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Passing of German Leaders
TEATH has made its. inroads on the figures prominent in
iMJ European politics of the wartime. Soldiers and premiers,
generals and cabinet ministers have relaxed their grip on
mundane affairs and their spirits have taken flight supposed
ly to "Warless realms. Clemenceau and Poincare still cling
to life, like oakleaves in autumn which defy wind and wea
ther. Wilson is gone, and Foch, French and Haig have pass
ed to the last muster. Germany too has lost her leaders.
A few weeks ago Stresemann died, foreign minister of Ger
many, worn out after the Paris conference at which the
Young plan was evolved. A week ago Prince Maximilian von
Baden, the last imperial German chancellor, died at Con
stance. His tenure of power was short. It was but the in
terlude from the empire to the republic.
Two weeks ago another figure passed from life's stage,
tone who had been more powerful in German and European af
fairs than Maximilian or Stresemann. It was Prince Bern
hard von Buelow who was imperial chancellor from 1900 to
1909. Described as a second Bisharck, von Buelow held the
chancellorship longer than any other man save Bismarck. So
powerful was von Buelow that it was he who curbed the
bumptious Kaiser in 1908 when Wilhelm II gave out an inter
view alleging the majority of the German people were hos
tile to Great Britain. The interview provoked a storm of crit
icism in Germany and von Buelow forced the Kaiser to ob
serve henceforward "strict reserve, even in private conver
sation." Some have said that had von Buelow been chancellor
instead of von Bethmann-Hollweg, the war might have been
averted. At any rate the former wa3 a bitter critic of the
war chancellor's policies. After von Buelow's death in Italy
the Berliner Tageblatt printed a letter he had written in
which he lists seven blunders in policy which the German
government committed. His principle condemnation was the
German lack of restraint op Austria in her dealing with Ser
via. j Von Buelow declared he would never have given Aus
triajcarte blanche to deal with Serbia as she saw fit, and
would never have permitted Austria to brusquely reject the
Serbian answer and declare war.
Now it is mere idle speculation to reflect on the "might
have beens" of July-August, 1914. Or is it idle? Do not
the studies that are made of the moves of the ministers of
those fateful days reveal a fatal breakdown in human rela
tionships, in human capacities to solve what were essentially
human problems. What was lacking was a von Buelow, or
some one else, with great enough capacity and great enough
power and treat enough tact to resolve the discord of the
nations ino a working understanding. Judging from the ap
peals of armistice day for additional armaments the world
will have need again for men who can do what von Buelow
might have done in 1914, averted world war.
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priest espoused will do well to give his flock fatherly advice
not to depend on mirStles at the tomb of one who has slept
peacefully for fifty years.
BITS for BREAKFAST
By R. J. HENDRICKS
about Grandma heartrending of that sad affair;
Results in Chicago Elections
OLK were so busy watching the election results in Vir-
: , ,3 XT T 1. !a j.1 J. Al 1 i.
vu guua aim acw xorji city mat mey man c pay mucn ai-
l , tcntion to what happened in Chicago. Chicago has long been
)i r in tne grip oi me nepuDiican macnine neaaea Dy- vv lUiarruttaie
jg- ' ! Thompson, now the mayor. The rival democratic machine
r wm dominated by George E. Brennan. a political leader
- 5 of the old Tammany type. The posts to be filled in the elec
1 tion this year were the city judicial offices and the democrats
under the leadership of Anto J. Cermack swept all their can
didates into power. Cermack made a deal with Senator
Charles S. Deneen, republican, against the Big Bill Thompson
crowd.
The results are beincr studied closelv bv Illinois noliti-
jjj cians. The defeat of the republicans may mean the dethrone-
defeated by a Deneen-led revolt a year ago. It may mean
the rise to power of the democrats under the Cermack lead
ership. Years ago under Carter Harrison as mayor the dem
ocrats ruled Chicago for years. Political prophets are study
ing also the effects of the Chicago elections on the senatorial
race of 1930. Senator Deneen wlil have as his opponent Mrs
Ruth Hanna McCormick, now congressman-at-large from Il
linois. Some think the results add to the prestige of De
neen. On the other hand Edward J. Brundage, leader of the
fight against the Cermack-Deneen coalition, may enter the
senatorial primaries himself against Deneen, making it a
three-cornered affair.
The Illinois primaries promise to be intensely interest
ing. Mrs. McCormick .is an astute politician .herself, as the
daughter of Mark Hanna might well be. It was Deneen who
in 1924 defeated her husband, Medill McCormick, for renom-
Hi ination as senator, a defeat which hastened McCormick s
fleath. So there will be a Jot of personal feeling in tne con
test so far as Mrs. McCormick is concerned. Illinois politics
is eenerally quite a tangled skein between city, "down-state
and "Egypt," as the southern tip of the commonwealth is
called. Next year the contest will hold"riation-wide interest.
r"Tne Age of Enlightenment an3 Superstition
"tlALDEN isn't far from Salem, Mass. and 1929 doesn't
ir A seem to be very far removed from 1725 when the witch-
- -craft persecutions m Salem were at their height. For we
read that 150,000 persons crowded into a cemetery on reports
of miraculous cures at the tomb of a priest who had been
dead and buried for fifty years. It is naught but a survival
of old superstitions which human beings seem unable to get
' out of their system. Though the priest had been dead for a
half a century the miracles didn't start to happen until a few
days ago. In the emotional excitation some cripples are re
ported to have declared themselves cured. Those cures are
. often reported at faith-healing preaching services, but when
the emotional debauch is over the dupes are nearly always
as bad off as they were before.
The sick and afflicted are easily preyed upon. So eager
are those sufferinsr from incurable disease or deformity to
find cure, that'they take up with any old woman's tale wheth
E er it is a new herb or a new religious quack who claims to
heal. Always what re reported are the "cures no one ever
V ..... . m , 1 AL. " 1 1
-jninKs to Keep recora oi me wina, me jame, ine sick who
faren't cured at all If Jt isn't a Doc Abrams machine it's a
: Doc Price with divinf healing attachments; and the latter is
probably, worse than the former because of the accompany-
1 ing excitation of the xyervous system.
Continuing
Brown:
Being the story told by Mrs.
Jane Kinney Smith to H. S. Ly
man, giving recollections of her
girlhood when she was in the
school of Mr3. Brown out of which
grew Pacific university:
"Once arrived at Salem she was
entirely destitute, not having even
a cent left; but one day, placing
her hand in an old glove, she felt
a coin. It proved to be a picayune.
The glove suggested an idea. With
the picayune she bought three
buckskin needles, and with a dress
bought deerskins of the Indians
and made men's gloves. Selling
these she invested the proceeds in
more materials, and was soon do
ing a good business making and
selling these articles. Becoming
acquainted she was Invited by
some of the missionary families to
their homes. She first paid a visit
to W. W. Raymon's, in the spring
of 1847, on Clatsop plains, and
afterwards to Rev. Harvey Clark's,
at West Tualatin or Forest Grove
One day, riding with Mr. Clark
and noticing the fine situation
where the Pacific university cam
pus now is, she said that thi3 was
the place for a school. Mr. Clark
readily fell in with the idea, but
feared there would be no one to
conduct the necessary boarding
department. Mrs. Brown offered
to do this herself, and opened a
home for pupils of all ages, her
self acting as teacher until oth
ers were found.
"
Mr. Clark, who had come to
Oregon as an independent mis
sionary, and was one of the most
benevolent and generous of men,
both in sentiment and action, had
already with his wife conducted a
school on the East Tualatin plain,
in the neighborhood of the settle-
men of the old American Rocky
mountain men, Meek, Wilklns, Eb-
barts and Walker. He now owned
the present site of Forest Grove,
and being assured that M r .
Brown would and could success
fully carry out the plan of an
educational institution, gladly
welcomed this as the opportunity.
It is noteworthy that this plan
was in line with a suggestion of
Dr. Whitman's, that aa the Unit
ed States government would un
doubtedly confirm the act of the
provisional government of Ore
gon, granting a square mile of
land to each family, -there was a
great opportunity open for Chris
tian families to form colonies and
acquire contiguous claims, and do
nate sufficient of their lands to es
tablish schools. It is not improb
able that Mr. Clark, a well as
Mr. A.T. Smith, wlwere Inti
mate friends of Whitman, and
Rev. Elknah Walker, who was an
associate, were fully acquainted
with this plan for schools. At all
events this was the plan followed
at Forest Grove; and Tualatin
academy, afterwards united with
Pacific university, received its
first endowment in land from the
donation claims of the settlers
there. Mr. Clark gave one half of
his donation land claim,
w
"While the school was not In
tended as a charity the terms
were so reasonable that any could
attend, being bnt a dollar per
week. Including board and tui
tion. As was natural In the case
of immigrants just crossing the
plains, there were men with fam
ilies of children, left alone by the
death of the mother. Some of
these were placed in school at
Mother Brown's. During her first
term at school Mrs. Smith recalls
the following as In attendance:
Eliu 8paldlng, who with her par
ents Bad recently come from the
scenes of the Whitman massacre.
Hininirnnnmir
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FOB DIE ELECTION
MEXICO CITY. Not. 12 (AP)
All troops of the federal dist
rict were ordered to barracks this
afternoon to remain mobilized un
til after the national elections on
Sunday.
General Eulohio Oritx, com.
mander of the garrison, announc
ed that this measure was taken
in order to have his entire force
on Immediate call to check any
disorder such as occurred yester
day when 13 persona were wound
ed in a riot in the center of the
city. Several of the wounded
were in a grave condition today.
On election day detachments of
troops wUl patrol the streets but
will not guard voting booths, as
such guards are contrary to the
electoral regulations. However, it
was announced that If 'firing"
should occur at the booths the
troops will intervene immediately.
The attorney general today ord
ered, prosecitors to be on duty at
the courts throughout election day
ready to handle at once any com
plaints arising-.
4 Day Working
Week A$ked by
California Men
SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 12
(AP) The possibility of putting
into effect the four day working icies.
week throughout the state, was
discussed today by delegates
to the 20th convention of the Cali
fornia State, conference of brick
layers, mason, and plasterers un
ion. The convention opened In the
civic auditorium Monday when
more than 1000 delegates were
registered.
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Address.
The living priest at Maiden of whatever church the dead land -conu tell -jtortes- oniy-too
a
Miss Kimsay, usually so styled,
though but a girl of 12; the three
boys of William Black; Emeline
Stuart, later Mrs. Lee Laughlin,
the banker of McMinnville, and
Mrs. Brown's two granddaughters,
Teresa and Caroline, the former
becoming Mrs. Zachary, and the
latter Mrs. Robert Porter. These
two granddaughters assisted in
the house work, although Mrs.
Brown herself conducted all
household affairs personally.
li
"Mrs. Brown was exceedingly
quiet and cheerful in her ways and
Mrs. Smith cannot recollect a sin
gle case in insubordination or dis
cipline, so orderly and intelligent
was "Grandma's" management.
All the various household affairs
were punctually .ordered, meals
being on time, and retiring and
getting up in the morning prompt
iy observed. At dusk Mrs. Brown
would call the children in from
their play, and arranging them
selves in their seats they repeated
together an evening prayer. In
the morning, especially Sundays,
she would waken her household
by singing, and as her voice was
still sweet and strong, and her
singing goofl, this made the chil
dren feel cheerful all the week.
This lady was also something of a
mechanic, and contrived many lit
tle conveniences, one being a clay
made oven, which was the admir
ation of the neighborhood; having
been constructed by simply a
wooden frame work, of proper
size, over which was placed a suf
ficiency of well mixed clay, after
which the wood work was burned
out and other fuel added until the
clay was hardened Into something
like briek.
"All the holidays wer.iproperly
observed, and Mrav,Browntook as
much interest as the children in
seeing that suitable dresses were
provided for the girls. The matter
of cloth for gay clothes was not
an easy one to arrange. The dress
goods in the territory were still
mostly obtained from the Hud
son's Bay company stores, and
their trade was still mostly calcu
lated for native taste, so the white
women often found It difficult to
get what they wanted. Mrs. Smith
well remembers how her new
dress was spoiled for her. It was
the custom of the company's
clerks to lay out a large bolt pt
print goods, for instance, and sell
only from this until it was dis
poreri of. The only available calico
for the girl's new school dress was
from a piece with a strikingly
large figure; but great was her
disgust to find on entering the
school room that her teacher, a
young man. had a school coat
made from the same bolt of calico,
with the impressively large figure,
though he came from Clatsop and
she from Yamhill. This was joke
enough to last the girls aU the
term. Mother Brown, however,
circumvented the restriction of the
company so far as to watch her
chance and buy a whole bolt of
cloth at a tmie, getting in that
way, for one picnic occasion, en
ough muslin to dress the whole
band of young girls in white. Who
can reckon the world of happi
Best that these simple acts of
kindliness brought to the little
girls, some of them 'mitherless
bairns' and all of them feeling
keenly the privations of a new and
little improved territory? Or who
can tell the good, that such simple
devices bronght to the young com
munity, made up of so many het
eroneneous elements, and with the
tendency always to sink toward
the level of the surrounding bar
barity? It was by snch ways and
acts that a refined society was es
tablished, possessing in many
ways srtbjtrm that ovlalgr and
more differentiated culture has
lost.
"The teachers of that early
school were persons of high edu
cation, and much varied experi
ence, although not having the spe
cialized culture of the present day.
These were Liewis Thompson, the
pioneer Presbyterian missionary of
the present boundaries of Oregon;
Rer. Mr. Spalding, and Mr. Wil
liam Geiger. Miss Mary Johnson
of Oregon City was also employed
at one time. Mr. Geiger was the
singing teacher. He was general
master of ceremonies on all oc
casions; training the children once
for a Fourth of July temperance
picnic held on the orth Plain. This
was a day of great remembrance
to the pupils; and the songs then
learned'Flowers. Wildwood Flow
ers,' and 'The Temperance Ban
ner,' still are as fresh in Mrs.
Smith's mind as on that day near
ly 60 years ago.
"-
"This is intended as but an in
troduction to a fuller sltfetch of
Mrs. Brown. Mrs. Kinney, her
great granddaughter, has agreed
as nearly as possible her letters
still In the family possession. It
is hoped that these may be pre
sented to the readers of The
Quarterly at no distant date. Mrs.
Brown's home grew and flour
ished, so that her house had to be
enlarged, and so careful was she
about useless expenditures that
her own private funds became
quite a comfortable competence,
for those days, enabling her to do
nate, or bequeath, actual cash, or
property, for further educational
work."
Another day will be required to
explain and elaborate upon thi3
sketchy outline of the life of this
grand old woman of pioneer Ore
gon who lived up to the motto of
service above self" long before it
was adopted as a motto.
Old Oregon's
Yesterdays
Town Talks from The States
man Our Fathers Read
More than half the bids on
wood for the state institutions
were rejected because they were
deemed too high, and as a con
sequence the state board may go
into the open market and our.
chase the remainder. -
Petitions filed by republicans
for the city primaries show the
following nominees: Frank W.
Waters for mayor; Steve A. Mc
Fadden end Wylie A. Moores for
recorder; T. E. Cornelius, Alonro
Gesner and S. A. Hughes for mar
shal. There will be no contests
in tne aldermen Toting for the
primary.
Miss Mary Delle Davenport re
turned to her home In Silrerton
after a visit. with Miss Clara Foster.
One of the most enjoyable
events of the week was a hard
times social held at the home of
Mr. and Mrs. W. C. Tlilson.
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till DEFEATS
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PUBET SOUND 14
TACOMA, Not. 12 (AP)
Whitman college's football eleven
swept on toward its fourth conse
cutive Northwest conference
championship by defeating the
College of Puget Sound, 14 to 0,
In the Tacoma stadium Monday af
ternoon. The local school, rated
weakest la the conference, show
ed unexpected power and made
IS first downs to Whitman's 14,
bnt did not show the winning
punch. The teams battled on
equal terms during most of the
game bnt the superiority of Whit
man's ends, Holmgren also runted
in stellar style. Baker starred for
tan College or Paget Strand,'
morrow
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