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A aolenm and rlluioii rejriird lo uplrltual
and eternal things ts an lniliensanle ele
ment of ail true (rreatnesia. Daniel Web
ater. 'THE BRITISH DF310CRACY
A'- t nvp r ih lpast Portland through California via New Orleans to Cincinnati, a
mr . pS thIiround about' distance of 4176 miles. If routed direct, it would have
- sTeake?Swas asked if he ! reached lts destination in 2483 miles. The unnecessary distance trav
speaher was asKea ir ne re . eled hy locomotive and cars was 1693 miles, a loss of oar r-anadtv
garded
Great Britain as a
democracy.
The question is answered in the
Metropolitan magazine by Lord
Northcllffe. Hy his description,
Great Britain is one of -the purest
democracies in the world
in suui
particulars, it is even more demo
cratic than America.
The British government today
Includes all classes even better
tnan does the American govern
ment, says. Lord Northcliffe. Thus,
the origin of David Lloyd George
was about the same as that of Gar
field.' Garfield had ' the benefit
Of a college education; Lloyd
George did not.
As prime minister, Lloyd George
does not have the
power which
America confers on the president,
He is not fixed in his arbitrary :
position for four years. As soon j
as Great Britain is dissatisfied with j
the prime minister and the govern- J
ment, they both disappear automat-
Ically by an adverse vote
house of commons.
in the
Arthur Henderson, one of Lloyd ;
George's principal associates in the
war government is from the ranks
. , v. , .
Oi taoor. tie was a moiaer in a
locomotive plant. He is not only j
a member of the British cabinet. !
v.. i v, ji
L'Ut tX 1 1 1 ii pi; 1 yr l tiir v a l v uuut il. :
-Not many from the ranks of labor j
have risen to such position in
America. 1
, . T. , . I
General Sir William Robertson.
director of British war strategy, I
began life as a private in the Brit- !
ish army, and served many years !
in that capacity. Jellicoe, first sea j
l'nrrl la th non nf q marine can.
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tain." uord Lurzon. wno speaks
for the house of lords, began public
Ufe as a member of the house of
commons. His title was won
through hi profound ability and
his exceptional services to the
country. j
The father of Lord Milner, who j
is also a spokesman for the-house j
of lords, was a doctor. The son's
advent into the peerage was a re- j
ward for exceptional service
Bonar Law. a member of Llovd
George's war council, is a Scottish j Independent's standing should do
man of business. He made a mod-sucn a thing. The picture shows
est 'fortune in the Glasgow iron I members of a golf club engaged in
trade. He is spokesman for the'the vandalism of spading up their
war council ln the House of Com- Minks. To make the desecration
.noons.
.' I Others ln the government are
John Hodge, a steel smelter, a typ
'ieal and shrewd workingman, and
George Barnes, a machinist, from
one of the strongest labor unions,
the Amalgamated Society of Engi
neers. Another ia Sir Joseph Mac
lay, a self-made ship owner. Lord
sBhondda was mere Mr. Thomas,
who made a fortune in the coal
business. He is also a part of the
government. 1
Lord Davenport, the British food
f dictator, waa of tumble origin, and
began life as a grocer. Austen
' Chamberlain's grandfather was a
bootmaker. When to these a few
others of more .aristocratic birth
.are added, the list of governmental
notables in Great Britain is fairly
fttll, according to Lord Northcliffe.
t They are the people whom the de-
mocracy of Britain has 'chosen to
govern in the present crisis, and
.tbe facts of their, origin show that!
the peerage is not- the governing
power. His article says:
"fVre have nothing ln Kngland in tho
way of social status to outmatch, or
- even in certain respects, to equal that
of Roosevelt in New Tork or a Ca-
- tot In Boston. . . . Americana
fceeTra to find it impossible to realize
that tJirth is in many ways less im
. portant socially in England than in
the . United States. Nothing has
amaxed me more among my many vis
its to the United States than the te-
. naclty with which most of the fam
ilies belonging to th aristocracies of
; birth tn cities like New Tork, Boston,
Philadelphia and Charleston maintain
'their, pride' of -ancestry -- against new
comer. Tou see your minds' turn to
wanl'.the, past more ' than ours do.
' . Tou have a - most astonishing, cult of
local-antiquities all the way v from
IN TROUBLOUS TIMES
A
N APPEAL for operating reforms In the. railroads has been is
sued by the National Defense
the appeal thus:
Definite recommendations are
runs, heavier loading of cars, quicker brandling at terminals, reduction of
idle time and local meetings among railroad employes and officials to im
press .upon every railroad man the necessity of doing his fall patriotic duty.
CONSERVATION OF MOTIVE POWER IS RECOMMENDED BY REDUC
ING" LOCOMOTIVES ORDINARILY UNDER : REPAIR FROM THE AVER
AGE 15 PER CENT TO 10 PER CENT whioh would be equivalent to adding
2245 locomotives to the service; increasing the average miles per day of a
locomotive from 75 to 90 by quick turning at terminals, double crewin-g or
pooling which would have the effect of adding 13.300 locomotives.
There are other operatinc reforms the National Defense Council
overlooked. By routing traffic over natural lines an even far greater
conservation of "motive Dower" could be secured.
Thus, Lewiston grain s routed 390 miles to Puget Sound whei
Portland can be reached in 355 miles. The Portland run would mean
the saving of nearly half a day's run for a locomotive. And it re
quires at least nine if not ten locomotives to haul over the Cascades
to Puget Sound what one locomotive will haul down the river to
Portland.
Take Umatilla county grain. It is hauled 330Vi miles over the
mountains to Puget Sound against only 218 miles downhill to Port
land. On the Puget Sound routing, it Is hauled 112 needless miles,
or exactly one and one-half days of -ordinary locomotive run. This .s
a frightful wastage of motive power. Remembering that there are
hundreds of cases of the same kind, and that an enormous tonnago ij
thus carried to tidewater by unnatural and wasteful routings the ag
gregate waste rises to colossal proportions.
The distances are longer. The grades are heavier. Every added
mile is a waste of motive power and a waste of car capacity. Every
heavy grade chosen over a water grade Is further prodigal waste. The
National Defense Council can make
f ii rthoF t onnoartrfn rr tnnMixi rmn-n,- n
the roads to route traffic over shortest and most direct routes and
easiest grades.
Thus, the 200,000 tons of traffic handled over Puget Sound docks
by the Union Pacific include a colossal' waste of motive power and car
capacity. A vast portion. of It was the transporting of traffic a need
less 186 miles, the distance between Portland and Seattle. It was 2
j days' needless run for every locomotive so used. It was equivalent to
tying up 500 cars for the period required to haul them the unneces
sary distance. The 500 cars was sufficient car capacity to transport
1125.000,000 feet of lumber 186 miles.
Take the soy bean oil shipment of 150 cars hauled from Seattle
and motive power sufficient to have
Portland to Chicago.
The added and needless 1693 miles so traveled was a loss of 22 1-3
day8 of ordinary locomotive run. It was equivalent to keeping 22 1-3
locomotives idle on a railroad siding or In a railroad roundhouse one
whole day. Yet it is merely one example of the wastage in railroad
operation.
The appeal of the National Defense Council is signal proof of the
justice of the case of Portland. With that verv hich Tmthnritv in th
nation's affairs calling for the same
have been pointed out in these articles as desirable and long overdue,
unpeople or mis city snouid nave
the Portland claim.
andirons to inscriptions on tombs.
You have an Incredible number of
hooks .devoted to family history, con
taining lists of ancestors and enor
mous lists of descendants.
Lord Northcliffe says England
cannot compete with us in such
matters at all. "Our purely social
life - " ne Ba8. "contains virtually
no concerted efforts 'to keep the
memory of certain ancestors green,
anI to keep the prestige of their
descendants intact' He adds:
What misleads Americans is our
system of political titles. When an
! American thinks of an Ene-lish lord.
he seems incurably to begin thinking:
! all about the battle of Creey. He
j woud usa. e on k bettlr track !f
,ne started thinking about a barristers
chambers, or a House-of-Commons '
committee room, a factory, or a labor-i
atory, or a tropical swamp, where j
some quite recent person achieved !
t enmp t ai4 r n r n a rrv ortn nr-cnmni ion- .
. j v.
meat which was political recognition ! raarKS ln the Independent which
for himself and his heirs. . . i are worth reading. In New York
Some Americaji satirist has recently j reactionary sapping and mining
written some .verses about Boston, in j have mna e rn - . . ,
whicb he alleges tnat Cabots sp'eak j o far as to advocate
only to dwells, and libwejis speak 1 10 rePai of the child labor laws,
only to God. j Pauline Goldmark warns us that
! the same reactionary tide swept
There is no way to build roads j everything before it in England at
PTPPnt hv navinp" for thpm Wrttha nntk..ni.
i o - ;
rannot get rid of the winter mud ! of labor were unlimited women's trine than anv other great novelist 'circumstances, but the high cost of m
except by outlay of money We j protection was abolished. Child of our age: He is indeed almost ToZT e.T ehi tnTtfe
might wish otherwise, but the
thing we faee is that talk will not
bring good highways.
A SUBVERSIVE PICTURE
T
HE Independent prints a pic
ture this week which is posi
tively subversive in its tend
ency. We can not quite un-
i derstand why U magazine of the
complete they are going to plant
the sacred precincts to vulgar
onions.
Patriotism is, of course, an ex
cellent' thing, but it can be pushed
too far. When patriotism inspires
the humble laborer to spade up
his front lawn and plant potatoes
where his children of yore had
pinks and pansies blooming, we
all clap our hands in commenda
tion. But when it comes to spading
up 'golf links it is another matter.
The harmonizers want their kind
of "harmony." They want the Or
egon constitution to be so harmo
nious that it cannot be amended.
The dulcet words of their amend-
ment are to lull the people to sleep
j while the harmonizers bind them
! hand and foot so they may not
i change their constitution to fit the
j progress of the times,
SHEER WASTE
N'
O DOUBT the worst waste of
good food in the United States
is the manufacture of strong
drink. Alcoholic beverages
Injure everybody who swallows
them, do little or no crood in anr
circumstances, and destroy in their
production many million tons of
grain which might make bread.
The Independent says editorially
that the curtailment of our drink
consumption by one half would
save enough grain to make eleven
million loaves of bread daily. This
means that eleven million loaves
each day are made into strong
drink;-- They might far better be
Council. A news story describes
made. Including- longer locomotive
no recommendation that will go
n A AnnnnJi Jl j.
hauled 1X2 cars of wheat fron.
kind of operatinc reforms that
unbounded faith in the iusticp of !
iurnea in iurnaces, for then they j
would do no harm and might help !
manufacture something of use. j
It is a curious psychological phe-1
nomenon to hear the exhortations j
which are showered upon us from
all sides to grow more food and
then notice how serenely we turn
eleven million good loaves daily '
into useless lmvorac Tr.i,. u.. !
aves daily
Truly hu
man beings are queer creatures.
A WESSON
I
cuisiNliCriON with the many i
current attempts under the pre -
text of patriotism to break down
th Iop-oI oofn ,
" -fo"a.uS wiucn nave j
miuwn arouna the health
and vigor of the laborine class. !
neen
Pauline OoldmnrL- Vio !
"- oumr 1 f-
w.v. uuiuicnn ui tne war. riours
laDor was unrestricted Ann qii
this was done for the sake of the
national defense.
What was the result? The pro
ductive power of the nation went
down and down. It was found by
actual experience that the legal
safeguards won by so many years
of earnest effort were an actual
help to production. - The safe
guards kept the laborers in fit
physical and mental condition and
their work turned out more and
better results. So England, driven
by the hard facts of the situation,
restored the safeguards she had
mistakenly destroyed. Here is an
obvious lessen for us.
Mr. Bean thinks a great deal
more of what he terms the" rail
road's title to the grant lands than
does the railroad. The corpora
tion lists the value of the gran
lands on its books at $1. It even
thinks so little of its title that it
has long refused to pay taxes oh
the lands. Thus. Mr. Bean ia
great deal stronger in his faith
as to railroad ownership than is
the company.
JOHN COWPER POWVS
H"
R. POWYS first visited the
United States in 1905. Since
then he has been continual
ally returning. His lectures
have been extraordinarily popular,
though the subjects are not at all
exciting. He talks about the Bronte
sisters, Walt Whitman, Shelley,
Byron. It is partly the way he
talks that attracts his great audi
ences, but of course what he says
is the main allurement.
There is nothing mechanical in
Mr. Powys platform manner, any
more than in his books. His com
ment on Victor Hugo in "Sus
pended Judgments" might well ap
ply to his own lectures. ."His
method is gnomic, laconic, oracu
lar and we are either with him or
not with him. ' There are no' half
measures, no evolutionary judg
ments." It is thus that Mr.
Powys mind worka both in his
bookSf and when : he u lecturing.
We feel In the presence of an lmfl
mense sincerity .but a j sincerity
whose path Is hewn out for it by j
keen and ready wit. Mr. Powys i
sympathies do not make b,im dull
uy any manner Of means. I
The word bourgeois, he remarks,
"is no mere passing levity of an ir- i ,Be Mroe p'j - -responsible
Latin Quarter. It is For a War Dry Nation,
the judgment of the taste ot gTeat ! ' Portland,- My l. Tp the Editor of
artists and poets of all ages upon The Journal Enclosed find circular
tho wm-at tVl letter which is being used in Wtscon-
the worst type of person, the type sjn by the fatner, and imother. Cf that
most pernicious to true human ; Btate asking our president and their
haDDiness. that has ever vet aD- ; reDresentativea in congress to throttle
; peared upm tne Planet." And who
iis tnis hideous type of man? It
is, "the commercial type, the typa
that loves the money-making toil
it is enlaced nnon whioh rule
11 is enagea upon, wnicn rules
over us now with an absolute au- j
thority and creates our ' religion, f
our morality, our pleasures, our J
... , .
pastimes, our literature and our
art." i
With this hot rage in his heart j
against "the commercial type" it ooo majority in Oregon that not niy
is interesting to observe the toler- ; our own state remain dry hut that we
ant appreciation which Mr. Powvs : n,ope to help make every state and ter-,,,-,,
. : ritory over which waves the glorious
feels for Henry James who WB3 ; red white and Mue the same and let it
"bourgeoisedom" pickled in coldtnot be said that Russia, which: has
molasses. Evidently Mr. Powys ! banished its vodka; France, which has
1no t M!ii"ea h una r.iiKianu.
smooth complexities, his bewildered-,
involutions of style, his soft, en- j
chontoft flinp-inf in cutin vnrtma .
and obsequious servants, but he
, . , ,, . . . , . .
does not fail to perceive the frigid
heartlessness Of -the velvet CUSh-
loned art.
,
There is something almost ter-
rifying," and inhuman, writes Mr.
Powys, "about Henry James' im-
, , , . ,..fi ,
perturbable. stolidity of indiffer-
ence to the sufferings and aspira -
tions of the many, too many. One
could imagine any Intellectual pro- , to be able to feM thftse voung men
letarian rising up from the perusal j ourselves and yourselves, which is all
of his books with a howl of indig- ! proper. The saloons of our country
nation against their urbane and ; are ,a menac to our nation and the
i i Ji . m a i world at Large and especially to our
Incorrigible author. One of the young men you have called from their
most interesting passages in Mr. : homes to protect you, as well as the
Powys . essay " on Henry James : rest of us- including these same sa
speaks of the kinship between that ! n and the people h make
author and Nietzsche. j -This letter is written you also, in
Nietzsche, as we all remember. , the name of humanity, to close our
carried Hegel's doctrine of the ir-'
... . . . . , ,,,...,.
responsible and worshipful Will
into practical ethics. Hegel taught
that history, with its cruelty. Mood-
shed and bitter wrone was the ex-
pression of God's will, thus identi-,
fying God's will with the ambitious :
passions of men.
Nietzsche went
on io say ilia i i
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the only will .of God' there is in ;
the universe is the will of the
strong man. In his philosophy not !
only does ml&ht make right but
the miSnt of every individual is!
the only rule of right for htm. No
matter how lustful, cruel and in- I
. , , .' . ,,
human he may be, if he expresses
himself" he fulfills his purpose, or
lack of mirnose in the universe.
c iiuun. jl i3 an cjiquisucij
acute piece of "criticism in which ;
Mr Powva noints'- out the Viet- !.
scheism of Henry James, who was
calm, vigilant and indifferent to i
human sorrows, untess, indeed, i
thev were the sorrows of some 1
,
upper-ciass person. men ne coun
shed a tear or two quite as a gen -
tleman should. I
-x-f i
.-"'- wife has to work, and I believe mar
Powys, "maintains the necessity ried people should have Just as manv
of a slave caste in order that the i children as they can feed, clothe and
masters or civilization may
of civilization may live
largely, freely, nobly, as did the
ancient aristocracies of the classic
ages without contact with the bur
den and tediousness of labor. And
in this Henry James is more in
harmony with the Nietzschean doc
tne only one wno relentlessly ana
unscrupulously rules out Of his anything better? I read in a paper that j
work every aspect of the spirit of,tn housewives are blamed for the high I
,.. ;Cost of living, for buying such large
revolution. j supplies of food and storing them
We do not ourselves imagine away. All the housewives I know
that Henry James' polished flun-woul3 be grad to have a package of
keyism will cut any great figure 5,da a"d a,efke of to store awa .
, ' , , . . . ... T. 1 They do not have enough money at one
in the history Of literature. Tt : time to buy the necessaries of life. If
would not surprise US to See Mr. :my husband could get 50 cents a pound
Powys weighing a great deal more 'for his butter, do you think he would
substantially that elegant and ! """.'"t' c'"? "n
. doing, unless he was forced to sell
flinty expatriate as the centuries cheaper? "A Mother" certainly must bo
glide by. : speaking about the idle rich. She
Henrv James should have lived doesn't seem to know muh about the
in the 'age of Xero. to whom he,poor workin cla,ps r R FQX
would have served admirably as I 1T '
another, arbiter elegantiarum. Oppose Road Bond Act.
It is pleasant to conceive how j Inindeo. Or.. May 2. To the Kditor
charmingly he would have de- ' e Journal i see m The Journal
. & ' , . , , of today your comment on the bonding
scribed the working class Chris- j Rrt for goo6 roads. You contend that
tians wrapped up in greasy rags j the arguments against the act do not
and set fire to on tall pillars for ! ra'ry m merit. I have heard some
. , , , . x. pod ones, but It seems they don't
torches in Nero s maddens. H generally get into the Portland papers,
would have depicted their wrig-, You contend that there is provision
glings in the most delightful lan-against fraud and favoritism. What
... . . .i.,t( .v., ii, i about the auto license fees that belong
guage without a thought that they , to the vaUpy countles? We wi osf
could feel. To Henry James it j those and they will go to the scenic
would have been merely the fisher- i highway. p0 you think Multnomah
man's worm wriggling on the hook. Thkhefarmersre
and probably enjoying the expert- . eoing to call a halt and do something
ence.
Mr.
Powys' books are full o!
just this kind of wonderfully il
luminated criticism. We del not
believe he hit the nail quite so
squarely on the head in his Byron
essay as he
has in some others.
We do not, for our part, perceive
V ... x i. i
the "brutality" which Sticks OUt Of
Bvron so prominently to Mr.
Powys eyes. But what of it? His
... , t.
essays, like his lectures. -are beau-
tiful and keen with potent genius,
Elections are the plaything of
aldermanic government. In the
plan' to restore aldermanic gov- there is a parallel railroad and lots of
ernment in Portland, it is proposed llTl Jsu?Zl need ?K
to have two elections every elec- s farmers need them, and will not get
tion year instead of one as now. them, so you might as well figure
How some do huneer for the old ' tnat tne farmrs wl" knock that bond
HOW. some ao nunger ior tne oia . inE bm lnto a cocked hat on June ,
days! - , j along wltli some of the other nefari-
asities of the 1917 legislature's work.
u-knrocor oMermanli ontorn. I The farmers all want good roads and
" , . ; T . .
ment is in use, it is characterized
by public scandal. In Portland, it
came, to be a regime of scandal.
There has not been a breath or
hint of scandal under commission
government. . : .- - j . . - 4 :
Letters From the People
t0n,miinir,tu.. .nt u The Journal for
leiceed 30O words in length and moat o ac
NfMnr.l.l K- ..... ...... mAA lllflrVM ttt the
aender. If the tvrlter doea not desire to hare j
the Demon Rum, at least auring inn i
war in which we are now engaged, i
snrl thus save thousands Of bushels of 1
Kraln from being ' manufactured into
t-hat more than deatn dealing drink. ,
and - what is of rnore consequence still, j
remove lne temptation from our sons
wno have bravely left home and the j
protection thereof, to ; battle for the j
rist3 f humanity. Let every father.
mother, sister, and sweetheart in our i
bone dry state of Oregon write (today) I
similar letters to our president and !
know"
in congress,
and
em Know it la tree desire or js.-
which ha curtailed its rlrinlctnp of
ale, are farther advanced in the work
of prohibition than the grand old
United States of America.
a r- TWA VP
r. , ,, ,
The following passages sufficiently
; indicate th6 spint and phrasing of the
' memorial referred to by Mr. Doane:
"To ur President and Our Repre-
sentatives. Washington, D. C Gen-
tlemen: Circumstances have forced you.
j fr the sake of humanity the world
, over- lt our en to f T"8
'to protect our countrv and our rights
j on iand and sea. thev aits responding
1 nobly from wherever the stars and
i'str'P8 rule, you are asking our farm-
sI1ons and ,st,P tn manufacturing
o liquors, at least during the pres-
ent conflict
"By closing the saloons, the distil
leries and the breweries, you will put
tl at many more men in the army or
tlm fields, which will be of more ben
efit than making liquor.
"We. who are directly and indirectlv
j Interested in raising thee young men
ana in raisinp the crops to feed them
n-ci i -j .hn n..nn . i r , . i
wo have a riprht tb ask this favor of
'ou 311,1 tr,,Pt tnat ou wishes win be
Xn" and. S oC''Uuest wm
be granted."
r.., T-
v .iuuw.
Mron?lr ' Trn.i25TTo
tor of The Journal I would like
space to answer an article in Mon-
: day's Journal entitled "The Babies."
:A ,Tother asks what is the matter
with "our vain.
cola
nearted women, who are too laxy to
work and want to gad the streets."
Here is onp who would like to be
.1 r "ea
to gad: for I live on a farm. Now if
"A Mother." or 6ome mother, will
ThT Kan affo to j;aise
children I shall be very glad to hear.
i have been married severai years to
a man with no trade. We live on a
small rented farm, and just make
Hiving. 1 am not lazy. A farmer s
eju.u mq- Z. 1 Kn?w most
r iue siuiernig in tins woria comes
from ignorance. I have no children.
and, like a great many others, I am
j not thinking of having any while
flour is S2.S3 a sack and sugar J10
per cwt. It is all we can do to pay
our bills and feed ourselves. I have
hoped from year to year to bo in better
hands of a few. how can we hoDe for
very soon, and the chances are that
after the next legislature the aiWo
license fees will go into their respect
ive counties and into their road funds,
where they rightfully belong. If you
look up the records and see how mu h
license money has been collected in
Yamhill county and how much Yam-
; hill got back into its road fund. I think
' V" se a Prt of the negro in
thc bush. The auto is here to stay, and
. everybody will have one sooner or
! later, and we don't object to paying
,he license but we need the auto-her
on our roads. We have no need of th
roIurnoia highway, and there is no
show of the valley counties getting
1 any of that $S. 000. 000 bond money The
UStrS? wfu
:e along the Columbia river where
;re willing to pav for them but they
i,,on t want the PortUnd highway push
to get them for us. bv- bonding the
state. V F. C. WIRTS.
A New Motto.
rrom the OolnmtKi (Ohio) Cirlaea.
United wa stand, divided we crawl.
LA MARSEILLAISE
By Rouget
YE sons of France, awake to glory!
Hark! ; What myriads round you risel
Your children, wives and grandsires hoary;
Behold their tears andjiear their cries!
Shall Tiateful tyrajitsmischief breeding,
With hireling hosts, a ruffian band,:
Affright and desolate the land.
While peace and liberty lie bleeding?
To arms, to arms, ye brave!
Th' avenging sword unsheathe;
March on, march on,
All hearts resolved on liberty or death.
Now, now the dangerous storm is rolling.
Which treacherous kings, confederate, raise:
The dogs of war, let loose, are howling,
And, lo! our fields and cities blaze..
And shall we basely iew the ruin.
While lawless force with guilty stride
Spreads desolation far and wide.
With crimes and blood his hands imbruing?
To arms, to arms, ye brave!
Th' avenging sword unsheathe;
March on, march on,
Allhearts resolved on liberty or death.
With luxury and pride surrounded.
The vile, insatiate despots dare.
Their thirst of power and gold unbounded,"
To mete and vend the light and air;
Like beasts of burden they would load us,
Like gods, would bid their slaves adore;
But man is man andwho is more?
Then shall they longer lash and goad us?
To arms, to arms, ye brave!
Th' avenging sword unsheathe;
March on, march on.
All hearts resolved on liberty or death.
O Liberty! Can man resign thee.
Having once felt thy gen'rous flame?
Can dungeons, bolts and bars confine thee.
Or whips thy noble spirit tame?
Too long the world has wept bewailing
That falsehood's dagger tyrants wield;
But Freedom is our sword and shield,
And all their arts are unavailing.
To arms, to arms, ye brave!
Th' avenging sword unsheathe;
March on, march on.
All hearts resolved on liberty or death.
JOFFRE AND THE
Prom the New York KTenlny Pwt.
No Imaginable event in tjie lonp
months of conflict utili to come can
rob the victor of the Marne of his pre
eminence. He it. the one grandiose fig
ure of the war. No imaginable event
can rival the battle of the Marne in Its
significance for the history of the
world and civilization. It docs not
matter that Marshal Joffre has been
replaced as leader of the FYench
armies. It does not matter that the
battle of th Marne left a heavy task
and tremendous sacrifices for the
French nation to carry through. If
Hie genius xof Joffre spent Itself on
ffie Marne, It was in the performance
of a supreme mission carried out
amidst all the circumstance of a great
drama a mighty issue decided after
agonizing suspense amidst tho hush
of a watching world. After two and a
half year8 of crashing conflicts and
untold heroisms, of sweeping victories
and great retreats, of a war map un
rolling itself over three continents, it
is still Impossible to go back to the
now old story of the Marne without
that catch of the breath, without the.
sacred awe, aroused by the presence
of powers and issues almost more than
human. The drama of the great war
has worked Itself out contrary to all
the rules of dramatic construction.
There were no long acts of prepara
tion and development. Hardly had the
play 'begun when the climax was upon
us. Forty-one days from the rise of
the curtafn to the pitch of the action
and S2 months of slow descent to
wards a final curtain not yet in sight.
Is it any wonder the events and the
man of those ftrst 41 days still main
tain an unapproachable fascination?
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If rne Marne was a victory won for
civilization by France, it was also won
in accordance with the gonitis of
France. It is Impossible to read again
the story of the first five weeks of the
war without recognizing that at bot
tom there 1 truth in the oft-exagger
ated generalizations about the pe
culiarities of national genhus. Perhaps
we are today, after two and a half
years of war. inclined to stress too
much the new discoveries of the
Freneh temperament. It has become a
commonplace to say that, instead of a
frivolous people, the French are really
the most practical of nationsj-rinstead
of a nation of talkers, they are really
a nation of doers; instead of a gay na
tion, a serious nation; instead of sn
imaginative people, a plodding people.
For French elan w are asked to sub
stitute French endurance unto death.
But what addB glow and poetry, to tho
battle of the Marne is that it was
fought and largely won in the spirit
of the older, historic French virtue.,
and traits. It was won by the old
French heroism, and more than that,
by the old French imagination founded
upon innate reason. Brilliant, but un
safe, we are accustomed to say of tho
exceptional master ln chess. Brilliant,
but unsafe, used to be the common
place generalization of the French na
tional temperament. Brilliant and dar
ing was the strategy of the battle of
the Marne. It was a victory of the
French mind over the German mind.
The difference between German
strategy and French fctrategy in th!
campaign that ended with the Marne
was the difference between mechanical
PERSONAL MENTION
Marshfield Postmaster Here.
Hugh Mclain postmaster at Marsh
field and prominent in commerc ial af
fairs of the Coos Bay countrv. if a
guest at the Portland.
Astoria Railroader Coine.
j G. W. Roberts, district freight "an 1
' passenger agent for the O.-W. R. & N.
' company at Astoria, in at the Mult
j nomah with' Mrs. Roberts and Miss
I Roberts.
j Pugilists V isit City.
I Tom and Mike Gibbons, well known
rlnjr champions, are at the Mull
i nomah.
' Miss Rosa B. Parrott of Monmouth,
'a member of the faculty of the Oregon
' normal school, is at th Portland.
Leo Morin of Wallace. Idaho, is at
i the Norton ia.
I O. Bogardus is registered at the
1 Perkins from Bridal Veil,
i Ernest ' E. Nyiand, Connell ranches,
iis at the Oregon
j L. H. Harris "of Salem member of
i the state supreme court, is at th Im
perial.
Mr. and Mr. G. H. Buehler are: Den
ver arrivals at the Multnomah.
Mr. and Mrs. N. V. Blumensaat of
Rainier are at the Cornelius.
,Mr. and Mrs. G. TV. IV Lay of Hoi
LaRe are guests' at the Portland.
A. M. Perkins Is registered at the
Perkins from Cecil
J. I i Buell, accompanied ' by tho,1
de Lisle
GENIUS OF FRANCE
precision anrl Imagination. Th Ger
man plan was to set into motion two
enormous pincers, one swinging in
from Belgium, one from the western
frontier between Nancy and Belfort.
and to crush the French armies some
where in the valley of the Seine. The
French plan did not call for the exer
tion of all the power of the natioR's
armies to resist this- strangling, man
euvre. .loffre took the chance of hold
ing back the iron pressure with part
of his forces while watehlivg for the
opportunity to throw the remainder
in a hammer-blow against the enemy
claw from without. The German
armies were all in place when the hos
tilities legan: ttve machine was com
plete in every part, and once set into
motion, had only to be kept going. The
French armies were not all in being.
Joffre preferred to wait and see.
Against the German machine he hnd
what is called in chess a combination;
that is to ay, asainst caution and
method he opposed mind. He created
one new' army while in the full course
of retreat and brought another army
from his extreme right wing to play a
decisive role in the center of his line.
Nothing in the history of the war can
rival for combined foresight and dar
ing the gathering of the army of
Bretons and Normans, the Sixth Army,
which Joffre first attempted to throw
against the northern claw of the Ger
man pini ers from Amiens. The at
tempt failed. But the army that was
flriven back around Amiens appeared
within a few days aroumd Paris.
Thence it was thrown against von
Kluck's right wing on the Oureq, and
the battle of the Marne was won. The
German plan or victory counted upon
existing armies arriving at a certain
place at a certain time. Joffre's plan
depended upon the creation of a new
army and its arrival where and when
it was wanted. It is this evocation of
an armv from the void which gives the
dramatic, the iiaractcristieally FYench
touch, to the great event.
1'p to the moment of execution the
plan cf the Marne, if It had been
known to tho outside world, would
have been called brilliant, but unsafr.
As we look back in the fuller knowl
edge of today we see that it was both
brilliant and safe. For in the battle of
the Marne there was revealed to the
world a synthesis of the traditional
French genius and the unsuspected
virtues we are now aware of. The con
ception of the battle had French Im
agination and dash: its execution re
vealed tho.e marvellous powers of
resiliency and endurance which hav
stirred the imagination of the world.
The victory which saved th cause of
international faith and democracy was
won by men who rallied to the attack
after five weeks of disaster and re
treat. The men who were hurled back
with bloody Iops at Saarbruck stood
like an iron wall against (he kaiser's
furious attacks before Nancy. Tho men
who were beaten in Alsace came under
Foch to shatter the Prussian Guard at
I.a Fere Ohampenoise. The Breton and
Norman territorials who gave way be
fore Von Kluck around Amiens were
the men who on the Ourcq carried out
Joffre's injunctions to die tn their
tracks If they '.must, but not to give
way. In the decisive moment French
imagination was Justified by Frencu
devotion.
Misses Buell, are guests at the Nor
tonia. They motored to Portland from
Kugene-
Percy R. Kelly of Albany, circuit
Judge. Is at the Oregon with Mrs.
Kelly.
Dr. V. H. Byrd is a Salem visitor
at the Portland.
V. J. Mairtlndale of Kugerve is at
the Jmperial.
Mrs. A.- M. Burt of Camas la a guest
at the Cornelius.
Mr. and Mrs. C. V. Foulds of Berke
ley. Cal., are guests at the Multnomah.
R. K. Boyd of Ogden Is at the Ore
gon. W. B. livings Is registered at the
Nortonia from Seattle. :
L. C. Uycrmnre is a Pendleton visi
tor at the Imperial.
Mr. and Mrs. H. H. Nelson of New
berg are guests at the Cornelius.
A. T. Bailey is a Spokane arrival at
the Portland.',
V. H. Hay of Forest Grove ia at the
Perkins.
Francis V. Galloway of The D41tes
is at the Imperial.
C R. Canfield of Dallas is at the
Perkins.
Checking the Dentist.
From tb Columtma (Ohio) Journal.
The next tisae we tret a bill from our
dentist, wiom w esteem fully aa
highly as we possibly could esteem any
dentist, we are going to send It back
with a request that he ttemixa it, show
ing how much of the time we are
rhftrfMl fnr waa ftvnt A y mA
how much to conversation, :
Raj? Taj? and Bobtail
Stories From Everywhere i
To tbla column all i-Mtora r Tha jionrs.i
ar loTiird to cootribut orlfigal matter in
atorr. In rv. or in pbUuanuk-al obralloa
or atrlkloc quotatlnna. from an aouree. Coo-
twfuuuua m cirapiiuuai merit 1U Ix paid foi.
at m editor appralaal.
A Prophecy of 1852.
N Alfred Tennyson, who1 the
year previous had been made Doet
laureate of England, save tb th Lon
don Examiner a poem entitled -Hands
ah Round,-1 wherein were toasts drunk
to a fanciful banquet of several na
tions of the civilised world. The uoem
oegan with;
"Kim drink a health, tjhla solemn nlrtt.
A helth to Eng-Und'a rrvry curat. ' . '
and then, after toasting several na
tions ot the old world as he deemed
they deserved, closed with the follow
ing stansas bearing upon our relations
with the mother country:
Gigantic daughter of !b- Wl.
V drink to tl at-ruaa ftlie riixvi;
e -know tbee and we lne tbro lmt,
For art thou lw.t of EjUih bloiHl?
Xhould war a mad blaat ain bv hkiwo.
I'fcmlt iet tb.i the tyrant puwrra
T" flgnt thy mother here aku-.
But let ihjr br..1iiM riar with our:'
Handa all round. '
(iod t lie tyrant a raiior ronfouiMl :
TV fur (tear kliwinen of the Wet, nir fflead.
And the treat name of Knglnixl. rmuxt ai.d
round.
O Mae. our atronj Atlajitie
When war Miut iir freetloin irlnr;
O peak to OiroM- with rour un-:
Tbej- can be undertnd by kings!
Ion must not uilx our Quen mith thoae
That wish to keep tbelr people fiol.
Oiir freedom foe tnan are her foe ;
Khe K-mprehenda tba race lie rulea:
HajHln all round.
ixl the tyrant ran ronrnund!
Tt ir dear kliiAOx-n of the Went, my frlen4.
And the great name nf Ko gland, round ana
round.
The Democracy of Succor.
A prominent Jew gave $100. 000- for
T. M. C. A. workin the prison camps
of Kurope, saya Girard ln the Pblla-
haye contributed. The Greek church -in
Russia has thrown open to this
same Y. M. C. A. the stockades in
Siberia, where whole armies of pris
oners need help.
Mr. Eddy, who is known-all over the
world in this field, said to me yester
day on this subject of the truly in
ternational aspect of his work:
"We don't proselyte. We merely help
the soldiers, whether thev are going
to the fmnt or are far behind th
lines in those dreadful prison camps."
The Prayer Befor.e Rattle.
This is the li 'meniloiia prayer which
the men on Britist warships hear as
they thunder into battle:
"O tnoft powerful and glorious Lord
God, the lord of hosts, that ruleth and
commandest all things. Thou sittcst
in the throne Judging right, and there
fore we make our address to thy
divine majesty in this our neresslty,
that thou wouldet take the cause into
thine own hand, and Judge between us
and our enemies. Stir up thy strength,
and come and help us; for thou giveiit
not always the battle to the strong,
but cnnstfBave by many or by few. o
let not our sins now cry against us for
vengeance; but hear us. thy poor
servants, begging mercy and implor
ing thy help, and that thou wouldest
be a defense unto us In the face of
the enemy. -Make it appear that thou
art our savior and mighty deliverer,
through Jesus Ohrist our lord. Amen."
That was the moving prayer, says
th Little Paper (London), which our
heroes heard at Trafalgar; it wan tho
prayer used at the battle of Jutland. It
must have heri a stirring thought to
our aeamen that this very rrayer was
that which had come from the hearts
of those who fought with Nelson.
What One B-'ave Man Can IK).
A wonderful story of a non-i-omnils-sloned
officers' bravery and determina
tion ts contained in the official an
nouncement pt the award of the Vic
toria cross to No. 731 Lance Sergeant
(now second lieutenant) Frederick Wil
liam Palmer, Hoyal Fusiliers, says the
Vancouver, B. v.. World. Iurlng the
progress of certain operations, alt the
officers of his company having been
shot down. Kergeant Palmar assumed
command, and. having cut his way.
under point-blank machine jjuti fire,
through the wire entanglements, he
rushed the enemy's trench with six
men. dislodged the hostile machine gufr
which had been hammering the sd
vance, and established a block. He"
collected men detached from other
regiments and held the barricade for
nearly three hours against seven deter
mined counter attacks, under an In
cessant barrage of bombs and rifle
grenades from his flank and front.
During his temporary absence In
earch of more bombs an eighth counter
attack was delivered by the enemy,
who succeeded tn driving his party and
threatening the defenses of the whole
flank. At this critical moment, al
though he had been blown off his feet
by a bomb and was greatly exhaustd,
he rallied his men. drove ha k th en
emy, and maintained his position. The
very conspicuous bravery displayed bv
this non-commissioned officer, the of
ficlal report concludes, cannot h over
stated, and his splendid determination
and devotion to duty undoubtedly
averted what might have proved a
serious disaster in this sertor of the
Una.
The Humble Servitor.
He was one of the tallenf, broadest
darky porters I had ever seen, says a
writer in the NeW York Evening Post
Magazine. He swung through the alnlea
and seemed to dominate the entire ear.
One' hesitated to aak so impressive a
Pperaonagr. a question jto simple aa when
e train reached C inclnnati. But when
I Sid, he pauaed before my chair, atid
an unbelievable shyness suddenly
overwhelmed him.
"I really doan' know, miss." he said
in a husky whisper. "You see. dla
heah's man maiden trip."
That War May lie No More.
A regiment of troops marc hed by
Bound for some place they knew
not where.
Nor questioned thev. nor made reply;
Bach bound to fight, or die. or bear
The hardships of a soldier's life.
Striving not yet given to strife;
Kaeh laying down his self assertion;
Each bound to strenuous exertion;
Each one forgetting selfishness; 1
Each one agreein to be less
Than a grain of sand upon the shore.
To win their cause in time of war. j
Thev will return all who are left. .
All who eacape the mouth of hell
Be welcomed, home by those lereft.
By those who mourn for those who
fell. i
Will those returninr. those who staved.
Will lhoe who 'ought, m-ho worked,
who prayed, i .
Each strive to live as the others
died;
Fa.'h labor peacefully 1d "by side;
Fac!T one forgettln selfiahneas;
Each one agreeing to be leas
Than a grain of sand upon the shore
That strife aid war may be no more?
(Copyright. 11. 1t Tmk Meirta Heata.)
. Uncle Jeff Snow Hays: j
First thing w know we'll haro most
altogether swapped old clothes wfth
Russia. This business In Russia of
bavin' free speech and havln no cen
sorship and no saluttn of officer in
the army looks mighty like soma! of
th, old time American styles, i -.
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