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0 THE OREGON DAILY JOURNAL; PORTLAND, FRIDAY, JULY 21, 1916. ST. m AW tXDEPBNPBNT WBWBFAPm - C H. lACKfOW ...... .fghHhr ' a'uniiaues er day, ttwn'xm and morutns . seept sundar efternooBb at Tba Jonrnal v .BulMlng, feroadwa aod YatabJU all., Port- . land. Or. atr4 at tua posttifUc) at fori Ian. Ur..i tor transmission tUraurb tb ma I la aa aseood , tl matter, ' akLfci-buNW Malo I1T8; Jloina, A-M. i AU ateptrtmcaU readied by thrm nambsra. Tall the operator what Opartim'st -ro want, v lMlk.lt. N AlVKMTi81Nli ttEFKKlitM A J i VU Beojamla Kaotnur Co., Brooawick Bide, Tti rttth Ats., New Xorh. 121H reupla" tin Bids; .. Chicago. Kubacrtptiuo tcrma by null or to aar ailiLteaa' . " k tha United States or Maxlco: DAILI (MORNING OR AFTERNOON) Om year.., 309 On month I .50 BUND AT. Oaa 7 aar I2.0O I One montb -25 DAILY (MOUNINfi OR AFTERNOON) AND (SUNDAY. Om rar 17. M I One montb I OS America aakl nothing for herself but what .ba baa a right to ask for humanity Itwlf. WOODROW WILftON. Million for defense, but not a tmt for tribute. CHARLES C. FINCXNBY. . "In a position such aa I occupy at thia time, I am not at liberty to think Of tin j oa claja or clause! of people to tb exclusion of other claaaes. Woodrow Wllaon. A KLTUAYRn PARTY T HERE never was a political party born with higher ambi tions and deeper sincerity of purpose than the Progressive. .Those who Joined it in 19 12 sac- y .rificed personal advantage for the ;ake of a cause. They enlisted in warfare upon social wrong. They 'spired to drive the foes of human rights out of power and put in '.their places men who were inspired '. l"by modern impulses toward social Justice. It was an uprising of the -human spirit against the bats and . 'owls of toryism. I But Mr. Roosevelt, who was the formal leader of the Progressive revolt, was only partly influenced ; ?by the pure motives of his follow- . "ere. He used the same words as .they. He talked of fifchting hu- -inanity's battles, righting wrongs land enthroning Justice. But deep . In his heart he was thinking o personal revenge upon his enemies. He had been Juggled out of the . nomination at Chicago and he was .tbent on reprisal. He was animated more by private ambition than zeal Jot the public welfare. But the arch betrayer was George i Perkins. He played the game of 'progressivism until he saw that r "in the alliance between Progres- iive congressmen and a progressive president, progresslvism was go ing too far to suit his purposes. The alliance was bringing too much progresslvism and he wanted a fcalt. . - With his financial power and backing, he shut off the sources . of a Progressive campaign fund. He captured the party organization. He deluded the delegates at Chi cago into postponement o"f a nonil " nation. It was the game of a pastmaster In manipulation. When things were all fixed, he fooled the dele gates into adjournment, with the power of future action delegated to . the national committee, of which 2ae was in control. . In the Progressive convention, he carried on the thimblerigging that Penrose and Smoot in the . other convention wanted carried en. . It was a ' traffic in which Perkins drove a knife deep into the back of the Progressive party Jmd bargained with Penrose and JJmoot to deliver the members of that - party for the Penrose-Smoot program. Fortunately for the country, it Is only a fraction of the Progres sive party which is willing to be bartered In this way for the ag grandizement of a political huck ster. The majority deem it shame . enough that a party with motives o pure and with achievements so fair should be struck down by the hands of bosses in the party it was organized to oppose. For themselves, the great body of, the betrayed cause prefer hon orable independence and the right to support a president with whom Progressive congressmen have worked and voted. I , , Cut your letters for publication ' short. Most contributors ask too much space. It is the short letters that are most read. Be brief.. Go "straight to the heart of your sub .: Ject and when the thought is ex pressed, quit. . , THE ZE1TUXQ TpHB Oregon' Deutsche Zeitung I denied that Dr. Frachten I burg's letter in The Journal was genuine and insisted that Dr. Frachtenburg was an Imagin ary person. - - It has been forced to explain to its readers that the letter was genuine and that Dr. Jfrachtenburg is , not , a myth, hut charges that Dr. Frachtenburg has no right to peak on German-Americanism be cause he is only a German-speaking ' son- of , German-speaking Jewish : parents. v Dr. , Frachtenburg has himself, answered the latter attack la. The Journal. " There is another false statement mad by tb Zeitung that it has tot corrected. . It declared that a letter signed "A German Ameri can" in The Journal of July 8 was not genuine. For a week, this let ter has been open for inspection by the editor of the Zeitung bo that he could be absolutely con vinced of its authenticity. He haB refused to inspect it. and he per mits the false statement made to the readers of the Zeitung to go uncorrected. He must either cor rect his statement through the col umns of the Zeitung, or stand branded before those readers as wilfully misrepresenting facts. If the Zeitung is deliberately false in one thing, how can there be confidence that it- is true in anything? Another war loan which will raise the English war debt to 13 billion dollars, is to be asked by Premier Asquith. It is 13 bil lion dollars burned up. And it is the war expenditure of but one of the dozen nations in the frightful conflict. And It is merely the cost in money, with -the cost in lives not counted. Peace pays. SOUTHEIIN SENATORS HE southern senators take the same attitude toward cnna la bor as they did toward negro slavery in former days. Child labor meafi3 child slavery. It is the slaughter of human values upon the altar of profits. Just as the human value of the negroes were destroyed before the Civil war stopped it, so the children are immolated now. What they might become if they were allowed to grow to full manhood and woman hood is ruthlessly sacrificed in or der to exploit their labor power now. Child labor is a national, not a local issue. The United States has a direct interest in its children be cause it wants well matured citi zens and Foldieis in the years to come. Every child blighted to make profits for mill owners means a direct loss of potential citizenship and fighting power to the nation. Hence President Wilson's inter vention for the sake of the child la bor bill was a deed well done. He struck one more bl&w for the coun try where a blow was needed. The southern senators may persist in slaying their children to make money for their mill owners, but if they do President Wilson's hands are clean of the innocent blood. In the senate Wednesday, Oliver and Penrose tried to kill the bill for .a government-owned armor plate plant. Why kill a bill that brought from the armor plate mak ers an offer to make armorplate for the government at any price the trade commission would fix? What a betrayal of the American people it would be now to kill such a bill and again leave the armorplate makers in control of the situation! What fine progres slvism is thus displayed by Armor plate Oliver and Armorplate Pen rose! A NEW CROP I T IS the common white bean of commerce that now promises to solve tha problem of the un used grain acreage in the Pa- cifc Northwest. Every season prac tically half of the wheat area re mains idle or to be more technical, in summer fallow. While in this condition the land earns nothing and is a constant source of ex pense to the owner or renter. It has now been demonstrated quite clearly by some of the farm ers that it is not only a waste of money in retaining idle land for summer fallow, but that with the aid of beans, the otherwise idle ground could be made to pay even better profits than when put in grain. There is a big crop of beans in Idaho this season on what is ordi narily considered summer fallow ground. At this time Indications not only point to an extremely heavy crop of beans, but to an ex treme price for the product. If a million dollars worth of ar tificial limbs are required for the cripples in Australia and New Zea land returned from the European war, how many millions worth will be required for the multitudes of the mutilated In the other coun tries? Men who clamor for war have lost their reason. CUT AWAY TTIE SHAM w HY is it neceBsarv. or ad visable, to say in a deed that property worth ten thousand dollars is sold for ten dollars? What is the use of all this concealment, this practical deceit? Why do property ownera and real estate dealers say that they convey property to another "for and in consideration of the sum of ten dollars" when in truth and in fact the consideration Is a hundred, or several hundred, times that amount? The assessor knows that the property Is worth more than the expressed consideration. The man who wants to buy finds out what tne assessor knows. No one is fooled as to the value, and the nominal consideration expressed in the deed stands simply as a futile attempt at concealment and du plicity. If the actual purchase price of real property were expressed hi the deed there would be fewer ski games put over by sharp practice and shady methods. If people knew the money history of a piece of property the state of Oregon would not have so much over valuation in real estate. There would be fewer tjHpaid mortgages, less-fore- closure, and more farmers would business as farming is carried on be able to wring returns out of in their locality. They ketp up a their investments. The law ought column of trivial news about John's to say that the deed"' should be as going to town and Henry's catch truthful in the expression of its lng a nice mess of fish and they consideration as in the verity of its grow zealous over baseball games, description. The legislature ought This is all right in its way. It to enact such a law, and put a is the business of local papers to penalty on the foolish and deceit- publish local news. But the editor f ul practice of "nominal consiflera- ought to exercise intelligent dis tions." I crimination in selecting his local Assessor Jack, who is a candl-' news. The most important hap date for the legislature in Clacka- penings of his neighborhood are v as county, will, if elected, sup-! to be witnessed on the farms. If port a law . providing for the Mr. Jones decides to try alfalfa change. j this season, that is a vitally im- " ! portant event. If Mr. Smith plants Help get the Oregon grant land a walnut grove, or buys a tractor, money for reclamation spent on Or- or invests some money in Holstein egon reclamation. Write to con-; cows, that too is important. gressmen in the state from which you came and ask them to vote for the plan. VICTOR MURDOCH'S VIEW S PEAKING before the Portland1 Ad club, Victor Murdock. pub- j liclst, lecturer and statesman, , said: The Columbia river is your greatest asset Develop it. Use it. The world's greatest seaports are all Inland. Outsiders vision it better than Portlanders do. We are so used to the Columbia river, so familiar with it, so accustomed to non-usa of It that we think it useless. It is a frightful blunder. The Murdock words are true, tremen dously true. "The Columbia river Is your greatest asset. evelop it. Use it." We do not develop it, we do not use it because the railroads object. ... j, i . .1.. XOU Will deny mat, OUT. ll is Uie ! cold, blunt truth We do not use the Columbia because the railroads object. They want all the traffic. Thev want to burden the lighter traffic with the heavy traffic which can better be borne by water. It is a wrong economy. Before he was a great railroad ; builder J. J. Hill tried to teach the railroads that water is not a j competitor but a helper of the rail- roads. He Insisted that the water i carries the coarser, cheaper freight, leaving to the railroads the more profitable classifications. The uneconomy of things is re vealed in freight rates on a down river haul to Portland fixed on the cost of the over-Cascades haul to . . , , u Puget Sound. The people Of the Columbia interior are forced to do the labor necessary to pay the mil-'if Hons of dollars of extra cost mere ly to oblige the railroads. It Is a crime to have fixed upon the backs of a great people these more ex pensive methods when cheaper methods are available. "The Columbia river greatest asset. Develop it is your Use it." The government Of Great Britain has decided to take by tax- ! directing the making of ammunition ftHnn 77 ner rent of the MrMB to mangle German manhood. And, did 7 per cent or tne excess clrcum8tances permlt , the same capital profits Of shipping firms. It is and skill would furnish Germany with some indication of the tremendous j ammunition to mangle American man profits that have come to the : hod- . , i v. j It , , . Open antagonism to Mr. Wilson by snipping Dusiness. it is aiso some , American-Germans will arouse bitter indication or tne Duraen put upon i the shippers and producers of the j United States when the Wilson ship purchase bill to relieve the ocean carrying situation was killed by. a senate filibuster In the inter est of the shipping trust. UNGRADED SCHOOLS D R. BERLE might have speci- fied another advantage of the j ungraded school in his talk j at the university summer school if he had thought of it. He ' said that the younger pupils in younger pupils in the ungraded school prepare them selves Jr advanced work by hear ing the older ones recite. This is true, as many a useful citizen can testify. But it is also true that hearing the older pupils recite and watch- ing their work on the blackboard I .;ffo iQnw.ti "icwv.i.u- v,uioilJr yjK the young, inspires them with am bition and gives them a notion that all knowledge is related. In . v . . . . . . . i ., ,, , mo su.tu, B'"cu oium jmuauuu Knowledge IS neatly lenced Off In Httle gardens, mostly horti sicci, and j the ntinils never so much aa dream xne pupns never so mucn as nream the the real thing Is linked to- gether in all its parts by the closest bonds. We hope Dr. Berle will i i,,mm.r aa,o of -, ! " cno o.u iujFicddiuu. uiuugni nere, mat iney can t sup- I port anyone who has kicked them so The telltale order for a million I often ln thelr faces." To question dollars worth of artificial limhqlthe Americanism of voters who be aonars worm or amnciai amos cause tncy have been .-kicked ln the placed m America for Australian j face" fail to support the "kickpr." is and New Zealand soldiers maimed ' to add insult to injury. Mr. Wilson ln the European conflict gives a Probably regrets what his impulsive . ,, . , i nature has forced him to do. but we fcinupse ai yrai lucauj. i uuoo wno are 10 wear mese wooaeTi limbs went away In the flower of manhood and returned an army of cripples'. It is a horrible sacrifice. Peace pays. KURAIi PAPERS L YCURGUS BURNS has some- thing lnterestinn to say in TU 'V.rmar.' Hnon TWtt, ' BDOUl newspapers puoiisnea m rural districts. He disapproves Of the local paper Which is published j experts have said that the strong ... v . ; , .'American munitions have had the in iub luiciwi ui uiuuuiw.ww xuu. grafters and urges farmers to hnvcott such naDers. He urges them to publish organs of their own where the local newspaper does not serve their welfare as It should. This appears to be strong medi cine. The boycott Is not a pleas ant Instrument of discipline. We dare say the mere establishment of a rival paper where the one already published neglects Its duties would be all that is needed without any boycott. The farmers should, of course, be persuaded to patronize the local paper which pays atten tion to their welfare. We often se rural papers which do not appear to know that such, a Just now the most important of all events In rural communities are those which look toward co operation. Cooperation has devel oped slowly in our country districts (and has experienced many failures. ' T!,,t nnnu tha ices It la ft tidal movement which can not be stayed ,a.Hri to work out a profound social revolution. Lycur gus Burns thinks that local papers which serve the farmers necessarily serve the whole community where they are published. We do not see how his view can be contested. Letters From the People (Communicatlona sent to The Journal lor publication in thia department ahould be writ-u-n on only one side of the paper, ahould not txceed 300 words In length, and must ba ac ccmpanled by the name and addreaa of the iuder. If the writer doea not denlra to hare the name published be ahould ao atate. "lHscaafdon la the greatest of all refonnera. It rationalizes everything It touches. It robs nrlnclnlM nt mil false sauctltT ana inrowa uisa ck their reagouableneaa. If they bar. so reaaonableneaa. It ruthlessly crushes tbeui out of existence and aets np us own conclusions ut ttelr stead." Woodrow Wilson. Still Another German's View. Marshfield, Or., July 19. To the Editor of The Journal Pease permit an American-born German in full sym nathv with the fatherland to state why. in his opinion, the Germans may make fQ cause Let us be fair. The president is in possesion of all the facts, which is not the case with the public. He is surrounded by in fluences and conflicting interests that well might distract and bias the strongest mind. The invasion of Belgium, however, Justifiable from a military standpoint, cost Germany the sympathy of thi.i country, and sinking the Lusitiana, ; f ddu f,uel thf "ames- played the hands of England in her campaign j of misrepresentation. If Mr. Wilson had been of different temperament, or another of different temperament naa Deen in nis piace, Hostilities imgui have been declared, which for Germany would have been the last straw. It is not improbable that had It been possible for Germany to pursue a different course public opinion would have prevented the shipping of ammu nition to the allies. Capital, as represented in ammuni tion plants, knows neither politics nor nationality. German cadtal Is Invested in the plants and German technical skill is resentment that may militate against Germany at a time when she is Badly in need of friends. The war is still raging, with no prospect of peace. Germany, however brave and resource ful, is composed of human units. She is outnumbered and surrounded by re sourceful enemies who will stop at nothing to encompass her ruin. ShaU we add to her cup by Intemperate acts on our part? And if we make our selves the cats-paw, have we reasons tr nopmg tor anything better from '"has mmittTmwT Vot words," is a significant phrase and does not bode well for our cause. tiJ ,,r,ih, . wnose shoulders rests ing the fatherland have tmn obey the laws. Were an expression of opinion possible, from the same winr.-. 4t might condemn the dangerous nre- oi iiumsning a president A GERMAN-AMERICAN. He Fights Mit Hughes. Reedvllle, Or.. July 20. To the Edl- 'or or ine journal It is nothlnar enoi7 01 P" rui. tnis attempt to create the Impression that German-Americans aro jroinsr to sunnort Wilson So far. wuson Hasn't shown the qualities necessary to Ingratiate himself into the confidence of the mass of the "l ain a n A m a n . mi i . uum.u-niuciu.ui VULCI . J nfTO IS" t on single German-American, or Amer lean of German descent, in this neck of the woods who win support wn- " lrue- mere may De a raw who are un(ler obilffatJons t0 aupport the administration, but whn tm- comes and they stand in the secrecy of tna election booth, blood will cry out to strong to be resisted. I would like to echo Mr Penners . "Dutch" "will fight mit Hughes ; Froceea "midt ' the battle. O. E. FRANK. Denounces America!. Prineville, Or, July 17. To the Ed nor or . Tne Journal one of yoar readers asks where would Germany ! he If we had another president than j Wilson? I ask, where would the al lies be If we bad a president strlctlv j neutral and not pro-British? The whole world knows that Europe would hav8 nad PeaCe l0n and Ger many the victor. And where would : Russia be with her offensive, with- out America's munitions? American , deadly effect. The last offensive In j Russia was not an, offensive from the Russian people, as yen said a short time ago- In your paper, but the of fensive from America and Japan. Verjt neutral. Indeed! The people here can be . proud about America's neutrality. H. RADIX) FF. The Longshoreman's Cause. Portland, July 20. To the Editor orf The Journal It has keen charged against the longshoremen of Portland upon every occasion that they were the cause of Portland's loss of shipping be cause they were paid a higher rate of wages than men in other ports, par ticularly Seattle and Tacoma; and now has seemed a good time to certain men connected with the Portland Chamber of Commerce to go on record for open shop and to establish a wage for us, though none of them probably ever shipped anything direct by water to or Xrom Portlan, and tn spite of the fact that the Portland longshoremen went on strike first and last with the obiect of equalizing wages on the coast. If the situation in Portland In re gard to shipping were not so serious involving, as" it does, not only the question of wages, but also whether Portland is to be a port or become a flag station on a branch road tributary to Seattle, It would be laughable to think of employers wanting to destroy ! or disperse a trained force of workers. I have read of and seen eases where employers run business at a loss for a considerable time to keep their skilled force intact: but not so in Port land, If a certain faction of the Cham ber of Commerce hasits way The union and closed shop being the goat upon which has been laid all the , sins of omission and commission, of which the disloyal and unenterprising business men of Portland have been guilty, it Is fitting that it should now be killed and made a sacrifice to Mam mon; yet, before the judgment is car fled into effect and while we still, exist, I would like to speak to the few other people in Portland and tell them seriously the effect of the union on the amount and quality of work per formed. Before the present unions were or ganized all work outside the O-W. R. & N. company boats was free for all, and except in the rush of the wheat ship ping it would pay no man who was at all capable to hang around and engage in the scramble for work. The men were hired In saloons or picked up on Burnalde street and worked a few hours or days till they had enough for a drunk, and others took their places. The foreman could be found in the hold of a ship directing the stowing of each piece of cargo or lumber, as it often happened that not one man had enough experience to do the work properly. There was one exception to this, in the fall of the year, when a number of men experienced In wheat packing came from all over and formed a nucleus for the inexperienced casual labor. Small wonder that the fore man got drunk to dull the worry inci dent on breaking in to work the flot sam and jetsam of the beach. Small wonder men were getting maimed by falling cargo or by their fellows. Fifty thousand feet of lumber in a good j land on Portland Heights that the rec handy ship's hold was the average , ords of tne clty describe as "Pennoyer uay a won, una ims was Beiuum prup- erly stowed. The writer has, when he 1 " ; first began this work, seen space lef t ! empty in a ship's hold that would hold 10,000 feet of f lumber: this by order. or ; the foreman, because work was done entirely by main strength, nobody had ! learned to'go at it right, and the only ; way to bring a profit for the stevedore was to leave unhandy places empty. Compare this with the steamer Ban gor. Others, by the score, have done as well or better stowed full wher- ever there was room for a bundle of lath, loading an average of 87,925 feet per nine hours a day gang, in October, 1913, for the China Import & Export Lumber company, and this by closed shop, union labor. As to wages, it does not matter much at present to us if it is a nickel more or less, as there Is but little doing; but if Portland ever wakes up and has some real shipping it may matter to it if the body of experienced men she yet posseses have dispersed in disgust. In conclusion, the longshoremen are as vitally interested in Portland and have a far better right to name wages and conditions under which they shall work than anybody except our em- , wniie rough and rugged to a certain ployers connected with the Chamber extent, presents possibilities for im of . Commerce. Being mainly res-pon- 1 nrovement which would be eagerly sible, property owning, taxpaying men of family, we have conducted a strike that has been orderly, maybte even tame, as strikes go; but we have felt that our employers in any final set- tlement will prefer us to the riffraff that must become scabs to get a iob. C V ANDERSON Secretary-Treasurer Local 3S-6, i. L.'a. The Multnomah Law Library. Portland, Or., July 20. To the Editor oz The Journal A lew lawyers -mtve always tried to use the Multnomah la library without paying. Usually fhey attemut to bluff the librarian by threatening to take us into court or to ; Washington, July 21. (WASHINO sick uie newspaper after us. e tftok i TON BUREAU OF THE JOURNAL.) the matter before the county commit,- j Representative Kent's bill estab sioners when we were arranging tor j lishing a national park service, to quarters in the court house and they . bring all the national parks under agreed that tbe resident practicin,.' harmonious and cohesive management lawyers oubt to pay dues. We j in the interior department, is brought brought it betore th biggest bar meet-1 ne step nearer to realization by the ing we could get, sending a circular j favorable report rendered by the sen letter to every lawyer ln town. The ; ate committee on public lands. 1 he sentiment of tnat meeting was so over- men who have made a study of the whHlmimrlv in favor of lh ixilicv t h board bad adopted that the advocates ox the "something tor nothing" idea did not even cheep. I am glad 1 ho Journal is with us on that point. One ot the men who is most persistent in trying to bulldoze us into letting him tue it free has practiced law here 2i ytare, and never paid a dollar to the "Support of this library. It is easy to throw out catch phrases like the "carpenter providing his tools" and the "litigants paying to educate the attorneys." The lawyers doubtless have 10 times as much in vested in their private libraries here aa the litigants have put into the JAult nomavh law library. It luliills a pub lic function aar its main service is to the litigants. Call it educating the lawyers if you please, but the least educated ..re the ones who use these books most seldom. Our supreme court Judges are educated, but the public provides them a library to work with, much larger than the one here. Tne United States supreme Judges are fair ly well educated, but there is a big library in the basement of the Capitol for them. I think The Journal is mistaken about litigants here paying more court fees than in outside counties. There is a refund of unearned fees, not ex isting elsewhere. The refunds more than offset the library item. The county clerk says the average plain tiff's filing fee fa ere is only 7.5u. , As to the proportion of lawyers us ing the library, there are aUO ln town, and not 1000, counting every name listed ln the directory. Two hundred and fifty pay dues and 154 more are registered as clerks in the of i ices of tl.fc paying members. Then there are 10 lawyers in. the district attorney s office, eight in the city attorney's of fice, four ln the United States dis trict attorney's office, all having free access; besides the Judges of the state court, the judges of the federal court, tbe referee in bankruptcy, the railroad commissioners, county Judge, and judges of the municipal court and other minor courts, and the various public officers, all using it without charge and availing themselves freely of the privilege; and the outside lawyers who come here to try cases. I think it is safe to say that at least 94 per cent of the business ln tne courts Is in the hands of the lawyers who use the library. If it were absolutely f r- e, only a few more would use it Some know It all already. Others are bill collectors and specialists of different types who do not need law books; and a few practice law by ear, like Jack plays the fiddle. Experiment seems to prove that $5 a year dues yield the brgest income and interfere least with general use. - A. L. VEAZIK. .Cherry Pie. t From the Detroit News. : These are momentous days to ths PERTINENT COMMENT SMALL CHANGE Is ths Deutschland waiting for all the weary watchers off ths capes to drop off to-sleep? Summer has been so slow that the P"r f hay fever summer resorts in the east are complaining. Spain has had a submarine built t an American shipyard. That's right; if you are going to have a navy, noth ing like beginning at the bottom. a Alaska's export report shows $24, 000,000 as six months' output. Which makes funnier than ever certain re marks about "Seward's Folly," fre- QuenUy hew(1 Mm 49 ear, a If it is true, as emphatically as ertied. that "the Boy Scouts of Amer ica is entirely non-military in char acter," why not call it by & non-military name? It must be a consoling thought to the 1700 descendants of old Gideon Howland, that Aunt Hetty is spared the agony of seeing his $1,635,657 and possibly some odd cents frittered away among a lot Of people who will make use of It. Forest rangera all of whom are paid by Uncle Sam foi what they do are no longer to be permitted to re ceive state and county bounties for wild beasts they kill. Some day all public servants who are paid for what they do will have to get rich on their pay and not on their perquisites. Still better to reconcile Gregonians to the few sligiit annoyances of life ln Oregon, travelers now returning are reporting that the weather back east Is doing everything that the worst Oregon weather ever does, and every thing that Oregon weather never does at all and doing them all together, at the same time. JOURNAL 81 Pennoyer Park J. A. Currey, whose name is usually seen in print in connection with roses, has recently been making a Journey of discovery. He has found a strip of Park." He is willing to lay a modest ! wtr lnal ,ry" "tr? a" ? ""'" ' "J , -. Journal readers to make a Journey to th? P"k- Take Portland Heights car f JP""?. 8 Ct' L tbree blocks, east two blocks, then south again two blocks; or. If going by automobile, follow the car line to the heights and then be guided by the in structions given.) j Also he wants the city to make lm-. provements, which it has never hlth erto considered worth while, and to , make these Improvements at the behest ' of those who will be charmed by a currey says sdoui fennoyer park: "Pennoyer park is one of the most delightful recreation points within the city and owned by the city with which few of our citizens are familiar, due to the fact that the park department has paid little or no attention to it, although this park was a donation years ago to the city by the late Gov ernor Pennoyer. This park, which is j located ln the choicest section of Port- j land Heights, covers six acres, and i seized bv other cities which have only j fjat BUrfaces to improve, . , m . "It is a long strip of ground east of ; Lownsdals or Fifteenth street and I runs from Davenport street on the ! "outh practically down to where the ' heights begin to rise above the city. ! s characterized -by ravines, gulches sylvan dells and wonderful trees and j wild flowers. Some of the largest trees growing In the city are located NATIONAL PARK LEGISLATION national pa. Ka b.ck mous in ravor or mis lesiaiairai. They give reasons of economy, effi ciency, and better regulation and con structive policy in building up travel to the "national playgrounds." It is found that ln plans under way for the creation of new national parks, how ever, strenuous opposition c 'tries from the forest service. The officials of that service are tenaciously opposed to the subtraction of any substantial body of forested lands from their Jurisdiction. This opposition has been strikingly manifested in relation to the bills of Senator Chamberlain for the Mount Hood park and of Senator Borah for Sawtooth park, in Idaho. In the case of Mount Hood, the bill introduced y Senator Chamberlain makes consesslon to this opposition by picking out seven park areas, con nected by trails or roads, left within Jurisdiction of the department of ag riculture. The Mount Hood bill, therefore, travels crosswise to the Kent bill for the national park serv ice, which has for Its object consoli dation of management In a bureau under the department of the interior. If the Knt bill gos through, as seems likely, it will establish a policy from which congress would "not b? likely to depart in the creation of new national parks. Thus the Mount Hood plan Is be tween two fires. It was framed as It is in order to avoid opposition from the forest service. Kxcept for that, Fenator Chamberlain would not have' placed Jurisdiction With the de partment of agriculture. He believes In the consolidation Idea, and gave his support to the bill creating a burpau ln the department of the in terior for their future management. Where does this leave the Mount Hood bill? No one knows. In its present form it would doubtless havs to be amended to accord with the park service bill. That will bring on a contest with the department of agriculture, which argues that ad ministration of a park or parks in that locality should not be divorced from the management of the Oregon national forest, which lies with the forest service. Superintendent R. B. Marshall of the national parks, says he would be delighted to have Mount Hood, added to the national park system. It is of such distinctive character, so ac cessible to the - tourist, and fits in so well with the arrangement of na tional park tours, that he feels It man who is particular about what he eats. There Is no period tn the whole year quite so important to the connoisseur as this, when the straw berry goes out and ths cherry comes in. Of course, one can get " cherries, almost any day so-called cherries; tb kind that comes in bottles, ths red ' of which la likely to efaln one's AND NEWS IN BRIEF OREGON SIDELIGHTS The elevator at Condon is going up ; fast and the Times says it ifoKs as though the grain bag had heenroealt solar plexus blow." ' Two ftundred and forty-eight sea Hons for two days' hunting was the record recently made by a party led by William Hunter on noue river reef, as reported in the Gold Beach Globe. The Herald says that Joseph will soon boast Wallowa county's largest and best general merchandise sior structure. Three subdivisions will bo fronted with modern show windows and Interior arrangement will be tho latest. Helix now has a municipal natator ium practically in readiness for use. The pool is 30. s feet by. 75 and Is eight feet deep at one end and 3.6 feet deep at the shallow end. After, water has been bathed in a suriicieni lenmn 01 time it will be drawn off and used to i irrigate the adjacent park. j Consideration of "the expense and 1 waste incident to building and then re- I moving a dancing floor each year tins I occasioned a movement ai niiibuu. u, , the Independent reports, for the erect ing of a permanent pavilion in tne city park, with special reference to the Fourth of July celebration that has become a fixed annual event in that city. Since it baa not been possible to finance the La Grande Afotor club's races at La Grande sufficiently to put the usual high fence about the course, the Observer appeals to all "to re solve upon his or her honor not to stand on the outside of the park grounds or race track nrui watch the races," but to come on inside of where the fence ought to be and pny the regular admission like true sports. JOURNEYS ln this park, a few of the giant firs being nearly six feet In diameter and reaching a couple of hundred feet into the air. j "By Btudylng the park and Its possl- j bllities it can ba made into one or tno; gtandest viewpoints in the city. With ; a thinning of the trees at the northern end and the cutting out of the under brush in the vicinity of where Jackson street, if cut through, would enter the park possibly the largest unbroken vibw of the city that can be secured from any point will be presented. From this high level point the view reaches frcm Sellwood to St. Johns and takes in the course of the Willamette rivtr. All the mountains are in plain view and the course of the Columbia river frum Crown Point to Ktlso can be traced, while the view over the cast and west sides of the city proper, be ing so close and unobstructed, sents studies most interesting. pre- "A few years ago an attempt was! IT "ut J'"P doesn't seem to need any made to make Pennoyer park accessible : u,'l' at and an acre or two at the end of! And so I've Rot to get rid of him. Davenport street, the south end of the j ajAnd while 1 know it Isn't ln their park, was Improved, but only persons ! line- I thought maybe .sumo of those very familiar with, the city can locate real estate men could . ell him. Davenport street, which Is a small because surely In three states thoroughfare at the rear of Port land ; there must be someone who wants a Heights. There is a trail, hard to lo- doK likc ,.up cate. leading from near the head of th Seventh street and another trail lead- ' lr.s from the Patton road. By working IT And 1 ve thought of putting a through underbrush from tho end of ; Want ad In The Journal's awap col (ir, th. orU f.n be reached, i umn something like this: - "To demonstrate the posslbilltes of this generous but almost forgotten ! gift of Governor Pennoyer there should j be an entrance from the end of Spring street. By building an elevated walK over the gulch near Fifteenth Spring streets a person would reach the park. A fm, well rtef ned tra lsi loadlne- to vantaee points would cost very little and by these improvements , and I don't know what to do another delightful recreation point i and so would be made available to the citlzeni of Portland." should not be left out In compre hensive plans for Improvement that are expected to follow the enactment of the national park service. So there you are. The Mount Hood bill is between two fires, with not much chance for immediate progress. Senator Borah was a conspicuous opponent ln the senate of the bill granting pensions by genpral law to widows of veterans of the Spanish American war on the same basis as to widows of Civil war soldiers. In the course of the debate he declared there should be a general overhauling of the pension rolls because, he said. Under the guise of payment to de serving veterans, thousands and mil lions of dollars have been paid to pen pie who never served their country at all. Continuing, the Idaho senator declared that ho would like to havs stricken from the rolls all the widows who were not widows at the time the service of the soldier was performel or fatal disease contracted. When legislation for widows of the Civil war soldiers was enacted, he said, the period was so long after the war. about 33 years, that friends of such legislation urged that because or tno lapse of time It was impossible to dis tinguish between the deserving and the undeserving. There is no such ex cuse now as to widows of Spanlaa war veterans, he affirmed. Fenator Thomas of Colorado re marked that in his opinion Borah is one of the bravest men lr public life, ln uttering such sentiments. Borah replied that, however this may be, he does not believe Jhe people of the country approve Injustice, and pen sion legislation of this kind Is tinjunt Senator Johnson of Maine, a Demo crat, and Senator Galllnger of Ne Hampshire, a Republican, ensagpd In spirited exchange of words with Borah In defense of the claims of the wid ows. Galllnger said he did not consid er It bad legislation, and If It Is, th bill will only add a few mors under the precedent of other laws for the benefit of widows of men who fought In the Civil war. Sterling of South Dakota also csm tn tti dfn nf t h a hill AHrHnir that ,ihw f h B.t.nin nf nil th that wtrtows or tne veterans or ail tne " ' Biiwv. i,rcm,u .,. inougn tne service may not nave oeen so never ln the Spanish war. Borah declared that a vast distinc tion exists, because soldiers of the Civil war nearly all saw arduous serv Ice, and few came back wlthbut somo Impairment of health, while large numbers of those enlisted In the latter war came back with only the experi ence of fin outing in camp. The bill under dincunslon was one granting $12 a month pension to wld- ows of veterans of the Spanish war, which had passed the house earlier in the session. It grants the pension If the widow has an income of lsi man a, year or w uepenuem children under 16 years of age. fingers, or the kind that comes In boxes, laid out In rows in monotonous regularity, the aristocrats of the cnerry world. Such cherries are all right In their place, but tbeir place is not pie. Cherry pie! What syllables in the English language connote so much da light, unless It be "cherry pie and '. cream t" It if remarkable - that no great poet, has ever penned an "Ode to a Cherry, lie." TKQnce Oer BV refTK liAMPMAf) X HERE'S ONE THING that I should have mentioned while tnose real estate men from three states were in town. and 1 completely overlooked it. JAnd it wasn't that I have some real estate that 1 wanted them to sen. No I'm trying to forget that. 1 J It's something nearer my heart. ff It's about my dog Pup out at Oak drove. T And I don't want to get rid of llllll. j mid he don't want to get rid of I me. We like each other. Mini we understand each other. so that when he chases a -cat and I veil at him tn itnn . . ' . "9 BP9 rlht on Chasing. J ,u ,ller ; ls't nythlng lllu "'"IUt with pUp. except that public opinion at our nouse lias turned oculnat him J I got him through the winter all right. by getting up and letting him in after tho rest were asleep. and putting him out In the morn ing before they were up. JAnd this Bering he tan up and down the road In the mud chasing motorcycles. and then came up on the porch- and danced mound. and left about a million muddy footprints. J And I couldn't explain to Verna. because Bhe kept referring buck like a woman will to tho footprints. But Pup and I got past that crials somehow. And I began to think maybe . that Jhe clouds had rolled by. and that Pup and I were going to live tiapvy ever after. Hut no. J There's a new baby at our house. ajAnd ho Isn't exactly mental. tempera- but Pup Is. J Pup Imagines at night that the houso Is surrounded by Indians or motorcj'cleK. or some other enemy of all dogs. And he burks and barks. JAnd lie's alwnvH sorry when X go out and reason with him. J But he ulwuys forget.s and barks some more. J And of course the new baby docsn't sleep nil Hie time. and I've tried to arrange It so : that Pup would be wleeping at the same time the baby 1h. TO TKAIrc On gi.(! Mark and whtta dote ; l'U't know wtmt fw; hnu ttrohg Iuiiki nii'i good volp; ruiit!a nwat of blv f'l from mi nniii'lliuf eniintry ; will coti I0t erxfoiujlfi. gu fliturea, wfvrad band Imby earring or imt hnv yoti ? IT !,.) T t.u.a t. .1.-. i I I am, tt'm , so,umm,rciaL ' - friends. JL1STKN I'll consider sugges tions short ones as to what .to do when you have a dog and have to get rid of him to keep peace in the family. Smudge Smoke. FYom Arthur Gonlnri I'errj kallum in ttia Mi-ilfurd Hun. Ail Is quiet around Ashland after the Kansas society picnic. Dave Wood had a headache Sun., duo to the heavy artillery fire on the Iirltlsh front. Kd Hrown lias fixed up his back room, no customers who so will, can -tliake the foot. V'ncle John WesteiiuYid spent Sun. at Prospect, he wesrlng leathr-r leggings to and from his destination. In theso balmy summer evenings, the younger sot put on their best duds and ride around ln the exhilarating twilight.. Otherwise there Is no social upheavals to chronicle. A Socialist traveling south delivered a wild speech on Haymsrket square Mon., eveg. Tom Fuwon, the only So cialist In the county not converted to capitalism, was not present, or he would have renounced his faith. Port Neff, the king of the Wilson non-partisan outfit, hasr come back from a fishing trip. Kor every word ln praise of our president's wonderful foreign policy, he said something nice about Hughes' whiskers. Just to show that he was non-partisan. A. P. Algebra, The esteemed Associated Press, which has barred all slang from base ball stories, springs' the following rhet orical marvel: Springfield, Ohio.-General H. Warren Kelfer was tonight rot.bed of a gold watch which was pre sented to Mm by the national house of representatives when he completed his term as speaker, more than 30 years ago, a a he was leaving a cirrus tent." Maybe the Max Marksman Knew What Kind of a Cigar it Was. fr. tlnxfr Denny, who taoght acbool bare lt year le't reentljr for her home la Obio. In writing to irn,& bora aha aald that While ihe train on which h urTld waa paaalag through New Mrxlro It was attacked br Meaf mnn. ?nil sluta " flrwi at tbe train an1 mimhar of the wiwlwa were ibot out. Iini man h1 a rlitnr ahot "lit of bia month bnt "rl ",lh '! M m S "Pt loM of (b(- r,BBr vllUl, mall. hartng no rtHmaaa pt witu tsa mostly consumed. - catijoii uij tMgut Stori3r Doggone That Doggone Dog. j Ii AT Is the most aggravating 1 VV feature of the whole sltua tlon," says Sam Murray, O-W. It. Se n chief engineer, "Is that tbe dog was not ven scratched." Murray and some associates wars j traveling on a rasollne speeder over OTle of th) eastern Oregon divisions tlme - whn a doar.raa out on the track and barked at them. Ha) challenged their right to tss. Thy couldn't stop the engine, and o ths dog j was bowled over. The bowling- process. however, involved also ths spaeder, Murray being sent to a hospital With ' all his nose bone splintered. , : ', "My nose is all right nowV" con tinued the engineer. "But you watch me. I'm going out with a gun. and" kill , that dog not because . be upset our speeder, but because hs was ths ' only on to escape without a erulss.
