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8 Art ifJDKPJCXOKKT JfEWUPAftaV C . JACKSON..... ..fbrba -ullleud every Wy, aftsrsooa and . moraine lexcept Sunday efteraeea), t Tne Journal lauding, Broadway end TamhlU Streets, Portland, Or. fcjiierad at tha .poatofrica at fettles. Or.. t . IriMBilMiloa through ths eaalla m aa avail Uss natter. , itaXalHuNgS Mala T1T3; Bom. A-0l. - All departments reached by thee aambsrs. Tell the averator what aapartmaai fwwit. , . fcaa'amla Kaataor Co., Bruoawtek Bldg.. ks rut Ara, Now Xers. ai reopie' ; Us Bldg , Chicago. 1 ttubscrlptloa terms by mall or to any address Halted Btata of Mexlawt DAILX daOKNlNO OB ArTKBNOOK) OH e.. .....$& I Om BJuoU .M tTJHDAX. ' & year........ sa.se On month .$ .23 . I DAILX (MOBNINO OB AfTKBMOON) ABD 17M0AT. One yar IT .so I On month ..$ "8 ,A merles aak nothing for herself hat what ga baa a right to aak tor boraenlty Iteelt. ' WOOD BOW WILSON. arniion for defenee, bat not a eetrt e trlbaU. CHARLES 0. PINCKNEY. The ivory white eoldlars la kbaki drwaa. Who gave tip chair lives at tha queea'a eemmand, Per tha prida of their race, aad tha peace of tha land. Kipling. IS PEACE s OMB sixteen years ago the mothers of Oregon went out to meet their soldier sons as they came home from the V - rmiippines. Many tnere were whose hearts were glad as the va cant place in the family circle was ' : filled again. But there were other ! homes where there was always to be a vacant place. And to still other homes sorrow came walking hand in hand with joy bringing ti .the wounded and the crippled and those seared and scarred with the ': brand of tropio fever and disease. Today the mothers of Oregon I . are going out once more to meet ! , their, soldiers. It is a gladder day i than that one of years ago. Hostile i; bullets have taken no toll of those who left a little while ago and they come back bronzed and hard u ened from a summer outing not battered and torn by battle or ' ' bleached and debilitated by march i or camp In swamp and fen. - ' Sixteen years ago we tasted the ' bitterness and the sorrow of war, the anguish of the parting, the heart-wracking suspense of waiting, and the grief of expecting those ii'who will return no more. iL' Today" we go forth In holiday . I f and - In welcome, but we have a t j 1 1 glimpse of that which has been ; and again might be. With the groans of Europe in our ears and i her blood drenched fields and I trenches, her mangled men and 1 " flt.fll I aaa . .a ; endless rows of silent graves before ":' our eyes, we can vision the horrors ; from which good fortune and wise guidance have delivered us. There may be those among ua who will regret that the guns Stacked at- Camp Wlthycombe sent i no screaming messengers, of death ; across the border or that tha '. )' Sabres hanging idle in their scab- i bards were not warmed In Mexican 'ibreasta. But the most of -us will ;i pause" in the gladness of the home- coming to give grateful thanks that Our feet have been guided beside the stilr waters of peace. - No ' Strike occurred yesterday iThe railroad dispute is settled. The i country la in peace. The wise guidance and sadvice of the Port lland Chamber of Commerce were 'lost on those foolish persons: at VWashlngton. LINN AT THE HEAD F i OR some reason Linn county seems to be always a little ahead of tbe rest of the state fn progressive contrivances Those market stalls which the ' grange has erected at Albany il lustrate our point. Perhaps other .towns have something of the sort but we do not happen to have . heard of them. Outside Portland We mean, of course. The grange got some help from the city council and then went on and built the stalls. AH sorts of good things are sold in them on Tuesdays, Thursdays and Satur days. The people of Albany ought to be thankful for this opportunity to get the best that grows at a reasonable figure. No doubt they re. The enterprise is said to be a great success thus far. We do not see why other towns should not provide tleinaelves with the same facilities. , GREECE AND THE WAR v . ' THE inevitable fate of the vacll Iator has befallen poor, little , Greece. Hesitating between two opinions, wobbling, never able to make up its mind and choose a part it baa dwelt for the last year, in perpetual misery. In many .ways Greece has openly fa vored the allies, , not because the king so wished, but because he was afraid ' to refuse. Secretly, it is said,- King Constantino conferred ' greater favors on the central pow ers, mainly- by provisioning and munitioning their-submarines, i : It - has long been "a good - deal of a mystery how tbe German iub marlnes In the seat Adjacent to Greece were kept so well outfitted. Now. the itory rum that they, were in close touch with, certain German vessel interned at Peiraena. Now this pleasant arrangement will cease, for. Peiraeus is in : the hands of the allies. Nobody 'need be surprised to read in a day or two that the allies hare marched to Athens and that Constantino has lost his throne. '. ." A POLITIOAIi BUSYBODY W HEN did the Portland Cham ber of Commerce become so powerfully converted to arbitration f Only a few brief weeks ago the labor people of Portland tried to enter into an arbitration and . con ciliation program with the Cham ber. A joint board of committeemen from the Chamber and from the Central Labor council was formed with Jurisdiction over any indus trial dispute "between employer and employe." Time passed and the meat cutters went on .a strike for a ten-hour day. The Central Labor council ad vised the meat cutters to place their grievances before the joint conciliation board. The meat cut-, ters did so. The employers were so notified by the conciliation board. What happened? Was the Port land Chamber of Commerce then overwhelmingly and unanimously for arbitration and conciliation? Not for one minute. The board of directors of the chamber, when the matter came up to them, raised a technical point to the effect that actual strikes, lockouts and boy cotts were not arbitrable, and by that ruling kicked over the whole plan of arbitration and concilia tion. That is the way the Portland Chamber of Commerce Is for ar bitration. It is for arbitration sometimes. It was for arbitration n the recent threat of railroad strike, because the roads claimed to be for arbitration. But It was against arbitration when the em ployers were against arbitration in the meat cutters' strike. This inconsistency and insincer ity does not escape the notice of the public. Its activities as a po litical busybody are destroying the usefulness of the chamber. A field of great usefulness is open to the chamber. The body has in lta membership hundreds of able and earnest men. It has done some excellent work, and there is opportunity for it to do a great deal more. But its political activities and the coarse work of its inner circle are undermining its usefulness and destroying public confidence in Its purposes. The car shortage is paralyzing business in the Willamette valley. When is a railroad a railroad? TVVO SPEECHES T HERE Is some little difference between Mr. Hughes' speech of acceptance and Mr. Wil son's. Have you noticed it? Mr. Hughes spoke coldly, craftily, keeping one eye on the kaiser and one on Wall street with a squint toward the old guard. What he said about Mexico was dictated partly by the oil and mining mag nates and partly by the raging colonel. What he did not say about the disloyal element in our population was suppressed for fear of offending. Mr. Wilson speaks out with the passionate fervor of a great states man and a devoted patriot Nobody can read his speech without feel ing the immense love of his coun try that vibrates through it. No body can read it Intelligently with out acknowledging In his soul that it is the utterance of a man of su preme intellectual power. What does one admire most in Wilson's speech? Is It his splendid cour age? Is it his triumphant reason? Is it his worldwide statesmanship? Or is it his feeling for human needs and the vision he shows us of tbe new age? Anticipating a food shortage to result from the strike, New York speculators bought up huge quan titles of provisions, expecting to make enormous profits by selling out at famine prices. The settle ment of the strike caused a col lapse of food prices and the gam biers are suffering heavy losses one of them having lost hundred of thousands of dollars. The inci dent is one example of what the strike would have meant. FOR RETALIATION c ONGRES8 has decided that it Is not good economic and business practice to follow the old admonition to turn the other cheek .when it comes to world commerce. Accordingly the senate has adopted an amendment to .the revenue bill giving the president power to prohibit the importation of goods from nations which will not allow American goods 'to enter their ports. Retaliatory statutes furnish an extraordinary remedy for discrim Ination by one state or nation against another state or nation, They are the watch dogs of the law. They may slumber in the books for years, Inoperative and apparently deadi but ready, never theless, to rear a barrier- between state and state, or country and country, at the call or the au thorities. . Drastic In their nature and, in tent as they are. these statutes are looked upon by constituted au thority and pronounced by courts to be a remedy which must be carefully and Justly employed. They may not be enforced in any given case unless the facts bring the case clearly and entirely within the terms of the statute. The courtesy of the individual Is the comity of the state. People of one government deal with people of another government by courtesy, not by right, and the law has said that if one government shows dis courtesy to the people of janother, it may return discourtesy for dis courtesy. .This, it is contended, checks discrimination and unfair ness if it does not induce equality of treatment. It is on this theory that congress has said to the na tions of the world that this gov ernment intends to do unto them even as they do unto us. Settlement of the strike has rough t heavy losses to a lot of food gamblers in New York who had cornered the supply of pro visions, expecting to sell them at famine prices when the railroad tie-up came. Men who are willing to coin dividends out of starvation ought to lose their money. NOT DEMOCRATS B' ECAUSB the Newberg Enter prise is supporting President Wilson for re-ele:tlon, 'its editor was referred to aa a Democrat by two speakers at a Hughes meeting. On this page is an article from the Enterprise in which the editor ably Justifies his position. Because Governor Johnson had voted the Progressive ticket, the Republican managers in California tried to read him out of the Re publican party. The Republican voters repudiated the action of the managers and the snub of Mr. Hughes by giving Governor John son the Republican nomination for United States senator by a plu rality of nearly 19,000. The San Francisco Chronicle, the Los Angeles Times and other standpat papers said the same things about Governor Johnson that the two Hughes speakers said about the editor of the Enterprise. The rank and file Republicans of California took a different view. This is not an ordinary presi dential election. There has been none like it since Lincoln was re elected in 1864. Lincoln was re elected because in a period, of great vicissitude and trial for the nation he met the problems as' they came, with great patience, self-control and wisdom. In like manner, with a vastly greater nation, with new machinery for destruction of life and property in use) as never be fore, and with hal.1 tne worm standing on edge, Woodrow Wilson has been tested with the acid test and has met with the general ap proval of the country. His ways have been so much like Lincoln's ways of meeting responsibilities that millions of Americans believe that Wilson draws his Inspiration and his ideals from Lincoln. The same solemn responsibili ties that led thousands of men of other parties to vote for Lincoln in 1864 are influencing men in other parties to support Wilson now. When life-long Republicans like Thomas A. Edison, men of vast vision and knowledge of things, are coming out In support of Mr. Wll son for re-election, It Is the great law of safety first and party after wards working out. In his work, Woodrow Wilson embodies the ideas of a true Lincoln Republican and the most of the masses of the Republican party are Lincoln Re publicans. ,To claim that support of Presi dent Wilson by a Lincoln Repub lican makes the latter a Democrat was strikingly discredited by the Republican masses of California in their action towards Governor Johnson. )nly half the usual number of pupils enrolled at the public schools yesterday. The business of the opening day has all to be done over again today. PUBLIC SERVANTS? A" N EMINENT educator who has Just published a work on American colleges makes the quaint admission that a col lege president is "the employe of the trustees, since they hire him and may discharge him." If the college president is an employe, much more so, of course, are the mere professors who are his in feriors in rank and pay. In some cases they are hirelings of hire lings since the president can dis charge them without consulting the trustees. But this is not often the case. - The same arguments that prove the college president to be an em ploye would prove that oar su preme court Justices are the em ployes of the president of the United States and congress. The president appoints them, congress pays them and can discharge them by impeachment. Boards of trustees and regents have done a good deal of late years to make flunkies of college fapnitiMi. ineludlne the nresidents, In some cases they have evidently succeeded so , far that men ; .who ought to feel themselves the in cumbents of independent positions cheerfully i call themselves ' "em ployes." But their success la to be re gretted. An employe is one who works for the profit of his employ er. We cannot truly call a college president the employe of his board of trustees ' because be does not work for their benefit but for the benefit of the public Is selecting him the trustees, it they do their duty, act simply as the agents of the public and not at all for them selves, just as the president of the United States acts for the whole country and not for him self or his party when he names a supreme court justice. This distinction should be kept faithfully in mind because there is a tendency on the part of edu cational officials to overlook it. School boards are only too eager to make the teaching force their personal "employes." They have a great deal to Bay about the necessity of "loyalty to the board." We never should consent that our public servants be made the flunk ies of any individual or clique. Chairman Wllloox is not at fault. If there is lack of "pep" in the campaign, Mr. Willcox is not to blame. Lack of "pep" comes from lack of an issue. Letters From the People ICommnnlcttioDi sent to Tha Journal for publication In this department should be writ ten on only one aide of the paper, aboald not exceed 800 words In length. ajd muat be ac companied by tbe name and addreaa of tbe ladder. It tha writer does not desire te bare me name puuuaucu uv iuuwu aw 'DUcmsskm is tbe greatest of all reformer. It rationalises eTerythlng It toocbee. It robs rrlndplea of aU false sanctity and tbrowa tbea ack on their reasonableness. If they bare no reasonableness. It rntblessly crashes tbam out of exiatenes and aets op its own eoaclustona la their atead." Woodrow wuson. Arraigns Money Power. Jennings Lodge, Or.. Sept 3. To the Editor of The Journal The money kings precipitated the contest between the railroads and the labor unions to compass the defeat of the Democrats. Does the settlement of the strike end the difficulties the invisible govern ment can invoke to defeat the election of Wilson? There can be no doubt about tne in tention of the money power to defeat Wilson, and when the secret of Its power la known it Is not difficult to predict what It will do. In the first place, the supreme object of any administration is to maintain credit and prosperity without which chaos Is inevitable. No debtor Is able to maintain credit In a panlo and tne greatest debtors of all are the banks and the government. The banks of the United States owe depositors pay able on demand in gold coin $20,000.- 000,000. and the government guaran tees to pay gold coin on demand on $2,000 000,000 of paper money in cir culation. Specie payment rests solely uron the treasury reserve of $160,- 1400,000. Any one of our money kings could create demands to withdraw an the reserves of gold In a day. All cold coin would disappear from cir culation, all debtors would be bank rupt. Including the governments, the banks and all other debtors. The price of gold would rise to any height financiers may choose to permit. There Is no limit to the choas It Is possible for the money kings to create between now and election day. The exercise of money power la ao subtle that the blame can be made to fall anywhere it chooses to indicate, for the withdrawals of gold can be caused to be made so far removed from the manipulators that it would be impossible to discover the origin of the panlo. The universal distress and disaster would confound tha boastful preten tion of the administration for credit for remedial legislation that has riven the prosperity it claims to exist and made it impossible for a panto to oc cur. It could not deny responsibility for the panic after claiming credit for prosperity. The money power Is certain to create a panic, and there is no other remedy to maintain credit but to destroy the money power by demonltizing gold and adopting a fixed and unchangeable money standard of value. I have ""prepared two orations a long one and the other short giving full details of the concrete remedy. I have practiced them for months on the mountain tops to the monarchs of the forest to develop my voice and lungs to withstand the strain upon them In making campaign ipaaobes. I have volunteered my services to President Wilson. The remedy Is so plain that anyone with common sense can understand it and no sophistry can repute it. Every one Will know the cause of the panic and tha remedy can be applied by an act of congress The effect will be Instantaneous, uni versal and prepetual. Credit will be as constant as gravity and prosperty perpetual. E. L. M'CLURS. He Wants to' Know. Portlanl, Sept. 2. To the Editor of The Journal. I have been a constant reader of The Journal since its first issue and X have taken its dictum; as to the best forms of good government and of late years have Implicitly relied upon Its advice without giving much thought or consideration to the affairs of either county or municipal govern ment taking for granted that The Journal would expose any delinquen cies. ' inefficiencies and malodorous misfits who are today preying para-, for th, father and brother. The eight sites upon the body politio of both;!M)ur Uw mean8 that the father can this county and city government. I ask you in the name of all that is fair and reasonable is there any re lief in sight or contemplated to the taxpayers of this county and city from a set of vultures who are rapidly sap ping the vitality of every frugal citi aen who has sought to place his or her hard earned accumulations (not any part of it ever having been ob tained through feeding at the public otib), in. real property, la this official burdened city aad county? I call upon you Mr. Editor for sn expression of opinion as to how long the taxpayers can endure without to tal confiscation of all they possess? Is there sny other city or county In the United States where the people who foot- tho bills will sit supinely by and allow themselves to be ham Strung, sandbagged, garroted, strong armed, quartered and dissected by a horde of pirates whose only qualifi cations appear to be to meet in pala tial buildings, wrung from the tax payers through sweat of blood to pay for the same, and vote away money in large amounts without a solitary equi valent? Automobiles, gasoline for the ask ing, appearing for duty whenever they please, holidays galore in every depart ment, nobody works but the taxpayer and there are none of them at the ple connter. - Any of these. supernuBaerles whose monthly salaries range from $13B to $500 per month will tell you that they have no confidence in real estate in this man's town. They are if. bonds their surplus cavralnga through outslds agencies and draw a doable tribute from the poor mutts of tax payers fn the shape of per cent in terest together with aa.ia.rlea Xiva time mora Uuut commensurate with tha ser vices rendered by the majority of them. They have nobody to account to for what littla they do to obtain these princely and fabulous salaries, they will tan van the tjurivar be damned. part actly contest to invest' in 1 city they are the bosses. Every one of these , Ure .a worthies has an automobile at his 1 Among other opponents of prepared back and call, and If perchance the J the small boy being started on machine they have la not a new model bu to school. and there Is something Just out which! The trouble Over In Greece may be Is more "nifty" they will Immediately, mflr for the furpose of keeping; the draw up jui ordinance and pass it ais- carding; the 11600 car for a 13000 or $4000 ear and relecrate it to the Junk man who stands handily by to take over the discard. The understrappers who hold the $125. $150, $200. $250 and $300 Jobs will tell you that they are under the wing of civil service and. If they choose they can spit tobacco Juice on their so-called superior potentate or big pumpkin's white collar and he has no recourse under this peach of a law they call "civil service" what is it? Mr. Editor. you have frequently published that there would be a re trenchment in the police department of at least 60 per cent of the force on January 1, 1S16, Instead of that there has been an Increase how do you rec oncile this statement? . Why here only yesterday two men told me that they had been solicited to quit ihelr present jobs, one a car penter and the other an express driver, and prepare themselves to take Jobs in the city service at large aaJarles, and that tbe places were offered to tbam by bur bis; mog-ul city commissioners, mind you, groins; out of their way to offer these Joba. This don't look like hard times, it looks to them Ilka easy money, soft snaps, each to be an In spector. How would it do to hold at the earli est possible date a. maas meeting; by tha taxpayers of this city and take matters Into their own hands as to running this city before it is ever lastingly too late? WILLIAM p. HICKKT. Wants Plumbers Employed. Portland, Or., Aug. 29. To the Editor of The Journal I take exception to one point In your editorial on "Nor mil Schools," vis. "Nobody would think of emplpying a plumber who had not mas tered his trade," etc. Every day we see It and this lack of justice Is growing worse. Peopje care naught about the maintenance of their plumbing. It Is the first cost which looms up like a mountain and the cheapest fly-by-night ourbstoner who cuts a legitimate plumber's bid about 10 cents gets the Job. No questions are asked of him re garding his shop, reputation, if he knows his trade, or where he buys his material. This class of contractors are not seen again after receiving their pay. In plumbing as well as any other Item, upkeep muat be considered as well as the first cost. The plumbing in nearly every large building in this city Is repaired by janitors or some other Jack-handy-man. They go as far as to Install new fix tures or remove them, and leave the waste pipe unsealed, Why not license the plumber? Know where the work is being done, how it Is done and who does it? It will come eventually, why not now? These are facts and the abuse of the plumbing and sanitation of our city must stop. Nobody ought to think of employing; a plumber who had not mastered his trade and by all means. If it pertains to plumbing, employ a plumber, not a hod-carrier or a Jani tor. Tours truly, - FRED VAN HOOMISSEN. Labor's Best Friend. Portland, Sept. To the Editor of The Journal I have before me two printed pages. One of them Is a page of the souvenir program of the first annual picnic of the Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen, entitled "Hughes la Labor's Best Friend." Then fol lows a photograph of the Republican candidate for president, and an article submitted by the Republican state committee, as a paid advertisement. This is but another case of selling one's birthright for a mess of pottage. The man who was opposed to the in come tax. the 6-cent fare bill to Coney Island that would have opened a breatbinlg place to the teeming multi tudes of the New York tenements, the man sponsored and supported by every advocate of special Interests, from the tariff to Mexico, he is Indeed "labor's best friend." and especially the friend of the railroad man, when through tha trying days of the past month, when the man in the White House was laboring with might and main for de cent livlnlg conditions for tbe railroad employe, "labor's best friend"' was as silent as an oyster regarding the eight hour work day or the other proposi tions involved In which labor was so interested. The second paa that I mentioned wave President Wilson's speech of ac ceptance delivered at Long Branch, N. J., a document full of proof of serv ices rendered to humanity. " One is really astonished that In the brief period of three and a half years, when civilization itself seems to be totter ing on tne onnic or destruction, so much legislation Of such inestimable value to humanity could be made theinr amhark over the road now provided law of .the land. What do tha eight- nour law, me ieuerai worxmen s com- pensatlon law, the establishment of the department or labor, the children's welfare bureau, and the legislation against the employment of children, ana tne limning 01 me employment ot women under certain conditions, mean to the people? It means that things will be better than they are. It means inai mwe ooya ana gu is wui not nave 1 A 7 1 fcDIB to! tw. .v.. LZiT .,1 I means that mothers will not have to i work! that thr will r mnn vnrlr come home to see his children before they go to bed. That he can read to them, talk to them," play with them. It means that life will be more worth while living than before. People will not be so cross, or harsh Or bitter. They will read more, see more, enjoy more, and all this must of necessity be of benefit to the race and humanity. And when history from its perspective writes tha story of these times, the credit will go to the most criticised and vilified man of our generation Woodrow Wilson as It did to the most criticised and vilified man of "61" Abraham Lincoln. Labor's best friend Is he who has done things for labor, not against it. ALEX WBIN3TEIN. Party Gratified. Myrtle Point, Or.. Sept t. To the Editor of The Journal Tour article in The Journal of September 1. page 8. column 4, la to a certain extent very gratifying to me. The only objection I can find-is that such was answered by a lady. The contents show what? .Well, let the lady answer. I shalV not' fall into the earns error and ask questions. For the good of the lady I would say, read the Seattle German Press of August $0. Politics is a queer study. Toung people think they know, but often - have to learn the same lessons. If I doubt much of your writing, it 'Is the consequence of many misrepre- aentationa. One of the funniest was the prediction that six weeks after the PERTINENT COMMENT SMALL CHANGE Roumanla, for tbe time being at least, has shoved Verdun off the front pace. . Returned members of tha Thlrfl Ore- 9Pa r "me wn a neen appeuie ior Greeks from feeling-loneaome. Bulsars bavin taken Drama, it Is time for the dramatic critics to have their say about Europe's great tragedy. Though the "threatened railroad Strike was averted, the incident should give impetus to the good roads move ment. Our president can rest assured that the people will weih constructive ac tion against destructive comment and reaction. m Labor has celebrated, and" there is another year of hard work ahead In furnishine justification for another celebration. -m Mr. Huerhas aava hf also favored child labor laws, remlndinig one that it also was Mew lora tnat proauoea a Me Too Piatt. That Salem woman who wants a di vorce because her husband is infatu ated with an Inmate of the home for feeble minded really ought to have re quested commitment papers ior mm. A REPUBLICAN, From the Newberg Enterprise. At tha meeting Friday night of the Hughes -Republican club tha Enter prise editor was referred to by two of the speakers as a Democrat. While it is not a matter of special Importance it may be stated that the editor of tbe Enterprise is a Republican. Looking across our beloved land several thousand miles to the soutV east the editor of the Enterprise sees a chief executive of the nation who has carried for three and a half year a burden the like of which has not been placed upon the shoulders of a president of the United States since the Civil war. And who. doubtless, manv times "walked the floor and sweated blood," as they say In California. With half the civilized world war-mad prob lems have had to be solved by Presi dent Wilson which called for the ex ercise In a high degree of skill. Judg ment, patience and patriotism. In addition the situation in Mexico has added to the difficulties confront ing. the president. Some one says there are two kinds of guesses one before an event takes place and the other afterward. It is easy enough now to Bay where a different course at times In our dealings with the half-starved and despairing people to the south of us might have produced better results, but on the whole the course pursued by the president has received the approval of the majority of the citizens of our country. "Why he got ns Into war." exclaims Mr. Hughes, referring to the sending of troops to Vara Crux. Of course. Mr. Hughes knows that the sending of the m Vera Cms expedition was directed by Republicans and Democrats alike in both houses of congress, but many of his hearers do not know this. Tbe beginning of the European war the allies would be In Berlin. It Is yet a long way there. I should like to know Mrs. Mary F. Honghauer's father's name. It is P? M. O. POHL. The Columbia Highway From The Dalles Chronicle. The Chronicle, several months ago, criticized Portland publications and or ganizations for exploiting the Colum bia river highway as a completed proj ect. As it stands today, it is a won derful roadway from Portland to the eastern end of Multnomah county. From there on to Tha Dalles It Is not paved, and while it is a good road most of the way, there are some very rough stretches. t The tourist who goes over the en tire highway, expecting to find only pavement, goes home advertising tha road as "rotten." instead of saying It Is wonderful as far aa it goes, and will be still more wonderful at some time in the future. The Oregon Journal recently took the same position in- an editorial. Now come the Moro Observer with the fol lowing: "Notwlthsfanding all the advertising and praise for the Columbia river high way between eastern and western Ore gon, there is no such thing. There is a road that is narrow, rocky and full of wavese in the dirt elections, and having audden and sharp curves and grades with no warning signs of the danger ahead for anyone traveling at a speed In exceaa of 10 miles or less an hour. "It Is amusing to hear Portland peo ple talk about being over tbe hign way: they are very careful to stop be fore getting to the" end of the pave- i ment In Multnomah county. In Juatica to the state of Oregon and the future business that will accrue when the highway is fully Improved, no tourist ! should be allowed to leave the state until they are made aware of its actual , condition. j "Multnomah county has done a won ! derful work in building and paving as ' much of tha road as has been done, BomfJ 45 miles, but the rest of the road . .hows un the worse for the effect The Columbia river counties should take a lesson from the way the south ern Oregon counties have handled this matter: they have used the county credit, aa has Hood River county! then ;l'used the credit of their cities to nnisn and enlarge upon what the counties had done-with the result that though taxes are higher than they were be fore this had been done, yet business is better for all and taxea easier to pay, quoting from both the business ! mn and the farmers we met ana talked with while in Jackson county.' The Noise of Industry. From, the Bend Press. Leaving out a discussion of the re fined noises which are intended to de light man in his idle hours there are myriads of noises in everyday life which will ever be life's sweetest mu sic the necessary noises of Industry those are the ones which are the to the hearts of man. The ring of the anvil, the hum of h. lrxtm tha click of the typewriter, the hammer, the saw, the falling of boards, tho hum of the engine, the lowing of the cattle, the grunting of the pigs, tha clatter 01 tne mower and the combined noises of Industry in thai arreatest delight OI man. The majority of us would rather work fn a boiler factory than herd sheep because tho eternal silence of the grazing Janda continued day after flay becomes mors nerve racking than, a hundred steam hammers all at work at the same time. " Today Bend Is one symphony of Jn dustrlal noises. And they sound good to th ears of the majority of us, for these noises mean -men at work, and n.en at work mean harpy homes, con tented wives and children, all enjoy. big lit a goodly measure the thliys of life which are fundamental for human progress. ..f AND NEWS IN BRIEF OREGON SIDELIGHTS At the last monthly xneetlnr of the Albany library board the members were presented with watermelon by the librarian and cake made by the aaslatant librarian. m Nature Is pulling off some Queer stunts for the favored people Of For est Orove, according to the News Times. A fine, fat, pearly pure white robin has visited the yard of Dr. Coon. 8peaklng of the home town, the Condon Globe says: "This town has its advantages and Its disadvantages. Let's boost the one and forget tha other when strangers are in our midst." "Hark." exclaims the Silver Lake Leader, discoursing of the prospect for a railroad; "we can almost hoar the shrill, but to u musical, whls!e of tho first train pulling into the atation It is coming, anddont you forget It. The season during which buck deer can be legally killed is now about two weeks old. says the Rogue River Courier, and no fatalities among hunt ers have yet been recorded. The fa talitiea among the bucka are also rel atively low. m m Joseph Is an unusual town. On the authority of the Herald it is said that many local property ownera have complied with the city council order affecting sidewalk Improvements and have thus ahown a commendable degree of wlllingnesa to act In har mony with the city executives. BUT FOR WILSON same authorization was given the pur. suit of bandits who crossed the border at Columbus, New Mexico, and killed some of our people. Attorney Butt in his Friday night speech said the Democratic platform promised a reduction in living expenses which promise has not been kepi. Congressman Ferris of Oklahoma had this same charge flung at him a, few weeks since by Congressman Long worth. Roosevelt's son-in-law. In :e- ply he aaid the cost of living In this country has not increased as It has in every other country of the world and that no other party could have re duced It with a world-war waging on the other side; that his father and mother rode In a one-horse shay that cost $35; now the younger generation think something is wrong if they do not have a new $2500 automobile every third year; that the style and methods of life have changed and that the party does not live that Is able to reduce us to tha plana of the one horse shay. The editor of the Enterprise did what he could to secure a second term for Grant and McKlnley, neither of whom had earned by distinguished ser vice this distinction to the degree that has President Wilson. He believes that with the present appalling conditions in Europe and the crisis in our own national affaiei our beloved land will be safer during the next four years with the experienced Wilson as chief executive than with the untried Hughes. But the Enterprise editor is Just the same a Republican as he was when he voted for Grant and Hayes and Garfield and Blaine and Harrison and McKlnley and Roosevelt and Taft. In this respect he is lined up with an army of Republicans of like views. A Campaign Aid. From the Cincinnati Times-Star. The campaign Innovation of Stephen A. Stlllwell, recent candidate for the Republican nomination for auditor of state, should be encouraged. It may mark an epoch In campaign noise, sometimes known aa oratory. Mr. Stlllwell, appreciating the people'a pre dilection for a stentorian voice and not possessing strong vocal chords, rented a steam calliope. Draped upon lta sides were succinct reasons why Mr. Stlllwell should receive the suffrages of his party. And while the populace gazed at tha legenda and digested their significance, the oalliope, with many a squirt and sputter, rendered everything from "The Btar Spangled Banner" down to "She May Have Seen Better Days." The advantages of a steam calliope as a campaign orator are apparent. It can make more noise than any Ohio speaker, with a couple of distinguished exceptions. It relieves the candidate, who, after coining a few phrases with a sign painter transcribes on bunting, sits back In benevolent silence Instead of haranguing the populace. And finally It may be said that there is as much political logic In the raucous notes of a steam calliope as In the turgid utterances of a campaign Orator, Protest of Roman Matrons. From London Chronicle. The earliest deputation of women to parliament was organised close on 1000 years ago. Under the triumvi rate of Augustus, Antony and Lepldus It was proposed to tax the property of 1400 wealthy Roman matrons in order to meet part of the expenses of the civil war then raging. Tliey refused to submit to this imposition, and sent Hortensta, one of their number, to plead against It before the senate. In the course of her speech she asked: "Why should we be compelled to pay fo:- a war Into which we had no wish to embarR, pr for the support of a government whose policy we have no means of controlling?" This argu ment proved so effective that the tax on women was reduced to One-third of the amount originally proposed. Human Unity. Thomas Brackett Reed. It has been wisely ordained that not set of creatures of Our race shell be bevond the reach of oiners SO lofty that hey will not feed Te proach No progress which did not lift all, ever lifted any. If we let the poison of filthy diseases percolate through the hovels of the poor, death knocks at the palace gates. If we leave to the great horror of ignorance any portion of our race, the consequences of ignorance strike us all, and there is no escape. We must all more, but we must all keep together, it is only when the rear guard comes up that the vanguard can go on. An 'Impending Calamity. From the Knickerbocker Press. Just because there is no such word as "alright"' does not prove that there is not going to be such a word. Ns matter how earnestly one may deplore the possibility, it is a fact that this hideous verbal outrage Is gaining cur rency. The wovst of It la that there Is no way to head It off. Language has no law courts and no legislatures. Usage Is Its Judge, jury, statute book aad constitution, if all Oie people join in using a word, it is a word. And that is all there is to it. As to the grounds upon which "al right" can be defended we are not even curious. There Is assuredly no necessity for it, and It Is a painful spectacle. . , When a If allure? From the Birmingham Age-Herald. "Success in life Is a relative term." tbe philosopher said. "No doubtf"1he man of easy habits replied. ?"But when a person who has reached middle ago still depends on an alarm clock to help hire hold his job, X consider that bis life to a failure." . BY Rgrg T.AMPMAN P VERT LITTLE WHILE when I say I'm going to do a thing -I surprise all my friends and the es teemed city - editor and my wlfe s folks. and everybody, by doing it J And I said I was going to march In the Labor Day parade. If Bill Orunow and the rest et those pesky printers would let me. and BUI said it was nothtn' to him that he had a motor boat to worry about. and the other printers, said they should worry about what a nut quad llk ma should do. ej And so I went up to Fourth and Columbia, ' and they pinned a union label on my arm. and Mrs. L. Oee of the garment workers' union sold me a blue badge for 10 centa. with a quotation from Dan i at Webster on it. t J And Mrs. Qee pinned It on me. and I got in line. - and the fellows ahead began to - churn their feet up and down. and I began to churn mine up and down. and tha man ahead of me took a step, and I took a step and a band struck up. and my. chin went up. and I began swinging my feet. and there I was marching in a real preparedness parade. J And I waa eo busy getting under way that I looked neither left nor right. because I Intended to do my very best personally to make that parade a success. J But after awhile when I felt I had started things off in fine shape. and that everything was all right I thought I could reiax a bit. H And I turned my head to bow and acknowledge some dainty applauaa from the second story of an apart ment house. and there on my right hand strutting along and bowing aa though those girls meant him was Alf Cridge. fAnd I told him they didn't, and ha aaid he didn't aee what I knew about It. that he had marched in Labor Day parades before. and they always cheered when he passed. J And I said: "You mean they always cheer when you get past." J And then there waa more ap plause from a porch on the other side. and Alf bowed and took off his hat and exposed his dome. and the applauae ceased. J And then I noticed that Alf was out of step. and told him so. J And he said I was. but I out-talked lilm. which is a rare thing to do. and he got in step with me. and 'Gene Smith the grand mar shal came along. and balled ua out through hie megaphone. J He aaid we were out of step with the whole parade. J And of course I never expected to have any trouble like thla. marching by Alf. because I expected to march ly Dad Whiting the Jumbo llnotyper and fan him. J But Dad showed up In a big new touring car. and said he was too tired to wttik. and he-, got a lot of girls to get in his car and didn't walk a step end LISTEN I think he a a nlute and has lost his sympathy with the common people and he s probably been dabbling In war stockN and I took his number so eveqfbodyil know him. vregon tv.vii. St - . M r, n . l 21 f rs TO BE A CELI WHAT IT STEAKS TO BE A CELEBRITT From the C tin) on tilf HtgW. We Dote the iiudii- of Cobiupl K. 8. Wood on tbe trwr' raninalgu literature Mr. Wood ia a buoater for tbe rr- and unlimited brewing ' beer. luilm Wi notlred Ma uaina In print he wl Id tbe pot lea eoart defending a 'jo waa plsotaed" for adrwatlng tirth run troL Tbe oolonel la quite a cliararter. He aaed to wear iile hair down to ahont a poet's length aad waa ul a hand for aU kinds of freadom. Ili la a 1 1 tn. t jr twlng geatlamaD wbo wan la tbe gitui thlnga of Ufa to clrrulat without re straint, ae quite naturallj la a Inmia eiowa expcsient for tbe free and uoliuiltad brewing of tboee lliruld ration that ara OlaUugulabed by a blgb, nhlia collar of foe is. Ufa's Infinite Variety. la a mention mads la the Eaterprlae of the will of the late A. V. Ollrar II waa la ted tbat be beqaaatned to hla brotber 3. It abculd bare been $300. Newberg Kntarprlae. It looks like Daa Keuey baa bla tbe par etrenk in bla Rock. Creek mine at laat. If b- has tbere are Lone wbo will becrudsa him hi good fnrtuue. ;ia deterree bla reward fur the year of labor and th money periled la bla effort to develop wbat btf Judgment told him ealated. Sueb peralatenrr at nis n vo o oommanoaa ana a aeaarTiss of auceeaa. Baker Democrat. A. 1. McAIIlatar of tha Peegleton Pros Te. la mourning tbe kwa of Jack, bla llttl tut -terrier, which waa bla laaeparahle eommi. anion. The animal either atriyed away er baa bees stolen. Jfendletea Eaat Oreaonlao. . la the olden days Urn good Jndga used te ride br wblle Maude Uollar raked tha bay. Today they aae bay ourka for driving seta when tbe auto blta the Irrigation ditch, while Vistula aerenelj anorea lla ker Herald. a a Thla week J. G. Crawford rat and polished as old atone ba picked up on the bank a of the Willamette five yeara ago, en that be did not eonaider preaerHed very good pros pect; hat It la one of the finest la bis col lection. Inside la the shape of a stylish woman, with nxate toggery, and a drop of water or air hi aees changing positions. It's a rare gem. Albany Democrat Kattire la pulling tf some gtoatt for tha fa'ored people ot koreat Orove. Early la tha week, a flue. fat. 'iearly, pare whlta robin appeared la tfie yard at Dr. Coon's bunas as Third arena south, and jnat to prove that 'Doc" baa not been "aeelng thlnga" whea b discovered It. the bird haa returned fa eeveral visits sad many neighbors kara lored the alght. rfnlte robins ara nearly as rare aa "white blackkblrda," hut tbe nature sharps tall tm that is Coha aod some of the Carrlbeaa islands wh.ta roblna are frequently foend. goren Orove Newa-Tlmes. WUI Have to Speed Up. Prom the Buffalo Ex press. "Jiggs has but one ambition in Ufa" "What'o their "He hopes some day to be able to write letters as fast ss tbe movie heroine's write therm." Uncle Jeff Snow 8ays. There is several kinds of 'prepare edness, but I think to be prepared te earn your llvln' in the sweat of your own face Is about the best. I don't mind what the young cuss who runs this kollum tells about tne so long's h don't tell ths truth. . , , - r. r