Germany shows us cities beautiful,
poverty "abolished,"' education ad
vanced. Industry wedded to science
and along with these desiderata the
present war with all Its attendant cir
cumstances. Contemplating thene lat
ter, the American promptly decides for
tlv "Anglo-Saxon," the romantic ideal.
He 4ias no quarrel with efficiency ex
cept when it Is so Inordinately stressed
that it trespasses on ths domain of
Tennyson
JOURNEYS
to St. Peter's Dome
the country of the giants and their,
castles and cathedrals were before you.
These are the splre-llke monoliths
called "Cathedral Rocks," and some
times Winema Pinnacles.
Most commanding of all is St.
Peter's dome, which stands 2000 feft
or more above the highway and al
most perfectly rounded above the
shoulder which Joins it to the cliff.
No one has ever climbed St. Peter's
dome. Many are ambitious to do so
and have tried to. But the perpendicu
lar circumference forbids and will con
tinue to until a trail is either tunneled
at a 15 per cent slant to a shelf whence
it is evident the summit may be
reached, or by cutting into the rock
and placing an iron railing for protec
tion at the edge.
Why should the trail be built?
Because one of the greatest view
points of the highway will thereby ba
attained. Because one of the most
sensational routes In the country will
lead to it.
St. Peter's Dome projects its great
height to an altitude where It com
mands the marvelous panorama of the
gorge of the Columbia. It Is Isolated
from the heights at Its back and there
is nothing to Intercept the view. 1
havs climbed to the summit of
equal elevation Just to the rear of St.
Peter's Dome and even from this point
to look down the almost sheer drop
of 2300 feet to the highway and the
river makes one dizzy.
A committee has been organized to
direct the work of securing the funds
and building the trail to St. Peter's
Dome.
his traditional personal liberty and of
his Immemorial and indispensable con
victions as to what is fundamentally
right and wrong. He realises that
non-paternal inefficiency Is very cost
ly poverty, graft, crime. Eastland
disasters, Georgia lynchlngs, etc., all
perhaps directly traceable to an unbe
lief in the "superlndlvidual soul."
But all things considered, he prefers
to grope on in his own blind way to
ward the greatest possible measure
of Individual freedom compatible with !
national existence. We are. In fact. !
satisfied to be a romantlo peopte.
Nevertheless, in spite of what has
been said here, I am not an apostle
Of the romantic ideal Of ths State. At
Dest, romanticism is a one-sided doc-
trine, verging always Just as classi
cism does on extremism. The state
theory and the individual theory may
lead equally to disaster. Beyond ques-
tlon there is a far preferable middle:
ground. The classic poet, aiming at
the perfection of regularity, arrived at ,
deadening monotony. The romantics, I
soarlntr after libertv often rdim.
soaring arter uoeriy, orten plunged
headlong through license into ruin,
both romantic and classic In turn. rrealdent wilaon d the word unadulterated
realized this when he saw all culture , In reference AmerlcapHm. Not to he i.ot-
In meditation. Unhappily for Germany, ne Ju1"e "'" "?l undiluted.
-v. v... , v - , . 'MTber mean practically the same thing. Adult-
she has for the moment forsaken her",ri(,;d ,.,iei.iiy n'a M, harder aubauuee
greatest propnet. we need all of us
to take for our motto, from the
portico of the ancient Greek temple;
"Nothing tso much." It is hard, for
example, to decide nowadays which la
the more dangerous ths Jingo or the
pacifist
As a physical melting pot America
is amalgamating the races of the
earth into a citizenry that promises
much for the world. As an intellec
tual and ethical melting pot, wherein
Anglo-Saxon and with those of all
other nations, to be refined as well
as fused, may not our country
achieve an ultimate compromise be
tween the doctrines of ths ons and of
the many, a golden mean of theory
and practice that will make for uni
versal salvation? I for one eagerly
believe that. Instead ofan experiment
station for the rest ofrhe world, the
United States will bs the country
wherein ths results of ths experiments
of all ths other nations shall be har
moniously combined, to ths avoidance
of extremism and to ths ultimate
progress of human Ideals.
A Braw Race.
From ths London Chronicle.
Pride in the national drees of his
v?Un.tl? V"5 love f Profession were
blended in a charming. If somewhat
Incongruous, fashion in the answer of
a Scotch farm laborer who called at
a recruiting depot last week. "New,'1
said ths sergeant, after ths necessary
preliminaries had been gone througtt,
"what regiment would you like to
Joint" "Never mind that." was ths
hearty response. "Just gl's me a kilt
an' a boras and let me awa' fo tbs
front,"
Are They?
From Tld-Blts.
Waiter Yes, sir. omelets has gone
up on account of tha warl
Diner Great Scott I Ars tbs throw
ing eggs at each other sowT -
TKe Once
BV wyyy i .&mpman
SATURDAY MORNING I Went out
to William MacMaster's ; house
near Waverley golf links to se
"Veda, the Vamplr" the i society'
movie in the making.
JAnd Van Anderson was sitting
o the porch trying to look like
the husband of another man's wife.
5fAnd the wife was Mrs. Donald
Green who had Riven her baby an
early bath eo an to get there on
time.
IT And Harrie t Cummins was their
daughter.
JAnd Harriet wanted to ! go and
find Aunt Veda.
but her papa wouldn't lrt her.
And he went around tie house
and threw pebbles against Aunt
Veda's . window.
and his wlCo and daughter looked
on and laughed.
only that was another scenn.
ami they weren't in it.
so liny .didn't remember that
they wcru Van'n faintly. 1
5And wlille lliis (scandal; wan be
ing filmed the other albrs were
talking. f -
J "When my dear" RaW I.loyd
Smith to Harbara Hart lei t "do I
Klve you poikson and throw you off
the Cliff?" '
J "Tomorrow no Tuesday" said
Barbara
T"And first" said Uoyd"I'ro go
ing to give you measles germs.
"and they won't hurt you be
cause you've hnd measles'. ":
"and then I'm going id give you
scarlet fever germs
"and they'll make yoii sick all
right.
"but I'll get. tired waiting for
you to die so I can many Veda.
"and I'll throw you off the cliff."
5J "Yes" Kald Rarbara- consult Ing
the scenario "won't that !e nice?"
1 51 And then l.loyd had to K and
, embrace Veda for a moonlight scenn.
! only before V. A. Van Scoy
the movie mun could lake the pic
ture Harbara had to shirw l.loyd
how to hold the vamplio lady.
And they walked toward the cam
era until Kleanor Sanford ljrge -the
director clapped her hands.
and ald "That'll tl."
and they broke a Way.
JAnd l.loyd said "tiolly -.he's
greasy."
and wiped his bands on the grass.
JAnd Veda suid "( Ice I wish I
had u cigarette what's next?'1
J And It was a Kert-niiding scene
with Veda leaning out of a window.
and 1-loyd who has nome othr.
name in the film where he piny
he's Harbara Hurt let l's husband also
played a ukelelc.
JAnd Veda lesned do n and" h
dropped the ukp .
and reached up -and grabbed
Veda and got eonio grease paint on
his nose.
JAnd Mrs. I.arTe got some talruin
powder and repaired the damage to
Veda's face.
JAnd" another scene- -was -wh-ere
Lloyd carried Veda--whti Welshs more
than he does up somn tone steps.
JAnd while he was doing it Bar- '
bara Kartlett kept tellfnff.
Tlllrn "Look passional look r"
alonate." JAnd he couldn't.
JAnd 1 didn't wre l'ord Tarpley
who wrote the scenario any place.
JAnd there's a good dal of mys
tery about who's playing Veda.
J It's a secret and :
J LISTEN It's a deep dark secret
the kind tnat everybody, knows.
so I won't spoil it iy telling.
Th Coy Colonel.
Fr"m Newlrjf KnttTprie
News dippatch from Ouster Hay
"'No, no picture. t am out of
rolitlcs." Colonel ltoonevelt de
clared to a newspaper photog
rapher who asked him to to's lor
a picture." What a :plty; what
pity. The newspaper hjive had so -much
to say about Colofirl Kcohp
velt that thev have ' aroused all
over the land a seneial ciesiie on
the Part of the public to see what
he looks like.
The Boom in Canning, IT. Z.
iuiiiif iir.. Hlnnt, K l.l Adx?f
' (inning prolm? Writ I (una an.
Mrx Henlett uvrr,l a huaM lu MeijrlnT.
wbere abe mill live ditrtng ifee aummer.
Life's Infinite -Variety.
WIIMnru RrU. of tbe Imperial. ti that
ticu lie ln-ard a iiljflit l. laat Mood it
nliM he knew that rummer bail om. Ha
luaints that la a aure alin. Its alan aaya that
rcaht bwk and whlpuoorwlll do not hT
i-?"" '"' lay their rti' m grirei. e
tn-rg Kuterprta.
J. I.. Wood haa been haTlric a wfenl let
of "fun" with leea In the flMmne.r of bla
lioura. Ther crowded In.: wart klllad - hy
fiuike a half hiiNhel of dealt. taa hloektnff
the rblmnej taken out. and ;wbo tba fir
""n'l s oot more waiter) bn the oatatda
d,Dh;d;'u'uu,,, woul1 9m : ln--Woolbar
. ' ' . It ,y ; ; . .
,f u r'PT'd t Mirlon.Ladr wit r.
,, married at Kaletn, trot ;lf tru he haa
kept it rery quiet Irom Tuei Sun. HbarlUao
Run.
diluted for liijulda Albany Democrat.
Three would he tougha l.lew Into town ona
day this week and proceeded to paint tba
tcwa rd. After numerotii rtld On ieral
poaeeful Htlaena they entered Bart'Mhea'a
pnolball and proceeded to wrei k the Jelot at
lby called K. Uart tried 'to tell tbem to ha
good but adflee waa wealed ; and In eonne
urence three ahota were Suffleletit 1tjentl
for them to tnoTe promptly. 'ITtey hot through
the door ot the piviltiall , n If the old Nlek
waa In the rear. Bart aaya they sprung tba
door frame at leaat eight tn'hea and the ona
with the red aweeter and jeroert teamater
from Harney eounty were found In tha rata
barrel berk of Hart'a plr. All tba rot
aeem to be running yet. JunCura Times.
One's Los Another's Gain.
IT WAS during the afternoon of Flag
day, when the Jitney competition
with the street cars on Alberta street
was meeting with unexpected suecM
during the dull houra that a. driver
with a Ford of the. vlrftage of 1909
wav hailed by a very large woman with
two very large boys, 'Tti woman
weighed over S00 pound; It required
the eptire rear seat to ;accomrrdate
her, and tha boys eat ,t her lap
Inrlvtn mt th lnrnv .nf Thtr mfiA
Wa,hlnrlon streets, trie roud mother
,,. w ,,.. .,,-1
started to lose herself and fam'ly in
ths crowd. It was explained to her
that It took at least m cents' worth
of gasoline to haul that family to
town, but tbs matron declared that the
city ordinances said when children sat
on ths 1P of other pastengsrs, no
fare could bs collected- I In vain ths
weather stained Jitney Jehu lmplorsd
and threatened the buxQm lady. 8h '
swept away from him; In majestla
wrath and was lost tp view, the two.
boys in tow. :
"I hops she walks Rorfie. I am out 1
10 cents and maybe my springs ars -broks,"
mourned thi victim. -gasoline
-tank looks Jrtty hollow. "
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