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THE OREGON SUNDAY.. JOURNAL, PORTLAND, SUNDAY . MORNINp NOVEMBER 18, 1)17.
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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
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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
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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.
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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
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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
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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.
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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"
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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.
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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.
Uncle Jeff Snow Says:
Some fellers alius seems to livet
well passin' the hat for one thing
another on a percentage.
THHOUGH liggl
THtWlNDOW
Good morning.
Where you going Thanksgiving?
Bl K)
While England is being made
bomb proof, the United estates
should be made bum proof.
Oh, say. can you
dawn's early light?
see by the
Not' much, when the fog falls
during- the' night.
But Not Peace Ships, Hooray!
Henry Ford is going to build
ships for the government.
News Is Chat the British are
chasing the Turks In Palestine.
Didn't know they celebrated
Thanksgiving day - over there.
fa
So-long.
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