4 THE OREGON SUNDAY JOURNAL, PORTLAND, SUNDAY MORNING, JUNE 10, 1917. &mm V AH IXDEPENDZNT NEWSPAPER C 8. JACKSON Publisher gVUlsbed ' (except Sunday twt Oar, arterooou and morning lunday afternoon) at The Journal Bonding, Broadway aud XamftUl a treat. ForUaad, Of. saitered at tb poetof flee at Portland, Or., for .; traaamlaalon through the malla aa aeoood eteas matter. TELBTH0NE3 Main 7173; Home, A-0OS1. All .department reached by these numbera, Tell the operator what department J on want. ' rOUHON ADVERTISING REPJtESBJfTATTVB Benjamin Kentoor Co., BrunHWick Bldg., , 235 Fifth Ar New York. People's Oaa Bldg., Chicago. nbeerlptton terms bjr mall or to anj address In the United States or Mexico: DAILY (MORNING OR AFTERNOON ) One rear $5.00 One month S .SO SUNDAY On year $2.50 One month f .23 DAILY (MORNING OR AFTERNOON) AND SUNDAY Ob 8 year tT.fiO ! One month $ .68 A' Shun all manner of deceit. "Tla a cow ardly and aerv lie humor to bide awl li giilce a nian'a aelf tnuli-r a Ylaer and not to dare to show himself what he U. By that our toUonrr lire trained up to treachery. Being brought up to apeak wbait i not true, I bey make no eonaeience of a lie. Montaigne. A GIGANTIC TASK THE Hoover statement that the allies must have one billion bushels of wheat, a great deal of which must be sent from America, is of moment to men. It Is a tremendous problem to face. Many d not grasp its full meaning. Yet it 13 a situation of hard facts which admits of no denial, ramine prices are already here. The crop prospect for this season 1b none too encouraging. The wheat producing countries of the world outside of North America have shortened crops and crop pros pects. The demands of the war upon the food supply are not likely to fall off. The waste of the sub marine proceeds apace. It Is short sighted not to comprehend the momentousness of the work ahead in America. Genuine efforts have been made to forestall a food scarcity by spad ing up unused garden plats and stimulating farmers to plant large areas. No doubt a great deal has thus been done to Increase our food resources. The overplus of garden products will be canned and YOUR CHANCE TO ACCUMULATE RE YOU a salaried man? Have you stopped to think what the purchase of a Liberty bond on the installment plan would mean to you? Have you reflected that the investment is the best maker of savings you can find? If, for example, you contract for a bond on condition that you pay a small sum per week or month from your sayings, at the end of the given period you will have saved the amount and will be owner of the bond. More to the point, the bond will be drawing semi-annual in terest. And it will be exempt from taxation. The bond itself will help you make the payments in its purchase. The security is the best in the world. All the people, all the property, all the power and all the honor of the nation are pledged for redemption of the bonds. No bank is so secure. No investment is more sound. Few in vestments are as safe. It may be said that the cost of living is high. So it always is. And usually there is not so much employment as now. Nor as swiftly an increasing prosperity as now. Nor as many enterprises calling for workers as now. The common man never had set before him so excellent a plan for making savings. He never before had so good an opportu nity to begin a systematic accumulation of savings. We can all spare something, be it ever so little. The offers by employers to buy the bonds permit employes to pay in small weekly or monthly installments gives workers a chance to deter mine upon the amount to be saved. Then a trifling cut in ex penditures here and a small reduction in the daily outlay there will start the accumulation. At the end of-the year the bond will be paid for and you will be its happy owner. And in the meantime, you will be helping fight the war. For he also is a fighter who helps a fighter fight. Letters From the People on a certain page of a certain little manual.-. There are too many graduates irom the public SChOOlS Who Can . Communications sent to The Journal for not be persuaded that anything is "UatSTp. really accurate unless it was SO exceed words In length and must be ae- printed in the text book they hap- , Xnk1f rimdU"nV2E? Dened to Study. ln name poMlabed he ahonkl so state. i I Demanding Justice for Toil Money buys bread, and bread 1 Washougal. Wash., June 5. To the may win the war. The American Editor of The Journal. - a cartoon i-ivlnfewt tit (ha nrftrnn Sll in 111X1011 At government wants to borrow money electln of may0r items so to from you to lend to the allies to violate the most sacred duty of Amer- buy bread from us. If you have lean citizenship In tnese times or .nr Ravine or ran rnnkA uvlnn moral stress that I, an outsider, am any savings or can matte savings moved to prote9t at tn. attitud and buy a bond, you will help win tnat Portlands voters seem to have the war. He also fights who helps , taken. the fighters fight. i T forestall any aspersions of bias. . , , , A W1BU LU y LUCkl A II SAW M va mpri ivncrniiMvn I remotest way Connected with either lilt- iy IMliLK Kl.Mi ..id- Uhnr rr onnltal. and am lnter- ested In Portland's welfare only as I T MAKES one breathless to keep ' am interested in the welfare of my j up with H. G. Wells' new country. Krvt.. v ,K - A challenge is being: thrown dally, books, he publishes them so at th mOJt turbulent, tne. most fast. "Mr. Britling" was hardly . -bused the moat exDiolted and the i off the press when we were invited j most foreign element of our nation, i to read "God the Invisible King," Doe thl8 look- a" "V . .... ... . . ,. . , Z ' keep the peace and promote the wel- which is followed immediately by . fare of portland7 jjoes it not Iook another serial in Collier's Weekly more like an effort to raise "a dis on the same theme. The theme is turbance and under cover of the laws i of the protection of property reduce i ieiifeiuuB. fl0t varidalism but honest American : Mr. Wells began to discourse I labor to slavery? .,,Kt. i ima ' Deal honestly and fairly by the THE FLAG GOES BY H' be helped as they were never helped before. And every youth and grown-up in the nation should be open minded and ready to help sustain any movement for enabling Amer ica to feed the nations. To start a savings accumulation ig the average man's chief diffi culty. He never begins. But it he buys a Liberty bond, he will begin. He can buy. now on the installment plan, giving a little from hisweekly or monthly wage in payment. By a little economy here and a small cut in expendi tures there, he can turn the trick. And at the end of a year, the bond will be all his, and the start in an accumulation of savings be made. rATS off! Along the street there comes A blare of buries, a ruffle of drums, A flash of color beneath the sky. Hat off I The flag is passing byl I ago in "First and Last Things." He had touched upon them contin ually from the beginning of his career, but that book marks the laborer whose toil enables you to liv ! In comfort and health, and there will be no labor trouble. Do you i think Ford fears strikes? If, however, there must be a sup- decisive turn of his mind toward j of Portland, see to it that he agita the depths. In "Mr. Britling," J tors who head business be held as which is by all odds the greatest i sternly m check as the agitators from , - , - . i the labor ranks. They are equally a novel of the war so far, he pro- menace to tne repubnc. but with this poses the fundamental problem of i vital difference: Give the labor agita religion to the world. In "God ! tor money enough in return for his the Invisible King" he solves the I lor upon which you fatten to en- OU1Q i 1.141 1 LV lltC, ilUl CAli9k Blue, and crimson, and white it shines, Over the steel-tipped, ordered lines. Hats offl The colors before us fry; But more than the flag is passing by. Sea fights and land fights, grim and great, Fought to make and to save the state; Weary marches and sinking ships; Cheers of victory on dying lips; Days of plenty, and years of peace, March of a strong land's swift increase; Ecjual justice, right and law, Stately honor and reverend awe; Sign of a Nation, great and strong. To ward her people from foreign wrong; Pride, and glory, and honor, all Live in the colors to stand or fall. Hats off! Along the street there comes A blare of bugles, a ruffle of drums; And loyal hearts are beating high. Hats olf! The "flag is passing byl Author Unknown. THE IMPERATIVE OF THE LIBERTY LOAN MRS. JOHNSON IS HOME F ROM a published interview we learn that Mrs. E. A. John son has returned from Africa. Mrs. Johnson is a missionary and her sojourn among Africa's Bunny fountains has been for the purpose of converting the heathen natives. She has resided in a sort of earthly paradise, if all her ac counts are true. Mrs. Johnson says the heathen where she has been preaching, the gospel can live well on five cents a week. She adds that they do kept for winter use, thus freeing not have to work and that they a fraction of the farm staples for the world's markets. The output of the farms themselves will cer tainly be increased by .the food drive. The delivery of a 10,500 ton cargo of wheat in France under a convoy of American warships is a hopeful sign that every national resource is organizing for averting are allowed by the law of their happy land all the wives they want. Ab to so many wives, we don't know There are men who find one quite a plenty. But to be able to live well on five cents a a proposed Income tax amendment was defeated by 246 votes. At the election of 1914 the voters turned upon the classifica tion amendment then again sub mitted to them and defeated it by 70,342 negative majority. The continual struggle and strife that has for many years centered about tax legislation at each suc ceeding session of the legislature, the multitude of tax amendments and tax measures that has been thrown upon the ballots through the initiative have shown beyond any question that the existing sys-J tem has been inadequate and un satisfactory. But the constitution has pro vided that taxation should ba "equal and uniform" and the peo ple looked with suspicion upon any attempt to alter or amend that provision. They seemed to be willing to suffer the Ills that fflowed from limiting all taxation to real and personal property with out classification rather than to hazard possible inequality or non uniformity. The adoption of the classifica tion amendment opens the door for the enactment of 'a modern, equi table and adequate tax code in Oregon. It takes the lid off and makes it possible to enact a law or laws that will search out the hidden, intangible and heretofore invisible bases of assessment and thus readjust the burden of sup porting the government evenly, justly and equitably upon the shoulders of all. It makes possible both the individual and the cor porate income tax by means of which other states have added vast sums to their revenue drawn from men and corporations realizing and short hours, so that he be not by- dull routine reduced to rebellion, and the labor agitator becomes a loyal and peaceful citizen. The busi ness agitator has both money and time, yet he does not cease agitating. Authorised by the Liberty Loan Publicity Committee of the Twelfth Federal Keserye Bank District. The disaster of war are not in curred on the battlefield alone. War and disaster go hand in hand you cannot have one without the other. Some of the disasters can be pre vented. We. the bankers of this city, want your help in preventing one very serious disaster which threatens you which threatens every family in this city, every family in the nation. The first $1,000,000,000 installment problem, or thinks he does. Mr. Britling's war experience, which was intensely tragic, left him stripped of conventional faith. The war and its horrors were the m .v,-v, .v, He has becom so blinded with the . , . . - . , ui ui '-fe Ulioiu ui Lfvaavsaiwn i " cs- v J l hit; JM ua; i ij 'van va. va.i, aeity was Denevea to revel in. tie i foreets eovernment was created and : states war bonds, bearing Interest at marched at the head Of all the 1 still survives for the protection of '34 per cent, is before the nation for battalions, Prussian and allied, in-1 tne whole of its citizenship. In just i subscription. This isue must and spirea an me war 10 rug wild, nis 1 f , tt Th. Mans t Rut aubcrirtion in the wrong way approval, and rewarded the fight- in the earth's youth that were dl- ' means disaster. Read every word of ers in his own way in another vided by injustice were destroyed by this article cut it out. take it home a, Thi. ,,.,. u. n-hih clans more justly ruled. Even a and study it. Your help is neeaea, w .... 1 . V 1. .. ... V. ln,V.A Mr. Britling s experience destroyed. f.ed and nrole,t hls vassal, or bv the disloyalty of his dependents be given into the power of a rival baron. Tou may not use the government of your city for the protection of week, think of it! And not to have to work! . Very likely some i enormous profits from small visible citizens could stand a few extra j investment. wives with these Inducements ! The thrown in. In any case, the law does not force a person to marry famine among America's allies. Unhappily there is the regret table circumstance that we entered upon' this troublous period at a time when agriculture was discour aged. When the war broke upon the world, the small farmer, taking America over, was losing money In spite of his best efforts. He was going out of business and moving into town to work for wages day by day. This threw great areas of land into Idleness or else into the hands of thrift less tenants. Tenant farming in America had risen to 87 per cent and was rap Idly Increasing. The drift of pop ulation from the country to the city was appalling. During the war, war prices have somewhat changed the situation, but war prices for farm products will not always continue, and permanent in vestment in agricultural enterprise Is not being made. All this increases the magnitude 01 tne present (ask. We are weaker in our agriculture than we ought to be. We have not that Francisco Villa's brother has Intensified organization of farm 'already invested in a $100 Liberty m 1 - Aj mi a a a t m . .! - . 1. . them. Suicide may be chosen if preferred. One may even remain a bachelor. And living costs but five cents a week. Mrs. Johnson is not so precise as one could desire as to the whereabouts of this Garden of Eden. She says, to be sure, that she has been there. But travelers sometimes tell big stories. Being a missionary, Mrs. Johnson un questionably tries to stick to the truth. But, coming back, as she does, to a land where everybody is getting ready to live on starva tion diet she is naturally tempted to paint her adventures in roseate tints. If there really' is a country where a man can live on five cents a week we know of people who would be wise to turn their belong ings into nickels and emigrate. looHalatnra ft 1010 nrill have added significance because of the opportunity the classification amendment will give It for the en actment of a new, efficient, fair and workable tax code. life and scientific distribution of farm products that we should have. "There are 1,600,000,000 people on earth to feed. There are but 28,000,000 square miles of tillable land with which to do it. That means that one person must live off the production of 11 acres. Something like 25,000,000 men, mostly withdrawn from agricul ture, are under arms. And most of the workshops of the world are bond and says that his notorious relative is about to invest $1000. Evidently Francisco does not ex pect to overturn the United States government for some 30 years yet A STEP FORWARD T HE voters of Oregon have taken a forward step in the adoption of the Uniform Tax If you buy a Liberty bond on the installment plan, at the end of a given periods you will own it. And you would not miss the little Incidentals you would deny your self in order to make the pay ments. The Liberty bonds are the best chance to begin the making of savings ever offered the American masses. CHEAPER BOOKS c Classification amendment. It withdrawn from useful production 18 "something that the state tax ln a temendous drive to turn out things with which, to destroy. And commission in particular and stu dents of taxation In general have the two contending groups of bel-; been contending for during a long ligerentg are struggling to starve period. The adoption of the each other by destroyin3 food and the means by which they receive food from the world's grain fields and grazing lands. , Nobody knows what the period of the war will be. Nobody knows how long the burden of being ithe food warehouse and granary of most of the world must rest on America. The problem will v grappled by the best brains of the country. The farmers and their farrows . shonld b considered as they were never considered -before, and shonld amendment demonstrates both the conservatism of the state's elec torate and its composite determi nation to do the proper thing once It has made up its mind as to the right or wrong of a particular question. In 1910 the people refused to adopt a uniform tax classification amendment by a negative majority of more than ten thousand votes. In 1912 a proposed amendment to the same purpose was defeated by a little more than two .thousand votes, ; while . at the same election ALIFORNIA has been doinsr much experimenting with school text books. The state has recently added text books for the high schools to the frge Ust, The state will not print the high school books, as it has done with the books for the grammar grades. Each district will buy them from eastern publishers. The cost of school books has always been over high. The con tents of school books are not ex tensive nor are they at all difficult to throw into shape. The produc tion of a full and accurate modern text book in geography, mathe matics, history, iB a very simple affair. The mystery made of it is ail in the line of profit for some body. The text book situation in Ore gon is far better than it was some years ago. Parents do not pay so much tribute to the book trust as they did, but they still pay tribute and there is no need of their doing so. California's new scheme of per mitting each district to choose its own books " will break up that "uniformity" which some teachers worship. We have never been con vinced that text book uniformity was much of a blessing to the, schools. With a competent teacher it might not be a bad plan for each pupil to have a- different make of text book. This would tend to correct the superstition that every truth; resides at a particular point He was obliged, according to Wells, to find another deity and con struct for himself a new religion. "God the Invisible King" ex pounds this new religion. It be gins wfth the reminder that the conventional creed of Christianity was framed at the council of Nlcaea amid political Intrigues and in an atmosphere of plots and counterplots. If we may trust Mr. Wells, Its articles are either com promises' upon disputed points or else mere forms of words designed to beguile. The doctrine of the Trinity finds particular disfavor with Mr. Wells. In place of the old theology he puts one of his own. . He begins with the truism that fthe universe contains a Veiled Mystery," which we are not likely ever to know anything about ex cept that it exists. This being is like the "God" of the Epicureans. It cares nothing for men. It is neither good nor evil. It is re mote, detached and vague. Per haps it is the same thing as the "non-being" of Plato, or Kant's "Ding an Slch," or Herbert Spen- cer'B "Unknowable," or Bergson's "Physical Necessity." It may bo the same power to which the Greeks gave the awful name of Fate. Whatever it may be, it does net concern us except as the background of mystery on which life moves. At the same time, according to Mr. Wells, there is another God near and dear to every man, living in every soul, merciful, kindly, "a very present help in time of trouble." All the Bweet and precious qualities of the Christian deity Mr. Wells bestows upon this being. All the less amiable quali ties of the Hebrew Jehovah and the God of the medieval persecu tions he turns over to the "Veiled Mystery." Mr. Wells is therefore a "dual ist." He revives in a novel form the ancient belief In the universal struggle between good and evil, though he mitigates its terrors by assuming that the "God of light." or goodness, is our friend and champion. He is not all-powerful. but he is powerful enough to see us through all ordinary troubles and stand our friend in all but the very worst emergencies. He would stop the war if he could, which is more than can be said for the kaiser's deity. Mr. Wells Is esteemed by many readers to be the most Interesting and needed seriously. The banks must not be obliged to buy and hold these bonds. The people must buy them unless the people s in terest Is to suffer. The banks have those who have, and ignore thoe who I subscribed liberally, but th funds of have not. Your Hose Festival will l present a gay front to the careless tourist, but back on the public mar ket I have seen old men gathering wilted lettuce leaves and chicken heads and legs from the garbage pails, and I have put the price below the cost of production In order to bring it within the reach of a woman's last coin, knowing it to be a futile thing, for my own children are needy, and charity will never do. Instead of Justice. I say in all earnestness to the peo ple of Portland: If you deal not more fairly by your working people, hungry hands that know no law since the law knows not them, will tear down your city, and this city will be the start of a great Industrial con flagration that will sweep the coun try, and we will all pay dearly with lives and money for allowing business greed and labor's suffering to go on unchecked. It Is probable that I will make the greatest sacrifice a woman may mako for her country. Let us make this country worthy of the lives that will be given to defend It. Let it be a government that insures to the least of Its citizens' life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness, t AN OUTSIDER. all kinds, fabrics of all kinas foodstuffs of all kinds, workman- hin. labor of all kinds, will be called on to fill the needs of our gov ernment and foreign governments buy ing In thla market. The entire na tion will be called on to produce as never before. The workers of the na tion will be buying freely of all neces sary articles of merit. Right here In our city the demand will be felt and those things we produce be con sumed as never before. The money we have put Into Liberty bonds will be coming back to us in a great vol ume on top of the present prosperity, the present high tide of good business which we enjoy. You will find that the sacrifice you made to buy Liberty bonds Is not a sacrifice but the bst stroke of business you ever did for yourself, your family, your friends. your community, since you earned your first dollar. Taj? and Bobtail Stones From Everywhere Farm Implements In Palestine from Oommeree Reports. A recent Issue of the British (gov ernment) Board of Trade Journal con tains the following extract from a memorandum prepared by the Arab bureau on the subject of agricultural supplies In Palestine: "In the neighborhood of Jerusalem a good deal of scientlfio dry farming Is carried on, the ground being kept loose by continuous Ullage. The Arabs do not use 'harrows, but the Jewish colonists have introduced the harrow and the American pulverizer with beneficial results. "Th plow chiefly In us In Pales tine are the primitive Arab plow and the German plows used throughout the Jewish and German colonies. British plows are said to be too heavy and the shape not quite suitable. In the orangeries and other plantations American plows are used exclusively, and American zigzag harrows are also employed. The use of the American dlso harrow is common and American harvesters are In general use even among the Arabs, while the Jews em ploy American binders. A hoe made in Philadelphia has been fairly widely introduced, but sowing drills are rare. "In the Jaffa orange district the irrigation of the new groves Is ef fected by means of pumps operated by oil engines. Most of these engines are of British make (S to S horse power), and it Is estimated that there are about 100 of them In the orange groves. There is a great shortage of pere parte. Th water is raised by email bore tubes sjunk vertically Into the sand strata to a depth of 130 to 200 feet, the water rising to a height of 40 feet in the pipes. The pumps raise from 6600 to 10,500 gallons per hour. A grove of 20 acres is the min imum economic size for a separate the banks are, for the most part, need ed to support industry and agricul ture. Our factories, our merchants, our farmers borrow largely from the banks and these loans must go on If business is to go on. If food la to be produced. A war Is not being waged successfully If armies in the field are winning great victories while the peo ple at home, for whom they are fight ing, are suffering dire financial de pression, with business at a stand still, factories closed, men everywhere out of work, the rich finding food hard to ret. even at the highest prices. and the Door actually starving. And America can and must wage a success ful war. The need is for you yea. you to buy these bonds. The na tion needs the money to equip Its men: for rood; ror snrps, xou must not fall to protect your country from disaster at arme through faulty or slow equipment of Us men who go to fight your battles. Tou must protect yourself, your family, your friends, your neighbors, your community from the disaster of business depression and 'hard times. Remember, our panics of past years started quickly, but we recovered very, very slowly from them. And this loan must be subscribed by June 15. If the average subscription should be $400, then 6.000.000 people must subscribe. Tou must be one of the subscribers. Every family In this community must subscribe to protect their own Interests, their own Income, their own livelihood,;. their Jobs, their future. Subscribe all you can. Make a real sacrifice. The man who does if you want our prosperity right here to be all that It can be, you must make a real sacrifice. The man wch does not subscribe to these bonds will be looked upon as a cltlsen unwilling to help his country and hie community, his neighbors, his business associates and his own family In their hour of need. But It Is not enough to sub scribe, Just for the form of It. Tou must subscribe all you can make a real sacrifice. a Now let's look on the other side of the picture. When this Issue is all subscribed by the people you will find that business is increasing markedly. And business la exceptionally good now. But on top of present good busi ness there will be two billion dollars ($3,000,000,000), a staggering eum. spent In a few months for every con ceivable kind of product. Metal of And let's see what you get for your money when you subscribe. A United States government bond a first mort gage on the whole United States, pay ing you steady interest at Stt per cent a piece of the wealth of the wealthiest nation In the world. No tn veatmentyou have today can compare in safety with these Liberty loan bonds. But we do not advise yonr throw ing over other Investments to buy these bonds, attractive though they are. A great many people getting out of Investments at the same time un settles business conditions. We want you to subscribe to these bonds out of current Income as much as possi ble. e If you have investments and no cash it Is best for you -to go to your bank any bank and borrow on your Investment and put the proceeds in Liberty bonds. See how easy It Is to subscribe and to meet the payments. A payment of only 2 per cent Is made with your subscription. The balance Is payable In four Installments, up to August 30. Thus, if you subscribe to a $500 bond, you pay with your subscription $10. On June 28 you pay $90 more. On July SO you pay $100 more. On August 15 $150. and on August 30 the final pay ment, $150. Thus you can pay for a considerable part of your subscription from your income meanwhile. If you have no bank account if you trave a Job you must subscribe Just the same, for we need your help your country and your fellow citizens here need your help Juat the seme. Tou can buy a $50 bond and you can go to your employer and subscribe through him on the partial payment plan. The banks of this city have al ready asked him to help you and have offered to help him help you. But you must help, too. aid exert every effort to have every friend you have sub scribe. Tou must do your part to aid your country, to protect your Job and make it better, to protect your family and help us all protect the families and the workers of the nation. Tou can buy a $50 liberty loan bond you can do your bit, Tou can pay $2.60 a week for 20 weeks. Then you have saved against a rainy day, a $50 bill which pays you Interest. Tou can be a real American and fight shoulder to shoulder with all the rest of us to keep our flag flying high and our families safe and prosperous and content. If yon have a baa Meout go to jozue bank and rnbscclbe. Xf you nave no bank account go to year boss end subscribe, AJTO SO XT VOW. (Tc thlm column all Mikr. t ImuiI ar lavttrd Ik mlribut irt--iiia) matter in or.r. in vera or lutiititl.wKiiii. -i artim or atrlking quouttuna. , DV .urn. Coo trtburlooa of exceptional nurit m tie nald tor. at the edltar'a aypralaal. - Upton Among the Prophets IT was in March. 19U. only five months prior to the outbreak of the war that has precipitated almost the entire world Into a maelstrom, that I heard words of prophecy . fall from tne lips or Sir Thomas Lipton, the -famous British merchant end tea grower, writes W. I Hornadsy. who is signed as "special correspondent" in the Detroit News Tribune, under an Austin. Texas date line Sir Thomas was returning from his periodical in spection or his tea plantations. At Bombay, India, a numbar of officers of the British army were added to the passenger list of th P & O. boei. Maloja, the Ill-fated vessel which was later sunk in the Mediterranean by a German submarine. V were a tav. or two out of Aden. Aratiln. where the coaling of the boat had (een per formed by a motley, hilarious lot of Arabs and Somali men The afternoon, was one of Indescribable beauty; the Ked sea waa smooth and we W'r nearlng that part of it where, accord ing to biblical history. the waters were opened by a strong wind and the bed made dry so that the children of Iarael could make their way, dry shoj. out of Egypt. The discussion imon; the passengers as to whether tlii waters could have been swept by the wind had been Indulged in until the subject was exhausted. It was th theory of some of them that a strons. steady and continuous wind, blowing from the east could have piled up the waters and mad the bed dry long enough for the hosta to have passed. Under the awning to the aft of the smoke room sat Sir Thomas, a num ber of British army officers and oth.r passengers. The talk paned from ,on subject to another until it reached that point when a history of th.i ancient countries of the world catnn into review. Sir Thomas, Immacu lately attired in white, with his yacht ing cap set well back upon his head, turned to the little group of military men that sat about him and said: "Let me make a prediction, and I want you all to remember what I shall say. Within six years from now every country in Europe will be a republic." The British army officers regarded him for a moment In astonishment. Then they arose as on man and left. Sir Thomas chuckled at the recep tion his prophecy had met. Then turning to me he said in his rich Irish brogue: "I knew they would take It that way. but what the divvll do I care. I meant lvery word of it. I have told Emperor William the same thing; I often said It to King Edward and I'v made the prediction to King George. I told King Alfonso of Spain not very long ago that the day of universal republics was near at hand." "Do you Include Russia with the rest?" I asked. "I do," he answered. "How Is all this to be brought about?" "My prophecy goe.s no further than the results I have stated; through what process they will be attained, I do not know." pumping plant. In 1915 the above thinker in the present world. Some I mentioned engines were transformed into charcoal gaa engines, as no aup- Tl. - 1 11.11. y-v- ing criticism, but all who read his pump8 employed 80 to 90 per cent are books are compelled to dive Into j of local manufacture, mostly at two the deoths of their minds and re- factories in Jaffa, one of which is 0vott,1t, their rtlrl hpHpf German and the other Jewish, where He has a theory that the revo lutionary effects of the war will ! there are a number of good mechanics at work.' PERSONAL MENTION Dr. and sirs. Miller Return Dr. and Mrs. Byron E. MJUer and their ae-ugfrter have Just returned from California. Dr. Miller went south especially to attend the Cali fornia State Homeopathio Medical convention. Will Attend Convention A J. Allen and J. Meddleton of Se attle, are in Portland to attend a con vention of the shipbuilding trades here this week. They are registered at the Multnomah. Motor Party Here J. L. Buell of Eugene and his two daughters, accompanied by Miss Hazel Gilchrist of Salem, arrived In Portland Saturday on a motor trip. They are registered at the Multnomah and wl.' be in town until Tuesday. Are Visiting Daughter Mr. and Mrs. John A. Rogers of St. Paul. Minn., are visiting their daughter. Mrs. W. P. Powers, at the Imperial Arms apartments. m Ralph Chatham of Seattle Is reg- not stop with economic institutions 1 Cnanc 'or Philadelphia Lawyers and political survivals, but will go ln,T T T- , ....), . . ; The Virgin Islands, which are Unclj to the foundations of religious Sam.. newe8t posM,sion in the form of faith. The world, he insists, is real estate, will come to Philadelphia I t.tered 'at the Portland. ready for a new religion more or their law. Tou may not know it j j. Taylor of Eugen is at the Per rational than ChriftManlflr Ha and 1 dt not knw, the reason for coi- , kins. rational tnan Chmtianiw. He i havlT1R done 80 but thMe ,slandlI , "M Mre. William Cenvel or ye. w "-"V vuun.uwcM recenujf purchased from Denmark, ; Walla Walla are at the Multnomah. as "intellectual sharks' teeth and ovster shells" fastened to an idol. ...... J4. 4, l Chrlstlansted, V. I., Editor Jackson Majr iiBUBg misui una ti num- .warni his readers thus: "KeeD in ulating to look into Mr. Wells' touch with the Herald these days, as new book. Faith often becomes iwe wln from tlm 10 t,m giving , f j. jt) : some information concerning our new more stable when its foundations' .v -nkl. ,., are candidly examined. American bread and American munitions are dreaded and feared by ; the kaiser. Subscribing for a Liberty bond helps buy bread and munitions. - - - - ' - : a - were added to the third Judicial circuit. , Mr. and Mr. O. I Nlcnols of Cot In the tiny Herald, published at t Grove are at the Oregon. j. s. Magi ad ry of Eugene Is at the Imperial. Mr. and Mrs. H. B. Olds of Seattle are at the Cornelius. C. H. Mitchell of Walla Walla Is at the Carlton. C. M. Bishop of Pendleton is at the Portland. Mr. and Mrs. John Coburn of Rldge- ahd loyal Journalist then adds that If the people of the Islands have known nothing about Denmark, "let ua trv to learn something of the laws, customs ffleld. Wash., are at the Washington. and government of the great country T. J.. Lusk of SUverton Is at the that has now adopted us." I Perkins. Quite the proper spirit, I should say.4. W. H. Lerchen of Salem Is at the ror a new member of the national I Oregon. family. ,. - . I ' C H. Button, from Lebanon. Is reg istered with his family at the Mult nomah. Dr. G. L. Causmeau of Bend Is at the Imperial. Mrs, N. V. MugTidge of Boston, Mass., is at the Cornelius. J. C Roberts of Salem is at the Carlton. Mrs. C G. Hawkes and eon of Salt Lake City are at the Washington. Mrs. F. W. Settlemler of Wood bum is at the Portland. Mr. and Mrs. R. D. Miller of Tim ber. Or., are at the Perkins. Mr. and Mrs. Daniel Williams of Spokane, Wash., are at the Multnomah. R, B. McKinney of Olympla 1 at the Oregon. Dr. and Mrs. M. Hayter of Dallaa are at the Imperial. A. S. Wright of San Francisco Is at the Cornelius. Thomas B. Graham of Seattle Is at the Washington. Mr. and Mrs. G, F. Walker of Ho- quiam are at the Carlton. Mr. and Mrs, R. D. McLean of Sa lem are at the Portland. Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Heist o Bakersfield, Cal., are at the Perkins. Mr. and Mrs. II. Foley of Deer Island are at the Oregon. I Daniel of La Grande Is at the Imperial. J. A. GraJiam of San Francisco is at the Washington. W. H. Smith of Medford Is at th Oregon. E. V Ospurn of Athena, Or., Is a tne imperial. Why! Prom the llooatoa Post. Mrs. carne Chapman Catt save young women must practice war-econ omy and wear fewer clothes. Why, Sister Catt! In Regular Order iTokus The widow always gets her third, doesn't she? Pokus I believe she has to get her second first. The Chivalry of the Sea "The aranl PVet reVlcea that the Atlantic fVet will now ahar In prewiring the Uher Uea of the wurld and malutatuing tbe rblTaUjr of th aea.1' Admiral H-t'j to Admiral Mayo on the arrtral of the American ajuxlrou Strike hands, ye sona of Karragufs line. Strike hands with the !lne- of Drak?! The mesaage speeds through the roar ing brine To the lands ye helped to make. Strike hands and pledge what mujr. what la to he. Reborn through you: the chivalry of the sea. From the days when Jascn sought the fleece Past the Great Seas curving hem; At Saiamls. too, where Greece was Greece; When Rome wore the diadem And sent her triremes questing with the sun The men of the sea have seen the Lew as one. And so when Lief raised the further strand Where now bide the Faxon spawn. And the Cinque Ports clasped with clutching hand And held what thev could In pawn Tet they followed the law they helped to make. And right was right. If only for right's sake. The Levantine and the Dutch the sarae. A a nitron endified: The Gaul and the Spaniard played the game That pirates alone denied. Von Trornp. Jean Bart and Togo and tne rest Who loved the sea, gave to It ef their best. When Lion fought with the Lion's Breed. As she did and did again. The rule held good and they founJ their meed In the chivalry of the main. And knightly Lawrence died as sailor should The fight was fair and time has stampea it gooa. And ever the sea was the shifting field Where knights of the sea contend. As fair to foe who would never yield Till death called as to rneno. And Honor ruled the Joust as always when Brave men have striven fiercely wits bra.ve men And thus it was and had always been. Till the LuBltania's day. Then Honor sank from the quester's Ken And Might held a heartless sway. Stirred bv the tides on ocean's ooxy floor Shall fleshless hands wave greeting evermore! Keeps on Looking From tb Hons ton Post The more we look at this season' bathing suits, the more we disapprove them; and the more we disapprove them, the more we look, by ho key. So strike hands. then. ye mea of Nelson's, rrv'n in the eight Of Tours now to renew men The mariner's ancient creed. Strike hands and cledre that where your flags shall fly ti The sea shall know again its chivalry. Maurice Morris in the New York Sua. Uncle Jeff Snow Says: I never did see no connection be tween the Chinese coolie and the worklngman of American birth and ancestry that did either of 'em any good. If we can't raise enough U feed ourselves and all Europe with our big and rich lands, our improved farm in' machinery and our own men left by the millions after we send a few to interview the kaiser in Berlin, why, we might as well sell our coun try to the highest bidder and quit braggin' on ourselves as a free people endowed with brains and . liberty. Anyway, even If we halnt got sense enough to mobilise the lawyers . and the tramps and other e'perfTus crit ters and dig our spuds and harvest our grain with 'em. we caa better af ford to let some grub rot. i