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THE OREGON DAILY JOURNAL, PORTLAND,; SATURDAY. MAY ." 19 1917. ' h,:' ' ' AN JXDOTEXDENT NEWSPAPER C. t. JACKSON. , Pnblleber s 1'ubliabvd , eterr tlar. afternoon ad aDornlng ' (except fcundaf artenoon) t The Journal 1 Bulldiur, liroadwal and Xamblll etreeta. .: - fortUod, Or. katered atfthe poufftca at Portland, Or., fn traaamMiloe tlbroagb, tue malla a eecood elaaa tu attar. TELEPHONES Mala 7173; Bona, All departments reafhed by neee number. ' lelt u operator' wtiat department yoa . want. . UHK.lt S ADVERTISING EKPHESENTATI VK Benjamin Keotnor Co.. Brunswick BUc, 22A Firm Ae.. New Vork. Uiltt Pcuple'a :, Uaa HWg., C1iIcko. Mubecrtptlon terms by mall or to any addreae U tba United Btatea or Mexico: ' DA1L.X IUUKNINQ OK AFTERNOON) Oue ytar .IS.uOIOne month $ .CO BUNPAI One year .$2.60 l"jne rrvwifh f .23 DAILY (MORNINU OR AFTERNOON) AND BONDAT On year .$7.60 I Ooa month $ .M A dollar eared la a dollar earned, and .a dollar well (pent la often aeveral dot-, lara earned. George Herbert. FROM THOSE WHO HAVE T Why deny Mr. Daly credit and com mendation for it? ' When did it become a heinous offense, punishable by criticism, censure and opprobrium, tq be an honest and effective public official? The constitution says that "a majority o? all the members elected to each house shall be necessary to pass every bill or joint resolu tion." As shown by the records, the Bean bill received only 28 votes or three less than a constitutional majority in the house. Yet, hold ing with Lawyer Bean, Judge Bing ham denied the injunction by which the unconstitutionally passed Bean bill was to be kept off the ballot. But, what's the' constitution among friends? TELL THE PEOPLE, 3IR. BEAN S way," ' Perhaps "all men" will be found to signify merely "all men who have no rich relations and no pull." It would be the best discipline in the world for every young man in the United States to do vigorous manual labor for three or four yeara of his life: To keep them at it up to sixty might be some thing of a hardship. Many men's ability to labor shrinks seriouslyH long before they reach that age. "W READY ' E'RE ready for immediate duty." This was the terse announcement of the American commander to British authorities on the arrival of the United States destroyer flo tilla at Queenstown. For its brev ity and its significance, it will be come as famous as Dewey's laconic order in the battle at Manila hay. "You may fire when you are ready, Grldley." Or take a place In Amer ican naval anncla alonj with the immortal command of Lawrence, "Don't give up the ship." "We're ready for immediate duty" " has a meaning of Intense interest to the American people. A state of war was recognized by tho American congress April 6. As wo now know, the destroyer flotilla sailed for England May 4. It re ported for "immediate duty" -in the HE house has voted a surtax of 45 per cent per annum on all incomes of more than $1,-000,000. The tax could have been made heavier with perfect justice. It will be proportionately a smaller . sacrifice than the common man must make. -': Even before war prices came the 2 common man's income barely met j the monthly outgo. The common jman was practically on a bread ration before America entered the rwar. There is hardly an average ?. salaried head of a family who is not now compelled to curtail his dally, diet in order to cope with the problem of ever advancing food prices. 7V It' is not so with the man with an income of over a million. If the war tax takes but half his reve nues he still has an income of half - a miHIon a year on which he can Tv. live quite comfortably." Even if the government conscripted alt but i, $106,000 of his income his ease in life compared with the struggles Of the half submerged millions would be luxurious. Z"ff) War is a leveler. It disjoints and dislocates all the customs and policies usual to peace. Money, money, money is its irresistible de mand; money, money, money with which to feed the Moloch of battle. " The money must come from inw tnose wno.have it. It is their sao- i rlfice, their contribution. "Z, . .It cannot come from thoBe who "T have It. not. And the house is PEAKING of lands belonging to the United States, the fed eral supreme court said March 19 in its decision in the Utah Power case: Thus while the state may punish offenses, such as murder or larceny, committed on such lands, and may tax private property such as livestock located thereon It MAY NOT TAX THE LANDS themselves, or Invest others in any right whatever In them. It is now in order for Lawyer Bean to make a public statement. In that statement, he should call upon the people of Oregon not to submarine zone May 16. vote ror the liean bill. it is example of a preparedness As a lawyer under oath to sup- which many scarcely expected. Mls port the constitution, the laws and ied by criticisms of the navy, -there the institutions of government, he were those who hardly looked for should frankly confess that the su- the American navy toibe actually preme court's positive declaration in action in the zone of conflict, iT the Utah case that lands of the 3000 miles from the home base, Lnited States cannot be taxed by within a little more than bIx weeks, a state puts an end to all his past But "we're ready for immediate claims as to the Bean bill. He duty" followed Rt once by the en should explain in his statement trance of the destroyer flotilla into that his bill proposes to tax gov- active operations against the Prus ernment lands, and that, since tho Bian divers, assures us that our na- supreme court nas nem tnat gov- vai organization under Mr. Daniels' ernment lands cannot be taxed, his ieadership is worthy of the best Din proposes an impossiDie tmng. traditions of American sailors and He should explain to the people American fighting ships. that with the Utah decision in the We shall hear more from these way, the Bean bill would, were it naval men. The initiative and re- approved at the polls, be held un- j sourcef ulness that grows up in the constitutional by the first court free' environments of a free land into which it would be carried. have few limitations. There will Being a lawyer and knowing the be many an inspiring story to tell law and being under oath to sup- Gf gallant achievement by the port the law he should explain in rough and ready American spirit his statement that he made a mis- when peace is declared and the take In proposing the Bean bill, ships and men come sailing home. that the legislature made a mls- rtaKe In passing the Bean bill and June 4, the city of Portland is submitting it to the people. to elect a set of city officers. If Being a lawyer, and knowing the one of the aldermanic chartera law and being under oath to sup- should pass, all that work at a cost port the' law, Mr. Bean should ex- of $25,000 would have to he plain in his statement that the peo- thrown away arfd a new set of city pie of the state cannot by a vote officers be elected. It's a pretty overturn: an act of congress or re- j spectacle to contemplate in war verse a decision or " the unitea time. But what s a few city elec- States supreme court, and that tions In war -time among politicians therefore the Bean bill should be anxious to get into the council un opposed and vted against by every I der;. aldermanic ' government? law-abiding citizen. thought has .been silenced in that institution. ' The professors have been so thor oughly disciplined that they do not dare to say their souls are their own. Of course, no young man who really wants to study scientific economies would dream of going to the University of Pennsylvania where honest thought is penalized by the rotund nickel grabbers on its board of trustees. We notice that the University of Oregon has contributed no signer3 to this memorial. But there Is to be, a later edition of. it, we under stand, with new signatures.-Doubtless this state will ' then " make a worthy showing. Perhaps Reed college will also swing into line. Letters From theeople (Caoimanlratloqa aent to Toe Journal for publication In this department abonld b writ ten 00 only one aida of tb paper, abonld not exceed 800 words in length, and nmat bm ac companied by the name and addreaa of tbe aeoder. If tbe writer does not deetra to hay tbe same pobUahed he abonld ao etate. Portland's Channel Depths. Portland, May 17. To the Editor of The Journal In- the last Issue, of Col lier's Weekly a correspondent, Wilbur Hall, writing of Portland, says we are 150 miles from the sea, that the Co lumbia river bar is a serious obstacle, and that the two rivers, the Willam ette and the Columbia, have never been dredged to a depth sufficient to make them safe and inviting. Not one of these three statements Is true; yet they are apparently made upon the hearsay testimony of Portland residents, and they will be accepted by the l,00a),d00 or more readers of Col lier's as true. He does eay more truly, however, speaking in general terms, that Port land's docks are inadequate old-fashioned and poorly equipped, and that Portland Is falling behind other coast cities mainly because she has been penny wise and pound foolish in respect of expenditures for port development, and that, "wakened to her duties and possibilities, Portland will some day become a big port." It Is not a matter of importance, 'but you Quote me as saying, in an inter view relating to this letter- that no other port In the country ejVept New York has as deep an outer channel as Portland. Puget sound has more than 40 feet. Indeed, it has been frequently said that her extra depth of water is a handicap, as It affects convenience of anchorage. What was Bald or, at least, intended was that no Atlantic seaport in the United States, except New York and Portsmouth, N. H., has an outer channel depth equal to that througTi what was once the Columbia river bar. Boston, Baltimore and Philadelphia have but 85 feet. There is now a channel of 40 feet at mean low ater at the mouth of the Columbia, There is now a 30-foot channel from Portland to the sea. Hamburg, Manches ter, Glasgow and other great ports of the perhaps he can give yon relief." This! particular Mr. So and So referred me . to someone else. After all the recom-: mended ones had been duly inter viewed I found their system of shift ing responsibility so thoroughly or ganised and In such perfect working order through mutual understanding, that it was up to me to get that license and get It quick. The highly complimentary phrase given to the party who holds the enviable position of "dog catcher," that he was a man "perfectly fearless In the performance of his duty," was duly Impressed upon the writer. However, there is a case in this neighborhood that utterly discredits the efficiency of the department han dling the licensing of dogs; there lives within a stone's throw of me a measly, mangy, mongrel pup that de pends upon the neighborhood garbage cans for a precarious living, to say nothing of his being unlicensed. To those who have clean, healthy, well cared for dogs and, I might aad, children--this unlicensed cur is a pos itive menace. To plead Ignorance of the existing conditions is an insult to those who have repeatedly reported the case. The so-called dogcatcher came to the abiding place of this pup over two weeks ago, and started away with It, but was so touched by the appeal of the owner that he allowed a week's grace. The calendar week has long since elapsed, but the dog still remains. At that time it could be easily noted that the dog was not in a healthy physical condition, but It is much worse now than then. What a pity that the "kind heart" of the official was not mentioned when his other sterling qualities were given such an airing. The hundreds of voters who are not acquainted with those parties whose names appear on the election ballot, and are compelled to vote a random, trusting to a special providence to guide that long suffering "X" to the names that spell "square deal." are not long In finding out as to whether they are getting what they thought they were voting for. Inasmuch as 1 was compelled to "pay the piper" un- aer extenuating circumstances, I can not but feel that I have been unjustly dealt with. MRS. GEORGE H. LEAVELU PERTINENT COMMENT AND NEWS IN BRIEF SMALL CHANGE OREGON SIDELIGHTS Being a lawyer and under oath to support the law, how can Mr. Bean do leas? Mi'. from those who have. . In rounds numbers, the last six " months of aldermanic government ' : j In Portland cost the taxpayers $278,000 per month. The cost per month for 1916 under commission i -government was $241,000. And 'tbe city In 1916 was 7.9 per cent .larger in area than it was under ! aldermanic government. And the saving' does not include the savings t vin water and the savings in insur .' ancepremiums and the huge sav i. ings on account of efficient paving 1 laid under commission government j v In contrast with great areas of i 1 ; worthless paving laid in the closing j years of aldermanic government. j WHY NOT COMMEXD? T W HY all this hostility by the Oregonlan to Commissioner Daly?, Good government Is w.rare. Efficient and highly de-L'.-pemlahle public officials are not ' often obtained. One would think that as a supposed apostle of high j valuable public service, the Or - gonian would not bo bitterly perse- .cute commissioner Daly. ,Far example, one would think j. every citizen of Portland, the Ore 'X gonian among them, would highly commend Commissioner Daly for Z Ms great work in. cutting the cost ,; of street cleaning in Portland 2 Though the area of the city has been Increased 14.46 square miles. equal to an increase of 27.9 per xent, Mr. Daly has cut the appro "prlations for street cleaning as fol lows: For 1914, 5359,714; for 1915, $296,341; for 1916, $258. ,' 224; for 197. $230,027. It is t Z cm or 3 6 per cent. Is it not I worthy of commendation? V "Do we not all want the cost of government reduced? is it Bound - policy to assail a public servant because he has made heavy cuts in the cost of public service? . And why not give Commissioner Daly credit for the great reduction , he has made in appropriations for ; " the water department? They are . For 1914, $1,729,796; for 1915 j $1,280,554; for 1916, $1191,749 1 ; for 1917, $889,930. ' Here Is efficiency and economy possibly unprecedented in public . ' ; service anywhere. It is doubtful ' If such-A showing was ever made . , in , any municipality .in America FIRES 0 REGONIANS reveling in the mild delights of dripping skies and muddy roads can hardly realize that Minnesota BAD POLICY Who prepared the new alder manic charters and what's In them? Who has time In these precarious and Wisconsin, parched by drouth, days to' try to find out what is In are swept over by forest fires. them? And if they try, how sure Cities are threatened by the flames are those who search that they find Life and property over wide out everything that is In them? stretches of country are consumed. These forest fires, which occur almost every year in some of the HE agitation to suspend the 0 . IV. 111,... ... Villi V4 AW -J X. !- uiaiua W n W 1 J -m , . war" will probably die in the , k ? t P T O V LJ. C l V WJ-V V A. AO UU AA A V I . m, a . . , Overman of North Carolina who ?hip8' fal!en. llmbs' which dur- v,,.0 oW fOBnr iw mS me not Hummer momns ana and opposed regulative legislation. beecome "e tinder. The first care- Formerly their plea was that -"" b economta law" hould b allowed a conflagration which it is almost 1 K A i a sat- m a J aVa aio uuvuvvukvui aav i i iitm i what happened to human life and I qn c welfare. Now they plead that the Such catastrophes are becoming war is taking away so many adult I almost impossible In the national workmen that they really must put f rests where the refuse is care- the children in their places. fully removed and logging is con Both the "economic law" pretext ducted with scientific care for the and the patriotic pretext are pure pnhllc welfare. Our system of prl hypocitfsy and humbug. vate ownership of the national re- The experience of England Is con- sources sucn as timber, oil, coal nin.tva in thio fidri At a nut. ana waterDOwer nas been demon V1 USt T J AAA VAAAkJ AAAUa A V I1V V U V I " break of the war England -listened strated by experience to be as to the plaints of - her industrial wasteful as It is dangerous. magnates and snsnended th labor laws. The result wa an Immedl- DlaK reported killed," says atn falllne off In nroduction. Creed headline. Judging from the many defeated its own ends. Science ieni aeams suirerea Dy Air. uiaz has demonstrated that the fatigue and Mr- Villa those Mexicans must poisons ' generated In children and nave more lives tnan a cat adult laborers by excessive toll ' " wiiijr. 1IICJ WUU1U DIIV O Willi Qb Bpoun world all have from three to eight feet while food is being criminally wasted with a shovel. They are silent and helpless while thousands of tons of food are sent to the bottom, not by the submarines of our common enemy'flghtlng for its eX- stence, but by middlemen and specu lators who to keep up prices and en hance then profits, wantonly destroy food to create the very conditions and bring about the very crisis that the farmer as a patriotic duty is urged to avert. And the law cannot reach them, they say. If conditions continue favorable, the farmer Is rasonably sure of fair re turns on this season's crop. But, re gardless of crops or conditions, accord ingly as It is advantageous to the mid dleman's profits, a certain portion of this season's crop is as sure doomed to destruction as If It were dispatched to Europe In all unprotected merchant ship. And, to quote from former freeboot ers, "The public be damned what are you going to do about it" A. GRANGER. less than this. Indeed, but few of the greatest ports of the world have a greater inside channel depth. If citizens of Portland would Inform themselves, as they should, upon ques tions of this kind, there would be fewer correspondents of eastern newspapers publishing, upon hearsay testimony. matters detrimental to Portland as a seaport. If her own citizens show the loyalty and the enterprise they should, there Is no question as to her future, for no American city has been more greatly favored by the Almighty and the peneraj government. Let Portland now do her part in developing what Is now the practically dead capital placed In our hands through these two agen cies CHARLES B. MOO RES. paralyze efficiency and diminish the output, to say nothing of blighting the next generation. A MEMORL1L In some respects, the coming Portland election is more Import T HE university professors' me morial to congress praying for a stiffening of income tax is an interesting document from nnt to the neonle of Portland than " ' - ""ui . , I ber and weight of the names at- a presidential election. What are we all doing to investigate candi dates and measures preparatory to casting an intelligent vote June 4? W tached to it are imposing. The in stitutions represented are some of the best in the country. Yale Harvard, the Oregon Agricultural ATT, mttv college ana many others of the nignest standing figure consplcu E CANNOT help wondering m9l-r what the phrase "all men" Yale contributes Irving Fisher's practically means In West signature and six others. The Un! Virginia's new anti-idleness versify of Wisconsin gives Com statute, xne law reads that "all mons, Ross and;, three others. Har. men between sixteen and sixty must vard has 23 signers, among them find employment," under certain Albert Bushneli Hart and Thomas pains and penalties. Probably it Nixon Carver. Dartmouth contrib does not mean that students must utes 14 signatures and Cornell 14 quit college. Does it mean that There are five names from the rich idlers living "on their in- Oregon Agricultural college, all comes' must, find jobs and eo toleood men In the best of comnanv. work? Pennsylvania State colleee con The expression "all men" In this tributes five names and Pittsburgh seemingly excellent law may turn university seven, hut there la not out to be as elastic as "thou shaltla solitary name from the rich and not kill ' in the commandments, j powerful University of Pennsylva As sometimes interpreted the com-lnia which dronDed Scott Nearine mandment means "thou shalt kill year or two ago aha Professor Pat- fff?1 f-7.uI 2LLb r pol,t?iT imAot eiM-ji. otV, . . I" ... , tola me. l un sorry, DUt i can do : T" ft!; " . 6la Jr,uur i wun , uu yi iusv , xii-neai ewuumic i nothing for you; see Mr. Bo and So; Discusses Shortage and Waste. North Bend. Or., May 15. To the Ed itor of The Journal Our Uncle Sam uel, In a perturbed state of mind, is calling the farmers together to make a survey of food conditions and await ing figures showing that the 1916 yield of food staples was away below nor mal, notwithstanding that his commis sioners sent out to investigate food conditions, supplemented by numerous state . commissions, report immense quantities of food in the elevators and cold storage plants toeing held for higher prices, and that the reports of food shortage are exaggerated. As The Journal aptly states, the farmer Is bus picious. Experts figure that a slice of bread wasted in each family throughout the country, totals millions of bushels of grain in the aggregate. And to prevent this deplorable waste they would In struct the housewives In ways of econ The sombrero is always on In Mexi co, whether the lid 1 or not. If little la being said about the Fourth of July In these days, it is mostly because so much Is being done about It. The Khan of Khiva, who baa just r suited his peoplfc a constitution, oubtless did it because he knew he'd be khanned if he didn't. WW A Frenchman has invented an appli ance for dealing cards toy means of wnicn misaeais are saia to do renaerea Impossible. But who wants a totally alibiless card game? More than 1.000.000 hides are used annually In the upholstering of motor cars. But more than that number of hides are hung on the fence to dry In every political campaign. When the devil was sick the devil a monk would be. but when the devil got well the devil a monk was he. For example. Germany's chancellor and his on again, off again jeace proposal. Of course we know that Tlpperary Is still over on the other side of the horixon somewhere, but we are no longer making the way seem longer than It really Is by singing about It. The United States bureau of stand ards has tested and approved a non leakable gasoline tank. At easily pre dictable prices, the nonflllable tank wilt In due time be Jin line for a test. While the Massachusetts legislature by repealing the law tkat ferbade Sun day: gardening has rerrteved the legal Inconvenience, it at the same time must have taken about all the tun out of It. . In the entente allies' pact against the separate peace nothing was saia aooui a separate truce, to be sure; but Rus sia should be reminded that a truce, if It lasts long epough. cannot be dis tinguished from a peace. Petitions are being (circulated at Astoria asking the school board for an Increase in teachers' salaries approxi mating 10 per cent. Th clam recites Increased cost of living. From Sunset Valley- notes In the Burns News: "The Sunset farmers will be in line this year with big crops of grain, potatoes and dried rabbits to help feed our allies In the big world war." ' . Petitions for withdrawal from the University of Oregon to do farm work nave been men Dy is siuaems been granted by the faculty, Wednes day's Eugene Register reports. Twenty-five more petitions have been handed In and await decision. JThe ninth annual Roseburg carni val today." says the Roseburg News of Thursday, May 18. "seemed like a. pioneers' 'convention. Many former residents who have not visited this city for years returned to celebrate. The majority of them remaiked the vast changes that have tauen place here during the past few ytars and stated that they would like to return here to make their home." At the present time an average of eleven employers are bringing their operations under the protection of the workmen's compensation law each working day, according to the Salem Journal, During the last 20 days -10 additional employers have been listed. Of this number a substantial propor tion were farmers who made formal application for the protection. This terse, comprehensive and upon the whole gratifying crop report is from the EuKne Register of very recent date: "This is growing weath er, even if it is disagreeable. Farm ers report that all crops are growing fast and townspeople who have vege tables up say they are growing like weeds. The farmers, however, need a little more dry weather to permit them to finish their seeding, which Is ' already weeks late.'' !p : B Rag Tag and Boktail Stories From Everywhere RUBBING IT IN ON THE EAST The Cost of the Beef Animal. Portland May 18. To the Editor of The Journal. In reply to Mrs. C. C Brown's charge that the farmers are to blame for selling veal let me say that the small farmer cannot afford to raise beef cattle. Her Is my ex perience In raising calves. I kept five calves 30 months. After reeding them two winters they were sold at the high est price given at that time (24 per head. The next year I sold my calves at six weeks old, aa follows: Two for 5.80; one for $13.60; one for 911.40; the fifth for 810.90 a total of 81.70. The first five, when 2 years old. had brought $120, which, compared with the last five sold when 6 weeks old. for $51.70, shows a balance of $58.30 to pay for feed and care for 28 months. With a large stock range this might be done, but on a small farm, while the city people want veal and tbe farmer needa the money this luxury brings. he Is not to . blame for selling his veal. However, It la to he hoped the government will find a way of protect ing and Increasing our beef supply very soon. J. W. COLJ-oER. Indorses Mr. S pence's Argument. McMlnnvllle, Or.. May 16. To the Editor, of The Journal. I am In re ceipt of the amendments and measures (with arguments), to be voted on June The negative argument on the $6,000,000 bond Issue, as set forth by the state grange master Is a most worthy and true analysis of the bond ed bondage on the tax burdened people of our state. We are now nearly pay lng a fair rental price In taxes on our holdings, and to place us in such a position that each county will have to prepare the road beds, grades ana bridges to receive the hard surface hot stuff would be most ruinous to every farmer and producer In those counties where the hard surface road has been and is located by the bond holders and their subordinates. I hope every farmer and taxpayer will study well C. E. Spence s negative argument. on pages 33, 34 and 35 of the pam phlet, sent to each voter of the ptate, and then 'vote to his own -interests, and not to place more debt on us hard workers, nor easy money in the cof fers of those grabbers. W. J. GARRISON. Complains of the Dog Catcher. Vancouver, Wash., May 12. To- the Editor of The Journal About the mid dle of April I took up the matter of procuring a license for my dog. "know ing that I was leaving your city by June 1. I told the official so, obligat ing myself to keep the dog tied con tinually, for the length of time I would be here, feeling that bj doing so I should not be taxed for the six remaining weeks. The official in charge informed me in a very decided manner that said dog must, be li censed, despite my short residence here, and any delay on my part would undoubtedly complicate matters for me. I could ee no Justice In such an action, inasmuch as I was willing to keep the dog on my own premises, and took occasion to tell that official that 1 would see others in higher authority before paying a license for a year, only six weeks of which would be used.. I went first to the one whom X naturally consid ered highest In authority in the civic To Get the Goat's Goat. Toutle. Wash., May 8. To the Edi tor of The Journal I read something a few weeks ago In Uncle Jeff Snow's smart sayings about a rancher being bothered with goats jumping fences until some Jap showed him how to prevent that by cutting a nerve in the goat s leg. Now I have a few breachy nannies myself, and have been trying to find out how the trick was done. If it Is not altogether a Joke could you Insert part of this In The Journal, ask. lng those who know to give us the benefit of their experience. Nobody seems to be onto that around here. CHARLE3 NaNDIN. The operation consists In weaken ing a certain tendon in one hind leg by cutting It so as partially to sever it. The goat locomotive powers are un impaired but when it essays to Jump, one leg naturally outjumps the other, and the goat falls over on Its elde. The operation Is said to be neither painful nor cruel. It is practised all up and down the coast, and is said to have been Introduced by the Japanese. It should never be undertaken save upon the Instruction Of a competent anat omist, or by someone already familiar with the operation. From the New York Denlng Pot. Western newspapers have been pok ing a good deal of fun at the east on the score of the figures of volunteer ing' for the army and navy. In that matter, we easterners must honestly admit that the 'joke Is on us. The west, in proportion to population, has furnished many more recruits than has this part of Ihe country. But it is not only fun that the press of the middle west Is poking at the east. William Allen White jeers at us, tout others put a note of indignation into their comments. For example, the Omaha World-Herald of May 5 had an article, under .the suggestive caption, "Head line Patriotism," asking "what is the matter with the North Atlantic seaboard states?" It referred to the "lusty clamor for war" which the east had set up for nearly three years; and then Jt pointed scornfully at the fig ures of the eastern recruiting offices. And it added: "The west made no effort to goad the government Into war. Its temper was pacific even under enormous provocation. But now that the war Is upon us, the west Is giving its sons to their country cause, while tne east Is gnawing bloody bones at ban quets, and In newspaper offices, and sending swarms or lobbyists to warning-ton to protest against war taxation." This may not be" very pretty or brotherly, but it must be conceded that there Is some force In It. The particularly crushing thing for the east Is the revelation to It of its own blindness about the west. It had become customary hereabouts to speak of the western states as far behind us in vigilant and vivid patriotism. They were comparatively cold about the war in Europe. In tne last pres idential election, they voted for Wil son proof enough of decayed fibre! It was a region of America over which eastern patriots shook their heads sadly. We even had to send them missionaries to preach the doctrines of the true army gospeL But It looks now as If the west would have to send missionaries east, as the con verts there put to shame the preach ers here. Anyhow, it Is safe to say that we shall not hear so much in these parts about the sordid and be sotted west. The fact Is that, from the begin ning, all the charges and flings on that subject were born of gross mis- Offered as a Correction. Crab tree. Or., May 1. To the Editor of The Journal I see by The Journal I told the food commissioner the commission men were going to ship all their potatoes out of Portland and leave the Portland people without any. That was not what I said, but I did say If the commission men would ship what they had on band Portland would be as bad off as the east,-as there was not any left In the country. I cannot understand why the people of Portland want to blame the com mission men. What would we do without them? They find the produce for the city and find a market for the farmers. I, as a farmer,, greatly ap preciate tne commission men. I can nut BT produce on board th car and in 43 hours get my cheofe for the same and no trouble to me. Tou say the commission man makes a pull out of it. I am glad he does, because he has to live as well as I do. He Is entitled to his part and he is welcome to it, too. Now let us all try and think alike and we will all be better off. E. A. EASTON. I To this column alt readera of Tba Journal ara invited to cootxltxita orlslaal matter ta atory. in vcrae or in pbiloaopbli-al obxrotloa or atrlking quotation, from any aouree. Coe -tiibutioaa of exceptional merit will be paid toe t tbe edltor'a aptraiaal. A War Song. .TEt,L, rally round the hoe, boys, VV and Join the ranks of totU shout ing the battle cry of "Feed 'em!" We'll train the crops to grow, boys, as tillers of the soli, shouting the battle cry of Feed 'em!" Where there Is work to do, boys, we'll .gather on the spot. shouting the battle cry of "Feed 'tmV To duty we'll be true. toys, and till the vacant lot. shouting the battle cry of "Feed "em!" Nature, kind mater, will aid in our need. Down with the tater; up with the weed! So we'll rally round the hoe, boys, and train the crops to grow, shouting the battle cry of "Feed 'em!" Milwaukee Wisconsin. apprehension. The west had its own views, and chose Its own ways of manifesting them, but it was absurd to suppose or Intimate that it would not do more than Us full share in supporting' the president and defend ing the country if war came. Still, the report or suspicion to the con trary got a great start, through the lamentations of eastern orators and writers. It even crossed the sea. Am bassador Page, in his speech in Ixn don at the luncheon to celebrate America's entrance into the war, felt compelled to mention the matter. But ho showed that he had a juater view of the question than some of the alarmed and disgusted easterners. He said: "Men here have asked me with con cern about the attitude of the middle west. We have our sectional Jealous ies, as you have. And men who live on the prairies do not get together so quickly and In such large groups as In large cities. But the middle west has never been lacking when a -national duty called us. It fought one war after peace had been de clared. It sent more than Its pro portion of men to our Civil war. It has mere men now in your Canadian army in France than any other part of the Union. I am told that thes Inland states contribute proportion ately more men to our navy than the states on the seaboard The United States is one In this deep stir ring that now moves Us people." There Is clearly nothing to be gained by pursuing these comparisons between sections of the country. If the east was before' the war mistaken about the west, it is possible that tie west is now mistaken about, the east. The Evening Post believes that if a call for volunteers, uncompli cated by the selective draft, had been squarely made by the president, the east would not have been behind any part of the nation in Its response. Whatever may be thought of that, we are all In for it now; and should go forward in the spirit of Lincoln's well known letter of Augrfst 26, 1863: The signs look better. The Father of Waters again goes unvexed to the sea. Thanks to the great northwest for it. Nor yet wholly to them. Three hundred miles up they met New Eng land, Empire, Keystone, and Jersey, hewing their way right and left. The Sunny South, too. In more oolors than one, also lent a hand." Experiences bf a Monoped. I have lost a leg. I am In a ba4 way. It doesn't make any difference how I lost the leg, whether I was lit the battle of the Marne, or let a Mount Scott car use It for a road bed. The fact remains: when I refer to my pedal extremity. 1 say foot; not feet. The other day I purchased me an artificial limb. Now I'm trying to use it. That's what I started out to tell about. If I didn't have a saving sense of humor I surely would get the "Willies." My first attempts at walk ing would seem more reasonable had they been staged on Burnside street before Oregon went dry. With pa tience and pain I am starting out to learn the numerous little tricks la walking that most of us learn at It months. Slowly, laboriously, like some decrepit old veteran of the Civil war, I toil down the walk and stumble over the lawn. I feel the eyes of the en tire neighborhood upon me. I have tried ascending steps and the toe of the artificial minus-quantity invarlbly catches on the lower step and pulla the infernal affair completely off me. I -step off a curb, the knee doubles up, and I sit down somewhat hastily. One of my friends says to another, "I don't think that he'll ever be able to use the damn thing." But there are some advantages. Oh, the joy of being able to reach down to pull up two trouser legs instead of one, when I sit down in the street car. And the feeling of absolute hilarity I experience in buying a pair of shoes and paying a dime it used to be a nickel to have 'em both shlced. Tou ordinary two-legged mortals can't un derstand, of coure. And then, too, when I am standing still, I look just like anyone elso and can stand on the street corner and twirl my cane like a matinee dandy. Hop Scotch. HOW TO BE HEALTHY Ctopyrlrbt, 101T, by 1. K( Ceeley. AU In One Short Lifetime. I've seen the Kansas cyclone find a worthy successor in Billy Sunday. X was present on the spot, so to speak, when the audible celluloid cuff, E. P. Roe, the pugdog, the congress gaiter, the hammer gun, the safety bicycle, the mustache cup, parchesl, the catcher who took "cm off the bat with his bare hands, the peach kernel' watch chartn, the pousse cafe, the operation for de horning the human appendix, and the Dowle movement gave way. Inch br inch, to the spit-ball, the automatta ejector, the rest cure, the cold storage egg. Henry Ford, the cabaret. Orvllle and Wilbur Wright. Eat-and-Grow-Thin. Pay-and-Grow-Thlnner,- rural free delivery, the Imported Scotch nib lick. Eleanor Glyn. mlddllng-meat at 52 cents a pound and stewed prunes at four bits a portion in any first-class restaurant, says Irvln S. Cobb In the American Magazine. And If I have luck I shall no doubt be an eye-wit.ness to the fading away of these things into the background of the past and the on coming of yet more timely evidences of the onward and upward march or progress, following along, one behind the other. In a mighty procession. FOUR DANGER PERIODS OF LIFE. There are four periods In life especially hazardous to health and to existence. Infancy, of course, comen first for being a baby Is about th most dangerous job In the world. Nearly one-fourth of all death occur In the first year of life and about one- third In the first two years. Fifteen la another fateful age. for this tima of change from childhood to manhood and womanhood la more or less revol utionary to the body and mind. Unless there Is proper guidance as well as observance of the rules of hygiene not a few have difficulty in passing this period successfully. Another abrupt change of habits which has a direct bearing n health Is the time Of trans ition from school life to the work of shop or office. In this age this ap plies as much to young women as to young men. At school or college a great deal of time is spent in outdoor pursuits and In jtthletlc games. At the same time the mental wear and tear to which the student Is subject Is not excessive. But with the change to a wage-earn ing routine comes, in many cases, ex cessive worry "Jin anxiexy, even wougn the variety of mental -effort be de creased. Combined with the Increased tax on brain and nerves there Is gen e rally a sudden slump In outdoor ac tivity. Instead of eating to live the dally routine becomes largely a ques tion of living to eat with the result that surplus flesh piles up. As the human body will stand a wonder ful amount of abuse It manages fairly well for a few years then oome signal of trouble: Dyspepsia, head aches, constipation &nd a host of minor disturbances which result in depres sion and decay of body and brains. To offset the hazards of this period there must be more variety of muscu lar and mental exercise combined with the proper portioning of fuel to the amount of work done by tbe body. e The age of 80 Is the fourth danger period the body must go through. From now on the human machinery gradually slows up so that the down grade of life's Journey may be taken in safety. Thus at this period the greatest danger comes from over stocking the body engine whloh, now that It is physically less active, needa less fuel in the form of food than In earlier years. There must still be dally exercise, however, but of a type to fit In with the more carefully, regu lated mode of living. Next Monday: gerous.1 Why Dust Is Dan- An Employer on Farm Hands. Hood River, Or., May 16. To the Ed itor Tjf The Journal In reply to J. W. McGinnis. in a recent lsssue of The Journal in reference to pay and treat ment of farm hands. I wish to say his is not an isolated, extraordinary case. Here in this valley we pay $60 a month, with house and garden plot and with other accommodations, and treat them In every way as equal with our selves. .1 have never known a man to give me five minutes of his time without ray. The hand usually works 10 hours a day. I work 12 and more. He bears no responsibility and no loss. Farm labor does not stand for low wages or 111 treatment any . more than any other labor. Mr. McOlnnls letter is rather overdrawn. A FRUIT GROWER. PERSONAL MENTION Tacoma Golfers Arrive. Tacoma proposes to be on the map so far as the golf tournament is con cerned. 19 of the membera of the Tacoma Country club being registered at the Multnomah hotel, and prepares to attend this interesting event, which taluss place during the coming week. The list includes aumber of the most prominent cltlxens of the sound city. Joe Wells of San Francisco Is at the Washington. J. C. Heilman of Wallace, Idaho, Is at the Hotel Portland. Alex. Nibley of Medford la at the Portland. W. A. Carpenter of Dallas, Is a vis itor at the Perkins. A. Jackson Detsch of San Francisco, Is registered at the Washington. J, O. McGee of Baker, Is at the Perkins for a short stay. J, H. Dunlop Is a prominent citizen of Cascade Locks recorded at the Port land. Champ Smith, a prominent business man of Prlneville, Is stopping at the Perkins. Mr. and Mrs. C. W. Bennlnger cf Spokane, are at the Washington. President Kerr of the Oregon Agri cultural college, is in the city for a short stay, being registered at the Imperial. -. JK. Alexander, of Alexanders depart .. ... s - - -. i ' l-'- ..-v. ... ment store of Pendleton. Is In the city on business, sojourning at the Imperial. Albert Lundberg, a cannery man of Astoria, la at the Perkins. Robert McCrow, a Goldendale butch er and stockman. Is at the Cornelius. R. B. Reoper, G. V. Bolton, and Phil Brogan aie three young men from Antelope here to take the navy ex amination, stopping at the Cornelius. E. E. Matthews, a real estate man of Fossil, Is at the Perkins. A. D. McLellan, connected with Grant Smith A Co., is at the Multnomah. H. H. Marwln of Salem Is at the uregon T. A. McCullough of Eugene la at the Oregon. Not Bothered. From tba Bostasi Globe. The slum visitors I should think you'd be afraid to live here. There's no fire-escape. The alum dweller I don't need one. lady. Whenever, the cops come up aft er me I make my getaway over the roof, . m An Affecting Sight. , Frem the Ketr Vork World. ' , To get the effect of a thousand maimed veterans parading In Petro grad against purchased pevciflo plots we have only to remember that catch in the throat as the Grand Army men bobble past. That Is s universal lan guage. .....,.!,- ' ' A Ballad of Sutherlln Gaol. Unless the city provides a pound for the cattle and horses which are al lowed to perambulate about the city limits after nightfall, says the Suther lln Sun. City Marshal John A. Kla wlsch threatens to empound the ani mals in the city Jail. As the city bas. tile has been tenantlena since boose was run out of town, there is no ap parent reason why it could not be used " as a city pound. Call of the Bugles. Bugles! V And the great nation thrills and leapa to arms! Prompt, unconstrained. Immediate. Without misgiving and without debate. Too calm, too strong for fury or alarms. The people blossoms armies and puts forth The splendid summer of Its noiseless) might: Tor the old Jap of fight Mounts up In south and north. The thrill That tingled In our veins at Bunkos Hill Aad brought to bloom July of 'Seventy aixi Pine and palmetto mix With the sequoia of the giant west Their ready banners, and the hosts of war. Near and far. Sudden as dawn, Innumerable as forests, hear the call Of the bugles. The battle-birds! ! For not alone the brave, the fortunate.. Who first of all Have put their knapsacks oj They are the valiant vanguard of the reit! Nor thev alone, but all our millions wait. Hand on sword. For, the word That bids them bid the nations know us sons of Fate. From sea to sea the insistent bugle blares. The drums will not be stni for any - sake; And as an eagle rears his crest. Defiant, from some tall pine of the north. i And spreads his wings to fly. The banners of America go forth Against the clarion sky. Veteran and volunteer. They who were comrades of that shadow host. And the young brood whose veins re new the fires That burned In their great sires. Alike we hear The summons sounding clear From coast to coast , The cry of the bugles. . ; The battle-birds! . I Bugles! The imperious bugles! Still their call . Soars like an exultation to the sky. Thev call on men to fall. To die ' ' Remembered or forgotten, hot a jsart Of the great beating of the nation's heart! Richard Hovey In Chicago Herald. Uncle Jeff, Snow Says I One of these here college perfessorat that's flitUn 'round talkln' put leal economy and tearhln' us how. to raise beans had a blackboard full of riggers showin' us what an awful wasteful lot Of wlmmen we have housekeepln. Ma -got real sassy and told htm ; if she could trade off all the waste in the kitchens fer all the thlevin'et-fcy'the grain and produce speculators she'd have most enuf money to carry em the European war. . " . ' : .. i' -' -'; ' -'