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THE JIORXIXG OREGOXIAN, TUESDAY, AUGUST 5, 1919.
ESTABLISHED BY HENRY L. P1TTOTK-
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considerations of a living wage and
some of the good things of life, for
themselves and, in particular, for their
families.
Two points are here brought out:
One that the schools must compete
with other fields of activity for their
supply of present and future teachers,
and the other that no radical or un
American methods are necessary to
bring the better opportunities. We
do not doubt that the professors who
will be missing when classes assemble
this fall are doing quite well in their
new vocations. Without declaring a
strike to gain their point, they are
teaching the public a lesson to which-H
will be more receptive than if its anger
were aroused by coercive measures.
DOWN WITH COST OF LIVING.
From every state and city in the
land comes the heartening news that
war against the extreme cost of the
necessaries of life has been declared
and that the cost of living is going to
be humbled as soon as the forces
necessary to that end can be gotten
into action.
At the White House in Washington
the president is said to be meditating
hours at a stretch on means by which
be hopes to make food more readily
available and the conditions of life
easier for democracy, now that it is
safe.
In the halls of congress some hun
dreds of lawmakers are turning more
and more to the pressing problem of
food for the masses and means by
which general strikes and walkouts
may be averted, and already bills in
tended to put the high price evil out
of Israel are falling into the hopper.
The department of justice has in no
tmcertain tones signified its intention
to unlimber all its artillery for battle
against injustice in the market places,
and in the states and cities generally
governors, mayors, councils and civic
organizations likewise are mobilizing
for the fray. Altogether, with the
mustering of all these militant forces,
it begins to look a bit lugubrious for
the cost of living.
Legislation designed to lower the
cost of important Commodities at a
time when the industrial population of
the country daily is demanding in
crease of wages has been promised,
and will be delivered. Congress will
attend to that whether the league of
nations covenant is ratified or not
for congress at all times is mindful of
the folks at home.
Prosecution to the limit of the law
likewise is promised wherever profi
teering is found. To that the depart
ment of justice is pledged, and sup
port in its campaign is assured in
very city in the land.
The battle verily is on, and. in a
little while there will be legislation
without end acta of congress, resolu
tions, city ordinances, grand jury in
dictments, prosecutions and convic
tions; also, quite possibly, food embar
goes of one sort or another, seizures
by the government, price-fixing, ra
tioning, bread-lines; and also, perhaps,
rioting, looting of stores and a most
unseemly order of things generally for
a democracy like ours and all with
the intent, well or ill-directed, to put
down the cost of food.
These things may not all happen,
and, asnin, they may. Hunger, they
say, will lead a man anywhere, and
the conditions that make for national
huncrer now are clearly evident. Jn
any event, congress will legislate all
around and over and under the high
cost of living. High-priced commis
sioners will sit and consider, and high
priced investigators will investigate.
Prosecutors will prosecute, and here
and there a few villains, or a few hun
dred villains, will be sent to federal
penitentiaries.
And when all is said and done the
old cost of living ogre will lift his
monstrous head, blink his sinister eyes
and crack a sardonic smile. For when
the fighting is finished and we are
agnin composed it will be seen that
with all our fussing we have but
frayed the edges of the cost of living.
In the end the cost of living means,
mainly, the availability 1 of food, and
the availability of food is determined
pretty largely by supply.
( f course, some profiteering in food
supplies will have been found. Some
transgressions of the law will be dis
closed and the transgressors punished.
Some bettor means for the adequate
distribution of food will have been de
visod, and some measure of relief
achieved. But these, it will be found,
are but minor matters, and but lightly
touch the general, pressing problem,
which is supply.
Out in the country a little distance
there is a farmer toiling as he never
did before, and handicapped as he
never was before, and to him the sight
of two non-producers quarreling and
fighting over what he, single-handed,
has wrought out of the soil, is hardly
an edifying one.
CXBELDSVABUE.
The animus of a very few of the men
of this office who were drafted Into mili
tary service dates back to the time when
I absolutely refused to ask for their de
ferred classification or exemption from mili
tary service: Some of these young men
came to me and cried like children, begging
that I ask for their deferred classification,
which I was empowered to do because they
were postofflce clerks.
.The foregoing is another of the un
believable tales put forth by Post
master Myers to discredit ex-service
men in the employ of his department
of the government.
Nobody will believe that postoffice
clerks are less patriotic, less willing
to sacrifice, than men in other employ
ments. There are dozens of institu
tions in Oregon qualified to ask' for
exemption of necessary employes. None
of them had the experience the post
master asserts that he had. Among
such institutions was The Oregonian.
More than one hundred men left this
establishment to go into service. ' Not
one asked, let alone wept, for assist
ance in keeping out of it.
Herein is disclosed the reason for
the state of discontent and near-revolt
that pervades the Portland postoffice.
Confidence and esteem between em
ployer and employe can exist only if
it is mutual. In the postoffice there
is no humilitation too severe to be
imposed upon those who acquire the
ill will of the postmaster.
COSTLY SENTIMENT.
Among the letters sent to the gov
ernor concerning the suggested special
session of the legislature there is an
occasional one that pleads for no limi
tation on the matters that shall be
considered if the legislature shall be
called. There was one the other day
from a member who proposed that
ratification of the suffrage amendment
be not the only business, but that the
legislature at least provide bloodhounds
for the penitentiary. Informal propo
sals from others have regard to changes
in the Roosevelt highway law and to
an effort to move the state capital.
Quite likely another forty-day ses
sion now would produce just as many
laws as the one that adjourned last
February. Tet m the lapse of six
months no urgent reason has arisen
for enactment of more laws. The
public has not yet become familiar
with the product of the regular session
of 1919. But the members can think
of a lot of things that might be done.
If the legislature is summoned to act
on the suffrage amendment it will be
its own judge of what else, if anything.
it shall do while at Salem, and whether
it shall remain in session one day or
twenty days.
Those who have the administration
or enforcement or construction of the
law in hand are not anxious for more
law immediately.' The people . who
must conform to laws are not clamor
ing for more laws. Indeed, there is r
no evidence of a widespread desire for
immediate ratification of the suffrage
amendment. There is nb indication or
promise that Oregon's ratification now
would have any moral or practical
effect upon final ratification of the
national amendment. It is only by
getting a large number of legislatures
into extraordinary session that ratifi
cation can be accomplished in time to
permit women in non-suffrage states
to vote for president in 1920.
It is a serious sacrifice of time and
money that a small group of women
are asking of the Oregon legislators
and all to no apparent benefit to the
suffrage cause. And if the members
can afford to meet for a mere matter
of sentiment they can afford to remain
session to pass on the bloodhound
issue and every other matter tnat
ninety resourceful men can think of.
ters of the (arming, stock raising, min
ing and lumber regions. There is an
exchange of ideas by which each half
of our world learns how the other half
lives and thinks. Buyers" . week is a
practical recognition that business is
not merely exchange of so much goods
for so much money, but that it is the
occasion of agreeable contact between
man and man. Recollections of this
week will smooth the way for many
an arrangement during the coming
year by implanting kindly memories
which could not have grown from ex
change of letters.
know something more than that the j
waters adjacent to Camp Lewis are
suitable for the purpose. Are there,
in fact, any other provisions for teach
ing fish culture? Has the war depart
ment supplied, or does it intend to
supply, teachers of fish culture, a voca
tion, almost a "profession," which we
may suppose will hardly be acquired
Those Who Come and Go.
"Pure glass, a couple of mountains
of it, 2O00 feet above the plain, that is
what Glass Buttes are." said James
Morris, former city engineer, later cap
tain of engineers and now in the con
tractinir same. "These buttes are in
by the empirical method? And if the the northeastern corner of Lake county.
More Truth Than Poetry.
By James J. Montague.
In Other Days.
THE QUEST OF PERFECTION.
We conclude, after perusing an ad
vertisement in a "help wanted" column.
that belief in the existence of a per
fect young woman assistant still pre
vails. There is an opening, it appears,
for a young women, "preferably around
25 years old," who can take dictation,
operate a typewriter, make up care",
filing lists, keep card records and do
general office work. In addition to
this she will be expected to solicit
business over the telephone and "do
some inside selling." She must be
prepared to meet (and please) the
public. She must possess an agreeable
voice and personality, and be polite.
patient, quick and absolutely accurate.
If anything has been omitted that
would make the catalogue of require
ments serve as a description of the
perfect employe, we cannot at this
moment think what it is. The quali
fications of the ideal clerk, secretary
and office assistant are all included.
"Polite, patient, quick and absolutely
accurate." "Agreeable voice and per
sonality." Must be able to perform all
the duties of an ordinary stenographer
and some of those expected only of the
extraordinary one. The ensuing sen
tence, "salary to start with will be
small," strikes us as distinctly an anti
climax in all the circumstances.
We shall not say that the advertiser
has set out in pursuit of the unobtain
able. We happen to know a few
young women who fill the bill pre
cisely. But it is no mere accident that
they already are employed , and that,
possessing the measure of intelligence
implied by the description given, they
are extremely unlikely to be cajoled
by an indefinite prospect into letting
go of a present certainty. Such a young
woman in times like these need have
no care about the future. A million
employers in the country are looking
for her with earnest eyes, and will not
expect her to work for a trifling salary.
either, even "to start with," when she
is found.
This is not to say that there prob
ably will not be plenty of applicants
for the place. The number of those
who think they answer the description
is very large. And they will not be
undeceived by failure of others to ac
cept their own estimates of them
selves. They will go right on thinking
that "the interests," or other agents of
a cruel destiny, are conspiring against
them. It would be good for them to
take stock of 'themselves. Those who
can honestly answer "yes" to every
question implied in the advertisement
will not, until conditions change radi
cally, ever be out of work.
army does not propose to offer oppor
tunities in fish culture,, why drag fish
culture into the discussion, when it
can do no more than confuse the mind
of the intending soldier? We frankly
doubt that this particular camp ever
will amount to much in "agriculture,
horticulture, agronomy, etc." The Hud
son's Bay company settlers as long ago
as 1835 discovered that whatever else
might be said as to its advantages as
a site, it was not adapted to farming,
and their successors have not been
encouraged by sporadic attempts to
convert a gravelly plain into a farming
country.
It is true that commanding officers
of camps and stations have been di
rected to institute vocational training
"to the fullest extent possible with the
facilities at their command." The de
partment is said to desire that "only
those trades which have been adver
tised, and which could be taught with
the facilities at hand" should be pur
sued, which, as Colonel Conrad points
out, is not only a business-like method
of handling the situation but an honest
one. .But there has meanwhile been
permitted to grow up a general im
pression that the government is going
to do much more for vocational edu
cation than, in fact, it is likely for a
long time to be ready to do. It is fair
to assume that it will not teach in any
competent way more than a fraction
of the 600 vocations found in army
work; we shall probably wait long and
in vain for any results in fish culture
or agronomy; we think the young sol
dier will grow much older before he
will be aught much about horticul
ture. And it does not help much for
him to be told, as is stated in another
place, that "no soldier is compelled to
learn a trade." The appeal is being
directed just now to young men who
do want to learn a trade, and who will
enter the service with that purpose
uppermost in mind.
The army vocational education sys
tem needs clarifying. It ought to be
possible in a fairly brief prospectus to
tell just which trades are actually
being effectively taught, and which
the recruit may "pick up" if he is
bright and also lucky, and when and
where the instruction will be furnished
to him. While perusal of available
recruiting literature does not reveal
anywhere a definite promise of choice
of "600 vocations, trades and pursuits,"
mere reiteration of the phrase arouses
false hopes and creates misunder
standings, and in the long run does
not serve the purpose of the recruiting
officers. .
on the road between Burns and Bend
The glass looks like rock, from marbles
up to .the size of your head. The stuff
might be mistaken for rock unless you
take the trouble to break one of the
boulders and then It splinters. The
glass is evidently the result of volcanic
action and while it is clear you can
take a piece as thick as your hand
and see through it it has a smoky ap
pearance. Take some dark beer bot
tles and melt them down and you have
a close imitation of the glass. I
suppose this pure glass could be melted
ana shaped for commercial purposes if
anyone wanted to try it." Mr. Morris
has a boulder which he intends having
cut into paperweights.
"Looks like furniture will go up in
price," was the cheerful information of
W. O. Parker, sales manager for the
Gregory Furniture Manufacturing com
pany of Tacoma, who is at the Multno
mah for buyers' week. "The furniture
factories on the coast went on an eight
hour basis and increased wages when
the shipyards took the lead. This in
creased our costs, but we could not in
crease prices because the factories in
the east were working longer hours
and paying less than the coast and
their competition held us down. Now,
however, there have been strikes in
many eastern factories for the same
conditions as prevail in the coast
factories and this will force them to
increase prices. Yes," admitted Mr.
Parker, "it may be a hardship on new
ly married couples, but it can't be
helped. Prices are not likely to come
down until wages come down and the
working men don't want them lowered."
"There is a strong sentiment favor
ing the creating of a new county down
on the coast, announced W. sr. neea oi
Reedsport. "The present plan is to
take off about 1000 square miles from
Douglas county, the part along the Pa
cific ocean and make it a county on its
own hook. The name selected is
Umpqua county, which, by the way, was
the original name of Douglas. It ap
pears that taxpayers on the coast edge
of Douglas are of the opinion that the
Douglas county court is more interested
in taking care of Roseburg than of
any other section or the county. Air.
Reed is the president of the Reedsport
Townsite company, which owns about
everything in sight in that new but
hustling community.
TROI-KSSOBS' SACARIES.
The prediction of President Strayer
of the National Education association
that the universities of the country
will find themselves short of teachers
this fall unless there are radical salary
readjustments confounds the cynicism
of was it Bernard Shaw? who said
that "those who can, do: those who
cannot, teach." The tendency of the
ep'.srrammatist to sacrifice the truth to
a phrase was never better illustrated.
For it seems that the reason why
teachers are leaving the schools is, pri
marily, that they can do better else
where. The tremendously increased
field for college-trained men in in
dustry which Professor Strayer men
tions is an actuality.
A leading educator was quoted some
time ago as saying that "teachers do
not ask, or care for. any such financial
rewards as might come from 'big busi
ness or the professions." There are
certain inner, and o the gross mate
rialist invisible, rewards inherent in
the nature of their work itself. This
has been interpreted by unsympathetic
critics as meaning that they were
afraid to face the world as others
were facing it, and to "do" things as
well as teach others how to do them.
From present appearances they are
accepting the challenge. If the schools
will not pay for their especial abilities,
the industries will and the imponder
ables do not balance the scale against
PORTLAND THE TRADE CENTER.
Portland's primacy as a distributing
center for the Pacific northwest is
proved by the rapid growth of the
number of visitors who come here
during Buyers' week and the fast
spreading area from which they come,
also by the large number of firms
which participate in entertaining the
visitors. Beginning in 1913 with 263
buyers from three states. Buyers' week
in 1919 has attracted 2000 from nine
states, Alaska and British Columbia.
The area from which merchants come
was at first confined to Oregon, Wash
ington and Idaho. It has now extended
eastward into eastern Montana. Utah
and Colorado, southward into Califor
nia and Nevada, and northward to
British Columbia and Alaska, and 125
Portland firms are ready to supply the
demands of this vast region.
These facts are an eloquent tribute
to Portland's position as the commer
cial center of the Pacific northwest.
Its foundations were laid deep in pio
neer times, when this was the only
established town west of the ' Rocky
mountains and north of San Francisco.
"Many other towns have since grown
to great proportions and have been
favored in many ways, but they have
not been able to shake the position
which Portland held or to break the
long established business ties. Knowl
edge of what a retail merchant wants
and for what purpose, and of what a
jobber or manufacturer can supply, and
how and when, offsets many artificial
advantages which other cities have
gained. Proof of that statement is
found in the yearly swelling numbers
who flock to Portland.
Hut buying and selling are not the
sole, or even the prime, purpose of
Buyers' week. Buying is made the
opportunity to form personal acquain
tance, for personal intercourse, and to
compare notes. A merchant at a town
several hundred miles in the interior
can make his purchases with far better
judgment and discrimination when he
has seen the stock from which it is
taken and talked matters over with
the jobber than if he were to order by
mail or even from a salesman's sam
ples. Business relations work more
VOCATIONAL PROMISES IN THE ARMY.
The ambitious educational pro
gramme of the army is a meritorious
one, and as has been said on previous
occasions is such as will tend to revo
lutionize completely the old conception
of army life. Yet there exists a cer
tain amount of confusion as to what
that programme is, a confusion that it
would be well to clear away in the
interests of all concerned. There is
in all the literature of the recruiting
offices, so far as one is able now to
ascertain, no comprehensive summary
of just what educational advantages
are offered, and where, and how they
are to be bestowed. It is true that
several branches of the service, each
independently, have published pam
phlets or circulars dealing with the
trades developed therein, but beyond
that the recruiting literature deals
largely in generalities. The one thing
that a young American will want to
know when he contemplates enlisting
is what concrete proposition the army
has to make to him. . He would like,
we think, to see a prospectus of the
army educational system as a whole
such a prospectus as a university, for
example, would print, embracing
everything within its walls.
Now, it does not precisely fill the
bill to say to the prospective recruit
that "the daily routine in this camp
offers opportunities to teach several
vocations." (This particular statement
is made with reference to Camp
Lewis.) "Timber is present to permit
teaching logging, milling, etc. There
is much land available for the purpose
of use in teaching agriculture, horti
culture, agronomy, etc. There are
bodies of water adjacent to the camp
to teach bridge building, fish culture,
etc In fact, there are 600 vocations,
trades and pursuits used in the army,
other than those entirely military,
which are used in civil life. Many such
are used in this camp. Educational
training of Illiterates can be had with
out any difficulty, needing only in
structors and some little schoolroom
paraphernalia."
The sentences are taken from a
letter from the then commanding gen
eral at Camp Lewis. The allusion to
600 vocations, trades and pursuits
conveys the inviting intimation that
the army is, indeed, a vast trade school.
Some persons have not realized that
so many as 600 trades were used in
the army; intending recruits would like
to see a list of them, accompanied by
brief and easily understood state
ment of where they can be acquired.
As plain matter of fact, the army is
not teaching 600 vocations and trades.
Colonel J. T. Conrad, chief of the army
publicity bureau, in a recent explana
tory letter to the New York Sun. said
that advertisements in the daily press,
published by authority of the war de
partment, "were carefully thought out,
were believed to be appropriate, and
certainly were truthful." They an
nounced that service in the army of
fered opportunity to learn a trade
which would be valuable to the en
listed man when he returned to civil
life. Among the trades advertised
were the following:
If there should be "a terrible spasm
of rage and despair!'' in Europe, as
Arthur Henderson predicts, such men
as he will be responsible, and the
spasm is . as likely to be directed
against them as against any others. It
is men of the Henderson type who
inflame the people to such spasms by
stirring unreasoning passion and by
raising hopes which cannot be ful
filled. Instead of relieving distress,
they aggravate it, and in the end their
dupes turn upon them.
A grocers' picnic is a necessary evil
invented to harass the good woman
who in cloak and boudoir cap hurries
across the street for a bottle of milk
or loaf of bread for breakfast. But
the grocer has few joys and must be
allowed at least one day in the year.
The report that high-grade Havana
cigars are scarce will possess only
academic interest for most of us who
long ago were reduced to stogies,
which also have gone up in price and
down in quality in keeping with the
spirit of the times.
The katydids are singing on the
Wabash, which is interpreted to mean
that winter is only six weeks away.
But after the failure of the rain-on-
Easter sign this season, people will not
put as much confidence as formerly in
other superstitions.
Whatever we may think about the
Mexican people's right of self-determination,
there ought to be no dispute
over the proposition that our own
borders ought to be safe against the
incursions of marauding bandits.
Watchdog Kaste made good on the
first lap yesterday by getting a re
straining order against the county
commissioners' gasoline bill. That poor
gas account is heading toward the
waif column.
Somebody simply must kill that
flashlight bandit who is so heartless
in not leaving carfare for his victims
He is only an amateur thief, anyway.
A professional is more generous
minded.
In almost every newspaper there is
a story about youths stealing auto
mobiles. If an extra session is held
there is business as important as rati
fying suffrage.-
That was just a bit of Sunday morn
ing diversion when a crowd of thirty-
men attacked a police barracks in
County Clare and kept things lively
for an hour.
Governor Olcott has had his fun
and now is a good time to stop th
flights. Once upon a time a pitcher
went to the well too often.
NO ESCAPE.
The day the law went into force
Decreeing prohibition,
I took the wiser, safer course.
And bowed in meek submission.
T can't drink soda-fizz." I said;
"The stun seems too hydraulic;
I'll go to buttermilk instead.
For that's non-alcoholic"
Each day I drank a gallon can.
It really cheered and warmed "me.
But then a scientific man
Who lived next door informed me
That buttermilk was but a bluff.
"Beware," he said, "my brother.
You're drinking alcohol enough
To make one beat his mother!"
I turned to water for a while.
Distracted by his chiding.
And said with a pathetic smile.
"I now am law abiding."
"You still are full of alcohol
That nature has supplied you,"
Said he, "you haven't quit at all.
You're making it inside you"
"Each hour without a pause or stop
A tiny trickling river
Of alcohol confes, drop by drop.
Exuding from your liver!"
He proved that what he said was true
By figures tried and tested.
And now I don't know what to do
But have myself arrested!
Thcr All l.et i'tt Way.
Judging by the way Mr. de Valera
is making speeches, it looks as if he
was going to be a candidate for a sec
ond term.
We Live and Learn.
Anyway the result of the war has
taught us to stop bragging about
every man in America being a king.
Considerate.
Evidently Mr. Burleson, knowing
how busy the president is, doesn't want
to trouble him with a resignation just
yet
Twenty-five Tears Ajro.
Prom The Morning Ongonlan of August 5.
Tokio General Oshima. in command
of the Japanese troops reports a de
cisive victory over the Chinese after
severe fighting during five hours.
July 29.
Washington Representative William
Jennings Bryan of Nebraska today an
nounced his candidacy for the United
States enate.
Cowes. Isle of Wight George Gould's
yacht "Vigilant" won today in a 50-mile
race over the Prince of Wales' cockboat
"Britannia."
Chicago The American railway union
has issued an address to the voters of
the United States. It is an urgent call
to vote the populist ticket.
Fifty Tear A pro.
From The Morning Oregonian of August 5.
. Washington Superintendent Clapp of
the government printing office has ap
pointed eight apprentices, two of whom
are colored.
Dublin There was a great demon
stration in Limerick yesterday in favor
of the Fenian prisoners.
London William E. Gladstone, whose
health is much improved, attended the
sitting of the house of commons.
At a meeting held at the council
chamber August 3 an immigration aid
society and labor exchange for Oregon
was organized.
The Twain.
By Grace I- Hall.
T've lived in Los Angeles for the
past three years and I've never seen
any water in the river during tnat
time," reports D. v . Campbell, wno
s in town on a visit- Mr. Campbell was
formerly general manager for the
Southern Pacific in this district and
was transferred to Los Angeles. "A
few days ago 1 was fishing in the Ump
qua. There is a rivr for you. 'mere
isn't a stream in all California which
can compare with the Umpqua, and
that is only one of the many splendid
rivers in Oregon. Down in California
they do have a rather large river, but
it is so thick that it is only good for
fertilizing purposes."
He shipped a carload of hogs to
Portland last week and he has a big
crop of wheat, so F. D. McCulley of
Joseph, Wallowa county, can be con
sidered more than ordinarily pros
perous. Mr. and Mrs. McCulley motored
down from Eastern Oregon to attend
the buyers' week in Portland and they
are at the Imperial. Mr. McCulley has
lived in Joseph since the days when
that town was called Joe. and he was
formerly a president of the first bank
that Joseph had. Also he is a miller
as well as a wheat-grower and hog-raiser.
Mr and Mrs. B. B. Dietrich of Ray
mond, Wash., are-at the Hotel Oregon.
Raymond is now one of the most thriv
ing towns in Washington. It is having
a regular building boom, for although
there are not more than (990 people
in the place there are several hundred
thousand dollars worth of building
under contract. When the harbor is
deepened the way the people want it.
and for which deepening there is now
available a government appropriation.
Raymond expects to increase its out
ward-bound cargoes vastly.
R. V. Owens of Mitchell has arrived
at the Perkins for a few days. Mitchell
is particularly interested in the im
provement of the road through the
Ochoco canyon, as this road will en
able, supplies to come out from Bend.
The forestry department, through the
bureau of public roads, is pegging
along on the road work with day
labor. The job is costing about $40,000
more than the original estimate, owing
to the high cosfc of living, which ne
cessitates more pay for labor.
Looking around for oil prospects,
three state geologists have been visit
ing Wheeler and vicinity of late. The
same conditions are said to exist in
Tillamook county as were found at
Moclips, where there is an oil boom.
Wheeler is on Nehalem bay and the
latest reports show that the channel
has deepened itself three feet in the
past year, and that the shoal in the
bay is gradually decreasing. F. G.
Dearing of Wheeler is among the ar
rivals at the Hotel Oregon.
He saw the masonry tier on tier that
fashioned the bridge they crossed.
She saw the mind with its vision clear
which never a detail lost;
He figured the cash it had cost to
build, the power of each massive
span.
She glimpsed but the spirit that first
had thrilled and had given birth
to the plan.
He viewed the cathedral and said 'twas
fine the labor, he sruessed. was
great:
She was blinded by grandeur of art di
vine and worshiped beside the
gate:
He listened to music by artists rare
and wondered what they were
paid.
While she heard God's voice upon the
air, was humbled and half afraid.
The twain returned from the spaces
afar where marvelous sights ac
crue. He told of the marts and she of the
hearts and both of the tales
were true.
He measured the greatness by cost in
gold and boasted of what was
best.
Her measures were those that remain
untold rich gems in her mem
ory chest.
'Tis said that "the twain shall be one
flesh" and that no one shall break
the tie.
That a man and his mate are thus
through fate and the power that
rules on high:
They call it a sin when love has ceased,
and maybe that idea's best.
But the west cannot go to the east, you
know, and the east cannot come
to the west!
METRIC SYSTEM IS SI RK TO COME
ENGLISH BISHOP IS HECKLED
Admits He Gets 7SOO Per Year; Insists
He la Working Man.
London Daily News.
A remarkable incident occurred at
Bradford in connection with the May
labor demonstration. Among those
who came to listen to the speakers was
Bishop Welldon. who is in the city ful
filling a preaching engagement. He
Joiped the crowd, and his distinctive
dress, gaiters and hat made him an
immediate object of attention.
He' was approached by a number of
women with pacifist views, and. al
though subjected to a volley of ques
tions, he took it all with a great good
humor, and answered the questions
fired at him whenever he could get an
opportunity, which was not often.
One woman made a rather rude re
mark about the attitude of the clergy
toward the war, and declared that,
while they supported conscription and
the sending of boys of 18 into battle,
they were careful to take care of their
skins by seeing to it that they got ex
emption by act of parliament.
My good woman." replied the bishop,
"quite a number of clergy have lost
their lives in the war."
J.ne woman Why do you support
conscription?
The bishop I don't support conscrip
tion, but we must keep it in force until
peace is signed, or you will have the
Germans on to you again.
The woman You belong to the class
who refuse an old-age pension to a
worker at 69, yet take boys of 18 to
be slaughtered.
A man took up the examination of
the bishop, who by this time was sur
rounded by a still larger crowd, some
portion of it by no means friendly.
The man I want to talk to vou as a
working man.
The bishop I also am a working
man.
Yes. but you get 1500 pounds a year.
The bishop Well, and I earn it. I
work longer hours than you do.
me man And I would work lonsrsr
hours than I am doing if I could get
1500 pounds a year for it.
By this time things were cettina-
somewhat uncomfortable, and the.
bishop decided to leave. Before he
reached the gate, however, a white
faced young man selli
overtook him and asked him to bur
one entitled "The Truth About Russia."
I he bishop said he did not want one.
"Very well, then," said the youth,
"seeing that your salary is so small I
will give you one."
The bishop accepted the proffered
pamphlet and took his leave.
President Wilson "hurried home to
devote his entire attention to the
question" (of high cost of living). But
not from Paris.
tand purveying, switchboard installation,
lithography, auto repairing, motor mechan
ics (air or ground), bricklaying, telephone
repairing, baking and cooking, blacksmith
ing, road construction, carpentry, masonry,
wireless telegraphy, photography, welding
(acetylene and elertrio). draughting, elec
trical work, telegraphy, airplane mechanics,
plumbing and steam fitting.
There follows a list of places where
smoothly when each has met the other, these trades are actually being taught.
has spent pleasant social hours with
him and knows what sort of a fellow
the other fellow is.
To this end social entertainment fills
a large part of the week. It enables
the visiting merchants to look forward
to the week as a season of pleasure as
well as business. The pleasure is not
all on one side, by any means, for there
is much mental refreshment for the
city man in the society of men who
have come from the local trading cen-
some at one place and some at another.
which is satisfactory enough, so far as
it goes. It does, not contain 600 voca
tions, trades and pursuits, nor does it
approach that number. As to the vast
number still "in the air." we may,
perhaps, conclude that the enlisted
man is expected somehow to gather
knowledge of them from a kind of
haphazard experience. But the ambi
tious youth, for illustration, with i
bent for fish culture, will want to
Propaganda that will teach children
to despise their fathers who use to
bacco will make business brisk in the
divorce courts.
Germany is about to Jelease her
Russian prisoners, and it is no com
pliment to her that they are willing
to go home.
Judging by some of the fruit on
the market, someone has been taking
our advice about disposing of the culls
too literally.
Northern Idaho nearest the border
has relief at last in a heavy rata that
extinguished fires In valuable timber.
Special brand of weather for the
buyer from the dry country. "Light
showers" is the best we can do.
In view of events at Los Angeles,
the McNamara crowd has the best kind
of alibi in the form of jailer.
The Grandon farm in North Dakota
has been called the biggest farm in the
world. There were originally 73.000
acres in the ranch. J. L Grandon, who
lives in Boston, but who owned the
farm, was at the Multnomah yesterday.
He says that the big farm is to be cut
up into smaller tracts and sold and he
wants to take his children to the farm
and show them how it looks before the
process of carving up starts.
F. J. Gallagher, representing Malheur
and a few other counties in the legis
lature, is at the Hotel Portland. He
says that If the legislature is called in
special session he wants to be foot
loose and prepared to consider any
thing that comes up. Mr. Gallagher
says that he is not inclined to pledge
himself to act only on the ratification
of the woman's suffrag amendment.
Yack and Zak have been having a
fine time playing golf during their
visit in the city. M. A. Yack is a the
atrical man and Frank Zak is a com
mercial traveler. The two. men met at
the Hotel Portland, where they were
registered, and became as thick as but
ter. Mr. Yaclj is a bug on golf and he
Initiated Mr. Zak into the intricacies of
cow pasture pool
Jacob Kaser is one of half a dozen
citizens of Antelope who are in Port
land at present. Mr. Kaser Is at the
Imperial. Antelope is the center of a
sheep and cattle country in the south
ern part of Wasco county, and lives in
hope of one day being on The Dalles
California highway. Not being any
where near a railroad, stages run from
Antelope to Shaniko and Fossil.
F. W. Williams grunted with satis
faction at the price he received for his
carload of hogs in Portland yesterday.
Mr. Williams brought the porkers from
Junction City. He is at the Mult
nomah. Dr. Alsberg. chief chemist for the
government. Is expected at the Multno
mah today to attend a pharmaceutical
convention.
The "king of hobos" has abdicated
Let's see. how many kings does that
leave in the world?
How Two Firms Had Its Merita Forced
Forced Home by Losses.
PORTLAND. Aug 4. (To the Editor.)
Whenever the metric system of
weights and measures is proposed there
are always those who object. Their ob
jections are always the same, or.' in
the last analysis mean the same thing
stagnation. Man is the only ani
mal endowed with reason, but he is
not reasonable unless he uses his rea
son. All progress since year 1 has
come about by functioning this faculty.
Everytime reason has worked out a
better way the inert portion of hu
manity has held back. Some opposed
the exodus from Egypt, some opposed
magna charta, some opposed our in
dependence. Some opposed universal
freedom. Opposition was met by tem
perance, suffrage, the public school, the
homestead law, the universities, the
agricultural experiment stations, the
parcel post and our decimal money.
Had it not been for the profound re
spect and affection for Benjamin
Franklin by our first congress it would
not have changed the British money
in our country. He pleaded for the
whole metric system. Washington un
derstood its merits. Jefferson urged
congress to adopt the meter-liter-gram
system. It is urged today by every
body capable of rendering an opinion.
Let me name a few men who under
stand: ex-President Eliot of Harvard,
President Butler of Columbia. Andrew
Carnegie, Lord Kelvin, Secretary Red
field, Henry Ford, besides hundreds of
scientists and manufacturers. It has
been adopted all over the world ex
cept by Britannia and United States
In all 215 countries and governments
use It. rue metric system is oeing in
troduced in our own factories. Same in
Great Britain. We simply had to con
form to the demands of our foreign
trade. We will never in a thousand
years be able to compete with France,
Germany or any other country using
the metric system, until we submit to
the demands of our foreign customers.
Many factories are already installing
it. Let me mention three or four:
American Locomotive Works. Baldwin
Locomotive Works, Waltham Watch
company. Standard Tool company. The
educational authorities of California
have found that the scholars waste two
years pn the antiquated, barbarian and
difficult system of weights and meas
ures we now use. And yet we do not
want to sacrifice 10 minutes of our
time to learn a better way.
The joke is we do not understand the
system we swear by. An- American
firm shinned so many gallons of vine
gar to Canada. He had quoted price on
the 1!31 cubic inches gallon. In Canada
they use the English beer gallon, so
our merchant looked very sour when he
saw his profits gone. A San Francisco
broker sold a million gallons of oil to
Australians, at so much a gallon. A
differwice of 20 per cent in the size of
the gallon swallowed his profits.
The metric system of meters, liters
and grams is coming, coming apace.
Let us be ready far it. and not hold
back. We can't defeat it.
ERNEST BARTON.
SIRE WAY TO MAKE PRICES FALL
Crrrnliaikrr Gives Method But Warns
People to Ponder on Results.
CORBETT, Or., Aug. 4. (To the Edi
tor.) Since everyone seems to be over
taxing his brain in an effort to find
some method to bring down prices, mav
an old greenbacker and populist be per-
mineu to oxter a remedy So soon as
the league of nations is in operation
let its first business be to issue an
order that all paper money shall be re
tired. This can be easily done by sub
stituting interest bearing bonds there
for. According to newspapers there is
something like $36.000.(ju0.000 of this
money in existence besides the counter
feits put out, by Lenine, Trotsky and
company of which no one knows how
much there is.
This is an old tried remedy that never
fails. But before people start on this
price reducing campaign let them pon
der the falling price eras of 1820 to
1848, 1868 to 1878. 1893 or any other
falling-price era. and be sure they are
willing to exchange the present condi
tion for them.
SYLVESTER E. EVANS.
Soldiers Educational Aid Requirements.
PORTLAND. Aug. 4. (To the Ed
itor.) May a discharged soldier who
now lives in Oregon, but enlisted and
was discharged in another state, take
advantage of the law passed allowing
so much compensation a month to die
charged soldiers who wish to attend
the State Agricultural college at Cor
vallis? Or does this law include only
those men enlisted and discharged in
Oregon? SUBSCRIBER.
If he was a citizen of Oregon at th-
time he enlisted he Is entitled to aid.
although the enlistment was in an
other state. But if he was not a citi
len at that time he is not entitled to
the benefits of the act unless he en
listed or was Inducted from this state.
' Prohibition In England.
London Blighty.
Mrs. Russell "What is your hus
band's average income, Mrs. Harper?"
Mrs. Harper "Oh, about midnight."
FACTS ABOUT GENERAL PERSUING.
PORTLAND. Aug. 4. (To the Edi
tor.) 1. Is General Pershing married at '
the present? If so where does his fam
ily reside?,
2. How many children has he living?
3. How old was he when he entered
the army, and what year?
4. What is his present age?
CONSTANT READER.
1. General Pershing lost his wife and
three children in a fire in 1915. He has
not married again.
2. One.
3. He was graduated from West Point
in 1886, which would make him 26 when
his active military service began.
4. He is 59 years old.
Educational Bill Provisions.
PORTLAND, Aug. 4. (To the Ed
itor.) please tell me if a soldier desir
ing to attend a school in another state
can still have the advantage of the
soldiers' and sailors educational fund.
SOLDIER'S MOTHER.
He cannot get aid if he attends a
school not in Oregon.
Return of Troops.
McMIN"NVTLLE. Or.. Aug. 3. (To the
Editor ) We have seen little published
recently about the troops in France
and Germany. Is the 2d division still
in Germany, or has it or any part of
it started for the embarkation port?
We read some little time ago that the
division had been assigned for early
return.
AN INTERESTED SUBSCRIBER.
The infantry regiments of the di
vision 9th and 23d were due at New
York and Newport News August 3. It
is supposed that the marine regiments
alto have sailed by this time.
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