THE OfeEGON DAILY - JOURNAL, PORTLAND, THURSDAY, AUGUST 8,1917.
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tion vrhy; wmi senator obstinately
decline to utilize them. : -.
Senator L Follette has framed
a bill which would par for the war
out of excess war profits, taking
no more bread out of the mouths
of the poor and stripping none of
the scant clothing from their backs.
Collier's Weekly speaks well of La
Follette's bill and remarks that It
Is what the senate will probably
have to come to in tbend.
Why not come to.lt now? There
is something positiTely ghoulish In
the spectacle of Penrose conspiring
to strip the poor of their scant
comforts while the excess profit
of the munitions corporations
mount higher and higher. Is there
any particular sacredness surround-
ing war riches?
MI-LADY
Yen ran not pnaelbly he a broader
- baaia fur any goernnient than that wblch
Include all toe pvople. with all tbelr
right In their bauds, and with an equal
" powr to maintain tbelr rtgtita. Wllilam
Lloyd1 Carrlaon.
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THE VIGILAXTES
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NEWS dispatch from Chicago
say
William D. Heywood, secretary-treasurer
of the I. W. W.,
il threaten a general strike involving
250.000 laborer in retaliation for
the deportation of members of the
X. W. W. from their home In Bis-
Jee, Arizona.
A news dispatch from Butte,
Montana, says:
Frank I.lttle. the I. W. W. agitator
" vt'srjj0--vas recently deported from Arl-
Bona and who has been preaching to
Strikers here, urging defiance to the
'government, was found hanging by
the neck from a trestle, "dead, early
;thl morning. The old vigilant
warning sign "3-7-77" was pinned to
this night clothes. He had been taken
' out of bed and lynched at 4 o'clock
. thl morning by unknown then
Little wa an executive board mem
ber 'of the 1. W. W. and waa the
"right hand man; of W. I). Heywood.
Tbe lynching is said to be the direct
outcome of Little's speeches. In which
he attacked the government and re
ferred to the United States troops a
'"Uncle Sara' scabs in uniform."
This is a country In which there
Is a legal remedy for every wrong
Mr.p Hey wood's proposed retalia
tlon for the Bisbee. trouble is not a
.legal remedy. Nor was the lynch
ing of Little a legal remedy. Nor,
with the country at war, were Lit
tle's attacks on the government and
bis designation of boys in kbaki as
""scabs in uniform" a legal remedy
for anything.
We cannot afford to do these
things. They lead directly to such
spectacles as happened at Butte.
To say nothing of federal law,
I there are grim men who cannot
the restrained from taking the
j short cut in dealing with trea
ts son and other untimely disor
ders. The vigilante la himself an
outrage. Bat he runs through the
istory of all times of ferment. Ho
was In the Civil war. He is in
the background of most wars. He
J ' teems an inexorable product of
fate.
He is unjustified, indefensible
and to be opposed and resisted:
But the vigilante is one force in
human affairs against which we
have not been able to make ado
:Quate provision.
; All in all, it is no time for the
jHeywoods to tempt fate by defl of
'order and government.
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t A correspondent writes The Jour
nal thus: "Last evening I spent
nearly an hour scanning the vari
ous street cars bound for Council
Crest for a place of safety if not
.opmfort. With a prospect of neither
in sight, I cast my lot with the
;xnultltude that occupied every
available inch aboard the next car.
It was an open car on which I was
fortunate to find standing room
along with an even 20 others on
tbe, running board." The atten
tion of the city authorities and the
safety first officials and the pub
lic Is called to this abuse.
THE REVENUE BILL
THERE is a field in which
housewives can do something
to help cut the cost of living.
Many of them are extrava
gant In their demands on delivery
service. For example, they call
up the grocery half a dozen times
during tbe day and order first a
box of matches, second 10 cents
worth of soap, third a bottle of
mustard, and o on. In tbe process
mi-lady requires half a dozen de
liveries, when by a little care she
could have grouped all her orders
into one and saved man power,
horse power or gasoline power and
saved much to the overhead of the
business.
All this extra service has tcj, be
paid for. The dealer doesn't pay
it. He must add enough to his
profit margin to cover his delivery
system, and the final cost falls
upon tbe consumer.
The delivery item has become a
colossal activity. It came on grad
ually, and we have not realized
how enormous its expenditures
have become. Its cost is said to
often equal and sometimes exceed
the railroad and steamer freights
that an average dealer has to pay.
Thousands upon thousands of
times, a tiny package that mi-lady
could stow away snugly In her
shopping bag is sent miles across
the city by the xlellvery.
A delivery is not infrequently
summoned by phone to return to
the establishment a similar pack
age that has been delivered over
a stretch of miles several days
before.
These are abuses of the delivery
process. But a dealer must; smile
and felicitate as though he were
dying to render the service, be
cause he cannot afford to affront
the queens of the household, for
they are the purchasing agents of
the American homo and do -practically
all of its buying with5, totals
Into the billions. y
The vital fact in the process is
that the housewives have to pay
for their extravagances with de
liveries. The added cost Is a part
of the monthly bills that they sc
often find hard to pay and at
which they so bitterly complain.
"Never again" was tbe declara
tion of the modern Eve who, after
a day and night in the altogether
in the woods of Colorado, sought
shelter, food and asylum in the
friendly cabin of an outing family
A drenching from the rain and a
near freeze were the easy cure for
her folly. How fortunate if all
the cranks could be so easily disll
lusloned!
actintiea and ia the munldpAt
field in many dtles, to say nothing
of hundreds of Industrial .enter
prises and private employments
that have voluntarily adopted tbe
eight-hour principle as was done
by the Tacoma mills.
The meaning of all these things
is perfectly plain: Gradually and
steadily, the country is drifting
towards the universal eight-hour
day In manufacturing and many
other Industries.
The situation was never more
favorable from tbe standpoint of
workers. Tbe peril Is that radical
elements in the groups that are
struggling for the change may in
jure their cause by demands for
still further shortening of tho
period of a day's work.
An eight-hour day is a fair day.
It can be claimed with full con
science and confidence by those
ho seek It. But? the premature
demands for an even shorter day
while the vast mass has not even
secured the reasonable day may
throw consternation among em
ployers and be as deadly an influ
ence In harming the cause as ia
tbe attitude of employers who still
cling to a 10-hour or an even
longer day. V
best way to wring more liberty out
of it, ' - . i-- v
Senators La Follette and Gronna
with tbelr sympathisers can per
haps annoy the government and fa
some emergencies they may aid
the enemy substantially by paralys
ing the energy of our war meas
ures. They cannot prevent tho
United States from fighting tbe
kaiser but tbey may very well
make our fighting wasteful and In
effective. Professedly they are working for
peace but that will not be the re
sult of tbelr efforts. All tbey can
really do Is to increase the slaugh
ter- of American boys by prolong
ing the struggle. In time of for
eign war a peace party at home i3
the worst enemy a country cap
have.
There are some signs that the
German finances are crumbling
There is a shrinkage in the gold
reserve. That country has for three
years been buying. And for the
same period has been selling noth
ing to other countries. The kaiser
has paid out enormous sums of
gold for propaganda and other
work by Prussian agents In other
countries. Only a tremendous fi
nancial status In tbe beginning
could withstand such a drain.
Letters From the People
SMALL CHANGE
pi-y leal exaoUoatlcBav 1 sometimes11 to '
their own surprise, and found thera
lv in a new world. They- have
beii learning to live. Tbey have iound
out what comradeship means, and the
meaning of hunger.- Bom of them,!
applying their hard-earned powers of , , - . . - .
concentration, have advanced more i t. P the physical eaamlna-
rapldly than any other type. Theyjuo-
wyi make fine officers; and when they j Milk price soar, and so are tb
lead their men. it It 1 their lot to die, j consumers. .
they will go happy not only because ' Thu far no on hum aid anything
they are serving their country, but about roaatlng ear. And he'd better
becaus they have discovered an an- , wo ' J "I
wer to the riddle of lif. j Tho day seem far off and dim
Th boy are proud of their veter- wnm owcwm "in ngni
COMMENT AND NEWS IN BRIEF
WHAT THEN?
A'
A MIGHTY CHANGE
F
i HERE is little to be said
against some of the changes
In the war revenue bill which
seem likely to be made by
tbe senate. On the other band
some of tbe proposed changes are
as bad as possible. Public opinion
will approve of tbe additions to tho
tax on large incomes. The increased
tax on liquors should have no op
ponents outside the saloon ele
ment It is also an excellent
thing to levy heavier toll on cor
poration incomes insofar as that
can -be done without heaping new
burdens on tbe consuming public
These, commendable changes ia
tbe bill, are now under discussion.
Some of tbe proposed changes for
which, there is no excuse are tbe
increased levies on tea, coffee and
sugar; - If there ";were no other
sources . of revenue In sight it
might be advisable to Clip Jthe com
forts and necessities of the poor a
little closer , . ; - v
But thete are plenty of other
sources of revenue In sight. In very
, Ulaia fifbL "It U . enrtouj. quo
IVE Tacoma mills have granted
the eight-hour day, and it is
said that some others will
do Bp.
There is no mistaking the move
ment of the times. We are in the
midst of great economic change
Things are being done that were
totally unexpected a few years ago
The world is thinking today
more than it ever thought before
about human welfare and human
rights. There are captains of in
dustry in America who are now
defending the Drinclnle that oow:
comes up from below' who ii their
Industrial operations hay Always
maintained that power aV given
down entirely from above.
There are employers who have
always looked out on their wora
and workers with a grim, intoler
ant air of no interference from
without, but who are now listening
to the claims of workers and are
considering their welfare as a part
of the success of the business. The
war and its insistence on the re
demption of the principle of liberty
and welfare for all the races is
an influence in forwarding this
mood in industrial ownership.
The processes of this extraor
dinary change follow a period of
similar gravitation that has been
moving In America for two or three
years. Congress has passed a law
declaring that labor is not a com
modity, and the United States su
preme court has authenticated it in
a history-making decision. Con
gress has passed an eight-hour law
for railroad workers and tbe su
preme court has affirmed tbe con
stitutionality of" tbe measure.
These are tremendous advances.
But tbe greatest event in the
story of shortened working hours
was tbe declaration of th presi
dent of the United States in tbe
railroad crisis last year to the effect
that the public sentiment of the
country approves the . principle of
the eight-hour day. Added to these
are tbe eight-hour day established
by the law on tbe national public
work, on tate activities, county
N ADVANCE of a cent a quart,
making the price of milk
12 M cents, will cost New
York consumers 17,300,000 a
year.
The dairyman is temporarily in
one of the most exposed 'positions
to which any industry Is subjected.
Except grass, everything that hi
cows eat is at sky prices.
And even grass is precious be
cause of the demand for every
available acre of land to be brought
under tillage. And grass further
more is an available food but a
brief period in the dairyman's year.
For the three years' war period,
the man who produces the milk
has been beset by Influences of
every kind to Increase the cost of
production.
At the other end of the llae is
the difficulty of laying down his
product at the doorstep of the city
consumer. If -he delivers it with
his own wagons, bis routes are
over a scattered ueia or isoiatea
consumers, finding one in a block
here and another In a home five
or 10 blocks away.
If he sells to middlemen, there
is always the cbanco that they will
combine and fix purchase prices
that will take the bulk of the
profit. Middlemen deny that they
ever do such things, but the de
nial Is in defiance of human na
ture, of human experience and all
natural tendencies In trade.
Milk enters so fully Into human
life and is such a prime necessary
to existence that it seems incredi
ble that the economies of its dis
tribution have not been worked out
and established on a scientific basis.
The dairyman must have a
chance to earn a living. If not,
he will go out of business. How
then will it fare with the bablei
and the household?
Four Washington Indians, while
engaged in a religious celebration
preparatory to the end of the world
which they are expecting, beat a
crippled companion to death with
clubs in order to exorcise the evil
spirit. The quartet will probably
see the end of the world so far as.
they are concerned, by tbe time the
law gets through with them.
ADMIRAL CAPPS
R'
EAR ADMIRAL CAPPS. of the
emergency fleet corporation,
talks like a man of sense. He
declines to dwell upon the
comparative merits of steel and
wooden ships but has resolved to
build both as rapidly as possible
because botb are needed.
This attitude heartens the coun
try. Admiral Capps retrieves au
unfortunate situation.
But It Is a long way from talk
to action. Ships are - what wo
want, not glittering promises of
ships. If the sturdy admiral make
good, his fame is secure. Tbe coun
try will heap honors upon him.
We have had many talkers, it
will be a genuine relief to see a
builder at work.
We have now had from the spe
cial Investigator a certain report
as to the wood supply. How would
it do now to have a report as to tho
coal supply, including offers to turn
mines over to the city with power
to fix, prices?
(Cominasicationa acat to Tha Journal for
publication ia this dapar . nt ahonld b writ
ten on only aide of the paper, anould ont
exreed SOu werda in length ud muat be aa
eumpaaied by tbe name and address of uj
aander. If the writer doca not dealre to nave
tn name pubUahed ha abould so state.
On Socialism
Turner, Or., July 81. To the Editor
of Th Journal A letter on socialism,
from Bcotts Mills, In your issue of
July 24, la stating "I am not a eltln
of th world." In opposing Socialist
for making tb oppoalt claim, takes,
I think, questionable ground and - po
sition that would involv serious
moral lac he r difficulty. Man i a
social animal, and banc ha should
feel or, rather, appreciate certain re
lations with his kind, not only here,
but lwhre, in city, community,
state or province, nation and the world
of which h Is a part, a an organio
whole. Th undersigned 1 a cltiien,
not only of tho United States of Amer
ica, but of America and or terra iirm.
or world.
As a certain proverb says, "He who
liveth to himself dieth to himself," and
sometime "unwept, unhonored and un
sung." a the poet says.
I am no Socialist or brother of one.
In th party n. Many of their
theories. em to m foolish and
thoughtless. But th general idea of
proper International relations I con
sider fundamental to all proper par
ties, individuals or institutions, and
the only solution of the world's trou
ble in a political sens. j
As to "backing up the government as
we find It," quoting also from the
Scott Mill letter, I think this is all
right, provided the general tone or
tendency of eame is in line of ethics
and general welfare. As the old book
says. ''Obey the powers that be"; also,
however, that on should "oby Ood
rathr than man."
JOHN It. TYLER.
The Slick Auto Driver
Dayton, Or.. July 30. To the Editor
of Th Journal I wish you would In
your widely read paper give out
warning to young girl to look out
for automobile driver. Yesterday my
two young daughters went to church
at MoMinnvllle. Half way between
Dayton and McUlnnville, at about
10:30 In th morning, an auto driver
stopped the girl ant? wanted them to
tie th horse to a fence, or put th
rig In a nearby barn, and go auto rid
ing with him. They, of course, told
him their horse wa good enough for
them. He tried very hard to get them
to go with him, a stranger to them.
Suppose the girl had been walk
lng. They might have gone, for the
sake of the ride, and, I suppose, never
returned.
Qirls should b warned, whether In
city or country, not to go with any
slick auto drivers they don t know
This man told the girls he was going
to Tillamook. Pernap so, and per
hap not. . ANXIOUS MOTHER.
'' A Mother of Soldier
Portland, Or.. July S 1 .To the Edl
tor of Th Journal What is to be
come of or be done with the mothers of
soldiers, who have to work for a liv
ing, having given their boy to th
country" cause? My two boy have
gone and I have to ahlft for myself,
with two young girls to educate. I
hav been housekeeper, draimaker,
cook, laundrywoman, nurse and mother
for SO year, but when I apply for i
position they ay, "You mast b ex
perienced." I am perfectly able to
work in any capacity of homekeeplng,
I would like to be matron, or some
thing to that effect. Will , someone
solve this problem, a the question
always comes up, "Are you expe
rienced V M. J. B.
The Elevator Site Deal
Portland, July II. To the Editor of
The Journal After reading the let
ters of C. W. Ausman in last Satur
day's and Frank Kiernan in Sun
day's Journal. I am convinced that th
grain elevator sit deal (should not be
permitted to stand. It- Will be hard to
convince m that It la a better deal
for the taxpayer to pay out, all told,
about $400,000 for a site and dredging
when we can have a better site gratis.
For on taxpayer, I are In favor of
contesting the' proposition. Fire this
commission, appqjnt a new on l and
start all over again. It will be a
sham to allow this "shameless Joke."
as Ausman calls it. to be carried out.
Stop it. if pessible.
R. R. BRATTON.
No
Woodland. Wash., July 80. To th
Editor of Th Journal Did Germany
ever include in her peace term that-l
she would pay Indemnity and give
back all land taken by conquest, but J
re lain me ngnt to nave a iree nana
on tbe American continent?
READER.
an, and tho veterans, each In hi own
way, a mil grimly, a little cynically.
ar rather proud of themselves.
Th Way of Progress Is Hard
Front tba Lenta Herald
Years ago when . the Broadway
bridge was fought bitterly by a bunch
of millionaire patriot of Portland it
was alleged by them that It would not
be used and wa not needed; would b
an obstruction to navigation and
nuisance generally. To them they at
tracted another bunch of patriots who
saw in the litigation a chanc to knock
out th Initiative and referendum be
cause it had been ordered by the peo
ple with that Instrument. The city
waa caused to spend $10,000 to defend
the right to construct the bridge, and
th two patriotic at of progress
fighter spent as much', more. One
lawyer In thl city was paid $15,000
to concoct a tal of wo to tell tho
United State supreme court. All
went down In ignominy together, for
the initiative and tb Broadway bridge
wer both; needed and had coma to
stay. According to th report of the
county superintendent of bridges on
June 1, tb Broadway bridge accom
modated more vehicle than any other
bridge in th city, and during the
month of June was opened for ships
to pass but 45 times, so high abovo
the river traffic do its spans reach.
Burnslde bridge .opened 1069 time.
Th fight against the Broadway
bridge wa to prevent the change of
traffic tip Washington and Morrison
streets and" thereby shift the commer
cial center of town. Th antl-inltla-tlve
reinforcements only prevented tho
Inevitable the longer. Even after the
bridge wa built secret and hostile in
terests prevented its being approachable
with hard surface street. Only thl
year is the Broadway bridge showing
that It is all that it detractor said
It was not.
"Dropping Pills" on U-BoaU
From the Wall Street Journal
Th new method of attacking sub
marines I nicknamed amorg flying
men as "dropping pills." An officer in
the royal naval air servlc said to
Dow, Jones Jfc Co.:
"Naval dirigibles and aeroplane
keep up a perpetual patrol of the
coast. When a submarine is sighted,
the submarine chasers are signaled.
Every submarine, when It begin to
submerge, leaves a slight trail ofolL
Chaser set out in pair and follow th
trail until they get ahead of it. From
the first evidence of oil 'pill dropping
begin. At certain Intervals bomb
with charge of $00 pounds of gun
cotton are dropped, and are so timed
as to give the chaser a ch-mc to get
out of the explosion sone. In this
way the sea within the assumed area
of the ubmarlne become a aerie of
upheaval. The tremendous concus
sion shatter the submarine, and plate
burst apart.
"Submarine chaseVs measure from
80 to 75 feet long and are American
craft, wltn Sterling and Standard en
glnesVN Theee chasers have been used
a patrol since September, 1315, when
S00 wereimported. By "pill dropping'
one station alone accounted for three
submarine In a week.
"For convoy work the favorite ma
chine ar th Porte Babies. These
were built by Lieutenant Porte, who
Intended to cross the Atlantic in the
Wan a maker machine a few years ago.
A lighter machine 1 known a th
Blimp.
"England is building big machine
of the battle cruiser type, and the out
put is consequently small. Most of
the light American aeroplane are be
ing used for scouting. In the school
and for training work."
trals." Thy ar now all belligerents.
or Urey haven't got any rights.
Germans ar in straits for food, to
be sure, but the worst is yet to come
if. as appear, they have not yet been
forced to eat dried codfish.
If the cynical Napoleon were utter
ing epigram today, he might say
something about Providence being on
the side of the heaviest summer rains.
Holland's excuse for neutrality un
der extreme provocation 1 that ah is
between th devil and tho deep ae.
But she has really u batter Alibi than
that. 6bo 1 between the devil and his
angel.
If Kerensky make good with Rus
sia, he will be the very man to return
Mr. BUhu Root' call a soon a the
war 1 over. The good old U. S. A.
probably needs some of the Kerensky
stuff as badly a Ruseia needed what
Mr. Root carried across.
"Marsh marigold, pokewood sprouts,
smartweed, pepper cress, lamb's
quarter, sour dook. and pusley (high
brow, purslane), which are among the
wild vegetable now In season, all
make excellent greens," says the pi
curiah Boston Glob. That fine, but
mostly 8000 miles away. Who will
page the edible weed of Oregon for
us?
of
OREGON SIDELIGHTS
Tb Bcout eayai th lumber bul
ne around Union l Improving and
nor mill runping witn nigger pay
roll. .1 in oroer i "-
. t tn. tha. Tl rkB. on
a mva .n. la uiAlntr law
yer making two for townand
who would consent io "
lie or city attorney.
"(!.,.r,l wise men In th upper val
)..- ..v th Rune Register, "are
vlr Aina and Other Wis
"V"r,f vrhn STho watch the ex
eVrtment with avfew to doing like
wis.- i
Thl ,1 the Haine Kecora lae. '
fruit, vegetable, animal or fowl too
oont Jut let it grow. If you don t
th. jinn hn will be so muffled next
eopl may
winter that a great many p.
not be able to pear it at alb
Fahlon not from the Dallas Item
earing a dress tha
reached nearly to the sidewalk was
sees on tne Dusine irv "uo
th firt of the week. She attracted
imnet aa much attention a a man
and a 'woman who were out driving
with a hor ana nuggy iai ouuuu
Here' 1 a tory. from the Sheridan
Sun. that shows what can be dono with
bees; "Walter Graves cut a bee tree
Am nn tha NT W Connor Dlace last
Sunday that yielded over 100 poundb'
or noney. idb
waa in an ash tree and the comb was
a aolld cylinder eight inches in diame
ter and standing ight feet high. Some
of the honey first made was so old
it was Dure black. He will extract the
honey and keep the comb for use- on
his pee I arm.
AD.VICE TO WOULD-BE, EXEMPTS
By Carl Smith, Washington Staff Corr potxlant ef Tha Journal
Washington. Aug. 2. If you ar a
drafted man, and believ you should b
exempted, or want to know anything
about the exemption rule, don't write
to. your senator' or congressman, and
don't write to the provost marshal
general.
If you are an employer of men who
are on the first call, and want these
men retained In Industrial pursuit
because of their skill or particular
usefullness, th same advic holds
good. Don't tell your troubles to
Washington.
This is th word that eome from
Provost Marshal General CrowdW
office. Letter from individual and
about particular case will be returned
to the writer, with a request that
the matter be presented to the near
est local exemption board. Not even
question from exemption boards will
be answered, unless they com through
the governor of th state.
Adoption of strict rule on this line
wa deemed Imperative because of the
avalanche of Inquiries already re
ceived. Large numbers of these ques
tion can be answered by the local
board a well as from here. Many
others relate to suggested case of ex
emption, particularly from th heads
of corporations appealing for release
of number of their men.
General Crowder answer to these
appeal is that th district boards
must pass upon all exemption, and
that each case la to be decided upon
the circumstances surrounding It No
class exemptions will be made and
the district board will have no advice
from Washington as to how to; decide
any particular case. Instructions will
be given only on the broad lines al
ready announced, a to whether the
man can serve Ms country best in the
military Bervice or in some other way.
Exemption letters and inquiries to
congressmen or to the war department
will only cause delay, as such letters
will be returned and th questions
must be asked over again of the dis
trict boa'rd. If the member of the
district board are unable by study of
the regulation to gtve an answer, they
will writ to the governor of the state.
If the governor la puzzled, he will sub-1
mlt th question to the provot mar
anal general.
Rullngson matter thu brought up
by the governors will be issued irom
the office of the provost marsnai gen
eral in bulletin form, and sent to every
district board In the United States
In a short time, therefore, it l ex
Dected that about every matter of
doubt will be covered much more ef
fectlvely than could be don by indi
vidua! letter.
All board will thu be put in pos
session of uniform rulings. As to any
influence working from Washington
to excuse men In particular employ
ments or in particular establishments
it Is positively announced there will
be no uoh thing.
Receipt from the national forests
during the lat fiscal year reacnea
$3,450,000. the largest sum so far at
tained, of which over $1,600,000 wa
derived from timber Bales and over
$1,600,000 from stock grazing permits
The expense of the forests stood at ap
proximately $4,000,000, or about 5&U,
000 behind the receipt. Another
year gain at the same rate will en
able the forest service to report that
it ha become self-sustaining. .
Almost every month announcement
comes from Secretary Lane's office of
the classification of large areas of
public land, and of the restoration of
Large bodies to entry which had been
for one purpose or another withdrawn
In Secretary Lane' four year In of
fie almost 26,000,000 acre hav been
examined, classified and restored to
unrestricted entry. During the same
time the withdrawals for all purposes
have amounted to 6,000.000 acres. Tho
net result is a reduction in reserved
lands of the United States from 7f,
672.851 acre to 56.470,213 acres. Dur
ing June nearly 600.000 acres were re
stored to entry, including 465,000, acres
heretofore held in coal reserves In
Moiattna, and 101,000 acres held In oil
reserves in California. The .depart
ment also accomplished during the
month the designation of 813.000 acres
for settlement under the enlarged
homestead act, including substantial
areas in Fremont, Boise, Owyhee, El
more and Adam counties, Idaho.
h6w to be. healthy w
t. 1917.
Keeley.
Nothing1 Doing Till Then
From tbe New York Eranlng Poat
If the chancellor's move for peace
has had a conflicting and generally
hostile reception, the fault lies in the
language which he used. The speech
appear In part to have been one of
studied ambiguity. And Dr. Michaell
never once came to the scratch and
pronounced the name of Belgium. That
word has now become a sort of touch
stone for the whole world. It is a test
of German sincerity. It 1 th central
thing In the cause of the allies. "No
forced acquisitions" is too vague. Tha
nation wait for the magic words
Belgian Independence and Belgian res
EAR WAX PROMOTES DEAFNESS.
The wax that form so rapidly In
the ear with some people, while ap
parently not a serious matter,' mayi
however, promote inflammations in
th ear canal whleh may result In
chronic changes in the ear drum and
thu lay a foundation for deafness.
Often the plug of wax luelf causes
temporary deafness.
The habit of scratching the Inner
ear with toothpicks, head of pins
and with the finger nail is distinctly
harmful. It may result in ear ab
scess and permanent injury to the
hearing, or the mechanical action It
self may Injur th ear tissue.
Whenever there is itching or little
roll of wax may be taken out on the
finger It Is indication of the neod or
toration. Let the German government a physician s services. It is seldom
plainly utter them, and it could not I necessary to remove the wax by any
be long before there were mediation painful instrument. Small syringes
or negotiation to bring about a peace, 'are available for injecting sterilized
CRYING FOR PEACE
T
HE report that Senators 0ron-
na and La Follette have defi
nitely joined the "peace prop
aganda" is not reassuring. It
means that they have allied them
selves with the less intelligent, and
patriotic element of our popula
tion It they' -were . wiser ther
would Join hands to teach the peo
ple whal the war signifies and the
Veterans at the Front
From tba Chicago Herald
Among all the correspondence from
Fort Sheridan has been no mention of
two types of veteran the military and
the oclaX And yet they ar numer
ous and picturesque.
Youth rules, of course. But among
the young fellows here and thr one
marks a stouter, older figure, with a
harder eye. Some of them are even
fattish. They drilled from the begin
ning, nevertheless, with that precis
ion shading into nonchalance that
only come with year of training:
they moved with a curious swing that
the boys envied; they lay upon their
bunks silent In the bus of technical
talk until they were appealed to, and
then ettld th dispute, sometimes,
with th single senteaoe of authority.
They had been through th Boer war
som of them; en at least hadrvd
la tha Balkan. w
These are th military veterans. Th
social veterans are very different. Per
haps th name Is misapplied. They
are the men who hav lived solitary
In crowds. Assistant in libraries,
law clerks who hav plodded slowly
up th ladder, bookworm; wfien the
call 'came they felt a sudden flush of
blood. They wer tired of tbelr lone
ly llv. of choice though they might
year bafor have bean undertaken.
They took -off their spectacle,
stretched their leas legs, paased the
But until the German government
gives this sign of repentance, thl
pledge of restitution, the allies and th
United States must cease not In their
preparation nor spare their energies.
The people of Germany know how they
can hav peace. President Wilson has
told them; Lloyd George has told
them. If they really Intend a peace
without annexations, with Belgiurg re
stored, all they have to do is to make
their government say so definitely.
Hoover's Single-Mindedness
' Hugh Gibaon in tha Century
When Herbert C. Hoover has a Job
n hand, he is apt to have a rather
ingle-mlnded purpose. In Belgium he
developed the idea that the reason be
waa ther waa a life-preserver for th
Belgian people. Few men have ever
had th temptation that wer given
Hoover to throw down a task. When
the situation became completely hope
less. Hoover was wont to remark, "But
we must remember that we are her
to feed the Belgians," and grit hi
teeth and go on working. Sometime
the provocations became so intolerable
for som of th other Americans that
fter working upon one another feel-
warm water into the ear opening. This
softens the wax, and the presaur of
the water from the syringe dislodges
It and it often comes out in one whole
lump. The operation 1 simple and
usually free from discomfort If skill
fully performed.
Sometimes th wax ha become so
hardened and adheres o closely to
the drum that It Is necessary for the
physician to supplement the work of
the syringe by the use of a little
"loop" for reaching In and dislodging
the wax. If a person who has a ten
dency to rapid wax formation ha it
attended to at proper intervals, how
ever, nothing more than the syringe
will be necessary.
After a hardened mass of wax Is
ijrst taken out sometimes the hearing
is slightly blurred for a short time.
This quickly passes away. A .ltUe
plug of cotton may b worn for a few
houra.
The formation of lumps of wax Is
aided by sticking the fingers in the
car, which instead of getting the wax
out simply serves to back it up Into a
solid mass.
There is no known way of pervent
ing th secretion of the wax, and the
flnly resort, therefore. Is to regularly
visit a physician, who may keep the
ear in a clean and healthy condition.
Tomorrow: ! When Baldnea Is Cur
able.
Rag Tag and Bobtail
Stories From Everywhere
fTo this column all readers ef The JoaroV
ar Isvltad to cootrlbuta arisiaal matter u
tery. In versa or ia pniioaopbjcal o bap rT alios
or striking quota tlona, from any source. Odd,
trtbtttlooa of ctcaptioaal merit wiU be ali foe,
at U edltor'a avpraUal.) .
When Our Army Needed Lead
PEOPLE who worry about U-boat
and varioua other war nightmare
may console themselves, say th
Philadelphia Evening Ledger; With th
thought that there were- mor formid
able, more seemingly hopeles worriea
to be encountered in thlstty In a wai
that was Just as important in making
the world af for democracy a th
present one. The problem that beset
Washington In the Revolution swoj
essentially the same as our trouble
namely, the difficulty of getting sup
plies through a blockade, with failun
certain if the upplle were held up.
This anecdote, told by Richard Peters,
was repeated many years after bj
Henry Simpson:
"I waa commissioner of war (U
Peters) in 1778. General Washington
wroto to me that all his powder wv
wet and that he Wa entirely without
lead or bullet,, so that AhoulJ tho en
emy approach him he mut retreat
When I received thl letter I was go
ing to a grand gala at the Spanish
ambassador , who lived In Mr. Chew'
fin house In South Third street. Th
spacious gardens were ' superbly deo
orated with variegated lamps; th
edifice Itself was a blaiVof light; th
showwas splendid, but my feeling
were far from being In harmony with
all thi brilliancy.
"I met at this party my friend Rob
ert Morris, who soon discovered th
state of my mind. 'You ar not your
self tonight, Peters. What's the mat
ter r asked Morris.
"Notwithstanding my unlimited con
fidence In that great patriot, it wa
some time before I could prevail upon
myself to disclose the cause of my de
pression, but at length I ventured to
give him a hint of ray Inability to an
swer the pressing calls of the com
mander-in-chief. 'The army 1 without
lead, and I know nof where to get an
ounce to supply It; the-general musl
retreat for want of ammunition.' i ,
" 'Well, let him retreat,' replied th
high and libral-mindcd Morris. bu4
cheer up; there are In tho Uolkar prl-
vateer, Just-arrived, 00 tons of lead,
one half of which Is mine and at youi
service; the residue you can set by
applying to Blair McClonachan at Hol
kar, both of whom are In the house
with us
"I accepted the offer from Mr. Mor
ris with many thanks and addressed
myself immediately to Ihe two gentle
men who owned th other half foi
their consent to sell, but they had al
ready trusted a large amount of cloth
ing to the continental congress and
were unwilling to give that body any
further credit. 1 Informed Mr. Mor.
ris of their refusal. 'Tell them,' said
be, 'that I wilt pay them, for their
ahar.' This settled the business. The
lead was delivered. 1 et 300 or 40u
men to work, who manufactured it
into cartridge bullets for Washing
ton's army, to which It gave complete
relief."
Personal Mention
3
Newspaper Man Returns for Visit
F. A. Carle, formerly an editorial
writer on a Portland paper, and? now
with the Minneapolis Journal, arrived
In the city Wednesday. He Is staying
at th Portland.
Norway Party in tho City
Mr. and Mrs. K. Bachte. A- Boerre
sen and Fljr C. Andresen of Chrl-
tlanla, Norway, are in tne city on
business. Mr. Bachte represent the
Scandinavia Trust company, with of
fice in New York The party ar
rived In the United State about May
1. They will go from Tortland to
San Francisco.
. a
Java Man Seeing Friends
i . , 4.4ri th tira. r H. D. Kod. rerresenuni me iiotio
v. n. . .t.n th. .hni hnm... .. Rlrni comDanv of DJember, Java, 1
punishment to th Germans or to som t th Cornelius, having arrived In the
et ot prona But it never wnt any city thl. morning. He i here to visit
farth.r than that, for a few word, from Wende. . dwW go on to New York,
Hoover wer always enough to put r",rul" mi-h i- in
: wvj i i i ,. to ia back to Java. HI home 1 in
v.-.,.. K.fa- I,.t m-A . to ro Daca to Java. nj
"'uuu' """" , TV,- Rlrnl. nnmMflv la
large coffee growing iirm.
cause them to wonder that with mil
lions of Innocent lives at stake they
could have thought of anything so pre
posterous as abandoning the great
work they were privileged to share In.
Onr Country's "Glory"
By Louisa A'hmunty Nash.
All hall to - our dear country's flag;
Red, whit and blu Its colors.
Then count Its star, so pur and
whit
Gainst bin, that make there tlyvrs.
When one the foe bad cut them Jut,
a breeee blew strong from heaven.
Then lifting up their cnimpled folds
Th star appeared all golden!
Now in the suffering sister land.
Unfurling our "Old Glory."
Grateful mothers bring us flowers.
And hl the dear child-story
They see th flag and reverent kneel.
With lov to u Inspired, .
When crossed th ocean for their aid
To help them, we deslredl
NashvUla . Or. V.
Wednesday afternoon from San Fran
cisco Included Mr. and Mrs. Brockway
Metcalf. Miss Marcia Fee, Phillip i'
Paschel and K. C. Porter.
Mrs. W. Haldeman arrived at the
Imperial late Wednesday from Paw
nee, Neb., to meet her son, C W, Hal
derman of Astoria.
St. Helen, Wash., guest at the
Washington include Mr; and Mr. W.
J. woodman.
A prominent lumberman In th city
from Vancouver, B. C, Is P. n. Brook
Eugene, Or., guests in the city in
clude Miss Zora E. Lee, who is regis
tered at the Washington.
Neal Halg, prominent in the hip-
building business at San Francisco,
and well known member of the Olym
pic club there, l at th Multnomah.
Salem, Or., guest at tb Imperial
include George M. Brown, attorney
generals for th tate, and Mr. and
Mrs. Frank J. MUler. Mr. Millar 1
chairman of th public service com
mission of Oregon.
B. F. Laughlin of The Dalle 1 at
the Perkins.
Miss Mabel Bell la a Washington
Philadelphia Officers Here
Captain R. E. Btrawbrldg and Cap
tain John R. Valentin of Philadelphia,
both of the United Stat reserve, in
th quartermaster department, are. at
th Portland.
Mine Owner From Waldo
Jam T. Logan, on ef th owners
of th Logan A Cameron nine near
Grants Pass, 1 an Imperial guest
Mr. Logan lives In Waldo, Or.
C. H. Streett, a prominent lumber
man of Minneapolis, ia reentered at
the Portland, i
A. A. Rogers Is at th Nortonla
from the Mount Hood lodge.
Chris Christiansen of Salam 1 jt.t
the Ferktae. -
AnottMr .party- arriving la the city
I guest from 111 lis bo ro.
A C
Condon, Or., motor party at th
Multnomah include L. E. Fry, Mr. C,
A. Fry, and Miase Elsie and Oral
Fry.
James Carty and family are guest
at th Imperial. Mr. Carty is a prom
inent sheep man la Morrow county,
and live at Heppner.
Mr, and Mrs. Henry whitson ar at
th Nortonla from Bols.
Representing the Log Cabin Syrup
company, H. T. Mill 1 at tbe Imperial
from St- PauLf
Among the recent arrivals at the
Nortonia ar Mr. and Mr. F. a.
Scober of Mullan. Idaho.
T. A. Bell of Calgary, Alta ia a
Washington hotel guest.
C P. Williams of Gaston, Or I at
the Perkins, t :
Dr. I Dechmaan Is a Seattle gut
a ttve Imperial. : i . . - ' i
Departed Heroes
Dedicated to our ti,tiuir ami im.i,ii a.. a i
Lone lit cemetery.)
Our pioneer, I liken thee
(jnto a mother: there hath ban
Conceived and brought forth
A jitate a nation.
Our soldier, I liken the
Unto a father who hath
Given his all to protect
Our state, our nation.
Here lie builder, who wielded
The tool, of time
To erect for us
This City of Roses.
Shall we forget the hand
That toiled so unceasingly
to rear ana give to u
A home? No. never!
Shall we forget the long, long road
That led away to wlldernesseu.
And left behind
Home and mother? No, never!
Shall we forget the battles fought.
The blood they spilled
Or virgin soil, to give to u
Liie7 No, never!
Shall we forget the lonely hut
Hewn out or tne rorest?
No neighbors near, alone
Ill or well? No, never!
Shall we foriret the graves
Thev due tit-side
The long. long .road tbey traveled,
Baa ana weary j rso. never:
Alas! Our pioneer, our mother.
.iles sleeping uhdor
The tangled grass.
Neglected? Yes, and forgotten. s
Alas! Our soldlor. our -father.
Acn undr the towering weed".
Neglected? Yes. -
And forsaken.
Shall we dpnv to fhnsn
Who wrought thi land of woalth.
Our far famed City of Knss,
A tidy resting-place?' No. ir-ver! ,
Helen Warren.
Heroic Sitting Ifen
When It come to the faithful-unto-death
business. It Is difficult, say
Capper' Weekly, to surpass th Bit
ting hen. Two refused to budge from
a biasing chicken houee at Lawrence,
while the firemen put out the blase.
Two other hens, blown' away In th
Menoken tornado, were found attend
ing to business tho next day in their
box nest nearly a mile from home. -
Deat! Beat! Drums!
Beat, beat' drums! Blow, bugles, blow!
Through tbe windows through the"
doors burst like a ruthless force
Into the solemn church and scatter
the congregation.
Into the school where th scholar 1
studying;
Leave not the bridegroom quiet no
happiness must he have now
with his bride,
Nof the peaceful farmer any peace,
plowing his field or gathering
hi grain.
So fierce you wfilrr and pound, you
arumsso snriii you ougie eiow.
Beat, beat! drums! Blow, bugle, blow!
Over the traffic of cities over the
rumbl of wheels in the- streets;
No bargainer' bargains by day no
brokers or speculators wouia
thev continue?
Would the talkers be talking? Would
th alnirer attempt to SlngT.
Would the lawyer rise tn th court to
state bis case nerore uie juage;
Then rattle quicker heavier, drum
you bugles wiiaer piow.
Beat, beat!, drums! Blow, bugles, blow!
Make no parley stop for no expos
tulation.
Mind not the timid mind not th
Mind not the old man beseeching the
vounar man.
Let net th child a vole be heard, nor
tb mother" entreaties.
Make even tb trestles to ahake th
aeac wnr iney u awaiting to
hearses. i -,
So strong you thump of terrible drum
so loud you Dtigiea mow. . .
iWalt Whitman.
Uncle -Jeff Hnovr-. Says: ' .
Lot of chap ever summer keeps
house while thelr wive goes, to the
seashore, and they're mighty : keerful
not to keep it too wli, . 'cause it
pleases th missus' to think she If the r
only on that can do houekepln Jlst -like
it had ert to be done.
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