THE OREGON DAItL'1 JOURNAL, PORTLAND, THURSDAY, AUGUST 12, 1915. Cthe journal. -3 ' - - AM IHDKrKNDKItT NEWSPAfM JA('KU4. :. Publish fubliabed etery reotog (except Ssiwiar) "tatf ererySanday Morslng at The ImthI Build 1tr. Brnadway and Yamhill '-. Portland. O. Entered at toe poatofflee at Portland, Or., tor UiimDMon tbroiwk. Uu) nulls as second re!,i tBattee. TKLEi-HONES Mala 173; Heme. A-fl06l. AU departmenta reached by these number. Tel! tbe ntor whet department ros want. WUE1UN AOVUTl:Ma iKPKKSBNT ATI VK Benjamin & gents r Co.. Bmoewtek Bid.. 228 Flftb Are. New Xork; 131 People's ' Ja Bldg.. Chicago. - Subscription tern by sail or to say ereaa la tbe United State rc Mexico: DAIIX One yea $5.00 One' mantis .60 SUIfOaX Oca year .$2.00 I One month 9 -25 DAILY AUD SUNDAT tae year...,. ..$7.60 ' fine tnooto 1 - America asks nothing for her i self but what she has a right to ask. for humanity itself!. ' f ' VVOODROW WILSON. . There is something among men more capable of shaking despotic power than, lightning, whirlwind or earthquake; that is the threatened 'indignation of the whole civilized world. Daniel Webster. A NEW FREEDOM s OMETHING new .to business is transpiring at Seattle. Business men there are laying before the Trade Com- mission complaints of things that f tamper their business. l- Thus, one man complained .of a t need for merchant ships and urged t government aid for a merchant marine. Another lodged the same & complaint and urged a change in I the navigation laws. I Another complained about han I dicaps in fishing in Northwest wa- ters, and cited a discrimination in tariff in favor of Atlantic fisher 3 men and against Northwest flsher- men. Still another complained of t customs regulations which he said . ? give Prince Rupert an advantage over Puget Sound in halibut fish- Ing. In the same way, in various lines of industry and commerce, the handicaps to business were laid be fore the listening federal trade commissioners. The .. commission ers are thus an impartial body ap pearing In behalf of the federal government to ascertain what can be done to remove the handicaps, clear away the obstacles and change unfavorable regulations which may be detrimental to 1 trade. It is a highly intelligent $ and broadly concerned endeavor by ' government to give business a new freedom and forward the gen f eral welfare. I It has a counterpart In the ac- tlon of the Federal Reserve Board I In the late directions to federal re I serve banks to throw the banking power of the country behind Amer 1 lean farmers in their efforts to move their crops to market by givg them freedom from the old timWscarcity of money always in- cldent to the annual movement of I crops. Never before has the I power of the American govern ment oeen usea wun so mucn con structive intelligence and in .so many ways to lighten the life tasks and. promote the welfare of the r American people. Whatever the individual opinion, i there must be general recognition lot the fact that there is now a (directing genius at the head of the I American government, and that he has rare gifts for comprehending and adjusting the great affairs of an extraordinary country. HIS BLOODY DREAMS "N O MATTER which nation is victorious in the -war, that country will attack the United States' said Her- ibert Lu Satterlee, a former assist ant secretary of the navy, at Seat tle Tuesday. lie added: - i We' are absolutely helpless, a sec .ond China, ana though we are the j richest hatibn on earth, we are with . - China In its most helpless condition. 4 We have been getting along on a ; f bluff. We will see our bluff called . I at the close of this war. How did Mr. Satterlee find it Jail out?: ; ' For what will the victorious na ftion attack us? . Is war so sweet s land blood-letting such fun that ,we shall be attacked Jor?mere pas ' time? After this war is over and , , 'nobody knows when that will be- 'when "the victorious -nation" will ibe bleeding at "every pore, and be , -overwhelmed with war debts that ' fposterity can scarcely pay, how ? much will its war-ridden people ..f eel like attacking a nation of 100 '": "million people and that in physical . resources is stronger than any na tion in Europe?. .How. ' would our assailant get over ' here to invade us? Since -Z It required the whole British navy ' several months to guard the trans-''- port S of 400,000 men 2 0 ' miles across the English channel, what " would be required to transport a few-million men 3000 miles across the - Atlantic with which to . con cuer us. With the greatest navy . .in the world, ft look Great Britain two years to convey enough men to South Africa to whip a handful of Boers, who were witnout nary and without army. . . Wherein are we like Chinamen? Naturally, if Mr. r. Satterlee looks upon' the average. American as ' about equal to a Chinaman, his .terror Is not surprising. - Anybody who places so low an estimate on ' his country and his countrymen has. reason for bad nightmares and bloody dreams. THE REPLY TO AUSTRIA T HE reply of the United States to the Austrian note of pro test against the sale by "American- manufacturers of munitions of .war tc . the . allies. i has complaint, AiuMsiti "Tern- men tv Said' 1 la-lu uui oa um nsiu iiuois, wim In order' to manufacture the im-! easy grades, and under the most mene amount of weapons, munitions., thorough, conscientious, and pains and other war material of all kinds-! taking supervision, In order that heChorree4i 'SvLli they may be the permanent fpua America in the course of the last dation. and support of free instl month. It required not only the full tutlons. - utilization and adaptation f existing j nlnnts but .the creation of new fac- i tones, as well as the diversion of ! this road in Skamania be con large numbers ; of workman frsrn all structed orthe same standard of branches of trade in short, a wide' ! Bvfpllpnrp a the Polnmlia River spread change in the economic life ; excellence as the coium bia mver of the country the right of the highway in Multnomah ounty; but American government can frqm no j it is reasonable to expectthat such quarter be disputed to decree an em- j a step be taken in its constrhetion bargo on this obviously enormous ex- ... , .- t . . v . pori of war material, which is no- as will lead to no regrets and that toriously for the exclusive benefit will have permanent value. of one of the belligerent partes.. u Jg faf frQm economy to en. The exaggerated Austrian de- rgage other than the most modern scription of the' volume of muni-j road builders. Tofsave-at the tions American manufacturers are Bpigot and waste at the bung hole selling is illustrative of the wild j 6hould not b permitted in this day. and fanciful imagination incident to war madness on a burning con- tinent. Probably all Austria thinks America a vast gun- and ammuni-! tion factory. Tlx; note itself shows that, in our foreign relations, we are dealing with governments whose reason is dislocated by the conflict. In 11 months, our total increase In exports of war munitions was 24 million dollars against a 30 million dollar increase in exports of flour and an increase "of 488 millions in crude and prepared f6odstuffs. The Increase in food shipments was nearly 21 times the increase in munition shipments. Meanwhile, why doesn't Austria nrnfacf n erolnoi ifc-. V i f TT, ont rf , ,,. . T- and those who are yet half foodstuffs? The allias need Ameri- v --- can wheat and fhour nd beef and,u"' """ s tZ bacon moro than . they need muni- - tions, as proven by the greater quantities of foodstuffs they are importing. "An army moves on its belly," that is to say on Its commissary, was me siateieiiu ui that master warrior, Napoleon. In actual fact, there is far more reason for Austria to protest against shipment by American farmers of their foodstuffs, than against the -shipment by American ammunition makers of their prod ucts. Casting at the bung T HE board of commissioners of iSkamania county, Washing ton, is confronted by a big problem. The voters of the county have authorized a bond issue of $210,000 to build a high- way alone the Columbia river. from the eastern to the western i boundary of the county. This j sum Is five per cent of the total I of the county's assessed valuation. The highway Involves a new con struction of 22 miles and 18 miles of reconstructed work, and it is apparent that to do this with the amount of money available will require the most careful engineer ing. Judgment and economy to avoid waste. " In the opinion of The Journal, the commissioners are making an unwise beginning in placing the engineering work in charge of government engineers loaned from the office of Public Roads, even though their services are to be given to the county free of charge. By doing, so, it is doubtful if those who are paying for the work will ! arQ scarcely more tnan a quarter get a dollar's worth of'1 road for ! of the normal. Most of them re each dollar of public money to be ', menibec the happenings of a year expended. The experience of Oregon in the matter of roads built under the supervision of government en gineers has not been satisfactory. In some counties thousands of dol lars have been wasted in such ex periments. The roads at Rainier National park are not laid out on proper lines to secure a comblna- l tlon of scenic value or economy i . . j ,5., of construction. Government road g,reat y' FT?; t T o" JSlw builders have not kept up with Un 19 imJOTt&; ,to onl "., ... 1 . 1 : by assuming that Oregon may rr Skamani c.unt-:j sometime take an active interest TT in th u SUCh Sret! in the-state's undeveloped fisheries, chances in this, its. pioneer road-, building effort. It needs roads Several big business, houses in worth every cent of money they York have nnotmced that all cost. hen a road is properly I their empl0yes Who aTe members built it is worth- a dollar for every j f the gtMe miiitia will receive dollar expended upon it. , Thej full , when absent on soldier county expending the money, after dutX New' York employers are the road is built, will have thek eginning to see the national rSLW Z?1? a" " COSt- In guard's usefulness, even when war addition. It will have the money i riotg do not threaten.. that the road -cost, because in the i , , . northwest very nearly, If not all j The treasury department says of the material going to make the there js no law against counter road has its origin in the county j eitlng currency Issued by the Mex in which the road is built. And, QI, ipftai- because there is in addition, there is an economic land value of more, than one dol lar for every dollar expended, cre ated by the thorough constructon of the road. In other words, If a road , costs a million dollars, and it Is worth th money, the county will have the road and .the-million dollars besides, and in addition it will have another million dollars in actual productive economic land value not speculative value, but ' remt vaiue. wnen you Duna a oaa road- a road not worth the money it. costs you don't even have the money; that :it costs left in the county, because that' which is wasted either in profita or through . meinaency, is. iosi to me county forever, and "there" is no creation of land value to follow. A well constructed road pays more than three to one,. while in a like ratio j a badly constructed road occasions J a loss to the community in wmcn ; it is built. , . The proposed road through Skamania is a very important one, completing a link in the ;reat sys tem that will, in a few years, par allel both banks of the Columbia river, going to the interior the great Inland Empire of four states Montana, Idaho, ' Washing ton and Oregon a highway to the sea with - all the advantages and blesBlng8 thereof l very esBemmi that roads Itis unreasonable to hope that and generation. The locating en- n a V jk "Alicfrilr- gineer, as well riv(, pnfrlr,per Rh",,iri not. nnlv nn- der-stand all local conditions, but Bhould be so trained in service that not one gra5n o material or .one j cent of monev be diverted, i . . . ... Highway engineering has its 6 " ! crpflt art and men withmit train ing and vision and love of their work should not be. called to serve. In such work there Is no room no reason for the profit gather er, the squaaderer or the waster, for the selfish or the greedy; it fs a work for real men. Roads are institutions of character edu cational institutions; .-and pigmies, to build them. Skamania county had better delay building this high way than waste its $210,000 of hard-gotten-together money in a badly located and worse constructed road of the usual kind. Such i roads are not what the people ! need, nor are they what they are l willing to pay for. WHEAT PRICES B ROOMHALL, the world's great est authority op wheat, fig ures that India will have an exportable Burplua of but 40,- 000,00? bushels of -wheat," -compared with- generally aocepted es timates of 80,000,000 bushels ear lier in the season. Steadily the size of the Euro pean wheat crop is diminishing. Greece ha3 cabled urgent needs of additional supplies because the croP there is comparatively smaH anl farmers are not inclined to Pend stock to market even at pro vailing high prices. It has been discovered by the Russian government, that wheat in that country is of poor quality; in fact, scarcely suitable for mill ing purposes. While there " was ' a slight de cline in wheat prWes at Chicago the day following the government report forecasting a record crop in the United States, this report has been generally discounted for some months. Later, under natural trading conditions, prices showed an advance. Pacific Northwest wheat grow ers are not hastening to market their product and sales to date ago wnen tne duik or . me crop was sold far beldw'the dollar mark and speculative interests became wealthy almost over night on what the farmers had produced. Professor Kincaid, of the Uni versity of Washington, says the eastern oyster can be propagated on the Pacific coast and that cul- Id. . B ilin. wntlt'n AVCtor TT O T 7 Ka no Mexican government recognized by the United -States. -But y who would want to make a bale of the stuff when an American dollar would go further? The Washington boy who forgot to bring his bride to the altar with him should be ''farmed" , out to th minors for another year's sea- SOning before entering the big ipa-uea . i - A recent dispatch .from France tells the story ' of a mother who gave all she had to her country." Her seven ' sons all- went to the front, six of , whom were" shot to death, and -the seventh, la now blind and Insane." Stilt' there are those who condemn the American 'molly coddles. ,:' . :k' ', ' The London Economist says the annual Income j Of British holders of securities in American corpora tions has been! reduced 30,000,-. 000 since the war began. Sale of the securities in' this -country is given as the cause. Should General Scott succeed, asl a pacifier on tne Mexican ooraer he ought to be asked ; to sign long-term contract with the gov ernment. ..There ' is apt to be a heavy foreign demand for peace makers. ! . s Illinois suffragists are jubilant because women -employed in state Institutions are to get the same pay as men for the same work. That's a considerable gain over doing more work and getting less pay. ; 1 ' ' The Philadelphia Ledger asks whether "A. B. C." stands for "a bas Carranza." .' . WHAT THE LINCOLN JUBILEE SIGNIFIES W. L. Chenery in Chicago Herald. ATOUNG woman ' was standing - on the viaduct leading from Michi 'gan avenue to the Randolph street station. She held a 'in cup in one hand and a bunch of tags in the other. Tne hour was 6 and the day had been long, -sultry and depressing. ' The dinner-bound throng took' lit tle notice of the young woman. Tired, hungry people seemed Irritated at the suggestion of donations. Selling tags for whatever cause is, or course, riot a pretty business. The iritatiof) of the part of the,, public whieti did pause, the; gruff ness of those who hurried were obvious. The fewness of- the contributions was outstanding. The young woman was not insist ent. She seemed singularly timid about vending her tags arid appreci ative In a sensitive, hurt manner when the- occasional dime was de posited in the cup.' From a curiosity concerning the "movement" or phil anthropy she was boosting I. pur chased one of her tags. It adver tised the "Lincoln Jubilee." Then I understood the -spectacle. - With that veteran leader 6f the causes of the poor and oppressed, Bishop Samuel Fallows, the young woman on the viaduct was standing t the end, perhaps at the beginning of a great campaign. In her humble, shrinking way she was carrying on the work to which some of the noblest men and women of tht-nation were committed half a century ago. She' was participating in the fight for, freedom which Lin coln immortalized. But aU the thrill of th contest had faded away. Fifty years ago all Chicago would have united exultantly to do honor to Lincoln and the struggle for freedom. yet all the young woman found was apathy, boredom, , Irritation, and the exceptional curious contributor. The Lincoln jubilee, despite all that, is an international exposition which will be staged at the coliseum from August 22 to Septemoer 16. It marks the half century anniversary of negro freedom in-the United States. It has received the approval and the patronage of the president of the United States, of the governor and the legislature of Illinois, of the mayor and city council of Chicago, and of a host of other authorities in the cities and states of this country and Of many foreign nations. It is a notable event It Is designed to record . a race's progress during a half century. That progress has been marvelous, but because it is construc tive, because it has meant building up rather than tearing down, it has signified less to us than have the crimes of some drink-maddened crim inal,, who ought to have been .kept in a hospital for the insane. " e Within two weeks the exposition will be opened. : It' will show what the negro has achieved in Industry during the two generations past. One of the leading artists of Paris, Henry Tanner, a colored man, will appear through his pictures." Tanner is the greatest negro artist but by no means tha only representative of his' race. His less famous fellows have also contributed to the exhibition of art. Negro inventors will show their creations," and it is said some of these are of vast importance to the industry of the : world. Manufac turers and craftsmen .have likewise brought distinction to the race. Their work will Berve as their credentials. Negro authors will asemble to make plain to the world what colored men and women have done for literature, and thus throughout the . numerous activities of the 'modern world. Negro schools In various parts of the country have Bent exhibits. Mov ing picture films will show, the rou tine at Tuskegee '' Negro cqal miners from souther- Illinois will take part In a pageant of industry which js designed to portray - the Important role their race Is playing in the peaceful business of the United States. j For -years Bishop Fallows - and his small "band Of .workers ot berth races have been collecting material for the exposition. "" Behind the active workeri stand committees of promi nent citizens lengthy enough to fill a small book. -- t , Behind chronicle: thm workers " too is ; the of """genuine rj achievement. summarized: somewhat as follows: ".-..! Popu tion 1863. 1916. Slave 3,9ia.760 Free . . - 487,970 9,828,294 Illiteracy, per cent . . 90 27 Value of prop- ' erty . 1200,000 $1,000,000,000 Colleges and universities - . 400 8,000 5,372 '400 31.393 J65.000.000 3,207,305 2.000,000 25,000,000 61 72 S9.000.000 62.2 Number of col lege g r a d u ates Number, of Rhys icians, lawyers. , and " bankers' .... . Number' of newspapers . Number of churches . . . . . "Value of church prop erty $ Membership of churches . .. Children in schools Land owned b y negroes, &cres Hospitals and nurse train ing schools . . Banks own e'd by negroes ... . Value of prop erty owned by negro secret- societies . Per cent of n e g r oes In gainful occu pations . 30 -400 500,000 40,000 25,000 More recent figures also show the progress of the negro by comparison. There are more than 2,000,000 negroes engaged in agricultural pursuits, and 78 per cent of them are In the south ern states. More than 28 per cent of the total number of farmers in the south- in 1910 were negroes, and 12 per cent of the total farm acreage was operated by them. The negro which Bishop Fallows has produced 6000 books and periodi-j describes no less than 10 types, and cals, nearly 7000 songs and musical -presumably thiscatalog by no means jexhausts the possibilities. Simple as compositions. - (the inatrument may seem, says Mr. A stirring record It is. Contrast- jcoustet, its construction has proved a ing with and supplementing the work I complicated problem for the opticians, of the citizens of the United States The simplest form is a vertical steel -,-n . . -v... T ., , . t. ,. i tube about 20 feet long, with a reflect- wHl be exhibits from Liberia, the ,'ree.ing prlsm at tne top .and the lenses of negro republic. All these are intended a telescope at the bottom. .It is, in to show that the negro is fit for f ree-' fact, a simple telescope whose 'line of dom. T-hey are ammunition for that "turns a corner" from horizontal . . , , . . . . t 'to vertical as it passes through the campaign which took a great step prlgrtL Thl9 instrutnent takcs ,n 45 forward In the freeing of the slaves, degrees of the horizon, or one-eighth but which even now is only in its the total field, at one view. By turn- bee-innln s Tonce OW BY JtX LAMPMAI" ONCE upon a time porter sat down -a certain at his writer to write a story. and he wrote' the first line. and Filted up the carriage looked at it. ffAnd it didn't please him. and he pulled It out. and wadded it up. and threw it on the floor. T And then he tried to think. eyes, but no impression of depth and which is very difficult for re-1 space is given. The Bcreerwavoids ex porters. , jcessive fatigue, but It can be used JBut pretty soon he thought he had thought of a new line. but of - course he didn't know there isn't any such thing. ff And he punched his typewriter with two fingers. - and Wrote the lineU-he thought lie d thought of. a and he looked 'at it. J And didn't like it - but time was scarce. so he hurried up and made a can vass ftf the offic and got another! match and lit the same cigar, and started In to finish the story. TfBut he didnt write more than two words. Jwho can go into a home with a pleas- before ht noticed that the piece ant, glad face and carry with her of paper with the first line n if . j cheer and comfort; who can comfort by was wiggling around on the floor. wise counsel , and sympathy; who has and it began to unwad Itself. wisdom to adjust domestic discrepan cies ana reorganize family life, even and kept on until the first line j t0 showing them how to wash their stood right on end. , windows In some cases and properly J And then it hopped up on the typewriter. . ' as though to give the reporter a chance to put it back.in. . . , . ... JBut he couldnt do a thing. so the line jumped up and wrapped itself Ground the reporter' neck.. ana choked him. , , . ,. ' which is -a. way lines have of do - ing with their authors. J But the reporter was game. and tried to fight it off by think- ing 1 wasn't there. , . , .,.. when he knew it was. T And the line let go of his throat. and ran up and Into his left ear. IT And then-went 'round and 'round si. n v,i v.,j msiae nis neao. and once it shot out of his right ear and up over his head. and back in at his left ear. .a a r,,L,innir. :mrr.-;:r " "" a dog chasing Its tail. T And once it jumped out and oal-!out anced itself on the end of his nose..( and teetered. ! anri it looked as big as the new i sign on Meier & Frank's. and he couldn't-see anything else. U And then it jumped down-and ; wove itself-among his fingers. -and the reporter groaned-and w ondered wny tie enouia ne punisnea i -for trying to write-good Knglish f And the line jumped back into his head and resumed looping the loop. T And the esteemed city editor said "Where's that story?" and the reporter said "Jussamln nit." and tnen compromised with the line. , and put it second in the story. j And the esteemed city editor told the reporter it was a good story but too ' late for that day and T "LISTEN" he said kindly "Tour . - , , 1 13 V, fi 'n h.on crpsitlv Im. i proVed-if you had changed the lead 1 Lby putting-the secopd line first." Letters From the People Charity Agencies. Portland. Aug. 7. To the Editor or The Journal There seems to be some thing In the air that has grown into large proportions In respect to tne work of the Associated Charities as to its being a. practical proposition. There is a question in the minds of the "people regarding -the percentage that is used in the distribution of the funds of, the! associations it requiring so .much . in I -m-onnrtioo. 'I have no axe to grind, or J PERTINENT COMMENT AND NEWS IN BRIEF S-fAL CHANGE &AW Vnrlr -TCVi-rlil A TJnl ' . ! - " v v . jra. uig sa, a au I'Sav. phrase "Come over with Macedonia ana we ll nelp you. - Columbia State: But how can a na tion that has . a Roosevelt be called unprepared for war? , Pittsburg Dispatch: As to the in vaders wiping the Russians off the map. there is too much map. Honolulu Star Bulletin: Roumania and Bulgaria are having a mighty bard time to pick the under dog. Philadelphia' North American: They can lead Judge Lindsey to a cell, but they cannot make him violate a trust. m Pittsburg Press: But 'how Is the sculptor to carve one of these, lrtroes in the act of squirting chlorine gas at the enemy? Atlanta Journal: The moonshiner is one of those who rejoices in crop di versification and the biggest corn crop the state has ever raised. Los Angeles Times: A conscience stricken man lias sent to Washington 20 cents that he claims he owed the government for "bacon and eggs." Now if all those who owe money to the government for "pork" would refund-, there would be no such thing as a deficit.' Oakland Tribune: The American Re- tatl Ton. a! in nr An , i rr O, Di. land, declared for making jewelry for women as much a matter of changing style as gowns. Isn't this striking at our marriage institutions? Gentlemen whose engagements to ladies run the ?amut of four seasons may run away rom the idea of buying four engage ment rings. ' : APEEP THROUGH A PERISCOPE From the Literary Digest. In building your submarine you may now have your choice of periscopes. In an article contributed to La Nature (Paris. June 26). Mr. Ernest Coustet iing tne luoeion lis axis, ine resi comes into sight successively. Says- Mr. Coustet, In substance: "This periscope gives very clear Im ages, but as it can be used with only one eye at a time It does not allow of distlnsruishina- the different Diane of type- j vision very well, and tires the observ er's eye rather quickly. Binocular peri l scopes have been attempted, but lumi mnH 'nosity Is lost by gaining the advantage "The so-called combination periscope allows of vision with both eyes, though lit is not stereoscopic A real image is thrown on a ground glass screen, much like that of .a 'photograph cam era; it may be looked at with tne two only in Drignt ngm. ine size oi me Image Is often insufficient to bring no purpose in mind outside of my' love of justice. I have. been a daily visitor to the rooms of the Associated Chari ties for two years; am acquainted with every department of its work, often j eating my lunch in the back room with ;the workers, and I "wish to give my .impression after an acquaintance 'of three years. First the distributing of its pro visions and funds is the least part of it work. These hired workers are pro- iicient social woraers. in in is line pro ficient means more than a woman 'coming. to the door with a handout. , it means an intelligent tactful woman hang their curtains, with a personal 'demonstration, and do all this without , antagonizing or robbing of self-esteem. L:"ow Uttlft thVpeople hand In their money to buy necessaries know about the disbursement of it. These same workers . go into the home and make an estimate of needs, rather than jhand over what these people in their weak judgment may think they need, and more often give them far, better jtna tney aEk by judicjOUaiy ordering for them. A woman with. Mrs. Pllls- ,bury's experience could go Into the av- ; erage home of this city arid order for more economically than the mistress herself, because she is an expert in jthat llne and the otner workera - ; are experts In' their lines.. I think 1 j can say this conscientiously. ' u!; J!!8 Wlt Vh ! through misfortune. In debt and in the 'hands of a few scalpers; for "troubles never come singly." One department pf the. work looks out for that, and a : lawyer takes up their cause and set- ties those dif f icul ties, and, as it were. takes un the cause of the weaker gainst thro and "deUvers Vhm 0r r their distresses.' The visiting department looks after securing the cooperation of relatives, th church association, friends and em- pivycru, unfiling clii ihchb irnuuitcn trcr.i Yi&r tnr i-Alif. uppiirlnr work and - ,ii.i iriincr tk. ntfii family craft out into the waters Of I prosperity. This, continuously going on ay after day, cannot be unrni, " " '"" ftpir have as good reason ;to be proud of its work in Portland itv fnr the snirit of it ' is one of helpfuln4ss and sacrifice, and ! t 8tand n " breach, not for her I hope this coming winter Its work will aggrandizement, but as a 'real, be well supplied with necessaries and helfer to those who are entirely help comforts for people wo are. is. need ! ' This commercial speculation can who possibly have never called before. dfn .. ?d onLy ee ?, l bVltn HATTIE B. LAWRENCE. the hearts and crush the feelings of the Pisgah . Mother. brotherhood of nation, whom God - has created to dwell upon the face of Mr. Jones' Real Position on Road, the earth both. Lri'ILJ? Portland. Aug. 8. To . the Editor "Of f le Journal I know that you Will be j Th glad to correct an error appearing 1 yOUT ssue of Saturday, August 7. In reporting the; discussion of the hard ? " oth. h ghways at the .meet- 'Friday, August 6, your paper quotes me as follows: ,l . I '"A. W. Jones stated that he had re i cently traveled over the road and there was every Indication that, the work was j (poorly done and would last nut a lew months.' This remark was made. In the course of the discussion, 1jr a delegate who was seated near me; hence it was . n simple error on the part f your re porter, - who was evidently trying to correctly -report the meeting. - As a matter of fact, I personally have not seen, nor been near any of the new work; hence I do not wish to. OREGON SIDELIGHTS The Salem Statesman - believes the farmer would be hard to' please who would ask for -better weather. Tou scarcely can blame the farmers of this county, says the Dallas Ob server, "for hoping that war prices will hold until after they can harvest and market their crops." a Complaining of local - laxity In town cleaning, the Joseph Herald reports: "A bunch of timothy six feet and two inches high, taken from the street, was left at this office yesterday' The HermiatOn Herald declares that stock owners who do not enter into competition at the - Hermiston Dairy and Hog show wilL see the day they will be sorry, and that the Hermiston country can win prizes at .the O-W. R. & N. corn show if entries are made. Baker Democrat:, "Your town- Is growing and 1 notice many fine im provements." is the observation made arlmoat dally by those who have been away from Baker or a time. So It la, but do home people fully appreciate the advancement their town is making and the inviting appearance It presents to'the new comer? We fear not. It's too commonplace. We're used to it. a a Ashland Tidings: The editor -hereby offers himself as the firftt recruit in a movement to clean up this town and keeT it clean. We don't want to be captain, or lieutenant, or even cor poral, and we don't want any honors. We just want to see how many of you ! energetic'gentlemen are game to come j forward and plant yourselves by our side with a fixed determination to make Ashland exactly what It ought to be a place worthy of .the people who compose its population. Who will be No. 2 in the ranks? out detail. To obtain greater enlarge ment without diminishing clearness too much, magnifying lenses are some times added. "The preceding periscopes do not en able a commander to take a rapid sur vey of the horizon; it takes five to ten seconds to make a complete circle. Again, the observer must himself move around with th(f eyepiece. If the im age is to remain upright without mov ing the eyepiece, it Is necessary to use a compensatory prism whose move ment makes up for that of the eye piece. "This is the principle of the pano ramic periscope whose tube Is fixed and bears at its summit a glass bulb containing a reflecting prism mounted on a base that may be Juraed with a handle. There la & compensating prism that turns at half the speed and keeps the image straight. To observe successively all points of the horizon,, it suffices to turn the crank, without its being necessary for either observer or eyepiece to change place. "Nevertheless, however rapid the op eration, it does not enable the observer to see the whole horizon at once. This Is realised in the periscope with" rinar- shaped eyepiece. At the top Of the tube Is a ring-shaped lens which refracts toward the base of the tube rays that reach It from all sides. A panoramic image is thus obtained that Includes all surrounding objects, though they appear smaller and more distant than with the naked eye. The observer also sees, In the center of the panoramic Image, a portion of the field on a larger scale." be quoted , as making any criticism whatever, especially when I, as an In dividual citizen, particularly favor the good roads movement and am also of the opinion that the Warrenite or bltu lithic 'paving, when laid according to proper specifications, is the best pav ing, all things being considered, that can be found, and there Is plenty of it in this community that has been laid for years, to prove- the justice of this claim. - - At no time during the fight against the bond issue did I personally men- lion the kind or character of surfacing to be -used, believing that possibly the commissioners were more competent to Judge from experiences with the sev eral pavements used locally. Z did think, however, that wfthln the est! mate of $1.20 a yard provision might have been made for a fair days wage for an eight hour day and for tbe em ployment of citizen labor, and I still tbink all of these things might have been provided for. Personally I do not think this work will be shirked or Improperly done, as upon the character and lasting quail ties -of these new roads will depend the success or failure of the great move ment for good roads throughout the State. 'Please remember that I make this statement as an individual who has been misquoted," and not as an officer of the Central Labor - council, and am not seeking to convey the Idea that I in any. way represent the attitude of that body in this matter. A. W. JONES. On . Profiting by War, Lents, Aug. JO. To the Editor of The Journal We are continually read ing in various journals about the prob able advantage commercially of tne war In Kurope to -Us as a neutral power. Certainly l.t we are intending to pose as peace advocates In any real "?J"Z"! our sincerity ' regarding this question, upon these warring nations. It Is some what like an undertaker magnifying the advantage of a plague to enlarge" his business. What the real influence upon our trade as a whole this war may be is yet to be demonstrated. It is more ..n "k.e'y " wl ! P?r ;?VD w,id.etvca m"" i" "P maintain our rights on land and sa. have the opportunity dt our lives to Preserve the balance of a Christian wUlf at! ready toppling to its fall. believi Crod Is calling upon AmericaJ right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. PHEBE HAMMER." An Unilluminatinjf Answer, A youpg .woman who had no knowl edge of natural phrases asked a 1 riind4 "Do you know, I often wonder why a ship has to weigh anchor every tfme It leave port r'. The answer of her friends was not Illuminating.. - - "Well er the weight Is constantly changing, you know, because of the- er binnacles and things that accumu late on the anchor f The Oldest Peace Plan. From the Chicago News. .-Meanwhile, the various belligerent nations are trying to, stop the war by persistent frontal attacks on one an other, ' , '' ev t CAXI.T CAM" Br rres fekiey.' Specie" Stiff Write ''. fe JoofraJ. 41 WAS born ln J""c"son county lr the fifties," said' Mrs. Evan R .. Reames of Klamath Falls. . "My father. General John . E. Ross ' was the first man to be married lc Jacksonville, and his marriage was lh second In Jackson county. When ht WuVi,marri'i u wa the era of the red igu ooots and greasy overalls Mother wanted him to be dressed uj for' the wedding, so he tried to securt proper garb, for the occasion ;a -o,.r. fui canvass of Jacksonville 'and the nearby camps resulted in finding on boiled shirt,' as the miner called white shirts, and a dress . coat. Tht dress coat was too .small to go oi sc the difficulty was solved by split ting the coat up the back, putting It biiu lacing up io keep It on There was a gap of three inches 'ut the back, so father had to -keep hh oacic to tne wan during the ceremom and also face the guests after . tht ceremony. He certainly was a wal! flower until they could get rid of th company. "This was in Janjuary. 1853. iiist a year after the discovery of gold li. Rich Gulch by James Cluggage-ami J K. Poole, that led to th stumnl, which" resulted in Tthe founding, of th town. Appier and Kennv nut un lent ln February. 1852. and started th. first store and raloon. Next month W. W. Fowler, who later married Mrs ooss, tne mother-in-law of Alexander Martin, ray husband's ueu lut li business, here put up- the first lo. camn Duut ln Jacksonville. Mr. Fowls was chosen as judge ln the trial of thJ iirst murderer at Jacksonville. Thtl man tried was hanged and buried witnin an hour of the trial, j a "The . winter of 1852 was a aeverrj one. several thousand. Deonla had" rushed to the new camp of Jackson-J vine ana very little supplies had-been! hauled ln. Flour was $60 a sack, to Dacco i a pound and salt was ex- changed weight for weight for gblill oust. Tiiere was no salt ln the camp and the miners on the nearby creeko who had small amounts could hardly! be induced,, to" sell any. Neighbor! WOUld ihaTO their altlill annntv an A .1 pinch of salt was the most aoceptabli present you could give. Father had tol i.ave salt to put in his sausages, and! he bought Itj by paying an ounce ofl gold dust roil an ounce of salt. . "My father was appointed brigadier! general. He had served in the Cayusel war in '46 and '47. ln the Indlanl troubles in 1SG3 and '64, and; also lrl the Rogue River war of 186S and '66 In 186 my husband -started to work in Major J. V. Glenn's store onl Klamath agency. In 1871 he went I to work for j Alexander Martin, wtthl whom he is still associated. My hus-l band was a lieutenant In the Modutl war. He can tell you all about that. - "Mr. Reames went to his desk and I brought out his commission as lieu tenant In Co. A, firm brigade, Oregon I militia. It was dated December . 2, 1872,: and was signed by Governor 'L. F. Orover and Secretary of State 8. F. Chadwick. "We had 80 men ln ' our com- pany and they were raised lnsldel of six hours, said Mr. Reames. "When the word came that .volunteers! were wanted, a meeting was held at the court house at Jacksonville, 601 men signed the roll and we startedl noxt morning, each man furnishing I his own horse, gun and ammunition. I Oliver Harbaugh, who still, lives at I Jacksonville, had just come in from I California with liis Wagon and a fourl horse team, so we hired him to takel our camp 'equipment and provisions. "There were about 60 Modoc lndlanil In the lava beds and there were about 400 troops, both regulars and volun teers. The Indians were too many for us. We couldn't get at them amll they could pick ua off. We had one I carefully planned battle on December 17. which resulted in our troops losing I some men, and finally retiring. Then! the government de;idod to try a peace! treaty in place of whipping the In-1 dians, so the volunteers went back tol Jacksonville. "1 was born in Illinois and came to Oregon in 1862 when I was a baoy. My father, Woodford Reames, and my I mother, aianulda White iieames, weie both born in Kentucky. We spent the winter of 1S52 at St Helens, and. the following spring moved to Jackson ville. In the winter of 1863 eggs were II apiece, apples 25 cents each, flour I wae 1 a pound ana everything eise was in proportion, so you win see mat ham and eggs, with apple sauce, was something of a luxury. I went io school with Colonel Robert A. Miller, now of Portland. J. N. T. Miller wae hi father, and General jonn f. Miner was his uncle. CJenerai J. F. miller was a most interesting man. Like toy parents he was a Jientucklan. He was a mentber of Colonel Doniphan's fa- moin Missouri regiment that toog pari in the Mexican war and made such a I remarkable march. He seiuea in southern Oregon In 1861. : He served in the Oregon Indian wars under Oen eral Joseph Lane as captain oi com; nanv A. First Regiment Oregon Vol unteers. President Pierce appointed him agent of the Grande Ronde reser vation and he was reappoinwu Buchanan. During the tivu war lived at Salem and built the "Wlllam. . Wnolen Mills company. i wuim he was president. Later ho was vice president of the Willamette Falls and Lock company of Oregon City. He ran for governor against A- C. Glbba, the -annhiiran candidate who was elected. ,ni he ran for U. S. senator against George 1 1. Williams. It Is Interesting to check over the former, citizens of Jacksonville and see now many navs von distinction in pontics ana. dusi- - , ness. ' Ntate Healer on the. Job. From the Lo Angeles Times, , There were but few lightweights at the grocers' picnic. INDEX OF ADVANCING . TIDE OF PROSPERITY' Fropi the Pittsburg Press, f'; -Conservative and radical are be . ginning to agree that the nation, has emerged from the depression nightmare. In every line of In-, dustry; en Improvement is seen, and hundreds of thousands of workers in the last few wks "nave returned to their places. For-, elgn buying -rders; started the movement that has resulted ln hundreds of factories formerly dark being agleam,. and in, tbe greatest agricultural activity Jn; the nation's history. . With industrial affairs and; public work striking- their stride, and the greatest harvest coming in , our generation the future "looks good"; if we have learned the lessons -of household eco nomics and living within our means. : we will have I profited ' much more than we have lost by the lean yeare. . - - . 6.