land and soldier problem
NEEDS WISE CONSIDERATION
We hear a tot about a wonderful
back to-thc-land movement of sol-
dier boys after the war is over.
Some of these economists want to
settle all the soldiers upon the land
by a great Congressional sweep of
the hand that shall "give" them 40
or 80 acres apiece, with houses, barns
and tools—ready-made farms that
shall cost them nothing and shall
be a wonderful means of occupation
and a gTeat source of food produc­
tion to bring prices down with a
whoop when the Kaiser has been
boiled in oiL
This back-to-the - land business
sounds good.
America wants more settlers and
we want more food producers.
America wants more healthy, har­
dy-handed husbaudnten to help re­
store the race and to heap up our
granaries.
Soldiers must get good jobs_when
' . That's
they are done soldiering,
what "they all say.” We
V.\ want them
to occupy congenial positions, We
don't want them to be forced out
upon farms or even lured there by
false promises of what they can do
on free land or any other kind of
land.
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But after all returned soldiers will
be only men with broadened visions
and with exalted ideas of team work.
They will understand politics.
Canada made the mistake that our
land - wise economists are making.
Canada tried every means in her
power to settle her returning sol­
diers upon the land. She needed
more food and there were vast
stretches crying out for settlers. But
read what T. B. Kidner, vocational
secretary of the Canadian Soldiers’
Commission, says about the attempt
to make farmers out of returned sol­
diers :
"There is no wild desire on the
part of the returned soldier to go
on the land. They usually have had
enough of land. As one man put it
to me, T have lived in it; it has
been in my hair and my food for 18
months; and I don’t want any more
land as long as I live.’ The theory
that because the mtn have lived the
free and open life of the trenches
and the camp, they will not want to
return to sedentary occupation has
not worked out in our experience.”
There you are. That tells the
whole story. The economical theor­
ists are wrong. They ought to be
right, of course, but desirable as it
would be to have all our soldiers go
back to the land, what most of them
will be seeking will not be open-air
work, but indoor jobs, preferably
Government jobs at good pay.
No, Oregon and the other Pacific
States are not going to be settled up
by returning soldiers. Let us dispel
that idle dream.
Now. along conies Professor H. D,
Scudder, of the Oregon Agricultural
College. He has ideas of his own.
“It is vital that we prepare now to
expedite land settlement in Oregon
during the reconstruction days fol­
lowing the close of the war.” de­
clared Professor H. D. Scudder, land
settlement expert of Oregon Agri­
cultural college, before the members'
council of the Chamber of Commerce
Monday afternoon.
Thousands of soldiers released
from military duty and many others
both from this and other countries
will seek the land anil must have in­
telligent guidance, added Professor
Scudder.
“The problem," he continued, “is
not to get people to try to locate on
the soil in Oregon, but to keep them
here. Thousands ot dollars have
been spent describing the attractions
of the agricultural regions in Ore­
gon. but the people who have come
in response have in most instances
been allowed to shift as best they
could. I have seen in Oregon places
where a third settlement of families
on the same acres had failed, failed
after desperate struggles, because
they were not guided properly.”
Professor Scudder urged that Ore­
gon adopt the plan of land settle­
ment originated here and already
adopted by several other states,
which is to prepare a property for
occupancy under scientific supervi­
sion. and then make an outright sale
on terms which will enable the set­
tler to make good.
This is the plan devised and fi­
nanced in one instance by the Ore­
gon Development Bureau of the
Portland Chamber of Commerce.
Professor Scudder declared that the
plan must provide for the settlement
of the best land first. "Let the less
desirable lands be taken after the
first are profitably in cultivation,"
proposed the expert, whose final ad­
monition was that all state agencies
unite in a plan to guide and aid set­
tlers in production and marketing
and financing until they are perma­
nently established.
OPPORTUNITIES ARE ALWAYS AT HAND
As we climb the heights of life,
we sometimes stop to survey the
ground we have traversed, and as
we look back on the hills ot indif­
ference, of despair, of success, and
of failure, we trudge on, buoyed by
an abiding hope that the promised
land is just over the crest of the hill.
We take up our burdens and face
the day. New fields of endeavor
open up, and enlarging visions of op­
portunity spread before us. When we
took back on diminishing hills, that
seemed insurmountable when we
scaled them, we smile, take on re­
newed hope, and go on—and op.
As we near the top. where the air
is sweet and the breeze becomes a
benediction, and the sky is brighter,
we drink in the exhilaration that
comes from the approach of a jour­
ney’s end. We survey a vast space
and we thank God we have been
privileged to see the wider horizon.
As we pass on we take little heed
of the morrow. Onr immediate needs
filled, we live only in the glory of
achievement. We feel repaid when
our conscience tells us we have made
progress.
Away in the West the atin bids
us good-night, Robed in the glori-
ous tints of Springtime, it gocs on
its way to shine on other peoples
while we rest apace.
The tops of the hills in life arc
sometimes barren. The trees are
oftentimes stunted, and in the full
flare of the noonday sun the leaves
do wilt and the shrubs do decay.
The limelight has its fleeting tri­
umph, as we become retrospective
and look back. We may grow weary
of the fight and seek to rest, and
even as we dream we may wonder
whether we had better go on or go
back, but a new day dawns, and in
the distance we see other hills yet
unclimber.
Most of us go on. — Washington
Herald.
STATE POUCE HAVE LARGE PAYROLL
Two hundred and eleven men are
on the payroll of the state police,
which organization was created after
the state emergency board on March
30 authorized a deficiency of $250,000
to cover the expenses. This defi­
ciency was granted in the name of
the Oregon National Guard.
The payroll of the state police for
July was $21,144.38. The payroll has
increased each month since the or
ganizition was effected. The pay­
roll for April was $15,24509, for May
$18349.58. for June $19,724.35, and for
July $21,14438.
Major Diech. commanding officer,
receives $250 a month. Adjutant
Hibbard receives $200 a month. Cap­
tain Gellert, who is a medical officer,
receives $166.67 a month. Second
Lieutenant McGinn receives $141.67
a month.
There are four companies. Each
has a captain, who receives $200 a
month. The first lieutenants receive
$166.67 a month. The first sergeants
receive $113 a month. Flach com­
pany has three sergeants who re­
ceive $100 a month each. Each com­
pany has from three to five corpo­
rals at $98 a month each. The me­
chanics receive $98 a month, and the
privates receive $92 a month.
We have the optimism, we can atana
But a short time ago pesslrntattc
the Knocks, we maintain the rigidity of writers were hysterically bewailing the
the upper Up, the bold front la our deterioration of American manhood.
long suit, our withers are unwrlngsble They saw evidences of It In the fac­
and a total stranger are we to the tories, in the public schools, In every
wince, remarks Houston Post, but Lord walk of life, and prophesied that in a
how glad we shall be when our fellers few years we would be n pathetic race
begin to smash that Hindenburg line.
of pygmies, says Philadelphia Tele­
graph. In any of our national en­
Th« financial part of the war la not campments one may now see the finest ,
going to be nearly ao difficult when all specimens of manhood on the face of
th« people understand that war 1« no the earth. American manhood is far
acbcm« to enable a body to get rich from deterioration. As a matter of
and that nobody is going to come fact we are growing stronger every
out of the war richer than bo day. Advancement in the sciences,
want in.
clean living and a better upderstand-
tng of hygienic essentials have placed
A Swedish naturalist has discovered ns In the foreground of physical de-
that snts. are neither wise nor Indus­
trious, but merely muddle-headed time
Disloyal naturalized Germans and
Waiters. And after awhile another Austrians In the country will lose their
scientist will discover that the Oer- citizenship. The aliens will be made
mans áre not efficient, bat tnerely— to learn that tn the doctrines of this
anta.
nation a man cannot serve two flags
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Yankee >ugenulty wilt win the war and that bls choice of allegiance must
yet A kinsaachusetts man in Franc« he final
la using hla gas luaik so he can peel
It’s not much of a sacrifice to eat
for the
MX) per cent wheat substitute bread.
BOYS TAKE HOLD IN
GOOD OLD AMERICAN
WAY, SOLDIER SAYS
Hardships Ignored. Wounded Man,
Tells Mother—Don’t Let Them
Hinder Your War Work
By Mn>. Hawi Pedlar Faulkner
From • hospital aotnawburv lu
France a wounded American has writ­
tan to his parents:
"We are going through hardship«,
but the boys art* taking hold tn th*
good old American way "
What a message for those of ua
who have ram sin rd at home! What
a oballenge to the vast arm' of men
and woman who are In the boina
guard, carrying on In the thousand
and on« ways that the exigencies ot
war have brought upon us.
“We are going through hardships”
We can believe that, when we re­
can the daunt lees ebsrres which ottr
boys have been jnaklng over there,
and the dally lengthening casualty
Hits which are resulting from their
tearless devotion to the task that la
•et before them
Wa know they are going through
hardship«, when we atop to think of
the hundreds upon hundreds who are
wounded, and who fur the time be­
ing at least need nrv and attention.
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SU' rv T«
HOUT INC
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FIENDISH ENEMY
ADDS TERRORS
Of course '.hey are going through
hardships, those boys from your
home and mine
Hardship« are a
part of war They are the Inevitable
result of a state of war And when
war Is waged by an enemy «0 skilled
In all the fiendish devUtrics In
which the Germans have indulged,
they are the tnescapahto portion at
every soldier participating.
Rut hardahlpe are not the part ot
the war these «oldtera of ours are
thinking moat about. They are but
the Incidents In the day’s work.
"The boys are taking hold tn th«
good old American way ”
Could there b. a belter ntaewmmt
of their manner of tnctng what comes
to them* Covhl there be a more def­
inite oourao of action prescribed for
those ot os at home during these
days which teat the mettle of our
■outo»
Iffie time for our message to the
boys has eozne again.
In. The Fourth
Liberty Loan la to be our response
to thia wounded aohtier’a challenge.
G. A.MORRISON LUMBER COMPANY
Solicits your Property for
)
Sale
and Oil, Finish Lumber and Wood
MAKE YOUR
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Are we going to take hold In the
“good old American way*"
We have not had to go through
hardship«. - -ours have been an easier
part. We have known little of sacri-
fta- or deprivation. Compared with
the offering of our boys, we have
done nothing as yet. And now, her«
la the ehaDauge aouuded to ua.
The nxx! old American way is all
that ia asked ot us. What is that
You must frame the answer, moth­
ers and sisters of tho west. Yours
Is an Important part in the reply
which the nation will mako to the
bays overseas There to not one of
us who would not spare her son If
she could—yea aven spare
onto
other mother’’ «on the pain
hardship hr most bear We are
asked to do that. We could
though we would.
But we can make his part easier to
beer, we can go with him through
the hardships, by lending completely
of our money.
There is no longer need to czjlnln
what a Liberty Ioan to. There la
ao more necessity for pointing out
reasoaa ter participation In It. Thia
is the day when but to hear its caU
Is to insure its heartiest support.
September 28th to the datr- sat for
our concerted reply through th«
Fourth Liberty Ioan
Let ua take
bold In "the good oM American wuy."
What to the very moat you can fie to
make that advance a smash Ing ruc -
ceM like the boys over there are
making*
You Can Step These
Casualties Quickly
The Brutal, Bloody Hun will
be stopped when an overwheln»*
ng American Army lands in
France and crushes him—■not be­
fore.
The Fourth Liberty Loan is
th# next «tap m getting that army
s*ro«« the Atlantic.
BUY LIBERTY BONDS
DON’T MAKE EXCUSES
MAKE SACRIFICES
IKdttor:
This In suggested
standing tentare for di^lay
uhn-efde rasuaJty Itots.)
l'lty the learlul soul of the German
toldier and civilian as their lines con­
tone to crumple up before the allies
with only a few of the million and a
lalf Ameri< ana over there in line. And
Ive million more on the way. News of
he over-subscription of the Fourth
'Jberty Fx>an will shake German
■ale again.
To Buy or Net to Buy la Not
Question—Buy.
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