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8 THE OREGON SUNDAY JOURNAL, PORTLAND, SUNDAY MORNING, AUGUST . 4, 1918. ' ' AN IXUCPiaiDKNI NBTWBFAPEB C. a JACKSON .Publisher Published ewy day, afternoon and morning (- ep Bunder tftornoon) at The Journal Bnild ' ing. hroadway and Xamhlll etraeta.. Portland. ',r Oregon, - Xalmd at tha poatotflc at Portend. Oregn-n. transmiaaUm through tha mail at second claaa matter. TEUCPHOITTE Mala 71Tlf Homt A-081. All departmenta reached by ithea manners. Tell tha operator what department you want. Yl Benjamin Kentnor Co., Brnnswick Bnilding, t, ; 2J5 111th arenne. New Tort, U00 Mailers " Building. Chicago. iubserllPtton terms by mall, or to any addrse Jn ' f ; tha IJniUd Bute or Mexico: DAILY (MORNIWO OR AFTEJB.H0ON) i' Ona year. , $5 00 One month. .BO f;l . , g UN DAT "-J- Ona rear $2.50 I Ona month $ .25 .:- - XuuJT (MORklNO OR ArTKRNOON) AND ' BUN DAY ; On year. ...... 17 SO Ona month $ 5 Tha effectual ferrent prayer of a right eous man araileth much. James B:16. OUR PARTNERSHIP A' LMIGHTY GOD, we thank The for tha powerful and timely aid of the United States of America. Prayer said today throughout the British nation. Trial and struggle make comrade ship. These years of sacrifice are draw ing Americans closer together. By the same token, Americans, British, French, Italians and the. other entente peoples are drawn Into closer sympa thy and. union. The common burden is producing a common thought, a common purpose, a common interest. It is the gradual welding of the vvhoje, through natural causes, into a league of nations. In an address in London, Wednes day, Lloyd George said: I think" we ought to see to It that the ' people who have been fighting together should be served first.. We must keep the partnership going and help each other to the end, so that the brother hood shall remain. This avowal is an expression -of. ..the unspoken thought that lies dormant in every loyal mind in the entente nations. Since we are In . cooperation while we are bleeding why not remain a brotherhood for peace and destiny when the sword Is sheathed and the nations healed? We died together for an honorable cause, we sacrificed and . suffered together as brothers through bloody years, why not "keep the partner ship gotng so that the brotherhood shall remain" after victory Is won? We shall long wear these scars of war. When France and Italy and Britain in the bye and bye, look upon their maimed and marred, they will remember that America has her maimed and marred, too, and ti!(ithat all these wounds, and all these national debts are the price we paid In a common struggle. It will be a kinship of peoples, a partnership , of nations, welded and cemented in the great melting ot of sacrifice. It will be- a partnership of races for the preservation of good order nd peace In the world that no Imperial hand can ever tear asunder and no military . despot dare to challenge. It Is the only way to save civiliza tion from bankruptcy. It Is the I sure means of preventing a repeti tion of the present world wide catastrophe. It Is the one hope tocheer mankind on with a faith and trust in a better and sweeter future. , Out of the ashes and "carnage, out of - the scars and graves of these soldier dead, there is certain to t arise a league of nations, welded j. together in the flames of sacrifice, V"hd firmly knit in an unshakable brbthjrhood to maintain peace and goodwill on the earth. ' Though widely acclaimed as a Scotch woman. Miss Kathleen Burke, the $i000-a-day gjrl, is Irish. She Is a direct lineal descendant of Ed mund Burke, famed orator and states man. She is herself an accomplished and thrilling speaker, as Is evidenced by the raising of fiOOO a day for the Red Cross by her platform appeals. Few women, or men, who have spoken in PorUand have beea so ef ' fective in "moving audiences. -if. QUTDOOR MUSIC 0 NE of the more cheerful signs of the times is the movement for outdoor sinking in country villages. Community filngs have M become common in the cities and vi y'everTDdT feels that they are good 'f" i :. things. . f In a community of thes!ze of I I v Portland It is always easy to find NCrpert leaders, and there are trained I r singers enougn jn tne crowd to keep ; f I the tlml and tune up to the mark. 3 JThe . bane of community singing 4 ! : Everywhere is the disposition to 1 drag the time. Some woman gets JTher voice nailed to a soulful note , r fand won't let go. This puts (the r ii crowd oat and spoils the whole business. '.-; :- - v J' ;. Rural'.communitles are not so well ; equipped for ouldodr concert singing, or indoor aither, for that 'matter:. ' :. Most of them Irave plenty of mnsical f people who might take the lead, but Jealousy is apt to palsy their efforts, and what Jealousy (spares vanity finishes. '.' , .,r . ' h . ; .. The local "fady musician is, '&$ a -rale, far more concerned to show off her virtuosity on tha piano than to make the concert singing y a popular triumph. She Is apt to despise the dear old songs which make the pith and marrow of com munity siDging. She can, perhajps be persuaded to' play therii once or twice, if she is allowed to adorn them with runs and arpeggios, but presently ehe tires of the vulgar work and either slide off into one of Ustz's tone poems or else puts on her picture hat and goes home. In music, as in everything else, the crying need of the- rural com munity is leadership. The' country banker is learning to take up some of the burdens of captairtcy in com munity effort.' . He has been particu larly useful since the war began by pushing Liberty bonds and War Savings Stamps. The rural banker is also likely to be found at the head of the Red Cross and the Y. M. C A. funds. ' But this is not half enough. The country village needs leadership 'n home dramatics, in cooperative .labor saving efforts, and, notably, in singing. . It is one of the tragedies of our uncial history that the rural singing school has been permitted to die, out. But what could we expect when the rural home and family is also dying out? Perhaps the minister will some! day take up the burden of leadership. Nothing is more significant than Is the news, if true, that the kaiser, has doubled his bodyguard as a result i of the German reverses on the Aisne- Marpe front. It is acknowledgment of a state of desperation in many German minds, acknowledgment that the kaiser knows it", and acknowledg ment that he fears that continued German .reverses may cause a rising tide of German resentment to wreak its vengeance upon him -as the cause of the war with its horrible conse quences to his people. If the state of the German mind is such that he tremhes before it now, what would it be with allied flag,s floating over the towers of Berlin? TIIE DAWN OF THE END? c IVILIZATION is ascendent. .The heart of . mankind Is lighter. The soul of democratic peoples on the earth is full of thankfulness to Almighty God. A powerful German army has been beaten. A mighty armed machine of yesterday; is in weakness today. The phalanxed host that was battering its way toward th& gates of Paris Is reeling back toward the. Rhine. The power of light and peace and liberty Is Once more triumphant. Christian civilization is heiartened; - the thrbnc at Berlin trembles. War Is full of change. As the tides of the sea come and go, so the tide bf conflict ebbsT and flows. Italy was ascendent. Then the hordes of the autocrat struck her to her knees and drove her back on the Piave But the gallant Italians recovered and struck, back with smashing blows. A little time ago millions in the entente countries were heavy of heart. There was Picardy with its Irresistible German advance. A broken British army, reeling hack on the channel ports seemed a possibility. Christendom, penitent and downcast, was hoping against hope. After that came the terrific German rush toward the Marne. It struck with fearful momentum. -Allied de fense crumbled and collapsed before it. In imagination, we could all see the Hun batteriqg down the gates of Paris. Christendom wks, dismayed and despondent. , This travail was sequel to those triumphant days of 1917 when the Haig drives were beating the German line back, and when we all thought allied superiority had been attained and that the beglinnlng of the end had come. It was travail after triumph, defeat after victory, hope changed to dismay. Such 13 the fortune of conflict. Time is a leveler. The flight of a fugitive, army today may be Lhe thun der of a fearful onset tomorrow. A day. a week, a month, and the ever shifting, ever swaying battle line turns to the favor of one Bide and then the other. In the place of the smiles and ela tion and Jubilation that'ran through Germany a few weeks ago are the shadows, the fears, the anxiety and the gloom that hung over us. To their lot is added hunger, the weari ness that comes from four years of sacrifice and a growing realization that, while they have no Bource of increased man power, America, rich, powerful and fresh, is coming against her with millions of men. And those Americans I It was 12,000 marines from, America, far down in the Marne pocket, that first checked the . late German advance. After that, it was -Americans that hurled the Huns back aoross the Marne and started the fireworks that beat tha crown prince and made his army a fugitive. Almighty God, we thank Thee for the powerful and "timely aid of the United States of America," Is a prayer of national thanksgiving throughout England today. In the deepest heart of the entente peoples who have struggled through four years of sac rifice is a gratitude to America to spur us on to that higher endeavor to bring victory for a great cause and peace to the world forever, j For the time, none knows for how long a time, civilization Is ascendent The Hun is in flight.! For, the sake of mankind, i may the dawn of the end be near! ; . ! i Yotij War Stamps and Liberty bonds are a more popular security than they were before the counter offensive of the allied begtfn, July 18. Every new advance by the allies makes, them more popular. By hold ing th'em and buying (more, you fur nish the sinews of war that; make more Victories. The jmore'you help the soldiers In the field with your money and your focfd conservation arid your Red Cross work, j the more they can do to strengthen the value of your War Savings Stamps and Lib erty bonds. I ' : KEEPING THE PEACE T HEODORE ROOSEVELT has pubr Hshed an editorial in some of the afternoon papers i in which he advocates the Immediate adoption of universal militiary train ing. He gays it is necessary for the national defense. Evidently Mr. Roosevelt stakes his hopes on brute force to keep the peace and not on any federalized league of ' nations. Shoeld he run for president In 1020 we may expect! it to be on a thoroughgoing militarist platform. So the country may have its choice in that campaign between the prin ciple of brute force and the principle oil intelligence. For it is fairly cer tain that the candidate who opposes Mr. Roosevelt In 1920 will stand for the. dominance of mind over matter, just- as Mr. Roosevelt, if he runs. will stand for the dominance of matter over mind. Shall we use our brains to keep the world at peace when this war is over, or shall we1 depend on our muscles alone? That seems likely to be the issue. President Wilson does not favor the adoption of Universal military training Just yet. Secretary Baker, says we should wait and sge how the war turns out. If the Ger mans defeat us we shall" be obliged to train all our young men as fighters for the sake of maintaining oiir national existence. But if we defeat the Germans and then con clude an Intelligent peace there will be no such necessity. The Roosevelt school Jn our na tional politics looks upon militarism as an ideal to be adored and perpetu ated. Their opponents look upon H as a terrible necessity. As long as we must fight let us do It with all our might, but when we no longer need to fight let us not- keep on worshipping the god of slaughter That is the teaching of those who do not follow the Roosevelt leader ship. Taking everything Into consldera tlon the chances seem bright for a sort of Armageddon struggle in the United States between militarism and democracy. The forces are already arraying themselves and the trumpet is sounding its preliminary blasts People should make no mistake about the issue. Militarism and democ racy are not compatible with one another. As Lincoln said of slavery and freedom, if one survives the other .. must perish. This is true of the United States and of the whole world. We are supposed to be fighting Just now t6 extirpate mill tartem rrom the world. It seems odd that while we are doing so, a militarist party should show its head and gain menacing prestige among us The uprising of a free nation to defend Its freedom is not militarism The determination of a free people to extirpate autocracy from the world is not militarism. We have armed our young men for the clear aim of freeing 'future generations from the need of arming. We as sume for the moment the panoply of war in order to slay the war god But the Roosevelt school of politic ians tell us that having assumed the panoply we must wear it forever. It Is the- most Impudently un-American aoctnne ever injected into our politics. We need not go Into the fray be tween militarism and democracy blindly. History teems with instruc tion upon the Issue.; We may know exactly what militarism is, what it does to the institutions of a free people and how it keeps the peace All the ancient nations had univer sal military training for everybody except their slaves. The slaves were kept busy feeding the soldiers. Feu dal Europe had universal military training. It was all the training anybody got, except; a few prelates who learned to reaid and write. The American Indians when the first whites discovered them had universal military training in Its most acute, form. From early boy hood all the males were trained to fight and they were not trained for anything else. Work was a disgrace for a warrior. It was left to In feriors, like women and decrepit age. Work ; is the ideal of democracy. Your 4 thoroughgoing militarist will have none of It. The progress of the world from savagery to civili zation has been along three roads. First, from fighting to work. Sec ond, from slavery to machinery. Third, from caste to equality. WhHe a man Is fighting or train ing to fight, he has no time for work. If he makes fighting his reg ular business he soon learns to de spise work. That was the feudal state of mind. Whoever toiled was Inferior. It is 'the militaristic state of mind everywherei A world of habitual fighters is necessarily a world of slaves since the fighter must be fed by somebody. We all re joice to give op many of our ac customed liberties lm order to feed and j ecpilp our soldiers In the field. But we rejoice In it only because we believe them to be soldiers of freedom- If the American people fhbufhf for an Instant that their boys In France were ; fighting to Impose ! militaristic autocrac opon the Unjted States theirs feeBngs would change very speedily. . Thus far, praise heaven, there la no occasion' to' think 'so, for the man at the helm of "the na tion Is a lover of- democracy, dent Wilson expects this war Presi to pul an end to war. In other words, he expects to defeat the Gennans, not to be defeated by them. j , If they Impose- their j militarism upon us we shall be defeated, no matter what happens on the battle field. Americanism will have per ished and Prussianism win have con quered. The Roosevelt politicians sjeek to distinguish between permanent mili tary training and militarism btit they cannot do It. The training1 sinks into the soul of the natioin and seats the war god on the Ihrojne. It was so in Germany, it mjusi joe so everywhere. France has been saved from the worst effects of militarism because the people felt: poignantly that they were armed to defend their liberties. We could haye n such feeling when we knew that oiur lib erties were not in danger. If we adopt universal training s a perma nent policy we must jpstiryi it to ourselves by self-deception, j Fifty years ago the GeVmanjS were a peaceable people, perhaps the most peaceable in all the wbrld. j Their brightest minds .were occupied with music, poetry, art Goethe wfote to enfranchise the mind. Schiller! wrote for political liberty. The Germans adopted universal military training M.i keep the peace." They kept it up for half a Centuryj dethroning Christ and idolizing the jgod j)f war. And look at the German nowj. Like causes produce like effects. We can not Imitate the policy jof thje Ger mans and hope to escape its evil consequences. j With board furnishedj a wage of ?3.5u per day and upwards I makes farm work attractive. It is a better wage than most city workers i-eceive, and it ought to be a mfans df solv Ing the farm help problem. 1 GERMANY'S COLONIES i T HE reason why the world should not give her colonies back to Germany is exemplified and strengthened by the j contrast be tween Belgium and Mesopotamia. The Germans have been ruling Belgium for four years. The British won parts of Mesopotamia, including Bagdad, from the jTurk some months ago. j The principal aim of jthe Germans in Belgium has been td extojrt war indemnities and punitivej levies from the poverty of the people, j Their exactions have brought! famine on the whole country, j Industry is paralyzed. Crops have filled.' j Farms lie untitled. 1 If Belgium were not fed from the United States the inhabitants would starve. It has been suspected that the German government j wants them to starve in order to make room for a colony of good gdose-steppers. Contrast this situation Svith that of Mesopotamia under British rule. Bagdad has been cleared of Its age-long filth, modern,-zd and made sanitary. A great system of i irriga tion canals has been partly finished and water' brought updn the land, which thus becomes richly produc tive. Nobody has be$n shot for disrespect to British kultuir. No no women have been outraged, babies murdered. j On the contrary, crirfte has been stopped. The quiet processes of BrUish 'aw take it3 plaice. It must be borne in mind tha. j British rule is never, "military" rule in the harsh sense of that; expression, except while the actual fight lasts. As soon as it can bej done with safety civil law is instituted. The courts are opened. The army officers go into the background Britisn colonial government means peace, rich crops, Justice, railroads, markets, human happiness, liberty. German coiomai government means torture of the natives, (jlepoplulation, grinding extortion, forced labor, in trigue against surFOundirig neighbors. To give back Germany's 'lost Colonies to kultur would be a crime j against humanity. i Vancouver has raised a! fund to buy New Testaments for the i sold ers. It la well. Inasmuch as vie are fight ing for democracy nothipg' cpuld be fitter than to provide jour soldiers with the most democratic took ever1 printed. The Great Hiero of tha New Testament taught profoundly They have revolutionary doctrines. been fermenting like yeast In the mass of humanity for 2000 years. The nre our soldiers know Of those doctrines by reading therja for them selves the better. Therp are some chapters from Isaiah and Amos which might be profitably supplied to the men after they a4 have New Testaments. 1 COAL T HE national coal association is . - - : 1 made up of the bituminous coal mine owners. Their normal yearly production amoqnts to 400,000,000 tons of soft ooaL Like other good citizens the ikienihers of this association are concerned about the threatened fuel famine They have learned repeatedly from the national - fuel - administration that the country will i be lucky If It gets coal enough next winter to 1 keep comfortable at home and keep the mills running for war production. This is warning from high authority on the Importance of conserving the fuel supply: i j ' THIS NOW A NEW KIND OF WAR i America Has Transf ermedthe Pur- poses of the; Great Conflict. From tha Philadelphia Erentna Ledrer (Jnl S7 It ws on July zn, rour years age, that Ausfrla declared war upon Serbia and started the flame that has enwrapped! more than half the world. Tomorrow, therefore, is one of the black annlver Barlea of history. Yet It can have other meanings for America. It has" remained for America to transform all tha aim 4 oi the war aa to maxe tnem glorious The war that we are fighting rtow 1$ not the war It was in the begftmingi Alt Its purposes are changed. All the old goals are forgotten for a "better one. The courage or president wnson. maintained by the mass consciousness of America, has .brought the miracle t pass. ' Race hatreds and suspicions, the . pre meditated villainies of continental diploi- macy, religious trends, national ego and trxAa rtvaJriea were Involved at the out set of the war for settlement T the sword ! Over and above the German gov ernment and some of the other govern ments for that matter there existed in visible and superior forces that forced actions and decisions. These forces were rooted not in industrialism, but In the peculiar mania of commercial adventurj- ousness internationally organize, ex alted and In the imperial mood. Thje Ballins and the Krupps, the North Qes man Lloyd Interests and the conces sion holders In Berlin typified the ir visible government of the European cori tlnent. They were mobilized in a col lective agency that was more powerful than government. It existed abofcre the government and yet it had none of the responsibilities of government. Forcfts like these held themselves superior to the state. 'The poisonous philosophy Of secret diplomacy and the madness of ktnrrs were their weapons of offense and defense. Industry alone cannot mae a state, becabse Its energy must always b greater than Its wisdom. Laboif alone cannot make a etate.hecause labor Is essentially a cooperative runcuon. i,a bor and industry and commerce and all the creative forces of work on 1Jhe one hand and money on the other must be subject to the Intelligent guidance if mass Judgment as expressed trough the medium of a free government for the common good. j The typical commercial oligarchy In Europe held Itself superior to the state It set up checks and balances and sacrl freed whole peoples to maintala these balances. It deluded weak-minded kings. It became an organism of immeasurable power and resourcefulness without eyies to see or a neaxi iu leei. 11113, essen tlally, is the monstrous thing that America has set its face againt The reiterated policy of self-deterrihatiin of nations promulgated by America, op posed so often, doubted so often and still questioned at times even in America, represents nothing more than a jrogram devised to make this agency of flestrue tion forever helpless and forejver In active. ; The United States means by evey pronouncement and agreement 'that jit has made since its entry into the war that life Is more important titan the means of life. It has held that the processes of international commerce must be left to develop in a course of natural evolution. It has thrown Its matchless strength Into the struggle to insure a state of affairs undef whi:h the mass judgment and the common concerns of all the peoples democratic ally represented and expressed shall dl rect the processes of government aijd diplomacy rather than the whims Of idiot kings and their con federa ties. And it seems that we are Indeed a nation of destiny. Because the conflagration over all Europe frightened the up crowned kings Into a sense of thet,r ofn madness when America entered the war. And they seem disposed for the salva tion to accept the American view aad are following our leadership In most of the things that we propose and plan. J ; The fires of war have burned away many of the barriers that existed be tween America and Europe. And the American people have looked beyond and they have seen In the stricken, peoples their brothers and their sisters tn heart. The triumph of America has been that it has made this war a matted of na tional will, an adventure of deljlveranpe upon which the national spirit has gohe out gladly without doubts or fears. f Communications sent to The JonnuC for pub lication In this department should ba written on only ona side of the paper, should not exceed SOO words in length and must he signed by the writer, whose mail address Tn full must accompany the contribution. 1 Signification of "Ichwe Oregon City, Or., Aug. 1. To the Edi tor of The Journal A number of your subscribers have requested me !to refr to you the solution of an obscure aiiu , sion, noted below, upon which mone pt us has been able to obtain afcy light from any encyclopedia or other(book f reference available. ; j In the complete and authentic text f the pamphlet "My Mission to London" by Prince Lichnowsky, the lastfGerman ambassador in England, recently obf tained from Cassell & Co.. London, the last paragraph is as follows: ' "Tor we shall not supplant the sons of Ichwe. Then will be realised the plan" of the great Rhodes, who isaw the salvation of humanity tn tne expansion of Britondom in British impefialismj" The question, for which we have beejn unable to find an answer, is. Who was "Ichwe," and who constitute tfce "sons of Ichwe?" W. C. SCHUlrZE. j (The Journal has consulted a pamnhlet (Na. 127) of a series published by the American As sociation for International Cbnclllatlan, which contains the Lichnowsky memorandum;, and Van Jaaow's reply thereto. The Lichnowsky mem orandum ts printed In English and lr German, page for page. The English translation of tha paragraph cited opens with this sentence: "Far we shall net supplant the sons fit ffehoTah." The remainder of the parag-raph Is almost iden tical with the quotation in the inquirer's letter-ten trery so in sense. On the opposite pse (page 128) the Oerman Terrfon open: "Dena wir werden die Sonne Jahwes nicht Terdrangenv das Programm der grtwsen Rhodes," eti. A foot note relating to "Jahwes" refers the evader to page 23. an which is. found tha concluding pan agraph of tha introduction, prepared; by Fro feasor Muntoa Smith of Columbia niTersltyi which paragraph opens as follows: "fho Gr4 man text that follows Is that published In the Berlin Bbrsen-Couriet, March 21, 1W, with no changes except typographical errors." In y,m want "Ichwe." though not found in the authority her consulted, and no' matter what its source nor now n geis ww mi v. a aeU & Co. text, is palpably "JeboTak." The rignificanc of the Sentence In the I mind of Lichnowfiy is a matter for any reader's own construction.) . PERSONAL MENTION Visitor. From; Imperial VaBey ofrs. James E. Peck of Imperial Valley Cal., is visiting her brothers, Kenneth Mc Williams of the King Albert! apart-; ments, Elvidge McWIlliams, at the Black stone hotel, and other friend in Port- Letters From the People j THE DESTRUCTION By Lord THE Assyrian cam down like the wolf on the fold. And his1 cohorts were fleaminf in purfle'and fold; And the sheen of their spears was Eke stars on the sea. When the blue wave rolls nijhtly on deep Galilee. Like the leaves of the forest when summer Is green. That host with their banners at sunset were keenj Like the leaves of the forest tfhen autumn hath blown. That host on the morrow lay wither'd and strown. For the Anfel of Death spread his wings on the blast. And breathed in the face of the foe as he passed; And the eyes of the sleepers waxed deadly and chill, Arid their hearty but once heaved, and forever grew still: And there lay the steed with his nostril all wide. But through it there rolled not the breath of his pride; And the foam of his gasping lay white on the turf, And cold as the spray of the rock-beating surf. And theri lay the rider distorted and pale. With the dew on his brow and the rust on his mail; And the tents were all silent, the banners alone. The lances unlifted, the trumpet unblown. And the widows of Ashur are loud In their wall. And the idols are broke In the temple of Baal; And the might of the Gentile, unsmote by the sword. Hath melted like snow In the glance of the Lord! JOURNAL MAN ABROAD By Fred tit ia tha old. eld atory that of tha sj- nrina, dainty. fasUdiooa chap who Is pat to work udodi man of tha masealina gender and aoon (eta to ba lost like them. Mr. Loclslej tetla about eaa of theaa darlings, who ia now having tha tlft a of hia Ufa secretarying for tha Dots sight In among tha bunting sheila of tha Hon. And there are other hero ttortea In this latter. - Somewhere tn France, Many a man has "found" himself over here. A sec retary came in from his hut at the front last week. He was thin. His face was rather haggard, for he had been working hard, and he had seen death and suffering. He was dusty. his uniform was far from spick and, span. He was after cigarettes, chewing tobacco, chocolate, writing paper and other supplies for "his boys." He came over about six months ago. He was an Easterner. His people were well-to-do. He was pastor of an aristocratic and exclusive church. His toilet set was sil ver mounted. He bought a thin China plate to take with him to his field. He thought the tin dishes were "so repel lant." He was soft a sissy, tn fact. He had lots of culture, and wanted you to know it. He smoked perfumed cigar ettes. He- would have been shocked if you had seen him tn his underwear. Today he is eating bully beef out of a tin can with his fingers. He strips off his clothes while a soldier gives him a shower bath by pouring a pall of cold water over him. He sleeps on his blankets under a hedge, because all houses in his section are shelled almost every night. He has forgotten self in serving others. He has -learned that the Son of Man came not to be ministered unto but to minister. He has discov ered there Is more Joy In serving, than in being served, in giving than in getting, in loving than in being loved. Service, sacrifice and fellowship have helped him to discover the real values that were well nigh lost under the ease, self in dulgence and plain selfishness of his former existence. I have met hundreds of English lads, modest, diffident and likable. I have talked to many a young English lieu-1 tenant and have been Impressed with his shyness ; yet when the time comes their courage and devotion to duty blaze up. Recently one of these young chaps, a lieutenant, went to inspect a dugout where a dozen or more of his men were located. While he was there a defective bomb's spring1 became released. He had four seconds to act. There was not time enough to climb out of the dugout. He picked up the bomb, thrust it within his coat, ran to the far corner of the dug out and faced the wall. He was torn to pieces, but not a man there but himself was injured, nor were the other bombs exploded. His relatives were given the Victoria Cross awarded to him. Read the papers and see how courage ously our own boys are acting. See how they are upholding the ideals and tradi tions of the hobie land. Wounded, they are as brave and patient as the French soldiers, and ' you can give them no higher praise than that- The day will come when nations will no longer 'leave vital problems to the haphazard methods of physical force," but till we can make Germany realize that truth and Justice land. Mrs. Peck's home is near the Mex ican border, and she was a witness of two spirited engagements between op posing forces of Mexican rebels and gov ernment troops during the late unpleas antness In that republic. Mr. and Mrs. H. Harris of Seattle are arrivals at the Carlton. M. F. Mahoney of Hoqulam, Wash., Is registered at the Carlton. James Marfltt of Malheur, Or., Is at the Carlton. Hugh Balrd of Seattle Is a guest at the Carlton. Five-Foot Fighters From the Spokane Rpokesman-Reriew It is rather startling, when one comes to think of It, that yie desirability of small men as soldiers should be a mat ter of such belated discovery. In an nouncing that It will accept men who can only attain a bare 5 feet of al tude, the war department acta as though It had just found out that it is possible for such men to fight It shows how tenaciously an old Idea can persist. Once the prime desider atum in a fighting man was height and breadth of beam. That was when sol diers swung swords and battleaxes and maces, and the man who towered above his fellows enjoyed a fine strategic ad vantage. The theory got so strong a footing in the Middle Ages that it sur vived into the day of modern armies. The .giant Pomeranians of Frederick and the gTenadler guards of England are in stances of the working out of the floc trine that the tallest soldier is the best. But In trench fighting the tall sol dier Is decidedly at a disadvantage. He has to go about his duties all hunched up, lest bullets patter about his lofty summit. The bantam Is com fortable and safe In the shallowest trench. The big man ia useful In hand to hand fighting and In conducting raids, but it Is the small fellow, working a ma chine gun, who holds up offensives and mows the enemy down. Prejudices are stubborn and harder to overcome than any foe. Possibly by the time the war la over all nations will have come Into full realization of the value of the tlrry soldier, but prograss so far Is dlscouragtnr. The Troubles of the All Highest rmrd the Sao FnncWo Chronicle "The sole object of the allies and the Germans in the Solssons-Rhebns salient," says General March, "now is to kill as many men as possible," by which he means that the war has come at last to thai blood test and that territory no longer matters. In such a fight It may be some time before any definite result will show OF SENNACHERIB Byron Lockley i and national righteousness are prefer able to poison gas and submarines, we must employ force to the uttermost, and in doing so we are discovering many virtues we did not know we possessed. Dr. J. O. Eldridge Is president of the University of Idaho. I attended a con ference of T. M. C. A. secretaries re cently. Each secretary was asked to state what his difficulties were and what one line of service he was spe cializing in. One specialized in Bible study, another in this, another in (hat. When it came Dean Eldridge's turn he said : "I am specializing in chewing tobacco." The Joke of it is that it was literally true. Chewing tobacco in his camp was much in demand and hard to secure,, so he was putting in the larger part of his time getting It for his men. One of the best compliments I re ceived at the seaport where I was first stationed was from the secretary in charge of the canteen. She said : "You can sell more goods, making change with chewing gum and matches when 'clackers' are scarce, and keep the sail ors and soldiers in better humor, than anybody 'else here. You were cut out for a salesman." Sometimes for hours at a time there will be a long Btrlng of lads lined up. You have only a few seconds with each one, so you must give him what he asks for, give him change for his money and say something that will send him away a friend and booster Sor the "Y," and cheer him up a bit In the bargain. m m m The . German guns are hammering away almost at the gates of Paris, but the streets are crowded. If you speak of the nearness of the Germans, they say: "We're holding them. They shall not pass." You will Bee hundreds of soldiers on the streets with arms in slings or with bandaged heads. You caa't understand how they can bo so calm and serene. You hear the laughter of young women, but under the laughter there is no frivolity. There is a superb courage. It is shown everywhere. For example, the constant air raids and , the shells from the long range guns were shattering the larger windows ; so meas ures had to be taken to prevent the breaking of 'windows with the conse quent danger from shattered glass. All over ton ybu will see strips of adhesive tape or strong paper pasted on the window panes. But It Is put there as though it were for ornamental purposes. Hearts, crosses, triangles, diamonds and other geometrical designs are to be seen, and here and there a 'motto Is spelled out. The tape put on on account of German activities? Perish the thought! It simply occurred to all Paris to ar range simultaneously an ornamental dis play of fanotful designs on windows. Along every srreet you will see at every arched doorway and hallway, whether In a hotel orJn a private residence, the sign, "Abri," with "lO," "20." "50" or "100" places indicated. They are the shelters, or refuses, provided for the public during air raids. In the cars you will see this salg-n: 'Taisea-vous. Mefles-vous. Lesoreilles enemies vous ecoutent," Which, roughly translated, means, "Watch out Be careful. The enemy's ears are listening to you." themselves. Each can know his own losses bat not those inflicted on the other. However, there is this hopeful cir cumstance that artillery conditions being anything like equal the allies are vastly superior in Infantry or what might be termed ln-fighting. The allies have more courage ; they do not need to move In massed formation ; they are more re sourceful Individually, and they are bet ter with the bayonet. In short, on a man as distinct from a machine basis the Ger man is outclassed. .Meanwhile there Is comfort In the news of the multiplier firm of Germany's interr.al troubles. The peasant rising in the Ukraine Is more than can be put down by a handful of German soldiers. Tho assassination of Field Marshal von Eichhorn is more than the loss of an In dividual German leader; It is a threat of war from Russia, where the kaiser's Bol shevik agents are rapidly coming to the end of their tether. Turkey may be too well under the German thumb to do much harm to Wtlnelm, but when rogues fall out there is always the hope of honest people getting their own. Wil helm certainly has his hands full. The Contemptible Little Governor From the Fairmont M!nn. ) BentlneL Bravo, Governor Burnqulst 1 You are a real governor, with backbone. Two little whippersnapper. rednosed. low browed saloonkeepers at Blooming Prairie have decided that they will run the state of Minnesota. Governor Burn qulst has decided that they shall not. The saloonkeepers are aided by a couple of liquor attorneys, and other -legal lights; and by the lawless roughneck elements of society. The governor is only backed by the law, the constitution of the state, its military forces and the people. The Assassin's Dagger From tha London Morning Feet The German people, or the German de mocracy, as some people take a pleasure In describing them,, cannot have it both ways. Either they sell themselves to a military autocracy aa the price of great ness of the fatherland and the prevalence of kultur, or they Join forces with civ ilization. But of the alternative they are Incapable, and there is no third course. They have chosen the sword or, rather-. since the sword is the weapon of honor,. the poison bowl of the assassin and must abide the Issue, Not In Order - From the Boston Globe. Mr. Hoover, now In England, ia sure of a warm -welcome, but, of courae, he lan't expecting any banquet l Ragtag and Bobtail Stories From Krerymhera A Picture of the Draft A FRAIL little chap he was, so young and boyish for all his ne-and- twenty years, writes Gordon Snow in the Atlantic Monthly. There was that about him which spoke of knicker bockers and romping childhood laid side but yesterday. I did not know Joe. He had passed throuKh the mill of the draft as one of many; but we met for a brief 60 seconds one fine spring nlKht at th station. Just as the train was taking him away ;- and while momnry llvon. I shall rrmembct Joe. He looked down st me' from a r win dow, and as he said goodbye' thre was a twlnkl in his eye as If ho was amused that I did not know him. "Ray poodbye to Mary Jan far me," he called an thn train moved nut. "Who are you?" I Tried, sprinting alongside the morlrg car. 'IIa'" hi Import; "I'm the grocer's boy. Kvery day T rame to yosr bark door. Mary .lane knows me and an does the missus. Pay goodbye to both of them for mr." Ttrt train clicked awsy Into the night. T turned bark, shallowing a lump. It so befalls tbat the Hsrht of my house hold Is a little 2-year-old. and her name is Mary Jane. A Sad Swallow Oh. he swallowedyhRl? a (Inllaf Ant! it lodued lj.w thw collar Pat by a stroke of tniifio skU The coin wsn exraTnt-i When the surgeon oj'TatM, And the man Vrcc!.d np" a twenty-dollar lull! ,artKins Maotlna. Concealing the Evidence Jimmy was Invited to take tea with a chum, and when he returned home he found his mother anxiously waiting for him. "I hope, Jimmy." said the mother, after listening to sundry details of the affair, "that you remembered to wash your hands before you went to the table." "We were called In so qulrlcly, an swered Jimmy, "that I didn't have tlm to wash but one." "Wash but one?" eiclaimed lis moth -er, with much concern. "What did you do?" "Why, I at with that one." was the reassuring reply of Jimmy, 'Hnd kept the other in my pocket." Sated From Starvation Ancient Mariner: "You arst roe 'are I 'ad any adventure? W'y, I should rather think I "ave. D'you know that once when I was wrecked, and we'd eaten all our food we ate our beHsT" His Victim; "No!" Ancient Mariner: "Fact, me lad. An when we'd eaten our belts the boat what we was in turned turtle, and mo we ate that !" The Timidity of the Tyro Thomas W. Law son said In Boston lecture : "The green speculator is 'apt to be -more suspicious and mistrustful than the seasoned one. Green - speculators, by their actions often remind me of the farmer who went down to the Boston At Maine station, put down a 20 bill and said to the trcket agent: " 'Round trip te Washington, young feller.' " 'Here you. are.' said the agent "Change at New Y'orlc' 'No ye don't, young feller,' snarled the farmer. 'I'll take my change right here.' - Rastin and the Ghost Rastus had been told, that every night at 12 a ghost came up In the' grave yard. "Well." said Rastus, "Ah's gwlne down to de graveyawd to see dat or ghost. ' And at midnight he was there, seated ' on a gravestone and "shivering with cold, of course. Then the ghost came up and Rastus started llekety-spllt down the ' road. Finally he got tired and rat down on " a fence to rest. He had been resting -a few minutes whet the ghost came and sat down beside him. "Well, Rastus," said the ghost, we -certainly did run." r "Mlstuh Ghost," replied Rastus, we 4 'suttlngly did, but we ain't run nuffln to what we'se gwlne to run." Sorry lie Spoke "Before I became an author I had more money than brains; but now I have more brains that money," said the speaker at a meeting. "How is It with those who have neither?" inquired one of the audience.. "If the gentleman desires to relate' his experience I will cheerfully give way," was the quick response. Below the Water Line rid y erer serve in the warship's hold. iMep uftfler the water line. With hatches locked and the bin wars en. Cluse up to a hidden mlnef Bare to the waist and dripping wet, A grimed and gasping crew. To ahorel coal and feed the fir ' Until the sea fiht'a through- Where check ralres sigh with tha h!sng ateaa And tha greater grata err "Mora!" : Like galley alarea in tha old en time. Chained to the bench and oar? If o eherabs alt tn tha trankera dnat. To watch o'er ns below, . While OTerhead tha turreta dank Aa they turn to find tha fo. The gnstdian angels keep aloft Vona here where the tnrblne moeaa: ; There's nothing ahead, if things go wrong, " Bat tickets to Iutt Jones. Forget yourself, fors-et the world. Forget the son and skr! In tb boiler room yntt face yotrjr doom; Yua'r there tn do and dial Don O. Salu la rVrrlbnert, . Unele Jeff suow Says; With Washington city bone dry, tnb by we'll git more sense and leu talk In the Congressional Record. Journal Journeys Sunday Picnickers Sure of Delightful Spots Out Beyond Clackamas. Out beyond Clackamas are delightful spots for a Sunday picnic. Go out the. Section Line road to Eighty-second street, thence south to the town f Clackamas, where you turn to the east and follow the main Estacada road to " Baker's bridge, spanning the Clackamas river. Follow the main ridge, or Clear water, road across Clear creek. A short . distance beyond the steep grade near Clear creek the road forks. Turning to " the right and south, the road leads to the bridge between Clear creek and tbe Clackamas river, about 25 miles from Portland. In the open woods between fheroad -and the Clackamas canyon are a number of stopping places. A. mag nificent view of Mount' Hood and the Claekamaa valley is to be had, here. - It la not necessary to return by the same road. Ton may continue eaatirard until the road to Estacada la reached, Crossing the Clackamas river, the way continue through Estacada 'and, then, west to "an Intersection with the Deep" creek road near Barton station. 1 Turn to the left and cross Deep creek by the -first bridge, about a mile or so 'north. The road leads through Boring and . finally Intersects the Powefl Valley road, and thence homd through Greahim. - . For " further Information . regarding ; route, rates, time schedules and other' details, call on or address "Travel Bu reau. Journal Business Office." Infor matlon tot. .. ' , . , ; i . -.