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THE OREGON DAILY JOURNAL, PORTLAND, "FRIDAY, DECEMBER 1,' 1918.
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S ;6VTl NEW SAFEGUARD
HERB was a new kind of hap
pening in America last Mon
day. - As a happening. It was sim
ple enough. It attracted little at
tention from the multitude. But
Jn its Import, it was of mighty
moment.
t .It was Republic statement by the
Federal IlcBerve Board. That board
has made statements before, but
none like that under discussion.
1 The new statement was a warn-
ing to banks against the purchan-s
of British short term notes. Aid
It went on to say that r tne ooara ;
does not share the view frequently
) expressed of late that further im
Vportatlon of large amounts of gVid
'must of necessity prove a source
of danger or disturbance to, this
, Country. "
The point is that here is a new
financial authority in America, i.t
Is a publio board responsible to
vthe American people. Its place
f business is at the national cn.pl
.tal andNlt Is the financial repre
! tentative of the American people.
Back of its utterances is power.
- 'he power that comes from supreme
'authority over the reserve banks.
Its decision is finality. The con
trnl that It exercises Is in behalf
f ; "(or all America with especial ref
erence to the welfare of every
;- Interest
. 'Tbe nature of Its utterance re
; ; ! ipectlng short-term British war
notes.' Is revealed by the "fact that
,lbe total of the Issue that It wan
, expected to float In this country
; Is estimated at a billion dollars.
.Naw York financiers, out of the
' profits they could have made in
-floating the issue, would doubtless
liaye made 'the venture. rf That it
' ' would have been a doubtful under
taking so far as the welfare of the
Country as a whole is concerned,
Is. evidenced by the timely warn-
; jngof the reserve - board. What
"else can the board's statement
mean than that a great new power
Is being exercised to safeguard na
'C tional well being and national pros
perity? Of equal significance is the
board's statement that further
heavy importations of gold "may
prove a source of danger or dis
turbance to this country." Only
'. Mr. Morgan and his associates have,
tn , the past, been the flnalty of
Wisdom In such matters. Wall
Street ' has been deciding what
. was good and what not good for
the finances of this nation, and
Wall Street's country was Wall
" street. Wall street's president was
Mr. . Morgan. Wall street's con-
t science was the cash register. Wall
. Street's American people were , the
. gentlemen who have their lair and
rear their young hi Wall street's
golden precincts.' -I
There can be nothing else than
. a new confidence In this country
in , the realization that American:
. finance are now ' under a new
guidance, and that It is an unsel
fish guidance, a guidance not for
a part, but for all the business,
all the Industry; all, the endeavor
and all the people of America.
It Is a great new free American
Institution reared up for national
defense and national welfare.
V Government, officials art ranch
perturbed because the reservation
Indiana have, developed-a . great
, fondness for Jamaica ginger,'' which
is probably the aboriginal precurser
of the ginger. ale highball..
THEY. AXL DO IT
4 .
0
Ult munition , makers and
money ' kings will' naturally
welcome, the trio of Russian
diplomats w h o h a v e lust
landed, for they come on a. most
attractive missjon. In the . first
place they propose to borrow $ an
immense sum of, American -money,
for which they will expect to pay
a, comfortable rate of .interest - ; ;
In. the second place they intend
to Tendf thVnwfner" right jr In
the United States for rannltlons of
war, xaai we .Eaau iirsr, Jena oar i
money to tne) far clad foreigners
and then get It all. back f again,
with Interest besides. In return
we shall " giro them nothing , bat
shells and guns which they would
be far better off without If they
would, only think so. ' ."
As - Jong as nations wni fight
they must have ammunition aol
weapons. ' We never hare been
able. to detect any. singular wicked
ness In the sale of warlike sup
plies by Americans. If a man is
to be killed by a shell he cannot
be supposed to care a crekt deal
who makes It.
' This Is the season when the de
feated candidate for the legisla
ture, slippered, and comfortable be
fore the fireplace, readsof -speakership
contests, scraps for the pres
idency! of the senate, the worries
of tax limitation, the tangles of
bone dry. the consolidation and j
abolishment of commissions, and
ay those other things, and then,
under the , halo of his cigar, Is
thankful to his political star.
THE 8-CENT MEAL
A
GOODLY number of our es
teemed contemporaries are
rejoicing over the 8-cent
meal which has been evolved
by the Chicago board of health.
They Jubilantly predict that it is
going to fix a standard for "mil
lions of the American people." We
can not share In their Joy.
We take but modified comfort
In the 8-cent meal for the poor.
We need not say that there is no require lobg continued and pains
talk of any such a device for peo- taking effort in their solution Is
pie of wealth. We should prefer the enactment of legislation made
to see every poor family in a posi- necessary by the adoption of the
tlon to buy 60-cent meals for each "bone dry amendment" and the
member. It would afford us great handling of the appropriation ques
satlsf action to see poverty so nearly tlon under the restrictions and
abolished that there should be no within the limits of the tax Umita
quention of pinching penuriousness Hon amendment. Then, too, comes
in diet,- the problem of enacting such sup
Our choice would be a broad and porting legislation as may be neces
generous scale of living for every- sarytoput th a rural credits amend
body, particularly for everybody ment into full force and effect and
who has to do hard work. Such
nnn Wed a full and varied diet.
They can not thrive and. fulfill
tneir tasks on freak fare invented
b experimenters who think more
of vain theories than they do of
life's hard problems.
We should like to read of some 1
scientific genius who had invented is forcing itself before the atten
a way to provide every working tlon of the members of the legisla
man's family with regular dollar ture in no simple form. Those
meals. The fat of the land should who slghr at the thought of abso
belongs by good rights to him who lute aridity are coddling that
toils, not to him who lives by the phrase of the amendment which
toil of his fellows. We advise the says "for beverage purposes" with
Chicago scientist who has been ex- solicitous care, thinking that from
perlmentlng with eight cent meals it there might germinate a partial
to take-up some more useful line, oasis. There are others who con
of work. tend, and with apparent logic, that
He might, for example, apply his the amendment attempts to regu
mlnd to the problem of abolishing late interstate commerce and Is
the misery that calls for eight cent therefore violative of the federal
meals. Or he might .take up the constitution and void, from which
question of quelling the - monopo- they argue that the amendment
lists who pester us with famine stands simply as a direction from
prices in a year of big crops and the people to amend the prohlbl
domestic peace. There are dozens tlon law of 1915 in accordance with
of .wayB for him to employ himself its intent. There are tkooe who
more acceptably than in writing
out dius oi iare tor eisnt cent
meals.
The next thing we shall hear of
will be five cent meals, then three
cent, and finally meals that cost
nothing because they are tworth
nothing. Are we coming to the
point of view Of the teamster who,
after long experiment, reduced the
diet of bis horBe to one straw a
day? Wonderful were the scien
tific discoveries he might have
made if his poor beast had not
died, probably from an attack of
obstinacy
;
Champ Clark blossoms out as an
economlst by advising the patient
housewlfe to solve the high cost
of living by keeping "some laying
hens" to vex the sleep and adom
the back yards of their orLan
homes. But what about the chicken
feed at two dollars a bushel?
TUB NUB OP THE THING
0
NB subject that is of vital in
terest to every person in the
state Is highway .improve-
ment The coming state leg-
lslature is looked to for rational
legislation that will bring 'order
out of present chaotic conditions.
Lost ground must be retraced
and a new start made from the
point occupied two years ago by
an organization which gave promise
of efficiency but which was wrecked
by contractors and politicians.
While the state highway depart
ment has been a drifting derelict
the past two years, first under
one captain and then another, we
. ' Z
have gained the experience which
should be valuable in bringing the
old hulk into harbor, refitting it
and giving it f new captain and
crew.
An added reason for putting
state highway matters on a sub
stantial foundation Is that of fed
eral aid. This calls for close co
operation between county, state and
government. It demands a more
logical planning of methods of
construction, selection of routes
and a more comprehensive program
of building and system of main
tenance, I, AltrinnT win, lnt....tAj
eons a wvraing on concrete piansitmng and mean another. Or th ey
to submit to the legislature every
thing Is still in the air. The gen
eral Sentiment appears, however;
to be erystalixlng on the thought
that the f xzii step' necessary t U, iff
create a new. state, highway s com?
mission on business lines gather
and to arrs .thla new
'connnlsslon tall tataorltr.' ln tbe
selection or. lecnwca, men. , -
This Is the logical thing to do.
As to how the commission should
be appointed, whether by the gov
ernor. or by the, legislature and as
to whether It should consist of
three or five members or more Is j
a matter of detail not aitogetner
vital.
The jiub of the whole situation Is
the establishment of a commission
which will inspire and preserve
confidence.' When this Is accom
plished the raising of funds for
highway work will be comparative
ly easy.
The defeat of Carranza's forces
at Chihuahua seems to h,ave'been
complete. Villa's victory adds to
the gravity of the situation on the
border. Nobody knows what may
arise' to1 draw America Into new
complleatlons through Villa's activ
itics.
THE legislature:
I
N SIX weeks the Oregon legisla
ture will take up its forty-day
burden of trying to bridge the
legislative lapses and t remedy
the legislative evils under which
the state is supposed to be groan
ing. Looming ahead of It is a large
Job even for tbe ninety' chosen of
the 8tateX,lectorate, and It will
undoubtedly require teamwork and
strict Attention td business to ac
complish In a thorough and work
manlike manner those things which
mtyst be done.
Two questions that will undoubt
edly cause conflict of, opinion and
Pave the way lor the. Issuance and
Bale of the seventeen million six
hundred thousand dbUars of-bonds
which will form the basis for the
contemplated credit loans. And
there are still other and important
matters which must be settled.
Already the "bone dry" question
contend that possession of liquor j
snail do made unlawful, and others
who argue that so to do would go
beyond tbe terms of the enactment,
Alt In all, the solution of the prob-
lem will be a many sided and
difficult task.
j There will be much bickering
about appropriations, and out of
the streas of circumstances may
possibly come a remodeling of the
departments and commissions of
the state. It is apparent that the
legislature will be limited In an
proprlation by more than half a
million dollars of the 1815 total.
and yet in the face of this condj-
tlon state institutions and depart-
menta are asking for large in-
creases over what was given them
at that time. Out of it will Inevi-
tably come a contest between Instl-
tutlon and department to tax the
patlent financial Ingenuity of the
wafs and means committees.
We are already hearing whispers
of consolidations and abolishments
by which It is planned to eliminate
commissions and commissioners and
merge the departmental business
Into a five or six headed system
mZ' "ri:::
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state and treasurer. Seemingly,
however, those who are fostering
the scheme are approaching their
task with the same lack of study
ZSkoriM
-a j
Prom the turmoil it' Is to be
hoped that one good result will
come, and that the legislators, by
nrofla tt kn Bfnnea srt 1 1 Via. AM..il
r; t,T7r.7
10 concentrate their attention upon
the big things and. fail, for once,
to flood the session with an ava
lanche of Inconsequential and petty
legislation.
How many Villa victories will it
require to convince Carranza of
what a blander h made when he
failed to aid Pershing In the cap
ture of the bandit leader?
BLISSFUL SEOnXQ
RINGS," said the pbetLonx-
feljow, "are not what they
seem.' , Laws in particular
are not They bat ,oniGrT and Bryee in England; and 1
mean fifty things, always different
irom wnai iney say, . There is the
rat-famed Clayton Act, for exam
ple. That glorious piece of legis
lation by its language. expressly ex
empts farmers' ..organizations and
labor unions from prosecution un
der the antl-tmst act. But. does It
really exempt them? . J '
Gaze solemnly upon the facta. A
group .of Maine farmers organized
themselves to get a good price for
their potatoes. They were prose
cuted under the anti-trust law for
"restraint of trade." like the Dan-
bury hatters. - And in the federal
court they were convicted' and
fined. The beauty of it Is that the
federal agricultural department of
our government has advised the
farmers to do the very thing for
which the Judiciary Is fining them.
Will some great genius hasten
to invent a law that shall mean
what It says?"
Montana went 'dry by a vote of
102,77tf for and 73,890 against
The dry majority Is 28,886. The
dry vote was 3,9 per cent larger
than the wet vote. The heavy
veto for the change .is said to have
been increased by. the activity of
large employers of labor. That
force Is one of the big Influences
that is rapidly extending dry terri
tory. Letters From the People
(Omiminleatlona cent to Tba Journal lor
publication In tbli depertmrnt iboald be writ
trn on only one (Ida of tbe paper, tbonld not
(irerd 8O0 worda lit length, and moat ba ac
companied t7 tbe name and addreaa of the
ndr. If the writer doea not desire to bare
the nanra published he thou Id so atate.)
"Diiouralon Is tba ereatt-et of ill reformer!.
It Tatlonallaee eTerriblcg: It toarhee. It robe
prluclples of all false rnuotlty and throws them
lurk on their rrasonabltnei. If Iher btra no
rcsronabttneM, It nilblemly crusbea them out
of eiisttnca and trts up it own conclutlona In
tueir stead." Woodrow Wilson.
Why Greek
Has the QaU
Eugene. Or, Nov. 27. To tl Editor
7. To tal Ed
of Tha Journal Permit m to explain
why there happens to bo a greater
number of students faking Greek here
In the University of Oregon than are
taking Latin.
, Nearly all the high, schools of the
state teach three or four years of
Latin whereas -not more than two or
three. In the state, teach Greek, so that
most of the students coming here al
ready have all the Latin they want.
All the students taking Greek begin
the subject her and very few take
mora than three years, only abettt 10
per cent, taking the fourth y4.
Tou say that Greek Is harder than
Latin. This Is not the general experi
ence of those who are taking both lan
guages. The work of the first sem
ester la a little harder because of the
strange letters to be learned, but after
that you will find Xenophon, Homer
and Demosthenes easier than Caesar,
Vergil and Cicero's Orations, and the
Greek plays easier than the Latin and
much more Interesting.
I want to say also that the "depart
ment of Greek has not been making
concession to the current love of lux
ury and ease," and if the editor will
honor the First Greek class with his
presence for one week, he will be
ready to acknowledge that writing edi
torials, even such excellent ones as
he writes, is a cinch compared to get
ting the daily assignment here. Come
up, Mr. Editor, and try it "Just for
the fun of the thing."
By the way, I have a student In one
of my classes who Is "baching" on 63
cents a week for food and he Is the
picture, of health with a complexion
like "peach of. a s4rL" . -Much of this
is due te the fact that he Is taking-
Greek (I refer to the complexion, of
course), for had he been taking math
ematics or modern languages he would
no doubt have been- as sallow as the
rest of them. JOHN STRAUB.
In Reply to Wing.
Newberg, Or, Nov. IS. To the Edi
tor of The Journal In regard to th
letter of Mry Wing in your issue of
K'nv.mhv 97 T ahnnM V. ..1 . A 4 vaii
saw fit to publish th. following state-
ment
I hart ltaan a ambaerlbar of th a Com.
Ing Nation, now defunct, of the Inter
national Socialist Review, of The
Masses, of the Appeal to Reason, .and
or certain xagllsn raxueal capers as
well, all commonly classed aa social
istic publications. I paid dues to the
Salem, Oregon local, and, until it dls
banded, to the Newberg local. In ad
dltlon, I have at many times donated
.money and subscriptions to Socialist
publications. I am probably as com
petent to pass upon the sincerity of
my Socialism as Mr. Wing could pos
sibly ne.
I voted for Mr. Wilson at the last
election. As a matter of fact, Mr. Ben
son stood absolutely no chance of elec
tion. In the matter of choice between
Wilson and the raw, raw words and
policies offered- by the Hughee-
Rooaevalt-Wall street alliance, there
could be no hesitation upon my part
for a moment, I thought Mr. 'Wilson
needed my vote. He got also, In spite
of Mr. Wing, eosne - other Socialist
votes. That I happen to know. Mr.
Wing shouldn't be too positive,
ALEXANDER HULL.
The Week's Working Honrs.
Vancouver, Wash., Nov. 29. To the
Editor of The Journal Recently we
have been offered many and various
views regarding compulsory recogni
tion or Sunday as a legal holiday. My
thought, is that most of the writers
are In some degree prejudiced: that la.
they view It from some sectarian or
anti-sectarian standpoint. I believe
this question should be looked on only
from an expedient and philanthropic
point of view. The advocates of Sun
aay. CDservance would, py law, pro
hibit more tltei six days' toll each
week, but so far I have failed to learn
what number of hours they y would
have the workman toll, each day or
weeic.
If those who are Interested In this
matter could see their way clear to
take a humanitarian and progressive
view of it, and agitate for the enact
ment of laws prohibiting more than
48 hours' toil per week in any line of
employment, regardless as to whether
said 48 hours' work was performed in
six days or in seven days, then surely
would they have the help of all mod
ern Christians to push their good work
along. J. HAROLD
America and World Peace.
From tbe' New Torkreolng Post.
It was a notable coincidence that
the same day which established the
reelection of Woodrow Wilson should
have brought a convert to the. idea
of a new world order in the person
or the German chancellor. '
Whether the kaiser Is sincere or is
only making believe to yield to
force beyond his control, the-reality
or that force Is confessed. - Every
j wnere else statesmen have recog
nlsed It; In central Europe; men like
' i .Y, " Vr ll" . , UI
is sweeping on victoriously. Only one
man , of eminence has failed to seize
the meaning ef the new time, and he,
curiously ' enough, is the one man .in
America supposed to be endowed with
a genius for gauging publio sent!
ment. Everybody is a mollycoddle
today except Mr. - Roosevelt. The
prospect of this nation of a hundred
million plunging late the war and o
making the bedlam . of the world
unanimous. Is seemingly no more to
him than any other little adventure
Into Haiti, or Samoa, or Patagonia.
Tnat change Which Mr, Roosevelt
has failed te discover In his country
men. Woodrow Wilson baa recognised
from the beginning. Coward, pol
troon, white feather, and "too proud
to fight" have been flung at the man
te whom the west has risen with
loyal enthusiasm. The man over
whom the bouncing patriots of Wall
street hung their . -heads in shame
has been approved against then by
the white-livered cltlsens of Wyoming
and Montana, by, the deerepld man
hood of Arizona and New Mexico, by
the cattlemen and sheep herders and
lumberjacks and farmers who have
grown slothful and cowardly witl
easy living. v
Fortunately for the honor and pres
tige of America that in the settle
ment of the ' new world order, that
for the role which America Is bound
to play after the catastrophe of half
thousand years, the country's guid
ance will be in the hands of a man
whose eyes look into the premise of
the future and not ' into the fears
and Jealousies and vanities of tbe
past.
More Daylight.
from tbe Detroit Kewa.
The "more daylight" movement
which has taken such a strong hold
on Europe ' has smitten America to
such an extent that business men are
trying to moke it a national affair.
At first thought it would seem that
Detroit need not worry about It, as
have already set our clocks an
hour ahead of standard time and half
n hour ahead of the sun; but if the
movement attains national scope, we
shall j have to pay attention to it
for tfie rason that we are likely, In
that ycase, to be in the anomalous po
sition of agreeing with the eountry
round about us during half the year
and disagreeing with it in the other
half.
The proposal which the "more day
light" congress of Jan. 80 and SI will
consider is that of setting clocks
an hour ahead from May 1 to Septem
ber 80. and then reverting to the old
time. By this plan an hour of
morning' light will be gained for the
work-day during those months when
the sun rtses early, while an hour of
daylight at the other end of the day,
usually devoted to toil, will be de
voted to pleasure and repose. But
when October comes, and the sun
hates to rise, the clock will be shifted
an hour backward, so that the toller
need not spend the early morning
in darkness.
The great trouble with Detroit's
"more daylight" Is this winter morn
ing darkness which endures until
after 8 o'clock. But It would be In
convenient and confusing to shift
our clocks twice a year. If. however.
the entire country agrees to the
change, Detroit can, by acquiescing,
gain all the advantages of the "more
daylight" movement and at the same
time be in harmony with the rest
of the middle west.
Importance of the Copper Cent.
From the Sookana Spokeaman-Rarlew.
Economists will take joy in tracing
the causes of the demand for the less
er coins which is reported to have
made government mints take on the
hectlo aspect of munitions factories.
That prosperity should cause the na
tion to demand dimes and nickels and
quarters is aparadox that will appeal
strongly to paradox loving minds. It
demonstrates that when a nation feels
justified in being extravagant It scat
ters dimes and not dollars.
Probably the economists will have
little trouble In accounting for the
demand for Some of the small coins.
Movies absorb dimes and nickels at a
great rate, and cigars are customarily
bought In 25-cent consignments. When
the men of the nation become pros
perous enough to abandon the pipe and
take to cigars many additional Quar
ters are needed.
The demand for copper cents, how
ever, can only indicate that merchants
in general, struggling against the head
wind of rising costs, finally have dis
covered the possibilities of the penny.
for years realized only by department
stores. Why all kinds of dealers have
not followed th department stores in
thia respect, never hoa been satisfac
torily explained. Tbe trick of marking
goods in odd cents was the making of
that marvelous institution, the bargain
sale, which is the department store's
cornerstone.
In spite of this lesson the butcher
and- the baker, to say nothing of the
candlestlckmaker and like crafts, have
6tuck to the five-cent piece as the
smallest unit of reckoning? They
missed entirely the witching appeal of
the cent, which makes a 97-cent vase
seem to the advertisement reader so
much cheaper than one at 85 cents or
$L If the world of trad in general
I? learning the lesson of the cent IS will
be a good thing for all parties con
cerned. Loy all Parragtrt.
From tha Boston Trsicrtnt.
The death of Loyall Far ra gut, only
son : of Admiral David Glasgow Far-
ragut, ends the lln of
The seattlng of the sovereign Wast
wno maae his mast his throne.
Tne younger f arragut was. made a
soldier, not a sailor, by his father.
but early left th army for business
life, and later abandoned that also for
a sort of academlo retirement. The
scream of shot and shell, which for
a time, at least was music in hi
father's ears, seemed to have left no
echo la the son's breast. Thus it has
otten been with the progeny of great
warriors. The disappearance of tbe
line or th Farraguts. of vigorous
Mlnorcan blood, seem to mark a re'
versal of the story of the vitality of
the Mlnorcans generally In this coun
try. The little band of Catalan people.
descendants of the Goths, who came
from the Mediterranean island of Ml
norca to the shores ef America in the
eighteenth century, settling chiefly at
St. Augustine, and Fernandina, have
contributed a race of thrifty and en
ergetic people to the life of our south
ern states. They tak to the sea quite
naturally; and the presence of Far
ragut In the Union navy wa offset.
though not with a brilliancy -to match
his, by th service of several officers
of Florida Minorca origin la the Con
federate navy.
War Within War.
Prom the Cblcaaxr News.
Profound statesmen and economists
have had much to sy about "the war
after the war," meaning thereby Indus
trial and economic realignments of tlte
nations, in trade and commerce treat
les, after the blood and fury of physi
cal warfare. But they have failed to
perceive, or at least to comment upon.
the deadly war within the war, the war
of trade extermination that is even now
going on In some of the smaller-na
tions.
Holland and Switzerland are thus
far the chief sufferers from these In
roads, bat Denmark, Norway, Sweden,
Oieec and others of the less powerful
nations are feeling severely the- pres
sure of increased -disturbance of their
normal trade relations.
Switzerland, 5 through .z Its - leading
newspapers, ha issued an appeal to the
power ui nations or ue west to save
it. from Industrial devastAtion. What
PERTINENT-COMMENT
SMALL CHANGE
la vary: truth, the distinction that
California really eohloved waathet of
being th slowest sister in the family.
' "Campulung has fallen." No. that's
la Roumania, not Luzon. Fred Funs
ton had absolutely nothing to do with
it.-
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Shoes made partly of aluminum are
said to have been successfully tried.
Something to go with' the light fantas
tic toe. it la evident. -
Th seat of th Roumanian govern
ment ha been moved from Bucharest
to Jassy, a news dispatch-says. Uood
chance, that, for a jaas band?
It may b th gods, having mad
Villa mad enough to suit them, are
about to destroy him. If ao, Pershing
might come In handy, after all.
' It seems Rooeovelfs "Winning of
the Weat" was only "The Wooing p'
It." if a strictly literary pleasantry
may be permitted toget past.
His adversaries- seem to havr- fig
ured out that President Wilson is op
posed to a foodstuffs embargo, or will
be whenever th (ssue is drawn. At all
events, they are tearfully demanding it.
Lord Byron Is quoted as saying, a
century or so ago: "The French cour-
ag- proceeds from vanity, th tierman
from phlegm, th Turkish from fa
naticism and orium. tha ODanish from
pride, the English from coolness, the
Dutch from obstinacy, the Russian
from Insensibility, but the Italian from
anger." And we shall never know
whether wa ahould be triad or eorry
that he didn't put the American on the
list.
THE ILLEGIT4MATE
(The subjoined artl.Ve. by Katharine Aa
fheny, appeared mar thsn a year sio la the
New Republic, was rproduca tn Tha Journal
Ot' September 12, 1916, ami la now reprinted
for 11 pertinence la connection with a measure
which thoM'wbo are framing it will urge tha
leftslitnr of Oregon to enact at tha 1917
session.
It 1 peculiarly unfortunate that the
problem of illegitimacy ha been
launched In England and dispatched to
America under th euphemestle caption
of "war babies.'' By suggesting that
th iUegltlfaate children of soldier fa
thers should be more mercifully treat
ed than other illegitimate children and
that the whole problem is the sudden
outgrowth ef existing war conditions,
the English agitation has confused the
issue. In point of fact the rights of
the Illegitimate child have been active
ly urge's in some of the continental
countries for at least 10 years before
the war began, and the countries which
are today doing the moat for their il
legitimate children are not engaged In
war at all. These are the three neu
tral countries of Scandinavia Norway,
Sweden and Denmark.
Though all the Scandinavian laws on
this subject are ejttremely radical, the
Norwegian law is furthest ahead. In
the month of March Just past, th
storthing passed what might be called
the bill of rights of the Illegitimate
child. It was not an emergency law
nor concession to a crials. First
submitted In 190, It wa only adopted
after publio opinion had thoroughly
digested Its most radical features. It
reads more like an ethical treatise
than a legislative act, and a certain
Socratlo flavor is not lacking la the
paragraphs which answer objection.
The author of the bill Is the Nor
wegian minister of Justice. Johan
Caatberg. As the threefold basis of his
rform, Minister Osstberg submits
the principle that legitimate and il
legitimate children have equal rights
before the law: the principle that the
rights and, duties of both parents are
the eame; 'and the principle that so
ciety Is entitled to know, not only
who Is the mother but who is tbe
father jat every child born. The bill
wa endorsed by the, organized wo
man' movement of Norway, by the
workingwomen's movement, and by
the working class organisations In
general.
It first stipulation is that th child
whose parents have not married each
other" ha the right to the fathers
name. At present there is no legal
regulation of tho family nam by the
Norwegian law; the uso of the father's
ncme by the legitlmte child rests on
custom. The new law merely extend
to the Illegitimate child tho same right,
in vindication of the principle that h
belongs to the father family as well
as to the mother's. '
The child is further entitled to be
supported by his parents in accordance
with the financial circumstances of
the one who Is economically better
placed. The law docs not intend, for
instance, that tha earn father shall
bring up his legitimate child with a
college education, and his Illegitimate
child with the scanty schooling which
ends with workingpapers at 14 years.
is true of Switzerland Is true to a less
xtent of the other email European na
tion, whose resources have been heavi
ly taxed by the many demands of their
nonproduclng neighbors now at war.
The drain of war is being felt acute
ly by even the powerful nation of the
west, to which Switzerland appeaJs.
The day ha gone forever when war
can be localized,. Its effects are felt
everywhere. Close knitting of th
bond of trad has mad th world ona
vast family, economically and Indus
trially, and wealth subtracted from
one member of the family Is subtract
ed from th whole.
Mankind should realize this and
should know that war Is not only sui
cidal for th nations engaged in it, but
homicidal for the nations that preserve
peace and must .yet furnish supplies
to the peoples under arms. War Is
waste In the superlative degree. The
present war is world-wide waste and
unless it Is followed by a world league
to enforce permanent peace It will sow
an abundant crop of poverty and retro
gression broadcast all over the planet.
' A Yacationless Life.
from tha as Francisco Balletla.
"J. P. Bean has worked 49 years In
New York without a vacation."
These modest lines, clipped from
some exchange, cropped up to help fill
th space between two advertisements.
There had been no room for more de
tails. Who J. P. Bean is, what he
worked at, how much he has been get
ting, how large his family is, whether
or not he la nappy in his home life,
and whether he eschewed vacations be
cause he disapproved ef them, or be
cause he could not afford them as to
aM this we are left in the dark.
Did J. P. Bean go from school Into
an office, there te work his way up
toward fame and fortune? Did be con
fidently expect to become first, a sen
ior clerk, then a department manager,
then a partner, and then, perhaps, head
of the firm? Did he count on marry
ing his employer' beautiful daughter?
Did he hope to become a power la the
commercial world, to travel In a pri
vate car, to be Interviewed by the
newspapers, to write articles In the
magazines Instructing others In the art
ef becoming rich and great? If he
failed, were the 4 years utterly bar
ren, or did he find good friend 'and
read good books?
This might be a better world If 1 1
per cent of the heads of families were
willing to follow J. P. Bean's example
and work 4t -or, for that matter,
years tn one job without a vacation,
' Production -would undoubtedly in-
AND NEWS IN BRIEF
OREGON SIDELIGHTS
When a town lad gets . married.
Wfcy that's all thar lm to it, but when
a country lad Is spliced he still has to
atand or a charivari by th rural cut
ups," observes the Corvallls Gazette
Times. , , .
The Eugon Register must also have
been poking fun at tho sports writers
when It pulled Uils: yesterdays
Oregon-O. A. C game can be regarded
as strictly off Petal and according to
1 1 edition, having- been played in a aea
of mud and beneathweeptng skies.
The hot lunch at school Is receiving
splendid" support at Hermlston, the
Herald says, predicting further that
th Parent-Teacher association "will
doubtleaa feel encouraced to undertake
other things for th comfort and beneJ
fit of students." 9 m
The city council of Enterprise la
moving in tbe direction of numbering
all houses In the city, at the city's ex
pense, and establishing street and
sidewalk grades. In the meantime an
ordinance he been adoDted prohibit-
in the drivlna- of livestock; on the'
principal etreets. m
Th Albany Demoo.-at ha dug up
an old Fourth of July subscription list,
now In the possession of St M, French.
It was for the celebration of 1897. a
notable one. a feature of which was a
platform on the square in front
ot the courthouse . on which ome
Portland amateurs, including a son
nf SiMi.itnr Chamberlain, gave a
performance. Of the 148 Pmt
r.rt ik. anhaoiHntlnn Hat onlr 47 Are
revr in Alhanv. 69 havo moved t other
places and 43 are known to be dead.
CHILD IN NORWAY
But the mother, beyond the expenses
of the confinement. Is not allowed to
receive any support from the father.
and even this assistance is required
in the interest of the child and not of
the mother. Moreover, she also must
contribute to the child' support.
The tat and not the mother 1 th
mediator between th child and th
father. Hitherto the law required the
mother to take the Initiative In claim
ing support for the child. But under
the new law it Is conceivable that tha
illegitimate child may have great ex
pectation In th way of upport na
Inheritance. The mother, then, must
not be given the right to connlv at its
disinheritance.
This brings us to the most radlcsl
feature of the Castherg bill. This Is
the most revolutionary change, in the
inheritance laws 0 Norway since 1854
when the admission of daughters to
equal inheritance rlfflit with sons
marked the beginning of the women
movement. The proposal that Illegiti
mate children should Inherit was the
feature which aroused most opposition;
people said that It would Increase im
morality and undermine legal mar
rlage. The present Inheritance lawa,
replied Minister Caatberg, directly help
to Increase immorality, inssmuch as
they encourage a man to conceal from
his wife and children th fact that he
has an Illegitimate child: that Is, to
neglect and deny hi own offspring
and He to those who are nearest to
him.
a
The inquiry takes plae in this way.
Th man who is named by the mother
under oath must appear before the in
vestigating authority and either ac
knowledge fhat he 1 the father or
prove that he is not. The mother Is
subject to a fine, imprisonment and a
suit for damages if she makes a
false assignment, of paternity. The
man Is not allowed to plead "exceptlo
plurlum" in defense; that Is to say, he
Is not permitted to escape responsi
bility by maintaining that the mother
had eex Intercourse with other men
besides himself at the time of the Im
pregnation. Unless he Is able to show
that he did not associate with th
mother In such a way and at such a
tlm that in th course of nature he
might be the father he is required
to contribute to the child's support.
If mora than ona man answer to this
definition, the law holds each of them
responsible for a share of the child's
support. In such cases, however, th
child is not allowed to inherit. Th
department of Justic believe that
such cases need not be numerous.
Tba NorWaeian law sets a high
standard of Jtrstlc for other countries.
What ha just been done for the com
paratively small group of Norwegian
outcasts Norway has about BOOQ ille
gitimate birth per yea-r is now be
ing actively urged for the 200,000 born
yearly in Germany. And the bastardy
acts of England, which have not bean
revised sine 1873, are now being
aired, let us hope, to good purpose.
Whatever view on may hold of the
parents' conduct in such cases, there
is only one possible attitude toward
th child.
1 ii
crease, and we would have a svn and
sober population, contented with it
let, accepting cheerfully what It could
get and not taking up with crack
brained Idea for making th world
better. Som of our great leaders of
thought (along flnanolAl lines) un
doubtedly look toward such an Oliver
Optio paradise as quite Ideal. But It
might be rather dulL J. P. Bean,
even with hi book and his friends,
msy have found it rather dull.
"JJack to the Land."
. From the New York Mall.
It would be magnificent if a baek-to-the-land
movement were based on a
sound foundation. The day of farm
cruagery.ls passing. Th telephone.
the rural free delivery, the automobile,
are wiping out the loneliness of farm
V: lessening the labor, brightening tbe
outlook. They are the harbingers of
still better things. It Is not a distant
day when machine' power will take the
place of muscle power on the farm;
when farming will be done on a manu
facturing basis. In our farming meth
ods we have been crude, in our market
ing methods we have been worse. A
back-to-the-land movement that means
nothing more than a continuation of
the old system, or lack of system, will
be of little value to the nation or those
who take part in it. A back-to-the-
land movement that ushers in order,
regularity, common sense, efficiency,
will mark an epoch In the nation's
history.
A Good Newspaper Flatfonn.
Vroa th Christian gelcnce Monitor.
'When Editor E. 3. Brooson, of the
El Reno (Okla.) American, wa a stu
dent at Pendleton academy, Falmouth,
Ky., he read how Caesar, lacking a
printing press, bad hi men write out
tbe "Acta Diurna" and post It in tht
publio square; and this Inspired him
to print with hi pen a newspaper and
to read It to bis schoolmates. This
was la 1I7, and the act was tbe be
ginning of his career In Journalism.
He has long been the proprietor ef
very prosperous newspaper, and in re
ply to a Question as te how he and his
enterprise have succeeded, he writes;
Well, we've tried to be real builder.
We've Hed to deal honestly with
every eubseriber And every advertiser.
We've tried to give value received for
every dollar, we've ever taken. .We've
tried to keep tbe best lntersts ef our
community is our goaf That is not
a bad platform for any beginner In the
newspaper, business. . , , v, . . . . :t ..
Rag Tajf and BoUit-l
Stories From Everywhere
I To thia Bokni all rar mt in,
ar invited to eoatrlbaw aiictnal matta. Am
story, ia .arsa or is hitoaopbloal baariratla
r strlklua- quota M'jns, from ear aoure.
0 Btrlbntlooe of eicspttonsl merit will be paid
a via wim a s praisai.j it
Here's Joke on the Easenista.
IN competition at New Yorjt for tha
best developed child, mentally and
physically, the Judges awarded the
prise to S-year-old Adelaide Atherton,
wnose rather claims to have had his
portrait on more sideshow banners
than any vothr living skeleton in the
country and whose mother asserts an
equal reputation as a bearded lady and
snake charmer. .v
A Mighty Mean Trick.
v Tuesday morning, between 7"" And I
ecleek, som animal visited the John
M. DeMoss farm and mad a meal off
the ears and tall of one of the hogs now
fat for market, says the Moro Observer.
John was In the house writing abetter
wlien his attention was attracted by
the barking of his dog and fas' running .
to the barn and back again to th
house. Shortly after th hog, was
found with Its eara neatly chewed Oft
and Its tall gone. Investigation showed
where the hog had tried to run from
It tormenter and tha claw mark
where the animal aad dug into the froz
en ground -trying to hold therhog. Jt
la thought to have been a lynx or sim
ilar animal that did the work, es sruoh
animal have been found occasionally
m th mek walls of th canyon a
short distance from th DeMoss farm.
What Really Counts.
The aunt of a little boy was amased -at
th sppetlts exhibited by him during
a recent stay in her household. ,
"Mercy," she exclaimed one day.
"But you certainly eat a terrible lot,
Willi, for auch a little fellow!"
Willie, however, was not at all npset
by this.
"I expect." he rejoined, "that I alp'-"
so little a I look from the outside"
Plans That Gang Agley.
Evidently these football slogans don't '
carry vary far, says th Albany Dem
ocrat. Salem said: "Kill Albany," and
Albany mad Salem look Ilk a corpse.
O. A. C. said 1 vsmeer Oregon,' and
Oregon made O. A. C. look like a ehun'x
of mud. In appearance both teems
wet certainly the limit. By the way,
programs wre sold under the repre
sentation that one could keep track of.
the players by the numbers on their
backs, but three minutes after the start
one could not tell one player from an
other by the numbers.
ITas Nothing on the Mule.
TJp In Barren county, Kentucky, John
Henderson hitched a mule to hie motor
car to pull it out of the mudyThe
car waa not only pulled out of the mud,
says th Macon (Oa.) Telegraph, but
was scattered over a good part ef
Hcrren county boforo Mr. Henderson
finally succeeded in persuading tho
mule to have a heart. All of which
goes to show that while the widely
known worm 1 some evolutor when he
makes up his mind, he hasn't any
llcefise to put on airs in tbe presence '
of the Kentucky mule.
Uncle Jeff Hnow Sayst
Little ' Sandy Schlagmaler says
Thanksgiving turkey all turned To
roast pork at his house, hi dad tellin'
'em turkey roosted too high thi year.
He thinks President WHson oughtar
fix some way for turkey to roost lower.
Sandy 'lows to raise some turkeys next
year on low roosts, he says. , :
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