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" : THE OREGONy DAILY JOURNAL, PORTLAND. THURSDAY, JUNE 22, . 1916. THE JOURNAL " " AN INDEPENDENT NWSPAP. C . JACKSON ....PubUaber fabliMMrt rerr day, after noao sod momma, (eaoept Snoday aftacoooa). at Tbe Jwirui BulkUoa. Uroadwar aaa YemuUl eta, focu ' land. Or. , L tared al tba poalofflea at Portland. Or., (or traaamlMloa Ihiwitfx tba maaiia aa aacoo4 eiaee matter. TKLKl'HONKB Main 7173: Boom, A-00M.A.11 departmente reached b tbeee number a. Tall tb operator what department yon wait. eOKaUUft ADVKHTII1NJ RJCfKICHICJiTATl VM Benjamin A Kaotaor Co.. Brunewles Bid.. K rifts Art... waw I or a, um a-w ; Haa4 Bltlt.. Chicago. MubarrlDrkiB terma I br nail or to any a- . deraa la the Doited State or Mttieo: ' ' DAILY (MORNINQ OB ASTERMOOIO Onayaar.. 3.O0 1 Ona sooth...... t JO ":.? SUNDAY, Om r I2.W t Ona month 3 PA1LX (MORNINO OR AFTEBJfOOH) AND SUNDAY ' -fluey ril t7.HO I One nwmtb America aaka nothing (or lienelf but wtat aba baa a rlgut to aak (or humanity ItaeK. WQODBOW WILSON. 1 : Mllltooa (or aefenee. bat not a cent for tribute. CHARLES C FINCKNEY. The law ia allent during war. Cicero. IS IT WAR? IT WILL be time enough for the United States to act in Mexico after information is received from other than Mexican sources. .Before we plunge finally into war, we want to know on '...what account we are going to war. , It-lg doubtful now if the worst can be avoided. Though reports .are conflicting, the attitude of Carranza setems to indicate a de- sire for hostilities. If that is his mood, there is nothing we can do ; but go to the front. ' It undertaken, it Hill be a seri ous business. Jingo politicians -e have little conception of the grav 'Ity of the enterprise. In 1912, . military men at Washington, in response to a request from Presl 'dent Taft, estimated that it would V require 500.000 men at a cost of a million dollars a day for two years to make military intervention 1 -in Mexico an effective reality. T It will not take very long for ;us to capture the capitals of all . "the Mexican states, occupy' all the .".'seaport cities and: take the city of 4 , Mexico- Itself. But all that would .be only the beginning of the task. ." There would remain, once the Intervention is undertaken, the ne cessity of occupying the entire country by the armed forces of the ! United States, its policing by - ' American soldiers as thoroughly as the city of New York is guarded by day and bv nieht. the elimina -tion of the bandits who now rav- age most of the country and tbe substitution of law, order and real , government, i It took Porfirio Diaz 20 years to 'accomplish the task to which , America will necessarily address herself if real armed intervention i is attempted. That is why military men, skirted in military problems, talk of intervention in terms of r hundreds ' of thousands of men, i years of time and millions of money. -; ..i So widely scattered are the in terests incident to pacification that -;,Mhere is 'no part of the country '' where it would not be necessary ' to maintain detachments of Amerl- vi can troops for police purposes. It is onlv such an intervention that is contemplated by all those and care for the Wlers, much as who have been urging armed inter-! our llttle conntT? enurches assume ference, and it is the kind of in-lthe ot missionary families, tervention to which we will belTbe conseluences have been re driven when once we have occu-1 markable. Democracy has done nled.the Mexican ranitai An I t the autocracy miserably . go toward the interior from the border and from ports at which "there are railroads, thousands upon thousands of soldiers will be re- ;, quired t6 guard railways from de struction. " - Such is the situation we face, and it is one to be contemplated with the utmost gravity. It is because of the vastness of the en terprise and th,e cost in money and lives that President Wilson has struggled so long to keep us in peace. ' Thousands ot people will be ' glad to read tn the day's news that the president has named Mr. Thomas Watt Gregory to fill tbe vacancy In the supreme court left .by Mr. Hughes. Mr. Gregory is not J so well known among the plain ; people as Mr. Brandeis and he has ' not so endeared himself by cham- pionlng great causes, but he Is a capable and upright man who will -: serve his country faithfully as a judge in our highest court. RUSSIAN DEMOCRACY T I HE progress of the Russians in Austria is one of the most remarkable phenomena pf the European war. At the close . of last season's operations they . were so dismally defeated that nobody dared prophesy their re cuperation. They were supposed to be no longer an Important fac tor In the war. Now they are ' operating successfully in the Cas pian region and at the same time driving before them the armies of the central allies. The Russian disasters last year were" caused by lack of . warlike munitions. The , supply was de ficient and what they had1 was of THE OREGON V B ECAUSE he has kept America struggling to keep, America out of war. President Wilson is denounced by the Oregonlan as "accessory to all the bloodshed, ; rapine and starvation" in Mexico. '" The article appeared as an editorial in yesterday's Oregonlan and Wi4h banners or a cloud of locusts. Is entitled VThe Indictment of Carranza." Speaking of the president's Since each institution tries to failure to recognize Huerta, the Oregonlan says: j teach everything under the sun. That ct brought upon the wretched country all the miseries that have n follows that the number of In followed By that act tie began to intervene. His failure to FOLLOW IT t tft must trad toward in VP BT ARMED IlfrERVENl ION MAKES HIM AN ACCESSORY TO ALL StruCtOrS .nUBt tena toward in THE BLOODSHED. RAPINE AND LOWED. Vallandingham's denunciations war wera In terzis scarcely as bitter. Copperheadlsm shows its face in ' colleges to specialize a little. Let every great crisis. In the Oregonian's own language, it is because them give up trying to- cover the President Wilson did not "follow it up with armed intervention" that whole realm of-, knowledge and he is declared "accessory to all the bloodshed" In Mexico. That is to; each devote itself to some particu say, it is because the president of the United States did not make war , iar field, one to engineering, an on Mexico three years ago that the Oregonlan has become a copperhead, 1 other to the classics, a third, per a traitor and a villifier of Mr. Wilson in an -ho'ur of crisis and at a , hapa, to psychology. It is argued time when every true American is filled with solemnity at thought of j that in this way the various ln the horrors of war that may burst upon this peaceful land over night, gtitutiona might reduce their ex It is not often that a president is denounced as an "accessory to I pauses and' do more intensive bloodshed" for keeping hia country in peace. It Is not often that a 1 work. president is declared to be accessory to murder for not plunging his i However that may be, there' is country into war. But we nave the spectacle of exactly this thing by j certainly great need in the United the Oregonlan in Its own foul-mouthed words. j States of small,- energetic, inex- It is nqt the president, but 'the constant demand by copperhead ! pensive colleges devoted to good papers like the Oregonlan that created in Mexico the distrust of teaching. The danger which be- American troops beyond the border, Mexican crisis. With jingo American newspapers demanding constantly that we make 'war on Mexico, the Mexicans, in spite of the repeated acsurances of President Wilson, are afraid that . the keeping of Ameri can troops in Mexican territory can mean little else than war. More than all other things combined, the circulation of these American news papers in Mexico is today obstructing the president in his efforts to keep the two countries in peace. If Mexican newspapers containing similar demands for war with the United States were circulated throughout this country, there is not a true American whose blood would not boil with Indignation. How could an American newspaper clamoring for war on the Mexicans have a different affect in Mexico? If we shall be finally drawn into var with Mexico, it will b . the American jingo newspapers, American arms makers and American exploiters of Mexican resources upon whose hands the blood will be. President Wilson's policy in Mexico is denounced by the Oregonlan, but as ex-Governor Glynn said at St. Louis: His policy does' satisfy the mothers Jlngoist war has placed an empty chair; it does satisfy the daughters of this land fro.Ti whom bluster and brag have sent no loving brother to the dissolution of the grave; it does satisfy the fathers of this land and the ; gun retiauiauuu viujctio. u't6uu sons of this land, who will fight for our flag and die for our flag-, when j has contributed enough for recla reason primes the rifle, when honor draws the sword, when Justice breathes . matIon in other states. a Diessing on tne otanuaras iner upuoia. Apart from its villificatlon of the president for not going to war with Mexico, the OregorJan'e vicious and treasonable article has an even more Einistor aspect. The world Is on fire. We need every ounce of our preparedness resources intact in order to make forceful our diplomatic representations in safeguarding American right and Amerr can liven against European complications. With a war with Mexico on our hands, how soon may Germany not resume the submarines methods that were so recently the cause of a . moBt intense international crisis? With a war on our hands in our i own hemisphere, the chancellories of burning Europe will quickly rec ognize the weakened power of our diplomacy and be profoundly tempted to take advantage of It. We ned to have unimpaired for the many tense crises that present themselves at Washington the united voice of press and people in strengthening the power ol tbe president with foreign governments. It is at a ti:t.o when te world is aflame and this nation in danger of being drawn into the fiory furnace at any moment, that the president ib traduced and vUliflel br the Oregonlan. In cartoon and In articles, a it holds the presioent as one of words and pictures which describe him almost as a common criminal. While he struggles for his country amid the distressing situations of a world out of equilibrium, it attacks 'him from the rear. -It stabs: him it. the hack. t sava morn sinister thin Era of him than it nva nf I a jailbird. It attempts to degrade him to the lowest level of men. Defiant of world conditions and reckless of the effect upon American Interests, it uses language toward the president viler than the most abandoned copperhead jsel toward Lincoln in the Civil war. And in the Oregonian's own word, quoted above, it is all because President Wilson did not "follow it up with raak wr n MexlC tJree 5'" a: The European war has disclosed of divi icd allegiance. It is a revelation that fills millions of Americans with ?eep concern. . What does more to create a divided allegiance than the constant villificaticn of tne. Americ&n president by partisan newspapers for political purposes? Who sows so abundantly the deadly seeds of dis loyalty? What dees mors than this villificatlon of a president to undermine American- influence and what can possibly do more to play the garto of Europe in American domestic affairs? The Oregonian's copperheadlsm is a kind of menace more vicious tl an are the hypttnato act. i ties which that paper has so hysterically denounced for man. montln past. poor quality. It is said that shells were stuffed with dirt by con tractors and palmed off upon the government, with other work of the same kind. Everywhere was graft, everywhere inefficiency. The remedy came from the Rus- eian people. One by one the com-i munes took it in hand to equip failed to do. When the history of the war is finally written we shall hear a good deal less praise for despotism and more for dem ocracy. Technical tomfoolery reaches its limit in the courts when a case Is reversed because in the plaintiff's reply to the defendant's answer the word "and" instead of the word "or" was uBed. Horse sense ought to, and some day will, find a place in the law. BEHOLD IT IS GOOD I N OUR book ot books it Is written: And God ssw everything he had made and behold it was very good. Ana tne evening and the morning were the sixth day. And on the seventh day God ended his work which he had made: and h r.nteri on the seventh day from all his work wnicn no had made. The pioneers of Oregon who hav builded a world in the west ern forest and plain and who are now resting on their seventh day from their labors can so far as the limitations ot the finite mind extend appreciate the thoughts of the Infinite when he "saw every thing be had made and behold it was very good." They are the thoughts that come . . . a iu m creaior every gooa work. ne wno Tjuilds better than he knew. In the history of the world It has been given alone to the Ore gon pioneer to see rapid develop ment, from the small clearing in the woods to the populous city of brick " and steel, from the sweet briar to the Caroline Testout, from the ox team to the locomotive and the I auto truck, from the -spring COPPERHEAD in peace, and because he is still STARVATION WHICH HAVE FOL- of President Lincoln In the Civil which has brought on the present of th'e land, at whose hearths no i the worst men in America. It uses t armed Intervention," that is, did not the presence in America of persons wagon to tne automobile, from the tallow dip to the incandescent lamp, from the slow and uncertain delivery of the written word to the telegraph and the telephone, from isolation and individualism to ag gregation and communism. In short It has been permitted him to appear and be a part of the world's greatest epoch. Never before has one generation of mn partaken of such a fruit age. Whatever may have been the motive of the pioneer the material istic one, desire for the gross com forts of life, or the idealistic one, the realization of free government, it is bentting for those who follow after them to regard as heroic their migration from east to west. Let us exalt the personal vir tues of the men who led and of the women, "those mothers of a forest land whose bosoms pillowed men." In a few years more they will all have joined the innumerable caravan. Yet their adventure will not be at an end. They will have left behind them the gospel of an advancing democracy, strong, vali ant, confident, conquering and up-. borne by those who have Inherited the independent spirit of the Ore gon pioneer. After freezing Chicago nearly to death convention week, the frigidity of the Hughes-Fairbanks ticket is so great that the mere announcement of the proposed ratification so lowered the tem perature In Portland that the boys couldn't stand it. and the date was postponed for hotter weather. DEAR EDUCATION T HQ cost of education is con tinually increasing. Like beef steaks and bacon, learning is fast becoming a luxury top expensive for the common man to think of enjoying. According to the report of , the Carnegie Foundation- the big universities . are all putting up their . tuition fees. Princeton's fee goes from $160 to $175 next year. Harvard's - from $150 to $20Q. And so on all along the educational line, : Our universities' and colleges have become - huge - complicated machines with a vast equipment and Intricate administration. Tbe i office force alone In an institution ue Harvard or Columbia eats up m0re than the entire revenue of an old-fashioned college. The teaching corps Is like an army unity quite rapiuiy. Some have though would be a good ld that it for our sets such colleges Is that of inertia, intellectual .sluggishness, the tklind worship of tradition. The present generation of our lawyers, judges and congressmen was educated in small sectarian Colleges, for the most part, and many of them betray a distressing mental back woodsism in consequence, but that need not frighten us. There is no sound reason why a small college should not be as progressive and up to date as abig one. A bright intellect does not require big laboratories and vast halls in order to thrive. The 40 per cent set aside from tha CT9nt land nroceeda for recla- nneht to he SDent on Ore- matIon fugn;. lf ' NOTHING THE: MATTER WITH PORTLAND (Scientific aklU of tha hlgheat order di. plLoea guesswork. In tbe modern eetablhshment that prepar.ea foodstuffs, eolld or liquid, for human conaumption. In No. 170 of The Jour- i nal'a industrial series there ia presented an ujrtmeij interesting croup of (acta relating ..VVuu !" c"ee to 8,lU IT OW many people know that the average coffee tree produces only about two pounds of cof fee annually? How many people know that it requires . the beans from about 65 trees to fill an ordinary coffee sack? And that there are 800,000 trees in come of those Brazilian coffee plan tations? V J. A. Mastln, In charge of the cof fee roasting and grinding: depart ment of Wadhams A Co., furnishes this Information. Explaining the blending of coffee. Mr. Maatin says- there is the real Java and the transplanted Java. The transplanted is not so good as that from the tree nurtured and matured in its native land, but mixed the two make a very popular drink. CLIMATIC CONDITIONS COUNT. "There are many climatic con ditions to consider in producing cof fee." Mr. Mastln says. "We have it from all coffee-producing countries and to properly reduce the bean to a merchantable article requires earn est study And faultless knowledge of the coffee manufacturing business. It is not-a Job for an inexperienced person, I assure you. A flavor which would please on would not satisfy another, so to meet the requirements nf an w must oroduce several, by as many Mendings, always with the one object In view of turning out the best which can be produced for the money charged.' Wadhams & Co. carry a very large stock of coffees, and Mr. Mastln has a modern roasting and grinding plant to manufacture the firm"s products in. Thirty to people are employed in his department and that of the manufacturing, end of the business, fn chares of Dr. V. A. Fryer, the company's chemist, who has origin ated many of the niore than 100 va rieties of food, condiments, spices, flavorings and seasonings made on the premises and sold to the mer chants of the Pacific coast region. SOME OF THEM. Under Dr. Fryer's directions five brands of baking powders are manu factured. ' Peanut butter is made by the ton. An ice cream powder is manufac tured which, the doctor declares, is the equal of eggs in making that toothsome relish, and he adds that by its use skimmed milk ia as good as cream. Bluing for the home and laundry Is likewise manufactured. Dr. Fryer says that it is becoming very diffi cult to secure material for thijfluid, as it Is a German product. Celery salt is made and haa a large sale throughout the country. After long experimentation ,Dr. Frver says ha has succeeded in originating an egg preserver which will keep hen fruit indefinitely sweet and fresh. H says that eggs shipped from Portland to Alaska, for example, or to the Orient, will be as fresh on their arrival aa when produced. MAKES GRAPE JUICE. Thousands of bottles of grape juice are annually manufactured In Dr. Fryer's department, and all kinds of spices and extracts. The doctor has been 14 years with the company, and ia an expert in his Una. The company conducts its own printing establishment, having one fine Mlehle arid three job presses in constant use. As many printers are . . "".; ' employed a would bo required publlsh a first-class country news paper. They are high-class workmen, too, and torn out a line of fancy and tasty ' labels and cartons auch aa would ". do credit to some of the largest printing establishments. All kind of oils and Salads for table use and cooking are manufac tured, and sugar grinder pulverise that product until it Is as fine as flour. ' Three floors of the big Weinhard building are given up entirely to the manufacturing department, and there is not an inch of room to spare. It is a busy and an- interesting place to visit. ,. There is something new at every -r turn. Its appliances are so out of th ordinary that it keeps a novice" busy wondering what they all are for." The .structural the company cupies la at, Fourth and Oak, and the corporation is officered by Henry Hahn, president; Julius Durkhelmer, vice president, 'and Moses Baruh, secretary. Letters From the People (Communlcationa ent to The Journal (- publication in tbia department should be wr't ten oa only one aide of tba paper, anotild not exceed 300 words iu length, and mut ba ac companied by tbe name and addrexa of the wader. If the writer doea not desire to bara tbe name puuliauad he ahoold so state. J 'Difcrjaalon la the greatest of all reformers. It rationalizes everything it touches. It roba rlnclpleo of all false sanctity And tbrowa taeu ack on their reaonableueia. If tber hare co reasonableness, it ruthlessly cruahea them out o( existence and seta up Its own conclusion in their stead. w ooarow w llaon. So Are Others. Laurel, Or.. June 19. To the Ed itor of The Journal Please answer through your columns: If the Ore gonlan will continue to be published as from all the editorials up to date I conclude that the editor of same will undoubtedly be the first man to shoul der the gun and hie away to conquer Mexico, and I am anxious to know. A FRIEND. Nobody Knows. Portland, June 20. To the Editor of The Journal In view of the fact that woman suffrage seems to be an all absorbing subject as regards both presidential candidates, and further, that Oregon Is1 a leader In nearly all forward political movements, I beir to have your paper, if possible, give me a little light on a subject that might be of interest to others as well as myself. In the political strife of leaders for woman suffrage, Portland on Satur day held an election for the office of school director and as a candidate, the papers of this city mentioned the name of Mrs. Blumauer as having the whole support of the various Roman's clubs and of the- social element who are apparently in favor of women holding political offices. Now, what I would like to know ia, how many, of eur bo called woman suffragists actually voted at this im portant election, and how does the number of voters compare with votes received? Personally my wife and myself voted for Mrs. Blumauer and yet, with all the hue and cry of the great leaders of woman's political clubs, how do they vote? Tlrat is, do they vote for women or for men, and, after all, is it not in reality a huge joke, about women desiring to have the privilege of the ballot box? It is necessary that I start a small sized riot at each election trying to Induce my wife to vote. How many other men have the same experience? A JOURNAL SUBSCRIBER- Mr. Linscott's Valedictory. Portland, June 20. To the Editor of The Journal Mrs. L. W. Pantall haa replied to my recent article on prohi bition. Prohibition's success is due to the eloquence of orators and authors and the emotion of the women. Mrs. Pantall tells us there is great dissatisfaction all over the state be cause the two quarts of whiskey and 24 quarts of beer are allowed. Who is dissatisfied? It certainly is not those who get the whiskey and bees. Then It must be those" who do not use it. This shows, one class is dissatisfied because the other gets what it wants. Prohibition will disappear because It Is not founded on equality and jus tice. I am sorry to say that, for business reasons, I start today for Eureka, Gal., where I Intend to make my home. I was in hopes to remain here and con tinue this fight against prohibition nonsense. EDWIN A. LINSCOTT. On Freedom of Speech. McMinhvllle. Or., June 20. To the Editor of The Journal When I read in The Journal of June 5 the letter of T. M. Morley on "The Case of Mr. Kefchen" I felt it was not much to the credit of tbe intelligence of Portland that no voice was raised in protest. The yardstick of the folk who wrote the first book of Moses, nineteenth chapter, would fit him well. In The Journal of June 9 a woman came to the rescue. To talk of freedom in a country where free thought is treated as it is in Russia and the only freedom I see is freedom to do and be done without hindrance, is ridicu lous, if it were not so pathetic. I enclose a press clipping about Scott Nearing, which I ask you to please put in with this. A FARMER. The clipping Inclosed by the cor respondent is reproduced, as follows "New York, May 26. Holding that the dismissal of Professor Fcott Near ing by the University of Pennsylvania because of his 'social and economic teachings' was unjustified and that the action was an 'infringement of academic freedom,' the American As sociation of University Professors made public today the reports of its committee which had made the in vestigation." Hughes Again Questioned. Eugene, Or., June 20. To the Ed itor of The Journal I see there is a possibility of the Progressive com mittee nominating Hughes. Is it not possible' to get an expression from him, before that is done, of his stand toward the seditious hyphenates who are under prosecution for acts in vio lation of the neutrality of tbe United Statea? Many who might otherwise vote for him are afraid that to do so would be to aid these enemies of our country-that If he were president the prosecution of their, cases would "peter out" Into a farce. x WILLIAM H. WHEELER. The Great Problem. From the Pittsburg Leader. The Episcopal diocese of Fond du Lac, Wis., through Its social service commission, has adopted a resolution and asked for the formulation of a set of principles that will make it the center of one of tha liveat discussions this country has had in a generation. In its essence the resolution is revolu tionary in tone, and apparently delib erately so. The . resolution demands "a condi tion of life wherein tha fruits of in .lidustry shall be so distributed that tol ' human being shall have chance to live a full human life, with du . opportunity for tho preservation of bodily health, tho cultivation of mental powers, and tho exercise of spiritual faculties; ' and further, that PERTINENT COMMENT SMALL CHANGE Brides of soldier boys are getting the attention ttvey deserve in this month of brides. The man who says the pen la mightier than the avword never ex perimented on Carranza. As a discriminating observer re marks, there may be votes of all hues, but they are not all Hughes votes. a Even the most rigid moralist will not blame Indiana for boasting of her two vices, Marshall and Fair banks. The man who attempts to prevent dandelion forays across ' his flower bed's border has some conception of General Funs ton's Job, If Portland wants a military cele bration of the Fourth, it looks as though the affair will have to be moved up to Clackamas. In the words of Ben Franklin. . Re publican and Progressive parties are being told they must hang together or they will hang separately. a One good thing about the Mexican trouble is the opportunity for some reopie 10 get over tneir proressea alarm about Japan jumping In against us Baker people who complain about early morning whistles that call mill employes to work might kick harder it there was no occasion lor the whistling. Portland has another chance to honor those pioneers whose early vis ion saw the Oreson of today and whose faith in the Oregon of to morrow does not falter. Portland's Hughes and Fairbanks ratification meeting has been post poned because of chilly weather, Evidently the notifiers don't believe in the eternal fitness of things. JOURNAL 52-The Briige of the Gods COLUMBIA RIVER. HIOUWAT NO. 17. Between Eagle creek and Cascade Locks is a most fascinating region. The Columbia has lost all the placid ity of its lower reaches. It fights with the black head rocks that op poses its current, and foams through a narrowed channel with unceasing sound and violence. At the foot of the rapids is the site of the historic block house of pioneer days and the lower terminus of the portage by which the cas cades were circumvented in the days before the locks were built. The mountains on the Washington Bide of the river reach heights of three and four thousand feet. Among them is Table mountain, north pier of the legendary Bridge of the Gods. The south pier is almost directly to the south on the Oregon side of the Co lumbia. Between these two points are the islands and submerged for ests that give strength to the story that once upon a time a great span high above the waters was broken by some convulsive 5remor of the earth's surface and fell into a river which ever since has been trying to clear away the debris. And you know, of course, the most picturesque of the legends about the Bridge of the Gods of how a father and his two sons came to the region where the city of The Dalies is lo cated and here the sons quarreled as to which should possess the land. So the father tried to settle the dispute by shooting two arrows one to the north and the other to the west. He told his sons each to go find an ar row. The son going north became the progenitor of the Kllckitats; the other son the founder of the Mult- HAS MR. HUGHES AN ISSUE? From the New York World. i Mr. Hughes' telegram of acceptance was not written in a hurry. Evidently is was prepared, as he was prepared, during days and weeks of Judicial silence, to meet the occasion which at length presented itself. Speaking after long meditation r this critical period in our national history" and of the "existing exi gency." Mr. Hughes nevertheless meets the crisis and exigency with generali ties and platitudes common enough when ha abandoned politics In 1910, but fcadly out of place today. In spite of the favor with which they regard him. his countrymen, we be lieve, will turn from these hackneyed expressions with pain and disappoint ment. a The times are indeed out of joint so much so that a candidate hoping to displace a . president who for more than three years has nobly and wisely borne crushing burdens can hardly ex pect to win great public approval wltfla fragments of ancient party platforms and repetitions of campaign ' cries made familiar in humdrum days. Not partial to political mysteries or antiquities, the American people will insist upon bringing Mr. Hughes down to date. What, for instance, has President Wilson done that Mr. Hughes woulJ not have done, and what has Presi dent Wilson left undone that Mr. Hughes would have done? In the enforcement of American rights to life, and property at sea, would Mr. Hughes have resorted to diplomacy or to war? Here he must b specific. Is he dissatisfied with the aettle ment of the submarine issue on terms no merely ameliorative or charitable) If we choose we can take up our time activities can ever take tha place of (with other matters, too, and force the this fundamental duty." Following (social conditions to wait for adjust the adoption of the resolution came . ment. But when we get through with a rei.ommndatlnn of sugeestions for I what we are taking up now we shall be the formulation of a list of principles to be worked out to make tne resolu tion effective. The action of Fond du Lac diocese reopens in substantial form the big problem of economic distribution that swept the country back and forth for tlw test five or six years. A writer In the Presbyterian Banner, In the current Issue, also talks out on this subject in a singularly candid man ner, but only touches the edge when compared to what Fond du Lac dio cese has done. But both try to make clear on- great point: There is no use to talk about hand ling this national social discontent among tha lowar clasnes In any way so long as the conditions that breed this unrest are allowed to remain either by diret encouragement or in directly by complacent silence. The feeling is here, and sensible people would take note of.it and deal with It. The war in Europe came along to interrupt the course of our country's views and stopped us from taking any definite position. The war la so big that everything elae. look small, but that war Itself was precipitated to prevent the further spread of the demand for relief from the same con ditions in every country in Europe. The war Mas done that. But when the war Is ended those same condi tions will be found alters and fiercely active right where they wera when the war began. Those conditions muat than be met as they might have been met with out the war. Tho war haa touched them only to make them mora intense. " . - " -'-; - AND NEWS IN BRIEF OREGON SIDELIGHTS Tha largest flag in The Dalles will be unfurled on the First National bank building by the president. Max A. Vogt- A J 6-foot pole will be raised and an immense tlag will wavo tnerelrom by July 4. Roseburg's city attorney has re ported to the council the complaint of the jitney drivers of the town that tha new auto stages interfere with the jitneurs' business, and they want the stages to be put under license, same as the jitneys. Pleadina- for a little bit of old-time racket In the midst of a sane Fourth, the Eugene Register aays: "At the real, old-fashioned Fourth of July ceieoraiion inbi n coming lei a n&vo t 1 . 1 . 1 T'Y - .... I si V,.., ..(. V. ..simtnav ,.n.i. atlon a chance to make a noise." "It is the consensus of opinion which we gather from business men in Douglas county, outside of Rose burg," Bays the Gardiner Courier, "that when the time comes for the build ing of a railroad from the in terior t Douglas county, it will be built on a water grade down the Umpqua river to this harbor and open up and improve Douglas county, Be sides being the most practical route." Old Man Jason's celebrated Golden Flfeece hunt has nothing on this one, outlined by the Pendleton East Ore gonian: "Major Lee Moorhouse is on the trail of a wolverine that haa been dead for 25 years and, because the trail s rather old, ne is having airricuity in following it. The animal was killed j a quarter ui a ceuiury &ku u11 wcaiuu mountain and was mounted by J. V. Tallman. He loaned it to a saloon and has lost trace of it. W. S. Bownfan photographed it at the time and, though this photograph, its identity was determined. It is the only known animal of its kind ever killed this far west and the mounted skin has some value." JOURNEYS nomah nation in the Willamette yal- things about himself aild the 8!i lr.a Leyu .V wal1 be,tween ,th! trib.eJ'' Power-of fearless newspapers. tianaio, uia Kicai Diill, laiscu u y in. Cascade mountains, and where the : river ma.rfA a r.ieft thronch thA moun- L tains, he made a bridge of rock and stationed on it Loowit, a witch, who was the guardian of the only fire In the world. Loowit induced Sahale to let her improve the lot of the Indians by giving them -a little fire. hue guarded the sacred fire so carefully, however, that the great spirit offered to grant any boon she might ask. Woman-like, she asked to be made young and beautiful. Then the In - dlan chiefs, very naturally, fell in love with the lady of the tomanowas Driage. wnen tney maae war upon each other Sahale took a hand, and broke down the bridge, and put to death the chiefs and the woman. As monuments to them he established Mount St. Helens over the grave of i Loowit. Mount Adams over the tomb of Klickitat, and over the last rest Jng place or tne cnier wiyeast, Mount Hood. A short distance below the site of. the Bridge of the Gods, on the 'Wash ington shore, is Beacon Rock, an Isolated pinnacle, nearly a thousand feet high, which is soon to be sur mounted by a trail that will be open to the public. Around the upper cascades, locks nave Deen num Dy me government at a cost of some $4,000,000 to date. It is quite a sensational experience to , , . . . travel by steamer through the men- acing waters below the locks, then to pass through the man-made channel saieiy ana uuieiiy wihib liio iuuikhii current at tne leri seems to graup, but futilely, with the hands of de struction. that gave this country the most not able of all its diplomatic triumphs? In regard to the Mexican situation, would he have embraced Huerta and government by assassination, and would he now assail a crippled neigh- bor or help him to stand erect? . t A . , v. I !'ddr Smith, an old tfrne rhari te of If the preparedness to which he re-, i nl,n-, tr,,tier daya arrlTM in' tn Tne. fers is not being fully met by the I day from Stuike Hirer wheij he Shun been op vast increases In armament accom- ! ruplod with the poultry buneH. -for the jt plished or under way at Washington. I 1'rt7:,. P,A' CMnV f.f ,n ' . , , T, . ..i early elghtlea and aerred hi" time- an a rouala- would he resort to Prussian conscrip- nr OTer jf,, ,,ar,. i)ufiU(, n, ,uie h tion and hand over the united states treasury to our own ambitious Krupps? Is be so much in love rith "sound protective principles" that, with th. , . , , , , . industry and commerce of the world dislocated by war, he would invite the attorneys of Big Business, heedleKS of everything but tielr own gluttony, . . l. , ': to write their extortions once more Into the laws Of the land? . ,' . . . . . Is the Americanism to which n subscribes in such general terms the Amerifantsm mat frcnaent w iinon has upheld In the face of foes foreign snd domestic, or la it the made-in- j Germany Americanism of the German- ! American all lance 7 Finally, in his unworthy and un called for assault upon our devoted and overworked diplomatic represents- tlves in Europe, has he any insplra- tion but spoils, or any fact to go upon excent that the faithful men thus be- llttled are Democrats? The American oeople have respected the silence of the Jurist bound by hlrh tradition. They will not respect the silence of the candidate. Mr. Roosevelt represented the true opposition to President Wilson. What does Mr. Hughes want that Mr. Wil son has not given us? forced to turn at last to the adjust- ment of those social problems tno social problem, for there is only on after all. The singular feature or this Ameri can situation Is that the loud not comes from tne throat or a greai church (diocese instead of from th working class itself. The Preacher's Son. From the New York Herald. A reader of the Herald who writes aa one of them calls attention in th letter column to the interesting fact tbat both of the great political parties have aelacUd for leadership that much maligned person, th "preacher's son." Tbe father of Mr. Wilson was a Pres byterian clergyman, the father of Mr. Hughe was a clergyman of kh Bap tist church. It ia an Interesting coincidence, one that should prove pretty effective in disposing of the Idea that the "preach er's son" ia headed for the gailowa if any of that worn, old superstition till persists. There never was anything to It from th beginning. It foundation wa as sumption that th son of a minister should be something altogether angelis, with wings in full feather. Nine times out of 10 he ia just aa human aa any other boy, and just because he is he gets a had name. Instead of being an object of sym pathy and solicitud the preacher's son is a being to b envied Early in life h haa to "get out and hustle." for fitmaelf. Jt 1 "hustling" that brings auccesa in thl great republic I TKPnce (3er I BV BBX LAhlPrlA It Happened at remlleton. From tha Pendleton 8u1l4oa;ter. fllE other day a certaan newwpa' a per whose name ! iwilr with hold for private reasons bf nsy own read a story In Wiljamettt hew tha valley paper telling of John Robinson circus changing. was . ahort- and working skin ga fries.; and grafting. and in other ways devlllsh preying upon public. evious ano ie gulllbl JAnd this aforementioned bewepa n,P man who sometime! thinks it 11 part of the duty- per to safeguard the Jcfcr peepul 01 tne community. in which it circulates took his sriseorsthu j first aid ta every editor and clippl out tha story. and ran it on the frcftit page ot his own paper. If "So," as he said. "tlit the pee pul may know and hewu) e," for you understand nr should by this time this same (circus was scheduled to show in Pendleton few days later. I j jWhen circus day cam tljfs news paperman among many lot hers. went to the grounds ' and he stood and ! llsti-nod to the ballyhoo men. ) ; and sideshow spleleri. " JAnd all the time lift watched with . eagle eye the tk-Wet .tollers. to see if there was jmy levldence of short changing. ? But nobody that liejcoi3d see made any kick at all j ; or over. VAnd he smiled to think--! had foiled the thieves. I -that he fTAnrl h Ihntltfltl mam' 1 r fr JAnd after a while- 'ie beuun to listen to what the sldeJhow' were sa'"K I to look at t!i jirettiy n'rls , j exhibited from the pedefctal-i-and pretty soon to get active. liia curioxiriy began JAnd he began to fell nil alinont irresistible impulse -lo I fi k iio lie tent and see all the ivonders and tne pretty dancing gy-lsj j H I' or you see thone kireA spielers 1 wero specialists in their ;busines. V And finally this tn)i'apajvrmaii emu to some menus: j"Come on, boys letjs see what's going on inside." j 1 And lie stepped up, ril1 idown his money and got his tldketn and they all went jlnslUf and J L,ib I h.N so far as I 1 lpivc been anie to learn this .s;tni" j man who had warned h ni'WHpapcr- e Ipubllc to person who . got short changed. idfa's Infinite Variety. Plain Jumslfa n v.r HC.Iarf 4..1K . . la the latest Jaa-ir.Hlter dlriieril ht F.A Chapman, Indian iiH'briata. The fast llm waa arrested he bud on lilaf t'Tn U'ttU o' the (thiRcr wlilrh has a trtn pncMiisgw of alcohol In It. t hief of I'dilre iitinlanr ile. , ciarea Indians m,J white !wm: ar nur I h buiw hoblt. are drinking limny .traniia , ..'.V"" y- A,'", jao ;ue four .' j gallon and a half of whHkey. tiresum-.n r j c,ade from powri 'liAd i ! "e!n' , hone and eon f incited it. Notwij would ir I claim to It. I'eudletna Kat jOregesUa. , V . h. Cmwd.r and oomparir of llnr Semite naaned through Mw Tueedar S t laday.i homeward txMind fun' a three weeke' uutfu !' thr Wurin Stirluge Indian rer rretfoD. J Knelt her i ellowrd to ride four mllra aiid walk 22 each day ther w-re oto the hike. n a memento of their trip they had a l&-dy-.ildi Kmy exgla the had captured la an eale'i neat. iluro Obeerrer. i ; There la no fanlt ao bard tn oret-enme 'he baaty temper. .We may muke ian.v numtx-r of Rood resolutions and th)i the flret nine we have any rtvoretlon aty wfc go wltli'xit an luetarjt'a wurnlng and l-ford ue ronll.a what we are doing the uifk Ind j worda have I been piken ami no mettrr ihow :nmeh rsri-t rv", "'' uuaai Mjrlblr l'vlut I tul""'r'- . f m the butt of many a d tmtured i ke bleb he t.ok lth the forjltndif of a berolo man. He la now badly trliited up rlieumatlara and hla rlrrutiaiiainiea are bod i the beat. Colon Scout. t .. I J . Whr want time and aha re 1 on whether gh.kV.,,eare or Baeon wrote It he j.inya-. Hin ' ., (ra,i. or whether fhma ahall ! or- erneu by a republic, or moiarrhr? fblna la ' r "." r,lp"i"n trlf' ' ull enough money In eirrulatton anyway. air , ,urrlf)m,. nf iteoiogiana ior: heaven and j h 17 Home uncertainty aboit both plea nnd no one will be abaolutely re arnnt It until thfT pt there. Or the rfoi''3tlve mp it June bride or bablee? Xljey tiever fail to i arrjie. uuium.i iurm, Tilt? rrom American i Klebj. I've never known a dotf to wag His tall in glee he didn't feel. Nor quit his old-time fflpndl to tag At some more influential ineei. The vf lloWest cur I ever knew ( Was, to the boy who loyed ftini, true, t I ----- I've never known a dogj lo Jihow Halfway devotion to (his friend. To seek a kinder man to Krrow Or richer, but unto ta eAd j The humblest dog I evdr knew Was, to the man that Joyed him, trua I've never known a dogfto fike . I Affection for a prnaeH gain. A false display of lovejto make, Some little favor to rtttalh. I've never known a Prlhc4r Spot That seemed to be whajt hen was not. But I have known a doi o fight With all his strength to shield a friend. f And whether wrong or Iwheiher Tight, To stick with him urftll he end? . j Tn, han1 ot nlra that Aien ould kick. And I have known a dog to lick And I have known a dog to bear Starvation nanara from day to dar With him who had beeb glad to vhar His bread and meat Along the way. iNo dog, however meansor ruae. T. .,rtv f ln,ltUfl Is guilty of ingratitude. : The dog Is listed with th umb. No voice has he to speak hla creed. Mis messages to humats com Bv faithful conduct bnd bv deed. He shows, as seldom rriortals do. A high ideal or Minr rue N'ererthe ens.' Telling the story of yesterday's bat tle between America i i afid Mexican soldiers, th Associate' i Pra dispatch aya: 4 - - Neither Hubble m r! Maxey was able to learn whetb r tn Ameri cans had retreated, ft i being point ed out 'hat all of jthe: Mexicans with whom they tail ed Apparently left the field beforfcithj engage ment had been completed. Which is a diploma lie way of say ing tbat the Mexican t j didn't atay to see the finish. it i 8 That la, thay dtrn$nf that discre tion was the better part of valor. In other words? their jbet It. Uncle Jeff Hniw Says bantam hen can do a heap of cackling over a mightir jUtll egg. as X told Mort Thompson i, whos half cousin got nominate! for constable, Speculating In land is Just as respect able as gambling gam 4 tiand to b. and just as useful to society. I 1