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
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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
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—United Btatee Department of Agri-
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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.
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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.
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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
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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
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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:
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