THE : OREGON DAILY JOURNAL, PO RTLAND; FRIDAY, APRIL
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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)
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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
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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,
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