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. The preent German warfare eprraaeotn
BMrra la a warfare agalnat mankind. It M
a war againat all oatinoa. Tli
cnalletiga ta to all mankind. Each nation
moat dacida it Itaeli bow It wilt meat It.
1 Woodrow Wilaoo.
END-THE STRIKE
fHIPBUIllDERS in Portlan4"ire refuging to treat .with the men
collectively in the effort to settle the strike. In explanation of
this aloofness by employers, P. A. Ballin, of the Supple ft Ballin
shipyards, said In yesterday's Journal:
tha' nhlnbulldern a.fa not treating- with the unions regarding the open or
closed shop, system because they cannot ,any thing to.be sained in a
diacuaglon of an impossible situation. ""- '-
The builders have no authority to treat with unions regarding wages, as
the contracts with the government specify no chance in wages without the
government's sanction.' - ' , . "
If conferences regarding changes in Wages are held, tn government must
be made a party to them.
In San Francisco, the employers held conferences with the men. and
the strike and the strike is near settlement Though the boilermak
ers are standing: out. there Is' every prospect that there will be
an early, return to work. "
If employers in San; Francisco could negotiate with their workers,
why cannot employers In Portland negotiate with Portland workers? If
ne
to try negotiations, in Portland? .
Mr. Ballin says no change in wages can be made without sanction
of the government. f In San Francisco, tentative wage scales were
agreed upon with a representative of the government actually partici
pating in the negotiations. , President Wilson himself, after an agree
ment had been reached in these negotiations wired higV congratulations
and approval. Wdre a tentativeagreement reached by negotiations .in
strengthens Wiiliain. it lsi a! yet much, better' attention on the part
u.-.;. -'. -1 I of tha - comDinr to service ..given
u.uw: Aaienramaiu ana avawoi- LMitm-iiiM baaebaU a-
ance to Prusslanisnu " It Is an Jat- j trona. There -houid be systematic
tack from the rear while the coun-1 education of streetcar patrons as to
ii v.Hh nrnn.. nUM-tn Will aor
OOtM CaM , M Wen al ma
ironu : L..t w . v. a.va iiaor of the
If we are against America In I ear for maea o exit: it being- the
it- ' .i.t. .i T...l and a h. .M...1fin Wilt MT8 COn-
uw vijaiDf waj alio ivt ciusaui 1 .
mfiu.ww MmAt.m .a i w mi I slderable itimeTIi j-erowwoln; 5
' - ;Jr e"5 cars delaying alothers roi-
for Prussia , and military despot-1 lowln-thmAhouid restricted. w
ism, our place is In .Prussia. a to have a more eaual distribution
under WllUam's flag and rearing Pfe conimied toreac
lng comfort, seats, etc
JLet - ui v all work , together for
Fourteen head Of. 'Washington I satlafactdty solution of -this probjem.
county Jersey cows brought "'TO1V
average of $221 a head in a gale j taliy help the company or the uten.
to Tillamook dairymen. In the I but on the contrary win lead to leas
dairy field, the Tlllamookers know patronagre and a determined effort to
goUaOons setUed the strike in San Francisco is it not worth while " j
William's tag.
TRAVEL STORIES
' OF NORTHWEST
By Fred LoCkley
Ling for settle tne western ana soutnern parua pi Ytnu. uocx, who helped organise tne
for settlement Croolt county at the general election Spanish War Red Cross with Clara
V" on November 7 last year. But It Barton: Katharine Fisher, whose an-
ppeaiing lor a wasn't as simple as it sounds. -In the cestors fought In every war in which
IM VATERLAKD
HE head of the German de-
partment at the Lincoln high
school confides to the pub-,
t lie tnat ne rears xne reaaing
book 'Im Vaterland," over which j
. - some excitement has arisen, "may j
not- be a wis3 selection at this
.'time' V We are constrained to ask If it
, ; ? ever would be wise to oblige
- American school children to fill
: $ their heads with material such as
thftt book contains.
,t V 'Since when have Americans ub-;
scribed to the sentiment that the
J kaiser Is a worshipful idol, that
;i his promising son, the crown
prince. Is a lovable character, that
Germany must keep up a big army
"because it is surrounded" by ene-
mles," and that Prussia and Prus
.vtians are superior . to everybody
and everything else on earth?
.'.i That Is the sort of mental stim
lulant which has carried away the
, German people Into their war of
3 Conquest for Indemnities and loot,
-t If the doctrine contained In this
j textbook is sound, then Americans
ought not to be fighting the kai
h ser. They ought to be bowing
,4 themselves at his feet in humble
submission.
Uf : It is a curious inconsistency to
teach our schoolchildren In some
?v of their textbooks that all honor
!is due to the American heroes who
f?, fought for liberty in the Revolu
: t tlonary war while, an hour later
. fj, we oblige them to read a book
which spatters with fulsome laud-
atlon the worst enemy of liberty
on "earth.
; 1 .During the forenoon we teach
' them that American free institu
:v tions are the best In the world.
.;; During the afternoon we teach
them that Prussian absolutism is
. grand and glorious above every-
thing elBe.
$J.At ; 10 o'clock they must rev'
verenoe George Washington who
fought for freedom.
. "At .11 o'clock they must bow
down to the kaiser and "the
crown prince" who have slied the
iooa oi 2u,uuu,uuu men to aes
. troy freedom.
- The selection of "Im Vaterland"
; ,- for a reading book is indeed a
trifle "unwise" Just now or at any
r other time, bur American . public
schools ' should teach American
principles, not the principles . of
.:: autocracy. We have plenty of na
tional heroes of our, own to honor
' . without going to the land of junk'
. . erdom for junker idols. The Jour-
. nal makes bold to suggest to the
school board that the space now
' . given to the crown prince and
Kaiser Wllhelm might better be
turned over to Lincoln and Ben
jamin Franklin.
- In everything pertaining to the
: War,, Oregon ?cOjitributes her quota
and more. It was done in Liberty
' .bonds, done in Red Cross, done in
"every enterprise' in which aid was
asked." The burdens fall upon a
- comparatively few, for there are
,many who do not contribute at
I all'. Those asking contributions
Of $25,000 for books admit that
V the sum 1 more' than three times
r Oregon's quota and base their ap-r
i peals ; for the full $25,000 on
. claim that the South will tall
' below its quota. . The trouble with
5 that policy " Is that in the many
kinds of demands, wise and unwise,
Oregon givers will be drained and
. In some highly important enter-
prise later, Oregon may fall below
;. her " quota. : i-'
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THE FARM BANKS'
FAIR PLAT.
White House Pickets Named
Portland. Seot. 21. To the Editor
of The Journal I have heard people
say harsh things about the Whi'.e
House pickets. Among those wli J
have stood on the picket line are u
inica Datfa Bran nan. daughter of the
Bend Is tha county seat of Destitutes I famous editor of the New York Sun;
tvtuntv .nil th.rn- h,n 'a tala, I PlnMn.. n.v.ril T7i11a l.nrht., of
Portland is it not absurd to claim that the Washington authorities Deschutes county was created from I our first ambassador to' England; La
would not sanction It? With President Wilson appealing for settle -r the western and southern parts oflrinia, Dock, who helped organise" the
xhent of the strike, with the shipping board appealing
of the strike, with every authority at Washington appealing
settlement of the strike, it is idle to contena that because of some I old days in some of the middle - west-1 thi 'countrv bu ven ten n-aa-i?
clause in the contracts, shipyard owners should not attempt negotiations K'n states when tney w""J?m Mrm, AbDy Scott Baker, whose , two
for a tentative agreement under which shipbuilding in Portland could Qut
be resumed. -' I friends and divided families and fre-lv. HcioniL win wa Miurhi., f
It is time for. Portland owners to realize that' in these disputes quently led to prolonged county seat I congressman Hill) .whose one boy Just
they cannot persistently refuse' to deal with funionsT as such. ; They l 7a "X
' . , . i .. irt adays we wage our wars tnrougn w(ham, whose brother gets leave from a
cannot wipe out a fact. Their employes are almost completely union- courts. So close was the decision astrai'ln t . . h , th ,ork.
izeu. it ue employers get worn aone, n wui nave 10 u umub w wuemer n now mumy i nouse. '
entirely by union men. They may wish It were otherwise and try to cut "xSr- . 2,Jt yzU-JSlS 8uch women.-to mention only a few,
think it is otherwise, but their wishes and their thonghts are : futile. hawreVuire; ihTt at lca.t 65 per cent vZtwlZJSlZ
uu iucii eiuuicu euwif.ua VL fc w Dmuuat n; a wk.ue, af" i ui iuvo u mo v-vwv j fuHy jtnno y the president." No such
built IB concerned. ... i iy -anaiyoia xor WOmn. and only such women, would
More to the point, they are building ships for the government and nwthcu0y' the nart of the maka sacrifices, even at the bitter coal
. . . . . - . . - i n r mi iiiTinariiaiinin. a n r w xnnrDi.n .
tn trnvprn mriT rorocn nninna. in tn uttranrrtinarr Mmmiuea i.ti, n ni. i Via t.rrt. " -- vU...UB ......
, . . ............ , .1 : ... . . . . . ,. .citation, to help their country
wuicn tne presiaeni is Benamg to tne coast in me attempt to aajusiiry u ;rwa in w vuuw itself rirht in the eves of the world
the disputes here, one of the three members is a union man.' appointed mu" f"; rTth7rS $y establishing at home the principle
at tha renuest of the president hv Samuel fiomrjara of the Arnertcan .t- ,. for which, our. men are to fight abroad.
- m - ar - I Va U3 IIVW, VVUUV V a-3 .tvauu aaaa
Federation of Labor. When this board comes to Portland, one reDre- I some of the votes had been illegally
wnen ine
tantltlva nt 1hn. on nna nf tha ohfnKiiUrlar. will ho IniHtal tn air I Counted for the division.
' - " 1 -. ar- .- vw i ..i.i .v. v.M that
with the committee at its hearings and act with' it in reaching its jronepw
decisions. - - - - 1 30 asraLnst to 4 for the proposed dl-
Thla means that Soonfr or latar.th Portland emrjlnver will h vision, these votes should not be
brought by the government face to face -With the men with whom dha ary comtuingt
iuc aio uun icmaws iv uBuuai. , it u cuuu.uuu twu uui a, uioui i county, as. in spite of tne -voting
that has . come, to pass, that cannot, be changed, and- that Portland I place being within the limits of the
.a ' " . . . ... . . ... I MwAWMaiail Ai4a Via Va-kt SaVei lltr-Ska-I In
snipDuiiaera must accept it xney expect to get government snips to duuq. , ,V J.
TV.nl. ,.fn..l fx .an IA. ' ....l I " 1 -
. uo.a - uhu ,tw M'VvybjMWb. tuuuiuvu..jiyifj lum A-ujaeu lu ouici I in the new COUntV
lrtv lt..ntlolnn. ttt.V mltrVt tnn J . Vi A lrtA . . a a
,ulv . i"ie"" i-"w i. "vaw On December 14. 191, the governor
agreement mat enaea tne striae ana put tne snipyaras in motion again aimed the nrociamation declaring
In San Franciaco throws upon the Portland owners a heavy part of the Deschutes county a political entity of flst f or democracy at home the
responsibility for the present Idleness and stagnation In the yards. tne 8tt Ten ..day. la.ter-nJ woman's party pickets have stood s!-
Meanwhlle, the unions ar3 wrong in their demands for a closed LairVrf tha membara of the len.ly ,at the ateB f.tn? WnIte. ?ouJ,e'
t t.. ii v. v. j , ------- --- , 1 reminmnf mo presiaeni ana iua na-
.uvi,. m.a iuh.i, yiavuuuij Wl bua U1CU 1U lug JBlUB cue UU1VU GOunir Court OI (DO llKvr IJ wi oaicu i , t. ni- ... , ... .v...
though we carry democracy to Europe
at the point of the sword we have not
established democracy at home.
That principle will be established
at home only when the federal govera
ment enrrancnises American women,
Twenty states cannot amend thir con
stitutions on this subject. We have
gone to congress. We have letters
from the chairman of the house judici
COMMENT AND NEWS IN BRIEF
SMALL CHANGE i
The chiropodists will do what they
can to assist in the observance of a
cornless day.
If iCr. Burbank ezseeta icr to
popularize the cactus for human con
sumption, now is his time. . ,
President Wilson "bitea on rranlte.''
maybe, but let it go at that until the
Prussian powers bite the dust.
Those steel helmets tha Britiah sol
diers wear may be mighty comfortable.
out tney certainty are not Decerning.
Colonel Roosevelt is riving as cor
rect, an imitation of barrage firs as
can be effected with mere language.
The ansae or tne renown ea jerry
Simpson, in his day the gadfly of the
house, must look down and grin at
tne spectacle now oeinc proaucea or
Congressman Heflln of Alabama.
I. SDoisavlUevie has sons to Amer
ican Lake from Wallace. .Idaho. And
there is no known way by which the
sergeant that calls the roll can pass
the buck!
A favorite character In romantic fic
tion Is the aged, lonely and mysterious
man wno, it turns out, in ms prime
used his great powers ra some cause
nf deadly avil and who now eXDlates in
whatever is the current equivalent of
sackcloth and asnea. in aoout so or 4U
years the novelists can thus capitalise
the German diplomats of the Great
War.
OREGON SIDELIGHTS .
t 1 1 1 . - -
That tTnaV. ta . hnlldinr boom on in
Arlington ia quite evident, th Inde
pendent says, from the number of ner
buildings that are . under construction
and. contemplated. ; )
Tha rjallaa Itamtier dismisses auto
crats and-autocracy with this; "Now
Is the time to talk about kings. Shoes
and ships and sealing wax are likely
to onaure, ouc mere soon wiu um u
kings to talk about J ( B
The East Oregonlan. In announce
ment of the change from six deliveries
a day at Pendleton to four a day, sug
gests further? "It is explained that
another way the dellverymen ma.y be
aided Is through people having at Im
mediate hand money necessary for usa
in paying for C. Q, D. packages. When
ever a deliveryman ia held waiting by
such a patron that much time Is lost.
The editor of the Harrlsburg Bul
letin says Joshlngly: "Since they are
beginning; to move Coburg over to Har
rlsburg. Junction City might well fall
in Una and mova ovea too. and Hai-
sey should Join the procession as we
have room for them all and will wel
come them with outstreicneu axiaa.
These towns were all located too neir
Harrlsburg to ever amount to much,
anyway. No- telling where this con
solidation and federation business will
end. It started in our churches and
spread to our newspapers and banks
and now is about to involve our
towns."
Ragtag and Bobtail
Stories From Everywhere
f
THE SECOND LIBERTY LOAN
By Carl Smith. Waatilnttoa Staff Corraapoodapt of Tha Journal
be taken on the suffrage amendment
when recommended by the president.
We have gone to the president 17 times
since be has been in office. Since Jan
uary 10 he has refused to see suffrago
deputations.
In order that the fight for democ
racy abroad should not obscure the
If, as they Insist, practically all the men in the yards are union-1 countv court of the jiewly created
iied, they have a closed shpp as it is. If they have the closed shop, county. The order of udge Duffy waa
why heat up the controversy and add fuel to ;he flame by demanding Sffi.uJS' ha" no
oz employers mat tney recognize tne situation as a closed shop, when existence in actual fact. At the ses
such recognition will eain them no thine? sion of the last legislature a bill was
Why cling to an Issue that angers the employers and that, through paMef rcc.ting tne transrer or xne
the passion thus aroused, stands in the way of the conciliation and twL o,..t! tn.
compromise that are necessary and that' must be applied on both sides ty. and. to make assurance doubly "i,0.0 flnT.1.1..11
if an agreement of any kind is to be reached?
Suffragists have been sent to Jail
for "obstructing traffic" Flfty-elgnt
have served sentences. Fifteen are
now in Occoquan workhouse. But
Through its strike, San Francisco has lost a ten-million dollar
government shipbuilding plant. Announcement from Washington yes
terday is to the effect that the plan of locating the plant at San Fran
Cisco has been definitely abandoned on account of the labor disputes
and that a site for it will be chosen on the Atlantic coast where there
is less industrial unrest.
Portland may not be losing a ten-mlllion-doilar plant by the nres-.
ent strike, but it is losing heavily, and every day of strike adds to the j wrn Brown, county clerTof Crco
iuyn iuhs ia prestige ior iuture smpouuaing DUSiness. county, refused to turn over to the of-
The government will not negotiate for ships in localities where it I ficia-isi of Deschutes county the regis
sure, creating the cpunty anew. The Quro fl"u,n,i' "u "T""1"1 uece
fight to prevent thi creation of the sa. because there has never been a
new county raged merrily in the leg- when Americans refused to flgnt
Islature ,till the passage, on January ad suffer -for democracy, for th
81, 1917, of house bill o. usoy "a" luv" -"" .iuU.h7
fnrhaa. which validated all acta in 1U vnu auverH'
connection with the creation of the
new county. The bill carried an emer
gency clause and became a law shortly
after Its passage. , , . J
In spite of tiis ract, on May 23 last
cannot be assured or delivery according to the contract. Even should
there be an immediate settlement of the present trouble's, harm has
been done to Portland that cannot be undone.
America, mum uuim snips to win tne war. or that nurnoso
congress has appropriated hundreds of millions f dollars aind the
American people are cheerfully supplying the money by purchase of
LiiDerty oonas ana tne payment of extraordinary war taxes.
tration cards of voters of the newly
created county, on the ground that the
ment."
DR. FLORENCE S. MANION,
.Oregon Chairman National Woman's
Party.
PERSONAL MENTION
Pendleton Goes to Fair'
En route to Salem to attend the state
quo warranto proceedings had not yet I fair and to return the visit' of the Sa.
been decided by the courts. I lamites to the Round-TJn city. 15 men
On December 20, 1916, Bend was se- I from Pendleton, weiring the nggeat
lected as the temporary county seat. 1 cowboy hats and the "loudest" scarfs
t nu. th. .ffVrt ,ni, tn 1 procurable descended on Portland
bring the new county into existence I Thursday night, . The crowd was headed
the residences of Deschutes county be- u T V Zi'-tr ,
The government is letting contracts for the ships and the work ofuvo that it was worth all the time. Prt" wrJL,;,E: Snd.' v D w1
bnildlne waa eolne forward nicrht anrl Av with nmm.hi. . I expense and effort, for they have a
fn rtnn-ad- f v.,. tn Ti IT', ill " Z1Z '--'''"i wonderfully rich -lice of Eastern Ore-
7, . : " x """ wt uisvatea arose ana EOn included within their 1.928,077
strikes were declared In all of the yards. I acre of territory.
The American people, in the midst of the sacrifices of men and! The newly created county Is rich in
mnfiAv for tho war nr. nr.t innbtns- .nmninAr.ti M .1 . I resources. The establishment of mod-
; " present situ- ern and extensive sawmills at Bend
oiiuu. nic, see meir ooya in unam going to llgnt In the war and has given a wonderful Impetus to the
they see the $2,000,000 every hour, or $50,000,000 a day, of their growth and development of the new
money, going out in defense against the kaiser and they are In no couniy-, Icn m resources ran
t .v,(. 1, j .. . . u n. In ecenlc assets, Deschutes county is
r" , "'aco """ wieir enorts nanaicappea destined to see wonderful development
oy uiBtui oances mat couia ne Beiuea ana would be settled, if the within the next few years.
parties to tne controversy wouia he guided by the conciliatory, compro
mislng and patriotic spirit that Is to be expected from everr AmeriMn
The present Industrial wars are heading the country straight toward
compulsory arbitration or some means of saving the government from
the weakening influences of industrial clashes in war time, it is a
course certain to be pursued if present industrial wars are not soon
enaea.
Letters From the People
CCOUNTS of the activity of
the , new farm loan banks
make pleasant reading. Up
. the nresent ' they have lent
$200,000,000 id the farmers,' who
are organizing 000 cooperative
societies ' to lane cnarge or me
business. There can not be much
doubt thai : the cooperative socie
ties for conducting' the farm loan
business will - lead on to others
for conducting; the.- general-' bus!
nesa of country' communities. ' The
day of Isolated, . wasteful, inef
fectlve effort is past in country
and city both.
The most injurious weakness of
the American small farmer has
been his inability, or reluctance, to
cooperate with his neighbors. One
reason commonly put forward to
explain this unfortunate habit of
mind is almost ludicrously wrong.
We refer to the remark that "our
farmers were so much Isolated and
thrown upon their own resources
in pioneer days that they have
never been able to work together
since."
The fact is, as every pioneer
knows, that there was a great
deal more cooperation In early
days than there Is now. . The barn
raisings, husking bees, quilting
bees and community road work of
those times were all cooperative
and have been largely superseded
by paid labor on the strictly indi
vidualistic plan. The organization
of community loan societies' is
really a return to the wholesome
cooperative principle of pioneer
life.' V- ..- '
The; farther It is extended the
better for the country. The small
fanner, working "all by himself.'
has. a hard row, to hoe. The eco
nomic forces marshaled , against
him are so formidable that it is
only rarely that he can make head
way against them. As a. matter
of fact he is frequently forced to
the wall and - has to give . up his
honored place in the country's life
to a tenant.
: The farm : banks should " Infuse
new vigor into our .diminishing
race of :! small .farmers ; who i till
their own land.. - -'
expect to feel at home among civ
ilized soldiers. The pleasant pas-
tlM. J . .
wiue ia. wmcn tney are said to
have indulged was to torture fresh-
tCktmaranieatlons sent to Tha Journal for
publication In tbia department should be- writ
ten on only one side of the paper, aboold not
exceed BOO words la length and moat bo e
Miniiunlal br tba name and addrcaa of tha
sender. If the writer does not dealre to hara I registered at the Portland hotel.
tne name pnDuaoea om aoaaia
William ' GoedeCke, Fred Yost, W. D,
McNary, E. J. Morris, John F. Qreu-
llch, J: B. Knlghjt, C. N. Lassen, S. A.
Lowell, B. F. Trombley, Otto Hohbach,
R. Folsom and Roy Blsnop. They are
in Salem today. .
a -
Stock Judge Returns
T. Johnson of La Grande, who
bias leen Judging stock at the state
fair, was in Portland Friday morning,
en route, to his home. He was accom
panied by T. J. Scroggin, banker of La
Grande, who nas been spenaing sev
eral days at Salem.
Gerard's Host Arrives
Elmer E, Hershey, attorney, of Mis
soula, who entertained James W.
Gerard, ex-mbassador to Germany, at
his home recently, and who has been
traveling with him in the west, is
Instead of a Six-Cent Fare
Portland. Sept. 27. To the Editor of
The Journal The suggestions that
were made In the editorial on the ; friends In Seattle. Mr. MacRae says
Hotel Manager Returns
M. K. MacRae, manager of the Carl
ton hotel, has Just returned to Port
land' after spending a week with
that the hotel business in the cities
of the Puget Sound section has been
uieau mat torture IS tO be OUr
mode oi warfare?
YOUR CHOICE?
S
PEAKING of the
address at the
..-After their .hazinc exploits, some
op thev upper, iclassmen: at West
Polntyjullltary academy can hardly
kmen to the fainting point, very September 28 were timely and good.
""""" - vw uuijiiws xnaians tor-1 me cny anou.a pay m xre 01 il 1 ,,... eood du. to the larfi..
tured missionaries in the old days. ""i'. S '??JZfJ? western tourist trafic.
uo tne practices at West Point IT'., i i ..r, n o nook. u. a. a. Cundv. f. w
toil on the bridges, but we have a per-1 Bishop and U, ti. cnaney, memoers 01
feet right to expect the street car com- the firm of the Western Truck At-
panyto furnish us a ride for a nickel l tacnment company, are registered at
with transfer nrivileaes. as that is the the hotel Carlton from Seattle. ,
contract -that they agreed upon. I Mrs. William M. Thornton of
One suggestion that I would like to I Great Falls, mom., as ai ine xxortonia
offer that rou did not make in your I hotel, where she will make her home
ill to rial, and that I have not seen of-1for the winter.
f ered. Is this. With all due respect 1 Miss M. ts. JBixDy, or me Maryland
to the genial and capable president of I and Huntington hotels at Pasadena,
the Portland Railway, Light & Power Cau is regisierea at tne Aiimnoman.
me what! romnanv and those who are his as-l On a motor trip along the coast. Mrs,
n.mma wagner neriug, juios neiea
Watkins, Frank Wagner and Martin
Larsen of Etna Mills, Cal., are regis
tered today at the Oregon hotel.
A. W- Stone, manager of the Hood
RiVer Apple Growers' association, is
at the Oregon, hotel.
Mrs. Robert Lincoln is registered at
the Oregon - from San Francisco.
F. Mori and R. Tamasaki, business
men Interested In shipbuilding, from
Kobe, Japan, are in the city for a few
days, en route to Ban Francisco.
Dr." and Mrs. G. L. Boy den of Pen
dleton are in the city for a visit wt'th
friends
Mr. and Mrs. James H. -8. Bates of
New Tork are in the city for a week
as tourists. They are registered at
the Multnomah hotel.
The Misses Florence Declus and Alva
Prouty of Boise, Idaho, are registered
at the Multnomah hotel.
Mr. and Mrs. J. C Langiiie are at
the Multnomah from Tillamook.
W. J. Watson, paving contractor of
Oakland, is at the Multnomah.
O. B. Bennett. Clatskanle lumbw
man, is at the Perkins.
W. 8.. Myers, a retired rancher, oi
Condon, is at the Perkins.
George E. Good, ? hotel proprietor
from Pendleton. : Is at the Perkins.
Dr. W. . H. ' Reynolds of Condon is
registered at the Cornelius. .
Mr. and Mrs. George W. Smithy Alan
Smith and E. Kellems are at the Cor
nelius from Eugene. v.- rJ?
- En route to Salem, to attend the
state fair, B. D. Lamar Tillamook mer-
Washlngton. Sept. JS.Secretary
William G. McAdoo of the treasury
department. In an address before the
waat virdnla. Bankers' association.
has clearly stated the distinction be-
tween the first and second Liberty
bond Issues with respect to the dif
ference in interest rate and the sub
jection of the new Issue to Income su
pertaxes, war profit and estate taxes.
Extension of the exemption field
would tend to build up a class of
wealthy people who would escape all
taxation, he said, while by Increase
of the interest rate the bonds are
made more attractive to the man of
small means, who receives no benefit
from the exemptions, as he does not
pay on supertaxes or war profits.
Secretary jt'eAdoo also took the occa
sion to sa5 jUat "every pacifist speech
mart, at ftita Inoonortune and im
proper time is in ef feet - traitorous."
He declared that congress has shown
extraordinary patriotism and loyalty,
and has proceeded with .unexampiea
speed in the circumstances to organis
ing the people for the Immense work
of the war. The secretary said:
These new bonds which the con-
rrm la lust about to authorize are
different from the first Isjberty bonds.
They will be 4 per cent bonds instead
of 3tt per cent bonds. They will also
be exempt from all state, municipal
and local taxation except inheritance
taxes as were the .first .uiDeriy loan
bonds. They will be exempt from all
fadara.1 taxes, including normal in
come taxes and stamp taxes, except
what we call the super or graduated
income taxes, excess or war prom
taxes and estate taxes.
"There has been some criticism, not
very much I am glad to say, about
h haaia of the new bonds. Some
people complain that thy should be
exempt from tne super income iaa
aa wall aa the normal income taxes.
Tha difficuitv about that is thlsr We
cannot finance this war tnrougn any
one class; the rich men of this coun
try cannot finance this war by them
selves. The ricn men ana xne men
of moderate means cannot do it alone.
"If you exempt tnese Donas xrom
tha auner taxes the government is
Mtmnaiiad1 to Day the -equivalent of an
Increased rate 01 interest on no ooaa
bought by the men of large means,
which gives them a return, on this
hnnd far in excess of what the men
of moderate means or the men or
small means who pay no super tax
and no income tax would get from
tha same bonds bought by them; in
effect, it means that the government
of the United States would pay to
the man of large means a much high
er rate of Interest than it would pay
to the man of small or moderate
means. These bonds must make
wide appeal.
a .
"If you make the interest rate 8
per cent the appeal is not so strong
to the men of moderate means and of
small means. If you comptf them to
take the low rate of Interest in order
that you may induce tne man witn
the large income to buy the bond at a
very high rate of interest, you will
in a measure compel tne man 01 smaii
means to contribute to his government
in the way of a concession in the
interest rate to enable the government
to pay the man of large means
hi she r rate of Interest on his bond.
That Is not a wise thing to do. We
must make a wide appeal ,with these
bonds.
"The 4 per cent rate on the new
bonds to be Issued will extend the
field of the Investment very much
more widely than the S hi per. cent rate
on the bonds of the last issue. If we
should build up ultimately through
practically complete tax exemption
preferred class or people who are
exempt from all taxation, the time
would come when It would occasion
very grave discontent. Let me Ulus
trate: Suppose the government of the
United States had outstanding eventu
war m an
State fair.
Judge McGinn of Portland
said:
If a man starts to tali
this country is doing now .does net sistants, r would suggest that they get
satisry film, I tell him to s-et an . fft .nalnscr arid e-o over their
the next train or the next boat ni
vu. 9 nave no DOlltlea nov. ik.i. ... rnntlna nf out fltinllrvi tlnn
no KepuDiicans, no Democrats. We I whereby they can save a nice littae
bunch of money, give better service.
and in addition eliminate a tot of so-
called abuse of the transfer -privllegs.
CAK PATRON.
Suggests P. RM L A P, Reforms
Portland.. Sept.. 27. To the Editor
are nothirrg but Americans now,
It is impossible at such a time
as this to have a divided allegiance.
Necessarily every individual must
be pro-American or nro-Prusslan.
Choice is unavoidable, and if of The Journal We all concede the
one is not on the side of this
country, he Is on the side of tho
kaiser.
...We are all accepting the Drotec
a 4 . " . - . :
tion or. me united States. It is
our- united States, and, all having
employes of the Portland. .Railway,
Light Power company are entitled
to better wages. All fair minded
people will concede that the company
should bear all this Increase, but that
government, city and county employes
in articular, and the general - pub
lic should bear their share. There
the ballot, it Is the kind of United fore,, permit me to suggest that. con
States that we y have made it. sidcring the elimination of4, the jitney
With our. United States struggling ITafnl -S.i::?
WUh all j its strength against the that account, as per . their own late
mightiest 'military power In the reports,, the following rate be adopted:
world, struggling in defense of Five scents cash fare on all straight
tha h.aa.. iTL iZ runs, as per city charter; cents for
the democracy: and .iberty won fOr laVe and one transfer, all cash; 7
us by the colonists in the Ameri- cents for a fare transfer-and reissue:
can revoluflon, such Opposition as 10 cents cash fare after midnight
course of the United States Is aid, privileges; full fare forchiidren tc
Is encouragement, Is comfort to eupylng seats and a .reasonable
the " kaiser.: - charge for all packages too large to
'ETen UUot so 'Intended, that i SfliUSZuta well 'studied,
opposition weakens Wilson and reductions m;service after s p. m..
ally $15,000,000,000 otfwholly tax
exempt bonds, that is. exemft from
super taxes and all other taxation.
The interest upon that would be $600,
000.000 per annum. Before this war
broke out the entire expenditures of
the federal government were about
91,000,000,000 per annum, so that more
than half the expenditures of the gov
ernment In ordinary times Would be
required in the future for the payment
of Interest upon these bonds. Suppose
that 1300,000.000 of this interest rep
resented tho amount which the gov
ernment otherwise would ccllect from
the imposition of super taxes. What
would be the result? The government
of the United States would have to
tax all the people of the United States
S300.000.000 additional to make up
the deficiency occasioned by the ex
emption of the wealthier .classes from
super taxes.
"The basis upon which these new
bonds are Issued gives rich and poor
alike an Investment upon like terms.
The super tax upon incomes is a pol
icy adopted deliberately by the Ameri
can people upon the principle that
those who are most able to pay shall
bear a larger portion of the burdens
of government. That is a sound prin
ciple. It would not be wise to set
that principle at naught in this war.
do not believe the man of large
means would hesitate to buy a gov
ernment Investment worth to him
with exemptions probably 4 per cent,
the best security in the world, more
liquid in the banks than any other
class of securities, more suitable for
Immediate sale it he wants to sell It,
and exempt from all but inheritance
taxes in every state in the Union.
In addition to this the government
offers a privilege to every man who
buys these bonds which no corpora-
tion, no municipality, no state of the
American Union has ever Offered to
Its citizens. It offers the privilege
of converting this bond into another
bond If the government should issue
one bearing a higher rate of interest
than 4 per cent during this war, under
terms and conditions that are pre.
scribed- Tou are fully protected. The
government Is giving its' citizens the
greatest opportunity . for investment
ever offered by a. civilized nation in
the history of all the world I know
it will not be said that the patriotism
of American men and women is based
wholly upon the return that is to be
received from an Investment.
a .
"I would not make an appeal purely
upon the basis of patriotism. - I would
make an appeal upon the merits of
the security first, and then I would
say to them, "When you ae getting
this superlative investment, this most
liberal Investment in the world, you
can also render a service of patriotism
to your country." If there la a man or
woman In America who has the means
to buy a bond for a cause so noble
and so great as that, to protect the
lives of our gallant soldiers and who
will not do It, the free soil of America
is no place for him or her. The spied,
did spirit you are manifesting is
the thing that is going to-make the
American army invincible.
a II
"We have only to let our men upon
the battlefield know that they will be
given all the protection that the
wealth, courage, mtght and resources
of the American people have at their
command, that we are willing to sac
rifice at home as much as we ask
them to sacrifice upon the, battlefield.
We must let them know that though
we cannot ahed our blood as they
must do, we are willing to sacrifice
comfort, convenience and property for
country and liberty. That is the
American spirit, the spirit that must
pervade this country if we are going
to win this .war and win It quickly.
"We cannot, ask those men to go
and give their very lives if we at
home are unwilling to make- these
sacrifices, Insignificant in compart
son."
tT this column all reader of Thm Journal
are laviud to eoatrlbat original matter la
story, la rer or ta philosophical olaMrrattoa
or sulking auotatton, , frost any aoare. J
Contribution of axcapUooal merit will be!
paid far at the adltur'a appraisal.) j
Oh, Well; Let It Go at That I
YOUNG William was evincing much
interest in the evening paper, but
finally, says Harper's Magazine, a
puzzled look came over his "counte
nance. : ' ; , ...
Mother." said he finally, "what
does d d stand for T' -
'Doctor of divinity, my son. Don't
they teach you the common abbrevia
tions in school?" 1
"Suae; but that don't seem to sound
right here." , .
Read it out aloud."
" 'Witness I heard the defendant
say. "I'll make you suffer for this.
I'll be doctor of divinity if I don'tr ' "
Socks Straight From Home '
Harold Becker, a nephew of O. II.
Becker of Portland, is in France with
the Canadian army, a non-commissioned
officer, having seen three years
01 service in the great war before his
twenty-second birthday, next Novem
ber. He has once more found truth to
be stranger than fiction. His mother,
who lives In eastern Canada, is an
active worker id the women's auxiliary
for the home 'contingent of troops, and
nas knit something over 100 pairs of
socks, for her sons and for the aux
iliary. Harold wrote home the Singu
lar fact that In a consignment ot
socks received from home and distrib
uted among the men, he found his
mother's name in the pair issued to
him. -
Of the Well Known Booth Family
When BalUngton Booth, head of the
Volunteers of America, was In Port
land the other day he told this story
at, his own expense: f
An examination waa being held .' of
candidates for police officer In a cer
tain city. One of the questions was
"Who'iwas George Washington r- The
answer was: "George Washington was
a British general sent over at the
time of the Revolution and he licked
the colonists so well that he became
very popular with them." Then came
this question: "Who killed Abraham
Lincoln T' The answer. "Balllnston
Booth.
To His Country
Hold me. tonight I am wearv
The dav has been cheerless and cold.
Raw were the marches and dreary, 1
Ana worn 18 my spirit, tnoagn DOia.
jaoia me tonignt in your arms; t
In their love let me quietly rest. I
Guard my repose from alarms .1
In the curve of your sheltering
Dreast, . : i
Fighting is sure on the morrow, . . 1
When war and hot hatred Is rife j
Shield me tonight from all sorrow, j
Tomorrow I die for your life. - .
Claudius Thayer in Oakland Trttrana
Uncle Jeff Snow Says:
Cleve Hedholler has been mighty
glad ever' time the governor has called
off deer huntin. Cleve used to raise
goats on that upper ranch of his'n, and
sold the jerked meat for venison to
the hunters, but the deer lit out Jist
as soon as the huntin' season started
ever year, and them city fellers shot
his goats, his colts, his calves and
some of his cows, and one year' one of
his hired men, by mistake for deer,
Sometimes Cleve got pay and some
times he didn't. It got so it was dan
gerous, indoors and out, what; with
stray bullets and mistakes, and CI eye
moved down into the valley this year,
He has gone tack now to dig his spuds
and pasture Ma stock in peace. , ,
HOW TO BE HEALTHY
Copyright, 11T.
by 3. Kealey.
KILLED BY A PIN, A man who
lived In a suburban home had a boy
6 years old. He loved that boy better
than he loved his own life. One night
the father returned from work and
called out as usual: "John where's
John?" The little feet were heard
coming, but this time the boy was
silent. He held up a finger, to show
his father. .A little sore had come on
It, evidently from something that had
occurred in his playing about. The
sore finger gave the child consider
able pain and he waa fretful, but the
mother and father did not think It
necessary to call a doctor for so triv
ial a matter. By night the sore had
gathered into a little fester, and the
father thought he would open it
Taking a pin from the cushion, he In
serted it Just beneath the skin of the
sore spot and squeezed out the pus.
The next night the finger was badly
swollen and the boy was in the moth
er's arms crying with pain.
They decided to call a docter. when
he arrived he set about at once to
dress the finger. "What have you
done for him already?" he asked the
father. He told the doctor of having
pricked the sore with a pin. The doc
tor took on a grave expression, which
immediately filled the mother and the.
xacner witn a great xear. "it is not
the original sore that I must fight, but
the germs from that pin or from the
skin, carried through by its puncture,
which have caused blood poisoning,"
the doctor said. The parents were
amazed. They had never known that
there was danger from such a. simple
procedure as a pin prick.
The blood poisoning spread from the
boy's finger through his whole body,
and in spite of all the doctor could
do the boy died within two days.
If the simple precaution of painting
the sore with iodine had been taken,
and of thrusting the pin in a match
flame before using it, a tragedy would
have been averted.
1. -,
. Tomorrow: Eugenics Benefits Off
spring,. "
chant, and Mrs. Lamar are at the .Cor
nelius hotel. .
M. Ov Stevens, business man ef St.
Paul,' is at the Cornelius. '
O. T. Pardee of the United States
geologist survey, Washington, D. C, is
at the Portland hoteL v ,
D. S. Fotherlnghara of Seattle Is at
the Portland. 1
Mrs." John Flaherty and" Miss May
Flaherty are at the Portland, from Se
attle. - i ' . - - -
Mr. G. B. Myrick and Miss Hazel
Myrlck of Pendleton are at the Wash
ington hotel. .
T. F.- Kerin, of Lewlston Is at the
Washington.. , --
Mrs. H. M. Cox Is at the Washing
ton from Arlington. . ' " . .
Mrs. C. J. Retd has moved to the
Norton's hotel for the wlnr.
Mrs. J. O'Neill of Oregon City Is
registered at the Nortonla,
J. 8. Dinehart, business man of Los
Angeles, is at the Carlton. -
Mr, and Mrs. Jerry Cooney of Loon
Lake. Wash., are at the Carlton.
Americans in London
. i From tbo Omaha Be
Shooting craps on Piccadilly Circus
glimpses the evolution wrought by the
America invasion . of . London. It is
only a starter. . As time wags on and
the pep ot live ones animates the oil
town from Ram cat alley to Bishops-
gate one may vision baseball en Par
1'ament Square, rolling tenpins on Pail
Mall and bootlegging in the dusty by
ways of the Tower. Stranger things
have happened,
DUN A J EC THE v
WATERLOO OF
THE ROMANOFFS!
Mackensen's great victory
that saved Austria takes
on rjew importance as pri
maty cause - of Russia'j .
collapse. So declares
Frank H. Simonds in his! '
Sunday war article de
scriptive of this epochal
struggle, which he classes :
with Verdun and The
Marne as the three big
battles of the war to date; r
OREGON. BOYS
AT CAMP GREENE
News letters relate the exj- ?
periences of units. of sthe
Oregon National v Guard
now . undergoing training
at Charlotte, "N. C Jtist
the kind of reading"', that,
, interests' the friends -at
FICTION
AND FUN
" si.
The lighter side is not
overlooked in the' Selec
tion of,, feature materia!
for The Sunday Journal. 1
The Fiction . Magazine lis
a short story section pf
-r a r e - m e r t; whife ' tie .
comic, section 'is.the,blst
there is'tcr be bad;;
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