East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1910-08-29
NEWS AND COMMENTS
FROM over THE SEA

"e part III tne lnternatlonal meet to
be held at Atlantic City from Sep
tember to 13 sail for New York
and England, which has gone thor
oughly airship mad, is as interested
IN the coming aero contest as France
and the United States. The decision
OF the Boston Herald aero commit
tee to make the affair a. strictly ayia-
ton meet has caused general salts
iactlon in England, where the enthu-
siasm over ballooning is not very
Keen, except for use in case of war.
Two important international con-
crosses are to meet on the continent
next week, both beginning Sunday
The International Socialist congress
conVenes at Copenhagen Sunday
morning and the American represen-
tative is w. d. Haywood, who for
merly was secretary of the Western
Federation OF Miners and was tried
for completely in the murder of ex-
Governor Stunenberg. with Meyer,
and others. At the International
Congress OF Free Thought to be held
in Brussels, the presiding officer will
be Mrs. Woolsey, an American It
VIII be the first time in the history
of the organization that woman has
been so honored.
Americans of moderate means have
had a splendid time in London this
summer riding in automobiles. As
soon as they discovered how cheap
London taxicab fares are they pro-
ceeded to have their fill of what is
regarded as a luxury at home There
are 5000 taxicabs in the streets Of
London and their proprietors assert
that what with the low legal fare, 16
cents mile. and the rapacrty or the
drivers in knocking down" extra
fares, the amounts indicated under
extra" on the register, such as car
rying one or two passengers above
two (the licensed numoer) they are
unable to earn reasonable dividends
on their capital. The drivers assert
that they do not knock down, but the
proprietors declare that they have
made Investigations which show that
their employees make from SIS to $40
week for such work as driving tax
icabs. And they work only five days
week at tnat.
Europe generally has suffered from
cold, wet summer. The wine har-
vest in France will consequently. so
far as can now be estimated, fall
short by about 20,000,000 hectoliers
Bordeaux vineyards are affected to
the extent Of so per cent; lower Bur-
gundy will yield nothing. In the
Yonne there will be no gathering in
at all and the daughters of small
proprietors are being reduced to do
mestic service in order to live. The
ruin of Bordeaux, Burgundy and
Champagne will however. mean pros
perity for the Midi, which has suf-
fered of late years from overproduc-
ton.
English ship owners are up in arms
against the ratification of the -declar-
alton of London. This declaration is
the utcome of a conference held in
London in 1908 and 1909 of the ten
principal maritime powers, including
the United States, to decide certain
veXed questions of International law
in naval warfare. The declaration,
which formulated new laws on this
subject, was signed by two represen-
tatives of all the ten powers, but has
not yet been ratified by any of them.
Now the naval prize bill, which en-
bodies the terms of the declaration,
will come up for discussion in the
British parliament this fall and
special committee of the London
chamber of shipping is preparing a
report on it. Opponents of the bill
say that the code is too elastic and
that it remains at the discretion of an
officer of perhaps no great experience
to decide whether a merchantmen is
carrying contraband food, intended
for the use of the enemy, to sink her.
In the past neutral prizes could not
be sunk and had to be reioaned. 1t is
feared that under the new rules every
officer in command of a commerce
destroyer would take no chances, but
promptly sink the ship he suspected.
One of the reasons advanced for
the continued vogue of dark colors
among the fashion leaders of London
is the announcement that the Queen
Mother does not intend ever again to
wear COltTS biiu SiNSh away
many of the costly and elaborate gar
ments in the royal wardrobe which
she will never use again. She will
wear the becoming small Mary Stuart
bonnet with the peak in front and
hanging veil behind for some time to
come when out of doors, but indoors
she usually wears a white crepe
headdress with a white crepe collar
and broad cuffs of the same material.
Admirers of the kaiser of Germany
who have been accustomed to limit
ing him to limiting woman's sphere to
three departments, namely, church,
children and the kitchen, will be sur
prised to learn that he views with
profound sympathy the general move
ment proceeding in civilized countries
of the world for the amerioration of
the position of women including their
higher education. The kaiser recent
ly seized an opportunity of ventilat-
ing his views on the feminist move
ment. and the substance of his con-
clusion is as given here. He is a sup
porter of every phase of the new wo-
men movement with the single eX-
ception of its political aspect but is
resolute opponent of woman suf-
frage He ahhors the idea of wo-