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C . OREGON DAILY JOURNAL, PORTLAND, MONDAY, JUNE 2S, 1816. I -fT-i i p lSl IPM AT J i v y m ; an ixpttk spent newspaper. c. a j kx.7n ;. lubiubr ; i-i.tii.i,.d .-. day. rtrauca .i mom m, j ti)t sumiaj nrrnuuu. at Tb journ; , fV.i.t,r: .awjr v.uin -t... i ct- i kuir.i .1 ib. illume .i Portland, or., tor tmtiaiul..i..ti ll.rt.iiuti the luaih, ftl Mtiord Kl.s.l'HJ,NK8 Min 71T3; Home. A 0001. All decsriiurnts reached by tbeao numbers, leu Mb" operator Hlnit rlpnartment you want. ,") l oUtllUN AUVKUl iJil.Vi UKJ'lliM:TATIVE , Urnjnuiln dc heutnor Co.. llrunswlck UJdg., 1 126 rirthJIAv., .New York. 1-1S People's , tin BlilnT. Chlesgu. .. Kuuacrlptlon tenna by mat) or to any ad " lo th foiled Ststes or Merleo: 1 . DAILY. (MunM.NU OH A"TEHNO0N 1 Out ;ui 5.W One month S .60 1 bliiVDAY. I . Otis year... , . WV I Will UIUIILII .. V .HAILY (UUUN1.M) o or aFTKHNOON) AND ' SUNDAY 2.rffp vr .... f 7 -f I On mnnfh America aaka nothing for iierwelf tint wiat 'ha taaa a right ta auk tor humanity Itaelf. WOdUUOW W1I-SON. Millions tribute. for defense. Ii:t Dot a rnt (Jt ( HAltl.KS C. I'lNCKNKV. If I hare made any iMiprofPtnmit tn th prlanrps, It Is nwU.n m-x1 tn imlient Illi pmvciueut than y llijni iu. - ir Isaac Nowton. A I IT TIME T I HERE nover was a fitter time to celebrate the Fourth. A distracted world has thrust unmerited complica tions upon America. Tho Euro pean welter has given thin country rZnore enemies than she ever had before. The greed of big Ameri can ranch owners and concession aires in Mrrico has trrought us to the vergo of war with a neighbor ing people. We aro a nation under arms. The flower of American youth is uniformed and spurred for con flict. Millions of American moth ers are full of dread as to what eventuatlons ovor night may bo. Thousands of anxious inn are pro foundly concerned over what fur ther European complications may b thrust upon us in the event of a war with Mexico. It is a time for men to have thoughts of tho, old Lilierty Bell, the Declaration of Independence and the free institutions wrought from the blood of our forefathers. jtfWltb. American newspapers clamor Jlng for forcible annexation of jMexlco and all territory southward to the Panama canal, It is time for men to read again in the Dec laration of Independence about the J"consent of the governed." I It Is time for us, with Abraham Lincoln, to again "highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain that this nation under lOod shall have a new birth of .freedom andthat Kovernment of i Jhe people, by tho people and for Ihe people shall not perish from iho earth." , - In tho precarious exigencies of disjointed world and .tho dis tressing problems they force upon 3tbis republic, n celebration to re Jnind us of what our flag J3 and .what our government was brought Into belns for, uill cause men to re-dedicate and re-consecrate them K . , . , I -Cl v. im.-,i uu .e&poiisiuimies!;)olnt pun,oseg that bring real pro- pun euivuiu uulicb lo our couniry ttnd our time. ' A contemporary expresses the tear that some of Mexico's "has teens" will butt In. The chief danger, however, is from the fistas. SENATOR. TILLMAN IT 13 said that a great change has taken place in Senator Till man of South Carolina since . ha entered the senate many J-ears ago. In those old days he was a radical bo violent that he gained the nickname of "Pitchfork Tillman." Time has softened and mellowed mm. in otner aay he was one . Cf eight senators to pronounce ulogiea on a dead colleague and ! people Baia nis speecn was the Homeliest and therefore the best of I 11. He has become mild, gentle iiu -rei iec Live. no no longer De- Aiovts IMO.L no ctuj. maxa ice world Over In a day. Mr. Tillman came to the senate ' Intending to reform U lt W,,M ! ... put an end to those old and foolish traditions like senatorial courtesy. aubservience to money, contempt Of the common people, obedience , tp form and precedence. But Mr. ! Tillman did not do all he thought' he could. -'He did not entirely reform the senate. A great deal remains yet i t'o be done ; But the senate has reformed Mr. Tillman, it has softened his radi calism, changed some of his opin ions and ripened his feelings. - But we question whether Mr. Tillman is a better man than he was in the old days before he laid aside the pitchfork. His heart then burned to right the wrongs of mankind! He saw the evils of the world clearly and attacked them with courage. , Ojthe.r men in other times have ben softened by struggle. Most ofthem learned that the public is nii always grateful. The sub merged often forget those who Struggle "hardest for them. Joe Folk was driven out of politics in t- Missouri largely because those uubo urrupnuu n exposed uevci forgot, while thepeople did. Rob- ert La Follette, who has done more than most statesmen in the ; way of great reforms, has In spite; of hlB t Mrvl beeQ almost, forgotten by his own party in the nation. ' asiae tor reclamation suouia do Men who fight make foes, and spent on Oregon reclamation. It those for whom they fight ought knows of no reason why the to remain steadfast friends. ' amount should be spent on recla- Peoples ought to be grateful. rcatlon in other states. Oregon They ought to discriminate be- has contributed more than ten mil tween men, and stand by those lion dollars for reclamation mostly who fight for plain folks. There in other Btates, and that is enough. i is a lot to be done in this nation. I John D. Rockefeller ought not to have the power to increase the P'h - o oi giiBUiiiie t'vtny time aw io j . m it . v. i made to pay his Income tax. I New York has just passed through a six days' campaign for j simple business honesty. The onlyJ trouble was that the campaign did J not last longer. j I IIOOSKVKI.T AND HUGHES ffl' R. ROOSEVELT is t support air. nurics. That was foreordained when he declined the Pro- gressive nomination. George W. Perkins' withdrawal of financial support from the third party helped denie(1 tuat her husband, the traf to compel that course. A national . fc orfcer- "carelesslv" turned his party cannot be run on wind. Perkins' financial power made him ; a powerful force in the Progressive j party organization, and as was clearly seen at Chicago, he per- j formed all along to prevent a third; ticket, lie was a reactionary agent In tho Progressive camp and his power was greater than the com bined power of all the Progressive delegates who were Progressives on principle. In consistency, Mr. Roosevelt could not support Mr. Wilson. Though President Wilson has been tho instrument by which progres sive principles advocated by Mr. Roosevelt have been translated into ! legislation, Mr. Roosevelt's utterances made something than progressiveism in his the paramount issue. Mr. Roosevelt is a war man. Mr. Wilson is not. The very broad difference between them on this point and the violent attacks made on Mr. Wilson because of that dif ference, are a main reason why Mr. Roosevelt goes to Hughes. Those attacks made on President Wilson by Mr. Roosevelt while bidding for the Republican noml- I nation were so violent that Mr. Roosevelt could not swallow them now by supporting Mr. Wilson. Perkins is, the real betrayer of the Progressive party. His great fortune was made in Big Business. His viewpoint is essentially the Big Business viewpoint. He never was like the other 4,119,507 Pro gressives who voted for Roosevelt in 1912. They were Progressives from principle. They believed In real progressiveism. They elected to congress men who advocated and voted foj the j Wilson program of legislation. In his great legislative measures, Mr. j Wilson was their president, and they were his supporters. They , were co-workers with President i Wilson in dissolving the partner-! ship between government and cor-j rupt business and corrupt politics, and they share with him the credit I for the many progressive enact- i menta written Into the laws of the country. Mr. Perkins has apparently ham strung the Progressives as a na- llnnnl i,nrtv Kilt Vi n i-!iiinnt 1 break up tho close sympathies and j UiVU.IV till LllW cr . gressives and President Wilson so close together. Supposing a potato blight or a fruit pest should develop In Ore gon, how long would It be before California put up the bars? AS IMPRESSIVE ADMISSION T HB Southern Pacific during the past week has furnished another demonstration of the potency of water competition, bo far as the interest of the ship per is concerned. A few days ago the company filed a request with the Public Service Commission at Salem, asking to be allowed to re duce its rates between Portland flnd points from Fuzene in order Marshfield to Eugene, in order to meet rates charged on ocean borne freight be tween Marshfield and Portland. Tbe company aska to be allowed to 6cale lts rate3 upward from p..,-,,,.,, to Nekoma, on the new and at the same time to be Dermltted to i.x -o u,a thn a. v... .x... rata to puiius uieen mat place ail(j Marshfield. In other words the company seeks permission to establish such a schedule of rates a8 wm enable it to ship goods by raI1 from Portland to points on the new Eugene-Marshfield line in competition with goods shipped from Portland to Marshfield by boat and transshinDed from Marsh- field to the destination by rail. .The 1 company also asks for commodity i rates on coal Beaver Hill, from Its mines at Cedar Point and Marshfield to points on its main , lines to meet water epmpetition. i ' ,b , . , , fcblame them as we blame all ene- It needs no further citation toTmies of the United states. drive home the value of water com- j But lnfinitely more do we blamQ petition. It is the request of a j thos6 traltoroU8 Americans who rail carrier for lower rates In or-1 der to meet water competition that has been made. It is the confes-! biuu ut- b ran carrier iuai water competition forces lower rates by rail. If a railroad thus holds. Is It not a convincing proof to the peo ple of .the value to them of water competition? What' city In th world so much as Portland, has the opportunity to J gamer auvauugcB ti uw mici competition by creating a water- borne commerce with its lower rates? The Journal believe, the 40 per cent of grant land proceeds set AVD" Oil "OR' T 0 REVERSE a case and force an expensive retrial because "and" Instead of "or" was used in a plaintiff's pleading, is Judicial trifling, Traffic Officer White was killed at his post of duty. The ' Jury gave the widow a verdict of 17560. if "or" instead of "and" had been used in the phrase "careless- Iv and nesrliaentlv" in the widow's ipleadlngs the Oregon supreme court In its reversal of the case jntimateS( the 0Wer court would hv ...ef B,nf,A That is to say, the learned court hods tnat the wldow mlsht have back or that he "negligently" turned hjg back and have won her case Rut glnce fihe denied that he "Careiessly AND negligently" lunie(1 his l)acki she must lose, Meanwhile, other Justices of the Oregon supremo court at other times have spoken differently. In the 11th Oregon there is a de cision in which the court said: We can Imagine no more serious ftbu.se of Justice than the toleration of a kind of technical sharp practice that Karrifices substance to form. Meanwhile, too, the 1910 con stitutional amendment for elimi nating hair-splitting quibbles and bewhiskered precedents, is unre- .Ise i Pose( an( approved by the people, ,and the supreme court cannot re view.:. ... petu it. It is defied in this absurd "and" for "or" decision. Carranza Is becoming aware that the word in the United States is "pronto" and not "manana." REG IN AT THE ROTTOM. T WO points In highway con struction that cannot be em phasized too much were point ed out In a recent address made by H. W. Boetzes, assistant state highway engineer of Wash ington. They are, first that expenditures for grading and for permanent drainage are economy of the high est type, and second that the serv ice a road system will render to the public depends upon its mile age. ' It is real economy to spend the greater part of the funds provided for a particular improvement m grading and drainage, laying an inexpensive surface that will serve until a better one can be put down, One trouble with road work, In Oregon at least, has Ueen paying more attention to the top than the bottom of the road, After one travels over the roads throughout the state and Bees the Poor location and almost utter lack of drainage. It Is easy to realize that millions of dollars are being wasted and will continue to be wasted until more attention is CTVen tO tllO foundation than to tne surface. I Money spent In grading and I permanent drainage' is invested in I finmpthiTi? that will nnrlnrA It will be many years before the greater part of the road mileage kf Oregon will need to be paved. An economical use of road funds is to prepare a proper foundation on which can be placed a hard sur face when the cost of maintaining an earth or gravel one exceedathe Interest on the cost of the hard surface. In other words build from the bottom to the top Instead of from the top to the bottom. You can always rely on the Oregon women in war time as well as in peace time. PLOTTERS AT WORK 0 BVIOUSLY strong and de termined plotters are working to drag the United States In to war with Mexico, and their efforts are backed up by a string of incendiary American newspapers. Already their criminal conspiracy has done to death a number of Our BOldiers If they are able to drag us into war the deaths will be counted by the thousand. , It is a wicked plot. The United States has no quarrel with Mex ico. There is no reason why the two countries should fight except folly on the side of Mexico and demoniac greed on the side of some Americans. The story that German emissaries are mixed up in the plot may be true. If they 7', , " A, J 1".W ng the v0lnanr, prlnclp !a . .... . . . . . saries to desolate the country with tv a . people are said to be the most In genious in the world. Can they think of no means to check the plotting of these public enemies? Oregon has already . supplied enough money for reclamation In other states. Of more than ten millions so contributed only a fraction was- expended on Oregon projects. The 40 per cent set aside from the Oregon grant land pro ceeds for reclamation should be spent on Oregon reclamation. Abraham - Lincoln also was as sailed for opposing war with Mexico. 1 NOTHING THE MATTER WITH PORTLAND TAa the ally of the 'orchardtut, the wtab llBhineut wticase career It traced In No. ITS of 'The Journal's InduatrtjJ iferle, ranks well up. It la a home buyer. Ij la a home eeller as elU- and will bemmt iiyora so aa Its mission ary efforts become uiorli and more effectlTe. THE Hardla Manufacturing company- began the Manufacture of or chard sprayer; lid presses for fruit packing boxes, fruit picking lad ders, fruit picking- alls, tree pruning hooks, strippers foi box nailing, and power, barrel and bucket fruit spray ers, nine years agi4, and in the last eight years its plnt at Front afid Couch streets has jbeen Increased to eight times its former capacity. Today It occuplej three floors and basement In a building 60x150 feet, and the greater pat of the year em ploys 12 to 15 hajicls in the opera tion of Its manufajturlng machinery. This Is acute evidence of appreciation of Its products. , There are other JJeafers In Its line of manufactures in, Portland and the territory this corporation covers, but their wares, man' of exceptional merit, are Imported!; from eastern 'fac tories. In the ca5se of the flardie company only the Jenlnes end steel parts of the Iron Sections of Its de vices aro made elstjwhers. Its tanks, from the bucket u to those holding 200 gallons of spfay, and all other wood work. Including even its bam boo rods, are turned out In the com pany's workshop hre. HAS WIDE f-ERRITORT. F. I.. Karth aJid ft. N. Hudson, man aerers here of the sffice and factory, in the absence of Ij. R. Letcher, gen eral manager, now)n the east, state that In their sales hhey cover all the country from the; Rocky mountains south to the Mexican line. This sea son they have shlped east to Mis soula, Montana and south to Ban Diego. Speaking ot' their business In general, Mr. Karth Jsaid: "Commercial frul growing in Amer ica Is now a business of large pro portions. Competition between the various fruit ect-ns Is ken, and buyers critical. Tie old time way of trusting to luck for a crop, and then rushing the crop to market In any way most convenU-nt, Is giving way to modern method. ' Today the suc cessful orchardlsti or fruit grower must absolutely realize the necessity of producing the "best possible pro ducts In order to ojtaln a ready mar ket and top prlces'for his crops. The pest has attacked '.his blossoms and budding fruits, an4 he must destroy Its life or lose hi1 profits. "How best to accomplish this la one of the problem) pondered In many minds for almost ges, but never bo intelligently as of flate, and never so effectively have thj ambitions of the foes of these destroyers of the or chard harvests bep carried out. In this march of progress we feel con fident wo have bein leaders, the evi dence bpJng the ejrmous Increase in the output of Our jilant. PRODUCTION j HAZARD CHECKED. "Careful selection of the variety of tre or vine best suited to the particular Boll and climatic conditions careful pruning, cultivation, spray ing, th!nnlr:sr. etc have eliminated most of tho production hazard. But no matter what tf) other care no matter the industry in cultivation no matter the attention given the tree or vine the ine fact that the destroyer must be; killed or it will kill the object of tjie grower recom pens for his toil-r-jnust ever ba kept la mind, and I am sure It is acknowl edged not only throughout Oregon and other Paclfio states, but through out most of the fruit growing sec tions of the country, that Mr. Hardy's factory production have done won ders to attain th! end. "Himself an orehardlst of many years' experience, incoming In contact with orchard and berry pests continu ally, set Mr. Jlardy to the task of devising means tf rid his own pos sessions of the biirden of their de struction. This was 15 years ago, and the beneficiene of his creations has extended to Jill sections of the United States, anji today the entire continent is his market. EXPERIENCE TEACHES. "Experience is ' the best teacher. Fifteen years of ihis has placed be fore the Interested ones of the coun try devices which have positively proved their wort. At international exhlbltlovsthcy l.ve received highest possible awards, and the testimonials of users are numbered by thousands and tens'" of thousands. "We feel that our efforts have been of Inestlmabfe .value to this and ad joining states, ifhere are orchards In Oregon once scourged and un profitable becaiuae :of the hateful ver min which Infested them, which are today producing fruit without blem ish and marketable at highest prices in any city of i the' world. This means more than restoration of the trees and rehabilitation, jof the orchard. It means a flow oft profit to the or chard's owner, and1 from his exchequer to that of the tradesman, employe, eta I feel sure the machines and pest-destroying Instruments we have placed on the pacific coast have profited these sttes to the extent of millions of .dollars, all for the meager expenditure' of about $70,000 a year, the average amount of-iales from this factory, f However, our trade is increasing fast' as our Implements become known! 'The fact is soaking Into orchardists' xiilnds that they must doctor their tteep ',lt they would keep their fruit health and salable, and that our appliances are the medicine to administer." When one contemplate the number of devices made by the Hardle com pany hia mind must compass sprayers selling at $4. 1S. 150. $72, $26. $15. $23.50, $9, and all the way along be- tween these figures, and up step by step to $200 for a 200 gallon tank machine that Is a real king in its . . .... family, and every other thing that s made for the destruction of the or- , cnara s enemy. The output of the factory is, In deed, the parent of clean, healthy, palatable fruit and berry products, and Trrofit builders and money mak ers for those who buy and use them. Letters From the People ICommunlcatlona sent to The Journal re publication in tills department anould nv wr't tvn on only ons aide of the paper. ,hould not exceed UOO words In length, and mat' be c rooiiianled by tbe name and addreca ot tlie sender. If the writer does not declrs to ba r lbs name published be should so state.l "DUcusalon Is the greatest of all reformers. It ratirmallseR everything it touches. It rohs principles of all false aanctlty And throws l hem back on their reatfonablenesa. If they have Co reasonableness. It rutblely crushes them out ot existence and sets up its own cuuciuslocs In lh4r stead." W ootlrow Wilson. A Woman. Portland, Or.. June 24. To the Edi tor of The Journal Our aneighbor's little boy is too young to read the pa pers, but takes a good deal of interest la cartoons. Yesterday, after having watched the cartoons In the Oregonlan for some time, he came to his father and aaid, "Daddy, la the man that writes that paper a Mexican?" A WOMAN. "Those Wicked Democrats." Portland, June 21. To the Editor of The Journal I write you as a Republican and a friend of the Ore gonlan. The Oregonlan Is not happy. Its soul is lashed and Its incandescent brain U worried by those wicked Dem ocrats. Something should be done, so I make this unsolicited appeal to you. Consider these indignities under which the Oregonlan groans: The Demo crats make the claim that President Wilson has kept us out of war with Germany and hence should be re elected. Now this is not so. Germany has been at war with us right along. The Oregonlan showed the proof of this last Sunday and It got it right out of the dictionary, too. So there! These blind Democrats Judge of such things by the facts, In the case only. But this is all wrong. We thought we wera not at war, but we were. Then, too, the Democrats have stolen our thunder. We had not passed out any progressive legislation in 30 years, because Ve were making up a lot which we were going to pass out all at one time. But before we got ready the Democrats rushed In and tney are handing out our goods, with their labels, right along. They gave out our federal reserve banking law which has already chained the money kings of Wall street, made business panics impossible, enabled the farm ers to harvest their crops without be ing penalized by the banks, and car ried us through this war with Ger many the history of which Is written in the dictionary without our know ing we were at war. They have also stolen our prepared ness idea and have put it into effect. They have swiped our tariff commie sion plan and restored business con- fldence, so that prosperity sweeps over i.iL. . u . ' the country which cannot be stopped unless, as jacoo tscnirr, our K,epuD llcan financier, gays, th Republicans get into power and go tariff tinker ing again. But their meanest trick was this: Four years ago they said, "Let us amend the constitution so that only one term shall be allowed any presi dent of the United States." We said. "No. You go ahead and launch UDOn the political sea on a one term plank ! the United tPates Is at fault. There and we, as -In the past, will use such ! by, the aged firet chief hopes to unite planks as emergencies may require to ' Mexico under his standard, and. hav keep us afloat." Did the Democrats j lng united It, make peace with the T'ni Etand by this? Not at all. Here they 1 ted States which, ho knows, prefers are already with Woodrow Wilson j peace to war and then find himself firmly planted on a two term plank i in commatid of a solidified nation. which makes him practically uusink- able. The Oregonlan has plainly told them these things but they have not I apologized, so I appeal to you, Mr. ' Editor, reminding you that It is sound business and political policy, ' when you find a neighbor up against it and in bad, to help him down and out S. D. ROBINSON. Th Volunteer's Handy Guide. Portland. Or., June 24., To the Edi tor of The Journal I have read with feelings of mingled patriotism, pride and approbation tho account of 500 or more of Portland's prominent lawyers offering their services to their country In its time of need. As defenders of our nation's honor these gentlemen are certainly most assuredly qualified. No doubt Portland could at this time easily recruit a regiment or two of real estate agents also. The energy and the activity of the gentlemen of this proression snouia maKs tnem as valuable fighting material as the gen - tlemen of the legal calling, and they could moreover be more easily spared than the butchers, the bakers or the automobile makers. A company or two of assorted doc tors medical, religious and political would, 1 am sure, get the hearty sup port' and God speed of their fellow citi zens. A. PETZCTLD. What Us Thinks. Portland. June 24. To the Editor of The Journal. 1 would like a lit- I than was uie case witn tne unrortun tla space in your belligerent paper ' ate Santa Ana sixty-odd years ago. to sav a timely word to my fellow On the northern bortter. starting at countrymen. I have held my peace longer than I should. If :ny advice is not taken in this matter of Mex- ldo we shall all be ruined. The whole trouble there is on ac- count of President ilson sending down Democratic soldiers to Tight those bloody greasers. Democrats can not shoot, and everybody knows it. Unless Mr. Wilson sends down Republican soldiers the Mexicans will nave this country ail snot to pieces. Republicans have done some thincrs in the past besides shoot their mpuths off, and if given a chance in this matter the Mexicans will find It out to their sorrow. This country has. CIS. In Reproof of Mr. Warren. Portland, June 23. To the Editor of The Journal It seems that all the mental effort little Willie Warren Is capable of Is either to agree or dis- ; Obregon is ths best soldier in Mexi agres with the arguments of others on co and ne hates tb. United States and birth control. Aniericans wnh deeper hatred :han . V I Roman " 'ume..i against birth control; on ths contrary, his .letter Is a sound argument for u,rwi touwui. i..vu "Ul aware of it. He speaks of the "kernel." The ker nel is the meat, the substance and is ths soundness on which argument is based. Mr. Wood is right, so 1t seems. Qooss egg for you. Willie! Try again! MARIE D. EQUI, M. D. Their Disposition. From the Toledo Blade. Women throw old shoes at a bride with the hope of hitting the bridegroom. PERTINENT COMMENT SMALL, CHAXUE ApparentlVj RnsiillLn ,team roller In Turkey is up against a slump fcwlvel chair patroits are convinced that as a summer rebort Mexico doesn t compare with, the United btates. .. ' . With the vacation season here, the boss will have a chance to see which or nis inrea inenhemlsses moat. The time is abDroachine when Mr. Hughes may be expected to be moro specific about "adulterated" citlxen aliip. Perhaps it's because Europe's war ring nations have such sunny dispo sitions that they talk only of their victories. The old libel about ministers' sons gets another black eye from the fact that both Wilson and Hughes had min isters as fathers. Somebody recalls that Just 100 years ago there was a year without a sum mer. Aren't we having too many cen tennial anniversaries? I i ne principal dtlference between what the allies r ilrnnir tn n-i and what the Germans did to Bel gium lies iii the fact that Greece doesn't resist. Partisan newspaper critics of the president's Mexican policy seenj to go on the assumption that their reader can't scratch their heads without get ting splinters in their fingers. That Oregon Cltv man who has started a legal battle for an opportu nity to noe his potatoes appears to ne somewhat different from other men who start hoeing only after being Daiueri with. JOURNAL 56Hood River, The We are nearing the end of t'he Co lumbia river highway as It should be discussed for the) readers of Journal Jo ii rney s. When the highway hss been hurd surfaced to the Kound-l'p city, Pen dleton, and tli uninterrupted run may be made from the sea 1:00 miles ln lund. It will be time to take up in detail the thousand and one points of Interest that lie along this route. Having left behind Cascade Docks and Mitchell's Point, we corr.e to tho city of Hood River, which stands at tho entrance to the mountain valley famed for its fruit in many nations. It is always a great experience to make a circuit of Hood river valley, going up, say, on the west side of the river and returning on the east side. The elevation Increases Imperceptibly. The lorTTy vista of orchards and farms is spread on every hand, while Hood and Adams stand as white uniformed ! sentinels at the KOuth and the north. When you undertake to ascend the ) base of Mount Hood grades become j steeper One of the objectives of an I auto tour In Hood river valley Is j cloud rap Inn, at an elevation of , 6000 feet, which the heavy snows have j so far ti.s year made Inaccessible. Another Is Mount Hood Lodge, at a lower elevation, but open the year around. From Mount Hood Lodge BELTRAN SAYS CARRANZA PLOTS WAR Penor J-iqnln P. M. Beltran. for nesrty 20 years a memter of the Mexican senate In the admlnlstrattnns of Piss Madero snd Hrerts. and who, (Impairing of his pounrrT, ha come to th I'nitefl States. self-exi'Htrl- ted. declarer In the New York Time, thnt 1 Currants, knmvlne he an pot iiaelfr Meili-o. is I tirlag to brlnp on war with the I nltea btutes, expeetation or soimi.jmg su leans in Ida upiKrt and then makln peaci wlth the xjnlt.rt states. The auhjulned extrac Is from Seuor Beltrau's article la the Times With the stubbornness that has characterised him for the last two years, Carranza Is preparing with his right hand all "his resources for war with the United States, and, with his left hand, endeavoring to provoke that war, but to provoke it In such manner that he can persuade his countrymen Whether the- ungrateful head of the de facto government will he allowed to succeed In this plan Is In the hands of the United States. It is certain that General Carranza has done everything possible to pre pare Mexico for war with the United states. He looked forward to conflict with the n'Tthern republic long before lie was recognized, even before he and Villa severed relations. When the United States goe into Mexico and I say when, not If, ad : vlsediy( for sooner or later th task must he done the forces will aart, according to the opinion of Mexican armv officers, from two fronts, the Texas-Mexico frontier and the Gulf of Mexico coast. On the frontier It is considered most probable that the ex peditions would go in from Laredo and Kl Paso; on the gulfsoast from Vera Cruz and Tampico, with eelzure of Matamoron, a.t the mouth of the Rio c-anda, ard puerto Mexico I .H nf th- r-ontr.aooaleos at the mouth of the Coatzacoalcos river, on tho IsthmuB of Tehuantepec, a mat- ters of secondary importance. In other words, the advance of ths American armies will take the same courses, practically, as those of Scott and Tay lor In the forties. But Carranza, knowing that come power other than hie own must restore Mexico to order, has put nimaeif in much better position to make a show ' of resistance to the northern invader ! Matamoros, with an unusually rearjd i garrison of more than lf.oo men, and j widening until a strip nearly seventy 1 miles in width Is covered. running ! clear to a point opposite Columbus, N. M.t Carranza has placed nearly 60,000 men, under ths command of General Alvaro Obiegon, who recently com pelled the first chief to name him sec retary of war. In the eastern sector. General Lcrdo is In direct command; in the central part. Including the forces at Juarez, opposite El Paso, General Gabriel Gavira commands.; further west General P. Ellas Oalles Is at the head of the forces, and in the Interior General Jacinto Trevmo, an intimate personal friend of Carran ta, has charge of all the 30,000 or more troops which are being massed so as to toe able to strike General Pershing's column at a moment's notice. ftn- ther Mlcan. Not even the no-1 torlous Zapata would do as much uarrn ( to lhe northern " republic as would , Obreon lf n0 had t0ft opportunity. The strongest of all these northern forces of Carranza is around Naml- quipa and Colonla Dublan, ths iosts now held ty General Pershing, it Is needless for me to say -that General Pershing has had , absolutely no aid from Carranza In the pursuit of llla, and that nil these 60,000 Mexican sol diers massed within 70 miles of the border are not there to catch one lone bandit. They are not attempting to patrol the country on which they are quartered. And this army Is no lot of untrained AND NEWS IN BRIEF OKEGON SIDELIGHTS The Forest Grove News-Times has Just celebrated tho couipletiou of its twenty-ninth year. Mobilimion of Oregon's Ouani i "-u ;na usieiiuif 10 iu pai leaves the McMinnville fire depart- U-r or the raindrops. nient short by lb of its most dur- t jA,ltl t)lis kln(j of ppe,try was very lug and " intrepid fire fighters. popular. For E. C. McConnell of lieus er Creek the Baker Herald claims the linker 20UU in one week, using both gun and . poison. j Hlllsboro seems likely to have free delivery of mail at an early date, tho; Independent reuorta. Inspectors find 11 requirement have been met on the part of the city. Noting the organisation of a Wood- ; row Wilson club at Baker, the Bump ier American hastens to remark: "As usual Sumpter is leading the pio cesslon. A Wilson club is one of tin established Institutions of the town.": a Pendleton's council has before it a remonstrance, signed by more than 3ik J residents, against the proposed orili- ! nance to license professional peddlers, j It Is claimed they act as a sort of mid- ( dleman between consumers, on one ; sido. and farmers who cant affoid to do their own peddling. "The live wires of Carlton and the progressive livestock men of that com- i munlty," says the McMinnville News ' Reporter, "are to be congratulated on the success of their first annual stock men's picnic. Next year the proniot- erg of the meeting hope to pull off a parade of som magnitude and rnakn I C arlton the Mecca for all breeders of llvestoc JOURNEYS Dalles and Beyond leads the troil that It Is hoped will bo broadened into a road that will lead to (U vernment Camp on the south slop. of Oregon's gr-at mountain, thence in iVrtiand by way of tho Mount HoOd highway. Leaving Hood Hiver you ascend and cross the ridge to tho etist of the city and river. Descending, the road Wads to Moser and close to the Columbia, then definitely leads over the bluffs to The Dalles, which is truly the gate way to Interior Oregon. You may go .( nth from The Dalles, Boyd, Dufur and Tygh valley, or cioss the Deschutes at Millers bridge, turning to the south a short dlstonce beyond and going by way of Moro, Grass Valley, fcihaniko auid Prlnevllle. On who travels to the east of The Dalles should not fail to visit the Ce- gineerlng achievements of modern argy when h,r people f'.rgot their times. At a cost of approximately ll,"lent rmtl'-aiid t.l into the wor $5,000,000 the federal government lias . "h"' of moi ey. built a canal for boats aruund tho rap- j who cried out nnint evil In Ids anct-falls that for generations had high places -or In low. defied ascent by the craft of the Co- I who taw. Cm tendencies of the lumbla river. By the construction of I times und prophesied truly what." uiu k. il i.-? uiirr ill Liin L I m - , the canal the way was opened for unin terrupted navigation from the Pacific oceun to Lewlston, Idaho. Inspection and study of this engineering feat will repay any observer. youths, hurriedly gathered from larms and towns, It Is composed of the best men in the Mexican revolutionary armlen of the last six years, men who have been fighting continuously h,nce the end of 1910, and who know all roi thern Mexico as well as I know the streets of my country's capital. In it are incorporated 15,000 men of Villa's former army, which won all of tho battles that put Carranza in as head of the de facto governmnet. Seventy-two per cent of this army is mount- ed; in other words. General ObrciKon has at his orders more than 42,000 cavalrymen. mounted on the bent nl)ri In 'lTlrn jtmi trolnon Kir- voura ... V. . ' " '" , of guerilla fighting. That is to stay. h hut ne.rlv r,,nnv ..v.lr.n the United States has soldiers on the border and with General Perahir.g. On May IS, this year, there were R7 machine runs in the army of HO, 000 men undor the command Of General Jacinto Trevlno In the Interior, and Carranza was constantly hipping' him more. Hi has 27 field pieces three Inch arurt-3 and 12 French gurus of - - . Ty rrom tne oeie.nsse or Mexico City to send norrhward for us against tfie Americans. At least tney could hrd ly have tx tn for use against th rtu sive Villx From ilatamorag westward along the border, where the remaining JO, 000 men of Gbregon's various commands are scattered, there were approximate ly 36 machine guns at the same date, with 17 three inch piece and 11 moun tain howitzers, the latter being not of much Importance because Mexican gunners have not shown in any of their battles that they know how to use them effectively. Practically all. the battles In northern Mexico, how ever, have been won with machine guns, and of these the Mexican army . "T v.. ,.,! ha, I believe, nearly twice as many as the T.'nited Btates. Their gunners, however, are not nearly so efficient i suine. Carlton Ueutlnel. as tho&e of the northern republic, but Bam Moon was lu from- Osaterrlile, Sst the preponderance of numbers, in artll- rdy, snd says tbs Cblns pbessants ars ".t- t,rv aH x...'i as In men. la not to h ery as l as in men, is not to M igooi IU, With th exception of Obregon and Oavlra. e.ery commander in this north Mexican army has had military train ing outside, of Mexico, and all have served through the revolution of the last half decade. In addltl-n, Mexico Is protected on the north by a -erJes of for-ifled towns, extending in a line across the towns, extending in a line across the continent, t-na reaching soutnward in I Only s soldier, did t: r sa, rud triangular shape to Mexico City, j '"h H,, which owing to the very nature of H.,0.' Sl.'Vn hi Zr&l', location, in a valley In the mountains, i or.lr s irothr's only ty. Is impossible Of more than loeHl for- ' Only a mother's only Joy. - tiflcatlon. and extremely difficult of "" ln d,", Un,L defense, r3 General Santa Anas men ; Onlr his life, his only one, learned to their cost in 1847 ; rif . ed In the bunsing .on. ' ,- - ! Onu bin hh.d from his heart did rush.- - It Is (on the Oulf of Mexico citaM . . J)Mln vaj death, his lips (1W bush; however, that Carranza has rxpmded (miy s prosn, only s moan, much of hi energies and resources in . r s draiu of home aMt boms, preparing for the American In vaslon. iu'r jn. " At Vera Cruz 'he has renovated snd i strengthen the island prison of n luXf dsr. n,fht. Juan de I'lus. On tne mainland, the ,;,. t heart that uchert and ihnihbeif. CarranEa commander has repaired and strengthened ths old fortress of fan- liago, inu iuuuiiwu ncveiai smaller cannon ln its embrasures. Whlch7er way the American troop , . . .v, , , n . M-r , , elect to eo to the capital from Vera Cruz, thres towns Cordoba, Orizaba and Peblam.t bs taken before the trail can be called clear. Carraszn s soutnem ana central army. Which consists of nearly 90,000 men. w.deiy scattered in many posts from the Atlantic to the Pacific and from Chihuahua City to . the Guatemala line. Is unoer the direct command of General Pablo Gonzales, whose head- quarters tre at Mexico City. HI. gar- risen in the capital consist, of 16.000. " With all these preparations by Car - ranza. the American people should bear in mind that he is not seeking to de fend Mexico from ths United States, but to produce a war with th Cnited States, at the end of which he believes be will find himself at the head of a united Mexico, a thing he nerr can accomplish under present conditions. TKPnce Oer OM'U 1TO.V A TIMK -poets used to write songs in soothing me ter about the rain on the roof. 7 And ns..l to tell of the toy- i,., , , - there were so ninny peo likcd to Jits; ulieil In the morning. and If it was raining they had it was bo poetical. J And this iiwdo i,t nice for the because be popular tie rhyiuo- nil tli.y imd to do to was lo lilt a drowny llt abuut biiooting In wet weatner. - and everybody would be quoting them. - und t'io niHgiiy.lups would buy their stufr. - and they would bo famous. - in d ev r t hlng. And a littld later wo bad a school of pots -w ho u r..i.. of the Jiiy. of I . ing u.iwn on t in- 'rarin. - w lu re of cours llii i c. wasn't anything to do--but kTi full of Aunt Mary's cooking. and k swimming In the crick. and lie' In tin- new-mown hny. flnd thirds like (hose. with never a word of the hard work - lii.- unending round of tui that mado the furin a pleasant place. H And the public liked that sort of poetry too. J There w as no suggestion of labor in It. r And the poets kept grinding it out. because It was What the public" wan I cd. and It paid. J And there have be.n- -nnd a oth.-r v.u Idles of poetry. that urn popular because do not tell the truth. they -but only part of It. - and i;,'iiue--or glows over the fads of life. --so us to be pleasant- r pretty or sentimental. And 1 have my doubts -If to j please the public- -and make money la the poet's true mUnlon. T Not s with the prophets the pot ts of old. who aroused I.srael from her leth- i would happen if the people persisted ; in wrong doing. sjAnd I don't know what kind of a hearing --flint kind of a poet would I get now -a-day a. I but I'm sure he's needed. -even If tho critics say that a poet- or nn iijlift - Ih not eonoerned i In showing the world the way to truth. U For It fi-ems to me that is his or her -whole bu&lnc.'is. -whether hy telling tli truth dl-reotly-or by lining up Pouutlful thoughts and things --for Hits people to see. aiul be themselves uplifted. J And oT course this hn:i very -little to do with the rain en ths roof. sj But this mornLng with its peace ful pet tii, g putter making muwlo in my earw 1 thought of un old poem j about It An lh rft)n tQ , i 11 the I rhythm --or the old poem. ' , , , . ! ITAlld 1 niUSt hUVo gOIlS tO Sleep j again- I guess -because - J LIHTE.N--I laid uled - like mm ; miners will do - until I had to run to'catch tho 7 : 1 u cur. Ur' Infinite Varit7. The ef.or of tin. I'lilloinaih lieviaw tip a CoiwmQ of sut I r. .r In 1 i' In rijilslritng "wily pt.ijie ileeti In church." lie could lnv salil It In four llttlM KiiriH: '1sum Uh-j ur alttCpr." Monroe leader. - S An An editorial in tha ikt '.unM s-rl: very i.,,t' of whiskey a mnn drinks tlx-rt ens Lis life I r 11 In. inn.' Us ki w s man who 3 led teven ream l,ef re ha Urri, if. Uils la a fie I.--At.hlril 'I1llnk." Mrs. Guy Ktsms ami ehllrtren jrft Monday for Knnta Harhara, t'ol,, her they will V.ln ber parents. Mr. and Mrs. William lirclin. sir. Draua will perfect hlrnaelf In ths tort sorlsl art at a tu-rt!au1 barter roll-, s pro feasluo Lo odc began li Itaru ami cavar flolkhcd. North Plains Ootliuutt. Ths selection of I?. P. Vomi ss th Brw member of the boiu-4 of directors of lb Bsksr school district Is tueruute that th fluoHal end, st lssat, of lbs tpatrlcf will bi acrapalously snd Jlll k cut ljr kniksd sftsr. lis Is on ot thoss mftc who hs?s to bs Iiowb alwars snd he takea uothlog for xr anted. Lsksr Dcicocrst s The Nsr-ierg Kntcr-prlss dxvotes S bslf eolumn to "IJght or Dark of ths Moon." A Carltoo man who onr lirsd at NawlKTra; ra- c--ntly t"ld ua that after atfrtra on thw tlrris 1 of the ttioon to plsnt i-otstoei h blanled hslf of hl, lmt,,h im f t)if IMU toi half In the dark sn-1 Ixth lots turned out tha fc sinos or uaniairs iu puiung up 10m JMnt Jut fMt M tJl, 0jru f, up sn lii'T) or so Mr. Chins procs-rds to pull up ths stalks so ss to cet the kernel. ThT hsra taken 1)111 after bill out of Barn's crop, snd the sain program has been noire on In the Hahnow comfi.-ld. 8am asye tiiat hete.fti tne giihf-ra and pheaNnnta the prowrvatlon of a rrop U one grand sweet song. Jllllsboro Atgus. Only a Soldier Boy. j "Only one a.. Idler we hare lost, V.ffi" t.y. ' nothed hy the rajs of the sua. Only a mother whom war haul robbed; (inly a dream of a cnrly hand That lay ou hex knees ss tits prayers wsrt . ssld' Tears, only tesrs. m-morles so dest, l"r ad was gone, nothing to cl.esr, Her only son. her only one, (nJ aoldier boy. j Only ta4, ! 0lj)y a OMntSl thPy had been spsrt. i Only a laaa witn a nronen neari; .Only a ml. robbed of her bllw "nUilT , I jiT ner 0ldler boy. ! Jn . wrt , Qulr , grsre o er tho Itlo Ursude j Only a lonely tale to tell, Only ths thought that "war It bell;" g$ J''- ."ierlf Tesrs. or.lr tears, memories of rears; ,! Iter all Is gone, nothing to "heer. " .""'J on ner ou. one. Onlr her soldier bor. Subscriber tu The Journal, Drewsey, OS. Uncle Jeff Snoifr Says: War la a turrlble thing. tut it Its redeeming features I was out to Clackamas yesterday, and caw & lot oX lawyers In Troop A sairLnf wood. 4-5!