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THE - OREGON . DAILY JOURNAL, PORTLAND,: lioNDAY, MAY 29, 1916. THE JOURNAL - v AM IteTiKPICMDKNT HEWPAPKL C. .- JACKMON Pnnllnher ubHh4 -day, ftrnMa and morning (except Bandar afternoon), at Tb Journal SsUdW. Broadway and XamkUl sta.. Poet, ad. Or. kBtmd at tba postoftice at tartlaad. (or traasmtuloo through the sulks aa second ! natter. AiiLfc.i'HOMCo atoin 71U; Uoma. A-a091.aH , depax4teBts rrs.fcril by tbeaa Bombers. TU .; Ui operator wbu department you want. "Uk,JU Aa-'kEHXISlMU ttXV KUHKMATl VIC , tbntB,i Kealnor Ce- ttninawlck kUOg.. 224 fifth At Maw Xork. UU Peupie'e Waa gtldg, Chicago. .. ttubacriptkm term by mall or to an ad dres fa tba lsited U or Masicot ' DAiJL UlORNlNa OB A-nCttNOON Our $3 XX) On suoath .1 M :-'- a ' SO DAT. fsne year. (2 SO Ooa moBtk $ .23 UAILZ (ktOBNlNO OR ARKBJIOOM) AND I0ND Ax On rear $7.60 On Bjoirth f M America asks nothing for bersetf but wbmt Aoa has a right to aak for humanity ttaelf. f. WOODBOW WILSON. 1 MUIIooa for defense, but not a not for tribm. ciiabi.f.s c. imncknky. Aanerics I fortunate country; hc grow, by tbe follies of our Euroesa na tion. ' Napoleon. THE REAL KILLJOYS IT has become the fashion in certain quarters to declaim against the Oregon system. Speeches by representatives of big business carry statements that . legislation under that cystem dis courages capital from coming to the tate and keeps out prosperity. We . had such a speech before the bank ers last week. - What legislation? The widows' pension law? Is capital afraid of a few dollars bestowed on needy women? :!r Is it afraid of the minimum .wage law? If the payment of waes upon which girls and women cannot live is the price of getting -capital into the state, do we want that kind of capital? : V Is capital afraid o! the workmen's compensation law? Is it afraid of a measure that the legislature passed with only three dissenting rotes, that the supreme court has authenticated, and that on submis sion to the people carried every county and was ratified by the overwhelming vote of nearly three : to tone? . Must the. people surrender their convictions on workmen's compen sation to entice capital into Ore C6n? Do we want that kind of capital? It is not the Oregon cystem that Is discouraging capital from com ing to Oregon. There is no such discouragement except by calamity howling interests who want to go bacli to conventions and bosses and deadlocked legislatures and corrupt politics. Their sobs about the discouragement of capital is the only discouragement that out side capital receives. TLey are ,the real Killjoys. The Oregon system has made " no assault on capital. The people Of the state are not a mob, ready, to tear down institutions and de-i molish the enterprises and activi-! ties of capital. The claim that giv : li.g the people power has made capital afraid, is nonsense. In not ". one single instance have the peo ple shown a disposition to pull down capital. The Oregon system with larger powers for the people, ! Its cleaner government and its lessened power for politicians is an encouragement and a defense of all honest capital. It has come to stay, and It is a waste of time to howl against it. The sane thing for bis business to do Is to accept the Oregon sys tem and cease "discouraging capi tal" with howls to the world that the Oregon system is a menace to capital. The Spring Valley Water com- pany, which supplies water to San . Francisco, after an exhaustive test U Installing motors en the prem-1 lses of every patron. The company has found that It can pay for the meters and then make good profit out of the cost of the water that was going to waste under flat rates. All other customers except house holders wore metered long ago. KEEPING EGGS HOUSEWIVES and diners at restaurants will rejoice to learn that a new and in variably effective way has been found to preserve eggs. It is simple anil cheap In Itself but some expensive machinery is required to carry it out on a large scale. Since . this machinery Is patented we need ' not perhaps expect any marked de cline In the prico of eggs from the new process. . The egg Is Immersed for an In stant in very hot oil. That is the . whole story. If it were left in the bath too long of course it would be cooked and finally burned to ' a cinder, so hot Is the 6ll but as It Is jerked out almost Immediately nothing Is heated hut thai shell and the skin inside It Tbe . beat makes the skin so tough that ao germs of decay can penetrate it. The shell Is sterilised and all its pores sealed with the hot oil The momentary heat also -kills the life germ In the egg so that no ln eoold erer hateh it no matter this germ that makes ordinary eggs spoil so quickly. If city poul try : emits would kill off their roosters they would get better eggs and at the same time earn bless ings from their neighbors. This country has known no rail road colossus who rose to the eml-, hj8tory tas been different from state without the most rigid inspec nence on which James J. HIli;other peopleB- in tne past, why notjtion; some of the rules being al stood. He was a builder in whose 4 ftnr-,7 mva th sinraa most prohibitive. unanciai rnemoas tnere was no taint. His death this morning Ib I tb passing of a national figure who was a sage in counsel, a statesman in vision and in action, a builder of empires. THE PRICE THB war credit of $1,500,000, 000 asked by Premier As quith in the house of com mons last Tuesday raises Great Britain's total war appro priation to $11,910,000,000. Great Britain's budget for the coming year is the greatest in the world's history. In spite of the colossal figures to . which the ex- penditures have already mounted, j single soldier in the Kaiser's do the estimated appropriations for i minions. Nor has the Kaiser been the next 12 months rise to another enormous total of $9,125,000,000. In this war, Great Britain is the banker of the allies. it has al- ready loaned to them and the j British dominions nearly two bil lion dollars, and plans during the year to make further advances of two and a quarter billions. Current taxes in the country are to pay not only the ordinary ex penses of the government, but in terest and sinking fund on the ! huge debt. In addition, a part of i the actual cost of the war is met aay oy aay oy me taxpayers unaer & rigorous system of taxes on con sumption and incomes. Thus, 325 million dollars is raised by a tax on the people's food, their amusements, their rail road tickets, their pleasures and business. Income taxes are raised to 25 per cent, of the income. The tax on profits from war industries is Increased from 50 to cent. 60 per I Under the British policy, tne government is not passing all the 1 burdens or tne war on to luture me necu ana tne astute court witn generations, but by drastic pro-; lifted brows and repressed indigna visions, is paying measurably as it j tion had said "naughty, naughty," goes, with th3 result that the j the proceedings purled on, while credit of the empire is better than i the spectators yearned for more. tnat or any otner Denigerent. Meanwhile, with British expend- j Itures mounting, if the war con-; tinues another year, to the incom-; prehensible total of moro tnan -so billion dollars, a glimpse is had , at the price of being a belligerent ' and a view gainea or tne priceless . advantage it has been for Amer-1 ica to have been kept out of the ' conflict. g I The mother of Dr. Wait "utterly crushed" by the news of lUB verulcl -ynMuioiuB u the electric cha.r at Sing Wng. AJ1 1 the hopes of parents rest on their, children By leading upright lives children should give parents some return for years of weary vigil and tender solicitude. JOHN BURROUGHS I OHN BURROUGHS, who is 79 j years old, smi lives nappy; and serene at his twenty acre farm on the Hudson, which he calls Rivcrby. His mind is much ReSpect for the law ebbs or occupied in these latter years with ( f0ods with the standards set by the fua-amental problems of maaithose who are supposed to guard and nature. In his younger days j and administer it. When an officer he used to see sprita-in waterfalls i of th COUrt. bound by the oath and elves in th, flowers and some , of his most at.ractive essays told . ol these virions. j fisticuffs and billingsgate before Of course the elves and spirits j the judge, with impunity and with were in Lis own mind, not in na- out punishment, it is not a matter ture, but that fact did n-t mar the t of wonder that the common man sweet poetry of his books. John looks from level eyes when he Burroughs told a New York Times , seeks the majesty of the law. reporter a few days &zo that he . thought Walt Whitman was by far i The weather forecaster assures our greatest American poet. Next I us that we are now to luxuriate to Walt he puts Emerson. He says our younger poets, who are such ardut us imitators of Whit man, have something of his form but precious little of his greatness. He attributes the literary poverty of our times to the newspapers which, he says, do not want poetic or artistic' writing but only effi cient writing. But it may turn out, may it not, that the efficient is by the necessity of tbe case, artistic? To the great query of struck Billy Patterson," 'who . , should now be added a quest for I tha fit n t tsr V .- m n m aA tttA 1 y- 9 ' the current May as the beginning08", 10 bu,p 10 lue bwulnera of the straw-hat period in Port- land. THE AMERICAN BLUNDER ENERAL LEONARD WOOD, whe is being quietly groomed as a jiugo candi date for the presidency. states his views on the military situation in a recent number of the New York Times Magazine. The general thinks that the great blun der of our history has been lack of preparedness for war. It follows naturally, though he does not say so, that the advice of Washington against militarism was a mistake and that the constitution erred in setting the civil above the military power. If we had devoted our time and money to drilling sol diers from the beginning of our history we should have been now a great and prosperous country in stead of the miserably poor and weak community that we are In the eyeshot the jingoes. "The United States," says Gen eral Wood, "has never in its GENERAL. LEONARD WOOD, J and woe to the shipper from other j parcels, and these are again divided whe is being quietly states who dares enter that terri-1 among the fathers, sons and daugh groomed as a jlugo candi- tory. California state officials have j ters of Portland families in exchange J.. U t , J I J 1 ,1.., . V. n ...111 1 . . , , , - J V, 1 , jhlgtory engaged single handed In for war." But he warns us that such a war is ' coming, probably J very quickly, because "we cannot expect our history to be different from trat of other peoples. Talk of this sort makes one think a little. Seeing that, as General Wood himself admits, our that made U8 dlfferent ceased to m. 4V,,a ticularly helped to keep us out of the maelstrom of European mil itarism in the past. The first is the singular nature of our Institutions which are de vised for peace and not for war. The second is our geographical situation. The jingoes jeer at the oceans which have been our best defense in the past. They say that modern war does not mind a few thousand miles of salt water. But the fact remains all the same that England with all her fleet has-not been able to shell a solitary German port nor land a able to invade England. The wat- ery walls that have safeguarded England in the past safeguard her still. Why will not walls immense- ly wldsr and higher avail for us? It seems therefore that the causes which have made our his tory "different" heretofore may still be relied upon. If we plunge into militarism it will be by our own fault. The trouble with the auto is tnat few of those who drive realize lts frightful powers of destruction until they have killed somebody. It is one of the deadliest contriv ances that man has evolved. FISTICUFFS IX COURTS 0 NCE more the public is edified by the spectacle of two bel ligerent attorneys walloping each other before a mildly Tjrotestln.tr circuit Judge and in open ! court. After one, peevish because j his veracity bad been called in i question, clouted his opponent in j There are courts in Oregon where attorneys do not go to fight, where personal invective and bitter words are not bandied back and forth from bench to bar, where at- torneys are courteous to each other and to the court and where j the court presides with dignity an(j commands respect. The profession of the law used to be one of high repute. To be a lawyer was to be among the lead ers or tne community; to De a judge was to stand in the forefront i . . . . man &t tne law ' tribunals in reverence. J w fore the bench and a sacred duty to administer the law. It is a sad thing that these con ditions have changed. It is to be regretted that lawyers make prize rings of court rooms, that fists 1 are wielded before the bench, that its solemnity ana dignity so oiten give way before the shyster and his tricks and practices. that a lawyer Is required to take and i8 SUDr,osed to obey, brings ' in straw liat3 and spring bonnets, J but many of us, alas, are from Mis souri. HOGGING THE MARKETS T HE patience of American states has been sorely tried l i i : r j t a. , vy aiiiurma uuriug recent JtMr8- California producers have been generally given a free hand in the marketing of their various pro- ducts, but every once in awhile the native Bon spirit breaks out so fhr!Etrons tnat restrictions against the j sale of products from other states ate uiaue u iifeiu uai il to iiii- ourselves tne exiremeiy xooiisn un Just now California has pros- j presslon that only the recipient of poets for a very good-sized ap- j these distant remittances is profited, pie crop. It wants to have all the ' when, as a matter of fact, he speed State's markets for its own product i ily divides the whole into limited ueciueu tuai iucj win uu luuger permit shipments of Oregon and Washington apples that contain even the slightest sign of a worm cr scab. The fact that California an nually floods the Pacific northwest markets edHy in the season with apples of that kind seems to make no difference whatever with that state. Oregon has been very tolerant of the. abuses of this market by California growers and In fact the rest of the country has gone out of Its way to treat California with unusual courtesy. California has the dreaded tuber moth in its potatoes and some of these have invaded the Pacific northwest. Every time that local officials condemn a pound or two of th southern product tney pra-h California nursery" stock badly diseased, has been sent on many occasions to Oregon; in fact, most of the diseases found in Oregon nursery stock have been imported from the south. Nevertheless Cali fornia will not allow Oregon nur sery stock to be sent into that The southern state has a habit of grabbing all the markets in sight. It will not tolerate the Im portation of Florida oranges or grapefruit into California under any condition, although everyone connected with the industry knows that Florida grows the best grape fruit in the country. If shipments from Florida were allowed it would simply mean a back seat for the California product in its own state. A few years ago California de clared quarantine against ship ments of hay from Idaho because the south had a big crop. The quarantine was declared on the pretext that the hay was Infected with a so-called disease of which even the most scientifc men In the trade knew nothing. Carload shipments of California strawberries are annually mar keted in Oregon in a condition that would not be tolerated even If the stock were produced in this state. The berry growers there have marketed in Oregon, stock that did not come up to the state's specificaions as to measure, but nothing was ever done in the mat ter. NOTHING THE MATTER WITH PORTLAND Again appears tbe maker of wood pipe. No. 149 ot Tbe JoumaJ a "Nothing tbe Matter W'itb Portland" series is tbe recital of opera tions of Portland workers wbo DtiUse natiro woods on a large acale and fled their market in regions adjacent. There Is included a profit able paragraph on tbe lrutiapatable adrantage of patronizing borne enterprise. O GET some comprehension of what the wood pipe and tank business means to Portland and th timhr nt prpfltA rtf npppftn .TfiiT- f nal readerB w, be interested In the ! statement that the Portland Wood plpe company has completed a piece of work for a Utah power and light company requiring the use of 3,565, 000 feet of lumber for the staves of tie flum . And this covers but one contract of a score or more this corporation handles annually. Ten carloads of staves were en route to Texas at the time The Jour- nai representative called for the data for this article, and other cars were then being loaded destined for points I in Idaho and Nevada to be used in irrigation projects, and still more i pipe for the Portland water depart- ment was being dipped In the com pany's wood preservative. This wood pipe and tank construo- lon represents a tremendously larse industry, but it is carried on so quletly tnat few not intimately con- nected with the works have any idea of lts magnItude. FORTY TO FIFTY MEN EMPLOYEp Modern inventions have so largely displaced manual labor i-i wood and steel construction that but few hands are required to turn out an immense volume of products. The Portland Wood Pipe company employs 50 to 60 men at its plant, Twenty-fourth street north and York street, yet its output runs up into two or three hundred thousand dollars annually. Its four acres of ground are nearly covered with Its buildings, and from there it is almost constantly ship ping wood pipe material and staves for water tanks to nearly every state in the union, and to South America, Mexico, Hawaii, Japan and other ori ental and South and Central American points. Every foot of this stuff so dispatched is an exchange of Oregon forest material for foreign and domes tic money. The trees which have studded the hills and valleys thus give their trunks to not only our own people but alien nations for the contents of their treasuries, and these dollars come to Portland to help purchase food and clothing for Port land families, beside: the general re quirements of life. " How few of us stop to mentally fol low the peregrinations of the dol lar which starts from that foreign j bank to tne conductors of our Port- land industries. Were we to give ; morc thought to this subject our local I factories would be tin subjects of j the undivided loyalty of our citizens, i our purchases we would insist on ! reCeivine Portland-made eoods. and by this act of c collective citizenry I we woulJ add at least 20,000 more i Wft w0 j names to the payrolls of our home community. We somehow brew for j lor ineir lanur, sutu uy uicui paaaeu j along to the merchant in payment 1 foT the goods he Bells us and which he could not do without. IT'S A Bia FACTORY. If all readers of this - newspaper had the privilege of a wrlk through the workshops of the Portland Wood Pipe company their eyes would be opened in astonishment at its magni tude and the completeness of its equipment. Staves for wood pipe of any length up to 20 feet or; so can be prepared in three or four minutes, after which they are passed on to the wire winding machine. In three or four more minutes they go to the wood preservative dippers, then are rolled in sawdust and are now ready for shipment. The sawdust treat ment is for the purpose of enabling the men to handle the pip"e and not feadaabed wit tba biapk, sticky material In which they have Just been dipped. The pipe is wound with heavy, gal vanized mild steel wire. "Mild" steel wire la exceedingly tough, and elastic, and, will riot rust or cor rode. It has a long life, outlasting, it is claimed, the best steel black pipe, ard as . long, even, as castiron pipe. The cost of the wood pipe is not more, it is said, than a quarter of that of cast or steel piping. Water flowing through wood pipe is a live preservative of the wood, and corporations and municipalities are rapidly coming to realize this, since water service pipe in many localities has been in constant use for more than 20 years and yet is in good condition. PIPE SHIPPED KNOCKED DOWN. Buyers at a distance may have their larger sixes of wood pipe or tanks shipped knocked down, to be assembled where needed. In fact, this is the ordinary method, espe cially if to be used in irrigation or mining at points where team hauling is necessary from the railway deliv ery station. Small piping, however, is wire-wound at the factory. This includes sizes up to 12 lnchut. or so. The Portland Wood Pipe company constructs pipe up to 12 feet in diam eter. Such is not wound with wire, but has treat bands of mild steel around It, the ends drawn together with heavy malleable cast iron lugx In the Utah job 6,000,000 pounds of such steel and iron were used. Any kind of a water system, no matter the magnitude, can be man ufactured and installed by the Port land concern. It is prepared to con struct anything in the line of wood pipe which conveys water from any one point to another, and no job is too big or too small for It. officers of the corporation are P. E Fisher, president; Frank M. Baura, vice president and manager, and Clarence H. Howard, secretary and treasurer. Letters From the People Communications sent to The Journal for publication In thia department should be writ efceSS aoo7 wEda'ta tenh. SVat.? ctmnanled by the name and address of tbe fender. If the writer does not desire to have tbe name published be should so state. "Discussion is the greatest of all reformers. It rationalizes everything it touches. It robs principles of ail false sanctity and throws them beck on their reasonableness. If they have no reasonableness, it ruthlessly crushes them out of existence and sets up its own conclusions in tbeir stead." Woodrow Wilson. Nobody Knows St. Paul, Or., May 16. To the Editor of The Journal I have written to the Oregonlan and asked it to let us kno throueh that naDe.r how Juatica Hushes stands ffn the questions of the day, such as preparedness, watchful waiting and tD Uke- 8ince th Oregonlan will not answer, will you let the people know through The Journal? it seems to me that If we don't know how he stands, it will be "buying a cat in a bag" to nominate him, and it would certainly look as if the Republi cans are only after the offices and don't care a cent for policies or for princi ples. JOHN T. BRENTANO. "Patriots" and "the Chosen." Portland, May 22. To the Editor of The Journal In looking over the ore gonian of May 21 I notice that they seem very much disturbed over the way the voters turned down the "chosen few." Also they are gTeatly excited over the "patriot's" ticket. They claim that the "patriots" Inject religion into politics. But they are wrong. It is the Rartles that the Oregonian was boosting for, that mixed their religion with their politics, and they went in too strong on the religion. Thus their defeat by the "American patriots." FAIR PLAY. "Accurate" Election Returns. Dallas, Or., May 25. Jo the Editor of The Journal I notice the oreg)nian is bragging about the accjracy of its election returns. Maybe it forgets the time that Frank Benson ran first for secretary of state. Mr. Benson :md a few of us newspapermen werj spend- ing the evening in Keith'3 rtiaur ; ant, Just off Alder street, in Portland, and getting our information rcsarriirg the vote sub rosa from the Oresoniati's j flimsies.' By 2 o'clock the next tnorn i ing we went home satisfied by our fi? ! ures that Benson had carried the state; ! yet "the only" paper came out at 4 1 o'clock with big headlines announcing his defeat. And it Is my recollection that they did not get the count right for two or three days. V. P. FISKE. A Protest. Portland. May 17. To the Editor of The Journal With regard to the kill ing of Mrs. Neitzel on the Mount Scott car line, last Monday evening, I feel compelled to register my protest. It seems to me that It was a careless, reckless piece of work. When the mo torman saw that the woman was in a dangerous position he should have exerted all of his energies toward slowing down the speed of the car In stead of puttrng in his time making a noise. He was running too fast any way. He should receive at least a meed of punishment. Motorrnen should be taught that pedestrians have a right to life at least. The proper authorities should take the matter up r r- a t ho t liit(& A a nna o n -l at - r-r-i a I a r,ia,i ,,rvs rrtrt-T. R. R. BRATTON. Tlie Parable of the Rnler. Sunlex, Or., May 19. To the Editor of The Journal In those days a mighty man with a big fctick ruled over the people and did that whlcn was pleasing in the eyes of the money changers. And he heeded not thy voice of the people, but departed from his former sayings and went oft after false teachings and served Mammon. And it came to pass when nis al lotted days of rulership had ended he went among the people beseeching them that he be allowed to remfcin in power four years more, vowing that when these days were accomp'jshed he would be satisfied and not seek further favors at their hands. After these things, howbeit, fa gath ered unto ."lmself men mighty witn spondullx. yea, even railroad magnates and life Insurance presidents, and thev gathered together many shekels hicn were used to restore him to power. But when his accusers charged th-it cor ruption had been wrought with the fjethy lucre, he mashed his teeil. and failed on them, charging them as An anlaees. But when the matter wa looked into by the courts, they were forced to dig up a.nd restore the "nonev paid to "rumbustious friends t'o and So up the river." And the people mar veled; verily, they wondered how he could so far miss the mark. . And it came to pass when he ha I served his allotted time, he named a man of much weight and great tature PERTINENT COMMENT SMALL CHANGE. Justice Hushes is not saying much. but perhaps he is, sawing wood. Another parade about reaay to starx will be made up of June brides, flanked by bridegrooms. Tt rem&lna tn he een whether Michi gan has been trifling with the affec tions of her Henry. Mora imnresslv than the general political din is the thrilling silence of Charles Evans Hughes. With two national conventions com ing on, it is time for Chicago to put its chaplains in training. The colonel talks about "ultrapaci fists," and now they are talking about him as a uperphraseologisU That Astor boy who needs 175.000 a year for his upkeep must be even harder on shoes than the ordinary small boy. Boston stenographers have formed a union to stop kissing and swearing by bosses. If asked to compromise, which point would the girls yield? Perhaps that a?fair in Chicago will go down in history as the Battle of the Teddies. Burton has Ohio, and Roosevelt the solid delegation from Armageddon. According to the Scientific American, cremation is still unpopular. But a straw vote would show that it is quite as popular as burial with the average run ot people. JOURNAL 28---Tracing the Crest From the northern to the southern boundaries of Oregon on the summit of the Cascade range. What a wonderful trip it would be! And the best part of the suggestion Is that the trip can be made. The high summit of the range is followed by trail from Mt. Hood to the California line and beyond. It circles the great snow peaks of the Cascades and brings the traveler to the high-up, green valley, the crys tal mountain lakes and the uude pleted trout streams. It is a trip to be made in July or August when the way will be most open and the trout fishing at its besu The time required will be all the way from 20 to 30 days; the more leisurely the schedule, the more delightful- the Journey. There is a succession of wonderful points; their commanding magnifi cence will not permit hurried scrutiny. The trip can be made most com fortably by providing both saddle and pack animals and hiring some one to guide and care for the stock. But undoubtedly the greatest Joy will come to good walkers who aro content with a single pack animal and follow the route afoot. Thus oppor tunity Is better offered to yield to the temptation of the innumerable small side trips. There are two northern starting to rule in his stead, and he departed into a far country where he wrought many wonderful things. He slew the unicorn, the leviathan, the behemoth and the elephant; with great slaughter elew he them. , After these things, much puffed up, he returned to Lis own country, and gathered unto himself many valiant men, mighty in power with spondullx. He caused a great uproar among the people and fought the battle of Arma geddon. He wielded his Jawbone vo ciferously and shook his big sticn furi ously, but he was overcome v 1th a great defeat. Mene, mene, tekfl up harsln. Lo and behold! he again strlveth for power and dominion, and fain would stir up strife among the nations of the earth. Because his people are at peace, not at war, he fetted and fum eth, and rageth and roareth, and beat eth. the air with his big stick, and worketh his Jawbone overtime, and gnasheth hia teeth and shouteth with a loud voice, "No pussyfooting here! Damn the mollycoddles!" A. N. DERSON. School Usages Criticized. Lents, Or., May 18. To the Editor of The Journal I have been an inter ested reader of your editorial page and have greatly enjoyed "Nothing the Matter With Portland." I think Port land a beautiful place to live, but a few things could be improved. The one that interests me Is the way our schools are conducted. The teachers and principals are of the best, but what can they do when the children are allowed so much time from Xlie classroom. One splendid instructor said if the custom continued the scholars would do as Rome did. An other thing, wedo not 6end our boys to high school to have therh taken from the class room to do the scavenger work that is properly done by the city and owners. Portland is In a class of her own in this. Our boys do not have to attend high school to learn how to use a wheelbarrow or pick and shovel. I have no doubt they would have been used had they been ava'lable How much longer will the right people cf Portland close their eyes to the in evitable results of mismanagement. I can only conjecture. Let those inter ested canvass the instructors. I be lieve with scarcely an exception they will agree that so much absence from the classroom has a demoralizing ef fect. How can we expect our boys and girls to grow into -ound business men and women when they see how lightly the ones vln high positions, responsible officers, freat serious questions. I am not sure who is to blame. I am only stating the opinion of an earnest moth er who is trying to educate her chil dren, and having a hard time doing it. A MOTHER. Truly, Some Ticket. Portland, May 27. To the Editor of The Journal As I was saying, there is no mystery about that big vote for Mr. Ross for president. To me it is plain as the nose on a certain man's face who has an abundance of nose. Mr. Ross' vote is the result of advertising. Not that he advertised, but because a generation of men worked all of the days and far Into the nights "looking for the lost Charlie Ross." The name Ross? Why, that name was the best-advertised name that ever fell from mortal lips or graced a p pers page. No wonder Mr. Ross polled one-tenth of the vote. Advertising is the answer. And. as I was going to say, if, in this day of presidential primaries, a man named Patterson should get his name on the ticket, he would be elected hands down; for who would not rejoice to have a solution of Chat .other deep mystery regarding the identity of the party "who struck Bilfy Patterson?" And talk about a reajrteam! Why not make it Patterson and Rosa, two of the greatest celebrities in history? Who say's it doesn't pay to advertise? ROBERT G. DUNCAN. Questioning President's Neutrality. Reedville, Or.; May 15. To the Edi tor of The Journal 'Only by an Impos sible feat of political gymnastics can Wilson'Tiopft to control the Irish and German elements in the Democratic party. They not only believe him, but have learned to know him as ha Is an ally of the allies. 'I believe In Ameri AND NEWS IN BRIEF OREGON SIDELIGHTS. Superintendent Momyer of Crater Lake National park, quoted on May 23 in Klamath Falls Heraia: vvnen i ten a few days ago, there was seven feet of snow at park headquarters. The depth is greater than usual, and this means a delay in auto traffic into the park." ' Klamath Falls' makes itself not able, according to the Herald, just iike this: "This is clean up time at the county Jail. All of the old bedding has been removed and destroyed, and Sher iff Low is putting new blankets in all of the cells. The interior of the Jail is also being carefully cleaned. The first "new "potato" story under an Oregon date line for the season of 191 cornea from Corvallls where ac cording to the Gazette-Times, Mrs. P L Chipman, while attempting to transplant a potato vine, found po tatoes clinging to its roots as large as nens eggs, which were immediately prepared for her table. The Joseph Herald complains that the entire term of circuit court so far has bee" taken up with petty cases. li .niiin. with tha Ramn result not guilty, and it goes on to say: The taxpayers are thoroughly disgusted with being stuck for such trifling cases which should never be allowed to reach circuit court. It is getting so that a man can scarcely sneeze or blow his nose without being dragged before the grand Jury and forced into an expensive trial." ) JOURNEYS Line of the Cascades points. Mount Hood lodge at the head of Hood River valley or Government camp. Equipment may be secured at either place, but it would be best to talk with forest service officials In the Beck building, Portland, before starting. If you are not entirely famil iar with that kind of an outing. And even if you are a seasoned mountain traveler you will find that the infor mation .which the forest service men gladly will ,lve you will add greatly to the enjoyment of the trip. If you start from Mt. Hood lodge the trail will lead around the base of Mt. Hood past Elk Meadows to Barlow road and Summit house along a route already described in a Journal Journey. From Summit House, near Govern ment camp the trail guides along the ridge between the headwaters cf Clackamas river and streams tribu tary to the Deschutes. Some of the outstanding peaks alons the route are, Mt. Jefferson, Three Sisters, Three Fingered Jack, Squaw mountain. Diamond peak, Mt. Theilson. Mt. Mazama (in the sunken crater of which Is Crater Lake) and Mt. Wash ington. The lakes are beyond count So are the views of tremendous areas both east and v. est. Nor is it necessary to follow the entire route. The Journey may be shortened. There are many Intersect ing trails leading back both to the Willamette valley and central Oregon. canism an Americanism that might seem somewhat strange to certain Americans who today seem ready to sacrifice the peace of 100,000,000 of their fellow-citizens to bolster up a de caying empire. Love of liberty and Americanism are one. Wherever that true American feeling, burns in the human heart you will find sympathy for oppressed Ireland. Yet today an en slaved press, professing Americanism, has only contempt for the Irish strug gle for freedom. O. K. FRANK. Picking Oregon's Favorite. From the Baker Herald. It has been sensibly suggested that, in view of the Roosevelt boom In the east, the Colonel's name should have been forced on the Oregon primary bal lot Just as was Justice Hughes'. There would have been no expense attached and the matter would have been given a thorough test. In this way the de sire for Roosevelt, which was shown strongly four years ago, would have been again displayed in greater or smaller degree. It would have brought out the Republicans that wish him to be the standard bearer of the party and would have also given the Progres sives an Issue that would have urged them to the polls. Such a test would have given information to the delegates t) the conventions that would have been useful. The Roosevelt talk is still growing in the east and the situation of Hughes and the Colonel has changed but little. Marsy good things are being said for Hughes. There are also reasons given for Roosevelt's selection. Oregon showed Its preference for Hughes over Burton and Cummins. It should have been allowed to show its at fftude on Roosevelt and the entire vote lit- taken back to Chicago aa Oregon's attitude. While there is a possibility that Hughes would still have led, Hughes has not announced his Candi da' -y and the matter of second choice may have to be considered. How Roosevelt lines up with Burton and Cummins, the conservative and pro KresBive 'in the favor of Oregon voters, should be known. A Famons Tribute to Ireland. From a Speech by Former Governor Robert Taylor of Tennessee. If I were an Italian sculptor and could chisel out of marble my Image of a hero, I would make It the image of an Irishman sacrificing his life and hope on the altar of his country, and I would carve on its pedestal the name of Robert Emmet. If I were a painter I would make the canvas eloquent with the deeds of the bravest people that ever lived, whose proud spirit no power can ever conquer, and whose loyalty and devotion to the hopes of a free country no tyrant can ever crush, and I would write beneath that picture Ireland. If I were a poet I would melt the world to tears with the pathos of my songs; I would touch the heart of humanity with the mournful threnody of Ireland's wrongs and Erin's woes; I would weave the shamrock and rose In a garland of glory for the Lmerald Isle, and the land of martyrs and -mem- ories, the cradle of heroes and nursery of liberty. Tortured in dungeons, mur dered on scaffolds, robbed of the fruit of their sweat and toil, scourged by a famine and plundered by the vagaries; of heartless power, driven as the au tumn winds before the winter wind?", the sturdy race of Erin's sons and daughters have been scattered over the face of the earth. Homeless only in the land of their nativity, but princes and lords in every other coun try, where manhood la measured by the measures of men. Olcott'a Majority. From the Ashland Tidings. The large majority given Olcottover Moo res In tha state Republican primary tells a story that should be heeded by standpat Republicans. Moorea la a clean and capable man, hia only handi cap being his adherence to the old Re publican machine. Olcott haa fought for clean, independent politics and holda servic above party regularity. His large majority over Moorea can mean but on thing. Oregon Re publicans are progressive, first, last and all tha time, and honor tha man with independence and courage enough to stand for hia opinions regardlasa of party boaalam. Bo mot It forever be. TKeQnce TIP AT OREGON CITY last ... h. 7 they nad booter day and - f """'"""-na a parade and toy balloons and squewkers and' hawkers and talkers. , PoTtUnVi' Ryal R"arUn "ora and the Portland Ad Club. V and theBeaver Creek band. and Governor Wlthycombe. and George L. Baker. and everything like that. JAnd I was there and cauiht tha spirit of the .day-or something s- II Aim i naan i smoked months. for four -but the festal madness came over- me. and I wanted to do something dev ilish. so I bought an Owl and lit it. and went around puffing smoke like the exhaust from a Ford on a steep grade. JYou Just couldn't help getting ex cited. J That was the kind of a time it was. JAnd I'm an impressionist. and so of course I can only give my Impressions. J And what impressed me most waa not the governor's speech. nor Frank Branch Kllev'a rollin I rhythmical rhetoric. nor the serious look on Editor Brodie'a face as he marched along in his white suit. nor the serious look on the face of the salmon that they had frozen in a cake of ice. nor anything like that. IT No. J What impressed me most pacifist though I am was the watery fight. JAnd it was this way; There were two lines of hose and two young men dreuued in rubber coats and helmets with cotton in their ears. JAnd they stood in the street and pointed the nozsles at each other. and the water was turned on. J And then they stood there and soused each other and soused each other and kept on sousing each other. J And before I knew it I had picked out my team the one nearest to ma. J That's the reason I guess for a lot of our sympathies. JAnd the next thing I was yell ing with all my might. and waving my Owl. JAnd I made a black smudge on an old gentleman s face, but he didn't notice. and hit me over the head with his umbrella. and I didn't notice. J And pretty soon my team began to push up on the other team. J And I yelled harder than ever. and kicked the old gentleman OB the sUlns. J And he yelled Joyously and never took his eyes off the fight. and kicked me right back on mine. JAnd they kept it up for 15 or 20 minutes. JAnd so did the old gentleman and I. J And bye and bye my team got up close to the other team. and knocked them down and skidded them along the pavement with the stream. J And my team won. JAnd of course I'm still for peace and I don't believe in fighting and J LISTEN I'm almost afraid to print this for fear of what Grace De- Graff and Dr. Chapman and Rabbi Wise and the other pacifists will think of me. Life's Infinite Variety. Prof. Frank Fuctas. the noted violinist, took tU departure to parts unknown recently, rlo more us bsar in tufioiiiuus tours iimupb down ths bill side. Eugle Creek wrrespoad i eoce Estacada Isews. A arood. tlsr. healthy cost on day ttH week got Hot Knowliou's arost by batttug K.nt 17 kinds of wher out of him. KTSrrtMnK Rot looks st Bow turtir lulo s goat. Imnghal correspondence Joseph llrralu. Nearlr all kinds of trellng outfits pass! slonsr th coast during" tl- summer months but one of tbe queerest combinations that baf tit thla section oawtra tnrougu rori urroroj yesterdar. besded south. It consisted of tW' men. one equipped Hh a wheelbarrow ami the other with a bicycle a g'd Illustration ot the old bar aud snail parable. I'ort Or lord Tribune. Tbe renort that J. C. Norman tisa bnl cslled to tbe British colors aud ordered ti renort mt Quebec Canada. Is uremature. Mr. Norman haa a full-grown carbuncle on thai back of bia neck aud he says this Is gltlnid klm trouble enough without getting Into thH firtnr line. Ushih Msthett. until recently 1M bunliiras ber with Mr. Norman, lias nlteiS In th hospltsl corps of a Lauadlsn company Sutherlln bun. A Hackbarth of tbe lyspwsl IO m ber mj pany and a btincb of four or fir lumber Jackal whom he was taaing io uie miu work, left yesterday for Owynne. Th HJID k. J.i.. .t.r.ri that tber ordinarily would prefer a side door Pullmea or th soft aid ofl a log to no on, put iwuivt hi. mnA tha eomDanr waa footing th bill tbry guessed they eouLd stand the cublmj I or ao soon a juihiwv - k Ctleflaln. Tho Candid Grouch. "To our Jaundiced and critical ye," says Kernel Clark Wood,; leading candid grouch of Umatilla county, "tha girl oa tha Boa TestlTal poster resembles nothing ao much aa a composite wraith, of the old Worth End." Unci Jeff Snow Say: Uncle Sam wo.rles over his posae nions worsen an ex-washerwomttn mil' lionalress worries ovit her diamonds beraufce, eshe don't need 'em and aln'1 , Upel to 'em Rose fentlvals ojit th j hell-roaring fiestas going on In Europ now-a-days. New Bride, New KnJrea. O HE was Just a little new brlda. d iJ very young little new bride. Her folks and his folks and hH friends and hia frlenda had fired them a nice lot of ailver, with theli monogram on It. There was going to be a church sup per, or something, and the little navJ bride was asked to send soma knlve and forks. She went to the built-in drawer 1i th,, little new bungalow, and too ou thf: dark-red leather boxes. .She opened the boxes and looked. the shiny knives and forks nestling li soldiery rowe in the rose-colored pluah The little new brlde'a eyea XUlp with tears. ; .. "I Just can't." she sobbed. Then she dried ber eyea and pow -tiered her nose and went over to i neighbor's and borrowed some knlr and forks to aend to tha cburcr auppar. - -j '