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THE OREGON DAILY JOURNAL, PORTLAND, THURSDAY, JANUARY 3, 1918. cattle has- been : forced la extraordi nary percentages by 'high priced cat tle foods and shortened ranges. In spite - of a glutted .market, hides are held for high orlces. There la Pubtuhed erery day, afternoon umotniat -eVerY ; evldencl of manloulatioh and IU gmunw - -- - V -AH CTpepawpiewT kbwspafeh " a a jacksom .pobUsbar .Mm Ann! flanwwn k af Tha Joornal ,.- : Inc. Broadway and Xamhfli atreeta, Portland, I control - Of market. v i trrfrftt. Hides should be as cheap or cheaper than : before . i . - 4w . - bntaracs ae xoe fiowiiun bv rviwwi ..., I (ramtniaeUm UiraucU tne nail a aeeona ciaae i iregou, . . ,1 . There is no known reason for shoot 1KLKFHONKB Mela W8 . A-a041. 1 hi . rtnnM,. srwi Jtlhtf It. nriee. . All flnpartM ta reached py tn a saaaao ra. " , . ' Ta tae epemtoe what dcpart t yu wnt, The enormous dividend of several roariGM AOVKKtuuxo BtkicsKJi t ati v jb hundred per cent declared last year i St by the leather trust is evidence of ( bniidin, chteMo. , , brutal profiteering. , Bihll5nSSdt"aSu? ofl&iSsT" ddr- ta The trade commission will render : iiaiLX tMOHxiNG ob ArriENoo) a high service if it probes to the Ob mt....ss.eooaa month..... .aOj bottom and lays every fact bare. "Owe yen. ...... S3. MiOM mouth.. ...$ .25 - DAILY. OB AniKCWS) , AMD . -..:.... . BUKUil On year. . . . . . . $7.60 lOne Booth S .65 If the kaiser had real hopes of con tinued military successes, he would make no peace proposals. He brought on the war, he wanted the war, bot for his mad ambition there would have been no' war. His proposals for peace mean that heifeels he has got all he could ' OUtof j the war. Since he made the war, it is fo those on whom he made war to say when there shall be peace. is needed. ! . Its., decline implies a 'cor responding decline; in spiritual en ergy. It .means decaying, ideals and a progressively darkening outlook on our economic and psychological prob lems. Every rural v neighborhood ought to pray for a minister who has been thoroughly educated, "not "tn Greek and Hebrew but In rural eco nomics .and sociology. THE GENTLE WOLF T ne f the Mae that bar eei-red to ecmaince tu that tha prueaiaa autocracy was not and could nrrar ba nr friend It that from tbe Tery outset of the present ' war ft baa tillad our ntuaspeatins csaa munrttae and een oar effacee at oTru meat with epies and aet criminal lntriruee ererrwhere af oaV- W oodnw Wtiatm. X AT LAST HE Prussian - wolf in sheep's clothing looked enchantingly lamblike when he began nego tiations for peace with the inno cent Bolshevikl. He growled as gently as a dove. KeJlher teeth nor claws were permitted to come in sight and . terrify the guileless prey. ' But now that Russia's armies have been disintegrated and the German lines reenforced all along the west ern front the wolf casts off his woolly attire. Both teeth and claws are very much in evidence and the Bolshevik! begin to understand their HEY have become suddenly ex- J playfellow a little better. ' cited at Washington over inlanJ The kaiser asks nothing from his ,, J waterways. , beloved Bolshevikl friends but per 4 , : Immediate investigation of the petual possession of all the principal Possibilities of the waterways Mas fortified places in Poland and the f been ordered by Chairman Hurley Baltic provinces, with strong garri- .. of the shipping board. Senator Reed sons to keep the flame of brotherhood said In his speech that Director Gen- brightly burning. ; i-' eral McAdoo should consider the If this demand "were granted It Waterways as a means of .relieving would shut Russia off from the Ba'- tfae railroad congestion, and that an tlo, exile her from the sfeterhood of ' appropriation of $50,000,000 should European nations and cancel all th? be .i made for construction of tow- progress she has made since Peter boats and barges and to put the the Great effected his fundamental waterways in condition for use. For reforms and conquests. ' the same purpose, the shipping board If the kaiser has his' way in the ' may request a special budget. In peace negotiations, Russia will travel his speech. Senator Reed said the road by which Poland went to n hs emergency, every '. navigable destruction a century and a half ago. waterway In the country can be put niPariT that f th aim ha haa In In shape and equipped with a fleet of ue7 "laJ 19 lne flmv ne m barges and tbwboata in the space of niind and ne seems to he within a six months at a cost not to exceed stone's throw of winning it. ' Noth- 150 wo.ooo. tv, v ing sUnds In his way but the tardy u It would be possible, by connecting k -di,,.ii,i , Chicago and. the .Twin Cities in the PereePtion hy the 3olsheviki that north, and the Pacific coast via the tney nave oeen maae IOCIS Of. Panama canal, with the AUantlo sear I This is now dawning upon the'r . When you put 25 cents or $1 or to into war savings stamps you do not give it away, or throw It away, but you loan it to your country to help fight the war. In - five years . th amount you lend will be paid back to you with interest compounded. You can form a habit of thrift by putting a small amount every day or every few days into the stamps THE DAY OF CONFIRMATION I ' 'A 'if ' board, tJ take a tremendous load off tne rauroads. , It took a war and the aotual break- befogged minds. If we can trust the reports, they decline to play the kal .,.. j . r . ser's same any lonxer and have ; uwu ui mo raitroaas o onng anoux . , MM x. - , - . . . IS thlsromlse of acUon. It seems to bken offth oneid negotiations lV?:be the fact that the American de- whei .Prossla laW down the law tnocracy is hard to convince. It is wont to run along in the same old . rut. It foolishly permitted railroad : managers to determine what the transportation system of the country should be. It refused to ee that tn this vital thing, the railroad mana- : 'jgers had selfish , aims and obviously and Russia meekly obeyed, where the kaiser demanded everything and Russia conceded it. It Is probably a -good thing for the world that Prussia has shown its hand In the Bolshevikl peace ne gotiations. The Russian people may be inspired by the betrayal they could not take the broad view of haT? "f 10 take up their arms i f , -transportation. The managers, by Tu' , . "T T w L I .Processes, well known, even knied the war by which their country has , i . Off as far as they, could the water- s"1' OWiC-' f j - , way transportation of the country which at one time handled a colossal traffic In New Years greetings, Samuel Gompers calls upon organized labor The war, however, and the actual t0 Bink Inlividualism into combined breakdown of tha railroad has at Purpose in neipmg lign. mo war. jvir. last brought a realization. oer. Gompers course is a powerful Influ- ( i - manv's Imnroved watnrwavm cuuo iu wuuucuuiut, uo iuui wio 1 ' y) part of her great war preparedness. to Public confidence They do the commercial transports THE RURAL CHURCH ic 0 MM EN TING rather gloomily upon the condition of the rural church in Lane ceunty, the Eu gene Morning Register ends with f tion . now and leave the railroads almost .free for war service. 'Even with the frightful vicissitudes ' of the war on, Germany is as regu- larly and diligently improving her id Waterways as she! is builrilnir nan. j j ; non and manufacturing munitions, j the discouraging remark that, taking : Our unconcern has been as re- verythlnf into account and making . markable as lamentable. We had auovvance for shining exceptions ."tho i ' warning. 1 The Rivers and Harhors country church is rapidly approach- ' . congress has long agitated the sub- ,n a PInt where It must be rc- ! ,; Ject The Journal and a few other earded as a failure." I newspapers in America have never The Register pointedly contrasts ' ceased to urge the waterways as a the declining country church with ; " great and vitally necessary part of Jne thriving country grange, which , a perfected transportation system. nas made itself both' an economic -' C -'Perhaps at last the movement of 411(1 a social power in many up-to- ' ' American traffio is to be by a co- communities. Our contemno- ordlnated and scientific system. 1 1 ary s timely comment moves one to inquire why the church, which theo- '- What France most needs in heln retlcally offers so much to mankind. from America, says an arriving should lose Influence while the com- y; French commissioner Is "men, wheat, Paratively modest grange and like or- 1 ships and locomotives." What we ganlzations, should continually gain? V celled for from France in the Ameri- We are not conceited enough to . can Revolutionary struggle . wa? f ancy that we can answer this qucs money, men and ships of war and uon ""w out one or two points N A series of articles early, last year, The Journal pointed out that Northwest railroads were discrim inating against Portland and in favor of other ports, that artificial barriers in the way of raie discrimi nations had been raised against Port land's transportation possibilities, that Portland's geographical location entitled her to a commerce that she was not getting because of unfriendly railroad influences, and that the du plications of service, the long hauls and the mountain climbs were waste ful, unsound economically, a cause of inefficiency m the transportation situation. For its courage and frankness in pointing out the truth The Journal was called "falsifier" and "liar" and 'railroad baiter" and many other uncomplimentary names by Portland newspapers in general. It was .es pecially anathematized by Portland publications that feed on crumbs from the railroad table. Some railroad advertising was with drawn. The paper's writers and pub lisher were referred to .by on high railroad person as "those anarch ists." Select circles close to the railroad throne in Portland's business wona viewea xne journal wun con tempt and alarm. Some of them went so far as to say The Journal is a curse to Portland." In the series of articles The Jour nal contended that discrimination by the roads, the use of the loug haul instead of the short haul and the mountain climb to Puget Sound in 1 stead of routing traffio through the i Portland gateway, were wrong and ought to be changed. The day of confirmation of all then said by The Journal has come. To correct the very evils The Journal then eomplained of, towit, round about routings Instead of direct rout ings, long hauls instead of short hauls, the railroads have been taken over by the government. That was substantiation of The' Journal's contentions. The govern ment found that it could not fight the war with the managers carrying on their crazy routing of traffic. And now comes the Oregonian with full admission of the soundness of The Journal's position. It says: They (traffic and rate men) are be ginning to believe the government order will level all artificial barriers that have been raised against Portland In the past and that' rates favorable to other points, former railroad discrimi nation, unsatisfactory rate adjust ments by commission, will no longet wield their malign power to retard the progress of this port. Portland's geo graphical position alone. It Is con tended, will win commercial dominance for the Columbia river district against the blandishments of the Puget Sound ports. Government control of the railroads Is taken to mean the straightening and shortening of raU routes across the continent and the placing under the ban of cir cuitous routing. . The ad vantages of the Columbia river water level route have been common know! edge for a long time, but they have been offset to a degree by favoritism to other ports by railroad Interests. In such words the Oregonian ad mits that The Journal was not a "liar," not a "falsifier," not a "rail road baiter." itsucUxnark no Ships to carry produce away It p4ris, Cairo,- Jerusalem, Constantinople would seem; to follow that there and Yokohama, and bad agenttr In the would be no ships to carry merch an- principal porta and cities of the world. ,,. - . ..-, j- When the war broke out we had about dise there from the outside . world. w meQ empioyed conductors of par While Alaska business Is FStagnat- ties. My work in the tourist agency Ing for lack of Ships the "harbor of fcaa taken me across the Atlantic some Portland Is comparatively bare of thlng ver "i0 times., i have picked up " ' , ., a good many languages In my travels ships. - The docks are Idle. The and T havs Borae knowledge of 2S dif whole water transportation system f rent, tongues. The ones I speak mod, nf f h jrtvr fa marking- timn and ret- lluently. however, are French. German. r ' - Italian. Spanish. Norwegian. Swedish, rograaing., ... Danish. Japanese, Mandarin Chinese and What S difference there would be t or ordinary conversation I can get along the Portland waterfront if the along very comfortably In Turkish, Hin- stagnation of Alaska business were "JB. and J7K!er? Grek?..I.ct!! . . , , . . , to the x. M. C A. to emui as a sec being cured by Portland ships link mary lor Ru83la -tut they switched ing the nortnern pons wun ; ins I me into the transportation bureau. docks, of the Portland harbor. I suess I wUl stay here for a Wooden ship,, made in Portland LJ 7?JSSJSZ and owned in Portland, could Plyldays.- between Portland and Alaskan ports. n . .. rfo ., The war work objections raised J French consular office with Dr. Dun- aarainst thm would not aoDly to rung's assistant to secure my visa, He Alaskan service, it would be a good SJ5V. 'JST iSSii move ior roni&na uusu:B mai 1 vtlah I spoke as many languages as h4 financiers to see what could be done I does." I said, "How many do you towards supplying Alaska with the speak?" He answered. 'Tor some : ' CXDAVMENT AND NEWS IN BRIEF. ; . i" uvea in vou&iuiLuiuyie, jeiu- ships she needs to move her pro- necesnaiy ducts, it might be discovered that t6 understand a large number of lan Alaskan products are needed by the guages. i speak 12 languages. Dr. .rtt ir, fh m.n.Mition of the Running and myself occasionally talk eu.wU.u.u. 1 Arship. an tn Vn In rr-aj-Hr- war, ana uiai fortiauu uu wvwii ships for Portland-Alaskan service would be of war time assistance to the government. It is worth check ing up, and following up. Letters From the People JOURNAL MAN ( ABROAD V By Fred Lockley. Commanloatloca arat To The Journal for publication in tbia department Mould be writ tn on only one aide ot tbe paper, ahoold not xeead SOU worda tn length and asnat be ac companied br the naroe and addresa of tn ander. If tbe writer doea not dealre to ha tbn name publlabed be hmild ao atata The Prices of the Substitutes Silverton, Or., Dec. 31. To the Bditor of The Journal I have Just been reading the article In toda.v'a Journal entitled New York. Probably there IS no 1 food Ooniwrvatlan Mint Go on With No busier place in New York city than Relaxation at All." Now, let us Just the international headquarters 01 me consider a few things, and. first, meat T. M. C. A-- at 124 East Twenty-eighth less days. We are ordered to use such street. In the past this office has things as g&ne, poultry, fish, eggs and handled approximately a muuou sea foods. Now we have to pay ior poui lars a year. Last May it was real- I try, say, a small, old chicken, 60 cents. ised that the work would be greatly I Well, it makes one meal for us. One enlarered on account of the war, 'and I pound of beefsteak at 16 cents will make plans were made to raise 33,000,000 to us two meals. For fish, here, where it is carry on the work. It was soon seen go plentiful, we have to pay at least 20 that this sum would be utterly Inadc- cents. A pound makes one meal, and a ciuate, and the limit was raised to small one at that. We have been paying 35.000,000 'and later to 310.000,000. Al- j 60 and 62 cents for eggs. Sea foods are most every soldier who wrote norat 1 impossible to get here, as lar as 1 Know, spoke of the value to the men In tho I Second, wheatless days : Cornmeal is army and the navy, of the work done 1 so high it is impossible for us to get It, bv the Y. M. C. A. To care properly only as a change once in a great while. for all the armed forces ot the United Hye flourV the same. Nine pounds of States, it was -decided that at least buckwheat costs 70 cents. ' 335,000,000 was necessary. Meanwhile My husband Is a Civil war veteran, the' French army, seeing the value of He receives 321.50 monthly, and is 71 the work, asked the United States to years of age. I have sons to the army give the same service to the French now, one unmarried. They told me I soldiers, and so a whirlwind campaign must not let my 14-year-old son work. was conducted and 350.000,000 raised as the .government would help. But we to carry the work On up to July 1, 1918. have received none. Now, because it is Every army officer from secretary 1 impossiDie ior us to pay me niga prices r.i. rinwn u -sreJl &s the naval or- I ior 100a anowea us on inese iwo uays, fleers, including Secretary Daniels, saw J we are called unpatriotic Who Is to the value of the work of the Red Tri- blame? We are giving sons and are nele. so the government asked rur- aoing our Dest to live on our smau m- tr-er service of the men wearing this pome. What else can we do 7 eymbol. It has asked the Y. M. C. A ONE WHO WANTS TO KNOW, to take over the tremendous task of You ought not to be called "Un pa- operating the army canteens In France. I trlotlc." Mothers who have given their This will involve the handiinm 01 many sons to the army are going to do all in additional millions, of monejr a year, their power to sustain those sons by any The canteens are to be run by the Y. self-denial that is possible, this one in- M. C. A. on the basis of service. Ex- eluded. The Journal is not in position, act cost "will be charged to soldiers on the facts related,, to answer this for rail supplies. Some .idea may bo mother's question of what to do. Cer- had of the expansion of the work when tainly, the food administration or the it. is realized that in addition to uie 1 people or suverton ao not expect a more than - two tnousana secreuurieB 1 muuier wiui buds in ui aroij iu biwv now on the ground 4234 additional m order to observe meatless ana wneat- eecretaries will be in the service by less days "without relaxation." Anyway, July 1. One rule has been made and The Journal does not is -rigidly enforced no worker is sent for war service at a salary greater Mam, ana uam than he has been receiving in other Portland, Dec. 3L To the Editor of work. As a matter of fact, you wUl The Journal uurea nam on tne r ortina find plenty of secretaries who have nrket is retailing at from 38 to 40 been drawing from 350 to 3100 a ween cents a pound, while one meat company In nrivale emnlovment who are going doing business in a small Oregon town to France on a salary of 3100 a month. 13 selling nam ,i its own curing uia . . 1 tar superior in, quality, aeuverea in T. M. C. A. secretaries will soon Portland, for 30 cents a pound. WUl you t.c servine- the Russian armies. " tha kindly inform me why the inferior prod troops In Mesopotamia, the American uct soia in roruana costs irom o 10 ju soldiers at home and abroat, the cents more than the excellent interior irvonAh th Ttnlian armies. It is I OreKon product? A READER. such' a tremendous proposition that it U hard to get a grasp of it. I have met most of the heads of the depart ments, and if I had the time I could give an article on the work being clone by each of them, but I am going to confine myself in this article to acs . v SMALL CHANGS -. - The Huns put the "nun" la hungry. m m . m Have you smoked yet? . a Are you saving for Sammy? The newly, married man In the office hasn't yet come, back to earth. Seems that General Mann wasn't the man to command the Rainbow' division. The gambling hells may be no more, but there are till some chips that pass in the night. r Thrift begins " with " little savings. Learn economy and you start on the road, to success. Sir (?cdl Spring-Rice has probably found that being British ambassador to tne united states is no rice pudding. TwiU be perfectly all right with ua if the Huns in Italy are completely snowea unaer. mm When you look upon this food control ler idea as being somethlnr new in vour experience, haven't you forgotten that you were once a DabyT m m m Is this fine weather for the irrlira- tfon congress? Or does it tend to dis tract the Irrigator's mind from the business in hand, and una him to th comfortably dry seclusion of a movie? The made-ln-Grmanv neace nill vu too much for even the Bolshevikl to swallow. It wasn't even sugar coated because the Huns couldn't spare the sugar. . ... . a While we are tumlnar over new laa v rnd tartinsr out BVara.in with & nira clean deck, why not reel ace the old tattered and grimy flags about the city wim spanning, sparaiing onesi Looking about for suarar substitutes someone has discovered that the sweet ening in a dried prune Is sufficient to give a semblance of sweetening to sr cup of tea or coffee.. And many are so full of prunes -that a sugar shortage needn't work them in the least. OREGON SIDELIGHTS . nmnrrm Tt AYtr ' who recently ceased publishing the Oreswell Chronicle, is establishing a new paper at Gardiner. "While the East-is in the grip of the storm king." cautiously remaras ine Pendleton East Oregonian, 'the Nortn weet is enjoying ail . the pleasure, of spring thump, thump on wood. A hot air heating system has been . 114 1- -k,.svi Kfilldlnar at Port 111. . ... WMWW " - Orford, which has hitherto been healed by the primitive ana unwuuaswij stove method. " As If to taunt luckless Easterner. thai RtiJtrtdan Klin in its last ' lU J printed this: "Eating Christmas dinner on the open porch and sleeping wu littlA fnvtrinr and the doors and Win dows open and violets blooming on M" Inwm ma.v not anneal to the Easterner, but it is a condition that suits the Western -Oregonian. even though he knows not the presence of Icicles and snow. Tn ahIm BtthT njtonia of tha com m unity may become better acquainted u.-lth nna another, and to foster . the spirit of good fellowship, the business men or stanneiu wui-aeep upan on Thursday, January ao. and at that time will entertain the farmers of that community and their wives. The cci sinn la denominated "community day.' A feature will be addresses by various agricultural experts. "OAorcra Tetzle while butchering cow at the City meat market slaughter yards this week decided to do a little research work," says the Brownsville Times, "and he opened the stomach of the cow. He was surprised to find that the animal was HooverUlng and was nice and fat. The stomach con tained two rocks, the largest of whtcn measured one Inch by an Inch and a half, a copper rivet, a bolt, a washer end 18 nails. The chemical action on some of the nails had reduced them to the slse anf sharpness of needles. All of the stuff showed signs of wear." Ragtag and Bobtail Storiee From Everywhere ITe thai eolajna a3 raadara ml Tba laanal are forked ta coatrttxit ertainej aaatfr tm atory. ta ttW a la phUotopbieal obaartaaua r etrlalaa aootattaa. Iron aar aoura. Ooa trQmUooa ot asaaptfcMal aiarll wUl a paid iat at ta editora aseraaaX . . Contributory KefiUgene AFTER one of the famous fairs at Tl noerarv a man was found rulltv of RMirderlng another man by striking nun wiui a buckthorn.' said former President Taft. Illustrating a point In "contributory negligence? The. Judge, asked the usual question had be any thing to say why sentence should not be passed upon him?" "Well, my lord. answered the nria- ner, "all I can say is that a man with'. a xntn Bkull ha4 no business at Tip perary fair. " ' . . - . -. Some Husbands Wife Can you let me have a little, money, John? Hub Certainly, my dear. About how little? A NOTE OF WARNING Aa Editorial of Tba Joarsal. of Jun 18. 1917. The Irrigation men are holding their annual convention in Portland. They are trail blazers. They are the outposts of a great movement. They are the prophets of a mightier Oregon. When the work on which they are engaged is finished, the taxable property of Oregon outside of Multnomah-ounty will be doubled in value by making productive lands now barren. asa swtt ftsim I PROFITEERING IN SHOES are pretty obvious to everybody. Tho Register hits the nail on the . hea:! when H suggests that the country church has failed to make itself practically useful. Jts ministry ha 4 rvvHERE Is welcome news in th I announcement that the federal not. as & rule, been educated to un I ! trade : commission will Invest!- derstand rural problems or symD- . gate the high price of shoes thize with rural needs. And the best and other leather goods. A news friends of the church, among whom dispatch says: jwe hope to be counted, must con Action was determined unon as a fe8s that SO far as country life is ' result, "exceedingly high prices- pec- concerned, the sectarian church has SiirTtav.11 i? t0 the; part of a killjo, hides and leather are now on hand ? DDOsm mnocenl recreation, , pay t and , that --: tannJertes, leather f actorle-1 ,nS Blight attention to the funda . and shoe factories are .operating far mental requirementa of youth, and , short of their capacity. I ocuunvina- ltjelf hik o,omi- , .- . a tf. a J a !1 a a I 0 " w WM SlVaUtUUU LSI JU ' The stock of hide? in America is hems of theology which letid to strife so largo uiai, wio saio is auu. bos- rather than harmonious cooperation. wn- reported to oe congested with We : have .? known rural neighbor existing stocks with little demand hoods to be broken up Into warring for that on 'hand. ' factions over such subjects as bap South American hides are now tism and the future state of. the pouring into vnis . oounvry . in im-1 wicked. mense volume. They formerly went We do, not beUeve that a country to ' Europe, but the war stopped newspaper, or t umr nnhlih. in a that. .Practically: their only markci city like Eugene, can do a belter . now v is America- piece of work than to inin with tha mere nas oeen an unusual outpu. i more Drogressive ler-v in i.hnr. of American hldca. Slaughter oiiiny to tipbuild the rural church. Ill secure' no ships, in 'which to send THE CALL FROM ALASKV J OHN R. BEEGLE, a former resi dent of Portland, but for the past twenty years engaged in business in Alaska, made somt very Interesting statements regarding Alaska shipping conditions while in Portland recently. They are nar ticutariy interesting because of their direct bearing upon the Portland shipping situation Alaska, all year, has felt a grea need of ships. Unless we get som3 of the new vessels that are now building: I am afraid Alaska will be in a bad way for transportation. "This year our companies were forced to build a warehouse jn the middle, of the street at Ketchikan to store fish while waiting for Bhios There simply are . not enough ships to handle the traffic, and, as I under stand it now, no contracts are being made because we don't know where the 6hips are to come from.' That is 1 the testimony of a man who has 'spent 20 years in v Alaska business, during the last six of which he has beenehgaged In sal mon packing at Ketchikan. He ought to know, and doubtless does know, the conditions that exist in that ter ritory. - His story tells that Alaska TTusines3 ?4is Idle, or largely so, because it can PERSONAL MENTION Visiting Here From Hosier Dr. C. A. Macrum, formerly a Port lonri nhiuUl!iT la fit tha Portland hotel cribing the work of a single one of for an extCnded visit. Dr. Macrum lives the scores or activities cameo, on oy on fpult ranch at Mosier. the national war council. I a a Every secretary who sails for France Army Officer at Portland sees Dr. H. W. Dunning at least sev- Lieutenant Colonel and Mrs. F. G. eral times. Dr. Dunning Is manager Knabenschuh are guests a the Port of transportation, and in addition to land hotel from American Lake. this takes care of tne department ox a passports ' and insurance. For weeks Mr. and Mrs. George Laals from Spo- he has been working from 9 a. m. to kane are in the city en route to Cali- midnight. I asked him the other day fornla and are staying at the Cornelius. to give me a 10 or IB minute inter-1 jr. an(j ajrs. II. A. Wallace of Med- view on his department. A long line eor(j are quests at the Multnomah, of men was waiting so he said "I Mrs. C. D. Martin of WalU will give you 15 minutes. Come here or.a rialor nt tha pnrtw,nn fnnla-ht at 11:30 and I will talk With VOU " " w .-o "V " untU I have to catch my train, which .Many tourists are in Portland en rTte leaves at 11 :55" That ' nieht I turned to California for the winter months. un for my appointment and found Dr. I- Among those at the Cornelius are : Mrs. Dunning Dusier tnan a Dee, arranging to n. a.. nur ut uii x-o.no, muhu , r . s-et a bunch of men off on a boat M. Kowrl of New York city, Elford J. that had dropped in unexpectedly. He I Jaqueth of Llbby. Mont.; Miss Effie turned the work over to his assistant. I Nlckleson or Tracy, Aiont., ana Mr. ana and said to me, "What do you want I Mrs. George F. Bruce of Boise, laano. me to .say and Where shall I start! I Frank A. Rove, a banker of Wheeler, "Who are you. wnere were you porn, i o- la -tayinir at the Multnomah. what have you done, how ao you nap- 1 x, Barr 0 Kelso Is a guest at the On numerous occasions, The Journal has pointed out that the railroads are unable to take care of the transportation interests of the country. It is time to sound another warning note. Shippers may as well make up their minds to face a more serious condition within the next few months, if the war continues. If proofs are desired, the official records of congress and the -rtatements of transportation managers supply them. There is now pending before congress a bill to amend the act to regulate commerce 60 as to give . the president authority to discriminalfl between classes and kinds of freight and, as required, preferential movement. In other words, it is officially recognized that the railroads can not promptly handle all the traffic, and some will have' to Wait. Nothing else is mean". than in this proposal for the president to be authorised to grant preference of movement. With the bill, a report was submitted, and as part of the -report, state menta of the railroad managers were included. If any have thought Th Journal unduly alarmed, they can read what railroad managers have to say. and draw their own conclusions. Thus, D. Willard, president of the Balti more fc Ohio and advisory chairman of the Council of National Defense, said : They (the rallrojula) are not able to handle all the business offered. Inasmuch as there is more business to be handled than the railroads are able to handle. it becomes necessary in the public Interest to decide what particular character of shipments shall be given priority of movement. If this is the existing condition, what will the situation be when the new crops have to be moved and military necessities in transportation have to be met? But there is other testimony. Howard Elliott, in a speech at the New Willard May 25, said: The railroads, oven In a time of profound peace, cannot furnish adequate transportation at all times. The cosmtry, for Its own interest, ought to permit us to spand at least a billion dollars a year in new additions to oui- plants. I am afraid there may be a shortage of transportation. In discussing the bill granting authority to the president for prefer ential movement of traffic. Senator Hollis said on the floor of the senate: The facilities of the railroads are at present Inadequate to perform ail tho business of the co-intry. There must be discrimination against some classes ot traffio and the discrimination should be applied to help the government win the war. It is well known we have not cars enough, we have not locomotives enough, we have not tracks enough. Some one has got to be given authority to discriminate because we cannot all be treated alike. They cannot all get their work done. Senator Hollis added that different industries would be complaining bit terly on account of delay for their shipments, but that the delays cannot be helped. Senator Robinson said: The railroads have found themselves unable to transport all of the property tendered to them for transportation, and Just as surely as you live and this war continues, that condition Is going to grow worse and more acute. There is plenty more of the same kind of testimony in the congressional records. The last circular issued by the National City bank of New York says: The weak spot in the industrial organisation Is the railroads. The railroads are undoubtedly doing better, but the volume of traffio is In excess of their capacity. Such is the condition. It will become more acute. There wMl be bitter complaint. Undo.iotedly. the stress will be brought home to Portland alon t with the rest. There ought to be preparedness for a situation which the highest authority proclaims must come. Water transportation could go a IaTIg way In affording deliverance. Th Council of National Defense, the secretary of war, congress and all others in authority should viafe their attention directed to the inland waterways an I to the necessity of aiding in their navigation. Public bodies should vision the situation and urge action. Portland, with a few ships that she could control, could be largely independent of the railroads. With steamboats on 'the rivers, Portland could carry on her business with much of the interior undisturbed an1 unafraid. i Not in alarm, but In a hope of helping the local community prepare itself for whatever is to come. The Journal points to unimpeachable testl mony herein, and submits that testimony to Portland's sober reflection. t Terriflel , In certain parts of the West Indies , there are negroes descended from slaves ot early Irish adventurers. Hence many of these blacks today speak tbe English language with a broad Irish brogue. - A Dublin gentleman, arriving at a, West Indian port, was accosted by a burly black, a fruit vender, who said: The top nv th mornln' to ye. an' would , ye be afther wan tin' to buy a bit o fmlt, son-"- , "An' how long havs you been kersT "I ssld the Dublin man In amassment. "Goln on three months." said the ped dler, thinking of his Inland home. "Three months. Is It? Only three months and as black as that? Faith, -I'll not land." Speaking of War Now Dick and Earl thar'ra both mj pah ' " uara sona ta agat tba toa. And Uft in my can both their sta To taka "am oat and aaow sua a food tune. Den to be "in charge of this depart ment ?". I asked. His eyes twinkled as he said, "It seems to me If I : answer those questions I will havo covered the ground pretty thoroughly. However. I promised you an interview. so I am going to make good. I vraa born in Boston 47 years ago. I grad uated from Yale In 1894 ; received my Ph. D. degree in 1897 and became a Perkins. D. A. Clarke from Corvallis Is at the Oregon. Mrs. F. M. Otten from Hood River Is at the Norton! a. Miss Helen Sullivan from Chicago is staying at the Washington. Mr. and Mrs. D. G. Keys from Salem are guests at the Oregon. O. H. Holmes from Clatskanie is reg member ot the faculty, having the utered' at the Perkins. chair of Semitic languages and teach ing Hebrew. Babylonian and Assyrian. I have always had the restless foot and a desire to see tbe far cor ners of the world. Before I went to Mr. and Mrs. L. O. Slfert from Tilla mook are guests at the Cornelius. O. W. Loom is, an insurance man of Seattle, is at the Multnomah. Mr. and Mr. F. K. Judd of Pendle- college I was an able seaman and had ton are staying at the Portland hotel Deen arouna le norn twice, o you g A Rassier from Pickleton, Wash see I received the degree of A. B. even a guest at the Washington hotel. before I went to college, lmmeaiaieiy r r Monson from Albany. Or.. Is at upon my graauauon irom laio m io i the Oregon Dr. Cook empioyea me as purser or G H Boone from Albany. Or., Is at tne gooa snip aiiranaa 10 go on an i e perkins. .Artftic exploration trip, our snip was Lieutenant James D. Fletcher. U. S. wrecaea on ine ureeniana coast aooui A t , ln the clty from Camp Lewis u aegrees norm lamaue. ai a. piiaoe i and Js a guest at the Portland canea suKKertoppen. we went agrounai John jj. Bauer of Walla Walla is cn the reel.. Dr. cook ana myseu too i registered at the Norton ia. the ships noat ana went up tne k. D. Harris from Los Angeles is at ureeniana coast in searcn pi neip. ai i jjjj Washington. Kangerlerduakfjord we ran across a r h. Houston from Hood River Is ralibut fisherman who took us aboard i at the Perkins. and back to the Miranda. The Mir- Mrs. J. G. Hornburger from Seattle anaa was aoanaonea in a waierioggca js registered at the Multnomah. condition, though her master took tne j Mr. and Mrs. Ii. H. Smith from Pen precaution to havs her towed some dis- dleton are staying at the Perkins, tance out to sea and sunk. This hall- c. H. Varren from Cathlamet is a tut boat had been fishing on the Ice- guest at the Washington, land banks.- Jt took our ? party to Frank Patterson of Astoria Is at the Cape Breton and from there we mad NortShia. our way to Halifax and thence back Ben Waorsley from Astoria Is staying to the United States. at the Multnomah. "After this adventuie, I was willing Mr. and Mrs. J. D. Wilson from Aber- f or a while to settle down and teach deen are registered at the Portland. Hebrew at Tale, but soon the call of ' M- A. -Richard from Corvallis is at the southern - seas and of far porta the Oregon.' got me again and I. started the HT V. J. U. McFearson from Seattle Is a Lunning Tourist agency. T Wa : final. r guest at the Multnomah.. . v btcame ne of the ;. largest . tourls. J. H. Phillips of Tacoma is a. guest agencies of tha world. Dorsey Smith, at the Oregon. atths corner, of Third and rWashtaa- ; Mr and MnC, Rogers from Victoria. Cnd tack hot haadad ma ate lava. Aad Earl ba Kara me Eoaa'; Mow loat whara do I tat nr w Tba coed Lord only knova. l want mtareat alao. I tried ta Join the amy too. Bat tba officer aaid "No." Still I t no reaaoa ta feel b!aa Ii I eaa't fUht tha toe r I re cot tba sirla. DieVa 'fraid that while acroaa tha aaa Some cn; mitfit ateal hia dear. lie nercr themght at all of me, Bnt ha need have no fear 1'Te (ot her now. And Earl, ha aaid. "Ton taka Boat est 1 And ahow hrr a good tuna. For if yon don't I have no doabt ' Borne euj will beat my Oae." I're beet it now. Its pals aaid, "Keep 'em from aO harm." And I aaid. "Ifa a (o." So with a lady on each ana. I trot off to a ahow. ' It a not half bad. I talk of wamhtpe on the deep, f plots and German epiea, Tha (irla npon mr ahoalden warp 1 e. Kaae aha aoba and Fare ana aiche. Who aaid wax waa hellr I onlx hope the war win last Until I can decide. Which' one of 'em I'd rather aak To be my happy bride. Amen. Paul Tonka. 695 Eait Serenty-flrat atreet nortU. Uncle Jeff Snow Says: While some of our brainy agitators is a-cuasin' the farmers fer not raisin. more sheep they might look up the price of land as bavin' somethln' to do with Wt Xeffelfinger wanted to buy that hillside " half section llnia' his upper field, 'and old man Tightwad Henderson wanted to git 11200 fer it Neff wanted it fer s;oats an' sheep an' Tightwad don't want it at all. He sold all the timber an' all tbe wood offen It, an' lets it lay there. It's sessed fer less'n $2 a acre. If Uncle Sam put a stiff war tax on that half section I reckon Tightwad would let go fer what it is assessed fer. an' glad to git rid of it. Then Henderson could let Teloukite. Tomahas, Clokamas. Isla- asheluckes and Klamasurakln were the names of the five Indians who massa cred Dr. Marcus Whitman. Mrs. Whit man and 1Z other white residents of Oregon on November 29-20. 1847. The scene of the hideous butchery was the Whitman mission, six miles west of the . present location of Walla. Walla, Wash. The Indians, after being tried and found guilty, paid the penalty of their' crime on Monday, June I, 1(50. when they were hanged at Oregon City, first capital of Oregon. HOW TO BE HEALTHY Srr&&: "DON'T WORRY !" Worry is not a , disease but a symptom of something. It is a sign that some condition is out of harmony with the best welfare of one's being. This condition may be a teal outside circumstance. This Is not by any means the usual thing, however. Outside circumstances are more often merely the peg upon which a person hangs his real troubles. These are gen erally within. Witness that the person with the heaviest woes or environment is not the one most afflicted with v nrry, in many Instances ; whereas, these whose circumstances seem to us to be quite without hardship may be clronlc victims of this mental stats. A maiden sister of advanced years wij placed in charge of a household while a man with bis wife went for a visit to Canada. Two things were new t her, a special kind of cooking which tey had in this household, and tbe loneliness of the village m which ishe wan staying. She got along all right for a day or two. Then it suddenly oc curred to her that it was strange she had not heard from her brother and sirter. She began at once to worry. end went arounoto neighbors telling them of her great troubles. There was r.o particular reason why she should have a letter in such a short time :. they were rrown-up people traveling In-the midst of a civilised country In constant contact with telephone and telegraph. 'az she worried.- Questioned as to the ground of her worries, she could not define it. Upon analysis her worries v. re simply an emotion without reason. Incidentally she yawned continually suggesting that her stomach was out of eidfrr, and when she did so she dis played a coated tongue. She admitted constipation, and consented to take measures for clearing up the condition. In a few days she forgot her worries although she had still not heard fpom her relatives. The emotion of worry may be awak er.ed by fatigue, or by indigestion, or by constipation. It is characteristic for tbe emotion to reason some outside cause li.to it, but as fast as one "cause" Is rn.oved the victim of the worry ali ment finds another to fasten bis worry upon. While reasoning- and the en Hutment of the will by this means may be effective in overcoming tbe condi tion in some cases, the cure of body drcngementa is generally the best dis pelled. With an abstemious diet, some Inter esting work, outdoor recreation, freedom from constipation then, no matter what outside circumstances bring to you. as tbr paradoxical saying goes, "Ton slould worry!" Tomorrow : Fellowship. See another story. "How to live,' foot column eight, this page. B. C, 'are guests st the Portland. Mr. Rogers Is the owner of the Rogers chocolate factories. L. M. HOwe of Roseburg is staying at the Perkins. L. A. Austin from St. Helens is - a guest at the Portland. X. A- Miller of Fossil is at the Perkins. A Midwinter Spring From tba Eocene RacVteT (December 29). Western Oregon Is enjoying spring weather in midwinter. The maximum temperature yesterday was S3 degrees and the minimum during the night be fore was 65 degrees. Frogs In the ponds are croaking, grass is growing fsst and roses that were all but put out of commission by a short ! cold spell earl In the winter are again blooming. Other vegetation is spring ing up and fruit trees sre showing signs or Duaamg out. - This winter has been particularly free from frost and cold weather. The summer was a long time departing and at no time during the fall and winter has tbe weather been imeomfortabiv cold. TH rainfall tip to the month of December ' has also been deficient bnt it appears to have made up for lost time during this month. For the most part tt has been a' warm rain and very little snow has fallen in the mountains. Farmers are able to do all of their work tn the open during these days and they are compelled to work ln their shirt sleeves at all times. - They say this has been the warmest December for a nura .ber of years past. : ' ' ' ; - - Olden Oregon Massacre of Dr. Marcus Whitman and Others, by Indians. Stage and Screen By Cetta Wa David Belasco will send Miss Frances ' Starr out on a spring tour in a new drama ha is preparing for her, before tt is given a New York production, which will probably not be until next season. Lionel Barrymore. last seen on Broad- way as Colonel Ibbetson in John Raph ael's dramatisation of George du Maur-- lers novel, has been encased for one of the leading roles ln "The Copperhead," Augustus Thomas' new play. Arthur- Byron, now plarln with one of "The Boomerang" corn pan lee, is s nephew of the late Ada Rehaa and a. son of Oliver powa Byron, famous u playgoers of a generation ago., as thsj ' producer of "Across the Continent- Mlnnetts Barrett and Margaret Smith. daughters of Mme. de Fonfrids Smith., all former residents of Portland, are among the most popular members or the theatrical profession who make their home In New York. Miss Barrett, for that is her stage name, has appeared in . numbers of film attractions as well as on tha speaking stags. New Viewpoint I of Eugenics I A -J n 1 "Rules of Livinf Set Forth In "How io Live" Have Re-: celved Approbation of Coun try Most. Famous Men. Edneattoa ea health the moat vtul ef aU aubieeta la the lofty aad avaaaaltartaa parpoee of Ilow ta I-ie" oa a ma aad -moat popular of books ea paraonal hrtlaaa. Thla splendid work has bees authorised' by aad prepared ta eollaboratloa with the brgteaa referenea board a the lAlm Ei tenaioa laatituts by IRVIXO UiiifcK. Chairman, Protean- of Political Ceonocay, Yale eUTeruty. aad K(XiMs JuXalAJI s i&K. AL IK goeaa of Om flneet brains la AsMTtea are cpoaeor tor "ilow to Liae," aatoas vboa are each ntes a WlUiasa H. Tail. General e William C Gmtae. aarceoai era era 1; Dr.' Kupert Bise. V. g. pub lie health eernoe; Dr. H. AC Utsce, health eomaitv ftoaec, etste ot Maw Tort; Dr. Uartay W. 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