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- ..s 0 THE OREGON SUNDAY JOURNAL, PORTLAND SUNDAY MORNING, MAY 7. 1916. . . ri Vr iM iriM a i I I ITilL. U W U rINAL- i AN IUDKPKNDKNT NEWSPAPER. . m. jackhon Fobiuhr ! -it,)). "rr, day. afternoon .ni mnin. i eept 8nndT fteruoont. tt tij jwirni . utfDor;.',,ro,w' od y"uU"1 ,U- Vott' I .ntered it lb ooelofflce at Portland. Or l tranHDtMion turougb th umii mcooi ' cm matter, 1 KLKPHONKS Main 717.1: Horn. A-H0S1. All I departmrnta rm bfJ by theae camber. Tell lu Ofterator what department you want. -oukion aiH KKTisiNU un'KEi'KN r a r i v b i ilrnUmln Kentnor Co.. Bru-i.wlck HWf .. 22S Fifth At.. New York, liils .'eoule'e tsc Bldg.. Chicago. I Sabarrlptloo term by null or to anr ad lrvaa In the LnlU-tl State or Mexico: , DAILY (UOUMNU OR AFTKKSOON ) Ooejear 13.00 k' One montb f .CO j SUNDAY. Ooe year 97 M I One month I .25 DAILT (MOBNlN'i Oil AFTERNOON ) AN U .., HIINDAV One year I7.M) I One month I .M Aa-rlra .... nothln. for wraelf but what ba baa a ritfht to ak for humanity Itaeir. i V- . w"""u"w "'i'- umi .,.. . 'n, i Irthote. f liutl.i:t r cisrKVKT r1 Peace, rucntiii'i-ee mii.I h'UirHt frlrinNMo with all imHi.n I'litiii'KlliiK ,lh 111 ' .with none. lintniit ,lt'ff.TH"n. THK NOTK AMI AKTKK UK German note is one of the banks for rest and smooth lawns, conies out that the Christian mis impressive events of tho war. j for play; and pleasant streams and j sionaries make tut few gains. It is impressive in various j woods; and rocky places for climb-1 As a militant, missionary faith, ways. ing." Here in miniature is tne , rhristianit v nassprl its 7.Pnit"h manv Thus, if not In terms, it does in fact acknowledge that President I Wilson is light in his Insistence that it is wrong to sink merc hant vessels without warning and with- out safety to passengers and crew, It is a complete assent to the prin- ctples the president has urged re-1 Bpecting submarine warfare. The German governments high ! example of agreement with that i principle should be an appeal to other belligerents, as it is an ap-la peal to the approviil of Christen aom. 11 is an examine 10 uewnan nartiRfLiiR in America, manv of Whom have asserted all along that PrM.ni Wilson wsu. wronir in his " - " contentions in the submarine con-; troversy. The Gorman govern- ment's acfeptance of the president's View is proof that such parlisans pi,.IM.p Gf present day world condi wefe tliemselves wrong and the'tjona? jjke children, practical president right. ' ' All this has to be admitted on no less an authority than the Her man note itself. Having made inese RCKnowiriiKmein, nit; l- jnan government must realize and every German partisan in America must realize, that the American Contention has hcen of great valiio'fio f it jg not vet complete. Re- to Germany herself In savinjr her , tnrnins to tne children who played converts. Since Jbis day the work from continuance in a course to!wjthin the house, Ruskin found nas no forward; upti the whole, Which Bhe felt driven by the des- thc.m also happy at flirt. ; not without results. But while the peration of war, hut which was j,,r them had been provided every Christians have won their thous tumlng the sentiinent of all neu- kind of in-doors pleasure. There was ands the Mohammedans have won tral8 and the sympathy of mankind music for them to dance to and the their tens of thousands It in sig away from her. Z Ind ulew 1; "iant in this matter that the j4;.-Having hccii led hack by the mils(um uU of the most curious s Koran is offered to the natives representations of America to a shells and animals and birds; and without the appendage of the rum purpose to apply the rule of warn- 'here wiis a workshop with lathes and '' barrel and the rifle. This mav not fng and safety to human life on Z? ulZi unconnected with its ready ac- i 'merchant ships. C.ermany's po- 1u; (irosseH for the Kirls to "dress in; : Sition in the favor of the worfd is and there were microscopes and ka-i tremendously lifted. ! leidoHcpes: nd whatever toys a child .:, . , . t .could fancv; and a table In the dining J Another impress.ve presentment, i.im wi(h everytlllng nk.e ! , III the note is the mention of peace, , t rnt ; " from which observers are drawing I Surely in such a situation there j the inference that. Germany is wil- j should be contentment, hut into I ' ling to conclude the war. The ref-; this Klen rarne the serpent of avar- erence is dim and vasue. but it is : i(.e and desire for exclusive posse ; poaslble that between the lines, ;8j0n. ,j Germany intended to convey a tre-j n'rucu two or three of the more : mendOUS message. I "practical" children that they would "V The time, the place, and the!llk,! somp of t,le brass headed nails il it i . i 'that studded the chairs, and so thev ! uiemou vine nui iiiaiun u m mie. H Germany holds by far the best po- j . Bttion among the belligerents as to conquered territory. 1 But Verdun is a failure. On that gigantic undertaking a great ; cause was staked and lost. It was' ' the mightiest military effort by j tne migntiest military nation known to history. The war annal- i ' lsts of the future are almost cer-j jtalll to classify it as a defeat. j Will there be other Verduns. must be tne query amor.g German i Statesmen. Io Verdun the Gettysburg of : .the American Civil war. must he a j serious thought among German J numary critics. ; , -- There is no probability that Germany considers for one mo-, ,;ment mat sne can ,e conquered.. .Not is sne llKeiy to be conquered. t, But wnat more can sne do to con-1 quer her enemies, who have free access to the granaries and indus - trial resources of the world, is the Question? i ' How yearningly the weary and '-pent peoples of the involved na - fnn 1, ions for neac.e! a ft.r 21 months of shambles, with what "" ji. ounger iney must iouk across tne:i - 1 . , i .. 1 sea to peaceful and prosperous i . America and sigh for a like tran- otiilitv. V; It would not be an Unheard of ' thing if the peace references in : '.' the German note are a govern- ; ment's hope of answering the cry of spent and bleeding millions for !; thW8neatned sword and a time I ? of rest. ' ; viv" ' It Is In such a contemplation i that the course of America, a i ; course that has brought forth the condemnation of war-makers and Jingoes, reveals Uself in Its higher , aspect. Far above the tumult and t the shouting, the clamor and the t criticism, has been the idea of what America may be able to do . aft a peacemaker when the antag onists are spent and weak. In tbat tremendous hour; ia that . ; -:ifVt.V if .!-' -. .... moment when the bleeding: nations ! meet at the great council table to treat on the mightiest issues the world has known, who knows but America, by her record of peace anj jjy t,ne power of her menu- ship for all. may not be able to , I start a movement by which wars a shall be no more? . ; On" of the assets of Oregon that i is little understood or appreci- J ated is the bird life. Only a few j know the richness and variety of our feathered friends of the for- j of which Senator Chamberlain is jests and meadows. The pictures : chairman, has voted unanimously of our bird life as exhibited by j to restore the 40 per cent ap State Biologist Finley are of great i portionment of graut land pro value in disseminating information ceeds to the Oregon school fund. on a most pleasing subject. nrsKix's vivid picture 0 NK of the unexplained things when Jt wag mcre Jn,portarjt for of life is that in a world of j the peopIe of thiB state to present beauty and plenty there isja united front Every appeal and war, poverty, death and deso- : resolution from organizations and lation. Uiiskin, in one of Ms lectures, i makes use of the symbol or a child's May day party to illustrate this peculiarity of human existence and to expose the principle of greed that is at the base, lie said: 1 dreamed I was at a child's May due n:irtv In which every moans of . I l.r.,1 Imnn nrni'lilarl fori 'them hv a wise and. kind host. It i PMlfl L.IIITIIJCUl IIHU ....... .-vj w;ls j, ' siatel V house with beaut i- . ri gardens attached to it and the children had been set free in the i r"iiiH and gardens, witli no rare , whatever '"it how to pass their after noon rejoicingly. The children were divided into j the same story. We read over and two parties, one in the house and j over again in their books accounts one in the garden, in w:-ich "were j of the rapid strides of Mohanime a II kinds' of flowers; Bweet grassy ; danism while at the same time it world. For a while the children j as they played in this garden were happy, but presently they divided into parties and then each party , declared it would have a piece of 'the garden for its own and that none of the others should have anything to do with that piece. Naturally there were violent quar- rol. - s a.i to which pieces they should have. At a.st tho w.yi took up the thin j io sh-mid do, practically. loniiht in the flower beds till there "- ' I Mi- f,VL-tr lffr Mt :l ri1 i HIT : ; ,,. Jliey trampip,i down rat-u others i.nu rr mnipn out of spite: and the Kins cried till they conni cry no mrr,,icHi miiiirtiicy miner uie jesti- iu" l"vy 'us, iiue misiunary zcai leu lew hr athless in the rum. and waned )or lne utne wiien they were to be tak. n home in tlie evening. Could there be a more graphic moil . so called, "kings, councillors.1 statesmen and builders of king doms, capitalists and men of bust- i ness who weigh the earth and the: dust of it In a balance, are war- rinp. f(JJ. plccoa 0 garden, places in the sun. Hnr our picture and the annlica- . . - i n ? tZl "i were reading I or looking at shells, took a fancy to i 'lo the llke- an1 in a I!ttle while an telr n; i iYin oJt th. bra i headed nails Then came rMsaatlsfTrtion nndisnares In tne old Rockefeller con discontent. Every child wanted to ! exchange books cakes and micro- .mnp for hraa hadoi mile i ,nd at last they hesan to right for'into whlch the or'ginal monopoly naii heads as the others foupht frir a : had split. '"l . 01 .K'lVaon- -"' nere ann tin-re ; rorner an,, triHl t0 t mu ; into a Witi, a iook in the midst of the noise. ut all the practical ones "" no,hinK e,se but hunting j As the struggle of the children . "'." "t " n ' r tl Z t 'r pension o ' terntory - ! ,V";" I. ' ' 7 ; " l" "o" j ,"ade and comnierce, to accumulate. lbfa hA, tacuks' . v ! The child ia the father of tne ian. lt , ",w OWD con- ' temi),ate9 the advance of wages A n V. VII. i l f,ff",,-0 1 em??e h 60r" fnn.fnlu ii i j v . '-"'ii.'i. ..ana lu 1 11 1 n (l wnn in nnv. i ing for it. , T1S A MAD WORLD I S THE whole world going crazy? t p Pendleton way a prominent citizen has been hanging round tne scnooihouse in a rural dis-1 j trict threatening the schoolma'am nuu ner pupils with a gun. In Tacoma a court convicted a young fellow for slandering George Wash ington. In Chicago the courts have been busy with the case of a man who has elandered Shakespeare. Death and the lapse of time were once supposed to render human beings, immune from the serpent tongue of the slanderer but we are changing all that. In fact we seem to be verging toward the views of the Chinese who re gard the dead as far more sacred than the living and who protect t'em far more vigorously from abusive tongues. We seem also to be leaning more or less toward the views of the wucn nunters or oiaen unie. In Portland we are conducting witch hunt with the Portland school board compelled to act as the inquisitorial body. Are we yet to go back to ghost dancing and English blue laws? The sub-committee of the senate 'There will now be a hot fight at Washington with the school chil- dren of Oregon as the paramount issue. Thera never was a time individuals sent from Oregon is an asse, for thosfl who are li2:ht- ing for the Oregon school pupils. THIS MILITANT KORAN HE faith of Mahomet, it ap pears, is making rapid ad vances in Africa. So numer ous are its converts, accord- T mg to uie Aiemuuibi uoaru oi iur- . . . . . . i - eign missions, that there is Serious danger of its conquering the whole .. . , i continent except those compara tively small areas inhabited by whites. Travelers have long told centuries aco. We know from an- cient recorj8 that it formerlv had churches in central Asia which have disappeared. It was also once the religion of Egypt far up the Nile and of all northern Africa. These territories it lost to Moham medanism very early in the history of the rivalry of the two faiths. Mohammedanism has also lost some of the territory i!t once had. Spain is an example, but upon the whole . 1 i. J i i i i "QO "v ,u 1,0 f-"i.m inuaiauij Well Christianity enjoys a period of parts of the earth unvisited except the interior of Africa. They founded missions In China, India and among the American Indians. Hut after all. they made no whole sale conversions such as St. Pat rick did In Ireland and St. Otto in Prussia in thie days when our faith blazed with the missionary spirit. The interior African Christian missions owe their vital impulse to Livingstone, who-traversed the un discovered wildsiand made many ceptance. . jf the interstate Commerce com- . , ... . mission will not grant Portland rates on a basis, of a water-level haul, the Columbia river will, if Portland will call upon it to do bo. A DISSOLVED THl'ST R EADERS wiai remember that the Standard Oil company was "dissolved" by the fed eral supreme court a few years a- The consequences of that august judicial action have been curious. For one thing, it led l the 'ssue r a Kat many new securities. Persons holding cern were Presented with divers Ilew ceiiiucaies representing noia ings in a number of the fractions It turns out. istst as cautions ob- servers predicted, that the splitting went not a great deal farther than 'tho Isomd of tipuj ctnLr nui-iirinotna The management of the fractional companies remained the same as that of the old concern. The rno- nopoly now felt secure from mo le8tatlon by the,courts afld there "fore the price of its stock rose to unprecedented figures. Its control of the oil supply was as complete as ever and therefore dividends in creased. The oil monopoly has never been so prosperous as since it was dissolved by the supreme court it has even taken direct advan tage of the court decree to enhance its nrofita Is tho older rlnva wo 1 " had one big monopoly, the Stand ard Oil company, which controlled everything connected with petrole um products. There is still the 'same monopoly but it appears un- der three forms. The first is a j "producing company." The second Is a "refining company." The third is a "distributing company." Each of these "Companies" extorts a big profit from the consumer, so that instead of paying blood money to one monopoly he now has to pay It to three. And these three are one. No wonder, then that the divi dends of the oil magnates grow bigger and bigger every year. No wonder that the price of gasoline rises higher and higher. Formerly the gasoline consumer had to pay tribute to a single robber baron. Now he must satiate the greed of three, and the three divide the proceeds. We hear a great deal of late about competition in the oil busi ness, but most of it Is empty talk. Effective competition in the oil business is largely illusory, as far as the east is concerned, be cause the old original Standard Oil monopolists own the pipe lines. The pipe lines, which are essen tial to success in oil marketing and refining, have not been regulated by federal law as they should be. The oil barons make such use of them as they like and thus keep a strangle hold on the industry. The oil business Is about as much of a monopoly as it ever was. The de cree of the supreme court against the octopus is justly characterized by the Christian Science Monitor as "farcical," and conditions are not likely to be any better until congress takes decisive action. The Sherman anti-trst -act has been like a pigmy's straw in t lie battle against the gigantic oil mo nopoly. Thus far it has been in effective against most of the com binations which It was passed to destroy. It has ruined certain la bor unionists, like the Danbury hatters, but the big monopolies which rule and rob the country it lias usually not curtailed at all. In come cases" it has strengthened them. A hopeful sign that the dove of peace may be hovering over Europe is in the reports of popular discon tent in the various earring coun tries, it is beginning to look as though the vox populi is getting ready to tell its kings and its chancellories where to head in. WILLAMKTTK'S PROGRESS w ILLAMETTE university is the oldest school of its rank in the state, but it is one of the last to dispense with its preparatory department. This it will-do at the close of the' current year, as we learn from the Salem Statesman. Not many years ago almost every Oregon college had a preparatory department. Or if not, then the freshman and sophomore college years really did nothing but high school work. Pa cific, university did its preparatory work in the Tualatin academy and was therefore in somewhat better situation than its sister institu tions. As pioneer makeshifts tho pre paratory departments were neces sary because the state had no high schools except the one in Portland. Rut on the other hand, the pre paratory departments retarded the development of high schools. Even in Eugene, the seat of the state university, the town did not feel required to provide high school grades as long as the university had thein. In other college tov.ns the college authorities often active ly opposed the advancement of the public schools. They feared that the college would suffer. Salem was one of the last cities in Ore gon to provide true high school w ork. Baker was one of the first to do it under tho inspiration of Mr. Churchill, who is now our state superintendent. Astoria and Ash land soon took the same step and other towns followed suit in due time. The high school grades were usually introduced one at a time and t mis tne rerorm was accom plished without too great disturb ance of traditional notions. The antique theory that the public rchool should not go beyond the eight lower grades died hard in Oregon. The Agricultural college at Cor vallis is now dropping its "pre paratory" years. It had a better excuse than any other institution for retaining them becaTrse the public schools have been slow to introduce technical work. Rut progress has now reached the point where it can be done. With the change at Willamette the Oregon colleges will be finally rid of an incubus and the faculty will not be required to teach a high school and conduct a college all in the same day for the same salary. On this page is a diagnosis of Pcrtland and a discussion of Port land's status that is one of the best that has appeared. It is by II. II. Ward, and should be read by all Tortlanders. XEED OF A SHOW DOWN P LOWDEN ST0TT, if elected to the lower house of the Oregon legislature, will introduce a bill to give to the county in stead of to the sheriff, whatever , . . , j. - nrrtfit noornpft frnm tnn TPAflintr fif ..... V U tl 11 1 nuu icuciai ryiiovuvio. Last year, the side profit to the sheriff on this account was about $4000. About $2400 of the profit came from care, feeding and shel ter of federal prisoners. Though the county furnished the shelter, the light and the heat, and should have received the profit, the law is such that the sheriff, not the county, was the beneficiary. The system is wrong. It should be changed. The willingness of the candidates for sheriff to have it changed, as expressed through The Journal, makes the present the psychological time to take th nec7 essary steps. If elected, Mr. Stott will intro duce the bill in the legislature. What other legislative candidates will pledge their support to it? Let us have a show down. The Portland organ of standpat ism and reaction has saved the Re publican national convention a lot of trouble and work by eliminating Roosevelt and nominating Hughes. THE ANSWER TO "WHAT IS THE ANSWER?" :P (JUTLAND. May . 2. To the Ed- , itor of The Jour- ' nal Your editori J al of May 1, com paring Hamburg and Portland, is Interesting. You ask the question at Uie conclusion of the editorial and you head it wjth the same ques tion: "What is the answer?" The answer is easy and short Hamburg Is in Germany; Portland Is in Oregon. Germany during the last forty years has made greater advance in many lines than any other nation on the globe. Oregon, considering her white population andherearly opportunities, coupled with her strategic position, bus probably made less progress than any other ftate In the Union. You solve the riddle of the differ ence wiier. you say in your editorial. "Hamburg's harbor is artificial; man made and man-maintained." Here lies the secret of the success of Hamburg and the loss of prestige of Portland Man, Man, Man. I.ast week I went through the Yakima valley with tho Chamber of Commerce excursion. I have made several trips through that country loaning money on real estate, but never before did I meet man in that j daV afternoon. It is a loop trip In , , ,, , . ., . . . eluding the west and east banks of country as I did in tins Chamber of , )e wi!IamettP. t.rosslnK the river at t'omm. -rce excursion. Never did I see j Oregon City and Including the most man more -determined, more enter- excellent view from the height h prising, more happy. What Is the ahove 'be falls of the Willamette. The ,, , distance is about 30 miles, answer- The desert transformed into; (.Q so,lth vfa MH,.:ldam road, on the a garden, "man-made and man-main-1 west side. This is really the route tained.-; 'of the Pacific highway. In the vicln- t-v,.. tt Ktv, o .v, -n I Itv of Riverdale note the attractive 1 he result both man and the soil . - , ,, . , ,, ,ii ... Ti I homes of well-to-do 1'ortlanders. The clamoring for an outlet down the "r'-' coloration of the bills will attract lurnbla for the produce raised In that you. It would be difficult to repro-"man-inade" and "main-maintained" 1 duce artificially the variety of shad- ! lugs In green that you will discover, country. . The wlllanlette s always beautiful For Portland, her harbor and her to look upon, especially where Its cur river, "What is the answer?" A little rent is divided by Rock Island, local enterprise In the building and At Oswego you may turn to the fc right If vou wish for a view of the owning of "man-made and man-main- , ,akft that')s sa1d to resemble, with its tained" ships. Stop talking and think- 1 high shores, one of the lakes of ing and investing fn Portland's chief j Ireland. commodity of good times, real estate, i The bridge that crosses the river at . ' Oregon City you will find interesting What Is real estate? Soil; in the because of Its structure and historic country for the growing of farm pro- character. It is a suspension bridge d iets; In the city for the housing ; that has been In service many years of business blocks, warehouses and homes as needed. ! Keal estate shontd always take Its .... - . 1. .... .t. . ... aui nuiii uie usr- iur v n u n 1 1 i ?j needed or to which It can be put. With Oregon t li at value has too often been based on the prtcn to be ob tained from the tenderfoot from the fast who has come out here and lis tened to some of the Arabian Nights tales handed him abo'it our rpal.njw tnal for administratis e reasons it estate. Now proved to h excessive ! js important that the t'nited States both as to city and country values, ! senate act with more expedition than Oregon has been spoiled. We have j been watching the wonderful devel- j opments in our midst with eastern i capital and we have forgotten that ceive and then decide to accept a nomi perhaps we have a little local capital ! nation to the presidency from the Re v , . , . , i publican party in June that action of our own that may he -lying: Idle oulJ at dep,ete by one tle num. Instead of seeking Investment, a la ,fcr 0f working judges for the nation's Hamburg. I was once Interested In , burdened tribunal. Hence, for a vari shipping on the Great Lakes; ore ; ety of prudential reasons. It w ill be t i , . . , , i well for the senate to move, quite down and coal tip. I have had divl- we" ,r , H,r. ,ha, ! apart from any natural desire mat dends as high as 38 per cent. iboth the president and Mr. Hrandeis What Portland 'needs today is not ! may have to know what the decion of ... ,. ,, . . . the confirming body ;s to be. a few big capitalists owning ships, . but the masses of the population The case to date has been unprece- 1 dented in the publicity given to formal turning their thoughts to ownership arKUlnents for and against conflrma in steamship lines which will carry '. lll)n by the senate, made at hearings the flag of Tortland to the Orient held by a subcommittee and in peti- with her hundreds of millions. to!''ns "nt in to the li:ime l',dy- Th , f ii-i tlit this lirnel:Kht of evidence and In.Ua with her hundreds of millions. ! 0 nd con wa welcomed by to Attstralia and the Islands, to South : tIie n0minee and by his friends is In America, and, in fact, to all the lands! itself a fact not without considerable bordering that preat ocean, into which flows the only river in America which has cut her channel throuph the mountain barrier of our continent. Nature cut that channel through the mountain. The United States has made that channel navigable. What has man (the citizen of Ore- Pon the citizen or Portland type or man) done with what God and trie Kovernment 'have given him? "What is tne answer: Portland lias a yacht club and a canoe club and more automobiles than she can afford, which make excur sions on the Columbia highway. She also has a few river boats of a "before the Civil war" type. She has .no modern high-power 1 f reigiit carrying barges; she has no j ocean going steamships; and today she is experiencing that biblical truth 1 that "even that which she had has . been taken awpy." I refer to the foreign owned boats which used to. call at Portland but which have been j withdrawn for other uses. 00 I 11 J - If Portland had busied herself since doned seaport into a beehive of marl the Lewis and Clark exposition In 1 time activity. How? Rulld and own making herself a maritime city by the building of Portland owned ships, j instead of trying to grade down in.- I possible hills to make unneeded resi- i-'ooiiw ; donee t-ites, she todav would not he the only city of her size in the United States still on her uppers. She would have had Portland owned ships to carry the commerce of the Columbia basin, ships-which the allied govern ments could not take away or order to carry nothing- but war materials to Russia. Babylon died because ah turned her engineering feats to hanging gar dens and all that went with them. We have several hanging gardens on our hillsides. Some of them are no longer "hanging." They have "slid." We need homes, and town lots on which to build them, but a home lis an expense, not an Income. Ships, perfectly managed represent Income, and they beget trade, and trade begets prosperity, and prosper ity begets homes. We have put homes and real estate first. They should be last, and a result of the prosper ity which a locally owned and con trolled commerce will give to the city and to the state. That is how Hamburg did It Will Portland wake up and it toot I GOODBYE, PROUD WORLD By R. W. GOODBYE, proud world! I'm going home; Thou'rt not my friend, and I'm not thine. Long through the weary crowds 1 roam, A river-ark on the ocean brine. Long I've been tossed like the driven foam And now, proud world, I'm going home. Goodbye to Flattery's fawning face; To Grandeur, with his wise grimace; To upstart Wealth's averted eye; To supple Office, low and high; To crowded halls, to court and street; To those who go and those who come; Goodbye, proud world! I'm going home. I am going to my own hearthstone, Bosomed in yon green hills alone A secret nook in a pleasant land. Whose groves the frolic fairies planned Where arches green, the livelong day, Hcho the blackbird's roundelay. And vulgar feet have never trod A spot that is sacred to thought and God. Oh. when I am safe in my sylvan home, 1 tread on the pride of Greece and Home; And when 1 am stretched beneath the pines Where the' evening star so holy shines, I laugh the lore and the rrid of man, At the sophist schools, and the learned clan; For what are they all, in their high conceit. When man in the bush with God may meet? JOURNAL 7 Up and Down Here Is a drive for some fine t5un- and that apparently will defy the passage of time and carry the traffic. for a number of years to come. Great cables are carried across the river and given necessary elevation by twin , - , towers at either end of the span. The SENATE'S DELAY From the Christian Science' Monitor. Conditions affecting the personnel of the federal supreme court are, eurti it has yet show-n In dealing wnn uie nomination of I.ouis I). Hrandeis Boston. If it should also happen that u member of the court should first re i significance, i 11 ey nave nia nu unii. ti evade the issue, ana iimeeu nuve much prererreu 10 nam - " and for all the truth or falsity of eharpes of which some had been cur rent for several years, especially sin. e the Boston jurist bejean to be a na tional figure and formally or lnformal lv. as court advocate or party adviser, be'pan to shape judicial decisions, com e J V..... ...111. rri'a mission decrees ami cuni i-.-.-. iiostilitv to him and to the i tln ories oflaw and of business for j which he""has stood, and still stands. has increased as nis spnere .m nn.v erce ras wwen, aim vm.- - . - feel sure, has not been forgotten by the general public. The time would seem to have come j a. .1 IVia ff.ef WP am tired of hearing Hamburg quoted ho much. Let's hear something about Portland. She is not the "Hamburg cf the Pacific" now, but Bhe can be made so If Portland will only wake up and develop some "man-made and man-maintained'" commerce, carried In Portland owned ships. If those Yakima valley farmers can turn a desert Into a garden, the citl- f Portland can turn en anan- ttle ships to do It with HUBERT II. WARD. Letters From the People clmimnnlcatlonB aent to The Journal for pnlilieatlon Id thla department mbovild be writ ten on only one aide of the paper, ahoold not exceed 300 worda In length and moat be ac companied br the name and addreaa of tbe aesder. If tbe writer doea not dealre to bare flic name publlabed. he aboold ao atate. Rose Festival's Business Bearing. Portland, May 4 To tho Kdltor of The Journal Kver since our first Rose Festival. 10 years ago. I have watched its effect on the Portland peo ple from the viewpoints of a home i owner and a builder of homes. As a member of the board of direc tors of the Rose Festival association, I am convinced that this annual affair Is one of the best things and most practical events ever undertaken by any city. It seems that these affairs carry a message to the outside world that Oregonians are not the staid, matter-of-fact people they are reputed to be; that out here In our glorious west the sunshine and flowers mean a part of our daily lives; the pictures of happy children and proud parents indi cate in no uncertain measure the healthf ulness of our climate. People with means are the class at tracted by these messages. They come ' . r' ,t hAr. Th n l- 4 n An4 -IO. thla a. A meet new acquaintances; thes develop Emerson JOURNEYS the Willamette River roadway is luli above the water, and looking down win f ren 11 ent I v mav koa ambitious fishermen engaged in that!were bo1" chief of piscatorial snorts, the lurin of the king . hinook salmon. From the bridge look directly south for one of the best views to be had of Willamette River falls ' The water de scends over a horseshoe curve in a smother of foam and with a roar that fills the air. (in either side are the power plant and paper mills that util ize the electric energy developed here On the right are the ( iregon City lucks that were reconstructed when taken over by the government and made freo to river craft. Oregon City Is Uself of historic in terest. It was a flourishing town when Portland was merely a landing on the edge of the forest that grew down to the river bank. To reach the heights nhove Oregon City turn at Seventh street and climb the hill, then turn northward. The charm of the view is left for you to real Ize. 1 And yesterda up at '"hampoeg Return on the east side, crossing Uiat the loundeis- day . clel.i at ion Clackamas rier at Gladstone, a choice I tUere were some icporn rs. oi routes is onereu you. toil may i turn to the left at Gladstone and fol low the road that skirts the river, and leads through Milwaukie, and go back to the city on the road that Is an ex tension of Kast Fifty-second street. AND INJUSTICE now for action by the senate as xwnuo. 11 mm eruiei is to tie based Jlmies has collected enough l.is-tc.r ieaV, on eidence taken, and for no ulterior ; reiics to fill a lug niii-euni reasons it has abundant data with, 01115 ,allll, data .0 Ul I ,' ' to.f1orm a "o"eJ Ju,'fmp',t' :ma.,v volumes l-urther delay cannot be justified by. the plea of ignorance. Having chosen to make the investigation In the open, the senate Is under obligations to use, the light so obtained, and that with- out delay. It must do this for Its own sake as well as for Mr. Brandeis', for every week's hesitation Increases the suspicion of the public respecting In-! fluetiees that may he operating against immediate action and against confir mil..... O . T).-.,.,.l..... . . . . . 9 I . ...-.v.v,... -iu.. 1 ov Mte "" is fuujeeieu iu iiiucii piejuoicetl ooy- cotting even In tolerant America. The senate cannot afford to give counte nance to the supposition that this fac tor makes it laggard. Mr. Brandeis has Incurred the opposition of for midable business Interests by his ineories or inw, ousiness and govern- mental supervision of Industry and transportation and by his practice ns a lawyer In making himself "an attor ney for the people." Tho nonate can hardly care to n-ssert that only per sons who follow legal and political tra ditions and care supremely for the in terests of property are lo be indorsed by It as fit for the supreme court bench; and this at a time when tin senate's own share in government is progressive and not conservative. A rejection, to conserve the reputa tion of the senate and to satisfy the public's sense of Justice, must rest on proved unworthlness of -character and Intellectual shortcomings of the ap pointee; and these, If affirmed, must be reconciled with the previous reputa tion of the man as a citizen, nn an honored official of a great law school, ax an adviser of the federal govern ment and lesser organizations, political and social, and as a weighty and or iginal writer on law and ethics tn their relations to modern society, Industrial and political. and grow Into friendships. The vast, undeveloped resources of our city and (state appeal to their desire for invest ment of idle funds. And where a man Invests his money he Is apt to want to spend his time. Kvcntually many of this class -will call Portland "home," Jkmiihk Iniil.linu M-rnilt. . Once settled In Oreron their me-ms "Whafa tli uaeV aaM Oninrllnian Unf it n.. se i.eci in uregon ineir means . ...n) ,wilra(ljr. wm jt ,d(j thai will enable our existing Industries to jrifc-b to hli" hill." er.list the additional capital to put j A little Inter (Vnnr!lmiin Penlanl rwm. them in a world competing market mended that the eo-,0eii appro,,! late jioo for i. .i j fi-v.1 i . lrtallltie i I gt-1 j on the lr.lla r!rlrrtj wit;, their products. This Increased ndd,.i MO nn-i-Ur, m , production means more workmen, more Homes, more scnoois; and It means that I'ortland Is destined to become the leading city of the Pacific coast. In our efforts to promote our busi ness affairs let us not forget that making- our city attractive Is one of our fundamental means of making' business better. That is why 1 say that the liose Festival Is Portlands primary asset as an attraction." OLIVER K. JEFKERT. Causes of Insanity. Portland, May 6. To the Editor of Th Journal In last evening's Issue of The Journal, an article appears under the heading- "Alcoholic Insanity Cases Discussed." In which Dr. Robert E. Lee Stelner, superintendent of the state Insane asvlum. Is quoted saying that alcoholism and the red plague are chiefly responsible for the 1640 patients In the Oregon hospital for the Insane. "Chiefly responsible," of course. Is an Indefinite quantity, but It would certainly suggest more than half. In the last United States census re port for 1910, 10 per cent and a frac tion in given as the proportion of al coholic psychoses of all the Insane in this country. Nor does this by any means Infer that 10 per cent of our In sane are such as a result of the abuse of alcohol, any more than It might mean that they used alcohol because they were insane in the first place It Is hard to believe that the cit izens of our state are ao much more affected by alcoholism than those of other states, as the reported re marks of Dr. Stelner would lead us to believe. ERNEST F. TUCKER, TKoXnce Qer BXJX.LAMPMAN QNCE l' Pox a TIM K in Portland y-s tneie was u new reporter who dldn t know very n.urh m,.rHhnii i on land i ire kou U, an he did about Portland Maine. I fFAnd he had neve, hetn in I'ortland I Maine. TfAnd (something happen-. I- that in volved the pioneer hisu.i f the city. And a certain c.ty .-.ht.,1 told tH new reporter to write the t,..r- -l And the new reporter didn't know anyone who could tell him the thing he wanted to know the things neces sary to make a story. And he didn't know what to do. 51 And he asked the city editor. 51 And the city editor looked up -and smiled -and said: 51 "Call up George H. Himes." 5 And the new reporter wondered who George H. I times was. and he called hiui up. and t.ild him what he wanted to know- as u ai as he oul.l. 5 And Geoine II Hums knew what he wanted better than be did. - ami told him- without' leaving th phone. t ' 51 A"d the, new reporter was grateful.' 51 And the . it editor told htm tt wa a good Mory and hid all the l'actn. I 51 And another time in Portland lB" old hotel ih.lt had I,,,.,, th ,-,( "i c.!i da.s wav t.nu down. rl 51 A"d the city editor heard of it. ; --Him told a ccitasn ' write a Mory. reporter to 1 IT And Iiohn.lv tbat the n'iMirtf krew .iin w ,miiuun ah. mi u because it built hifDie they or before the line t- I'm t ,i nil. 5JAnd the repot tor told ih.- .iu edi tor that he couldn't get anvui ni; on it. flAnd the city e.i 1 1 ir- w 1 1 hou 1 look ing up said: "Call up (icorge II Dimes." And the repoiter did and got thu story T Ami another time a pioneer died.' H An.l the repoii. is . ..ol.ln't leach any members of his laniil U All.! they told the eity r , 1 1 I m --and he said: I'Vall up Ceoige II lliuies." H An, they called him and he told thtm tne pioneers hislorv how he came lound the Horn In '43 and where lie settled an.l where they could get a picture of hnn ami all that. I And they .lulu I oii alout any. i thing. because Geoige II. Hi viaa the! e. 1 And sometimes t he to see George II. Minus Tourney building at Taylor. repot 1 ei s go dow n In thu Second and where as assistant sr. -rotary of the irci:i)ir 1 1 isi m i a I ..eii.iv .Mr TM"'! ''p ounht to have a better Haee to keep th.-so treasures, and he Heri a ,11:111.,. to 1 ; , h 1 1' y and arruiiKe them. ( jAnd of louisc-it's a little ranh for a common or garden reporter like me- to make a t-u.-.-s - al.out the next world. 1 nut 1 tniiiK that in alter ears when anione liom Oregon- applies for entrance- at the alabaster gales that St. Peter will just swibh on tho tungstens and give tho applicant the 011.11 over ami then 1 I.1KTKN lie II call a bell-boy and say : f "This poison looks all right--'and .Kays he s limn oiee,,, to look up I. is re old o llvvo- tljillU J'Jusl ask (.hoi go. II. 1 limes." The Traffic Waited. A rut r.-.-ii!l.v l.cl.l up rlio Imfrio Ml Ihi.v I'.r.-n.lw :i r . .-v ..rk 1M. Il waft ll little ill. -uleiil. .y.'l ll -li.-nril Hint renl i-. ri . ih 1 1 1 v i.rui Wle'llinei-H .n i-ri-viill, even Hli.'-nc !!... - cuukIiI In llii- ul.lrl mu irolff Of 111 i-d.i A IIT. ,1'ISl Ht III!!1 lir'H H tilltlrKf ll'Hirft n iil Willi h lliiv kilien In il in.iiitii up. NHIO. Hi OiP i tirll 1111. 1 ft j.Hl errt j (Itftllo.lK i.f en. ..ii.jf ll.e wire.-!. Slo- IIIH'I Inn sliirlH. ti.it h-'Ii tliii- iie t.invo.l rind iiiHlo-d imi-ii to f;.leiv. A I lit i il lime he IMP. I II. I. lit lllilihl "lie fle.l liii.-U to ttm i nrli. ii-rrlfle.l Suddenly liif p.'llee ti'pi. hli v tier dlfftellilv and inM nil I ly h held up IliB hrmd Tlie rush of I ruffle. iln(J Ixilti :M1, Ht Oll.e Rtoptied. JllKf for H lii'-nielit the ilolne lemoned. Seiritf It n .hiii-e, the rut era-iped lis l.iirdeu lighter nnd fjiirleil n.-roii the wide tr.-el. When it hfl.l r.-riflied Uie ojdM.nit.- ourtl In Hfety lll.-re n.-tll UJ.I tl Biyli of relief from R'llllfl i.--ern-lt ; then Ih truffle . ot on U ay . Kernal From the Nut Ppr. j, Wllhur I'litlon If.'iKh' lim m loeel, tore I'rlilny umi U nn'I T.rj Komi ant Kn l unlay hr t. k It l.m k ami the atore-;, keeier msI'1 the har.i hn.l to Ih. ko(1, tbat 1: iiHd Iw-rn .-iiTed "tily a week l.rfore anrt Wilbur di'lul .lit-pni.- It. I. ut a. It mtlt liave mffered H reinitu. llouilajr TuttlM In-' ( t-mralia ( lironl.-lf. ' f'onnei Irnnn I'helpK lt WMnemlay re- j orr-niornle.t thai the eity ree,ulr a f ,f nlli ll Ri niei -i o'nn i , i tnh.ii.-.l l.y the u -ot..r nu-re than an nyoive ele What'a tlie uae ? aald rv.iincllmat,' I'helpa "the doctor a will Jnat add that mucin to their bllla " Weaaljr bill Idogger la dietOB l.ail urri;.miQ. Street &iffiovmi It Was Some Circus. f GD. UAKKIt, who looks uftr . welfare and colleen.. ns of Por. land Tent of the Ma c.iieta, says thfj best circus he ever attended, or eves will, was In a little Iowa town WheOj a boy of 13. To secure the necessarjj finances he end hi" brother hoed ss field of 30 acres of corn about tl4 gulfed with coeKletiurs and It tool? them two weeks of hard word. Hai says: "That - ircic was a heaven! revelation and a secession of won-4. I dcrs that can never he equaled. Thf I best show nowadays is a paltry !mj mitation of il The elephants In thaf circus were 0 feet high, the Uotv ' and tigers weighed 4000 pounds each 1 The beautiful ladies on horseback re ' lembled angein, ana nn nmrvoiorviii miracles performed by slight of hancl man excelled anything ever told In booka or pictures. ; Did Ho Get It? A STRANGER approacbed the bacH X door of the Pine Street Coffe House, known as the MIIHonalres' club' recently, and asked for sustenance. "I haven't eaten for hours,'' he said "Please give me food." "Are you hungry?" asked one of tlx kindly proprietors. "No," replied the famished Indl Tldual, T am Anatrtaa,'' I -.i-.i a. . - .'
