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! .....v ....... ' ' . . - THE OREGbN SUNDAY JOURNAI PORTLAND. ' SUNDAY -MORNING, APRIL 21, 1918. EAGER TO RETURN GO Lieutenant Hector MacQuarrie - Says British Soldiers Are Op timistic to Very Last Man. ALLY SMASH SURE TO' COME Triumphant Entry Will Be Made Into Kaisertown; Great Work Accomplished for Loan Drive. A gigantic French, British and Ameri can counter attack In the chief war theatres of Kurope la Impending and will mark the biggest as well as the last battle of the war. Until tha coun ter crash comes the allies, by all rules of the srreat fighting- game, must re sign themselves to "net, It In the neck' and must be "fearfully" patient In the meantime. Such, counter attack may start tomorrow and may not start for two. .months, but two months Is the II mil Glided with his splendid British hu mor, whose source he admits Is In his Highland Scotch ancestry. Lieutenant Hector MacQuarrie of the Royal Field artillery, gave this rather startling state ment as a result of the study Of the wtfr game he has been making while preaching liberty loan sermons In Port land and Oregon during the past two weeks. Kartr to Iteturn to the Froat After a voluntary campaign In aid of the Liberty loan drive that baa re quired him to make speech after speech In all parts of the state, and after see ing the drive In which he took such an active part carried to success, first of all American drives, Lieutenant Mac Quarrie Is preparing to leave for Wash Ington, where he will continue his pa triotic work. Lieutenant MacQuarrie, known to thousands In Oregon as a result of his work here, went to war with the British lion In August, 1914, as a private In one of his majesty's field artillery regl merits. After a year of thrilling action at the front, he was sent to America to supervise gun production-for his gov ernment at the great Pennsylvania steel plants. Today he Is pulling all tha wire within reach to get back to the scene of action. Only this week- he was advised to stick to the ship until he has fin lulled saying the many things he has to tell America. "You kno. there's no denying that the Uermans are going to give it to us in tne necxs Tor a time yet," tne iteuten ant said. "They haven't been turning out their awful military machine all these years to he whipped Into submls slon over night. But we're bound to get them. Obedience Flrit Qualification ' t'The allies are having to build their machine and fight with it at the same time, and their progress is astounding, Ojir lack of obedience Is the chief dls advantage. 1 would say that obedience, unfaltering, aliauld be 99 per cent of ttie composition of a soldier and personal enrage ami -initiative jtoulfl form the other t. per cent. 4 l ,After all. the result of thiswar must b that we will witness a triumphal parade In the streets of London and New York or in Berlin. But there will b no Hun celebration In Berlin, that's sure. The allied cgunter attack must -,come soon and It will pu an effective end to hope of a jubilee In kaisertown. "Incidentally. 1 believe the greatest mistake in British history was the fail ure of our government to develop friendliness with America. Of course, that friendliness Is Insured now, but It should have been developing since your victory In the revolution. Britishers who know America love her. and the Ignorance of those who do not know your country and your people la pitiful. . Llkei American Audiences 'What we need all round Is a more optimistic spirit. There is little danger of the American no, loving the French man and optimistic developments should make the feeling mutual with England. We British like the French, too. They are a delightful people hectic excitable -charming and they speak English so awfully well. 'In regard to the Anglo-American friendship it might be a good idea for our American cousins to remember that a- country is not without honor save for its prophets.' lo you think that will get across? I like Amerlcair"audi ences so well, because my stuff does seem to get across." Just before the war broke out. Lieu tenant MacQuarrie was a student at Cambridge unlvefwlty, 'whose sacred portals are entered every year by 1600 young Britons, with a few .foreigners, black and white, who have a passionate determination to do as' little work as possible under the clrcumstancea" He returned to Europe from a trip to Portu . gal that followed his collegiate days, and joined the army as a private. Later he was commissioned. "The next, day." the lieutenant says, l strafed a sergeant who had nearly knocked me down the day before my rise : had a good shave In a shop marked. Offlcers Only, and went up .to London where T bought a badly fit ting, though effective, uniform. I com manded a battery of 200 men for two months before I knew It." The optimism of British soldiers Is remarkable, the officer declares. The boys are In the fight to win. they know they will win therefore, their, happl . ness is supreme. Platinum is so ductile that a wire 100 miles long could be drawn from a .single Troy ounce of the metal. BEFORE YOU ' BUY See ttie greatest of all Phono- graphs the new Brunswick. Plays all makes ,of records and plays them better. Priced from $32.50 up. Call or write for free catalogue. M2.B0 US180 Ten an4 : Qualttr BROS. 1U Tsath Street, Boath ef Slorrltoa v'Mm Mala i&it v. FOR ANOTHER AGAINST GERMANS 1 ., lit . mil Where Britain's Forces England Furnishes 60.4 1 illlf if . . MMmMMmm I 1 1 1 I I England 4,530.000 or 60 4 par kh Mare re 10 oolo en Scotland, 620,000 or 83 per Ea sdua re iqo, M eft Wales, 280,000 or 37 per Ealch re es 10 0, 000 en Ireland', 170,000 or 23 per Eafeh squa re FX es 101 oojo M en Self governing Colonies, 900.000 or Eafch ua re rejpr es 10 0, oqo M en ll n Indian. African, and, Other Dependencies, 1,000.000 or 13'3 per cent The Proportions in which the Contributed Men to the Each block of squares represents the total of 7,500,000 The black portions show the extent of the services at men raised by the Empire. The shaded squares show the the outbreak of war. The larger areas of white show the proportion of. men contributed by each section of the extent to which they have expanded durinj the war. Empireyv- ; , 1 ' In his several addresses before Port- land audiences ' last week Lieutenant Hector MacQuarrie of the' British, army made "the startling announcement that England to date has furnished 60 per cent of the men enlisted by the British empire for army purposes from the be gfnnlng of the war to the fall of 1817. These figures are substantiated by an illustrated article in the . London Sphere of March 23, which is reproduced here with and which shows that of -Britain's fighting force of 7.500,000 men raised since the war, 4,530,000 men, or 60.4 per cent, came from England. t ' What the Flgoret Show The article follows: "We here put before our readers In diagrammatic form some of the figures given recently by Sir Auckland Geddes. On the left-hand are a series of six dia grams, each representing in the bulk the total number of men raised by the British empire up to the period of the autumn of 1917. This figure is no less than 7.500.000. Of this gigantic total, what percentage has each section of the empire contributed to the whole? The proportions,, may be set out In tabular form as here: Per cent. .-. 60.4 ,.. 8.3 ... 3.7 ... 2.3 England Scotland Wales Ireland Overseas dominions and colonies. India, African possessions, etc. .. ...12.0 ...13.3 ,.100.6 Total . . "One sees at once that the army 13 overwhelmingly an English army as re gards the actual number of men taken from each section of the empire. Ire- lands contribution is the smallest, being 2.3 per cent of the total. "But, the reader will ask, what rela tlon have these figures to the popula tions of the various parts of the em pire from which they were drawn? It would not be fair to form a mental pic ture on these figures alone. Scotland, for Instance, has only contributed 8.3 per cent of the whole army, but how does that figure stand towards her pos- Cooking Under Water More Difficult Than on Land Washington, April 20. Cooking under water has its disadvantages, but when you have a nice water-proof kitchen on one of Uncl4 Sam's safe submarines it is not so bad. according to Mrs. M. A. Wilson of Philadelphia, who trains cooks for the United States navy. Enlisted men are Mrs. Wilson's stu dents and pupils and she conducts some of her cooking classes on board battle ships and submarines. She tells of being J9 hours under water on a submarine. Housewives who are Interested in sub marine cooking will learn from Mrs. Wilson that the intense cold from the bottom of the ocean must be considered by the submarine cook. Eleetrle Stoves Used "Electric Btoves are used." she says, "but food .which requires a high tem perature must be cooked before the sub marine Is submerged." . She tells of her work in this way : t "I began with a class of SO men. To day I have 1000 men under training. "X have spent days taking oil ranges apart to find out why the men could not make them work, finally discovering that it was because they had kept the flames too 1 high. The work done has conformed entirely to navy require ments. One must find the amount ' of food named in the regulations to serve at a cost of 45 cents a'day. - : Coarse of yive Weeks . , every day from 5: JO a. m. to 7 p. m. cent Lf StreuftK, cent en THE BRITISH cent THE AIR SERVICE Strength, 1914, 2,000 i strength, August 1917, 125,000 Expansion, 6,250 per cent, and fast expanding en cent ar te 12 per cent THE NAVY Navy in 1914, 150,000 1 navy in October, 1917. over 400,000 men Expansion, 266 per cent en ts Empire has -Army How the Three COMPLETES SPEAKING "TOUR FOR LOAN DRIVE Lieutenant Hector MacQuarrie sible contribution? lias she done as much as she could? Let us give some particulars which will throw light on Every man .must know how-to make bread and . under very different con ditions from those on land. The varia tion in . temperature is great and the water used must come from the ocean. "The boys are enthusiastic about their work and I don't believe I have ever seen a finer class of men. We have doctors. lawyers, clerks all professions and trades- represented. There have been practically no failures. Her First Class "In Boston 225 men were turned over to me to train as commissary stewards. I did not know what was required, of such an officer. I went to Cape Hen lopen to find out what a commissary steward - was supposed to do. Then . I Immediately put these .225 men into white suits such as navy cooks wear and put them into tho kitchen to learn how to cook as a foundation for their work.". Gifts to Colleges in ; War Times Proper . .- Washington. April 20. "Gifts to col leges and universities for the payment of current expenses while the war -continues would seem to be entirely legiti mate and proper. says Dr. P. P. Clax ton, United States commissioner of edu I I 4 - v 4 I A ' j I V r V''U j o I Ik 1 Co me From ; Per Cent Strength, 1914. about 700,000 October, 19 17 over 4,000,000 ARMY ONLY Expansion, 570 per cent Services Military. have -Exoanded Naval, an Alt the relation of men serving with the army to the approximate number of available males in each section of the empire. "If we take Kngland as having, ap proximately, 6,300,000 males of military age fit and unfit. Including those In essential industries and national occu pations, we find that of these 4,530,000 men are with the army, giving a per centage of 71$4. Wales may be given aa 390,000 men, of which 280,000 are with the army, giving a percentage of 71 the same as England. Scotland may be represented by 880,000, of which 620,000 are with the army, giving a per centage of 70 practically the same as England and Wales. "Then we come to Ireland, with an approximate total of 830,000. of which 170,000 are with the army, giving the percentage of 20, a low percentage, for which many persons and ways of thinking are responsible. Finally, how do the self-governing colonies stand? The approximate number here is 3,000, 000, of which 900,000 are with the army, a percentage of 30. Several ITalts Expanded "In- the opposite column, three dia grams will further serve to Illuminate Sir Auckland Geddes' figures. One sees a vast expansion, both of the army and the air forces, and also a great expan. slon of naval personnel. Such figures will help our readers' to grasp how great has been the task which the na tion has had to tackle during the pa&t three years. Now another great cis tern of the English-speaking peoples Is being harnessed for war under the leadership of Mr. Wilson. There ar calculated to be about 100,000,000 per sons in the United States of America. The last census (1910) gave the white population as 81,731,957, the Increase per annum of the total population being 2.10 per cent. "Just how many men of the new American army are now In the fighting line and under training we cannot state at the moment, but day by day it grows and grows."' cation, in response to inquiries from a number of schools and colleges regard ing financial campaigns in war time. "It is generally conceded," says Dr. Claxton. "that It is of great Importance that our colleges and universities remain open and maintain the largest possible degree of efficiency during the war, and that they shall be able to meet the larger demands made upon them when the war is over." When writinc to or calling ea TcrtiMr plMM say you hi ad in Tha Journal. Tha Leading Feararca of tha 1adtas MaeMnas all harmontamlr . contbtnod in fcandaamo Naw Traabla-lfreo Writinc Maehina of tha Flnt Quality tn which you will find your own (avoiita faatura of your owa favor ite typewriter, sad tba others .besidea, ; - - - THE ' . - WOODSTOCK TYPEWRITER AOEHOT 04 Oak atroei 'ih U,Ve JU.lf Ll,,1 .fllS iHaitH Mm m i a. rrvWOODSTOCK AMERICAN TROOPS IN FIELD HAVE FASTEST iinni n LU Modified Enfield Is Declared by Military Critic to Be Twice as Fast as Mauser. . Washington, - April 20. American troops are armed with a faster nnnj ana more accurate rifle than used by the Germans, according to our expert designers, manufacturers. and marksmen. One military critic and writer, Edward C Crossman. claims that the German Mauser does not nermit the most skilled user to get more than 50 per cent of the firing speed of the modi fied Enfield adopted for the United states service. It the rapidity of fire of one army's rifle is twice that of the weapon used by enemy rinemen, ana the forces numeri cally the same strength, the former has in effect other things being equal, two riflemen to the enemy's. one. Hence to make two bullets fly where one flew be fore has been one of the main objects sought in gun design since organised fighters found a more effective way to battle than the primitive stage of throw ing missiles at one another. The superiority claimed for the Ameri can weapon is supported on three counts : Quicker fire as a result of bolt handle design, easier and Quicker sight ing as a result of sight design, greater accuracy of bullet flight as a result of bullet design, and greater mechanical accuracy of chamber and bore. The Dominican republic has legally adopted the metric system of weights and measures. - FIRING GUN Ml in nun aniHHHIHIIHIIHIIIIIIIIIIIllllllIIIIIIIHHIIIIIIIIIIIIIllllllllllllllllllllllllimillllinilllllllllll Henry Jenning & Sons Sale of Cretonnes Short lengths, ranging from 5 to 10 yards. Many colors, many patterns. 65c Cretonnes, special, yd., 45c 55c Cretonnes, special, yd., 39c 45c Cretonnes, special, yd-, 33c 40c Cretonnes, specail, yd., 29c 35c .Cretonnes, special, yd., 27c 25c Cretonnes, special, yd., 19c Curtain Specials Regular i .75 Marquisettes in cream, .white or ecru; 2 'A yards long, with' t yi-inch hemstitched border. Special, 11.20 the pair. Regular S4.75 Marquisettes in ecru pnly; 2J4 yards long, with Venice motifs set in hemstitched border. Special, $2.90 the pair. New arrivals in Kapock Sunfast Draperies. Use Kirsch Flat Rods for your curtains and overdrapes. Do not sag. Will not rust. SPECIAL Full 40-lb. 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The suite consists of the follow ing, sold singly or en suite: Extension Table China Closet Serving Table Buffet Carver Five Diners Brass Bed Sale We are closing out dozens of our finest brass beds, both full and three-quarter size. Simmons' or Foster Bros.' Ideal at attract ive prices. See Fifth-street window display. These are some of the special prices: $29.50 $33.75 $42.75 $49.50 We will allow you a lib erar price for your old range or stove and sell, you a ' Duplex Alcazar on eisy terms.- The Duplex Alcazar is tbe pioneer of com bination ranges. ; It burns an three' fuels wood,', coal and ras.. Two'fueis may be used at once, or one at a' time, as yoa prefer.;; If yon want com fort, . convenience tod '. econ- omy, buy a .Duplex Alcazar. . Let us . show- you their - features.-'-.' ; ; : He passed the examlnatione In Decern-' ber at Seattle and was recommended for the balloon school at Fort Omaha, but there being so many applicants : ahead of him for this branch of th service, he secured a transfer to actm duty In the aviation section of the Sig nal Corps and was ordered to report at once to Kelly Field. Since passing his examination - m December he has been taking post graduate 'work at Franklin high school, specialising in subjects that would be of use to him in the Signal 'Corps, v- He ts the eon of Mr. and Mrs. William. r. jucers, sous orty sixth street southeast. -. Merchant Marine Needed After War ' e Cincinnati. April 10. (TJ. V'-" American merchant marine which shall be capable not only of helping to win the war, but the wresting from the central powers markets which they have monopolised waa the keynote adopted by the National' Foreign Trade convention in Its closing session today. Whatever is done now or the pro motion of trade after the war must have for its primary-object a, full and de cisive victory." read a report submitted by the general committee. Export trade at present must be maintained to-stabilise the national credit Proxy Weddings Do Not Bring Insurance Springfield. Til.. April 20. (L N. S.) American girls cannot obtain their soldiers sweethearts insurance by proxy weddings. This Is the ruling of Attorney Gen ehai Brundage on the case of a Chi cago girl who wished a proxy wedding so that she could obtain her soldier sweetheart's insurance in the event he was killed in France. The only way the girl could obtain the insurance was for him to will it to her, Brundage held. Good Furniture A Sale of Rugs We have rrrouped iust 20 patterns of fine Qj eradie Axminster Tl Rugs, 9x12 size, both seamed and seamless, to be offered this week under normal price. These are not cheap rugs they are all of good quality and they include a number of the famous Smith make. Beginning to morrow and continu ing all week them at $38 This itoxe is recoj nized : bead- quarters for fine ruts and car pets. We invite yoa to look at out displays. " 9 f.? . ll PHYSICIANS ACCUSED 0 F CARELESSNESS I N FILING CERTIFICATES City Statisticians Say Difficulty Found in Establishing Rec- ; ords of Native Born. 1 fiA m.I m nVv.l.l. wm ' tn Portland and Oregon in preparing birth certirtcatea causes the city and; state health bureau needless energy, and often renders birth certificates use- -less, declare city statisticians. - .. This fact has been disclosed because, of the frequent requests for birth certi ficates demanded by men preparing to enter, military service who have been -Instructed to produce proof of their birth in the United States. Recently a birth certificate was re ceived by the city health bureau, and - Mtss Ruth Carter, chief clerk, spent several hours endeavoring to make out . the name of the physician. The maker' of the report was not a local doctor and ' his signature was finally Identified at; the office of the state health bureau. Otherwise, it is probable that the name of the physician woeld not have been1 Illegible. "Extreme care should be taken in pre paring birth certificates." said Mlaa Carter. "We are called upon almost t daily to furnish copies of birth certlfl--catea to men about to enter military; service. Many of these filled out years: ago are so carelessly written as to al- most prove worthless." t A five wheeled velocipede with the driving wheel in the center, is a novelty i for children. Washington at Fifth Furniture Spinet Desks We have just added new arrivals to our fine stock: of Spinet Desks. You will find here some beautiful examples of craftsmanship in fine mahogany. Spinet Desks from $38.60 upwards. . - i iiiiiii aiMi .i--zr-ar-M i i II 111 IllEW 1.)i USW 111