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FRIDAY. AUG. 30, 1918
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Meditations
a
sight.
In the Bolsheviki one may
picture of democracy run to
kers and beer suds.
see a
whis-
Cut down the use of print paper
15 per cent. Cut out all free cop
ies. Limit subscription expirations
to three months. These are some
of the orders from the government
flung at the country printer these
days. The scarcity of fuel in the
east i.Jlimiting the output of print
paper and regulation is necessary.
The selective system is vindica
ting itself in the way of getting to
gether an army. Two million men
between the ages of 21 and 30, just
in the prime of physical power!
The manner in which they have dis
ported themselves on the battle line
shows the character of the combin
ation. No better army was ever
assembled.
. In the matter of psychology the
condition appears a great deal
more potent with the German than
a mere theory, Thus while they
have been carefully fed up on the
abstract principles of democracy,
and addresses by the Presdient have
been taken to them by aeroplanes
and by other methods, the effect
has not been of the visible variety.
The psychology of figures, of a mil
lion men in arms in France, of guns
and battle planes, and a successful
line of convoys across the ocean, are
all producing results as is reflected
from the columns of the newspapers
that come out of the Fathreland as
well as the stories of returning trav
elers. We might have talked to
the Central powers for a million
years witnout producing results,
but the fact of min and guns and
ammunition in France is a thing
that will get speedy results.
There is a tendency in some parts
to criticise the numerous vacation
parties at this time of the year, as
neglecting for the time the necessi
ties of speeding up the war. We
opine, however, that the vacation is
a part of the program and is made
up for by keener, stronger faculties
and renewed zeal, in the work
that follows.
With characteristic efficiency the
Germans have a "retreat specialist"
to attend to the details of heading
thi imperial army toward the Rhine
and the prospects are that this
gentleman will have plenty of
business to occupy his attention
for some time to come.
We are glad to get letters from
the boys in the army for publica
tion. This is of interest to all at
present. A large part of the wak
ir.tr thouehts cf Americans is with
the boys in uniform.
Hindenbursr successful, is . a
mighty warrior and a fearsome
creature; Hindenburg in defeat, is
an ordinary dub with a skull filled
with ivory and a breath that smells
of lager and limburger.
In the stress of the nation at
present it would profit not at all
to lament and worry. Better to
f ice things with cheerful determina
tion. That is the reason why a na
tional hour of song like that of
Tuesday is a good thing for us at
present.
During the greater part of his
august career, the Crown Prince se
riously labored to start something
in a military way that would allow
him to fit into his destiny. Being
now thoroughly started it devolves
on some one else to stop it.
A great many optimistic expres
sions as to the duration of the war
are now being heard. Much de
pends on the developments of the
' coming month. If the German re
treat continues beyond the line they
occupied in March, there is hope for
peace soon. If, however, the old
line has been so strongly fortified
that they can hold their victorious
foes at bay, the end is not yet in
We were much interested in an
article recently published relative
to gold as an article of commerce
in the markets of the world
While it is costing more to mine
gold, labor is higher, explosives
and chemicals necessary to the in
dustry are more expensive, and in
other ways it is costing more to
mine gold than formerly, the price,
according to the writer, Col. Ken-
nan of Idaho, has not changed for
200 years. It is a curious situation.
According to Col. Kennan gold
suffers because so many substitutes
are used for it as money. Vast in
flation of paper issues, based on
gold, and also including bank
checks, have so increased the .capa
city of gold that it has reached a
situation where it does not pay to
mine it. Much of the ore from
which the gold is obtained is low
grade, yielding only a small profit
per ton in reduction before the war
and which now with greatly increas
ed expenses does not yield any
profit at all. To remedy this sit
uation and secure a proper output
of gold in sufficient quantities to
protect the money system which
rests upon it, a suggestion is made
that a bonus be paid, to gold pro-
ducers. That is, for each dollar
which a mine owner produces the
government shall pay him a certain
per cent extra, out of the federal
funds, as a compensation for the
work which he performs for the
public. This action is seriously
urged in many quarters. Col. Ken
nan, however, thinks this is charity
and as such abhorrent to the proud
spirited mine worker. He would
change the price of gold, or in
other words, alter the parity which
it holds with other products. He
recognizes that this would have to
be done secretly for if the idea once
went abroad that the government
was to increase materially the price
of gold, there would be a scramble
for the visible supply and such a
panic would ensue as would over
shadow anything in that line the
country ever before witnessed. Of
course the government could call in
gold and re-stamp it but we ack
nowledge we can not see how the
into a fifteen dollar piece would
make its purchasing power any
greater. It would lower the value
of the dollar and require a re-adjustment
of prices. Fundamental
values in comparison with the value
of gold could not be changed. If
gold is cheap it is because of its
paper substitutes.
That the narration of history re
quires the perspective of time is
well demonstrated in the volume
"The Oregon Missions" by Juntos
W. llashford, which came to us re
cently. The writer, a Methodist
bishop, in a 311 page book publish
ed by the Arlington Press, New
York and Cincinnati, tells the story
of the early settlement of Oregon,
which, by the way, was a purely
missionary undertaking, and relates
the events that shaped themselves
so that Oregon and Washington be
anie a part of the United States
and not a portion of the British do
minions.
In his story the bishop tells how
he himself was first mistaken in re
gard to certain important events and
later through the testimony of rec
ords caused to change his mind.
This, in regard to the widely re
peated story that Dr. Whitman of
the Walla Walla mission saved Ore
gon to the Union by a certain peril
ous winter trip which he took at
the time the Webster-Ashburton
treaty was signed. Bishop Bash
ford pays a high tribute to the life
and character of Whitman but finds
that the trip referred to was taken
because of matters pertaining to his
mission and not for the political
purpose assigned. The story of Dr.
Whitman, of his career and heroic
death is one of the most inspiring
records of the Northwest.
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The state veterinarian of Oregon
has a new end freeh idea. Facing
a serious shortage of milk he proj
poses that whales be domesticated
and used to increase the stock of
lacteal fluid on hand. Since even a
small whale will yield a barrel of
milk it will be realized that a farm
er who has a flock of twenty or
twenty five will through his own re
sources be able to supply a small
city. The state veterinarian said
nothing about the quantity or qual
ity of cream which whale's milk
holds but doubtless a good qualtiy
of butter and cheese can be produc
ed, since the whale is a mammal,
the same as the cow or the goat,
the only difference being that it
feeds on the meadows of the sea in
stead of the iand. The quantity
of butter of coursa, would depend
upon the test of butter fat altho
if a cow can make butter out of a
diet of poison oak, boneset and
English Walnut leaves, a whale
should produce a pretty fair article
out of mollusks and other varieties
of sea food. Since the whale is char
acteristically long on oil, it should
make a fine quality of butter. Of
course, a whale dairyman would
have to adjust his circumstances of
living to accord with his live stock.
He would have to seek some shelter
ed cove, which of necessity, must
have a deep opening to the ocean.
Tillamook and Coos bays might be
come the centers of large whale
interests. The whale calves would
have to be caught and domesticated,
and in event they could not be
trusted to return at night when let
out to pasture in they morning the
might be staked to buoys and thus
while the boys would look after the
dairy cows on land the buoys might
keep track of the dairy whales on
the ocean. Just as the land staked
cow is a standing challenge to the
pedestrian to walk carefully to keep
from being tripped up and is apt to
wander onto the sidewalk and into
the highway to the discomfiture of
traffic, so the whales in the pasture
of ocean would be apt to get their
tethers mixed with the steering
gear and propeller blades of passing
lumber schooners and freighters
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But it is a great idea. There might
stamping of a ten dollar gold piece be millions in it.
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