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OAMHLIXO OX WAR
SUDDEN rise in the price
of food products confronts
people of the United States.
They are expected to accept
the middleman's theory that war
'In Europe necessarily means high
er prices on the necessaries of life.
President Wilson proposes to use
.,;ihe power and the machinery of
nln mrafiW the maniuulations and
; -
-extortions by speculators in food
stuffs, lie has written the attor
ney general a letter in which he
leaves no room for doubt as to
, what, will be the government's at
titude toward the establishment of
war prices at a time when this
country is at peace with all the
world. He says:
i The rapid and unwarranted Increase
In the prices of foodstuffs -In this
country on the pretext of condi
tions existing in Kuropo Is so
serious and vital a matter that I
take the 'liberty of calling your at
tention to It. I would be greatly
Obliged If you would advise me
Whether, under existing laws, there Is
any action the department of Jus
tice could take by way of Investiga
tion or legal process, and what fed
eral legislation. If any. In your Judg
ment, is Justifiable under the cir
cumstances. I feel this matter cannot be lef
pass by without our trying to serve
th country. Certainly, the country
Ought to bs defended. If possible,
against men taking advantage of such
circumstances to increase the price
Of food and the difficulty of living.
' It Is the kind of letter to have
been expected from a statesman
whose conception of government is
. that a president and congress are
In Washington on the business or
serving all the people. It Is timely
and significant notice that, bo far
ao law auu IUB ranci ui buioiu-
. m'ent can prevent It, schemers and
manipulators will not be permitted
to take advantage of the war con
ditions in Europe to speculate upon
the dining tables and make more
difficult the problem of living, In
this country.
It Is action that will meet with
universal commendation, except by
those who have planned to capital
ize the butchery in Europe for their
Own selfish purpose. It is indeed a
matter of naticnal congratulation
that the president will not, If in
his power to prevent, . permit the
peoples' bread and meat to be
used as pawns in a great game of
gambling on the war.
. x THE PRESS AXD THE WAR
FOR obvious reasons, no news
paper can give continuously
accurate details of the war
operations in Europe.
Never in history has so stupen
dous a responsibility been thrust
upon Journalism as that presented
In the gigantic movements on the
widely extended fields and in the
complexities and intricacies of the
war conditions.
; On the one hand, millions upon
millions of readers are clamoring
for the latest advices. The whole
world leans listening for informa
tion from the front, a front more
widely extended and engaging
many times more men than were
ever before assembled under arms.
. On the other hand the sources
of news supply are closely guarded
. by the captains in this vast cata
' elysm of guns and ghastly scenes.
- Every belligerent seeks to hide his
operations and plans from his an
tagonist. A severer censorship
than was ever known in war is
rigidly and rigorously maintained.
On the - Austro-Gerrnan side, the
severed cables and the blockade by
the British and French fleets of
all avenues of approach to those
centers from the sea, along with
the stern censorship maintained by
the kaiser, uUmos.t wholly closes all
.sources of news from that quarter.
In this maelstrom of difficulty, and
amid all these storms of passion
and conflicting forces, there is set
before the news gathering press a
task more stupendous than the in
defatigable and unconquerable
agencies of news have ever encoun
tered.', . .
' ., 'It; la amazing- to experienced
news men that It has been pos
sible, under the circumstances, for
a news service to meet the - situa
tion and gather ! Information with
the celerity, fullness and approxi
mate accuracy bo far manifest.
Only great organization and powerful-resources)
iBuch as those in
the .hands of the United Press,
could achieve such a result. With
the Austro-German sources of news
supply almost shut, off, and with
OUR OWN U N
TOMORROW the hopes, the history, the aims and the power of
a militant people are to be climaxed In a transcendent event to
take place In theWestern Hemisphere.
The opening of the Panama canal is one of the world's
greatest victories of peace. The Declaration of Independence and the
eventUaVtfons that followed it were the American people's great gift of
liberty to mankind. The emancipation proclamation was the Amer
ican republic's ' triumphant message to the , oppressed and enslaved
under every sun. --, '' A-
; ;v;;Th; Panama ,canal, with Its de&eat of isthmian diseaBe and its
victory by mad over nature in a great achievement in which an
other powerful natipn had failed, is another premier contribution by
the American' jpeoplte to the peace,-welf are and happiness of the
world. , '
It Is a mightier performance to have built the Panama canal
than to have conquered the world. It is a more conspicuous service
to mankjnd to have severed the Isthmus than to be the armed lord
of the seas or to be the ruler over a hemisphere. It is a greater
human achievement to give this enduring work to civilization than
to exercise dominion over all the world's railroads or be master in
authority ovtr all the world's industries.
The opening' of this waterway to the world is at the moment
when a whole continent is bent upon the most destructive war in
the history of man. The greatest achievement of all time for the
conservation of human energy is brought to ita consummation in the
hour when beyond the Atlantic all accumulated power and wealth
and force are engaged in a ghastly endeavor for the destruction
and dissipation of the stores and resources of mankind.
Tomorrow every American, whether an American by birth or by
adoption, will have a new baptism of faith In his country. When the
bells and whistles proclaim the final realization of an event almost
comparable with the discovery of America itse'.f, and when in that
triumphant .moment there comes to him the saddening thought of
the ghastly scenes of death, debt and devastation among his kindred
far over the seas, the-e will well up in his soul a renewed vision of
the history, the traditions, the alms and the peaceful mission of his
own United States.
the operations of the allies much
more accessible, it is unavoidable
that on occasions the news reports
have been unduly favorable to the
allies. It is a condition that will
unavoidably continue until better
lines of communication are estab
lished with German sources of
news. But every day since war
was declared, The Journal has pre
sented a great mass of cable news
that gave the reader a close view
of the operations on all the far
flung fields. On the day that the
operations took place, whether a
battle, a defeat, a repulse or an ar
tillery duel, readers of The Jour
nal, in their offices or at their
homes have been given copious de
tails with the highest possible re
gard for accuracy.
From every quarter has come
commendation of The Journal for
its war news service. News reports
are conservatively and carefully
handled, and every endeavor put
forth to be fair to all the belliger
ents. Extra editions are only issued
when there are events on field or
in camp to Justify. Sensational
extras are never put out to stir
up a breeze and gather in a few
nickels.
It Is a course of dignity, fair
ness and conservatism, and The
Journal has many evidences that
it Is a plan appreciated by the
public.
THE HARVESTER DECISION
T
WO of three federal Judges
sitting in the International
Harvester Company case ruled
that the company, as it exists,
is a combination in restraint of
trade as defined by the Sherman
law. The company has been or
dered to reorganize into separate
units, and the officials say they
will appeal the case to the United
States Supreme Court.
It is a momentous decision. The
allegation was that through com
bination the company had secured
control of the agricultural imple
ment business which made oppres
sion of the people possible.
Attorney General McReynolds in
his argument before the trial court
made the government's position
plain. He did not assert, and the
evidence did not show, that the
harvester trust had used its power
to oppress the people. The point
at issue was whether there could
be a "beneficent trust," which the
International Harvester Company
claimed to be.
Judges Hook and Smith ruled
that the theory of American gov
ernment does not contemplate plac
ing into the hands of a. few men
the legal right to decide, by whim
or caprice or good intention,
whether other people's rights shall
be acknowledged. Conceding that
the harvester company was a "be
neficent" trust, it had the power,
through control of production, to
dictate to the buyers of agricul
tural implemens.
. Air. McReynolds, attorney gen
eral in President Wilson's cabinet,
has Inserted the entering wedge
which must ultimately upset the
claims of big business. The har
vester decision is evidence that
federal courts do not Banction
trusts, beneficent today, but which
may become oppressive tomorrow.
COUNTRY LIFE
WHEN city bred people go to
dwell in the country the
first thing they miss In
the country home arek run
ning water and electric lights.
They need miss them no longer
if they will follow the example of
a resident of Petersham, Massa
chusetts, who, according to the
Electric News Service, has solved
the problem.
At a cost of $1500 he . Installed
in his garage a combined gasoline
engine and electric : generator
Which furnishes current for all
lighting purposes and for a small
motor driven pump which supplies
the water system.
It Is cranked like an automobile,
produces seven horse power of elec
trical energy and will run auto
matically without attention. Tn
addition to the light and water
supply this small plant is ample
ITED STATES
enough to operate motors for
vacuum cleaning, for fans, for
heating, for cooking and other
household work. A man in Ken
tucky ha3 a similar plant but only
of one fifth the capacity, which
cost him about $500. The cost of
operation is nominal.
Thus, one by one, the discom
forts of life in the country are
being overcome by electrical sci
ence. The time may come when
the farmer will lie in bed in the
morning, turn .on his electric
switch and 'set the farm work in
motion. He can then take up his
telephone and listen to the news
of the world and the market quo
tations. At the same time he can
call his dealer, Bell his products
and order his supplies for the day.
He can then summon his electric
valet and be dressed and then sit
down to an electrically cooked
breakfast automatically served.
The auto truck from town will
then come with his supplies and
take back his products which have
been gathered by electric work
men. In the evening he can get the
day's news over the telephone and
by turning another switch unroll
the latest "movie" film.
In those days there will be no
cry of "back to the land," instead
the call will be,
depopulated city."
back to the '
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.CAPITALIZE MOUNT HOOD
F'
ROM April 1 to July 1, this
season, the records of the cus
tom house at Blaine, Wash
ington, show that 4(1 on mi
tomobiles crorl Inrn n-uYoV. fZ
Luuiuune3 crossea jnto British Co-
lumoia. This gives some indica- best People of Oregon but th con-! When one looks over the pages of
tion of the tourist travel in the 1 1 idenco &ame has been overplayed and , history, he cannot but feel that Wood
northwest this summer Tr aisn!?e seems In these latter days to have j row Wilson was called at this time to
forms a basis JkTI " S ! ?'SCre.dUe.d-.. HVhas iled to!be our pilot and guide through theae
the number of tourists that would
go to Mount Hood if it were easily
accessible over good roads from
both the Portland and Hood River
sides.
Some idea of what Portland is
losing through lack of facilities to
reach the beautiful cein .t ,
. :r,e beauful scenic spots in ;
"V -LK jarQ Was Obtained the 1
other day by a prominent resident
wno met an old Boston acquaint
ance in Seattle. In response to his
query if he had spent much time
in sightseeing at Portland the Bos
ton man said:
I stayed there about two hours. ' I
wanted to go to Mount Hood but
J?Tned ,that was almst an impos
sible trip so I came on north where
they have good roads and where you
can get somewhere.
Tour people are asleep. You do
not realize what a great asset you
have in that mountain. If it were
f. y.atd near Bostn " would be cap
italized in about two minutes
So it goes all alone the lin
Tourists want to go to Mount Hood
but they cannot because there is
no good road. WThy not build one?
Why not invest a few thousand
dollars and make hundreds of
thousands?
WASTE RUN RIOT
HERE is not a plant on a
river and harbor project in
the United States that will
not suner loss and waste by
deterioration if the rivers and
harbors bill 13 beaten and all wa
terway work plunged Into stagna
tion until Congress can pass a
rivers and harbors bill next year.
Thus, there Is 6000 feet of pil-
ing on the north jetty at the mouth
nf . . moutn !
years post- by whom Emma Goldman wa8 paij bj Assails Regular Medicos,
ponement Will mean that part or the wets. If Mr. Wallace cato that Portland, Aup. 12. To th. Editor of
ail or It will have to be replaced 2; w,n certinly denounce Emma The Journal The efforts of Dr. Mar
before the project is finished and Goldma for hypocrisy, but until 1 am,ceUus, aided by the Oregonlan, to start
that in turn will mean that yZ T0nJlC,d in faV ' tne acsatIon. a amallpox scare in the Mount Scott
new nllei Sll i-wf! that the I shall denounce Mr Wallace and oth- district should be checked and stopped,
new pue3 will have to be driven i ers making accusation. Those who and the only way to atop it is by et
at enormously increased PTnon CO
heard her on the above subject can not iia-ht,ninir th nuhitu ThU 1 im,.
through the rock already derwxdrerl I come to the C0Tlclusion that she is notjsible through the columns of the Ore
i it . . . ucpusueu I earnest .ins v pntu , 1 .
in UP lPTTv It la a .nn.l. !
loss and wtfste that discontinuation!
i sauiyie oj. in
v... 1 wurK, Dy Deating the rivers
auu naxDors 0111 will mean.
Another case Is seen in the
newly opened channel along Sand
Island for delivering rock by
barges for the Jetty. Unless use
of it Is continued, this artificially
constructed channel will close. If
used by passing barges and tugB,
It will remain open. To open it,
cost the government $75,000. It
has already passed into disuse bv
aeiay to tho rivers and harbors
bill, 'and the olnair.0- .ffor the uplift of his people. In such a
heriT. TTt,1 w tuV I!
. .x.u iiii A'acsca al
I this session, this channel will have i
iu u upenea again at a cost, ai
$75,000 whenever funds are next
available. It rould be & crime
against the government and the
people of the United States for
such a process of- waste and ex
travagance to be permitted.
There Is not a waterway project
in the country that will not pre
sent similar phases of loss, some
greater some less, if the rivers and
harbors bill fails. There is not
a plant that will not deteriorate.
There Is not a piece of unfinished
work that will not be damaged
by the elements. There is not a
project in which the costly over
head expense will not go on.
But above and beyond all these
is the loss to come to commerce,
to industry, to agriculture and to
every line of endeavor by a whole
year's delay in deepening the har
bors and opening the channels.
, When filibustering senators fight
the rivers and harbors bill and
call it "economy," they make them
selves grotesque.
A FASHION QUERY
D
AME FASHION is puzzled
over a design for her fall
gown and hat.
Two years ago the task
was easy. Everything was Bul
garian blue and Balkan blouse.
In a general way this year's
styles will certainly be military but
the question to be determined is
whether German, Russian, French
or English.
Why not make it United States
and set a standard for the world?
Letters From the People
(Comrannleationa sent to The Journal tor
pnblicttlon In this department should be writ
ten on only one aide of tha paper, should Jt
exceed 300 word in .length and must ba ac
companied by the nam and address of tba
sender. If the writer does not desire to
have the name pubUabed. be should so state.)
"Discussion Is the grestest of all reform
ers. It rationalizes everything It touches. It
robe principles of all false sanctity and
throws them back on their reasonableness. If
they have no reasonableness, it ruthlessly
crashes them out of existence and aet up its
own conclusions in their stead." Woodrow
Wilson.
Mr. U'Ken's Position.
Portland, Or., Aug. 14. To the Edi
tor of The Journal It appears some
what stranse that Mr. U'Ren should
find himself in the anomalous posi
tion he now seems to occupy in his
candidacy for governor. He has for
many years been sving to make
laws and regulations for the control
of his fellows but wm to have for
gotten that those laws were appli
cable to himself should he be de- ,
tected in theii1 violation. Mr. U'Ren !
has often told us In his speeches
that governing is the most profitable
business in the world, and of course,
no one can blame him for desiring
to get into It, especially when efforts
in other lines seem to result In fail
ure; but ambition to govern should
above all else be seasoned with at
least on apparent desire for public
rather than private benefit, which
Mr. U'Ren thus far fails to manifest.
He says In one of his many mani
festos, "I am a candidate because I
want the office." Very simpte, and
AvTnl ,.rrnr. tm K,n' l'
Governing- Is the most profitable
business in the world." seems to an-
swer the question as to why his am- ,
bition for the office. Time was
W , , v. conll?en
and respect of large numbers of the
n.licn XT- T" T- 1,.1 M
fi;un;i,Ku ua w uy iie lauea 10 answer tne '
charges of Senator Kay In regard to j only hope he will be spared to finish
his deal with the widow, Mrs. Mo i the noble work he has before him. I
Grath, in which she claims to be i consider our government is being Uft
defrauded of J1100. or to answer the ! ed up, as it were, by our president. We
charge of another widow, Mrs. Seth ; were drifting too much before toward
Lewelling, with the loss of several j the rock of mammon,
thousand dollars through the hypnotic I A WILSON REPUBLICAN.
Influence practiced upon her hus- j
uiu uu uersen. vm Air. b Ken
kindly clear up a few of the many
Questions of like Import that have',
been the regret of many former' A. ,
friends who would still like to .re-!TOOrs rroneou han the idea repeat
spect him if they could feel that he I cdly xPressed that the victims of
Is not a wolf in sheep's clothing?
Many or us nave hoped that Mr.
U'Ren stood far above the average
office hunter, but were not surprised
when he turned the Prohibition peo
ple down. He doesn't belong there,
but they had votes, and so why
should he not use them when they
were eo easy to get?
He has been equally loyal to the
Populist party "took their coin," to
organized labor and the single taxers
"took their coin." He has worked
the Socialists all they would allow,
as well as the grange and t"ie Re
publican party, and flirted a little
with the Democrats- and Bull Moos
ers. Why. Indeed, should he not be
an Independent, or an Interdependent?
We hope he will succeed in getting
sufficient names on his petition to
place his name on the ballot, and we
hope he will withdraw, as he did
from the race for United States sen
ator when some such questions were
put to him.
ALANSON M. HTMES.
Emma Goldman,
i Portland. Aug. 13. To the Editor
of The Journal In a letter in The
Journal J. Sherman Wallace alleges
that Emma Goldman, the anarchist,
was brought down to the coast and
was well paid to oppose prohibition. I
believe Mr. Wallace himself never
heard the lecture on prohibition and
continence by Emma Goldman, Cther
wlse this childish idea would not enter
!a Head- 1 would 1Uie to cnaeng
him to prove as to where, when and
'
From a Repnblican Standpoint.
I Seaside. Or., Aug. 10. To the Editor
01 xne journal as a reaaer of The : neaitn activities 01 x-ortianu a mo
Journal I wish to give expression in an nopoly in violation of the state constl
humble way to my appreciation of your j tution is directed, of course, to the
true-hearted support of President Wll-j propagation and expansion of the crazy
son In this trying period. We are in-j and impossible medical hallucination
deed fortunate in having such a noble that all diseases are caused bjr
high minded man at the head of ouxl"Serms." a belief that is now com
government. j batted by a great mass of medical
Not only now. but at all times, yotklmen; to say nothing ot the newer and
have given the administration your more down to date drugless schools,
most hearty support, and furthermore, who know better. Business is busi
in my opinion, you, with your timely ness with the medical politicians, and
editorials, turned Oregon into the WiL
son column.
When our president Is doing so much
I and fearless manner, he needs
lust such kind words as youc editorials
A FEW SMILES
Two Pullman portersj representing;
different railroads, met off fluty and
progressed from friendly gossip to
heated argument.
Their Quarrel, cen
tered about which
one worked for the
better road. Their
claims, figures, and
arguments came fast
and furious. At last
the talL thin porter
setiieu ihe aiiate with these classic
words: "Go on, man; we kills mo
people den you fellahs tote."
"What's your time?" asked the old
farmer of the brisk
salesman.
"Twenty minutes
after five. What
can I do for you?"
"I want them
pants," said the old
farmer, leading the
way to the window
and pointing to a
"Given away at 6:20.'
tictiet marked J
Harry Lauder tells a story about
Rah McP.eth. a friend of his. who
went up to Glas
gow once to see a
brother off to Amer
ica. They said
good-by" on board,
and then Rad went
ashore, and as the
great ship slowly
drifted away from
the quay Rab continued to shout part
ing words of advice and encourage
ment to his brother standing on deck.
"Good-by Wull!"
"Buck up Wull!
"See an behave yerselT
Every time he shouted the ship waa
a little farther away, and Rab ac
cordingly kept raising his voice more
and more. The other people who were
shouting good-bys were dumfoundel,
and their good-bys were hopelessly
drowned in the roar of Rab's voice. .
When the ship was about haJf a
mile away Rab let himself go with a
final tremendous shout:
"Mind and write hame, Wull!"
A man standing near went up and
touched Rab's arm.
"If Wull doesn't write wehn he gets
to America," he sugested, "you should
Just shout across to remind him."
The Ragtime Muse
IiOver's Leap.
"Tes, this Is the place," the native said.
"He lep from here to the lake be
low. But be he alive or be he dead
Well, really, I dunno!
All that I know is he is gone,
A fine young man, and I like him
well,
My darter Jane he seemed stuck on
Such things ain't hard to telL
"I reckon that I was stern and cold.
And he was sort o' soft and rash,
And when I began to snort and scold
About his lack of cash
Well, he was proud as proud could be.
And I reckon he was fond of Jam
Tes, here Is the place, as you can see;
It gives me a sort o' pain.
"We call It the "Lover's Leap this
spot.
What's that? My darter was his
adored?
Well, maybe; but that's as tar's he got
Before he jumped his board!
He jumped all right; a month he owed.
I liked him, so he got in me deep.
He jumped and the same time Jane,
she blowed;
So this here's the 'Lover's Leap!'"
nave elpressed t0 lm hlra up an(J
Tisbten hi. pathway in the many sad
te ar to rollow. Thelr famUy
llfe was eo compiete true wife, com-
panlon mother doing so many kind,
.HttiM. wh- i fh.r . t.
i representative of American woman
! hood
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very important and trying times.
xtie Loss of Drinkers.
Portland. Or ast iSt mi.
e ' t ' v,-
liquor are only a trifling few worth
less characters, against a great num
ber of moderate drinkers benefited.
These ideas come from willful ignor
ance and blind self interest. By
active police work and the fact that
late at night is the "drunkard's hour,"
we keep the fact partially hidden; but
drunkards are numbered by thou
sands. Every neighborhood has some.
It Is conservatively estimated that
the United States has above 1,000,000
confirmed drunkards, of whom 300,000
die each year, not mentioning the in
nocent victims of drink nor the many
injured irreparably, including thou
sands of children doomed before their
birth to death or degeneracy.
But supposing the number to be
cnVy one half of that estimate, 150,000
men dying from liquor every year.
That means a Titanic disaster about
twice a week. How the whole country
was stirred at that terrible loss, and
hastened to have laws passed to pre
vent another like It. We sacrifice
men to liquor as though we were In
a constant state of bloody war, and
there are no honors for the dead. The
"temperate" drinkers, too, are suffer
ing harm constantly, medical science
assures us.
To what purpose Is this awful
waste? To line the pockets .of. beer
and whiskey makers, who would hire
four times as many laborers if en
gaged in any other line of manufac
ture. Let us conserve men. brains
j and effi
dry-
efficiency in Oregon by making it
MRS. C. L. PRATT.
gonian, because of its strong pro-med
ical proclivities and hatred of -everything
anti-medical. The efforts of the
medical machine In - control of the
"scares" or panics a regular program
laid out by the medical trust must
be started in order to frighten the peo
ple and reap a vaccination harvest,
for vaccines and serum must b aoiL
! because the doctors are large stock
PERTIN ENT COMMENT
flMAjJi CHANGE i
Better a foggy present than a misty
past.
Mlserr la the only real pleasure a
pea si ml at haa.
e
After soma men start they are too
laiy to stop.
The more a wise woman thlnaxa the
less she la apt to say.
True lov never finds It necessary
to express Itself in words.
Some women Just have te kiss each
other to remain unklsaed.
If a woman decline to tell her age
give her time; time will tell.
Don't think that Just because a man
Isn't In Jail that he must be honest.
A widow Mays that one husband on
earth Is worth two in the other place.
a oagnnor wouia ratner noia a
150 pound girl than a 10 pound baby.
A poetic genius in one who la ahla
to convert his stuff into real money.
No man's education la complete tin
he can tell when a woman's hat is on
straight.
Every woman haa a tender spot; It
may be In her heart or It may be on
her toe.
It's easy to gauge a man's Intelli
gence, Draw him Into a discussion,
and if ho agrees with you he's sensi
ble. The so-called better half of the
matrimonial combine never ceases try
ing to find out how the other half
lives.
WARS AND LANGUAGE DIFFERENCES
Prom the Boston Globx
When you look at a language map
of eastern Europe, such as may be
found In some of the books on philol
ogy, showing In different colors the
different languages and dialects, and
when you notice that the political and
the linguistic, boundaries do not coin
cide, you are not surprised that the
folks in that tempestuous and more
or less unhappy region should fall to
agree, though living aide by side.
How can they agree If they do not
understand one another?
Authorities vary as to the exact
number of the 30 or 0 languages,
dialects and Idioms spoken In eastern
Europe, There are more languages
than nationalities. All except three
Finnish. Magyar and Turkish, which
are of Tartar origin belong to the
Indo-European family. Each tongue
has a number of dialects. The Ser
vians In Austria-Hungary speak the
same language as the Servians in
Servla, though they write It with a
different alphabet, but the dialect Is
so different that Illiterate people un
derstand one another only with diffi
culty. In the Austrian parliament business
is conducted in aeven different lan
guages, and the eonfuslon Is even
greater In the Hungarian parliament.
Under . such circumstances It Is not
strange that now and then both the
language and the proceedings should
be unparliamentary. That Is nothing
new, however, in parliamentary his
tory. Although the members of the
British parliament In Queen Eliza
beth's day all spoke what was called
English, many of tnem oould not
make themselves intelligible to the
others, nor could they understand
them, so great was ne difference In
dialects.
Diversity In speech Is exceedingly
interesting to the philologist, but It
is surely one of the obstacles to
peace and progress in southeastern
Europe. If during the past few cen
turies, since the barbarian Incursions
ceased, all the peoples In the Balkans
had been ablo to understand one an
other readily, they would certainly
have united politically long, ago and
taught the Turk a salutary lesson or
two.
A llnguistlo Frenchman who trav
eled through Turkey and the Balkan
states some years ago amused himself
by making a collection of the equiva
lent of "I love you," In various lan
guages and dialects. In some that
beautiful thought was expressed In
THE SEESAW
By John M. Osklson.
When the big corporation whioh de
pends upon brisk business for Its earning-
power finds It hard to sell bonds,
you will find that the city tn whlcn
you live haa very little trouble in borrowing-.
Such, at any rate. Is the story the
figures telL Take the the six months
of 1914. According to a careful esti
mate, the railroad and Industrial cor
porations borrowed less than in the
first six months in 1913 more than 48
millions less.
By contrast the cities of the United
States borrowed more than they did In
1913, during the first six months over
100 millions more.
You see, we have had the money to
invest no trouble on that score.
We've simply become chary of the cor
porations of their management, or
their earning capacity, of their stand
ing with the government. We've said
no to their appeals for money to
build and extend.
Instead of lending to the corpora
tions we've been unusually willing to
lend to, municipalities; we've felt by
doing this we're sure to get our money
back anyway, and a sure, if low, rate
holders In the factories. Smallpox is a
disease of Internal and external filth,
and is "caught" from improper living,
and Is Just as "contagious" as a red
head or a broken leg. But the people
must be hocus pocused and scared stiff
if possible.
. I am Informed on good authority
that Drs.' Lockwood and Wheeler have
examined several of these alleged
''smallpox" cases and pronounced them
chlckenpox, which, like any other dis
ease, is "infectious," and can be con
tracted by personal contact, but never
"calght." You notice that the doctor
never "catches" any of these diseases,
and if the "germs" are carried in the
air, why the senseless and useless
quarantine? Can they quarantine
against the air? The shameless attack
on Mrs. Lora C-Little, charging her
with belrre the cause of this alleged
outbreak because she advocates anti
Vaccination, Is a fair example of
methods employed by the medical pol
iticians in order to get a strangle hold
on all the people.
It Is a matter of record and fact that
wholesale vaccination la Invariably fol
lowed by epidemics of smallpox, chlck
enpox. mumps, tetanus, diphtheria and
scarlet fever, and serumizing, especial
ly for typhoid, with vaccination, de
velop and cause cancer and tubercu
losis. The best medical men admit
this now. . It Is time the medical in
competents were put out and set to
work for a living, for If this fool fad of
AND N EWS IN BRIEF
OREGON SIDELIGHTS
The Laplne State bank has been In
corporated, with capital stock of $15,
000. "Baker county farmers," says the
Baker Herald, "are now watching their
third crop of hay grow, and also watch
ing hay prices advance."
'
It is the opinion of the Standard that
"Stanfleld's excellent public schools
will bring several ramiliea to this city
this year provided houses can be ob
taiued for rent."
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Rev. J. Quincy Biggs, pastor of the
Christian church at Baker, has re
signed his pastorate to accept the pro
fessorship of oratory and dramatic art
in a Spokane Institution.
Salem Statesman: In an article
boosting the San Francisco exposition,
the press bureau of the show Is to the
front with a list of organizations to be
present, anion which is "The Cherry
Pickers of Salem, Or." The reference
is to the Cherrlans.
Roseburg Review: A postal card
received here from Miss Elsie Bene
dick, and postmarked at Wheeling, W.
va., says tne weather is very warm
there and thunder storms are frequent.
Miss Benedick says she longs to re
turn to Oregon, where thunder and in
tense heat are unknown.
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Game law officers of Umatilla coun
ty report the coming back of the
prairie chicken, of which 500 are esti
mated to be in the Heriniston district,
thanks to the protection now sfforded
by law. The sage hen is also Increas
ing. "The prairie chicken," says the
Pendleton East Ore-gonlsin, "Is a native
bird in this county. a,ni years ago
abounded in great numbers. They were
slaughtered In such great numbers,
however, by hunters that they were
almost exterminated."
one word, while In others three or
more words were necessary. When
the Frenchman tried to reduce the
spoken words to writing he met with
great difficulty, for many of tnose
strange Balkan words were quite
inimitable by a foreigner and as in
capable of being reduced to alphabetic
writing as are the notes of a canary.
How can one master them all?
That would be as difficult as it Is
for a man whose name is Nedeljo
Gabrinovlcs to understand what a
man named Knezi Bezpecnosti is say
ing, or for Leghatalmassabbak to com
prehend the speech of Soukhomllnov.
They are as unintelligible to one an
other as they would e to ua.
What eastern Europe needs Is a
big international language smelting
mllL where Great Russian, White Rus
sian, Littl Russian, Finnish. Lettish,
Lithuanian, Polish, Bohemian, Magyar,
Roumanian, Servian, Bulgarian, Alba
nian, Montenegrin, Greek, Turkish,
Armenian and Yiddish and all the oth
f.r languages and dialects might be
fused into one. It matters little what
the resulting speech would be. Any
tongue is preferable to a confusion
of tongues. It would probably be
largely Slavlo, and the young Finns,
Magyars and Turks would have to
make the long llnguistlo leap from
their speech to the new tongue.
Unfortunately, languages are not
made deliberately and consciously.
They grow by aji unconscious process,
exhibiting all the rich variety which
life Itself manifests. And it is a
peculiar fact that there Is greater
diversity In speech than In race. The
peoples in southeastern Europe are
not so very unlike one another. Their
speech separates them more than their
racial character. You must speak a
man's language before you can really
understand his thought.
All languages deteriorate, decay and
die. Our own English will one day
be a dead language, very Imperfectly
understood by perhaps not more than
half a dozen scholars in the whole
world, who will vainly guess at the
meaning of our simplest words. And
every modern European tongue will
go the way of all flesh. It Is not Im
possible that some historian In the
dim and distant future, seeking to an
alyze the causes of the European wars
in the nineteenth and twentieth cen
turies, will argue that language differ
ences must have been a contributing
cause, and that peoples who could not
understand one another had no other
recourse than to fight It out.
OF BONDS
of Interest on it while It was In use.
Follow the history of bonds over a
series of years and you will discover
that there is a slow seesaw between
corporation and city bonds In prioe
and popularity. When one class, is in
favor with the investing public, the
price of the other class goes down and
the yield goes up.
If I wanted to keep In mind one
profitable fact concerning these two
classes of bonds it woutd be this:
It will pay to buy corporation bonds
(good ones) in a period when they are
hard to sell and sell municipal bonds
In that period.
But when our great crops are har
vested and the money gets into the
hands bf manufacturer and the rail
roads, the story will have a dif
ferent flavor. I predict then that the
prices of corporation bonds will go
up and the prices of municipal bonds
will fall.
There's always In this eountry a
bigger demand for money to be bor
rowed on bonds than can be supplied.
Competition among borrowers Is a
natural result. Quite as natural Is
the competition among corporations
and cities for your lendable dollars.
Remember that.
"preventive medicine" la allowed to
continue the blood of the people will
be so rotted that they will die off like
sheep. W. A. TURNER.
Member Oregton Health Defense League.
British Defense of France.
Portland, Aug. 13. To the Editor of
The Journal War is the present topic,
and every man has- his sympathies
with one or the other of the mighty
hosts. One question seems to puzzle
many minds: Why did Great Britain
demand that Germany ahould not close
the north coast of France to com
merce? Simply thus: The great truck
crop of France, to say nothing .of eggs,
fruit and other supplies for the British
markets would be closed, as most of
these crops can be moved by women
while Frenchmen fight. As eating is
the first rudiment of existence, the ex
cuse for acting thus might be that of
the stomach. Maybe some of your
readers might see my point of view.
AN ANGLO-CELT.
Yea.
Portland. Aug. 12. To the Editor of
The Journal Can a legal -voter swear
in his vote according to the law now
in force, or -must he or she register?
Please answer in these columns.
A SUBSCRIBER,
An unregistered voter may "swear
in" his vote. The affidavit must be
attested by six freeholders. There has
been no recent change In the law.
IN EARLIER DAYS
liy Fred Lockley.
'My mother's uncle, William Mat
lock, who had taken up a claim e
tween Portland and Oregon City, about .
where Gladstone now is, wrote us auctt
encouraging letters about the WiUam
ette valley that my parents decided to '
go to Oregon," Bald Mrs. Wiliam Edi
rls. of East Portland, a pioneer of
1853. "My father, George Carson, and
my mother, Nancy Matlock Carson,
with their six children, started in the
spring of 1853. My mother s cousins,
William James and 'Doc' Barlow, had
come to Oregon some years before, and
were doing well. We children looked
forward to the trip with feelings of
unmixed delight., It was a trip full of
adventure and Incident. I remember
on the Platte our passing through m
district where there was a perfect
plague of crickets. As the horses and
cattle walked along ftbe road the crick
ets would Jump up and light on their
legs. They made the cattle frantlo.
All of we children got heavy sage
brush brooms and walked ahead of the .
wagons, beating the road and the brufh
beside the road to make the crickets
jump out of the way. The crickets
were as large as my thumb, and black
or rusty brown In color.
"We had in our party one wagon we
atways called the "batcheor outfit.'
Four young men,-Tipton. Craven, Mor
ton ana Jones, had gone in together to
come to Oregon. Bill Jones was about
21. He whh one of the best natured and
most powerful voune- fellows I ever
saw. He was several inches over six
feet tall, weighed over 200 pounds.and
he really didn't know how strong he
was. I remember the Indians used to
be astonished at hia size. One time a
number of young Indians came to visit
us. it was Saturday night. They
claimed to have an Indian wrestler
who could throw Bill. He bet them
$10.00 he could throw any Indian ln
the bunch. He threw several of them.
They said that If we would stay over
a day, they would bring another In
dian, whose teepee was a few mile
away, who could throw BUI. Next day
was Sunday, so we stayed over to rest ,
our stock. The Indians, came back
with a score of husky young braves.
Bill wrestled with different ones. He
won 75, and was not thrown a single
time. The Indians wanted us to wait
two days more, eo they could send for
another Indian wrestler 30 or 40 miles
away, but we couldn't waste any more
time.
"There was another wagon we called
the 'old folka' outfit.' The occupanta
had celebrated their golden wedding,
so you can fee they were pretty old.
They were coming out to Oregon to
stay with their children. They had
five children In Oregon. One of their
sons met them on the other side of the
Blue mountains. Their children had
taken up a place near Pleasant Hill.
Mrs. Davis, the old lady, died the day
after we got to Oregon City. Her hus
band could neither eat nor sleep. He
died from grief three days later. The :
old folks never saw their other four
children whom they had come so far
to visit. We stayed for three montha
w-ith relatives, the Barlows. William
Earlow bought the four mulos father
had brought out, and used them on a
horse power threshing machine, one of
the first to be used In that district.
"Father settled 15 miles south of
Corvallis, at what in those days was
called 'The Hole In the Ground.' I
used to'row across the Long Tom every
day in a skiff to go to school. Father
had but little book education, so he
bought and gave Sarah. Anna, George
and myself scholarships in the Wll-
jiucene university. .-aittn. Anna ana
Geoige made use of their scholarships,
but I had to stay and help mother, so
couldn't go.
"William Edris. who had driven one
of our wagons across the plains, went
with my brother Issac to Eureka, CaL
They mined on Scott's Bar. He came
back with my brother to visit us after
spending three years In the mines. He
stayed at our house six weeks, anl
when he left he and I were engaged.
We were married a year later, on June
26, 1860, by Rev. Flrebaum, from the
Belknap settlement. Father gave ua
two wagons outfitted with everything
we needed to start housekeeping. He
also gave me seven head of Percheron
horses to start us In the stock busi
ness. We went to Scott's Valley, Cali
fornia. We hsd our seven Percheron
horses stolen soon after we got there,
and we never did see hide nor hair of
them again. We were, there 14 years.
In about 1876 we moved to Eugene,
where my husband bought the flour
mills. Three of our four children have
been graduated from the state univer
sity. Will Edris, our son, was the
postmaster of Spokane for four years.
I have lived In Portland most of the
time since my husband's death."
HOO'S H00
By John W. Carey.
Who has no eyes by which to tell
the night time from the day, and ye
sees more than most of us whose
James are all O. K.?
Who lacks the ar that others need
to catch tne passing sounds and yet
hears much of mirth and song upon
her daily rounds?
Who wears the smile that won't
come off and scorns the shroud and
pall, and thus shows up the grouch
that knows no peace with senses all?
Who puts to shame our able-bodied,
long-faced hoi polli this deaf and
jdumb evangelist of happiness and JoyT
v no gives tne laugh to misanthrope
and pessimist and churl with two
good eyes and two good ears? That
Helen Keller girl.
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