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.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.
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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.