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Newspaper Page Text: .1. ' . .... ; i '. .-. : . ; . ': ' THE OREGON DAILY JOURNAL. PORTLAND, .'TUESDAY, MARCH ,21, '1918. ; THE JOURNAL tH INDEPENDENT KEWSPAPEB. V H. JACKSON ...... .Pnbllabee ' Pa-bUshed every day, afternoon and sorator t ; (except Sunday afternoon), at The Joernal f uuiiaiag, uroaaway uw iimwu im port. lend, Or. - Enrered at the poatoftlca t Portlmnd, Or., for traBsmiaaloa throes the mails a second (iM matter. . TELEPHONES Main TITS; Borne, A-6061. All departments reached by these numbers. TeU ' tfaa operator -what department yog want. ' rOBBIOM ADVBBTISINO B"SPB.I5SaNTATI VK - Jsenjamla Kentnor va., ronswica 826 Fifth At New Sort; 1218 People's l ie Bids'.. Chicago. Subscription terme by mall or to any ad . drew la tb Hatted States or Mexico: - . DAILY (MOKMNO OB AFTERNOON) . Oavt year f5.0O One month $ .80 SUNDAY. Oh year $2.50 On month $ .23 DAtf,E CMOBNINO OB ATTKBNOON) AND One year $7.60 J One month $ .68 Amerioa arte nothing for beraelf bat wbat ha baa a right to aak for humanity Itself. WOODBOW WILSON. V-Millions for defense, but Dot eent (or tribute. CHARLES C. PINCKNET. Military glory, thci attractive rain bow that rises in ibowera of blood that serpent eye .hat charms to de stroy. Abraham Lincoln. NOW FOR PEACE THE Portland school board has re-elected Mr. Alderman as superintendent of the schools lor another year. That should be a signal for all ..'to join together for a common - purpose of building up and : strengthening the schools. Tba -"' judgment of the bbard should be come everybody's judgment. i - Everywhere except In Portland, there is commendation of the Port land schools. But here It has be- come a habit to assail the schools and school superintendent. v As Chairman Munly said at Sat urday's meeting of the school board, the late Superintendent Rig ler was hounded into his grave by senseless criticism. Yet it was - common knowledge that Mr! Rigler was an official of great capacity and fidelity. " Mr. Alderman was elected his . successor, largely at the instance ... of those who pursued Rigler and ' we now have the same spectacle of vituperation and fault finding over -again and from the same source. It destroys discipline In the ' tschoots." It flill "lMpupirs with J- unrest and distrust. It incites some . teachers to tale-bearing rebellion 5 against authority. It allures cer i tain kjnds of persons on the teach es lag staff ..tcutrnflermine those above them in the nope of their own- pra . -motion. . , T It causes the whole system to .be x permeated with disorganization. It f. demoralizes the school organiza tion and Immeasurably lessens Its j effectiveness. Presumably, from the experience of the past, were another superin i tendent elected, he too would im- mediately become the target of at tsck. Mr. Alderman was brought -In In order to quiet criticism, and -he quickly became a victim. The probabilities are that the best -school man in the world, if selected to head the Portland schools, would get the same dose. The Portland schools cost a great deal of money. They ought to be given a chance, through permitting them to go on with their work In r peace, to give back in Bervice the - great sums that they cost. They . cannot do it if those conducting them are to be hounded and perse cuted year in and year out. Multnomah - county's yearly in come .from the school fund that i would be created under the Cham berlain grant land bill would be $256,902, and the income for every v other county 1a the state would be . proportionate. Why doesn't Mult nomah county resist the movement to cut If not altogether defeat the Chamberlain bill? KEEPING PRISONERS t I HE truly interesting circum stances of the war do not always come out in the re ports from the trenches or in the heavy military articles in the 4 magazines. We question, for ex ample, whether it was familiarly known just .how the French man age to keep their German prison ers secure until The Popular Sci ence Monthly explained the method and Illustrated It with a vivid pic - ture. The picture shows a French officer in the act of applying the 'method to a German prisoner who - watches his operations with help ful curiosity. K The French are not by nature or preference a cruel people. They '' love to accomplish by logic and - ingenuity what other less . gifted human beings attain by .violence. : -Their solution of 'the ' problem of keeping war prisoners. ; secure : de lights one's ?. heart by Its deftness while it pleases at the same time 1 by - Its economy,1 The Ordinary rough and ready method of guard- . Ing prisoners detains a good many - 'serviceable :"mea. from, the front. 'The more captives you make, there- - ore, : the tewer troops yon . have Available .tor,, making . fresh" cap- . m - ----- - i J--? ..-.-..-'; ex THROWING LINCOLN OVERBOARD- E VERT time the Oregonian condemns Wilson's poller in Mexico, It condemns Taft's policy ln 4 Mexico. Every time It condemns Wilson's policy in-Mexico, it con demns Lincoln's policy In Mexico. Thus, in bis message to con gress December 6, 1864, Lincoln said: Mexico continue 4o be a theatre of civil war. While our political rela tions with that country have) undergone no chance, we have at the same time, strictly maintained neutrality between the belligerents. v It was a policy or watchful waiting, ana not a poncy or armea in tervention. ,. - ' - Before his election to the presidency, Lincoln, as a congressman was a - bitter opponent of that armed intervention In Mexico which we in this day refer to as the Mexican war. He Introduced the famous "spot" resolutions which, were a strong indictment of President Polk for making war on Mexico. The resolutions charged, that the first blood shed was the blood of people who fled at the first approach of the United States army, leav ing their homes and crops unprotected, and that the "spot" where the first blood bo shed was within the lnclosure of one of the people who had thus fled. - 5. A few days later, speaking of President Polk, Lincoln said in the house: . He is deeply conscious of being- In the wrong; that he feels the blood of this war like the blood of Abel is crying to Heaven against him; that origi nally having some strong motive, what, I will not stop now to give my opin ion concerning to Involve the two Countries In a war, and trusting to escape scrutiny by fixing the public gaze on the exceeding brightness of military glory, that attractive rainbow that rises in showers of blood that serpent's eye that charms to destroy. Me plunged into it till, disappointed in his cal culation of the ease with which Mexico might . be subdued, he now Xintls himself he knows not where. At ' some length, Lincoln went on with the denunciation of the president and of the whole war enterprise, showing np the incongrui ties ' of the president's war message. Lincoln's whole attitude was a bold resistance to the Jingoes and war advocates.. It was an attitude exactly identical with that; of those who resist the clamor of the jin goes, .mine owners and military editors who now demand armed inter vention in Mexico. Speaking of Lincoln's action, Harper's Weekly says: Some of Lincoln's closest political advisers thought that Lincoln's aggres sive stand against the war with Mexico was bad policy. One of these was his partner, W, H. Herndon. To him Lincoln answered: "I will stake, my life that if you had been in my place, you would have voted Just as I did. Would you have voted what you felt and knew to be a lie? I know you would not. Would you have gone out of . the House skulked the vote? I expect not." Lincoln's opposition to the Mexican war was freely used against him by Douglas in the historic Lincoln-Douglas debate. At Ottawa, Illinois, August 21, 1858, speaking of Lincoln, Douglas said: Whilst in congress, he distinguished himself by his opposition to the Mexican war, taking the side of the common enemy against his own country; and when he returned home he found that the indignation of the people fol lowed him everywhere. Douglas attacked Lincoln in the same vein at Galesburg, October :7th, and at Alton October 15th, in mous debate, Douglas said of Lincoln: It was that when George Ashmun of Massachusetts brought forward a resolution declaring the war unconstitutional, unnecessary and unjust, Lincoln had voted for It. "Yes," said Lincoln, "I did." Thus he confessed that he voted that the war was wrong, that our country was In the wrong and con sequently that the Mexicans were in the right. Cost what it might, Lincoln was thus aggressive for principle, and in principle he was opposed to armed invasion of Mexico. His teach ings, his vote and his public record attest his splendid purpose on that point, a purpose emulated by President Wilson. In condemning Wilson's policy in Mexico, the Oregonian throws Abraham Lincoln overboard. So does every Jingo who clamors now for armed intervention. The standpat leaders who are planning to make Mexico an Issue in the coming presidential campaign are insulting the revered memory of Lincoln, are repudiating Lincoln's teachings and if they continue, will disgust and. drive thousands of Lincoln Republicans out of the party. tives. So that in the course of time you are put out of the fight by your own victories, which is not a satisfactory way to terminate a war. The beauty of the' French system is that while it keeps the prison ers perfectly safe, no matter how numerous they may be, it releases their guards for soldierly duty In the trenches. Tho dovice resem bles -that - adopted by some wives to keep, their. . husbands at home from stag parties where the flow ing bowl is likely to flow too copi ously. We do not mean to say that the French deprive their pris oners of all their garments. That would be too drastic anywhere out side the home. What they do is to take away the 'captives' suspen ders and cut their trousers bands. This obliges the Germans to use both hands to hold up their attire. If they try to run away, down come the trousers about their ankles, forming fetters as effective as one could wish for. After read ing of this victory of ingenuity over difficulty, who will dare to say that war does not stimulate the human brain? It ought now to be written in the records of the navy department at Washington that the French bark Bossuet, Captain Henry, sailed from the ocean Into the Columbia river yesterday without a tug. MR. HUGHES' DUTY S' OME quaint reasons appear in the current number of The Outlook why Mr. Hughes ought not to run for presi dent. The next presidential cam paign, that magazine assures us, wlu De fought out on foreign Is sues. Mr. Hughes has never ex- pressed any opinion on such mat ters and he never can since his position on the bench closes his mouth. So the people can not know where he stands and can not Intel ligently vote for or against him. "There is no way," says The Out look, "by which the people can get any light on Mr. Hughes' opin ions," necause 11 ne naa any or expressed them he would "drag the supreme court into politics." in otner words, the supreme court justices are assumed to have emptied their minds of every opin ion on the subjects which interest other men. They dwell in a world of thin and chill abstractions. Their brains are vacant and inactive. only breaking into temporary activ ity when the lawyers Inspire them This notion Is so silly that it is surprising to read It in magazines issued for people of sense. The supreme court justices xead, think and. form opinions like other peo ple. Their oaths of office do not turn them into mindless specters. v The Outlook thinks that as Ions as Mr-Hughes is on the bench it "would be Improper for him to ex press his views on the Lusitania or thie invasion of Belgium" or other vital question, because liti gation on -the same subjects might "come before him as a Judge." . This makes the . not very flat tering. assumption that Mr.'Justico Hughes 'decides issues, not accord ing to the law, but according to his own, private .opinions. , Hence haitiment, but tomorrow when they the last joint discussion of the fa must avoid having any opinions or he will be -betrayed by them into dereliction. If he is as weak as The Outlook assumes he is, per haps the less of him we have in the White House the better. A conscientious judge does not nee'd to make a mindless simula crum of himself in order to do Jus tice. He jisually has his private opinions on all sorts of subjects and he ought to feel perfectly free to express them. But when those opinions clash with the law or with justice he ought to have will enough to set them aside. We Imagine Mr. Hughes could do that very thing in a pinch. Every time the jingoes condemn Wilson's Mexican policy - they con demn Lincoln's Mexican policy. Lincoln was the great original non interventionist. WISE JOHN BURROUGHS J OHN BURROUGHS has been writing some wonderfully wise magazine articles lately. In his younger days he was a lit tle disposed to be mystical. Now, as he goes down the hill of time, he seems to stake everything on positive science. But he finds in science and its indisputable truths consolations which mysticism never gave him. The actual truths of nature do not turn their "cold, hard" side to him. As he nears the end of his pilgrimage the vet eran of thought and sentiment feels less and less need to delude himself with comfortable fictions. He finds plenty of comfort in facts. Mr. Burroughs' article in the March Atlantic on "The Still Small Voice" takes us into the deeper secrets of the world. How is it that things are brought to pass? Is It by noise, cannon balls, vio lence? Something Is no doubt ac complished In that way. Nature has effected changes by great catastrophes which sunk whole continents in the sea at a moment's notice and slew all their life witn out pity. But that was in the old, primitive days when nature was gross and savage. Today she gets her results by the slow activity of frost and sunshine, by the quiet work of streams and the mild in fluence of the smoothly changing seasons. In nature we have passed beyond the period of catastrophes into the time of peaceful operation. Mr. Burroughs seems to suggest that wars among the nations are like the old, prehistoric catastro phes in nature which were em ployed before the better way had become workable. .Our failure to devise a plan to get results with- out fighting shows that we are still only half civilized, perhaps only "half-created." But, as a matter of fact,' the lasting results in hu man history are attained by peace ful effort "The" unknown, the inaudible forces," says John Burroughs, the gentle word, the kind act, the. for giving look, the. quiet demeanor, the silent thinkers and workers how much more we owe to these forces than to the clamorous and discordant voices" of war and poll tics. The strident jingoes . will naturally -Jeer today at this sen- have become sane again they will all confess Its eternal truth- - The wire pullers and thlmblerig gers are hand-picking the Multno mah legislative ticket, and they know exactly why they are fram ing it up.' They are very busy now and the good . citizen " is sound asleep. TELEPHONE INTERCHANGE T HE supreme court of Wiscon sin has just upheld an order recently made by the Public Utilities Commission of that state calling for an interchange of service as between the lines of the La Crosse Telephone Company and the Wisconsin Telephone Company. It was contended by the Wiscon sin Telephone Company, a Bell concern, that such an order was not a valid exercise of the police power but that It was in effect the taking of the company's property without due process of law and Just compensation and, therefore, un constitutional. The court refused to take this view of the question. It held that when the public need called for an Interchange of service the com mission's order to this effect was a lawful exercise 'of such power. As to Just compensation, the court maintained this was fully met by that part of the order which provided for a reasonable charge to be paid the company for the extra service rendered. The Wisconsin courts refused to accept the ruling of the California court in which it set aside as un constitutional an interchange order of the State Commission, choosing to follow the principles laid down by Judge Wolverton In the tele phone case recently decided by the federal court In Portland. This Wisconsin decision will be of Interest in the interchange cases now before the Oregon Public Serv ice Commission. ' The $256,902 a year which the Chamberlain grant land bill would provide for Portland schools would be one means of reducing school taxes. Nothing the matter with portland Tribute In millions that has been drawn from Portland and from the state of Oregon will eooo be a thine of the paat. so far aa tb- cement supply is concerned. A plant that baa been rising quietly but glffantloaUy, and that will be in action within a few weeks, is the subject of No. 83 of The Journal's in dustrial series. The broad plans the builder bur perfected are oetatlea in today s article, wblch Is snper-conclnslre In support of the chsllenge that there Is "Nothing the Matter with Portland: J AFTER three years of waiting the Oregon Portland Cement work at Oswego, just south of the city limits, will be completed and put in operation on or about April 10. Its output at first will be 1000 barrels a day, but it will have a capacity of 1200 barrels, and may be run to that limit if necessity requires. The big undertaking, soon to be active, was begun in 1911, but lack of funds delayed construction until a year or two later, when Amin Moore, long interested in the venture, and a man of experience In cement plant construction, took hold of the work. Since then it. has been pushed with vigor, and will be ready for op eration as stated. The magnitude of - this enterprise will be a surprise to those unac quainted with cement manufacture. It will be found so much greater than fancy, has pictured It, and so much dif ferent from the uninitiated's concep tion, that the visitor will simply stand and wonder how so much has so si lently been accomplished. There has been no noise, save that made by the workmen in the plant's construction. There has been no "spread-eagleism.' There has been no beating of tomtoms nor blare of trumpets. Mr. Moore has pursued the even tenor of his way patiently, vigorously and zealously. HOLDINGS OF THE COMPANY. In building for the work before this corporation the management looked hundreds of years into the fu ture. x Construction of the plant would require so great an outlay of money that its future must be provided for, and to this end 640 acres of ground containing Immense lime rock ledges vere secured at Koseburg, 907 acres at Dallas, 524 acres at Kufus and 187 acres at Markham, all in Oregon, In addition to the 48 acres for the plant site at Oswego. Four deposits j have Deen Pened up on tne Roseburg and Dallas tracts, and, without dia turblng other holdings of the company these will afford material for opera tion for a hundred years or so, says Mr. Moore. LOADED IN HOPPER BOTTOM CARS At Roseburg four and a half miles of standard gauge railroad track have been completed, and three-quarters of a mile of narrow gauge at Dallas. The Roseburg standard gauge will en able Southern Pacific cars, constructed with hopper bottoms, to receive the rock front the 1000-tbn rock bins be neatu which they will pass, and the same arrangements will prevail at Dallas, the narrow gauge cars filling t the bins. Arriving at the, Oswego plant the rock will be discharged into i the big hopper from the bottom of the cars, and then automatically fed to the monster ' pulverizing machine which will, reduce It to particles about the size of a goose egg.- The rock from Roseburg and Dallas, when finally reduced bo powder, will be- scien tifically mixed, the character of one be ing required tn the other,, In order to form a combination necessary for the best graded Of cement. Jk. chemist will be constantly on duty making tests, so' that Bo mistake will be made In the mixing. . The ' Roseburg f rock is described 5as . pure lntestonej or mar ble, and contains about i 9 8 per cent J of -carbonate r lime, and that or Dallas l denominated agtllaceous limestone, containing 60 per cent car bonate of lime. , ROCK GROUND SEPARATELY: Landing at the Oswego works the two materials, to be ground separate ly a stated, will be dumped Into a No. IVt gyratory crusher and In pieces about 2 Vs Inches In diameter will be carried to, and depo)ted in, rein forced concrete rock silta, of which there are 10, each having a capacity Of 1260 tons. In a tunnel beneath these silos is a belt conveyor, and the broken rock drawn from them Is carried auid discharged into an eleva tor car and from it again discharged into rock storage bins, the Roseburg product into one and the Dallas rock lute another. Underneath these bins are located Immense automatic scales, and these will weffeh out the exact amount of Roseburg and Dallas rock required for the mixture of the two. The broken rock now goes to other storage bins, located over 'the pre liminary grinding komlmeters, then to the trix separating machine, which takes out all over-coarse particles, is returned to the komimeter. Is reduced to pass through a 20 mesh screen and passes along to the cylped tube mill where the finishing grinding Is done. Water Is added In the tube mill and the powdered rock comes forth In alury (mud) form, thus eliminating the dust, which has, until recently, made cement factories a horror to communities for miles around their location. This is a German lnven tion, and cement mills may now be located alongside dry goods stores. without Injury to the goods. NOW COMES THE CHEMIST. The ground stuff is now discharged into one of three storage tanks, for testing, one for discharging into, one for drawing out, and one for the chemist. The mixture now goes into a large correction tank. All these tanks are supplied with agitators, which keep the material constantly stirring, " and by means of the cor rection tank the chemist has oppor tunlty to time and reckon the Ingre dients to within one-tenth of one per cent. If the tests are too hlgn, low material is added, and If too low, high, etc. The correction tank holds 1000 barrels, and once the proper mixture is secured, all is automatical ly agitated until perfect uniformity Is attained. A mighty air compressor now pumps the slury into the kiln department underneath. The kiln Is a cylinder, nine to ten feet in diame ter and 210 feet long, made of one Inch boiler plate and supported on two sets of roller bearings. This kiln Is lined with nine inch fire brick, and its weight is 400 tons. Think of U. a cylinder 210 feet long, weighing 400 tons and constantly revolving, the cement passing from the large to the smaller end, and emerging in red hot condition. The cylinder is set on an Incline, so the Cement passes through it of Its own motion. 800 BARRELS OT OIL DAILY", At . the discharge end of the kiln are located two massive oil burners. consuming 300 barrels o'f -oil daily, and they generate a temperature of 2000 degrees. This heat and the re volving kiln cause the slury to form Into balls about the size of large marbles. A complete chemical change has taken place in the rock dumped Into the hopper from the cars nearly quarter of a mile away, and auto matlcally carried to this point. It has lost about 40 per cent of its weight, and Is now In the form of carbon dioxide. The cement clinkers, or slag, are discharged from the kiln at white heat Into a rotary cooler through which a current of air Is forced by a large rotary fan. Coming forth, the clinkers are cool enough to be held in the hand, and become a dark, hard slag, which, except for pulverizing, is the finished cement. Again these clinkers are started on a Journey, by another belt conveyor, to a clinker storage suo, irora wnicra they are drawn through a valve onto still another belt conveyor and car ried to the cement grinding depart ment for -preliminary grinding by the komimeter and finished In the cylped tube mill from which they come so fine as to sift through a 100 mesa, and 90 per cent through a 200 mesh sieve. This finished product is now elevated to the storage silos, from which it is drawn and sacked for shipment. MAINTAINS ITS OWN MACHINE SHOPS. The buildings of the company cover practically 10 acres of ground. The rock travels eastward several hundred feet from where it Is dumped into the hopper, to be cracked Into egg size pieces, then Journeys southward about another 300 feet through the 210 foot kiln and silos, without being touched by human hand. Twenty-five men on each shift will turn out 1000 barrels of cement per day, and their onlv work- will be to see that the machinery is running smoothly. Th will perform no manual labor what ever, and it Is understood that the nlant will be run on two 12-hour shifts. It has a capacity of 1200 barrels and Is so built that other 1000 barrel units can be added at lit tle cost. The company-will maintain its own machine, blacksmith and carpenter shops, these buildings being already completed, and,' like .the . plant Itself, all are of concrete including the of fice structure. Not a dollar's worth of . anything about the premises; can be Injured by -fire, therefore Insur ance will not be necessary. The three story hotel and bunk houses for em nloves alone are of wood construc tion. These are attractive bulldinse and will accommodate 200. i power to operate the works , wll bt provided '.by the ( Portland Railway, Light Power company, delivered. If about 66.00 oils.'' The-company will have ita own transformers, and will reduce this" to 450 Volts, feeding Us PERTINENT COMMENT SMALL CHANGS T,Hp.4nfs PpU should not for get that style week is nearly here. ..,e&rltlon books will close fVrglth. dfef0' ri8U,r "yw Aoower prosperity sign: Income tax receipts will h tisfinnAnn cess of the highest estimates. Villa IS m. mn, flnanxU, TT. . "polled his chance to become rich on the American vaudeville stage. a a An irreverent virtue in the new hats trimmed with fruit and vriahi.. t hv ,iv, low an appetite. Republicans ar cautioned not to have too many "'keynote" speeches. But why not keep on trying until somebody hits the keynote? 9 9 That lawyer and member of the Till. nois legislature who died In a Chicago puiyu may nave Deen overcome oy nis strange surroundings. It is pertinent to remark that Glad stone's greatest bid for fame was when he changed his mind on the Irish ques tion ana aanuuea tne iact. Persistent reports that Turkey will sue for a separate peace with Russia may be taken to Indicate that the sick man ol Europe im again feeling poorly. . Concerning: those criticisms of the president: There are something like 100.000.000 Americans, most of whom know exactly what he should do, and eacn Knowing someuung just a utue different. POWER GRABBERS WANT "OLD CONDITIONS" Washington, March 21. (WASHING- TON BUREAU OP THE JOURNAL.) Opening of debate in the senate on the water power bill found arrayed the same forces that collided at the west ern states conference at Portland last September. On one side the proponents of the bill demand the unlocking of power re sources on public lands of the west on terms of lease that will retain the fin ger of federal control and the power of recapture for the people. On the ether side are those who want to sur render these resources for all time to private interests In the name of devel opment. a a Just before the bill came into the senate 13 new amendments were re ported from the committee on publio lands. One of these Is particularly Important, as It fixes a maximum charge to be paid to the government as rental on the basis of power devel oped. As first reported, the bill left such charges to the discretion of the secretary of the Interior. As amended. it is provided that such rentals "shall be based on the value of the land, to be determined by the amount of horse power to be developed, and which charge or rental shall not exceed the sum of 25 cents per developed horse power per year for the actual power." e Senator Myers of Montana, In charge of the bill, was asked by Jones of Washington to define the attitude of Secretary Lane of the Interior depart ment toward this section of the bill. Myers did so In the following state ment: "I stated to the secretary of the In terior that the committee seemed dis posed to change that feature of the bill so as to make a charge for the use of the land leased based on the horse power, developed, but to provide a max imum rate of compensation per horse power developed, leaving him free to make it less. The secretary did object to that. He said he thought if fixed by congrtse It ought to be a flat rate, just naming so much, without any maximum or minimum limit, without any variation. That was his idea, and 25 cents per horsepower developed per year was suggested, without objection from him; but the committee did not see fit to adopt that view exactly." a a At the very outset of the debate Sen ators Smoot of Utah and Shafroth of Colorado frankly championed the de sire of the water power Interests to get possesion, bag and baggage, of 20 motors, with a. capacity of 1400 horse power. FINE SHIPPING FACILITIES. The corporation owns its own water front, and can ship its product by boat to all points on the Willamette, Columbia and Snake rivers, to the head of navigation, and anywhere, in addition, reached by railroads or ocean steamships. The selection of the site at Oswego was made for these special reasons. The Snake will permit river steamer delivery to Lewlston, Idaho, the Willamette to Corvallls, and the Columbia to Kennewlck, Wash., and in a few years to the British Colum bia line, or nearly so. This is the first effort made,- in the cement line, to keep Oregon money in Oregon. The state of Washington has five cemnt plants In operation, with a comblneo' capacity of 12,000 barrels dally. California has nine, with a capacity of 22,000 barrels dally, and it is expected to increase the Portland plant's capaelty to 4000 or 6000 dally In the near future. The foregoing must be considered but & meager mention of this large enterprise. Justice can not be done it in a newspaper article of the space possible to devote to It In this depart ment of The Journal. The pyramids of Egypt were the first great concrete structures, and there they are today as perfect as ever. It is an ingredient, when per fectly used, practically Indestructible. A cement sidewalk on the west side of Second street, between Morrison and Yamhill, this city, has been down more than 40 years and Is yet perfect. The' products of the Oswego cement factory will be monuments to Aman Moore and his enterprise after we of today are forgotten in the lapse of the coming years. Letters From the People IComrunnicatJona seat to The Journal for publication la this department sbouid be writ tea on only one aide of the paper, should not exceed 800 words is length and mast be ac companied by the name and address of the mezMT. It the writer does not oealre to have th name published, be should so state. "DIscossIob is the greatest ef afl reformers. It ratkmalises everything it toocbes. . It robs principee ef aU falsa sanctity aod throws tbeta lack on" their reasonableness. If tbey have ao reasonableness, it ruthlessly erwbes them oat ot existence sad seta ap its own cwicluakist la their stead' Woudrow Wilsou, , Signs of Prosperity. Portland, March 12. TO the Editor of The Journal. A few weeks ago X read In your, columns that theDu Pont AND NEWS IN BRIEF . OREGON SUUKLIGMTS A brick kiln, a new thing for Gold Beach, is to be started at the Curry county capital. The feeling against wooden awnings has reached that stage at Heppner at which each Individual owner of one will willingly tear It down if all the otners win. a Market day will be resumed in En terprise April 1. Auction sales at which sellers can put up anything they wish to dispose of, will be held through the season once each, month. a The clean-up campaign inspired by the ladies of the Thimble club at North Bend was so effective that, the Harbor Bays, It took the garbage wagon three days to carry away all the rubbish. Brief pastoral in La Grande Observ er: "Farming has- begun In the valley and there is a general feeling of hap- ?lness and contentment spreading over he community. People are happier when the soil begins to turn." Conuille In earlv bird' for fruit blos soms. The Sentinel, March 17. says: "ljLst Saturday we noticed a sprink-line- of cherrv blossoms on the trees on the Irvine place, but on Monday the same trees were almost in full bloom. Our eastern friends can see from this just how far along the spring is here in Coos county." a a The Huntington News presents this pointed appeal to the imagination of all Huntlngtonlans: "With our excel lent water system, rich soil, favorable climatlo conditions, and nestled among the hills, with the least exertion with the ehovel and hoe, every yard in the city could be made a pretty landscape. Uncle Sam's power sites. These state ments were perhaps a little bolder than anything said at the Portland confer ence last fall. Senator Myers, arguing that the present law, which only permits entry under revocable permit, is not satis factory or adequate, and should be supplanted by a new law, was Inter rupted by Senator Shafroth, who asked: "Can we not repeal the act of 1901, and restore the conditions which ex isted before that time?" "The 'conditions which existed be fore that time," it will be remembered, consisted of a general grabbing of water power sites, which caused the president to order Withdrawal of .such lands until legislation could be enacted. a Senator Smoot made his ideas equally clear. Senator Myers had Just pointed out that capital does not now readily invest, because it has to take a revocable permit, and was interrupted by Smoot, who said: "There is no doubt about that; but there is also no doubt that before the beginlng of the withdrawals of water power sites capital would invest, be cause title could then be obtained to the land and now it cannot be." Senator Shafroth elaborated his Ideas of water power legislation by saying: "You could solve this question by giving the state or the company which Is undertaking a development of this kind the right of eminent domain against the United States government, paying the United States government a fair price for the land. That, it seems to me, would solve the problem in a most excellent manner and would produce development." Senator Myers gave his compact view as follows: "The government owns its lands as proprietor, the same- as an individual does. I ray therefore, according to the same principle, that' if It is used by anybody else the proprietor ought to have some compensation for It. I think it is right and proper that the proprie tor should have some compensation, and not give it away. The state own ing the water, and the federal govern ment owning the land abutting the water, when it takes both land and water to develop water power, I do not see, to save my life, how it is going to be developed In any other way than by the joint operation of both. It is the sane and reasonable idea. Better cooperation than Inactivity, waste, stagnation." Powder company last year made $55 500,000. This would gladden Its stockholders, all of whom are doubt less advocates of preparedness. A lit tle later I read that the Standard Oil company of Indiana was able to de clare a dividend of 63 per cent. This was Joyful news to ita stockholders. who are not very numerous. The last and most interesting item, which I read a few days ago, said' that 600.000 miners had been granted an increase of $8,603,000 for the year. Knowing that hard labor and scant fare had Deen saia to be always their por tion, I was staggered at the immense addition to their Incomes and con cluded I might 'hear' them saying in unison "Praise God from whom J1 blessings flow." But after a mo ment's thought all expectation van ished. ; A calculation of benefits showed that the average benefit to each man would be less than 20 cents per week. Then came the knowledge that clothing alone has gone up, as the result of the war in Europe. 25 per cent. Therefore, Instead of songs of praise. If any cound comes It will be a wall of despair. Can we see a glad day for the worklngman under such conditions? JOSEPH BARRETT. Quotes Scripture on War. Portland, Or March 15. To the Edi tor of The Journal In The Journal of January 18 Walter E. Sparks of Cor nelius, Or., brings In the scriptures to prove the wisdom of preparedness. Jesus says: "Resist not evil, but overcome evil with good." "If a man smite thee on the one cheek, turn to him the other also." "It a man com pel thee to go one mile with' him, go twain." I'if he sue thee at the law and take from thee thy cloak, give to him thy vesture also," and finally he says, "Put up thy sword, for he that taketh the sword must perish by the sword." This applies more fully to nations than to individuals, not for getting that there are many eminent divines and advocates of preparedness who claim the divine right of nations to arm themselves and commit mur der, rapine and destruction. : The, nation Is larger than the Indi vidual broader, greater, and stronger. So much greater the responsibility, and so much more the necessity" of following the precepts. C. I. HOWARD. Tuesday. Portland, Or, March IS. To the Edi tor of The Journal Please publish, on what day of the week December 17, 1817, cam, ; , MRjy M. J. J, Looks Less , This Way. From the Buffalo Enquirer. The fire loss of . the United States and Canada during . January totaled $21,423,259. Scattered -all around, that does not look as big as though it had been the $21,19 7,2 4 0 taxable property of the 60,000 inhabitants of Rockford, I1L4 ' . - - , TKQnce Gter I BY RF,V T .flMPMAM -JRAND OPERA like bsnklnglS J one of the million or so things that I don't know anything about. , - ; U Of course I may learn a good deal about it next Friday and Sat urday. luat aa T AiA BKs. Kvtn tn I. - BMVUb LT.lllLltl, . my personally conducted tour of th First National last week. J And Arthur Jonea who showed me the gold and silver and tellers and stenographers and other equip ment Arthur says that my understand ing of the banking business coneid-.." ering my slight acquaintance with -j money is simply wonderful. Jin fact Arthur says it's almost- wlerd. J And ao that I won't go to the ' grand opera altogether unprepared I'm going to do my best to soak up Information before Friday. 7 For Instance I'm going to find - out how to pronounce Felice I,yne's name. bpcanso I hear It pronounced sev- ' eral ways. J Some Call it "Line." and some say "Linn." and I'm goinsr to ask Dr. F. E. Moore. because he's Felice's uncle or something. and ha ought to know. J And Feflce as I understand ita has the big Job in one of the operas. JThat is she has about the same kind of a part that Christy Mathew- son used to have in a world's series. J And she was born In Missouri. which gives her local color. only she didn't come across the plains In a covered wagon. like Charles B. Moores or T. T. Geer or Breeze Gibson. J No Felice came by train. J And she did her first public sing ing in Sunday school up at La Qrande only a few years ago. J And It seems funny. because I did my first publio singing in Sunday school. and Bang as hard as I could. and nobody ever asked me to sing any place else. J On the contrary they rather dis couraged me. J And here I am writing this sort of stuff. and Felice is getting a million dollars a year I guess. TAnd we both started singing unaer tne same circumstances. J And maybe It goes to show the importance of early environment. provided you can get away from it. J But I started out to write about the grand opera. and there were a number if words. like chiaroscuro. and motif, and coloratura. that I wanted to work in a though I knew what they meant. J And now I won't have a chance. And I guess I'll wait and when Felice comes I'll ask her. at the same time that I aak her I have asked so many what she thinks of the view from Portland heights. TAnd she'll probably tell me "About the same aa any other view a rainy day." tjAnd there's one of the operas about three kings. TAnd I can't find out much about It. except that Mano Zan said that Ed Moriarity knew. TAnd I asked Ed and lie said it was a good hand but he'd seen it beat often. J And I don't know what they mean but J LISTEN That's no reason tht I can see why I shouldn't talk grand opera to my heart's content. "In the Springtime, Gentle Annie." Beporta are to the effect that the fish are running In the slongbs west of LekeTtaw. This will be a call for the lor I nlmtvxls to be biking out there shout daylight some of these mornings. lakevlew Sxamluer. s s Wild violets are peeping from the leaf monld on hillside, crocus snd tulip buds era emerging from the garden flmrer bed. The army of frogs Is croaking Ita welcome to the b rettb of warm west wind. The poet feels the stirring of the muse spring li on us. Hooa tUTer uiacier. The official op opening or spring is only few days away, but the sir la crisp ss early antoma. Twenty-four boors may bring a temperature that wlU wsrrsnt the wearing of etraw hata. and then spring will not dare to retreat. lebsooa kx press. The Beach, oesr and snole trees ara be ginning to bloom throughout the Talley under the warm sannhloe of the lat week, and a pretty acaae la the result. Now and then on esc catch a whiff of the per fame of the blooms. The almond trees bare been ka bloom for 10 days snd sre much In faror fnr home and social decorations. Medlnra sua. Japanned English. (The Independent Rwrlew, Hoaolnlo. Edi ted and Pnbliabed by a Japanese.) President WUsrra shaa commenced bis stump en preparedness. Brery dweller In this territory, no mat ter be la an American eltlxen or nX, should be Interested in any work which stands for the general progress of Ha wall, apliitnally aa weU materially, 'f be does not care for It, he la to be de manded to leave here. The sugar ladnatry baa progressed fro a bound to leap within a century. -' , Take Yoor Choice. The Neche (N, D.) Chronotype say that the subject of a recent debate tr the Neche schools was: "Resolved that fresh air Is more Important thai- exercise. Stori9r OTr I StreeiTowri ; Wouldn't It Beat You? A T one time last year the member JCX, shin Of the Ockley Green parent Teacher association included the name of Mrs. Pie, Mrs. Candy, Mrs. Bacoi and Mrs. Lemon. " ' Journey Was Worth It. SCOTCH frugality is no myth, aver? Richard E. Randall, assistant pas tor of the First Presbyterian church "Two Scotch ladies desired to leav. this country the other day and came t. me ifor a signature on their passport Tou know it is required they have th signature of a British subject and , am not yet a fully fledged America citizen, due to the peculiar cbaracte f vnur laws. We went down to th British consul's office where they, Wer r Informed a tax Ot .,z wouja omim posed. "Ah, we did not know that, sal' one of them, and, 'I think we must g home and talk -this over and conside It,' suggested the other. So they wen bacfc home, and In due time, havin considered the trip worth, the tax, the came back and paid - - ?