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About Mt. Scott herald. (Lents, Multnomah Co., Or.) 1914-1923 | View Entire Issue (Dec. 26, 1918)
I I mt. Scott ficrald faSllshsd kvvry Thursday al beau. Oregon by J. E. UPDIKE. C W SMITH. . . . . Proprietor .Manager Knur« l M teoiaJ ciaM mill matter Kebru ary I«. UiU, at Ute odtev al Lenta, Or«-,an ander act of Congress. March S ISTV Subscription prie« - It 6i> a jear. in sdi»ucv rao.n. Tsaos tkm . P St. A WORLD JUBILEE. The suggestion of a world Jubilee to be held In the United States on July 4. 1919, to celebrate the allied victory—a suggestion that has been put into the concrete form of a reso- lutlou and Introduced tn congreas— will doubtless meet with an euthusl- astic response throughout the country Whether tt and in other countrlea will be practicable to hold such a cele- bration next year depends largely up on the manner in which events shape themselves during the next few mouths. If the revolutionary movements now In progress throughout the central em pires are quieted soon and the peace conference succeeds In promptly and amicably adjusting all the various Is sues that will come before IL next American Independence day may prop erly be observed as Independence day for the whole world, says Washington Poet Otherwise It may be necessary to postpone It until a later date. The celebration should be at the proper time, when the stage ls properly set. It would contribute largely to the new era of friendship that Is ushered In by the end of the war. and would help to cement In strong ties the nations of ths world. War. It Is hoped. Is now a thing of the past, and tn Its place ls to come a new understanding among the powers, through which their dis putes will be adjusted without recourse to the sword. A celebration of the sort proposed will promote good feel ing and confidence, and tt should be held at the earliest appropriate time. * Chateau-Thlerry I The words are opulent in suggestlveness. It was there that the soldiers from America dared hell for the cause of humanity and their flag and turned a German hope Into a despair. It was Chateau- Thlerry that gave the Germaus the first taste of America's fighting quali ties and revealed to our brothers In arms the luvtnclblllty of the boys who had come across the seas to put shoul ders to theirs. Chateau-Thlerry looms large in the war. It will loom spectac ular In history. It will be a shrine for American hearts, says Louisville Cour ier-Journal. Soon there must stand upon that battlefield a monument to the heroism of American boys who achieved the Impossible and who sealed the death warrant for the kaiser’s army. And Argonne forest and St. Mlhlel—the w hole procession of them leads to Sedan. Chateau-Thlerry was the gateway to the end. It Is fitting that the historic room which saw the birth of Bismarck’s Germany, the autocratic, militaristic, Verbal controversy is one of the brutal, lawless, aggressive Germany, most useless things in this world. should also see Its death. It Is well People who engage In it could seldom that the nation, whose rulers stood be convinced by any argument, bow- triumphant over the fallen foe in the ever logical and however temperately throne room of their ancient kings, presented. But the trouble Is that should send their delegates today to logical or uot, the dispute rarely Is thia very room, there to atone for the conducted In a moderate way. The Injustice of the last, says New York argumentative ones grow excited in Sun. It is a satisfaction due to France. spits of themselves; sometimes they It is a humiliation which should sym become angry, sometimes they urd bolize for German militarists the end merely “hurt." In any case they are of their dreams of world power, th« likely to become Incoherent or dis discredit of the false Ideals upon which courteous according to their tempera their empire was founded, the passing ment and to part with coolness, all away of the old Germany, the begin because they do not know when to stop. ning of the new. German “efficiency" was an abject failure in Alsace and Lorraine as In Bchleswlg-Holstelo. and In Poland, and tn Africa. It consisted merely In rigid ity of rule. In a refusal to recognize the native rights of subject people. And yet these were the people, these Germans, who set out to accomplish world dominion, says Washington Star. The tears that are now being shed by the people of Alsace and Lorraine, tears of Joy for their liberation from German rule, are the surest proof of the righteousness of the present vie tory over the most evil power tile world has ever known. Provisional President Daszynskl is a resident of Cracow, the second largest city of Galicia, which former crown land is to be Incorporated Into the Po lish republic. Daszynskl was for many years a member of the Austrian par liament from Cracow and worked tire lessly for Polish political freedom. He Is an all-around statesman, possessing great natural ability developed by long parliamentary experience. lie is also one of the ablest lawyers in central Europe. Von Bernhard! wrote a book. “How Germany Makes War." Who will write Its sequel, “How Germany Makes She makes war In an ad Under the agreement of the United Peace?” States food administration with the vancing attack with the upraised sword food controllers of the allied nations, In one hand and the torch In the oth our breadstuffs export program for er, but she makes peace on her knees, the coming year will aggregate 400.- with her hands outstretched, begging 120.000 bushels, which ls equivalent to for bread. more than 60 bushels for every farm in the United States. The program Italy was the first victor of the war. calls principally for wheat, but from for she drove the Invaders out of her 100,000.000 to 155,000,000 bushels may territory and sent her troops upon be of other cereals, Including rye, bar enemy soil before the call for peace ley, and corn. ended the actual battles. The Italians have fought like heroes and no small It Is said the poor in Austria gath part of the glory will be tbelrs when er at the door» of the hotels In the the history of the war comes to be cities and fight for the scraps of food. written. That is the end of the dream of world domination by which the kaiser and Great Britain's war debt Is more his militarist advisers have brought than $35,000,000,000, and her war bonds such disaster upon his allies, who, In are owned by fully n third of all per their blind folly, allowed him to lend sons living in the British Islands. them to their ruin as sacrifices to his Bonds so held may be rather an asset ambition. than a liability In the last analysis of their effect on national energy. , Price quotations of 50 years ago show “frying size” chickens selling at It Is said that hatred of England la from 11.50 to 12 50 a dozen, bacon 6 to growing In Germany. The Hun la IT cents a pound and sugar 1C% cents quite capable of believing that the a pound. Thus we heirs of all the ages entente nations did Germany n great and foremost In the flies of time per wrong by defending themselves from ceive that the onward march of civili her aggression and by refusing to sac zation has brought us the blessing of rifice themselves to Insure her the cov cheaper sugar I eted place In the sun. --------- 1---------------------------- It will be Just like posterity to be come cynical and ungrateful enough to remark that the Americans of our gen eration were patriotic, altruistic and abundantly blessed with vision, but none too heavily endowed with com mon sense. Europe has been astonished at the rapidity of the United States In turn ing Itself Into a fighting nation, buL then, history could have reminded them of that from the start we were a coun try of minute men. One remembers when certain people It ls good tu know thnt Kolchak ha» nodded wisely and said, “Yon mark been marie rifetator at Omsk. After my words- -the German fleet will come thnt thè arrest of Avksentloff and Zen- out before long.” And it did 1 senoff cornea wlth thè logie of a propo- sltlon In mathematica. But Vologodsky And now the manufacturers say that and thè rest of thè alphnbet stili re soap Is going up—Just when the world ma In to be dealt wlth a» they deserve. needs It most. «•tRRRNSUUUlMMSUVWIMVMMI GRASSHOPPER AN IDIOT. DO NOT DODGE. Whatever the difficulties to be met they are not made easier by trying to dodge them. In trying to iloitge a mis sile from one direction you may come In line with one from a different direc tion. When we dodge trouble we ate more thau likely to get into other ‘rou ble no less easy to eudure. Look with courage on what must be met Faced with courage, difficulties are half con-' quered. Better meet and conquer dif ficulties than to dodge them. Do uot dodge—duties that devolve ou you. Duties performed add strength aud dignity to character, says Milwaukee Journal. It matters tittle what these duties are; though they be of the sim plest and humblest, well and truly doue. they acquire dlgulty. Stand up brave ly and squarely to meet the difficulties of life. With courage you «111 con quer. You will come through life with fewer scars than by trying to dodge duty or difficulty. Trying to evade be gets in a uiau a cringing spirit, lie gets a habit of truckling, aud upright, self-respecting manhood Is gone. Don't dodge If you would hold yourself ubove meanness. Now take the grasshopper for exam ple. No lusect ou earth more sorely s When Ton Want ta Move needs to ask dally to be excused for Call Tata 7719 living. The bee has a business. The wasp has a business end. The at it has an Investment aud the grub worm has a grudge. But the grasshopper has only an existence—an aimless ex istence. When we say aimless we speak advisedly, for the scientists tell KKNlDN.Ii'B us that when a grasshopper catapults his corporate self Into space by the 9431 Fosta KA. Leets, Ore. propulsive power of his hinged hop ping poles, he has no Idea where he 1» going to light It may be in the lake or the brush Are or the kerosene can or the pansy tied; It la all the same to him. Examine Ida countenance. He looks the perfect tool. At the top of the head two bulging eyes as ex CORD WOOD ÀKD pressive as the eye of a dead carp; COUNTRY SLAB and below this a nose like a wooden plowshare. This Is alt There Is uo Yard on Foater Hoad forehead, no brain and no NOR for one. The grasshopper, we And. la an in front of Leota Library Insect Idiot, says Minneapolis Journal. The beet he ever did was to keep out Phon« Tabor 7dS from under foot of his betters. I FETTY'S TRANSFER and Exprm Alt! Truk J. H. Bradbury Thera may be weil-inteutloned peo ple who say that virtue always lands to success and vice to misery. But it Is an obvious and monstrous falsehood In a world where wo profit by the good deeds of our parents and «here mil Hons are suffering unutterable tortures because of the deeds of foreign poten tatea. That those who suffer must have been wicked, and that thoee who triumph must have been virtuous, Is one of the moot inhuman beliefs tn history, says New Republic. As to the doctrine that the reward of virtue Is to be found In a clear conscience or high satisfaction—that la an even more violent falsehood. The people who suffer moot from their conscience are obviously the sensitive and blghinlnded. while self-approbation cornea most eas ily to the complacent* and fortune-fa vored Jack Horners. The doctrine that the reward of moral life is a feeling of satisfaction or happiness Is not only contrary to moral experience, but Is intellectually sterile. THE PORTLAND BUSINESS MAN s E R V I c E who is sueiiwaiiil «urrouada hlmsrll witli every available modern d»vl«e foraaving bls time and money. Tlw buaim-se man who tails to nan an AUTOMATIC TEL EPHONE simply elosee hie establishment to thousands ot possible <u«toun rs lie may never know the ieal reason tor his failure in busim ss. THINK IT OVER Ix>ng Distance Everywhere CALL A 6221 HomelTelephoDe and.Telegraph Company ol Portland, Oregon r 1 1 AS been the biggest year in the history of the bank. Our busi ness has more than doubled, thanks to our loyal friends. We shall try during the New Year to be more helpful and cour teous to you than ever before and trust that 1919 may be the Hap piest and most Prosperous New Year you have ever seen. Sincerely yours, THE MULTTOMAH STATE BANK, Lents Station Portland, Oregon R An American correspondent gives a most deplorable view of Germany, pros trate, on the verge of famine and the people almost apathetic tn their ml« ery. But the authors of all this ruin brought upon outsiders and their own alike, the criminal rulers of the Teu- tou nations and their officials and ad visers, have fled the country to live In comfort, according to their calcu lations, while the people they have mis used and betrayed are left to suffer. No wonder the demand Is growing for their punishment, and that Indignant protests are rising against their con tinued enjoyment of Immunity. 9 » t 7 About 8 per cent of the men called to the color» unable to rend 1 Think of It Three hundred thousand Amer ican soldier» unable to read I Coudl- tlons like that are what is putting steam Into the demand for federal con trol of public education. Some of the statesmen tell you thia Isn't a nation, but a federation, says Houston Post But It Is a nation, and states can shirk their duty this way and get by with It The sanctity of royalty Is now an exploded Idea, and there Is no reason why a man because he Is a king, should be Immune from the consequence of actual criminal acta. The ex kalsar should be fronted as any other crim inal trying to esenpe Justice, and he certainly should be put under a res traint which will effectually prevent him from scheming again to assail the peace of Europe. It has been suggested that a day be set apart to be known ns Fathers’ Day. on which fathers at home and sons abroad will exchnnge letters, as was done on Mothers' Day. The mothers have always been exalted, and Justly so, but fnthers have been rather left out tn the cold. But now father Is to have his day at last A Washington man proposes that as the United Staten was In the wnr 584 days, a Liberty monument to the mem ory of our heroes be erected at the capital, one foot In height for each day, making It 584 feet high, with the names of all who gave their lives en graved on bronze tablets to be placed In the Interior of the monument. If yon think that New York attained the summit of self-expression on Vic tory day, just wait until Pershing’s veterans come marching up Fifth ave nue after their victorious attempt to secure the right for self-expression to the world I We observe that since November 11 the prices of officers’ clothing and fix tures have fallen 25 per cent. And we believe the civilians will be able to buy woolen underwear and blanket» a little cheaper next May. We hnve now entered upon that happy period long referred to as "Af ter the War." War has received Its honorable—or Is It dishonorable?—discharge. I - Y e