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JHE OREGON DAILY JOURNAL PORTLAND, MONDAY, . MAY . 1, 1916. - i. HE JOURNAL a JACKSON . .Fnbllsbcr iihed. ff7 day, afteroooa and morning Tnpt Condi? sftrtxa),t The Jonrasl "UW Hroadviy and YimbtU sti. Port t. or. , '"4 at to pnatofrtce at I'ort !!, Or., tor oinatakaaios, tlmili, at mat la . seermd .iS matter, ..'', f PHONICS -Main TITS: Home. A -8001. All partte reached br tbaae aumbara. Tall i. ovarator vbtl Sertaent yo want. .E10(t A.DV ektwi.no representative; 'art A Ktntnor Co.. Brunswick' Uldg.. i rifrh A.. New lark. UU People' i m. Chicago. . -atacrlpr1on -tcnna br all or to aay 4 ee la the t'lta.i State 'or Mexico: daily xmobninq or afternoon) tyeer.. ...... .$3.00 I On moats. .....$ M ! v SUNDAY. ' yar........2) 0n month...... .23 AlLI (VORXUiO OR AITEBJiOON) AND J r' i . SONDAV it yaer... $T.S0 I Ona moot. $ .68 America aVa nothln for herself bat what f. baa a. right to aak for Immunity Itself. , Mlllloni for defense, but not a cent (or Hbnta. . , CHARLES C. P1NCKNKT. ; The minwbo Is Just and resolute will aot be noted from bis settled purpose, altbcr br the mtadiractad rare at bla fel- f low-citlaena or br tba threats of an lm- a . l r prions tyrant. Horace. WHAT IS T1IE ANSVVEtt? ORTLAND now presents a 'condition that existed in toe city of Hamburg prior to the year 1871," said fred W. Mulkey in an article in phe Journal .April 23. Hamburg, y;her.own effort changed from a ne line seaport into a status in vhich in time she became one of he greatest seaports in the world. lr. Mulkey added: Portland can do likewise, and the est possible way In which to ac complish thla result is to Jconfer municipal bonding: power upon exist ing public corporations to operate ;uch ooean and Inland water trans portation lines as will best accom plish tha ends desired, Hamburg is more than 90 miles rom ' the sea. Its .harbor is an Artificial harbor, man-made and han-malntained. its commerce is m artificial commerce, built up by ,he effort, the striving and the Cooperation of the merchants who jiave made the port great. In 1871 I ts water commerce was served by ;ut one regular steamship line, be ween that port and New York. It fas at the mercy of tramp or trans hipment service. Its merchants tad Its capitalists banded together tad until the war the ships of, the Wt were weaving the woof of the Vorld's commerce through the varp of the seven seas. ' 'Portland is, potentially, the Iafburg of the Pacific coast. It tands at the mouth of the natural ommerclal funnel through which hould flow an ever increasing pood Of the water borne commerce ot,. the Paeif ic ocean. Ninety-five rer cent of the vorld's water-carried commerce is Shipped In vessels of 1000 tons and ess. ; This is the class of Vessels ' hat has been coming into the Port jf Portland. I . Great Britain, out of 5000 Bhips -arrying in excess of 1000 tons, as bat 75 that would have trouble , a crossing the Columbia river bar it the present time. Germany out f 1200 ships in excess of 1000 ions has but 80 too large for the Columbia entrance, France but tine, Holland eight, Japan three, Italy one, while Norway, now forg ing to the front of the water mas ters' Of the world, has 1000 ships in excess of 1000 tons and none of them too large to pass in and out of the Columbia without trou ble or delay. j In the entire shipping list of the maritime nations comprising a srand "total of 49,261,000 regis tered tons, there are but 135, out of 30,270 vessels in excess of 1000 tons,; which would have difficulty in- landing their cargoes at the Portland (Jocks. j Hamburg men made their city the - shipping center of the world. Portland has more natural advan tages than Hamburg., The Pacific waterway leads to boundless possi bilities. What Is the answer? The conference between Generals Scott and Funston and War Minis ter - Obregon is effort to settle a 'complex Mexican situation by dis cussion Instead ot by fighting. It Is not satisfactory to the lnterven tionista, bat it Is satisfactory to the 'American people. GOOD EVERYTHING I , HAKESPEARE'S 'philosophic r hobo saw sermons In stones iji fiind good in everything. The iT i modjern man of practical hab its 'sees good in everything but it ,Is apt to be economic good, some- ; thing, that contributes to clothe .and feed the -world, or light and 'warm it. Our inventors have gone (to great lengths. in the conquest of natural forces and materials for ti "P human benefit The old notion that everything 'on earth was puf posely created tor 'our good has 'pretty well ; dlsappearedTbut In 'place of it wa have the. more useful-notion that;, we can turn moBt i things to our good by applying; our i intelligence' to .them.. ;. ; ,-rv,,. l it is - only a ; question of time Iwhea Niagara Tails will be wholly : - . . . - WHO HELPED BRING IT ON?, - - . 111 1 11 a . i-L ." r -,- , EXPECT important developments toniorrovr." Thla cryptic cable vu wired by Henry Lane Wilson, American ambassador, from the capital of Mexico the filgbit preceding the treachery la which the- constitutional president o? Mexico was 1 seized and later assassinated. General Blanquet, trusted by President Madfro, -m to be the tool for Madero's undoing, and Americas; Ambassador wriaon knew all ttbont it : . '. t --v.,. I "t'y For days. Wilson had ''been exchanging ' messages with. Huerta, For days, he had been wiring the Washington government that the constitutionally elected . president of the Meilcan republic was to be overthrown. The American 'ambassador knew all about the plot. He had threatened Maderp with American ports throughout Mexico designed- More to the point, "The American ambassador is our greatest -enemy," said the doomed Madero with almost his last breath. The American ambassador, representing the United States at the capital of republic with which we ton government completely Informed as to the coming overthrow of Madero. The night before the constitutionally elected president of that republic was' betrayed Into the hands of the usurper, the American ambassador wired the state department of the United States that Biauquet and bis treacherous troops were to do tne instrument wun which the president of a friendly republic was to be seized, and the constitution and regularly constituted Knowing all these things, knowing the illicit relations an Ameri can ambassador was maintaining in a plot to destroy the government of Mexico and 'throw that unhappy country Into anarchy, why did the Washington government remain silent? With our own accredited representative having guilty knowledge of a plot that was treasonable to the government and people of Mexico, why -did the. them Secretary of State Knox permit the American am bassador to. continue as a party to the conspiracy? We talk of national honorr Can we point to the relations Ambas sador Wilson had with the cowardly and treacherous plot for the overthrow of President Madero as an example of American "national honor?" , When Ambassador Dumba at Washington called secretly upon Austrian residenSs of the United States not to work In American muni tion factories under penalty of punishment through an Austrian statute, we Justly resented the interference and demanded his recall. The Austrian government recognized the Justice of our demand, and Dumba was called home. But what, in contrast with this comparatively trivial Incident, Is the near treason, of an American ambassador to the Mexican republic In the guilty knowledge he. had of the coming overthrow of Madero! The United States authorities are now busied with discovery and punishment of German sympathizers in alleged plots against munition factories. Von Papen, attache of the German embassy at Washington, was recalled. But what is a plot against a munition factory in com parison with a plot to overthrow the government of a sister republic with which Wje are at peace? No wonder Carranza has fear of American troops in Mexico! We can never deceive ourselves into the belief that leaders among the people of Mexico do not fully understand what American Ambassador Kenry Lane Wilson had to do with the overthrow of Hnerta. We need not try to delude ourselves with assurance that leaders among the Mexicans do not fully understand the meaning of the ominous silence of the American government when Henry Lane Wilson was sending his official cables to the American secretary Of state .sajring, "I expect Important developments tomorrow." There have been three years of anarchy in Mexico since Madero was treacherously betrayed and constitutional government overthrown. It has been three years of bloodshed and sorrow, in which American lives and American property have been sacrificed. But who helped to bring it on? Who helped to create the Mexican problem with which President Wilson has been so beset? harnessed to machinery. It irks the modern soql to see any part of this tremendous source of en ergy running to waste. It is a pretty thing to look at, no doubt, but it would be prettier if it were conyerted into light and heat for the comfort ot men. 'Only, the conversion ongnt to be so man aged that common men will get the good of it, not some huge cor poration. An American traveler in Hawaii has conceived the Idea of making vitrified bricks from the lava of Kilauea. ' One of his compatriots is .planning to make a vast heat ing plant of the volcano of Hale- maumau. Thus these two vol canoes, hitherto mere agencies of destruction, will become servitors of mankind. ' Nature is frightful only to the ignorant. When science makes us wise we forget our fears and force her to do our work for us. Nature with her laws and occult-powers is like the genl in the Arabian Nights. Science is the Aladdin who rubs his lamp and enslaves the monster. States have no better citizens than was Judge W. S. McFadden whose passing occurred at Corval 11s yesterday. Rugged, courageous and upright, his influence was al ways on theside of good govern ment and a clean community. He made strong friendships and was profoundly faithful to them. He was one among the noted criminal lawyers of Oregon, having practiced in that field with unusual success. His passing is at the end of a long career of great activity and useful ness. PAPERS AND SCHOOLS A- WRITER In Harper's Week- ly takes the stand that daily newspapers are useful ma terial for instruction in Bchool and college. The opinion is supported by President Lee of New York university, who says that "a good daily newspaper should be used in high school grammar and rhetoric classes." Rene Kelly, the author of the ar ticle in Harper's, does not pre tend to believe that the ' news paper's literary style is perfect. Haste prevents that. Still their English is wonderfully good; con sidering everything, and now and then it is "classical." But it is not for their style that students should read newspapers. It is to keep themselves in touch with life. ' Schools - and colleges tend almost irresistibly to monas ticism. They love the. old. They venerate the : archaic , : Only the other day we re'ad of some college boys who tied a steer, after much trouble to themselves, by the presi dent's speaking desk. Had they been asked to do half as much work for anything useful they would have felt badly treated. But to repeat an Idiotio piece of buf foonery which ' has been repeated by a million generations, more or less, of college boys, they would work themselves half to death.- In life, people are not guilty of "such aaininlties,- It is only 'in college that they are committed. . They ' J - -. - ' i ' " intervention. He had circulated re to provoke American intervention. were at peace, kept the Washing government of Mexico overthrown. show the sad need of more news paper reading by students, if not by professors. ,As for newspaper English it may 6ome time be better than it i3. It can be improved by much read ing of books. "We know of no other way. The young men who write "stories" are apt to think they must follow the fashion in choosing their phrases. Certain expressions are as much revered as calling cards and polished shoes. It is this sheepishness that makes some newpaper Writing poor in spirit and like sawdust to the mind. Young writers should try to put the new wine of their thought into new bottles of language. It is not half 6o easy to do so as to refill the well worn vessels of expression but it is far pleasanter to readers and more satisfactory to the writ er after he has done it. But with all their faults young men writ ing In newspapers produce some excellent reading for young men sporting in college, "The returns from their disposi tion (the Oregon grant lands) in excess of the equity awarded the railroad by congress, rightfully should come to 'the 6tate" is a sentence in a telegram sent by Governor Withycombe to Congress men Sinnott and McArthur. That is an excellent start for the gov ernor to make. Why not now go the rest of the way and come out emphatically for 40 per cent for the Oregon school fund? FRUITS AND FLOWERS T HE Portland Fruit and Flower Mission is- making its annual visit today to the Multnomah county poor farm. It is a splendid charity to bring song and sunshine into the lives of those who have been beaten in the straggle of life. In the presence ( ot youth and neaun one may pe pardoned a censorious attitude towardB those who by lack of capacity or pru dence fail in the ! battle against poverty, but when old age has come and health has gone there can be nothing but pity. For then the battle is over. We may censure the young and able for following in their foot steps but we can only lead the old, the helpless and the friendless into a haven of protection against the storm. North Yakima and the other sections visited by the Portland excursionists last week are clam oring for trade relations with Portland. In - time, all the Colum bia basin territory will come to understand that It is' commercially enslaved and forced to pay freight rates on an over-mountain haul in stead ot on a downhill haul. OUT OF THE FRYING PAN I T IS SAID that the recent voting In the primaries strengthens the hopes ot the reactionary element in the Republican party. Some ot the old guard go bo far as to say that it eliminates Colonel Roosevelt entirely and, they, are turning Jubi lantly to Fairbanks or ome such person. -. - 'There Is no qnestlon bnt that the, old guard leaders will nom inate the worst man they dare to fix upon, If they nominate any body. Reaction and haired of progress have made them mad.i Still it is almost Incredible that even madmen- would nominate Fairbanks. Fairbanks is a good man, ac cording to his lights. But he stands for nothing that the masses of his party desire. YOUC rank and f lie Republican ' is not a v reactionary. He is not a standpatter. He is not an Aid rich tariff man. He does not be Iieve in giving the water powers over to the interests. He Is not for war. The rank and f 11 a Ttamihllrana ' of America want and ought to have a leadership that will keep on the statute books the kind of legisla tion enacted during the past three years and give them more of the same kind. They do not want the country to go backward by repeal ing the progressive enactments that have been put into effect. NOTHING THE MATTER WITH PORTLAND An institution that haa been rowtnr np I with Portland almost ever since there was ) a I'ort land to grow up witb. U presented In .5!JrAS2"T.K,02ie5 ot a large drug handling wubllshinent, ueh as that treated of todaj. i most impresalre, from the atandpo iut of both the scientific aad Uie Indoatnal.J i T certainly is something to' have a I drug manufacturing industry in Portland that does a business of more than $1,000,000 annually. It is something to have one of the largest drug houses in the United States manufacturing in this city on so large a scale. It surely speaks heartily for Port land, as a substantial municipality, and for the broad territory embraced in its trading area. . This great institution has been in business in Portland for upwards of half a century. Early in Its life it engaged in the manufacture of prod ucts incidental to the business of the drug, surgical and medical trade, and has been at it ever since, its trade expanding until now It covers all the territory of this nation. OWNS A SPLENDID BUILDING. So great has been the growth of the firm in years past that It had been compelled repeatedly to change-1 locations for the purpose of finding accommodations in larger quarters, i Once It occupied a moderate sized building on First street. Later it re moved to Fourth and Washington. Now, however, it la found in its eight story and double basement reinforced concrete structure located at the northeast corner of West Park and Alder streets, every inch of which is wholly and exclusively occupied by the corporation knowA as the Clarke Woodward Drug company, the manu facturing arm of the concern. From here there radiate to ail parts of the Pacific northwest its 12 trade emis saries, who travel continually In the Interest of their employers. They reach all parts of the territory from the crest of the Rocky mountains westward to the sea, and south and east to .the heart of California and the states bordering that common wealth on the east. East of the Rockies Jobbers handle their goods, and these are well known from the coast of Maine even to tha place of their production. COVER A WDDE RANGE. It would require much - space to enumerate In detail all the staples coming from the hands of the skilled workmen and pharmacists, of the Clarke-Woodward manufacturing de partment. The range includes:' Surgical instruments and hospital supplies. Dental equipment and supplies. ' Laboratory and college equipment. Optical specialties. Photographic equipment, chemicals and developers. Pharmaceuticals and extracts. Crude and refined drugs and chemi cals in subdivisions. And in passing it may be related that there are scores of other essen tials made ' and originating in the Clarke-Woodward Drug company's place, all made in their own factory and each and every one of exceed ing merit These arffi- found in the homes and in the offices. Ladies of fashion employ their dainties in their dressing looms and the profes sional in his practice. They are re quired by the surgeon as well as by the physician, and Portland is proud of the distinction of numbering; among 113 coryurauuus tuia Biauie iuuusiry, of like kind, greater In its magni tude than found in any other city of the country of equal population. HAVE NOT HIDDEN THEIR LIGHT. The name of the Clarke-Woodward Drug Company Is familiar to all newspaper readers of the Pacific coast. The energetic gentlemen have not hidden their light under a bushel. They have told the world of their fa cilities to supply all demands made upon them. They have kept this fact always before the people in the public prints, ancV as a consequence man after man has been added to their busy factory until at present there Isi & force employed 10 times greater than even 20 years ago. Always have they kept abreast of the times. Never have they been laggards. All goods made by the Clarke Woodward company have been given, the- name of "Wood-Lark," and under this arbitrary trade mark are known almost from Dan to Beersheba. And when one. sees the Wood-Lark trade mark , he may know It is a token of genuineness, and a guarantee of - ex cellence and purity. Never in Itajhl T - - .- - ., 3BHi tory has . this houaa- yielded to the temptations of greed or avarice. Their manufactures are sold at living prices. There severvhas been a. taint of -ex- , h ' . - . Th.t tortlon charged to the Institution. bast or the . money "bji honest ar- , tide fori an honest' price has been lta slogan,' and it has lived up to this and the golden rule. - ' Thla has been' very largely the key note to its prosperity. It has beea tba solid foundation upon which it hu.builded. and, tha business super structure it has reared is as solid as Gibraltar's rock. Letters From the People pobllcaUoa In tola department anonld be writ ten on ooij one suse or we paper, uniio doc exceed 30tf words la lengtb. aad moat be ac companied bj toe name and addreae of tba sender. If the writer does not dealre to bare tba name psbUabect. be aboald so state. Diacaaalon Is the greatest of all reformers. It rationalises ererrtulof it toflcbee. it roba DriDClDles of all false aaoctltj aod throws them back on tliulr reasonableness. It tbey bate no rawnableneaa. It ratbleaalr eruabea them out 01 existence ana sets op iia vwb cwhomooi In tbelr atead." Woodrow Wilson. The Tin Can Resource. Portland, April 29. To the Kditor of TJhe Journal. The Incalculable number of tin cans that are emptied and thrown away can be estimated only from the fringed garnishment of the hlghwaya and drives in and around this city. In heaps and scat tered units, where tbey have been surreptitiously deposited, can be gath ered wagon loads of them, to which can be added a greater number taken from the homes of good housewives who would willingly consent to a peri odical gathering Now tor the business: Tin. solder "d lead that go toward the mafce up Of these tin cans is considerable in quantity, and in some localities are e"ed Tom the Iron sheets and. to gether with the sheets, sold at a profit. xne scnetne is something uk tnis: An ordinary cupola is built from a dis- carded steam boiler like those in fouii- dries, but not on so expensive a scale. Into this are thrown the cans and scraps of tin, and a fire Is started. Tha other metals will soon run from the iron and ba gathered on the hearth below, from which they are drawn off, while tha heat is increased and the Iron melted and run into sash weights, sad Irons, horse blocks, furnace bars and other articles that do not require especially good iron. Or the sheet iron could be sold, as in soma places, to button makers, makera of ointment boxes, etc. Anyway, an ingenious fel low can start up his little shop and with an auto truck to make regular trips around the city and gather thesa cans, he can lay the foundation for a good business and at the samo time heal these disfiguring landscape sores. . G. C. NEWBERRY. More School Money Needed. Crabtrea. Or. Anrll 27 To th Edl- tor nf Th .innmv in Thnr.Hau'a Journal W. C. Hawley appeared as I against" the Chamberlain land grant bill. He tries to make it appear , that the withdrawal 'of the 2,300,- 000 acres from taxation will raise the ! This. I claim, is ; a-ine- .UL a 1 1 A ,3 U. A A . . , , h,K win rai.. tv,o t,.. The Chamberlain bill not only helps the school and road, to which It is of . travel all tne way rrom t-ortianu ai greatest importance, but it will aid .most to the snow line by automobile, the man with a family who is not ' traversing first the scenic Columbia able to buy of individuals, as such j river highway and then by the Hood land is beyond Ms small means. River valley highway, the latter only Therefore I deem it the duty of i objectionable because of some steep every home-abiding citizen of Oregon to help what he can to get the 40 per cent for the schools. At present there are many schools closed on account of no funds, and there skaaaUd be something brought to bear to raise more school money. As it is at present, we lose at least six weeks of our best time for school in the small districts. So I think Mr. Hawley has forgoten the lands can be sold in a short time and bring In more money than they do at present. A. H. SIMPSON. How thjti Collar Left the Shirt. Fronithe New York World. After painstaking- investigation the department of commerce has approxi mately fixed the date when the collar parted from the shirt and the one arti cle of masculine wear 'became twain. The historic event occurred in 1825 and was due to the reflection of a Troy woman at the washtub that "shirts stay clean longer than collars." To think was to act, end the home-made Invention was soon popularized by a retired minister who put separate col lars and cuffs on the market In 1829. Will there be no memorial tablet In Troy to the humble founder of its great Industry. She cut the Gordian knot and emancipated laundry work for all time. To her revolutionary idea may be traced the growth of an output of collars amounting to $17, 200,000 annually, of which 80.48 per ccn, as we learn rrom .tne depart ment's figures, "come from Troy." Certainly the collar metropolis should be grateful to Its woman bene factor, whose very name 4s lost to fame. Will not organized feminism aeek to rescue It from oblivion? Though mute and inglorious, ahe was yet a pioneer whose invention gave her sex a new vocation while freeing it from the trammels of the washtub. Milking Phonograph Records. From Popular Science, Monthly. The recording of the human voise on the phonograph Is almost a sci ence In itself. As a general rule the musicians are perched midway be tween floor and ceiling, with their inetrumenta pointing toward the horn ,of the recording phonograph. Men who play the tuba and similar brass instruments turn their backs to the phonograph so that the mouths of the Instruments may project their. growls and blasts toward the horn. Many experiment, have been mala to determine the best shape of room In which to make records. Edison, for example, tested almost every con ceivable form. He even went so far as to build a room in the shape of a horn, the small end of which ter minated in the phonograph Itself. The singer stood practically upon the edge of this huge horn's mouth, for such was the room. The results were no better than those obtained by sta tioning the singer in front of an ordi nary phonograph in an ordinary room. As a. result we find that no special effort Is made by the phono graph companies to utilize rooms of special shape so as to gather all sounds andoncentrate them upon the record. The record made by the artist is called a master record. In fact, two records are made, one being hermetic ally sealed and stored away in the company's archives for future gener ations. The other record is used for the preparation of a die for making commercial records. Historic Organizations of Regulars. -Girard" in Philadelphia . Ledger. The smallest regular army which the United States has had In the 141 years since. Washington created the first regular or, continental army was men. Those 80 were artillerymen. being the very battery which Alexan der: Hamilton had recruited); In- 1775. A year, after the Revolution ended con- gresv enactdV en June 2, 1714, a law to disband the whole continental army with the exception of 2S men to -guard, PERTI N ENT COM M ENT SMALL CHANGIjS Remamber, cleanup week. Ilka the greatest of all virtues, beglnrat home. Welcome. Miss May! That April person was ai pronounced reactloaarjr, anyway. Kansas City will furnish its school children with 15,080 fly swatters and neglected breeding; places will furnish the flies. If all of Portland s proposed ship building plants materialise, the prob lem will be to find men for lobs, rather than Jobs for men. Judge ana;g-uth says a woman ts disorderly when she smokes a cigar ette on tha street Perhaps she Is, but isn't the judge drawing tha sex Una? While they are about it, Scott and Funston- should tall Obregon we don't want Mexico we want merely a peace able and sanitary neighbor. . a Now is tha time to swat the early fly and save yourself the brain racking task of figuring tha number of its de scendants during the summer season. Detroit is promotinsr its cleanup campaign with arguments like this: "An untidy back yard is a poor way of advertising that you get all tha exer cise you need, at a stylish downtown club. a Should the colonel swallow the Re publicans or tha Republicans the colonel next June in Chicago, perhaps Mr. Ford will become titular haad of a third party. You never can tell what is going to happen in politics. JOURNAL 1 Mount Hood, by (In tola space for an indefinite period will b publiabed 'Journal Journeys." Lach article win present ine attractions or aouie scmic point easily accessible from Portland, together with the route and eonTejraiice by wnMi It rS'fL - &atfLXtt7r: eiice and abound also be aiiuiouiea nnv ana vide for the benefit of those who do not as jet know scenic Orgon 1 Mount Hood, one of the most com manding peaks in America, has been made as accessible as any. The ambition to climb It, to look down upon the world from its tower ing summit, is well born out of any red blooded appreciation of nature's grandeur and may be gratified by small outlay of time and money. The best approaches, are from the north, by way- of Hood River valley, and from tho west, by way of Govern ment Camp. The north side route will be con sidered today, the route from the west tomorrow, - Leave Portland by O-W. R. & N. train and transier to me tiooa iver Valley railroad at Hood River. The valley railroad will carry you as far as Parkdale. whence it Is some five mHss to Mount Hood Lodge and about 10 miles to Cloud cap inn. .tsotn are excellent stopping places, and guides tor the climb .of the mountain may be obtained at either, By the time the north side route to Mount Hood becomes entirely open it will probably be very practicable to grades which should and could be cor rected'. Although Mount Hood is visible from many viewpoints in the valley of Hood River, the sensationof being truly upon its slope comes "only dur ing the last twe or three miles north of Cloud Cap Inn. The grade becomes steeper and steeper, the air more ex hilarating, the surroundings more beautiful. . The inn is a quaint structure at nearly 6000 feet elevation, sturdily NEWSPAPERS AND OUR COLLEGES Rene Kelly in Harpers' Weekly. Do college professors nowadays be lieve in newspapers? We believe the best of them do. Some professors even read them, and there are occasional in stances of a college porfessor actually being persuaded to write articles for the Sunday supplement! It was very different in 1833. Edward Everett Hale was a Harvard undergraduate then, and was one of those who signed a petition for a college "reading room." Not only did the faculty say No, but President Josiah Quiney explained to young Hale "that there 'had been a reading room some years ago which the college government were obliged to break up; that newspapers were fas cinating things 'even to us old men' and that they would take young men away from their studies. A very weak argument." It is a far cry from President Qulncy's view it seventy-eight years ago to the view of Preaident Lee of Naw York university, expressed Berne weeks since. President Lee suggests that a good dally newspaper be used in the clasarooma where instruction in high school grammar and rhetoric Is given. It would seem to. be President Lee's notion that the fact that news papers make Interesting reading is nothing very much against them, and that there is as much Instruction In studying the history of our own times as in studying the Seven against Thebes. Newspapers are turned out ia a hurry, and the best of them fall Into errors of style as of taste, but. if not in schools, at least In colleges, the use the military stores at Fort Pitt, which is now Pittsburg, and 65 men to guard the military stores at West Point. There was to be w office ; with rank a. ixj v o a - ci it.. ... ...... -w.j mintarv link of 80 men is all thai joins our regular' army of today to the continental army of Washington, but that link, weak as it became, was never broken. That small organization of tcoopsf in the pay of the United States never lost its identity, and it is today company F, Fourth regiment Of artil lery, U. S. A. It is exactly as old as our national independence. There "was Indian trouble on the northwest frontier at the time the con tinental or regular army was dlaband ed, so congress asked Pennsylvania, New York. Connecticut and New Jer sey to ratse 700 militiamen to defend the settlers. .Pennsylvania contributed 260, which was the largest state quota. It was, however, only a sad maieshif t, suid in April, 178S, a new regiraent of regular troops was organized. That regiment has retained its identity ever since, and Is now the Third regiment of United States Infantry the oldest regiment in our army. . e Lincoln, the Leader. From the London Saturday Review. The United States of America exist today because ' Lincoln was president during the great Civil war. At firat he was looked upon as a quaint human lyric from tbe backwoods: few saw in him the qualities of leadership, be cause his - person and his , manners seemed out of place in "polite society.' Then It was noticed, that hit Judr ment was instantaneous, Ilk tbe com' log of light. 'No statesman has ever AN D N EWS IN BRIEF OREGON SIDELIGHTS x us aieuivru ouu jivica ne. i farmers of the Rogue rivtr valley ars . Tha Medford Sun notea that the Iwaglng war on, wild mustard Floret parade indicated by tha Eu- 5ene Register. "The beautiful rbodo endrons are blooming In tha Coast mountain region, and many people coming in on tha Willamette Pacific trains are seen carrying bouquets of them." Impressionistic view of a happy day, as reproduced In the La Grande Observer: "Yesterday was automobile day. The country roads were alive with machines. Punctures were numer ous, which caused dlrtv hands and tired muscles, but light hearts. ' Tha boys of tha Myrtle Point volun- teer fire company, who were soma time ago contempalting the purchase of an electric siren fire alarm, have decided, the Enterprise says, to raise the pres ent fire gong to a point where it will be heard better in all parts of the city, and, instead of buying the siren, to give the money in their treasury, or $160 of it. to the. city as part payment on fire fighting apparatus. The new era in northeastern Oregon Is typified In this, from the Enterprise Record Chieftain: "It has become an old story that the hills, so long thought suitable for nothing but summer pas ture, are developing into farms yield ing a great variety of products. Lat Friday Karl Coffman brought hors, po tatoes, butter and eggs from Elk Moun tain. A large proportion of the trade done in Knterprlse now is -with the farmers of the hills." JOURNEYS the North Side Route cable bound against winter weight of snow. From this point the (snow Is never far distant and in the middle of sum mer beds of ice and snow will be found among the trees at even lower levels, and not far above are snow fields always ready for skiing, snow aboeing or coasting. Cloud Cap Inn Is almost at the foot of Eliot glacier. A most delightful side trip may be had over the glacier, truly a frozen cascade, where crevasses open narrowly to almobt bottomless depths. a a The climb of the mountain begins among the trees, but e"oon the growth is dwarfed and finally vegetation ceases-. You will find yourself upon a long, crumbling slope. Cooper's spur, and when you have reached its summit you are 8600 feet above sea level. Tha trail turns t6 the west and leads over a narrow saddle back to the beginning of the steeper slope. Here is a giant bowlder called Tie-Up Rock,, and at this point life belts are adjusted, the life rope connected between climbers, and faces blackened to prevent the burning of exposed skin from tha re flection of sun from snow. By slow zig-zag over the steep, snow covered slope, stopping every few steps for rest and to calm the beating of hearts accelerated by elevation as . .well as by exertion. Luncheon Rock is reached, a place nearly all are glad to pause for an hour or so. -Not far above Luncheon Rock begins the rope intend ed to steady mountain climbers as they clamber up the last thousand feet, which, as the night is darkest before the dawn, so the climb is steepest be fore the summit. a The peak of Mount Hood is 11.225 feet above sea level. It has a majesty of bulk and form enhanced by the fact that It rises above surrounding coun try only a few hundred feet high. The view from the top of the moun tain comprehends all the snow capped colony of the Cascades. From its sum mit the blue Pacific may be seen far to the west, while spread at one'a feet are western 'and central Oregon and Washington, a kingdom for the look ing. of newspapers ought to be urged upon such youngsters as require the urging, a a One of the hardest tasks of the teacher of "English Composition" is to impress upon his so-called students the practical importance of learning how to write good English. Many a practical-minded boy regards instruc tion in this field as wasted time; he is going to be an engineer or an agri culturist or a merchant and not an addlson or Milton or Emerson so why bother with Sir Roger de Coverley and his friends, or Burke's Speech on Con ciliation with America, or Stevenson's Lodging for the Night? a a The newspaper is a part of dally life, even for agriculturists and en gineers and merchants; and the youth who reads newspapers must realize a little more completely than he did before the advantage it is to command words and sentences as well as flesh-and-blood employee. Moreover, a good newspaper serves to bridge thee, (tap between day-by-day practicality and all-time literature: often It Is a step ping stone from literary blindness to something like appreciation. a a We are not of those who are gloom ily conscious of newspaper super ficiality; we are, instead, ever newly amazed by the high standards of style and information which -the best of American newspapers reach, overnight. Those of - our college teachera who croak at the occasional split infini tives of the editorial page would do well to ask themselves whether their own best lectures would make endur able newspaper reading.; reasoned with a greater brevity than Lincoln's, none has ever been less confused by the complexities of social problems. Other democrats of genius have multiplied by their loquacity the muddled ideas which most electora in a free country mistake for political good sense. Lincoln went home at ones' to the main points of an entangled prob lem, and never got tired of Illustrating them, ript in profuse arguments, but in parables, or in humorous tales, or in witty chaff, or in crisp, practical sayings His speech was never flatu lent, nor did it boom with tha big drum. Verdict for the Robin. From the Philadelphia North Ameri can. Prisoner at the bar is the American robin. He's charged with being a rob ber of orchards, a despoiler of fruit trees, a cherry thief. Testimony against., him includes a long array of witnesses, with prejudices and time worn beliefs about the bird's appetite for frujt, , As witnesses for the defense a score of biologists and government investi gators tell us that one-half of the food of the American robin consists of Insects. In the remaining one-half there is five times as much wild fruit as cultivated fruit. If the robin could testify for It eel f it would tell you that It much prefers elderberries to cherries, and that it likes mulberries or wild cherries best of all. Bo if yoq want to keep these birds out of your orchard, plant , a mulberry' of a wild cherry tree near by and the birds will forget all about; your cultivated cherries. .BY RwyTAn"'4' THE OTHER DAT Cliff Harrlson'M j tha - gentleman v marina ..: " '? - mw,.u ir-,- porter toid me to be ready tto to at. ' 1:30 i TAnd I asked him ahn : ' C ' and ha Said -Never mind Where after the manner of marine report i era irom time immemorial. .wj f And I was ready. 1A J And wa went down to the, munlci- i pal aocK at tnt iwi oi star street. J And there Way? Captain Jacob.? Speler harbor-master. . J And he and Cliff talked to each ' ;$ other deep down in their chests-- i 'making a rumbling sound. ifter the manner of sea-faring men. J And I couldn't understand what -they were talking about, 'j jAnd I felt like a landlubber. which I believe waa their ob ject. 1 , fj And they told me to get on hoard. J And I got on. .'; J And Captain Speler cranked up the launch "Astoria." and she snorted end cougrhad and started down the harbor, . 51 And I felt like I wis baing : shanghaied. jl And Woody Woodruff -The Jour- , nal's photographer was along. --ami I felt safer because Woody t "') gets back aonio time some- j how with the pictures. v I "And down below the Rroadway ' bridge we made a circle and came. " alongside the four-master bark Alice A. I.elgh of Liverpool. J And a man in an officer's cap- at tlte Ivead of hf r lndder saluted. and so did Captain Speler and . Cliff. ' and I tried tJAnd Woody said "ilov.rly.do." J And wo went aboard and Cliff told the first -officer that wa wanted to get a picture of tha crew. J And the firat officer said some thingand the men tame down from the rigging and up from some place until thero were 31. 51 And tlioy lined up laughing nd jomng. men from up and down tha seven seas Scotch and Irish and Kngllah. Swede ond Finn Itallun Japanese sund Yankees. and ethers that 1 couldn't make out. . .. IT And -after Woody had snapped them they went' back to their work merrily. getting thfl "Alice" deep-laden with wheat fit and ready for sea. for whatever wlnda may blow on the lon; pull 'round the curve of the world. J And some of the boys Joked of submarines. "J And of couthg everyone knows who stopn to think that these are the men then happy laughing boys who bring the ends of the earth together. ' ' who risk their Uvea that one people may have bread and another meat. or that milady .shall have her silks. or some fine gentleman his wine. J And I mifftit go on because It's so ean- and talk about the dignity of labor. j J But I hear enough of that talk especially before election. sjAnd the best way to get an Idea of the dignity of labor la to do some yourself. . sj And I hope the "Alice" gels 'safely Into port. - j , . and that the day may tom- when trade shall be free unhindered by tariff or aubmarlne or commerce raider. JAnd perhaps It would help BTing world peace- because , sjLiSTEN-If the nations are fight ing for' a-place in tile sun whjt. not hevel all man-made terriers Hind fet an snare equauy in uie sunngnif THE HOMEOKOWTf BE. To aSeaiul, f .. 0 golden-webbed. Seen-wlnged anjl white Bird of the sea, you are to Tars' A cbtld of tbe Murkllng sonllKKt, Who o'er the bfilows soar and flee. " Wafting tba sblp amid her f light. ;. Wlen waters war and breakers fling , 1 p from tbelr midst resnanrts your cry TUeo does your beart w.thln yon sing, A gleefully, with reckless ere, You chant the storm from slanUng wlotr. You settle on the foaml'.g mere Ai If unto a mother's breast, Nor white-rap dread, nor comber fear, Put on tbelr rearing lap find rest. As o'er the desert depth tuu fare. Your huntlnc-gronnd Is far aad wlde l're la your vision; nnoonflned; , i Where'er the ware roles or the tide, I There Is your Beating place assigned, As hoary ocean gods provide. Of earth and heaven you make a soma, Buff'tinf tbe steep and tentlese roof Tamely the haauts of man you roesa, ' And when from hlis you draw aloof. Seek ouce again tba distant foaai. '' O, Gall, unto the World fast chained, Well bare 1 paid for tit blah place: And from tbls sphere oil Inlss ordained. Would that another I n Irbt trace; What I bar lust, ou bare attalntd-f U aorta Sbsaeas. Ieparednass. rrom tbe DaUas Obserrr. ' i There is a strong feeling ainonf our atatesmen that a aupply of marble postofflces at strategic po litical pointa in their districts would be a treat help toward pre- , paredness in ' eaae the United . Htates were invaded "by a foreign power. ; Xdfe's Infinite YarUtr. Spring if looked upon by maajr as tba saost ' dellgbtful season of tbe year, but tbls oon- ttot oe saia oi tne maomatic. ids cota ana drtmp weather brings on rheumatic pains whim aru anything bat pleasant. Tbey caa be r-- uerea, DoweTer, applying ao-anu-ao a n ie Jon ooa aie C V. MiMii I,v anA Tom Hon ma das out fire young coyotes on Cordon butts Suu-, day. Tom got fonr sbots at tba old ones sod Jake three, but tbey iisd buck ferer and 4 , miasea. sheets saw a reiiiesna!. wuu-u klll4 with a ahA rom hla aam. Tba) bottfta. 1 rattle and part of tbe tail aer brought ) lata town and need U conclusively settle i numerous bets of boxes of eij-trs as to wblrh way a rattler carries bis tnuaic vox uai-wsys . or lo-f-ways. aiora trownM, j 3' . Ifj Stealing Ice cream f cm porches' of resl- v. limn, vif ' " " - 1 vwua avauHww - - . ... lea cream is considered by boys ia aomearbit th same light of stealing watarmahMia and outer field fruits, snd is equally ba irdnqs. : A load if rnek aalt from tbe mnsxla and or a i Hot a-nn nrmllMl to tha seat of MUMWat'l trousers may not feel the bast, bnt tbls ia the natural result oi aucn wrvapaeas. vurrauia t Csaette-Times. ' t 'ViJ A mitata la an edible, nutritious and , ecrvedly popular vegetable of the eosamoa gar dee variety, but baa Its limitations. Properly f carves asa reposing in a aiing mag n was aU right, bet Is wholly m capable and inoom patent. Charley Keen foood tbls eat, to tba greet amusamant of tba Initiated, while acting; aa assistant barber to Shorty James -oa AU ,lj reels' day. Waatoo eaaar. - ( Uncle Jeff 8now Says: , , I know fellers who have to hold up their pants with safety, pins 'stead f buttons, their wives are so buay witn -uplift societies. Many, a, chicken has got caught xby ; coyotea Jtiecause of ;l hopping, off the roost after the any worn - .