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G THE OREGON DAILY JOURNAL, PORTLAND, , SATURDAY, J SEPTEMBER 2,. 1916. AW INDEPKItDKirT WieWSPAPHIt. c a. JACKSOtiL,,,..;.... .rabiiafce fubllsbrd every say.- afterooos mI ifpt Sunday efteraoos), at Thi ulldlsf, Broadway, and XambUl The Journal Streets, avriiaDa. va uttered at tbs postotflro at ifartlaod. Or., for - . treaeniaaloa Urougfe tbe Blla aa eeonea la-LtrUONlCM Uatu 71T3t Horn; A-S1. , AH departments readied by itbeae utnbere. Tall tb operator vfcat department yoa waat. aruHUiUN AOVKiiTiSINU Hki-KHk.N t ATI V , Baalim In Keotsor C., Bmoswics Bldg.. tn rink i.. v vrk iaia fsoola'a ties IUd., Chtrago. , SabMrlptiM tarme kr Mil or ta any addrea la UM unites state or Mexico: SUNDAT. ' ' One year.. S2.60 I una mnath .29 DAILX (ktOBNlNQ OR AFTERNOON) AND - - Oa roar ST JO I One month M America, aikt notfatng for baraalf nnt arbat be bat a rlgbt to ask for hnmanlty ttaelf. WOODBOW WILS0.1. Millions for dfeti, but not a cent tar trtbota. CHARLES C. Pl.NCK.VKT. ' No person can draw la Ita trtie color tha portrait of war. It la all ertrenie. all hor bla, all dertliab. It la a alglit lufflcteut ly odloas sad repulslr, to are two man quarrel and fight, ra without any In tention of killing; hut when thousands, on eaeli alda, meet for tha known purpoae of killing earb otber to aee tbem. by tbooaaoda, dashed tu pieces by rannoa balls, and grspeshot, pierced by muskst bullets, cut down by iivorus. transfixed by bayonet, crushed by carriages, and tram, pled by horaea to bpr tbelr a-roans and artea. their euraea and cxecratloua to aee them rushing on with fury, or retreating with precipitation and despair presents a eena which cannot b reached by tongue, pesv or pencil. WhJpley. FOK WAR H: K. ROOSEVELT'S sneech In Maine was a war speech. As- Balling President Wilson's Mexican policy, he said The) taking- of Vera Cruz was war. It was a warwhlch was abandoned ignobly. It, as Colonel Roosevelt insists, , we should have gone on and cap tured the city of Mexico and sub dued the country, we could have done It. Senator Penrose says he could take an army of 10,000 men and capture the city of Mexico in six weeks. Joseph Cannon declared on the floor of the house that we should and could capture the City Of Mexico, set tip a military gov eminent and hold the country until order la restored. If, after occupying Vera Cruz, we had determined upon subjugating ' Mexico,' as Mr. Roosevelt insists Wt) Should, we would have besieged ana captured the capital. ' We would have stormed and carried very Mexican city. We would nacre overrun ana subdued every Mexican Btate. We would have feized every Mexican railway, and i posted soldiers along every track to defend it against, bandits ' Oar soldiers would have marched . through Mexican Jungles, sword and rifle in hand, and hunted down bandit oands in the depths of Mex 'lean canyons and Mexican forests. They would have trudged the burn lag , sands and blazing sun under which, hundreds of American boys la Pershing's column .fell prostrate with thirst and heat. In time, the American flag would have floated oyer every district and corner of our sister republic Wo would have posted American soldiers on every height and in very Valley and kept them there v Indefinitely. They would, in fact still be there, though it is more than two years since the American ; sailors tended at Vera Cruz Of course, it would have meant calls for volunteers. The little flurry that we recently had when ; fuardsmen were se,nt to the border 1 would have been only a beginning President Tart's estimate waa that 600,000 men at a cost of a million dollars a day, would have been re- quirea ror a period of years to ' make military Intervention In Mex lco effective. To raise such a fbr:e . might have compelled us to resort to the draft in order to secure enough men. We know from what he says that If Colonel Roosevelt had been pres ldent we should have done all these things. We know that Mr. Hughes : attacks on President Wilson as to Mexico lead to nothing else than the conviction that as president Mf.. Bushes would do. all these things.-. ' Wo know that Mr. Penrose would have done all these things We know that Joseph Cannon :, would ' have done all these things s We know, in fact, that beneath I the- surface In all these attacks on President Wilson as to Mexico there is bat one loglzal conclusion and that la that there is a purpose . and desire by a Strong element in this-country to Invade and subju gate "r Mexico, and that after elec tion, if Mr Wilson should be de feated, his 'defeat would be called a repudiation ot his Mexican policy and bo . pointed to aa Instructions from the American people to make war on Mexico. ThT taking offset of tho order abolishing certain favorable termi nal rates fori Portland has been postponed until December. A fight secured the change. . A flgfit would also give Portland and' tho' interior relief from discriminatory freight rates In which they pay over-mountain haul rates over a water snide and shorter distance route. But there .toast he fighters. . Colonel Roosevelt says it was war when we occupied Vera Cruz, and that we acted "ignobly" when we did not so on and complete that war hy snbduing Mexico. Per haps, but lots of fathers and moth ers in America are glad that their sons are still at, the family flro side instead of in soldiers' graves on the hilltops and plains of Mex ico. A POLITICAL BUSYBODY HAT Portland Chamber of Commerce official is re sponsible for the following denial Respecting the cham ber's action relative to the. railroad strike in a local newspaper story? It waa denied at the Charriber of Commerce that the resolution was distributed generally, or that It un dertook to advise smaller chambers or business individuals to urge ' the president in the arbitration matter. Why the denial? In the Klamath Falls Herald of August 25 appears the following self explanatory news article: Seeking the aid of Klamath oounty to secure arbitration of the railroad wage controversy, the Portland Cham ber of Commerce - yesterday tele graphed to Klamath Commercial club; asking the local club to appeal to President Wilson. It also asks that Klamath county stockmen, farmers and dairymen send personal telegrams to the president, appealing to him to stand for arbitration. The telegram received from Port land follows in full: & "Kindly telegraph President Wilson today urgently requesting him tto stand for arbitration of . the entire issue of the trainmen's wage contro, versy, without reservation or limita tion. The principle of full arbitration should be supported in a question of such national importance. This prin ciple should be established, regard less of the merits of the present IsRue and should govern everything now pending;. Also, will you today urge represen tative farmers, stock breeders and dairymen to send similar personal tel egrams to the president? Please send us copies of " today's telegrams by malt tonight, and please wire to us collect copies of all tele grams sent tomorrow. "Tha emergency Is great, and Im mediate action may help to secure so lution fair to employes and railroads, shippers and the public. Oregon is peculiarly dependent upon railroad service to market her products, espe cially as no other shipping facilities are available." Secretary Fred Fleet of Klamath Commercial club Bent a telegram to President Wilson as requested by the Portland body. He Is-seeing local men today to apprise them of the request from Portland. Let us not question the motive back of the Portland chamber's ac tion in this matter. In charity, let ub assume that in mistaken zeal; the chamber thought it was acting for the publj.0 welfare. In mercy. let us pass over the above deniaf, the falsity of which is abundantly proven; In its own resolution and in its requests to other chambers, the Portland chamber pretended to be for arbitration. What is arbitration? What was going on in the White House day by day during the railroad negotia tions but arbitration, with the pres ident as arbitrator? As the New York World Bays on this page, it was certainly arbitration, in fact, if not in form. For many days and nights the trainmen and the railroad chiefs each presented their respective 6ldes at great length. The presi dent sat in Judgment. After hear ing the facts and listening to the arguments, the president mado what seems a fair proposal. What is that but arbitration? The railroads say the eight hour day is impracticable. The men say it Is not." After many patient hear ings of the arguments of both. President Wilson says, try It out and see whether It is practicable or not, having practical and compe tent Judges appointed to decide. If that is not arbitration, what is arbitration? If arbitration was not actually In progress when the Portland Chamber of Commerce was embarrassing President Wilson with ita busybody interference, what was in progress? So excellent was the president as an arbitrator that there is now every reason to believe that con gress will adopt his recommenda tions and the strike be averted. It it so turns out, the president's ar bitration- will not only be arbltra tlon but. an approximation of com pulsory arbitration Could the ar bitration thePortland Chamber of commerce was busying Itself with have done better or accomplished more? There are too many' men In the Portland Chamber of Commerce who, In their own convictions are possessed of all the qualifications of a president of the United States. Too many of them have an obses sion that they knpw better how to run the government than does the chosen representative of the Ameri can people, selected in a regular and lawful election to do the Job. This would be less objectionable were It not for the fact that the direction in -which 'the Portland chamber always wants to run the government of the, United States Is in the direction peculiarly suited to the welfare of special interests. In Its recent course respecting ar bitration the chamber did exactly what tho railroads wanted done. It was action that only served to stiffen the resistance of tho rail road chiefs to President Wilson's proposals, and. only made more dis tressing , the trying problem on which Mr. Wilson waa . then gaged,and which now seems in i a fair way of solution. In spite of the mischievous meddlings and per nicious ' opposition of, the Portland Chamber of Commerce. . ; : s - 7' ; The present admitted decadence of the Portland Chamber of Com merce Is due to the farH that it In sists on making Itself a political busybody. The Colonel's Maine speech was a bugle call to war. All the criti cisms of President Wilson's Mexi can and. foreign policy in which it is alleged that he should have used "deeds, not words," are bugle calls to war. BELASCO'S WAY w HEN David Belasco opened his theatres In New York so many manuscript plays were sent him for approval that he could not find time even to glance at tbem. He tells about this In The Saturday Evening Post. To prevent his being swamped with manuscripts "Mr. Belasco opened a iPlay bureau, as he calls it, and em ployed "competent readers" to take the trouble off his hands. To this bureau were sent some four or five thousand new plays every season and its benevolent mission continued for several years. But during hat whole time, says Mr. Belasco, "and ,in spite of the thousands of manuscripts sent to it, I never found one which I dared to produce." Whose was the fault? Was it the authors' or Mr. Belasco's? Why is it that in other countries plays are constantly being written which are worth producing while itf tho United States out of thousands and tens of thousands, written year after year, not a solitary one is of any account? Mr. Belasco's tale is incredible. That is the long and short of it. He must have received during those years a great many plays which were genuine works of genius. No doubt dozens of them were far superior to any of the "trash he gave the public. Why were they all rejected? They were rejected because Mr. Belasco, like most ,of our other "great producers," thinks of the theatre in terms of wood, Iron and paint. To him a play is' not an appeal from the mind of the authorj, to the imagination of the spectator. Nothing of the sort. It is a collection of furniture, stage illusions and fashionable gowns. His art is nothing in the world but a 6todgy imitation of commonplace reality. Mr. Belasco has evidently done his full part, according to his own account, to smother originality in tne American tneatre. He re counts his deadly work with a smirk of complacency, but to any body who cares for dramatlo art and wants to Bee ,tbe stage of the United States come up to the stand ard of the German or Russian the story is tragic. SUPPLY AND DEMAND F ATHER O'HARA says in his pamphlet, "A Living Wage by Legislation," that he has "listened to an eloquent law yer pleading in one of our 'courts that Just as the price of hogs at the slaughter house is regulated hy the law of supply and demand, so likewise the same law should be allowed freely to control tho wages of our women workers." Lawyers Just as eloquent have argued that the law of supply and demand should be permitted to control the" wages of all workers. The law of supply and demand Is an "economia law." in other wprds, it is a "law of nature" and therefore these legal 6ages tell us we ought to bow to 1$, worship it, and never do anything to avert :lts horrible consequences. The laws of nature once brought a famine upon the land of Egypt but luckily for that country it had a Joseph who did not feel obliged to idolize Insensate nature. He had sense enough to set aside the law of sup ply and demand and provide for human needs. The minimum wage law of Ore gon is a wise contrivance for mod ifying the law of supply and de mand In the labor market. Just as a turbine water wheel modifies the action of 'gravitation at a cataract. Gravitation left to Itself would pour the flood down over the rocks forever uselessly. The inventor In tervenes and makea the law of na ture serve human needs. So the minimum wage law overcomes mur derous nature and turns evil to good. , Most of the good things In civil ization have been attained by op posing and modifying the laws of nature. That is what God gave us intelligence for. The beasts submit passively to nature. Eco nomic law la Just as rampant In the animal world as in the world of man. Tho beasts yield to it Men rise superior to it. That Is the . Biff erence between the sub human world and the world that contains a Brandels, a Josephine Goldmark and. here and there, a Father O'Hara. Is it fair that from Inland Em pire points 230 or 240 miles from Portland grain should be hauled through Portland to Astoria, 100 mllea farther, at the same rate as to Portland? How can that propo sition, be defended? r - The North Pacific Lumber . com . " . U1W1!IV;"UUUUU. In , its operations it has had ; the benefit of long . hours and low wages for its workmen and of vir gin forest trom whica to draw Its supply of raw material. With all these advantages, its management has not kept the Institution afloat" But its secretary and manager held a mass meeting yesterday, a mass meeting comprising 33 persons, and has protested to president and congress against legislation ' to set tle the strike. It protests against hasty legislation. "Hasty" legis lation! Yet 4S "hours of strike would harm the country more than five years of increased freight rates, even if increase be neces sary, couid possibly cost the public. Letters From the People (CommoaicatKma sent to Tbe Journal to. publication In atbla department aoooid be writ ten on only on alda af tne paper, abould not exceed 800 words la length, and Boat be ac companied by tbe same and address of tbe tender. If the writer does not daeire to ee Um name pobuabed be abould so etata.J t'Dlacoaalon la tbe greateat of all Beformere. It ratlonalUeg everything It toucb.es. It robe brloclDles of all false sanctity and tbrows theia Lack op their reaaooableoeaa. If tbey hare no reasons blencaa. It rutnieaiy craan unu of exlatence aod acta up ita own conclusions la their stead." Wood row Wilson. Says Socialists Rejoice. Portland, Aug. 31. To the EUitor of The Journal The cartoon in the Ore gonian of the bewhlskered gentleman sitting on the railroad track over a precipice, expounding to "Uncle Sam" his sleepy unpreparedness for the rail way trainmen's strike, with the engine rounding the curve Just above, which Is sure to hurl them into eternity, is true, to a dot, of the Republican party's management of our economic affairs during all the years since tbe civil war. The real socialist is now having his inning. He knows that It Is Im possible to harmonize labor and cap- Hal under private management. lie foresees that there is no limit to de mands, already forecast, that will be made bv other railroad employes, roi lowed by combinations of all - other Drlvate and s corporation employes. In all other public utilities. The collapse of capitalism, as pic tured in "The Dream of Debs," by i certain magazine writer, of a general strike, has proved Ki erriclency. , ine doom of competition, in an address by Francis E. Willard in 1S97 is given in the following language: "I be lieve competition is doomed. The trust, whose single object is to abol ish competition, has proved that we are better off without it than with It. What the socialist desires Is that the corporation of humanity should con trol all production, Including distrl bution." The day of revolution from capital ism to socialism is at hand. Socialism is the only remedy for such calamities as war, whether economic or military Not the mealticket, soapbox, dynamite agitator sort of socialism that shall come as Jonah's gourd, by Instantan eous revolution, but, to quote Miss Willard, again, "by the process of leg-1 lslatlon," as all socialist party plat forms demand. The true socialist rejoices in the shadows that are forecast In the advent of socialism from any quarter, From government -ownership of rail roads it Is not a long distance to government ownership of all monopol ized public utilities. From govern ment ownership to public collective ownership is but a short step for an enlightened public mind to order- by the ballot.. With the elimination of profit taking from public utilities, in production, etc., and no place left for capital to Invest Its hoarded gold, tho cancellation of all bonded indebtedness through inheritance and Income taxes will lead the way through the social ist party platform demands to the overthrow of the profit system .nd the inauguration of socialism interna tionally. C. W. BARZEE. The Cigarette Considered. Portland. Aug. 31. To the Editor of The Journal It Is with regret that I read in The Journal today an ac count of a delegation of the W. C. T. U. calling on our state authorities in regard to convicts and cigarette smoking. It Is regrettable that women will waste theiT time, energy and ability on such an errand. Earlier in the day I listened with delight to the address of the gentle man at tbe Anti-Saloon league lunch eon. I know many estimable mem bers In the W. C. T. U.. from the late Mrs. Stevens down to our local work ers, and I know the splendid work these women have done. But why this misguided tirade against the lit tle cigarette? This is a scientific question. Science has proved many times In the last third of a century that of all forms of .tobacco the ciga rette is the least harmful in itsolf. This is the order: The cigarette, the cigar, tbe pipe. Conservation is a great word, and becoming greater every year. Why waste? Why not conserve this energy, exploded against the least harmful form of tobacco, and utilize It for bigger game? Is there no more evil in the world? Is there not any. more suffering? Are there not souls sittinir in,aarKness7 Are there not humans yearning for some form of help, moral. spiritual or material? Why then take up such a trifle as smoking ciga rettes? Better start eliminating the pipe, if there are to be "regulations. ERNEST BARTON. Favora the Water Meter. Portland, Aug. 81. To the Kditor of The Journal There Is much said In regard to the use of water meters In this city. While so many projects and expenditures are going on that are profitable. It is surprising how any well meaning person can afford to op pone the use of meters In the water department. The meter, under present arrangement, allows a reasonable amount of water for, an ordinary fam ily. Including1 some for flowers and yard,' at 60 cents per month. I have used water two or three years from a meter, with four in family, bath and email lawn, and seldom pay extra.. If people use more they should pay for it,: Undoubtedly, many people iave large quantities of water they do not pay for. where there is no meter. If the noise. of ten heard In the back yards late at night is- not delusive. Of course, all publlo utilities have soma deadheads, who pay nothing. Not long ago a pipe was discovered that had been furnishing free water 17 year. If all had meters there would be no rea son for complaint. JOHN M. .PATNB. Compares Oregon's liquor Bills. McMlnnville, Or., Aug. 80. To ths Editor of The Journal I notice In the paper this evening that It is estimated that $400,000 has been sent out 'from Portland for Imported beoze since Jan uary 1, .That lavs big gain, although it Is likely -4x be used by the wets to bolster op the. brewers' amendment. -It is a fact, however, that when Portland was at her wettest, $9,000,000 Was sent out of the city annually for booze. Tha prohibition condition will th.r.fA.. . V A tA ' .t.l. ,-' a Vim . I J8.400.000 annually If the present eoav- lt1 mntlim I dli w win vote-ill X No, to defeat ths brewers amendment, and SI I X Yes to I pass the prohibition amendment. - . ; CURTIS P. COB. "Can Such Things BoT' '. From ths Benton County- Courier. if the newspaper stories from Salem are .true, or half tree, there are de plorable conditions In the penitentiary, and a half of tbem must be true or Governor Wlthyeombe would never have stated the prison waa on the verge of mutiny, and asked that a com mission make an Investigation. Will T. Kirk, a special newspaper writer for the Journal, says both filth and vice ars forced upon the state penitentiary through lack of adequate facilities and accommodations and that these conditions are the foundation of the oft-repeated assertion that when a prisoner enters the gates ol the peni tentiary he goes to his moral death, no matter bow clean a llfo he may have led. He states Uhat conditions of degen eracy are common in the pe$. condi tions that are unfit to be printed. Secretary of State Olcott and Treas urer Kay are not waiting for a com- misison to be named, but they are in vestigating the matter. The state prison should not degen erate into a hell-hole. If these condi tions exist, and it-is because 600 men are caged into accommodations of 300, then the governor should open the gates and drive out 200 of them. Certainly a rousing investigation should be made and these awful con-! ditlons abated, it they exist. j and many otherwise. m Confinement is the state's punish-1 Eastern and southeastern Oregon are ment Making degenerates and beasts to be invaded by a flying squadron of the men is not the right of the state' talking tax limitation and rural cred homllni, ,hn,,id pa that it shoal.i- t,s- and tho chances are good that no and humanity should see that it shoalcr ff t wm b made t repei th8 lnvad- not be permitted. . i -r- And I, oan't help but ad this: Oh, for an Oswald West In the governor's chair. He wouldn't ask for an inves tigating committee. T The Texas Primary. From tbe Okiahoman. ' Senator Culberson of Texas, was renominated In Saturday's primary. He defeated his opponent, former Gov ernor Colquitt, by a large vote, esti mated at 75,000. There has been unusual interest in this contest. Senator Culberson was the Wilson administration's candidate Governor Colquitt was avowedly anil Wilson. Besides, the racial element entered Into this election In a manner new to American politics. Colquitt's platform was German -American. A considerable German-American pro paganda was conducted In Colquitt's behalf. He appealed to the German American vote. And he got it, accord ing to the returns, carrying every Ger man county in the state. Colquitt has also been a severe crltio of the Wilson administration's Mexi can policy. In that role he might be said to have been the Republican can didate. Had ho won. the result would have been an occasion for Republican rejoicing throughout the nation. It Lwould have been hailed as the nearest thing to a Republican victory that Is possible in Texas. But Texas has stood by President Wilson, it has indorsed the nrfcsl- dent's Mexican policy, and the Indorse. ment Is something more than the voire of party regularity. It is an informed, authentlo indorsement. The bonier state, living side by side with ih Mexican problem, has spoken its d- ! tproval of the president's steadfast purpose to deal fairly with Mexico. The renomlnatlon of Senator Cul-i berson therefore, is far more than a ! deserved tribute to a capable, faithful public servant. It la far more than a factional victory: The Texas ver dict Is a reouke to the selfish inter ests that would exploit Mexico and It is a repudiation of the un-American hyphen in American politics. The Superficial Ag. From Collier's Weekly. The most striking characteristic of this age some observers say is Its amazing disregard of the past. We live In the present of art, of litera ture, of history. Nobody quotes any more at least not exactly and prec edent is rarely Invoked on any ques tion. Accurate verbal statement of any question is unusual. The dally that is to say, the hourly editions of the newspapers the never-ending moving pictures, the rapid-fire book and magazine presses are united to de stroy memory and prevent reflection. Discussion -is of the topical, the min ute, and serious words are a bore. All ft which means that in our rebound Trom old-fashioned pedantry we have fallen Into an almost ldlotio superfi ciality of memory and emotion. What is to be the end of all this memory- destroying art? Any man of middle age can test in himself this decay of the faculty of exact reproduction of past learning, past perception. Names of books and of authors are bungled in the telling, figures are given with reckless slovenliness, and only tha vaguest outline of any philosophic principle gets representation. No doubt these facts make for the elimination of "the old fogy" and the deification of the moving-picture actress, but it may also be putting out of conversa tion something we can 111 afford to lose. It may be that this superficial habit will eliminate the city boy from the government of the world more completely in the future than in the past. Out of the silences out of ne ditation will come .the rulers of the futures, of that we may be certain. 'Safety First" at Homo. From the Indianapolis News. The "Safety first" movement Is or dinarily understood to mean caution In public, In crossing streets or board ing cars, or carefulness In the factory in handling tools or machinery, but, according to the reports of the coroner of Cook county, Illinois, there is more need for "safety first" methods in the home than in street or factory. In 11 years of the Chicago coroner's in cumbency the total number of deaths by accident Investigated by his office was 29,864. or tnese i&.2i were "ac cidents at home" and 14,621 "outside the home." Most of tbe accidents at home are traceable to carelessness. Burns and scalds caused many deaths. Asphyxia-' tions, poisoning, sCff oca tlon, falls, ex posure and neglect, careless use of matches, firearms, gas and oil stoves, gasoline, liquid stove polish, defective stove pipes and flues, soot. etc.. cost thousands of Uvea. In Cook county In 1916, 105 children under five years ot age were killed by scalds and burns. The Xew Jerusalem. From the London Chronicle. Should the kingdom of Jerusalem be revived, the new monarch will find a capital wilch has been modernised In many Ways. .Two years ago the mu nicipality of Jerusalem granted con cessions for the electric lighting of the city and for the construction of four electric tramways, Including on from? Jaffa gate to Bethlehem and an other along the Damascus road to the head of the valley of ehoaaphat. Steps nave also been taken to con struct waterworks, although when ths Baroness Burdett-Coutts offered to spend 28,000 pounds on this much needsd Improvement, provided ths mu nicipality rated tbe money for their upkeep, her offer was declined. . , , Economy. : -'''':.. From' Judge. ' ,Pop. what do we mean try economy f "Spending money in such s, war as VkA tA rat atnv fim ai6 If mw s PERTINENT COMMENT SMALL CHANGE If money talks, Portland's increased bank clearings are hollering "Prosper ity!" If South Carolina again wants Cole Blease for governor, it is South Caro lina that will b.va to elect him. It looks as though General Prosper ity maynot have to guard against a flank attack on Labor-day. That deplorable'af fair at Lima, Ohio. Is further evidence that the north is much the same as the. south When In flamed py the mob spirit. A Portlander having been elected head of tha dancing masters, Portland may now be expebted to head the list of those who pay the piper. Another way to serve one's country Is to divert some portion of pin or cigar money Into the voluntary cam paign fund for the man in ths Whits House. Reports from down there Indicate that Astoria is too busy having a good time to worry about such mundane things as common-point rates ami the cost of gasoline. Profits of more than a mlllon dollars a week for a year, accumulated by the Ford Motor company, make one suspect that a lot of those Ford Jokes have a serious purpose. Mr. Hughes has congratulated Gover nor Johnson on bis victory in caiiror n!as eenatonai primary, (success ai ways brings new friends, soma valued WHAT IS ARBITRATION? From the New York World. To President Wilson's practical pro posal for a settlement of the differ ences between the railroad unions and the railroad managers, the railroad presidents make reply that the policy of arbitration is "a fundamental prin ciple." The World agrees with them. But what is arbitration? What has been going on In the White House day after day but arbitration, with the president of the United States aa arbitrator? It is certainly arbitration in fact if not in form. The railroad presidents Justly de clare that it is essential to the right of every citizen that he have his day in court. That is what they have been having, and that is- what the unions have been having. Each side has pre sented its case at great length. The president has sat in Judgment. After hearing all the arguments, he ha made what seems to us to be a fair and com mon sense proposal, which is: 1. That the eight hour day be recog nized as the standard of hours and the 2. That a small body of Impartial men be appointed to ote'Tve the work ings of this eight hour day In respect to railroad operation. 3. That upon the report of this body as to the facte, either side should have the right to reopen the controversy, with a view to readjustments of pay nd nractlce." That the experience of the rail- roads with an eight hour day would in- vitahlv a-uide the Interstate Commerce wimmixsinn In respect to an Increase of freight rates to meet whatever ii- nn-neiAl obligations were incurred If this Is not arbitration, what Is it? The railroads say an eight hour day Is impracticable. The men say It is not. The evidence show, that an eight hour day Is in effect on certain toads, rr-v,. ....i.nt uti trv It out and see whether it Is universally practl.able or not. and have competent .'udges appointed to decide. If that Is not arbitration, what is it? When it comes to the maUor or money, the president says In effect Protecting Americans. From the Springfield Republican. As an example of "shameful" an- iirnoble" avoidance of the duty of a ! president of thevnlted States to pro tect American citizens irom muruerous attacks by foreigners, the following extraordinary passage in an official message from the president to the governor of Arizona should prove ex ceedingly effective in the hands of Mr. Hughes while he Is on the stump: "The pressure for general interven tion under such conditions it might not be practicable to resist. It Is Impos sible to foresee or reckon the conse quences of such a course and we must use the greatest self restraint to avoid it a a a Cannot, therefore, order the troops at Douglas to cross the bor der, but I must ask you and the local authorities In case the same danger recurs, to direct the people of Douglas to place themselves where bullets can not reach them and 'thus avoid cas ualty." The president of the United States, In that message, waa not confronted with the question of protecting the lives of American citizens In Mexico; !lVe" , I.t wl. the miction ' lhA..n L-Ws1" .T,"th.rtiL."! VI Lll W v. ........ --u - - " - Mexican bullets in the United States Instead ef removing the cause of the killing of our citizens In their own country, the president directed that American citizens resident in Douglai, Ariz., should hide In their cellars wr.en Mexican bullets were firing about : How can Mr. Hughes contemplate such a performance except with the "deepest shame?" Yet that was the performance, not of Woodrow Wilson, but of the las Republican president, William H. Tift, on April 18, 111. A Courageous President. From the Pendleton East Oregonlan. When he criticised the railroad man agers' Hoe of action in his statement to congress yesterday. President Wil son censored the most powerful finan cial group in the world. Tbe masters of ths American railroads control prop erty worth something like twenty bil lions. Their hand does not stop at railroad control. It goes Into banking., and every line of human endeavor. has a strong bold on tne puouaning business through which the people ob tain their Information. Ths hand or big finaflcs reaches far. it has power to strike openly or secretly and to strike hard. There are hosts of publlo men, some of them very good men, who dars not go against this Influence. But Woodrow Wilson Is man enough and democratic enough that on the eve of an election where his personal rec ord Is on trial he has told these pow erful men the truth about their be havior. He has told them face to face that "they nave thought It best that If they should be forced to yield, if they must yield, not by counsel, but by tbe suffering of the country." Only a courageous president will talk like that to the financial kings of the country. Wall street won't like that talk aad will be disposed to make further contributions to ths Hughes campaign fund. But from ths standpoint of ths aver ags cltlsen ths president's address has the proper Ting. It Is good to hear words of courage and freedom from the president of tbs United States. The people like that sort ef president. If that vadrtsA vnaaTOatata dAn't. AND NEWS IN BRIEF OREGON SIDELIGHTS Ths T-oa.a1 Kwa OUOtes DOO Pal- mateer of Garfield as an authority on huckleberries.' who predicts tn Diggesi crop in 20 years. Building report in Baker Herald: "Putting up new business blocks and residences Is still at a furious pace in Baker, but even then many wonder where they will get a house in Which to live next winter." a a Pointing but that Waaco county of ficials have begun the construction of a heavy fence along the dangerous points of the road between Hood River and Mosier. the Glacier admonishes the local authorities that "this is a god work that our own county would do well to take as an example. Boost for a neighbor town's festival, in Medford Sun: "The annual venison barbecue of the Riddle Gun and Rifle club will be held next Monday. Twenty rat ducks win te servea along wnu other delicacies. icacles. Manv MedJord Deo- pie will attend the event, which is tat becoming as popular as tbe Pen dleton Round-Up." Orant county appears to be In need of more housing. The Canyon City Eagle says: "If you are figuring on moving Into any of the towns of .Grant county for the winter so that vnn can Rpn d the children to school. it will be a good plan to arrange for a house. Houses are nmttt r-mintv towns. scarce in all t A house that ; cost $500 can be rented for 10 ir month. This is 10 rer cent on $1200. or it will make better than 20 per cent on the Investment. This would be a good way for some of our people to lr.vest. their surplus cash. Instead or giving it to some faker. for some bogus stock in a bogus concern. I that the public believes in an eight hour day and must assume its ehare of the burden. Thi3 is true, and the publlo can well afford to pay Us share,. In 48 hours a general railroad strike would cost the country more tcn an Increase of freight rates to pay for an elcht hour day would exact in five years. The railroad uniona went to th White House boastlntr that thev would arbitrate nothinar. President Wilson soon clubbed that arroirance out of J them. The railroad manager then took trie poritlon that everything must be arbitrated that no concessions whatever could be made an a prelimi nary to arbitration. They canno main tain that position. The Judgment of "the country will not support them In the malnterance of hls controversial vanity. a . President Wilson has presented a program of adjustment. He expresses the belief that it is "thoroughly prac tical and entirely fair." Nobody has yet undertaken to show wherpln It Is not practicable and wherein it Is not fair. The railroad presidents "nnot reject this plan without assuming the moral responsibility for the cense quences. There is no particular sanctity about one form of arbitration as distin guished from another form off arbitra tion. No court, no arbitrator, can fc-ay whether or not an eight-hour day Is feasible In railroad operation.. Nobody can possibly know until it has been tried. We can remember when railroad managers did not think that airbrakes and automatic couplers were feasible on freight trains. We can aiso remem ber when the average union man wUs enthusiastically beset with ths delu sion that every piece of labor-saving machinery was a personal enemy President Wilson is dealing with a condition, not a theory. The railroad presidents are dealing with a theory. President Wilson insists that they shall put their theory to a practical test. How can they refuse? On that issue public opinion Is bound to sustain President Wll.on. Green Corn. From the Spokane Spokesman Review. If the first man who ever ate sn oyster was a hero, the original con sumer of corn on the cob must have been a hermit, dwelling In seclusion far from the haunts of men. For sure ly there is no dinner table exercise f-o unadapted to public performance as mo act of prying by the unaided agency of the teeth serried ranks or sweet corn nubbins from their natural emplace ments. Books of etiquette, full as they are of rules for picking up the right for and for making noiseless work of the Inhalation of soup, contain no helpful hints as to how green corn may l,e eaten without making of one's self a public spectacle. Mere have gone mad trying to Invent wrist movements tint might make the job graceful, and sen sitive souls have drained their pocket books buying silver-plated thingum bobs to hold the corn with, only to find that it can't be done. A great rule of nature bars the way. Corn never was Intended to be eaten daintily, wlth ilie little finger extended horizontally. Corn must be grabbed firmly with both hands, slathered with butter until it drips, and then gnawed, fearlessly ani unashamedly. On. must chew to the line, let tbe chips fall where they may, Conversation languishes at the table whore green corn Is melting before the attacks of canines, bicuspids and In cisors, The eaters must keep thj'r minds on many things at once, And words, for tho time, fall them. Th-.y must mow true swaths, leave nothing on the cob, and keep reasonably un spotted from butter. Their minds may be full of lofty thoughts, but their oral facilities are monopolized by maize. At an American dinner table in August few words are spoken, but there is heard instead the soothing and melli fluous munching of corn, like the soft swash of wavelets on a tropical beach. Wilson Republicans. Prom the Tillamook Herald. Many Republicans of the county are signing the membership roll of tbs Woodrow Wilson club. Many of our Republican friends as well as others feel that Mr. Hughes has been alto g titer too unreasonable In his critl- Ci atns of the president. While trie if.ri president has no doubt made mistakes, nearly ail will admit that he has dons many good things. However, Mr. Hughes will no: give the president credit for anything and In consequence quite a universal feeling is epreadlng among the people to tbe effect that If Mr. Hughes Is not big enough to give President Wilson credit ror ths good he has dons he La not big snougb to bs president of this country. Mr. Hughes has proven himself to bs of far smaller calibre than a great many thought. AXJood Neighbor, From Lifa. Lawyer What sort of a neighbor is he? Witness Best one I ever had. Lived next to him flvs years. v Then you know- him Intimately?" "Never spoks.' to him." , Time Will TelL From tbs St. Louis Star. Kansas City has made the Inovation of creating a publlo park for women onlyt Perhaps that Is as good s way as any to discover how many there are who want to flock by themselves. nce Ger "OVERT WHERE whichever way you look tbera are. signs of summer's senescence. Sin the big maple In front of the ' tarlan church across from The . Journal. ' ; . - there are blotches of brown and yellow. J And of a sudden yet seeming as though it had always been there hass has come upon ths hills. J And tha year has entered Into her sadness. with head bowed Just a little. and a hint of mourning In her dress. J And she roes with unhurried step down to the place where all her sisters are gathered In the past's forgetful peace. . -""" -"-" -. 1 TJ And It always gives me a lump in lu? wroatw see these things. although I know that change Is the great law. and that death is only another name for change. which Is everlasting. J And I sometimes feel sure aa I am of anything that I sense the Bing or those strong laws not mads by any congress or legislature. nor construed by any court. j Any way whether I do or not -a great many of the laws made by man give me a pain. or would If tlon to them. I paid any atten Tf For Instance there's the edict that today is the last day for straw bats. which means I guess if It means anything that we're supposed to feed our straw hats to the first cow we meet. and buy a new felt one at the first hat store we come to. JAnd Bill Strandborg and Sara Brat ton and Commissioner Dleck and a lot of other exquisites like those cai do as they like. J But as for mo I ain't going to. that Is I'm not going to give up my straw hat. because it's a good straw hat. and I got it only last week on Washington street. for 60 cents. and thought I was getting a bargain. TAnd now somebody comes along and Issues a mandate that I can't wear it. aj And I'm going to see about It, IJIt's a funny thing if I can't. and what I want to know la who says so? and what was 1 lie' idea of let ting me have a straw hat last week for 60 cents? and then trying' to tell me that I can't wear It after this week? tj I want to know. aAnd It seems to me that 60 cents a week is pretty high rent for straw hat. and I might as well have bought , on j last spring for $3.60. only something told me not to. and besides Vcrna said she thought it was a scandalous price. that is she said for a man's hat. JAnd that's the way! felt about K. so I kept wearing my old felt one. In spite of publlo opinion. J And I don't know what publlo opinion thinks about this. and I don't care. Here I was this morning start ing in to write a tristful threnody. about summer's departure. and while t was trying to think of soaiethlng nice to put In It I saw my new straw hat. and remembered the edict. and then I couldn't writ thing but this and J LISTEN I'm goln to put straw hat on and wear It all town rain or shine until it down over my ears. . . and no cow would touch It. any- that over lops A Glacial Atmosphere. No treppasslnir and no hunting signs at this olce. Hood River Glacier. , Uncle Jeff Snow Says: Llge Blmbone was -confiding to me t'other day that he 'lowed his wife, Lizzie Simmers that was, would of got a divorce any time during these last ten years if she could have got a lawyer to figure out for her any show for alimony enough to keep her. Llge hopes to make a good turn la some timber land, that got holt of him 'leven years ago. A Timely Tip to Three K. Writing Gents. From the "lxcal and Personal" Colons ef tbs Medford Hun. Bakery goods at De Voe'S. Irvln 8. Cobb, Charles Van Loan and Rlnn Lnrclner will visit ,aaa ford and Crater Lake early in, September. Ths trio, who are well known as writers for the Saturday Evening Post and other rnaga zlncs, are on an auto tour of the west. m m Wherein It will b seen that Trre and Charlie and Ring will have no trouble in finding place to buy buns for their lunches. All they need to do It to look for tbelr names in the "Local and Psr so'nal" column of the esteemed Sun. ? And right ther, in jocund Juxtapo sition, they'll lamp the legend: Bakery fcooda -t DeVoe's." eStreetown Some Fish Story. HC. NEELT, ssxton of Trinity . Episcopal church, cot thirsty last TKeC night and went to ths parish house , ' faucet. Raising bis glass of water W ; j his mouth. Mr. Neely discovered It con ' tslned a fish. The sexton suddenly, I ..-mr.r.il trnn b thlrat and beaTan - thinking. - '' -, -The church expected him. to he law- abiding, and here he was with a fish caught In ths parish house ajid no fish lng license to make Its capture lawful 1 "What is more," said Mr. Neely, "that fish was under size, and a trout at that. I couldn't throw It sack as -ths law requires, for I was unable to fores It into ths faucet What was I t do abOUt ItT . 7 "sr v Mr. Neely was told that i having fished in the parish house, expecting to catch only water, Justice would prob ably take cognlzancs of the extenuat ing circumstances, giving him credit for good Intentions because 'f his ' fHhlng place, and let htm off with ths . znlnlmum fins. . , . i