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Newspaper Page TextTHE : OREGON DAILY JOURNAL, PO RTLAND; FRIDAY, APRIL -12, 4918. ) :. - : ": - . ' a) AW XWDCFCrDSNT WCWgPArKS Hi. M. JACKSON iyablieSea ear, iftntoM end aaotaisf - eept sonde? uimmm) at tm jeers! bw Ins. Broadway sod Xaaalll etieeta, Portlaae. Oteaoa. ..Fabhehef fcatereS at tha posurfflce at Portland. Own ! (or InMUMin Uuoush th aaaUs M eeeoad AU SeparuaenU reached by abase bubmhi Tail Um operator wbat deportment yea want LtOstklOM AiVlCUTUIXU iHa'KEBCNTATIVJB Benjamin A rat nor uo., urnnawwe buwuhb. Sua lfth arsons. Maw tork. ms People tjee BotldlBf, Cblcao. UubacHpUoa Unas by mail, or to ear eddraaf la the Lalted states of Maueo: DAILY (JTORNLSO OB ArTERNOON) lOee aeM.....0.0o Una aaoath. . . . .09 . . 8 US DAT . wee 12. BO 1 One DOBtB . . . . jDAULI' IMOaXISO OR ArTEKNOOM) AND ' HU.1UAI lOne yar. .... $7.60 I Una month.... . It's faith In enmethinc and enthusiasm for eomsOiing tint makes a Hfa worth looking au Anonymous. wise than the president, whose con ciliatory; policy they seek' to blight. The latkor situation needs leader ship, not mob frenzy. The unwise efforts of senators too panic-stricken to reason may easily rouse sedition in hundreds' of munition plants. Men who yield readily to conciliatory ar gument -will often resist coercion. The clauses for which the panic- stricken senators are contending omit to Impose any penalty upon employ ers who; harass their men by oppres sive exactions, by inhuman working conditions, by breaking agreements. Such employers, it must be candidly! The' bicycle is growing in popu- admitted, delay war production as ;niy among me ,iaie ncn. iney much as strike agitators. In ' are said to ! disport themselves upon fact they are themselves extremely its perilous seat in great numbers at efficient strike agitators. But the Palm Beach.; Dealers are selling them new penalties do not touch them. j bv th hundred. Teachers of the art The senators are making a one- ot riding them are making money, sided propaganda aimed quite as Slnce the Pr have taken to riding much at the president as at labor ; ln Forl3 the ldle rich regard the leaders. 1 Under this panio creeps the . ujrcie as a .vemwo m arranged - and the Slav millions I sack, is connected with the soldier's 1 atlon may believe the same to represent t w, a InA Tl (a aa! aim aw A w Jk a aul a. en , .m a.b aroused to throw off their oppressors. This is the darker side of the pic ture. -There are millions of Rus sians who l are among the bravest men4hat ever went into battle. But for the lime ; they are steeped in dizzy illusions, dreaming ; away , their revolution ; ind their liberties In a fancied new; milennium. Only a miracle can enable them to deliver themselves from the cruel clutches of the most sinister giant in arms that "ever strode the earth. Berpent ijof hate. i Their ambition is attained when they do what others are net doing. Deputy City Attorney Tomlinson appears!! to think that the proposed .Hharler ilamendment would make con tracts between the city, and the'street railwayWonopoly more frail than they are now. It is difficult to see how that could be. A contract which one party can break whenever he likes leaves little to be desired on the score ot frailty. LYNCH LAW Tim ARMY, IN OVERALLS THE SOIL OF OREGON T D T HE men-who have been preaching lynch law on the streets of Port land might learn a lesson from the Praeger murder in Illinois If they were capable of learning any thing. ! Praeger was lynched by a mob because he was supposed to be seditious. The inquest, which has Just been finished, showed that he was loyal. The mob fancied it was URiS'G March there was a 20 per punishing aim severely when it made reit increase over February in j him kiss the flag. He loved the flag .HERE is honor enough for all in Oregon's triumph in the Liberty loan drive. i The people were rirst of ai.'. Their. hands were open, their hearts : , froe. : With a deadly earnestness, they swung into line with check books and their hoarded savings to heap up the war chests. .There were no quarter of a million dollar subscriptions this time. The premier subscriptions are small com pared to those itf the second loan. The regiments in overalls, the ba-nk- ers, the housemaids, the corporation magnates were a unified bond buying ; mass. The -organization for the drive was :' wonderful. The preliminaries were in ' preparation months ago. Eight , thousand chosen workers went under the wire together on the day set for the drive to begin. '.. For weeks before these workers . were gathering information, assem bling data, dividing up territory and laying plans. It was modern method, Acfentifically conceived and intetli gently captained, in every city, every : county and every district in the state It was a plan that could not fail! '2 AH thfl triumphs of war are not on fthe battlefield. Not every hero in the ' strife gets credit for his gallant deeds. 'So'me of the hoblest feats of heroism are never heard of but, like the gem ' '. flof purest ray! serene which the dark Kinfathomed caves of ocean bear, they ..go undiscovered and unsung. v " 'And -,sp the workers, seen and ; . unseen In this wonderful drive, dil (thelr duty and have only their own consciousness for a reward. , Many names appeared in the daily reports in the newspapers of. the progress, the plans and- the work. Little was seen in thfe public, prints of Robert E. Smith, general manager, r of Blaine B. Hallock, of Banker " A'illiam E. MacRae and others who, '.by day and far into the night were . planning, striving and struggling. . j There were: women who worked tmpaid for weeks, and office girls, and here were heads of corporations who brought their j office force at night fend helped carry on the work with out compensation or thought of compensation. And reverting to the people, their tne-mindednes$, their indivisibility, heir united resolve, their pure Ameri- ranism they are the premier factor, hey are the glorious reliance, they ire the soul 6t Oregon. thei total freight shipments from Atlantic ports to Europe. This; is a very rapid increase. It is an Addition of one fifth in the transport service. It ls confidently predicted that April will show an in crease of 30 per cent. Higher effi ciency Sn handling shipments, along with an increase 1h the number of vessels, is the means bt which deliv eries have been enlarged. There, are now 390 ships in the American service, of which 322 fly the American flag and 68 are char as well as any of his Dersecutors. or better, and begged to be buried with its folds wrapped round him. So much for the Judgment of a mob As one might have expected, the leader of the Praeger mob was drunk. He went directly from a 6aloon to the murder. No doubt many of his fel low murderers were as drunk as he was. Many active participants in Praeger's assassination appear to have been boys in their teens. It is re ported that the lad who flung the rope over the limb to which he was tered neutral ships. The capacity of j hanged wore knee breeches. He was the ships under the Stars and Stripes is 2,303.344 tons. The Holland ships, as soon as they can be j manned with crews, will add 471,000 tons to the available American evidently too youg to understand the crime he was committing at the instigation of his drunken elders mouth by a "small flexible tube and " J0' ItLSL -enirirn ' m i v "Approved. February 8. 19 17." Letters From the People ... --f " . .1 . . . . i H ' Dreame mrougn nis mourn, iue being taken in through the canister. The enemy's gas is rendered harm- w - ; 1 tCommnateatloBa aaat to Tna Joanul foe aab. lue , canister. ine , uuiguiug uicut" raom in uua aapartaaaat aaanM a witttaa aa passes through a small rubber valve ; wyTtSl! in the face Piece. The SOldierS are hoaa aaO addraaa la tU aaat aoooaapaay taa trained to adjust the mask in six j seconds or less. i ine uennqueni lax l.isi . , v anora. Or., April 9. To the Editor of , ... ,, "The Journal Since It la necessary for There is every indication that the the le to eontPlbut. lar of Collinsville mob hanged the wrong money to maintain this war for liberty man. The victim tried to enlist in through Liberty bonds and many needed the American navy, but was rejected f""" " B !T!!!!d l , . j , .t. . . , nooves the people to economise and re- because he had lost the sight or an , duce unnecessary exoenses. both private eye. A year ago, he caused the arrest and public. The Journal has for a long- nf Jnhn Fnhl nnrl had him interned l,me advocated especially one reduction j..,....!,,, u m,i ie fh of expense on the public which. If the peo- on a disloyalty charge. That is the j ,. . . trouble with the mob. If they get adopted. That is an expensive publica the wrong maft and find out their . tion of delinquent tax lists, which. In my mUtalcf lhev rnnnat cive him life P,n,0, I "t accused of advoca T . I- . , ; eating "freak legislation." is easily rem- back. They are liable to make a mis- eiied Dy enactlnr a law to empower take because Of the frenzy of trie county courts at the end of each aher moment in which calm investigation . r-. : r 1 ..lit - i j COMMENT AND f NEWS IN BRIEF SMALL CHANGE t Is impossible. Besides, all govern ment should be by law, and congress seems on the point of providing am ple law against disloyalty. PATRIOTEERS AND THE FLAG By Carl Smith, Washington Staff Correspondent of The Journal. Washington, April 12. The commer cializing of the flag by merchants with goods to sell, or by politicians with selfish alms to serve, will be stopped throughout the country if the house passes. Senator Chamberlain's bill to prevent desecration of the nation's em blem. - The senate passed the bill by unanimous vote on March 23. There Is no national law protecting the flag from advertising uses at present, although several of the states have Buch laws. The lack of respect with which the flag has been treated has Caused rapid growth of sentiment in congress toward the correction of such abuses. The Chamberlain bill covers all sorts of of fenses against the flag. Including the more serious Insults ' and defacements which have-, enraged numerous American Oregon first. -Again or yetT . When does the atrawberry shortcake season opent ! Theae are nice, bright, sunshiny morn ings aome where. Button, button, have you your thirA Liberty loan button T "Popular Portland" Belle Will Wed," reads a headline. A weddinr belle, of course. , If the kaiser wins this war, he win doubtless change the name of Sunday to tiunaay. Fire destroys a town ln Alberta named Vermillion. Rather living up to Its name, it seems. a a In commending peanut brittle, marsh mallows and gumdrops, the food admin istration fixes things for no matter what you have in the way of teeth. Make vour war . srarden bv decldincr before the peas atart to sprout that you win invest tne savin rs vou realize from your efforts in Thrift Stamps and War avines stamps. Did you ever notice that lust" about the time VOU hoa-ilf tn think that ttua iff's term to Bell to the highest bidder I boss couldn't get along without you, the the delinquent tax lists by wards and I boss says something that convinces you precincts and give the purchaser power I tnat you were beginning to tbink wrong? to collect same and thus end each sher iff's term with balanced books and no delinquent tax lists for the county to have miblished and no further cost of transcribing and carrvlnar on Indefinitely I . J "T vmmreiai aaea neprntn- . . . a.aiuvaj MCUIU MWV VIIURJK Ul IllinUU. 1UU all delinquent rolls. 1 dnceU a aeriea of billa nroridinx a comulou Ttien also enact a law mat an assessor I MUonal budset anteai. to rxntain this T.taaa. tw ruairl a iprliiln rstii fnr atiu-h aMiuu I Whila tha demand for a bndcet arntem ban baaa ment made, graded by cities and county I ??Z tV. lZZl assesHments, uua vu uo 111 iieu ui 1 u in ittair party platforraa and lrmdvra in eon- OREGON SIDELIGHTS Astoria's new Central school building will be formally dedicated next Frraay venlng. ... Thers has Just been organised In As toria the Employed BoysT Brotherhood, which wilt hold pen house on the even ing of April 19. The city has about aM) membership ellglbles. rvt-ll Knarda of QrantS PaSS churches unitedly cancelled all Thursday evening prayer ajeetlngs In Jvr w Liberty loan mass meeting held at the opera House last nignt. Now again, and at last, there appear In the newspapers of Oregon Innumer able paragraphs auch as this, which hap pens to be from the Grants Pass Cour ier - -iTina weather we're havlnc. With every drop of moisture Is the promise nt muni abundant erona of fruit and farm products, graxing for live stock and water for the miner." This hin renrlmani is administered by the Sutherlin Sun: "The Roseburg Review Is advocating benches for a park in that city for automobile tour ists to loll In during the coming sum mer dan. A war sarden for the park with a few hoes and spades for the tnurlata to ret hunT with would be more advisable. Busy people will have no time or patience to waste on park loaf ers this year." I A-NATIONAL BUDGET SYSTEM Intensive Wlshlnjj -EPRESENTATIVE A DAM SON of Oeorgla. father of tha elaht-hour law for railroad men. has a negro, story wnicn canoona Magaslne passes ialong. The congreanman w as breezing along the streets of a Georgia town, when ha was attracted by harsh words between two colored brethren engaged tn raking up leaves at tne side or a large hotel. nam.' said the smaller of the ne groes, "it does seem dat you picks eh me all ds time. - Oder day you bust me right in as mour ww youh fist, today you kick me on de shins, and tomorrow, you y. you Is gwtrie to do me wuss ylt. Don't you like me no mosh. 8am? Is dst mat' a de maltahr r "Nlgguh." said the colored nartv of the second part, laying down his rake. aoes you all see dat thousan'i room loteir "I does," responded the first brother. "Well." continued the aecond brother. "I hates you so bad dat I wish you was oaia an laid out in every room in dat noteL V . ) In a Safe Place Officer Your brothers are they. too. fighting for the fatherland? Prisoner Nein, sir; they are ln the navy. made much more quickly and by the as- J,?,, S,PtUVo Bt C"CCt OfCOOUI UUIISCllt BIT AO. WIS JVoaiUIV aako 1 it should be. Now let some of these leg- livery man wno has thought about tae Islative candidates get busy and devise question at all knows that eventually such remedial legislation, and we, the country will adopt some sort of people, rise up and call them blessed.. national budget system. In that respect JOHN T. DIZNEY. 1 wiu oe just Denma .Mexico, tae . , , t, mr I icbi iiwvu lu uui into oucraiiun una tha repeal of the delinquent tax publication efficient machinery of government fi- atatnte, and tha aubatitntion ot direct noticea nance. A great many persons argue nt out by mail to tha delinquent taxpayer, at against making any change during the a treat sarins of expense to the swnanU tax- ev, -i,, payins publtoT is now beint circulated tbroush- war- . f"ch . opposition, sincere asd out Uim a tata for anrticient aicnaturaa to place i mumn ii. is u&bu upuii ibo it upata the ballot at tha ceaeral electioa of I mistaken belief that the necessary re NoTember next Ita enactment into law would I nmniutlnn wnuM mn tAlir tn tha accompliah tha purpoee aoncht to be aecurad by I nmtuHnw, f th t i. k tha contributor. I I . ,r . .7 1 . ' l, rrauuiunK iimt linaa in me pnraas, "Don t swap horses while crossing the stream," a convenient argument against every step forward. It falls to grasp the one significant fact that anything which replaces Inefficiency with ef and we Will see our assessments I tress hTe apokea for It consresa Jaa aa yet PERSONAL MENTION Oregon Far From War Scene Although Oregon has led the nation I r' , " ' o,V.- ,V communities since this country entered;'" f""- " muet. u" th the war. The penalty of the measure also reaches out to anyone who uses the flag or a picture of the flag to adver tise his goods, and likewise to any per son using a picture or an inscription on the flag for the purpose of adver- The affair is one to be weDt over Using himself, with shame and despair by all who in this t!me of aimost universal de- fleet. The ships chartered of Japan, love their country and honor the good votion to the flag and the institutions Tn exchange for steel, will add 450,000 tons. The Swedish vessels, secured under charter, in exchange for wheat and other concessions, witl add 100,000 tons. namft nf ritmnrmiv Th tal nt th 1 r which It stands, candidates for D,. .,, . . , . United States senator and representative Praeger hanging will be told all over ln Btates areald to be Europe. It Will blacken the cause making use' of pictures of themselves of this state do not yet realize to full extent that we are ln the war." said Jerome Trenlln, business man of Phila delphia, registered at the Multnomah. "The Pacific coast seems as far re moved from the war as was the east before the United States entered the fight for democracy." Honolulu Man Enlists we are fighting for. It will encour age our enemies and depress the But the mightiest additions to our spin 01 our inenas. "li mat is imprisoned for six months, or both. transport service will be the 6hips j what democracy means," the German when the Chamberlain bin becomes a 1 LJ 1 IV. . n n : n n . mm tn I WSMAMa IV'iTl CSV C4n.lA.lTir "mBV t 1 W overall!, the regiments and divisions of merii in American shipyards. Their; work is Just beginning to the good Lord give us autocracy." Abuse of patriotic sentiment In such manner bv cAnritriatea fnr aetata In tha If our American passion for' lynch national legislative halls has added to law is so furious that, it can not be the desire of many members of congress tell. The keels laid months ago are, repressed, it does seem that we might tSJ fZa.Mae or a 4aw "r j , ., . . . . ; . , , , , 0 With primaries in many states close at in cumulative numbers, becoming the , at least lynch our enemies and spare hand, this is considered an especially finished product, almost .things of 1 our friends. Now that the Praeger appropriate time to enforce respect for mob has sobered up, its members are Y1 ATh Chtein il was in- -,. . mw troduced April 4. 1917, two days before probably sorry for their crime. They war was deciared. was reoorted from wish they had -4l0t murdered thei? the military affairs committee on Feb- neighbor.' But their repentance will I ruary 16 this year, and passed on a e More than one year ago congress passed a bill which put an end to the element we need to win. The United States government, in one year of war, is spending J20.000.000.000. Frank Van- derllp has already pointed out that that Is more than the entire cost of this government. Including the cost of - all the wars we have heretofore fought. Yet the nation entered upon this stupen dous undertaking without any adequate system of finance. Comrrena voter! an. iiugn Aiacwonaia oi ixonoiuiu is in nroDriatlons Diecemeal. The best m Portland en route to Chicago, where he formed among us could not have told intends enlisting in me naval reserve, at the beginning of the last session wbat "I have? been employed by a sugar com- the total bill would do. We had to nestling upon the flag as a background. ! pany in Honolulu for four years and my I vote money blindly and trust to divine fatrioteer candidates of this sort will Job got better each year," he said. "I I Providence to see us through somehow pay fines of not more than $500 and be ; have been a whole year making up my j When the greater part of this money mind to enlist and just came to a de- I was voted then, not before we had to clslon a few weeks ago." Mr. Mac Donald Is one year over the draft age. He has relatives in Chicago and other eastern cities whom he will visit before enlisting. life, "fojr caisrying food, equipment and munitions for the fighting divisions somewjhere in France. Takei. Portland for example. Back in 1913. our ship building was almost negligible. Even the year 1916 began with a few hundred men in the few 'shipyards. Now a great army of nearly 1 84.000 men, with all the mod ern machines known to ship building, are framing and fashioning ships with a feverish energy inspired by desire to best the, Hun. Oregon will launch 20 ships this month, three steel and 17 . wood. Though the Oregon district is ahead of aliiothers in launchings, yards in other parts of the country are sim ilarly increasing their output in a cumulative proportion. It is a terrific struggle with the diver still in the lead, i Our army in Europe may not be not bring him back to life nor will it remove the stain from our coun tr's honor. "The Jok3 is on us, ma'am, said begin to devise means for footing the bill. Could anything be less business like? e a e The mere detailing of the every day procedure under our present system Is the most telling indictment you could possibly bring against It. What do you think would become of the Standard OU Salesmen Shun Orders Commercial travelers can get back to i. L1 lit uiia Buiiiiuoi cuiu uiiuiv Mu I mmn.nv fnv InitanM x f mvmw An. and strong: backs. Here'a the latest from I rm ''o ArJt. ios.- l1 . DaUaanaN Va.,a Sua... I -a .-. a a, a M..v..- y .1- V;VSIIIlt?l lsa OaUCOlUOU SSCSiVfS UCVII I annnail a.tlm afa a M.w iin.aM.j1 It mi. .4 Vaai oruereti o ngni any vk orucra umu nni th- ..tlm.t. nf th th- their firms can manufacture their cus- n.rtm.nt, .ithn..t r.r.H .nv -.u tomers' goods. Henry Mars of Chicago, 1 ordered system of finance and In total registered ai uio -enson, is a raiesman disregard of the comnanv's earnmra? use of the flag for advertising In the District of Columbia. The passage of the mob leader in the Old Story, j that bill was the expression of a resolve affected by the order. "I'm going to help harvest wheat this summer,' he ! said. a a a Orange Grower In City Mr. and Mrs. M. P. Thriller of Los Angeles are guests at the Multnomah. Vet that Is not the worst feature of our procedure. Consider that after our 10 executive departments have each sub mitted their 10 separate and distinct es timates, these estimates are considered and the financial measures drawn by 300 men who make up no less than 29 They had hanged the wrong man the "tiLSi.."01 Mr! Thriller own, extensive orange separate and i Zl night before and he was apologizing S"3J " iilrovM in Southern California. two separate houses of congress, each to the widow. This time the lnVft tv..i- h,. - n.oi w-nr. -nwi f ne.nia -nn-v- n I committee not Knowing what the other aw lavsasaj iaia aaw vviuitiiwiwviiiwii va kVU is on democracy fighting for its life, law Hk tne Chamberlain bill. Imposes and the loke ia sorrv nno a penalty tor using a picture or repre- - " I unt.Hnn J 1 1 d.i v.vji. V- liaK 1U1 CLU VCI LUI1I1K, No merchant In Wnahlnrtnn nan nut- a The Cincinnati Times-Star feels picture of a pair of socks in one corner toward Miss Rankin, the member of flas nd no candidate can plc- congress from Montana, much as St lure mm8e11 m mWdIa or lts Iold John the Divine did toward the The Chamberlain bill was Introduced church at Ephesus. It is invidious to say that one or knother, or that this one or that one s especially to be commended for bregon's splendid 6howlng in the liberty loan drive. It is the rising ide of Americanism in hundreds of thousands of Oregon hearts, a new komradeship land new devotion aroused by this baptism of fire and sacrifice through which we are pass ing that rang the bell in the drive. Yet it, does seem as if there could, without arousing envy, be some 6im 'ple acknowledgement of the endless work that the, banks have done gratis and are yet to do. Our esteemed ln the nouse bv Representative Hulbert contemporary has somewhat against" ered on the hou8a 8lde. bni permlta Miss Rankin. It grants that she is the use by military and patrlotte organ able, that her duties are performed luns of flags which bear the names at least as well as those of her male ff ?ls ?J-?ZJ?0iIllUona very large yet, but what there is of . colleagues, that she has the political mental use of a picture of the flag in it is appreciated. King George wrote ! ambitions which a statesman should newspapers and other publications or on the lord mayor of London last week j have, and that her feminine foibles 8tat,ione,T. disconnected from any ad- that "the presence of American troops ln thei battle line increases the con fidents with which we look forward to ultimate victory." Lloyd George told te lord mayor ln another mes sage ihat America would give the Prussians the "surprise of their lives" ! first old bachelor you meet will tell vertlslng purpose. a e Following Is the text of the District of Columbia act relating to the flag: 'H. R. 14822. An act to prevent and punish the desecration, mutilation, or improper use, within the District of Col beforei long. The most effectual sur prise we can give the kaiser is' a bridge! of ships across the Atlantic. are almost extinct if she ever had any. But they are not quite extinct and that is the reason why the Cin-1 cinnati paper can not wholly ap- nrove of her. Mis Rankin ripHinoa . . . 0 . 1. A 91 ... . 1 Y I in toll hn ch, io nr h. "l "laws i j t ..v.. v t oi.v i. si vuuiac Luc I Qf America. Be it enacted by the senate and you his exact age at the first crack house of representatives of the United nf the whin I States of America ln congress assem uieu, uu uerea.ii.er any person wno, within the District of-Columbia, In any to revise the estimates of the navy and the war department, as the estimates of these two departments deal with na tional defense, and congress should have the benefit of the knowledge and Inde pendent" optnloh of our trained officers. The next step provides that the bud get shall be sent to the president. The president would be reauired by law to annrove and recommend to r on cress tha I tor emt. caisacR of th buda-et. This makes the I Monc wlu wln- executive responsible for our financial program. At the same time, as will be shown a little later, congress - is not deprived of its' constitutional right to appropriate money or to control finance. So far, we have substituted govern ment on scientific principles for govern ment by guesswork. When congress gets down to work, instead of a thousand unrelated appropriation bills. It has one bill to consider. Your congressman can sit down with his copy of the budget. with its explanatory introduction, and lor the first time he can get a bird's eye view of what the administration Is planning to do for the. year.' You can see the opportunity afforded for scrutiny and criticism. And while you are edu eating your congressman you are also educating the people to take a greater Interest ln their government. Very net urally, the newspapers are going to have a great deal to say during the three of four months that the budget is being considered. . If we stopped here we would have done only half the Job. There are still the nine Important committees of the house that report out bills carrying appropriations. In place of these nine committees, there Is provided budget committee. The' budget committee would be composed of 40 members of the house. This committee would have the power to propose-reductions ln est! mates, but It would not have . the power to propose Increases or to add new Items except upon the recommen dation of the) secretary of the treasury. approved by the president, or by a two thirds vote of the members. This provision has Its purpose. Prior to 1S65 we had. ln the 'ways and means committee, a somewhat similar body. Owing to the fact that this committee did not distinguish between -what Is legitimate executive function and what belongs properly to the legislature, the committee, during the Civil-war, found itself swamped with appropriations. J have avoided this pitfall by limiting the powers of the budget committee, st the same time fixing presidential respon sibility. Realising that the estimates, submitted by the executive, represented bedrock needs, congress would only on the rarest occasion vote to decrease any estimate. It would be equally hesitant about voting an increase, because that would throw the budget out of balance. a a I have shown how the budget commit tee, through its freedom to recommend decreases and by two-thirds vote to pro pose Increases, can remedy any serious defect that might be found ln an execu tlve budget. My budget plan also calls for a committee on accounts and audits Jefferson Davis of Grand Forks, B. t t i i . i. r ..i . v. T. C. Jordan of Pendleton is a guest m.nt. f tha dtrrmant who fi- SI tne XerHlIlS. I nunppi thv a r. nimrtrtajvl tn nrnvMs Mr. and Mrs. A. G. Prlchard of Ta- I As a measure of war efficiency, wetnd an auditor e-neri To remove ail coma are si ins cenron. ougni to ena mis cnaos. in zact. l tntnit H. Bradley of Cathiamet, Wash., Is a I it Is a safe assertion that we wllL The guest at the Imperial. I lessons of the past few months have Among arrivals at the Washington is bee" -en "eart by the American r. J. Thomas of San Francisco. people, ana ior tne iirst urns uiey are r t a -m 1-,,,.,. . ,. . . i insisting upon tne same measure oi mand ln their private business. a A single illustration will show the danger of our present slipshod method of making appropriations. I said that at the Oregon. M. Miller of San Francisco is staying at the Washington. Mr. and Mrs. Charles Lane of Camas, Wash., are staying at the Washington. T PANICKY SENATORS HE current fulminations of some senators ! against labor bear the marks ot - panic. The crisisxin Europe has unbalanced their is millions of theorists and dreamers minds. ! They wish to abandon the president's policy of conciliation, which, has bjeen so fruitful In good results, and resort to coercion, which is certain to cleave the nation's unity. Their wish Is to make it a felony for working rhen employed in the war , industries ; toj strlke. To the new crime which j they thus manufacture they would Affix the savage penalty of 80 years imprisonment. f President Wilson and his advisers have found a better way to stop war time strikes. 1 They do it without im prisonment or any other form of co ' ercion. Their method involves noth ing more- than decent treatment of : the workers. Th senators whoss " panicky call for coercion endangers pur , whole military outlook are no more i patriotic than the men wh6m they i seek to penalize. They are far less it ON HER KNEES BOTH OR NEITHER at the Imperial. C. L. Bieser of Los Angeles is regis tered at the Imperial. Nile Herlltz of New Orleans is an ar rival at the eBnson. A. Kalisch of San Francisco is an ar rival at the Oregon. Cornelius Beck of New York is rival at the Benson. Mrs. J. Irvine and Mabel Irvine of Victoria, B. C, are staying at the Mult nomah. John Bader of Cottage Grove Is an arrival at the Perkins. George Nicholson of Camp Lewis Is a Rafctajr and Bobtail Stories From Everywhere The. Liberty llond Alphabet (Second InMallmrnt ) J ia for join, with the patriots true W ho with their aioory ill see Um war through K ia for Kaiser, the (oe of mankind. Whose cruel hands wa with ahacklea rauit bind. I la for liberty, won lung ago; Since noney can sate it, what voice would say V niu.t sare. and mini pay. Tutre is no other way. N ia for nana. If ae hae our full tlatre ' We aball raise money enoush and to '-. O ia for onward! No time to delay. ! " Now ia tha Ums. Uet your loan bonds todsy. P ia for peace. T mi can help it alone- I'ay the irtce now and it won't lake us lung. Q t for quitter, a queer kind of quark Quick ia liia talk, but In giving quite slank. B ia far rooteri. Child, woman and maa Boosting for bonds, while they bay all they ran. (To be continued) I'nrle Jeff Snow Says: ! Inch Medders, who's been a veteran of four marriages, hss It that bein' a grass wldderer is less satisfactory ami more mortifyln than bein" S sure enough sod widderer, be In' aa the grass widder is most likely .to stick a man fer alimony and thereby place a economic ban on his gettin' another wife. Inch had orter know, bein' aa hla last lfe most got away with two sections of timber land when she went, and Inch had to hire two lawyers t keep her from gittin' clear outer slcht with 'em. As It Is. he ain't much better off, because he deeded that timber to his darter-in-law and she wants a auto mobile 'fore she'll deed it back. j manner, for exhibition or; display, shall truest at the Perkins. HJ$ Bolshevik government' is re ported by cable to have asked , .permission of Germany to post pone demobilization of the Rus sian army as preparedness to fight Japan.' And there you are. The Russian government, such as there is, asks the German imperial government to grant it the right-to hold the Rus sian army together as preparedness against an ally of the entente. We cannot know what may trans P REM1ER LLOYD GEORGE coupiea nome rule with con- place or cause to be placed any word, has I f iffure, mark, picture, design, drawing or any advertisement of any nature . . . avawl urvl iall avsaahap a leV I1UM1 A e ivVIUl O Ul SCnptlOn and Says .tO Ireland, ensien of tha United Stata of America"? take both or neither." This is ! or shall expose or cause to be exposed a bold act but it may be wise. Tern- to P"1" vw y such flag, standard. ....,:. -c.., , . . colors or ensign upon which shall have porizing measures do not appear to been prmted, painted or otherwise nave auayea aisconieni in ireiana. placed, or to which shall be attached. Exemption from conscription has not appended, affixed or annexed any word won affection for England. It has !LK"'t Tfif; fnVLr'; not made the allied cause more pop- who, within the District of Columbia, ular among the unquiet element. I shall manufacture, sell, expose for sale If we may believe the reports, fr w puDlf w or fT ;4Vr . ve Irish disaffection has already reached the point of rebellion scarcely dis- pire tn Russia. It is a country now.guised. Conscription might bring it wilhfiut institutions, without direct ing mind and almost without law. out a little more into the open. It away or for use for any puis pose, any mt uviw ui a uuaiaiivo ireui nsi .1 ii.jq merchandise, or a receptacle for mer chandise or article or thing for carrying or transporting merchandise, upon which Daniel Bovd of Enternrlse is a meat congress voted the 120.000,000,000 freely. oo n am, wnen ji came 10 me Dig uiisgs the ships, the airplanes, the munitions. But then our committees, began to look around for something to chop they had to prune somewhere. It wasn't the fault of anybody in particular that an appro priation for army Intelligence, that vital branch of the service which assembles Information concerning the' enemy for the use of the commander ln the field, got left out of the deficiency bill and had to be put back by the senate. Nor was It anyone's fault ln particular that the same thing happened to an appro priation for a branch of -the labor de partment, which Is today turning the millions of men fnto the shipyards and the munition plants.. It was just an old fault showing up In a new and very grave crisis. Congress had to save somewhere. It couldn't save on the billion dollar program, so it hit upon those two Inconspicuous but vitally Im portant appropriations, both of them less than a million dollars, as the proper places to begin. Under my plan, the secretary of the treasury becomes a much more Important office that at present. The secretary would be, ln fact, the budget maker, empowered to lay out the nation's financial program, revising the estimates of the depart ments and at the same time drawtng the bills necessary to provide revenue. He would not, however, have authority Among arrivals at the Carlton are J. E. Wilson and family of La Center, Wash. Lee Thung and Twong Wong of Van couver, B. C, are arrivals at the Mult nomah. Roland Stumpf of Buffalo Is a guest at the Multnomah. P. M. Shearer of Brokings, Or., Is staying at the Perkins. W. K. Johnston ' of San Francisco is a guest at the Washington. Mr. and Mrs. M. J. Welch of Spokane are staying at the Washington. R. W. Johnson of Chicago is an arrival at the Carlton. John G. Hoke of Baker Is an arrival at the Imperial. V. Klmmlck of Vancouver, B. C, Is registered at the Washington. could hardly make disaffection more 1 shall have been printed, painted, at- bitter. It may be well for Ene-land I tached or otherwise placed a represen have! dreamed themselves with their j and the allies to know just how far ' the pro-German party In Ireland will decorate, mark or distinguish the ar- go when it can no longer move under I tici or substance on which so placed ; COver. I or vpho, within the District of Columbia, Tm., . . , , i snail puDiiciy muuiate, aeiace. aeiue or Ireland has JmiSSed the Opportunity dfv. tra.mrle unon or cast contemnt. oj a thousand years by the part some I wither by word or act, upon any such of,, her faction sts have played in the anaara. cwon or ensign, snau wan tv i.-i A. . be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and war. By supporting the cause Of 8hal. b6 punished by a fine not exceed- democracy they might have won Eng- tog $100 or by imprisonment for not land's gratitude and the support of mor tBan or .B?"1' m J.uie?,s" all the nil!, T.ano m Icretlon of ths court. The words flag, an tne allied nations. I ,,,. , ...im ' a. bar- ieUUSM W Wivaay va vuwo e w - in, shall Include any nag, standard. vagaries into the clutches of .Wll- "helmstrasse to the extent of having to ask his permission to rehabilitate an army for a crazy enterprise against Japan. For the present, Russia is practi cally! a Part of he German empire. Provinces here and territory there are feeing grabbed by the kaiser. German armies are swinging forward here and sweeping ... onward theri through vast stretches, subduing Russians as they go, levying tribute as they please and seizing all prop erty I that suits their fancy Presently the newspapers and other Olden Oregon Indian Culprit Executed Under a One Man Court's Judgment- American gas masks are the best in colors, ensign or any picture or repre- the world. The mask is made of cot- ntatlon of either, or of any part or . , , . . . . . . . carts of either, made or any substance ton fabric carefully rubberized and STpresented on any substance, of any cut to fit various types of faces. It else evidently purporting to be either of is held In nhc nvep tha t- said flar. standard, colors or ensign of be Germanlxed. .Censorship and spies are left uncovered, and sight Is proj which -shall bs shown ths colors, the will control the avenues of communi cation. : There will be no means by which s concert of Russians can be ! fr vided through celluloid or glass eye the stripes. -In any number pleces.:A canister .filled with secret "JSt chemicals carried in a small. knap-J person seeing ths same without dellber- : -' - . - ' - , jk " . A man named Clarke, with a band of other white men. was trapping along the Columbia river. One day a silver goblet which he owned was stolen, and he was terribly enraged. He sought everywhere, but It could not be found. Finally he went Into consultation with some neighboring Indians, and after some talk they withdrew. Clarke vowed he would hang the man that stole the article, and his temper advanced to whits heat. After a short time the In dians came back, wreathed, in smiles. and returned the goblet. According to their custom everything was, all right, now that the stolen article had been re turned. But Clarke was not appeased. He demanded to know the Indian who had stolen It, and when he found out Immediately strung him to a tree. Such a thing, to ths Indians, was Incompre hensible. They did not believe he really Intended to do It, until they saw the dead body 1 of their comrade.'1 Clarke was Instantly sorry for his deed, but It was too lata, - ' - possibility of political influences, the auditor general is appointed by a com mittee of the house, consisting of the speaker, the majority leader and the minority leader. His appointment is for good behavior and he can only be re moved by the house. The auditor gen eral Is given an adequate staff to lnves tigate all departments, and In January ot each year he makes his report to the committee on accounts and audits. In this wsy actual control over public funds Is left with the house. The committee on accounts and audits. it can be seen, would be a very Import ant one. It would have what present Investigating committees of congress have not. the necessary organisation to make thorough investigation of depart ments. and at; the same time these In vestlgatlons would be robbed of any partisan character, because they would be based entirely on the report of the auditor general. The chairman would be chosen from the minority, further Insuring a searching .Inquiry. This is the Knglish system. Inaugurated by Oladstone, which has stood the acid test of SO years' trial tn parliament. e m m In savings to taxpayers ths materia benefits of this proposed budget system would not be inconsiderable. The In direct gain, the education of the people, the making of broad gauge statesmen. would be even a greater blessing. Con gressmen would be freed from local pressure to- Introduce parochial appro priation bills. The budget Is coming. From Argen tina to Japan, from Norway to Chile, government finance Is bssed on an an nual budget, except In America. . The cities have adopted the budget system. The states are doing so. In a year. when direct . taxes will amount; to $1,500,000,000. the American congress should follow suit. n HOW TO BE HEALTHY 2X HEALTH COST TO RAILROADS Among the 295,000 employes and em ployes families of one railway In the South It la estimated thers are every year 6300 cases of appendicitis, of which 31 00 are surgical. Unfortunately, appen dicitis Is a disease of the period of Bfe when a laborer - Is most productive. In a study of 7000 deaths from this malady Dr.' Harnsberger, a Southern Railway surgeon, found less than 600 between the ages of 5 and years. The great est number, over 1500, occurred between the ages of 10 and U. Nearly la 00 ec curred between 20 and 29. a little over 1100 between SO and S9, but only .160 between 40 and 49, and 625 between 50 and 59. This loss of efficient labor. he states, "especially during the trying times of Interrupted travel and traffic with Its added expense. Is an Item of cost aside from suffering and death which Is not considered by the people!" ' Dr. Harnsberger believes ths habit of eating patent prooessed flour and other so-called refined foods has had a geod deal to do with causing appendicitis. Hs says that during ths first 15 or 20 years of his practice (when presumably the people ln ths South lived on corn and whole wheat products) he saw no cases of appendicitis In his district. He does not believe this could have been due to ignorance, on his part, of the clinical expressions of ths disease, because ln all that time he had no patient die of any intra-abdominal disease with the present day earmarks of appendicitis. He believes the barm comes from con stipation, caused by robbing the grain of mineral salts, colloids and vitamins, which sre natural to the unrefined foods and which are essential to health, and to ths loss of roughage and Its stimu lative effect on the Intestinal wall. "The cecum and appendix, by reason of location and anatomical construc tion.'' he says, "feel ths brunt of di gestive and eliminating errors. . No won der ths appendix so frequently succumbs to ths Ingestion of Irrational loads of exhausted foodstuffs and all manner of worse than useless beverages. Ths fact that ths cecum Is so bounteously blest with hypersensttJveness Is mors of a con servative than ef an undesirable nature. It Is nature's tlsrely warning," ' Tomorrow : Looking lata Ttmr Eyes. Nothing the Matter With Portland By II. S. Harcourt The Portland Broom company. Kast Twenty-fifth etreet and Holladay ave nue, employs 4i men at to t a any and 12 women at $2 and better a day.. . Its payroll averages over $4000 H month. It manufactures from ISO to 200 dosen brooms daily, and sells then. In all principal towns from Montana and Colorado west, and south to the Mexican border, and la now opening up the Chinese .market- It ; 1 sending representative to .Honolulu, and f ex- uects shortly to be shipping mere. 11 but recently completed sn order for the United States government for io.owu high class brooms, and on delivery si San Francisco came an Immediate wire order for 61.000 more of the same kind. Its buyer, sent to Oklahoma and Kan sas last fall, picked up between 400 and 500 tons of broom corn at $100 to $500 a ton. Two years ago It ! vould be bought for $50 to $300 a tori. Th cheapest ot this kind now on the mar ket sella at $200 a ton. but la fit fur little save cheap whisk brooma.i ThU grade is not . used in this factory. The Portland Broom company's fac tory was established two years ago, and Its business has had steady in crease. James S. Cormack. superin tendent, explains its success ss due in Isrge measure to quality. "We manu facture 40 kinds of brooms." Mr. Cor mack says. "Not 40 grades, remem ber. For quality ln all makes this fsc- torr Is a stubborn stickler. The gov ernment Inspector, under whose: super vision we made more than ! 60.000 brooms, said, 'Vou have rendered the government most atlnfactory service. You have lived up to the conditions of your contract to the very Isat letter. I take pleasure ln assuring you that I never was more completely satisfied snd I have Inapected many hundreds of thousands of brooms for government uses.' And we made no better j quality of broom for the government than for our trade In general. Our customers positively know that the Pheasant brand nf hrnnmi are unexcelled hence our continual expansion." J a e It requires many thousands of dollara' worth of machinery to equip a broom factory, and nearly every type Is found In this fpur story Institution. 1 Among the appliances is the only whisk broom stitcher on the coast, though thers sre many broom factories west j of the Rockies. It is an expensive Invention, and for this reason is not found In all factories. Many broom sewing ma chines have whisk broom stitcher at tachments, but they are not so satis factory as the device mads especially for this service. In ail Its i appoint ments, therefore, the Portland Broom factory is very complete. j Tomorrow: Article No. 7f of this series : The Portland Psper Package Co. War Information Complete Accurate Official! Prepared by the Committee on Public Information, and. i to Be Obtained, for the Most Part. Free. The seearaaaeat of tha Catted States, that tha people at, know the tretfc ah at 1st war sad war operations, at laasres a series ef pubUeatioaa of the aery alsnaat talus to ail patriots, These pamphlets, aaost of ttea ef aoav aoerabla votvaaa, aoaj be eMalaed rIt free. . j - la tha) apaee froaa day to car the asfcjae auttrr of tbeae pamphlets wtll kw ladieated, aad the prieea ef the f ew aot sent free wUl be stated. . Bat ia ear event, aotiuag aaed be tent fas- paetaee. They seat the reader atthat taa bare price -stated, at setsias st sH. "The War Me$sage and the Facts - Behind It" ( j Contents : The president's aaeaaasw to ten erase of April 2. 11T. wttfc nates ei- C- Unins in farther detail the errata to winch refers: alao tacradiac historical idata and aettins forth ia clear, eiaapte laneoae-e tha f and mentals t emderlrtas tha area Kent's fwndaaaeaUUr Important asimia. A careful raadtns ot thai brief paesptuet fc racoaa. aeaded to all who want bedrock acta ana rations, a3 paces. - . ,J ' TM wtll be east free, alao pome fuse, en rsQneet. br eddraaatns: ComeaJuee as Pahiat IniomteUoa.-10 Jeeaeoa Place, Waahiastea, U. C . - - . i