THE OREGON DAILY JOURNAL, PORTLAND, MONDAY, AUGUST 7, 1916.
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tr WOODKOW WILSON.
.' Millions for defense, hut not a cent tor
tribute. l'H AKT-.K8 C. PINOKNUy.
"War on great le today Implies
neh gigantic economic disaster as meant
national ruin for both combatants and ba
to all the world. Dead men and babbars
art poor customers. Future war betweei.
equal forces will bankrupt both, under
modern conditions, and decide notliliir''
JKAN DE BLOCH.
A COOS HAY RAILROAD
P
ORTLAND will Join with Coos
Bay, August 24, 25 and 28,
In celebrating the completion
of the Willamette Pacific rail
ed. -
troad.
" As an expression of Its Interest
fin this great development event
tThe Journal is organizing one of
fine two special trains to be sent
sunder Chamber of Commerce aus
Jpices to Marshfield and North Bend,
fl'eaving Portland on the night of
Wednesday, August 23, and return-
fins' on the morning of Sunday,
August 27.
Three full days will be spent In
participating in the celebration pro
Lgram, in becoming acquainted with
fcCoos Bay people and in weeing this
rich, though . comparatively little
developed country.
f .; The excursion is open to the citl
Itens of Portland and their fami
lies. The Journal Special will be
tequipped with1 that nicety of d
ftail, extreme of comfort and excel
flenee of service that characterize
Journal specials to the -Pendleton
- fRound-Up.
I It Is a trip that no Portland bus-
tineas man can well neglect. It
Jshould be made the heartiest ex
, Ipression of good will toward Coos
LBay communities. The pleasures
jef the trip will be many and the
pcenery excellent. Nor can It be
Jflenied that the excursion properly
- conducted and carrying the repre
sentative people of Portland should
Jopen the way to congenial and mu-
rtual satisfactory future relations.
When the O-W. R. & N. under
the Astoria rate order has freight
tfor Astoria, it will have to turn
lfc.over to a rival line and pay that
Fine for carrying the traffic the
ftdded 100 miles. That is why the
(company files its petition with the
Interstate commission, asking re-
JJlef from the order.
MENTAL. DISCIPLINE
i: a ME HI CANS as a people do not
' fl really believe in education
So says the Saturday - Kven-
ifort of fetish worship of the "lit
ill red school house" and spend
Soelr money freely on big 'school
wildings in the towns, but as for
' tru education they care very lit
. -tit about it. A person is educated
mhen he Is made capable of tak-
; -Jinf up some useful Job and doing
. Jt well. This is far from being
.'pur national ideal. We still, as a
! Jnttlon, worship the idol of "mental
jQlsclpllne.
3- t' ,W Imagine that by studying
nathematics, or Latin, or rhetoric
sor grammar the minds of our
Jjroung people are going to be so
: f'dlsciplioed" that they can turn to
. i aay other subject under the sky
- aaa master it easily.
' iThis is all moonshine. There is
XiD such thing as "mental dlsci
" jpllne" in that sense. The study of
znathematlcs makes mathematicians
-land nothinar else. Sometimes it
does not even do that. Mathematics
. )a- so far from "disciplining" and
- strengthening the general faculties
the mind that it actually lm
V ' pairs them. Great mathematicians
fktn usually "educated fools" so far
ka practical affairs are concerned
. : . .With countless Instances of this be
; fore our eyes we still go on. madly
v believing that mathematical studies
' -J'prepare for life."
; The Saturday Evening Post point-
- fcdly remarks that our educational
Sdeals are about the same as Eng
land's. And England clings to her
, . Latin, her mathematics, her gram
tnar. The British mind fancies
- r that education 'consists In learning
to. put the u 'in "labour," th in
;udKement' nd similar frlvoli'
' ties.- The' -.Germans became dan-
s feerous commercial rivals of Eng-
land . before tUe war because they
" caught tb knack of real education,
K which means learning to think and
act usefully. German -: education
lasfcsjon- eclenea.' i rag-land'' and
WITH AMERICAN BLOOD
N OPENING the Hughes campaign in Oregon, Mr. Watson in his Ba
ker theatre speech said:
If after we took possession of Vera Crux and soaked Its streets with
American blood we had followed it up, that would have settled the Mex
I
ican question. .. .
So It would. But that is a way of "settling the Mexican question by
soaking all Mexico "in American blood."
Is "American blood" eo cheap and settlement of "the Mexican ques
tion" so dear to Mr. Watson that he would "soak" the 720,000 square
miles of Mexican territory with the one in order to settle the other?
Reduced to its final analysis, Mr. Watson's whole speech is an attack
on President Wilson for the president's refusal to "soak" all Mexico in
"American blood."
Predicting the election of Mr. Hughes and speaking of wars carried
on by Presidents Lincoln and McKinley, Mr. Watson Baid of Mr. Hughes
as a possible president:
What la his problem of war? I do not know. IT MAT BE A WAR
WITH MEXICO, OR WITH SOME EUROPEAN COUNTRY. But wherever it
may raise its gory head, he will solve it as Lincoln and McKinley did.
That is to say, he would settle it by war.
This is an appeal to the war spirit. The United States was attacked,
and because President Lincoln defended the Union with armies his
name is conjured with to excite an enthusiasm for war. As Mr. Wat
son says, "it may be war wifh Mexico, or with some European country."
Mr. Hughes himself says, "We want deeds, not words." Speaking
for Mr. Hughes, and in condemnation of President Wilson, Mr. Watson
says, "If after we took possession of Vera Cruz and soaked its street,
with American blood we had followed It up, that would have settled
the Mexican question." These are declarations that Mr. Wilson's Mexi
can policy is wrong and that we should have settled the "Mexican ques
tion" by a war of subjugation.
Mr. Tart was officially told that it would require 600,000 American
troops at a cost of a million dollars a day through a period of years to
make a military invasion of Mexico effective. If we had done as Mr.
Watson says we should have done and as he intimates Mr. Hughes
would do, we would have had 500,000 American soldierB and all our
military equipment and all our available military resources In Mexico
throughout the European war. Our military power would have been
strained to the utmost with a Mexican war on our hands during the
very period when the international ' complications required that our
hands should be free in exerting our
limit in dealing with the European
Any schoolboy knows that such
this country. The testimony of every one of its advocates is that pre
paredness for war is necessary to make -our diplomacy effective. Readi
ness to throw our military power into the situation is the keystone on
which to make our diplomatic representations respected and effective.
With all our military resources in a death grapple in Mexico, with a
war in the western hemisphere from which we could not disengage
ourselves, the belligerent nations of
weakness and have been free to spurn our diplomatic demands. While
we were busy soaking Mexico "in
eries, realizing our helplessness,
in behalf of international law. It
administration when President Wilson kept thi3 nation in peace with
Mexico. If, when the European war broke out, it had found America
with all her military forces strained in a Mexican war, it is extremely
doubtful if the president could have kept this country in peace with
the European belligerents. Realizing our helplessness, they would
have committed acts that would have exasperated the country and cre
ated a public sentiment that would have made an American war with
some Kuropen power almost Inevitable.
Gentlemen like Mr. Watson may
son for not soaking all Mexico in "American blood," but the parents
and homemakers and thinking people of the country want none of it.
Remembering the farewells and the
border, and remembering that it it is
would "soak" all Mexico, they will
with which this highly favored nation
our own banic on. the Inflated
bladder of "mental discipline."
Our best teachers are trying to
get away from this weird supersti
tion and make the schools an open
door toriife. Their worst opponents
are the medievalists who cling to
the notion that they can teach
everything by means of grammar
and spelling with a little Latin
chinked in between.
In the O-W. R. & N. new peti
tion before the Interstate Com
merce commission, distance is hell
by that company to be a consider
ation. The company argues with
the commission that it will lose
heavily by being compelled to carry.;
traffic 100 miles farther at the
same rate as to Portland. That is ;
to say, here is admission that dis
tance should be considered and
that Portland, being nearer by ISC
miles via the O-W. R. & N. than
Seattle, should have a lower rate.
PENSIONS
w
E ARE under obligations
to the Railway Age Gazette
for the text of a warning
which the Southern Pacific
railroad has issued to its employes.
The gist of the warning is that if
the men strike they will lose their
richts under the railroad'B pension
system. The pension, says the
railroad, is a "reward for the ful
fillment of faithful and continuous
duty." "Its essence is long and
unbroken service. The employe
who quits his Job of his own ac
cord gives up his right to expect
any span reward."
There are two ways of looking
upon industrial pensions. We may
look upon them, as the railroad
says it does, as rewards bestowed
by the company out of the good
ness of its heart for long and faith
ful service. Or we may look upon
the pension as a vested right which
the employe has earned by his la
bor. The first view is strictly
feudal. The" second is Btrictly
democratic. The feudal lord of
industry gives pensions or with
holds them as he sees fit. He uses
them for rewards and punishments.
The democratic workingman de
mands a pension from the industry
In which he has labored as a mat
ter of sheer right. He has put the
best years of his life into the busi
ness. He is entitled to decent
maintenance tn his old age, not as
a favor but as a legal right. This
is the way the workingman rea
sons. The Carnegie Foundation started
out some years ago by granting
pensions to college teachers as a
matter of charity, or favor, or
privilege. It has found flow that
such a system does not work well.
It is bad for the colleges, bad for
the Foundation and particularly
bad for the teachers who receive
largess. So the Carnegie Founda
tion has abandoned the feudal
principle in pensions and gone over
to an annuity system in which the
beneficiary acquires a vested legal
right by virtue of his service and
contributions.
Upon .this plan and no other can
an equitable system of old age
supportjse erected. As long at a
strHte.' tr a cnane of "employment
diplomatic influence to its supreme
situation.
a course would have been fatal to
Europe would have realised our
American blood," European chancel-
would have laughed at our appeals
was one of the wisest acts of his
Jauntily condemn President Wil
tears as the guardsmen left for tho
their blood with which Mr. Watson
prefer the peace and prosperity
is now blest.
deprives the workman of all his
pension rights he is an object of
charity merely and not an inde
pendent social unit. Under the
new Carnegie 6ystem a professor
can change colleges at will and
sun Keep nis annuity rights. It
snoum te so in industry as re
gards employers and employes.
COOPERATING COLLEGES
P
ERSONS interested In t h n
progress of education, and
they are many, will be glad
to learn that Rporl
and the state university are to co
operate this season in arransine
,''eir extension courses. This will
prevent the duplication of courses
and enable the teaching corps of
both institutions to become more
widely useful. We dare say sev
eral more courses can be offered
under the cooperative plan than
could if the tw foundations oper
ated separately in their extension
work.
And while we are thinking bout
cooperation, what is there to hinder
Pacific university from goins into
the "deal"? That fine old college
has done some excellent extension
work in the last few years and is
no doubt preparing to do some
more this winter. Perhaps Reed
college and the state university
have Invited Pacific university to
cooperate with them. If they have
not happened to think of it a noble
opportunity awaits them.
A bather extremely well pro
tected against snake bite, who
made a dashing dive from a spring
board at Battleground lake Sun
day did not reappear. After the
lapse of several minutes and after
several rescuers had gone down
after him, he was finally brought
to the surface and with mucbdiffi
culty and much time, restored to
life. Extreme prudence as to
snake bites in diving and swim
ming is not a howling necessity.
ESPERANTO
E'
SPERANTO, the universal lan
guage invented by Dr. ZamA
hof, a philanthropic country
man of Kosciusko and John
Sobieski, is playing an interesting
part in tne European war. The
fighting countries all have official
Esperanto bureaus which are plead
ing their various causes among the
neutral nations. A great many es
perantists in the United States reg
ularly receive this matter from
Europe. Germany has been partic
ular active in disseminating it.
At first sight this may aDDear
trivial. One might ask: "Are
there enough esperantists in the
world to make it worth while?"
The answer is tnat there are
enough and to spare. The persons
who can speak and write Esperanto
are counted by the million. in every
civilized land. They are nameroud
enough to form a nation within
the nations and they are to a re
markable degree free from those
destructive n a ti o n a 1 prejudices
which help so fatefully to bring on
wars.
Oregon has its quota of lealous
esperantists who carry on corres
pondence "with. ; many parts -of . the
world. The users of the universal
language are everywhere at home
and everywhere they find com
rades, for each disciple of Dr.
Zamenhof has a- warm heart for
every other. Their common lan
guage Is a common bond. One Ore
gon esperantist has a letter from
a Belgian artillery officer interned
in Holland, which says that he is
teaching Esperanto daily to si class
of 160 prisoners. The universal
language is said to be popular
among the prisoners of war; who
have much leisure to study it.
Esperanto does not aspire to dis
place any of the living tongues. It
seeks no more than the humble of
fice of an auxiliary by means of
which the Frenchman can converse
with the Russian and the English
man with the Italian, each retain
ing all his love for his native
speech and literature. We dare
say Esperanto Is destined to act as
a medium of international com
munication more widely than ever
before as war mingles the peoples
of the earth together and deep
ens their common interests. It
saves men the trouble of learning
a dozen languages in order to con
verse with friends, and business
connections. Its spread is ono of
the encouraging signs of the times.
Letters From the People
(Communlcatlona aent to The Journal tor
publlcatlou In tbla department abould be writ,
tea on only one aide of tbe paper, abould pot
exceed 300 worda in length, and nut be ac
eotopanled by tbe name and addreaa of tbe
sender. If ths writer doea not deal re to bar
tba name publiibed be abould eo aute.
"Dlaeuaalon la tbe greatest of all reformat.
It ratlonalliea eTerytbinf It touches. It robe
principle of all false sanctity and tbrowe tbem
Lack on tbeir reaaonableneaa. If they bare do
reaaonublvneaa. It rutUleaaly crush ea them out
of exlatence and seta up its own conclusions in
Uielr stead." jWoodrow WfJaoo.
A Message of Censure.
Portland. Or., Aug. 4. To the Editor
of The Journal In answer to Mary L.
Mallett's letter in The Journal of July
3J, I would like to contradict some
statements.
It is immaterial to me whether we
have prohibition or not; however, I
would like to uphold the article written
by Colonel C. E. S. Wood, as it Is based
on solid business foundations.
I know of two cases right in my lo
cality where doctors prescribed beer for
mothers if It -was possible for them to
get it. They did get it, and got re
sults. These are facts. However, this
1 not the subject I wish to bring out,
as there has already been too much
said about It.
They told us that when we had prohi
bition we would reduce the police force,
a there would be no need of so many
olficers when the saloons were gone.
Now we read in the papers that the
city i3 gointj to add 2"o policemen to
the present force.
It has been estimated that 10,000
people have left the city since January,
1916; not on account of prohibition al
together, but on account of such let
ters as those of Mary L.. Mallet t and
thousands of others. Misleading and
erroneous statements are discouraging
the people.
I came to Portland 12 years ago from
the east. I intended to make this my
home. I always tried to boost Port
land in every way I could. But It is
getting- to a point where I can no long
er do so with a clear conscience.
Our mayor spends most of his time
appointing censors for the moving pic
tures and censors for the bathing
places and telling the ladies in what
kinds of garments they may appear on
th street. The council appoints sewer
inspectors by the dozen, then rebuilds
the sewer.
The Ad club gets out in zero weather
in shirt sleeves, sending letters east
telling of the mild weather in Oregon.
The Chamber of Commerce is spend
ing a good deal of time trying to re
duce wages, and every paper we look
at we see where the wages have been
increased In some city In the east. Is
that what you would call a good ad
vertisement for Portland?
"When a manufacturer wants to ac
quire a site in Portland to start a busi
ness he is driven out by foolish and
unwi.se city legislation.
We read in the papers what a mag
nificent drive the Columbia river high
way is. That 1b all that thousands
of us can do read about it. Although
we paid taxes to help build It, we have
never eeen it. However, we are not
sorry that we have it; in fact, we are
proud of It. even though we shall never
be able to eee It.
But what we want is results. So
long as people spend their time on sub
jects that have no business founda
tions, and In misstating facts, I don't
see how we are going to get them.
If the city would spend some of the
money trying to Induce manufacturers
to locate here, that tt has spent on
such business as I have Just mentioned
and In buying automobiles for the city
employes, I think the public would de
rive more benefit from it. The peo
ple of Portland must wake up to this
L-fact before the elty will again be on
tlio upward trend.
Instead of spending our time tell
lng the people how much harm a glass
of beer may do them, let us work on
some subject that will bring some
money and business Into the state in
stead of driving it out.
When the prices of all commodities
have advanced, how can wages be re
duced and how can we have prosperity,
E. E. HARMAN.
The Lime-for-Land Question.
Portland, Aug. 3. To the Editor of
The Journal. We have read with very
much Interest several editorials and
letters published in your paper of lata
dealing with agricultural lime, This
is a very interesting subject to us.
as a company with which I am asso
ciated, has been Investigating very
thoroughly for several years the pos
sibllity of supplying this demand, par
ticularly in the Willamette valley.
It seems to be in the minds of some
of the parties discussing this subject
that agricultural limestone is a very
simple material to manufacture and
furnish the market. Upon investiga
tion you will find very strict regula
tions stipulated Dy tne agricultural
authorities as to how this produet
should be supplied in order that the
user may get full benefit from Its
application, and not be buying worth
lets material. These specifications
require that the limestone shall be
not less than 90 per cent carbonate
of lime, ground to a. certain fineness
and sold at a very low price.
The first stipulation la not easy to
comply with in western Oregon on
account of the scarcity of high grade
lime rock deposits. There are a num
ber of deposits scattered about, some
of which are commercially available,
but there are few of them that will
furnish this material on a guarantee
of 90 per cent carbonates. You will
understand the foolishness of anyone
buying material, for Instance, that
only nans SO per cent, as yon would
tmmedlaUly..ha, Ux .multiply your
manufacturing ost -per "rton, 'freight.
handling charges, etc., by three. This
would apply proportionately to rock '
oX other percentages of purity below
90 per cent.
The stipulation of fineness abso
lutely regulates the cost to the manu
facturer and likewise to the cunsumer. .
If this material could be run through
an ordinary crusher and loaded on
cars without any further handling on
the part of the manufacturer, it would
be a very simple matter, and a very
low price could be made; but such is
not the case. It first has to be quar
ried, then dried to take out the ex
cess moisture, put through a prelim
inary grinder, and finally pulverised
o that all of It will pass a sieve
with 100 perforations to the square
inch and BO per cent of It will pass
a) screen with 10,000 perforations to
Ihe square Inch. Anyone familiar
with performing this type of work
will tell you that grinding in this
manner is not a cheap process.
We know that ground limestone has ,
become a necessity for a large por
tion of the lands of western Oregon.
We also know that it must be sup
plied at a low price per ton In order
that the agriculturist can afford to
use it. We think we can answer the
question raised by some of your cor
respondents where they ask why
something" has not been done by the
state authorities or those appointed to
carry on this work, by saying that
they have found, after investigation,
it is impossible to produce this ma
terial at the price which it Is popu
larly considered should be made, and
do not wish to make themselves a
part of something which will ulti
mately react against them. Further,
the cases are very few and far be
tween where a state owned manu
facturing plant of any description has
been run on an economical basis.
Oregon has the reputation of tak
ing particular delight in hampering
prospective manufacturing enterprises
that have in mind investing and carry
ing on business within its boundaries.
The people of Oregon are also very
backward about putting their shoulders
to the wheel., with enterprises which
will result in ultimate good for the
community for fear they are helping
some individual or individuals to make
a little profit on their money in
vested. What we would like would
be a few letters to be written after
intelligent investigation on the sub
ject, and have these tell the farmer
how much additional money be can
make by investment of a certain
amount in ground limestone. A party
wrote a letter to The Journal not long
ago, stating that by the application
of one ton of ground limestone to the
acre an additional revenue of 110 per
acre would be realized. Under such
conditions the farmer could afford to
pay $6 or $7 per tort per acre and still
make S3 per acre more than he ever
had before. Instead of that, he is
represented a thinking the other
party has no right to any profit and
that he should make it ail. Our plan
for supplying this material is not
philanthropic and we desire a fair
return on our investment. Clothes are
necessary for a farmer, but he does
not ask the state to go into the manu
facture of them and furnish them to
him for cost. Neither should he ask
the state to go into the manufacture
of agricultural lime simply because
it Is a necessity; and just because
the limestone deposits are owned by
individuals or corporations is no
reason why anarchistic statements
should be made that they are being
monopolized after the manner of the
dog in the manger " C. W. JONES.
Concerning Pride of Fatherland.
Linnton, Aug. 4. To the Editor of
The Journal. Having read numerous
articles on German-Americanism, and
being a constant reader of The Jour
nal, I would be grateful for space for
a few lines.
What kind of an individual respects
person who loses love and respect
for his parents simply for being
adopted by another (likewise coun
try)? I think anyone with so little
decency as to depreciate and slur his
mother country is unfit to bp a citi
zen of aru country, the United States
not excepted, and it seems to me there
is good principle lacking in anyone
who wishes ill to the country of his
parentage, and that his loyalty to any
country Is doubtful. I am American
born, of German parents, mr father
being a naturalized citizen of the
United States, and I have Intense love
and respect for the former country of
my parents, which does not Interfere
with my respecting my country.
MRS. T. B. SMALL.
Warriors on the Sea.
Prom the St. Paul Dispatch.
When the Emden made its tremen
dous performance in the south seaa,
and came to that burning "end on the.
beach of the Cocos, there was applause
from the world. There waa even
demonstration in the British capital
of Australia; not because the threat
ening; enemy, the Emden was sunk,
but because the men who manned the
Emden had carried on the traditions
of the sea, which are those of brav
ery and daring and ,tbe taking of
chances, no matter or. wnai race me
seamen may be.
A report has come from Admiral
Jellicoe concerning the June naval
battle in the North sea. There is, of
course, a claiming of the victory, it
must be left to history to decide the
measure of the victory. That cannot
be determined through the Mail Bag
But the admiral demonstrated an ap
preciation of the splendid sea daring
of the his enemy, which it might
be well for the warriors of the Mail
Bag' to Imitate.
The enemy fought with the gal
lantry that was expected of him. We
particularly admired the conduct of
those on board a disabled German light
cruiser, whicn passed down the British
line shortly after deployment under a
heavy fire which was returned bv
the only gun left in action. The cor
duct of the officers and men was en
tirely beyond praise.
Surely there is something in the sea
the presence of daring, the absence of
pettiness, the big vision, the sense of
peace In spite of war, which we wish
might be loaned to the land.
CarniToracity.
From the New York Evening Post.
In these days when Metchnlkoffs
death sets everybody talking about
lactic acid and Bulgarian ferments aa
the only .diet for the aged, it may be
reassuring to glance at the dinner of
an Englishman 80 years old. Here is
his bill of fare:
"He ate for dinner two plates of
turtle soup; he was then served very
amply to a plate of cod and oyster
sauce; he then took a pate; afterwards
ho was helped to two vry greasy look
ing entrees; he then dispatched a plate
of roast mutton; there then appeared
before hlrt the largest, and to my mind
the hardest, slice of ham that ever fig.
uied on the table of a nobleman, yet it
disappeared just in time to answer the
lnquirdy of his butler, "Snipe, my lord,
or pheasant?' HeT Instantly replied
pheasant, thus completing his ninth
dish of meat at that roeal."
This was Lord Palmerston, who lived
and worked like & horse till he- was
81 (thus beating Metchnikoff by ten
years), and would doubtless have
poured scorn upon the scientific slops
and gruels .offered to old men' In' our
day. Palmerston was ene- that was
nourished by his rituals and would fain
have meat.
PERTINENT COMMENT
SMALL CHANGE
After being cuffed around a couple
of years, the Russian bear atanu to
have got his mad up.
Oregon soldiers down on the border
now can appreciate how a strip of
bacon Xeels whenit is frying.
Wonder whether the high cost of
gasoline has enabled more people to
hear the Sunday morning sermon?
Britain might ray less attention to
blacklisting American firms and more
to settling ner own Irish question.
The price of lemons has gone uo to
keep that of sugar company possibly
so we won t make our leononaae toe
sour.
Wonder whether the Girls' National
Honor Guard when they go into camp
at Vancouver will learn to make band
ages for wounded hearts?
Uncle Sam proposes to buy the Dan
ish West Indies, being a bit too shrewd
to attempt Europe's method of grabbing-
a neighbor's real estate.
It is explained that the J. P. Morgan
fortune. estimated at 178,149,034.
would have been $78,149,025 had it not
taken a dollar's worth of ink to figure
it up.
When Mr. Hughes visits Portland ne
might bid for the returned vacation
ists' vote by declaring himself on Che
burning question of the day: What
is good for sunburn?
Baltimore has passed an ordinance
requiring everyone to stand when the
Btar Spangled Banner is played, pro
posing to have the national hymn re
spected where it is a home product.
A Cleveland woman complained to
the police that her husband's ashes
were stolen. However, before a man
i cremated his ashes are considered
less than valueless around the house.
THE DELUSION OF
From the Boston Globe.
Someone has said that the war has
at least one consolation. It furnishes
employment for many workers. This
is really a delusion. Workers taken
from the task ojmaklng the neces
saries of life to work on shrapnel
hells make the cost of the neces
saries of life all the greater.
Most of our diamonds come from
South Arrica. The total yield -of those
fields to date is valued at 1700,000,
000. But we cannot eat diamonds, or
burn them to keep us warm. We can
sell them for the wherewithal? True.
But someone has had to grow the
corn and chop the wood which keep
us fed and warmed.
Suppose 10 men 'live together on
100 acres of land. If each does his
share of the work it may keep them
fed, clothed and eheltered. But if
one devotes his wnoie lime to carv
ing artistic designs on the handles of
the farm Implements the others have
to work jmt so much harder to feed
him. And if a second stands all day
w-ith a gun to frighten away intrud
ers a third digs for diamonds, a
fourth writes poetry, and a fifth
spends his' whole time opening and
shutting the front door, it is ciear
that the remaining five will have to
work like driyjges to keep the whole
outfit going.
If 6uch a scheme were tried it
would rot be long before the five
hand laborers would serve notice on
the others that if they wished to
carve, write poetry, or dig for dia
monds they would have to Indulge
those tastes outside of business
hours.
Now :f the worfd were simply a
great farm (which in some sort it is
and ought to be), on which everybody
raised his own potatoes, the above la
exactly what would happen.
The Russian economist Honnarer
has shown that if every able-bodied
person bore a hand at the work nec
essary to keep the race rrom perisn-
ing of hunger and cold, it could an oe
done in 40 days out of each year.
After that, if people wished to carve,
write- poetry, dig for diamonds or
otherwise beautify their persons or
their dwellings, that would be their
own affair. As for carrying a gun.
such an equitable distribution of lant
would do away with the bed-rock in
centive to use a gun.
In a primitive society everybody
On Reading the Bible.
Richard T,e Gallienne in the Phoenix.
Then some of us who cared for lit
erature took up the Bible casually and
found its poetic beauty. We read the
Book of Job which, by the wav, Mr.
Swinburne is said to have known by
heart and as we read it even tha stars
themselves seemed less wonderful than
this description of their marvel and
mystery:
"'Canst thou bind the sweet Influ
ences of Pleiades or loose the bands
of Orion?
"Canet thou bring forth Maziroth
in his season? Or canst thou 6ulde
Areturns with his sons?"
Or we read in the thirty-seventh
chapter of the Book of Ezeklel of that
weird valley that was full of bones
"and as I prophesied, there as a
noise, and behold a shaking, and the
bones came together bone to bone"
surely one of the most wonderful vis
ions of the imagination in all litera
ture. Or we read the marvelous denuncia
tory rhetoric of Jeremiar and Isaiah,
or the music of the melodious heart
strings of King David; we read the
fcolemn adjuration of the "King Eccle
siast," to remember our Creator' In the
days of our youth, with Its haunting
picture of old age; and the loveliness
of "The Bong of Songs." passod Into
our lives forever.
To this purely literary love cf the
Bible there has been added within the
last few years a certain renewed re
gard for it as tho profoundest book of
the soul,, and for some minds not con
ventionally religious it has regained
ven some of Its old authority as a
spiritual guide and stay. And I will
confess for myself that sometimes, as
t fn aslaen at night. I wonder If even
4 Bernard Shaw has written anything to
equal the twenty-third t-saim:
The Appeal to Honor.
"Qirard' in Philadelphia Ledger.
Edward Bok proved that the public
will play fair if you play fair with
the public.
The editor, as you know, planted
th.n.uifia of flowers on the lawn
along the road at Merlon. He put the
public on its honor to enjoy the How
..a but not to pluck them.
I fancy that the public, throwing
out its chest a little in recugruwuo
tn. enmniiment. said to itself, said It:
"By Jove, I'ir take him at his word
and I won't steal a bud," and it didn't
Good examples are as catching as
the measles. Now I see tnai aiong ins
railroad track not far from Mr. Boks
v.nm. tns of thousands of roses are in
bloom. They clamber over steep banks
and cover what were cars roc us ana
earth with a mantle of pink and green.
' Tbe deep roots of these rosebushos
will do for the railroad what th
hands of 50 strong men could not do-
hold the banks Jom sliding down
upon the track when tns spring inaw
comes or when a big rain pelts.
f Moral.'f Athing does not have to be
nglr.to be useful. -
I)
AND NEWS IN BRIEF
OREGOX SIDELIGHTS
Portland's baseball fans need cot
lose heart. The football season le
about due.
Dr. Aked says he wants to do some
thing useful, so he resigns from the
Ford peace commission.
When the San Francisco Jobbers' ex
cursion reaches southern Oregon ilic
Bay City dealers should not be loo
disappointed if all the orders are re
ported left in Portland during Buyers
Week.
Th Eugene Guard of last Friday
announces: "The lest gravel for the
improvements in the Southern Pacific
yards here was received yesterday, and
the grading up of the tracks, and the
final work of the I100.0OO improve
ment is now finished."
at at
"To invoice a little eastern Oregon
town these hot August days, one might j
think." says the Canyon City Kasle.
mat it was a oeaa one. nui isi
not bo. The home guard Is Just trylnw
to keep oool while they are waiting
for the folks to come home from the.r
vacation."
The new public school building site
at Paisley will Involve the purchase
of the Moss property at $1600 and ihu
purchase of five acres from Mrs. Un
derwood at 1100 per acre, and the
Press say that after the election "ail
united In declaring that the best site
of all had been chosen."
This Pen picture of plenty is drawn
by the Aurora Observer's excellent
correspondent at Maeksburg: "Most
of the hay is cut and stored away.
Everything indicates that the grain
harvest will begin quite as tarly as
usual, despite the late spring. Trie
new barns are hastening to a finish
to receive the season's crop, which
owing to the large area of newly
cleared ground will be larger than
ever heretofore."
"MAKING WORK"
sings, everybody dances, everybody
does it certain amount of artistic
work for the sheer pleasure of mak
ing beautiful things; that is, we ara
all artists at heart, some more, iomi
less. In a complex aooiety, like ours,
however, through the operation of
that principle known as "the division
of labor," most of us do not sing,
carve or dance. We pay others to do
these things for us.
In the old days, when art was the
voluntary overtime work of people
who rained their own potatoes, all art
was rolk-art, and the reason such a
special effort has been made to rts-
cue the ancient English folk dance
from oblivion is that "the division of
iaDor, Dy raiiing people oir trie jam
Into far-tori. almost r.ii.erl that art
. ..
. ,
inus it is mat in a rarminr com-
n.uiuiy tnrns ..o srucea r
were engaged In by people out of
working hours. But in a huge, com- .
plex, industrial soeletv like ours, peo-'
pie devote their whole lives to what (
Is, in a more natural society, only a
form of play. And since the corn and
potatoes must be raised by somebody,!
the more people there are who devoto
ineir wnoie lime io aiamona mimne.
piano playing, literature, fashion an'l
sport the harder the others have to
work to grow corn and potatoes
enough for everybody.
The results are often picturesque:
pork-barrel legislation which builds
OA AAA , . 1 . J
112.000 town: a one-horaeoowop man
in a 1000-horsepower yacht; a 130,000
prize Jersey and a $300 baby. A
could mak- more monev nostno- fori
artists as a fisherman two months In
the year than he could earn by fish
ing; the whole year round. Naturally,
after that, in the winter he did not
fish.
A dollar never looks eo big as when
we earn it with our own hands. In
Tolstoy's novel. "Anna Karenina." n.
young man who has worked for the
first time on nis own rarm balks at
buying uniforms for his rity roach
men, because the uniforms cost as
much as a farm laborer's services for
a whole year.
Most of us are? to sotno extent. In
volved In these absurdities. Wa hear
so often that a luxury "makes work"
for others.
It does Just that
Passing of a Discoverer.
From the Detroit News.
Sir William Ramsay's greatest
achievement was the dlsovery that th
atmosphere contained a number of ele
ments whoee existence was un'cnown
prior to his experiment. It was no
small feat to discover that something
so familiar to the human race as air,
known over 100 years to consist of
oxygen and nitrogen, was 1 per cent
argon a find for which Sir William
Ramsay sYhared the credit with Lord
Raylelgh. But the eminent chemist
was not content with this revelation,
and proceeding with his researches, he
found helium, which he had previously
Isolated from minerals, a constituent
of the air. Within three years he
added to human knowledge three other
gases as Parts of the atmosphere
krypton, neon and xenon, the latter so
rare that only one part of it occurs in
17,000.000 part of air.
What good did his discoveries ac
complish? Thus queries the practical
man. Sir William did not become rich
through them. He did not find that
argon could give steel new and as
tounding pioputles. lie did not apply
any of his gases to the automobile In
dustry. He did not maintain that they
are of any use to anyone. He merely
added a little bit to man's knowledge
of the world he lives in; merely con
tributed his mite to the answer of the
riddle which the human race is trying
to feolve. ' This achievement th great
men of his time thought so wonderful
that their , tplause brought knighthood
to him
Hie transmutation of ladium
Into helium still remains unexplained
by science. Not only did he solve pus-
zles W created them. The world Is
more wonderful because of Sir Wl.llam
Ramsay's having lived.
Suggestion for a Parade.
From the San Francisco Bulletin.
Suppose that some organizer of
some preparedness parade, eager t j
make his enterprise a notable succesj,
stuck up some such motto as this:
Preparedness requires:
1 A living wage.
2 -An eight hour day.
I Abolition of slums.
4 The reform of all unwholesome
living and working conditions.
6 The elimination of unemploy
ment, 5 A guarantee to working-men of
all the rights and privileges men
tioned in the Constitution.
7 A shifting of emphasis from
property rights to people's rights.
. 8 A centralising of national poli
cies upon th creation of a free,
healthy race, too strong, just and free
to be conquered.
Such a parade would take at least
five years to pass a given point
L'tterly Pntlle.
From the Springfield (Ohio) .News. ,
About the most useless words a man
can ue is to tell what he would do
under Certain, circumstances, when
there Isn't a man on-earth who knows
I unless the circumstances)- hairs met
S I . A . .
win Mve say iws) vv ;. ,-.,......
ThQnce Ger
Dear Rei: Why la It tbet bffore they
were married he uouldu't belp lifting btr
by main atretlgth sod awanardneea tnt
tbe struct car, and now be allows her to
climb In by herself with bar arms rnp
of buudleat u o. C.
THERE'S NOTHING absolutely
nothing that is so stimulating
to a fellow who's running a kollum
as to have his readers write in and
ask questions.
because every little while
there's an idea concealed in one of
them.
ejAnd an idea as everyone known
Is as rare almost as a 'day in
June.
and we all know how rare that
was.
t In fact an idea is eo rare thnt
T ve seen a whole squad of reporter
wll0 Wera covering a political
speech compose
themselves com-
fortably.
and prepare to snooie.
confident the speaker woul
express one.
fJAnd besides they had typewritten
copies of what ho was going to say
in their pockets.
and they had read part of It.
and they knew he had nothing
to say.
and that he was simply going to
annihilate time.
ejAnd then Just when they were
all doxlng or nodding.
and dreaming f the reporters'
heaven.
which Is a place where everybody
gets J70 a week,
and there are no copy-readers
to mutilate a man's finest thought.
! and put wrong heads on his
stories.
Just then as I wns saying when
the reporters are all happy.
much happier than when they're,
awake.
something happens.
fJAnd they all wake up.
and grab their pencils.
and go to making notes madly.
although they don't know what
it's about or anything,
ej They Just know that something's
happened.
"J Ana auer a wnne wnen inn
flurry is over he-fore they go to
sleep aguln
I they compare not.
, . , ... nA
I .JAnd they find that
lomaina in
the speaker
, the crowd Just
when
! seemed safe got up.
and asked
quest Ion.
fl , question contained n
. .
- and the idea compelled tbe
speaker to huve one.
and the speaker tried to ronceal
it In a cascade of woids and phrases,
etAnd the questioner -perhaps was
Rslmmrd o llie notl. he had at-
tri-lpd
and nat down-
and Mumped In hli
sent.
and resolved raver 'o have an
other idea. us long as hi- lived.
berausn every time lie had one
t and spoke it out it got him into
trouble.
i " and made him enemies
I and everything
H A" ,,1Bt eems to
bo the way
with Ideas.
- and perhaps that's why they're so
rare.
but I like to get notes.
like the one above because
J LISTEN !t gives me a chance
to give a correct Imitation of a polit
ical speaker- answering a question
containing an Idea
l
There Is a perennial noblenesa an 4 avail
sacrmdneee in work. Were he erer so ba
night ad. forgatful of his hlarh eallinr,
tbe J is always hope In a men that actual
ly Ind earnestly works. -Carlyla.
Found Out. .
rroin Utr.
We tire In a world full of i rouble and strife.
When your car undertake In tnrn turtlr.
It never occurs vhin ou re out wile your
wife.
But when you're wltb Glsdja and Myrtle.
An Uncompleted Tragedy
Pear llef--l'Te (r"t to t"Il you this. r--
earne I kn-w yon are lntfretd In other
people's troubles nd loja, so here es:
Tbe day s either tin firt ,r st-roiid
dny of auuimer ihirb caiue and went lust
week.
Nm t nlwsrs seem that when yon are
moat bappy vu niec-t someone who Is Jnet
as far cm tug otbur able of Uie balance
as you sre on tbe ba(py end.
I was in an office building- snd looklne
ont over tbe sunlit roofs OTf In tha dls
tanre I could e-e the (peen bills
I waa attracted by a nujeioent in tba
window of the hotel, 10" feel !.
It was a woman, (ood lonklns, wltb loaf
klerk hair.
Kur a moment aba looked out npoa the
eity from ber window. tUie seemed unde
cided. Tbe next moment ih laid ber head "a
the sill, hslr streaming out "f the window,
lifted and tossed by tba breeae.
Terrific eobe shock ber head RDd ebonl
dera. rite mlnntes passed as I watehed
her. Ten minutes, half an hour and still
she lay there, her head now quiet on bar
arms.
It was aublert for thought. She wee
lust a Ctrl. I tried to think of wraps
tbe world aalfht bate dona ber. the a-
rows that were bera. I iitctored
tn
story that led ti such unhtpplnres I bad
toat the k.y that had been mine before
aaw ber.
I had eom to the conclusion that om
thlng onght to be don to take th ear
tow from aueh frail shoulders; and
I.ISTEV I would bate derided br wa
could hate done It. only shout this time,
the woman lifted her bead, yawoad Sod
began eombluc her Ualr.
It waa dry. The bright sod and th,
breeze had done tba business. p1-
-B. J. S.
Uncle Jeff Snow Says:
Dnoka to me s1f Judge Hughes
promising us seven foreign wars, or
! he don't mean nothing. I never see a
I man run for president whose frteSd
was so hungry to gt back to the pie
counter.
Johnson Jarred.
MAYOR V. J. JOHNSON of Astoria
is a broken man.
He sought to achieve honor in
Py thlanlsm and reaped defeat. He
hoped and he ambished and bis ambish
fell with a suit thickening dud. -
Around Pythian temple they say fee
met his doom because of pernicious ac
tivity. Maybe so. .But some unkind
fate got him on the committee oa trans
portation fir tbe grand lodge and
had to sign a lot of certificates and
figure out the mileage and all that sort
ot thing.
He wanted to be grand vice chancel
lor and stood a fins show until tbe fel
lows whose transportation he hM Just
figured out got to voting.
It's a hard life, this being honest.
The old saying that honesty and poli
tics lilts oil and water--won't rnjU i
once -more demonstrated. ' ,y ' j-
't:JRmlm&'iV '
A. dleeord in' mneie teat-:eniaV' yen -ef a
old. Uth is ;witer. Prof. Sttrena of 'Vat.
t'CMcsgev. vV- ?-' &LlsK,;V" h$Zi "
Oft A man mnUtin'je-Z
-Or sawing wood on a saw IjrJek,
or ftiiar a saw.'-'VS'f-'f':: ,
Orbiting ten-penny sella. ! - ' -