THE OREGON DAILY JOURNAL, PORTLAND, MONDAY, FEBRUARY 25, 1918.
I . . -- tractor that helps the American farm- trepid defender of the cause, a hero gether. This means increased pro-
! YCCftOI yOUISlUv er out of hl troubles must be man-j in the strife. x - ducUon and a corresponding decrease
t -Tr0m' ' aseable by anybody, boy or man. I But Private Ah Boan o much was in the cost of living.
ah' independent wrwsPAPm
C. . JACKSON.
.Publishes
espt HiikUi ell.raoon) M The Journal
not exDected of him.
Some queer material is offering I He is just a Chinese.
i 1 . ..j . i l i i ! :
n-1 itself as candidacy for circuit judge j
iaj Ilaua-I TlfnUnnmnh ftrtiintv fln rnntpm. I
, . . T.I vihill ilnu. PotUUO.
; to, Ir.lafee if inH ihnr. i.aflwta nr. (ha
eepl Maaday
Ina, r
Oncw
THE OUTLAW
kiiurad at tbe poMofiiM t rortiaad. or tot sanctity of the courts and 'wonders
. . tniMBiMUm throw the mmUm a. aeooad if there js a chance that tne people
U,.',- HomTTSUn: can be deceived acceptance. There
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It may sound Utopian, but the day
is not far distant when motor truck
service ; will reach clear across the
continent, "relieving, and augmenting
the railway service. Such a Dredic-
HIEP JUSTICE WINSLOW of the J yon u! based on the tremendous
Wisconsin supreme court calls cnanges that have taken place in the
Germany an international outlaw industrial world since the present
and we all heartily agree witn. wap Degan
ah .,Jr.Ui. uehad b Uum ausabera. I la need for high resolves for raisins:
'u wtor wht (tfft yo tne standard of all public service by Mm.) But in her own estimation Ger- In the Ught of present experience
jhueuauN AivJtKiii.Nu fttlT election only of fit persons. In none many is far from being an outlaw. ht can be reaUzed what it would have
s' JTiTh - n.. York. -oiio on-
) vmh are.. sw xor. 4-eopiesuae is a nign standard more important , e aspires to oe me lawgiver ui meant to have possessed a system or
Buildiaa. CUcmo-
I aubecripuoa teres by wiL or to W address
, the United )tatee or Mexico:
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! Am mi. at.OO I On smooth JO
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, PATLT (MOBSINO OR AfTKBHOOM) AMD
than in the Judiciary.
STILL DEFIANT
On year.,
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tne wnoie world and so sne win do highways and lines of motor trucks
unless we contrive to win me war. reaching from producing centers to
History, we must remember, is shipping and consuming points. There
written bv the victor. If Germany I would hav hpn no congestion of
tittie. is ominous import ior me comcs out victor her deeds will all war materials at terminal points, no
uBrmau peupic m a ujspuicu m be bright beautiful and the mis- coal storage or lack of foodstuffs
uu' v"" ureu . ery she has inflicted upon the rest nn the great cities
news. . nf monVinii will ha mpritAd nunish- I knniher taftnf whtirh will tnrl tn
1 ..... W ' - . WUIW. V.W. ..... . . ' '
By a vote of 20 to 15 the franchise ment for resisting her imperial will. I increased federal highway construction
committee of the lower house of the We must take measures to prevent I and maintenane is the fact that the
Prussian diet has rejected equal suf
frage. The lower house is the elec
tive body of the diet. Over it is the
house of lords, against which the
i lower chamber can do nothing.
Even had the lower chamber agreed
her being victorious.
commercial and military needs will
be satisfied by the 6ame con6true-
'Farm- j tion. That is, the same highway will
A news dispatfifc-says this
era of Washington must have help in answer both purposes. The substan
order to prevent a big decrease in tial construction demanded for the
crop production this year. Unless transport of troops and munitions is
to equal suffrage, the upper body 1 lne shortage of labor is solved, hun- &iso demanded by the products of
would have rejected it. With the dreds of acres of wheat land will lie peace times.
' On thorn ol orporianeo la worth a
irnolo wilderaou of warning-.
Jama BubmU LowaU.
supposedly popular body opposing
the reform4 the doom of equal suf
frage in Prussia is knelled.
Thus the defiant mood of the mili
tary masters of Prussia Is revealed.
There is : no semblance of popular
election.
Such elections as they have are by
a system depending on wealth. It
operates thus:
Suppose a community has a! wealth
RE you tired of hearing about J J'00?: " on "?an !" f
lUCJ jpUb 111 111 1U VIA VIO
men together have
-im-iiniBiiBHi i iiu v rin rw 1 r-a- iu i r
k. .,o Vnr fh war ran not ""x' -,
be won unles's the United States puts W efh"J
every available ounce of energy into luIM" u"
7. KIK.,iMin. ln5 circle. When they vote, the one
It. shipbuilding. ... .0fW.,w, . . .,
We Americans have talked a great Kn . . t , f
deal about our "inexhaustible re- mh ' lha ..Atn. in irrp . Ko.
41UVI1 VI1V vwvaaQ - waav
snips
you urea ui uciuhb -qnnnrt 4hav
ships? If you are,,then you are 000;ow,.f j
tired of hearing about victory in . I. if 5W
k. , Vnr fh war ran not 13.000,000, they
idle. The appeal is for men waiting This leads to the assertion that
for jobs in the shipyards to help future construction must be of the
with the spring wheat planting." The most permanent nature. Foundations
dispatch went on to say that 1000 must be thick and strong enough to
men are needed immediately in East- bear the weight and impact of the
ern Washington. Here is a problem, heavjest of motor trucks. The light
You cannot think of food now ex- construction of the present wilf not
cept in terms of human blood and answer. No one can foresee the traf-
human life. Food on this earth was f j0 conditions of tomorrow. To build
never so precious In its meaning as roa(js which will sustain future traf-
now. Food means the winning of a fio wiU involve a heavier original
war to end all war for all time, outlay but the result inthe end will
And the food must come from the be cheaper. We will then have roads
rarms inrougn tne processes or plant- which will not break down and blow
its profit to thoroughly quip the place
for the larre business it does. The
former is president and the latter man
ager. The Industry has '50 men work
ing and the things they fashion cover a
broad territory.
"We have made shfpments to Hono
lulu." the manager states. "and to
Alaska. In all cities of the coast, from
San Francisco to Vancouver, B. C, may
be found work fumed out by us.. We
have recently completed considerable of
a contract at Willows, Cal., one for
Roseburg people and another which we
shipped to Kalispell, Mont. We are
doing a large amount of work for ship
builders In wire screens, gratings, rail
ings, stairways, ladders, etc I could
enumerate 500 things wef make, and thn
not have the list complete. We are
needed wherever new buildings are
being erected, ships built or anything
made of wood which requires added
strength or metal ornamentation. Our
equipment is so complete that there is
nothing, I believe, in this line which we
cannot manufacture. Many of our small
Jobs come by mail. Drawings are made
and are mailed us, and from these we
do the manufacturing. Having 30,000
square feet of floor space, our room is
adequate to the requirements of large
Jobs, and at present we have plenty
of such orders. Our men work on eight
hour shifts, are paid from S4 to $6 per
day, and are contented.
"The early part of 1917 was dull with
us. The latter half was good, and our
output for the year was in excess of
$75,000. The outlook Is that this will
be about doubled In 1918."
Mr. Comstock says their plant Is the
largest and most complete on the coast.
Tomorrow No. 33 of this series : The
Columbia Carbon Paper Company.
ing and harvest.
CASTOR BEANS
away in dust before the bonds issued
to pay for them shall have been re
deemed. ;
T
C(DST OF ARMY
CANTONMENTS
By Carl Smith, Washington Staff Cor
respondent ol Tne Journal
COMMENT AND NEWS IN BRIEF
SMALL CHANGE
Revolution breaks out in Costa Rica,
say the news dispatches. Again or yet?
-f-The government I going to buy for
muuon dollars', worth or beans. pJavy?
o
. Shave yourself and give the quarter
you save to some little shaver to buy a
Thrift Stamp.
The steamship Florisel Is lost in a
storm and 146 lives are sacrificed. The
elements have no war conscience.
The launching of a ship has become
such a commonplace affair In Portland
that it now scarcely causes a ripple.
Russia may be the bear that walks
like a man, says the P.-L, but evidently
that is as far as the imitation goes.
.
A party of senators is going to visit
Philadelphia shipbuilding plant at
Hog island. .They should feel right at
home.
We should hold a double celebration
this year on March 17, 'cause they're
caring for a lot of our boys from the
Tuscania on the little green isle.
John Purroy Mitchel. ex-mayor of
New York, is in training to become a
military aviator. Looks like a tip for
one Gill of Seattle, notorious in 'his
palmier days as somewhat of a high
Nearly four years ago a scientist of
San Francisco dropped a bottle into
tne nina sea orr Nagasaki, and it has
Just floated ashore on Clatson bench.
Oregon. A bottle is more welcomely ac
claimed on the Oregon coast than it
wouiu nave peen lour years ago. too.
Letters From the People
HE use of airplanes in the war
has greatly increased the demand
for castor oil. It is not admin
istered medicinally but to lubri-
ources" since the war began, me . . fh vmn ln cate the engines of the planes. Noth-
facts Justify all we nave saia on inai circle Nq 3 i ng else is so fit for that purpose
subject. Ana yet me country migm R h . . , . franchiseUs the oil of the castor bean. It
as we.H nm nave any ruitr, fhA ,rtwiv Tj-tieaan U rwrmlttpri to nas Deen Said Dy BOme person Of Washlndon. Feb. 21. In the con
far as the war is concerned, if we exercise in choosing members of the ' poetio temperament that the smell I structlon of cantonments for the na- male biped who uses the products of
can not get them to France. nw. ,hamhpr nf ih PrnRi0n Hit. !of an airplane consists of two thirds tLon.fn7:"alne an aKgregato cost nicotine has his moral perceptive facul-
n wrifop nv that thi r.ountrv . . . .. " . . . ! , , , . oi j.v,i20, la, tne contractor at eacn ties blunted worse than those who use
w"v ...... v, . ...... - " ihr.it trinr .a , r a nsi,e,k nr infU
is like a huge bottle with a small
Communication sent to The Journal for pub
lication in this department abould t written OB
only one side of the paper, abould -not exceed 809
words in length and must be accompanied by the
name and address of the sender. If the writer
does not desire to hare the name published be
should so state.
Comments on Comments
Ashland. Or., Feb. 17. To the Editor
of The Journal On February 12 Mrs.
Lynlff wrote about the virtues ox.
slippery elm. It is the beat medicine
for intestinal worms that anyone can
use. Take enough bark to make a pint
of thick tea. Omit supper. Drink it
warm. In the morning the parasites
will pass off with the slippery elm
mucilage. '
On February 12 also appeared in The
Journal a note from "A Doughboy" on
the origin of the word. It was first
applied to staff officers ln the army of
the Cumberland in 1868, and went with
Sherman to the sea.
On February 11 "Offended" speaks of
the use of tobacco on street cars. The
OREGON SIDELIGHTS
The "back to the soil" movement
seems to have obsessed many of Burns
young business men, who are figuring
on purchasing good farms near the city
and conducting them in connection with
their usual vocations, the News says.
A. Phlmlster Proctor. the sculptor,
who formerly made Pendleton his home
and whose "Buckaroo" was completed
there, has almost completed the same
piece In heroic size, the Kast Oregon Ian
reports. Mr. Proctor is now in Cali
fornia. -
see
"Some of those men who think the
boys should march direct for the
trenches without further delay, are the
ones who slide down a aide street wnen
rhev see a Ited Crops or Y. M.,C. A.
solicitor come along," is the hot shot
the Roseburg News fires after the
sliders.
Work on the extension of the pipe
line f Pendleton's gravity water system
will be commenced about March 1. The
pipe line will be extended three miles to
tap the Shaplish springs. Superinten
dent Hayes will manufacture the con
crete pipe necessary. A machine Bigger
will trench 100 feet a day.
see
C. C. Inman, a mining man of Curry
county, who is now in the east, has writ
ten a letter to the editor of the Port Or
ford Tribune ln which he says: "If
some of our Oregon friends could come
east and see the amount of suffering
due to coal shortage and extreme cold
weather, and also the shortage of sugar
and other staples. It would forever cure
them from complaint, as they have
everything In the world and don't know
it."
Ragtag and Bobtail
Stories From Everywhere
JOURNAL MAN ABROAD
By Fred Lockley
An Appeal to Dad
"THE impecunious artist had brought
home a bottle of medicine for his
fcmal daughter. It was unpleasant-looking
stuff, says Kverybodys, and she de
murred at taking it.
"But." pleaded her father, "poor old
dad has spent his last dollar for this
medicine."
Touched, the child took the draft
But a little later she sidled up to her
fathor.
"Daddy." she said. f "if If you think
you could afford it, I'd like to frow this
up."
Jim, Stand Vp and Re Counted
This is the story as the New York Sun
tens it :
"A citizen of Oregon. James Hardest y
by name, filling out his questionnaire
and waiving all rights to deferred clas
sification, gave his occupational experi
ence thus: Newsboy, messenger boy,
farmer, hay field worker, fruit picker,
teamster and mule skinner, sewing ma
chine repair man, bicycle, motorcycle
and automobile mechanician, florist, hod
carrier, side-show barker, watchman,
steel shipyard worker, swimming in
structor, pipe i liter, waiter, concrete
worker, automobile assembler, rook,
plumber, movie and cabaret singer, fall-
roaa worker and electrician's assistant.
lie should be organised into a com
pany, commissioned as its commander
and sent to France on a transport all by
himself."
St..-- ii i i ,i v. i i o-acnlinp nnn nn thirrt gnr nil i . - n.-A nA , I " -..
uci uiai is iut3 House ui iuius ..v. " i camp received a ice oi aiou.uuu, wnicn i aiconoi. Tne Ilrst wui blow their once-
against which the lower body can neither or which is a Sabaean odor, yielded an average of 2.84 per cent on used smoke into the face of anyone
neck. The whole l n ted States is lvaU nothing 0q guch a f nise,
thc
the belly of the bottle. Our ships
it is not surprising that even
are the narrow neck through which Lr0f. . . . r1,0.,aH ,
everything must pass if It gets out f Tfae ricn Prussiang ln clrcle
- a . 1 I nsV a aba Vkien llfS Klttlrl f n a I v
at all. Tho more ships we build the
No. 1 want none of his , Interference
Pnptland ndnnlo orA falrlv familiar I "lo toBt VL caniuiimcnui. au anywnere, no matter now SICK u makes
foriiana people are iainy iaminar .mnrfiaslon nr(,Vaiia in manv nic that ,m tv.. .. m t a .
. w- ar - 1 v B-uvacu aavr. WaVeWUU fTlUs
win ine appearance oi tne castor the cantonments wero erected under a his breath until he is nearly drunk.
bean plant. Some persons cultivate cost plus contract, so that the greater On -February 11 "Amos" writes of the
it in th.in nii4a . nmt,.nn cost me greater wouia De tne proiit i "Kockereiier church plan." We had the
aMin.f I Vn of trator. The contracts, how- Rev. Chlsholm. Presbyterian, and the
against the ravages Of moles. Which ever, were on a different basts, and run- Rev. Swlnberg, Congregationalism here
con
4h ; r,mr anrt lha mApa I .. ... .v,, o - .....w.. lever, wero on a uuiereni d&bib, ana
Digger me oouies necg ana me more ,Q governIng pru8Sia. with this new ; are said to shun it, probably for a ning up costs did not benefit the
wieouve wb m m"u. '""ul" evidence of the oppression of their
on tho battlefields of France. vin t n-pm r..i..
mans In America have the slightest
The Columbia river has been of
very little use for transportation sympathy with tne alms and pur.
iilUS lal III uiu war ucuausc ouiiij
three and four years ago. Mr. Swin-
reason which all Children will appre- tr0401-- Without entering into details, berg said in a sermon. "There ought
. . . h.4B. the contracts provided a fee based upon not to be more than three churches ln
Ciate. The plant Is rather handsome. tn COBt wlthin certain limits, the fee Ashland. The Baptist and Christian
A big field of castor beans would running from 6 to 10 per cent, but in churches ought to be one. The Metho-
make a sightly addition to the land- no c89 to exceed S250.000. When the dlst Episcopal, Naiarene and Free
sr n( I work was! done it was found that the Methodists, another, and all others
I w ... .Hi. UU1U W U.. W
The university school Of commerce all cases, and in every case the 1250,000 Protestant and one Catholic church.
thinks it quite likely that we shall UP86 limitation was reached. The gov- At that time there were 22 churches In
th.t V.A,, ko.,a hoar, hnn.ar1 I v. ..-.u. l j I. v.- I chiiiicih muvyumx uw munc iw inn uiio uny si auuu soma.
aide hvi side ln blazing letters in Z-1 v""8-- , nave tucu neiua u u. work, so the fee paid was for the build- AMOS DAHTJFF
Side by! Side i in Diazing leuers m smcJ lg71f ftnd pr0Daily one half the Ueve8 that some ts of 0regon are mg organization and superintendence. .7?
nfionle are without reDresentation. srfonto tn ctnr hVan miHum onrt . ; .. f ... . wne noo ivouia cniisi
. ' . - - - - i.Anerni i.irTAii. wnn rAppnriv .rnia mM i t- . , ypu. m .1 nui .
No officers of importance are has asked the federal government to 1 the cantoament costs in detail before The Journal Can a man of 42 when
elected. No Judges are elected, no ' look into the matter. committees of congress, stated that t!e joining a branch of the army or navy.
are lacking here. The same Is true
poses of the Prussian Junkers?
The members of the relchstag are
of many other ports The two words decUve But elecUftn fQr
snips ana victory snouia bo wruicu
side by side ln bla
every American mind.
Since April 6, the date on which
t ha. r,rnHred Ton nnn ' rifles Pnr district attorneys, no governors of
h. wv online- Pehmarv o th provinces, no officials who corre-
'rf.iw ft,,tn.,t wfl. iani2. with a total Pond to our higher county officers.
of 71.192 for the week. At the end M"" au awpoiuteu.
L best equipped army in the world.
pk . i. ... . " iaK6 out insurance Dy tne government
The school of commerce remarks largely curtailed by the war tax. In piant and at what rate? Wnere can
in the circular from which this bit one case, he said, where the contractor information be had as to Just what
of knowledge is gleaned that the de- capitalized for $100,000. he will pay branch of the navy a man of 42. and
mand for castor Oil as a lubricant i0"4 -ho has had a thorough business experl-
- !. 1 , i ai mw... ... ' 1 v.. 1 ence. can Dest serve nis country?
V of 19 months; the United States has CBSie eiccl! ami wuuua mem. inc? jWui not cease with tne war. Clearly was ii.ooo.doo, between $40,000 and $50.- patriot.
. . - ... in TaS Oil TD ITS Ta T r fl m T II H urilBVinn HliniP II. I 2 s lU . T T I I II 111 XaTI I I fVA Pnn Irl ri 1 T A1 n I VvrT IV m I I tlla I aaa a. - . .
prodUCfu IWlce as many rilies as ttl w v" "w s4 U11S l9 8U jjt-uaust: uie airplane, re- "vw - wwV wa.waV . l0acn s person can lua oni insurance, tm
. . . . k t a mi a a I IIOCD I 1 f III. - I WUI 4a. I sou? uimmw UU IUI OLiL 4.Ai--e Uli BU. X' UI 1 UK
ureal Britain Old aner two ana one p"-- iicaseu trum auiiwrj service, seeuis General Littell stated that the army tb,r fnntion look up th. war risk insurance
half years. The production of cart- Victory for the Hun in this war , likely to take a commanding place estimate of cost for the cantonments i"Vt QthT cb.lJLdi S b
ridges during January was 7,300,000 would mean tne perpetuation or mis jn transportation" The number of vraa i8 per capita for each soldier to Washington struts, Portland, a man at the age
day. If we can build ships to carry authority by the few over tne many.ipianes in use will go on multiplying .i"r"" S" Satal K ZTZ.ffl Z ,Z
the -outout over, the American exne- It Nvould mean extension of that kind year by vear and the call for the an 7 nn? sa imf th information. inQuir. at the local nary re-
..... .... . . ,,, . . I n .n.r.rr,nt r. ,ia r.: j.-i -m ... . . , ,,. I ..,oo Frul" fmru ana nuuiuun sireeis,
aiuonary iorce in rrance win De me i suiuuukui wu- proauci oi uie castor uean win oe cuy upio ineBuinw, us ucoai tiso.oi in tue iekum building.)
6tantly extending sphere. It would correspondingly stable. per capita, ine lowest oi any in tne umtea
. . !v,,,! I QUiies. acsl was vtunp x&yiur, near
mean continuation Of a system that Farmers need not wait for a srov- Tivnio k- hth ont inn-K no-
I Mr. Ickley, who as T. M. C A. secre-1
tary, is with the American rxpediUonary force
"aomrwhere in France," is aernng The Journal
exclnairely in a series of articles which are ap
pearing with as ranch regularity aa the cen
sorship and the course of the mails will admit.
In these articles Mr. Lorkley is firing Journal
readers the intimate, personal touch so often
lacking in the work of those who send back
material from the neighborhood of great erents.
The point of Tiew of the common man who
la neither trareled nor technical is always held
in mind by this writer, and his work ' derives
its highest Talus from this fact. He will tell
-fthe things one most wants to know."
Somewhere In France Before I had
been in London 24 hours I discovered
that you can never get direction ln any
other way than In terms of time. For
example. Grays Inn is .10 minutes'
from the hotel. The Charterhouse is
near Holborn Circus, and that is but
15 minutes from the hotel. Charing
Cross is 10 minutes from the British
Museum, and the British Museum was
directly across the street from my bed
room window at the Thackeray hotel.
Go where you will Trafalger square, I
the Bank of England, the mint on Tower
hill. Goldsmiths Hall. Covent Garden
Market they are "perhaps 30 minutes
walk," or "not over 20 minutes from
the bottom of the street." I asked a
policeman to tell me how far, ln dis
tance, Portugal street was from where
we were standing. "Well, I should
say It was not over 15 minutes." "How
many blocks is it?" I asked. "We don't
have blocks on this Bide of the water,"
he said. "Our streets have lanes and
turns and have no definite length. If
you walk briskly for 15 minutes you
will be Just about there."
Within a day or so I learned the
principal streets, such as Piccadilly,
which leads Into Leicester square, which
changes its name to Long Acre street
after passing the square, and finally
becomes Queen street, Oxford street. Re
gent street, Haymarket, Whitehall, High
Holborn, the Strand, Drury Lane, Bow
street, the Embankment you get these
in your mind right away, particularly
if you are on the go 15 hours a day, as
I was. I found London remarkably
easy to get about in. Occasionally I
would find a street that looked as If
it didn't belong there, but since I knew
the general direction of where I Was
headed for I usually arrived. When I
was younger I worked in tie United
States geological survey and It was
sometimes a good deal harder to locate,
after a lone day's Jaunt, a temporary
sub-camp we had established, than to
find one's desired destination in London.
I felt at home ln London. It al
most seemed as though I must have lived
there before. I would happen on things
that had a most familiar look, and for
a moment I would be puzzled to know
whether I really was on familiar ground.
I had the feeling that If I would hurry
a bit I would overtake myself or meet
myself coming around the corner. Time
and again I have Instinctively turned ln
the right way to go to places. I pre
sume It Is because so many of Lon
don's street, monuments and other his
toric places are more or less familiar
to all of us from having all of our
lives seen pictures of them and read
descriptions of them. My father was
born in London and lived there till he
was of age, so I had a sort of feeling of
being on known ground.
If some of our food wasters could but
come to England for a few meals and
see now rigidly they are putting them-l
selves on a meatless, sugarless, whitl
breadlesm anil h lttArlnae ritat thav wnulrt
realize the need of keeping the Hoover
pledge card. The waitress takes your
order, and a cute little girl In a Glen
garry cap goes into the kitchen and
brings the order to the waitress. At
breakfast I was brought a plate of por
ridge, two slices of toasted war bread,
with tea and marmalade. For both, tea
and porridge I was given less than a
spoonful of sugar. I had got a handful
of silver thrlpenny bits the night be
fore, so I called the little girl in the
Glengarry cap and handed her a sliver
thrlpenny bit for herself and one for
the waitress. I repeated the process at
each meal, and since the little girl ln
the Glengarry cap was not supposed to
share ln the tips I won her heart en
tirely. One morning I had three shares
of sugar. My own, one given me by a
scholarly and elderly Englishman, who
said he had eaten no sugar since the
war began, and one brought me by the
waitress, who said. "We are not allowed
to serve but one helping of sugar to a
single guest but here la a part of the
spoonful that was left by another
gentleman." She explained that they
were allowed to serve not to exceed a
certain amount of meat per person. But
that she would always try to see that I
got an extra helping of gravy ; so I got
along fine.
No Sense in It
"Does your husband worry about the
grocery bill?"
"No ; he Rays there's no sense ln him
self and the grocer worrying over the
same bills.
Delayed Dfllrcry
Billy had had a serious misunder
standing with his older cousin Conrad.
That misunderstanding had been very
scrupulously concealed from his mother.
so when he came into the house after
school she said :
"Billy, what would you like to give
Conrad for his birthday?"
"I know what I'd like to give him."
said Billy vindictively, "but I ain't big
enougn.
The Modest lien
"What makes that hen of yours cackle
bo loudly?" inquired Jenkins of bis
neighbor.
"Why, they've Just laid a cornerstone
for the new worklngmen's club across
the road, and she's trving to make the
neighbors think she did 1L"
Sent Governor a Stuffed Snake
Just to show what a Kansas woman
can do, a Tecumseh lady sent Governor
Capper as a Christmas present a hand
homely taxldermized bullsnake which
she had skinned and stuffed with her
own fair hands. And that Is about the
only kind of a snake a prohibition gov
ernor would be wiling to have around,
says Capper's Weekly, commenting on
the remarkable gift.
TANKS AND FARMS
A
Service Flag
Dallas. Or.. Feb. 21. To the Editor of
would bring upon the children of,crnment investigation and report be- capita. Most expensive was Camp Dev- The Journal Is a young man who Is
men now living a renewal Of the.fnrn ,httv intreBt thpmaelveo. In lhi fens- Mass.. which figures at $275.64, and a member of the Loyal Legion entitled
WHITER in the PODUlar Me- nun hnrrihln rAnflirt , , I ' " """ next highest Camp Upton on Long Is- to n ine service nag.' -iease
rtruiciv in mo popular lue present horrible conflict. Dromising new venture. They meiht 1 tc v t'i,- ve state Qualifications for becoming a cor-
chanlcs magazine has devised a Rejection of equal suffrage in the make some cautious experiments on 220,' with the work almost complete. porai. a sergeant, a lieutenant, stating
"J '"""'B "iw lower cnamoer OI me t-TUSSian aiei th.i. rctn. Knna I ine American jaae canionmem -a- ' i- ."1
l 1 - . . . I ... . men - v " .avwuu.. ui"l uad I . . j . . . , en
ptuv.. aim spears into prun n8 the most ominous thing that has fl not MM.v.iv dear. not vet. at ii ? lt5 V. ?ll
v , , ucial IS 11 Ui IVkAl tUOl, Ul IBIKCOl Ui Claljr
Ing hooks. His project is to employ come out of the heart of Hundom.
yiy rate. It would be a pleasant di
the mammoth "tanks" which have The beast of Junkerdom is untamed verslon Q ,ant a few BOmewhere
tintA llffhf SB l haetna i w K. e. I w aa aa m a a "
4
1 i
i
wrought so much havoc in the
"'kaiser's lines to rehabilitate French
agriculture after the war ends.
'....The Germans, as they are gradu-
ally driven out of France, leave the
fields in a deplorable condition. The
land Is cut up Into deep trenches,
marred by shell pits, sown with
, fragments of iron missiles and strewn
with barbed wire. Horse-drawn im
plements would be of but feeble use
ln retrieving the ruin.
It has been feared that many years
of slow and patietot toil might be re
quired to undo the miserable work
' of the barbarian hordes, but it seems
that the tanks can effect a great
'y deal of reconstruction in a short
time. They are so powerful that
' " barbed wire is not much of an ob
stacle in their way. They make
' nothing of trenches and shell holes
fe but pass over them unimpeded.
;r The tanks, .then, seem to offer the
desired means of restoring the farms
tff France. Drawing a train of heavy
plows, harrows and other imple
menu, the tank would make its
; ponderous way across the fields leav
Ing behind it a level expanse almost
ready for seeding.
It appears that the idea of using
the tanks for this beneficial purpose
, after ; the war originated with the
. men from Western Canada who know
from experience what tractors can
accomplish on new land. It Is said
. that some of the large farms in that
. region, were at first almost as rough
; . and difficult as the war scarred
fields of France and yet the tractor
put them into good tillage with little
trouble
: The ordinary American farmer does
rot need a machine as powerful and
expensive as a "tank" to cultivate
his land ,wilh. IIj needs a tractor
which shall unite" sufficient, but not
excessive, power with flexibility. The
machine must be adapted to many
purposes, not too expensive and eas
fly managed. - The ; tanks will be
handled by expert engineers as they
retrieve the ruin of France. The farm
and nndfiterrfid hv the fritrhtfnlness ... . j ,
;V,kI """".TM,:' ",,,".",; " lue 8aru" auu lelu uuw lacy Won and for Camp Lee. V... where
v, oww tnrive. Ttie experiment , may turn the percentage in either case was 2.20
of the German people. Nineteen na
tions in arms against them have not
influenced the Junkers' fierce intent, i Warmish climate such as Oregon en
They. will yield their people nothing. JoySf but of course like everything
They are as savage as ever in their elge lt nas lts preferences as to sit-
determination to go on with their
terrible enterprise.
They intend to hold their owrf im
potent subjects to a level with horses,
cattle and swine and bring as many
other peoples under that condition
as their guns, their shells and their
regiments can conquer..
How can Germans with the Ameri
can ballot in their hands and in the
full enjoyment of all the powers and
privileges of sovereign American citi
zenship sympathize with the Hun
program?
in
A. READER.
fThe Loyal Lesion is not a recognized mili-
Kei Fif npnanlutinri rtaa.etFi-Va fa mamhaF ia ah
except Camp Dodge, Des Moines. Ia., titled to reureseiitation on a serTice flan. For
where it reached 3.67. The lowest fee, I answers to second question the inquirer is ad-
if reckoned in this way. was for Camp 2f-f tT Vlr:TmUa'
out to be richly profiVJSle".
The castor bean grows best in a
i As the fee in all cases was $250,000, the
percentage varied in accordance with
the cost.
see
Details ef the figures at American
PERSONAL MENTION
uation and soil. The first experi
ments should be cautiously tentative. J
Nobody should rush into the untried
adventure headlong.
NATIONAL HIGHWAYS
W
PRIVATE AH BOAN
T
HAT seems to be a logical de
velopment of the future in the
field of transportation Is the
nationalization of main high
ways. To meet military and com
mercial demands the federal govern
ment will perforce be compelled to
enter largely in the construction and
maintenance of a comprehensive sys
tem of trunk lines, covering the land
as with a net.
It is not a question of making new
routes as much as it is the improve-
Ex-nealth Officer Visits
Dr. M. B. Grieve, former city health
Lake show that barracks and quarters officer of Spokane, is an arrival at the
cost $3,497,968, supplies, services and Seward. After a short visit ln the city
transportation 12,501,064, roads, walks. Dr. Grieve will leave for Los Angeles.
wharves aad drainage 1338,096, shooting
pAllArlAn And ranges 51.107. rnnstrn.
tion and repair of hospitals $592,000, George W. Moore, a prominent lum
mllltary post expenses $27,000, total berman of Bandon.' Or is an arrival at
$7,007,235. , ewara. .
As a matter of comparison, barracks C. H. Haddix of Astoria is at the Cor
and quarters at Camp Meade, Md., cost nellus.
$5,033,510. despite the cheaper labor ob- James Cunningham and F. J. Peter
talnable in the south, and the same Items son of Gull Lake, Sask., are arrivals at
at Camp Upton aggregated $5,023,161. I the Seward
Camp Lee at Petersburg, va., and Camp Mr. and Mrs. M. Gruber of Chicago
Upon cost, the most, the former $11,-I are at. the Cornelius.
HERE is a figure out in the can
tonment at Dodge City, Iowa, to
quicken the pulsebeat of Amer
ica. He is Private Ah Boan Of mpnt nf nrsnt nnps irivincr him n
the Forty-second regiment. United degree of Dermanency which will
States infantry. There is not space j withstand the wear and tear of trains
to tell his story here, nor is there 1 0f motor trucks, bearing the output
need of it, for the tale is well told . of factory and the Droduce of farm
elsewhere on this page.
For nearly three decades he was
in the post war period
Although , the nation is producing
an enlisted man in the United States . more foodstuffs and manufactured
navy. He served his turn with the products than, ever before today,
late Admiral Dewey. He enlisted this production will be materially
and reenlisted because he loved the , increased tomorrow. Unless this In
navy. I creased production can be moved to
He had left the service and mar-' seaboard and to the city consumer
ried and settled down to civil life it will be useless. So in the last
when America was drawn Into the ' analysis we come to the problem of
present conruct. : But wnen war was transportation.
aeciared, tnougn a veteran of 61, he One factor that will bring about a
hurried to the recruiting office, and larger governmental Interest In high-
toaay ne is following wherever the way construction and operation Is
flag leads in the war against war.
There are thousands upon thou
sands of American privates as loyal,
as brave and as consecrated as Pri
vate Ah Boan. Every boy : in the
khaki of the army or the blue of
the navy Is as" ready - to serve -and
save, " Every - one of theni Is an in-
the use of the roads by the postal
department Present Indications are
that the department Is to be the
largest single user of motor trucks.
These are to be operated on rural
300,000, and the latter $11,128,341.
The national guard camps cost a total
of $33,375,272. On a per capita basis
Camp Sheridan. Montgomery, Ala., was
cheapest and Camp McClellan in the
came state, the costliest. The range of
J. J. Daly of Ketchikan is registered
at the Benson.
O. E. Roth of Amity is at the Oregon.
L. L. Lewis of Baker is an arrival
at the Cornelius.
r j Ufa I,. rnt.niH. fa . .v.-
They are not allowed to serve sugar
except at regular meals. One night I
came in from walking all over the ter
ritory about Trafalger square. I ordered
a cup of cocoa. The waitress brought it
a,nd with it ln a small envelope two
small tablets about the size of bird shot.
I thought she had got my order mixed
with the order of some dyspeptic old
lady. who was taking tablets for some
ailment. Calling her, I said, "See here,
sister, you have got your wires twisted.
I don't want these headache tablets.
Bring me a little sugar for my cocoa."
She Tooked dazed, and then brightened
ui and said. "Quite right, sir.i That's
the sugar sir. It's saccharine, SlfS-Used
ln place of sugar, sir. Tou'll find it
quite satisfactory Blr."
HOW AH BOAN FOLLOWS THE FLAG
Sue McXamara in Dee Moines Tribune
Tenterdav I had lunch at the oaly regl-
nf fleers' mess at Camp Dodge
the Forty-second infantry's where 88
officers eat together in one long room
and where the excellent meaui w-w
than 20 cents eacn. ,,n.i
"You must have a good cook, colonel,
I volunteered.
i. Kafir in the doorway.
- l ntro tic ioi .
said Colonel Dentler. who has personal
supervision of his regiment
I looked back- r rame ' ' ' " L "
a ,o -tood a tail old Chinaman, his
passive face made still more expres-
slonless by his speciaci.
chefs cap he was weanB
were beginning to show in his face.
But his heart was as young and true
as in the days when he paced the decks
of Uncle Sam's big battleships and
listened to the guns roaring while he
thought up the menu for his next meal.
The recruiting officers turned him
down.
Ah Boan was too old to shoulder a
gun.
Then came word that the officers of
the Forty-second regiment stationed at
Fort Douglas nearby wanted a cook.
Would Ah Boan like the place?
The old Chinaman scurried to his
little home and began' packing his white
aprons and caps. He was off to the
front ln the greatest war ever known
: . ... o nride of the Forty
reeiment the only Chinese cook j Yesterday he stood proudly surveying
rlr a" of the most loyal hi. regiment a. they contentedly con
in um.mv, aumed steak and nniainra i wi
S" I r
Wen W t a h p., 1 among the arrivals at the Benson.
is
housing. 27,153 men. cost a total of I
$1,988,729, or $73.24 per capita, far below
the average.
On the national guard camps the con
tractors made an average fee of 6.86
on the total cost, with 6.38 the lowest
and 7 per cent highest. On embarkation
camps the average was 3.52 per cent,
and on quartermaster training camps an
even 6 per cent.
Nothing the Matter
With Portland
By R. S. Harcourt
Man s marvelous ingenuity Is well
exemplified in the many machines em
ployed in the wire and iron works fac
torlea. It is wonderful tinw hnminlv
they work. It Js interesting to watch I Portln,L-
them as they twist and bend the heaviest
C. A. Pomeroy of Los Angeles la at
the Cornelius.
C. H. Boynton of Bellingham is at the
Benson.
J. W. Harbesln of Salem is registered
at ..the Oregon.
J. B. Blair of Seattle is at the Ben
son.
M. Simpson of Los Angeles is an ar
rival at the Carlton.
W. F. Holbrook of Salem is at the
Carlton.
R. O. Stoop, from Central la, is at he
Perkins.
J. C. Flora, from Kerry, Or.,- is at the
Multnomah.
Edgar L. Lewis, from San Francisco,
Is at the Portland. (
Lieutenant W. C. Armstrong of Cams
Lewis is at he WaahlAgton.
R. G. Bardnell from Med ford is at the
natriots ia America.
e
For 28 years Ah Boan was a steward
in the United States navy. At the c om
of the Spanish war Ah Boan retired
with a comfortable little nest egg. He
and his American wife settled down in
in Salt Lake City. Then
came the great war. Ah Boan's home
became too small for htm. He heard the
tnmn of feet, the rattle of muskets.
He tore down to the Salt Lake City re
cruiting office.
Ah Boan. Chinese rooter for uncle
Sam. begged to be taken back Into the
service that he might again follow the
flag of the Stars and Stripes for which
he left his home in Hong Kong 60
years ago.
m e p
Gray was ln Ah Boan's hair. Lines
J. T. Brook of Seattle la at the Wash-
kinds of wire as If they were ribbons. J Injton.
C. H. Parker of Seattle Is an arrival
at the Portland.
Thomas Rixon. from Port Angeles, Is
and bars of steel as though they were
the stalks of sunflowers in the milk.
The Portland Wire aV Iron works ec.
cuoiea a buUdinsr 100 hv iao fwt ten at the Multnomah.
stories and basement. atL the. northeast F. H. Hayner of Homilam Is an ar
corner of Columbia and Second streets. I rival at the Perkins.
The enterprise was established morel Mr. and Mrs. M. F. 8.ummamtrom of
than a Quarter of a century aro. but I Columbia City are at the Washington.
came Into rjossession of the nreaent own- I Mr. and Mrs. A. W. Smith, from Car
ers. and ! was incorporated ln 1910 at I roll. Wash., are arrivals at the Perklna
mall routes . throughout the entire I $25,000, which' amount haa never been I F. P. O'Brien, from Seattle, is at the
ermntr-a-" Intn. nrdiirtlvi territftr-r iincreasea. tor me reason mat tne pnn- 1 roroana.
country into proaucme territory, , d owners. EL C. Comstock and his I Captain Stewart from Seattle la at the
hmn i,in To art,- fi ahl, .Iadar f v 1 .. . . .1 .......
M.uiauta wui ' suu iwiw wAwdvA , eon, v. ,Le V vHiTlvli a, nave aoipioysKa w asxungboa.
Seems Unnecessary
Recruiting Officer (testing eyesight)
Take this newspaper and read it.
Recruit What for? You don't sup
pose I'm going to have time in a bat
tle to sit down and read.
What fehe Wanted
She rvrled ud to tha hutt-hor ihnn
says Tit Bits, and came In with a smil
ing face.
"I wsnt you to cut me off 23 pounds
of beef, please," she said.
The butcher wan Incredulous.
"Twenty-five pounds?"
"Yes, please."
When he had finished he aaked her
whether she would take lt or have It
sent home.
"Oh. I don't want to buy It!" he ex
plained. "You see. my doctor tells me
lost 25 pounds of flenh throiiKh war
work and I wanted to see what it looks
like, In a lump. Thank you so much."
Thanks
Now is the winter
Of our dlcontent
Made (loriou summer
11 y two moat yhsrmlng
l-adiee. oue of whom
Presented us with.
A can of jam
And the othr
With a guinea pt.
We here enten
The ran of jam
And the (ulnra pig
Would do well
To wstch his step.
Macon Te!-pK
Tncle Jeff Snotv Save,:
Bljah Hunt don't hJc'Iate to run fer
the legislature this year. He has It
doped out that with the railroad lawyers
all canned and Uncle Sam tellln any
legislature where to head in at with any
railroad cinch bills, statesmanship won't
pan out much no more, and he's a-golnj
to help the beef trust by raisin' orphan
calves.
Olden Oregon
Pioneers, While Hospitable, at Times
Played Pranks With Guests.
sumed steak and potatoes prepared as
only, a battleship cook knows how to
prepare them.
e
Forty-six years agt .Ah Boan. who
was then 15 years old. niiim-d up as mess
tender with the old ship I'alas, stationed
at Hong Kong. During nearly three
decades that followed he enlisted and
reenlisted again and again. He served
on all the old battleships the Monaxl,
the Yankee, Yantic, Ticonderoga, Brook
lyn, Tennessee, Alonda, Philadelphia and
Columbia.
For years he served under the late
Admiral Dewey.
After retiring 15 years ago ' he was
pensioned and was living quietly in his
little home when he again heard the
bugle calling. Ah Boan has a daughter
who is ln high school In Salt Lake City:
HOW TO BE HEALTHY
br I. Eeeley.
Coprricht, 11T.
SAVING AMERICAN HEALTH. ,
Mr. Hoover's experiences In dlstrlbut-1
ing food to the Belgians brought new
facts to light in the scientific world.
There was not enough food to give each
person aa much as that taken by the
average American Individual. The Bel
gian ration was pared down to about
the minimum of known scientific re
quirements. However, it was hygienl
cally balanced. It was not the hit or
miss affair of the ordinary diet. While
It was small in quantity, it was so
selected that all the known body neces
sities were provided for. Instead of
suffering from this food shortage, the
health of the Belgians, with respect to
nutritional diseases, improved.
That Americans are slowly eating
themselves Into the grave la evidenced
by the fact that with the food plethora
of the last 30 years, nutritional diseases
steadily increased. In urging the Amer
ican family to ration itself and to more
nearly approximate scientific standards
information regarding which is easily
obtainable from text books on nutrition
Mr. Hoover confidently expects the
American rate of diseases of a nutri
tional order will decrease : that the
saving In food win bring also a valuable
aavina- ln health.
1 Th value of a carefully regulated diet
for children was shown by the fact that
when the Americans retired from Bel
gium in February, 1917, the infant death
rate was the lowest it had ever been in
that country. This reduction was ac
complished in spite of the fact that a
great majority of the people had-been
driven from their homes and were being
cared for in temporary relief stations.
Among other hygienic facts brought to
light in Belgium was the need of grow
ing children for an extra amount of fat.
They require-more In proportion to their
body weight than do adults. It was
found that tuberculosis) among adoles
cent chUdren increased when they took
only the same amount of fat as was
measured out for grown people. To meet
this situation, the children of adolescent
years were assembled in schools once a
day for a meal comprised of a majority
of fats as an extra ration. The tuber
culosis percentage Immediately fell In
this group. The sum of Mr. noover's
vast experience he gives as follows:
"The lesson we obtained oat of the
entire experience is that overfeeding
Is one of the greatest dangers to public
health."
Tomorrow when a Man Is Tired. -
See another story. "How to Live," foot
of column S, this page. . .
The itinerant, or circuit, preachers of
olden Oregon had to depend on the
hospitality of the settlers for their
board and bed. As a rule, this was
generously given, but at times the min
isters were made the objects of prac
tical Jokes. At one time a younc an
devout minister of the gospel, who ohtll
be called William Roberta, cam- to the
house of one of his parishioner, after a
fatiguing ride. ' The minister wan hun
gry, and rioted with satisfaction the
large chicken which graced the center
of the table. To show hi thankfulness
he delivered an extra lonK blessing.
The family, however, was also hungry, ,
end by the time the prea her had fin
ished his blessing there no more
chicken.
The Re. William Roberta said noth
ing, and made Ms meal on the remain
ing dishes. A month later he was there
B train, and again bowed, his head and
delivered a lone: hleaslng. But this time
there wan meat left for him, because
with admirable foresight he- had
plunged his forlt into the chicken before
beginning.
Dr. Rupert Blue
Commends Book
"How to Live" Receives Com
mendation of Surgeon General
ol United States.
fo health book eT pobltihs4 eer r
rtd aa sneeb faeorable enmsaent from the
dlanitariea of the saedical profession aa
"How to Lira."
Xlie latest to )nia the ranks of t.e aposv
son for this fe health bex la Dr. Bra.
pert Rtoe the surgeon (eneral l . B. pablto
brelth aerrve Washington, I). C. whe sen
la part, " 'How to Llee" b a true story of
penonal nyciene. told la a plain, atraicht-,
forward manner.
This splendid book baa been awlbnrtsed
by aud prepared la eoUahoratioB with tbe
fcraeoa reference board of the Life Kztea
Mt mrtrtote by IttV IN'U rUiHR. chair.
a professor of political economy. Yaio
narrerilty and EtOt-Nt LYMAN rUJt.
Tho Journal fcelieeea tbe bonk aboold be
la e'er 7 noma, Tbe regular aelliac prte Is
jl.oo. Through the eoamratioa oi Tbe.
Journal tt caa be obtained foe 6 Be at tho
J. C Gill Co., Meier es Frank Csx. Okie.
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