THE OREGON DAILY .JOURNAL, PORTLAND, SATURDAY, AUGUST 4, 1917.
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boldly, la ail luttta uc on a bokl ex
terior. I't tbe atjle i'f jour nutea le
O'Dtlne and firm. .Najolecii.
Joyed bo much 20 years ao. Rider
Haggard's stories, all would be
welcome. You will not open them
again, nor will jour children.
Jack London's books, Stewart
Edward White's. Harry Leon Wil
son's and Mary Roberta Rinfchart's,
yon must have a dozen copies ly
ing around the house. Look them
up and take them to the public
library. If you have a copy ot
Theodore Dreiser's "Genius," put
that in too. It will be good tf
stimulate the soldiers' minds.
Forest rangera bring the In
formation that snow is still over
sir feet deep in the mountains
close to the Hood River valley. It
might he a humanitarian act for
some of the Hood River people
to ship a carload or two bac-k to
Chicago or New York with their
apples Just to show our diversi
fied climate.
HIUKH ASSASSINATION
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A HEAVY JJLOW
HE embargo on American ex
ports Is already yielding re
sults. It is one of the most ef
fective weapons that America will
wield In the war. Sweden has
; -issued drastic orders against ex
portation of a long list of articles,
the most important of which is
provisions. That country must
have supplies from Amecica. Most
of the nations are largely depend
ent on things produced in the
United States. To get thesfiTrod
ucts, they, must under the Ameri
can embargo, cease trans-shipment
of them, or the shipment of goods
for. which they are substituted, to
Germany.
Declaring that his country Is
.facing starvation. Dr. Nansen,
head of the Norwegian mission to
the United States, announced that
Norway is ready to pledge herself
not to reship American products
to Germany and will release a mil
lion tons of Norwegian shipping
for the trade of the world, in re
turn for the privilege of import
ing food from America. Norway
must have sugars, fats and grains,
and at this time, can obtain them
only In this country.
Norway and Sweden in these
acts, are example of th effective
ness of the American embargo.
The embargo Is Intensification o
the British blockade. It heightens
the precariousness of the already
precarious German food supply
Holland has also felt the
squeeze of the American embargo.
Her population has been heavily
drawn upon for the big array she
has maintained since the war be
gan, and she needs heavy supplies
from the United States. She has
already made offers to supply ships
in exchange for foodstuffs pVovided
the ships are not sent Into the
diver zone.
As the granary and storehouse
for th neutrals- as well as for the
allies, America is in commanding
position. Her great crops and sur
pluses are as effective in war. as
cannon. The confessed purpose
Ln both great war camps ia to
starve the other Bide.
Starvation of the allies is the
avowed aim of the submarine.
Starvation of the central powers
is the whole end to which the
mighty British navy Is dedicated.
Starvation ''as the weapon with ,
which the confederacy waa finally
overthrown in the American Civil
war.
The action which Sweden and
Norway are pledging is a greater
blow to the kalsef titan the loss
of half a dozen battles. The
closing of the American granaries
and- storehouses to all chance of
having their contents reach Ber
lin is one of the great blows that
America is delivering Prussian
Junkerdom.
1VE thousand dollars was sub
scribed by Portland Chinese
at meetings held July 10 and
12 for carrying on the Port
land tone wars.
This is said to have been in
the testimony before the grand
Jury in the investigations that
have been carried on for several
weeks. As a result, 18 members
of tonga have been arrested.
The $5000 is head money. It
fs a civil war fund. It Is used to
pay hired gunmen to kill members
of other 'tong societies.
At the alleged conferences of
the tongmen July 10 and 12, the
gunmen were taunted because of
their failure to "get" rival tong
men, and were instructed to "feet
busy." The meeting therefore was
a conspiracy to procure murder.
It was a secret tong mass meeting
to stimulate assassination. It was
a high court to pronounce sentence
of death, and to provide a war
fund for hiring executioners to
carry out the decree.
There are scores of people ln
the Oregon penitentiary whose of
fenses are not a thousandth part
as culpable as the murderous prac
tices of the tongs. A tong gun
man is paid $400 to $2000 per
head for the killing of rival tongs.
Every tong who is party to any
of the proceedings that lead up to
killings, is an accomplice to mur
der. Members of a society of na
tive Americans organized for such
a purpose and carrying on sucn
practices would be hunted down at
all hazards, with bloodhounds, if
necessary.
The tong societies are not per
mitted to exist in. China. In Amer
ica, they do exist, and time after
time, their gunmen engage ln
deadly shootings on the streets,
where the flying bullets not in
frequently bring down a few
Americans. Recently three white
victims were sent to hospitals as
a result of one of these street
shootings.
The authorities seem disposed
to break up this regime of assassi
nation. It can be done and should
be done.
into the same mudhblea day after
day for the last 20 years. The
roads they habitually travel to
town are a series of ruts, bogs
and trenches. They know exactly
where every bump la located and
painfully prepare themselves for
It some rods ahead. Bnt many
never think of taking tools in
hand and fixing the road.
Many lateral roads must bo
mended by local effort If they are
mended at all. The central au
thorities are busy with the trunks
and will be for a long time. In
many localities the people are do
lng much volunteer work on the
roads.
"Why should we do the work
when we have paid our taxes?"
some inquire. The answer is that
a man must do more than his bare
legal duty if he wishes to make
the world a good place to live in
Life is partly legal duty and part
ly generous public spirit. We hope
to hear of scores of "good roads
bees" this fall.
A gentleman named Raicy, ln
terned in the brand new concrete
Jail at Coquille for having appro
priated some other fellow's money,
picked the brand new lock with
a comb, left a letter telling the
sheriff that he would be back In
time for his trial, and beat it,
thereby showing some speed
keeping' with his name.
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GATHERING MOMENTUM
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HURSDAY, five more Tacoma
establishments went on tho
eight-hour basis, bringing the
total number in 10 days up
to 27.
A dispatch received at Tacoma
from Congressman Johnson says
Secretary of Labor Wilson is work
ing on a plan for an eight-hour day
for all Industries.
The public employes of- the
nation are on an eight-hour day.
So are the country's trainmen. So
is the public work ln most states,
counties and cities.
These facts stare Industrial cap
tains in the face. The public ex
ample of an eight-hour day looks
out at employers from, every hori-
of pavement should be determined
by the traffic it is called upon to
sustain.
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It will not bo, many years be
fore even a 16 foot pavement on
the trunk roads is too narrow.
When California first began to
pave its main roads a 16 foot
standard was chosen. It has
proven to )e Inadequate and the
width 13 now being increased. The
state of Washington is going
through the same experience.
Under the 16 foot rule the high
way commission will not obtain
so great a mileage of pavement
but the general result will be moro
satisfactory If the work Is well
done.
By obtaining a dollar's worth
of road, for a dollar the commis
sion will be in a better position
to ask for more paving money
when the six million fund Is exhausted.
farmer of New York have aent to the
cities an appeal for 22.000 boys. Of
76 city boys who went farming in Mer
crr county, Pennsylvania, only tVo
wore, sent home a unsatisfactory. In
one continfent Utah mobilized S&0
boys for the beet sugar fields.
Farmers are flndln, that tbsy have 4 na VJftVn.k
everythin to eain by putttn their ! pPed off. figuratively speak
summer work la the hands or eager, ;
mhiKnii, hnvo with nmn n en of re. If the German
COMMENT AND NEWS IN BRIEF
SMALL CHANGE
The hand that rocks the boat ought
sponsibility, rather than by leaving
themselves at the mrcy of the cart
lc?s. often unscrupulous itinerant laborer.
DeoDle could eat
'blood and Iron." it would help them
some.
German historian of the Great War
will. at a certain stage of their works
record: "And then Uncle Sam went
up in the air about It."
Th National Association of Retail
Clothiers has decided not to change
the styles in 1 18, it Is said. And
neither will Uncle 6am.
Letters From the People
Oomniunlcationa aent to Tbe Journal for
publication in tnla depi.r -. 'lit ebould be writ
ten on only cm aids of tha paper, aaould Dot
rxreed 30o word ln length and muat to c
cumpanled by the name and addreaa of to
trader. If tha writer dnea not deaire to hare
the name- publlahed he aiioald eo elate.
Safetr on Streetcars
Portland. Aug. I. To the Editor of
The Journal I note from time to time
criticisms of the way In which street
cars are crowded, especially when
bound to and from the summit of Coun
cil Crest. It !s evident that the pleas
ure seeking- public take but little cog
t'lxance of the manner in which they
r transported, as long as they get
there and back. Furthermore, it is a
fact that the publio ln general must be
protected from themselves, ln order to
Insure the maximum of safety to them.
In view of such conditions, does the
Portland Railway, Light 1'ower
company issue & statement of the
braking power exerted on its cars at
capacity, and how long they will-hoid
safely after power to compress air Is
Oe&d, and whether hand brakes can be
depended upon to even steady an over
crowded car down some or the steep
est grades T
Does reversing a motor tend to
safe stoppage of a car while power
ii on. or will it cauae the wneeis to
slide?
It is well known that braking power
decreases as speed increases.
How much better it Is to let the
rubllc complain about delay In trans
portation to and from council uresi oy
being forced to await the next car
than to have some of them cry wltn
pain while being transported to some
A British Year
ITom the CUlcago Pxmt
Frank II. Simonds tells an enlight
ening story of British achievement In
tho 12 months that lay between July
1, 1916. and July 1 of the present year,
on the former date, the battle of the
feomme began, and the new British
army that had been building by volun
tary enlistment and draft since Au
gust, IS 14. went into its first great
test of fitness.
It was a frreen army, largely untried x now watch has four hour hands,
In that first day's fighting its losses, which tell the time, simultaneously, in
says Mr. Simonds. totaled 60,000, ac- i all four rones into which the country
cording to Information given him by ; Is divided for time changes. And tn
Kritlsh officers, and Its attack was ' Tltt,18-16 U rreiuentIy- ot courBe. hs
oniy in part auccessrui. bui tne buo- v
cess was enoujrh to encourage the hope It is emphatically-
that greater awaited it as the troops
became seasoned and warmed to their
I Oregon may be defined as the state
in which during one aeaon you never
forget your umbrella and during the
other you never think of it.
j We are now informed that there ate
! opossum farms in Australia in which
these animals are raised for their
I pelts. Yes? And hew about eweet
I potatoes?
reoorted that
' TTnilA Rdtn wnnta rnnkR ITnrl Sam.
thenj will please accept assurances of
sympathy irom a lot of people who
haven't nearly so good a way of
getting them as he has.
After it is all over, the kaiser will
find that his worst enemies were that
precious host of ubiquitous spies with
out Whose obsequious reports the war
might have been so long deferred that
even Prussian militarism could never
have got it started.
work.
Before the year closed the British
had captured 65.000 prisoners, 400 can
non and innumerable machine guns
and trench mortars; they had pushed
.the enemy back on come parts, of the
front as. Jar as 20 miles and redeemed
over 00 sauare miles of French soil.
every mile of which was intrenched j
and fortified.
And to balance this the Germans !
have the one little success obtained on
the Xleuport bathlnir beach a week or
so ago, when ln a supreme effort they Washington, Aug 4. While the de-
made a slight dent ln the British line j partment of commerce is urrlng cham
OREGON SIDELIGHTS
Ra Tag: and Bobtail
Stories From Kverywhere
ITn thla nlnM all n-1- TU-
North Bend, accordin to the Mar- are InTltrd lo ronfrlbnla arlirlnil jnattar in
bor, "faces the necssity of a special atory. In re or In philosophical observation;--
il-tlnn to mk certain chanees m
the charter," and the Harbor asks why
not have a committee investigate tho
city manager plan of government!
"There appears to be somo mighty
fine weather for road building in this
atu-Hnn cif thA nountrv soiusr to Waste.'
.1 -. .1 : . r'..n.lai ' n .1 .wit
lng dotrV nii l Ttho tlmo-of "ycr are not thought of nowaday. Perhaps
when road work should be done here, the most celebrated newspaper hoax,
and not wait until the rains set in." says the Philadelphia Kvening Ledger,
or Blrtkluj quota tlona, from any aenrce. Con
tribution of exceptional merit will ba paid tot.
at the edjtur'e apraUaLJ
Old-Tim Journalism -
IN THE old days-Journalism in Phila
delphia wan catiabtB of Pranks that
Transactions in mining property are
tinted hv thn SumDter American, art
follows: "To be able to report saloa
of mining claims as we have been
riofnar of 1st a is encou raxinc. No
. . j . . 1 . 1 . . 1 ..... . , . ., J. . 1 1 "
lletLt asalnst the protective tariff
fuie, h1a wherein actual cash has measure of that year, but later
was thM perpetrated by the Pennayl
vanian, a Democratic organ, on Daniel
Webster on his visit to Philadelphia in
1846.
Webster, in 182, had made strong
been paid over,
Boosting "the route via Burns from
"Yellowstone park to the Crater lake
national park," the Burns News says:
"A rre number of tourists have
nneii through tliis week, and all re
nnrt tK Harnev valley route as being
eprMidid, saying it could be made one
of note and renown wun just a muo
more work and closer attention
T-Lajn Kautzman of the Houl.ton Her
ald reports as follows: "There Is
something wrong with the elements
changed his opinions and from being
a free trader became a tariff man, 1 1
Democrats with long . memories had
saved his frce trada speeches for u
when the time might bo ripe. On his
visit here Webster stopped at Hart
well's Washington house, on Chestnut
street above Seventh, as the guest of
the Whigs, whom he addressed at a
fine banquet in the celebrated Chinese
Museum on Ninth street.
There were hundreds at the-tables
of nature this summer. Garden stuff and hundreds ln the galleries to near
doesn't grow ripht nor show any usual the. great orator, among them many
vfiretahln ambition, even where it has
hepn rlchlr Dlanted and irrigated. I
have In niv ararden some fancy, expon
slve treo tomatoes which have Jiot
rrnvn Ihron Inrhfta in two months.
Not only these but other vegetables
show the same reluctance. Maybe the
war is the cause of it.'
ladies.- Webster rose to speak late in
the evening. Tariff was the Issue.
"Shorthand reporting was not then
what It is now," wrote John W. For
ney, who was then editor of the Penn
sylvania "a swift, accurate and mas
ical acience, and I' knew the Whig pa
pers, which resolved to print the great
FREIGHT CONGESTION and WATERWAYS rLrSt,nffi; Si? tf
By Carl Smith. Waahlnton SMa rf Correepomlent of Tie Jonrnal,
and took, according to Berlin, 120
prisoners men who were cut off from
escape by the destruction of the
bridges across the Yser river.
bers of commerce to put t rth every
effort to help out the ovrcourdened
railways by a resort to wafer trans
portation whenever possible, and has
zon. Fuullc employes so nourea
are as billboards at every dbrner j hospital, or to have the court docket
ii i ,. v L , . filled with impending suits for dam-
Dr. G. Staley Hall, a noted psy
chologist, contends that "anger
well directed la a tremendous
source of .power, for it enables tha
Individual to draw upon ancestral
sources of energy." This probably
explains why it is that the modern
husband wants to smash the dishes
when the dinner Is cold, like his
cavemen predecessors.
FRIENDS OF AUTOCRACY
T
v : The crew of the Great Northern
: f is reported to have-gone on strike
'; .' because the captain welcomed i
: party of deputy sheriffs who had
X tome to search the ship for con-
f - traband boor. e, refusing to unload
a the vessel until the officers ceased
. ; . their search. That comes very
'Dear being the -converse of gov
r eminent by Injunction.
THOSE OLD BOOKS
T YOU have any books you
never will read again, gentle
reader, why not contribute
thm to the soldiers' library?
The beginning of such & collec
tion is on exhibition at the Public
Library, but it does not grow so
fast as one could wish. The patriotic
administrators of our wealth of
- books . beg the pnbllc to "come
?; across" with their novels, book of
-. travel, histories, everything rad
V able, The soldiers will hang over
them through -ra&nya weary hour
1: and bless the givers.
" There Is that copr ot Ivanhoe,
' th'. somewhat tattsred volume of
t Treasure Island you yourself en-
f : ' . , ' , ' ' - -'';.?iA't,H-jiij..
:.- - w" - o- ;
HE talk we hear in so many
quarters about the danger of
setting up autocracy in the
United States if we take ef
ficlent war measures is sickening.
The world is threatened with au
tocracy. There Is no doubt what
ever on that point. But the
threat does not arise from too
much efficiency in this and other
democratic countries. .It arises
from their miserable inefficiency.
ins men wno sees: to put our
national administrative work into
the hands of debating clubs and
bickering boards are the enemies
of democracy and the friends of
autocracy.
Autocracy will prevail ln the
world If democracy shows itself
inefficient. That Is the ominous
fact we should keep before us. It
is a fact which some politicians
in the senate have not mind
enough to weigh and consider.
They drool a long day after day
with their paralytic imbecilities
and play into the hands of autoc
racy without knowing it. That is,
some of them do not know what
they are doing. Others know per
fectly well.
Judge Hamilton of Roseburg
has decided that Representative
W. Al Jones' "dog law" fathered
and passed by the Marion county
legislator at the recent session i3
unconstitutional, which will be
good news for the dog owners, but
not so good to the cat clubs.
ROAD RUILDERS
I
N THE matter of 'road building
it is to be wished that the per
manent dwellers In some locali
ties had the grit of the campers
qn the way to Lost Lake. , These
determined outers carry road mak
ing tools along with 'them and cut
their way. through the wilderness
as they proceed. s
There are farmers not many 1
blazoning in huge type that the
eight-hour day has the sanction
of nation, states and municipalities.
It Is a tremendous influence for
employers to contend against. They
know that employes ln private en
deavor are more effective, moro
active and more entitled to a
shortened, day. And as they go
on investigating, they are finding
out that they have fewer accidents
to pay for and get better service
from their employes on the rea
sonable day.
Nor Is this all that confront
those who cling to long hours. A
president of the United States has
declared that public sentiment ap
proves the shorter hours.
General Gorges, whose sanitary
measures made It possible to build
the Panama canal, said that "phy
sicians have located the greatest
cause of 111 health in poverty,"
and that "better living conditions"
would be followed immediately by
"better health." The best In
formed employers and the best
thought of the land have assented
to these findings.
Over-long hours first devitalize,
then dehumanize and finally bru
talize men. They create the con
ditions that make the world ripe
for wars. They create a group
who are easily duped and fooled
and upon whom agitators can, in
time of war, mislead Into foolish
endeavors to undermine the na
tion's strength.
Ninety-eight per cent of the
American people are living from
day to day on their wages, accord
ing to recent government statis
tics. Fewer than 6,000,000 Amer
ican families own their own homei
'Two million are carrying mort
gages and 11,000,000 are renters
Sixty-six out of every 100 who
die in the United States leave no
estate. Of the remaining 34, only
nine leave estates larger than
$5000. At the age of 65. 97 out
of every 100 in America are partly
or wholly dependent upon relatives,
friends or the public for their daily
bread, for their clothing and for
a roof under which to sleep.
No nation can attain Its highest
glory and strength under the cruel
ethics ln which men scramble and
struggle and strike each other
down in the effort to seize wealth.
ages for injurirs sustained in a runa
way such as might happen on such
hill as that?
Safety first, last and all of the
t?m. even if the public does shout
about delays. R. L. WALTER.
Making Up Salary Difference
Portland, Aug. 3. To the- Editor of
The Journal The men employed by
the city who have Joined the officers
reserve corps are to be paid the differ
ence between the amount allotted them
bv the arovernment and the salaries
thev were paid by the city. Is the city,
la doing this, taking into consideration
the fact that these men out of their
montMly salaries have been paying ror
their food, clothing and room, rent, ll
of which the government (we the tax
payers) furnish to the soldiers?
Why are city employes any more en
titled to full or increased wage (as
tLis is) than any other resident of th
city who enlists?
The major part of the rank and file
o' the enlisted men have relatives more
or less dependent on them.
If private business men choose to
contribute tn this way to their em
ployes who are enlisting, and then
stiffen the prtcei of -their wares to
make the consumers pay the bills, that
la their privilege so long as the people
suind for It. But for cltir officials to
give our. money to those who need It
far less than many Portland boys who
arc leaving their families to make
double sacrifice their boys, and many
comforts of life, and ln some cases de
privation and actual want does not
seem fair. JOSEPHINE R. SHARP.
The automobile registration at
Salem shows 10,000 more machines
in use this year than were regis
tered last year. This, in the face
of the high cost of gasoline, seems
to indicate that some of us havo
more money than we used to have.
A STANDARD WIDTH
1
Doing Away With Contract Graft
William U. Crawford, la lelie'B.
The members of the advisory com
mission of the national council of de
fense were not selected ln advance a
particular heads of the various boards
afterward formed, upon organisation,
each member was assigned to that
duty with wklch he waa most familiar,
and Bernard Baruch, on account of his
large experience ln copper and other
ores, was made on airman oi tne raw
materials committee. He has conduct
ed his board with cignal success. He
originated a policy ln the handling of
the contracts for the purcnase or gov
ernment supplies which has since been
adopted by all the other members of
the commission. He organized eacn
individual rndustry. having the mem
bers appoint a president and directors
to managre their affairs. He then pur
chased directly from each organised
Industry, allowing the members to pro
rate the government orders among
themselves. Thla plan has greatly
clmplifled the nation's business, and
has enabled it to avoid confusion and
delay. -
Mr. Baruch has secured the confl
dence and cooperation of big business.
has avoided all favoritism and h
placed the government's purchasing
facilities on a safe, accurate, econom
ical and speedy banls. So that for the
first time in any war the conventional
army contractors who have always
amassed fortunes have been eliminat
ed. So well has he conducted the man
agement of his board that it is under
stood he will be appointed the general
purchasing agent for the United States
government and its allies. The slogaja
will be:
"If you have anything to sell to
Uncle Sam see Baruch."
City Boys as Farm Help
Prom the Spokane Kpna.ee man -Rerlew.
Under present conditions, old preju
dices have little chance of continued
existence. Usually a man is preju
diced against a thing chiefly because
In concluding his review. Mr. SI-; created & new oiinaa una
monds says: "The BrttUh army has lrK some doubt is being aroused aa
demonstrated its superiority in all re-! to whether full appreciation is had
soectn over the German. The ; by such organizations as to what this
invincibility, of the German army has ; appeal means.
i.tv,.oi t h a loromi hv i A four page statement Just i
the new army : of Great Britain and j by the chamber of commerce of the
her dominions tn one short year, and ou"; ,., " .V
T believe firmlv that If the war con- be adopted to avoid congestion
lued
tlnues with unchanged conditions on
the western front for another year we
shall see a German disaster compar
able with that of Le when he en
deavored to hold too long to his
trenches before Richmond. If the Ger
mans again retreat to escape such a
disaster, the meaning will still be un
escapable." The veteran Canadian soldiers who
are in Chicago recruiting British sub
jects participated in the battles that
made this great record. They can
urge their compatriots to Join them
with pride and confidence.
Angler, Spare That Fr0g
5iarle Bradford In New York Sun
Now is the psychological moment for
all the true believers tn artificial lures
to come forward and add their voices
to those which have been recently
raised in an effort to wean anglers
away from using live bait.
; on the railroads, says nothing at all
' about water transportation. Attention
j is directed to three things:
First, development of stortuge facili
ties at points of production; second, to
! develop facilities for finished goods
near the point of consumption or es-
oort ln order to minimize the need
for railroad cars; third, to create con
ditions under which cars will not bo
used for storage.
"The utmost which the railroads are
able to do is not equal to the needs
of the government and of the great
business being done today," says the
statement "Facilities of transporta
tion are very likely to be the limiting
factor on general business unless there
Is close cooperation between business
men and the railroads. Business men
will therefore see how deep Is their
concern that no avoldavble demand be
made upon the railroads either for
transportation or for the use of rail
road cars for storage purposes."
No qruestion is raised as to the
morning. The town was hungry to see
it and its fcururise ma v be readily con-
assisting in securing better facilities ceived when at dawn of tho succeeding
and bigger cargoes for boat lines. day the Pennsylvanlan appeared with
Secretary Redfleld recently declared 'Mr. Webster's Great Speech on tho
that development of the interior Tariff." I had taken his old speech
waterway Is a "national luty" ln the on free trade, delivered ln 1124. when
oresent emergency, and this should bo Ilia was a member of tha house, and
done, he aid, by temporary means if converted it into a supplement, of
necessary, "in order to get the. traffic which many thousands were printed
moving, and then by permanent means and sold before the Joke was discov-
ln order to make the movement a sonu erefl.
part of our national life." Pointing
out that the commerco of the country
Is sufficient for every railway and
waterway, he said:
'Wherever, therefore, throughout
the country a barge or a boat, a scow,
a lighter or a motor vessel, can be
made to take the place of a railway
car. it should be done. Such arrange-
"The Democrats were delighted
the Whigs furious, especially Mr. Gree
ley, of the Tribune, who' had come over
to hear Mr. Webster, and who had
bought several copies of the old
speech, thinking it waa the new one.
But Mr. Webster enjoyed it hugely,
and when his friend, George Ashman,
handed him my extra, he laughed
ments as are practical should be made heartily and said: 'I think Forney haji
along all our great waterways to de
velop promptly methods for using the
water as ,a means of transportation.
Every enterprise, large or email, look
ing toward their practical use snouia
have encouragement,
For the particular purpose of giving
this encouragement and to enlist th
chambers of commerce in the work, a
bureau of inland waterways was cre
ated In the department of commerce,
and Walter Parker of New Orleans
was plaoed ln charge. Mr. Parker is
now on the Job, and has stated that
a particular feature of his work is to
Llnterest local chambers of commerce
in tne lniana waterways.
He alms to promote better facilities
for boat lines, and to have chambers
of commerco work with shippers and
producers- to bring water transporta
tion to tfi attention of those who can
assemble freight for the boat 'lines
In furtherance of this work he has
been visiting cities of the Mississippi
printed a much better speech than the
one I made last night.' Was not that
genuine manliness?" - -
Comparatlvely little skill Is required i
to catch fish where a merciless hook I rood Quality of this advloe, and the
is passed through the living body of j effort which chambers of commerce
a minnow or a needle pointed barb is i throughout the United States are asked
driven through the head and delicate j to make ln this connecton, but it is
tongue of a breathing, comic-looking, thought a suggestion might be thrown I valley, and will later go to the Pacific
eye-pleasing, merry little frog. out to the chambers also in beha'f I coast, to urge the utilization of the
Let the frogs live their useful lives ' half of relieving- the railroad stress by' rivers wherever it can be done.
unmolested; they are silent partners
ln the 'economy of nature, therefore
pause a moment, brother angler, and
think twice before you sink your cruel
hook into that little frog.
He Is one of the busiest little
friends of the farmer. He lives en-
HOW TO BE HEALTHY W'b:
THE TEMPERATE LIFE. As a re
sult of "immoral banqueting," as It
was called by Cornaro, an Italian no-
tlrely on Insect life, not on one variety, j blernan, who lived 600 years ago, he
but gobbles every kind he can capture, I was given up by doctors, to die, al
and he doesn't ask anything ln return j though he was only 40 years of age.
for what he does except to be left ! He had so many disorders, they did not
see as they could do anything for him.
Diets had been prescribed for him by
his physiefana, but he was so fond of
eating that he would secretly disobey
their rules. But Corna.ro, 'a nobleman
in character as well as in" social sta
tion, having arrived at this critical
state of affairs, made a firm resolution
to reform. He ceased to gorge himself
with food and regan to eat very mod
erately. There was a tradition that if
one liked a thing It was good for one.
Cornardo tested this, out thoroughly
and found that it was not true.
Ba br constant experiment as to
what agreed with hla digestion and
brought him the best physical condi
tion and by abandoning lnterpranoe.
not only ln food, but ln drink, ln work,
hundred miles from Portland I that the sequel has Justified the
whose wagons hare flopped down j contention of others that the width
N MAKING 16 feet the standard j he has never tried it, and -once he is
forced to indulge in a trial, there Is
every probability that the prejudice
will find itself unable to stand the
searching test of the application of
fact.
Once, for example, it was said quite
generally by farmers that they . would
never have city boys for helpers. The
city youth was traditionally rerarded
as a pallid, pampered, unhandy weak
ling, unfit for the severity of labor ln
the fields. There was a persistent
suspicion that the city boy seeking
work on a farm for the summer was
looking for a sort of salaried vacation,
to which the farmer was to contribute
everything and the boy himself noth
ings .
This year will see about the last of
that idea Spokane, through its high
schools, its Y. M. C. A. and other In
stitutions. Is sending lads Into the har
vest fields. From every part of the
country like reports are coming: The
width of pavement on the pri
mary roads the state highway
commission has responded not
only to the I wish of the counties
interested but also to the demand
of traffic.
During the road bond campaign
there weresome protagonists, in
cluding Aighway Commissioner
Adams, who in their Inexperience
argued that with $8,000,000 some
600 miles of hard surface would
he obtained, basing their calcula-l
tlon,' Ott the cost of a 10 foot pave
ment. Their Impractical argument
Is recalled merely to point out
alone to alt and blink and day dream
and run his tongue out and scoop ln
some crop destroying bug or fly.
Now that the insectivorous birds are i
scarce and becoming scarcer, we shall ,
have to depend on the frog more than ;
ever so spare him for the good deeds j
he performs for us indirectly. i
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What Russia Needs and Has !
"Girard" in Pnlladelpbta Ledger '
Boris V. Constantinov knows the
Ruila of today. A native of the
province of Archangel, a member of
the American-Russian Chamber of '
CorrjTierce ln New York and of a
similar body ln Petrograd, he tells
me that Russia wonders why most of
as the thing she needs. She wants
everything mechanical we've got, he
says, from the electric busier to the !
dynamo, from the concrete, mixer to 1
the automobile truck, the farm tractor
and th locomotive.
Russia has the collateral
he
In play and ln every other form.
imauy Degan to get better.
He was ln time completely restored
to health. As he also enjoyeda very
clear and efficient mind, he wits ablo.
when he was nearly 100 years old, to packed. Of course (the Bulldogger
Guardians
'TIs your son, and my son.
That defend our flag today;
They will shield It from insult.
At home or far away.
'TIs your son, and my son.
On land or on the
Will honor it and love It
Our emblem of the free.
'Tin your on, and my son!
They belong to you and me;
Till death they will protect it
For right and liberty..
'TIs your eon, and my son.
Their duly well will do.
They will be true to Old Glory
Our own Red, White and Blue.
, P. J. D.
Sorno Advertiser
The Pendleton East Oregonlan's
Weakly Hulldogger compliments Man
ager Paddy Matlock of tho Pastime
theatre at Pendleton for his ingenuity
n advertising. Recently he was of
fering "Hell Morgan's Girl and Just
about the time the evening crowds
were wandering about trying to de
cide between playhouses, a fire broke
out ln the basement of his Show house.
The fire department charged up, put
out the flames in a few minutes end
when th show Btartcd the house was
write an account of how he extended
his life and the habits which he fol
lowed. The book is called "The Tem
perate Life." and is Just as applicable
to Americans today a It was. to Ital
ians 600 year ago.
"Oh, wretched and unhappy Italy."
wrote Cornaro, "can thou not se that
intemperance kills every yaar amongst
thy people as great a number as wojld
perish during the time of a great pes
tilence or by the sword or fire of
many bloody wars! And these truly
immoral banquets of thine; now ho
commonly the custom, must we not
brand them as so many destructive
battles!?
Next
riage.
Monday Th Military Car-
PERSONAL MENTION
Bremerton Official Here
TiiMMi Howard, lieutenant. Junior
In Arch-' grade, in th naval reserves, and Mrs.
angel provino alone Is timber enough Howard, ar at th rortiano. rrora
to supply th world for SO year. A Bremerton. He has been at Brem
nttl crusade of commercial travelers erton for about two month now,
now would bring a golden harvest aft- having been at Portland ln oliarg
er the war. ' ! of recruiting here for a time before
Mr. Constantinov, quick to catch our going there. Lieutenant and Mrs.
idiom, links proverbs. "A bird In the Howard arrived this morning.
hand may be worth two in tho bush, j ' . T ...
but a word to th wU is sufficient!" Robert N. Stanfield at Imperial
- I rhe- speaker of the house ln the
Tl'imon viTv. ! nrnn legislature. Robert N. 8tah-
o th. nUUdelphta. Brenln, Leer "J? 'V,"lilnT rtCJ,
He has
Th great majority of American
women were economists long before
th food crisis was emphasised. There
has been plenty of wast in American
households, but for the most part it
ha been ln th kitchens of the well-to-d.
Mothers with three or four
children to feed and keep ln clothes
on a small alio wane have been taught
tn th strictest of all schools how to
make a dollar do its full work. They
are adepts ln th art of food conserva
tion, because ln nln cases out of ten
there is no food left over to be con
served. Put tbre or four hungry
boys at a table and see how big a
pile the scraps make. It is such
mothers and such families that ought
to be protected, and one way to pro
tect them is for more fortunate house
wives to prevent waste and. thus keep
th supply on a normal parity with
th demand.
Tho Plea of the Crown Prince
A. H. FoJwwIl, la New Tort Sua
Father, think of me:
If vou've thou eh t of abdicating.
If reforms you're contemplating.
Halt th rash decree:
All the while you're hesitating.
f atner, tninx or me.
Father think of me:
If this land goes democratic.
Right divine goes where? The attic I
Where will Frederick be?
My request Is most emphatic;
Father, think of me!
Father, think of me;
Tou have lived in regal clover,
Tou have put that king stuff over.
Proud of pedigree;
Would you make an exiled rover,
Father, out of me?
Father, think of me:
Ar jrou not. sir, apprehensive
Of the righteous wrath lntensiv
Of the Deityr
B not thoughtlessly offensive: '
, Pnar your family tree; --
Think of Gott and Mt! - .
Inspecting Coast Real Estate
Prominent in real estate affairs ln
Washington, D. C S. B. Appleby Jr.,
has com to the West to look over
the country and prospects, and ar
rived Friday night, registering at the
Multnomah. He left this morning for
San Francisco, where he will remain
for a month or more. He will spend
ahont six months on the coast. Scott
inniKhv Is a namesake of the late
', Tic.t,r.n Sriott of Oregon and Wash
ington.
Heads North Beach Railroad
C H. aicKlnney, In charge of the O
W. R. & N. division at North Beach.
Wash., and an old time resident of
that district, is at the Imperial. He
registers from Ilwaco.
a
Colonel and Mrs. F. P. Holland, Mrs.
B. H. Toung and R, I Heflla, all of
Loll, Texas, ar in the city.
a
, Mr. and Mra J. C. Lopes of Havana
are at th Portland.
Cornelius guests Include Wallace
Lauron of Dayton, Or.
a
While in th city for visit E. B.
Hyde, Jr., of Fort Stevens, la at the
Ncrtonio.
B, Van Dusen of Astoria is an Im
perial gues.
Miss M. Kylloner is staying at the
Washington whll her from Camas,
Wash.
Mr. and Mrs? f. B. Protsman of
Cottage Grove, Or., ar at the Port
land, F. M. Clow is at the Perkins from
Roseburg.
Mrs. I. B. Alexander and child are
Cornelius guests.
H.. Bo mated of Maupln, Or., has reg
istered at the Nortonia. -
Bay City, Or., guests at th Mult
- -; w . -
nomah Include Mr. and Mrs. John A.
Nelson and two daughters, Bernlc and
Johanna.
Registering from Baeramento, Mr.
and Mrs. J. L. DeCosta ar at th
Washington.
Mr. and Mr. A. O. Allen are at the
Imperial from Bend. Or., wher Mr.
Allen 1 well known as an ice dealer.
On a tour of the coast. Mr. and Mra
C6rge B. Ellis are staying ln th city
for a snort time. They have registered
at the Multnornah.
Mr. and Mrs. C. B. Durbln ar at
the Washington from Vancouver,
Wash.
Among the guests at the Perkins 1
A. E. Stewart of Silverton, Or.
James H. Owens and A. E. Owens
are at th Portland from Brookings,
Oregon.
H. Slyter. G. H. Slyter and O. W.
Slyterr, fu.niture dealers of Tacoma,
are in the city for Buyers' woek. They
are at the Multnomah.
Mr. and Mrs. A. I Brown of At
btny are registered at the Nortonia
IX W. Dorrance of San Jose, Cel., are
at the Washington.,
Recognizing It
From the St. Paul Pioneer Prena
The newspapers of Germany are;
now referring, . ln the most matter-oft
fact way, to th brutality' of their
American enemy. It is difficult to
conceive what th Prussian Idea of
brutality is; but, anyway, th fact is
beginning to be recognised in th
Fatherland that th United States id
in th war.
says) anyone can nee the connection
between a basement fire and a pic
ture with such a name.
Wood Notes
Those tiny, celestial musicians, the
wild birds, writes the Macksburg cor
respondent of the Canby News, are
still giving us thejr concerts, doubly
prised as we know their songs will
soon be hushed ln tne annual period of
silence which pre-eJee their leaving
for the south. The .robin has, al
ready, withdrawn from the orchestra.
but the meadowlark is tuneful as ever
and the cheery notes of the bob-white
caroling the words that give hltn his
nam are heard. So perfect in his ut
terance of this refrala it might he
thought from a human voice were it
not of a tone so exquisite as to be
wholly Inimitable by any of uh.
Through all the parching heat as well
as in the drenching rain these little
supernal beings keep up their songs,
thu telling us that th power who
keeps them ln tune will guard HI Chil
dren Well.
The Old, Old Story
Ralda, the Swedish maid, had served
her mistress faithfully for a year,
when one day she announced her. in
tention of leaving.
"Why, Hulda, What 1 the matter?
I th work too hard? Or don't you.
like your wag?"
"De vork be all right, an' de vaffes
he be, too, but de baau lie moost have
ma- '
Old Fashioned
reocB fh Oolumbut (Ohio) Journal
x a-rty lines lie a great deal mor
ugnuy on us tron uiey used to In lb
time to which our memory gee back,
but axtlll we occasionally run across a
man who mo thoroughly approves thi
administration's policle that he wishes
the president were a Republican, so he
could be for him.
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Cow Conversation
rlrtijrn tLe New Turk Sun.
First Cow It is going to be an aw
ful summer for us.
Second Cow Yes. it will probably
be treason to kick the farm help.
' Just as Good
e FToa life
"Could you lend me $5?
"No. I am going to b married;
but I'll se to It that you don't get
an . invitation o you'll save at least
$10 by that!" " j ... - .
When Our Boy Come. Home
When our boy com home, and this
war Is over;
When tho thunders of battle forgotten
are;
When gun and saber civ place to
-corn and clover,
Where) the flowers will bloom brighter
tnan Diooa aropa
Oh, will they return with light lnthetr
faces. )
And limb all sound, and hopes? new
born; i "'
Oh, shall we se them again In the
old home places.
Cheerful and bright a th light of
morn?
Some will die. and their bodies perish.
But their souls so strong, so fre and
brave.
Always and forever we Will ln memory
cherish.
Though the bodies rest in an unknown
grave.
Oh, pray they may return when this
war in over; -
When the thunders of battle forgotten
are; .
When gun and aber' Shall give place
to corn and clover.
And the iluwer nhall bloom brighter
than th blood drops ar.
When they come home.
. . . Mrs. Nannie Garten.
Medford, Or. -
Uncle Jeff Snow Bayet
Mutlldy Heffelflnper 'lowed to me
last Sunday that it was all Very wo 1
fer a baldhead, mighty nigh tooth
tes old rascal like me to Josh about
the boys being conscripted, but ahe
b'lieved I would take to the bresh wi'Ui '
the biggest slacker ln Oregon If- there
wa any danger of me bein' tuck, Ma
tlldy is natchelly a trifle limber- -tongued,
anyhow, and th lde of: ary
on of her boy git tin' called is rpm. r
to her. All th same. I told her if mas
would it-Old Time, to remoy. them -disabilities.
Z ' would sure 'fake my '
chances with the boys aonj yes, eireel
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