La Grande evening observer., March 30, 1919, Image 4

RUXPAY, mUCU 30, 1919-
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THE SUNDAY MORNING OBSERVER
EDITORIAL PAGE0
We.Arp In tlhcfiafids of Theorists.
Try as hard as wt may to join the President 'in hi
Leatfjc of Ztfatiolw pi"ogMi, we i'imj that our judgment is
against hoisting tlit socially jji-opose'd League of Nations
to thi) forgr;uiKl lA'f is established., Tliat then;
slTould be a tri)Vnil patter-lied after the League of Nations,
planet) one doubts or attempts to deny, but the wliole. pro
ceedings tlms far are baaed 'upon theory and the actual
practice o! tlx; plan is not being cimsidcretkas fully as it
might be. . . '
The row between the senate and the President counts
i'or little from a row standpoint, but the results of the pres
ent work in Europe affects every honk; and every fireside
in the nation.
It is plainly wr.ng for accusation to be heaped upon
those who disagree with the President in part, and claim,
that such persons who disagree are for war. Kuch is not
true;1 the real men and women of American are against'
war, but then; is a natural difference of opinion when the
orists and practical men each have opinions. . "'
This nation has been in the hands of theorists for some
time., College professors have great ideas but when you
-want-practical advice you go to the merchant or the bank
er or the fanner. They are the men who have met the ex
pense of the nation and they arc the men who will continue
to meet such expense. No man who has subsisted on a sal
arv from an endowment can understand the full and com
plete meaning of meeting business emergencies.
.During the past few years there has been a mania in
this couiil ry for organization. Everyone who had an idea
wanted to organize somet hing to put it over, and they, have
inetnvith such success that today there are. organizations
from the national capital to the remote country districts
overlapping each other like shingles on a rout'. Most of
such organizations are meaningless except for the one pur
pose of advancing a college professor's or a ret ired 'minis
ter's" ideas. Women have become profuse in their advance
ment of ideas and as a result numerous organizations based
upon theories wholly are making publicity campaigns
throughout the nation. .
To our mind when the whole situation is analyzed the
United Stales limst decide between the theoretical states
men and the practical statesmen, and when this time conav
it is hard for the mail who has met pay rolls, bought and
sold merchandise, directed banking institutions and in a
general way kept the business of the count ry running, o
follow theorists. The same rule will apply to the organ;
izd labor of the country who have witnessed time after
time the result of theorists' beautiful dreams fall before
practical application of the plan
J tinny be fine to live in the clouds as theorists do; il
may.be mentally delightful to force a belief in one's owv
mind t hat the millenium has arrived, but when one awakes
from 'n.M siltf' "l' eoma he finds the (I ramie Ronde acrer
are it) bd plowed, if a crop is to be raised, he finds. the cowj?
must be milked if a creamery check is forthcoming, and he
finds that the whistle in the morning calls him to labor il
he. would have a full month's pay check. These are the
things which The Observer wishes to impress upon all a?
essential and necessary, and the only way to have prarti
cal, workable and sensible government is to have men at
- the head of it who have gone through with just what we
are going through in thelrande K'onde valley in order tc
make a living.
We have always thought the colleges were infested
heavilv with theorists, but thev had better be in colleges
than at the head of a government, of people who work and states declared tiu-ir intention to sot
strive in an honorable way to live. ' l, '""''.". "t.'";t """ f;m
nil otnur countries. The-year before
- . r!i,77J settlers wont from the United
Stiites. Anil the yeur heforo that in-
" THE NEW AD CLUB " .! population by 107,
. MO settlers from the United States.
-1 The hi:rh mark was reached the yent
Oregon is now in the midst ol what is termed a ( oin- ending March :n, i'.n:i, when lS'.t.ow)
menjial club revival. A movement; is on to take in a hi;.' ! American deserted the stars and
membership. For what ? Where are the dividends! When j f'"' h" " mi-mc..
is the. benefit 'f People ceased going to church for several j- Gradually Amcrienn migration into
Veal'S, illld wlivf Piccausc tlleV got SO little I'or the tilllc western Canada had increased and
thev were expending. Perhaps' it was the fault of the ''H!!il?hV,LT.rT " " I" "'"1,
, ' . . . .11 1 . p'lile tlmt the two million mark would
pic; We grant that it Was, bill nevertheless What We say K 1,V1, been reache.l hy today. The wa-
true." Show a man or a woman where bend it will he tie
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, , ' ipnign to encourage immigration, but
ioi th. Show the same man or woman where peace ami con- !-aa,in is not going into the ver-
telltmellt will rest with tlleni alld thev will tllillk molt' ! jerowded portions of the wodd for her
reliuit.li than thev ever have thought 'of it bel'inv. ""w !,c,l!l"r- ,sh". ,is ';i'ir
', , . -, 1 . .. . . , , -i, , ., across the hinder into tho Unite,
Hut that tune is past when people will till a build iiu:';s,aU.s. ,.,. Vanmia ,vr kmw, thtl
because someone asks them tn do so. The dav has passed (world's host farmers inn1 best citizens
when people will spend their time unless thev think the,
are gett iug something. And so it is with the new ( 'oniniev
cial-club idea. It will be successful if something tangibl
can.be put before the people showing them.it is worth the
price of admissiou'and the time il takes to Handle it. lint
pio Commercial cum win tnrive ami lioiinsi merely
cause it is; named ' 'oniiTiercial club.''
1 lie title ot ' (iiiuncTeial
because nine ollt of -ten of them mean nothing. Pass down
the street of any town and tell the business men.there wi':
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von get out. Those who'co.ine
J'etJ the resiionsibilit v o' the
. an extra call overothe teleplmne to get enough out lor a
(iorum. This is not tltf' fault of the ptplc, it is-because
they a re getting iothing from it.
. Lairaiitlc is tfldiave a business organiz;iti,oti in facl
and it will do avfav with surplus ffort and waste Of time.
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for tlje I'uestfay UinchcSin crowd wc formed the Piiaw
Con ul v Ad club, y 1 us join in;; ;i fv.it ioit witfe institution that
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(foes thiiurs
This cit ( will
net ,,11 1,,Xill.s ,lf l.tlWic tuit.ll'ellnrin.l,,. biflcheot, 1,r I
1 . , ,,a,.,,j ',1 ., , -.. , , ,0 ,, ,gocl way to k,, necessary
t IS VerV doublflll lldhe old-hmel oiniueVcialnlui, couWbnu l,ho,d Uftby senatorial
Tb'l'evhol With OVeinHg 11MH-Ilgs1i any UCgre ot gllccess. I filuters n,k he9 inc&le senn
-Vt least iLwotlliLllot l(? for lomr. as histol'V tells lis that Oc-' salaries. M.ivIh- mileaee. though.
sue 1 dims iiounsn lor ,oiici
0 joining trJc m.tionat
X'CI SlirjaKCl S OCCIlSKViavp ,11m oe ill WU.)W HILUltf 11VWT, whnCtc G,ians beg-ift" r-ognrxec
liOic.h ofbinsiness men iQ the eoiiiffry ' 'it .enwelvM. thtt i $ve?. :taii
mi,) lli nlTnH will l- mil
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dun Has umwu liacknevetir
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do so largclv because the
town and usuallv it reouires
have a live Ad clurl and trails
lierntti ami men sun .mav.p
Arf " lab .tfga..i0 wll
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Uncle, Sam Needs
Them.
The "Lady of the Snows" Is beck
oning. She hopes to' lure settlers from
the United Suites by fair promises of
cheap farming lands, und she docs bo,
lure them by the thousands' and hun
dreds of thousands. Loudly out
neighbor to the north calls to Amer
ican farmers and their sons; proudly
does she display countless millions of
acres, virgin to the piqwshnre, un
touched save by the ice winds of Can
adian winters and the hurriedly grown
wild grasses of Canadian summers.
Before tho war"Cunnda had drawn
fiom homes nm! farms in the United
States over n million men, mostly
young men, stalwarts sons of the soil.
They took with them, in many in
stances, wives and bab'es. Now all
i-avo none to make of western Canada
more American than any other portion
of the Dominion, richer in wealth and
progress than that Canada which drew
its human dwellers from Kuropcan
Uhorcs. ,J XI I
And the United States lost just so
mnny useful citizens, just so many
producers of food. What was Can
ada's gain was Uncle Sum's loss.
The war halted the upward trend of
American emigration across the
northern border. Last year fewer
Americans deserted their native land
for Canadian homesteads than in any
oilier year of the last two decades.
Hut even at that more Americans
went into Canada as settlers than
from any other country.
In the fiscal year ending March III,
lDlli. ;i(l.il.-17 farmers from tho United
limited it. lint did not stop it
""i".v i "muiH is renewing her enm-
lure within the United States. That i
!hy Canada is calling uut;i American
(farmers and their 'sons.
I And, friends and fellow citizens.
Mhey are just as worthy the keeping
If Cnnadn cftn hope to tempt them
'northward by holding out to them the
'lirightest side of opportunity, why
cannot we of Xhe Untod States keep
.them here with us by giving theni
leoll.'lt oimot'ljmi.i.
Opportunity is here.' It merely tc
!;"" fr the .United states to place
i" wi""! reacn 01 l lie American far
jor and his son. Then 1, promises and
no giiite.1 ilrenms will tempt thein to
win.i-tossed prairies.of Saskatche
wan. Alberts and -Manitoba.
Clearly, Undo Sam should bestir
hiniM-If while yet there is time. "
I II is now possible to learn frmn
, bonks just how to be a plumber. This
tiiiiyht be offered an inducement to
covetous foreigners to learn to rcad6
'Kngfcsh. " I
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Conflicting Thoughts
Actual Conditions in'
Russia.
Walter Lippmann, lit a most koen
and interesting exposition of "The
Politicul Scene" in the current New
Republic, says of Russia:
"It is possible to make wur upon v.
nation organized under u government
There is no way of winning a war
against several hundred thousand
more or less independent villages. Yet
that is the fundamental condition in
'Russia today. All the ordinary rule?
of warfare are inapplicable. It is not
possible to bully Russia into order nor
to curse her into it. She will have to
he drawn into it by re-establishing
the bonds of economic interdependence
between her fragments and the organ
ized society of the west."
lie follows this with a somewhat
complex scheme for an international
trading corporation somehow under
the wing of tho League of Nations
Then: ,
"Now the rnising of the standard.0
of life resulting from this trading,
and from relief, might gradually re
sloro tho contact of the Russian peo
ple with the outer world. And with
contact would come that sense of th
realities of government and business
which is necessary to the revival of
Russia."
And there, hidden in that sentence,
lies the key to all Russia's troubles
Russia has been thinking she could
live without business and without
-government. Some sort of vague an
archistic manna was to feed her when
government and business were gone
Hut the manna of heavenly intcrven
tion has failed. Living requires work.
And both living and work require or
der. And the ordering of life and
work are "the realities of governnienl
and business."
Gaping at unrealities, Russia is
starving and dying of cold and misery
and disease. Her sense of real values
must in some way be brought back
to lier.
Most governments have been badly
administered in the past. Su has most
business. Hut to throw them away
meyns to throw order overboard, re
taining chaos. And in .1iao3 people
perish.
Civil
Service
Stand.
Should
'1'hrnlll'ti thf ilixtil-o qict niir t-a.
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u,.,.K , j ay ... "0-!CBeu(1 , nuuiiig a shorter word
tinning employment is natural nnd;for 'Bolshevism, but il isn't any
ri;;ht, the suggestion that civil sel- juslier. .
vice examinations should be waived
fur them or that they should be given I Why not try the league of nations
the preference in examinations or nro- P'"". on K-.inaand Missoui? II
motions is open to question.
The positions for which civil ad
vice examinations are required have! VaghinSton observers seem 'hope
to do with the business of the state.; rul in the matter of fixing a league
lll-.d it is manifestlv for tho ,,i,l,lii. 'of ni,lin,, nl.iii whli'l, etll aiift the
good that the persons, soldier or civil-
i inn. best fitted la fill thos nnirtn
should have them. ,
The system was inaugurated to do
away with favoritism, with political j,.,, hale , be a ,,,.,.. ,s.;
and party handling of state offices to j,lss wnlard. and everybody knows
the jeopanty of state business and;how Jess hates a fijtht.
eftual sights for the individual. Merit j " . '
determined byrfhc sme tests for all,! Chicago now has a gross poruibi
open to all. was accepted as the onlv0''00 ' 5rre millions, but fin're is
'Wistfor decision.
Any siftlier will 'and just as good
8mm a r'vl""n ,n P"",n AiK
nip,uiri-(,""'""enj shuh havbeen careful-'noing oto qnit ,,t dictating in
4g, cSmflle.1 to twt the '.f?ity of the;jlynd to work for a liTins:
-averag? itiztn, and which should ; It will a-eb eaiier to get along
! therefore work no more1iardshiicv'i,t ;t! ou use yo.ir power while you still
'
Toreak va greatOnd trulyeiis.j;,"'
ociatic system in favor of any singtt.
ass, howewr deseng. is to break.
laim w. m aernocracy Itscll.
Give Every Bpy
Chance.
A beautiful summer camp near
Hartford, Conn., was burned recently
The guilty parties proved to be two
young boys, "not old enough to hang,"
as the irate owner Inmcnted. They
said they did it "just to see it burn."
In direct contruct to this is the re
port in a Pennsylvania paper of the
prompt action of some Boy Scouts in
extinguishing a fire which started or
the mountainside near a town and
threatened dire consequences. The
boys not only wanted to help, but they
knew what to do. They , recognized
public danger and private responsibil
ity. There could be no better illustration
of the value of that great movement
which takes heed of the boy's tyve Of
action and directs it into proper chan
nels without attempting to curb it
dtherwise.
The thing is to make the movenjen
far-reaching enough to include all
sorts and conditions of boys. The sor
ry urchin whose heme influences are
all bad needs kind and understanding
leadership far more than the bright
dependable boy from the good family.
If ho doesn't get it while he. is too
young to hang he commits his minor
crimes, and by the time he is old
enough to hang he probably deserve!
it.
Every boy should have his chance
at finding happiness in properly di
rected activity, for his own sake and
for tho public safety.
They say Foch wept when he signed
the armistice. He was ull broken up
over the mildness and liberality o(
those terms. And the Germans wept,
too but not for the same reason.
Weil is the apple called the king
o( fruits. The' apple crop of 1918 it
estimated at a value of $:;:IO,000,000 01
nenrly three-eighths of the combined
value of all the other fruits.
"Wives pick flaws when others quit'
says an article ou electrical appli
ances. Any husband knows this. f.Vhy
print it as news ?
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A great many p oplo have sue-
jlhoy can get long side by sido witn
:it, it wuold go over unanimously.
'Senate, Then all that rcnuijis will
he to fix It-over again to suit the
jl'resienv
fit ... U. f:..t,l uo ' riL'n
!no "' o( J,ni': how n,any A,lff r
leans are sprinniea inroupn.
S-ccostion Mr. Hoover, who i.
of livla:
, reason-
;down to somewhero near
eutn0;r time basis. (
jac,. ,?, ,nr,r ar
vereaWbu which e
heard on our
q e
line the other night, we concluded
the telephone merger had already
been effected.
Some men hate to pay Income tax
because they don't like to pay
mouey for something they can't take
home -with them. Of course, the
Income tax is what one pays for his
freedom, and dares not take, It
homo.
Aa a matter of fact, it does'nt
nave a rife'ht-handed man any money
to carry his change in his left-hand
pocket. When a man is incUned to
spend his money, ambidexterity
eonies readily.
We don't . like to appear hyper
critical, but if tho railroad adminis
tration had run that Colorado train
on time it ptobably wouldn't .have
been knocked off tho track by a
snowslide. Wo aro convinced that
It couldn't have happened If Mr.
MeAilou had stayed in the railroad
administration.
The Dodije Brothers seem to fo.ir
that if Mr. Ford Is allowed to pro
cecd with the manufacture of a ?250
car ; they may be reduced to riding
.in one of them.
There lire times when we feel
very much like getting out and boost
In Mayor Ole Hanson out of Seattle
for President, hut it is not on account
of having seen' the picture of him
und his wife and his nine children.
If anybody should be rewarded with
the presidency on account of alt
those children, it Is Mrs. Hanson.
If your daughtor In the Red Cross
is still alive and well, nnd your son
is on his way home, and you are able
to pay income tax and a fow rem
nants or your business remain in
spite of governmental regulation,
you may figure that ycu got off pret
ty lucky, considering that you
chose to be loynl instead of con
scieniiously objecting till the wa
Ihruugh.
Our idea of the best reportorial
assignment of the week just closed
was to have met Seceretary Baker
,ind General March . as they went
through the Union Station the other
day, and drawing tho general off to
one' side, ask him to give his opin
ion, not for publication, of the sec
retary's method of handling the coo .
sclcntious objectors.
Still, a fool isn't such a bad com
panion as long as ho and his monay
:iro parting.
PRESS COMMENT
Will" the League of Nations stage
double-headers on holidays? Detroit
Free, Press.' ,
There are here and there sounds,
of course, which remind us that there
are no war profits in arbitration.
Detroit News.
After the Society -of Nations is
formed Germany is going to have a
hard time breaking into society. San
Francisco Bulletin.
We.are determined that there shall
be.no more war and equally deter
mined to be ready for the next one.
Utica Herald-Dispatch.
Congress might be reconciled to the
Ijoague of Nations if the league would
take over the railroad problem. Chi
cago Daily News.
Awful thought! Supposing the
League of Nations should make the
United States a mandatory to take
care of Mexico! iPoston Globe.
Anyhow, if the debate between the
president and the senators gets too
hot, we can !fer the matter to the.nn
peace conference. Manchester Union.
As ' we understand one article in
tie so-called constitution, the League
of Nations will not stand for any base
stealing. Pes Moines Register.
Mr. Taft probably thinks the League
of- Nations can be provided later with
1 set of false teeth that will serve
for biting purposes. Minneapolis Tri
bune. A boycott as a means of enforcing
the league's decrees t.iay not sound
very formidable, but the Germans can
testify as to what it mean's. Charles
ton News and Courier. .
Tho T nn.l..n Cnlnlnr rilns aa
characteristic mot by a French wit.l
sumn-.ing up the French feeling aboul
the League of Nations, the phrase,
''The league is impossible and indis
pensable." 1
It is obvious that the president a -
profl-hes the Leairue of Nations dis-
cushion with an open mind. So 0Pn
that nnv adverse criticism that mav
lav
out
steal ia "is allow to find it way oujt
without delay. Boston Transcript
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wii7Prmno s neciMon 10 enier ine
world lenpu on the condition that
she 1? never called on to Vo to war,
and never to be coerced in any way.
eems to contain the cerm of a bright
idea. rhilaiMpiO. North American.
ToMtiftil experts believe that on the
success of the league $f Nations'
scheme ill depend Mr. Wthwn's
chances for re-election, ould he
ch.-0e to ran again. Oh. well, if that'f
nil thcreis to it we know just what
to do. New York Telegram.
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From "The Pathfinder."
Note: If you have any apprecia
tion for real poetry not mere rhyme'
you will be thrilled by the following
splendid verses by Edwin Markham,
appearing In the New Church Meg-'
senger. Markham has written many
fine poems, indeed he never writes
anything unless he can make it fine .
but neither he nor anyone else has
written anything nobler in the.way
of poetry than this. This war has
inspired many great poems; we have
published a number of them In the
Pathfinder. This new elegy of
Markham's is a poem in the highest
sense, for besides being musical and
resonant to tho eer it embodies lofty,
thoughts which app -al to the mind
and It haB a aioral qualllty which
stirs the soul. To a poet like Mark
ham of course, the thought Is ev
erything; the words and the rhythm
and rhyme are secondary and inci
dental. This poem merits careful
presevation as one of the grerU
poems of the 'war. Editors.
A song for the heroes who saw tho
sign.
And took their place in the batlle
line;
They were balls of granite and gates
of brass;
And they cried out tc God, Tlioy
shall not pass."
And they hurled them back in a
storm of cheers,
And the sound will echo on over the
years.
And a song for the end, for the glor
ious end,
And the soldiers marching up over
the bend
Of the broken roads in gallant
France,
The homing 'heroes, who took the
chance,
Who looked on life, and with oven
breath
Faced the winds from the gulfs of
death. '
Their hearts are running ou over the
graves
Over the battle-wrecks over , the
waves
Over the ocarred fields over tlie
foam
Over the sacred fields over the
foam
On to America 00 to home!
And a song for tho others, the heroes
slain
In argonne forest in St. Gobaln
In the flowery moadows of Picardy
In Belgium in Italy,
From brave Montello to the sea.
A song for heroes gone on ahead
To join the hosts ot the marching
dead
A song for the souls that could light-;
ly fling
Sweet life away as a little thing
For the sake of til's mighty need of
earth, Tho need of the ages coming to
birth. .
AH praise for the dcrlng God who
gave
Heroic souls that could dare the
grave. .
Praise for tho power He laid on
youth
To challenge disaster and die' for
truth.
What greater gift can the Higl God
give ;
Than the power to die that tlu truth
may live!
Glory to the Lord,
- heaven, .
the luro of
I
In his ide are
.
Ho whose wounds
seven
Glory that Ho gathers tlu lieroc?
home, ' . '
Out of the rod field), oil ot tho
foam
Gathers them out of "he Every
where, f - .
Iiilo the Camp is Over th-o'. "
Ldwin Markham. authir of "The
with the Hoe," aid a New
Church lecturer in The i'nthfinder,
1 by permission of the Niw Church
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