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in a puff of wind, unrlpened, iinful- anything to :do ; withs any pouucai
filled, where is the Justice of GodT campaign that stoops to narrow par-
What foundation for our faith ' that I tisanship' was the effect of what
the universe is good If Evil Is per-J former President Taft recently saia
mitted td reap such a harvest ? y to a party of friends. The tnougni
F!mrsnn. nnnderinc : the Droblem I of these great men - is tne same
of immortality, wrote long ago, "If thought, and the gist or it is mat
not to be, how like the bells of a J the tremendous task America faces
fool is the trump of fame.'' How makes this no time for party dis
like a foolish farce is all of life, alllputes and debates about petty parti-
that we igain and all we lose, if we 1 sanship I at: home. ... To be a narrow
must look nn at the extinction of i partisan now while our manhood is
those eager youths. and see no hand fighting the mightiest war f machine
stretched from the darkness beckon- in the world over there, is near pro-
Tbaolof y la tut the ' tcienoe of" mind
appHad to God. At aehools chance. theology
nut necessarily ehsnfe. Truth is er-
lastinc. but our ideas of truth ara not.
.Theolocy i but our tdaaa of truth classified
and arranged. Henry Ward Beecber. . -
Jng them home. "The world comes
from nowhere and it goes nowhere,"
wrote Anaiole France In the dayi
before the war had sobered ',. him.
Would he write it now?
We hunger, for God. and hope. We
dare not go on into the future with
aM those young voices silent and all
those brave hearts dust. The mem
ory of their sacrifice Is too much
sorrow, j It blights and desolates the
world.
Germanism.
PICARDY AND MALVERN IIILL
T
HE battle of Malvern Hill during
the Peninsular campaign in the
Civil war is a classic example
of an offensive that is too costly
to mean victory. It was i; the last
of the "Seven Days Battles" that
! marked the relief of Richmond from
I A. . T T It A
So faith has become life of " ur'.l,,T''l
ll cost me uuuieueracj ucanj m iucu.
Lee's losses during the seven days
The western ideal of freedom with and - sacrificing ' much i because they
order that principle of liberty which realize that the bulwarks of a liberty
assures to . every national entity its hardly won is . threatened: No ; loyal
right to be itself, live its ovvn life citizen could dojess,1 1 j V
add develoo its character and ' lndl-1 -
viduallty by the free growth of Its j The Tisit of Secretary Baker to the
own qualities and characteristics. Is ' Italian, French and other war fronts
challenged by ; the ideal of Asiatlo is a highly advisable step, as neaa
origin, which comes in a new dress j tne war department, his informa-
: - - . , : . i . ... . w ...in
out of Prussia Baxter its conquest or o conaiwons uTcr uicra vm
thb German states. ": - (be first hand. His -stay will be a
this Ideal which Prussia has Period of touch with all. military
made its own is domination, Gie im-. heads, out of which the character of
position of its own will upon others, ! the task will be deeply sensed. He
proceeding by acquisition from with- will return home with an enlarged.
om rawer inan ny growin irom. muiincucusnc tiu "
within. The Dhilosonhy of state bu- i oe done. And were is uie larger iaci
- . I AWa . t I A AA .11 Ik M...kalU k
oremacy. the rellmon of valor, are u . um cuouura ;
merely the aDolication of the idea, 'he nead; or tne unuea tiaies war
of! tyranny to the intellectual -and , aepartment . wm nave a spienaia
spiritual spheres of thought. Amoral effect over there.
The farm labor problem must be
met by closer cooperation between
town folks and farm folks. It is up
to the farm bred city man to return
THE GREAT BELL ROLAND
By Theodore iTilton
Letters From the Peopk
TOLL! Roland, tolll
X H
NOT LOST
our life.' - '
,:a,r:; ";r m," n: were 20,000 and Mcaellan's probably
stlnct when it takes immortality for under 15'000-
wanted. The new tone of the stories These figures are In such contrast
it is Drintinn chimes with" the new to losses in man power in present
song in the hearts of the nations. day warfare as to be striking. Mc-
When Jesus went In where the : cen- ueuan naa zuu.wo men m me fenm
turion's i daughter lay he told them sula campaign, Lee less than a
she was not dead but sleeping. With hundred thousand, and this campaign
the touch of Omnipotence he broke in severity of fighting has been
her slumber. The young men who rated as a leading one of modern
have fallen on those woeful fields times. Yet we read in Picardy of
are not! dead. They have not gone losses in seven days' fighting equal
far awav. They live, a Koodly com- to the combined Union and Confed-
- -w- - - r
to; the farm during seed time and
harvest.
T
rE ARE disposed to look upon
the Saturday Evening Post a
good deal as Hamlet looked
upon (lie players. He called
them "the abstracts and brief chron
icles of the time." The Saturday
Evening Post is not distinguished
forj brevity. Indeed, some .of its
stories would gain much by a stern
use of the editorial blue pencil. But
it Is a chronicle of the time in that
it never prints anything that is not
likely to be popular.
When we obierve that any topio
is enlarged upon in the high priced
pages of our opulent contemporary
we feel perfectly sure" that millions
of people .are interested in it. Well,
then. The Saturday Evening Post
has of late been printing disquisi
. lions on the immortality of the soul
Not under that forbidding title, to
' be sure. They are sugared over to
look like short stories, but in reality
they are sermons on immortality.
A recent one gives in curious detail
the adventures of a soul after it had
entered upon the other life, or rather
had been introduced from this stage
of ; life to the next. Not long ago a
similar "story." told with perfect
assumption of matter - of - factness
about the return of a spirit from
the grave to do-a good deed. The
ghost then resumed its slumber
under the daisies. The two 6tories
7 differed a little In their views of the
state of the 60ul after "death," but
" that is a trifle. The point is that
the world is growing interested in
that question and the up-to-date Sat
urday Evening fost is. exploiting that
Interest for the good of its bank ac
count. For which we are the last
persons on earth to chide.it.
What has revived the world's wan
ing Interest in the future life?
. Everybody answers at dhce, ' "the
war." And the answer is true. We
. do not like to think that all those
thousands of young men who are
- laying down their lives so gallantly
in battle against the Hun are never
to finish what is so sadly broken
off. We have seen in graveyards
granite columns, set over the, graves
. of young men untimely dead, smooth-.-
ly finished half way up and then
roughly broken. Such are the lives
of the men who fight our battles,
thousands of them. The sun sets at
, midday. The grain is, cut in the
milk, Is that the end? 1
, Until the war began most men had
come to think that earth was a
; pretty desirable dwelling place. They
continued, to be sure, to sing old
. s pessimistic hymns with the liris.
" They chanted dolorously on Sunday
. morning that "this world is all a
fleeting show," that It is a vale .or
tears, that this life Is but a weary
, pilgrimage and so on; but it got no
deeper than their lips. Their treas
ure, was here and here their hearts
" Were, .
. ; Earth gave them so much that they
. . ceased to care for heaven. This life
was rich and the next too shadowy
jtor consideration. Then came the
v , war, sweeping away with its giant
broom the delights and dear luxuries
of the world. In a moment the
, ', j"great word was changed from self-
Indulgence to sacrifice. Men, and
women, too, were challenged to for
sake all and follow a divine cause.
, ' They must leave wife and home be
hind them. They must go through
fire. They must give tht'r bodies
to be tortured. ; , .
To millions of earth's children
Paul's. -life -story came home like
flash of Judgment flame. . "All the
- vain Joys that charmed, them most'
: they must count but dross or else
prove traitors to the Infinite calL
! Gould they, like Peter, look beyond
j the "dark glass" and see with the
. eye of . dauntless faith, face to face,
ran Immense. reality, "an inheritance
Incorruptible, undefiled, and that fad
eth not away" T
Faith had : grown wan. Hope had
! extinguished her torch in the dust
of the grave. And now with one ac
cord behold all' creations groaning
and travailing in pain together for a
new revelation.; Infinite-, need gene-
pany, free and blest, among us here, j
albeit invisible. When we think high
thought they are whispering to us.
When we weep for sorrow and fight
arainst ; wronsr. they hearten us.
erate strength on the Peninsula.
There are, however, 'points of simi
larity between the two campaigns.
Lee had just been promoted to the
command of the Confederate armies
When we long for God's justice they and his task being to drive the Fed
lead us to him and strengthen us to feral troops away from Richmond, he
wait and hope. The kingdom of planned a campaign whose boldness
heaven, ! said Jesus, is within you. j did not at all meet the approval of
And in' that kingdom dwell they his civil, nor even many of his mill-
whom In -our blindness we some-1 tary advisers. He proposed transfer-
times mourn for lost hm: his army to the north bank of
the Chickahomlny river and driving
By withholding your dollars from McGlerian dowrl that Side of the river
loans to the government you double to the sea. But by such a transfer
the risk on your son, brother and f foroes, he left Richmond compara
every man of military age.. Think it lively' undefended on the south side
over. Buy war savings stamps ana of the chickahominy and many have
I
STILL AN ANSWER
n THE JOURNAL of March 28
CommonieatiooB aant to TP Journal fot pob
Bcatloa In tbia departmant alfcmld ba writtca oa
only ona aida of tba papar, should not azoaad 800
wids la londh and must ba aicood by tha writar.
whoaa mail addran la (till muxt oooatpaay tao
mnirihatton.1
Substitutes snd Their Prices
Portland. March 29. To tha Editor of
The Journal In The Journal of March
Mr. Knowles of BatUa Ground, Wash.. W ,Knwle. of BatUo Ground.
asked an Interesting Question which " , . uruus uon
is not answered by saylnff Mr.,"n'n ,T . 5 .g
i. , Hoover ia without authority to fix
prices on corn, oats, barley, etc nor 5rif8won corn, oata, barley, etc nor
it .i. n,.tinn hv navinv does it answer. hia question by saying
wj would have to pay much more for w would hfve to pay much more for
flour were - the price of wheat not V , vrlc OL WM" "ot Ilxea
tA fcv th aministrntinn tt ajikAd "7 tho administration. He asked, if the
if the administration can fix the price ""uirauon, can iix me price on one
on j one article of food, why not oni8!0'6 of food, why not on another?
another? That is the Question before . That is the question before the house,
the) house. I And if our government wants to con-
' : " 'serve wheat the Quicker they do that
Ane ioregomg is irom a leuer on the more wheat they will get.
this page. The answer that the ad- I " not advocating a high price on
! wheat, but a lower price on substitutes.
71 " "h" r , T lr should the Illinois farmer get $1.70
anJ wheat flour prices only is a per bushel for his No. 1 corn. Uie price
perfect answer." It will remain an ; now offered him, when he can raise four
answer' an1 a norfeot iiuww until i times more corn Der acre than the av-
congress a-ives "the administration erae 'wheat raised In the United States?
congress gives me aaministranon , shouW he thUB 80 favored? was
power to fix other prices. The ad- this war brought about for his benefit?
ministration is not aoove tne law. someumes ioou so. Loes anyone
The correspondent thinks
It
Liberty ibonds.
OREGOVS YEAR OF WAR
since written that a vigorous attack
launched by -McClellan on Richmond
from that direction would, have
caused the fall of the Confederacy's
capital.
But Lee held the northern forces
HE mothers, the fathers and the
wives of Oregon have contrib-
utafl 99 VW1 nf f htf hriva tn th
corvm-'nf thp.r- Mntrv sin,., "gbtly. He estimated that there was
a-!! ft vr. o-ft o . mt f th no such daring in the high councils
adult male population ofthe state. -v of the Union and in this Judgment
Th nonnlft nf fir-PO-nn In thft finmft ouuscnucu
rr'- - I t l . .., - ,
length of time, have invested 139,000.- r,8'- "u"lc"'" iU1
000 in war securities and have con- Union prowess led him to. the suc-
frin,, mnr than Jt9 win ftoo tnvarri I cessive Diooay assaults on enirencnen
the support Of the-various war relief 11 niOQ pwm uurmn luc ,muWiuS
seven aays, wiiu iuaca i iu :jhih
activities. They are about to add,
during I the present Liberty loan,
drive, $18,495,000 to the total already
achieved, and before the year has
ended theydoubtless yvfil have made
an investment of 117,000,000 In War
Savings Certificates and Thrift Stamps,
that being the quota set aside for
the state.
Oregon has cause to be proud of
her war time efforts of the past year.
And she has high Incentive for still
fighting ..frfcn that the South could
ill afford to suffer.
We read in these days of allied de
fense of Paris, almost, it seems tp us,
under the shadow of the city's wails.
But it must be remembered that the
nearest point in the German lines Is
more than fifty miles from Paris,
while .the whole. Peninsular campaign
was, fought within a -Tadius of 23
miles of the Confederate capital. At
i think corn farmpra in ttrArw tn InKMau
n0 their wheat acreacre this season? Whv.
answer, to say that the consumers' , no. I know of farmers who heretofore
privilege of getting wheat flour at 'seeded nothing but wheat; this year, for
5 cents .a pound is no answer. A ' ' w -riT
grejat many folks think themselves cause of the fancy price and because
lucjky in that they do not have to they cant afford to purchase it for feed
nn4r 1 r-pnto nr mnp a nnnnil for ' at the present prices. Why should a
.K" . j ,!., . 'farmer be expected to sell his wheat for
what flour and pay along with t thrM centa a and Duy barle at
the 9V4 Cents . a pound for . SUbStl- , four cents a pound to feed to his horses
tutes. Those who try can see good' to raise more three cent wheat? Nor
In Imost of the things that are being i0.11 ha,rdJywblame !he what fr
done In this country. The con
Spondent wants the price Of substi- than to pay the price asked for substi
tutes reduced. A great many neoOle i tutes. Bring down the price of corn.
want that done. The Journal thinks, ! nd. br,nB doTn ih p.c of
k v. ?f ki k iPork; then the farmer who doesn't grow
aiiu iiao ocuu, vlak 1 b duuuiu uu uvuo.
But it cannot be done until congress
passes a law by which it can be
done. A bill in congress proposes
such legislation.
But here Is a questlrio: Just how
fat are we going to go in forcing the
fafmer to sacrifice for the benefit
of those who are, like the corre
snondent. not farmers? There are
sAm vehn wiinlH liV in bpa " tA 1 - Meyers view of socUllsm. He
i . Liri k j tell us that the Socialist party is com
wuea price cut w Deiure-uie-war posed of men rho never made good at
prices, with substitutes reduced in anything Socialism is not a matter as
r.rnnnrtlnn. Hannllv thv are In th ? 113 aanerenta nave made
t .. "nanclal uccesa or not. but It Is
unuuiiij, jur uiuak auiwiuus wvu matter for us to determine whether Its
a JUSt relation among "men. (fundamental principles are right or
When "the government goes into i "el. (wn,, in socialist attitude to-
tne business or price fixing, mere organization, it &c not
corn can sell his wheat to the govern.
ment and buy his pork on the market.
Does it not look as though there were
many reasons why substitutes for wheat
should be regulated, and that in pro
portion to their food value as compared
with the food value or wheat?
H. A. KAEPPLER.
Defense of Socialism
Portland. Apra 1. To the Editor of
The ? Journal I 'don't Quite agree with
ttmea tn fart rrinet'nf-thn t.lmA tn-
greater and continuous effort during cleUa'n was in sight of the Richmond
the coming months, and on- so long
as the war shall last. The state has
been well to . the forefront in th
activities of the past We can not
afford to prove laggard now,
steeples.
Then we are reminded also that
Paris, beautiful and 'glorious as she
is, is not indispensable to the allied
cause. Long ago in the Marne cam-
Oregon's part in the war program palm, u was determined that Paris.
is worthy of review. Her people ifneed be, should be' given up, but
invested ii,802.900 during the first tUe spirit of France, its armies kept
Liberty loan drive, and 123,198,550 intact, should fiht on in- the ooen
during the second. Up to the present ffeld. When McClellan struck at Rich-
time more than $2,000,000 have been J mond. he ' struck at the Confederate
invesiea in war savings ueruncaies heart. Its successful defense was in-
and Thrift Stamps. The various war dispensable to the Southern morale.
renei cans nave oeen mei wiin con- . nan thern he a ..distinction in this.
tributions of more than r2.500,000. tnat to a righteous cause ciUes may
But I money Investment or contrl-l fall .4AflTif alna onI l-in era rlonapf
i i wuj iiwiuij ia4A o.auo uvui a
bution aside, strong support Is being Uvhile the unbeaten soul is beyond all
given itnrougn tne expanding ship human power of subjugation?
Duuaing. activities oi uia state, 'mere
are now rz smpyaras aiong tne wiih .Captain Samuel White's appoint
lamette and Columbia rivers actively ment as a maJor ln lhe regular
engaged in building ships, while four afray carries with it an assign
others are ready and one is In course ment to the judge advocate's, depart
of construction. These yards are ment at Washington, where he will
empioymg Z4,za men ana are now have to do with reviewing the find
uuiuiiis oomraow loiaung irom idd,- Jng3 of courts martiaL In physical
uvu,uuu iu biouuwaaw. examination he took a grade that
At me beginning of im there were would admit him to active, servi m
but nine yards, three for steel and France. Maior White's two sons are
six ror wooden, ship construction. ln the army, one as an ordnance in-
i ney i empioyea aw men wiin- a structor at Chicago university, where
w , 7i Lvpayr" OI JUU'UU0- Tney he was assigned as one of eight out
uau iuu uu tuo wap ana neia of a class of nearly 200 on merit.
contracts amoummg to r.uoo,(K. The other son is- somewhere in Frnce.
iu,w iue payrou uas grown to
Hieh in St. Bavon't tower.
At midnight hour, ' ; " .' j . i . ,
The great bell Roland spoke,
And all who stept in Ghent awoke.
What meant 1U iron strokef.
It was the call I' '1 .
Known well to all, 1
That Freedom stood in, peril of some foe:
And even timid hearts grew tyld '
Whenever Roland tolled, M
And every hand a sword could hold;
For men - - -
Were patriots then, .
Three hundred'years ago! ;
Tolll Roland, tolll
Not in St Bavon's tower -
At midnight hour, j
Nor by the Scheldt, nor faroff Zuyder Zee;
But here this side the seal
And here in broad, bright day I
Toll! Roland, tolll !
St Bavon's stately tower ,
Stands to this hour, .
And by its side stands Freedom yet in Ghent;
Toll! Roland, tolll
This side the seal
No longer they, but we,
Have now such need of thee!
Toll! Roland, toll!
And let thy Iron throat ;
Ring out its warning note,;
Till Freedom's perils be outbraved, .
And Freedom's fla"g, wherever waed,
Shall overshadow none enslaved!
, Toll! till from either ocean's strand, '
Brave men shall clasp each' other's hand.
And shout "God save our native land!"
And love the land which God hath saved!
Tolll Roland, tolll ' '
JOURNAL MAN ABROAD
By Fred Lockley
Rata and Bobtail
Stories From Everywhere
A Flanders Mud Story; ,
I'HJS following U a Munchausen tale
A - ahnm-l n w f h. mialltv nf Ih tnud in
Ftandera at the present day. i .
A. soldier walking along a road, says
Everybody's, noticed a hat. which he at
tempted to kick out of tn mud.; What
was his surprise to find a head under it,
and to bear a voice callng for help.
Whan the man waa extricated, he '
"aid, I was on horseback. So together
they proceeded to dig out the horse. Th
horse's mouth waa found to be full of
hay taken from a wagon . which had
sunk still farther down. -
Mark Twain's Taste f Golf
Few people connect Mark Twan with
golf, but a story baa Just been discov
ered which -relates . his being ' shown
round a golf links by a friend who was
rather an expert at digging up the turf.
Sometimes Mark Twain would ; get a
mouthful. During the-course of th
game the friend inquired, "What do you
tr-ink of our golf links f "The finest I
ever tasted." replied Mark Twain.
. i i
Springtime j
BprViftlma, aprlncUBaa. aprlnctiaa aarlyl
Tha aaiw wa au lora ao daartj.
Whan. Xatnre shall aka troxa fact Ions winter
Aad abo all bar ebannt at Utdr brULtaat and, j
are 100
sidered.
million people to be con-! prove their principles are
absolutely
It Is not a flippant task to ! wron?- Some old have us believe
. .... . ... . i socialism means me equalization ana
be glibly announced without a mo- ; distribution' of all wealOt in the land ;
meni S consiaerauon. It IS a vast or, in other words, that those who have
problem, fraught with colossal re- i mney should divide equally with those
j .111,hf4 -.tlwho have nothing.. I can find no such
sponsibihty and weighted with great ! meaning to socialism. The best author
consequences for good or 111 to many ity we have for the meaning of social
diversified and conflicting interests. lam ts Webster. He tells us it is the
rri 4hi, .ht inciiHAn ,uu,muu 01 inaiviauai acuon ana tne
" " " o " . '""""-o-"'". getting un of coooeraUve action. Tf
scrutiny and - tireless endeavor enter this is the correct meaning of socialism
into all these things, and as fast as Uien members of congress who advocate
nnJeihlP Iho natnnlln anrl afnpt government ownership of railroads must
possioie tne patriotic ana earnest be socialistic I am not opposed to in-
men .m congress ana m . me aepan- dividual action as long as such action
ments 'at Washington are working 13 along the line of honesty and fair-
r' oil lhD nrnhbmn t.-ith all thn ,,e8a- oul wnen 11 Decomes a menace to
...... ... aocietv and the welfare nf th nnMi
despatch that tireless- energy can then it is time for cooperative action.
secure. This has been demonstrated . right here
And the fact remains that consum-
Somewhere In France. As I entered,
the Red Triangle hut one morning I
saw a rather petite, dark haired
woman in a fur coat pausing ln un
certainty ln front of the door. I in
vited her to come ln, aa we had a
cheerful fire going and the air outside
.cold and damp. By tha side of.
the dopf wail" we had written on the
announcement board an Invitation to
all to come and hear Khetta Chllde
Dorr, the distinguished writer, tell of
her experiences in Russia with the
Battalion of Death. The notice caught
the eye of .our guest. I saw that she
was reading the announcement with
Interest, so I said : "You must try to be
on hand tonight and take that In. It
will be good, and meanwhile come ln
with me and we will have a cup of
cnffMk tLnt lAtna tnajtt together in
front of the fireplace." Her dark eyesl
twinkled with merriment as she said,
Oh, I'll be there, for you see, I am
Rhetta Chllde Dorr, and X win also
be glad to go ln and hay some coffee
and toast. I have Just got her after
an all night ride, and if you can pro
vide the faculties for me to wash my
face and. hands I would appreciate it-'
A basin of hot water aad a rough
towel were quickly provided, and we
were soon sitting in front of a small
but cheerful fire in the grate, with
table between us, with toast and
coffee. "I have Just come from the
front." said Mrs. Dorr. "General Per
ahlng was very kind and when I finally
persuaded him I wanted to t go
into the trenches with our Ameri
can boys. He wanted to treat me as a
worn an, in place of as a reported, at
first, but I had come to see thing at
first band, and he made It- posble
for me to see how we are doing 'our
part ln the world war. The - spirit of
our men is splendid. I asked one of
the boys and I met boys from the
Northwest, the South and all-over the
Union how he felt about going into
the trenches. He said. That's what we
are here for. It's got to be done, so
we might as well do the Job cheerfully.'
As you see, I wear tall waterproof boots
and olive drab trousers, so ln spite
of the driving snow and the mud of
northern France I got about without
trouble." .
All of Mrs. Dorr's description of the
front I wfll have to omit, on account
! in Portland. The action of the street
car company is a menace to the public
ers j are getting wheat flour at 5 This creates a demand for cooperative
cents a pound instead of the 12 cents
or knore a pound they would have
beep compelled to , pay If congress
had not authorized the food adminis
tration to fix the price of wheat anl
wheat flour.
of the censorship. In fact, I can not
tell of the most interesting things we
discussed pertalnlhg to her visit to .the
f root, so I wUl have to drop ; back to
things I can discuss. "1 was born in
Omaha and lived for many years at
Seattle, so you see I am thoroughly
western," said Mrs. Dorr. "I must teU
you of an interesting thing that hap
pened to me in your city. Portland. I
am passionately fond of violets, and
you know what large and fragrant vio
lets you have ln Portland. ' I men
tioned the fact to a gentleman I met
there and he told me that it was Ore
gon violets that had won him to Ore
gon. He and his wife had come out
to Oregon from Minnesota. He could
find nothing to do, so he returned to
Minnesota to reestablish himself. His
wife bad fallen ln love with Oregon,
and wanted him to stay and make good
there. In each letter he wrote to her
he gave reasons why they had made, a
mistake In going to Oregon. In no
letter that she wrote to him did she
refer to his complaints about Oregon,
but.; simply enclosed a violet. After
he had received a score or more of
violets he decided to go back to Oregon
and make good there. He returned,
and everything seemed to come his
way. so that it Is little wonder that
his favorite flower' is the Oregon violet.
When I was at Ashlandand, by the
way, that is one of the most charm
ing and beautiful cities I ever visited,
and one upon, which my memory dwells
with pleasure I met a gentleman
whose name, I believe, was Bert Greer.
When I had visited their beautiful syl
van park that lies like an emerald ln
the very lap of the city, he said he
would send some violets to my bom In
New York city. Sure enough, he sent
me a huge parcel of violets, roots and
all. I am on the wing so constantly
that I gave them to a public school In
New York city, most of whose pupil
are from the Italian quarter. The
children love flowers, and hence do
well with them. Th violets took root
and . soon the air In their school garden
was fragrant with the odor of violets.
They are still called my violets, and 1
collect interest on them ln th form of
a bunch of violets whenever I return
from the far corners of the earth. The
children ten them with greatest care
and sell great bunches of Oregon vlo-
, lets to add to their school fund."
Tha lander yoans pu bladaa are Jnat barsaag
forth. i
and toon tha brUbt flowns win dack Uotbrr
tarth.
Taa. yaa, jm, that ara raaaena
Why ma call this tba cbotoaat of aanona.
Rprlnrtima. apriactlma. aprlngUasa dear!.
Iba aaaaoa of fracraace aad beauty la hrra.
JoM bear tba froo croakta.. ao Imyl aad aa rlrar.
And bear tha bird calUog their matea; far aad
near. i
Tha patter of rmla drupe la plea aa at to bear.
Ythiia tba balmy wind briaga ua a neatage nf
cheer.
Tea. yea, yea. there ara reasona .
Why we call thia tba cboteeet or eaaoea.
Sprtactime. aprlactime. araana of beauty 1
W beta work b a pleasure instead of a date.
When tha tender youns flowers rastwod to our
cere
And lift up their faros ao winsntae aad fair
Aod breeUie forth Uteir fragrance to led en tha
air. ;
That Uta poorent among us their riches may
share.
Tea. yes, yes. there are reaeona
Why wa caU this Uia chuicevt of eeawn.
Un. U H. Uraa.
Wilcox. Wash.
L'nrle Jeff Snow Says:
Frank Rogers he come up to the
Corners t'other day look In' fer kids
needln' a haircut Franlrd ruther cut
a kid's hair that eat pie, 'specially of a.
Saturday, he says, when his shop la
full of dollar-and-a-tlp customers. Frank
holds the diamond belt fer cut tin' mora
kids hair than any other barber ''In the:
United State, and the orphan aiyluma
In Portland all knows him 'cause he ;"
tends to their sheaiin' free gratis and
fer nothln'.
Nothing the -Matter
With Portland
DIPPING INTO THE FAR FUTURE
action. The trend of civilization wUi
socialise ma wona.
B. A. ' LiINSCOTT.
Good AnU-Kaiser Material .
Portland, April 3. To the Editor of
The Journal This to thank you most
sincerely for printing, ln The Sundjey
S . Journal the text of Herr Thyssen's
The German sword has brought an namphiet. Nothing so good for propa-
ganaa purposes nas appearea since we
were -in this world war, either, for -use
at home or In Germany. It-ielf. If it
could be circulated among the "25 mil
lions" who are starving many of whom
are the widows of men sacrificed to the
everlasting peace to the thousands of
German soldiers who have fallen in
the last offensive.
CONSCIENCE AND WAR STAMPS
212,000 per. month; and there are
400,000 tons " on the ways under course
of construction. Since January i,
1918, the yards of the stare have
aunched 23 vessels of 124,000 dead
weight Cons. ' , ;.
THE AGE OLD CONFLICT
I
A'
PARTICULAR community ln the
United States has declined to
buy War Savings Stamps because
From tba Washington Times .
In the centuries to come perhaps a
thousand centurea from now, perhaps a
little sooner, woman will get her clmnce
on earth. Population will have reached
Its normal limit and nature's wise law,
dealing with a really civilised race,
will automatically limit children to two
ln each family. Schools and nurseries
will be scientific and perfect. The care
of children will be the duty of the state.
Very poor women will be unknown, and
unknown will be the woman burdened
with the isolated care of children in an
Isolated household. In those distant
days woman will do her share of the
world's Intellectual and artistic work.
Physical w-04-k of all kinds will have
been practically annihilated by ma
chinery. Our big, muscular bodies, de
veloped hitherto- with an eye to pursu
ing wild animals, carrying heavy bur
dens and fighting each other like dog
of men. Until this war began the most
Important man was the organizer of In
dustry. He is really the most important.
not only in the sis of his reward but
In the service which he renders. Nature
gives th biggest reward to him who
does the most important work.
By H. 8. Haroourt
kaiser's unholy ambitions it would in the, tnrMt. win be refined and
carry home stralghter than bullets or very different from their present bru
shrapnel ; and certainly ; it should be tAiity. It will be an agreeable earth, a
good propaganda to spread among the i very agreeable and much Improved hu
German people here in the United States man race.
that la. If tha German nsvphalnev Ul '
it belongs to a religious organ- not impermeable to an idea. If we on!d I Those millennial days, which are sure
Ization which is opposed to war. bring home to the German people through .me' l1' w" Ti h.va.
Tf thpv wpm livino- unrtpr an antn. lne leaumony oi one oi ineir own peopio -" - " i Z - ,ia
U tney were living under an auto- mad kal8er Md hU murderoua outgrown our infancy, and. like a cwild
cratio government whose policy they war lords care no more for tha Uvea and that : has learned to walk and balance
had no part in shaping they might happiness of their own people than they
NWARJ) motives and ideals give to
war. its meaning and justification.
In its outward phase war 4s brutal
but' In its inner aspect as a strug-
Thf state is do'ng its rt to helplgle of ideals it is illumined and made
win the war. It has sent 22.500 of 1 Justifiable. : To 'jdetermihe whether a
Its best young manhood into the higher , or lowers. philosophy of , life
trenches of France, and will send l is to control the thought of future
more; It 1 as sent f4i.000.000 for the generations af men is among the
comfort' and cartf of those boys, and most profoundly' interesting and sig-
or all the boys who are fighting the I nificant -events ttf: human history.
battles of liberty. Before the year i Marathon s and Thermopylae, Tours
Is past It ' will have added to this 1 and Chalons and other decisive bat-.
total j by some 133,000,000 additional, ties shine through the ges like stars,
In its shipyards an army of 23,000 because , there met on those , fields j
men are enlisted in the fight ' and i two DrinciDles which are ever in con-
this army U to be still further re- flict. These two principles, western
cruitedC Its foresa are being called liberty and Oriental despotism, are as
upon to, furnish the wings of the active today as "when Grek fought
auiedV armies,; and its fields are gtr- Persian;: when , Martel ; defeated '- Sara
ing more and more of their harvests, cen and i when ; Attila was checkett
It is a; good record. It must be on the Catalaunlan plain.
upheld. And tit will be upheld. 1 When the present war began its
underlying cause was not easily seen,
This is not a war of political but it has become clearer. S It is not
parlies, but of the American people,! a struggle of American Englishman.
said general Leonard wood at a ban- j Frenchman and ; Italian against Ger
quet! in New York. ( "This is not a I man. Austrian, Bulgarian and Turk.
time; for political parties to seek to I It is the old fight between) liberty
gain 1 pary : advantage," ' said ' Presi- J and , tyranny, the . civilization of the
in fa measure be justified.
The government under which we
live-acknowledges the right of every
man to worship God according to the
dictates of his own conscience and
protects him in that right as well as
it! protects his person and property.
, liVhlle -members of religious sects
conscientiously opposed to war are
do for their foes, it would certainly kelp
some. E. F. BALDWIN.
PERSONAL MENTION
Finds Shipyards "Beehives',
"Business is booming in the east, and
It seems Just as good ln the west,-said
A. T. Worthen of Cincinnati, who is
registered at the Imperial hotel.. He
ftPMAt aatae.aeera 1 & kaJ . a W
reheved from service on the battle Willamette river- -beehives for demo
line they are not released from obli-; cracy. Jlr. Worthern is a business man
gallon tq support the government n n,s norn ctty. nd in Portland on I
with their substance Avhicli has been en,on bnese. . ; . , j
1 - - - ' ' "" " aT-.-J!-. a . ra a-"
gained b7 reason of the protection -Ma,,B " rsraac
of the goyernmsnt. , V i L" fA
n the case of War Savings Stamps L" 'eTrrT.r"
and Liberty loans these objectors are parade." spoke H. R. Walters at th
only asked to invest their money with : or"and hotel, where he is segistered
?. . . , during his stay in Portland. Mr. AVal-
'""'"uvu' ww ter8 u a business man of Vancouver,
interest.. They are not asked to give ; B. c. -with such enthusiasm your Lib
it! outright without hope of return. ; ert loan drive wul go over the top th
in.. .nm.nt 1 ' as did your parade,"
arid if it can not obtain it through ; Pageant Like "Fourth"
voluntary loans it has the alternaUvc ! Frvnk Wilson, a salesman. V Chicago,
ni,..., tnrA !,,. in ,k waa another Portland visitor who was
power Of forced ley.. In such an jrreaUy Impressed by th parade. Mr.
event, whosoever will save his money , Wilson is staying at th Multnomah.
Shall lose It. , ' ' . "Tb parade i was like Fourth of July
Thousands of people who are as Rd clrcu day wmbined.' h said. ,
conscientiously opposed 1 to war as MJVand Mrs. M. J. Welch of Spokane
.... 4 iL 1 -k eL.., ar registered at th Oregon. -
uio scH iwiw sw, euro tuccnuujr - Among arrivals at the Portland Is
itself, we a nan understand the forces of
nature and use them Our principal oc
cupation will be harmonious life on this
planet and perslstenfinvestlgation of the
marvels of .the universe outside of our
own little sphere. As centuries have
gone by on earth, power has dwelt with
different classes of human belnga In
the days of the Troglodytes, when one
gentleman would crack another gentle
man's thigh-bon to get at the marrow,
the most Important man. of course, was
the one best able with physical fore to
murder his fellows. ' At various times
the great explorer, the great military
strategist, has been the most important
A thousand centuries from now the
most Important human being will be th
most efficient astronomer. Th man
who -shall bring us accurat news of
other worlds will be welcomed as was
Christopher Columbus or Drake or Ra
leigh in his day. Women will be very
important factors in astronomical re
search. The work of the astronomer Is
especially the work of patience, of en
thusiasm, of devotion. Patience, en
thusiasm and devotion ar more highly
developed In women than In men. Al
ready, ln view of her extremely limited
opportunities, woman has don admir
ably well in the field of astronomy. We
note that it is a woman at Cambridge
whose stellar photographs first located a
new star In Perseua In England, in
Germany and in Franc woman astrono
mers are doing work almost equal to
that of the beet men, 'Everybody will
remember th faithful labor of Her
schell's sister, working all through the
night . and sleeping through th day.
month after month, and year after year.
neiping ner great Drotner in his studies.
There Is a kind of small fry. man who
dislikes the idea of mental development
among women. He is a mouselike kind
of creature, so thoroughly conscious of
his own, small neas, so thoroughly In love
with his own importance, that he dreads
the intellectual woman, who makes him
feet mkrfoecoplo Despite the protests of
such men. some of whom are editors.
women are making progress. When they
shall give to science, especially to as
tronomy, the passionate, devoted atten
tion which they have flven for ages to
the care -or children they will rank
among th highest on earth.
The only linseed oil mills west of the
Rocky mountains are located at Twenty
second street north and Sherlock . ave
nue. Portland. R. II. Muhme Is -manager
The works consume 2j.0O( bush
els of flaxseed annually. In normal.
times the seed sells at J1.7S to II. si a
bushel, but now, for October delivery, at
I3.S8. - A bushel of good flaxseed will
produce two and one half gallons: of oil.
which two years ago sold in carload
lots at 85 cents a gallon, but now at
f 1.67 for raw and 11.79 for boiled In
lots of 25ft gallons or less. Th average
yield of flax per acre is In Oregon 12
bushels, though there have been yields
of IS. In Montana greater crops than
ln Oregon are usual, but with present
prices for wheal and other cereals, flax
culture is neglected, and that preaa-1 at
the Portland works comes chiefly Itctirt
China and Manchuria. However. It i
now next to Impossible to get ehlpmcn.s
from the Orient. "We have not." Mr.
Muhme says, "received a bushe) from
beyond the ocean since October.; How
ever, we nave been able to secure a suf.
flclent supply from other sources to keep
th works running." i
The Portland in?ed OH Works came
to Portland as a branch of the American
Unseed Oil Works in 1(78 and has be n
continuously operated. The company
owns 720 feet fronting on the tracks of
the Terminal company, owns tank cars
and employs 25 to 80 men. Aside from
Its oil. a great amount of stork food In
th shape of oilcake is produced.'! It iss
claimed that at double the price Of bran
this Is the cheapest feed forVattle Pres
ent demand is such that SO per cent of
orders cannot be filled. . . (
a e e
From bins located in the top fcf th
high building the flaxseed comes In
spouts to steel rollers which give a pres
sure of 20 tons, squeexlng out the oil.
th residue, or meal, coming out tn hard
cakes. On its way to the rollers th
seed passes through a heated drum,
which moistens seeds that are too dry
and dries those too moist. i
Until about 18S0 flax in the United
States was raised chiefly for fiber. The
seed was a waste product. Hut now th
seed Is the chief remunerative product.
"It Is my opinion.' says Mr. Muhme.
"that th 'present war conditions' will
result In making this on of th greatest
Industries in th world. Lard and other
fats are at present almost entirely de
nied the people, and when' It Isj one
discovered that vegetable oils ar rnuch
superior In cleanliness, palatabteness
customed fats will not take place.?
and heaithfulness, a return to -the ae
Tomorrow : Artlcl No. 74 " of this
series : Th Valentin Manufacturing
company. t
Redwyn Scott of Ontario, Or.
C ti. Cora of Grants pass is a guest at
the Perkins.
Roger Miller of Ban Antonio is at in
Benson,
Mrs. Winnie Braden of Dallas is at
th Imperial.
Miss Anna Dunn of Los Angeles is at
th Carlton.
p. Zemonsky of San Francisco Is reg
istered at th Benson. '
Mrs. U. 8. Woodhous or Biiverton is
an arrival at the Perkins.
j d. O'Connor of Grand Isiana; JveD.,
is registered at the Carlton.
L. -II. Young of Salem Is registered at
the Multnomah. ;
w L Kahler of Central Point, Or, is
a aruest'at the Perkins. -
Mrs. . Arthur Stock of Ostrander,
wh is a truest at th Carlton.
.E. L. Staples of Cranbrook, B. C la
registered at th Benson. .
K. M. Duffy of Corvallis is a ruest at
th Oregon. . i
Q. E. Xtodd of St. Helens Is an arrival
at th Oregon. j
Frank Sloan of Bend Is a guest at th
Imperial. i
A. C Marsters'of Roseburg ts among
th arrivals at the Imperial. .
L T. Lynch of Salem is staying at th
Multnomah. i
.B. F. Laughlin of The Dalles Is a ruest
at the Perkins. - j
J. R. Linn of Salem Is a guest at th
Imperial.. . f - v, : '
I He Coald End It All
- Froas the WaaMastea Poet
After an enthusiastic movi fanness
has seen her favorlt cowboy hero 'In
action ah naturally wonders why the
war drags on so long.
f.
THROUGH
Good morning t- ;
ir tssi . j
Have you bought another Liberty,
bond? I
t m : - I
Or some mora War. Savings
Stamps; or both? - ' f
Into th wsr garden trenche4 to- :
day. '. . j
We beg to announce the annual
. "grave concern' felt for th fruit
crop1 because of th setting In of
the annual season of -unusual"
weather. . , i
. .
Bera a FrUsy, Mays i .
Registered eat a local hotel from
Seattle during the week was Miss
Fonda Fish.. , j
- 'I-
It used b over th hDls to th
poorhous. Now it's over th top to
victory. - -
-Some" parade..
What; an awful chill for KaUer
BUI. . -'
So long. i .
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