THE OREGON DAILY JOURNAL, PORTLAND, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER .,
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We lora the land of tnr adoption, ao da ,
Va that af aur birth. lat er ba traa
to hot at aad alware exert amnelree in
maintaining tha anitr of our country, the
lntrrlty of tbe rlrtll. Sarjtat Smith
Prantlaii ,
; - . . BROKEN
HE diver Is doomed,
T
, It has passed the zenith of
Us rightfulness. Its toll last
week, was 4 only 12 British
ships of more than 16C0 tons and
but one' French vessel of that ton
nage.
. It Is the lowest record since
diver frigbtfulness was Inaugu
rated.; It follows five weeks of
sinkings of 20 or under, one week
running down to 14. It Is In con
trast with other weeks when sink
lngs ran far hp in the 30's and
even above 4 0. To the kaiser, . it
must be the most discouraging
phase of the war, more ' discour
aging even than the constant
thrusting back of his lines along;
the western front. Including the
tremendous drive of 'the Italians.
Civilization is 'solving the
secrets of diverism. . It has been
found 'that diver effectiveness has
decreased in exact ratio to the
Increase of 'destroyers in the sub
marine zone. In the view of naval
experts, the arrival in: European
waters, of the American fleet of
destroyers was directly responsible
for the- reduction, by at least half,
of the amount of tonnage sunk.
1 8o great is the confidence Jn
the effectiveness of destroyers that
I America Is building the greatesttfierlence to guide them may be.
fleet of that type of vessels In the
world.- Construction is being
pushed with, such: energy that we
are 'now producing destroyers 4n
nan . iae lime it iooa oeiore ine
war. Fast diver Chasers are being
turned out in 10 to 12 months
against 18 to 20 mqnths formerly
jeaulred. There are now on ' the
ways , more than twice, as many de
stroyers as has - been guessed at
In the most enthnslastlcy estimates,
the 1 announcement of 'the., actual
number having been withheld, of
coarse, as a naval secret.
A breakdown . of diver fright-
fulness must "'mean eventual col
lapse of Prussian morale and
Prussian plans. Frlghtf ulness
was the last big card on .which
William II staked all. Terrorism
along the British and French
coasts that would withhold , bread
from the . allied armies was his
strategy. - The offensive effective
ness of his armies was gone and a
diver blockade that would starve
his antaronlsts was 'the dream on
which, he fed. the German people
la his appeals to them to fight
on and .on nd on.
- Twelve British vessels Instead
; of 40 is almost another Marne.
J William's pledge to his people of
. what the diver would do for them
' Is broken. ,. ,;;'.
$: rrr-, r i . . , .. ;
i Ton. can hoard a 'street car at
' Council Crest, take a transfer and
ride .to Mllwaukie for five cents.
This Is stretching . the transfer
privilege, and an illustration, of a
point In the street car service that
Is financially weak Mr. Corey
. would - better"; investigate such
leaks than issue fantastic ; public
I statements. '" ' . -' ;.",; :"
. ESPERANTO
SPERANTO' Is not' dead
yet, not In Portland, what-
ever may have happened
to it In other places. : The
Xsperantlsts have called a meet
ing; at the publlo library to organ,
lie for the "higher study"; of their
favorite language.' The " more
f acuity they acquire in .Its use the
more tentacles , they, will send out
over, the world -to-help unite man
kind in peace and brotherhood. - k
Esperanto means t'the - language
of hope.; Dr. Zamenhof, the Pols
who invented it, beUeved '"that if
all men could be taught to under
stand one ? another's speech, ' en
ralties would - be mltlcated and
friendships cemented. , The, Esper
antists ; tbe world ; over have ; kept
up vigorous interchange of letters
during the war. The German gov.
eminent has used the' language to
aid in the t spread ; of dUr propai
canda. Many American disciples
c f Dr. Zamenhof write regular
Esperantla letters to French poilus
in; the trenches. . - . -
' Since-'the war began Esperanto.
like1 other ''Inf allible remedies, has
been "ratHer In eclipse. Perhaps
the renewal' Sot Its' stutty In ! Port
land" may ..be oner sign of an early
KEREXSKY
ic
ERENSKVS dally walk Is. a
good deal like . that of Iran
ian's ' Christian through the
Valley- of & the Shadow of
Death, With. a anagmlreonfone
side and : deep ditch on the other
and 'the mouth of, hell belching
smoke and flame lust over his
head. - He makes' his ' perilous way
alone: through It all; with- deft, un-
terrmed footsteps. - - - ,
Thus Xar he has faced ? every
difficulty as itrarose with' courage
and competence. ; The , socialietio
fanatics met their master In Ker
ensky. Against the- spectre of : the
Workmens" Council he evolted, the
more potent spectre ; of the peas
ants' countrywide orga'nlzatlon.' He
has , boldly undertaken to disci
pline' the army. The rebel Kor-
nllof t he has ' probably 1 entangled
In a .net fom which there is no
escape r . "
' :' Unless we tmiss our 'guess badly,
Kerensky is' one, of, .those bornlt
geniuses who arise In the - day of
a' nation's need t4 do ' the Impos
sible and break through Irresisti
ble obstacles. The world's -confidence
In him grows 'as he exhibit
greater and greater - capability, If
he saves Russia without yielding
to. selfish -ambition 'he -will be an
other Washington.
- Coos Bay pays; her: bills. Some
traveling" salesmen are receiving
double orders In, comparison wjtb
other days, and are bothered with
no-bflls to collect for their firms..
In the midst of nature's .vast re
soujees, the Coos Bay country. Is
an envied region.
BEWARE
HE seed wheat swindler has
taken - time by - the forelock.
Understanding the sporadio
Shortage of good grain seed
for sowing this winter and next
spring, he improves the shining
hour, by putting at variety -of
frauds on the market, expecting
to humbug the trusting farmers.
The department Of, agriculture
is out: with a sharp warning j dose the symptoms. It would bet
agalnst these diligent pests. They ter deal with fundamentals than
are offering in particular a species ' apply the mere palliative that -a
or wneai canea Titanic," concern-,
ing which they promise all sorts
of . incredible - wonders. -
Farmers who have invested in
Russian oats nad that sort of
thing in former years will be wary
of these new impostors, but others
without . the teaching of sad ex-
taken in.
The government Is taking steps.
to- provide reliable seed grain- for
parts of the country where there
is a shortage. We counsel farmers
to invest iajio untried .seed witb
ont first, writing to the department
of- agriculture or the Oregon agri
cultural college " for Information
Every new andr oid variety ,; that
is "a worth ' ' anything is known to
their experts. .
For the first ' time In years,
every sawmill on Coos bay will
soon be in operation.. The last to
prepare for activity Is one that has
run but a few weeks in the nine
years since it was built. The situ
ation is an eloquent story of pros
perity. -- . :'
ALIENS FOR 8EJ1TTCE
THERE are sharp teeth in Sen
ator : Chamberlain's bill to
draft alien residents for mili
tary; service. The only favor
It shows even to alien enemies is
permission to engage in civil work
of . a national character instead of
actually . ? fighting.- Foreigners
exempt . from military service ; by
treaty are .- given - 90 days to leave
the country, unless they prefer to
enlist or submit to the draft.
weak brethren may argue
against the .. bill on the. . ground
that it is likely to stir up resist
ance among some , of. our alien
residents. -. Perhaps ; so, but upon
the whole is better to knpw
definitely and once for all who 'are)
for -us and who are against , us.- -
If ' there ,1s ' smoldering treason
in the country the sooner we learn
how much of a " conflagration It
can kindle the safer we shall feel.
afterward. It is better to meet
danger boldly than, to wait .for it,
to borrow a bit of wisdom from
the copybook .
. . Turning to the right and wrong
Of ..theX situation, 1 Senator; .Cham
berlain seems to have a good easel
A man who la willing to take ad
vantage ' of this . country's free r op
portunities .should , also be .willing
to defend it when danger- threat
ens, citizen or no citizen.' perhaps
we have - been . a trifle r slack in
opening our doors to . everybody
who , knocked, regardless? of their
purpose In coming ! here or their
fitness to remain.' . If Senator
Chamberlain's 'policy should - weed
out a motley horde of the unfit,
Who .would mourn? r..; 1 . r
- One of :. our most pressing na
tional ' needs Is that ' of a homo
geneous population. . We. "mean
homogeneous -in feeling and i aspi
ration as well as in. language. In
the lax times of peace no doubt
we could, Inour. easy-going way,
tolerate the , presence of people
who derided our institutions and
plotted to' destroy them, v But
thing are different now. "
' Americans' are confident -that
their form' of , government ; bas;
been so framed that It admits of
steady, social 'development, without
revolution. They would, .rest abet
ter In' their' beds at night If they
felt certain that there was nobody
at hand laboring to sap ' the star
bllity ol the, country that protects
'ajrfSJiiyltkVI mi. mi- in. na:i;iV;j
T
HE street-car company . should
withdraw Its petition for a
six-cent fare.-
, It cannot afford to bring
upon itself - and, Portland the i. odi
umf of a slx-eent fare city. , For
its ' own I business reasons, it can
not .afford to ' arouse the wide
spread Irritation that :a six-cent
fare would create. It cannot af
ford through ; a six-cent ;f are, to
offer' high rewards lor a popular
demand for-a return of the nickel-a-ride
' jitneys. ,
ltr cannot ' afford to - take the
chance of losing more revenue
than it would gain, through, a slx
,cent tare. , "A six-cent fare would
drive -' business away from the
street cars and -drive business away
from Portland.' A six-cent fare
would drive ' patrons away from'
the street cars and drive people
away : fromi Portland. A Portland
advertised abroad as the first If not
the only slx-cent-f are city In Amer
ica wOuld .keep people; away from
this city who would otherwise
come. ' -
There need be no illusions over
what, a six-cent fare means. to the
near submerged, 'that near sub
merged which- now,' comprises 80
or 80 per cent of the population.
Car fares connt, as .. all ' who pay
them know- They ; are a formida
ble lteni, seriously considered and
thoughtfully studied by, nearly; all
of those who pay them. A 20. per
cent ' '. addition to this . charge
against the' household's ' monthly,
budget l is .weighty matter. !
" ?There is a "strong chance that
In the ; long 'run, the -company
would profit more by inaugura
tion of efficiencies and economics
that would keep - the fare down
than it caa possibly profit from
an increased, fare. If it cannot
pay going wages, there is some
thing wrong . in its organization
and management. The company
wmi1i better treat the disease than
si,.ent fare would be. and that
would never be permitted to stand
for .long, even -if established. -
On a -basis : of population, the
$25,000 asked of Oregon for sol
diers' books, would be $7500, It
is fashionable for Oregon jto be
drawn upon in the war. of contrl
butidns for a great deal more than
she, gets back. It would be bet
ter for ! Oregon to send her own
books- direct to her pwn soldier
Kav. urA frnm' tlia alicrifv with
. A ZZ -t..t- .-,a
Which the State S QUOta Of soldiers
was made up. It is certain that she
will show equal speed with her
quota of books.
GERMAN QUEENS -
fy ERMAN Queens will get the
- ' name of bringing bad luck
VT- down upon the heads of
their royal spouses if they
"don't look out" The Hohen
zollern tribe have been ominously
diligent in planting their relatives
out in i European reigning fami
lies, Russia, Greece, Bulgaria,
Sweden have felt their, pervasive
Influence. The queen of Greece
played the game of the Hohenzol
lern - until she played her husband
out of his crown. . It now seems
likely that Sweden I will witness
another farce of the same tenor.
- H. G. Wells spoke of the Euro
pean, kings and their, kin the other
day as! a "set of amazing idols."
Mankind has agreed that- these
people are built of a finer clay
than the rest of us. Just what the
agreement is founded on it would
J be somewhat hard to say. Have
they any better brains than their
fellow i men? Are .they better
workers, better fighters, ' more
pious, more progressive? We wish
somebody would ask King George
of England just why it is. that he
feels worthy of what Tennyson
called ; f 'that awful Isolation" in
which he lives, ? Tennyson- flat
tered Victoria with the phrase but
it applies to all the tribe.- -
PAYING THEIR , WAY.
T
HERE is habitual claim that
the - postal rates - to dally
newspapers are responsible
for the annual deficit in sec
ond class matter. ' ' -
It is - a mistaken claim. The
newspapers of the country are pay
ing their way. The fact has been
proven by many an investigation.
and - is again - confirmed In a most
exhaustive, analysis Just completed.
The details are explained in an
article on this page. - .
' .The .cost to s the government of
transporting newspapers within a
60 mile' radius is a; trifle : more
than . seventeen one hundredths of
one cent- per pound.'' .The cost In,
ai zone ot 150 miles is a trifle
more than forty , one ; hundredths
of one cent. ; The cost. In a zone of
300 miles is a fraction more than
seventy-eight y one; hundredths of
one cent per" pound.", J
- Nearly '- the ' whole v volume of
newspaper, circulation Is within a
300 mile radius. '. The .: one .cent
per pound rate charged by ' the
government Inore than covers the
cost of transportation. r .
; It ia'the magazines and similar
matter that produce the deficit In
second : class postage, . The dall
newspapers - arevpaylng their way
and ro entitled to" surcease , from
the long time contention, that they
are special beneficiaries : of the
postal - system. . ; '", "
' Knowledge of the Von Eckhardt
Intrigues, involving ther Swedish
charge d'affaires in Mexico, has
been In the hands of the American
government since March, 1916,; a
period of IS .months, but has not
hitherto been-' made public . : How.
many facts of the kind are known
to Washington authorities "nobody,
knows. It is because of "such in
formation i that : the government
sometimes acts in a-way that for
the time is not understood, and
which cannot be explained on the
spot for military' or- diplomatic
reasons. . . - '
TRAVEL STORIES;
OF NORTHWEST
By Fred LockUy
" Probably ; no other town of Its slse
in all the United States is so weu
known as Pendleton. IU. olUzens' love
to sneak of It as the blrrest Uttie city
of Its size In all the West. I lived
there for several years, so X speak as
a FencQetoaian as well as an One
ronlan and a westerner when X say
that Pendleton has something' that
most communities lack, and that Is a
spirit ef team-work,' a loyaHty to their
home town, that transcends - self in
teres, a civic spirit that inspires Its
cltlxens to work in season and out
of season for the upbuilding' of Pond
leton, Bastern Oregon and the west.
Pendleton has a ""dig-down-in-your-pocket,
put-your-shoulder-to-the-wheel"
spirit ' that were It possessed by the
citizens ' of Portland would : give us
lines of - steamers : to - Alaska.- Hawaii
and the Orient and make Portland, pre
emtnient ' among- the ports -on the Pa
cific, ... . -
.-' - a o . . . .
It is not hard to become " en
thuslastlo over Umatilla county. -It
It is hard not to. My work during
the : four or five years I lived there
took me au over the county not once
but many times.
I know it nm Hertniston butte to
Huckleberry " mountain, from Umatilla
to Uklah. Wd Horse and Hldaway,
Devils' Rapids and Thorn' Hollow, Cold
Springs canyon and Tutu ill a, are al
most as familiar as my own back gwd.
I could shut my eyes and tell you
every fork of the road and the lay
of the country.
Umatilla Isn't a large county but It
is a rich country rich In wheat and
cattle. In sheep and wool. In hay and
timber, and richest of all In the char
acter of its citizenship. Its area is
8172 square miles, which is less than
a third 'of the area of either Malheur
or Harney county.
-i . - - .. - i a 4
. Wbn one reads the number of
square miles in a county It means very
little, for the average mind deals o
little In square ' miles that areas are
hard to grasp. One can. get a better
ldecr of the size of "Oregon's banner
wheat county," the bread basket of the
Inland Empire by comparing it with
the sizs of other well known places.
It is, nearly three times the size ef
Rhode Island. Ton.- could . fence up
3S70 square miles of its area and you,
would have a ranch as large as the
state of Delaware; run a barb wire
fence around 488 square mlSes more
and you would have the canal sons
fence up 188 square miles to repre-
sent the West Indies; cut off a pasture
of 77 MUa miles td stand for K.moa-
put 70 more square miles under fence
for the District of Columbia; then 38
square miles, the area of San Marina:
then make a corral out of eight square
mllest tbe else of Monaco, in. which
Monte Carlo Is located!, and yxm would
Still have 48 square miles left to nee
as a bonanza wheat farm and to hold
the Round "Up on.
At Hermlston you are but 450 feet
above the sea, while at Ourdane, In
the "southern part of the county, the
altitude is 8350 feet, and at Meacham.
In the eastern part of the county, you
are 8681 feet above sea level. Tou
can find almost any climate you want
In Umatilla county, from tbe rainless,
dry heat at Umatilla to the oaone-laden
bracing- air on the John Day watershed
at Albee or Lehman Springs, or the
resinous, balsamic, cool, pure air at
Wenaha Springs in the Blue mountains.
1 You, scan find good grouse or deer
hunting- around; Buck mountain. Sorta.
WUks or Bound mountain. , or on the
slopes of Thlmbl e berry - or Huckle
berry mountain. .Tou win find good
risning in the UmauEa river and In
such streams aS Tlnev Blirohj Camas,
Brldre, Cable, Couse, Buck and Shim-
mi e oreeKS.
Tou will find a wide variety of
a a.
scenery ranging from the eare brush
plains around Umatilla and Echo to
tho soling- wheat fields of - Athena.
Helix and the Indian reservation, and
on to the foot hills and frosted slopes
of the Blue mountains.
Ton will nd plenty of life, oofflor
and 'interest in vlsltiner the Umatilla
Indiana v on their reservation
PenjSeton or in goiner to some of the
big sheep ranches about Pilot Rock,
or the cattle ranches in Camas Dralrla
For two or three days each year you
may meet the fruit raisars of Milton
and Freewater, the wheat raisers of
Weston, Adams and Helix, the iitri na
tion farmers from the Umatilla recla
mation project at Hermlston, the
sneepmen or Pilot Rook - and Skdto.
th stookmen ot Uklah, AShse and Our.
dane ranchers and cowboys, sheepherd.
era and Indians, businessmen and
strangers at i the Round-Up at Pendle--
" a - - -
This is the one big event of the snear.
It is unique and distinctive. No writ
ten words can describe the dash and
go, the thrHl and seat of this-picture
of the old west. 'It is " history in ac
tion. It brings back . the --vanished
.west, the. heroic days' of the did fron
tier, and"" makes them live again, ' It
1 worth com in r, across the continent
vo -wauieas.
Letter? From the People
CCotnmntUcatlona put to .The lesraal tor
pnbucatioa is this Opartmcat aboiUd be writ
tea es enlr one side of the paper, aboald sot
ezeeed 0O wards is length, and Boat be ac
companied by- the name . and addrcaa of tae
aebdar. If tbe wrtte does sot deaire te have
tbe. name published he aboald ao state.
Blachinists on the Six-cent Far
- Portland, Sept.: To? th. ; Editor
of ' The Journal During- the hearing
before the publlo service commission
considering the - plea i of the ' Portland
Railway, : Light dc Power 'company
for an Increase of street ear fares
to six cenU, tbe chairman said there
was a strange lack of interest shown
by tha public in opposition to' the
proposed ralae. ' - - ' .
.. The union machinists of Portland, at
a ; large j meeting" ? of j- their thriving
lodge, unanimously condemned the
efforts of the car company to furtber
add to the hardahlpe of the worker.
who - are tha - chief natrons of the
street ... ears, by i this . unwarranted In
crease . in rates, especially " at this
time, when the national slogan Is
sacrifice. ; we . remind the company
that as the workers ' have endured
uurcea . sacruices . uiese aitwj j i
proved by the United SUtes commls-l"
sion on Industrial relations, while the I -
company . prospered, t now that tne i
workers are, in addition to sacrifices I
due. to undisputed exorbitant cost of I
Ilvinr. ': also sacrificlnr .-their -very i
lives for the maintenance of the in-1
stltutlons ef this country, by the
grace of which the company exlsH
and makes private profit from a Pb
Wo . necessity, therefore the company
should practice a little of this patrl-1
otlo slogan.
,Wi say to the public service com-1
mission that the lack ,f protest Is I
due to the fact that the public still has I
some little degree of confidence in its J percent, it Is true. . But the ante
officials, . and deems it ; unnecessary I bellum imagination was never satisfied
to protest at this stage against auch
a manifestly unfair and unjust , de-
mand as the company makes, and
think that the commission . needs no
whip of publlo protest. ' I
We ' call ; to , the attenUon of the i
conimlssion the fact that mun
owned car lines are a financial sue-1
wii,- ua mil eunscuro in um. j u-mi only a question ox wmcn avi
In 115, with 16 miles of lines, the j ator. how far he fell and how dead he
profit was tl.500.QOO. i SeatUe's eleo-1
trie light plant is a revelation in tne
possibilities of municipal ownership.
By owning its electrtoj plant the cost
of ' electricity has been reduced from
20 cents per kilowatt hour to s cents.
It seems to us the plain duty of
the commission to recommend the
aequlsition by the city of the street
raflway lines as a solution of the
problem. - And the time is especially
fortunate for both city and company,
as the publlo will refuse to pay th
increased fare, and j the , company
would no doubt be exceedingly glad
to sell at a very reasonable figure,
as It contends that It i is. operating- at
a loss. The company ha-long soSght
for private ownership jof pubUo.opla-
ion." by persistently ! handing each
patron a printed .leaflet relating the I
tribulations of this i publlo service
IndlvTduarte us. It the-
Smatd?ub?ra SS Itl. Sealed Sat government
demand publlo ownership of the car maT bo rmnr maraslne publishers
lines. - . r -r cents worth of service for X cent, bat
As believers in democracy, we de- u ,s not truo that the newspapers are
mand that it be practiced and the po- ,mportant peneflolarles of this sub
lice be required to .pay their car Hidy. ' The 8,000,000 annual postal
fare', the $16,000 yearly resulting Jeflclt on 1 cent postal rata- is not
therefrom would also; help solve the chargeable to newspapers,
problem. I - t a
We further uphold-the contention Painstaking lnvestlgaUon orsee-
of Qty Attorney Xa Roche, that the ond class postal costs shows that the
commission lacks authority to raise newspaper industry Is pavinar Its own
the . it would h . vtnintion way. The cost to the government of
of the city charter and the laws of
the state, which particularly grants I
this power to the municipalities.
Lastly, we condemn the short
sighted spirit that has led our fel
low workmen; the
. union emoioVe- of
to ISLtion thT at
" .Ii
the car company.
tempt of the company to fasten the
cost of ' the 'Increase of their wages
on their fellow working: men and
women, he general j public. Instead
rk Via In'f'Isitshtfv ' rFftf It si fh tryy
r " : 7'rr, M ri ;"
rived from.
Lodge 63, International Association
of Machinists. . . ; -
Per. . LOUIS HONSTEIN, :
President.
roTsr ana wneat costs
Portland,' Sept. 6. TO the Editor of
The Journal In your issue of
wmoer wui w. warren or iiouana,
Or wants to know how much corn a . During the last , 20 years tbe so
pound of pork Is worth. That Is some- called bounty to publishers .- has la
thing like tbe puzzle about the age creased from 30,000,000.t nearly 190,
of Ann. But as I have fed and mar- 000,000. ' ' :
keted many, thousands of pounds of ,! m, e " - - ,u ' , .
pork, I can give him some facts asf.
a basis. - . . , .
Anyone sowing' and feeding r hog.
vssaa svw v , ss as visas. kv , yvuuusj
ns as 14f Ta as I VS ka llMa maIm
w th clov.rand alfalfa nasturV at a
S? fSStiffirtiiZ
th Kim.i nut inn th r-.t.ni .M
!. .jlff f55 Kg"
160 pounds in 76 days. ' That Is but!
two pounds perclay. (I have made a
gain of three pounds per day). Es
timate this corn at If per bushel or
a fraction over 88.70 per 100 pounds.
At maturity we have, or should have,
800 pounds gross at a cost of T27.50,
and marketed at $14 per hundred
pounds, or $43. That leaves the feeder
$14.60 to the good.
t ,v. hu mii t ...
hogs, give them clean quarter, and
keep the feeding floor clean. Feed
three time, a dav. lust what th.v win
clean up, and no more.
If Wheat or
rye 1. fed, finish the last SO days on
corn to firm the flesh. Keep 'wood
ashes and salt before them at all
times. ... , j
Also, keep the government's 'rem
edy for prevention of cholera, as fol
lows: One pound pf !. wood- charcoal,'
22L "thJV Jt
soda, two of sodium byphosulphlte. one
of sodium sulphate, one of antimony,
sulphid. Put in a dry place and let
them have. free access to lt
As these animals are penned andl.v. ki mT,A mm nn tnnbtL or -t
can't help themselves, the caretaker
must be on the Job continuously
I notice1 some farmers are kicking
on the price the government has set
vu wown. am m possession or
es.a sssy i.w aaaw vvse-vt aLTTCaUll eMlU
putting wheat from the field into the
mill or granary. Before the advent of
th binder I had the care of a largo
thing was paid for; in cash. horse
feed, board of men aad all. Ten men
and water boy were - In the - field
when cutting- the wheat; . wage. $Z
per day.-. The Wheat was sacked and
hauled a mile and a half to two mile,
to the mm. -The total expense was a
fraction over : 40 , cents per bushel.
Even . with the Increase in wages, the
cost at -this time should not exceed
this. with a fair yield, t thus leaving
a fine profit to the grower at govern
ment prices. . R. N. CURTIS.
PERSONAL . MENTION'
Coenr d'Alenes Are Prosperous
in rv., -ii.... .
w . . . u . w k.vuo mi v
orawmg -a uauy oonu. or i.z. re- xcttl Moore Arrives
ports . Dan . Greenburg of . Wallace, aioore Arrives
Idaho, travelinr representative of tfai WUlJMoore. nV4J"t
Day Bros. Unterpsts, j who was at the in- wa itmmS
Portland . today. Mr. Greenburg -was, or of customs in Oreg on tc uccd
formerly connected with the Press- JadJhom" ? ' wV. ki-
Times of Wallace, He say. conditions Tity Thursday to take over Ills' new
in Northern Idaho are good. "There PoalUon. -. .
were some -I. W. W, disorders.' said j Amedee Smltlv vice president of the
Mr. Greenburg, i "but these have been -Realty Associates of Portland, ac
quitted vend ; a big majority of the companled by Mra, Smith, left Wed
mlner. are patriotie men who - are nesday evening for a pleasure trip of
eager , to see that nothing; u done -to ..bout a month's duration..- They, will
hamper the government." . go first - to Minneapolis, and af ter
. . ' i ward will visit several other -points
- Will Visit in Portland . - farther east- "
After bringing" hi. family to Port- Dr. May Agnes Hopkins Is registered
land, where they wlU remain for some at the Portland hotel from Dallas,
time; E. B. Deming. president of the Tex. - . , ' '
Pacifle-Amerlcan fisheries ' company - Hector Macpherson 1 of the Oregon
and of the Perfection Cannins: Ma- Agricultural college faculty is regis
chlne company of BeUingham. left for tered at : the Multnomah from; Cor
his home last eight. Mr. and Mrs vallls. ; '''
Deminr. Mrs. F. L. Deming and Iisi Mrs. W. B. Shaffer and Miss Wilms
Van Etaden reached tbe . dty -last Shaffer are? at the JMultnomah from
Tuesday. , - - " WaitsburgWash.
r c " . ' . " - Mrs. A. M. MacLeod and daughter,
, "Jjone Star" Diets In Town . - Lot., are at the Cornelius from Gold-
. WlU lam H. "Lone tar Diets; Indian endale, "Wash, . -
coach of the Washington Stats Agrt- - Carl E. Fischer, merchant, is at the
cultural college football team, arrived
In Portland- this: morning from tbe
COMMENT AND
. 4 SMALL CHANGE J
' - ," ' - r ' '"
And are tou "rotor to : attend th
! atreet car S-ent fare mau meeting
tAa . Auditorium toniaht ?
Auaiwnum,iomuu
The - Woman's "party -wlU be rreatly
disappointed r It national suffrere , Is
rranted In spite of their methods f
uemandlnr it. .
Two y p.nm, in rvMn OMnn.
have succeeded In maklnr a palatable
wine from banana Juice. - Just ar If
the banana were not bad enough when
merely stepped on. - - ' 5
t . t. comes . to a ; matter ' of two
presidential - booms In the state of
Illinois, you can put your money on
on
w o
Fire ships out of S3 is a good larre
wn anr sucn low score xor wie men
n,V?eTgs. are never
wbenthey are ust
" "r. J .
Joropes rues witn 11 Passen-
r""1" V .A."
whenever there wasan aviation meet.
was wnen no was picasa up,
NEWSPAPERS PAYING THEIR .WAY
- kterlaa Pew. la the Bolter sad PubUeber . - . ' -
. For the first time In the prolonged
debate of the question of the gov-
trnmnt's policy of v "susldlzing- pub-
Ushers by granting t cent per pound
Postal rates, the Issue has been clearly
drawn in congress between the xnaga-
ta" nw"p?-, v.--.
--;Aiaiougli members ot contrw hz
W U? iLf.!
h,!- 1.
ven were receirlng stupendous gifts
iAJ Jrui
BL?. hnof tte wts!
ar ZL Zi.VZ,F?t:
Tv hVV ,ftt
of newspaper publishers , who in a
. 7
tran8portinc newspaper. ,withta a SO
-
lation basis, is a trifle more than
seventeen one-hundredths of I cent
per pound. The cost In a sons of ISO
trifle more than forty one-
hundredth, of 1 cant and the coat in a
one of .00 miles Is a fraction more
than seventy-eight one-hundredths of
1 cent per pound.
Therefore, on the vast bulk of news-
I srmF,I aAicva c&0 itvnsyayvi viwueVivH
lately limited to a oo mile radiusj
the 1 cent per pound rate charged by
the government more than covers the
cost of transportation.
Second class postage brings to' the
government about fll.000,00 per an
num. The cost is said, to be around
A . K A AAA 1-1 . & . n
I TTni. c.m ma ooo.ooo snrt eiasa
I mall m&tlr a t S cant, nar onnc, tiro.
Sep-Iauces about $80,000,000 annual profit
i to the government.
ln ins senate last ,weev wnue speaa-
ftg
i iilsise ..y-a -a. a . v. i ,
I . ww a - wa V aT fM a M W
Elfu are -making .publishers, year
I J -tSf. Vanrenfen?PriiaUam
I hills under t this arrangement. . I am
S? tSrl: wefltlanowK ffi
" "v 7 v
HOW TO BE HEALTHY
GOLD TEETH ANDuOERMirv-rs-qnentry
caps and orowns on teeth are
cauJK of um infeotlon- Xl
lB"eer oenusrs were anxious w u
I work of this -sort, merely to cover up
tooth when It was slightly decayed,
" yre thought -artstocratio. to have
I gwo. leetEu. uw, wi wwm, "-
rLrfJ?I5
lStJrSSS
KV1Q leOUl 6UUW1UK CUtU lOVUM wa
with substances that resemble the oris.
fnal teeth themselves. Another reason
why caps or crowns have gone out of
style Is that experience has proved that
i ! Afftilt to keen the rum- and
tooth socket of a capped' tooth in
hhyltion: vene best-fit-
tins: crowns have been found to- har
bor pus-forming organisms and these
t Zrin ZT
mimt. to ottiar oarta of
mto the digestrve tract,
xray picture of the teeth and
thi, roots is an economy, as we know
that infection may lurk r within the
I gamm and tooth sockets wltnout glvins;
south, en route to Pullman, to begin
the season's work. Diets -has been in
He Is registered at the Multnomah
hotL : "; . ;
- John Cochran Return.
John W Cochran, newspaper man
and political writer of Portland, who
has been on a vacation for several
weeks near Detroit, in Linn county,
i e turned to Portland Thursday and
has resumed his residence at the Cor
nelius hotel. Mr. Cochran has been
with his brother, who runs a logging
camp not far from Detroit. ,
. a a a
Dalles Hotel Man in Town
J. E. Darnielle, proprietor of the
Albert hotel at The Dalles, Is regis
tered at the Nortonia hotel wita ms
I family.
i ' e e
I Cornelius from Bpnngiieia. itt.
- Mr. and Mra. ..William Hendriekson
NEWS JN BRIEF .:
' - OREGON . SIDELIGHTS . " 4
- Baker's high school football squad
Is training under a gentleman named
Bough, , - a a " -
- Tha Budget reports a. very great in
crease In the school enrollment at As
toria, necessitating the seeking of ad
ditional, rooms. .- ; - . : . . . .
' 101 weather : is not melancholy in
Eastern -Oregon, the Pendleton East
Oreronian says.-probably with special
reference to the Round-Up. ; . -
A carload of Alaska marble for the
interior of the new court house - at
Grants Pass has been received; .there
are yet two canoaosxo w. t; ,
The open seasen for the man who
cAmnlilni ahnllt tha rain bSlnr .about
due to open, . the Sugene Register
thinks a likely-sised bruutDai is aooui
What's coming tphlm. j . t
nun onnnt. rioia not nrooose to feed
hnnM.rrara or other violators Without
a Just return, and so the county court,
the Harbor says, has ordered the men
put to wora on tne roaos. r
: P!ait vat or aeven years we have
thought., says the Pendleton East Ore
gonlan. "that perhaps the Round-Up
would fall down in attendance and eaofc
year for seven years the attendance
has been sufficient to make the grand
stand bulge and this time will b no
exception.1' - - -
delphla own and publish thrte papers
that I know of. -One Is the Saturday
Evening Post, the second the ldles
Home Journal and the third U the
Country Gentleman. ' The government,
by way of bounty, under the pre.ent
flat rate. pay. to that company tn the
way of transportation of its -paper
known as the Saturday Evening Post
a little more ,tban $3,000,000 per year.
Altogether these three cost the United
States rovernment for transportaion
as second class matter about $4,300,-
000, and about 60 per cent of the mat
ter in those papers Is advertising
matter.' .
Senator MeKeuar then stunned many
of h)s colleagues by bringing out the
facts in regard to the difference be
tween the position of tbe newspapers
and that of the magazines, in the mat
ter. 'While the magazines depended
in large measure upon the postal de
partment as a circulation medium, the
newspapers, as an industry, were gen
orally paying their own way, according
to transportation cost.
e a a '
It "wa. Senator McKellar who pre
sented to congress the newspaper
memorial, signed E. B. Stahlman of
the Nashville (Tenn.) Banner; Louis
J. Wortham of the Fort worth iTexas)
Star-Telegram; Robert Ewlag of tne
New Orleans (La.) States; Urey Wood
son of the Owensboro (Ky.) Messen
ger, and Lafayette Young of the Des
Moines (Iowa) Capital.
This striking document set forth
that as "many statements coming from
varloue sources and unwittingly ad
mitted in a way, even by the publish
ers i of newspapers, that the govern
ment had favored newspapers in the
matter ot postal rates," an lndepend
ent investigation of the matter was
begun last May by a member of the
committee, for the purpose of a seer
talnlng the exact cosv to the govern
ment of the transportation or news
paper malL as distinguished from
magazines and periodical' malL
The figures were' ascertained
through the cooperation of officials of
the Dostal department and John A.
Moon, chairman of the house commit
tee on the postoffice and post roads.
The result of the Inquiry, on a lib
eral basis, allowing 40 per cent, for
ail car. returned empty, fixed the
cost of mall pay one way, 100 pounds,
CO foot car basis, as follows:
" Cent.
per 100 lbs
First aone, SO mile. - .0.17 8-14
Second zone. 160 miles ......0.40 6-14
Third sona 800 miles 0.78 4-84
akin a; the average cost for tbe first
two zones 0.J cents per 100 pounds
and for tbe three zones 0.48 6-S4 cent.
per, 100 pounds.
any manifestation of Itself. Even the
dentist may not be able -to detect the
condition without tbe X-ray.
. People who have crowned teeth
should clean them several times
day. Otherwise little particles of food
lodge at the base of the crown and
lime from the food stays thane and
fastens Itself on permanently, as also
do deposits from the saliva and some
times other deposits due to blood con
ditions. These deposits gradually build
their way up under the gum and carry
with them germs which they harbor.
Gum and tooth socket infection also
results in tone of the teeth. More teeth
are let from pyorrhoea, which Is the
name for this infection that attack.
tne gum atus destroys the tooth socket.
than are lost from decay of the teeth
themselves. The great , preventive
is tnorougn and frequent and intern
gent cleaning of the teeth and massage
of the gums But to make sure that
infection is not getting In, despite)
tnese precautions, the tooth sockets
should be X-rayed pertodlcelly. -Tomorrows
Diarrhea.
and Mrs. George X. Moyer of Astoria
are In the city.
Autolng from Los Angela, to' Den
ver and back home by way of Port
land, Mr. and Mrs. H, fl, v Williams,
Hal - Williams and Miss Anna Fer
guson of Los : Angeles are registered
at tne canton - for a few days. - ' i
On a sightseeing tour of the coast,
Mr. and .Mrs. C. M. Chllds and
daughter of . Chicago are staying . at
tne wanton ior a xew days. -
' V. H,- Teaton. breeder of Guernsey
catue on the: Chelsea stock farm at
IlwacorWash .la registered - at the
Carlton, r s - -
A. C. Anderson of the firm of Tolt
it Anderson, Nehalem, and Mrs. An
derson, are at tbe Carlton, . -
To spend the winter In the states,
Mr. and - Mrs. A, Ti Dobey of Tukon.
Alaska, are in Portland and staying
at the nortonia for a few days.
Mr. and Mrs. , H. A. Thomas of
Hood River are at the Nortonia. t
F. W. Konold of Salt Lake is regis
tered-at the Nortonia. ?
Mr. and Mrs. C. L. Nelson are reg
istered at the : Nortonia from Scap-
SOOSe. - "
Dr. " D. W. Kuykendali Is in the otty
from Eugene. ;
' Mrs. E.vP.'FuUer of Ketchikan,
Alaska,, is at the Multnomah.
Q. W. Burrow, Rldgef ield, i Wash
rancher, is at the Cornelius, , ' - s
Harrison H. Schley . of Waukesha,
Wis., is at the PortunoV '
C. J. McCarthy of Honolale is reg
ister ea at tne A'oruana .
. James Hill is staying at the Port
land from Pendleton. -
E. S. Snelling-, attorney, is registered
at the Perkins from St.. Helena
John Van Horn, stockman of Fossil,
is - at the Perkins .1 - s
- Mr. and Mrs. W. A BJ.zler of Sac
ramento, wax, are at the Washington.
t r.. -.; u. wiiiiams is at the
Washington from Eugene. - -
Mrs. J, E TutUe of Eugene Is at
tne wasnington. . - . . , - - -
F; (spinning, stockman. Is at tha
Ferkln. from Dufur.
Ratfar and Bobtail i
Stories From. Everywhere
are burned t eoeuibnta ertrlaat issttaets :
tory, la vara or U shUeaopbiesi ba laOoe
l . ih cuubi in mam Tt.
ZZTJT " ."wmi awrti tu ss
aaasaaa s w u aaias aninw'a m nuaa laa i a . .
mm
An Insinuation
ji professor was hearing the close
- uiaiwy lecture, ana was, in
dulging: in one of those rhetorical cli
maxes tn which he delighted, when the
hour struck. The students lmraedltely
began to slam down the movable arms
of their lecture chair, and to prepare
to leave. . .-.i-.-ri-rffj,--;-The
professor, annoyed at the. inter- '
ruptlon of hi. flow of eloquence.' held
up hi. hand. - ; ; -
"Walt just on. minute, gentlemen, X
have a few more pearl, to cast. . -
WlMt naprwsted to Trtink ,V '
Recently the home of Mr. and Mrs.
Thomas Chrlstraan, near Gooco Mill, ,
cooper county. 'Missouri, was de
stroyed by a tornado. . They have just
received, say. Capper". Weekly, a let
ter from Miss Blanch Zeh ot Kallers-
vuie. iil, saying she bad found a mar-
rlago certificate which belongs te them
in a pasture near her home. The cer
tificate was in a trunk that was -blown
from the Christian home the night of
me storm. Keilersville Is more than
200 miles from Oooch Mill, . i
The Proper Order''-'-,- 4 -
T wonder." said the f.t clumhip
"who was responsible for tha aa-rina-
about the red-beaded girl and tbe white
nontr. .. . ;
"Tou've got It twnted. the thin ear.
penter observed.
How twisted T
'It Is a white horse and a,' paflJiaa-j -
girl." . r
"Whaf s the difference' V-. t
"When a man sees a white horse h
toons tor a red-headed glrL" ;
"But the man who sees a red.tta&ded
giri never iooks any farther."
The Doc Knew;
"When I was a boy the doctor said
If X didn't stop smoking cl carets I
would become feeble-minded. i .'
well, why didn't you .topr?-' (. . ;-
And How About the PoIecatT '
One day last week, after era wlln
under a barn after a polecat and at- i
tempting- to pull hi. shotgun in after
him. Clay Richard., on the Richards
i arm near quiver, say. the. Madras .
Pioneer, accidentally discharged : th.
weapon, biowlnc off the end. of two :
linger, rrom hi. right hand. -. t ..,
Quite Exasperating, in Fact I -A
most annoying accident, save the
Kansas City Star, befell a Chicago
housewife who. suffering with the
heat, sent her husband for an elec
tric ran. Hurry in. on the way to the
.tore, the husband was- overcome with
the heat and fell dead.
Oh, Isn't That Nice for Them I
The golf link, lie so near th. mill -
a nat aimost every aay
7he laboring children can look out
Ana see tne men at play.
-Sarah N. Cleghorn ("Portraits and
Protests"). ,
Uncle Jeff Snow Sayst
Some of these here Portland rela
tives of mine that don't raise. nuthln
'ceptin' a lawn is in a hnrry to have
tne price, of flour reduced, and done
seem to have no feel in fer the millln'
trust and all the little trusts that ride.
on it like little 'possums ride the
mammy 'possum and hang on with
their tails to her' tall. One of these
big trusts alius has a lot of little
fellers trailln' along. '
THE RIGA
MILESTONE
The relation of the fall "of
Riga to the Pan-German '
dream of aggrandizement is .
set forth in an article by
Frank H. Simonds, in which
the interpretation of the"
larger aspect of Germany
recent conquest is quite r;
assuring.
The Sunday Simonds arti
cle is a commanding feature
of The Sunday Journal, and
next Sunday's article is -traordinarily
strong, contain-:
ing adequate answer to the
very questions that are!up
permost in the public mind.
MENDING WAR'S
BREAKAGE '
A visit to a base hospital
"somewhere in France" has
inspired Jeff ery' Famol,; thet
celebrated novelist, 4 write '
in his able fashion an account
of the wonder work being
performed by army surgeons.
THE WAR IN
PICTURES
Newest phases of the great
V conflict are set forth in pho
tographic :-reiriew..-,;;Well se
lected photographs that; vis
ualize events of the war for
the- discerning reader.
AT GAMP
GREENE
' ": Camp '' Greene, Charlotte, r
? N.J C, where the national
- guard' units - from Oregon,'
" Washington, Jdaho, Mon
4 tana and Wyoming will con- -l
tiiiue their training, will be'
'described- in ; picture and;
text as well as Charlotte; the,
' metropolis of the cotton belt,
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