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TIIE 3IORXIXG OREGONIAX, SATUEDAT, HIAT 31, 1919.
ESTABLISHED BT HEBT L. PITTOCK.
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BONDS TO IllIlD rp COMMEBCE.
Results as sure as those to be derived
from any of the bond Issues on which
the people of Oregon will vote next
Tuesday will surely flow from voting
the $1,000,000 issue which is asked by
the Port of Portland commission. Port
land has a pood navigable channel and
good port facilities docks, elevator,
coaling facilities, fuel oil supply, dry
dock and has provided funds for ex
tension of these facilities. It now
must go out and get business, and ar
range matters so that business will
come and will stay. It wants working
capital for this purpose. The money
to be raised on bonds is to be this
capital.
Power to expend money in this man
ner was granted by the legislature at
the last two sessions. It was necessary
for the community to put Portland on
an equality with competing ports, be
cause shipping lines had been diverted
to other ports, because private inter
ests had not met the emergency and
because without community action
Portland would not share in the great
increase of shipping. The principal
purposes to which the fund may be
applied are stated in the Chamber of
Commerce bulletin' to be:
Insure fuel for bunkers at the best
northwestern prices.
Organize an efficient traffic bureau,
with a traffic manager as director.
Cover any difference in pilotage.
Guarantee a given channel depth,
and make good on the guarantee in
the event a ship finds less water in tho
channels stated.
Maintain adequate pilotage servicfi
at the mouth of the river.
Protect the harbor in adequate tow
age for moves of vessels, and guar
antee as good a rate as may be had in
any hr bor of the Pacific.
Provide adequate depth of water in
the harbor for such vessels as may
come here.
If necessary, contract space on ships
and see that the necessary cargo is
provided, or pay the difference.
Pay a bonus or subsidy, if such be
comes necessary, to attract good ship
ping lines to Portland.
Issue a port manual, to be distrib
uted throughout the ports of the world.
If the commission should be pro
vided with money which it was free
to apply to any of these purposes as
occasion should require, it would be
in a position to put Portland on an
equality with all competing ports in
every respect wherein it may now be
deficient. The sum to be applied to
any one purpose cannot now be defined
in advance, nor can the total sum
needed be defined. The wise course,
then, is to vote a lump sum which will
be ample to cover the whole, trusting
the discretion of the commission to
spend it wisely. This can be done
safely, for, as reorganized, the com
mission is composed of seven of the
city's ablest and most public-spirited
business men, who will render a full
account of all expenditures. They voted
unanimously for the bonds and the
directors of the Chamber of Commerce
Iiave unanimously indorsed their plans.
Though tonnage is now scarce, it will
soon be abundant and will be seeking
employment instead of being sought.
In a few months the troops will have
been brought home from Europe, and
the transports and supply ships will
be released for commerce. New ships
are daily completed at the yards.
Other nations will release transports
from war service and will launch new
vessels. The only war demands then
remaining will be for supply of the
army of occupation in Germany and
food to the starving peoples. This will
be Portland's opportunity to bring
Jilto the service of its commerce a large
Nnnage, to show facilities, economy of
handling and volume of traffic equal
to any and to establish its position' as
a port. Even if it should be necessary
to spend the entire $1,000,000, these
results would be well worth the price.
GERMANY'S LAST BLCFF.
Germany's counter proposals of peace
contain the same insolent assumption
that there is no moral difference be
tween that country and its enemies
which has marked its whole course
from the beginning of the war. The
blockade which was approved by Ger
man statesmen of a former generation
as a lawful weapon is put in the same
category as the wholesale slaughter of
people at- sea in defiance of law and
humanity, and a monstrous claim to
reparation is made. While Germany
still defends its crimes, it demands ad
. mission to the peace league as an equal
. with the nations which brought it to
justice. Thus tho fiction is main-i
tained that the war was just an ordi
nary quarrel between nations, involv
ing no fundamental question of right
and wrong, and that the only thing
remaining to do is to balance accounts
as between two business men.
The plain inference is that the Ger
man government is still controlled by
those "military masters" with whom
President Wilson said he would deal
on no terms except those of surrender.
Behind the ostentatiously constructed
democratic government are Von Hin
denburg in command of the army and
Von Bernstorff at the head of the
peace bureau, tho one the brutally
frank champion of barbarism, the
other the master of perfidy. With the
best remaining troops of the army
concentrated in the east, they have
hoped to keep a corridor open from
past Prussia into the Baltic provinces
of Russia, in order that they might
keep in communication with the Ger
man barons of that region and with
the bolshevists beyond. By hook or
by crook they hoped to bluff tho allies
into leaving Danzig" to Germany, that
they mig-ht have unbroken communi
cation along: the coast eastward and
might shut Poland off from the sea.
This was their forlorn hope of winning
the war in the east after havitg- lost
it in the west. -
, Unless the peace conference is to
pacrifice what the armies won and is
to betray the cause for which millions
died, it will summarily reject these
proposals and give the Germans only
one alternative to acceptance of the
Versailles terms armed occupation of
Germany, When the allied armies
move there is no doubt of the outcome.
The Germans protested against the
armistice terms,' but they signed. They
said thev would not civ ft ur the mer-
saia tne J: oiisn troops snouia not iana
at Danzig, but they yielded the right,
thougrh the allies did not exercise it.
They will sign the treaty, even though
the allies should present it to them on
the point of a bayonet at Berlin. They
will bluff to the last, but they will
yield.
. IF NOT HUGHES. WHO f
'Supporters of General Wood assert an am
bition to liave him named in the Kame man
ner that Hughes vas named; they overlook
the fact that the candidacy of Mr. Hushes
also proved very satisfactory to tho demo
crats. Pendleton Kast. Orsffoni&n.
It is the. duty of a political party, of
course, to name its best and strongest
candidate. No party in its senses chooses
one who is sure to be beaten as against
one who may be elected. Could the
republican, party, in. 19 16, after the dis
sensions and demoralization and de
feat of 1912,. have united behind any
candidate more likely to win than
Hughes? If so, whom?
A few thousand votes defeated
Hughes a strategic mistake, or series
of mistakes. If he had shaken some
one's hand in California, or if he had
not permitted himself to be delivered
to the charge of one faction of the
party, he might have been elected
probably would have been. The his
tory of the world would then have been
written in a different way or at least
by a different hand. Doubtless the
irresistible powers of right and duty
would have somehow asserted them
selves, whatever the American people
may have done about a president.
What consolation is to be found by
any democrat in the story of 1912.
when he recalls that Wilson was not
elected in approval of his record, but
because the opposing candidate de
feated himself ?
GOOD APPOINTMENT.
The questions raised by District At
torney Evans as to the validity of the
act creating the court of domestic re
lations for Multnomah county are seri
ous, and justify Governor Olcott in re
ferring them to the attorney-general
for an opinion. It is obviously a mis
take to set up a new judicial estab
lishment in Portland only" to have it
knocked down by a legal test which
is sure to follow; it is also obviously
desirable that the tenure of the in
cumbent be made secure, and the in
tegrity of all its transactions be as
sured, so far as it may be done by a
definition of the status of the new
court organization.
The defects indicated by District
Attorney Evans, while technical, ap
pear formidable. They relate to the
special legislation which has created
a court for Multnomah county alone,
and to failure of the act to prescribe
any clear formula of procedure. The
court is to have jurisdiction over juve
nile offenders,. but the district attor
ney thinks the nature of the offenses
ought to have been defined. It hap
pens, unhappily, that murder is com
mitted occasionally by a boy or even
a girl. Shall he or she be tried only
by the domestic relations court? It is
clear, too, that the act, by its peculiar
phraseology, excludes all other coun
ties from the opportunity to have a
court of domestic relations, even
though they may attain the necessary
200,000 inhabitants. These flaws may
be more apparent than real. What
ever their nature, the governor will
have, and should have, a guide to his
course of action by the investigation
and report of the attorney-general.
The plan to appoint Jacob Kanzler
to the court of domestic relations, if
and when established, is satisfactory.
The circuit judges of Multnomah made
three excellent recommendations, nd
from among them the governor will
choose Mr. Kanzler. He is a young
man of high enthusiasm in good causes
and of a sympathetic understanding of
the problems of human conduct which
he must seek to solve and adjudicate.
He has a fine record as a soldier, and
he has a good standing at the bar. It
may be expected that Judge Kanzler
will devote himself to his new tasks
with zeal and discretion and that the
court of domestic relations through
him will perform a genuine public
service.
THE RECONSTRUCTION BONDS
It is well, perhaps, to repeat the
statement that there is but one bond
issue of $5,000,000 for reconstruction
purposes proposed in the measures on
next Tuesday's ballot.
There are two measures, however,
which mention the one bond issue. One
is a. constitutional amendment; the
other a bill. The constitutional amend
ment appropriates no money and,
standing alone, authorizes no bond
issue. It is but a grant of authority
to enact. the bill which appears farther
down on the ballot.
The reconstruction bonding bill au
thorizes the bond issue of $5,000,000.
The amendment (306 yes) and the bill
(312 yes) go together. Adoption of
one and defeat of the other will ac
complish nothing. Adoption of both
will authorize issuance of $5,000,000
in bonds, no more.
It will also bear repetition that the
bill and amendment have three main
purposes. The bonds if authorized will
be apportioned as follows:
For co-operation with the govern
ment in land reclamation. $2,000,000.
For financing the state soldiers' land
settlement act, $647,500.
For construction of institutional
buildings and armories, $2,352,500.
The provision for co-operation with
the government is anticipatory legis
lation. A congressional act must be
passed before this portion of the bond
issue can be utilized. If used the gov
ernment will match the state's $2,000,
000, thus providing $4,000,000 for land
reclamation in Oregon.
The building allotment of $2,352,500
is not for promoting a fixed building
programme, although the fund is ap
portioned among several institutions,
The act enjoins the board of control
to have due regard for unemployment
conditions. It is announced that un
less an immediate need can be shown
for any building, that work will not
be undertaken unless there is a labor
crisis.
It is not venturesome for a state as
prosperous as Oregon to pledge $5,000,
000 for enterprises so worthy. Nor is
it a mark of undue caution to prepare
I for a, possible unemployment emer-
gency. Adoption of amendment and
bill will at once perform a public duty
toward the soldiers, sailors and ma
rines of Oregon and serve the public
itself.
READY FOR THE NEXT JOB.
"Healthy and sound" is the summing
up of business conditions in the United
States by an observer who has recently
made a tour of the country. Of course.
he has his "ifs" "if railroad ship
facilities are increased or reflated
and if restraints upon business or trade
are removed." But some of these ob
stacles are being removed and others
are in a fair way to be.
When we compare the extent of in
dustrial and revolutionary disturbance
in the United States with that which
prevails in other countries, not except
ing supposedly conservative Britain.
we can indorse this observer's verdict
that "bolshevism is an over-advertised
evil." , If It had not seized upon great
Russia and threatened to capture Ger
many, its activities in this country
would probably have attracted less
attention. But that is so much to the
good, for the effect has been more
vigor and determination in stamping
it out, the more readiness of labor
leaders to co-operate with employers
and the more readiness on the part
of the latter to establish better rela
tions with employes and thus to re
move causes of discontent. They keep
up wages and assist employes to buy
homes, knowing that bolshevism does
not thrive among such men.
The American people resemble a
gang of workmen who have just fin-,
ished one big job and are just cleaning
up the ground and gathering together
their tools preparatory to staring an
other job, which they know awaits
them and which will pay them well.
The only ones who are discontented
are those who have a chronic quarrel
with work and who want to appro
priate that which they, have not earned.
THE FIR AND ITS FUTURE.
Commercial strife between the fir
of the Pacific northwest and the pine
of the south for the first time in the
history of American lumbering shows
a strong tide setting toward the former.
Comparison of recent reports from
each district speak for themselves and
in a manner that may well bring satis
faction to Portland and Oregon.
With the gradual disappearance of
timber in the east, with Oregon pos
sessing the largest standing body of
timber in the United States and that
timber located largely in the Immense
tracts of the Willamette valley and
coast county sections it is obvious
that nothing in the industrial catalogue
is more vital to Portland and Oregon
than is the intensive development of
lumbering. As for the triumph of fir
from the forests of the northwest over
the yellow pine of the south, despite
the cheap labor and long hour condi
tions that prevail in the southern pine
belt, the recorded orders for each pro
vide abundant proof of an ascendancy
that is not to be temporary.
For the first four months of the
present year the orders for yellow pine,
as shown by the reports of the South
ern Pine associaition, amounted to
1,087,423,460 feet. For the same period
the orders for fir received by member
of the West Coast Lumbermen's asso
ciation, and shown in its recent re
port, totaled 1.227,317,369 feet.
These figures are fraught with sig
nificance. They mean that before long
the bulk of the great lumber industry
of the United States will be in the
Pacific northwest. They signify that
for many years to come the world will
look toward the forests of this section
for the larger part of its lumber sup
ply. Tho chain of logic is in perfect
sequence and strong in every link.
As Oregon has the largest body of
standing timber, magnificent trees of
titanic growth, it is more than likely
that Portland will become the great
central market of the American lum
bering industry. Where else?
The indications of this trend are al
ready manifest. More than the casual
observer imagines, with a quiet growth
that escapes attention, Portland is be
coming even now a lumbering center
of first importance. One after another
the larger companies have opened sales
offices here. There was a day. when
these companies ignored Oregon and
opened their establishments in Seattle.
During last year Oregon produced
2,600,000,000 feet, or approximately
100,000 carloads of lumber. Washing
ton .produced about 4,431,000,000 feet.
or approximately 170,000 carloads of
lumber. In 1911 the percentage of
Oregon's cut, by comparison with
Washington, was 30.8 per cent. Last
year it was 36.9 per cent. As the Pa
cific northwest, considered as an in
dividual section, is eclipsing and sue
ceeding the yellow pine district r f the
south, so in the near future will Ore
gon succeed and surpass Washington
as the greatest producer in the north
west..
The revenues that lumbering brings
to the northwest, revenues that are but
small when compared with the pro
spective enlargement of the industry,
are bulking in millions on the credit
side of the ledger. At prevailing prices,
which approximate $650 the carload,
the industry is even now bringing to
the northwest an annual total of
$152,750,000, and to Oregon something
like $65,000,000.
The Willamette valley, including
Portland, now produces about two-
thirds of Oregon's annual lumber out
put, and the increase is constant.
When the Willamette valley begins to
produce at capacity it will be found
to signify what it always has, and
more that it is the sure foundation
of Portland's commercial prosperity
and growth.
What is true of the Willamette val
ley is equally true of the coast section
Tillamook, Coos Bay and the Columbia
river districts, each of which is forg
ing forward in lumber production. It
is true of eastern Oregon, where we
have our own vast pine forests.
THE FRUIT OUTLOOK.
Fruit growers of the Pacific north
west have reason to be cheerful. Early
pessimistic reports as to crop prospects
are discounted by later and more pains
taking observation. The estimate of
Mr. H. F. Davidson of Hood River,
that there will be a general excess of
7500 carloads of apples over the yield
of last season, whicih was 19,400 car
loads, is probably very near tho cor
rect figure. This is coupled with the
prospect that prices for good grades
of fruit will be attractive from the
growers' viewpoint. A specimen con
tract for Jonathans from the Wenat
chee district to be picked before they
are fully mature, for shipment to the
Antipodes, at the level price of $2 a
box. may not establish a market, but
it is at least a straw showing the way
the wind blows. Growers in the classic
Hood River district, it is said, are not
worrying over prices this year. Re
ports of frost damage in tho Idaho
fruit-growing regions now seem to
have been exaggerated.
But it is not alone the apple grow-
ers who are prospering, j There are
good reports from the pear districts.
Tho prune crop promises to be
"spotted," with perhaps half a normal
yield in the northwest as a whole, but
there is nothing spotted about the
prices at which contracts are being
made by buyers. Offerings for apri
cots of $100 a ton, buyers to bear the
cost of packing, mean money in the
pockets of the producers. Not the
least significant of the items in the
crop news is an offer of 10 cents a
pound "net" for canning strawberries
in one of our famous strawberry dis
tricts. Demand for other small fruits
is quite generally greater than the
prospective supply.
The course of events quite generally
is vindicating the policy of those grow
ers who maintained their plantations
during the comparatively lean years of
lower production and less satisfactory
prices than are now in prospect. . Fruit
growing is a business for the stayers,
not for those who dig up their , trees
in a panic at the first sign of a tem
porary slump. Each of our staple
fruits in turn has passed through its
period of depression. The prune plant
ers who five or six years ago uprooted
many thousands of valuable trees now
bitterly regret their lack of foresight.
The same is true of the strawberry
growers and the loganberry men. The
pendulum is swinging back and fruit
growers are coming once more into
their own.
It is, perhaps, too early to seek the
reason for this altogether satisfactory
outlook. Undoubtedly the general
prosperity of the country has some
thing to do with it. There are many
reasons for supposing that Imminence
of national prohibition is reflected in
the 'market. This operates in two
ways. It is natural to suppose that
money formerly spent over the bar
will .find other outlets and that pur
chase of other luxuries than liquor will
be one of these. Direct substitution
of fruit and fruit juices for alcoholic
stimulants by those who must imbibe
something is reflected in the larger
market for grades which formerly were
relatively unsalable. Growers who
watch the business corners and com
bine selling efficiency with good horti
cultural methods bid fair, if they do
not overreach themselves, to reap the
most satisfactory harvest, all things
considered, that the fruit industry of
the northwest has ever known.
It is too late for eastern fruit grow
ers who abandoned the business in the
mistaken notion that it was overdone,
to recover their lost ground for sev
eral years. It is well known that it
takes about twice as long to bring a
fruit tree to commercial maturity in
the northeast as in the northwest. The
coming decade will be the northwest's
golden opportunity.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox, now reported
dying in, a nurses' home in London,
was at her best in her minor poems of
sentiment and optimism, and not when
she attempted flights into the sensa
tional. Her influence on the whole
was good, and she gave, joy to a wide
circle of readers who might not have
won by more subtle verse or grander
measures. Laugh and the world laughs
with you adequately expressed her
philosophy. She was not profound,
but was essentially helpful, and in her
later years has been devoting herself
to war work in the same spirit in
which she wrote. She inherited her
studious and artistic temperament and
was precocious in her extreme youth,
being a neighprbood celebrity at the
age of 8. Her latest published work.
The Worlds and I," was an auto
biography, in the course of which she
expressed conviction that persons in
this life may hold communication with
those in the world beyond.
Mr. Quinn, the eulogist of the demo
cratic administration, has the usual
conveniently short memory when he
says . that no president since Lincoln
has been so misrepresented and ma
ligned as President Wilson. By com
parison with what was said of Mc-
Klnley, Roosevelt and Taft, the adverse
comment on Wilson sounds like flat
tery. It is not that republicans hit
hard, but that democratis are thin-
skinned.
The shipbuilders have learned that
the only way to get anything out of
Hurley is to keep after him, and to
keep the congressmen after him. He
has a wholesome respect for the con
gressmen, for he knows that they will
soon call him to account.
If you find frost this morning.
charge it to misguided weather people
who forecast it possibly from looking
at an old month on their calendar.
Frost here the day before June Is a
joke.
Vancouver, B. C, continues to use
the lash, which does not stop crime
but prevents much of it. Use of the
lash is brutal, of course, but soare
murders and worse offenses.
Another homeward movement has
begun that of the Bourbon federal
brigade toward the south. It is the
vanguard of an army which will move
two years hence.
Didyou realize the "boys in "blue"
marching yesterday are beyond the
"three score and ten' allotted to mor
tals? Great men grew in the days of
their youth.
June is about here the month of
roses, rose festivals and "white dis
plays" that would drag In ecstasy
blind colored woman out of desert
Africa.
If Mr. Strickland had his way, a
bolshevist would vote as soon as he
landed, and the colonization of voters
would become a trans-oceanic enter
prise.
Not knowing the other party to the
fatal collision in Laurelhurst Wednes
day. the coroner's jury was unable to
fix the blame, or words to that effect.
When the voice of a city commis
sioner is raised against the inspection
nuisance, there is a ray of hope that
the public will get some relief.
Lots of times men "ongweed" by
living in a decent city wish they could
run over to Seattle and watch things
go in a place elastic.
All tho allies need do is start
brigade of colored Americans into
Germany to make that nation sign
pronto.
Lloyds', which will take a chance on
almost anything, would hesitate on in
suring bootleggers' stock.
What's in a name for a packing
plant? By any other name it would
bo as Swift, , .,
Those Who Come and Go.
Mr. and Mrs. T. "W. Alley of Moro
and Mr. and Mrs. E. M. Alley of Grass
Valley motored to Portland, arriving
at the Imperial yesterday. Another
Alley at the Imperial, but no relative
of the first two, is H. V. Alley of
Nehalem. who is a member of the
board of county commissioners of Til
lamook. A few years ago the people
of Nehalem were much interested in
an experiment conducted by Portland
people in boring for oil in the sands
near Nehalem. No oil was found, but
the investigators found natural gas
and at night an eight-foot flame of
natural gas illuminated the surround
ings. Strongly desirous of voting for the
$200,000 road bond issue at the special
election next Tuesday, Harry and
Shelby Bailey started by automobile
for their home at Lakeview yester
day. They have been visiting in Salem
since the I. O. O. K. convention. Lake
county wants to vote the bonds in or
der to co-operate with the state and
federal gernment in building a road,
which wilicost approximately $800,000,
to run through the county north and
south and a road east and west.
There are about eight sawmills and
four shingle mills at. Raymond, Wash.,
which is the head of navigation on
WUlapa harbor, and it is one of the
most lively sawmill towns of the
northwest. The registers of the Port
land hotels are speckled every day
with the names of visitors from Ray
mond, for the Raymond people prefei
coming 100 miles to Portland than go
ing 150 miles to Seattle. H. W. Mic
Pha.il, one of the prominent lumber
men of the section, is registered at
the Benson.
From Boyd, on Fifteen-Mile creek,
came Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Ward to the
Hotel Portland yesterday. Boyd is
credited with a resident population of
50. Not far away is one of the largest
apple orchards in the county, contain
ing about 4000 or 5000 acres, and this
year the orchard is expected to pro
duce around 500,000 boxes of apples.
This is the first year that the mam
moth orchard will come into full bear
ing. From Rockaway, where the Roose
velt highway will be constructed, ar
rived Alice Elmer Gibbs at tho Hotel
Oregon. Rockaway is the place where
the best of the sphagnum moss was
found when the Red Cross was using
the moss as material for bandages.
Last summer the entire summer colony
was drafted into the work of picking
the moss, which was gathered by boys
back of Beatty's store.
Members of the Sweek family gath
ered from far and near yesterday end
went to Tualatin to decorate the grave
of the pioneer founder of the family.
C. A. Sweek made the trip from Burns
to be present and registered for a few
hours at the Imperial while passing
through Portland.
Captain Thomas E. May of the 3!2d,
91st division, who used to be at
the Oregon Agricultural college as
an athletic expert, was at the Impe
rial yesterday on his way to Fuget
sound. He arrived from France a. few
weeks ago and wears the red blaze of
the honorable discharge on his left
arm.
There is a hotel tax which tho state
collects. Joseph Q. Richardson, deputy-
state treasurer, collects It. Inasmuch
as Deputy State Treasurer Richards jn
registers frequently at the Hotel Ore
gon, the management has an oppor
tunity to recover the tax through his
bill.
L. L. Noonchester of Burns is among'
the Hotel Oregon arrivals. The live
wires of Burns are talking of arrang
ing a bond issue some -of these days
to provide money for building a road
across the county, connecting with
Malheur on one side and Deschutes
on the other.
L. J. Merrill, cashier of the Mosier
Valley bank, and Mr. and Mrs. S. A.
Merrill of Des Moines, la., are at tho
Seward. S. A. Merrill, who is t'.ie
father of the Mosier resident, is also
in the banking business and is in
Oregon to visit his son.
Spending the holiday in Portland, A.
M Sobieski of The Dalles Is at the
Seward. Mr. Sobieski, who was for
merly a resident of Portland, is a
descendant of the Polish patriot who
came to help the colonies fight for
independence.
James McGraw, who is a timber
man of Marshfield, registered at the
Perkins yesterday with his wife. They
are returning from a trip east, where
they went on business and pleasure-
several weeks ago.
Mr. and Mrs. L. B. Pierce of La
Grande are visiting In the city, and
are staying at the Seward. Mr. Pierce
is a son of State Senator alter Pierce,
recent democratic nominee for gov
ernor of Oregon.
Members of the board of control of
the state of Washington T. E. Skaggs
and Clark V. Savidge of Olympia were
at the .Imperial yesterday with their
wives, on their way to Salem.
A. G. Hadaller of Harmony is at fuel
Perkins. The people who patronize tho
Harmony postofflce have a trl-week!y
mail service, the town being on the
Cowlitz-river.
"Just looking over the country," ex
plained D. Tauber, president of a photo
supply house of New York, who is an
arrival at the Hotel Portland.
R. A. Wernich of Coquille regis
tered at the Benson yesterday. Mr.
Wernich is interested In a sawmill near
the county seat of Coos county.
Accompanied by his daughter, A. W.
Stone is in the city and is at the
Hotel Portland. Mr. Stone is an or-
chardist of Hood River valley.
"French high commissioner" Is the
explanation which J. Henri Douaset
penned after his name at the Benson
yesterday.
Formerly a merchant, but row a re
tired capitalist, L. Jacobs of Klamath
Falls is in the city. He is staying
at the Imperial.
HE MARCHED AWAY.
He marched away one summer day.
The birds were singing blithe and gay.
But oh! it seemed so dull and gray.
When my dear laddie marched away.
"Yes, dear." he said. "I'm going now."
The light shone on his fair young brow,
"My country calls. 1 can not stay,"
And then my laddie marched away.
He marched away with comrades brave.
To freedom's cause his life he gave,
A golden star there shines today.
Because my laddie marched away.
The bells are ringing, war is o'er.
The birds are singing as of yore.
And still I see him as that day, x
With comrades brave he marched away.
BERTHA SLATER SMITH.
Hundreds of Them.
TILLAMOOK, Or.. May 29. (To the
Editor.) Please give the names of a
few of tho leading trade journals, also
addresses. READER.
Tour question is indefinite. Ask the
editor of your home newspaper to
permit you to consult his newspape
directory, .
More Truth Than Poetry.
By Jimti J. Montague.
(Copyright, 1818. by the Bell Syndicate. Inc.)
"VOTJ NEVER. CAN TELL.
A red-vested man from the city.
Who ne'er held a shoat in his grip
Or wakened a cheep from its sweet
morning sleep
To take Its matutinal dip.
Invested his all In a farmstead.
"Before the year passes," said he.
"I fancy perhaps that these hayseedy
yaps
"Will learn about farming from me."
A freckle-pocked lad from the country.
With patches all over his pants.
Who never ' had heard of "Get-rich-quick
Preferred-'
And knew not a thing of finance.
Came, hunting a job. in the city.
"I've got some ideas in my head
"An" before very long I'll be going
right strong
Among these here brokers," he saifi.
"Tou needn't go on with the story."
e near you observe with a sneer:
"What's the sense in a tale when the
heroes both fail
"In their purpose inside of a year?"
But this brief romance doesn't finish
As orthodox story books should,.
So pray let us observe that in spite of
their nerve
Both fellows pitched in and made
good.
For In spite of the hay on the hair of
the jay
He sometimes has learned how to
think.
And tho rich city chap isn't always
a sap.
Though his neckties are flagrantly
pink.
It wasn't his face that got Caesar his
place
As the boss of the kingdom of Rome,
And Solomon's crown didn't earn his
renown.
It was what was inside of his dome!
Anti-Climax.
Central America might as well quiet
down. Nobody is going to pay any at
tention to a one-ring war,
It Larks Nothing; bat the Nerve.
Doubtless congress would dearly love
to follow Dewey's example and cut the
cables.
A Veritable Treasure House.
Judging from all the fuss over it.
Flume must be a land overflowing with
garlic and spaghetti.
"Central."
By Grace E. Hall.
There's a human being who takes your
call.
Deserving your brusqueness not at all;
Who works in haste till the voices blend
In a maddening chant which has no
end ;
There is naught but rush as the hours
go.
While she - watches the switch-keys,
row on row;
And a hundred times ere a day goes by
She hears abuse nor attempts reply;
And her head may ache till she scarcely
sees.
As she queries so gently, "Number,
please."
But you do not care and you do not
- heed,
Tou only rail at her lack of speed.
Have you a girl who is young and gay.
Who is spending her time in her own
free way?
Whose heaviest task is a lesson-page
Which only an hour may quite engage?
Do you ever think of a sister dear.
When over the telephone oft you hear
A girlish voice with a hint of strain.
As she deftly answers with hand and
brain?
A human being is at the end
Of the vibrant wire o'er which you send
A cheerful greeting to those you know;
Remember this when you call "Hello!"
Red Star for Sixth Division.
U. S. A. P. O., No. 777, American E. F.
France, April 14. (To the Editor.)
In a copy of The Oregonian (I am
from Oregon myself), which has fallen
into my possession, I have noticed
that in answering a question from
"A Reader" of Hoquiam, Wash., In
regard to a red star worn on an
army uniform, you have erred much
in stating that it was an indication that
the wearer had been drafted.
The red. six-pointed star is. and has
been for a year, the official insignia of
the Sixth (6th) division, regular, which
is one of the divisions that will be do
ing the "watch on the Rhine" long after
the so-called "civilian soldiers" have
gone to their welcoming in the good
old U. S. A.
Yours, in the hope that you will give
this due consideration by publishing it
in your valued columns and thus help
to erase an impression that is most un
welcome to us, I am.
SERGEANT SAMUEL H. BEAR,
Battery E. 78th Field Artillery.
(Sixth Division. Regular.)
Is the American Girl Really a
Natural Grafter?
How about it, all you fellows? "Ill tell the world she is!" comes
one reply. "Not in a thousand years!" answers another. Well, what
ever your personal opinion may be, Helen Hoffman, special contributor
to The Sunday Oregonian, takes up the issue tomorrow. And Helen,
unsparing of her fair sisters, cites soldier after soldier, just back from
France with broadened vision, in proof that America's daughters have
their sparkling eyes always fixed on the main chance. "What are you
going to do about it, girls?" asks Helen. She don't know. Do you?
SHALL WE IMMUNIZE AMERICA AGAINST BOLSHEVISM?
Tamper with the question as we may, the fact remains that the
"trail of industrial discontent always runs straight as a dart to the
relations of labor and capital. Is the beast of bolshevism hidden
there ? W. Jerr Lauck, secretary of the National War Labor board,
does not contend that it is, but he presents the very real menace
that it may be at some not distant time. Wherefore he advocates a
"cards-on-the-table" conference of business and toilers, for the
' organization of the "League of Industrial Democracy." This
theme, discussed in the Sunday issue, is too near to your own
doorstep to overlook.
"WITH THE HELP OF GOD AND A FEW MARINES' The epic of
the United States marines is drawing to a close, but the first
chapter was no les3 vividly told and tense in interest than are
those that near the end. And Brigadier-General Catlin's tale of
the part the sea soldiers bore at Chateau-Thierry and Belleau Wood
will remain permanently in the archives of American history, long
after more pretentious chronicles have met the trash-pile.
AMONG US MORTALS For the theme of his inimitable page tomor
row, W. E. Hill, master of crayon character depiction, spent an
hour at "the second show." Gather round, all you folks, and meet
again the fellow who saw the show once before, the genius whose
secenarios somehow won't .sell, the lady who can't see anything
funny in Charlie Chaplin, and all the rest of 'em. "You've got to
hand it to Hill," is the dictum of thousands who follow his char
acter sketches in crayon.-appearing each Sunday in The Oregonian.
QUALITY AND QUANTITY BOTH Have you paused to ponder that
many magazines do not contain the trove of readable articles and
informative features that are handed you each week with the Sun
day issue? Well, it's so. Not only the news of the world, to the
last minute before the final edition went to press, but nooks of
interest for every reader in the family circle, as well.
Tell Your Newsboy You Want
THE SUNDAY OREGONIAN
1
In Other Days.
Twnty-Fire Years Aso.
From Tho Oreconian of May 31, IS?.
It is probable that the flood of 1S04
will some time today register the
record high water mark in Portland.
Boatmen yesterday did a rushing busi
ness conveytng sightseers up and down
Front and First streets.
Portland was selected -as the placa
of meeting in 1S35 of the Baptist as
sembly, which adjourned yesterday at
Saratoga, N. Y.
Organization or the Portland. Van
couver & Northern Railway company
with a capitalization of $3,000,000 has
been completed.
The iron work on the Eurnside-street
bridge is very nearly completed, thero
Deing only a little more painting to be
done.
Fifty Years Abo.
From The Oregonian of May SI. Jr.
St.
L-ouis. Advices from Shirley.
Cloude county. Kansas, state that four
members of a party of buffalo hunters
were killed by Indians.
The Oregon Central Military Road
company has determined to push their
road through to Goose lake this sum
mer and have levied an assessment of
23 per cent to carry on the work.
The annual excursion and picnic of
the Portland Turn Verein took place
yesterday, about 1500 persons partici
pating. ROAD APPEALS TO ALL FAITHS
Special Reason Why Each Party Should
Support Roosevelt Highway.
HOOD RIVER, Or., May 29. (To the
Editor.) What are the people of the
cotst counties doingt to secure the
Roosevelt highway? It may be my
fault, but I have seen nothing since
they took a "straw vote." It will take
more than straw votes to get them out
of the woods. It seems every citizen
of those counties should Inform somo
otier citizen of state of the needs of
the coast residents. Most of us know
very little about the resources of those
counties or the disadvantages under
which the inhabitants labor. So iso
lated Is that section that most of us
in "God's country" look on it as a kind
of terra Incognita.
The very children of that region
could be of help by writing even to
ether children living in the eastern
portion of our state, telling of the
"sounding sea" and its wonders, and in
viting them to "come and see" for
themselves. Printed information could
be inclosed for older heads.
If those people will see to It that
the voters axe informed they will get
the votes. Ignorance of the facts
means defeat. Lis.ten: The writer was
a member of the election board in one
of tho Portland precincts most direct
ly affected by the interstate bridge.
Out of tjrobably 250 voters. 42 votes
j were against it! He was fairly well
acquainted with the taxpayers, and
gave it as his judgment that the bridge
would not cost those men on an. aver
age of II aDiece. Thev did not do
this to be mean, but somehow each
one feels the burden of so many mil
lions will fall squarely on him.
What will the Roosevelt highway
cost the average citizen? What Is $2,
5o0.000 with an assessed valuation of
the state of nearly $900,000,000? More
cver, the enhanced value of property
in the counties directly affected, by
virtue cf increased development and
settlement, will soon more than re
turn the extra tax. Look at the inter
Etate bridge! What optimist even
througat it?
Then there is the $2,500,000 to be ex
FenUed on said highway by Uncle Sam.
What would the enterprising people of
other 6ta.tes think of us if we should
refuse such a donation from our govern
ment? Then there is the upkeep, the
biggest item In it elL Our multibil
lionaire Uncle Sam s to construct and
maintain a great military and scenic
highway along the Pacific coast of Ore
gon. What an advertisement for our
state!
All prohibitionists should vote for It
because It Is waterway. All socialists
should vote for it because it taxes
everybody in the United States and
will be for everybody. Republicans
will all vote for it as a memorial to
the great Roosevelt, whose name the
highway Is to bear, and all democrats
will vote for it because they will want
us to help them build one around the
world for Wilson some nay.
W. J. PEDDICORD.
Soldier's Equity In Bond.
REEDSPORT, Or.. May 29. (To the
Editor.) While serving in the navy I
bought a liberty bond on the install
ment plan at Mare Island, Cal., in Oc
tober, 1918. I paid $35 on the bond beV
fore being discharged at Norfolk. Va..
April 21, 1919. I have been unable to
find where I should send the balance
due, though I have made Inquiries
about everywhere. Please inform me
where I can pay the balance of $15.
KOY J. PECK.
Get in touch with the auditor for the
navy department. Wrashinerton. D. C