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THE OREGON DAILY, .JOURNAL. PORTLAND, MONDA. APRIL 8, 1918.
AX. DTDEPENDEMT NEWSPAPER
c. a. JACKSON.
Publisher
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as building, Chicago.
ubecriptlon terms by mail, o to any address
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Thy purpose 'inn U rqasl to the deed.
Who does the beat tiia circumstance allows,
does well, acta nubly; angels could do no
mora. Young.
undertaken a sweeping . inTestigation J would do far more to hearten the
of our hallowed telegraph and; cable 1 cohorts of autocracy, than' the cap--
companies. The .' corporation pess ure of Pershing's -army. V
had best,' prepare Its mind for a terrl- The great unkonwn factor of the
ble 6hakng up-when the -coming dlsi war is the American. The strength
closures transpire.; Judge McGinn's 0f the European nations can be very
discussions' 'of'' our 'street railway closely aDDroximated. The max.'mum
company and Its hangers-on in and has been ' reached. , But it Vet re
out of office are mild compared with mains to be seen whether the giant
what is coming. - v of the west will throw his full
Happily the school board thinks force Into . the conflict or will spar
the school buildings a, proper place around ineffectively, blind to the
for problems of public interest and future possibility of a German vic-
pubiie welfare to be discussed, and tory which will make of him the next
very properly; declined to close the victim to autocracy.
doors on Judge McGinn and the hun
dreds of citizens ' who crowd the
rooms to listen " to his addresses.
THE SHIPYARD WAGERS
It is not so Important that we know
that we have enlisted for the full
term of the war, whether for one
year or ten years, as it is to make
this determination known to Prussia.
i
urnr k n-nni. hn will way to mane me Kaiser
"J v av - IM1I, tkt. I. tl V- - -l
Innlc nbn. at thft action of "
various shipbuilding concerns Po' bond issue. This will
ax I,... K.vunnnn nftn I signify that we are in earnest and
their individual capacity to produce Pf,1 f ?tsh J isJ ou of
uiwuii 11, wm icpiaccu uy outer
armies . and that we will fight on.
T
the grealtest number of wooden ships
for the government in a given period
of time.! It is betting, but it is bet
ting in a good cause.
Competition, "they say, is the -iifo
of trader and so it will probably turn
out to be in the business of building
ships. Men are contentious animals
who arc more apt to extend their ef
forts when the victory of contest
lies at J the1 end of their striving
whether in SDort. in business or in
When this fact is impressed on tho
Teutonic mind the war will be short
ened. Sincerity will be added to Ger
man peace talk.
THOSE BRONZE HORSES
to proceed is due chiefly to their on of th .essentials by which each
susceptibility- to local political con- o tTt !
anions. in me caseroi lraiuenuai .outht our ..tJ.. nH
individuals the county court will not now defending it. Many of ua who are
take action through fear of losing ifoingr to aubscrlbe to thla . areat loan
politic support. Bf throwing the aSP STSSi
responsibility on the State highway navt) heretofore eeemed essential to our
commlssibn they find the "easy way." daily life, but that now must be fore-
In doing this, however, they do not fn in order that the land of our na-
make a transfer of the financial bur- TcVwe would b r
den which In the end is borne by the duced to serfdom, such, to us. would
County. i mean humiliation, starvation and all of
The law provides that the state n oi cuw oruiamtes. i
. , ' t . , 'deny one's self In order that one may
highway department shall be reim- flm defend hln18elf and hU posterity
bursed for all expense incurred by ; from the encroachments of autocracy,
the county In which the right Of and then defend himself .from the en
,, -it vt ta nnt Ann ' croachments of poverty and want. Is at
way may lie. If this is not done flm & p,.,,, paiotun, that can
directly the amount is deducted from : not be questioned, and. second, a prln
the county's allotment of state road ; clple of thrift that guarantees a future
COMMENT AND NEWS 1 IN" BRIEF;
SMALL CHANGE
funds!
EXPERTS TESTIFY
ON POWER BILL
By Carl Smith, Washington staff Cor
respondent of The Journal.
'of prosperity.
The purchase of Liberty bonds by the
people to the extent of oversubscription
will at once make us a thrifty nation by
. teaching us to banish extravagance and
' waste. It la to be hoped that this Issue
of Liberty bonds will be so heavily over-
subscribed, and with such alacrity, that
its Impress wUl aid the United States
in breaking the morale of the kaiser and
his serfs, as well as curbing the activ
ities of the fanged adders of sedition
In our country.
It is up to every individual to protect
Today is bond buying day.
Don't forget Uie taty bonds, either.
reace with honor by the Fourth of
July.
Dig- up at home that the boys over
seas may dig in to make the Hun dig
out.
Whoever thousrht there was so much
money In the world, to aay nothing of
just Lresua i
m m ' m
Signs of spring : The street car heaters
are turned on full blast.
It doesn't seem like Monday morning
any more unless some of the boys stop
to tell us how much thev aceomDllshed
in the garden on Sunday and bow sore
their muscles are as a result.
m
If you don't happen to have enough
money for a Liberty bond, remember
that War Savings Stamps answer the
same purpose as the bonds, and that the
lowly little Thrift Stamp also has a
great mission to perform in this war.
OREGON SIDELIGHTS ;
Ttnaburara ' council antlctoates ' the
drive by ordering f 2200 worth of Liberty
bonds, to be carried by the city as a
oash asset until after the war. or so
lone as the need to do so U apparent.
The new home of the Clackamas
Countr Banner, at the corner of Ninth
street, on Alain. Oregon City, wilt be
comnleted within a few davs and the
installation of plant will be effected at
once.
Tom Jonevat of Konall baa ault" the bar
ber shop, the Fossil Journal says, and
roei to work on the Steiwer ranch.
Tom. according to the Journal, is a good
farm worker as well as a good barber
and feels that he can do more to win the
war on the farm than In. the shop.
Baker's city commissioners have re
pealed the dog muscling order that has
been in effect since the recent hydro
phobia scare In which a number of
canines were Infected and several per
sons bitten. The eDldemlo is now de
clared to be ended and the danger past.
Almost Sorry to Lose Hun
AM having so ranch trouble In iry-
tng to collect the monir. that- 1
sometimes almost wish I had my hss
band back." wrote a Wisconsin weman
who had been granted compensation be
cause or the death of my husband. ' to
"tate industrial commission. A
lefthanded compliment to 4he deceased,
says Capper's Weekly, but undoubtedly
JOURNAL. MAN ABROAD
By Fred Lockley
Washington, April 8. The ad llnistra
tio'n waterpower bill, now under consid
eration by a SDecial house committee.
gives encouragement to the investment : his democratic rights against autocratic
of capital, yet secures adequate protec- : dictation. The one great bulwark that
DROPPING GERMAN' IN SCHOOLS
TUP' question as to whether lh':
'study of the German language
"should be continued in the
, i schools is being answered by the
pupils themsfives.
'f A . poll of school superintendents
Jot vine United Slates taken by the
Literary Digest shows that German
'classes are dwindling in all parts
?f the. country. In some places the
' decrease is. 10 Der cent, in others 50
' pep: cent and in many sections 100
; per .'cent. ! ;
A tabulation on which .the Liter
ary Digest article is marie up from
't fdOOO replies received, gives the num-
, ber of schools which have dropped
-"'the study of German to be 149, as
compared with 868 which have .not
. done so.
" J) v,n lni9 Oregon Is credited Avith
eeVen schools, of which one has
dropped the study. The same fig
ures are attached to Washington. A
Jlarge decrease Is in Idaho, where
il2 schools out of 28 have dropped the
language.
In Nebraska the decrease Is 100
per cent. It is noted that In that
state at a recent meeting of pastors
find teachers of the German Lutheran
church, resolutions were passed rec
ommending the cessation of, Instruc
tion In the German tonguefV all
parochial schools for the duration of
, - i the war.'
Kansas snows a railing orr or. ap
proximately 50 per cent. With' the
exception of Maine, which shows a
decrease of 40 per cenW the New Eng
land . 6tates do not discriminate as
much as- the Southern states, where
the.-decline runs as high as 50 per
cent. There is only a slight decrease
in the large states of New York. Illi
nois, Ohio, Massachusetts and those
In which there are a large number of
people of Teutonic origin. .
'.The controlling reason for drop
Dlna the "study seems to be the
thought that the texts selected have
b.een chosen with a vtew of spread-
2 ing German propaganda. As ex
pressed by a Baltimore paper:
i The German l&niruara han not hen
- 2 emphasised so much because of Its
Intrinsic value but rather as a part
I of a persistent political propaganda ln-
S tended to wean the people of this coun
try away from Anglo-Saxon and Anglo
Celtlo origins and ideals' and divide the
- national - interest and national sym-Ipathy.
Commenting on the. results of its
surrey the Literary Digest says the
question takes on several aspects,
some of which t are of "an adminis
trative nature. Only in the mlnbrity
of cases is there a disposition" to .ex
clude German as a cultural study of
S the 'high schools and universities but
as a study of the lower schools-, tech-
inlcallv known as the 'lrafea, nnin -
' J Ion; Is practlcall unanimous,, that
there is no place for it here.-.
X CAS . substitutes , -for I . Germain tho
S study , of French and Spanish 1s in
Jcteasing. i
1 Oregon leads every other state in
America in the per capita purchase
of -War Savings Stamps. Here is
2 expectation that this state which has
2 won so many distinctions in war
5 work, may be first to pass her Wrar
' ,Savlngs tjuota. It is; a thought to
stic -all -workers -to the highest en
deavor. i
T MAY appear strange to readers
that the Greek city of Corinth
should have made Nero a present
of the bronze horses of St. Marks
politics.! No man likes td be beaten, at Venice. The strangeness grows
all seek to win. It is the law of when it is remembered that the gift
life- was cme of gratitude and not of fear.
The pending shipbuilding contest be- Kero is an accepted type of auto-
tween the Portland and Columbia cratic cruelty. He put the best men
river yards will hold an added public m Rome to death without just cause,
interest.! No matter which concern He executed many an eminent citizen
wins, the result will be an increased m order to piunder his estate. He
number of badly needed ships for the wrapped Christian martyrs in rags
use of the government. The winners and pitch and burned them on high
will secure the money, but the losers Pinars to illuminate his garden. And
will have the consciousness of having yet the city of Corinth liked him so
done yocman service in the cause of well that it cast the famous bronze
their country. It would be well if steeds and sent them to him for a
all the yards, throughout the coun- present.
try were to get into the game. Tne explanation is simple. Nero
. But whether the bets are on or off, in Rome was one man Nero outside
tne race win sun ne on. American Rome wag another. In Rome his per
shipyards everywhere are betting sonality was everything. Outside,
their , labor, their efforts, their skill he was the administrator of the huge
and their construction against the ef- governmental machine of the empire
forts and the destruction of the and hi3 personality counted for little,
kaiser. If they win he loses. If they Corinth liked Nero because he gave
fall down he may win. ' The Portland it a decent governor, something ex
bct is but an incident .to the one big tremely rare in those times. The city
bet against the imperial German gov- prospered and, after the -manner of
ernmentL its submarines, its fright- poor silly manvjnH. it ascribed its
tion to the public interest, according to
E. T. Merrill, chief engineer of the
Ignited States forest service, who had
a leading part in drafting the bill and
was the first witness In Its behalf. Mr.
Somewhere In France A dark eyed,
dark haired, bright-eyed little woman
came to the counter where I deal out
information, advice. New Testaments,
cigarettes, French money for American
bills and English notes, cash army and
navy pay checks and hand out letters
from-ltome. We receive countless let
ters addressed, "Somewhere In France,
care Y. M. C. A.," and the unending
; river of humanity flowing through our
hut claims most of the mall we receive.
"I am so anxious to receive a certain
i of all traffic In liquors. If prohibition . letter before I sail for home," said my
we can all strengthen is the Liberty loan.
11. L. WALTER.
Chides Eleventh-Hour Dry
Newberg. Or- April 3. To the Editor
Merrill indicated that the policy agreed ' ?f, , ' J?"Ii, S.KiMoVtTto e
. ,v . , isfaction to the real prohibitionist to see
"P .fr1!! ?5 1 all parties now calling for the aboUshlng
l ivuitui G L9 IWr TV W DUVU1U
V. JS J 1 . . , m IV V-
... vxai" uuu uo " Ha good in wtr time, why not at all visitor, as she told me her name.
. wcr , ueveiopea . on navigao e , Umea? why were we so long In finding I "Don't worry; he has written or will
.uoiuu w m tuiuiauon wui mt iiunuo , out that beer and whiskey were an
lands, la that- rentals shall not be , injury to us. as Individuals or as a
charged for purposes of revenue, but nation? An article In The Journal of
snouia De made nominal, to defray ad'
ministration costs. '
Friday gives some light on . the subject.
write." I told ber, as I looked through
the letters. "Where Is home?" I in
quired. "My home is in Louisiana, not
far from New Orleans," she said. "I
Under the bill a charge of not less
than 10 cents per horsepower per an-
i shouting themselves hoarse to have the
and I would suggest that tnose newly , nav6 8pent the pa8t tw0 years on the
bom prohibitionists (who are now c m Afrlc. where letters from
home are In these days few and far
between."
A bit later I talked with someone
who bad come out of Russia, where for
five months they were to all Intents and
purposes burled alive ; for during the
entire live months they dldn t see a
nor get a
fulness and its success.
' i ,i .1 . 1 .uklkll..
j ..'". ... president proclaim iwuuuai uiviuumuuj
mi,lon SZZa'Z, STii I! read the article, digest It and solemnly
In f. . ! at commune with theif own consciences as
fYJZ y Y "..T"; f maVv' 1 1 whether they had always been on the
of policy, however, it is stated to be the rl ht slde therewas a Cei-man-
intent to charge no more than a nominal ! Amerlcan alliance, fmanced by the
sum. Chairman Sims expressed sur- tmu.. ...i.ti wno un imnun.
prise at this, because In his view It may ! but for an that, even candldiv?i lor the newspaper from America nor
be desirable to secure for the govern- I presidency were willing to dicker wlUi ' K1 word frorn the home land
.i.oiii j."ii"aj revenue irom uie mu- ( the alliance In order to g it the support. ; Tnla morning a man with a strong.
" jTf-i vuuiiiouica or uie iirewers aDsgcwuun. Aim gooa lace asKed me now to go to a
will make, to relieve the burdens, as he : were told that the party receiving that famous 0ia chateau near here, and also
expressed It. of those who are paying : support would win. Did we hear a pio-:how to reach a certain cathedral. When
large sums in taxes ior tne purposes of ; test from any or tne wa party press : , j nad Dianned out for him an interesting
the war,
"I believe it much better to reduce
rates to the consumer tha to produce
revenue." said Mr. Merrill. "The un
derlying purpose here is to get low
rates to the consumer. I do not be
lieve In charging rental for revenue, ex
cept ior two purposes : .first, a nom
.Not at all, tut ir my pariy iosi out. x , tour to nearby points of Interest, he
blamed it on the brewers. j 8ald . rhe war has piayed havoc with
We have not heard of k prohibitionist j my WOrk. I am on my way back to
nay home In the Kameruns, In Africa. I
have been there 24 years. My name is t
askine for the brewers' vote, but we
were exhorted to be regular. Prohibi
tion was all right for my to-vn, bat not
for the whole country. But a late
repentance Is better than. none at an.
I prosperity to the emperor, Just as!
inal amount to pay the cost of admin- and next November we will again have
istratlon ; second, It may be necessary to ! an opportunity to show our colors and
go beyond that to get excess earnings ' Pve that we really believe. In doing
wnicn cannot be reached in any other
Jury for Multnomah county about
year ago? Isn't your name Fred Lock-
ley? 1 am Captain T. II. Magulre.
was a deputy with Walter Evans. We
talked over Collier. Hammersly. Robin
son, Ryan and the rest of the boys and
had a good visit. Last night Lieuten
ant Sturgls of Pendleton called to see me
but missed me. He left word he would
call again In a few days.
Four Canadian soldiers drifted In to
spend a few hours between trains.
made them welcome, poked the fire up
for the forenoons and evenings are
damp and raw, and the cold penetrates.
One of them was from near Halifax ; an
other from Winnipeg. I didn't learn
where Shorty, the cavalryman, was
from. The fourth man was from Cal
gary and in the course of our talk it
turned out that he was a grain buyer
and had bought wheat from my one-time
partner on the East Oregonlan. Bert
Huffman, now a rancher at Langdon, Al
berta. Two sailors were the next vis
itors and they gave me a graph lo story
of their experience coming over an ex
perlence I am not allowed to discuss.
They changed some currency Into French
money, and handing me all the money
they had left, they, said. "Count this,
please, and take care of It for ua. We
will drop In maybe today, maybe to.
morrow, and maybe next week. We are
going to see all there la to be seen."
BELATED,. BLT-
1 0 VERNOR WITHYCOMBE,
good Republicans ascribed the full din
ner pall to McKinley. Nero had
. Inothina: in th worlrl tn rin with thi
tegfcally. at least, Is somewhat Zsp"llJ. ,of CorlnKlf' ?ut elth"
late with his request that the Jfd ,Kj,nley fnr,th,n5 to do with
attorney general intervene In the th f u Vnmr pail,
suit of the Booth-Kelly Lumber com- Presidents and emperors seldom
pany and the Hammond-Winter Lum- 5fve.,much to, do w, th the welfare of
ber company against the Oregon A tne lower classes. Nero was per-
Callfornia Railroad company. But sonally a bad man, while McKinley
nmh.hiv it i. hoftor int. than khvpp. w" one of the best men who ever
Tr-ia-on minff nfontinn thot vea, out reels pi mat sort are
has been made by the two lumber
concerns. " They bought" Oregon &
California grant lands in the days
gone by at an average price, as they
irrelevant to the political estimate
history makes of them. The Roman
empire , was a better place to live
In under Nero than it was under the
set out in their complaints, of 10 first Christian emperor, Constantine,
per acre. The money. has been paid not because Nero was the better man
and the, large areas of valuable tim- of the two- but because the times
ber involved in the transactions long were more Propitious,
time since have passed into the The Corinthians saw in Nero a ruler
hands of the companies. But since who ave tnem eod government,
the enactment of the Chamberlain- Protected their sailors from pirates.
Ferris act and its validation by the taxed them only moderately and made
supreme court of the United States, few- Personal exactions except a dc
the lumber 'companies have suddenly mand- of worship for his statute,
discovered that they paid the rail- This they conceded willingly enough,
road more than it was entitled to Readers of St., Paul's letters will re
charge them for the lands they member that one god was about the
bought. They have suddenly dlscov- 6ame as another to the Corinthians,
ered that the terms of the land grant, So they ent nim the bronze horses
under which the Oregon A California wh'ch, after all these years, have
nnMrnoH rnmnanv hpiri h ianHa been , removed from Venice to Rome
oniiiM thn pnmnmv in ohnr ihm 1 save them from the Huns.
Mr. Merrill was questioned as to what
he meant by "excess earnings." He had
some trouble In defining it. Earnings
could not be termed exorbitant merely
because they were large, he agreed, if
they were due to economical operation
under rates which were reasonable and
regulated. At another point he inti
mated that rentals might be used to
equalize differences between companies
wnicn make large and small returns, I sitlon fromaIl points of view. How
when because of competitive conditions ' ever enthusiastic girls and boys may be
away with the traffic, or whether we
aro Just now trying to mak) someone
else responsible for our sJrs of omission.
J. JL KOPP.
Opposed to Backyard Chickens
Portland, April 6. To the Editor of
The Journal In The Sunday Journal I
have read an article in which G. R.
Smith advises poultry-raising in every
back yard in Portland. Now, I am sure
I am as patriotic as Mr. Smith, but I
am sure he has not looked at this propo-
they charge the same rates. The witness
explained that it is not the purpose of
the bill to Interfere with state rte juris
diction any more than necessary. Intra
state rates are left to state commissions,
and where a company operates In two
or more states, regulation would still
be left with the state bodies up to the
time that some conflict arises between
them.
a
Mr. Merrill maintained
the most important things to he kept
in mind is to make the terms of the
lease absolutely certain, and then to
keep it from change for the contem
plated leasing period of 50 years, unless
with the consent of the lessee. Congress
ought to leave no uncertainty, he said.
so the. investor can be sure of what Is
ahead. Charges must therefore not b
readjusted during the lease except In
accordance with terms laid down in the
lease Itself. Thus, if the 10 cen charge
is to be made 20 and 30 cents at the end
of 10 and 20 years, this should be pro-
iaea when the lease Is executed.
but f2.50 an acre. Of course the
grant was written Into the laws of
the land when they made the deals
with the railroad company. Of
course ; the timber they bought is
worth much more than $2.50 an acre.
Of course they knew all these things
when .they purchased it, but they
are sticklers after the legality of all
transactions and they want the courts
to undo the overcharge and force
the railroad company to give them
back the excess amounts over and
above $2.50 per acre paid by them in
the dim and distant past.
LEAD PENCILS
J
APAN has many and shining mer
its but imitation of the . great
American Bolshevist, Henry David
Thoreau, is not one of them. .
On the subject of lead pencil mak
ing there is an irreconcilable differ
ence between the Island Empire and
our philosopher.
When Japan learned that she could
make lead pencils by the million she
at once set herself to doing it. In
1914 she exported 9,000,000 of those
SACRILEGE
4
t,
ft
transitory conveniences. Now sh is
Incidentally, the success of the pPndinsr them out at the rate of ifi -
lumber companies would mean a OOO.OOO per annum. " .
very material loss to tne unuea Thoreau was also interested in lPart
States, to the irreducible school fund pencils. He thought at one time of
or me state, ana to me roaa ana port eaming nis living by making them
runas oi tne iana grant counties, instead of raising beans on Walden
j.ie wwwt u i.ivis mvu.yeu shore. He accordingly apprenticed
the litigation, if returned to the lum- himself to the lead nenr.il trarfe. nri
ber companies, would reduce by that kept at it faithfully until he had
sum the amounts to be paid to the made one perfect pencil. Then he left
government, me siaio ana me coun- the gnop and never mad( 8nother.
ues m uiiai oeiuemeiu ui me gram Many men of many minds maJ.e tne
uuu iviiuuvus,. world interesting. We must have our
The United States entered its pro- Japans . and our Thoreaus, too, or
test against tne contentions of the life would not be worth living.
lumber companies as soon as their
rO DOUBT It Is next thing to sac
rllege, or perhaps a little worse,
for Judge McGinn 4o say what
, he "does about ."our great cor-
t Pbratlons" and their hired retainers
It lis certainlyi something new for
5 such truths to be uttered publicly In
JJthftj ichoolhouses, whose customary
aCuse-lS' to deal with the concerns of
the middle ages and ancient Rome;
r':lt Is perfectly proper to speak
about the corruptions of Babylon
and' the t tyranny of Nebuchadnezzar
In the school houses,: but the instant
" Judge McGinn or anybody else i-en-Jltures
'to comment ' on the tyrannies
of a modern street railway, company,
." y oh, it's awful. , f
' i", The divinity -that doth hedgj!ihose
immaculate institutions is receiving
many a nide; shock 'these days. 11 iTho
government, - for instance,; has . just
complaints were filed. It got into
the game before the law of the case
had been argued before the court of
Multnomah county. Governor WTithy
combe; has directed the attorney gen
eral to slip In, before the closef of
tne tweutn nour ana present the con
RIGHTS OF WAY
1
N His ruling that the state high
way commission has authority to
appoint a right of way agent, but
mat tne conduct of legal pro
ceedings in court Is properly a fun&
tendons of the state, if it is not too ion of the attorney general. Att&rney
late to point out its interest in the General Brown" has sustained the po-
litigation. Attorney General Brown s'tl0n ake by the commission
doubtless would have beerf in much If. county courts : would perform
stronger, nositlon toad vha been .sent their duty it would be unnecessary
into battle while it was being fought, Ior the. slate Mo employ a right of
ratheri than afterwards.
THE, KAISER IS WATCHING
A'
way agent. Primarily the law- re
quires that counties;: acquire right
bf way on roads', which are to be
constructed or improved bv the state.
SliOW response to the third Lib- in practice jt has been found difficult
erty man wouia oe gooa news m to realize this result. Therefore pro
uermany. it would encourage vision has been ' made aivina the
state: authority; Ho institute prQceed-
Ings in the, event I the, county refuses
or neglects to .do ..so.
The. indisposition of county courts
the central powers to think that
we were growing tired of the war
and had regretted entering it. ,
; Failure to 'take up the loan quickly
Mr. Merrill defended the recapture
clause of the bill against the doubts of
some members of the committee, who
feared that under It the government
cannot shake the hold of the lessee when
the time la up. Representative Ferris
pointed out that it will apparently be
come necessary to go Into court to dis
possess the lessee If the government
fails to agree to renewal at the end of
the term. With such cumbersome ma
chinery, Ferris said, the danger of giv
ing what amounts to a perpetual fran
chise appears. Merrill maintained this
is not the case. Unless the government
takes the plant itself, he asserted, a
lawsuit lies at the end of the road, if i
the company in possession chooses to !
sit tight" and does not make a new
lease.
If streams tributary to recognized nav
igable streams are held to be in law
navigable streams, and thus brought
under regulation, the witness expressed
the opinion that this should make no
difference in the regulations. If the per
mit is for a new plant. If the appli
cant has Its main development on pri
vate property, and Its transmission line
or tunnel crosses government land for
only a short distance the same rule will
apply, but If an existing development
impinges only slightly on the govern
ment property, or It Is only a small do
mestic plant,, the Idea In view will be
to treat that Kind of development inde
pendently, and free It from many ef
the restrictions which would otherwise
apply. The basis of recapture provided,
Mr. Merrill stated. Is the actual, legiti
mate oj-lginal cost of the property, plus
betterments, reduced by the aJpount of
unappropriated surplus, current oaiances
and amortization charges, with no al
lowances for increased values of land.
franchise or going concern values apr for
expected profits.
about gathering eggs and attending to
little chicks, they will not give the same
attention very long to the moot impor
tant part of all namely, keeping the
runs and the chicken-house perfectly
clean and free from lice. "Throw out
all the fod you may; lousy hens will
never lay." ,
Then there Is no room, if our neigh
bors are considered, and plenty there
nrA wVia Tin v a nn ftrhonl hovi and firirls.
that One Of I Th.l, VxiMr iluir nncm ilmiut Into th
next yard. The odor of that yard would
be Impossible to escape and would ren
der ftfe exceedingly disagreeable. Many
a neighbor now Is losing sleep by Chan
ticleer's crowing incessantly through the
night, and folks-r-ln these trying times,
especially cannot afford to lose their
sleep, but all for several blocks, those In
poor health and others weary with toll,
have to suffer. As Lillian Russell says,
"let us think as well of the ones at
home and not make life too hard."
We have parted with boys. We are
working and denying ourselves many
things. On a 50x100 lot, besides the
house, there Is only room for a little
grass for little folks to sit or play on,
a few flowers, the necessary clothes
line and the all-Important vegetable gar
den. MRS. ANDREW TODD.
Melvin Fraser. I am a Presbyterian
minister. ' I have seen the natives In my
district turn from their heathen gods to
the living God. I have seen my people
there turn from war and rapine to peace
and Industry. When I left there for
the United States 600 of my natives
came dn the same ship to fight In the
French army. I had hard work ex
plaining to them why It was wrong for
the native tribes to fight but right
for the white men to fight. They are
a very simple, direct and childish people
and it is hard to show them the right
eousness of fighting for peace. My peo
ple are courageous fighters and they
meet death cheerfully, but they think
the white Two's method of fighting Is
much more barbarous than their sys
tem. The faith of many of my con
verts has undoubtedly been undermined,
for the German missionaries have told
them the white man's God Is fighting
for Germany, and I tell them that God
will punish the Germans. I am anxious
to get back to my field, but we are held
up here In France Indefinitely, await
ing a ship for Africa."
The next person at the desk was a
captain. When I had directed him to
the place of which he was In search
he looked at me closely and asked.
"Were you the secretary of the grand
Rata and Bobtail T
Stories From Everywhere
only
A bit later an artilleryman dropped
in and when I had helped him locate
an address, he told me he ' was from
Portland. "My name is Paul Folquet,
he said. For two or three years
worked for the smartest and best grain
operator in the United States. Any man
that catches Max Houser napping will
have to get up early and then they will
find that IJouser is on the job before
they got up. Me has more public spirit
In his little finger than some of his
rivals have In their whole body. He Isn't
using this war to add to his wealth."
Leland Gould, who for five years was
with the Pacific Telephone company at
Portland, was another visitor, as was
Lieutenant O. K. Patterson of Eugene.
Next day X. R. Moore or Corvallls
dropped In. He Is assigned to a hut In
this district. We went out to dinner to
gether, but most of the eats he passed
up. Snails, sardine bellies, plmlento and
various other delicacies found no favor
In his sight, and he marveled that I
could eat and enjoy them. On the
whole, N. R. prefers the cooking he gets
In Corvallls, to French meals. I would
give quite a bit myself for a cup of
home made coffee with cream and sugar
and a wedge or two or three of real apple
pie. It Is Just three months since
I left Portland, and If I could writs all
I have seen I would have a good sited
book. Unfortunately I can only write
the mildest and most Innocent letters,
since all discussion of practically every
thing of Interest Is forbidden.
sincere.
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Bey a Ubrt bead today.
Pullman. VTaah.
Accounted For
-Oh!" said Mrs. Oushly. nleaaed-wlth
the luncheon, "this cheese Is heavenly."
Huh, huh." assented that idiot Jen.
kins. "Mads from the mllkr whey."
""aBaaaataaat
Overexerted Herself
In a certain provincial art gallery.
says London Tit-Bits, Is a picture in
titled -Saved." representing a New
foundland dog standing over a . child
whom It had rescued from the river. '
On market days many Mocla' from
the country find their way to the picture
gallery, and nearly all admire this life
like painting. ;
An old country woman stood rasing
at tt for quite a long time. and. as she
turned to go, exclaimed:
"No wonder the child fainted after
dragging that big dog out of the water."
What They All Ssy
Tha dniccbt died and faca to face
With Tatar at tha entrance atood.
Said Tatar : "Trr the othar place;
"Tea'U doubUeaa aay U a )nat ai od." "
Boatoa Tranacript.
L'nele Jeff Snow Says:
Down In Los Angeles the swell sas
slety people supports It dog hospitals and
some of 'em spends more money on a'
dog than would support a big family.
The babies of poor folks die so fast down
there they have to extend the reserva
tion for "em ever little while and can't
afford to grow no grass on their graves.
Some of them sasslety Los Angeles
women would rather kiss a dog than
a baby, and that's what's the matter
with the upper clawses In America. ;We
need them hospitals and doctors, and
nurses fer humans. Uncle Sam orter
plsen the dogs, and draft the money
spent on 'em as a super-Income tax or
somethln.
Nothing; the Matter
With Portland
By IL flL Haroourt
HOW TO BE HEALTHY
PERSONAL MENTION
Islands Contribute to Armf
"The Hawaiian Islands are sharing In
furnishing the great American army for
democracy." said D. L. Applegat of
Honolulu, a business visitor in Portland.
Mr. Applegate Is registered at the Mult
nomah. "We sent men to the United
States last summer after registration j
day In America. They are in France
now." he said. '
e e e
Soldier's Sacrifice Greatest
Mr. and Mrs. O. P. Miller of Chi
cago., who spent last winter in Califor
nia, are staying at the Multnomah.
They are en route home. "As much as
those at home sacrifice they cannot do
as much for democracy as the men on
the field of battle." he saM. "I have
bought Liberty' bonds. Thrift Stamps and
am denying myself many luxuries, but
Mrs. Miller's and my besj bet is our
son who is in a field artillery battery
of the American expeditionary force."
a a a
Mr. and Mrs. H. R. Nelson of Los
Angeles are registered at the Oregon.
Among arrivals at the Imperial. Is
P. Kingston of Index. Wash.
Mr. and Mrs. Rossi of Wallace.
Idaho, are guests at the Portland.
Gene Penlin of Heppner Is an ar
rival at the Perkins.
Daniel Smiley of Redlands, Cal., Is
a guest at the Multnoruah.
A. Alexander of Wilbur, Wash., Is
guest at the Benson.
A. B. Hanson of San Francisco Is a
guest at the Oregon.
R. W. Rae of Prtnevllle Is an arrival
Mr. Merrill, who personally superin- at the Imperial.
tended the Job of making the chief sur- 1 Stanley Glldden of New York Is stay-
vey oi waterpower resources wnicn has ' ing at tne rorunn.
been made, declared that the countrv Mr. and Mrs. F. L. Clark of Duluth
yet knows actually mtle about Its wa- are guests at the Multnomah
THE CLEAN LABORER. The dirty
man Is sooner or later the sick man.
It la because of this fact that the ship
ping board of medical experts, headed
by a Chicago physician, are trying out
a patent by which when a man un
dresses and enters a room for bathing
his clothes may proceed over a -course of
laundering and be there fresh and clean
to meet him when he emerges at the
other end of the bath emporium.
Speeding up work on ships means
keeping every laborer In the best pos
sible physical condition, and. in this
connection. It Is Important to keep him
,.in Cleanliness, these physicians find.
depends largely upon the ease with
which It may be maintained. If the
faculties for taking a bath are so poor
that they cause a man a great deal of
time and trouble, he Is liable to neglect
ki imnorta.nt measure. It Is recom
mended, therefore, that every laborer, In
the shipyard or anywhere else; who
wishes to conserve his man power to
the utmost, endeavor to surround him
self with such bathing iacmues uiai
keeping clean will not be an Irksome
burden, but a constant temptation.
The phrase "honest dirt" Is a paradox.
All dirt Is dishonest, to the extent that
It Is an enemy to nealtn. uirt seeuiea
with millions of bacteria, scene of them
harmless, but many of them capable of
producing serious Illness. When a child
survives In Uie midst of filth, while a
clean one succumbs, people are quick to
conclude that somehow the clean child
was rendered delicate by his cleanliness.
The Infant death rates of different
classes testify, however, that the chll
dren who live in a constant stats of
filth suffer most, ss a class, from dis
ease.. Handling food with dirty hands.
putting dirty fingers Into the mouth or
nostrils, are acts from which many dis
eases arise. It Is difficult for a laborer
to realize this, but If he saw th dirt on
his hand under a microscope he would
more vividly appreciate how dangerous
It Is to avoid It.
A clean man demands clean surround
ings. When a .man's body Is clean he
hates soiled clothes, unclean wash bowls
or clothes, unclean eating utensils, nn
clean environment of any sort. Personal
cleanliness Is. therefore, the beginning
of a general sanitary unllft, before
which the miseries of disease take
flight.
Tomorrow : Those Who Ars "Shocked."
See another story, "How to Live," foot
of column 8, this page.
terpowers. The information - is super
ficial, he said, so much so thrft nobody
knows whether the horsepower which
may be developed from the entire coun
try is 30,000,000 or 300,000,000.
r
Letters From the People
J. E. Moore of Oakland la a guest
at the Oregon.
Henry Agate of New Tork is an ar
rival at the Portland.
Charles Hall of Coos Bay is a guest
at the Benson.
R. W. Sweet of Seattle is registered
at the Multnomah.
A. W. McKenzle, an automobile man
of Seattle. Is staying at the Benson.
I Communicationa aaot to Tae Journal for pub- 1 a V. KWn of Marahflolrl la a bmimt
FcaUon in t&te department ebonld be written ea !B. ty,m p.rkin. , -
only one aide of the paper, ehould not exceed 100 j )" . r t, ..,,,. ...
v rd in lmxUi and muat be alnx-d by tba writer, j Mr- nd r"- 1 - Anderson are ar-
whoee mail addnaa la foil must aocompaay the I rivals at the Perkins.
cuniribuuom. i I C. I). Bartrum of Medford is a guest
at the Imperial.
A Plea for the Liberty Loan
Portland, April 4. To -the Editor of
The Journal May I not, as a reader of
your good American paper, submit a few
lines regarding my views of the Im
pending Liberty loan? The purchase of
a Liberty bond appeals to me aa being
I J. H. Hanley of Bend Is registered at
the Imperial.
. E. A. Hamilton of Dallas is staying at
the Perkins.
Gladys McCourt of Albany Is a guest
at ths.JJortonla.
- Among registrants at the Benson are
E- E. Bruc4 and daughters. Miss H. M.
and Mils Elizabeth, of Omaha.
xtt- and Mrs. H. R. Hudson of St
Helens are registered at the Nortonla.
H. p. Dickson or saiem is a guest i
the Nortonla. r .
Mr. and Mrs. Tea a.
Stevenson- are guests at the Washington.
Mr. and Mrs. L. A. Marsh of Seattle
are arrivals at the Washington.
Mrs. Henry Ferguson ana mn. v. o.
Ferguson of uoiaenaaie. a..
guests at tne wasmngiuu.
F. W. Chester of Corvallls Is a guest
at the Washington.
All for a Single Tree
From a Bulletin of the Department of the Interior
Except for two national reservations
made for the conservation of curative
sprtsgs. the smallest national park Is
the General Grant It contains only
four square miles and. was ere ted Mo
protect one tree. But the General Grai.t
tree Is worth a national park all to It
aif It is a riant sequoia, and. next to
one. is the biggest and oldest living
thing In the wide worm, it is m ieet
through from bark to bark, and z4 feet
iie-h- It ta not far from 4000 years old.
The one living thing that Is bigger and
older Is. the General Sherman tree in
the Sequoia National park a few miles
to the east, that Is a foot and a half
thicker and 1 feet higher,
a The General Grant tree Is not the
only sequoia in the little national park,
however. It is the biggest of a fins
grove of sequoia trees. The General
Grant National park Is a spot of pro
found beauty. It Is a wild garden of
wonderful luxuriance. In which aU the
great trees for which California Is fa
mous attain their largest dimensions,
and which Is glorious tn summer with
the bloom of innumerable shrubfc and
flowering plants. It Is a calm and si
lent place. In which camping out Is a
luxury, for It almost never rains dui
tng the camping seasons
Small though the park is. It has Us
many visitors. Mors than 17.000 people
visited It last year, 2000 mors than went
there the year before. More than 2000
automobiles brought throngs Into the
park to do reverence to the mighty tree.
This is no show place where visitors
whirl In and whirl out Most of those
who come come to stay a while. There
Is a public camp, where one may stay
as at a hotel, and there ars hundreds
of charming private camps.
"We Have Just Broun to Fight
From .the Sprlncfleid (Ifaaa ) BepebUcaa.
With perfect lucidity William II ex
plains that Germany desires peace, but
thabbefore It can be attained "Ger
many's enemies must recognise that
Germany has been victorious." To that
the only relevant answer seems that of
John Paul Jones, "We have Just begun
to fight"
, ;
When the Valentine Manufacturing
company settled down In the 100 by HO
two-story building at East Tenth : and
Lincoln streets, John E. Cronan, presi
dent John J. Valentine, vice-president
and manager, and Frank I. Goliehur,
secretary of the 130.000 corporation; did
not possess a correct estimate of the
reception the enterprise) aould receive
in PorUand and the northwest ' Nor
could they Imagine that In less then
a year they would be shipping to New
York. Chicago. St Louis. Winnipeg.
Denver and several southern cities;
to Tacoma and Seattle, to North Dakota.
Montana, half a dozen Colorado towns
outside of Denver. In carload lots to San
Francisco, and In big bunches to Sac
ramento, Los Angeles, snd more than a
score of California's smaller cltlea and
to Arizona and Texas. But this has
happened, and already they find them
selves crowded for room.
e a a
In some minds this is a toy factory:
and It la. But It la far from stopping
at that. It Is a "children's furniture
factory." Its catalogue shows dolls'
cradles, novelty wheelbarrows, pony
carts, express wagons, stick horses,; nov
elty stock toys, duck shooflys. horse
shoofly rockers, hobby horses, go-carts.
tunny little bunnies, bssslnets, with snd
without hoods, pretty costumers.! re
minding the children that they should
hang up their garments and not deposit
them on the floor, folding baby yards.
children's clothes drying racks, i snd
girls' snd boys' sleds. But It likewise
pictures 26 styles of children's chalrr
and tables. Some of these dressers srs
large enough for little big folks,- and
there are doll mattresses on doll springs
and doll bedsteads that a three-year-old
could sleep on snd have plenty of room.
These are finished In various lovely
colors.
Dozens of mar hi nee are required, moat
of them different from those of the big
furniture making concerns; some' sre
real novelties. This is a business In
which there Is little waste, as bits left
from one article can be worked Into an
other. The material must be of tha best
A large dry kiln Is kept full of material.
"We must always carry a large stock.
says President Cronan, "for the reason
that when we start to make' any par
ticular article we must count by thou-
make a smaller number of this and like-
wis of that We must be in a position,
when ws receive an order for a carload
ef toys, covering perhaps' 60 different
articles, to fill It Instantly; or lf.it be
for one only, the response must be th
same. Hers Is an order from Winni
peg. It covers nearly everything in our
catalogue. It wUl gd at once. At this
season, however, we are manufacturing
for fall orders, and our sales now ars
at their lowest"
The output-at this seasonls about 1200
a day. In about four months It will be
double. "
Tomorrow: Article No. 75 of this
series: The Armstrong Manufacturing
Company. ' s
Olden Oregon
First Oregon Militia Company Out
growth of a Bad Indian's Act
The first Oregon militia' was formed
In the fall of 1S42 and grew out of a
shooting affray at Oregoa City. The
provisional, government was formed In
the spring of that year and George Le
Breton was elected recorder. One day a
Molalla Indian known as Cockstock rods
Into town, bent on mischief. LeBreton
attemptedito arrest him. and was fatally
shot by Cockstock. Wins low Armstrong
killed the Indian, and .a general fight
between Indians and whites raged for a
time. A meeting was called soon after
wards and a company of 2i was or
ganized with T. D. - Kelser as captain.
The primary object was to bring to Jus
tice those Indians Implicated la the
LeBreton affair and to- protect property
and lives of settlers.- It was styled the
Oregon Rangers company, and for years
did fine service for the stats. ; Charles
Bennett who had served in th United
States army, was elected captain to sue-'
ceed Kelser and mads an extremely f.
flctsnt officer. j -. .
War Information ;
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Prepared by the Committee! on
Public Information, and to t Be
Obtained for the Most Part, Free.
The toeernmeat ef the Cnltad gtatae,
that the people aay kaew the troth abewt
Je war aaU war eewaUona. la awutii e
wriae ot pobUeatloee el tae nn btsheet
rata te aU patriot. j
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Information. 10 Jaekaoa flaee, Waahtoa
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Is this qpeee frets day te da fke eeMert
utter of tbeae Detapbieta will be indicated,
and the prteea of tboee not east free, will be
ataud. Bat bm say event, sothlns Seed be
arnt for rataee. They coat the riaJar Jtfee
the bare price at lad, or sothlns at aft.
'National Service HandbooaT
X: t ef tne 'Wsr Isforsistlea Series
Tale msntisl Is as invaluable r-fareaoe
work for libtartea, acheoJa. rlube sad .ether
ersamaatiafU sad isdjepenaabie te the citi
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