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About Mt. Scott herald. (Lents, Multnomah Co., Or.) 1914-1923 | View Entire Issue (Sept. 19, 1918)
PORTLAND’S OPPORTUNITY TO WIN IN SHIPPING NEGLECTED Portland it building *Mp*, many ■hip*, but no curgo i* provided for them when they are ready to »ail for Europe or the Atlantic Coait a* the caae may be. The new ship* leave Portland without cargo, and in moat ca«r* ho to Scuttle and take on food and war *upplic*. The question is frequently asked why Portland doe» not provide cargo for Portland • constructed ships, when the city is the natural center for food supplies. 1 he question of cargo gathering at Portland ha* been before the East Side llusines* Men’s Club, and a committee consisting of Dr. A. M. Webster, L. M. Lepper an<| It. II. Newhall, made a study of condition* prevailing. The committee’* report follows, in part: "At the time this committee was appointed a rumor was abroad that newly built ships were bring sent to Seattle in ballast and there loaded with cargo which had been shipped by rail from this city. Since that time early in October this rumor has been confirmed and it is generally known to those who take an inter est in maritime affairs that this state of affairs exist*. "Up to the time this committee was appointed there was every evi dence that the men who should be leader* in developing this port were asleep Early in November the chair man of this committee wrote a let ter to the Oregonian culling atten tion to the apparently dreamless sleep of <>ur leader* and suggesting that they be aroused and that action be taken to secure for Portland the maritime commerce easily within reach. This letter was published in the Oregonian. About this time the Journal woke up and bluntly but clearly stated the situation. The Realty Board woke up about the same time and had a scries of ad dresses on the subject of Port De velopment. Even the Oregonian published a very able editorial on "How to bring back commerce." All of these writers ami speakers over looked the most obvious and imme diately practical step, vir., that ships built here must be sent out with cargo, not in ballast. "Blunt a* this statement is it is true. However rightly we arc en titled to rate advantages over Puget Sound, we should quit waiting for a favorable rate adjustment and get busy as best we can under the pres ent rate arrangement. "I. It has been publicly «town in the last few weeks that the railroads are ready and willing to transfer their freight from car to ship at Portland, if Portland will see that ships are here and provide facilities for expe ditiously loading and unloading. "2. Portland’s overseas commerce depends on the activity of Portland interests and we should not blame our rivals for our own inertia. QERMANY’8 FINANCES. From th«- beginning of the wnr econ omist* have wondered what would be the eff«H-t on the distribution of wealth of n virtual cassation of pro ductive Industry In Europe, the sink ing of capital and labor tn Instruments of destruction, and the loss of thou- aauds of worker* on the buttletield. Would the flnul enormous I on * fall on the rich or the |<oor or on both? There can I m - uo question that for lit least three years no addition bn* been made to wealth In Oermany, although her cttle* have not been subject to the de struction of war, says Hartford Times. Hbe has been running on cri-dit, hop- •ng to make Franc«- pay. She hua sold bo good* abroad. Her Income from foreign nation* has been what she could steal In Antwerp and Liege. How Ls aha coining out? The figures of the taxation oftico In Prussia go to show that there has been a cxinald- arable increase In large incomes and a shrink age of small oom . There has also been a great deal of proflti-ertng, notwithstanding the taa*t that there la no graft In Germany. Krupp* Steel company ha* profited greatly. The Daimler company haa been receiving tUKM) for motor* that cost 8500. This . ' “J. Portland must secure «hip*— must provide amplr terminals, coal bunkers, and ample towage facili ties or we can hope for no further help from Congress. "4. We must all pull together to secure a maritime flavor in the at mosphere of this city’s business— people must become interested in ami ardent for overseas-commerce. "5. Portland tributary territory must not continue to suffer the loss due to the 15c differential on wheat or any other products. But these thing* cannot be «lone by being coy otes. The coyote sit* down on his haunches ami howls. That is what Portland ha* been doing every time we discovered that some other city was getting pic that was not passed to u*. "We have the river deep enough for all the traffic that move* through Puget Sound. The Colum bia bar ha* gone forever like the other bar* that disappeared nearly two year* ago. But we have nut the steamship, line* that we must have. "Everybody get out and hustle for steamship lines and alt their ad juncts. Get busy, get ready, get ship*. That should be Portland's «logan. That is the big thing to do next in Portland. We should have our representatives and booster* in official positions in Washington, D. (”. We should have municipal own ership of the waterfront. "In this connection, some things have already been accomplished. Notably, the shipping board has given permisión to try out the new steamer Lamias in the Columbia River. We hope all the steamers launched here will be tried out here, henceforth, but we should not stop at hoping. Pressure should be brought to bear on the Shipping, Board to such an extent that any other course will not be thought of. "The co-operation of the railroads in building up the port ha* been openly promised. "A tug boat is to be provided by the port. "Ships may be equipped with en gines here if Portland meets the re quirements. “On November .W the President of the Chamber of Commerce made a notable address before the Realty Board on this subject. He declared frankly that one of the greatest ob stacles to port and commercial de velopment here is the apathy and lack of unity of the people. "We cannot hope to secure ship ping lines permanently here unless we can get the whole business pub lic into line to pull strongly all to gether and all the time for Port land as a seaport. "It is up to every man in this club to do not merely his hit, but all he can in every way to back every move that can possibly promote oversea* commerce.” TRUK FRATERNIZATION. Ever since the beginning of the war there baa been genuine sympathy and complete understanding between the French and British on the western bat tle front The French and British armies liuvs remained separate, but they have co-operated whenever pos sible. and the men of the two nations have fraternise«! whenever opportunity offered. Now there Is a new spirit. Instead of giving aid to each other, the artulea of the two nations have Ire- come one army. Instead of fruternis- Ing behind the battle line* the Polios ■ nd Tommies are fraternising In the front line trenches amid the roaring avalanche of the Hun's bombardment, says Cleveland Plain Dealer. Not as friends, not as comrades, tut actually us brothers und trenchmates the men of the two nations which two de«-ades ■go still cherished their traditional ani mosities are working and fighting for the salvutlop of tin* world. When the French soldiers dashed forward at Kemrnel and Balleul to take their places tieside the weary Englishmen the last ghost of the age-old Franco- British hostility was laid and the two great democracies came to a full reali sation of U m unity of liberty. UNUSED WATER ROWER. If half the energy that has been put Into fighting over the ter ■■ on which tiie water powers in the public domaiu of tbl* country should be developed had been devoted to developing the*« water powers, the country would now be getting great benefit from them. While the quarrel about liow these wa ter powers are to be utilised has b«*en going ou vigorously and often venom ously, the water powers have been go ing to waste and the country** u«-.-d of them ha* been Increasing every day, say* Duluth Herald. They are going to waste today, and yet the nation’* wnr work could be enormously expe dited if It had the advantage of tbl* «■heap power now running uselessly away. These water power* should be developed a* speedily a* possible. That do«** not mean that they ahould bo thrown wide open to profiteers, as wo did with the coal and oil and mineral and timber wealth of the country, to our bitter coat That ahould never happen again. These water powers should never be altered from public poss«*Mlou and public control. They should be leased on terms that will offer capital the Incentive needed to arouse Its Interest, but that will leave rates, service aud profits under govern ment control In the public interest. Congress ought, early in this session, to enact a water power development law that will, while fully preserving the public Interest, offer ample returns to private «-apltal that Is willing to en list in the public service at fair pay. Undoubtedly what was begun In the direction of farming In the backyard during the first year of tbl* country's participation In the war will go for ward with Increased momentum. The United States department of agricul ture estimates that the value of the product of home garden* in 1917 ex ceeded 8350,000,000. Against tbl* it has There Is a happy medium between been «-stlmated that a* much a* 8400.- no work at all for women on the farm 000 was wasted to *e«*«ls through poor and the heavy, exhausting labor for Judgment. Two hundred thousand of which many American women are not tbl* cun be attrlbut«*d to planting too fit We have not developed here the thickly. 815O.ISN* to Improper prepara stolidity and solidity of physique that tion of soil. und 85 o ,* mm ) to lack of are often found among the peasant thought as to the time It takea a vege womanhood of Europe. At this time table to mature. Experience teaches. American women long to be patrioti The people who go In for raising their cally useful Instead of aocia’ly futile. own vegetables will profit from what Therefore the question of employment they have "learned by doing.” on the farms In the ordinary work of men is one that Increasingly concerns Thia war has done one thing: It has them. Moat of them would willingly made farming one of the most dignified go further, and undertake even such callings a man can engage In. There arduous labor as that of following the wax a time when many looked on the plow; but certainly it would not be cultivator of th«* soil an “a mere hay good for them. There are public Insti need,” not worthy of being connldered tutions In this state where the outdoor seriously In the economics of the na work Is done by the women, except the tion, but that day han panned. Today plowing. More of them will come to everybody la appealing to the fanner such labor as time passes and the war to come to th«* rescue of the nation by more generally engages the male farm helping to produce something to eat hands. ao that we can win the war. The dny is not fur distant when the “man who Finding that they have been out make* two blade.* of gran* grow where played at their own game of poison only one grew before" will be looked gas the Germans are now trying, un up to as one of the princes of the Umd. der cover of neutral mediation, to in The emptiness of Germany's U-boat boasts are well evidenced by the fact that up to date she has not sunk one American transport despite her keen vigilance for such a marine triumph. Under the ctrcumstancea Uncle Sam ls almost exactly the percentage mad« can feel optimistic for the time Is fast by the Twwil grafter«. approaching when the submarine will no longer be connldered a grave men The decision of Provost Marshal Gen- ace We have the remedy and will ••ral Crowder that t>ew*pnp«>r amploy- apply It soon. <***, no matter what position they oc cupy, are not entitled to deferred clas It Is all right for our American poets sification In th«- draft will innke very to hutch out those fervid rhythmical little difference with newspaper men. tributes to France. France deserves for probably there Is not a large news everything of that kind that can be ex paper office in the country which has tricated from the souls of poets. But not already repraaentatlvaa In the army It lx lni|M>rtant not to forg«*t to rush or navy or both, aaya Milwaukee Wla- the fighting men. the munitions and connln. Newspaper men na a class th«* victual*—these being what France are not slackers and never were. Is needing a little more than poetry Newspaper offices were among th«1 first at this Juncture. place* in America aft«tr the New Eng land cotton mills, to offer occupation America may continue to be the for women outside of housework and melting pot after the war, but she Is school teaching, the roasoii being that going to see that hereafter nothing but at the time of the Civil war so many meltable «tuff goes Into the melting of the employe««* of the newspaper* pot. Some of our beautiful theories became volunteer soldier* in the Army about being th«* haven for the op of the Unlor. pressed of ell nations we have found The German new*pn|»er* complain to be rot and nonsense. that President Wilson anil the Ameri The latest Invention In England is can press "have adopt«*! every concelv- able menus to hinder the German gov potato butter, made by Incorporating ernment and to spread propaganda In fourteeh ounces of potato with two Germany." Is It strange thut they ounces of oleomargarine. This gives a notion of what war economy really aboulil be indlgnnnt? means long before a country reaches the stage of privation. ‘OLD GLORY’ FLIES ON GERMAN SOIL Write to your Sammy today. It Is possible that he has a choice bit of news of your neighborhood that he would be glad to exchange for some thing Interesting concerning the prog ress of the war. An American wnr prisoner writing home tells of the good-natured people who have captured him. Evidently the Hun censorship Is strictly on the Job, also Hun persuusion as first aid in let ter writing. Eggs have dropped to a point where the old team of ham and eggs might be possible If similar action occurred on the part of the other half of the sketch. Queen Mary lias used the back of an American sergeant for a writing desk. That's one perfectly fine desk that Here Is an American commander In Alsace accompanying a Frenoh didn’t have a solid mahogany top. general in hl» review of a Yankee contingent billeted in a town where the tsanch line In the Vosges haa Invaded territory under the German flag Judging from the advance orders whan the war began. the coal dealer already has to fill the Fourth Liberty Ixian bonds will help remove the Hoche from Alsace man who has waited until now to buy and Lorraine an well as from ravished Belgium. tils next winter's coal la late. duce all the fighting nations to discon tinue Its use. If the allies refuse the Huns will try to put upon them the onus of this violation of all laws of civilised warfare, which they them selves are willing to give up only be cause they are getting too strong a dose of their own medicine. Sometimes a man will tell you he hates a liar above all other creatures in the world. Then y >u tell him that you think he Is by long odds the wisest cltixen of the town and the moat use ful. He will not only love you, but be will begin to wonder why he had never before noticed what a discerning per son you are. If by the time a man ls sixty years old he has tamed himself to the point where he can get along with a per sona, pronoun less than fourteen hands high, we suppose he Ls doing pretty well In this day when a man who ls willing to walk down town unaccom panied by a brass band la considered modest us def * t ar agriculture Wanted-Sate-Runt-Lut FOR MALE—GRAVEL and HAND. R. Heyting Phone Tatar 2063 5U PROFESSIONAL CARDS. PLUMS IVY M. KINNEY Select sound, uniform plums. Prick each with needle to prevent bursting. Pack as firmly Into jars as possible without crushing. Fill jar with hot sirup made by boiling five pounds aud eight ounces of sugar and one gallon of water for five mlnut«-*, and strain ing. (Plain tailing water or honey way be used instead of sugar sirup.) Partially, seal Jars; boll (process) quarts for 15 minutes. Remove, aeal air tight and, when cold, test for leaks. Store In s cool, dark, dry place. —United Btatee Department of Agri- culture. Piano Instructor studios ■ 151 Fourth Htreet. Bee 960H noth Avenue, H. K. Tei. Main IS 9-12. Hours: DENTIST Artificial Dentures tanla, Oregon 5922 92nd Street Tabor 4754 What has become of the old-fashion ed pacifist who used to worry because the British navy was perventlng us from sending milk to those "starv ing German babies?” 7*« DR. A. O. ATWOOD The suggestion to round up the Idlers, loafers and sissies and draft them In the army la not acceptable. It Is a serious war the country ls en gaged In, and it takes real men to fight It Children should be seen and not heard, according to the old saw, but patriotic parents will be careful that their young hopefuls are neither seen nor heard romping over the war gar den. I-S. 5930^ 92nd .Hires DR. C. S. OGSBURY DENTISTRY I.KNTS, OBSUON TALK OVER TOWN about PRACTICAL HAIRCUTTING at Chester’s Barber Shop with tta electric clippers 9S0C Foster Koad Tabor W, 6 Tabor Dr. Wm. Rees Office and Knldesce. Ws X Mb M. PORTLAND. ORB. A cable from Parts says the French admire the Yankee troops. If they ad mire our boys as much as we admire the French then the Yankees will have to wear their gas masks to keep off the masculine kisses. A Prussian member of the relcbstag says that America will be forced to pay 100.000,000,000 marks Indemnity. Those Prussians should wait until they collect it before they start spending any of that coin. The newspapers are full of advice on bow to keep well. What some of the slackers trying to evade conscrip tion would like to know is how to keep sick. So far as that is concerned, the rule ls that the man who gives his sons for his country gives his money, too. It is the old coin-compressor without sons or patriotism who clutches his stuff as If he expected to be burled with tt. ’ ■ J. H. Bradbury CORD WOOD AND COUNTRY SLAB Yard on Foster Road in front of Lents Library Phone Tabor 7823 <_______________________ - Still Moving ■ ■. ROSE QTY VAN The One-Way-Charge Company. See Us For . . . WOOD AND COAL Tab. 1424 D 01 8222 Foster Rd Wartime Efficiency These are times when the neesa- vi ty tor efficiency on the part of evary good American is paramount. •‘Efficiency” today has a bigger and moie vital meaning than at any time in the world's history. Upon it rests stupendous responsibiHuss. The extent to which we must de pend npon our eyes for support in this great work is beyond compre hension. Efficiency has no patience with the wearer of two pairs of glasses which require constant shifting to aee near or far objects, as the case may ba. It does not countenance the wear ing of readi’ig glasses which bava to be continually replaced. It casts aside the old-style bifocals which necessitate frequent repair and which blur the eye* with asams or humpe. It maintain* that, when you need double vision glasses, the only way to overcome there difficulties, and to serve your eyesight, is to wesr KRYPTOlf six GLASSES JLk THE INVISIBLE BIFOCALS kRYPTOKS ( pronounced Crlp-tokt) KERN PARK CABINET SHOP S. C. SMITH LIGHT MILL & CABINET WORK Screens, Sash, Windows, Doors and Picture Framing have the neresaary powers for perfect near anti far tight Invblbly combined In one pair of aolia crystal-clear lenses absolutely smooth to the oncer’s loach. With them yon can detect objects any reas onable distance away with the same ciear cut dial incl io u lint t juucaii see objects close by. Because ol the total absence of seanwor humps. KRYPTOKS hare the appearance of being single vision. The Optical Shop PR. GEO. H. PRATT UrPOMETKlHT Jib Alder Street PORTLAND, OPFRON Residence Phone: Tabor 4602 Shop Phone: Taboi 7576 4633 67th 8treet S. E. An American visiting some United States troopa In France recently was mystified by the signature of one who added F. A. H. to hl* name. However, the young soldier explained that these SOHOOOOOOOtOHOUQOHOHOKOnO»«» letter* stand for “First Americana Here.” These initials tn themselves are decoration enough for any man. According to statistics of the fed eral trade commission men’s straw hats should he cheaper this year than for some time. It might be well to paste this In your bat and watch it as another prediction destined to go wrong. The remarks of Attorney General Gregory concerning an- exaggerated Im pression of alien enemy activities may have been lnt«*nde«l to check the over sea lousnres of people who neglect regular work to be amateur detectives. How’s Your Stationery? J • ‘ Between seasons is an 1' ideal *. r time to order office stationery. Look over your supplies today, and 1 rt'U send your order for your needs to The Herald. Envelopes, Letterheads, Statements, Handbills Prices of stock are going up. It Is aald a button famine Is threat ened. Come to think of it, not half of the buttons are used to button any thing with. Just so we have the but tonholes for the accommodation of the pests it will be all right. The German people have lost 6,000,- : 000 sons since their emperor plunged I them into war. says an exchange. They still have the kaiser** six sons to com- i fort them in their grief. If the American soldiers choose to be called “Buddles” rather than Satn- mles or aomethlng else, that Is what they will be called. what costs will be next month, ! « Nobody knows Be wise and save on your office equipment Plenty of stock on hand. Not in the high rent district. The shop of service and quality. MT. SCOTT HERALD 5812 Ninety secund Street, Lents Station, Portland, Oregon Telephones: Tabor 7824 Home D61