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THE OREGON DAILY JOURNAL, PORTLAND, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 0, 1916. AN IWBKPENOENT NEWSPAPER. C. J ACKBO! PohUsher I'uHlabed aver day. afternoon nl morning (except Sunday afternoon), at Tb Journal Bnlldlng, Broadway and XanibUl etreeta. Portland, Or. but red at the postofflce at Portland. Or., for transmission through to mails aa aoeand (liii matter. 'latLKPHONKti til In 7173; Horn. A-l. . All department reached by tbaaa number. Tall the operator What department Too want. VHJC1UN ADVERTISING Kfcl'UKSICN'rATlVli Beojaral Ksntnor Co.. Branawlck Bid., 223 Flftu Are. New York. Ul People'e Ja Bldf ., Chicago. Subscription term by mat I -or to any address Is tbe United States or Mexico: DAILY (MORN1NO OH AFTERNOON) On year r.lS.OO I On niooth I -BO SUNDAY. On rear 2.50 I On month $ .25 DAILY (MORNING OR AFTERNOON) AND SUNDAY. 'One year 17.50 One month i .AS America asks nothing for herself rrnt what aha baa a right to ask for humanity itself. WOODROW WILSON. Million for defense, but not a rent for trihut. CH ARLfcS 0. PINCK S KY. Perfect freedom la aa necfsry to tle health and vluor of commerce, ua It I" to the health snd rti;.T of citizenship. Patrick Henry. NOW FOH ACTIOX FOR 15 mouths a committee of Important men in the Port land Chamber of Commerce . has been studying the needs of Portland. Their investigations have been exhaustive. No phase of the sit uation has been lpft unscrutinized. Statistics and facts of every kind in . every field have been searchingly probed. The high character of the men on the committee is a guarantee of good faith. Their findings may well be accepted as intelligent and dependable. Their conclusion, after their Ions and patient investigations, is that further development of water-borne commerce is the first and funda mental need of Portland. They urge the establishment of steam ship lines as a foundation on which to base a continuing prosperity, a broader expansion and sounder val ues for everything in Portland. This same conclusion has been many times reached. Whenever the subject has been probed, the same inexorable finding has been arrived at. There has been no of ficial report that reached any other determination. There never' will be an Intelligent report, based on ac tual Investigation, that will not reach the exact conclusion as that Just made to the Portland Cham ber of Commerce. It ought, then, to be time to act. There Is no need of waiting for further Investigations or further reports. There is no need to de bate. By this time we should all be agreed. The logical step after reaching an agreement is to 4do something. We have acted in many things. We have spent our money on many . things. We have built costly court houses. We have taxed ourselves more than six million dollars for Improving the harbor and deepen ing the channel to the sea. We have Invested more than $2,000,000 In public dock. We have spent a million and a half in a scenic highway. We have mort gaged our property to build big city bridges and a great inter-state bridge. We have spent money lavishly, and the federal government has pent money lavishly In providing .1. Kin a , . i . . wie lacuiues oi navigation, ana in ' many Investigations and reports We have always reached the conclu sion that navigation is Portland's first and fundamental need. . But we have never pul on the capstone in all this magnificent Structure. The work has been left Unfinished. The head of the cor ner has been left unfilled. We have done everything but navigate. The chamber committee advises a one mill tax for five years to be used as a bonus in encouraging steamship lines. It in not the Ideal plan. The Ideal plan would be a grem jroruauu maritime company Owned in Portland, directing its : activities in Portland, building its DUIUB ILL f UlllftUU. UlliUK UL1 IIS lavuur in t-oruanu, epenaing us 1 T" . , 1 . I - money In 'Portland, and identifying ail its operations with Portland. . Possibly the bonus plan might lad to such a consummation. Pos ibly outside capital and local cap ital would ho nrmirnrpf1 hr t ha - bonus to make Portland a maritime , headquarters. ; Anyway, we have before us the fact that we are nrrw agreed and . ready to act. By action we can . father the fruitage from the mil Itnna wa hava nnnn f In o-Atttvio ;, ready for a water-borne commerce '" WitVt oHvbpha Aartmtfinm hw tVm e l v lb &-X i vi uu u viuiw uu u I a. ill" Interstate Commission staring us If not a probability, that there will ne more decisions or me same Kina. f v'We. shall be very foolish If we do ; AlVb V CbUUVA UUU UVt.iUO kUIU(, kuat ewi kSlCD DUUU1U UO UUUC, '.money at the r&te of ten millions of dollars a day in the stupendous ; artillery duels of the European CVUiucu. A iiis i sairui tutiiiuu a week for munitions alone, and for one country only. The fruits of the expenditure are devastation and death. What a difference if the money were bejng spent for purposes of peace! A CANDIDATE'S BLUNDER I N HIS great enterprise of throw ing mud at President Wilson for political purposes, Mr. Hughes has been led into a damaging blunder. At Detroit Monday night, ho renewed hi3 criticism of the presi dent for the displacement of Am bassador Herrick at Paris. It I? the same criticism made by Mr. Hughes in his letter of acceptance. He insists that the change was made for "partisan expediency," and that American Interests suf fered by replacing an experienced ambassador with an inexperienced ambassador during the trying com plications of war. In passing, if It is a bad thing to replace an experienced ambas sador with an Inexperienced am bassador in war time, how infinite ly worse would it be to replace an experienced and tried president with an inexperienced and un known president In war time? But it Is the ludicrous blunder that Mr. Hughes has made in the charge that is the point of thiB article. By reference to the rec ord, Mr. Hughes, if a fair oppo nent, will withdraw his charge that President Wilson displaced Mr. Herrick for "partisan expedi ency." The record shows that the Hughes charge is wholly untrue. Thus, Mr. Herrick, who was named ambassador to Paris 13 months before the end of the Taft administration, did not retire from the ambassadorship until Novem ber 29, 1!)14, nearly 21 months after Woodrow Wilson became president. That is to say, in spite of Mr. Hughes' chargo of "partisan expediency," Mr. Herrick, a Repub lican, represented the administra tion for nearly half of President Wilson's full term. Mr. Hughes ought to withdraw his charge. As an ex-Justice of the highest court in the world, he ought, in Justice to his former po sition, apologize to President Wil son and expose the men who led him Into the blunder. But this is not all. Ambassador Herrick wanted to return to Amer ica. He had presented his resigna tion months before. lie had re peatedly urged its acceptance. He wanted to come home. It wa3 not until June, 1914, 15 months after Mr. Wilson became president, that lie named William G. Sharp of Ohio as Mr. Herrlck's successor. The great war had not even begun. At the ' time Sharp was appointed, nobody In the world supposed that there would be a war. It was not until weeks after Sharp's appointment and not until months after Herrick's re signation that war broke out. Nor is this all. Mr. Sharp ar riveiJn Paris about the time war was declared, but he did not pre sent his credentials until Novem ber. Meanwhile, whoever charges that the experienced Mr. Herrick should not have been replaced by inex perienced Mr. Sharp in war timo is compelled to acknowledge that the experienced President Wilson should not be replaced by the in experienced Mr. Hughes in war time. Oregon and Washington race horses are now being transported in parlor buffet cars, so we are told. The next thing we know the Kentucky thoroughbreds will be chewing Kentucky twist and sipping mint Juleps. MATTERS OF FORMALITY F ORMALITY is a funny ani mal. June 8 the Republican national convention nomi nated Justice Hugnes for president, and he accepted the nomination by telegraph. Nearly two months later a flock of black- coated and silk-hatted gentlemen made a pilgrimage to Mr. Hughes and solemnly "notified" him of his nomination. Mr. Hughes, with great surprise and Impromptitude of vocal thought, expressed his pleasure at the honor thrust upon him. On June 15 the Democratic na tional convention nominated Wood- row Wilson as its candidate and on September 2 he will be "noti fied" by other gentlemen garbed in conventional black of the fact that he has been nominated. Then the president will arise and give voice to his appreciation. After It Is all over several mil lions of people can draw deep sighs of satisfaction, sure at last thfct both gentlemen are aware that they are running for presi dent. After that we can all settle back to watch the fireworks. A North Carolina senator is argu ing that the child labor bill is un constitutional. It is the same old argument. The constitution was used as the shelter and shield of that other slavery. TnERE AXD HERE I NFANTILE paralysis continues to reap its harvest of death in New York. In spite of all that medical science has been able to accomplish in that great city the dread disease extends its awful conquest day by day until more than two thousand children have fallen victims to it ravages. Whatever the cause, and what ever the hidden remedy that will ultimately make its ' onslaughts fu- tUethe plague la doubtless aided in it attack by the congestion and unsanitation in the poorer sections of the city. Climatic condition without question help to fasten its and Oregon, with its pure air, its pure water, its pure milk supply and its salubrious cli mate has much less to fear from such sad visitations. The young sters of this state may still be be set with such childish troubles as the measles and the chicken pox, but they and their parents know nothing of the dread that comes with such visitations as that now afflicting the eastern seaboard. New York may be able to point to some things which this good country of ours can not yet emu-, late, but when it comes to health and happiness the people of the sunset land can be glad that their lots have been cast in a country which is rearing sturdy children who will be the strong men and women of the coming generation, ready and amply able to take their places as nation builders in the succeeding years. Municipal Judge Langguth set a healthy precedent when he sen tenced an offender to one day in jail for speeding on the Foster Road. Most speed maniacs care little for a fine, but very few look complacently outward from a cell. There is nothing like the calmj contemplation that broods over a jail to take the joy out of a joy ride. FORTY CENT WOOL F ORTY cents a pound is the approximate figure at which 40,000 pounds of wool in a grange pool In Lane county has been sold to a Portland ware house company. Several interesting facta are in cidental to this sale. 1 The price is the highest ever paid for wool on the Pacific coarft of which there is record. There is a story that for a few days in pio neer times, the price in Oregon stood at a dollar a pound. But there is no account of such a price in recent years. 2 Cooperation among produc ers is evidenced in the fact that 137 farmers were parties to this pool. It is concrete example of advantages to accrue from intelli gent -cooperation in the marketing of products. Back of It is the fundamental fact that farmers must recognize, to-wlt: that a first element in successful production is successful selling. Farmers have always been sell ing at the prices middlemen saw fit to fix. They were told that tariffs were all they needed to make them prosperous. It is sounder business for them to quit believing the fol de rol . about tar iffs and set about to at least have something to say In fixing the prices at whichritb.ey sell their farm output. Thd: tariffs are for the mill owners. 3 Throughout the wool season. The Journal insisted that the prices were being beaten down and that growers should have had higher bids. The paper was assailed for the contention- The 40 cents now paid is proof that the paper was not wrong. 4 Eastern Oregon wool this year brought the highest price on record. The figures ranged from 18 to 30 cents. Western Oregon wool3 went at an average of about 3 3, also the highest on record. Farmers must now realize that for 3 0 years the tariff barons have been humbugging them with free wool bunk. The Journal can heartily sup port the Portland Chamber of Commerce in its proposal of a one-mill tax to be used in devel oping water-borne commerce. Such a plan was long ago proposed and has often been urged by this paper. Portland's rise was through the nterprise of her pioneer navi gators. As the committee says, water navigation lines are now needed for the further progress and prosperity of the city. A public tax is a sure way to have all ' contribute to the benefits in which all will share. THE PRICE X COXTEMPLATIOX of the aw ful results flowing from the European war the people have grown accustomed to the thought of its great expenditure and waste in men and money, to the devastation of cities and towns, the destruction of forests and fer tile fields. We have visioned, dim ly, the burden of taxation, under which the people of the stricken countries must bow, and the long struggle that must come to those people In their endeavor to build back those things that have been blown away. But little thought has been di rected, however, to the hundreds of miles of land that will lie, bar ren and with its productiveness destroyed for years to come, along the trench lines of the far flung battlefield. We have been shown, In picture and story, the permanence and the extent of the underground fortifi cations that front each other. Vast concrete cities, capable of housing more than 2000 men each,' with their supplies, have been con structed. The dead clay, dug from deep underground to make way for these fortifications, has been spread out over the fertile top soil. Those who have wrestled with the task of starting lawns, or growing gardens, in the soil thrown up from .a new, basement can form some faint conception of the con- ditlon that will confront the peo - pie of the battle section when the war is ended and they begin the cultivation of the battlefields, over laid with dead clay and underlaid with a concrete hardpan. Even the earth will protest against yielding its substance in payment of the cost of war. The best news Portland has re ceived in a long time is the report of a committee urging public action for the establishing of steamship lines. It is an omen of an awaken ing to the realization that this town cannot maintain real estate values and continue in prosperity by merely swapping town lots. Letters From the People (Communications eeot to Tha Journal for publication to thla department ehould be writ ten on only one aide of the paper, ehould not exceed 300 worda In length, and must be ac companied by the name and addreae of tbe sender. If the writer doee not dealre to bare tbe name published be should so auta.J "Discussion la the greatest of all reformer. It rationaliser ererytliing it touches. It robs principles of all false Nanctlty and throws them Lack un their reasonableness. If they hay no feusoiiabU-uess, It ruthlessly crushes them out ot existence and sets up Its owu conclusions in inelr stead." Woodrow Wlixon. Hughes' Record. Oakland, Of., Aug. 7. To the Editor of The Journal 1 see In the daily papers that James E. Watson of my native state, Indiana, opened the Hughes' campaign in Oregon with quite a harangue against the present admin istration. I conclude by what he said about Wilson and Mexico that he is a man of blood a man with the will of a tyrant. lie said: "If we only had a man who had courage, who had a poi ley as president and who knows how," implying that Air. Hughes has all these qualities. Aul Mr. Hughes In a speech not long ago said, "We want deeds, not words." This proves Air. Watson's theory. So we grant the assertion, and to prove Air. Huiihes has a policy and courage, we take his record when governor of New York. The legislature of New York passed a bill reducing railroad fare from three cents to two cents per mile, and when it came up for Mr. Hughes to sign the bill to make it a law, lie had a policy to play into the hands of the corpora tions and the courage to go against the people. So he promptly vetoed the bill. He gave the reason that he did not be lieve the legislature knew whether two cents a mile was a fair price for trans portation or not. He also vetoed a bill giving New Yorkers a five cent fare to Coney Island, a pleasur resort of the work ing people. He vetoed the platoon bill giving New York policemen an 8-hour day. He vetoed a bill giving women school teachers the same .pay as men for the same work. It looks as though a man with a record like that had a good lot of courage to ask the working people to make him president of the United States to that he mlg'nt veto all the bills passed by congress that happened to bo in favor of the people. E. O. ROBERTSON. A Wilson Republican. Portland, Aug. 8. To the Editor of The Journal I am not a Democrat, but shall vote for M;r. Wilson this fall if I live. I voted for Taft in 1SJ12, out of pure policy nothing more because I believed if he were not elected the big interests who were behind him were so powerfully entrenched that they would retaliate upon the country by undermining bus iness confidence, create depression and penalize the country for wrest ing from them their control of the administration machinery by which they were able to exploit all the peo ple aJl the time, for all there was In them. In other words, I was Intimidated to vote the Republican ticket, because I believed the big interests of the Republican party who were behind Mr. Taft had, or controlled, most of the money of the country, and hence were all powerful to inspire a panicky condition among the people by in stilling into them the fallacy about Democrats not being able to run government. Pemocrats are Just as successful as Republicans in running a private business.but Republicans notwithstanding have been successful in mnking thousands of people be lieve that the running of the state and the nation was too big a Job for them. Republicans were successful Jn a measure in 1893 in discrediting the Cleveland administration to the ex tent that they were able to make cap ital out of it to the above end. But they have failed, and will utterly fall, to accomplish this with the Wilson administration. The splendid con structive, legislative and business policies of the Wilson administration are appealing so powerfully to the people that there isn't gold or gump tion enough among the Republican herders of the flock to marshal their forces against him. The real Issue before the people of all parties Is, which man by all re liable evidence attainable is capable of handling the ship of state in the rough breakers before ub? Surely this question is easily answered with the name of Woodrow Wilson, the wisest, safest and strongest of na tional executives. F. LINN PIERCE. - Wilson's Detractors. ' Portland, Aug. 7. To the Editor of The Journal Harping at President Wilson has made certain people ridic ulous. More noticeable than others, people of strong pro-German sympa thies have rushed into print exposing their prejudice. Based upon Panama canal tolls, the "single term promise" and other visionary grievances most often argued, ignorance of fact ha exposed such men as Mr. Frank and Mr. Colvig. Americans also hav lym. pathles, and will most -loyally support a presiaent wno is a deep scholar and I thinker most earnestly working for the welfare of the United States Regarding the Hay - Pauncefote treaty of 1901. Mr. Colvig attacks a Wilson man and make the statement: "I wish to remind Mr. Brentano that the canal under consideration was a Nicaragtian canal." The treaty itself is the best evi dence: "The United States of America and his Majesty Edward VII being de Isirous Xo facilitate construction of a ship canal to connect the Atlantic and Pacific oceans, by whatever route may be considered expedient, and to re move any objection that may arise out or the Clayton-Bulwer treaty of 1850," etc. "By whatever- route" Is a fact of record. It Is a parallel of other facts over which , Germans stumble. Mr. Frank, who 'stated, "Wilson collapsed because England protested," ought to consider the fact that England did not protest to President Wilson. The pro test to Taiffs administration brought forth only a hair-splitting answer by Secretary Knox, on which Ameri can opinion did not support. Taft himself doubted the legality of tolls exemption to American coastwise ves sels. President Wilson had the back bone to clearly com out for what he 1 emptlSn' WV ded votedout "f Deuevea. rijnt. The fact that toll ex- the treaty at the time It was made ought to how ttie clear intent that vessel of all nations should be ac corded equal right. ' The single-term question can equally b disposed of by simply reading the facts. The Democratic plank urged an amendment to the constitution of the United States. This s up to a two third -vote of both houses of congress rnd three-quarters of th states. Whenever it Is passeill, the president Is thereby limited to one term. I have known many German people, and highly regarded them, but the small class of peddlers of bunk should be condemned, for it has no place In the United States. The Fatherland has told ua that the will of Cecil Rhodes provided "a secret society for the es tablishment of British rule throughout the world and the ultimate recovery of the United States as a part of the Brit ish empire." The tact that this is in the first will of a mere boy, no part of which is in the sixth and (probated will, was not published. The real will provides in perpetuity '300 per annum for three year at Oxford, two such scholarships for each state and territory of the United States, the student to be se lected on account of having true quali ties that will In after life cause them to esteem an interest in public affairs a citizen's highest aim. A codicil pro vides for students of German birth, the object being that "an understanding between nations will render war impos sible and educational relations make the strongest tie." Let us consider the facts, be honest with ourselves, dipcard falsehood, and not. as the Fatherland does, hang on to that which 1b so out of date. "An un derstanding between nations" certainly would eliminate war. Let us have the man for president who stands for this understanding and American ideals Woodrow Wilson. WILLIAM REEVES. The Naming nf Carry County. Ianglols. Or.. Aug. 4 To the Edi tor of The Journal Inasmuch as Tho Journal occupies first place In south west Oregon in the matter of cir culation and, therefore, of influence, it is the more important that it ge' southwest Oregon history straight in its columns. In his interesting, though nil too brief. Sketch, printed In the issue of August 1. Mr. Fred Lockley makes the by no means inexcusable error of supposing that the name "Curry" was given to this county In recogni tion of a pioneer family here or tnat name. The county was organized during the 1855-1856 session of the terri torial legislature, at which session Captain William Tichenor, discoverer of Port Orford harbor and founder of the town of Port Orford, was a mem ber of the house. I have in my library the Journals of both the council and the lower house of that session, from which I glean that in the house Mil setting this territory off from Com and Jackson counties, "Tichrnor" was the name given this new county. T''e bill was amended by the council's substituting "Curry" as the name of the new county; this in honor of Ter ritorials Secretary and Altnc Gov ernor George L. Curry, who had t here tofore ated a conspicuous rol in nil the enrlipr organizations and later on in Democratic politics. Following my arrival 1n Orppon In April. 1868. I became quite intimately acquainted with ex-Governor Curry. I met him in several Democratic state conventions, first at the one held at Albany In early spring In lr,4. Had Captain Tichenor Insisted on the name (which was altogether a fit one) given the new county in the aforesaid house bill, the house would have declined to concur in the council amendment, in which event this would have been Tichenor county. In stead of Curry countv. J. H. TJPTON. The Brother's Keener. Portland, Aug. 6. To the Editor of The Journal Not long ago, In fhe Once Ovaj- column. Rex Lampman wrote anent the birthday and money of John D. Rockefeller. It set me thinking which doesn't amount to much, except for the hope that some of the "regular fellows" who read that compelling truth might also be stirred to take thought for some of the many who are without the $8 per capita, as compared with Uncle John's J800.000, 000. And then, last Sunday, It was my privilege to hear a good preacher en large on the question asked by Cain after the killing of Abel, "Am I my brother's keeper?" And when I heard that sermon, the question entered my mind: Do Uncle John, and the others of old earth who are In high places financially, pass that question, asked in desperation by Cain? Am I my brother's xeeperT Yes, and I Must answer, on that great eternal day, to Him on blgn Who aits In Just and awfnl Judgment on na, one and all. His entldren, tiere on thia terrestrial bsll. Our acta, though hidden from tbe slf ht of men. Our thoughts, though tailed they ba from mortal ken, Otrr stewardship, In that great day, ben doubt ana fear, hrpocrlny. and an tha mirage .of tha devil's wllas. Hara by God graca been brushed twir, Replaced foreTermore by hesrenly amUaa, Must itand, confessed a failure there, before tha throne. If nerer fur our brother' a soul w't had a ear. If ba ahall any, " Through you I nerer of tha flaring power of Chrlat hare known" "Am I my brother's keeper?" Yea, and may we here and now Reglater on high, and ne'er forget. sacred TOW. Our brother so to keep, and tbe faith, fbrough flame and fire. That on that last treat day, our God may amy, "Well done, come tbou up higher." J. U. BENTON. Oregon Sandstone's Merits. Portland. Aug. 7. To the Editor of The Journal Oregon sandstone for the Portland postoffice has been called for and should by all means abe used in the construction of this building. Our enators 'and representatives in congress will undoubtedly lend their aid to this object Of using Oregon sandstone, thereby giving our stone cutters and mechanics, of which there are a number of good ones here, a chance to get steady work, and their earnings would remain her and bene fit the whole community. There are several very promising sandstone quarries in the state. One of these, located in Douglas county, in r articular has an inexhaustible sup ply Of a fine, b'.uish-gray sandstone, has a spur track from the quarry to the main line of the Southern Pacific railway, and has all necessary facili ties for immediate resumption of work. The tests of the stone rrom this quarry, made by the bureau of stand ards at Washington, prove the. superi ority of this stone in the following qualifications: The stone 1 uniform in color. It is absolutely fire and frost proof. It Will not deteriorate or get muddy or scaly on exposure. It ha a live, clean color and grows light er on exposure, and will never require any Cleaning or scrubbing, like the limestone used in several of our promi nent public buildings. The absorption of th tone is Only 1.65 per cent, which is a great factor In our Oregon climate. A. WALKER. Secretary Stonecutters' Union. Who the Real Spoilsmen Are, Portland. Or., Aug. S. To the Editor of The Journal The always unreason ab'e, partisan Qfegonesn, being unable N -criticise- th splendid efficiency rec ord of First Assistant Postmaster Gen- PERTINENT COMMENT SHALL CHANGE 1 . . ! However, some excitement may be Injected into the campaign when T. R gt'started. mm Oregon- corn crop shows that the state's prosperity la tasseling out to the tune of over a million. m m ' Portland's Chamber of Commerce Is 100 per cent right in assuming that waterways are valuable to tlio extent they are used. Automobile owner ought to under stand war financial problem. It Isn't so much the first coat as th upkeep that is importing Six Oregon crops are in the swollen fortune class, but. unlike some mil lionaires, they actually produced the wealth credited to them. m m The presumption is that the mar riage of Miss Coos Bay and Eugene lane at the Marshfleld railroad Jubilee will be a eugenic wedding. m Pendleton appears to be In dire need of a round-up. With all Protestant ministers out of town, Cupid has sent out an s. o. S. call for knot-tier. There are- rlgrns that Europe would like to trade its stock of nationalism, such as Mr. Hughes lauds, for sane citizensmp such as Am Wilson urges, m When Imperial Valley housewives nre induced by the president of a board of health to visit the soldiers' camp at Calexico to learn housekeep ing and sanitation, it doesn't look as though the health and comfort of our boys on the border are being neg lected. From the New Republic. When he looked forward into the future, Charles Evans Hughes fell Into pious words and utter vagueness. Though he devoted CO minutes of his speech to Mexico, no one knows today what his Mexican policy would be. It would be firm and friendly, he said, but we are none the wiser. He devoted about 10 minutes to the European war, said our Isolation was ended, and never indicated even In the barest outline the nature of the foreign policy which is to supplant isolation. He spoke of the economic struggle after the war, and the only specific Item he offered was a good old fashioned protective tariff. Tho real economic problem which peace will bring, the problem of a world divided into economic alliance, the most portentous problem of our own and the world's future, he. the man who would have to deal with It, never even mentioned.. Great is ef ficiency, and firmness Is a necessary virtue, but others have been both ef ficient and firm yet they have not necessa.rU y been wise. A statesman asking us to place with him the great trust of the presidency must do more than tell us he would do well whatever he did. He must ivo some hint at Kast of what he wouid do so well. This avoidance of any dangerous commitment for the futuie is due not only to Mr. Hughes difficult task or uniting the anti-Wilson vote. It is due n part to a native quality of his mind. which the speech revealed impres sively. Go behind any one of the sub jects he treated, with the exception perhaps of woman suffrage, and you find a commonplace set of assump tions. He assumed, for example, that our foreign policy rests on the main tenance of legal rights "everywhere. A little reflection will show this to eral Roper, resorts to infamous mis representation by saying in an edi torial: "As there are n more fourth class postmasters to fire, General Rop er has resigned to take on larger po litical activities in th coming cam paign." Will the editor of the Ore gonian name one fourth-clas post master In Oregon wh- has been fired, except for the embezzlement of govern ment funds or confessed incom petency? Of tho "00 fourth-cl.us post master in Oregon, will the Oregonian r.ame one that was not appointed strictly in ac ordance with th ; rules of the civil service commission? Al though the civil service commission allows the postmaster general the dis cretion of appointing as postmaster at a fourth-class office anyone of the three highest who pasned the civil service examination, in each and every case in Oregon the one highest on the list was appointed regardless of any politics or indorsements whatsoever. The Oresonlan has repeatedly lied to it reuders by saying time and agarin that the Wilson administration had not upheld the civil ervice laws. The Oregonian knows that of the 113 Republican presidential potmastr in Oregon that are not under civil serv ice, every slnglo one ha been allowed to serve more than his four years be fore his successor was commissioned. The Oregonian knows that at this very hour there are 10 Republican presi dential postmasters In Oregon whose terms have already expired, but who are still holding office under this ad ministration. The editor of the Ore gonian. who attacks th civil service record of the Wilson administration, knows that within SO days after Mc Kinley was Inaugurated in 187 he dismissed by wire every Democrat In office in Oregon who had supported Bryan in the campaign of 1896. The Oregonian knows that Democrat who had not served one-half of their four year terms were summarily discharged, without even a reason being glven4 to make places for th Republican spoils men of the McKlnley administration. The editor of the Oregonian know that the Wilson administration, mora than any other since the foundation of this government, has urheld the spirit and letter of the civil service law. As President Adams tiat up all night of his last day in office putting Fed eralists in office to block and ham string the incoming reform administra tion of hi successor, Thomas Jeffer son, so Taft, the standpatter, between November 25, 1912. and March J, 1911, covered over 60,000 government em ployes under civil service, not for the sake of civil service but to embarrass the incoming reform administration of Woodrow Wilson. The Oregonian' Idea of civil servic is a shield to retain on the payroll of th government Republican political hacks that never took a civil service examination but who have been cov eied Into the civil service by the ex ecutive order of a Republican president after he has been defeated for reelec tion, and for tho purpose of blocking a succeeding reform administration that is striving for efficiency in gov ernment. Was there ever such abandoned prostitution to falsehood as that of the Copperhead editor of the Oregon ian when h writes of the attitude of th Wilson administration towards civil ervice? H. SCHULTZ. Ships' Capacities. Woodburn, Or.. Aug. 6. To the Editor of The Journal Please answer the following questions through your paper: What Is the length and what is the breadth of the steamship Min nesota, and what is her cargo ca pacity in tons, and also the cargo In tons of ome of the big Atlantic steamships? Th reason I ask is that I had an argument about them. My .opponent said the German subma- THE HUGHES ACCEPTANCE i! AND NEWS IN BRIEF OREGON SIDELIGHTS a manual training building S0x3S feet Is under construction on the public school grounds at Fossil. PennU --who wtre kicking for ome hot weather are still kicking, but not for hot weather." is a weather obser vation in the Burns News. Seaside' eighth annual dahlia show lures visitors with this slogan: "Sea side for pleasure, rest and repos; l?or you In Seaside a dahlia grows." Promoters of luene' first dahlia show, a very successful affair, have decided to call a meeting of growvrs for -the purpose of forming a Dahlia club. The public bathing pool at Grants Pass is well patronixed. The water is getting fine now 6& degrees and last 1 Sunday the people came on In in crowds. m inston spoke. Real estate boot in Blue Mountain American: "Two Sumptcr valley farms -and said Mr. ilsru, ought to be sold in a week is going some. Valley arid undoubtedly would be re farms are more and mors being recog- elected. nlzed as to their value." "Baker county." says the Baker Her ald, "is the only big county of Oregon having a fair this year. Umatilla and Union having, decided to rest. Thus the Eastern Oregon fair may be given here after all." Former residents of southern states who are npw residing at Ashland, have formed the Dixie association. The pur pose of the organization' is to hold an annual outing and to provide for the entertainment of prominent people from the south who happen to be in Ashland. The first of a long line of annual picnic is in progress today. be a hollow position, for not all "rights" are of equal value.iior can all of them be maintained at the "same time. No practical statesman ever up held all national rights. Every states man has dealt with something greater than rights, that is to say with his conception of national policy and in terest. He has subordinated the rights of Individual citizens to the future of his country's International relations. It is mere legal dogmatism and diplo matic naivete to talk of right a if they were absolute. Mr. Hughes ha not y$t Justified the faith of liberals. Dominant American ism, whatever that may be. remains a phrase and a hand-me-down from Mr. Roosevelt. No policy for the nation's future gives content to it. The serlou question of the relations between labor and capital, a question which peace will exasperate, Mr. Hughes left in the complete darkness of mere good will. All that stands out is an able in dictment, not always imaginative, and a demonstration that Mr. Hughes un- j derstand th meaning of admlnistra- i tion. It I not enough The vote for prrs dent has become so significant under our system of government that It mount almost to the election of a die- fetor for four years. We trust our fu ture to the president practically without effective check or criticism upon hl-n. cannot be satisfied with an exhibition of honesty and a bend toward f - flciency. They have to know th main lines of policy which lnsoire the, ar- biter of their destiny. They cannot take even Mr. Hughes on faith, Thev cannot trust him merely because ho builds up a strong indictment in cool I deliberation after the fact. For if ne becomes president he will be dealing with th present and the future. rlne Deutschland carried th largest cargo of any boat afloat. BERT WINFREY. The Minnesota Is 822 feet long, 73.5 In breadth and 41.6 feet In depth. It carries 25,000 ton of cargo and is the largest of the freighters. Tha Aqultanla, If used for freight alone, could carry 45,000 tons. The Mauri tania could carry S2.000 tons and the Caronla 22,000. Vessels of tonnage between 10,000 and 20,000 are numer ous. The Deutschland carried about 1000 tons, and must have been loaded to safe capacity. It also carried a crew of 29 men The Blustering "Foreman. Portland, Aug. 7. To the Editor of The Journal Being a regular reader of your paper, I was much lnte-ested in your editorial artlcl of August 3, on "Boiled Men.'' Now, regarding thl case of O'Pon nell and Otto at the Union Meat com pany's works, I do not know the par ticulars, but this I do know that any employer or manager of any business or Industry who" allows a foreman to a, I any man under his charge a liar or in any way abuse hi asoclateB is not a fit man to run any business, and the oonr he get out the better. M. A. EL.vIN. Sociology in the Ad. From the Boston Herald. That delightful book, "A Summer In Skye," by Alexander Smith, wa pul llshed in 18C5. In it the author tells of reading, on a windy, rainy day, odd volumes of the old Monthly Review, "dingy literary catacombs," dated at the end of the Eighteenth century. The advertisement sheets had been bound up with the' magazine proper.N "And Just as the" tobaccoles man whom we met at the entrance to Glen Hllgachan smoked the paper in which Ids roll of pigtail had been wrapped, so when I had finished th criticisms, I attacked the advertisement, and found them much th more amusing reading. Might not the magazine-buyer ef today fol low the example of the unknown isles man? Depend..upon it, to the reader of the next century the advertising sheets will be more Interesting than the poetry or the essay or the stor ies." This was written when the pages of advertisements In magazines were not anywhere so numerous, nor wer they so fully Illustrated, if they were lllu- trated at all. Was it not Klnllno- who In this country threw away the pages I , ... i , . . . ' ... .1 of literary matter nd eagerly read hft advertisements? The student of1 sociology a hundred yearn from now yes, i0 years from now will study the advertisements In magazines as Important documents. He will throw away the pages of puffs by publishers of books, but will study carefully the advertisements of plumbers'; motor-car makers, tailors, makers of hosiery and collars, and of others that supplied wants, real or fancied. In the life of men and women. Getting BometWg Done. From Collier's Weekly. The king of th hard rock men in this country 1 said to be Pat O'Neli of Seattle, whose gang has driven a rail road tunnel through Alaskan granite at the rat of a foot an hour for months at a stretch. This is hi expla nation an to what th scholar call methodology: "I'm an American and I'v worked in hard rock most all over America. So far as thia making a record at th Gstlneau mine 1 concerned, we had Ideal rock to work In. The men wer working six hour shifts: that was one thing made it go fast. They got good pay: 18 and S9 a day and a bonus for everything ovr 850 foot. Th bonus had a lot to do with it" Pat ha left hlmaelf out of tb picture, but the reat all there. . TKQnce Oer BY RFIX 1 .AMPMAN TUESDAY NIGHT at the Portland hotel I heard a flood of Demo cratic orator). Not that It wns necessary at alj to go to the Portland hotel fo that purpose. because in the work which the esteemed city editor expects ine to do every day I meet a number of Dcniocrntlo office-holders. and they're nil getting ready for the campaign Mils ruil and they're prncti'-ing on me. just as though the lito of the nation depended on it. U But as I was savlnir I went m Woodrow Wilson banquet last night i . , J And K. H. Richards of Grantu Poss ills., spoke. and said he was lio'n in Lou'siana. and had always been a Democrat. and cyuildn't he anything else. and he couldn't see why anyone should villi for anybody except Woodrow Wilson -this fall. J And Mrs. Sylvia Thompson ot The Dulles also spoke. and agreed with the other speak ers. only mote ho. with particular emphasis on Ann Morgan daughter of the late J. Pierpont Morgan. who Mrs. Thompson said was working for Hughes. hecntife President Wilson passed the Federal rescrw hanking law. that took the control of the. na tion's money out of the hands ot Wall street. J And we nil cheered .and threw the table decora t Ions at Mrs. Thomp son. J And then Kernel Ram White spoktt. and apologised for being the last speaker. and said he wns going to he brief and surprised everybody by keeping his promise. JAnd in hu-twern these speakers Dr. C. J. Stnilli spoke earnestly. and kept us guessing who wm going to .speak next. which seems to be, what a toast master is for. J And I sat between Judge Thomas C. Burke Mr. Wilson's collector of customs. and Herman Wise ,Mr. Wilson' postmaster lit Astoria. and we all agreed that he ought to be reelected. and that Hughes hasn't a chinca. and ought to withdraw. J And neither Kernel Robert Miller nor k'frni.l Milt,,., A Mill., i i ,iu,,d ao no,,""y knows -perhaps . i , nl f,lrli,fr reasons might have been I ativeti for Mr. Wilsons reelection. sj And Postmaster Myers sat Jnit down the table. and he was taking notes and of course I don't know. hut I'm going over to the post office now. to sib ir there's tiny news -and J D1STEX Unless j mistook hi symptoms last night - he's going t make another ri'iging oVut ton -In fuvor rW Woodrow Wilson. THE CAUSE OF PEACE Hy Kalpli WkI.I., Kim-rami. 'T'HE cause of pe,are la not th csusa of ccvardioe. If pear, a) soufht to be defended or preserved for tli safety of tha luxurious and the timid, it Is a sbsm. aa4 tha pases will be baas. War is bet tar, and the peace will bs broken. If feace is to be maintained it must be by rays men, who have come up to the sam helfbt aa the hero, namely, th wl to carry their life In their hand, and stake it at any Instant for their principle, but who bays (ona on step Beyond th bro. and wiU nut seek another rnan's life mea who hay, by their intellectual insight, or eisa ay tneir morsi eieration, attained such a perception f their own Intrinslo worth, that they do not think property or their own body a sufficient good to be aared by such dereliction of principle aa treating a man lika sneep. Remarkable Bemark. Frsm tbe .New York I nriapendent. Woodruw Wllfon I am bj lnstlnrt a tradier i K. Chesterton I nerer rlnlm for my oplnl'ins the vtro of liiuiartlnllly. l.llllsn Hussell The lnlclllei of th exireaKlon depend on tli arch of tbe eye brows. Chancellor yon Itr-tlunsnn-Tliiliyeg Wa are the most democrat lo gorcrntnent In the world. Washington (Jlndden Eacb nation mot bsre Ha own God; religion la a purely ethical affair. Kd. Howe I know of a woman who writes for the papers and rails herself Sunshine Mary. Moral: Iter da uf titer lately ran away from horn. Farewell to Kj Old BMpmat, Baady Weir. Farewell, oil lilimal; Yi Iibto sailed on To that far and distant shore Prom which no ea!l..r can retorsi To eall lift'a a-aa bu more. You esll'd o'er n-sny a a'ormy as tin a e.ild and ilanireri.ua shora, I)nt you hr.d faith, with hope, '! etfr j-o'jr alifp Toward a ssfi-r slior. A sailor with Ma hop In Christ To fulda Mul O'er life's aoa. Can aatl his ship to the home port And when safely anchored there nn furl his falls snd rest. -Written by W. II. Hardy. July 27. 191. eWlf-Buf flciency. O, the Joy of many solflioixi: To" be aarrll to none, to defer to none, no, to any tyrant, known r unknown: To walk with erect cjiirlnue, a step aptidfy ' , ""d !"!!"'', , j To "J. wl,h vt,m ""4 "r wl,h To apeak with a full, sonorous role out of a broad cheat: "tronl with your personality all tha other prujns it lea of the earth, Walt Whitman t.'ncle) Jeff Snow Hays: A scientific feller wa telling me t'other day that men only use ha'f their brains, and I told him from evi dence I had heard he wa 40 per cent too high In Ms figures in most cases. My son, who failed at trying to sell life insurance, has went Into the chicken business. Barrel Stave Came In Handy. ACOLOP.ED woman and her twd young son recently arrived Ir North Portland from the rural wild of Houth Carolina, Her relative wel comed h.er with raptur characteristic of th colored people and highly com plimented her cm the well behaved offspring. "Vou sure have raised tho boy well, Aunt MandT said on of hr niece. "I would like mighty wU to know how you made uch a ucca of the task." Thu repeatedly asked for her receipt .in mlslng boys, h finally gave the secret away. "I don raised dam boy wif a barrel stave. and I kep' it bandy and used it Dln- tiful and prayerfully, an' I got It yt (an dey mighty well know It."