G THE OREGON DAILY JOURNAL, PORTLAND. TUESDAY EVENING, JUNE 23, 1914. THE, JOURNAL C . JACKSON , Pnbllaher aattlafaed tcdIdc (except Sandar) ami rr SoBda Darnlni at Tba Journal B tag. Broadway and YambiH t. olid. Port land. Or. A.atered at the ooatofflca at rVwtlaad. Or., far - tranamharioa, Uiroogk tfca malls urn aeeoaa (Iim aiattar. .LJtPHONIC Mala T178 Hot a, A-OOSl. All , departBranta reached bf Lhasa aonbara. TeU " ta o par tor what dapartmaot yoa want. iWMKlUM A-DVKUTlalNU UtraKOISNlATIVII r" Heajaml ft Keotnor Co, Bronawlc Bid., V 22 rirtk e., Ntw rki 121S Paopla Waa BUfH Caiufa. ' -- ' ' absctiutloa term by U 09 ta aay ao ; If aw la taa Bolted Stata or, Mesiooi ' : DAILY Oh rar.......$8.00 Ona month M 80NDAT . Oae rtar.......2.M f Ona mats.. " . DAILT AMD SUNDAY Oae raar......-IT.B0 On moata $ . When You Go Away 'Hava The Journal sent to - your Summer, address. It la with . narrow .. aouiea people a with narrow necked bottles; the lees they have, in them, the more nolae tber mak la pouring It out. Pope. matlon service say: that failure of Sundar tare a real value.. Tney Congress W act favorably on the call attention to a growing evil pending ' bill will handicap nearly which In time will be suppressed. 20,000 .families now residing - on Why anould a jnan go to a picnic reclamation projects. Failure to with a revolver In hie hip pocket? act will seriously embarrass far- Why should he be permitted to re- reaching plans Of Secretary Lane tain the weapon until he negins for the comprehensive development I shooting Into the crowd! ; wny of the west In cooperation with the I tolerate revolvers anywhere? states. '" . .". - There should r be no govern mental handicap on the actual homeseeker.'- He should be afford ed every .facility- for ' making' his homestead fertile. , He cannot make a success of his undertaking unless th DR. WITHYCOMBirS CANDOR D R. WITHYCOMBE Is , com- mendably frank in his views respecting ' the plan to give the governor . the right to credit which .the government single items in appropriation extends him is for a long period. SPLENDID NEWS TUB SPOKANE DECISION N THE. whole history of rate T mottnff. no lease approximates Iin importance the Spokane ae .!.!.' 'tnnnnmi " bT : the SU- . -t LIDlUtt ' V " " Court yesterday. It meahs that the railroad rate between St. .Paul and spoaane cau n the rate between St Paul and Portland. And that the rate from Chicago to Spokane can .v,. fnaat rata nv only seven f meQU IUQ . - . t ner cent. 1 And that the rate between vtpvlanrl and Spokane can exceed the Pacific Coast rate-by only fif 'teen per cent. And that the rate "east" of Pittsburg to Spokane cannot exceed the Coast rate by not more than twenty-five per cent. i- That is to say. the Interstate 'Commerce Commission divided the iTnfri states Into rate zones as follows: St. Paul and Omaha west ward, zone 1; between the Missis sippi Valley and St. Paul, zone 2; from the Mississippi Valley to Pitts burg, zone 3; Pittsburg to the At lantic, zone 4, and the "southeast- a i. n . nsnA r. Trio rtrcfV em vtjrniuij, " - of the commission is that the rail road rate from zone 4 to Spokane and like points can only be twenty five per cent higher than to Port- 1 . . ..J olmllar C.nant terminals. IBUU HUU DlUill.1 w ' from zone 3 only fifteen per cent higher, from zone 2 only seven per cent higher, and from zone 1 it must be the same. In other words, the Commission, in the Spokane ease, has fixed the relation for the country between water competition and the railroads, which makes the ' decision of tremendous Import. It means that railroads can make lany reductions they choose to Pa cific: Coast points, and it also means that when they make these reductions their rates from the re spective zones must be similarly reduced. . The effect so far as Portland Is ' concerned will be to again im press upon our business people the Importance of a real water trans portation. We can no longer look to the railroads . to make greatly reduced coast rates because such a ' reduction would compel, them to reduce rates at all intermediate points, a reduction which obviously they cannot afford to make. The natural relief for Portland 1$ ocean routes and a water com- tlv Fnr thla nnrnnaa tha nnontn w" - " - v i - '"-o of the Panama canal takea on a new significance to Portland. . It is this city's great answer to the Spokane rate case. It will, however, only be of value In so far as we improve our facilities, deep en our channel to the sea, develop our harbor and make our water competition not a paper competl Uon. but a real competition. bills. He Is opposed to the plan, and does not hesitate to say so. He says it would be a two-edged HERE warf splendid news foe sword and that In" the hands of a Oregon in The - Journal's 5 dls- radical governor would be objec patches from Washington yes- tionable. It is "to the credit of Dr. terday. - - Withycombe that he has the cour- The committee on commerce has age of his convictions, favorably reported : to the Senate , Of course, there are many . who the river and harbor bill with the agree with Dr. Withycombe. ' It Chamberlain amendments Included Is human nature for men to differ Among these amendments is the on these public issues. There are plan for placing the North Jetty many who, have strong faith In at the mouth of the Columbia on legislative bodies, and It is ap- a - continuing contract basis, and parent that Dr. Withycombe be- fixing the amount to be expended longs to that class, at $5,100,000. There are also in- On .the other hand, there Is a creases In the appropriations for considerable body of people . who the Siuslaw, the upper, Willamette insist that, the right to veto sin- and Yamhill,; and. there is prom- gle Items in an appropriation bill ise by Senator Chamberlain that he would be y a wise provision. The will get further, aid-for Tillamook 1913 Senate in Oregon held the in the Sundry Civil bill. same view as that taken by Dr. The favorable report by the Withycombe, and defeated a plan commerce committee makes it al-jfor placing single items in an ap most certain that the Chamberlain I propriation within reach ' of the amendments will be approved by j veto. ; - the upper chamber, and there Is j How to properly balance the reasonable hope that the iiouse can I powers between the executive and be induced to agree to the in-1 the legislative department l al4 creases. ' " ' ' , . ways a . question. It is an issue In addition - to these changes, that gives rise to two schools of there is provision for a compre- thought. On the one side are hensive survey of the upper Co-j those who have large faith in. the lumbla for canalization above Ce-1 legislative body, and on the other lilo with a view of ultimate devel-lare those who distrust the leglsla opment of the stream for navlga-jtive branch. Among the former are tion, reclamation and power pur-1 those who do not believe the execu poses. The proposed improvement j tlve should have the veto at all, of the upper river on modern lines, is more expensive than the old con vention 'and legislative processes. C La ; Follette and his followers are strenuously resisting , the on slaught. They see In the program an effort to elect a standpat sen ator as the successor : to Isaac Stephenson, whose . term expires next March. They see also in the high-tax furore a stealthy endeavor to undermine La : Follette who comes np for reelection .two years hence. There is a strikingly similar campaign " in Oregon. A hysterical cry against taxes has been suddenly raised by the Oregonian. It raised no protest when the 1913 legisla ture was . annroDriatins; nubile money with mad recklessness. It smiled its sweetest and threw kisses to the senate and house machines when they lavishly passed appropriation bills over the gover nor's vetoes. It actually - con demned the governor because he saved the taxpayers $613,874 by his vetoes at the 1911 session, de claring . tnat West was "grand standing." It now charges that the hlrh taxes are caused by' the Oregon system. -. The Wisconsin camnalirn helns Illuminate Jhe situation In Oregon. visions an empire in the making. Its creation ot electric power and its reclamation of unproductive lands by the same projects with which it improves navigation has a meaning for the Pacific North- CR 13113 AND THE MOVIES w Letters From the People ILLIAM PINKERTON, noted detective, says that within the moving picture's prov ince lies a' dangerous power west that Is beyond estimate in the for evil that c11110 De too serious- thousands of people for whom it ly considered. 1 Addressing the In will provide homes and in the 1 ternatlonal Association of Chiefs of thousands to whom It win givePollce the other day, Mr. Pinker- profitable employment. ion Bain: , The Chamberlain amendment Ta a eerlal picture of aordld rals th total mntomnin . (crime, like those that Illustrate the saocklng features of white slavery. prlations for Oregon to- nearly six drug depravity and gunmen ran", and one half million dollars. The what good purpose can any normal. placing of the Columbia improve- se"iah person expect them to serve? ment on a continuing contract will 'lroTAT enormously hasten the work, pro- a fire already hard to control. . viding probably for final comple- The moving picture has become tlon of the jetty within three years, a mode of instruction as well as a Oregon has never before faced a form of entertainment. ..But, as more favorable outlook - resulting Mr. Pinkerton said, train hold-ups, from prospective congressional leg-(bank burglaries, gun play and all islation. . lacts of outlawry- are more sug gestive than educative. Whv AGAINST AID FOR OREGON should a boy go to a movlnir tlc- turn Rhnw tr lenpn liniir tn ntolr S THE Oregonian trying to beat hock or to flourish a revolver? "e "Jer aa naroor appropna- A movement has been started in tlons for Oregon? Or, is its at- Chicago for twn 1aSBAa nf mnrln lVf5ianl.0t,on Tba Journal for tea on only one aida of the paper, ahoald not exceed 800 word to ltng tb and must be ae companleU by the mm and addresa of the sender. If th writer docs not desire to me name pabusbed. be enoald ee state.) "niscnsaion Is the greatest of all reform. rs. It ration allies ererjUilnt It toncbes. It robs principlea of all false sanctity and throws them back on their reasonableness. If they have, no reasonableness, it ruthlessly .ua uicia ovt ot existence ana seta np its own conclusion in their stead." Weodrow n uaon. An Indorsement. Portland June 23. To the Editor of The Journal The Editorial 4n Sun day's Issue of your paper, entitled "Throw Off the Toke of Trade Tyran ny, Bnouia do reaa over ana oyer again by every business man. every farmer, every citizen whose Interests lie in the territory tributary to the great Columbia river basin. lt should not only be read by those solnterest- ed, but the suggestions therein con tained should be vigorously acted upon ana strenuously pursued until' the i lief so ably, pointed out shall have become an accomplished fact. under modern conditions of doing business, the Question of transporta tionof cheap transportation is most vital to success, and nature has won derfully favored us with this great natural advantage an advantage which if properly utilised means more than any other s for the success and up building of the commercial, the farm ing and general business activities of all who. are so fortunate as to have become Interested In the limits of the above described territory. In other words, if the proper sup port Is given to the plans and jaeas ures which The Journal has so clearly pointed out In the article above re- f erred to, the question of successful manufacturing, farming and general business life will be solved for all time to come, so far ' as human Inge nuity can now foresee or sclentlflo en deavor bring about within the confines of this vast territory Interested. "Will they do it? Will-they act? N. CAMPBELL A FEW SMILES A. boy would persist in earing "I have wrote." Th teacher, after many reminders and remonstrances, set him the supposedly cur-. ative task of writing the ; words! "have written 100 f times after ' school hours. Leaving the lad at his task, ah i forgot all v about r him and went home. On her troubled return some time later she found that he had - effected : an ' Informal exit and had left on her desk this note: ''Dear teacher: f X "have wrote I have written' a hundred times, and I have went home. V PERTINENT COMMENT AND NEWS IN BRIEF: - A trial- took place recently in Texas before, a 'colored Jury. The twelve gentlemen of color were "told by the judge to retire and find a verdict. f They departed for the J u rv . room. Then began the opening and shut ting of drawers, v the slamming of doors, and other sounds of unusual . commotion. , aOIALla CHANGE j ' r - -- V. 1 :. ,- : . -, Be a sport and get up in the morn ing to see a few June sunrises. . - Meanwhile the water. In the Klagara river continues to go over the falls. - Besides "the June bride there seems to ue the. Jfine breach, of promise case. ' This being a congressman is getting to be is bed as having a regular job. ; a . a - Just to while awav the time in Vera Crus some of the marines are getting married. a a Cleveland persists In claiming Mr. Rockefeller an a citizen, or at least as a taxable asset. The colonel crobably changed it to 'After me. my dear Alphonso." during that Madrid visit. a New York la to have a sane Fourth. on which occasion it will doubtless ab stain from discussing the Becker case, mm The rloara of war have ' evidently de veloped the habit of sitting on their hind legs ana awaiting developments. Peace In Mexico that would leave Everrona wonrlarad what tha trail hi a I tha mux a of the neODle stilr playing was. s v I the part of mudsills would hardly be At last the jury came back Into the iasung, court and the foreman arose and said "We hab looked eberywbar. in the OREGON SIDELIGHTS drawers and behind the do',' an can't find no verdict, s It warn't in de room." National Monthly. ' .Dasher bad ' evidently had experi ence. Lasher We're , going to have' some I amateur t h e a t r i-1 cals at my house I next week and ' a I big supper after ward. Can you Be there? Dasher Oh, I'll De , mere, oia man. but er I may be late. rtTil 1 II n i n- It Vrnnwi could settle its troubles by changing cabinets every few minutes it would be a happy little country by this time. What has become of the old-fash ioned town that was famous if one of its boys belonged to tne worm oeaung Sox or Cubs? It will facilitate divorce trials If hereafter husbands writing to "Non nle" will mark their letters "Exhibit A." "Exhibit B " etc. It may also act as a restraining influence. In tha vear end Ins- June 20. 11.884 visitors were registered at the Klam ath Falls public library. Book circula tion .amounted tO ail 3. . . a a 't A contract will soon be let at La- pine for a two story frame school house. 65 by sn feet, or colonial a sign, and to cost 810,000. a a -. - Editor McDaniel of the Coos ' Bay Harbor, with his family, has gone auto touring. The tour will extend as far down the coast as San Diego. This is his second offense. . The Sunset Valley correspondent of the Burns News, listing the attractions nromlsetl by tha iveoDla of Narrows for the Fourth of July, Includes "a big parade of Republicans and Democrats with their Taf t and Wilson badges. which no one can afford to miss.", a - Port Orford Tribune: A Curry eoun tv bov and a Curry county girl one in Portland and one in Bandon have -lust led their classes in graduation exercise! Cattle, hogs and sheep are not the only things worth while that grow to periecuon in urry county. Florence recently tried an experi ment in paving, mixing asphalt with the sand In the street, but it was not mixed right, and the experiment was a partial raiiure. Aiore aipnui has been ordered and some other com bination will be tested. - a a Coqullle Sentinel; The statement that half the business portion of Ban don was wiped out by the fire ! hardly Justified. Nearly twice as many business houses remain stand ing as wenUown. But, notwithstand ing the sev-clft losses sustained and the paucity of pta Insurance, which did not cover mere than one fifth of the damage done, the business men af fected are keeping a stiff upper lip and getting ready to get right Into the game again. IN EARLIER DAYS Br Fred ockley. WHAT THE FLAG SAID (Secretary Lane's Flag Day Speech to the Clerks of the Interior Department.) This morning, as I passed into tne land office, the flag dropped me a most cordial salutation, and from Its rlp nilnar folds I heard it say: "Good question, but there la only one side to the liquor traffic Itself. That Is evil, ana wnouy evil. : We eliminate men altogether. The octopus behind this beast is 'the whiskey trust, a soulless j m0rning, Mr. Flag-Maker.' r h T . . 110 jnwey- I beg your pardon. Old Olory, ' Z.;; ,.;:-: r .T " . 1 1 said, -you are mistaken. of man. Saloonkeepers themselves president of the United States, nor the are merely their tools or hired men.! vice president, nor a memoer oi con We are not abusing them. Many of gress, nor even a general in the army, inem mignt be very good men were 1 1 am only a government ciera. they placed in a shoe store or grocery I "I greet you again, Mr. Flag-Maker,' or any other place where they were replied the gay voice. I know you supplying a legitimate need of the welL "Sou are the man who worked in human race. In no business in the the swelter of yesterday straightening world does so small investment yield I out the tangle of that farmers borne so great profit. This accounts for stead in Idaho. ters to a boy who will write a song that will give cheer to the millions of our race. We are all making the flag." I u.u,A u. uumucb oi stupidity 7 one for children. But that would apeaKmg or tne Diu.it saya through be only a partial solution oL the Its Washington correspondent: problem. There are many grown theTrk P-Ple of weak mentality whBo a?t distributed in nearly every section xf UPOD. suggestion. me country, it is charged that it I The real solution Is to banish has been framed to catch votes, and the revolver and th rHmir.nl rVm inus maae it practically impossible - - ' . " " , to block its passage. The South has tfce screen. A moving picture been awarded large sums for projects I leaves a more vivid impression aue8:ed Da Jn many cass than a book. It leaves the youthful of little or no value for navigation A i- . . J , ... purposes. New Jersey is one of the mind ln mCb. the same condition favorites. It is alleged among other as when a circus has been In thlhgs that the bill fairly bristles I town. Even hova whn lnv T ih.. Hit V ui..' m mo uiii, liio scuais CUUIUIIUW V HELP THE HOMESEEKER g ECRETARY LANE of the In- terlor Department wants Con V J gress to help the homemaker 7 on irrigated lands. The Sen ate has passed a bill modifying the conditions of settlement and ex tending the time of payment from ten to twenty years, of money ad vanced by the government ' in reclamation projects. The bill in now held up in the house, and re ports from Washington say it is encountering the opposition of cer tain members from the middle west. ... There should be no opposition to this measure..-' The United States is the only nation with a policy which hinders, the development of reclamation farms. Other conn tries are giving the land owner from twenty to sixty, years to set tle with the government. Even in .France," with its thrifty and highly experienced farmers, forty to fifty years are granted. . ; The government's net Investment ' In reclamation work is 882,123, 665.' Of the 1,500.000 acres for which water is now ready there will be .harvested next fall rops on about 750,009 acres. The es timated -value -of these crops Is about 23 per cent of the total cost of the , work; ' Settlement f of the .public lands included in these proj ects has been rapid. Of the 1,500,- 000 acres now irrigable only 27,120 acres remain vacant -,: v r - It is sound policy for the govern- ' ment to lend its credit in develop ing the arid regionsbut i is not wise for the government to impos conditions which the homeseeker ' cannot meet. . Officials of the recla ,.. th. river .nd harbor theatres 33iJgSJ Testimonial for Dr. Smith. Portland, June 83. To the Editor of The Journal All who nave been so fortunate as to meet Dr. Smith, can on commerce gives Oregon nearly seven million dollars, of which $5,- 100,000 is provision for a continu ing contract at the mouth of the uoiumDia. . wnat it t.he newspa pers all over the Country attacked AX IMPROVED OUTLOOK T HE Railway Age Gazette pre dicts a decided Improvement in the near future In the railroad carrying and equip- tne uregon allowance as' a pork ment businesses. .: After confessing Darrei7 What if every, paper out- that it had been "as Mha as in. side of Oregon referred to It as the digo for many months," the Gazette Oregonian refers to other appro- declares that the time for a change pnauons in other states by saying has come. v that "it is alleged that the bill Three substantial reasons, for fairly bristles with real estate proj- optimism are mentioned: The crop ects? . I reDort. the most favorahlA In von to It is probable that there Is a certain increase In railroad traf- mealin every appropriation in the fic. and the sunremA court's rioMa- Mll, jblst as there is merit in the ion in the Shreveport case, which Columbia appropriation. It is not the Gazette says means the Inevit probable that the only appropria- able harmonizing of state and fed tion of mert In the bill is the Ore- eral rate regulation under supreme gon allowance. When there Is authority vested in the Interstate prospect that Oregon is to fare so I Commerce commission. splendidly at the hands of Con- Tha Seattle Post-Intelligencer gress, why fight Congress for its says the lumbermen'! of Washing generosity and the bill for carrying ton are looking forward to an Im- neavy appropriations? mediate revival of business in their Incidentally, it Is far better for I line. So "confident are they of an Congress to spend $93,000,000 on improvement In conditions, I that rivers -and harbors than to spend a 1 no effort is ; being made to secure billlorr dollars on the armed in- J low-priced orders. , vaslonrof Mexico for which the Ore-I The Seattle paper, reflecting the gonian is loudly clamoring. THE REVOLVER AGAIN 0 opinion of lumbermen, says there is sound basis for this confidence. The Railway Age Gazette, reflect ing the, real opinion .of railroad men, says the prospects of a large NE man seriously injured and the lives of ..many people increase In traffic cannot fall to threatened is a revolver's hRVa - KAT1A,.iai v Th. i recom-ai me HiagieS', PlCniC -ml a n.aAii fnr nnflmlcm Sunday. The gun was in the hands ; Nothing is wrong with the coun l aicnarsin5itry8 business outlook. . Already it at random in. the crowd.. many mills and factories have re- vw maujr more sucn mciaenis Bumed full-time operations. i4uoi uttur uciuro existing laws against the revolver are ' enforced ? The! Sunday affair is Illustration of the Imperative need of police 'ac tivity in the enforcement of pres ent laws. It is further evidence that the revolver has no place in II THE ISSUE OP TAXES N WISCONSIN, a . cry of high taxes has been raised by the standpat leaders in an effort to discredit the system of pro- any man's pocket,' and especially islgressive government - established it proof that when such a handy j through"' a fight of . many years by instrument of death is- allowed in 1 Robert LaFollette. "rx the possession of v the vicious or They make the claim that the the irresponsible it is a men ape to I high taxes are chargeable to the everybody. (new governmental methods. They But shootings such as occurred I argue, that the progressive' system the great difficulty In dislodging it. M. A. COOPER. An Open Letter. McMlnnville, Or, June 22. To the Editor of The Journal Through the columns of The Journal I ask to pre sent to the Portland Chamber of Com merce th following address: "No, I am not." 1 was forced to con fess. "Well. Derhaps you are the one wno discovered the mistake in that Indian contract in Oklahoma." "No. wrong again," I said. "WelL you helped to clear that pat ent for the hopeful inventor in New York, or pushed the opening of that new ditch in Colorado, or made that ticket, or to hear him speak, cannot Dutreei impressed with his personal ity, nis wisdom and his earnestness. That Oregon will be most fortunate, indeed, to have for its governor a man like Dr. Smith, Is plain to all who meet and know him, He made a most clean and fair cam paign at the primaries for the nomi nation, and came out of the strurfele with the respect of his opponents and the solid support of the party that honored him with the nomination, and that of thousands of others whose grewing desire is to see him elected. The day of political bosslsm In this grand state is fast becoming a thing of the past, and neither the whin of tne professional politician nor the narpmgs of pliant tools of greed and avarice shall ever cause the neonla to take a backward step in thler march for freedom from political tyranny, xnat ur. Kmitn will continue to grow in publio favor with the people as his great worth becomes more and more known Is patent to all who know him, and that he will be elected bv an overwhelming mapjority is the predic tion already made by those who best know th, temperament of the voters of mis state. ONES OF THE COMMON PEOPLE. Noah and His Descendants. Gervais, Or June 22. To the Editor of The Journal If I attempted to im prove on God's handiwork, I would not place, as He did, above all else, wlno. saying, "Do this in commemoration of me. Being temperate, I would not change water into win a But God knew of the coming prohiMton wave. He also gave strong drink. I quote from the Bible: "Give strong drink to him that is readyt to perish, and wine to him that is heavy of heart. Let him drink and forget his poverty, and re member bis misery no more." Tho grape, planted by Noah, was also made a specialty. He made strong drink and got drunk, but he got drunk no more, thus establishing temperance. not prohibition. He did - not destroy the. vineyards, though the herbs were all his. Noah's son, Shern. was chas tised fo laughing bexause his father got drunk. Sbem was a true type of prohibitionist. God, Bible and Noah belong to anti-prohibition. Mr. Ruth is an ancestral brother to Mr. Hollis. if both are Europeans. Sam Lee. the Chinaman, ana jack Johnson, the pugil ist, are his ancestral first cousins. Mr. Hollis, being a Prohibitionist. " takes after his uncle Shem. Mr. Ruth, a very smart man, takes after his grandfather Noah, Vote wet, for enforced law,' order and temperance. ELLA M. FINNEY. Gentlemen: Saturday's taners re-ii.. . Tiiinnii morn safe, or brought port that you are soon to be called on. I relief to the old soldier In Wyoming. - iu. rauii oi activity or tne Hop no matter, whichever one or tnese Growers association, to cast a ballot I hnfiint individuals you may happen vn wegon ary. .viaentlv tn han I - v,- t -r. vn,i B-reetlne. Mr. Flaz B.vfc.a uciicvo juu win vote in xavor I Maker of Oregon wet Do they have your ' correct measure? The statements In t was about to pass on. feeling that ieir letter are subject to considerable j was being mocked, when the flag .uanmco. xne iana now stopped -me with these woras: in hops is not adapted to other croDS." v iin tha world knows, that I am sure no land owner would a I . i .v. ...Mi.nt .nnv a. word to A wmld Purchaser. He that made happier the future' of 10,- would rather ay, "Land that will 0d0.000 peons in Mexico, but hat act grow hops will grow anything. The loomg no larger on the flag than the wettest or it will grow alsike clover struggle which the boy In Georgia is and some farmers near Amity har- rnaklng to win the Corn club prize this Vested 135 per acre from alsike seed mmr. Testerdav the congress spoke last year. Hop land, as you well . rori which will open the door of know, Is the very best in the vallev. . . mnther in Mlchia-an The statement that Oregon dry will worked from sunrise until far Into the drive the hop men out of business Is night to give her boy an education. She at least an exaggeration, for very lit- toJ l8 making the flag. Yesterday we tie Oregon hops are sold in this coun- made a new law to prevent financial J uivoi arg uiuutu w Miiana. ie. I . v..t.r tin doubt, a scnooi sides, our text books, which give the teacher in Ohio .taught his first let- viu tu urtgun igr IV 12, list "But," I said impatiently, "these peo ple were only working." Then came a great shout from the flag: "Let me tell you who I am. xne worn that we do is the making of the real flag. I am not tha flag, not at all. I am but Its shadow. I am whatever you make me, nothing more. I am your belief In yourself, your dream of what a people may become. I live a changing lite, a life of moods and pas. sions, of heartbreaks and tired muscles. Sometimes I am strong wltn priae, when men do an honest work, fitting the rails together truly. Sometime I droop, for then purpos has gone from me, and cynically I play the coward. Sometimes I am loud, garish and full of that ego that blasts Judg ment But always I am all that you hope to be and have the courage to try for. I am song and fear, struggle and nantd and ennobling hope. I am the rtav'work of the weakest man, and the largest dream of the most dar ing. I am the constitution ana mi courts, statutes ana statute rouera, j soldier and dreadnought, drayman and street sweep, cook, counsellor and clerk. I am the battle of yesterday and the mistake of tomorrow. I am the mystery of th men who do with out knowing why. I am th clutch ef an idea, and the reasoned purpose of resolution. I am no more than what you believe me to b. and I -am all that you believe I can be. T am what you make me. nothing more. . , . . "Iwing before your eyes as a bright gleam of color, a symbol of yourself, the pictured suggestion of that big thing which makes this nation. My stars and my stripes are your breams and your labors. They ar bright with cheer, brilliant with courage, firm wltl faith because you have made them mo out of your . hearts, fof you are the makers of the flag, and it is well that you glory In the making." . "In February, 1 848," -th--volunteers " matched . up to Whitman - station to avenge the death of Dr. and Mrs, ' Whitman and the others killed at the , Whitman massacre." said Sol Durbin .; of : Balem. one of the few remaining . Cay use war -, veRana. , "Colonel .Gil-" 11am Interviewed the : Hudson Bay . company's agents McBean, and also , Father Broulllet at Walla . Walla. We also visited th camp of Chief Pen- v peu-moxrtnox, who: was -In favor of ' : peace. From there xw went to Dr. Whitman's mission, where' we mad camp. We' found th bodies of Dr. " and Mrs.: Whitman, Rogers. Hoffman, :" Sanders, Cthe Sagers and the others who were killed, scattered around. We made a big box, in which, we put all ; r of - the skulls and bonea that were ' scattered around. . and - buried them. ; The bodies had been dug up by th wolves and most of the flesh gnawed off the bonea Meek and some of the . others 'saved some of Mrs. Whitman's hair. It was long, silky and light red In color. -. - - - :' - "On th 4th. of March. IMS. Jo Meek and his party started for Wash ington to lay before tcongres the con- : dMfon of Oregon affair. The ones who went with him were John Owens, Nate Bowman. Jim Steel. Samuel MJ1-. -ler, Jake Lea bo, Dennis .Burrls and s Dave Young. They had a very strenu- f ous Journey, having to abandon their V horses and make snowshoes out of willows, and late In May Meek ar rived In Washington. . "On March , 1848, about 250 friend ly Nes Perc and Cayuse Indians cam into camp for a council, which was , held next day. After the council the peacs commissioners we had with us Palmer, Lee and Newell started back for the Willamette valley, and Colonel Gilliam got under way to where th - Cayuse Indians were camped. By making a night march, we reahced th Cayuse camp, near th mouth of th Tu cannon. There were only a few In diana her. When we had climbed up th bluff, we discovered that the In dians' horses and cattle wer being . . swum across th Snake river into th ' Palouse country. W captured a lot of horses, mayb 1000, and as w . started back several hundred Indians, both Cayuse and Palouse, began firing at us. We kept up- a running fight all that day and night- Finally the officers decided to turn loos th cap tured stock, thinking th Indian would stop fighting when they had re covered the stock. At Touchet river w made a stand and -had a stiff fight. We killed four Indians and wounded 14. We had one man (Bill -Taylor) killed and several wounded. "On March 18 Colonel Gilliam called a council of war to decide what t do. It was decided to send part .of, the force to'The Dalles to bring back pro visions. Our company, under Captain Maxon. and Captain McKay's company, left Whitman mission on March .20 with the wagon train. "Colonel Gilliam came with us. - At Wells rprlngs Colonel Gilliam pulled his rop out of the wagon to stake his horse Someone had left a loaded gun in th wagon, and as Colonel Gilliam pulled the rope out. his rope caught on th trigger and discharged the gun. The bullet hit him In the center of the forehead, killing him instantly. "We ate our supper, and. Instead of camping all night, as we hall intended to do, we got under way and traveled all. that night and all the nest day. We took Colonel Gilliam's body to The Dalles, and there It was taken in charge by Major Leo and Captain McKay, who took it to his home in Polk county. 'I, with others, received an honor able discharge at, The Dalles. II. A. G. Lee, a young man from Virginia, about 80 years old. who had 'come out to Oregon in 1848. was appointed colonel of the regiment after the death of Colonel Gilliam. They did not capture the murderers on this expedition, but I saw five of them hanged several years later In Oregon City." bariey at 12,600,000 and clover seed at $1,000,000. but jdo not list hops at an. aitnougn specifically stating that Oregon supplies two fifths of the crop of the United States. This Is prob ably an error, but th authorities are supposedly excellent. THRIFTY SAVER AND FARM BORROWER By John M. Osklson. w learn from the controller of the currency that at the end of the last In one of th principal hon centers fiscal year our thrifty savers had of the valley Is a Urge hotel, vacant nearly seven billion dollars to xneir except In the hop picking season. Then credit in savings accoumo. for a few weeks it is filled, not by The census of 1910 said that in the hop pickers buf by the vultures who last 20 years the value ot the farms prey on the pickers. ' Through them of the United States had doubled raucn or the money paid labor they had reacneo a toiai viuo v.j reaches Portland. about $600,000,000 less than the pres- The hop business is esentlallv a I ent total of savings accounts. gamble,' as one of your own lawyer More Interesting to the thrirty members said to me last week In your owner of lendable money was the city. It Is not that the Hotel Keepers' showing of the farmer's increased association cares especially for the hop equity In the land. For the whole business that they unite in clrcularls- country, in 1910, the average farm had A , . . . . ' - .A AWAjl 1 7 1 F. "8 .ou, "ui uecause tney want to re- I a valU OX tvzoi iu uwnci vt.. tain the liquor traffic In the state, and I and his unincumbered Interest in the the enemies of prohibition are mixing I farm was worth $4574. This last flK- tne question witn as many other ques- ure compared with, izzzu xn tlons as possible to gain votes for I Tha noint is that the surplus money liquor. . of thrifty savers has not been For eleemoenary Institutions, penal I rotns- to the farm so much as to the ana reionn institutions. court ex-1 manufacturing ana wanspurmuon Sees Difficulties in Branding. Salem, Or.. June 22. To th Editor of The Journal Ella M. Finney will not -have solved the liquor problem when she gets her law to brand drunk. ards. The human race has nevertaken kindly to branding. Then, too, there la a chance for a wide divergences of opinion as to when a man is drunk. If it was poor Tom Jones, without money or mends, it might b easy, but when It comes to some prominent clubman it would b a different mat ter. Again, a man might not be drank enough to prevent his running an au tomobile, and yet he might not be sober enough to prevent his running it Into the ditch. , . There are many sides to this maa penseB, eic, our state expends con siderably over $1,000,000 a year. Those best informed state that from one half to rive sixths of it 1 occasioned bv drink. The traffic costs counties and cities vast sums in addition to this" state expense. It is an economical blunder, a moral blotch. Future gene rations will be amased at our folly. x appeal to you to cast your straw vote xor uregon dry, and giv th cause or prohibition your support. CURTIS p. COH. Prohibition's Effects Discussed. Newport. Or- June 22. To tha Edl tor of The Journal F. W. Nlckerson, Writing June 18. says: ..."Men oppose dustrles. In the view or tne lenoer vl money, the farmer has not borrowed as much as he ought to have borrowed in order to raise his 'farm ta a point where" Its output would be at th max imum and his own working efficiency at the highest. Here are American savers with nearly seven millions to their credit, while the American farmers, with as sets of nearly six and a half blllioTta, have borrowed against their farm less than a billion and thre quarters. Compared with the average security offered by railroads and manufactur ing corporation, the farmer borrower offers far better collateral. At the same time, he has been compelled to pay a far .higher Interest rate. Presently this condition will b cor rected. Meanwhile I think it is the small investor's opportunity to get hold of good farm mortgages. It is an economlo axiom that when th de mand for certain forms of investment increases, the return on those invest ments will decrease. If you hold O good mortgage that brings 6 per cent, with five years to run. 1 predict that by May, 1918, you will be able to mar ket It at a premium. false to say that prohibition is hostile to the free spirit of Christianity. "Men who oppose prohibition because they believe it to be immoral, un christian and detrimental to character ' who ar they? They are the enemies of the horn and free cnnuann - those who put gold above The Hop Industry's Beneficiaries. Portland. Or.. Jun zt.io T-" tor of The journal i - -v-v prohibition because they believe it to a reply, to Mary Tillman s article m be immoral, unchristian and ' detri- Friday's Journal. She says that our mental to character." I it true? To few bop yards in Oregpn are not ail m this is a new one. If it is true, that count In our state s then the saloon- must be a kind of I this 1. but does she stop to think that training school for morality, Chris-1 the hop growing inausiry i mo tianitv and Dhrax-tr ,.. fn. l.aat 50.000 people-every year. churches been turned into saloons, and True, Oregon i a great fruit state, th pastor and deacon Into bar- but what fruits picked in our state tenders? About 700,000 people went will arford a living for at least the to death during Taft's administration 60,000 people who depend on the hops through-the ealoon and white slave for their winter's supply? And should traffic If it Is true that th probl- I our stat go dry, wno wm go uow iu bltlonlst and Christianity ar behind I their pockets and give the amount such hellish work I am then Oppose Paid each year to tneso peovc to prohibition and will vote "wet for least five years, while we are waiting myself, my neighbor and my country for our fruit trees to bear? In regard- for -enforced law, order and temper- to our families, that lies in the home ance." Look at Secretary Daniels He training. Bend a twig while it is too, has become immoral, and worse! young, so will it-be when grown. WTiy He has interfered with the "personal abould the people of our state suffer liberty or the. navv. thua n1alnr th... I tne loss oi tneir irnuwi on th down grade to immorality and ! ruin. In a great speech before th United Spanish War Veterans at Atlantic City, our good president said: "I am interested In fighting bad tendencies. bad systems, things that lower all the levels of our political and economic morality.' few have not the will power to 'control their appetites and resist the tempta tion of excessive drinking? ' " MRS. I. INGLIS. .The Profession, and the Habit. - From the New York Post. Commissioner Davis is entitled t thai thanks of tha community for her Mr. Nlckerson s argument is neither I viKordus efforts to break up the abom- eound nor logical. The tendencies of I inable drug traffic in -our penal lnstl- the liquor traffic ar all-bad. It I tutions. The arrest of Dr. Charles lowers all our political and economic I H. Baxter, the house physician of th morality, as President Wilson truly I Blackwelvs Island penitentiary, is said. Its extermination would be a I startling revelation of the extent to far greater reform than th tariff and monetary systems combined. It is I which this corrupt practice has gone. What we should like to ask is: .What are the reputable ; physicians and the medical upeoclationa of this city going to do about this case? Here Is an un excelled opportunity for them to en force the ethical standards of the pro fession in case, of course. Dr. Bax-. ter's guilt is definitely established on his trial. Our medical friends are con stantly bemoaning the fact that the public takes osteopath and Christian Scientists so seriously. Well, on way to win greater public confidence would be to rid the profession of a few of its rascals and, by exemplary punish ments, make it clear that the profes sion has no scorn too great for a phy sician who will thus degrade himself. The least that can be done is to pre vent such a man's ever practicing again in this state. That some doc tors are themselves too free In the use of morphine and similar drugs is all the more reason why this chance to drive a lesson home should eagerly be seized. Sahara Ienert In Yoor Home. From th Bulletin of the Rochester' Chamber of Commerce. "Moisture in the air we breath la . necessary to maintain life." said a re-v cent experimenter on the conditions of Rochester homes. "Few people realize the amount of water vapor necessary in an ordinary nous to maintain a proper humidity condition. The maximum ' evaporation . in th water pan in a hot air furnace, doe not exceed five or six quarts .per day,- whereas. in an average eight room house during winter weather, from 80 to 0 quarts of water must be evap orated every Z4 hours in order to main tain the proper air conditions." As a matter of fact, less than half of the water pans in Rochester fur nace ar filled at all. It 1 not known ' 4yy peopi as a rule that the illness prevailing during winter weather 1 largely traceable to- dry air in the home. Throat trouble, swelling of glands, catarrh, and such Illnesses ar frequently induced by this dryness of the air. Cracking and breaking of furniture, the destruction of pianos, etc., are attributable to this condl-' tlon. - . . It is necexsary to keep th humid ity Insid the house as- nearly even with. that outside as posaihlc. In our climate, the average humidity Is from (0 to 70 per cent of saturation. Th desert of Sahara is about 33 per cent; the average humidity In our homes is about 20 to 28 per cent. Pointed Paragraphs Hot arguments can cool friendships -a The world ' soon gets tired of a chronic kicker. , a . Better a penny in th hahd thada a nickel in the slot. . a A hory man and a nagging woman make a well matched pair. . a v Every time a man tries to show off something gets his goat. a a Time never hangs heavy on th hands of a boy with his first watch, a Experience comes high, but you needn't tell the world what it costs , a a ' Why should a woman us a hammer to drive a tack li tnere is a nairDrusn handy? . ' - The Ragtime Muser Proxy Hero. -. - I live to seek adventure - And the lure of sweet romance, ' 1 will follow boldly, gayly. At a look. i With hardship -and flre fighting I will gladly take a chance " . . But 1 find these all in plenty . In a book! - , ' . 1 f I am somewhat of a 'hero.,- ' r !'! And of death I'm not afraid. -To rescue some fair da nine I .- . From her doom. - .' I face a hungry tiger -.' Or an army, undismayed; In fact, I've often done so ' j In my room. . . ' Though vicarious "my daring, - Thoush by proxy I am rash. '' My admiration for myself i Immense: - ' : I -may b short on folly, ' -And mur show but-little dsh. ;. But-hang It! I. am strong in Common sen! The Sunday Journal Th Great Home Newspaper, consists of. Five news sections rep'.ete wltn Illustrated featurex - ' . - Illustrated roagazlne'of quality. "Woman's sectloU of i tre inerlt. Pictorlal news supplement. Superb comic section. .-- --' . 5 Cents the Copy