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THE OREGON " DAILY JOURNAL, PORTLAND. THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 21, : 1918.
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. trlbnta. CHARLES C. PINCKNKT.
America la a
frown by tba
natlooa.
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fortnoata couttry ; alia
folllea of our European
Napoleon Booaparta.
JASON LEE
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HE Oregon Historical Society's
Quarterly baa begun the pub
lication of Jason Lee's diary.
We know of no worthier en-
terprlae which it could have un-
dertaken. Jason Lee is a com-
j mandlng figure in Oregon's early
r history. We do not heBitate to. say
that the pioneers of the state owed
more to his genius and courage
j than to any other factors.
Jason Lee was osfensibly a Meth
f odiflt missionary but in reality he
J -was a great deal more than that.
He was a far-seeing statesman who
understood the Importance of Ore-
v gon to the United States and took
timely measures to bring it into
- the Union.
He perceived promptly the folly
1 , of trying to do serious missionary
.work among the desperately lazy
and badly diseased Indians of the
' ' Willamette valley. The Nez Perces,
; who had first invited missionaries
t to the coast, were of a very differ-
ent stock. Accordingly Lee soon
I abandoned his strictly missionary
j - task and set about the labors of a
" Y statesman. Under the pretext of
-establishing mission stations he
J planted outposts of Americanism
I.- at strategic points in the Oregon
i' country which helped effectually
' to undermine British influence.
I , Ho -understood the economic
needs of the Willamette valley
f and was one of the first to unite
In the" Importation of breeding :at-
tie from California. He also joined
in founding the firs schools in
' Oregon, and took a sturdy hand in
the movement for a provisional
government.
Jason Lee deserves all the rec
ognition he is likely to receive.
His later career was clouded by
slander and misfortune but his
memory Is one that Oregon should
delight to honor.
- The pupils of the Portland high
schools are going to study- the va
rloua 1 measures on the November
ballot and debate them for the In
formation of members of the Parent-Teacher
association. After
reading some of the measures it 1b
safe to say that if somebody does
Dot tell us what they are all about
we will never know.
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AN EMPIRK
A
N EXCURSION of Portland
business men is being Bhown
by the people of Grants Pass
that the Rogue River coun
try is another empire in Oregon.
.. It Is an Empire that has for years
been ! struggling against adversa
circuirfstances and conditions, but
which, in the face ot these has
made wonderful progress.
v- With the mountains between it
- and "California to the south, more
mountains between it and the
'ocean on the west, and with the
, long haul to the north over a
railroad whose sentiments turn- to
, wards the south, the Rogue River
country has been having a hard
time.' Yet in the face of top
. heavy freight charges it has mado
long strides forward.
. It la famed for its fruit and its
general productiveness. Its moun
tains, dented here and there by the
shafts of the miners, have yielded
fortunes, and yet contain fortunes.
It has water power for factories
and! far reaching forests waiting
to ' be- sawed Into lumber. It Is
today; producing more sugar beets
than any other part of tne state,
and has a million dollar sugar fac
tory for - the refinement ot the
products of these fields.
Surely Oregon is the mother of
- many empires.
" If It be true that there are at
torneys In " Portland, we will ' not
say ' lawyers, who are ' charging
needy widows fifty per cent of the
pension money due. them as a fee
for making application to the pen
sion department, then there are in-
WHEN THE COUNTRY WAS ON FIRE
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N HIS 8pringfleld speech Mr. Hughes went to the great length of
charging that President Wilson "played politics in his prevention Tr
the railroad strike." . '
In the same way, Mr. Hughes may think President Wilson
"played politics" in each of the popular acts of his administration.
He may think Mr. Wilson "played politics" in securing passage of
the federal reserve syatem for preventing panics and keeping the
people's stock of money widely distributed through the country for use
In moving crops and financing enterprise, instead of keeping it In WallH
street for the use of stock gamblers.
Mr. Hughes may think Mr. Wilson "played politics" in securing
the creation of a tariff commission for protecting farmers and plain
people as well as the barona of cotton and steel.
e may think Mr. Wilson "played politics" in going to the senate
and appealing to the leaders to pass the child labor bill.
He may think the president "played politics" In securing the cre
ation of a farm loan banking system to help American farmers get out
of debt. He may think the president "played politics" In securing a
federal trade commission for finding out what may be the matter with
business and ascertaining what may be done to help business, industry
and agriculture. ,
Mr. Hughes may think the president "player! politics" in securing
the creation of a board with great powers to restore thg flag of
American merchant fleets to the high seas and to send American ves
sels into all the ports of the world.
He may think Mr. Wilson "played politics" when, before the fed
eral reserve system became operative, he ordered government money
in the United States treasury sent to all parts of the United States to
finance the crop movement and save American farmers from being
skinned as usual In selling their grain.
He may think Mr. Wilson "played politics" when, at the outbreak
of the war, marine insurance becoming prohibitive, he secured passage
of a law by which the government has regularly Insured at reasonable
rates the wheat of American farmers and other products en route to
Europe.
Mr. Hughes may think President Wilson "played politics" when,
for the first time In 80 years, he caused the postoffice department to
return a surplus instead of a deficit.
Mr. Hughes may think the president "played politics" when he
established a federal employment bureau by which jobs in one part of
America and the jobless men in another part of America are brought
together. ,
Indeed since Mr. Hughes claims that the president "played politics"
in keeping the United States out of Industrial civil war, he may also
think President Wilson1' "played politics" in keeping America out of
war with Mexico and out of war with Germany.
If in all these and the other good things Mr. Wilson has done he
has been "playing politics," would It not be a good thing to have Mr.
Wilson kept in office so he can play more of that kind of "politics"?
Rut the great question is: la it President Wilson who is playing
politics,-or Is IV Mr. Hughes who is "playing politics"? During those
anxious weeks when the whole country held its breath in fear lest the
catastrophe of an industrial civil war descend upon the coyntry, did
Mr. Hughes, who now Icnows all about what should have been done,
offer any suggestion or propose any plan by which the railroad chiefs,
and their employes could be brought together? He was making' public
fspeeehes on great matters of state
sincere now, be helpful in delivering the country from the Impending
consequences by telling how the strike could be averted?
Since he waited until after it was all over before uttering one
word or one syllable, was he not waiting until .President Wilson and
congress had acted so that he could take sides against them just the
same as in the Mexican question he takes sides with Huerta against
the president? Is that "playing politics" or is it not "playing politics"?
Meanwhile, this country was almost on fire when President Wilson
had to act. Industrial war was but
cancelled all agreements to furnish fruit cars, grain ars, lumber cars,
livestock cars and every kind of car. The travelers were notified that
no tickets would be sold. The whole
of collapse. Congress was flooded
the country to prevent the strike.
grams by thousands appealing to him
to save the fruit crops from rotting, to save people In cities from
starving, to save business from being
stagnation, to save the country from conflagration.
In this hour of dreadful possibilities, congress acted. Less than
two days before the strike was to take effect, it passed the bill car
rying the eight-hour principle for
situation. It prevented the strike.
but it put out the fire. It saved the
Mr. Hughes says the president
gate. Whoever heard of a fire department stopping to Investigate the
cause of a fire before proceeding to put It out? If an American citi
zen's house is on fire, he puts
afterward.
That is what the president and
the conflagration provides for full
a final adjustment based on justice
claims that the investigating should have been done first and the fire
have been put out afterward, and because President Wilson did it the
other way, he says President Wilson "played politics."
One of the big railroad presidents who was present at all the con
ferences between President Wilson and the railroad chiefs has testi
fied. He Is F. D. Underwood, president of the Erie railroad. He said
Monday in an interview:
Mr. Wilson, however, is not playing
estly believed was for the good of the
?o one could associate with Mr. Wilson as the railroad men of the
country did during these negotiations and charge Mr. Wilson with playing
politics in any way.
In charging that President Wilson "played politics" in preventing
the railroad strike, Mr. Hughes is committing political suicide. It la
a political blunder from which he can never extricate himself. -
The American people wanted the strike prevented. Mr. Hughes'
insistence that the strike should not have been prevented ln order that
time could be taken to Investigate is a dreadful proposal.
divlduals ln Portland who lack the
attributes of ordinary manhood.
BLACKMAIL, BUT
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T HAS always been the custom
to blame the woman. Adam
set the precedent, so we are
told, and, ever since, the sons
of Adam have been following in
father's footsteps.
We are reading now of the ar
rest of a "blackmail ring" in Chi
cago composed of fair sirens who
have lured many susceptible men
of plethoric purse into positions
from which they have been able
to extricate themselves quietly only
by the emaciation of their money
bags.
The current thought, and, with
out doubt, the law, runs to the
effect that the sirens are guilty of
an offense "against the peace and
dignity of the state of Illinois and
the statutes in such cases made
and provided."
But what about the men? Were
they not breaking some statute, or
willing to do so, when they lis
tened to the sirens' songs? When
they put themselves, and their
purses, in danger were they not
doing things against the peace and
dignity of the state? Are they so
innocent of wrongdoing that the
mantle of charity and the merci
ful cloak of silence should be
wrapped about them?
It was easy for Adam to say
that Eve coaxed him to eat the
apple, but in all probability if Eve
had not have been a dutiful wife
she ' would have testified that
Adam reached for the fruit even
as he coaxed.
It is estimated that the ship
building' contracts either now be-
all that time. Why did he not, if
two days away. The railroads had
railroad system was on the point
with telegrams from every part of
The president received such tele
to prevent America from burning,
paralyzed, to save industry from
Interstate trainmen. It saved the
It may not be comDleted legislation.
people. ,
should have taken time to investi
out the fire first, and Investigates
congress did. The law that stopped
investigation by a commission and
to all concerned. Mr. Hughes
politics,
country.
He Is doing what he hon-
ing filled, or waiting to be filled,
by shipbuilding concerns on the
Willamette and Columbia rivers
amount in the aggregate to $20,
725,000. That is a pretty good be
ginning for one season's work in
a new industry.
SAVING THE GIRLS
A'
PHILADELPHIA research bu
reau has studied the cases of
six hundred girls who went
wrong and are now in cor
rectional institutions. The con
clusion of the investigators is that
most of the girls came from "fam
ilies in which the relationship be
tween the parents was abnormal
or where one of the parents was
away from home."
The relations between parents
often become abnormal when they
have too much money. The same
thing happens when they have too
little. The family is most secure
when it has neither poverty nor
riches but Just enough for health,
happiness and comfort When one
parent la "away from home" per
manently it is almost always on
account of too much or too little
money. Family quarrels arise
most commonly from idleness and
superfluity, but almost as com
monly from want.
So if we wish to make family
Hie secure and save the girls from
ruin, we must see to it that parents
are spared the curse of superflu
ous wealth and save them. too.
from the equally blighting curse of
poverty.
Chicago dressmakers, having de
creed that the ladies shall be cov
ered with nocketa. now dHrtA tht
ih..VMt .h.n ..J
Betted or something until theyj
look like trousers, the whole ef- money controlled standpat Interest
feet to be embellished with a climb- consider the importance of l kMpiac in
.,,. . ... the background any reference to the
ing trellis of cute little roses. All many genuinely beneficial' acbleve
of which will be Just too sweet menu that have come with Wood row
for anything i Wilson's tenure ot office. About their
' , only discussion on that line consists of
. '. . attempted ridicule, and with that they
An Oregon City man has sued ret nowhere. Such phrases as -the
his wife for divorce because he Mexican muddle," watchful waiting-."
says she Is continually, talking,
Tfc.fa an c,
That s where the Sultan of Sulu
has the best of it. He has wives
enough ao that they can entertain
...
one another without him having to
. Ul s
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Letters From the People
I Cominnaleatluisa aent to Tba Journal for
publication la this department abould b writ,
len on oaly 00a side of tba paper, abould not
exceed 800 worda to leagtb. sod moat be ac
companied by the name and addrea ef tba
aeoder. If tba writer doea not deairo to bare
tba auu published ba abould ao atate.
"Dlaeoaalon la tba area teat of all reformers.
It rationalises arecytbinr It touches. It robe
Elnciples of aU falsa sanctity and throws tbesi
ck on their reasonableness. If they bare so
reasonableness. It ruthlessly emabes them out
of eziatenco and sets up Its own conclusions la
their stead." Wood row Wilson.
The President's Poise.
Portlani" Hrr 1 Tn tVi VAitnr rt
The Journal One Is entitled to change j
onn'a ttit,i. . (.,,n ... ,
peclally upon the mutation of ' the i
Situation Itaoir On lh mithrolr rT I
the European war the president had no
reason to anticipate a transgression of
international law by any of the bel
ligerents, concerning warfare or any
thing else. As the presumption of in
dividual knowledge of local law re
lieves the authorities of all obligation
to proclaim it and to declare how its , lumbu river highway
violations would be met, so does the This general subject has been from
?r,tfrnmtPni -1) k"owled ,f f i time to time discussed by the civic bu
Miternational law obviate the necessity , rejHJ f the porUand chamber of Com-
f.r .?VC l.hu Vjopty of similar ac- , m of which t am chalrman. How
tivity by the foreign department of a ever the Coiumbia river highway . Is
country An official declaration of b ond thft Jurlsdlction of civic duties
our posit on regarding freedom of the of thl bureau. There is no question
seas, at the inception of the conflict. that tha natural condltions as they ex
would have evinced doubt in the effl-1 lst 8houid be,' perpetuated and con
cacy of taternatlonal law and In the I eerved and the movement to do so I
sincerity of European pledges to b- . am gure wJU haV6 tne 8Upp0rt of tills
serve it. Besides these evil results i j fw xr. T.n
from such a declaration, our people
would have been incited eagerly fb.
watch for violations of the law of na
tions, and excitedly to speculate on
cur prospective course in that carni
val of blood.
At that time the president's accu
rate divination of our needs (they be
ing, fortunately, only psychological)
was eminently revealed in his ealru
declarations of neutrality; his persua- ; ment( or lmproVement should be in dl
sive admonitions to maintain our per- lect accord wlth nature and be passed
sonal equilibrium relative to the upon Dy such commission before per
merlts of the combat; and his mild mit t0 erect l8 Kiven. There should be
suggestion of the limitations of our alao a movement started by such com
interest in the whoie affair. It re- miSSion to see that old shacks and oth
quired but a short while of calmness er deleterious obstacles are removed,
on our part to fathom the entrancing . T belIcve that a great deal can be done
iicuuuB ana romantic
iTotrdoVubtathat !
of war glory. We began to doubt that !
a war wouia speeauy pusn us lorwara majority of whom undoubtedly are de
into a fambus generalship or a hand-, slrous of lending their aid toward
some majordom where we would be ar- maintaIning a ciean and unobstructed
rayed ln the choicest toggery and highway.
where our duties would consist largely It occurs to me that regulation could
of referring solemnly to the valor ot te better handled providing a highway
"our dead boys" and of assuring anx- , mUnicrpai zone were created by proper
ious mothers that their sons "died like awful procedure, taking ln the high
heroes." No; current events show that way and necessary distance on each
most soldiers are candidates for the Blde thereof. One does not find con
grave, and that their greatest fortune ceSsions, amusements or other things
lies in sidestepping the yawning detracting from the natural beauties
chasm. j jn the Tellowstone, Tosemite, or Gla-
Unhappy occurrences during the . cJer national parks, or in the Grand
past two years, however, have indi- , Canyon. We are endeavoring to bring
cated that a continuation of our peace- j before the eyes of the w"orld the great
ful status may require a -compara- j natural beauties of the Columbia river
tively large army and navy; if blood : highway, and it, therefore, seems to
can be saved in this way let the ex- i me that the affairs of the highway
penditure of money be made; there ; 6hould be so controlled and adminis
can be no greater purpose for financial i tered that nothing will be erected or
outlay. rxuL, MAjiA.r.i.
Front Page Editorials.
Portland, Sept. 19. To the Editor of
The Journal I have often observed
that the Washington street afternoon
paper runs its seemingly most Impor
tant editorial articles on the first page,
instead of on the regular editorial
page. What is the reason of this
extraordinary procedure?
INQUIRER.
The explanation is doubtless to ba
found ln the sad conviction of the
managing editor himself that the front
page of the Telegram Is the only page
T " "TV aLwWL .
subscribers, and, thinking a great deal
puts the editorial articles that he
wants read on that page, to the exclu
sion of the news.
An Appreciation.
McMinnville, Or., Sept 18. To the
Editor of The Journal Please let me
tell you that your Sunday Journal con
tained six of the most instructive and
advanced editorials that one could
wish to read. The advice to women to
consider the present common dangers.
poverty and low wages, now pressing
our present-day civilization for Imme
diate remedy, touch living foundations
the world over. These conditions have
been neglected in cycles of prosperity,
till they now appear ln hideous propor
tions and an ever Increasing menace.
Unemployment Is the terror by day
and by night, for to live there must be
a living state for all. Today our very
civilization is at stake. We are striv
ing to discover, to penetrate our men
tality. We strike out in the dark. We
wonder and speculate what is the mind
i hat controls our actions and is the Ufa
of our bodies.
The editorial on "Tagore ' was ad
' anced thought, to stir thought or spec
ulatlon, to fathom, to ask what are the
higher" attributeT of our being ever .
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Out of the European war of the Old
World nations is coming tne threat
AWSKCmUK. HO L1 o ocaivuiua lu '
find open doors. These must open for
the humble Individual, such men as
Maeterlinck and Arthur C. Benson
voice the sentiment of today, demand
ing "Why should it be all Joy for some
and all sorrow for others 7"
The Roman said, "Life is a battle."
"Tame birds pluck wild birds naked,"
writes Henry Arthur Jones of Institu
tions. The Deserter," by Harold Titus, in
the Sunday Fiction Magazine of The
Journal, gives a view of the side of proving profitable for the companies
life that is ignored. i that have installed them.
In The Journal a notice was given of ! What is probably the most impor
Pastor Russell's lecture, "The World tant innovation in track work is the
on Fire." I wish "there might have pneumatie tamper now being Intro
been a report ln the paper of tha, lec- i duced. It Is now known that machine
ture. - - ' tamping costs less than one-third -is
Newspapers are a most powerful
medium for directing public opinion,
and I rejoice at the liberal f lews of
The Journal.
I desire to help in the growing sen
timent of common humanism.
M. A. B. LINDEN.
Wilson's Great Achievements
Portland. Sept. 18. To the Editor of
The Journal The- Republican strong
holds are becoming more and more agi
tated as the difficulties encountered
aa the campaign advances increase,
rather than disappear, or even de
crease, Ths sentiment is firmly estab
lished that Wilson has followed a wis
course In dealing with the European
war problems, many of which have
been well nigh Impossible of solution
by International law, but all of them
in turn -being smoothed out finally,
with honor of country intact. Thit
sentiment of the people stands -a an
hmmovable barrier against which all
of -the attacka of tha opposition.;
imagine bow thabJg ' tuttm" ef the
"woras wunoui. aea. "-3
are cunningly employed by stump and
pregli nlreUng, to wrest from wiuon
the credit sained and richly deserved.
U through the entire Mexican contro-
mk. Mvnl at-A mnA will COT1.
" - ,.y,"
.tlnue to be for the Wilson Policies
just as ionr aa results snow, as my
have all along been showing, trial Mr,
Wilson is consecratedly devoting his
masterly thought to the great qucs-
tions of . government, for the ever-up-
lifting advancement of American .
idea's. The country is steadily makiii?
headway In the right direction.
The people are good listeners, but
they are just as good reasoners and
weighers, and therefore the big facts
are neither lost wight of nor argued
away by political spellbinders or press
arrangement committees.
Wilson's record has undergone the
roughest attacks the Hughes backers
could devise, and yet, withal, the
country scans that record with com
posure, and finds In it only the- ex
emplification of the mind, the heart
ni the hand of an able, thoughtful
far seeing and firm champion of lib-
rty. Justice and progress, for one and
iui rn.iL. w .vi.
Proper Care of the Highway.
Portland. Sept. 19. To the Editor of
The Journal I have read, naturally
with a great deal of interest, the let
ter of Miss Thompson and your ed
itorial with reference to the -preserva-
A ! m W tinin n 1 Aailtlai r f t Vla Pn.
one of the directors of the civic bu-
reau.
I quite agree that the proper man
ner in which to handle the matter is
through a special commission, com
posed of Interested persons qualified
with the ideas expressed by Miss
Thompson. I do not believe that the
highway should be made an amuse
Qrt wa hinMina- mnnn.
ln thlsudlref tlon b'ap1peaj of the pro" !
er authorities to the land owners, the
ieft in view to mar the great advan-
tages to which we are calling the at
tention of the world. It should be an
offense to obstruct or litter the beauty
spots of the highway with rubbish and
offal. This. I believe, should be con
trolled by sanitary legislation.
I think Miss Thompson has brought
up a subject which should be carried
to a satisfactory solution; and, while I
have not discussed the specific mat
ters with Messrs. Coman and Yeon, the
other members of the civic board, yet
I feel that they will view the matter
in the same light I do, and that the
whole civic bureau will lend its aid
support toward a lasting solution
nf thA ., nlIT w T1T.RnT
Easing the Trackman's Borden.
From Popular Mechanics.
Compelled to do his work by primi
tive hand methods that have changed
but little since the beginning of rail
roading, the railroad trackman has
long ranked as the poorest paid and
the most unfavorably situated of all
j laborers. In recent years a change has
been taking place, a change that is
fast placing the trackman in the po
sition that his skill and experience
and the importance of his work en
title him to that of a skilled mechan
ic. As ln many other lines of work
this change, is due to just one cause,
the Introduction of power-driven ma
chines for doing the work formerly
done by back-breaking hand labor.
The first machine to break the evil
spell, as It might be called, under
which the trackman has labored. Is
the gasoline section car, which has
been in use in a limited way for a
i num,l!er of years- wl nl means
to the men engaged in the work 1s
easily understood by Anyone who has
witnessed the laborious ordeal of
pumping an old-time hand-car. Start
1 ' 1" " ? uc2
2 ft5aSAf !?..h
io aesiroy me ernciency or any grono
of men or the rernalnH,P ,
Qn 8ome of the most prOKressive rai.
roads the section men now ride to
their work on a gasoline car that is
capable of making a speed of as much
as 30 miles an hour. When they reach
nieir wora mey are as rresn and fit
as a business man who has ridden to
his office ln an automobile.
Two other machines that are rapidly
coming Into use and that are reliev
ing the trackman of much heavy work
lormeriy done Dy hand are the gas-j-line
weeder and the gasoline mowing
machine. Both of these machines are
mucn as nana tamping, ana mat track
tamped with the machine settles an
proximately one-half as much as track
tamped by hand and subjected to the
same service.
Mark Twain's Home Town.
From the Kansas City Star.
"Hannibal, Mo, has, capitalized one
big asset we used to think was a- lia
bility," said Robert Blackwood, post
master at Hannibal, ln Macon this
week.
"When our people first read the way
Mark Twain referred to us in Tom
Sawyer and "Life on the Mississippi'
it made them feel like running him
out of town should he ever come
there," Blackwood said. "You know,
be spoke of Hannibal aa 'sleeping away
on a drowsey summer morning,' and
of the clerks nodding on tilted split
bottom chairs. But others told tbe:n
Mark -Twain was one of the biggest
boosters the town eould have. They
said he meant no harm about poklns
fun at his old town, and the thing tcr
Hannibal to do ; waa te get busy , in
PERTINENT COMMENT
SMALL CHANGE.
Let 'er buck.
The 6outhern Pacific Menu to Dj
short on cars and long on experts.
The Wasco county teachers believe
in keeping church and school separate.
All the armies are victors In the Bal
kans, according to the bulletins sent
out. )
As the official opener of county
r AS in ornciai opener 01 coumj
ffalrs Governor Wlthycombe Is most
successful.
and bosb Roosevelt failed to bring
nome the bacon in New Xork.
,,.. PAllcinin fit ra n In
catching traffic violators when dressed
ln overall uncats the adoption of
similar scheme on th Columbia River
highway. i
According to Congressman Hawleys
statement Oregon would not have re
ceived much from congress If he-ha'l
left things to other members of the
delegation.
If the king of Greece had ever worked
on a newspaper copy desk he never
would have named Kalogerapon)a
premier with such a man as Zalrcia
sticking around.
An unusual condition prevails in
San Francisco. The board of educa
tion has censured a teacher for want
of discretion In allowing one of the
high school girl to appear In a Greek
dance, insufficiently clad.
GENERAL STRIKES
From a Bulletin of the National Riv
ers and Harbors Congress.
There Is no doubt that everybody
was greatly relieved when it was
finally settled that the threatened
railroad strike would not come off,
but it is very doubtful Whether any
body drew a deeper breath of relief
than certain petsple In the navy de-.
partment and no one who knows what
the navy people were up against will
wonder that this is so.
The work of building and repairing
battleships and other naval craft
must, of course, be done in shipyards
located on the coast, but practically
all the material used both for con
struction and repair comes from the
interior, much of It fTom points hun
dreds of miles from tidewater. For in
stance, armor plate comes from
Bethlehem. Pa., and steel, in many
8napes for many uses, from Pittsburg.
it la vitallv important that this
material shall be moved regularly and
continuously from the points where It
is made to the places where it is to
be used, and this movement -has been
entirely by rail. Just as soon, there
fore, as it was seen that a general
strike on the railroads of the country
was actually impending, an investiga
tion was started to see if there were
i an v routes avaiiaDie ior us uiuve-
ment by water. For Instance. If work
was to be continued on the battleship
New Mexico it would be necessary to
move 2500 tons of steel within six
weeks from the mills at Pittsburg to
the navy yard at Brooklyn. Could it
be dons at all? Was there more than
ona route that could be used? If so,
what route was the best, the shortest,
and especially, the quickest?
The first thing discovered was that
there is no map or document, official
or otherwise, that shows or describes
ji the waterways in tne unuea
States. The reports of the chief of
engineers give the fullest possible in
formation as to the rivers and harbors
under control of the war department,
but not a word about state-owned or
private canals. The general staff and
the war college have maps - showing
all lines of transportation in certain
areas, special studies of which have
been made in working out problems
of defense, but no maps or data cov
ering the country as a whole or any
considerable portions thereof. Com
mercial maps and atlases were found
to be worse than useless, since most
of them do not even pretend to show
any waterways except the principal
rivers, and of the rest no two agree
ln what they show.
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It is only a little way from Pitts
burg to Lake Erie, and a canal across
this short cut has been both proposed
and opposed for many years. So far
the opposers have won, but if the navy
department could have got hold of
Aladdin's lamp two weeks ago that
canal would have been built quicker
than a wink. With a sigh for what
might have been, and ought to be. but
isn't, the naval investigators turned
hopefully to the three canals across
the state of Ohio, only to find after a
strenuous search that the best of the
lot has sections 20 miles long which
have no Water in them, and that the
i only way to get. irom ruisouij
the lakes by water is to go down tne
Ohio, up the Mississippi and the Illi
nois and through 60 miles or more of
the out-of-date Illinois and Michigan
canal, to Chicago. Another possible
route from Pittsburg to Brooklyn was
down the Ohio and Mississippi and
then by ocean steamer from New Or
leans. .a
A little further search revealed the
fact that no dependence could be
placed on the Ohio, because this Is
letting the world know Mark Twain
once lived there; that ths father John
M. Clemens was a jusffce ' of the
peace, and Sam a printer's boys; and
get Hannibal on the map as the home
of Mark Twain. '
"Hannibal went to work on the Idea.
The nlace was advertised as the boy
hood home of Mark Twain. A big hotel
was named for him. Bear creek was
! staked out for visitors. Holiday Hill
diagrammed and photographed and all
j the places where Sam and Huck and
Joe Harper played were worked into
blue prints for the benefit or visitors.
"The Commercial club has a tour
mapped out for visitors, so that in a
day they can see almost every place
Sam and his chums set foot, includ
ing McDougal's mysterious cave,
where Injun Joe' was trapped after
the 'murder of young Doc Robinson.
"From a small river town 20 years
ago, Hannibal has become a modern
city, with every municipal conven
ience, and is still growing rapidly.
"Hannibal photographers have mane
and sold thousands of pictures of the
Clemens home in Bird street, Huck
Finn's house and Squire Clemens'
court. The pictures have brought a
good deal more money than tbe build
ings were worth.
"Ths people of Hannibal are no long
er resentful of what Mark Twain
wrote about them. They've erected a
large monument in his honor."
Who Is General Brusiloff?
From the Atlantic Monthly.
An achievement so brilliant aS that
of General Brusiloff, like a sudden
splendor of dawn from the midst of
darkness, inevitably arouses an eager
desire to know something of him; and,
in the absence of knowledge, gives
birth to all kinds of fancies and imag
inings. One of the best newspapers in
New York printed, a day or two after
the beginning of his great offensive, a
charming and whimsical article,' alleg
ing that about the unknown person
ality of the Russian general were al
ready gathering all tbe stories of mil
itary prowess that had served for Al
exander, for Caesar, for Napeleon; he
AND NEWS IN BRIEF
OREGON SlUKLiGrfTS
Many people want houses in Joseph
and the supply is nil. Hence the Her
ald Inquires, "What's the matter with
the city's Investors that more attempt
is not made to supply the need?
North Plains business men are mak
ing an effort to secure electric lignts
in that enterprising little town, and
the Herald says there is no reason
why Banks cannot secure the same ad
vantage. The people of Sweet Home are mak
ing arrangements to 1 hold an Ever
arreen Blackberry fair on Saturday,
September 30. Liberal premiums are
being offered for a great variety of
products.
The congregations of the Myrtle
Creek Methodist and Presbyterian
churches have voted to iederate tor
the coming year and have one pastor
In common. The Bunday schools ar
to be consolidated also.
Elberta peaches" 10 Inches in circum
ference, the Madras Pioneer asserts,
are proof enough, together with that
furnished by plenty of other fruit
products, to establish central Oregon's
eligibility to the garden-spot class.
The Civic club "of PendVeton has had
the town's old Iron drinking fountains
replaced with fountains the entire
bowl and bubbler of which are of por
celain. A new fountain Is being in
stalled by the club at the north aide
park.
AND WATERWAYS
the season of low water and not one
third of the dams needed to insure a
nine-foot channel have yet been com
pleted. Material started down the
Ohio might get through, but all the
probabilities were that it would get
stuck on a sandbar and stay there
until the November rains should
bring a rise in the river. Sometimes
it happens, too. that the November
rains do not come until January. Al
most in desperation at the situation
with which they were confronted the
navy men were trying to arrange to
ship by trolley cars from Pittsburg
to Cleveland, and thence by lake to
Buffalo and Erie canal and Hudson
river to Brooklyn, when the emergency
legislation passed by congress caused
the strike to be called off.
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If the word "desperation" seems too
strong. It must be remembered that
Resides the New Mexico there were
under construction five other battle
ships, ten destroyers, four auxiliary
vessels and S2 submarines. Work on
every one of these would have to stop
If a strike should last two weeks.
More than that, congress had Just
appropriated nearly $315,000,000 with
which to build something like 60 ad
ditional vessels for the navy, and not
ore of these could be begun. And
in addition to all the rest, when the
threat of a strike became acute the
navy had only a two weeks' supply
of goal on hand. By ; buying every
thing within reach a sufficient sup
ply was secured for ten days or two
weeks more. But If a strike should
last a month, every ship ln the navy,
except the very few that use ollfor
fuel, would have to tie up to "the
dock and lie there as helpless as "a
painted ship upon a painted ocean."
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Because it leads out from one of
the greatest coal flfclds and from the
greatest steel manufacturing center
of the world, a completely improved,
definitely dependable Ohio river would,
in case of such a strike as has just
been temporarily averted, be worth
more to the navy alone than Its im
provement will cost. If the coal and
steel that it could carry should save
us from attack by an enemy when our
navy was helpless. It would be worth
more to the nation than all that .ever
has been or ever will be spent on all
the waterways of the United States.
Vet the filibusters conducted by form
er Senator Burton have seriously de
layed the work upon the Ohio and
on every other waterway and harbor
in the land and the senator who led
the filibuster against the river and
harbor Mil of 1916 tried to cut out the
whole appropriation for the Ohio and
stop the work entirely.
Recent dispatches from Germany
state that although the railways are
given over almost entirely to military
use a thriving commerce is being car
ried on with Switzerland. Holland,
Denmark. Norway and Sweden over
the network of waterways which
reaches every part of the empire. Be
cause we have failed to develop and
use our waterways the reople of the
United States have within the. past
few weeks, been brousht face to face
with the portentous fact that. Just as
long as we depend solely on one
method of transportation, our com
mercial prosperity, our national ex
istence. Our very lives may be im
periled by a dispute over wages, hours
and conditions of employment.
No lesson Is more clearly taught by
the anxious days of the recent past
than that the work of Improving our
natural waterways and Joining them
Into a great, connected system should
be pushed with all possible speed
and it should be made sure beyond
all peradventure that the needed ap
propriations can neither be Burtonlzed
nor Carterated."
was fast becoming a Solar Myth. And
we have had. since then, a curiously
detailed story that Brusiloff Is only a
nom de guerre; that the victor on the
stern battle line is really the ill
starred Sir Hector Macdonald rediel
yus, come back to repeat the triumph
of Omdurman. And, in passing, one
may note that this legend of a miracu
lous return wreathes itself about every
dominant personality, not only the
spiritual heroes like Gautama and
Zoroaster, but the men of war, like
Kriedrich Barbarossa, asleep ln the
Kyffhauser, Shlvajl of the Mahratta
hills, and now for the second time,
about the fine soldier who forfeited
the renown won in the Sudan. Bo in
sistent is the sense of Immortality
aroused by genius and power.
The Tax of Personal Waste.
"Girard"' in Philadelphia Ledger.
How many mornings does your cook
spoil the tcast? You don t know.
Nor do you keep tabs on the SO other
apparently trifling things of every
day.
From the moment you draw an un
necessary amount of water for your
morning bath until you have touched
the push button and stopped that tire
less electric meter at night and retire
to rest it is waste plus "don't know"
all along the line.
If Standard Oil was as careless with
Its pennies as a man making $20 a
week is with his, it would be bank
rupt before Christmas. But you know
well enough that you've got to be wide
awake to snatch even one cent from
J. D. R.
And here is President Rea's railroad.
which has run passenger trains 1,000,'
000 miles without killing a passenger.
Why T Because he has made in three
and one half years 2.500,000 .tests to
see that his trainmen observe the
rules of safety.
But. heigh-ho; you never test any
thing ln your smaller affairs to see
how many little spigots are pouring
out pennies needlessly, just the same
they are taxing you av great deal more
than your ennrca pew. -
CLAIMS VICTORY
IN NOVEMBER
Chairman Willrox Gravely Issues
lrediction of Hughes' Succeas.
By William R. Wlllcox, Chairman Re
publican National Committee
New York, 8ept. 21. (I. N. 8.)
With election day not quite two months
distant, a significant development in
publio thought is steadily making for
the emphasis of national Issues in lo
cal political campaigns throughout the
union, from Maine to the Pacific coast.
The Republican pulse Is beating to tht
rhythm of an inspiration that Is na -tlonal
ln scope, a circumstance that
constitutes one of the surest indica
tions of approaching victory at the
polls in November that It has been
poBslbla to far to sense.
When the people of the United States
begin talking along the same Unea, la
the same channel, it is a sign of the
solidarity of publio opinion that has
been many times the salvation of the
republic. Something skin to the patri
otic fervor of Americans of all classes
that ssvept the country ln 1898 with a
cry for "the honest little dollar," and
establishing the gold standard as the
nations bulwark, is now taking place.
As the great masses of the people
become articulate through their lead
ers, large and small, the Issues of ths
day are taking shape and assuming an
aspect and strength indicative of ths
depth of public feeling. Two months
before election day finds the people in
terested, to an extent not heretofore
suspected, save by those leaders pecu
liarly able to fathom the public mind,
ln the crimes of incompetency Thai
have been committed by PrestJent Wil
son and his advisors in dealing with
the Mexican problem, and ln the re
establishment of the protective tariff
i the definite policy of government.
These two issues already have placed
the six states of the New England
group safely in the Republican col
umn, and when Maine led off this
month with a Republican majority of.
more than IS, 000, it was the beginning
of a Republican victory in November
that will be of landslide proportions.
Not in years have Republican cam
paigns ln New England been conduct
ed with so much enthusiasm and skill
ful management. Many of the local
political contests are of extraordinary
Interest ln the various states, yet ev
erywhere ln New England candidates
for local offices are appealing to the
people on national Issues only. Ther
realize that this year the American
citizen has the world for his horizon,
and that he Is looking up and out with
eager eyes an A mind alert.
In Massachusetts Senator Lodge, the
Republican candidate for the United
States senate, is making his first cam
paign since he became a United States
senator for the direct vote of the peo
ple. He has been quick to oatch the
drift of national Inspiration. With lo
cal issues ln plenty occupying ln ths
affections of the people of Massachu
setts, the place once held by Webster
and Hoar, Senator L,odge Is basing ths
most important campaign ln his polit
ical career on the lofty plane of na
tional affairs.
The response which he has met has
been Inspiring. Ilia Indictment of the
Wilson administration for Its shame
ful incapacity In dealing with the Mex
ican situation has been unanswerable,
and the senator Is proving by the
crowds that are flocking to hear him
(peak that he has the people of Mas
sachusetts wllh him. Irrespective of .
their former party ties.
IT'S BEEN quite awhile since Joe Teal
has had a chance at Bill Hproul
in legal combat. He has had chances
at Bill Skinner repeatedly and at Hai
vey Lounsbury and even at Ten
Winchell on occaalon. But at the car
shortage hearing the Esepee chief ap
peared ln public for the first time here
In a long spell.
"Now tills Is a rather direct quts
tlon," said the rail Nemesis with seem
ing apologetic mien, "you can answer
It of course, but still it la leading.
Does not the Southern Pacific still
care for California as its little ewe
lamb?"
It happens that Bill Sprnule is a
Callfornlan himself. The reference te
the alleged favoritism, of the railroad
for the land of the grsps and the sun
shine made him smile.
"I would say that Oregon is also
our little ewe lamb," replied the chief
kindly. "We are now helping develop
all the Industries of Oregon, you
know."
"Yes," was the reply, "but our lamb
Is tired of feeding on the bottle. It
wants to get out on the grass some
time." At this the executive sprang a Joke
which every Callfornlan likes to spring
on every Oregonlan.
"It seems to be off the bottle now,'
he retorted, with the faintest sus
picion of a snicker. "Oregon, I under
stand, has gone dry."
At which F. G. Donaldson and Jay
Hamilton chortled and ths official
stenog blotted his notes.
Get a Clown liaiid, Billy.
Across the street the bugler has quit
bugling. For that we are thankful.
But ln hie place has come a rauoous,
scratching, diabolical, hideous, shiv
ery, blatant, noxious, squeaking, rat
tling, banging, wavering, squawking,
nerve-racking phonograph. We suspect
Billy Pangle.
A straw vote of this office, hastily
taken, resulted in the unanimous wish
that the bugler be recalled. He will
be welcomed. Anyone or anything
would be, after a day of this bedlam.
If Billy would put shock-absorbers on
the machine when It tries to play tne
sextet from "Lucla." it would help
some. We also wish he wouldn't play
the Silas Hayseed conversational rec
ords. It's hard enough to get out tnis
column with the ordinary office jokes
buzzing around.
Maxim silencers would be better.
Things We Grouch About.
"Pretty Women Trap Rich Ken"
says a page 1 headline. Just as if
there were any news In a situation
that has persisted for some 14,000
years now.
John Abbett galloped with his new
horse so fast the other day that his
watch fell out and hit a rock. John
Is soi s because the watch didn't break
so he could get a new one under the
guarantee.
Between,- reels advertisement at
movie show reads: "If yo- value
your health worth anything to you,
buy So-and-So's Sanitary Corsets."
Uncle Jeff Snow Says:
Some of the Hughes button ' air
going to bloom into Wilson votes. J1
Nlxmauer is wearing one 'cause his
uncle bought him a motorcycle; but hie
best girl is a Wilson booster and she
lowed to me and Ma that 'less he
voted right wouldn't have her clinging
on behind no more and all talk of a
side car would be off. And Claresser
Is some dinger, too, es Jer can testify.
Who Will Want Messenger Job?
may put the dime novel out of busl.
ness. This will make a hit with people
who need messenger boys ln a hurry.