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8 THE 1TORXIXG OREGOXIAX,' WEDNESDAY, JTXT 9, 1919. ESTABLISHED BI 1E.MI C- PITTOCK- Fabliahad by Tha Orvgonian Pnbllshins CtK. lJ Sixth Streat. a'oruaad. orraon. C A. UOBLKN. " E. B. PIPER, Uuuiir. JSduor. Tha Or.jronian la a mmbr of tha Aaao clill Prraa The Associated Preaa In -cuively ntltletl to Iho ua for publica tion of all Dew. dlapatccea credited 10 it or not otharwta. crouited In this paper, and aiao lb. looal B.wa pob.labed herein. Ail mrnta of republication of apclai aiapalene herein are aao reserved. SutMcrtptloa ratea invariably In adranc 3r Mall. Ial'y. Sunday Included, one year.. .... Ijatiy. Pun-lay Included, six monthi. .. I'a-:y. Sunday Included, three months. laity. Sjntl..) Included, oni month.... Liiy. w iciest Sunday, one year. ..... l.ily. without suaUay. atx m-nta. ... Zai:y. without Sunday, one nvjnth. ... v.-k:y. one year. .. Sunday, one year. ................... fcuaday and weekly. .Br Carrier.) T)al:y. Sunday Included, one year '2V I'al y. 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He has successfully completed a -work -without precedent in magnitude or delicacy. He has held his own with the foremost statesmen of the world, proving: a match for them, and he returns with the fruits of his work a covenant of peace for which the whole world yearns. When Mr. Wilson sailed for Europe seven months ago he had just dis played anew the limitations of the party leader, though he was engaged upon a task which enjoined on him a breadth of vision transcending the bounds of party and, in some degree. of country. Having brought defeat upon himself by an appeal to party under circumstances which demanded that partisanship be sunk in patriot Ism, he faced a contrress the majority of which was smarting under his re flections on its loyalty. He aggra vated its irritation by neglecting to consult the senate about the peace conference, by neglecting to make it a party to his work and by his unprece dented act in going abroad to conduct the peace negotiations himself, also without consulting the senate. When he returned in February with the draft covenant, having had his first real insirht Into the intricacies of European affairs and justifiably proud of his part in forming a league, for which the world had hoped for cen tury, he gave way to Irritation at the criticisms of his work by some sena tors, and styled them men of pygmy minds. He returned to Paris boasting that the covenant would be so inter woven with the peace terms that to destroy one would be to destroy both confident that thereby his opponents would be confounded. Thus he pro voked a more intense fire of objec tions, and he instigated the opposing senators to find means at least of radically changing the covenant with out destroying it. The real perplexities of his task were not encountered until his second arrival at Paris, for drafting the cove nant did not closely touch the inter ests and aspirations of individual na tions, as did the definite provisions of the treaty. He had begun to learn when his proposal for a conference'at Prinkipo between the loyal Russian parties and the gory bolshevists was scorned by all except the reds. How slow he was to learn is indicated by his ready acceptance of the rose-colored reports on soviet rrile which were brought back by his parlor bolshevist agents and by his proposal to recog nize the soviot government. He may well have been cured of his weakness for anything which masquerades un der the name of liberty and labor when this proposal met a decisive "No" from his colleagues on the coun cil of four. Then he recognized the distinction between the name of de mocracy and the facts behind it. and he joined- in recognizing the Kolchak government. Thereafter one complex problem after another presented itself and was mastered by his acute mind. He was bound by honor, by conviction as to the essential conditions of lasting pe:tre and by regard for his own fame to stand by his fourteen points, yet he must find a way to reconcile with them the desires, ambitions, necessi ties and imperative demands of the allies. France must have ample pro tection against future invasion, and Germany must be recuced to a posi tion where it would not "have the jump on' France, yet no part of the German nation must be torn off and added to France, to become a cause of future war. All predominantly Italian population must be joined to Italy, but Fiume. a port in a Jugo-Slav state, must remain a part of it, though peo pled chiefly by Italians. Palmatia. being peopled by Jugo-Slavs. must be ruled by them, despite Italy's appeal f to the glories of Home and Venice. Areas strongly German in population must not be joined to Poland, but Prussia must not profit by Its Infa mous system of colonization and Poland must have a secure outlet to the sea at Danzig. These are some of the perplexing problems with which Mr. Wilson had to wrenle. not alone but in collabora tion with men of as strong mind and Will s his own. They were under no moral compulsion to defer to his Judgment, far less to submit to his dictation, as are the obedient mem bers of his cabinet- Their agreement with htm was essential to success in his task, and in order to obtain it he nv.ist have patience and must pains takingly convince their Judgment on many a point to which they tena ciously clung. To do this he must 1 ike counsel" a thing which he has often talked of but has seldom done It could not l ave been easy to a man accustomed to tell a class of students that "this ib so." that 'this must b" and to hear no dispute of his dictum: a man who has thought things out in his study, not threshed them out with others In the quick clash of intellects; a man who bas been the dictator rather than the leader of his party. The president must have brought 'nto play qualities of mind and character which had lain dormant, in order to achieve success, and his success lb proof that he has done so. To what extent the treaty is his work, time alone will reveal, but many of its pro- A visions bear the plain impress of h opinions. Mr. Wilson returns to be acclaimed by the American people as one of the master minds not -only of -America, but of the world. They recognize that he has had a leading part in a great, arduous, beneficient work for this and every other country. No differences of party will restrain them from pay ing due tribute to him. Their appre ciation of the greatness of his intel lect has grown as the field for its ex ercise has broadened from their own affairs to those of the world. In Ji speech Kt Manchester, England, h raised objection to being regarded as a mere intellectual machine, but he is so regarded more since he went to Paris than before. The people show increasing impatience with his frail ties because they have proved an ob stacle to the completion of his work. It will not be complete until the treaty, including the covenant, has been ratified by the senate, and th worst obstacles to ratification are .of the president's own making. It is not enough to say that the senate should have risen superior to feelings of of fended dignity, and should do so in the deliberations which are to come in a matter of such transcendent impor tance. So it should, but so should the president. If he will meet the senators in the spirit in which he met the allied premiers at Paris, regarding them not as republicans or democrats but as Americans as earnest as he In devotion to their country, also as the men chosen by the people and desig nated by the constitution to perform a necessary part in treaty-making, and if he will actually take counsel with them as men of no mean Intel lect. he will likely find them ready to meet him in the same spirit. In that manner he may undo the errors which have endangered his success and he may put the capstone on the structure which will be the crowning achievement of his administration. THE BCKLESOX EXIT. The report that Postmaster-General Burleson has resigned may or may not be true; but it should be true. It will be the most popular act of his administration; indeed, it will be the only popular act. But a politician who has held office all his life, while coveting popular favor, rarely attains it by personal sacrifice. Yet It is said that Burleson will resign "in the interest of the demo cratic party." It is too late; nothing can save the democratic party next year, except republican stupidity. But something should be done by the democratic party to get Burleson out in the interest of the public. It is not too much to ask, even of the democratic party. So far as known. President Wilson has never asked anybody to resign, not even Creel. It is a little late to begin; but 1920 Is approaching rapidly, and heroic efforts to relieve the demo cratic ship of its numerous Jonahs may be made. The presidential idea appears to be that anybody can fill any office, except the presidency, pro vided he is a democrat; but it is not the country's idea. The self-decapitated Burleson's exit may tend to help some; but not a great deal. It is a queer way to purge a party by waiting for an offending member to offer his own head for the ax. for their newspaper. - wherever- they may be. Almost in the heat of battle it was delivered at their doors. Me,n might be too weary to eat, but they were not too tired to read the news. More than any 'other people, Ameri cans were eager to know the happen ings outside their own immediate circle. They were, for this reason, least open to the charge of provin cialism and best fitted fot broad leadership. Stars and Stripes has been suspended, but Its mission will be continued by hundreds of newspapers throughout the land which our soldiers call home. A?f APPEAL TO PREJUDICE. Senator Poindexter betrayed the poverty of his argument against the league of nations covenant , when he said that "International big business is backing the league." It has for many years been the custom of men who strove to overturn the people's reason by appeal to their prejudices to say, with more or less evidence but more often with no evidence at ail. that big business supported or op posed this or that. To,- reasonable men that was no valid argument for or against anything. Big business is as likely to be on the right as on the wrong side, and its motives are likelv to De as good, bad or mixed as those or any other element. II. as the senator assumes, the league is bad because big business supports it, then the war against Ger many must have been wrong, for big ousiness supported that. Th'e libertv loans must have been vicious, for big ousiness subscribed to .them. The war work of the Red Cross must have been an organized crime, for a big ousiness man forsook his business to manage it. The senator is apt to find serious dissent from his opinion among the soldiers whom the liberty loans supplied with the tools of vic tory and among the millions in all the allied countries whom the Red Cross saved from death by hunger or disease. '. The greatest force In creatine: iub- lic opinion on behalf of the league has been the League to Enforce Peace. and the greatest force in that organ ization is ex-President Taft, who is comparatively poor man. The league is supported by big men, whether they are big in business or in other occu pations. In discussing a subject of such deep import to the future welfare not only of this country but of the whole world, Mr. Poindexter should rise above those appeals to shallow pre judice which bring back memories of the days when he traveled under the colors of the defunct populist party. ment the industry is expected to develop a product that can compete with gasoline. It has possibilities also as an illuminant in regions where gas and electricity are not available. The problem before congress is not a simple one. It consists in framing a bill which will prevent use of this impor tant fluid as a beverage and at the same time afford widest possible lati tude for industrial development. The more quickly abuse -f alcohol is stamped out the sooner will the bars to its wholly legitimate use be removed. Those Who Come and Go. Qt'ITE TO THE "rOIXT. The Oregonlan one day last week asked the Pendleton East Oregonian, democratic organ, to "give its idea of the merit and quality of President Wilson's vehement and outright de nunciation of Senator Chamberlain." The result is a curiosity of meaning- ess evasion and shuffling Irrelevancy. It is reprinted elsewhere as an exhibit of the complete vacuity of a certain type of partisan mind, when brought to consider questions affecting the administration and its words and acts. The Pendleton paper's defense of President Wilson, in his appeal to the country to elect a democratic congress last fall, is that the opposition news papers wholly misrepresented his meaning and purpose, which, it is urged, were wholly laudable, and con ceived in the highest and noblest spirit of national unity. In other words, the president was altogether justified in demanding that the war and Its con duct be placed wholly in democratic hands, and exclusion of the repub lican party from any voice or hand in its direction. The meat of the president's message to "my fellow countrymen" was contained in the following paragraphs, which the Pen dleton paper finds it convenient to overlook in its quotations: If you have approved my leadership and wlah me to continue your unembarassed apokeeman In affaire at home and abroad. I earneatlv bee that you will expreaa your a-lf unmlatakahly to that effect by return ing a deaj' .'rallc majority to both the aen ale and houae of rcpreaentativea. a a a The. return of a republican majority In either houae of the congreaa would moreover Interpretative aa a repualatlon of my leaderahep. It is' Impossible to mistake or mis represent such language. The Ameri can people are a reading and thinking people. They read what the president said and in their resentment adminis tered a rebuke not before so markedly offered to any American administra tion during a war. The Wilson inter ference was not only a grave political error: it was not only an affront to a great political party; it was an offense to the entire nation. It provoked a partisan controversy which definitely menaced the harmony of the country in the war and marked the beginnings of the bitter and hurtful feud which has attended the making of peace and the creation of the league of nations. The Pendleton paper will not offer an opinion on the Wilson-Chamberlain difficulty because it Is "not to the point." Let us. nevertheless, mildly invite it to give its readers the benefit of its opinion on the broad ground that it is of public interest. Was Senator Chamberlain rigtit or wrong when he said the war depart ment had "ceased to function" and had "broken down" or words to that effect? Was the president right or wrong when he said that "Senator Chamber lain's statement as to the inaction and inefficiency of the government Is an absolute and unjustifiable distortion of the truth?" Unquestionably the people of Ore gon are to hear much of this quarrel during the Chamberlain campaign for re-election. They will regard any ex pression tending to cast light on the issue as quite to the point. Stars and Stripes, official organ of the American expeditionary forces 1n France, has ceased to exist. It is one of the few newspapers in the world which paid for themselves from the very beginning and yielded handsome dividends to their owners, in this in stance the government of the United States. But this fact is not so signifi cant aa that Stars and Stripes typified the univexsaJ demand of Americans , THE FCTI RE OF ALCOHOL. The position occupied by alcohol in the arts and sciences is not to be dis puted, and this gives ' point to the campaign now being waged before congress by the American Chemical society and other scientific bodies for legislation in connection with enforce ment of prohibition which will insure an umple supply of alcohol for use in cientific research and in the develop ment of "fuel, dye and other lawful industries." For the fact is that use of alcohol in the industries has grown in recent years much more rapidly than the business of manufacturing beverage alcohol. Between 1907 and 1917, for illustration, total production of distilled spirits increased from 133.889,563 gallons to 286.035,463 gallons, while production of spirits completely or partly denatured rose from 1,780.276 gallons to 55,679,497 gallons. While the former was a little more than doubled, the latter was multiplied by thirty-three. Restrictions imposed on manufac ture of alcohol because it was com monly regarded as a drink derived from cereals, which it was especially desired should be conserved during the war, reacted only temporarily upon the arts and industries, for it chal lenged the ingenuity of chemists in producing the fluid from other sources. Yet the tax of $4.18 a gallon which chemists must pay who require pure alcohol in their business has remained as a check on development. This is only a trifle less than two-thirds of the tax of $6.40 a gallon which has been exacted on every gallon of alcohol in potable form. There is little doubt that the high tax on pure grain alcohol was due to regulations im posed on distillers of strong drink. With the drink problem out of the way. it is the hope of chemists that alcohol will be viewed in a new light and dealt with wholly in its commer cial aspects. This will call for abate ment of excessive taxes, especially if the needs of the Infant chemical and dye industries are taken into account. It is especially significant that the largest increase in manufacture of industrial alcohol took place between 1913, the year before the war began, and 1917, the 'last year for which figures are available. This increase amounted to more than 45,000,0e0 gallons, or more than twenty-five times as mucn industrial alcohol as was consumed in the entire country in 1907. The sudden increase in three years was coincident with the efforts of chemists to replace German indus tries in the home markets, together with the demands made by the muni tions factories. Both these showed alcohol to be virtually indispensable in many important lines of manu facture. Both the high price of grain and the moral question involved in its use otherwise ' than as food while there are starving people in the world ap pear to dictate a discriminating policy in tax legislation. Low-grade molasses which nt one could eat, fruit and vegetable waste and even the surplus tank liquors of certain paper mills have recently been employed in mak ing excellent alcohol. It is not com monly known that although methyl spirits, to which the name "wood alcohol" has been popularly attached are poisonous. An ethyl alcohol free from this objection can also be made from wood products. The latter is chemically the same as the ethyl alcohol made from grain and is suit able for wide employment in the in dustries, such as certain of the delicate processes in the dye industry which depend on use of- alcohol of good quality.' It is reasonable to suppose that restrictions based ujon the source from which the alcohol is derived will be welcomed not only by chemists but by economists who have in view the continued conservation of food prod ucts. Cheap alcohol in some form is highly desirable if Americans are to hold the ground they gained during the war in many departments of manufacture. It is predicted that alcohol will come into larger use as a fuel, par ticularly for motor combustion. This, however, is almost wholly dependent on the price at which it can be manu factured. , Present quotations, which vary from 50 cents to $1 a gallon, are not promising, but under encourage- HOMES FOR SOLDIERS. Secretary Lane has shown himself to be a trained logician in his reply to objections entered by Herbert Myrick of Springfield, Mass., editor of Farm and Home, to the secretary's plan for placing returned soldiers on the soil. The objections in question had to do chiefly with Mr. Myrick's fear that men without experience in farming would be led to forsake their home states in pursuit of an ignis fatuus, and that, lacking the necessary experience, they would fail in their new under taking, to their own detriment and that of the nation which proposes to finance them. On this point Mr. Myrick said: No man or family, eTen with some capital, should seek to own a farm upon which to rely for a living and a modest competency. until they have learned at least something about practical farming. To this Mr. Lane replies that the mistake of the objector consists in permitting himself to imagine that any man possessing a particle of common sense could think otherwise, or that the responsible men in Washington could think of putting an utterly un skilled man on a farm, even under the best conditions. But the most striking part of his argument is that in which he says: We took four million young men from all walks in life and trained them for the hardest Job on earth the Job of whipping the German army. They made good on the Job. Seventy-five per cent of the aoldlera who have applied for employment with a view of acquiring homesteads later had val uable experience in farming before they went to war. Not only bo. but there will be ample opportunity during the period necessarily re quired for organization and construction of projects to give the men a thorough course of instruction. They will have the advan tage of the best leadership and of high ex ample in every department of their work. Hoth the leadership and the demonstration of methods will be of the downright practi cal sort. It is the belief of thesecretary that men whehave shown themselves capable for the "hardest job on earth" are capable also, of being trained as farmers. But he insists on this train ing, and promises that it will be made a part of the soldiers' settlement scheme. Farm making is not to be conducted on the plan which created so many hardshiDs for cur pioneers, and whicn survives in isolated farm-1 steads from which farmers' sons are now fleeing because of the loneliness of the life. The "lowest unit of settle ment" is to be made one hundred families, while five hundred or a thou sand are regarded as even better. There are two reasons for this. One is that the community plan removes one of the present chief objections to farm life, and the other is Oil excitement equaling a gold stam pede in early days is on at Hoquiam Wash. J. P. Anderson, a railroad con ductor, who headquarters at the Per kins, says that the last four nights he has had to spend in Hoquiam he has been compelled to sleep jn the parlor of a hotel. All the rooms in the hotel and lodging houses are crowded, bil Hard tables for beds are at a premium and the little city is teeming with strangers attracted by the search for oil. The Standard Oil company has a large number of men in the vicinity seeking petroleum and is spending a wad of money in the investigation. The fact that this company considers the country worth prospecting has been a sufficient testimonial to a small array of men who want a quick fortune and are anxious to strike oil. "By the first of October," predicts A. J. Hill of the Warren Construction company, who has returned from an Inspection tour, "we will have the 30 miles awarded us on the lower Colum bia highway all paved. We are work ing plants at Goble, Deer Island and Rainier and are making the 'hot stuff fly. Today we began laying 'hot stuff on the Tillamook job and Wednesday we start :hot stuff on the Wolf creek section of the Pacific highway, and nett Monday we begin hard surfacing between La Grande and Hot Lake. At Independence we have two miles of base rock ahead. We expect to have all our highway paving jobs finished by the end of September, except the contracts we hope to receive when bids are let at this session of the highway commission. Our company has more than 1B00 men working on the various jobs. "One of the finest systems of county roads anywhere in the state is being constructed in Douglas county," was the proud assertiou of County Judge Marsters, who is at the Hotel Oregon. "We voted $550,000 for road bonds and we are spending the money. These bonds, by the way, are the only indebt edness the county has. Such bond money as is not being used for co operation with the state and govern ment is being used for the development of our local roads, and before long you 1 will be able to go almost anywhere in the county in a machine. Our big com mercial rtfa.d, however, will be the on to Coos Bay, and we are all lookin forward to the time when it will be completed." More Truth Than Poetry. By James J. Montague. AS TO THE CAVE MAN. I like to read these cave-man tales; There is a strange, romantic glamor In books which tell of whiskered male Who did their wooing with a ham mer. Who sauntered about the town Until they saw a lovely creature, Picked up a rock and knocked her down, And dragged her, screaming, to the preacher: I've often thought that if today One might knock down an Aphrodite Who had the crust to say him nay. Girls wouldn't be so htghty-tighty. If one could win 'em with a club, A rock, or any missile handy. He'd save a lot on high-priced grub -And motor rides, -and flowers and candy! And then again I think perhaps Those yarns of how young folks were mated Were penned by prehistoric chaps Who probably exaggerated. I've often wondered, as I sat Perusing these delightful pages. If girls could change as much as that Despite the countless passing ages. For, since the days of Mother Eve Twas never safe to go on wooing Without so much as "by your leave," If She informed you: "Nothing do-ing." And therefore I begin to fear That these Silurian romances Which I believed for many a year Were nothing more than pleasing fancies! . Within Hla Rights. Speak gently to your little boy When he behaves like thunderatton; He's only trying to employ The right of self-determination. Samples, of Course, Will Be Furnished. Now that the question as to whether or not 2.75 beer is intoxicating will be left to the juries, for fewer men will think up excuses for dodging jury duty. a a A Word to Investors. Remember John D. made oil stocks. He never bought 'em. The number of people going on the land practically at one time, considered in con nection with all the improvements, public and private, will very greatly enhance the value of the land. This is Important to the government, since It will very greatly en- nance tne value or tne security; and It Is far more Important to the soldier settler. It gives him a fine start In a fight for a competence, for he will become the bene ficiary of the unearned increment rather than the victim, as he would be in entering community already established. In the one care he gets the increment; in the other be pays It. The trio of ideas which stand out in the soldiers' settlement scheme are training in agriculture for those who need it, opportunity through participa tion in the reclamation work itself for earning money enough to make neces sary Initial payments, and community farm settlements, giving opportunity for social life. Yet even these attrac tions will hardly accomplish much toward solving the problem of produc tion unless congress acts upon them promptly. Consumers, as well as re turning soldiers' seeking homes, are already showing signs of impatience over the delay. George Rader, 79, a Grant county pioneer who had handled stock all his life, was kicked to death by a wild cow he was breaking to milk. His last act was typical of the stockman. He had all kinds of money and might have purchased the finest blood milker in the land; but, like the horseman, preferred something of his own breaking. The objection to Burleson's wire control board is that it controls too slowly and does not begin to control till a strike has begun. That was the story with the New England telephone strike, and it is so on the Pacific coast also. It is a mere device to cover Burleson's refusal to act. Military discipline seems to inspire instinctive antipathy for anarchists. bolshevists, I. W. W. and all kinds of wreckers. Hence the warm reception which Italian soldiers gave the anar chists. Chief Johnson says he needs 100 more policemen. He really needs twice that many, but if he gets the hundred he will be doing very .well, Few people realize how Portland is growing in size and needs. There will be trouble in Benver, and of the worst kind. On whom shall lie the blame is not plain; but the ante-election ' promise of Mayor, Bailey of a 5-cent fare can take some of it. The "one-big-union" idea cannot succeed. It will appeal mostly to men not in organizations and who cannot get in. It will lack cohesion. Given time, it will burn itself out. The Mooney strike ended last night, but some of the big-shop employers are throwing in a few days for good measure. Great jokers, they are. That's a bit of sound advice from Fire Marshal TJrenfell to locate the nearest box. Getting a fire house over the phone is uncertain. Mr. Marshall has survived the ordeal of being a near president very well though never in sight of the job. . Developments in the New case show it pays to live clean from the start. Easy on the meat diet these warm days. Try the fish. This is- regular beach weather and the call is strong. How does the old U. WoodrowT " look. Salem came within an ace of bein the .suburb of the state capital instead of being the capital lself. Tne con tender was Eola, across the Willamette, over In-Polk county. Eola today gives no indication of the ambition which once throbbed in its breast, consisting as it does of a few houses, and Eola, instead of being great and recognized as such, rests content with being un der the shadow of the dome of th statehouse. I. L. Patterson, state sen ator for Polk county, who was in Port land yesterday, lives at Eola, the state capital that might-have-been. He had his trip to Portland for noth ing. did Roswell L. Connor, distr.'.c attorney for Yamhill county. Reinforced by the county court and various citi zens. Mr. Connor swooped down on th highway commission yesterday to se what could be done about having cer tain work performed in his county After making his statement he was informed that everything that the dele gation came to inquire about had been ordered by the commissioners two months ago. Combining- the responsibilities of druggist and county commissioner. E. D. McKee of Wasco is in the city on business connected with his .political office. For more than 20 years Mr. McKee has been in Sherman county, going there from Marion county, his birthplace. The particular motive prompting his trip to Portland is to urge early construction work on the section of the John ay highway in his county. A. M. Hare, judge of Tillamook conn ty. famous for cheese, trees and a rec ord for turning out spruce during the war, Is registered at the Sewara. The county recently voted $430,000 bonds for roads and the Judge is here to ascertain what sort of a dicker he can make with the highway commissioners, particularly for a paved road along the coast. G. J. Moison, descendant of one of the pioneer families of French Prairie, is registered at the Perkins. Mr. Moison comes from Gervais, which is in the heart of the section which old-timers designated as French Prairie because most of the settlers were French-Cana dian employee of the Hudson's Bay company. On a 7500-mile automobile trip Will iam Hamilton Osborne arrived in Port land yesterday morning and chugged away again. Mr. Osborne Is a contrib utor to the Saturday Evening Post and other periodicals and he is gasolining around the United States with the ob ject of spearing material later to be embalmed in a book. "Bulkheads are being put In and in a few days the Port of Astoria will have its dredge making thesand fill on Young's bay, which will be part of the Columbia highway between Astoria and Seaside," reports C. L. Grutz of the state engineering department, who was in town yesterday from his zone of ac tivity in Clatsop county. "Canneries are paying $80 a ton for pears this year and there is a short crop." sighed C. A. Park of the Wal lace orchards, in Polk county, a Port land visitor. "Last year there were plenty of pears, but this season, for soma reason, the fruit is shy. . On the other hand, apples are plentiful." Very well satisfied, indeed, is J. A. Rook with his Epurth of July. He re turned to the Benson yesterday from Coeur d'Alene with a fist full of money. Mr. Rook went to Coeur d'Alene with the Vogler speed boat and, knowing the craft was like chain lightning, he bet the sky and won. Mrs. J. W. Blaket of Oro Fino, Idaho, is registered at the Hotel Oregon. In early days there was a theater in Port land called the Oro Ffno, named after the Idaho town, which was then a mining camp. , Long distance motorists are becom ing common in the Portland hotel sec tor. Mr. and Mrs. C. J. Kruliner ar rived at the Perkins yesterday from Benkleman, Neb. t Serman Wade, one of the county commissioners of Gilliam, and anxious to have the highway commission settle the location of the John Day hlghwajr, is at the Hotel Oregon. Former sheriff of Umatilla, J. M. Bentley, of Pendleton, is at the Perkins for a few days. Grief. By Grace E. Hall. You lay so very still I sensed a chill. Dead! That was what I heard it seemed absurd. You? You? The only one who ever real ly knew The thoughts that made my day you, gone away? You? You? I laughed of course it was not true! 'Mong all the things that live, someone might give And scarcely feel the blow, but here below You were the only thing to which might cling The tendrils of my heart we could not part! I could not dream of bliss without your kiss; The light I could but spurn if it, in turn. Fell on your face in death. I held my breath Lest I should scream and break your deep, deep dream. Yea, held my breath, and thought of what is death . v" A silence evermore where you adore; At dawn, a strange gray face and scarce a 'trace Of what was once your own; and then. alone, To know the sickening pall when love shall call! ' Dead! Once again that sinister word I heard; 'Twas but a sad mistake you soon would wake. I waited there meanwhile to see you smile; I said that they were wrong- you slum bered long! Your hands seemed very white that dreary night I stooped and pressed my lips to finger j tips O God! I knew at last that life was past You you my love were dead and joy had fled! In Other Days. Twenty-Are Yean Ago. From The Oregonlan of July 8. 1894. Washington. Just before midnight President Cleveland-Issued a proclama tion putting the city of Chicago under martial law because of the rioting that has been in progress in connection with the railroad strike. The splendid new house of worship of the First Baptist church. Twelfth and Taylor streets, was dedicated yes terday, the dedicatory sermon being preached by Rev. J. Q. A. Henry. Local features of the railway strike were resumption of service by the Northern Pacific and the decision of the conductors to stand, by true railroad companies. Horses are selling at the lowest prices seen in 15 years. Army men have just purchased 60 in Portland ter ritory at an average price of $75. Fifty Years Ajro. From The Oregonian of July 9. 1S69. Montreal. Letters from Jeff Davis at Paris make it seem doubtful if his health will ever permit him to return. San Francisco. The fruitgrowers and dealers of California met in con vention yesterday and organized an as sociation that will try to solve prob lems or snipping irult to the east. The postoffice is now established In its new and more commodious quarters in the brick building at the corner of Alder and First streets. J. A. Crawford, who has iust re turned from Grays Harbor, informs us mat ne saw several men mining: for gold at Chehalis point by means of sluicing operations. AMERICAN I.TKLL1SCTI-ALS REPLY HE NEVER YET MADE ONE MISTAKE Dirigible Gasoline Conaumption. PENDLETON, Or.. July 7. (To the Editor.) Please publish the amount of case-line it took to bring the big British airship across the ocean. 1JAV 1JJ BLAJUISL. The airship began the journey with 4900 gallons of gasoline. When the landing field was reached, news reports say there was sufficient left to keep the vessel moving only 90 minutes longer. The latter statement Is some- How One Partisan Paper Stands by the President. Pendleton East Oregonian. Striving to bolster up its contention that President Wilson is 50 per cent to blame for the infantile conduct of cer tain senators The Portland Oregonian says: President Wilson jeopardized the welfare of the nation and the world, so far as they are concerned in any plan for peace or for a league of nations, which were then in view, by his partisan appeal last Novem ber for a partisan congress to serve his par tisan ends. That is a reiteration of the narrow spirit in which The Oregonian received the president's appeal last October. It is refusal even at this late day to ac cept the plain words of the president when he said: ' 1 need not tell you, my fellow country men that I am asking your support not for my own sake or for the sake of a political party, but for the sake of the nation Itself, n order that its inward unity of purpose may be evident to all the world. In ordi nary times I would not feel at liberty to make such an appeal to you. In ordinary times divided counsels can be endured with out permanent hurt to the country. But these are not ordinary times. Between the truthfulness of Presi- ent Wilson and the truthfulness of The Oregonian editorial writer people may judge for themselves. The East Oregonian granted sincerity to the president last fall and does so now. His appeal did not "jeopardize" the nation or the world. The danger last fall arose not from the president's words, but from the manner in which a parti san press including The Oregonian mis represented his straightforward state ment. If the people had to choose now between Lodge. Knox and other hell raisers and President Wilson with his constructive plans for peace and pros perity there is little question how they would line up. The Oregonian yesterday concluded an editorial by asking the Last Ore gonian for its idea "as to the merit and quality of President Wilson's vehe ment and outright denunciation of Senator Chamberlain." The answer is that the president's words about Sena tor Chamberlain related to a war de partment controversy and not in any manner to tive prerogatives of the senate in connection with the peace treaty. The Oregonian knows this and knows its question is not to the point. The Oregonian has answered this paper's request for evidence against the president by evasion and by saying in effect that the president lied in his frank appeal last fall. If that is all The Oregonian can offer it offers nothing. - New Physician Astonished. Boston Transcript. Fortune teller (reading from scroll) "You have money coming to you, but no sickness whatever." Client "That's singular! I'm the new doctor across the street. Lonisville Courier-Journal. You remember the story of the maid who said her mistress was taking a n , , r a a 1 Tl Minmfities .' hit WflJl a what Indefinite, but indicates that less I joke." "Many experts think it should I humanity and in the Illuminating sad nog than 50 gallons remained in the tanks. I oe iriea senuusiy. mi peace 01 reason. Sympathy Expressed for Friends of Germany In France. The Oregonian has received an ad vance sheet of George Viereck's Amer ican Monthly (which was known as The Fatherland until incidents con nected with its attitude toward our participation in the war with Germany made it advisable to change the name) containing the reply of a number of American "Intellectual workers In many divergent paths" to the appeal of Henri Barbusse and others of Paris and Hugo von Hoffmansthal, Richard Beer-Hoffman and others of Vienna. originally published In L'Humanite at Paris. L'Humanite is the socialist mouthpiece in France which has been seeking to make things as easy as pos sible for the Germans. Thfi hAAt-Hn tr over the article speaks of the signer as "American Intellectuals" and alludes 10 a movement for world-wide recon ciliation." It says. In part: "Henri Barbusse and our friends Jn Paris, we in America have heard your noble words. Hugo von Hoffmanns thai and your friends in Vienna, we have heard your noble reply. "These are great voices. They have outstood the roar of long-embattled cannon and fire. They ring out above all parliaments and councils on either side the rivers of blood. And not even the masters of earth, who still, to the woe of the wcrld, traffic in states and in gold and in the toil and hunger of men. have prevailed to take one nota Wf love or o courage from their clear. immortal tones. "These are great voices. They pro claim that those who think and create in the spirit still form one high, un shattered brotherhood. They proclaim that for all nations there can be but one humanity one in its piteous sins, one in its true work and worth. "These are great voices. We, your brothers in the dearhome land of Em erson, Whitman, Lincoln, thank you with full hearts. Lovers of our coun try, taught by our country the love of mankind, ourselves feeling the blood of all the races of your ancient Europe in our veins, we call to you across tlfe Atlantic, saying: 'We have heard and we understand.' ' "A few intellectual workers, resident in America, who are not citlsens of our country, append their signatures to ours as a token of sympathy and a pledge of co-operation." Among the signers of this document are the following: William Trufant Fostei- President of Reed college; inspector In European service for , American Red Cross ; president of Oregon So cial Hygiene association. Witter Bynner Playwright, lecturer and poet; author of "An Ode to Harvard." Padrafo Colum Poet, dramatist and lo turer; president of the Irish Literary so ciety; formerly editor of the Irish Review, Dublin. Rev. Charles Fletcher Dole Clergyman. Nathan Haskell Dole Author. .Tames Waldo Fawcett Editor and author: contributing editor to Unit, Chicago. Zona Gale Writer. Hamlin Garland Novelist and dramatist. Dr. William Bayard Hale dltur X The New Freedom, etc. Professor Thomas C. Hall Theologian. Frank Harris Editor and author; editor of Pearson's magazine. David Starr Jordan Chancellor of Stan ford university; president of the World's Peace congress. Professor Llndley M. Keasbav Formerlv dean of the University of Texas, department of economics. Helen A. Keller Deaf and blind. Charles Rann Kennedy Dramatist and lec turer; author of the "Servant in the House." Fritz Kreisler Violinist and author. William Ellery Leonard Professor at the University of Wisconsin. Robert Morse Lovett University dean and author; editor of The Dial. Dr. Louis Malllnckrodt Kueffner VasBar and ethical culture high school, etc. Shameas O'Sheel Minute man, lecturer, poet. Max Otto Department of philosophy at the University of Wisconsin. Rev. Levi M. Powers Clergyman and writer. Theodore Splering Violinist. Miss Elinor By rns Chairman of Women's International league. Professor Frederick Starr Professor and curator, anthropologist Walker museum. University of Chicago; palms of Offlcr of Public Instruction (France), 1908; Chevalier Order Crown of Italy. 1911. Horace Traubel Author; literary execu tor of Walt Whitman. Edgar Varese Born at Paris, France; founded and directed at Paris the Choeur de I University Populaire; director symphony orchestra of Cincinnati. George Sylvester Viereck Author, editor. playwright; editor The American Monthly; lecturer on American poetry at the Univer sity of Berlin, etc The following is a liberal extract from the appeal by M. Barbusse and others in L'Humanite: Intellectual fighters of the world! Disre garding the blood that drips from our hitnds, we hope, in union with you all, to build the world anew. Shall the memory of the tragic remorse that for more than four years we have been the tools of slaughter and frult lessness still keep us aaunder, when too close a fraternity with our countrymen has alien ated us? Our spirits were high above the battlefields. Pity consumed us like an inner fire We spoke the truth. We did not believe the lies. But still we marched against each other, rushed as brothers into a tournament, rolled each other in the sand like gladiators. Like cattle we offered ourselves, so that those surviving among us might proclaim our thoughts with irresistible force, the pure thought that was to obliterate that other thought in whose name we apparently marched. What fevered brain, what de cayed doctrine, would dare to rise against us, to assert itself against us? We do not Intend to be used to continue the war after the war. Intellectual fighters of all countries that but yesterday were enemies! We hasten to be again In touch with your hearts and your spirits. Intellectual fighters or the world! We know that you, who think aa we do, are innumerable, and that you, too. In spite of the purity of your Just souls, have lived a life ot sin ior &u montns. ours is the serious and noble duty to set a wise example today. We must be the first to ex tend our bands to each other, since we . i.n. above the great Intellectuals who J h.we failed in their great moral task; since we alone, over all the straying forces of intnt and of the people, have found thai courage to preserve trust In the dignity f