- J THE OREGON SUNDAY.. JOURNAL, PORTLAND, SUNDAY . MORNINp NOVEMBER 18, 1)17. 8 I J f r jj M r - if AN tWOHPlCNnEST IBW8PAP5 C. S. Jackaoa... ..PttbUaber Banding. Broeiway ana Portlaad, Or. La tared at the poatoffkoa at PorDaad. ot tot traoamtMloa Unooch toe nulia a tlM mat tar. - . " IkUyUUNiS-Mila 7178: Home. A-6051. All departments reached by tbea norobera. Trll tba operator what depart roat yon want. roRKION ADVKRTIS1KO REPRESENTATIVE ho)mla Kntior t., ,Braawl?t Bide., t26 rt a.. Haw Iwk, Ul rewta's ties HMj., Cbteaf. ' , sufeacrlptlen tame by mall or to any addreaa la Ui Unltad States or Maslco: PAILX (MOBNINO OB ATTEENOOK) 0a yea.. ..$5.00 (One uunUh.. .30 SUNDAY . . On rear I2J0 Ooa motif $ . DAILT (HOBNINO OB AiTEBNOON).. AND 80NOAT . . , ' Oaa yea $7.60 I Una month....... $ Mi Rtllglon la mora of a neceaalty In a rapublte than la a monarchy, moat of all lit rayubllc moat democratic. Do Tocque IUe. ALL I'VE GOT NCLE SAM can have every thing T'v mt " This was the declaration , nr H.n pv.,i vrtmv in Washington. He is the man who made the great fight against war. He sent a peace ship to Europe. He was the pacifist of the pacifists. Dut the day America entered the war he went with America. After the supreme act, the course that his country took was his course. With- the die cast, he is of his government, by his govern ment and for his government. Like p Bryan, another great pacifist, the B- day his nation armed, he armed. "Uncle Sam can have everr thing I've got." At the time ho ' said it, Mr. Ford was in Wash- i lngton to begin work as an Indus- j trial lieutenant on the Emergency ! leet corporation. His profound .;"W" ,UV processes and Mn rreat tnlonf fni. (nifnetrliil i a organization are to be devoted to . . I. u ' the .rf . n 1 A - . American shipbuilding. The mas ter pacifist has become a master warrior Some time ago, Mr. Ford gave j his great automobile plant at Bos t ton to the government for the period of the war. Major General Sharpe of the quartermaster's de partment said of that act: It is the moat magnificent contri bution to the war resources of the country by any crtvo.te cltizn xvn told hLm we needed If. The moment he learned that, he wired me to j u- Mr. Ford has offered the gov-1 ernment the use of his Detroit and 1 omer plants scauerea tnrougnout , goo to 700 samples of milk, col .the country, and his offer will be;lected from milk venders by city accepted by the various branches as Inspectors, are analyzed each rapidly as the buildings and the month. No one but a competent skilled labor in the plants can b4 J chemist can do any part of this utilized. The secrets of the mechan- highly Important work. No evi Ism in the Ford engines were long ; ience Dut that of a competent ago given to the government in the j chemist can furnish the basis for production of the Liberty .motor i prosecution, because the first ques for American airplanes. Mr. Ford ! tIon asked ln court is are you a built tractors to speed up fooff qualified chemist," and "what are production on the soil of Great ; your credentials?" . Britain and supplied .them without , l9 no uae to have inspec- profit to himself. ! tions or Inspectors if there is not His attitude is a noble example a properly credentialed chemist to of citizenship. He goes with his j defend their work with his au country. He goes where his na- thoritatlve and scientific testimony tlon goes. He fights if America: court. tt&Ms. vrQ aholfsh the chemist in time And when she fights, he lays down all he has for his country's use. Foreman Helber began work atL,va awor vv nni,nn nd nth- the Portland incinerator in 1905.jerwiae l3 breaking out every now The man whom the. commissioners ! and tnen when every day we are propose to give his place to did not j confronted with some new evidence enter the service until 1911, six of PruBslan hate in our midst, years later. Helber has always been wm,,d be to invite disaster if not ahead of Feldman ln length of serv . Jce and over Feldman ln authority. Helber was ahead of Feldman when the incinerator was placed under "civil service in 1913. The charter says that the relative positions of employes on the civil service list is determined on merit and length of service. How can the civil service board permit the commis- Sloners to put Feldman ahead of jieiDer? ATAVISM A uxuiia Xlfll'A 111 W ThAnu... at ! 13 ino B,ump JL Mk In college circles back to the worship of Latin and Greek1 As the be-all and end-all in edu cation. The advocates of this re turn to medieval tradition are! spoken of "as "reactionaries" by i the modernists. The reactionaries argue that Latin and Greek pre- r ! psre students "for life" while the practical studies only prepare the seriousness of the transporta tions to earn a living. j tlon situat'on in the United States We never have been able to ' illscern much value In a repara able tohandle the traffic From tionN'or life-which omitted to teach the embargo placed on the ship-, how-to earn a living. Unless the ment ofwbat are considered t by rerson who is thus cultured has j the. board as nonessentials, it is . Independent means of his own be ' only a step to the restriction of . neeersarily becomes a parasite, essentials In their relative -import-' which is not an admirable type, ; ance and it is a step which may What the Latin and Greek en- be expected, thu'sicsts really want Is to turn t It is also within the realm of our universities and colleges into probability that he equipment of places of leisurely resort for the sons of the idle rich where those who are not too lazy niay' while away the golden hours puttering over Horace and' Ovid. Those who are too lazy to do the pattering for themselves - are supposed r to acquire, a fair- portion of culture by watching-others at the gentle manly task. We do not believe the country is foojish enough to adopt any such ideal of education A FOOLISH PROPOSAL A' S A result of formidable pro tests, Commissioner Mann has abandoned his plan of running a health department In Portland without a chemist. Keeping 'a chemist is the wiser course. If somebody must be sac rificed, it would be better to abol ish a commissioner or two and re tain, a chemist. Without a city chemist, the people are exposed to food adulterators, milk -contam-inators and other poisoners. Here are some of the problems a city chemist solves: A dairyman's milk has too low a bacterial count for norm milk what, preservative li, he using? These safety pins sold by a suspicious character have colored points are they poisoned? This candy almost killed a wife and daughter what is in it? This sausage made the whole family sick what is in it? This bottle of milk killed a baby ' what is in it? j The gas from a factory is driv I Ing all the neighborhood out how 'can it be remedied? ' This candy was given a girl, by a well dressed woman does it con- i . i i n i . J n m uu--uut uiuys , A thousand gallons of milk in tt bJ 13 dopedwhat does It ico n' , . ... ... ,J J? lng A ,s wron the ! mllkv Uvered at a soldiers' camp what is in it? j The chemist ferrets out the poi son cases for the police depart ment. A woman is caught who Bent several boxes of poisoned candy through the mails. The i chemist's testimony is vital to ! conviction. ; A druggist Is found baiting an l Ignorant, foreigner with cough ! syrup containing morphine. The case cannot be prosecuted withouf a chemist's testimony A man is discovered throwing poison on his neighbor's lettuce. 1 1 l .1 . . . . I A AV cnaracter or presence of the poi fon', infancef r im3 na.ar' In almost constant occurrence in a people. In conjunction with the bacterl- n1nHot trio nhcmtot (a ihm mithnr- ity to whom the public can go for accurate Information on food and drug adulterations, the purity of water and milk and other con stantly appearing questions. It is the source from 'which inarket in spectors get information regarding ' samples of questionable foods of- fered for sale. It is the chemical laboratory In which the air in school and other public buildings is tested as to purity, and the laboratory where of j f0nv. To abolish the chemist in time of war, when the temptation tragedy for the people of Portland. It would be playing with death. Whatever the cause, there Is no excuse for holding prisoners ln the county jail from June to ' Novem ber or for allowing the number, J through delays ln proceedings, to j mount to 38 at one time. It costs a w of monev to feed prisoners : And they are entitled to a speedy i hearing on the charge against them ; There are six circuit judges in Multnomah county. The announced purpose of the judges to speed up trials and empty 'the jail is com ! raendable THE ANSWER T HE report that the priority board of the national council of defense Is to exclude some 500 commodities from trans- nortatlon in order to. relieve rail- way congestion, calls attention to the ss important railways will be commandeered for the traffic needs of the important . ones. In such ease the great railway lines of the central and eastern states would naturally draw from the west and par whole, local transportation sys tem would collapse. Under present conditions it Imperative to find some way t Increase transportation facilities. Looking to this end the national council of defense has appointed- a committee to work in cooperation with state highway commissions jln developing highway transportation, making It supplemental to rail way and inland waterway trans portation. " The motor truck is to be brought to the assistance of the freight car and ;the river steamer. Highway work Is important. So Is the development of river- trans portation. An aid3 in the trans portation field these two factors might prove decisive in the war. Both may be included in the ' list of war measures. Money and men and material used on truck high ways and waterway development are as much utilized for ' war as though expended in the making !of munitions. After all we have to go to the farm ' for food. Any les sening of highway work adds to the burden of the farmer. ! The Inability of the railroads to move the normal- freight makes j it imperative that our main trunk roads be improved and maintained. Rather than ' restricting or re tarding highway work every In terest asks for Its Intensified con tinuance. Failure to enlarge the field of highway transportation will but add to the burden "of the railroads and may result In a com plete breakdown of ' our transpor tation system. j SIX FACTS T HESE things have happened to Portland: 1, The interstate com merce commission has ren dered decisions depriving Portland of certain favorable rates and thereby narrowed the city's trade territory. j 2. The trunk railroads with terminals in the northwest have over-ocean steamship connections at Puget Sound but none at Port land, are extending their terminal facilities at Puget Sound but not at Portland, are routing Overpa cific traffic via Puget Sound but not via Portland. 3. Portland in other days was the chief and almost the only Im- porf-and export city in the north west, but last year Portland's for eign commerce was $6,000,000 against Puget Sound's $376,000, 000. j 4. In the public letter by Chair man Small to the secretary of war, Portland has been given notice that the house, in which all appro priations originate, expects local communities to not only provide water terminals, but to put-on and operate water carriers If farther appropriations are desired. - j 5. In spite of the falling realty values, the vacated properties, the reduced rentals, the lessened em ployment on the water front, the diminished local activities in many lines caused by these things that have happened to Portland, there has been and is, very little mani festation of local concern about; It or about whether further disasters of the kind may happen to Port land. u6.- Because Portland is with- oift ships, there is a differential of 15 cents a bushel In the govern ment allowance for wheat, even after a basic' price for Portland was Eectfred through great effort, and it is a differential by whlph Portland and its territory this year lose millions of dollars and next year are almost certain to lose other millions. If the chemist is cut out of the city service now xr hereafter, y6u are no longer sate in the use of milk. The chemist and bacteriolo gist are the only barriers that stand between you and dirty ,mtlk or -drugged milk or concocted mijk or poisoned milk. In the guaran tees they are against contaminated milk, these two city officials are mighty good friends of you and your children. KING COAL w ITH the question whether Upton Sinclair's new story King Coal, Is a "work of art" or not we are not much concerned. Some say it is Some say It is not. George Bran des, the Dane, the most eminent of living critics, has contributed, a preface in which he calls jit great art," but numerous maga zine critics who are as . confident of their own powers as Mr. Bran aeB is of his, pronounce it noth ing better than base sociological tract. TTT . 1 ' we snail s not trouble our heads about its art or lack of aH We sat down to read the book in a cynical " mood. exDectlne I a pale ghost ot "The Jungle" to bore us. But no ghost walked that night, nor did we pufddwn King Coal until we had gone through it. It is a bleeding slice cut from the living body of the America.n" proletariat. It angers and thrills one. -' Mr. Sinclair has given us a first rate story, considered only as j a story. With the story he has given us such , a picture of what.1 out purchase, completely and with Elihu,Root quaintly calls our "In-out delay.". ''Without delay would visible government" as no reader ; not only sound good to Multnomah with a lively , conscience can ever forget.' : The political ' purpose of the book Is to : exhibit the workings of the invisible government In the mining camps. The author totus us that we shall err if we believe the con ditions he describee ; are peculiar to the coal camps. They are found wherever coal, copper or Iron 'a mined, under: the proprietorship ; ot the great-, exploiting corporatolns. The book has also a v perfectly obvious economic purpose, which is to uphold the thesis that ' political form and ceremonials are of no ensequence in a contest with in dustrial power. Mr. Sinclair main tains that the invisible government of the United States Is a more or less unified federation of indus trial eorpoiations which own, among them, our natural resources and our. transportation franchises. The bond of union in this fedea tion is that vague, - but perhaps quite real, ogre sometimes spoken of as the "money power' It would take some intellectual hardihood to deny that, this shadowy entity usually gets what t wants, though as a rule we may take comfort ln the opinion that Its way is less tyrannically cruel than Mr, Sinclair describes it in Peter Harrigan's Colorado coal barony. We do not mean to say that the author exaggerates at all. That would have been cheap su perfluity when we bear ln mind the revelations strewn through government reports dealing with the Colorado mines. We might even go so far as to say that ex aggeration !of the inhuman cruelty exercised ln those terrestrial ln fernos would be Impossible. One of Mr. Sinclair's most Inter estlng chapters reports an actual 'election" for county officers held In a mining camp. The voting precinct- was coterminous on all sides with the company's domain. t was surrounded with a barbed wire fortification and the gates guarded by armed men. No poll tlcians were permitted to enter this sacred enclosure lo disturb the voters' minds with their spell binding. The paternal interests of the coal company in the election went even farther than that. It al lowed nobody to vote 'who had not virtually obtained a permit from the boss and it had an ingenious method of marking tickets, as a gambler marks cards, so that any breach of faith on the voter's part could be! detected and properly punished. ! Astonishing as It may appear, the company's candidates were elected to a man. So smoothly and orderly does the sacred right of the franchise operate under the benign sway of the invisible gov ernment. The election was after ward upset by a decree of the 4 Colorado supreme court, which Mr. Sinclair quotes verbatim, but that trivial Incident does not mar Its beauty. But we hasten to assure the frightened reader that King Coal contains things far more fasci nating than the workings of the invisible government. It contains an Irish Mary, for one thing, with long golden locks and a flaming heart, a passionate madonna whom Titian might have painted! on one of his diviner days when the glory of pain and pity filled his soul. The cold-blooded hero fails to fall In love with Mary, to his shame be it said, for the poor reason that he has a betrothed back home ln icy Massachusetts. We confess to a dearer fate. That sunset hair, those clear blue eyes so Irish, so sorrowful, so memorable of all things sweet and lost, , how could we see them in the mind's eye and not love them? We are Mary's slaves. Few of our novelists have created any character so blessed in her Joy, so passionate in her devotion. Today she radiates sunshine upon the garden of the soul. Tomorrow. when the strike comes on, she is one of those splendid furies of the French revolution. The author has clearly in mind the great strike and massacre of 1914- In his description of the final uprising of the miners against their exploiters. Much has been said t persuade the public that condi tions in the mines have been great ly improved since that deplorable catastrophe. It is to be hoped that . the improvement is at least partly teal. It Is claimed that the Portland school district will be short $35,- 000 In a proposed year's require ment of $1,764,500 because only a 6 mill special school levy can be made. There are taxpayers and taxpayers' who thank their stars that the 6 mills is the limit, just the same.- With war burdens to be met now and after peace comes, thft limiting of fixed charges Is public sanity. Mr. Strahorn announces Uhat 20 miles of the railroad out of Klam ath Falls is practically completed. It is a link line that, once finished, would put In touch with Portland a huge Oregon territory now bound to" California by the railroad map. People in' that region want to do business with Portland but cannot for lack of ' transportation. ' Section 10, Article 1 of the Ore gon constitution says: "No court shall be secret, but justice shall I be administered openly and with" T county taxpayers who board pris oners in the county Jail bat also to the prisoners of whom : some have been held ' in that jail since: last July, this being November, j -Three pound sacks of sugar have been distributed by a Tammany leader to his., constituents in cele bration of the election of a Tam many mayor of New York. It is a way of sweetening up the voters for servile response to. the call of the boss at the next election. It Is one of the most dangerous fac tors in the American ballot. Letters From the People Communieatloaa sent ta Taa Journal for publication ln tbia department abould bm writ taa on only one aide of tba paper, anookt not excead SOU word la lenftk and moat be ac companied by 4be name and addreaa of ta aandee. If tba writer doea not dealra ta bara tba nam poUUabad ka abould iu slate. I Slayer of Dragons Hanford, Wash., Nov. 10. To the Editor of Th Journal In the myth ologies of many nations th dragon was a hug , monstet representing wrong and cruelty, and was an enemy of man. He 1iad to be slain. Perseus. Apollo and Hercules were the dragon slayers ln Greek mythology, Thor in Scandinavia and Saint- George In English. In the New Testament the dragon is the personification of sin and is known as Apollyon. The really civilized nations of the earth, with, all their powers united, are making war upon the German Apollyon, the devas tator of the earth. When their suffer ings have sufficiently purged and puri fied them they will find their true soul and the dragon Apollyon will be slain. And In history not mythology Woodrow Wilson, backed by the true people of the United States, will go down as a dragon slayer and will rank i with B&lnt George. E. C. MCDOWELL. ' A View, of Patriotism Portland. Nor. IS. To the JMltor of The Journal. In The Journal of No vember 6 appeared an article criticising a young woman whose father Is draw ing a salary of $260 a month "or better" for accepting a position In a telephone office during the strike now going on, charging her with a mis taken Idea of patriotism, and asking: "Wlhere is her loyalty to the glrlai now on strike?" The definition of a patriot as given by Webster Is "a person who loves his country and zealously ampports ana defends its Interests." It would do "One Who Has Been There" some good to ponder over this. He evidently has a very mistaken idea of the word. Per haps this young woman, like hundreds of other young women, understands the true meaning of the word ana, accora- ingly, has accepted a position In. the telephone office to aid her country ln Its hour of need by doing her bit helping to maintain service so that government messages which are be! ng transmitted every hour may be safely delivered. "First your God. then your country and then your friend" is a very good motto. The government is spending millions to care for dependent families of sol diers. If a boy Is willing to offer his life and until such sacrifice is de manded serve his country for $S0, Why should the girls quit at from 45 to $50? After the war they will prob ably get their raise and if they are not paid sufficiently by the telephone company, why not seek other employ ment? A NEUTRAU To Conserve the Soldier Alamogordo. N. M.. Nov. 7. To the Editor of The Journal. I had lessons In my youth to save everything, waste nothing. Thousands can say the same. The class who need to conserve are those who have always spent free ly even before they earn. These should now be loyal to the conserva tion plea throughout our land. The younger set, and many, older ones, are addicted to Ice cream sodas, chewing gum, candy, theatres, movies and what-not. All these do not sustain life, nor conserve it. All these friv olities fan be and ought to be forgot ten, when we consider the worldfs war Is upon us. Its shadows are deepen ing. We have seen our boys rush to the call of their country, leaving all. They have gone from our midst. They were not sent away on a picnic ex cursion. It was war. But how did the public behave ln this new experience? Sympathy Is good, but sentlmentallsm is not. The public's sympathy has degenerated In to sentlmentallsm. Many coast cities have tried to show their patriotism by giving the boys a farewell dance. In. the days of the Civil war, when the boys were ready to depart, they were taken to the church for divine service and urged to patriotic. Each man was given a New Testament to read, and to my knowledge the greater part of the boys remembered the last words of the minister, to be faithful, and do their duty on the battlefield, and If die they must, to put their trust ln Him who will save all who call upon His name. And who deny that the little gift of God's word might have comforted the boy in yielding up his life? I hope we will look &t this going away more seri ously. A JOURNAL READER. Arraigns Market Management Portland, Nov. 11. To the Editor of The Journal. As leader ln the snilt to prevent inexperienced city officials from setting prices on produce we grow, give me an opportunity to tell the people of this city, who have shown their appreciation of our efforts by the liberal patronage they have bestowed upon us during the last four years, that we, the producers of this section, are loyal Americans, lovers of democ racy. However, we do detest and re sent anything that savors of mon archy. , City Commissioner Bigeow has op pressed us to such an unreasonable extent that we must appeal to the court for fair play. It is plain, his disposition, when he says, "If the city loses this suit I will close' the mar ket." , How would you or any reader feel if he picked up some piece of produce ypu had carefully prepared for market and. sneering at what you considered a reasonable price (quality, supply and demand considered), threw it down. saying, "You ve got to sell Mt for so-a&d-so." It does not set well with any American; neither does it with the Japanese, nor the Italian. W are not averse to price regula tion, especially at this time, but we have made two visits to the mayor's office with a view of getting a quali fied committee, two members to be appointed by the city and two by pro ducers from the market, these four to choose a fifth member.- Let this com mittee come to an understanding as to what prices should be, and then let the prices so made be posted on a bulletin board in a conspicuous place on the market. JBut the city ha taken no action, apparently ignoring us in this matter.- . - ' . ' Mr. Bigelow Is not qualified to fix prices on produce. v s Neither' does the market master have sufficient time to put .himself in elose enow-gb: touch with the supply and demand to enable him FACES '. IN B James Hope Brown THE trmchleV the ling, dreich day is dune, And snt( beside the chimley-lug I doze; My kint!y!fcalabash, wi "Luntin" ,rare. Exhales the fragrance q a ncw-bia,wn rose. The storin-windfWhustles roun' the gable-end. And wrecks 4$ wrath wi wild an' frantic ire; Idraw me close! to the glowin hearth. And picture luld-world faces in the fire. I see them In thejinkin,' dancin' lowe - The loyal ani true, the cantie an the.kin Wi 1ove-lit eyes hit txm and speak to me O' dear and billowed days o auld lang syne. Their. hamely sanjs keep ruggln' at my hert, And touch a diord on memory's gowden lyre; And wi' a pride itkplred frae sacred hours, 1 kneel before the faces in the fire. In bygone times, vhen life was free and gay, Some buirdry filels forgathered in my den; Their crack was Ulesome, and their rousin' laugh Wad wake thejdrowsy echoes o the glen. But noo they're sqttered owre the braid world's stage, And court Dane Fortune's smile among the brave; While some In Fillers, wi a prood disdain, Have found anariy but an honored grave. I sit alane; but still their sunny smiles Break through he mist on life's tempestuous way, I hear them alt, wRle 'yont the eerie miles They hail me w their burnin' hopeful ray. And wi' their beaccs-licht before my een, God grant that ftl be steered into the bay, And anchored 'safe yithin a haven o' rest, Where dawns tfy peaceful and the perfect day. The rievln blast cones roarln' doon the lum. The priest at; veipers wails a holy prayer, .The foamin Tweed ngs tumlln owre the cauld, V While I, 'bune a'iim blest beyond compare l Uy reekin' pipe Mawl ilka care awa'; I ne'er wad fash kri' llstenln to a cholr My shrine's the griat high altar o the soul. Where burn thk Aeam-land faces o the fire! THE SLAVE tTRADE IN BELGIUM Vernon Kelloax. In tb Atlantic Mkth"u A pacifist, or a neutral, ia haUly to be made into an adherent of y ww" against any people on the baks of beinar ever so convinced of th4 stu- niditvof that peonle's form of gdern ment. or because of an ego-maifacal nvcreitlmate. on the part of this nm. nf 11 form of kultur. And itr omathlnr more than any convictkk of this kind that turned our fTOAiA of American neutrals in German-occulied Belgium and North France intd a shocked, then bitter, and finlly biasing band of men wishing to slayipr be slain, if necessary, to prevent tie repetition anywhere of the things ty had to see done la these tortu lands. If we had had'but to make acquair ance this way with happenings of t iitn hofore wa camel But there was ' escape for us; the clvillxlng of Bel rlnm did not MU With tb tnibl rush over the land 10 una itwui ln the west. It kept, and to keeping. everlastingly on. And we naa v is and hear it. and feel It. We had to the cltlsens of a proud and beautiful capital barred from walking ln certain of its streets and parks, that elderly landsturmers and schneldlge boy offi cers . mlyht stroll and smoke there: and to be sent lndooor to bed every night for a fortnight at 8 o'clock to learn to be deferential and friendly to soldiers who had slain their relatives and friends, not ln the heat of battle, but at cool dawn ln front of stone walla. And we had to be there the fateful night of Nurse Cavell's death; and the days and nights of many other like deaths and travestied trials that pre ceded them. And we had to make the acquaintanceship of noble men and women, giving all the hour of all their days to the- relief and encouragement of their people, only to have them dis appear. Carried off without an oppor tunity for a good-bye, for imprison ment In Germany, because of some trivial word or act of indignation at the sufferings of their people. Which carrying off brings us to the final word: Deportations. There have been deportations of one kind or another from Belgium ever since the war began. Removal to Ger many has been a punishment much favored by the German authorities for Indiscreet or too uncomfortable Bel gians. But most of these removals have been made of citisens singly or ln small gToups. usually after a military trial; and the official morning pla cards on the street walls have an nounced the alleged special reason for each removal and the particular period of years to be suffered by the victim in Germany. Or, rather, did until It seemed better or worse for the friends not to make any announce ments at all. But these removals are not what the world understands by deportations. The world knows haxlly of the rapid gathering together and sending ln large gans to Germany or to regions In occupied France" .near the west front of thousands, tens of thousands, al together a total of - something more than 100.000 ablebodled Belgian men. With the exception of a few flax- to fix prices. lenoe, from a producer's standpoint, we would be better off wlfnout the public market than with it under the present system of price fixing. j B. BLOHM. PERSONAL MENTION Railroad Officials Arrive J. A. Monroe.- vice president of the Union Pacific, and party arrlyed at the Multnomah Saturday $o attend a traf fic conference to be held Tuesday night by official of the Union Pa I cific. Members of the party are James Warrack. Mr. and Mrs. F. B. Choate, ' W. J. Martin, W. T. Price, A. V. Kipp, W.'D. Clifton and C. W. Axtell. They will visit in Portland after the confer ence. a a Shipbuilders at Banquet Members of the Foundation Ship Building company of -Tacoma ban queted at the Portland hotel Saturday evening. They were tawm Kurit, t. S. James, A. CaldweQ. H. H. Whitisi cle Jr., Frank H. Blsomer, J- Eugene Jones, Lee L. David, 6. Leigh Savldge, W. D. Trlpple, T. Bv Shipley, A.- K. Martin, E. Lemanusl, T. G. Zahn. " 1 Here From San Francisco i Mr. and Mrs. A. C.lreton of JSan : Francisco are in Portlaid at'the Mult ; nomah. Mr. Ireton is; head of the Thomas Edison company on the Pa cific coast. V ' ' i a a j Steamer Officers Frcsn Norway ! M. Jonassen, chief engineer, and H. Bantlam, are late arrivals t the Hoyt from Norway. R. P. Walker, hotel imfa of Tilla mook, In at the New Ferkfcis. S. Brown and E. A. Cookrom Bend are registered at the Pefkit. - ? Captain G. C. Stratton, a iell known mariner of New Tork, fs staying; at the Carlton. . . -,-. . T. Nelson, superintendent cf the Co - THE FIRE workers from West Flanders, no wom en were sent away, as some sensational newspaper accounts have declared. The world knows too, haslly, that these deportations were made ln many, perhaps most. Instances in a peculiarly brutal and revolting manner, with a treatment of human beings comparable only with that which might have been given to an equal number of cattle. sheep, or swine driven to the railways, held in yards in the rain or sun for a cursory examination for .possible "in fectlous disease and physical condition generally for the importers wanted only sound animals and then packed tightly Into box-cars with enough feed and water for the trip to the distant abattoirs enough feed, that Is, If the trains got through on schedule, which thfty never did. The world knows this haxlly, I say Much has been written about this de porting; about its causes, the condl tions that Incited German authority to do it it was the highest military u hority that decreed It, not Von Bias g s Belgian government the manne f its doinf, Its results. But the world eds the whole story. Unfortunately cannot yet be written. Among other ings lacking is the knowledge of Just w many of the 100.000 Belgian saves have died and . are to die rmany. Some have been sent back hajtily, so that they would not die in G-many: they die on the returnln trins, or soon after they get back. Or, t Is worse, some do not, ale, but cortinue to live, helpless physical wrecks. a e deportations were not naiy to us. UTiey were the most vivid, ahock lng, "convincing, single happening in all our knforced observation and experl encelof German disregard of human suffAlng and hvjnan lights ln Bel gium! We did not see the things that happdied to the deported men ln Ger many! But we could not help knowing some W them. "When the wreck began to be wrought back the starved and beateri men who would, not align the staterrints that they had voluntarily gone 4 Germany to work! and the starvedand beaten ones who would not work al all; and the ones who could not vroit even when, driven by fear of punlshrient, they tried to, on the acorn soup am sawdust bread of the torture camvi en these poor wrecks came back thl brought their experiences and revealed them by a few the simple exhibition of with thi words their seal ed and emaciated bodies. ... The deportations occurred near the end of tl period of our stay in Bel gium. ThW were the final and the fully s'flclent exhibit, , prepared by the great lerman Machine, to convince absolutely j&ny one of us who might still have keen clinging to his original desperatelj maintained attitude of noutrallty that It was high time that we were scLiewhere else on the other side of thai trench-line, by preference. There coullbe no neutrality in the face of the depiVtationo; you are for that kind of thlifc, or you are against it. r We are lagainst it; America la acainst it; Unoat of the, civilised Ra tions are aftiinst it. That Is the hop of the world operative citmeries In Astoria, is reg istered at, tie Carlton. Mr. and J-s- C.-A. Barton are regis, tered at the Oregon from Tacoma. J. S. Saurian of the United States navy is in Portland at the Noctonla. The Kev. p. C. Banders of Forest Grove is at I Carlton. Mrs. W. H Brown and Miss Clara Duborke forrt borke forh a party from Sheridan at the Cornelius. J Cm nt a I n OJ Nelson of Astoria Is In Portland at O. Levin he Hoyt Mid II. Levin from La Grande are s pylng at the Nortonia. W. A. McC rd of, Oakland, Or., is at the Oregon Ross Baile of Forest Grove is at the Perkins Mrs. A. R. fVJlson from Salem Is in Portland on a. shopping trip and is registered at ho Cornelius. Airs. K. li. aylor of Corvallls is at the Carlton r a few days. Mrs. Ev W.I Potter from Kalama Is ln Portland al the Nortonia. Mr. and Mrk. W. A. Wheeler of Ba ker. Or., are id Portland at the Hotl " Mrs' A. M. Kobinson of Astoria Is ia Portland for fcier fall shopping and is registered at the Oregon. Mr. and Mrk. C L. Knapp of Salem are at the Cofnelius. Mr. A. K. i Olds from McMinnville is at the Portland. Roy F. Smith of Eugene is at the Oregon. . I Mr. and Mrs. P. Bogardus are regis tered at the Perkins from Cascade Locks. Mr. and Mr. A. II. Birch of Sas katchewan. Can., are in Portland at the Hoyt. ' George Phillips of The Dalles Is at the Nortonia. ,- . T. B. Leslie of Umatilla U at the Carlton. L. a V. Herrick from Ashland la at the Hoyt. T. Davis of Wasco Is registered at the. New Perkins. ; ' . J. W. Knight of Jervaia is at the . Perkins. Rastax and Bobtail Stories From Everywhere ITo ttala eohira ,n mte - re laTltcd to ocrlbet arlflaal matter (a 3t Is ptai-vopslcal ebrTttios-. . ; : m -crvui mixj mum. vw- trtbaUoea of axcnni mymrtt wtn tw ia ' at the aditur'a appraisal. A Man Who Cashed III Nerve) AN incident ln the early life of ratfve Morgan partnership to put the Red Cross Into war trim, is told by Edward Hungerford In Everybody's. Toung Davlscm. by dint of much per sistence, had become paying teUer of the new Astor Place bank. A man entered the bank and shoved a check and the business end of a revolver under the paying teller's wicket. Davison looked at the check, then he iuokco. ii me man who held the re volver. Then he glanced at the check again. It was drawn to the ordar at ' God Almighty" and it was drawn for 11,000,000. The paying teller never lost his nerve; neither did he lose that urbane and quizzical smile of his. He con tinued to look at the man and at tne muule of the revolver." - Then ha read the check aloud.' distinctly aloud. lot of money." said he, so that his voice carried beyond the wick et. "Do you want it paid in currency?" mis time the thing he had hoped for had happened. The gray coated special" on the bank floor overheard him. noticed the man. cauzht the dint of steel from the revolver and work ing as quietly and as quickly as good policemen always work, caught and bound the man. The Incident for Davison has never regarded it as anything else attracted th attention of the newspapers. They played it up. Among those who read of it were the officers of the new Lib- eriy oank, lust coming into existence downtown. They wanted men of nerve and certainly this young Davison of the Astor Place bank seemed to have that. They asked him to come with them, and he oame, as assistant cashier. In seven years he rose from that post to presidency. At S be was the head of one of the most energetio young banks ln the city of New York and. was, Himself, one of the younreat banic presidents in the coutry. The Anxious Dead O runs, fall silent till the dead men hear Above their head the legions pressing; on: (These fought their fight m time ot bitter fear And died not knowing how the day had gone.') O flashing mussles. them see pause, and let The coming dawn that streaks the sky afar; Then let your mighty chorus witness be To them, and Caesar, that we still make war. Tell them. O guns, that we hav heard their call. That we have sworn and will not turn aside. That we will onward till' we win or fall. That we will keep the faith for which they died. Bid them be patient, and some day, anon They shall feel earth enwrapt la silence deep. Shall Kreet, in wonderment, the quiet dawn. And in content may turn them to their sleep. John McCrae in London Spectator. 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