THE ; OREGON SUNDAY: 'JOURNAL, PORTLA ND SUNDAY' MORNING. NOVEMBER .25, t 1917.
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HT1V QUESTION?
PEAKING of the rie&jaslty for
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Portland to have a coal sup
ply for fueling ships. Presi
dent Corbett of the Chamber
of Commerce said:
ICXZISV
' ' The port commisskm has the power
to provide bunkers through the law
- V enacted by the last legislature. It
v Heed to be aaaured that the people
. ? I - wnt the bunkers built now. The
Chajnber of Commerce la positively on
record. 3o ahead without delay 1
our - poaltlon.
Nothing could be plainer or
sounder. We have often beheld
the ectacle of orient-bound or
Europe-bound steamers taking
i t. on cargo at Portland and going
2,4 to Puget Sound to coal for the
i . Toyage. Baveral times, within re
(bent months, Portland has been
0i the verge of securing desira
bly steamship service.
One handicap that has invaria
bly confronted Portland negotia
tors has been the insistence of ship
I . ; owners that thlB city is notx pre
. pared to cheaply and adequately
fuel ships. jf71ce President Wood-
worth
of h(
the Northern Pacific
I ; ' pointed out to the writer the other
.t Vif .Vir t.an .fiAnH nAn4al .nnlfa
wj luah iug uauDvyuucuiai a wao
. regard the, lack of . facilities for
coaling ships as one formidable
obstacle to steamship connections
at Portland. Mr. Corbett quotes
two distinguished traffic men with
y whom he discussed the possibility
Of' steamship connections for this
port. What they said to him was
the following:
How can you expect to brine ships
here without assurance in advance that
they can coal as quickly and as
Cheaply as at any competitive port?
Tou will not be able to talk busi-
ness to ship owners until they know
you have coaling facilities.
- The Port of Portland has au
thority to provide coal bunkers
' for ships using this harbor. Its
meeting for preparing the annual
budget occurs next Wednesday.
In view- of all the circumstances,
in view of the attitude of the
Chamber of Commerce, In view
of the oft expressed wish of tho
' people of Portland through the
ballot for development jof shipping
in this port, should there be any
question as to what the action of
, the port commission will be?
I . . A new starting point in the live
nI stock Industry was made by the
I Y great stock show Just . closed in
I Portland. The stockmen have gone
ii-home with new standards. to at
- i tain, new types to create and new
.Ideals to strive for. Another for
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V-, wara Step in auiuiu uusuauuiy ia
I to be made
THE NEW ANTIUFFRAGE
T
HE objections which tha anti
suffragists at Washington
have advanced to th pro
posed Susan B. Anthony na
tlonal amendment, do not strike us
1 " with any particular force. No
doubt the good antis did the best
l' they could for a bad cause, but if
they had been a little "smarter'
W: they would have hired .somebody to
I formulate a more impressive set
3 of objections. .
- The antis have dropped, at least
I for this occasion their old familiar
J . plaint that "votes for women would
- -. break up' the home and defeat the
l . . designs of an all-wise Providence."
rr Perhaps the force of facts has been
I Y too much even for,their prejudice
I and they have thought it best to
i v put In another plea. At any .rate
that Is wliat 'they have done.
-The Rnti-suffrace violets and
rf daisies tremble to think of the ter-
ribls effo'-t national .suffrage wouM
have, not on the home" any longer;
but cd the Socialists, anarchists
and ' r.ro-Germans. All these per
nicious elements would be encour
aged to rise In rebellion, so we are
told, ; If women were allowed to
vote." It li difficult to perceive
i i h ' prtcise relation; of cause . an1
i wffect which moves our beloved
sisters to this apprehension,, but
y doubtless they could 'explain It if
the newEpapera would : give them
- space enough. - . .
Cur p reseat blindness to the coa
nection1. between anarchism ini
woman suffrage Ja doubtless a sad
conseauence of mala stupidity. Had
-w been gifted with acute feminine
intuition It would be as clear as persuade ourselves- to spend as
day. We 'mean, of course tbat.mnch xnonex on schools as we do
anti-intuition to " which so, many -upon war. or 'half or a quarter as
surprising truths are reveaiad as much? ' '
polities' happens to need them.
CRYING IX THE NIGHT
T
HE .town of 1200 people in
u i. - T y. Iouna Beven
Churches starving their war
iu utb.. w nov an uuua
phenomenon in the United States.
Most of us have visited suchjtowns. wor,d at aboat tbe date of the 8et.
There are too many of them torly 0f New England, turned on
151,5! ? Ca2nr- Bd the theology and churchrivalry, with
nr f i"-G?v, 8 "T7 I8 I dynastic ambition , intermingled.
? U?I ATlttl rclWy..explalned.i Is lt-not a little harsh for any
Is divided into too manycompet ngs however learned, to condemn
companies ,19 accomplish anything agencies Ufee, 8cIenCe, education
very weighty in the sinful modern and inteniatlonaU8m, which Provl
w .. . !'..'' ' dence may have given us for our
If it is a failure on the part of good T Thus far We have done tit
the allies and a triumph for the tie but evil with them, perhaps,
Germans that the French, Italians, i a child Is liable to cut its flng
British, Russians and all the rest ers with a knife. But should knives
pursue their separate war alms be banished from the world be-
regardless of , the common; cause,
who can . -think it other than a
calamity, almost treason to the
world's , redemption, that seven lit
tle churches should waggle their
weak heads and wrangle over their
petty creeds in the same small
town?
The'Wg church machines give.
them what they can from mission
ary funds, but even with. that help
they can afford only the last pick
ings of ministerial talent. Tie
spiritual diet they dole out to their,
congregations would delight Mr.
Hoover, It is so thin, but how can
Christian warriors nourish theni-,
selves upon it? 4.
Dr. Boyd evidently sees a vision
of a renewed and vitalized Chris
tianity which shall go forth con
quering and to conquer. The ideal
Christian is, to his Imagination,
as we gather from hts teat Sun
day's sermon, no pallid recluse pin
ing for the world to cqme and des
pising this one. He is a sturdy
fighter panoplied in the full armor
of the Lord, one who refuses to be !
carried to the skies on flower
beds of ease," but fights "to win
the prize and sails through bloody .
seas." 1
By this spiritually reborn Chris-!
tianity Dr. Boyd conceives that the
World shall be purified of its mis-
cry and sin. He Is not the first
earnest apostle of reform who has
thought so. Earth. has sunk time;
and again into the same sloiigh Of corrupt than ' California state gov
pain where It now writhes afd al- enment under railroa(j domina-
ways tnere nas oeen a voice cry-
Ing in the darkness, as Dr. Boyd 1
cries, that the only way to save!
It was to revlva religion. St. Ben- i
edict of St. Francis of Asslsl and :
St. Bernard all revived religion,"-10
with preaching that left no corner ;
of the civiliied world untouohed. 1 as oIne V1 ot that rev"
Savonarola retired it and so did f1- "lram Johnson was an
Wrcllf. St. Ignaeiua LoyoW revived othefY -The direct primary was a
it from one"p!n'of 'view and Mar-, .
tin Luther ni another. John ! These three products of the ra
"Wesley revived .'religion, founding vtav the V01 tha hinery
the Methodist kuVh for a byl of government ana gave them a
product of his preaching. George - leaferv V1 amI16 0W
Fox revived religion and John Cal- 8 owd thm the,waf lo
vln did likewise. Surely, If reviv-
ing' religion could cure the world of
its pain and wickedness, we ought
by this time to be In the full tide
of milennium. But perhaps Dr. .
Boyd is thinking of some reform
Unqu'estionably each revival has
accomplished something. Mankind
it was before St. Francis preached
his vision of renunciation. The
v. u ri hh
t.m. v. Trv.n wo.i.,'
vlvaL The Methodist church haA !
been a boon to millions. And yet, j
when all is said and done, after ,
flAftft ... r hoiMLr... fa t
vivals. we are in the heat andind of. ma,n There has been
consume civilization, church and
state together.
Dr. Boyd Intimates that he does
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not IOOK IOr a boiuuuu i uur yryu- i
, M iui, .An. -
cation, Socialism or ..international
, fir v-.v w t...i,.0
ity. There is our only hope, Eveuiad a broder and orft ,ate!-
Chrlstian Science, which to many ,
much, he dismisses with a slight-
Ing estimate.
Dr. Boyd may be right He is a
'"aiucV "uulfl6e "S" WUA":
.CWD uCD0t0 ""
a layman's point of view, me -
thing might be said, not so much
to oppose his deductions, as to
modify them.
For'one thing, we must not too
hastily dismiss tt claims of sc.-
eucB, cuucsuuu db luieioauunai
law. They have no been in the
,nr.1A X UI.
V y"
Christianity.' sModern science dates
only from Galileo. International
law goes back to Grotius and j
scarcely farther. Education trails
along, weak and stumbling, with '
the bedraggled garments of medi
evalism flapping about her feet.
Four centuries about measure jhe
life of science, international law
ana eaucauon. , .
The remedy which Dr. Boyd pro-
poses has had more than 19 centu- what will happen 'to .its art treas
ries in which to demonstrate its ures? ,
power. It la. premature to speak Milan is the city where JLron
confldently of wjiat science can do ardo Da Vlncl painted his "Last
fcr the world. ' or '.what education. Supper" on the wall .of a-convene,
can do. The old saw that nobody It Is still on ibat same old wall,
should say Christianity Is, a failure what is left ot it The colors are
because it, haa never been tried, is faded.. The figures are barely dis
perhaps even truer of education. tingulshable. , But "The Last Sup
When we reflect upon what real per" Is the greatest picture ever
education did for a girl Ufce Helen painted, wan as it has grown with
Keller we hesitate to say j what it . time and abuse.
cannot do for normal children. Men
who have given their minds to the,
.'subject do not pretend to -see even
the - beginning of the possibilities
of education. . Suppose we could
Certainly science is raving 'mad
Just now. Bnt It does not require
much reading of history to recall
tTmtM when that oliiiroliM Tiava Viun
,tt the same state. This war is one
of science and politics combined
wlth dynasUc ambition and eco-
Bomic - greed. The Thirty Years
war, to which Germany treated the
cause children can not use them?
- The. livestock Industry . In it3
various forms is one of the biggest
wealth producers in Oregon, tt
rolls up a total of 1140,000,000
a year. With Europe's herds andJ
flocks - decimated and with stocks
in America tremendously reduced,
It will be years before supplies
will be back to normal. With
outlook for long continued war
prices, the industry in the North
west could scarcely have a brighter
prospect
A REFORMED RAILROAD
T
HE . Southern Paciflo , railroad
had' to travel a long, steep
and atony road before it at
tained the moral elevation
where President Sproule says that
backdoor politics baa gone forever
from ghe railroad's life. It la, so
to speak, a reformed character
jwun au its wicsea ways loraaKen,
- and its sins repented of.
When it came to ehucklng off
political sins the Southern Pacific
had something of a load to lose
The novelist, Frank, Norris, told
us in his Octopus something of
the ways of the railroad with Call-
fornla people In the good old
times when it had politicians, leg-
islators, lawyers and judges at Us
beck and call. ;
. Fe thlnea on rth WArA
ltJ(m
, ......
, JheK reform ,f ' the Sf Pa-
v , ,v w""Cttl
lntln ,n which the people of the
chine. The Initiative and referen-
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bro.-n- Te lc1ora"on cfese5
nTisIbl8 ,f
of flees to which men ambitloua for
?uouu - wuu lwZZ"
autocra thaJ ba, l0fa
beld BWay, and deced aU the In'
to democracy, or rule by-the peo-e
w l" "70
California from absolutism In tho
gnJse of a despotic railroad system
r- Slth?Tien!' head l
the Southern Pacific had no part
A Z
delirious days. He is a different
inoicaw tuau u i
;brad vision a.nd i,h purpose
wulcn "1" u"' 4"s
surance that the Southern Pacific
. , . ., , . ,
ta. - never again to participate in
P0"- Afd tbfe i?rtbeflr
:fact that since Mr. Sproufe'a ac-
Pnt ollc owara uregou nas
The United States fuel adminis
trator has served notice that the
government will take over and
operate the mines closed by oper-
- ators because of failure to receive
., , ice of coal.over
h lxed b the government. if
the coal' operators cannot abide
by government regulations as other
folks must do, what fitter action
than foE the government to take
the mines of recreant owners and
niunta them In nrndnrlnr t"h o
r 0
coal, for lack f which our allie
are shlTering?
THE LAST SUPPER
1'
ILAN, the big city of North
era Italy, Is not very many
miles from the mouths of
the v German cannon. No-
body can say how long It will bo
safe. If it should be bombarded
and captureTTy the cultured Huns
To protect it from the invaders,
should they break into Milan, the
i authorities have surrounded Leon
1 1 ,. ' :". , .'- "
ardo's -masterpiece with - sandbags
which may be shell proof. Since 't
s on the surface of the wall it ,
can not be removed as other great,
pictures have been. - For fta safety f
the Italians must trust to sandbags
and luck.
It is part of the avowed purpose
of the Germans in this war to
stroy such national monuments as
they cannot carry away. They can-
hot very well make off with "The
Last Supper." So art lovers might
unite to pray 'that they may , not j
capture Milan.
IN THE MAKING
LAUDE M'COELOCH. nroba
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. bly the best informed man in
V , - uxegou on. irrigation orgam-1
. zauon ana aeveiopment, says,
"at the present rate, one millio
acres, m addition to areas now ir-
rigated, will be put under irriga- i
tion In Oregon within 10 years.!"
We are only beginning to' find!
ourselves in irrigation Highly!
valuable information was gained ;
through the cooperative survey by . Guy Standlfer. is president of the
the federal and state - governments ' Standlfer Construction company, la
under an tmironriittnn nt ;n 000i Who ahlpyarda In North Portland and
unoer an appropriation Of f 5 O.OOO at Vancouver 10 vessels are now under
made by the 1913 legislature fer .construction. Colonel Standtfer has put
inquiry into the reclamation possi-
e survey
was made by John T. Whistler
and B. G. Hopson of the federal
reclamation service, John H. Lewis,
state engineer, and W. L. Powers
of the Oregon Agricultural eolleg.
The report of finding is authorita-
Uve and dependable, and show. nuJrLTSSLi
irrigable area Of at least two mil- remember the alarm with which I heard
Hon acres within the State. It ' that 106 Yankees were coming- our way.
find for .Tamnla that thrm in I Tne two treasures of my boyhood were
nnas, ror example, that there Is a deep bay msiX9 namj Mary a
an area Of 200,000 acres which hatchet I had been srlven. I carefullv
can be reclaimed In tho vicinity
or 185 to 65 per acre, the lower
figure applying to most projects,
),,, .
Other ehange .is the plan pre-
Jected bythe 117 legislature un-;
der which the state authenticates
bond's issued by irrigation districts.
It onena tha wav for financing
project.- without the intervention j
Of the speculative promoter, .O
much in evidence under the Carey i
act whose hoeitrrn TroWtl re-
act, wnose snoestrmg projects re ,
suited in SO many disastrous fall- i
ures. " 1
The, reclamation division of the f
Interior department at Washington ;
estimates tnat XiO,UOU,UUO can DOavy crocKett while on his way to-the
expended In Irrigation in Oregon, mo' wner? h waa kllIed- He named
. , 1x . fun I It because of the large number of bees
and the conclusion is that by the to bo towi ln tt
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expenditure ' at least 'one half
would be added to the taxable
property of Oregon outside ot
Multnomah County. The same an- tlcello was near by. I was admitted to
thority fixes 100,000,000 acre's as the bar when I came' of ate and prae
an area, now barren, that can he law at Pentaon and Sherman,
made highly productive by Irri
gation within the United States.
Congressman Sinnott, after ap
pearing as a witness In a Portland
court, left Friday evening for his : terminus of the VL A T, railroad,
home at The Dalles, and Is tbenCe!nd " eoneequenee was the shipping
. . ' ,. . ! point for the cattle of the western plains
to proceed in a da Or two to Xexa. Before the comnletlon-of this
OT . a a i.S-
wasmngton ; ror . me opening oi , roaa the cattle had been drtvenacraas
congress. In his work in theilBdi Territory to Fort dge. Kan.
house In cooperation with Senator ,
Chamberlain in the upper branch,
Mr. Sinnott rendered his State a .
faithful RPrv1 In tha land erant
raitnrui service in tne iana gram
legislation. His strong stand for
the measure In the house was a : Criminals from across the state line
factor in passing the Chamberlain- ! to towl a"dt.",e fiIL9i,?r0t
lT , , 1 , , . . . -trouble fled back to the safety of In-
Ferrlg law, giving a heavy portion , dlan Territory. The crack of the su
of the proceeds from sale' of the shooter became a very common sound,
grant lands to echools, roads and and life was swift and hectic
other public purpbses In Oregon. .elng the temu; of the rallroadt
"THE STURDY OAK"
T
HE STURDY OAK," which
has been running as a se- j
rial .tory in Collier's now
comes from Henry Holt & !
rn. 1. v..i, a , . 1.
Co. in book form. As might be
Inferred from the title, it Is a .
satire on anti-anffraze nolltlcians
and machine -politics in general. ,
l ne OOOK, wnicn IS iar too snort. ;
was written by 14 authors, each '
of whom made a masterpiece of
the chapter or two he-contributed.
ThA ine-nlnrltiAa nf ach author
stick out all over his partin tbe(fc,8 WM a wenderfuUy colorful life.
book,,but the Story is kopt running.! Texas baa the distinction of being the
smoothly and the characters are .largest state in the Union and of having
Mirnrfelnfflv- well unstained con. Ued under more flags than any other
surprisingly wen sustainea, con- of our gtateg The &pTliaram explored
sldering how many cooks stirred u first in 1528, but the-first colqny to
the porridge. be established In Texas was planted by
Th hro in a vouna man lust'tn French under lSalle in l85. Thla
The nero is a young man just coUny wM abandohed and m 1690 th5
entering politics. He la the ma- , Spaniards established a number of mls-
chine candidate for prosecuting at
torney. He41ves up to his machine
duty unblemished by. sens or con
science until the thugs who rutfhla
nnrtv nhdnrt his wife and One of -
her friends. Then he experiences
enlightenment and change. Th
Sturdy Oak" is a lesson in mora
tv.t -'m-n mnttmr
luula wau
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California expended last year
$16,000,000 for state, county and.
municipal government. The sum
is equal to $1T8 for each producer
, ... ... , . , Varv rinllor renrn.
in the state. livery aoiiar repre-
sentB fax money. It 1s a public
senis m iuuuwx- - f
cost to cause men to stop, look
and listen.
AIT OLD LESSON
F
IVE years ago If a writer had
mentioned the Peloponnesian
war his readers, if he had
anv. would have wondered
with ftnnovd frnwnft what waa ' not Ja' but conaummated. To be
with annoyed rrowns wcat ne was frank u muat BOt -located in a dls-
talklng about. Our own war haj trict where two carfares are collected,
made "old, far-off, forgotten things We have broadmlnded men in Portland
and battles long ago" a little more ! fa will donate artmnd for r, buiid-
, ... . . , ling. In keeping with the breeders of the
significant and Interesting. A I pacific northwest.
writer .named Elmer Davis In ono oeorgk R. mokei
ot our, eastern contemporaries not j ' Tji "outcast,
only talks freely about the Pelop. Albany, or.. Nov. . T the EditoaW
onnesian "-war but he contrives to the Journal The social derelict In Port
draw a cogent leason Jrom it for in 4 to be Placed ta a stockade. The
. . . . -. ,., . old order of things has changed,
our too Insistent pacIfisU : jt Usedto be that if there "was any-
' -That: Old war was, like our own. .thing In your town that was not nice,
a war to make the world safe for. and you. did not want it.-just send tt te
democracyThe leading Ibelliger. SfSRg WC hr'Si $Z
ents were Athens and Sparta. Ata-1 being. Now, keep it-at home, but keep
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ens for v democracy, ' Sparta for:
Junkerlsm. '-The Spartans were tho
most consummate Junkers earth
ever bred. . ; '.
. The point Is that in the midst
of the war an -Inconclusive peace
(was patched up, about such sv peace
as the Russians threaten to drou
de-'into. It gave the Spartans time to
concentrate their power, play the
game of Intrigue and bribery ana
get good arid ready for anothe
strike. Like other democracies the
Athenians liked to talk. They
talked while the Spartans were pre
paring to fight again. We need
not say what the end was. The
world was not made sate for de
mocracy just then. The lesson is
mvwai; jusk 1
fairly obvious.
- THE MAN
ABOUT TOWN
By Fred'LeeUey,
There are some men who are-always
good copy. Such a man Is Colonel
1 m.'..m b., JZa"l'
m n,a "Pare tune readln the really
o? S
yor. 1 doubt If there is anyone in town
!who more familiar with the life of
Pfjeon than Colonel Standlfer. Colo-
on the fombigDVe HverrirMisaiartppt
j"l was-a little chap during- the Civil
j "td lcI?n, standlfer recently.
juried the hatchet In our g-arden to
many an hour grieving- over the loss of
mare and hating the Yankees for steal-
m ner Bnoruy tne dose or the
war we heard of her in an auuotnm
county and recovered her. As a matter
"v1 in nK ao noi taxen ner
STSSSSSS.
a samker or deserter from the Confed-
epayhad a p!anter ,n Ml8.
slsslppl and shorUy after the war he
'w'ent t0 Texas, where he enraged in
ralsln eattle. People of the North will
never underaUn(, how deeply
Southerners deolored the death of Lin,
coin. Jf be had lived the South would
wTn? Ah rall ot tht
Honey Grove. Texas, a place named by
"I went to the University of Virginia,
which, as you know, was conceived and
built by Jefferson, whose home at Mon-
Texas. As you doubtless know, those
twrt are neighbors and are near . the
line ot what wu then Indian Territory,
now Oklahoma. In those days Indian
Territory was the stamping ground and
refuge of most of the criminals of the
Southwest. My home town was the
. . . . " -
,nlpmmt m t ttUkt tlroea wer. ex.
ceedlngly lively. The cowboys In' all
their picturesque lory were paid off
t nd aftr moiiths on the range
. re,aied. ,nd ...... o,. town
waa a favorite form of relaxation.
j our town was the great shipping point
for buffalo hides to the market at
Chicago. St. Louis and other points.. In
those days the buffalo -literally dark-
few years the Bame plalnB were whUenftd
by their bleaching bones. Hide hunters
h the hundred came in to kill the buf-
ivr moil uiuw. a iivvu in inu
for 2g a Durlng the latter part of
the time I resided at Houston. Houston
1 the oounty seat of Harris county. I
JxtotoSS
county I had the honor of representing
that county- for several terms In the
giaiature. . ...
"Houston was named for Colonel Sam
Houston, the first president of the re-
sions, the stone ruins of which are still
to be seen around Sah Antonio and
elsewhere. In 1727 Texas became a
province of Spain under the title of
I xejas province, tatting its trame from
- the Tejas Indians. Its story is a long
i-dtt ha.
publio of Texas, the United states, the
stars and bars of the Confederate
! States of America and at last it has
come tack under Old Glory, where.
thank Uod, it will always remain.'
Letters From the People
i , i
I luemmwucatiena aant to Tbe Jearbal fer
j pntutton u m departmaat ahoaid ba nt-
ten on only one aide of tbo paper, aaould not
,SCNl SOU word 1D length and muat be ae-
compuHt M ine name arte aearaxa ot tba
arnder. If tne writer duea not daaira to bar
the nam, pubUabtd be aboald eo state. -
Livestock Amphitheatre
Portland. Nov. 2J. To the Editor of
The Journal Now that the big breeders
of livestock, and eitisens of Portland.
have taken up the proposition of a grand
amphitheatre for the 'showing of live-
stock for 1918, it must not and should
A DAY IN
By John Greenleaf Whittier
TALK not of sad November, when a day
Of warni, glad sunshine fills the sky of noon.
And a wind, borrowed from some morn of tfune,
Stirs the brown grasses and the leafless spray.
On the unfrosted pool-of pillared pines
'Lie their long shafts of shadows he small rili,
Singing a pleasant song of summer still,
A line of silver down the hilislope shines.
Hushed the bird voices and the hum of bees
In the thin grass the crickets pine no more;
But still the squirrel hoards his winter stare,
And drops his nutshells from the shagbark .trees.
Softly the dark green h'em locks whisper; high
Above the spires of yellowing larches show
Where the woodpecker and home-loving crow
,And jay and nuthatch winter's threat defy.
O gracious beauty, ever new and old!
O sights and sounds of Nature, doubly dear
A When the low sunshine Warns the closing year
Of Snow-blown fields and waves of Arctic cold I
Close to my heart I fold each lovely thing
Each sweet day yields; and, noUdisconsolate, '
With the calm patience of the woods I wait
For leaf and blossom when God gives us spring!
' FAPAL PEACE
rroia tha Wltneaa -
There are a great many people who
feel that the war is just the thing for
our young men ; that they need the dis
cipline of the camp, and the rigorous
exercise of the field, and the manly
courage of the combat; that, in fact,
we are going 'to Improve our young
men physically and morally "by military
training.
Of course - everyone who has studied
history knows that war la the worst
possible thing for the physique and
morale of young men. It kills off the
most fit and leaves the weakling at
home to propagate hie kind. It dissem
inates vloe by throwing together the
vicious and the sovnd with the result
that the rotten apple always has the
final advantage. It contaminates the
barrel. War eonsumes the best years
of a young man's life In a perfectly
useless training which unfits him for the
pursuits of peace. -
Personally we believe that (his nation
had to fight, and that this war is In the
line of police duty against a gang of
thugs and bandits, but we are under no
Illusions as to the blesadngs of the mil
itary caste. They are entirely negative.
War la about as beneficial to the human
race an an earthquake. It clears the
ground for a new earth, but Is terribly
bard en the Inhabitants thereof. We
need, therefore, .to realize as we offer
our sons to be sacrificed, that war is a
perfectly senselesk method of settling
human disputes by enlisting young men
to shed one another's blood In order that
a lot of perfectly selfish adults may
Improve trade or extend their sovereign
domains.
But war- la not dlfferent frvm any
other fight There la the aggressor
and the one who is aggrieved, and the
Innocent bystander, and the reseuer ef
the defenseless. A. musovlar youth who
would stand by and allow a domineer
ing brute to beat a helpless child to
death might be a pacifist but not a
Saint. We are fighting because a coarse
brute was trampling oat every helpless
victim tha he could get his hobnailed
shoes upon, and we believe that he Is
Just beginning to get -properly thrashed,
when the Holy fc-ather telle his children
to make peace.
Now we have respect for . Benedict
XV, and we are Inclined to concede
to htm certain paternal traditions In
Kurope, but we question Whether he has
played the father In this conflict. We
it under lock and key. Just lock the
barn, after the horse Is stolen.
The poor creatures ' will be fed and
clothed and not have to drift round
the BoclaXjiea, to know where the next
meal Is to come from.
A few years ago In one ot our states.
In the lumber and copper regions, women
and young girls were enticed Into the
locality and held as captives In stock
ades, and If Ahey tried to escape they
were brought back with bloodhounds.
That is Just one case. There are
many more. Some we know about ;
some we do not.
The social outcast Is the product of
condition false education and a cor
rupt society. We all In some way help
to make those conditions. We may not
think we do, and often do not think of
the subject at all, unless it comes right
to our door, and. then we wonder what
the matter Is.
Do not be too sure that It will not
touch, you. or someone very dear to you.
Just remember that these poor out
casts are. human beings, just like your
own fair daughters, and that someone
loved them. They are the children of
God, and the children of fond loving
fathers and mothers. And the some so
cial conditions that caused them to take
the crooked, road are still with ua. for
your children to drop Into. You can
confine the effect, but until the cause of
all this misery Is put under lock and
key, or dug up root and branch, no one
Is safe.
Too much poverty, and too much
wealth, makes countless millions
mourn. ' NELLIE RICHARD 8.
' Naturalization
Hlllaboro, Or, Nov. 22. To the Edi
tor of The Journal. Please answer In
The Journal: Can any alien or for
eigner take out naturalization papers
In tbe United States whiU we are at
war with other nations, as we are
at present? A SUBSCRIBER.
Laurel, Or.. Nov. Jl. To the Editor of
The Journal Can an alien,"" either for
or against the United States, take out
'naturalisation papers 'and become a
citisen of this country now. while the
war la on, or not? READER.
An enemy alien cannot be naturalized
In the United States daring the war. In
1 other words, the naturalization courts
j are forbidden by law to naturalise at
this time, a German, an Austrian, a
' Bulgarian or a Turk, no matter how long
they may have resided in tne country.
Naturalization of an alien coming from
any other than these four countries la
not forbidden at this time by law.J
Same System; Same -Acre
I Burns. Or.. Nov. 2. To the Editor of
The Journal la the same system of
surveying and describing land In use In
1 Canada as In the United. States? If not.
I what system is In .use, and how are gov
ernment lands described 7 If by acres. Is
the acre the same as In the United
States 1(0 square rods?
BUBSCKIBGit.
A "Text for Profiteer.
rroat Capper's Weakly
Profiteer "I have much goods
laid
un for manv days.'
Luke 12 :20 "Thou foot, this night thy
soul shall be required of thee."
- All Barkises '
"-;i.:;rrom the Waahinton Pott. T
So far as can be learned not a single
natriotlo Teuton has struck when Hinv-
denburg ' has ordered a strategic- reaj
NOVEMBER
are not quarreling with Germany be
cause we all covet the, same thing, and
therefore should all be spanked and sent
to bed. We are quarreling with Ger
many because she has murdered the in
nocent, and crushed under her heel
every principle of decency. Is It enough,
therefore, for the father te tell hts chil
dren. "I am Impartial ; I do good to
every one ; I beg you to cease you
fighting."
a m
But If we have any business to be In
the war at all. It Is because the war Is
a righteous war ; and If It la a righteous
war It cannot cease until the cause of
the war Is accomplished and it Is just
here that the Holy Father should have
acted. He should have reproved some
of his children for violating every princi
ple of honor and Integrity In bis treat
ment of his other children. Is Belgium
no less a child than Germany? Is It
enough to say to a brute who has dis
honored his own sister to go back and
stop dishonoring her? The nations can
not accept the pope's offer of peace, for
the pope's offer sidesteps the causes of
the war, and treats each belligerent as
though he were equally guilty. But that
is a begging of the question. We re
fighting with Germany, because we be
lleve her to be infamously guilty. We
hate war as much as does hts holiness.
but we cannot stop -fighting simply be
cause war is terrible. We knew that
when we entered the conflict.
We join with the pope In his estimate
of the unhapplness of a world at war,
but Is peace the only principle at stake.
If so, we ought not to have entered It
at all: but we entered It to establish a
principle, and that, tile principle that
no nation could violate every law of na
tions with Impunity. Germany, thus far
has chastised the thnocent. It Is all
right for the innocent who has been In
jured to forgive hts persecutors, but It
is another tnutg lor tne moral police
force of Christendom to let Germany go
back unpunished."' With wttat result T
That the world has been at war for
three years, and accomplished nothing T
What an awful waste of life and
property l
Better by far that the world should
be ajt war for four years, and accomplish
something, and that something that no
potentate haa the right to deluge the
world- in blood - again. In order to
strengthen. or extend hie supposedly di
vine right that no nation can Ignore
vows, or murder women and children.
or violate neutrality with impunity.
PERSONAL MENTION
Here From Pendleton
C M. Bishop of Pendleton Is
guest at the Portland. Mr. Bishop
one of the owners of the Pendleton
Woolen mill. -
-e e e l
En Route to American Lake !
Captain H. C. Abraham son. U. 8. A
Is In Portland, at the Carlton, en route
to American Iake.
a a e
Touring W astern State
Mr. and Mrs. Ward Holl Ins and fam
ily are registered at the Multnomah
from Winnipeg. They are touring the
west and are now en route to California.
Mr. and Mrs. 1 tt. Houghton ef The
rallea.-"are staying In Portland at the
Nortonia.
Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Bishop ef Tea
kean, Idaho, are at the Cornelius.
F. M. Potter, a lumberman of Astoria,
Is at the Oregon.
Mr. and Mra. L. W. Smith of Albany,
Or., are at the Oregon for their visit
In Portland.
Mrs. Marie Dowd and Mrs. Elisabeth
Adams of Marshfleld are visiting In
Portland and are at the Cornelius.
Mr. and Mrs. B. S. Clark and Mr. and
Mrs. M. 8. Thomas form a party from
Sedalla, at the Carlton. They will be
In Portland for an extended visit..
Owen Roberts, a manufacturer from
Chicago, is Id Portland on business and
Is at the Perkins.
Mr. and Mrs. Mrs. L. Hustin of Salem
are at tbe Cornelius.
Mr. and Mrs. E. R. Caroll of Seattle
are guests at the Multnomah.
M. R. Manson of Seattle Is at the
Nortonia.
Mr. and Mrs. Fred W. . Herman of
Rainier are in Portland, at the Cor
nelius. James E. Walker, a lumberman from
Hoqulam. Wash., is at the Carlton.
F. E. CoUiater of silverton is la Port
land at the Multnomah.
Oscar 8. Nelson, a merchant of As
toria, 1 at the Carlton.
Mr, and Mrs. II. A. Wlsner of Seattle
are registered at the Nortonia.
W. a Woodhouse and Mrs. Woodhouse
frenn Silverton are at the Perkins. Mr.
Woodhouse Is a hotel man.
XL B. Watson of qhehaUs Is at tbe
Oregon.
' R. N. Moore from CorvalUs is a guest
at the Cornelius.
' J. 8. Ramsey of Olympla la a guest at
the Nortonia.
Mrs. HatUe McKetrman from Pom
eroy. Wash., Is at the Portland hoteL
J P. Walker'of CorvalUs is resiatered
nit the Perkins.
L.- I. Scott from AlrTle Is at the Ore
gon hotel. -
E. Krigbaum from Estacada la at the
Perkins.
The Boy and the Hero
- From tba Cbrotian Science Monitor.
Boys often have a practical way of
showing what they think of the men who
have done their bit; ln-facthey are a
good deal readier in showing apprecia
tion than some of their elders. There
was that boy In Birmingham, the other
day, who. seeing . man of the R. f. C
struggling with his kit bag on his way
to a station, without saying a word took
and 'shouldered the bag. At the end of
the Journey he ran off. saying, as he
saw the soldier dive Into hi. -pocket :
"Not roe, not after what you nave done 1"
There were plenty of men In that street.
but only the boy thought, of carrying
Rarrta and Bobtail
Stories From Everywhere
ITe tbta eoluma .n MaiWa .r Tv .:
re lavltad to eerUIbnla arlrlnal mattar 1
''' In pkUi-aepblcal ebeerveUoe E
e- atrlkJng qootaUiftia. from ear coerce. Coo
trrbntloea of tocepttonal marie wUl be mU to
t tbt editor appraisal. . . .
How a Russian Revolutionise.
OMB of the naive and miscbieou.
BOlnge of Rl Milan Nvntutlnnlata.
whose happiness knew no bounds after
the overthrow of thexar, are told by
William O. Shepherd In Kvervbodr'a.
The following is representative:
There Was that rreat Amt In tha vlt.
Uge of Gotchina. for instance. All
through the long life of Gotchina there
siooa on its outskirts a palace, sur
rounded by grounds that were sacred.'
and inhabited by high-born folks that av
peasant must always touch his cap to.
When the wave of revolution rarfcail
Gotchina the village folk there did their
dh in helping the common folks get on
top; and the uncommon folks In the
palace fled. Did .Gotchina burn down
the palace T No. That would have been
angry work or alcoholic play, and Get
china was unalcohollcaily and cheerfully
playful. A peasant discovered In one .
of the once-sacred ponds huge dark
forms that moved about In the cool
Maters.
'Fish ! The call went around like a -
cry of Hre, -
Before the day was over the peas-
ants, with hooks and lines, were pulling
out giant carp, some of them 100 yearai -old.
which the high-born (elk ef the
palace and their fathers before them
had been nurturing like old wine. ' t
un the third night there was such
a barbecue of giant earp as will put
tnat day down in the history of Got- .
china for ever. It was Gotchina'. way 1
of showing that it had thrown off the
old yoke. And." like all the,' rest of
Russia, It smiled, instead of frowning '
wiin earnestness, and was happy instead
of angry." fe
The King of All Alibi. .
Champ Clark tells this story ef a;J
case brought in Missouri In which one
Of the lawyers engaged tried to serve J v
bis client by throwing suspicion on a
certain witness during the course of
his cross-examination,
The first Question put waai
"Tou admit that you were at the
prisoner's home every evening during
this period V
"Yes, sir." replied the witness.
"State whether you and he were in
terested In any special transactlo.
such as, for Instance, business or oth
erwise." "Yes sir we were."
"Oh. 'ho!" exclaimed the wily attor-
ney. "Then you will, no doubt, be
good enough to Inform us how and to '
what extent, also the nature of the
business In which you were Jointly -interested."
"I haven's the least objection in the
world," cheerfully answered the obits
Ing witness. "If yeu want to know '
I was coUrtlng his daughter!"'
Unguarded Gate.
Wide open and unguarded stand our
gates, '
And through them presses a wild, motley
throng ;f
Men from the Volga and the Tartar
steppes.
Featureless figures of the Hoang-Ho.
Malayan, Scythian. Teuton, Celt and . '
Slav.
Flying the old world's poverty and -scorn
:
These bringing with them unknown gods
and rites.
Those, tiger passions, here to stretch
their claws.
In street and alley what strange tongues
are these. .
Accents of menace alien to our air.
voices that once tbe Tower of Babel
knew I
O Liberty. White Goddess ! is tt well .
To leave the gates unguarded? On thy
breast 1
Fold sorrow's children, sooth the hearts
of fate.
Lift the down, trodden, but with the
hand ef steel
Stay those who to thy sacred portals
'come
To waste the gifts of freedom. Have a
care
Lest from thy brow the clustered stars
be torn .
And trampled in the dust For so of old
The throngtng Goth and Vandal
trampled Rome,
And where the temples of. the Caesar.
stood
The lean wolf unmolested made hir
lair.
Thomas Bailey A Id rich.
Uncle Jeff Snow Says
When butter was IS cents a pound
them city fellers didn't have the IS
cents any ofteher'n they now git by
with (0 cents.
THROUGH , I
Good mernlns.
. fta .
If you can't lead an army atralnat
the Hun; or wing a flying Bosche
or sink a "sub," or patrol No-Man's
land, or go over the top
If you can't drive an ambulance,
or carry a stretcher, or knit a sock
or roll a Red Cross bandage--ft
ft .
If you can't buy a Liberty bond,
or eat wheatless bread and meatless
seals If you can't
ft
Do your bit
ft.
Teu can at least get down on your
knees next Thursday and thank God
that there are others
ft ft - ' ,
Who can.
New Viewpoint
of Eugenics
"Approved-
Rules of Living Set Forth In
'How to Live" Hive ,Re-
ceived Approbation of . Coun
try's Most Famous Men. .
EdueafJoa m heHa tbe saeat vital ef
aU ib)wt the krfty aad bnauaitarias
mupoaa of "How to LJ tha eat sad
aaoat popular of book ee panose! byftaae.
Thi splendid wort sea baas eetbotUad
by and' prauared is collaboration trttk tbe
brsteM rWaraace board of tbe Ufa Ki
tmiam inatitute by IRVdO ViaililU.
Cbairnaa. FisXaaaor of 4oUUcal Kconomr. '
Tate aniMmrty. aad'-EUUKStt LTMAM
i lXS, M. D.
Boaoe of the' fl neat ferahat is Ajaarloe
ere aponaocs for "How to Lire," a Bums
whoa are each MB,ea WiUiam H. Taft,
Gaoonl WlUlaat O. tiretaa, . aarfaos (as
oral; DC. Bupert Blua, V. 8- rootle baaHk
aerrtea; I. U. M. Bisa, baajth eosaaia
aloaar. state of Saw York ; ir. Harray Vf.
. Wiles - and lr. alexandar Grebes Ball. -Tbawa
SMS donate tiieir acrvtoaa to tbe life
Extamkra laMitata and eoUaboratad wua
fnt aaaae rata and V- 'la ts prepsna. .
: Uua boob.
Tha fcsola aellirif pdea fa SI. Tkreesk
. tke eooparatieai of Tba Jawrmal, It ees be
obtained for 6Se at tbe i. JC. GUI Co..
Mete A Frank Co.. Old. WortmaS.di
gins of Jonrael baaiuaaa efflae. ee fa
1 SI yon sat tha book and a aaosth's as-
mjivuem to Te Joarau. oa im
tkmal os BjaU ofdera, .
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