HmDFORD MATTi TRTBTTNTR. MTCDFOTvD, OTJEOOy, TTtTDAY. SEPTEMBER 7. 'Ifllf.
UKRANIAN PERIL
NOI SOURCE OF
RUSSIAN GLOOM
No Danger of Nation Falling to
Pieces, Declares Russell Disre
gard Calamity Tales by Dismal
Dopers for Everything Is Growing
Slowly But Surely in Land of Slav.
(Tills Is another of the series of ar
ticles by Charles Edward Russell, who
has Just returned from Russia, where
he spent three months as a member
of the official United States commis
sion to the new Russian government.)
A (Uy Charles Edward Hussull.)
ICopyright 1917 by tho Newspaper En
terprise Association.)
Itussla is the Land of Horrible
Things to Do.
No matter how carelessly you may
have read your newspaper you must
have noticed that fact.
In Russia, according to some news
papers, everything is always going to
the bad.
One day hideous anarchy rears Its
appalling head. The next day the
troops are about to revolt. The next
day Riga Is about to fall. The next(
Petrograd is about to be evacuated.
Finland is about to revolt. The Rus
sian army Is about to flee in disorder.
All Is lost, always. There isn't
ray of hope.
Only Gloom itepiclcd.
If you were to turn back to tho
files and reread the dispatches of
some correspondents you would see
that since the days of the revolution
every stricken thing has been sodden
In glom of which the best that could
be said was that the condition today
wgj not quite so bad as it would be
tomorrow.
(Nothing good has happened since
the czar got the swift kick. Appar
ently heaven Is avenging that act of
Impiety by plunging the country every
day Into a lower abysm of ruin.
Disaffection Is spreading rapidly
among the soldiers. The Duma, "the
only constitutional body In the coun
try,:' has ceased to exorcise any power,
and that means black despair. Ke-
rensky. has been made dictator, but
no one will allow him to dictate, so
there js no hope there. The warring
factions In Russia are terrible. They
even have disputes. The conservative
elements are being overwhelmed by
the ferocious radicals, who plan to
cat 'everybody alive. The country Is
hopelessly bankrupt; the rouble went
down another eighth of a cent yes
terday, and of course that means the
collapse of Russia tomorrow. The
anarchists have seized a palace to
day, and tomorrow will blow up ev
erybody. All Is lost.
Vkrauliin Question.
And then there are the Ukranlans.
Ah. yes: Tho Ukranlans. Well, If
there were nothing else to tinge all
io horizon with funereal black, the
Ukranlans would still be suffering
for the Job. The Ukranlans are ter
rible fellows. They have revolted
and declared their Independence; or
If they haven't today they will to
morrow. Then they will march upon
Petrograd and murder us all in our
beds, and how will you fel then, you
people that have ben saying perhaps
there Is still a chance on earth? When
tho Ukranlans have killed everybody
they will make an alliance with Ger
many and the German flag will float
over our graves. And I guess that
will hold you for awhile.
For more than five months this
flood of gloom has been poured over
Ihe columns of British and American
newspapers, and the dismal dopers
are still at It day by day, totally un
discouraged by the fact that not one
of their melancholy prophecies has
ever come true.
ltusshi Unaware of Danger,
For the amazing fact Is that while
all these Jeremiahs are woe-stricken
at the approach of disaster, Russia
goes Its way utterly unaware that It
Is all smashed up, or about to be.
Instead of getting worse, every
thing In Russia gets slowly but sure
ly better.
The shock Incident to a tremendous
change In government Is passing, the
people are finding themselves and
perceiving what they must do to save
the revolution, discipline Is coming
back to the army, the dreaniB of an
instant Utonia are giving place to
realization, tho new machine Is be
ginning to work.
But I suppose that If the Angel Ga
brie! came down and set up In Rus
sla tho most perfect government ever
known, the dlsmnl dopers of the Brit
ish uress (from whom we get the
greater part of our misinformation)
would still see Riga surrendered, the
anarchists cutting throats and the
Ukranlans morchlng upon us to mur
der us In our beds.
Funilnmentnl Krror.
They all begin with one fundamen
tal error, and then build resolutely
on that, making tho facts HI their
theory.
The error is that the Russians are
totally unfitted for self-government.
Why? Because they have never had
any experience or training, because
this national council of workmen's,
soldiers' and peasants' delegates (the
only governing body In Russia) is
composed of low, common, Ignorant
men, and because 'they don't speak
the English language.
No people can be considered fit to
be free except those that speak Eng
lish or something like It.
But as a matter of fact, these men
that are sfeerlng Russia have had
abundant experience, and however
strange they may seem to us In lan
guage and methods, they are not at
all Ignorant. ;
In the midst of the old autocratic
national government of Russia, the
worst, the most corrupt and the most
oppressive known to man, the Rus
sian village system presented an ex
ample of almost pure democracy.
System of Vlllngea
Everything about the affairs of the
village, except its relations to the na
tlonal government and the adminis
tration of the national systems of po
lice and Justice, wa3 regulated by the
village In open town meeting.
Outside of the New England town.
we have nothing in this country that
equals It for democracy.
It was In those little village repub
lics that these men were trained In
the rudiments of democracy, public
affairs, democratic machinery. There
they learned to make effective pub
lie addresses, to conduct legislative
business, to judge proposals about
public Interests.
For the last forty or fifty years the
villages have been electing delegates
to 'district assemblies where the con
cerns of larger areas were dealt with
and have thus had training in repre
sentative government and a broader
outlook.
A (ierman Pluy.
It Is no wonder, then, that men like
Tschaidse and Tseratelli, Skobeloff
and Tschernow, know exactly how to
preside over the council, how to car
ry on Its business with accuracy and
dispatch. They have been doing
something of the kind (whenever
they were not in prison or exile) for
many years.
The dismal dopers never saw
meeting of the National council. That
is why they are able to proceed with
their theory that it is composed of
very Ignorant and untrained men and
everything it does milst somehow be
bad.
But even lr'thoy had the least basis
for their mournful dreams, which
they haven't, this would be a mighty
bad time to be spreading them and
exaggerating them.,
Because whenever they do that they
are playing straight into the hands of
the wonderful German propaganda,
now putting forth every effort to fool
the allied countries Into a truce mis
named a peace. . Therefore I think
that next trip I had better tell you
some of the Inside wonders of the
great German public opinion machine
as I saw it at its work in Russia:
Portland Livestock.
PORTLAND, Sept. 7. Cattle
sternly, receipts 307. Best beef steers
$8.25(ff'8.75; good beef steers $7.2.")
8.25; best beef cows $0.75(0)7.25; or-
dimir yto (food cows $.'1.75(n,0.50 ; host
heifers $7(317.25; bulls $4.5()(n 0.50;
calves $7(5)!). 50; stackers and feed
crs steers $4.007. .
Hogs lower, receipts 095. Prime
light $10..')5((i 10.50; prime heavy
$10.25( 10.:i5; (nkh $l-ICi'15.50; bulk
$10.
Sheep stonily, receipts 40. Western
lambs $K1.00(irn.50; valley lnmbs
$11.75-'!i 12.50; yearlings $10(3)10.50;
wethers $.75(r 10.50 ; ewes $8(5 8.50.
Portland Butter.
PORTLAND, Sept. 7. Butter
slendy to weaker. City creamery
prints, 47; cartons 48c; buying price
of butter fat 40(548, Portland; cube
extras 44; prime firsts -JlVa; firsts
3240, dairy 34c.
Portland Ciniln.
PORTLAND, Sept. 7. Wheat, no
quotations. Today's car receipts:
wheat 24; onts 8; liny 22.
No September delivery quoin lions.
No session account grain dealers
meeting,
Harriett Pour.
MEW YORK, Sept. 6. California
Bartlctts, $2.97; Oregon Bartletts
$2.7"; Washington Bartletts, 12.62
Chicago Callfornlas. $2.10; Ore-
gons, $2.10; Washingtons, $1.85.
Boston Callfornlas, $2.60; Wash
Ingtons, $2.50; Oregons, $2.25.
I'hlladelphla-Callfornlas, $2. CO.
WASHINGTON', Sept. 7. Shortage
of ocean-going tonnage may cause
the United States to seize Borne
400,000 tons of neutral shipping now
In American ports. Dutch and Scan
dlnavlan ships which are loaded with
foodstuffs may be required. It was
said today, to discharge their cargoes
and go to Australia and Java for
wheat and sugar.
TODAY S MARKETS
WHEN TWINS WED 1WINS
Here are Loland Tabler, Lorand Tabler, Mrs. I.elnnd Tabler (nee
Moore) and Mrs. Lorand Tabler (nee Moore), but we cun't tell which Is
which, reading either from left to right or right to left, so take your
choice. ' r
KANSAS CITY, M.', Sept. 7.
When twins wed twins! In this case
it was a wedding of. the roses. lie
pinned a rose on her, and he pinned a
rose on her, as Identification tags.
One rose was red,. the other, white.
Leland and Lorand Tabler, twin
brothers, of Kansas City, led Alice
and Gertrude Moore, twin sisters, of
Adrian, Mo., to tho altar in a dou
ble ceremony.
Both brides were dressed exactly
alike,' both bridegrooms the same.
The bridesmaids and best men could
not tell which was their bride and
bridegroom.
Norma Tnlmndge, the immensely
popular slur, in "The Law of Coni
pensutinn," n new dniiun of modern
life by Wilson Mizner, cd-nulhor with
I'nul Armstrong of the drnhiiiH, "Alias
Jimmy Valentine, and '"The Deep
Purple," is featured at Hie Iiiullo
today mid tumorroy. Miss Tiilmuilge,
whose recent appearance was in
"Pant lieu," in wjioh she achieved her
greatest success, is said to eclipse
even this performance by her super
lative enactment of the difficult role
in "The Law of Compensation."
The story of "The Law of ('omiicn-
sation" presents Miss Tnlninduc first
us n school girl, reveling in the joy
ous abandonment of vouth, mid then
is n null lire woman, the trunsilinn
nlTordiiig the brilliant young star
oppoilunilies for the must exacting
sort of emotional acting. Miss Tul
mndgc first appears as the voting
duugther of a wealthy lawyer of the
middle west. She marries n young
inventor and goes east to live. Alter
the hiiih of their bnhy, the girl be
comes interested in a musical career
and eventually finds herself on the
verge of taking a step that would
ruin her life's happiness. Her father
learns of this mid arrives just in
time lo save her by the recital of (he
lory of (he hie and denlli of her
mother. .
EIFFEL TOWER TO
PAHIS, Sept. 7. The Kiffcl Tower
is to be repainted. This is a tusk
which will occupy about three months
and require more than 40,000 pounds
of paint. The outbreak of the war in
11(14 postponed the work. The struc
ture was last painted in 1007, when
n coat of yellow ochre was applied.
" ici i owcr mis nun a curious
fate. Piiilt as nn athnction fur u
T1. t'lPJ-. l M' i . .
worlds fair, nearly 30 years ago,
it was condemned ns a monstrosity
by those who believed themselves in
spired by -purely artist if feelings.
fMiiee the war, it has paid for its cx
islencc over and over ngaiii as i
wireless telegraph station.
On 'Wheatless Days'
Eat
POSTTOASTIES
( Made of Corn)
soys .(LOT
MV JVU f. '4' Iff
ROSES IDENTIFY BRIDES!
How did each bridegroom toll whlc
How did each bridegroom tell which
was his bride
He kept tight hold of her arm dur
ing the ceremony, and when it was
over, before ho let go, he pinned
roso on her corsnge. Leland pinned
a red rose on his bride, Lorand a
whito on his.
The minister. Rev. Charles Coombs
of First Christian church, the attend
ants, the guests and even the bride
grooms themselves wondered how the
tangle could be straightened out if
the brides, just to be mischievous,
exchanged roses.
IUCE
CORPS AT CAMP LEWIS
1 1 ,
TACOMA, Sept. 7. Two hundred
and twenty men 'of the national army
arrived at Canip Lewis last night.
They came from Lewis, Grays Harbor,
Whitman, Asotin Garfield, Columbia,
Walla . Walla, , Yakima and Benton
counties In Washington, and from Or
egon and Idaho. In addition an am
bulance company. pf 22 men, made up
maluly of under-graduatcs and grad
uates of the University of Oregon, ar
rived from Eugene today. The total
number of new men at camp since tho
arrival of honor men Wednesday, In
cluding 2-16 linn-commiHsioncd offi
cers from tho Vancouver barracks and
the Oregon Hospital unit of 122 men,
Is OIKS.
Preparations were made by Cap
tain C. II. Lewis. O. C, to receive 247
men from San Francisco, who nrc ex
pected tomorrow. With the 2100 con
scripted men from California, Oro-
gon, Utah, Nevada, Wyoming, Mon
tana and Idaho, and the hospital unit
and non-commissioned officers there
will he 2709 men of the new national
assembly at Camp Lewis by Saturday
night.
to rat f
PARIS, Sept. 7.. Georges Carpen
tier, the French pugilist, at present
an aviator in too r rencn army, ac
cording to tho Herald, Is going to the
United States as an aviation Instruc
tor and will be stationed at Dayton,
Ohio.
When the Skin Seems Ablaze
With Itching and Burning
There's just one thing to do.
If your skin scrms ablaze with the
fiery burning and itching of Eczema,
real and lasting relief can only
come from treatment that goes below
the surface that reaches down to
the very source of the trouble. So
called skin-diseases come from a dis
ordered condition of the blood, and
the proper treatment is through the
blood.
Search far and near, and you can
10 BE RESTORED
AS A MEMORIAL
PAWS, August 21. (Correspond
ence of the Associated Press) Sug
gestions are being publicly advanced
ns to the destiny of Rheims cathedral.
Discussion centers on whether ' it
hould bo' restored as a cathedral,
transformed into some sort of na
tional memorial dedicated to those
who have lost their lives in the wnr,
or left as n monument to Teutonic
barbarism. The question cannot be
definitely settled perhaps until the
(lenniin guns have been driven from
Fort Hrimont and the final condition
of tho historic fane, after so inanv
months of bombardment, can he as
certained. Meanwhile Cardinal Lueon, nrch-
bishop of Hlicims, who has remained
beside his beloved cathedral thruout
the bombardment, is firmly de
termined that ltheims shall always
nave Us temple. "Wo shall repair
the cathedral," he lias siudl "It
must ho so. Wo have casts of its
statues, and colored photographs of
its glass. Our architect, at the risk
of his life, is working under the dam
aged arches to save what can be
saved. "
"The dny will come when the doors
will again be opened for religious
services, for I hold fast to one thing
above nil, Hint the cathedral where
the first Christian king of France
was christened shall remain tho first
church of France,
'"f protest willi1 all my energy, and
I shall never cease protesting,
against liny project Hint seeks to
make Khrims cathedral into some
kind of a museum or necropolis.
Those who have such ideas do not
consider what liheims is for the
church, for France, nnd for the
whole world. All such proposals are
impossible.
"With one suggestion only, that
has been made, can I associnto my
self with nil my henrt. Let there
be, every year, a solemn celebration
in the cuthcdral which has suffered
so from Gemuin rage, in memory of
those who have died for tho snfety
of the country and tho freedom of
the world. The whole Catholic world
would join lo found such n perpetual
muss, and I hope Unit (mil will spun
mo lo celebrate it myself for the
first time."
MONTREAL OUTRAGE
MONTREAL, Sept. 7. -Weeping
bitterly, Joseph Tremblny was ar-
rnlgnod late today and made what he
claimed was a full confession of his
part In the recent attempt on the
lives of Lord Athelstnn nnd his fam
ily when he dynamited the publish
er's homo on tho night of August 9
Tremblay said four or flvo men wero
In' tho plot. It was agreed, ho said,
that If anyone turned traitor, the
lives of his wife and family would be
in danger. Tremblay said his con
nectlon with the plot ended with the
theft of dynnmlte ho provided the
others. Ho was the only member of
the party who was not armed, he said.
T OF
PARIS, Sept. 7. The budget com
mlttec of the chamber of deputies bus
commenced an examination of the
war credits demanded for the final
three months of 1917. The total
amounts to 11,200,000,000 francs,
the highest slnco the war began.
not find a blood remedy that ap
proaches S. S. b. for real efficiency.
It has been on the market for fifty
years, during which time it has been
giving uniform satisfaction for all
manner of blood disorders. If you
want prompt and lasting relief, you
can rely upon S. S. S. For expert
advice as to the treatment rf your
own individual case, write ro-day to
Chief Medical Adviser, bwift apecihc
Co, Dept. L Atlanta, t-il..
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every want. ' We carry
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lids, pariwax, jelly glasses, sugar, also Heinz pick-
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Jackson
County Fair
Medford
September 17-22
Agricultural Exhibits, Fruit
Kxliibits, Live Stock Parade,
Hogs, Cattle and Poultry, Farm
Machinery Kxliibits, Public
School Kxliibits and a rattling
good time.
Low Round Trip Fares
will be on sale from all stations,
Ashland to (llendale, inclusive,
to Medford, and return, from
September 17t.li to 22nd. Keturn
limit, September 21th.
Ask your local agent for particulars. ,
John M. Scott, Clcncral l'assenger Agent, Portland.
Southern Pacific Lines
Real boys Ilka 'ein, too! SNOW FLAKES
are good for growing boys because everything
that goes Into them Is the best, and of the'
highest food value.
Sold In three sizes ot packages, and tn bulk. K
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PACIFIC COAST BISCUIT CO.
Portland, Oregon, :'.ir : '
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Jones Cash Grocery
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prepared to handle your.
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mnnship begin to show. We; handle
batteries Hint store .curront .and give
it out ns needed. ""'"M
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