THE OREGON DAILY JOURNAL. PORTLAND. THURSDAY, : MARCH 16. 1916.
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- . WOODHOW WILSON.
-Illlltooi for defenae. but not a cent for
tribute. CHARLES C. PINCKNET.
. Cannon' and firearm are cruel and
damnable machine. I believe them to
bare been the direct suggestion of the
Peril. Against the flying ball no
; valor avail'; the aoldter 1 dead ere be
sees the meana of hiH destruction. If
'Adam bad seen In a Tlslon the horrible
Instrument hi children were to In
rent. he would bare died of grief.
Luther.
-THE TRAGEDY OP VERDUN
1
T
HE battle of Verdun has passed
its twenty-fourth day. The
fighting has already contin
ued eight times as long as j
Gettysburg, the greatest battle of
the Civil war.
Nobody will ever know the ter
rific toll in life at Verdun. It
has already become the greatest
battle known to human history.
The Union loss in killed at Gettys
burg was 3070. As long ago as
February 29, when the tragedy of
Verdun was only in its eighth day, ,
the news came that at least 30,000
wounded were dying in awful
'agony in rain and enow on a single
front. Because of the incessant
artillery fire, their, comrades could
not reach them.
At that time, the losses had al
ready? exceeded the great French
offensive of last September at
Champagne. All along the front;
thousands of dead and wounded
lay where they fell, because, with
no; lull in the filing there was no
chance to withdraw the wounded.
Under the hurricane of shells, the
wounded lay in a living death, and
the dead were left to rot while,
the killing continued. I
All accounts agree that there !
- has never been a cannonade com
: parable to that at Verdun. In no
-L other war ;Was there such monster
guns and howitzers. The terrific
firing from bne side is answered
.by the other, gun for gun. In the
great German infantry assaults, a
- whole regiment often melts away
. under machine gun and shell fire.
Antietam was the bloodiest bat
: tie of the Civil war. The Union
loss in killed was 210S. At Ver
"dun, as many in dead and wounded
have fallen in a comparatively few
minutes. The Confederate killed
Tat Antietam was 1886, or little
araore than a regiment at Verdun.
The deep reverberations of tho
t euna in the mighty Verdun artll-
leiy duel are heard in the environs
tof Paris itself. In the rear of the
' great third assault of the fortress,
now in- full career, is the , German
emperor, and around him are the
'most famous leaders of his legions,
-.called for a supreme effort to
.break the French battle line. The
famous Imperial Guard, the finest
corps in the German army, has
"been brought to the scene to lead Psiti011 the company in refer
tthe final terrific smash. It is theence to the Oregon & California
transcendent artillery effort of the!land Brant In the statement he
,;war, the last word in destruction
iand the mightiest move in military
"annals.
.y:Of all that Is terrific m killing,
"nothing , so far Is comparable to
Yerdun. It is horrible.
I . -
The man who put the dash ln
-d n was wrong, they say. Stu
rdents of numismatics have discov
ered that the only original darn
Twas a Persian coin and not a cuss
''word at ail. The smallest coin In
? the Persian money system was
SrV 1W " -u.lU8l,to the government for 16.000,000
IPersian sports-, we are told, were
S" accustomed to say they "didn't
gjve a dam." From that phrasa.
. ;it.ls asserted, the American idiom
r. comes.
GEORGE HASKELL COLLIER
A
SPLENDID man and useful
citizen was Professor Collier.
He was one, of Oregon's pio
. neer educators. .'Having "rv.
aired from .- active work a good
many" years ago, the announcement
. iiof hia death at the advanced age
of four 8cofe And: .ten,, strikes re-v
; sponsive chord only lnb memory
of' those, who -were- amopg ; his- pu
pils ia the long ago. : -.Vw
A v"H was ' a'iin'dly.'-'geMal.'indu-'
"trious and . f aitiftl .man,; the. course
: ol ; whose lifeiarias . placidly .43
the natural iaws he expounded " to
-'succeeding generations Sis record
is written In Ube- annals of Pacific
University a.t 'JForestJtJrove Wil
Iamette University at Salem and
the , University of Oregon at Eu
gene. '
v Since 1895, the date of his re
tirement from the University of
Oegon, he has been waiting, his
J work finished, hopefully and with
out fear for the call of Him whom
the ancients called the brother of
sleep.
Where do' you stand? Do you
thinlc 80" per cent of the grant
land proceeds should go to Oregon
schools and roads, or only 40 per
cent? It is a difference of 20 or
25 million dollars for Oregon.
DEMANDING OREGON'S DUE
w
ITH but one dissenting voto,
the 75 school directors of
Umatilla county have
voiced a demand that 40
per cent of the proceeds from sale
of the grant lands be set aside for
the schools .of, the state.
'The -enton ronnty -conrt has
wired the committee at Washing
ton urging 40 per cent for schools
and 40 nr rent for roads, and has
. i , I LUC uc 'CI II. ia OW UAUl...
asked the county courts in 'all landtek8leT t0 -opcn a dusty book and
grant counties to taKe similar ac
tion. The telegram of the court to
the committee says in part:
. Benton county has been held up
for more than 20 years In develop- j
ment by action of the railroad com
pany In refusing sales of and settle
ment of these lands, and the division
as recommended by Senator Cham
berlain will only in a measure recom
pense the county.
It is a truthful presentation of
the facts. The railroad raised the
price of the lands beyond reason
able limits, and that held back
sale and settlement. In 1903, it
took the lands off the market en
tirely, refusing to sell an acre any
where to anybody at any price.
Mr. Harriman in fact, dignified
the refusal by an interview Ln
which he declared his company
intended to permanently keep the
lands for its own uses.
Strangely enough, the federal
government stood by and looked
unconcernedly on while every term
of the grant was thus violated
Though the grant act made the
grant a means of encouraging set
tlement and development of Ore
gon, the railroad turned It entirely
to a selfish purpose, claiming .full
ownership of the -land.
It was a violation of every term
of the grant act, which the federal
authorities should never have tol-
e.ated. But they did tolerate it,
ana ine raiiroaa Dy its lawlessness
was permitted to keep settlement
of the grant lands a standstill
for nearly twenty years.
By the process, Benton county
development was held back. Linn
county development was held back.
Lane county development was held
back. Development was held back
in Douglas county and Josephine
county and, Jackson county and all
the other grant land "counties as
well as in the state..
As the Benton county telegram
to the Washlngtdh committee says,
if Congress grants 40 per cent to
Oregon schools and 40 per cent to
roads from sale of the lands it will
only in a measure be a recom-
penBe for Oregon losses directly
due to the failure of the federal
government to enforce law and
the act of the railroad in with
holding the lands from sale.
For these all sufficient reasons,
the terms of the Chamberlain bill
ought to stand. The federal gov
ernment owes it to Oregon to let
them stand.
A glowing tribute was paid yes
terday by Mrs. Edward McDowell,
wife of the noted American com
poser, to the work of the Port
land Symphony orchestra. The
renditions by the organization
were pronounced astonishingly art
istic. It is a delightful reputation
thai Portland is establishing In the
musical world.
DRIVING A BARGAIN
W
ILLIAM SPROULE, presi
dent of the Southern Pa
cific company, issued a
signed statement at San
Francisco March 10 defining the
I saiQ-
But tnere is a considerable quanti
ty of this land, at least 400.00Qvacres.
which cannot be sold at any prjee,
hence the amount that could be real
ized by sales would be something llko
$3,000,000 or $4,000,000 at the utmost,
from which expenses of administra
tion and taxes must be deducted.
Mr. Blair, the company's attor
ney, before the public lands com
mittee at Washington,, said he was
authorized by his company to re
linquish all claim to the grant for
$10,000,000, In other words, the
acom'pan; is. willing to cell the lands
more than Mr. Sproule says they
ate worth to the company.
The registration books will close
April 18. Is your name on .the
roll?
LAWYERS AND CHILDREN
T
HE school board's legal ad
visers. have - delivered them -
selves, of an opinion that "no'
business transactions" should
be permitted -onihe" school prem
icos."TMs learned deliverance, if any
attention, be .-.paid to it, willclose
up the children's book exchanges
and put an - end' to- the five-cent
luncheons which;, have . done so
much, ' for the health and comfort
of the children. But health' is noth
ing and 'comfort less than nothing
in comparison .with . that - airy : abstraction-known
as' ''the law.? U
strikes the disinterested i observer
that lawwhich always works out
needs some change.
But tho trouble may not lie tn
the law so much as, in those who
Interpret it. Their' legal educa
tion and mental habits are such
that they are apt to oppose any
thing which looks like progress.
No lawyer can give a plausible rea
son why children should not be
permitted to conduct book ex
changes andUserve themselves with
luncheons. The most he can cite
against these perfectly innocent
and wholesome practices is an ar
ray of musty precedents. To kill
out the life of the living present
he marshals the ghosts of the dead
past. Ho thinks that these things
never should be done because they
never have been done.
The children may go hungry and
the poor boy may go without text
books. ' That matters not at all
co long as the spectral precedents
from the decaying past are prop
erly observed. It Is a great pity
that our lawyers feel that they
cannot apply thejr intelligence to
current problems. But apparently
they never will. It ia so much
read something written there a
thousand years ago than it is to
use one's own brain.
Where did he get Jt the shark
caught at Santa Monica with these
articles in its stomach: A number
of silver knives, forks and spoons,
a silver watch, a hatchet head, part
of a sugar bowl and ah unopened
can of sardines'? He weighed 2500
pounds. .
SAVING SINNERS
w
E HAVE the best of author
ity to believe that "there
is joy in leaven over one
sinner that repenteth." So
we ought not to wonder that the
same event should cause joy in
church. Evangelist Godwin was
only "letting his light co shine
that it might be seen of men"
when he showed his congregation
the poor fellow he had saved from
suicide. The plight of the young
man was so dismal that several
persons were moved to give him
money. We hope enough was
"chipped in" to buy him a good
suit of clothes and pay his board
until he finds a job.
There are a good many othr
young men not far from suicide
because of poverty and the misery
that comes from it. There are no
jobs for them and death seems
oftentimes to be the only escape
from, their troubles. Would that
Mr. XJodwin could find them all
and deal with them as happily as
he did with the young fellow we
have mentioned. But he can not
do it. Benevolence such as his
can rescue an Individual here and
there, but the ocean of misery re
mains as wide and deep as ever.
The Bible says in its wisdom
that "the destruction of the poor is
their poverty." The old Hebrew
writers agreed with the modern
economist that vice, disease and
by far the larger part of the
world's sin flow from poverty. De
vise some way to give everybody
comrortabie food, shelter and a
good home and the work of our
evangelists would be immensely
lightened.
We can carry this line of thought
a step farther. If some plan could
be devised to pay our working
people the wages they really earn
they could buy the whole manu
facturing output of the country
and consume it. There would then
be no need to fight for foreign
markets and no reason for modern
wars. The Biblical writers were
right when they laid down that
poverty is at the bottom of most
of our social troubles. And when
we have put an end to our social
troubles the miseries of the indi
vidual will not be very numerous
or bitter.
If the first chief had more horse
sense, the situation in Mexico
would be less delicate.
THE NEW SUCCESS
I
R. BRANDEIS has written a
letter which sets up a stand
ard for business that may
be disconcerting to some
people. He says that success doas
not mean exactly the same as
"large profits," though it does not
forbid them. But the real signifi
cance of success is "excellence of
performance." And to achieve real
excellence of performance a busi
ness man must "better the condi
tion of his workingmen, develop
their faculties, and promcte their
happiness."
Mr. Brandeis goes on to say that
;r-ea success in business is like the
success of a great artist, scientist
or statesman who satisfies his own
ambitions by enhancing the happi
ness of mankind. The true prince
of commerce thinks as much of his
f How man as of himself and seeks
in bis dealings not only to increase
his own store but to put wine and
oil in his neighbor's house, rn
fact, sayB Mr. Brandeis, "a good
contract is good for both parties
! to it."
The old idea of trade made it
too much like 'war. .It was a deed
of spoliation rather than a mutual
Denefit, One party got all the
gain and the other all the loss. The
new and better ideal of business
acts on a different theory. We
now admit that both parties to a
transaction may be benefited and
if the exchange conforms to 'Chris
tian ethics both must benefit. "
The man ' who sells groceries
gets his profit in cash. 'Theman
who buys them should get an equal
profit In nutriment and strength.
The" nation which produces raw
materials is paid for its labor of
production. The nation which
manufactures them Is paid for the
labor of manufacture. Under' a
just scheme of exchange both would
be fairly paid and both would
profit.
The only exchange which, satis-1
j i j - . f . i
fies rlodern ideas of righteousness '
is an exchange of service. Money
may measure this but never can
replace it. The nation whjch ex
pects to take all and give nothing
in return is doomed by the law of
Inexorable fate to disappointment.
NOTHING THE MATTER
N WITH PORTLAND
More tmlaueneas. more exchulveness. ln
Portland. "The only factory of its kind on
the North Pacific coast" la again the eubject
in No. 78 of tba "Nothing the Matter With
Portland" articles. The great driving belts of
leather that are required for the beary ma
chinery of the coast country are made rigbt
here at borne, and better made there are none.
The manufacturing process la described, and
this alone would make a good story.
, HERE is but ona leather belt
factory on the. North Paolflo
coast, and It is located in Port
land.
It does a, business of $150,000 a
year, bringing the money to this city
from points in Washington, Idaho,
Montana, Utah, California and out
own commonwealth.
It recently constructed a 60-inch-
wide leather belt for the National
Lumber & Manufacturing company offthls factory. See those fellows scrap
Hoqulam, Wash., which contained all
the belting leather there was In the
hides of 600 steers, and' was worth
$1.50 a pound.
It supplies practically all the im
portant sawmills in the states named
with Its product.
It has a payroll of $20,000 a year,
and the families of its 18 employes
number 100 persons, i
Its office and factory are at 240-
260 Hawthorne avenue, adjoining the
east approach to the Hawthorne
bridge, and it occupies more than
6000 square feet of space.
SOMETHING ABOUT BELTING
LEATHER.
The Davis-Scott Belting company
buys only the best belting leather to
be obtained, and the "layman" reader
may not understand that this is the
specially tanned hide of steers. There
are but 15 tanneries ln the United
States making this class of leather.
and the 2S0 belt factories of the coun
try must all buy from one or an
other of these. And not all of the
hide of the steer is suitable for belt
ing, either. It Is trimmed off at the
fore shoulders. It is 'trimmed again
at the root of the tall and on each
side where the body begins to' curve
Inward. The backbone represents th
center of the tanned hide, and the
two sides of the animal complete the
portion suitable for belting. Hides of
cows and aged animals are brittle
and have not the tensile strength re
quisite for this class of products.
Properly tanned hides of steers are
exceedlngly,trong and pliable, even
before undergoing th oil treatment.
to which they are subjected prior to
completion and readiness for ship
ment A SEVEN -UNIT FACTORY.
"We established this factory In
1909," Charles R. Davis, manager, ex
plained, "as a single unit enterprise.
It was a small plant. As an indica
tion of our Increase of business, we
have now a seven unit factory, and
we are kept busy even with this gen
erous outfit. The approaching ac
tivity of the lumbering Industry will
mean much for us, and will require
of us, I have no doubt an output so
much larger than our present capac
ity will care for. that we will be
compelled to almost immediately add
still other units to our institution."
Asked where he procured stock for
beltinff, Mr. Davis replied:
W have little choice. There are
but 15 leather belting tanneries ln
the United State's, and there is a
trade alliance between these so close
that it makes but little difference
from which one buys. We buy from
Atlantic tanneries located in the
southern states, what is known to
the trade as 'rough belting butts.' It
comes to us scientific. lly tanned, but
ln a rough state. With the machi
nery you see m this factory we put
it through a .course of treatment sim
ilar to that a piece of newly sawed
mahogany receives before If is suit
able for a piano case. Hides, from
which the strips are cut, are not more
than five to six feet long. Ends of
tbese strips are inserted into that
machine in the center of the room,
and in a jiffy are beveled t0 the
thickness of a hair to prepare them
for lapping and gluing. Belts sub
jected to great strain are double
thickness, the leather glued together
and run through a press under 200
tons pressure. After undergoing this
severe treatment, the belt has the
strength it would possess were the
hide at the beginning as thieve as are
the two plies after the gluing proc
ess. The eye can not detect where
they are joined, and the belt appears
as one and not two strips connected
by the glue.
BIG CONCKBNS USE LEATHER.
"We supply," Mr. Davis said, "0
per cent of the mills of the Grays
Harbor region in Washington and a
great majority of the large milling con
cerns of the Sound country, I east of
the Cascades, and Idaho and '"Oregon.
All the tig concerns use leather belt
ing for the reason that while the
Initial cost Is more than that of rub
ber, its lasting qualities are so much
greater that it is less expensive In
the end. And the large mill or fac
tory cannot run the risk of being
closed for perhaps several hours, half
or a whole day on account of a brok
erelt It cannot afford to hare Its
men. idle and its expenses running
while earning , nothing. This experi
ence Is nothing , new. where, rubber
belting is employed. It may not make
much difference to the small concern
with two or three hands at work," but
it means a great many dollars to the
bis - fellows, Leather belting- U In
surance against this species ofan
noyance and loss. Such belts as these
we sell will wear for years. That big
one mad for tha Grays Harbor mill
will last almost Indefinitely. An ex
amination, ftva years from now, will
discloss but little deterioration. There
will be no loss to the owners on its
account.
FINE HOME SUPPORT.
"I do not know of a town in the
j.Willamette valley possessing a manu
facturing industry Which Is not a
patron .of our factory, and such big
concerns in northern California as the
McCloud Lumber company, located on
the river of the same name, procure
all beltings used from us. And we
have S3 splendid accounts ln Mon
tana, more than half as many' In Ida
bo, and nearly the same number In
Utah. . We supply the Inman-Pouleen
Lumber company, Oregon Chair com
pany. Carman Manufacturing com
pany, Multnomah Lumber & Box com
pany, Clark it Wilson Lumber com
pany, Portland Woolen Mills company.
Eastern tc Western Lumber company,
and others in this city. Portland
manufacturers using the better class
of belting are our unsolicited patrons,
each one knowing the quality of our
products and the. reputation of our
house.
"There Is a lot of manual labor put
on our belting leather before It leaves
ing those strips ana working upon
them with those contraptions ln their
hands. That is a part of the process
all must undergo.. It makes no dif
ference whether the belt is one or
60 inches wide, or whether it Is to
endure little or great strain, the
same patient toll, the same care and
the same attention to its perfection
are accorded. And this Is appreciated
The Anaconda Mining company, of
Montana, for example, ln a recent let
ter containing an order for more belt
ing, emphatically declares. 'Your belt
ing is the best this company ever has
used. We cannot recommend it too
highly.' "
WHAT BECOMES OF THE SCRAPS.
Mr. Davis was asked what disposal
was made of the scraps noticed gath
ered in boxes about the place.
We ship these east and I appre
hend they are ground up at the shoe
factories and used for inner or out-
of-sight soles in the footwear shipped
back to Oregon. After grinding they
are given the glue and pressure treat
ment and Oregonians pay for the
stuff the same prices, or. perhaps
more, than charged for the genuine
whole leather used in Portland-made
shoes. They simply do not know it,
that's alt
I But even this suspicion will not
close the pockeTbooks of Oregonians
against the deceptive stuff Imported
from eastern factories. Leathe'r and
glue soled shoes could Dot be had at
a Portland shoe factory at any price,
They are not made here. They, too,
ship their scraps back . .east,.
Letters From the People
f Ooramnnleationa sent to The Journal for
publication la this department should be writ
tee oa only one aide of the paper, abonld not
agreed 300 worda la lenstb and most . be . ae-
et a pealed by the same and addreas of tha
accoer. if tne writer ooee not aeaire u nara
the name published, be snoma aa etate.j
"Diaenaalon- la the areateat of all reformers.
It rationalises everything It touches. It robs
nrincioea of aU false sanctity and throws them
back on their reaaonablenesa. If they have no
reasonableness. It rutbjeaaly crashes them oat
of existence and seta up lta own conclusions
ia their stead." Wood row Wilson.
Micawber and Socialism.
Paterson, Wash., March 8. To the
Editor of Tlfe Journal I offer com
ment on the editorial in Tuesday's
Journal under the caption "Mlcawber's
Philosophy." This statement, attrib
uted to a "Socialist orator," "We So
cialists have no plan and no program,'
stripped as it is of its context, can be
twisted to mean anything or nothing.
You say, "Socialist thinkers are in
deep earnest and they have set .many
good projects on foot Are they ready
to fold their hands and do nothing
more?" That question is answered
hundred time in every issue of The
Journal, whose columns teem with the
recorded infamy of capitalism.
The editorial jumps from the dlscon
nected remark of a Socialist to
party with no plan and no program,"
and likens it to Mr. Micawber; You
say that if the Socialists can offer
us nothing but folded hands "the world
will be likely to fix its hopes on some
other party."
. Those outside the Socialist faith
have but one hope and that Is that
somehow in the welter of brutal strife
they Will "get theirs." Why submit
plans and specifications to people to
build something they are determined
not to build?
It is precisely because the Social
ists have a well defined principle and
an undying purpose, namely, to uproo
commercialized cannibalism and estab
lish cooperation, equality and brother
hnrul- that thev ara hetno alaniAmt
jailed and assassinated the w,orld over!
It is a slow and difficult process to in
ject enlightened, ideas into the heads
of the victims of capitalism. But Mr:
Micawber became a useful citizen when
he changed his environment
The one remote point of resemblance
between Mr. Micawber and the Social
1st Is that they do, before they can
really live, have to wait "for some
thing to turn up" and that "something"
is the evolved, enlightened and human
ised man, worthy of a universal broth
erhood and an omnipotent fatherhood.
H. J. SPENCER.
The Progenitor's Responsibility
Portland, March ,15. To the Editor
of The Journal In answer to the Cot
tage Grove man who believes the Mai
thusian theory a discard, I would say
that the foremost economists reaffirm
the statement of Malthus that popula
tion tends to increase more rapidly
than man's ability to create food. So
said John Stuart Mill and so says
Scott Nearlng. A normal increase ln
population is a doubling in each 25
years. Mill and Nearing are in favor
of all the social jnstice which human
intelligence and . perseverance can
bring to the race) But an unlimited
birth rate would burst in pieces the
most just social system man could de
vise.
As to God's attitude towards the
question, I would quote Dr. Havelock
Ellis in tls "Problem of Race Regan
eration:" "Until lately the methods of
propagating tha race continued to be
the same as those oj the savages thou
sands or years ago. . Children 'came
PERTINENT COMMENT
SMALL CHANGE
One way to coma to the defense of
your country. Is to register.
At any rate, our trouble in Mexico.
s only a iitnev affair comnared with
what Europe la up against
They arrow hemo ln Mexico, and the
rouble aeema to be that Mexicans
don't patronise home Industries.
Tha call for. workers in all Darts of
the country indicates that this is go
ing to oe a nara year xor luaisio.
Now that the German nutcracker is
squeezing Verdun.- we learn from Lon
don that it. is only a dried-up nut,
anyway.
It llvinr near the Mexican line can
be made safe, perhaps living on the
ragged eage ot society im not onureiy
hopeless. . . ,
V w
Thought for tomorrow: St. Patrick
never used we hyphen. When he de
cided -to become an Irishman he be-
uam etn xriauraaii.
That University -of Callfcjana girl
who has started out to "develop her
own soul" should exercise care that
she doesn't lose it
Minnesota's TteoutHlcart primary was
wpn by Cummins, but there are indi
cations that the big fight will result
only ln a coming victory.
m
TTnwTr. that automobile owner's
wife doesn't have to pay drug store
prices for gasoline every time she
wants to clean a pair of gloves.
Thn. tinned Sfaten senators who
feasted on a royal Chinook from the
lower Columbia may be expected to
pay some attention to the Columbia's
Eossibilitiesespecially when they aro
ungry.
A PUNITIVE EXPEDITION-NOT WAR
CKZCAQO KEjUXDi The declai m I
to send a punitive expedition to pur
Mu Villa and his gang to their lair
and end for all time his murderous
depredations on American lives ana
property will be approvea Dy mo en
tire country.
It will be a punitive expedition not
intervention. It will be CUrectea
against the main obstacle1 to the pa
cification of a large section or nri.n
ern Mexico Villa himself not against
all of Mexico. It will be made under
an express assurance to the de facto
government that this country does not
contemplate the occupation or reten
tion of a single foot of Mexican soil.
And it will bemade in sufficient force
to accomplish its purpose.
It is the time for the Carranza gov
ernment to cooperate wholly and zeal
ously ln whatever measures may be
devised to solve the principal part oi
the problem in the large part of north
ern Mexico the existence of Fran
cisco Villa.
The motives Inspiring Villas con
tinued crimes against Americans are
no doubt mixed. There is the savage
desire for revenge and revenge is a
religion with men of Villa's type.
There is the desire to embroil this
country with the Carranza government
and so cause intervention, ln the hope
that he might come forward as a pop
ular anti-American leader. Again,
foreign intrigues may have supplied
bim with additional consideration for
his course.
But motives" are immaterial. It is
the fruit of them that must be dealt
with. Villa the savage, the outlaw,
the murderer, the border- raider, must
be stopped dead or alive, and his gang
captured or dispersed. The problem
of the moment the' most pressing de
mand of the occasion Is to "get"
Villa. That done, it may be 'found
that a big step has been taken toward
the solution of the wider problem of
complete Mexican pacification.
The country will approve of the lim
itation of the military movement We
do not want war with Mexico. The
administration is confronted with a
vast world-problem, of which Mexico
is but a part. Some newspapers and
citizens are urging the widest Inter
vention. But the country wants war
with no nation except as a last re
sort e e
SAXT XVaXE TaUBTIVEt Had Pres
ident Wilson and his cabinet decided
not to send a punitive expedition into
Mexico the country would have been
surprised and disappointed, not to
say humiliated. It was the normal,
the expected derision, and few Amer
icans will be found to object. An
armed expedition to hunt down a
bandit does not create a state of war
with Mexico.
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OMASA VOBLO rTTlKAT.T); Few,
from the beginning, have believed that
Villa was his own master his own
creator. It has long been a matter
of common knowledge that conflicting
and their parents disclaimed any re
sponsibility for their coming; the
Children were sent by God, and if they
turned out to be idiots tor could not
be fed) the responsibility was God's.
That Is all changed now. We have
learned in this, as in other matters,
the Divine force works through us, and
that we are not entitled to cast the
burden of our evil actions on any
highet' power. It is we who are. more
immediately, the creators of men. We
generate the race; we alone can regen
erate the race."
FRANK V. ANDERSON.
Monday and Saturday.
Portland, March 10. To the Editor
of The Journal Kindly publish on
what-days of the week March 31, 1879
and January 13, 1872, came.
INA M. COTTY.
Mr. Wendling Sends Correction.
Vancouver, B. C, March 8. To the
Editor of The Journal ln recent edi
tions of your paper there have ap
peared articles concerning a letter
which I addressed to John B. Coffey,
county clerk ot Multnomah county.
Portland. Or.. 4n connection Vlth .. .re -
quest for a birth certificate. T.Is
letter has caused me a great deal jot
Inconvenience both in Portland, my
birthplace, and in Vancouver, my pres
ent residence.
The facts ln this matter are as
follows: Each American citizen Jiving
In- Vancouver is expected to register
with the ' American consul general In
this city every 12 months. I called
at the consul general's otf ice two
weeks ago to register and was re
quested to furnish at certified cony of
my birth certificate. 1 addressed a
letter tt Mr. Coffey requesting .that
he forward the same to me. The first
intimation that I bad that this lat
ter had been given out for publication
was when I received a marked copy
of a Portland newapaper, which stated,
"the American consul general here
says that-all that will keep me 'nut of
the army is a certified copy of my
birth certlifcate." This is absolutely
untrue and a glance at my letter,
which Is no doubt on file fa Mr. Cof
fey's office,-will prove this fact..
It has not only caused me incon
venience but it is to the detriment
of Canada. There is absolutely no
compulsion ln - the - Dominion and 1 the
only way for a man to enter the army
Is by voluntary enlistment If you
will kindly give me space- for this let-
' V- --:
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AND NEWS IN BRIEF
OREGON SIDELIGHTS
About (00 voters have registered at
"ri0', , y,t "r"r f : !
ii'.ta.r".i "KsJ3.- v" - i
,
The nroiect to establish an automo- '
una) vaiiim Buuuu ill buficiiv to uuuer I
way. Th Register asserts that if the ;
committees are persistent the project
will be carried out.
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"The forerunner of other good newaj
in store." says tne oumpier American.
"Is the announcement that the Cougar
mine has been sold. This means an
other bir payroll for the district. Of
course there is rejoicing in Granite.
The reopening of the Cougar will help
to bring out the old camp."
e
A movement is on foot to organise
an Audubon society at Pendleton. The
objects of this society comprise the
protection Of song birds, the encour
sgement of propagation of the game
birds and education of the public, es
pecially the children, upon the value
to agriculture and horticulture of bird
life.
e
At the first annual roll call of Bris
tow lodge No. 112, L O. O. F.. in ob
servation of the twenty-third anni
versary, the last bote of $500 was paid
off. cancelling all Indebtedness against
the fine stone building owned by the
lodge, at Haines, the Haines Record
reports.
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Brtajf eiMtay on economics, ln Gard
iner Courier: "A strange state of af
fairs happened last week wherein a
boat load of hay was shipped up Smith
river from Gardiner to a farmer on
that river and in returning the boat
brought down a load of hay from a
farmer's ranch on the name river to
Gardiner. Something like a farmer sell
ing his crop in the summer and buying
it back in the winter with the priv
ilege of hauling it both ways for
nothing.''
coteries of financiers and exploiters.
in this country and in Europe, have
been struggling lor an unprecedented
prize control of the unlimited wealth
of Mexico. It is these selfish inter
ests, playing to the limit the game of
dynastic politics, that have been re
sponsible for no one ean guess how
much of the blood ehed and the ruin
wrought in the now desolated land te
the south of us. It is possible that
there is none of them now making
use of the foulest of all Mexican
"leadera" to force such action by our
It 1. nosalhle we av Rut nner -
ances are more than suspicious. If.
then, it might only be possible for
the strong arm of the American gov
ernment to reach out and drag to light
that American interest, whatever it
may be, that is inspiring Villa, that
is financing him. that is using him as
a bloody catspaw with which to bring
about American interventic n, that ex
pects, from such intervention, to reap
luscious harvests if this, too, were
possible, the fervency
would be redoubled.
of our aniens
e
ZsOS AHOEXiEB EXPXESS: This Is
not intervention it is self-preser-
vatlon. The safety of our people along
the border requires the prompt ex-
termination of Villa anH h,- hnrrt. f
mercenaries.
the revolutions that successively kept ,
Mexico weltering in thi blood or its
own people the Evening Express stead
fastly has opposed intervention. Nei
ther the shouts of the jingoes nor tha
pleas of the sentimentalists disturbed
its Judgment. When property in Mex
ico owned by American citizens was
destroyed and losses amounting to mil
lions of dollars suffered by"Vir people,
this newspaper opposed the demand
that American troops be sent across
the Rio Grande. When the president
and his secretary of state urged Amer
leans resident in Mexico to withdraw
we think they acted in patriotism and
wisdom.
Between those incidents and the de
liberate invasion of American soil cul
minating in an attack upon an Ameri
can city and the murder of lta people,
we draw a sharp distinction. There Is
but one answer to the raid on Colum
bus, and that is the dispatch of Ameri
can troops across the line, with the
single object, as President Wilson
states, of capturing Villa and putting
a stop to his forays.
An authoritative White House state
ment declares: "This can be done and
will be done In entirely friendly aid' of
me constituted authorities in Mexico
and with scrupulous respect for the
sovereignty of that republic.'' In that
spirit let our toops hunt the bandits
down. They are not intervening in
the revolution. They have full respect
for Mexico and its people, who will,
we believe, welcome their help. They
go in the best interests of both na
tions to render service to both. May
success attend them.
ter to correct this wrong Impression
it will be greatly appreciated.
E. G. WENDLING.
The Oregon Railroad Lands.
Prom the San Francisco Chronicle.
The Southern Pacific company of
fers to relinquish all claim to 2,300,
000 acres of its Oregon land grant for
$10,000,000 and. a release from its ob
ligation to transport troops and gov
ernment property free over that por
tion of its lines. That is at the rate of
$4.40 per acre. The government, on
the contrary, seems willing to pay
$2.60 per acre, but would deduct from
the pur;hase price whatever ln excess
of $2.50 per acre has been received dur
ing past years from lands sold.
The supreme court has held that the
company has not forfeited its grant,
but has prohibited sales for six months
after which, if congress docs not act it
may sell to settlers for $2-60 per acr
and no more. The company holds that
it does not wish to and need not sell
at thaUnrice, but may retain the lands
and remove the timber, which is prob
ably the only value of most of It.
, V,f3r ,r th'8
iJTL
Tne theory of these land grants is
were made the
government was selling land for $1.2C
an acre. U.s the western lands were al
most inaccessible, it was held that
both the government and the people
would be benefited by the grant of al
ternate sections of land and raising
the price of the intervening sections to
$2.60 per acre. The grant would cost
the government nothing, for it would
get for the reserved sections all it
asked for both reserved and granted,
and the country would get the railroad
It was the understanding on all
sides, and it is so expressed in the
grant, that there would be-the same
right of settlement on the grantee
lands as on those reserved to the gov
ernment, the only difference being that
the railroad would get the money.
Tbe grant was made and accepted on
these terms. It was the duty of thr
railroad company to do what it agreed
to do, and do it wKhdut quibbling.
That the railroad has not done. On
the contrary, it has chosen to specu
late on the property by holding" the
land for higher prices. There can be
no sympathy with the company's con
tention. Nor can the railroad excuse itseli
by saying that if it did not speculate
those to whom It sold at $2.60 pei
acre would certainly do so. That Wat
a matter for congress to determine,
and its determination was that the
railroad should not, speculate.
TKQnce Ger
BY FtRV T ,AMPMt,N -
YESTERDAY AFTERNOON comin
up Sixth street I saw, a line of
PoPle reaching out from khe ticket
window of the Columbia theatre.
JThat 1 the line reached out ?
from the window inin th.
end
window-
th people reached Into the
-after their ticket a
JAnd on the billboard In big let-4
ters It said:
T'Blllle Burke in Peggy." ?
JAnd there was a picture' of BllUe :
life size I guess.
If And she smiled at me across the
street.
JAnd I suppose she was smiling
" v ctuijiraaj else.
uut rrom wnere I stood she was
smiling right at me.
JAnd I went over and got in line.
t ?.A')1 of cour8e I don't know why
I did It.
whether it was BilHe's smile r
the crowd that drew me.
JR'it anyway there I was in line
waiting tosee Billle.
when onl v a mimii. h.fn.. . t i
been going some place.
to see somebody else.
JAnd mob psychology is one thing
among several million other things
that 1 don't know a thing about.
and is only discussed by certain ,
highbrows who have never done any
mobbing.
JBut I noticed that people came
and saw the line stretching out
on the sidewalk.
JAnd they attached themselves to
its outer end automatically.
like pins to a magnet.
JThey didn't know what was inside
that everybody wanted to see.
but if everybody wanted to see it
they wanted to see it.
JAnd it reminded me a little of
the way flies investigate a sheet of
tanglefoot.
JBut after they got in line
looked to see why.
-they
JAnd they saw Billle's picture and
smiled back at her.
U And we were all happy.
And I got my ticket.
and handed it to the grand duke
at the door.
! . girl "Sher in plaid kilts
and Scotch cap and white stockings
was standing Just inside looking
straight ahead.
JAnd about every 10 seconds her
face moved and she said:
J "You will find Heats down
the aisle to the right."
JAnd another girl in Highland uni
form came UD to the eirl at tho Annr
I and put her heels together and
saluted.
JAnd the girl at the door aalnt.d
j back.
J And T Kaluted and followed the
othr girl down the aisle to the
right.
r a,, .. , ...
T up tq let
me In.
JAnd then I stood up to let two
JAnd I sat down to watch Billle
flitting over the screen liko April
sunshine.
JAnd then I stood up to let a
woman get out with her baby.
J And then I sat down.
JAnd then I stood up to let a
man pet In with art umbrella.
JAnd he didn't know what to do
with It.
so he stuck it In my ribs.
JAnd other things happened like
those. 1
JAnd of course when I started
cut I wanted to tell about Billle. -
JAnd now I haven't got time
but
J LISTEN I want to suggest to
her press agents and advertising
managers that after this they bill
her as "The Sunshine of the Screen."
because It's the truth.
Uncle Jeff Snow Says:
The way Villa has crowded
the
European war offn the front pags
of our leading publications must make
some of the crowned heads of Kurnp
I jealous.' Rut I'm afraid he spoiled
himself for
a vodevcal attraction in
the U. S.
THE H0X-Oa0WIf MUTE.
Tha Vision.
I saw a flower open to tbe diy
With dainty petals, crimson tinted.
It roots were moistened by the showers of
May.
Upon its leaves the foldan sunshine f Unfed.
I saw a child with won drone hair
And wondrous eyes like diamonds aieamlBc;
She took tbe flower to a home of rare.
FilUnr that home with light. Ilka sunshine
streajnlnf.
I saw an angel, radiant as tbe llrM
That abone acroaa tbe rlusleta of the child;
Upon a sold emblasoned scroll I satr her write.
And as she wrote, she atalld.
BIN W. MUI.KEY.
Let Us Pray.
"I believe ln preparedness. I
think that we should build such a
navy, and have such an army that
we could go and sink every ship
of every other country clear down
to the bottom of the ocean." Billy
Sunday.
A Liberal Education.
WHAT would the Irrigation, drain
age and rural credits conference
at Salem last week have been without
Senator Garland of Lebanon?
The senator was the J. Ham Lewis
of the conference blithe and debonair
and a sartorial wonder.
He it was who made the conference
what it was wonderful education
in Roberts Rules- of Order to the dele
gates who had traveled hundreds of
miles to spend a day and a half in
Salem to learn what the state needed
ln the way of drainage, irrigation and
rural credits.
Roberts Rules of Order! And Sena
tor Garland had them at his fingers'
tips (or should it be tongue tip?)
What a delight it was to hear the
senator elucidate what was contained
In that little book? How refreshing
it was to'men like Judge Cotton, Bruce
Dermis, Elll Han ley, Charley Carey and
Walter Pierce to sit in the legislative
hall and recall their debating society
days as Senator Garland learnedly ar
gued that a "motion" was not a "res
olution" cr that a motion to adjourn
was not per se debatable?
Senator Garland, indeed was of great
assistance to Mr. Mills, the chairman,
and did rls best to help him out
In the midst of a parliamentary tan
gle of motions, amendments, amend
ments to amendments, Mr. Garland
arose and said: "I think the chairman
is a trifle confused."
"Well, you've talked quite often,"
Interpolated Mr. Mills with a polite
smile. ' -
And the lessons in Roberts Rules of
Order were then resumed. :
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