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THE OREGON DAILY JOURNAL, PORTLAND. MONDAY, AUGUST 23. 1915. -THE; JOURNAL I , . . i ATK1MIJI . foblieked a? areolae lescept Bandar er Sunday morula at Iba Joornal ft olid ' Ing. Broadway and Yamhill it.. PorUaad. Or. kulred ( the poatofflce Portlaa4.Or.. far . tranamiaelun lareaxh tike RWlx aa ecsed ! starter. ' IfcLfcl'HONI!: Main flT; asm. A-vsn. All iJ department retched by these nunsbeea. Tell the trtr what .lefiartment yog waat. ostKIGV ADVKUTialMQ mcf JtESBNTATl Vg iieitjuaaia A Keataor Co.. BruoswteB Bl'la- 829 alfta At., New Xark; Ula People' wa mm., ( nicas-o Subscription ttrau &y mil of la aa "0 tiau la la GniteU state r aleaieet " - - DAXlt i- . - - Ob rear $8.00 i One anootn.. ...... -60 SCXDsX , M rear.. tlW t Om SMStB .- DAtLX AVD SUMDAY " ;One rear. 87.60 I One twitt. ....... .68 America ask nothing for her elf bat what she iiar a right to ask for humanity itself. .' t : WOODROW W1XSON. A good man and a wine man may at times be angry with the world, and at times grieved for it j but no man waa ever discontented with tha world if he dld-his duty in it Southey. si MR. TAFT ON PREPAREDNESS M: R. TAFT'S discussion of pre paredness at the Press club breakfast yesterday is a valuable contribution to a question that is rising to com manding Importance in this coun try. ? It was 9 .discussion by a man who is a notable advocate of peace, a man whose greatest policy as president was his advocacy of In ternational arbitration, a man who, 86 secretary of war for four years was given intimate knowledge of . technical matters In national de fense, and whose fou years in the presidency gave him an experience that lends unusual prestige to his views. Even more to the point, the high minded attitude that Mr. Taft has maintained since his re tirement from the White - House in all his discussions of national poli ces,' gives a broader and more wil ling audience to his opinions. Mr. Taft holds that we should strengthen our navy and make it the equal of any in the world ex cept that of Great Britain. This, he believes necessary in national defense through the power it would give to resist approach to our shores by expeditionary forces. He says the strength of our mobile standing army is only 2j, 000 and that it should be 100,000, and that provision should be made for an ample supply of officers for a citizen army of reserves. He says we should have battle cruisers and submarines : to greatly augment our almost ; negligible strength in those branches of the navy. He says our coast fortifications are as good as any in tb.e world, and that 'all claims to the contrary are "poppycock." i Mr. Taft Is not a Caesar. All will not agree with him as to the lengths we should go intprepared . ness. The great heights to which we have attained in national life were reached with a very small army and but a moderate navy and it is hard for many to even modify the old ideals. But there are plain facts in the present confllu over seas to which we cannot altogether close our eyes. It is not jingoism or even encouragement .of jingoism to learn from the war wherein we are weak 1 national defense and to take ad equate measures to make those places strong. A WORTHY MOVEMENT IT Is said that ft". young man in the Willamette valley began .canning fruits and vegetables for the market using a kitchen stove. He found la ready market among dealers and families ready to ald'i a worthy endeavor. His business has grown until he is the proprietor of a fine canning Dlant. The. idea that won success for .this young man is to . be applied vlfl tan nlirtlf iithnnTo - ' n -.Student who are members of the 'industrial or canninc clubs organ ised ap? 'the state department of public Instruction win be encour aged to can fruits and vegetables . locally 'produced. They will fol low methods leading to uniformity and high standard of quality. They will endeavor to-, compete with canned" products shipped ; in from outside the state to a value, It is said, of several million dollars , annually.. . . ; . .. . .-. t . Grocers1 and hotel men x In va- ' rious parts of the state . have pledged to. furnish i a market. high order. A lesson is furnished along the line closest td Oregon's development need. It is not enough toencourage planting of trees and -vegetables. There must be a mar ket, for the products of the soil The home:, market should - he the first' market for home products. If the younger generation " takes the initiative in preparing fruits a&d vegetables for market and is aided by dealers t and consumers we will i have taken a long step toward reforming the marketing conditions of this state, and mar kef reform will mean prosperous farms, better homes and happier people. j PUSH THE BRAND THE magnificent Columbia river ia tha greatest salmon producing- stream in all the world. Of this prince of fishes it has been said that Oregonians "eat all they can and what they can't, they can," (or tin, as the Englishman told it). Thousands of tons of salmon are annually caught and canned in Ore gon, and since artificial propagation has been : solved there is little likeli hood of a falling off in the supply. And, mind you. this Columbia river salmon is the finest obtainable yet nothing has been done to proclaim its superior merits through adver tising. That's where Oregon has neg lected a real opportunity. While salmon is a staple food one of the most nutritious of all edibles the housewife has never been taught to call for It by a first name. She asks for a can of salmon, and she gets it whether it Is the best salmon she can buy she has no way of knowing. Now, there are lots of salmon canned in WashingVn and Alaska and Maine t more in Washington, really, than in Oregon but if the Oregon canners will put the advertising be hind their salmon, they can make it the standard with trade and con sumer. The foregoing is from an adver tisement in Saturday's Journal. In marketing her products through established standards, Or egon is conspicuously backward. Hood River and Medford have dem onstrated what could be done with fruits, by making a name. Hood River was the pioneer in getting apples known to the world by brand. There is no doubt that, as sug gested in the advertisement, the Oregon salmon Industry could add enormously to the "stability of its market and the sale of its product. An Oregon authority insists that one trouble with Oregon lumber is that it has never been scientifical ly marketed. In the millions of farm homes in the United States, for instance, there is scarcely one that could not be induced by a systematic effort to add here and there ' small improvements made from lumber about the premises. People act from suggestion. There are ways to suggest to these millions of farmers and others, small changes in which almost every one of them would consume lumber. It Is in its marketing system, the misfortune of the lum ber industry, that it has made lit tle effort along the intelligent lines through which far less im portant things have found a tre mendous sale. One of the great facts about California is that she has estab lished world wide names for nearly all her products, through aggres sive and never-ending publicity. The Californians know the game and play it. As Oregon is seen by eastern experts In publicity, is further explained in the advertise ment." It says: We also see a great opportunity for Oregon Canned vegetables and fruits, fresh and dried. We haven't said a word abouf Ore gon's no,ble forests and her great lumber industry. We haven't touched on her great mineral wealth, nor her wonderful stock raising achievements; we can only devote a line to her practically unlimited water power for the driving of grat manufactories; we could write a Took on her at tractions for home seekers. AGE NOT A BAR THERE is still plenty of room in the world for the old. There is the example of the old men who are directing the war. French, Joffre, Von Hin denberg and Grand Duke Nicholas are all old men. - Going back into history a short way we find that Palmerston was prime minister of England at 81 and at the same age John Quincy Adams was taking a prominent part in congress. Gladstone became premier at 83 and Oliver Wendell Holmes wrote "Over the Teacup" at 79. Bancroft was even older when he published his monumental his tory. GOethe completed his Faust at 80 and Michael Angelo waa still painting at 89. Voltaire was still working at 8-3 and Tennyson com posed "Crossing the Bar" when he was past four score. At 80 Ben jamin West, the great American artist, was transferring his genius to canvas and Benjamin Franklin was past 81 when he helped in the making of the Constitution of the United States. It is not always a case of old and in the way. THE DASTARD PJLUTOCRAT SENATOR BURTON said Jn ft speech in Portland: the initiatlvs and referendum is a mere plaything. it Is neither broad enough to be a men ace, or good enough to be a. benefit. How that cruel Indictment must rankle in the bosom of that staunch and fearless supporter of the initia tive and referendum, Statement One and the recall, the OregonianT We all thought the Oregonian was against popular government when it said "Republicans of Or egon Intend to repudiate State mint One; they Intend to suggest In assembly or convention candi dates for the primary, and will pui tne knife into each and all who declare for Statement One." j But we ; were far, far astray, for her is the Oregonian itself declar ing "certainly the plutocrats have not been highly pleased with our strong support of the initiative and referendum, the direct primary and . popular election of ! senator." Instantly, the people felt in their bones that with the initiative and referendum - resting thus safe on the Oregonlan's bosom, and with Its strong protecting arms around Statement One and the recall, the "crime of . '73" was to be avenged and that the dastard "plutocrats" were to get it in the neck. What is home without a mother, and what 'was the Initiative and referendum until the Oregonian came Out and took its stand as its fond mother? But, when everything seemed secure, here comes Senator Burton with his malevolent attack. Zounds, it is a wonder that the Oregonian didn't knock his block off! Down with the' "plutocrats" PAID THE PRICE A' BE REUF has been paroled from prison. For his part in debauching the government of San Fran' cisco he has paid the price. Four and one-hajf long years In the pen itentiary is heavy penalty for a man of middle age ; to pay. He comes forth a broken man, old be fore his time. His fortune dissi pated, his family in mourning and his professed friends In bis days of political power shunning him. Ruef paid the price but some of his associates have not. The existence of this sentiment proba bly led to a condition of his pa role, that he 'should not again take up hi3 residence in San Francisco within . the next , ninety days or until after tha coming municipal election had been held. During his confinement Ruef often professed an intention when released :.to turn his talent of or ganization to social betterment. He now has the opportunity to do so. In this his prison experience should enter largely. Ruef as a political boss was a product of a system which happily is going out of existence. Ruef, as -one who has paid the price may, if ha wills, hasten its exit. AS THEY SAW OREGON T HE rivers and harbors commit tee of congress visited Ore gon at an opportune time. The congressmen who com pose the committee found the first units nearly completed of a com prehensive water transportation scheme. They were taken as guests of the Portland Chamber of Commerce to view for them selves what had been accomplished as an expression of appreciation for the. loyal support our river and harbor improvement necessities have received from the committee, and that they might be Impressed with the mert of completing works so well begun. With the viewing of the Celilo canal was linked "the further pro posal of -canalizing the upper Co lumbia and Snake rivers, so that boats may operate as emuch of the year as possible and that irriga tion and generation of hydro-electric power may add. their impulse to the development of the Colum bia basin. The committeemen were shown that if the. Willamette river locks, recently acquired by government and state purchase, can be deep ened at a cost of $80,000 a uni form channel depth of six feet may be secured from Portland to Newberg ana the river given op portunity to take its proper place of importance in the transportation scheme of the Willamette Yley- Almost a miracle in achievement was revealed at the mouth of the Columbia river. Once it was said, even by engineers, that the bar could not be deepened and the stormy entrance tamed. But the members of the rivers and harbors committee saw that with the money they had. recommended should, be appropriated by congress, one jetty had been built and another near' ing completion Working between the jetties was a makeshift dredg er, a worked-over army transport. The record of the season in bar channel deepening was from 26 to 3 4 feet. " The - congressmen could see that the problem at the mouth of the river la solved, and that the harbors .of the Columbia, can con fidently prepare to receive the largest ships afloat. And then the . members of the committee who had been doubtful because the gigantic works had cost more than initial estimates, witnessed with a Vividness that startled some of them that the results justified the Investment. They saw that in the Columbia basin water transportation is -to reach its greatest western develop ment. Congressman Sparkman, chairman Ot-the committee, admit ted that the excess of cost over preliminary estimates had , made him feel a' little pessimistic until he saw and could by seeing under stand that projects, to tremendous are necessarily costly, but with returns that will ' make the cost seem small. " ; The rivers and harbors commit tee of . congress has a ; chairman who is rigidly thorough in his in quiry after racts. Th members of the committee are men governed by the facts established by reports of the United States engineers and by their own Investigation. They base their support Of . Oregon and kColumbia river orolects on facts. They ar conscientious servants of the public i good.: Oregon appre ciates their, service "and has been honored by their presence. There is a" lesson for widows in the experience.. of tha Portland widow who gaver up her pension to marry and within three short days found herself without a husband and a pension. The doctrine of hold fast is a pretty good one after The automobile racing at Elgin, Illinois, Saturday was .remarkable in more ways than- one. A speed of nearly eighty miles an' hour was attained, and" nobody was killed. . After seeing Grace Strachan'a picture one wonders why she was not elected president of the Nation al Educational Association. G. 0. P. REACTIONARIES INCORRIGIBLE By Cart ftmith. ' IT IS significant that of ail the can didates prominently mentioned at this time for the Republican nom ination for president next year; two only belong to tte progressive wing of the party. Judging- from the trend of opinion today, about ten months before the candidate will . be chosen, the G. O. P. does not intend to heed the warning of 1912. (f It may be that the growth of presi dential primaries, which will' enable the voters to express their choice di rectly in an Increased.' number of states, will yet defeat the strategy of the reactionaries, but the eastern Republican view seems to be that appeal should be made to. the business Interests of the country through a candidate who will plead for "less regulation." 5 ' a a Ex-Senator Root of New York and Senator John W. Weeks of Massa chusetts, regarded as two of the lead ing candidates for the nomination, are busy spreading this doctrine . of over-regulation, and ' what they are saying is, with slight variation, the confession of faith of nearly all of the men who stand in the list of for midable candidates. It is well ex pressed in the speech of Boot before the Union League club of Philadelphia on March 24, this year, wheti he said: "The party's duty Is to restore con fidence in business, wipe out the mis understanding which has arisen be tween the farmers of the west and south and. the capitalists of the east and north, fight to the last ditch against increased governmental regu lation of business and prevent the power of the federal bureaucracy from becoming stronger." a a . Senator Weeks, who formerly was a banker, gave, expression to like sen timents in his recent swing along the Pacific coast. In the same row may be catalogued Burton, of Ohio, Mann of Illinois, Fairbanks of Indiana, Her rick of Ohio, Knox of Pennsylvania, and others less prominent. Evidently tl.ey all are wedded to 'the Idea that the time has arrived for making a stand against progressive legislation. It is the ,same spirit that moves the reactionary Republican governor and legislature In Wisconsin in repealing much of the adanced legislation won by La. Follette, .and Is also seen in action in the constitutional ' conven tion in the state of New York, direct ed 'by such men as Boot, Barnes, Qulgg and Sheehan. a a Close observers of the course of Colonel Roosevelt find ready explana tion for his recent' remarks, in the reactionary tendencies he has, seen in the Republican ranks. While his re turn to the old party was being hint ed, the colonel was looking tthings over. When he returned to New York from his. Western trip he gave out the positive announcement - that he will enroll as a Progressive, car rying with It the subtle suggestion that if conditions were different he might register as a Republican. See ing that the party is likely to be controlled y the conservative ell nvent, with which he would no . more be at home than in 1912, he has de termined to stay outside, and avoid the necessity of bolting a second time. There are few stare contests this year to give indication of the 'Way the tide is running. Probably the best index will be the September pri maries In Massachusetts. Here the etandpat Republicans are lined up behind former Congressman Samuel W. McCall for ' the nomination for governor, the liberal wing supporting Lieutenant Governor Orafton IX Cush j ing. If McCall wins, as now seems likely, the reactionaries will hail this as additional pi-oof that the prijgres-! sive wave Is receding. I TonceOver BY TUC3C LAMPMAN -.. THERE are a number of . things that seem to have beei overlooked by the committee on entertainment for our honored guest Professor Taft d Yale. ;v ? ROf. course the Press club gave him a breakfast at one o'clock-ye8-terday afternoon. ana I don't Know why they called it a breakfast. because they didn't have mush. or pacakes. And it tst as much as a dinner - for Stifcyl Krantz. , or any Other new writer even one' with Lucullan tendencies, like Walter W. R. May, and he likes to eat an hour Or two. '' ' no matter how much they Charge. for the ham and eggs. Maybe it's Walter's initials. '.: that make him that way. JBut anyway the price per pta te at the. Taft breakfast yesterday waa $1.50. " and Rosie Rosenthal took it lit erally. That is he triad to. but 1 Al Lundborg stopped him at the hat rack and showed him the Ben son monogram on the plate. ' J And Rosie said that was all right he could have the letters changed. ' But AI said he'd have that plate. ' If he had to get grease on his new vest with the lUies of the valley in it. i J And Rosie knows Al. , -and gave It up. I and took a good hat and walked out. -j; - . whistling "Wrap Me in a Bundle." U However to return' to this break fast mystery: - t 1T Somehow wherever Mr. Taft goes they think' they have to feed hin? frequently and copiously. and I understand be lays off at meal ' time on the train aa often as possible. , so he can, appear to good advan tage.; ; . ;;.;' 'I when-he stops to be entertained. j And It's Just papsibla he skipped his . real breakfast yesterday. ) V And I feel that these are the real reasons they called his first meal in Portland a breakfast because otherwise they had plenty to eat. and nobody yawned. R But I'm overlooking the things the- entertainment committee may have overlooked. , and I , want to know If they've detailed a squad. to protect Mr. Taft. from Dil Choate the demon In surance man. ' 5T And 1 suggest as fast as anyone starts to apologize for the weather. ' or tell him how our nights are always cool. that they be carted away. and compelled to ' LISTEN to Joe Hammerslys- and Walter Oeren's "pinions on the war. Letters From the People . (CommnnlcttSana lent to Tbe Journal for ?nblication in tbl department abonid be writ, an on only one aide of tha paper, abould not exoaed 3uO word In length and must be ac companied by tbe same and addrcaa of tbe aender. if the writer doea not deaire to bare tbe. name pobllabeO, na ftbouia o tate.) Diieunalott a toe r re test of all . reformers. It rationalise 'everything- It toQcbea. It rob principle of all falae anetuy and til row tnem back an their reaBonablenef . If they bare no reasonableneaa. It ruthlessly crashes them out of existence and aeta np its own conc-ialon la their stead." Wood row Wilson. The Bank and the Public. Portland, Aug. 20. To the Editor of The Journal I observe D. J. Forbes, disclaiming any knowledge of tbe money situation both by admission and by irrelevant observations, unfits himself to answer my query, which I have twice propounded and with your permission will do again. The claim that one half the money of our country is in our pockets or otherwise in hiding, would be alarm ing if true, as it drives home the con viction that the banks have only half enough of all the remaining moneys to answer for the imperative call of the deposit reserve. In my second letter I copied from President Vanderlip of the City Na tional bank of New York, in testimony given before the committee of bank ing and currency at Washington on October -8. 1913. in which he testified that when stress justified, "the bank ers Invaded" the bank reserves, and thought as it was unlawful so ta do that "there should be no reserve limit established," by. which means of course the criminality would be evaded. (Pages 1969-1971). -On page 1964 we have other testi mony from the same source which il lustrates the bankers' attitude as to the circulating medium which ought "td give us pause." He says: "I think there will" be no danger to give the central banks power to issue all the currency the people will use. The peo-' pie will use it; it is of no value in the hands of the bank, ee it does not count as reserve. It makes no difference what kind of money the people have m their pockets." ' This illustrates the situation pre cisely. The people are content with any money, issued by authority of the government; but the bankers In giving that money out to the people give something which has no legal tender value Whatever, but requiring Its re? payment In United States gold coin. . Trffta the trap is set. Some $1,600, 000,00oln bank notws, silver and other subsidiary forms of money are doing duty daily in and out of the banks, which is1 not money at all. The bal ance of our money gold or gold notes is snugly ensconced In the bank for its reserve value, as Vanderlip testi fies, but only in amount one half enough for the Ohe purpose of reserve for the 30,000 banks With their $21, 000,000,000 of deposits! The $21,000, 000,000 of deposits represent that much debt from the borrowers to the banks.. All the gold in the United States would only repay 7 per cent of 1. Rut besides this one item of debt (and it la due and payable every 90 days or less) ther are other obliga tions. The total wealth of the coun try in round numbers Is now given at $200,000,000,000. Mortgages and bonds -against it exceeds $150,000,000, 000. There is only gold enough to represent one cent on the dollar of the total Indebtedness. Against every Quality of sense and discretion the gold devotees have driven us to face all values before this false god. The bankers wholly responsible for it through their intrigue with the gor ernmentB of the world, have arrived at the impasse themselves, here in America, and cannot answer, where ia the offe and & half billions of gold to ccme from, to go into the bank re serves to make up the 12 per cent the law, or prudence, requires to protect the deposit account? CHAS. P. CHURCH. Tainted Moving Pictures. Newberg. Or. Aug. 1$. To the Ed itor of The Journal The remonstrance of the moving picture show managers against the censorship that regulates them in Portland brings up p. matter of deepest interest to the publio just now. Judge Lindsey of Denver has recently called public attention to the subject of the child and cheap amuse ments. He believes that good places of resort should be furnished children and youth by the community, and also that moving picture shows "might, If properly conducted, be educational and helpful." But after visiting -such places with an inspector recently, he says that such places "seem to -vie With each Other In approaching aa nearly as the laws will permit, that kind of risque appeal to morbidness, sex of abnormal excitement," which, he says, "in the large communities, es pecially without the antidote of whole some recreation, makes the community Itself the chief culprit when trouble tomes." And he declares, "Tfie evef Increasing demand for . maddening amusement is reaching out to claim the child. In one city of .200,000 people only . recently a record was kept of the number of children attending mov ing picture shows. Over lOO.OOO . paid admissions were collected eah month from children under II years of age." I myself attended a moving picture PERTINENT COMMENT SMALL CHANGE Seattle Post-Intelligencer: Proba bly the last word in regulation Is ask ing the aboriginal Indian for his fish ing license. Washington Post: One drawback to cutting war melons In Kurope ia that each slice has to come out of some other fellow's melon. a a - Omaha World Herald: Those aero planes flying about Fremont county bad better be careful and not run into anyf those tail cornfields, a a Pittsburg Press: The National Tail ors' association has decided $1000 a year ls about the right amount for a man to spend or clothes appar ently forgetting that moat of us also have to hava a place to sleep and something to eat. - a. " Philadelphia Ledger: Every tramp this summer is not necessarily a Bel gian refugee. a a Philadelphia Telegraphr With 10 cents In our pocket. It ls rather hard to realiae that there is $S.006,$99.68 In gold in this country. . . a Washington Post: Our Idea of an American who Is alow to take a hint is one that hangs around until Villa orders him out of Mexico. . a a Boston Globe: What other president ha seen Old Man Trouble bunch so many hits in-two yeara? a a ' . Seattle Post-Intelligencer: Over 200 Oerman newspapers have suspended since the war started. All of the Lon don newspapers have reduced their size. The Paris newspapers which sur vive are mere skeletons. Wars are highly profitable to the newspaper business. Nit. a a New York Evening post: Not ambi tion, but cold logic, is behind Sulzer's latest dream, if a dlstriot attorney la a proper man for governor, what more proper man for district attorney than an ex-governor? THE DRAIN ON ENGLAND'S MONEY POWER From the Boston Globe. "The power of English gold!" For a great many years that vague but ponderous phrase has been warranted to impress the world. It was quite as effective a boast as "Britannia rulea. the waves." Now.' we learn that there is an extraordinary flow of bullion from Europe to this country. A spe cial train, carrying millions f in gold shipped to Halifax In a British battle ship from the Bank of England, passes in the night under an armed guard, Its movements shrouded In : mystery, to New York city. What does it mean? Experts immediately call our atten tion to the British and American trade figures. For the fiscal year Just end ed our export balance exceeded that of last year by a billion dollars. Eng land'A excess of imports, on the other hand, is this year nearly three times as large as last' year.. We are told that England's excess of imports last year signified the collection of in vestments and profits. This year's excess is caused by her heavy expen ditures abroad tosmeet war demands. Ultimately the balance of debt be tween two countries is settled by the passage of bullion from the debtor to the creditor nation. Hence, today, as much aa England needs gold at home, she is paying off her creditors, and a great many of them are to be found in the United States. For England ls said to be financing the war for th allies. - a a Of course England is not Importing in large quantities from war ridden Europe. She Is depending upon the United States for supplies. She is not exporting as in former years, because she ls not producing goods for ex port. She has mobilized her resources for war. Thousands of productive laborers are at the front: the labor of other thousands has been diverted Into the production of munitions. Cap ltal has been similarly diverted. Therefore thsj United States, a great wealth producing country, blessed with unusually good crops and provided with the facilities for supplying the warring nations, is raking in the pro fits. Certain Industries in this coun try haVe suffered, but the total result has been gain. But the consumer has lost everywhere. a a When England's exchange rate is at par It is regulated by the number of .dollars in gold required to contain exactly the same amount of the pre cious metal as ls contained in 100 English sovereigns. That number ls 486, which, theoretically, is the nor mal exchange rate. Today, however, war risks make the shipment of gold -km Mi.nil. that showed various kinds of evil and violence in great attractiveness, including murder, in- ..ii.u. aniuitailnn ttrivirUA isuviciue, r rz a k;w... ...... v.., 'cruelty, and finally the inside of a harem where voluptuous oeauiy re vealed a side of life utterly unknown to the children of clean American homes. At the end of the reel came a . V10 . h(a raal was aDDroved by the nationaTboard of censors. But I have since been told by a distin guished American ant nor ana moru 1. ....it.i with tha members Wild IB .4 ....... . - - f . of that board, thfSt one of their trou-. X - V. . 1 t Jar V a a bles is statements 01 mi are not true. ' ' ,A Sensible parents who are solicitous for their children's welfare, are appar ently justified in praying of our cen sors not less but more thorough work than any that ls conducted on low standards of good and eviL GEORGE H. LEE. ' From an Admirer of Jiggs. Pnt-tlnnd. Au. 20a To the Editor of The Journal Does the return of Mutt and Jeff mean that we are to lose tIct-i .ni Marguerite? I am sure no one would willingly consent to that. I have taken a sort of straw vote on ... i nr. a vervon I have asked says he has formed a real affection INDEX OF ADVANCING TIDE OF PROSPERITY Chicago The John V. Farwell company, in Its weekly review of the dry goods trade, 'says: Considering the splendid gov ernment crop report Issued this i. ...tnntont "tlVltV amonsr leading railroads and generally good 1& DOT cooaiuani m is business situation presents a-very ' ..nPhi aisnect. House busi ness ls active, with many buyers I in market rrom bouio- wei "Shipments of wool dress goods for week ending August 8 were heavier than any year since 1907. Large manufacturers of . wool dress goods are making prices for spring. 19ie. On some lines thre is a noticeably sharp advance in price, while on Others the present conditions were anticipated and prices advanced four months ago. Buyer a, who would not purchase early are now covering , their wants at feigner pries." AND NEWS IN BRIEF OREGON SIDELIGHTS - Klamath Falls Commercial club has taken up the matter At conveniences for auto tourists, with the - view of establishing at least a parking place. If it is deemed too late for a camping ground for .the present season. . ' . a a -. . Marshfleld Record: The Ice has been broken In Marshfleld-' as far aa aide walk laying is concerned, and ihe ce ment walk will be the vogue hereafter. There is nothing like a cement side walk and a hard aurface roadway. All the aidewalks in. Marshfleld should be made of cement. m Testimony as to' the extraordinary or Oregon variety, by the Salem states man: "Howard Spaulding and hia $$0,000,000 bride are visiting Portland and are delighted with Oregon scenery. There are brides being made m Oregon every day valued at more than $S0r 000,000 by their grooms." ' . a e . - ." It la the prediction in Lane oounty that if the people patronise the Eugene public market, and the growers find ready sale for their producta, the plan will be extended' by the establishing of public markets at Springfield, Junc tion City, Creswell and -Cottage Orove. a a . Hood River News: C. A. Hicks still has on hand apples that have been grown on his place during the pat three years. Samples have been on display during the past week. The apple grown -In 19f3 is a Jonathan, and, although considerably shrunk and wrinkled, is fairly well preserved. They were kept in common storage. At the- recent meeting of the Suther lin business -men, called to concert cer tain protective measures, a number of traveling men were accused of being "avcheap skate bunch, who arrived by the gasoline route, and after securing orders, from, our merchants for their wares, departed on . the next outgoing Jitney, without so much as buying, a liverwurst sandwich Or a bottle of soda." In future, it is threatened, this class of traveling men. will "receive attention from the business men."- across the ocean very expensive. Eng land is piling up a huge war debt which to a certain degree affects her credit, and therefore her rate of ex change. The demand exchange rate is about 476 1. Experts tell us that England is trying te- stem the declin ing rate of exchange by shipping gold over here. One authority who analyses the great forces which this war has set In motion,, foresees the shaking of British financial dominion. He thinks the power of English gold Is not what it used to be. For years England has had an al most inexhaustible supply of free capital, seeking investment in various parta of the world. The British capi talist became a world power. Even the Napoleonic wards did not consume this reservoir of free capital. Warfare 100 years ago, however, was not so ex pensive as this gigantic catastrophe today. Perhaps when this war Is over the international promoter will find that the British financial market has been supplanted by another. It will - require greater efforts to maintain the English reservoir of free capital. England will be paying the cost of this war for many years in the form of taxes, and It is only reason able to believe that the burden of tax ation will fall upon the wealthy class, the clans which ordinarily has capital to invest abroad, since the poor can stand ho more 'taxation. The usual at tempt to- pass the burden on the masses in higher rents and prices must always be taken into account, but the tendency lately In England has been a shifting ef this burden from the shoulders of the working class. The working class has suf fered much- In this war, and It can be relied upon to demand Turther shift ing of the burden after the war is over. There will be less English cap! tal for foreign Investments. a a Possibly all this means that Amer ican capitalists will hereafter seek broader fields and will assume the power of International financial do minion. How general a benefit that would be is another question. It is doubtful if such a change would imply increased prosperity for the masses. Despite the power of British finance, nowhere else In western Eu rope has auch pitiful poverty existed as in the United Kingdom. A thousand and one forces are at work which will affect the lives of human beings in every corner of the globe. At such a time as this the helplessness of the Individual In the maze of conflicting world forces Is more and more apparent. for Jlggs and doesn't want to" give him up. Even Maggie, for whom all is vanity and perfection Of spirit, is. lovable old thing. There are times when she deserves to have her wings clipped and her nails filed, but since dear old -Jiggs has the patience of a doubly sanctified job. no one else gets very impatient with her. Jlggs' Invulnerable optimism and wonaerrui resourcefulness always leave a good taste In the mouth and a twinkle in the eye. He has such a heap o'lngy rubber in him that no matter how hard the bump, he. Comes up smiling as a new coin; Of course, Mutt and Jeff are funny xne pictures are always good but -you know how often Mr. Fisher's jokes make you feel like the child queen aho, when the great joke waa explained to her, said coldly, "We are not amused." Little Jeff has a certain amount of our sympathy and affection, but he hasn't the pull at the heart Strings that Jlggs has. But a truce, until we find out If this is a false alarm. E. E. xilLL. Cookie- XookJe. ; (These verar were written b ftriMrnt 'fcteteon, 8 years eld, who baa been pen din ui summer at neariew, wasn. Her pu house on. tbe beacb luiplred tier to poetry In the sand on the strand I a little cottage grand. There-e meet With bare feet, Hal, Mildred and Marguerite. There we play all the day In our cookie nookie. Driftwood rare W find there. Of which we make our table and chairs There we eat, sometimes sleep On the floor, which with seaweed 'is covered o'er, ' And listen to the ocean's roar, In our cookie nookie. When the tide Is in, we try to swim. When the .tide is out, we play scout. And round the camp fires hop about. In the sunset's gleam I sit and dream. It's near heaven, seems to me, by the sea. In our cookie nookie. Tomorrow i must go n the steamer Hassalo; To my ' city home you know. I'd rather stay here and play In the sand on the strand . : In our little cottage grand In our cookie nookie. . Modern Diplomacy. From the Washington Star, "I understand that you have a new motorcar?"- Yes." "Do you drive It youraelfr TCobody drives it. We Coax it." G ilibm OREGON ' COUNTRY,, iM aatLY PATS Fra4 Leeklay. gpeoiaJ its. Writer Tm XearraU. -"fRANCIS MARION COLLIN fl r what I waa chrlatened but thtj enj,r11., n 11 . v- .. - -"J vui lut fTUls, ea! an Oregon pioneer of 1845 when I vl ited.hlm recently at his home in Da las. -I was born in Missouri on N vember 19, in the year 1S34. My fatl er. Smith Collins, was born In VI, glnia. My mother, Emily Wyett Co 11ns, was ,a Kentuckian. They wei married In Missouri and had U chi dren, eight boys and four girls. I w V. : " . "la wnen we started fV, Oregon In the spring of 1846. On Be a f or evn mllM this de 4 Soda Springs, one of my brothers fe out of the front nr - mum oe stoppsd tr, front wheel ran over him i,m. him. Father made a coffin for hia " ."oo uuuom 01 our wagoi Ihey burled him by the side of tl trail. They covered his cotrin wit flat water-worn rocks from Bear rlv so the coyotes noul.i nntii. .. a a a () Se S&a$ fsfl 9 At Fort Hall we were met by Cap tail - - - . mo tuuuuer or ocottsburjJ near the mouth of th t! mrirlna - T.J t told us that he and the Applegates an) v"' winera irom ftM. county had new cut off which saved the bar climb across the Cascades or the dai geroua trip down the Columbia b raft or, batteau. a a a. a a afr "Four families of our train i..mJ to take the new cut-off. There we our iamuy. w,. prlngle family, tbi ramaners ana uid captain Browi who followed Captain Levi Scott, "w, took a different road than that take by Stephen Meek the yJar before w tie ue auemptea to anow a large train t emigranta a cut-off by the southed route ana tney came to grief. I "We had no trouble except ner1 jviamam iase. une of our party, man by the name of Tanner,. lagged 6 hind and failed to come In one nigh Next morning they went back to loo him up and found him back a piece 1 the road, stripped naked, and full arrows. They dug a shallow gai wr jura Deneam a Dig chunk of aag brush with their hunting knives an tramped the ground down and left hln -"We struck the head of Bear cree and followed It down to about whet Medford now is. We had been Join: by nearly a hundred wagons Whlc had turned south at Fort Hall, amon them he Vanderpools, the Crowley: and oOnrs. Old man Vanderpool wo brlnglngNln aomehiwtcAaheep, bi' at near wnui is iiOVv Grants, Paaa th Indiana charged hia band scattered them and ot moat of As we were making our way down neavy grade the man who was drlvi urowiera wagon called out for atop, I had the wagon juat ah urowieyi, m toij me LelancKCroTJ ley was dying and for me to send m mother back at once. MotHer wei hack to Crowley's wagon but Lelan only lived a few minutes. 8he was very bright, pretty and likeable gir about 17 or 18 years old. We .drov down the grade and camped beside th stream. Mother laid Leland out an prepared her for her burial. The burled her by the side of the etrea which for years went by" the name Grave creek. It Is now called Lelan creek after Leland Crowley. Crowle station and postoffice here In Pol county is named for the Crowley farrj y. ... "A few days after we burled Lelan another party came alone and' t nun the Indians had dug her up and take ail her clothes, leaving her naked. Th reouried her. J. D. Smith, who lives I Dallas, waa in the party-that reburle Lher. He still haa tha iron fire ehovH they uaed to bury her. It happened t be the only shovel they had. "Colonel Cornelius Gilliam, my wife father, who had-come out two year before, helped build the first house 1 Marysville, now Corvallis, for Mi Avery, and he built a cabin for Euger fekinner at what is now Eugene. : Skinner had gone east for his famll so my brother Jim (you probably knoi him as Judge J. L. Colllna) stayed a winter in Skinner's cabin, taking car of our cattle. A man from Frenc Prairie. I think his name waa LaChar pelle, came to Skinners Butte, or Ei gene, as they now call It, and fathr hired him to take our family and ou goods by packhorse-farther np the va ley. He took us to what - was late called Parkers station, on ths . Bl Lucklemute, not far from the prestn town of Independence. We wintere there. Next spring, the spring of 184 we took up a place near what la no 'I called Stivers elation. My father an mother lived there until their deatl My brother Alec's family now live 0 tbe Old claim. "In th spring of 1849 father want t the California gold mines on boriA back. In 1S54 I went to the Californli gold fields.. I came back to the Wil lamette valley In February. 1658. an two months later I again struck ou for the California digginge. While m brother Jim and I were working claim on Ecotte Bar, X picked up a nur get worth $120, and within five mir utes Jim shoveled one out that weighs over $60. . We rocked out a little oe $230 that day. Our Claim waa abou 40. miles from Yreka. "I will always believe that farthe tip the ridge there ia a rich ore body thouch'lt has never yet been located In 1858 I took a drove of cattle frort the Willamette valley to Tehoma, an next year, on August 28, J8 I wa married by Justice of the Peace Xsaa staats to Lizzie Gilliam, or, to glvs he full name. Martha Elisabeth Ollllam, i daughter of Colonel corneuus oniian for whom Gilliam county is nameo. a - a a . .. a - a "Some mighty good psjople cam iroa the Dlalna In 1846. Among th I best known are Governor Oeprge I-l Curry, J. H. Bridges - and Mrs. Ml A. Bridges, of Salem; L. A. Byrcl George W. Burnett, who settled at L, Fayette; H. C. Buckingham, of Monroe 1 J. C. Allen, of Eola-, Levi Anaerson, o Portland; Mrs, Lucy A. Deaay, unci. Dave Guthrie, of Dallaa: Mrs. Mebol; Munkere, of Salem; F. R. Smith, of Sal lem; John Savage. and J. W. Shrurr.1 also of Salem; Lazarus and Marth'l Vanbibber, Tom' Townsend. or eaiemi J On inn Thornton, ft. R. Thompson, of Portland; F, Martin, of Salem; Andrew Losen, of Aumsvllie; itev. a. uw vtaAn nf Kaietn: G. S. COX. bf SilVeM ton; 'j. H. Cloxpore, of Albany; A. 6 Cone, of Butteville; J. W.Chambera' OI buem, ana roa Owen Wlater in the Atlantic Monthly We place at the top of our eateen those people who take enxvairousiy n kiAa, a? ltfa. vha are not bravt n.. v.,,t ara.iia.nt. We draw scan' inif.ii-.tlAA frnm tha eight Of aomebodj who Is all too obviously and dutiful!; bearing something; wno goes, aay axtei day, with a set and. aornber expression that aays as piainiy as woros: -jus i mrmfi. ma r-st rrv tn IT RIV UOII. JUB wait till you have one." We pref thoaa whose saiety so conceals thel fmrt that - thev'r behavinor well- thai e ahAulA never aiianact It- did We nO'l know what they have passed, and art passing, through.