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ESTABLISHED BY HENBI L. FITTOCK. Published by The OreBonlan Publishing Co.. 135 Sixth Street, Portland, Oregon. C. A. MORDEN. E. B. PIPER, Manager. Edilo. The Oregonian Is a member of the Asso ciated Press. The Associated Press Is ex clusively entitled to the use for republica tion of all news dispatches credited to It or not otherwise credited In this paper, and also the local news published herein. All rights of republication of special dispatches herein are also reserved. Subscription rates Invariably In advance: IBy Mall.) Dally, Sunday Included, one year ?'Si Iaily, Sunday Included, six months ..... Ially, Sunday included, three months ... --t'l laily. Sunday included, one month ...... laily, without Sunday, one year . . . 'S,- Uaily, without Sunday, six months ...... -' Dally, without Sunday, one month Weekly, one year J-J Sunday, one year ;-JJJ Eunday and weekly 'a0 (By Carrier.) Dally, Sunday Included, one year 8 '2" Daily, Sunday Included, one month ..... 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He was one of. the willful twelve and was, therefore, wrong. when the war began: he is just as wrong when it closes. It is a terrible wrench when a man who has won political fights on railroad and tariff Issues all his life ts called upon in his old. age to form opinions on world politics. TEACHERS PAT. On May 10 Portland school district will vote on a proposal to increase the salaries of school teachers 30 per cent. The forty-fifth annual report of the Portland schools discloses that in the term which ended June 30, 191S, 185 men teachers were employed at an average salary of $1725.24, and that 3 67 women teachers were, employed at an average salary of $1259.95. Nearly two-thirds of the teachers instruct elementary gradfes and are the lowest paid. The salaries for these grades then ran from $600 to $1300 the schedule being graded In accord ance with years of experience and partly upon the length of the school day. The 740 women teaching ele mentary grades received, an average of $1202.06, and the four men teaching elementary grades received an average oi iizta Since this report was issued some slight Increases in pay have been granted, but they affect only a small percentage of the teachers. On Sep tember 30, 1918the minimum salary of elementary teachers was raised from $600 to $800, and two months ago the minimum of those who must stay in the classroom until 3:30 was raised to $900. In all about forty teachers were affected thereby There also has just been put into effect an increase in the minimum pay of high school teachers. Seventeen such teachers of two years experience were raised from $1000 to $1200. On the last pay day, however, a spe cial bonus went Into effect. This bonus is an extra $12 a month for each teacher for May and June and for four months in the fall. The 30 per cent increase, if ap proved, will begin next September and will be in addition to the bonus to be paid for four months next fall. -At the present rate of pay there is not much inducement to the young FOR THE SMALL INVESTOR.,. Bonds of the victory loan now being offered by the' government possess es pecial attractions foj the small Investor which should not be overlooked. These attractions are in 'addition to consid erations of patriotic duty which it is hoped will impel every citizen to buy to the full extent of his ability to V so. The bonds may be paid for in six , installments, the first of which, 10 per cent, is due on May 10. Thereafter, in thoughtful consideration ofthefact that an installment of the income tax is due in June, no June installment of the bond price is required, and only 10 per cent is called for in July. The remaining 80 per cent Is payable in four installments of 20 per cent each, in August, September, October , and November. So adjusted to the ' purse and the paydays of the citizen of moderate means, the victory bond becomes a high incentive to thrift. The rate ol interest is attractive, and the security absolute. It is as if the citizen seeking a means of improving his fortunes had had the opportunity placed in his hands. The family budget which is wisely made will contain its allowance for' as great a proportion as possible of government bonds l of. the latest issue, which properly may be entered in the column, devoted to savings and investments. . Our government needs ' the money, for reasons which have been- explained in detail, and with which every Ameri can is familiar. But almost as much the average man and woman need in centive and opportunity such as -the victory loan offers them. "It is by no means a jug-handled' contract. From the point of view of the investor,, the bonds are gilt-edged. It has already robbed America of con tracts for hundreds of thousands of tons of ships for France and Scandi navian countries and it bids fair to rob them of many more. It puts a veto on contracts for American owners, for they fear to move till they know what the government's policy will be. Republic and other journals of opinion there la walling and gnashing of teeth.' This Is going too far. they protest. It la not 'demo cratic liberalism." They hint darkly at class rule. We wlnn our romantic Jeffersonlan liberals would take thought a bit. Since revolution has Inevitably come In these European countries, anyway, why should the people stop half way and build up a new order virtually the same as the old? Why should they accept the old-fashioned parliamentary It scatters the army of skilled men I government-in which a small predatory class which has been trained and organized inevitably rules? . during the last two years, just when J Although in another article eulogiz the . British yards have got tack to I ing Debs the Call refers to the "class work with full force and when they I war prisoners," it says that "class war plan to build 3,000,000 gross tons this i3 what the new democracies of Eu- year, or 50 per cent more than in 1913. rope are trying to do away with" and It may blight Mr. Hurley's hope that "they seek a society without classes" American can compe,with British in Russia by the simple expedient yards, for continuous operation and a of exterminating all classes except one. well maintained organization are im- Thus "these daring foreigners are portant factors in fixing cost. 1 making themselves a laboratory for Mr. Wilson's inability to see the I the great experiment," using the bour- merits of a business proposition causes I geois as subjects just as experimental Mr. Bowles, to take a gloomy view of j surgeons use rabbits and guinea pigs. the future, but from the president's I While force can successfully combat viewpoint the matter has a political I the violent efforts of socialists to over aspect, and the president has usually I throw the government. It cannot com. shown fairly good political judgment, I bat their doctrines. Reason and free though he did let Burleson persuade I discussion alone can do that. Theo- htm to write a foolish letter. A wrecked I dore H. Price, editor of Commerce and shipbuilding industry and a host of Finance, has a . useful suggestion in idle shipworkers would not be good this line. Seeing the Call in the hands political assets. Further, the president I of many readers and learning that a will not much longer have the only regular Sunday school is maintained say in the matter. Much as he de- in New York to instruct the young in plores the necessity, he must soon socialism, he republished its editorial summon congress, and that body, is page as a supplement to his own paper very likely to scrap the shipping board I thus showing what sort of stuff socl al and the president's shipping policy and ism is. He proposes the organization to set the shipbuilding and shipping I of an American workers' society. business free from political and bu-1 "whose purpose shall be the inculca- reau'eratic meddling. I tion of economic truth and to which It will not much longer be necessary all those who work either with their for a man in Portland to ask a man hands or with their heads shall be in Philadelphia, who must ask another eligible," which shall extend to every man in Parts, whether he may build city and. town and which shall hold ship. whilethe answer of the man meetings "where the issues that now in Paris may hang on the question 1 divide men into classes could be dis whether Italy shall have Flume,- or cussed and the essential unity of inter- Japan shall have Kiau-Chau or the Czechs shall have Teschen.- As the hlpbuilders are not deeply Interested in these ' questions, they will be glad to cut. connection between their busi- man or young woman to contemplate teaching in the Portland schools as a life work. The entrance salary of $800 in the elementary grades may after ten years be increased to a maximum of $1200 . or $1300. The high school teacher who begins at $1200 may at tain $1600 by remaining for ten years, or $1800 if he is so fortunate as to become head of a department. There is some prospect of becoming a prin cipal in the elementary schools at from $1600 to $2400, or in the high schools at from $2500 to $3500. Some of these are fairly attractive salaries, but there are only fifty-two principals out of the teaching personnel of 1152. Teaching is a trained profession. It requires a general education as a be ginning and a special education to fit one for particular branches of the work. It is a profession for which one can never complete one's training. Those who embrace it must ever be looking forward for better ideas and better methods. No teacher can settle down to a methodical, restful existence and be efficient. In this respect it ranks with the highly paid professions. In pay it ranks in instances down to unskilled, hard labor. Highly qualified teachers are leaving the work in other communities as well as in this, until the shortage has brought emphatic words of counsel to the employing public from the federal commissioner of education. This i: not cause for wonder, when other pro fessions in which preliminary qualifi cations are no more severe offer prac tically unlimited rewards for sincere application. The lawyer or physician who, after ten years' experience makes only $1300, is considered by himself and his fellows a failure, yet that remuneration is the pinnacle of ex pectation of those who qualify as in structors in elementary school grades, There is this inducement to the teacher in the Portland schools: The position gives the present promise of life tenure. Probably if one were to analyze the resignations, particular! among the men, it would be found that it is the best qualified of the staff who are leaving. Life tenure at pres ent salaries is not inducement to per manent employment in such work to the man who would establish a home of his own and rear a family. Yet they are the ones the district ought to keep. Instead it has fastened upon it indefinitely those, both male and fe male, whom it should replace. How much of the opposition ex pressed here and there to 4he proposed increase in pay is influenced by obser vation of the occasional inefficient teacher no inquiry has yet disclosed. But the average person estimates the quality of the entire teaching staff bj that which he knows concerning the few teachers who come under his direct observation. One cannot but suspect that there would be a higher appreciation, of the schools and a greater willingness to pay adequately for competent service if a repeal of the tenure of office law were in prospect. The committee of one hundred now about to make a survey of the schools will perform a service if it will inves tigate and report upon the effect life tenure has upon popular conception of the schools and popular ideas as to the value of teachers' services. A report by the committee upon the salary ques tion alone, before election day, would also contribute vastly to public en lightenment. THE TRUTH ABOUT DEBS. Eugene V. Debs is described by the socialist Call as "America's greatest man today" and the other "class war pris oners" are declared to be as superior in moral fiber to the present heads of the government "as the fsaxarene was to the scribes and Pharisees who cm cified him." Debs is said, to have "the- great Christ heart' and the working class is reproached for not having united to set itself free. ' The whole article states and re. states an arrant falsehood for the pur pose of arousing class passion to the point of rebellion against the govern ment.' It takes for granted that Debs is in prison for being a socialist, and then expatiates on that falsehood , as reasons for a class war. Debs' is in prison for obstructing efforts of the United States to raise an army to fight the imperial government of Germany, and the German people, led by Debs' socialist allies, overthrew that gov ernment. Enmity to- socialism had nothing to do with .Debs' imprison ment; in fact Debs himself acted as an enemy of socialism by opposing a war which caused its triumph in Germany. Let any person who is. inclined to be influenced by statements that Debs is in prison because he is the cham pion of the working class and is therefore martyr to his devotion to his class, keep this in mind Debs is not in prison because he is a socialist, or a working man or a labor agitator. He is" in prison for resisting war by the United btates on a German gov ernment which was the foe of social ism and which the socialists over thrwtv. If the government had either the power or the desire to imprison him for being a socialist, it would have done so long ago. It did not be cause it had neither the power nor the desire. ness and the remote places in dispute, j degree of truth which lies in the say ing that "you cannot kill an idea with THE OJCB COUNTRY WITH MONET. I "yonets. r orce can prevent violent Th. nk.on rst aemonstration ana practical applica- thft national foreign trade council by "fuu,' JA"! -!!elf0C2 Fred I. Kent, vice-president of tha ls th8 Amerlcan idea of individualism Bankers Trust company of New York, and of decision of all political ques ts that in order to export the United tions by vote of the majority. Democ States must both import and must lend racy should invite combat in the open to ioreign countries me money wnn forum of public debate. which to pay tor their imports, some countries are so impoverisnea mat The word "barrage." use of which they can import only to the extent that has been trreatlv extended hv intimate tney can uurrow or pay witn exporws. When interest due from the allies, In terest on American securities held abroad and balance between imports and exports of merchandise are con sidered, there will be a balance due the United States of about $1,000, Doubtless there will be wars after the league of nations is formed, as Senator Cummins predicts; only paci fists and other people of defective intellect believe otherwise. The ques tion for us to consider is whether there will be fewer wars, whether they will A DOO-IN-THE-MANGEB POLICY. The action of the shipping board in rejecting a proposal of the Northwest Steel company, by which its yard would have been kept continuously at work and the government would have saved ' several million dollars, is the limit of absurdity in the policy which .President v ilson has forced upon the board. Charles Piez, whose name was signed to the letter rejecting the offer. did not believe in that policy, for he no sooner regained his freedom to ex press his personal opinion by ceasing to De manager of the shipping board than he made a speech denouncing the wholesale cancellation of contracts and the consequent scrapping of shipyards. There is reason to believe that the board itself is not in favor of that policy, for it conflicts with some of the board s acts The board's mouthpiece is Chairman Hurley, who has been in constant com munication with President Wilson dur ing his stay in Paris. That policy is simpiy dictated to tne board by th president. Cancellation of steel, ship contracts was at first defended by the necessity of reducing- cost from war price to peace price. , That is a good reason as to work not already done, but ship builders should- have been left free to use the capacity thus released in fillin foreign contracts. Such contracts were offered in abundance, -but the builders were forbidden to accept them. There may have been good cause to desire ships of larger tonnage than contracts provided or than the ways would ac commodate, but there was no reason to slacken activity in building. Mr. Hurley had set a goal of 25,000,00 tons deadweight for the American merchant marine, and the total is Btlll rar from that figure. All of these considerations seem to nave actuated the Northwest com pany s offer. The board had canceled contracts for six ships, leaving twelve on which work was started or to be started after November 11, 1918. It ' offered to accept the peace price for the twelve provided the contract for the six was reinstated at peace figures. Since the board desires larger ships, the company offered to change its ways to construct 12,000-ton ships at its own expense. By this arrangement the board would have saved $4,000,000 In reduced cost of the vessels and in release from various claims and would have acquired six more ships at a far earlier date than will now be possible. The company would have gained mate rially in the shape of additional work and would have kept Its plant in oper ation and its organization- together until a date when other contracts would surely be obtainable. . From a purely business viewpoint it was a good bargain for both parties, but it was rejected. The only reason is that it did not accord with the policy which Mr. Wilson is working out at Paris; how and why, the president has never revealed. The life of the Those Who Come and Go. est that exists among all those who work could be made plain." That is one of the plans by which a counter attack on socialism can be made with success. It recognizes the associations growing out of the war. finds a further application in the de velopment of wireless telephony. One of the epochal improvements of the wireless system recently announced is the "barrage receiver," which ellm inates interference bv nutslda nub 000,000 a year, which can best be paid scrlbers and makes multiple wireless vy investment auruuu, since payment telephony possible apparently without otnerwise would seriously oisturD ex- limitation. Technical difficulties are change and hinder foreign trade. explained by the inventor in a. manner A great extension of foreign bank- Komewhat intellicihin to th invman ing una investment lacimies win ue in the statement that "th correspond neeaea io conauct mis Dusiness. Air. lnfir Mulvalent would h to Viavo n Kent suggests that the individual banks whlch could be BO ajjustcd that a n.3 wen ats tne irarnu reserve uautva person could Stand Close to a Steam be authorized to deal in acceptance whistle without hearing it and yet uil terms which wuuiu grant a. niiijti- mum of a year's credit to foreign Im porters. He proposes that foreign se curities be bought by American invest ment houses for their clients, and that foreign industrials be bought as 'the basis of debentures to be issued in this country. These proposals open a new prospect to Americans. The time may not be remote when we shall see Mesopota mia Oil, Siberia Copper or Borneo Rubber among the stocks quoted 'on the exchange, and the names of re mote places in distant countries will be as familiar to us as the war has made the villages of France. Denlo ls lust a-spreading out m the road." grinned Irvln K. Smith, as, ac companied by B. A- Hamilton wear ing a mild cerese necktie and Cam Tremble, he registered at the Imperial. "It was some town before prohibition. but now it is nothing.' The three tall. tanned young men are In tne sneep business and the long arm of Uncle Sam reached out to the edge of Mal heur county, where it toucnes up :i trains t the Idaho line, and brought them to Portland. They are witnesses in a case being investigated by the fed eral grand Jury wherein a couple of Basques are supposed to have burned part of the range. At the former sit ting of the grand jury an attempt was made to, serve Ssnith, Hamilton and Tremble with papers, but the roads are so bad that a deputy United States marshal had to turn back after goine as far as Burns. This time they were subpoenaed by wire. "I never saw a man in Paris that I knew, outside of soldiers," Joe Demaln told the Imperial staff yesterday. The staff considers this surprising, for Joe has been In the hotel game for years and knows thousands of people. Ap parently the traveling public was not patronizing Paris during the war. Joe, Demaln was a porter at the Imperial before he went across. Being a native of Belgium, he was used as an Inter preter part of the time with the Ameri can forces. Some night next week the emnloves of the house are going to give Joe a banquet, which will set- mem hark is n t.lalr. and then they expect Joe to teil them all about the war. as he saw 1L He has already intimated mil It was a wonderful war. An ancient and a fishlike smell per vaded the Imperial lobby yesterday mnrninsr. Th odor was traced to a nark nee addressed to Harry Hamilton, a nH it wn nromotly thrown out. Wednesday Mr. Hamilton receivea i friend at Brlghtwood. no tifylng him that two nice trout had been mailed to him. The fish were delivered 36 hours after the receipt of the letter, end yet Brightwooo ls.onvy fcnuva nri an minutes nao irum Portland. Mr. Hamilton has now aaaea his voice to the demand that fostmas ter-Qeneral Burleson resign. Trannhnnt sruests of Hi Everdlng, - --, -11 are S. H. briarman ana o um-nj Salt Lake City, and E. L. Kora oi us- rfn .They Dsaaed torougn rorusuu yesterday on their way to attend the Pendleton shoot to be neia jume Both Ford and Sharman have been mashing clay pigeons in contests neio. here for several years. Anrnna lenowinsr of a good, dependa hi. nolc will confer a favor on L. is Markham. who wants to open the soda springs In the Wind river country, up the Columbia. A road costing has been bulht to the place, but a cook la as essential and Mr. Markham has been scouting for one for the past sev eral days. The Present Pace. By Grace K. Hall. Oh, they grow up so very fast, our precious little girls! Today they wear the coifed hair where yesterday hung curls; They tell their mother many things which she is shocked to hear. But they excuse her ignorance because she's such a dear; They realize she's had no chance to learn, and so they try To make up for her slow advance as days are passing by. They change to French heels In a day. they wear the beauty spot. They add a carmine touch to lips. though mother loves it not; They tell the latest story that ls fit for mother's ear. But keep the risque ones for the chum whose nerves they do not fear. They order silken hosiery with an air that s most blase; They grieve at any task that mars their polished nails each day; They are Informed on theater, on mati nee and ball. They hum the latest operas in fact they know It all: Perhaps (?) the times demand that they shall keep a faster pace Than did the younger set when ma was fairly In the race; But oft I pause and wonder just how old these girls will be When they shall hold their babies' babes upon their palsied knee. hear a person speaking from a dis. tance of a few hundred feet." Science has found a solution of this problem. which ougrtt greatly to increase our respect for science. It also promises big things for the perfection of ordi nary telephones now in use A COUNTER ATTACK ON BOLSHEVISM. Bombs and riots in America, riots in Paris, civil war In Germany, red 1 out under the new dispensation has In a world In which peoples who have been impoverished and whose lands have been devastated by war have seemed to predominate, it is re freshing to read of the gains made by the Arabs of Mesopotamia as the direct result of Anglo-Saxon enter prise. The old Turkish system of exploitation and taxation had encour aged banditry rather than thrift, but an immense scheme of agricultural development which is being carried terror in Russia are the latest devel opments of the class war which the enemies of a democratic form of gov ernment have proclaimed throughout the world. All pretense that social ists are conducting a merely political agitation by constitutional means In favor of a change in the fundamental laws of the republic has been aban doned. They propose to impose their opinions and form of government on the majority by force, whether it will or no. They have rejected ballot and majority rule. They have resorted to bullet, bomb and bludgeon. They are already brought more than half million acres of fertile land under cul tivation and has made it possible not only to grow sufficient grain for home consumption but also to send a sur plus to Europe. The spectacle of the conversion of a nomadic people into an exporting population while a world war was yet raging deserves to be rated among the marvels of the world. By the time general prohibition comes In, ingenuity will have reached its end in devising ways to beat the law. . Some of the means now em determined to rule, though they are I ployed are childish in their simplicity only a smalt- minority. They have de- I ana indicate tne end or resource, clared war and their challenge should be taken up by all in authority. I Ferdinand of Roumania has the As the man who met and overcame I right idea, though he is late in prac the first attack in this country. Mayor 1 ticing it. He will ride into the Hun Hanson has established a claim to I ganan capital as a. conqueror. A few leadership, especially when the na- others might have done that in Berlin tion's natural leader is in a far coun-1 with great moral effect. try. The time for mild measures has passed, and the republic, beinir at-1 Many more parlors In farmhouses tacked by force, should retaliate by lean be opened to good use, as is done force without stint. Imprisonment for by the Linn county woman who has those who practice or preach violent sixteen Incubators running. The front means of changing the government, room on the farm generally is a dead death for those who take human life, I asset suppression of all publications and meetings which promote physical con- Su,dden riches were too much for a flicts between classes, deportation of San Francisco newsboy of 54 and they all aliens among the socialists these went to his head. He is not to be are legitimate, appropriate and effec- I blamed. They would feaze many ap live measures. i nere snouia be no I parently level-headed people. nesitation aDout resort to them But care should be taken to dis- That right of the corresDondents to criminate between the principles of send news at will seems to be a mere the socialists and the means by which fiction in view of the fact that the tney propose to put those .principles cables were occupied in sending 40,000 Tannail 11V an old salt. Lynn Caton of Willow Bar ranch, down the colum his river, was in the city yesterday, Mr. futon ia the owner of the river cruiser Sea Otter, and since this 12-knot boat came into his possession he ls putting all his time riding on the water, which, he explains, accounts for his tanned appearance. Frank Kelley of Cohoes, N. Y-. Is at the Portland. The town wa immor talized in "The Belle of New York ihrnnirh tha son ir of Ichabod Bronaon "In Far Cohoes, Where the Hop .Vine Grows." And there never were hop vines in that part of York state. fJus Kuhn. president of the Lion flothlnsr romrjanv. is returning from- himinPBa trio to the east, where he vis Iter! iha nrlnclDal markets In an effor to obtain late styles for the Portland trade. 1. Humnhries of Napier, New Zea land, in at the Multnomah for a few days. The "Oregon system" of politics is said to have been copied, in a way from the New Zealand system. M. T. Henderson, a merchant Amity, ia at the Perkins. A piece of th west side Pacific highwaV In the vlcin ity of Amity Is to be paved this season "Hod" O. Gauseer, part owner In th Rainier Grand hotel. Seattle, and on th road taklnif orders for a soft drink, .is at the Hotel Oregon. y Lieutenant E. A. Schafer, recently with the engineers in France, left th Imperial last night on nis way to &a Francisco. Ernest Hesse, of Yonkers, N. Y., i at the Imperial, which recalls' the que tion of the Englishman. "What are yonkers?" J. p. Scearce. Pacific coart repreeenta tlve for a Detroit automobile factory Is at the Benson on a business tour the northwest. . A. A. Bonney. a ranch owner from th Tygh valley district in Wasco county ls at the Perkins. Fred Morgus. one of the victory loan drivers of St. Helens, was at the Hotel Oregon yesterday. Mrs. R. K. Clanton. wife of the stat fish warden, is at the Perkins from Bonneville. Mr. and Mrs. A. P. Stewart, tourist from Thermooolis. Wyo.. are at th Multnomah. E. E. Muecke. recent arrival from th Philippines, is at the Benson. D. G. Wilson of Shanghai is amon the Benson arrivals. In Other Days. Tweaty-flre Years Ago. From The Orernnlan of Iay . 1894. Washington. Coxey and his leaders are -under arrest and will appear Friday In police court for trial for unlawfully displaying banners. Cleveland. The riots which began May day were continued today, cul minating in open riots. The Ohio guard and gatling gun battery were assem bled at the armory. The case of Frank C. Bradley, ac cused of having embezzled $25,000 from the Sunnyside " Land ft Improvement company, set for yesterday, was con tinued indefinitely. William Susxcewsky, an insane man, terrorized residents of Shattuck's sta tion yesterday, stalking about flourish ing a large revolver. XEWSPAPER IS SPREADIXO OUT Eutcese Guard I" ndertroea Ordeal of Moving Into New Quarters. The Eugene Guard went through an experience successfully the first of the week. It moved and now has double Its former-floor space. Yet It will not have enough no live newspaper has more than elbow room and many times not that. The move was necessary for the Guard, however, which ls "coming right along." like the rest of Eugene. The Guard, by the way, has a new press coming west. IT. T. Haines, a Portland printer and newspaper man. was In Pendleton re cently looking around. He likes the looks of Umatilla county and wants to buy one of its weekly papers. W. C. Conner Is editor of the North west Poultry Journal of Salem. He also is editor of the Harrisburg Bulletin. which means much traveling back and forth, but that is nothing to a live man like Conner. Calvin Goss has suspended the Cove Sentinel, which he started In 1912. Six months ago he leased the North Powder Newa and has been running both lone handed. Mr. Goss has been in the bust ness nearly 40 years, beginning in In diana, covering towns in the middle west and the North Pacific and British Columbia. . Fifty Years Ago. From The Oregonlan of May S. 1869. New York. A consolidation of the Hudson River and Central railroads is contemplated on the basis of $1,000,000. Washington. general Robert E. Lee. accompanied by Mr. and Mrs. Taggart of Baltimore, called ou the president today. No bids for the construction of the Oddfellows' hall were received, but ar rangements have been made to start excavation of the basement at once. Mrs. F. Miller had her skull frac tured in a runaway accident which oc curred yesterday during the funeral services in tribute to Mrs. Watson. EXTERMINATION STILL GOES ON Oae-Seveaih of Armeslsss to One Dis trict Dio Each Month. PORTLAND. May 2. (To the Editor.) I have read and reread with much in terest the editorial in The Oregonlan "A Mandate for Armenia." and I want to thank you for the service you have rendered our committee in giving such a worin-wmio uaua for our cam paign. I am Just" in receipt of a cablegram pleading for immediacy of Interven tion. as the writer. Dr. G. II. T. Main president of Grinnell college, now our commissioner to the Caucasus, states that the world appears to be uncon scious -of the overwhelming human tragedy that is being enacted in the Caucasus. The Turk and his racial confederates are carrying forward with growing efficiency the policy of ex termination developed during the war by the method of starvation. Starva tion is aided by typhus and already, as if in anticipation of the hot season. cholera ts developing. In the particular district to which Or. Main is assigned there is a death rate of one-seventh of the entire popu lation each month. Among the many things in your edi torial which are gratifying to me is the description of the Armenians as a people so well worth saving, to which you link the services rendered by the Armenians to the cause of freedom. J. J. HAXDSAKKR, State director American committee for relief In the near east. slg- Leuer Kvll Preferred. Washington (D. C.) Star. "Why didn't you stop when I naled you?" inquired the officer. "Well." replied Mr. Chuggins, "it had taken me two hours to get this old fliv ver started, and it seemed a shame to stop her merely to avoid a little thing like hPlne "rrfst'd." COMMITTEEMAN INDORSES WOOD Republican I'arty Official In Hood Hirer Sees Presidential Qualities. HOOD RIVER, Or.. May 1. (To the Editor.) I have been requested to write an open letter to the republicans of Oregon calling their attention to the unique fitness and popular strength of General Leonard Wood as a president ial possibility in the next general elec tion. The man who requested me to write on this subject is a republican 100 per cent slmon pure. He attended the con vention that nominated Abraham Lin coln at Chicago In I860, and he has voted for every republican nominee from Lincoln to Charles E. Hughes. This loyal republican who ls so much interested in the success of the great party of Abraham Lincoln is known to his many friends of Hood River as the Crand old man of our town and coun ty, Hon. E. L. Smith, who. having pussed nis 81st mllepost, is still young ami mentally alert. There is not a man in the state of Oregon who is more interested in national affairs. General Wood Is Mr. Smith's first choice for president, and ia no doubt iho first choice of millions of republi cans throughout this great republic, from the piue-clad hills of New Eng land to Mie balmy waters of the Golden Gate General Wood belongs to no political faction; he is a clean, clear-cut. 100 per cent American. The official army register for 1915 shows that General Wood was born In New Hampshire, October 9. IS60. He was assistant surgeon In 1S86. He holds drgrees from Harvard. Williams col lege and from the University of Penn sylvania. Though he was not graduat ed from the military academy at West Point, the high place which he reached la greatly to ins credit, for it is an open secret among all men who are familiar with army life that the line of promo tion to a high rank l easier for the West Pointer. General Wood rose stead ily from the first until he reached tho top. He was known in army life as an I indefatigable worker. General V oo.l has always oeen an ac tive apostle of preparedness. He was a man of strong convictions. He invit ed his life-long friend. Colonel Roose velt, to make a speech at the training camp at Plattsburg. Then and there this illustrious soldier sounded his own death-knell, so far as the present ad ministration was concerned. This act was a sinning against the holy ghost, for the pacifist administration thence forth put the inspected and condemned brand on General Wood. Thus, by do ing his duty as he saw it, he forfeited every chance he ever had of being sent to France. It Is my belief that the republicans f the United States should administer a stinging rebuke to an administration that for purely political purposes would debar the American people from the services of their most distinguished sol dier. General Leonard Wood. The way to redress this gross Injustice ls for the republicans to elect General Wood next president of the United States, and forever place a ban on such unfair deal ing in the highest office in the land. ROY D. SMITH, Republican State Committeeman for Mend Itivcr cotirnv words of the peace treaty. in effect. Under our constitution they have a right to advocate a change in the constitution Itself by which either a socialist or a monarchist . system would be substituted for the republic. provided they do this by reason and are content to await realization of their hopes until they have persuaded a majority to vote for the Change at A lost dog formerly was the most elections. Their treason consists in the sorrowful spectacle, but no more. The American "royalty" does not mind the cost of separation. A New York woman has been given $4,500,000 and $100,000 a year, with privilege of remarrying. rf Kmnllpi- and of Iprr duration find whether the right will be sure to win. shipbuilding industry haffgs on Jiis nod. attempt to bring about the change by violence, in defiance of. the constitu tion. They have made such slow prog ress toward convincing the majority by reason that they have adopted the bolshevist short cut. The American constitution permits no short cuts. That the socialists of America are of one mind with the bolshevists is pro claimed by the Call, their recognized organ.- In an article which takes to task "liberal sentimentalists who are persistently caviling at the progress of political transformation in eastern and central Europe," it exults, over the triumphs of bolshevism In a manner that is shocking to the parlor bol shevists who fear contamination by the blood which it has shed. The fol lowing extract is illuminating: The old order Is smashed. Kor a period power Is with tha people, to shape their own future, to build up, if they will, a new structure of life, formed tor human happi ness and liberty. In Kussia they have established the foun dations of this new order. In Hungary likewise. It ls taking- form In I3avarla. Germany and Austria are struggling toward the new forms. Through tiie whole of Europe east of the Rhine this would scein to be the immediate natural trend of po litical evolution. One would think that American liberals would welcome the birth of this new democ racy. Not ao. In the pages of the New abandoned trunk full of liquor has first place. If Burleson resigns the electrical workers may not strike. The proposal is as cool as It is impossible. Burleson resign ? It's a husky school board that can slash half a million from a building programme. With thousands of fishing boats but, salmon seems to cost as much as ever. Now's your time to get a bargain in awooden ship, all made at home. All the German plenipotentiaries can do is sign on the dotted line. The redness of fades to pale pink. Russia gradually Some surprises both ways in the list of victory buyers! All aboard for "Champooick," where Oregon began! Bargain day lor victory bonds. GENEROSITY OMITS EDICATIO Parents Balk at School Taxes) Yet C Money Freely to Children. PORTLAND, May 2. (To the Edi tor.) It will be up to us to show whether we stand for education in the real sense of the word or for a poor substitute. We have been willing to accept the former without fair com pensation until now. but the teaching profession Beems to have stood the In justice to the limit of Its tolerance. Kor, owing to inadequate salaries, the shortage of good teachers all over the country, as well as In Portland (where out of 70 supply teachers serving as substitutes only four are considered eligible) Is bringing education in this country to a serious situation, it seems. Then it is time for us to wake up. It must be the word "taxes" that is largely reisponsiblo for our niggardly salaries to teachers our horror of that, and yet we give generously to our chil dren, usually more than we can afford. but how we hate to go aown into our pockets for the taxes to pay for their education, their most vital need and where we ahould really be the most generous. The taxpayers who have no children should nevertheless be In terested in the quetsion. for they have a duty towards this country and its future welfare and should therefore be willing to contribute unbegrudgingly to the education of its coming citizens. I find that Portland, out of 16 other western cities, stands fourth lowest in percentage of city expenditures for schools, while our millage Is third lowest among 20 towns of Oregon. Yet we know that Portland schools are well equipped. What. then, must there left with which to pay our 12110 tiinchers, the most important factor of all? Let us consider long and well be fore we vote "No." May 10. More than that, let us see to It that we all turn ,nt and show by our vote that we mean to be fair to the best Interests of our children and education. CITY TAXPAYER. Will Germany, Russia and Japan Unite In New Alliance? Tumbled thrones and fallen dynasties, followed by the red min of revolution, and coupled with a distrust of the allies, may cause the peoples of Russia and Germany to turn toward Japan for friendship and the building of the new structures of their statehood, declares General Count Adam Rzewuski, for 50 years in the service of the late czar, in an article appearing in The Sunday Oreponian. However greatly one may disagree with him, his views are more than worthy of consideration, and the close student of international politics will follow them with keen interest. MODERN FIUME, FOR WHICH ITALY STRIVES What about Fiume, the city and district for the possession of which the Italian peace delegates grew wrathy at Paris, and left the conference in dudgeon? In the Sunday issue, with photographs, Paul J. Closset, a Portland man, who recently returned from the Adriatic, tells of Fiume in the intimate manner of one who has been there and gained his knowledge at first-hand. "THE HOTEL BAR" Passing with the dodo and the dinosaurus is the bar of the old hotel that gilded precinct where hail-fellows-well-met lift the genial glares, and where the moody misanthrope takes his solitary "Dick Smith." But, as it passes, W. E. Hill, artist of folks, catches a few typical sketches in crayon and presents them in the Sunday issue, on his own page, "Among Us Mortals." TOM SAWYER AND HUCK FINN If you want to place a winning wager, make the bet that one grows never too old to forget his vanished boyhood, and that delight always follows that which brings it vividly back to mind. And the Tom Sawyer page of comics, taken and portrayed from Mark Twain's own book, brings just Fuch results. Tom, and Tom's auntie, and the ragged, irre pressible Huck, are there tomorrow in the magazine stction of the big Sunday paper. WITH THE HELP OF GOD AND A FEW MARINES Being a con tinuation of the personal story of Brigadier-General A. W. Catlin, who commanded the Cth regiment of 5ea-soldiers at Chateau Thierry. In tomorrow's issue General Catlin tells of the fierce fight in Belleau Wood, when the enemy learned that American troops were their betters, and when Hindcnburg lost Paris before the charging, valorous line of forest-green. "YELLOW TO THE CORE" Here is a yarn from the front, of an American soldier whose flesh shrank from battle, so that he cast away his rifle and fled the field, but whose spirit rallied and sent him back again, a fighting fury, to save his regiment, cheat the firing squad, and win glory. There is a petite French maiden " tangled up in the skein of the story which is one of the real romances of the war. CHURCH AND SCHOOL. A page to each in every Sunday issue, so that Portland people may keep pace with these twin paladins of progress. The well-informed follow these rages. ALL THE NEWS OF ALL TIIE WORLD THE SUNDAY OREGONIAN