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AS Dt DEPENDENT XEW8PAPEB & ft. JACKSOM. .PnbUaber PabUebcd aeer da. afternoon and morning (- ui? Broadway tod XsmhUl atreat. Portland. Oregon. - f.lrei t the lto(!ie t Portland. Oro , aiae matter. TBUCPHONES Main Tit; lej to operator wua Ucame. A-eirai. numoer ' " - ,.Lumft:VTiTIV'E B.i-n Ken.nor Co.. Bb. Buin, a Fifth nu, w " 4, a Bui lain, cuicago. i ia the United State f Mexico: DAILY (MORMNO OR AFTERNOON) Om ,r $5.00 I On month .69 SUNDAY i Am wt 12.6 I On . month .... dTtxT tMOBNLNO OR aBTEBNOONI and SUNDAY One enr tTJ" t n month after the war, there Is reason to re-1 force to , outside officials. All thU duce them during the war. The Journal has contended all along that the commission should not be abolished. But If it is not to func tion, why have a commission? We are beginning to see what War Savings Stamps will do. The tola) of money the government has already realized in Oregon is now 12,709, 061.84. It is a great sum. Yet the campaign is but fairly begun. The question is, shall Oregon keep up her stride? will she be first to go over the top in War Stamps as she has been in Liberty loans and other war measures? A WORTH WHILE SENATOR ." ' ' i The reward of one' iluty in the power to fulfill mother. George Eliot. WHY WAIT -T IS announced by the Oregon pub I lie service commission that the I case In which Eastern Oregon farmers petition for equitable grain rates will not be acted upon until normal conditions return. Why wait until after the war? The interstate commerce commission is not postponing its business until after the war. It announces a policy exactly to the contrary. . Orain rates to Portland from miny Eastern Oregon points are higher than over the same distances from Eastern Washington to Puget Sound, the over-mountain haul to Puget Sound to the contrary notwith standing. Thus, the rate from Culdesac. Idaho, to Seattle, 4'2t miles, is 17. against 18. from Baker, -Or., to Portland. 342 miles. The rate from Walla Walla to Puget Sound. 293 miles, is 13, gainst 18 from Baker to Portland, 342 miles. The rate from Grand View, Wash ; to Puget Sound. 203 miles, is 12, against 16 to Portland from s.naniko, 176 miles, and from Condon, 186 miles The rate from Davenport, Wash., to Puget Sound, 422 miles, is 17, against 22 from Joseph to Portland. 886 miles. These are rank discriminations tgainst Eastern Oregon farmers. There, are many other cases like them. Over greater distances and over high mountain roads, the rate to Puget Sound is lower than over shorter distances and downhill roads to Portland. In announcing that the case of the Eastern Oregon farmers for an ad justment of rates will not be heard until conditions return to normal, the commission says It postpones further consideration because action might "injuriously affect the reve nue of the carriers." " The rates have been "injuriously" affecting the revenues of farmers these many years. The petition of the farmers, supplemented by similar petitions from the Portland Traffic ; and Transportation association and the Portland docks .commission, were filed nearly a year ago. The statement that an adjustment might "injuriously affect the reve nues of the carriers" is tantamount .o confession that the rates to Portland are tiow too high ami should be re duced. Otherwise they would not "injuriously affect the revenues of the carriers." The commission Is putting Itself in an extraordinary situation. If it is not going to function during the war, the thought that naturally arises Is. why have a corr-missiop during the war? Unhappily, the query in many minds is, why have a public service ; commission at all? The proof that such thought is prevalent, is seen in tthe petitions now being circulated for abolishment of the commission. If the commission should actually f undertake to speed its own abolish ment, it could scarcely do more to ",; hasten such action than is its re fusal to act on the Eastern Oregon . r grain rates. The action of the commission in granting the six cent fare was on the claim that the contracted fare of "five cents and no more" Injuriously t- affected the revenues of the street railway. The motive that moved the commission to act in the streetcar case Is, on its own testimony, the same that -moves it not to act on the petition of the Eastern Oregon farmers for grain rates as low as Eastern Washing'.m farmers have to Puget Sound. In each instance the motive Is fear that the revenues of ' the carriers might be "injuriously" , affected. ,The commission should go on with . the hearing. If the rates are too high" on 'grain from Eastern Oregon pdints, which they are.' they should be reduced. They should be reduced ti t'war measure to encourage farm- .. ' ert-to'"gT0w wheat, . . ' Y-v'r , ItMhere Is reason to- reduce them ORE Kenyons should be senators, Indeed, there should be more Kenyons in every walk. There is no finer type of American. In his address Monday evening to an audience that packed The Audi torium to, the doors and roof, h'i said the things that are good for his countrymen to hear. It was a speech that scintillated with Ameri canism. It denounced partyism when hung in the balance- against patriot ism. It flayed kaiserism. Senator Kenyon was on the west front last Nove-.ber. He looked out on No Man's Land and saw with his own eyes the havoc kaiserism has brought, lie is' now touring the country at the request of the govern ment, telling the American people about the barbarities, the cruelties, the inhumanism, the war upon women and babies which William II and his junkers license their troops to practice. After seeing it all. Senator Kenyon, almost a pacifist before, a near foe of military preparedness but yesterday, sponsor In the senate of an ante war resolution forbidding American citi zens to travel on ships carrying niu- nitions, has been transformed into a j fighting American, a relentless f oe j of kaiserism, a fierce hater of junk- erdom, a profoundly earnest and de voted advocate of fighting this wai to a conclusion which will plant the Stars and Stripes on the flag masts of Berlin. Have you noticed that every man who comes back from any of the war fronts, that any man who has learned first hand of the things that the Prussians are doing in this war, is an unrelenting barbed-wire enemy of the kaiser, the crown prince and their war coterie? Have you ever stopped to think what it means for . every visitor to the ; war fronts and every soldier who has ever served there to be so bitter in his denunciations of those we are struggling against in this conflict? Senator Kenyon told of babies bay oneted by the Huns, told of French and Belgian women and children used as shields in front of the line of Hun soldiers advancing for the at tack, told of the unspeakable use of French and Belgian women and girls in the Prussian camps, told of name less atrocities that have staggered civilization and filled Christendom with horror. William Squire Kenyon at one time bore the distinction of being the youngest member of the United States senate. He was born in Elyrla, Ohio. His childhood was spent at St. Joseph, Missouri, and Iowa City, Iowa. His father was a clergyman and young Kenyon was intended for the ministry. But after graduation from Grinnell college and the State Uni versity of Iowa, he entered the legal profession. At 24 he was elected prosecutor of Webster county. At 31 he was district Judge, and at 34 he was appointed to the state su preme bench. He resigned to become the law partner of his father-in-law, who was district attorney for th Illinois Central railroad. At the death of the senior partner Mr. Kenyon became district attorney of the line, and was later made the company's general counsel. At 51 he was appointed United States senator to fill out the unex pired term of Senator Dolliver, after naving served for two or three years as assistant United States attorney under Attorney General Wickersham. In 1913 he was reelected for a six year term. In the senate, he, at. once Joined Ihe radical Republican faction. He Is of the higher mo'd of statesman ship, a fit pattern for permanent place in the federal senate, a pattern that bodes good for the country. comes to us from Prussia, The organization of our common school system was imported from Prussia about the year 1840 by Hor ace Mann of Massachusetts and a few other leaders. We do not mean that the ideal of democratic education was borrowed, but the organization was. Horace Mann and his associates made no mystery of the source of their "systema tization." Lately, as an article in the New Republic explains, there has been a determined effort, made by American teachers to break away from the Prussianized eight year course with its iron bound examinations and pro motions. The original .Oregon "acade mies" at Salem. ; Monmouth and else where furnished the model which should have been followed in build ing up our common schools. The faster we can travel back toward it the better for the children. tains will be carted into the father land and a big indemnity will be as sessed. ' The commandeering by the allies of the Dutch ships, which Holland could not prevent, is made pretext by the kaiser for his threat. He menaces her frontiers because the allies seized and are holding the ships. He will, if things go right, wreak vengeance rollicking; . melody, "Her We Are Attain." , v . And now it Is In for more Incompre hensibilities of the same kind along the American front. The submarine, doubt less, did not linger, long enough to .hear that chorus from the washing decks of the Tuscania : When do we go from here, boys, where do we go from here! Paddy' neck wu in the wreck, bat ittll ha had no fear; Re aaw a dead man rest to him. and whispered in bis ear, COMMENT AND NEWS IN BRIEF SMALL CHANGE Upon Holland for What She COUld not -Ob, Joy, oh. boy.' where do we go from hereT" help ' It is to be wished that it. 1 ad. For ... ' . ,j k the whole spirit of the two foes Is con- HlS submarines would find Dutch centrated in those. two incidents Von harbors extremely convenient TOrlSpee's veteran sailors singing "Deutsch OSTEND "A' raids upon British shipping. could lurk in the thousand and one nooks and corners of the Dutch coast, sallying forth to commit murder and returning swiftly. If Hindenburg can break the British line, Holland's se curity will not be worth a pin. Thev ! ,anl Ueber Alles" by order, the Yankee J I - . . , j . V. V. uoys, new to war, meeung geu. i first time with a laugh and greeting him audaciously and irreverently with "Where Do We Go FFfcm Here?" The machines of the state and the children of freedom ; the contrast is shown in great things, but not more strikingly than in these smaller ones. ND 1 never till life and its shadows shall end," wrote Longfellow, "can forget the sweet sound of the bells of Ostend." If the poet's shade hap pened to be lingering over Ostend yesterday morning it heard some thing fully as sweet to the ear of liberty lovers as those deep-throated bells. It was the noise of old, for saken hulks laden with concrete and exploded in the hafrbor. It is said that they will bar the way to the kaiser's submarines which have been making Ostend one of their bases. British seamen were perform ing this useful piece of work both at Ostend and Zeebrugge on Tuesday morning.' It may be possible to blook up all the harbors the submarine pirates have captured on the North Sea.. It wiil be a great gain if it can be done. Cement is plentiful and so are old hulks, battered and warworn. So, also are bold sailormen who are eager to risk their lives for democ racy. We should not be surprised to hear before a great while of some naval attempt against Helgoland and the Kiel canal. If the canal could be blocked, the kaiser would be pretty well bottled up. Strange and heroic events are likely toThappen on the sea almost any day. 40-FOOT HARBOR ERA AT HAND By Carl Smith, Washington Staff Cor respondent of The Journal Letters From the People How about "Garabed"? Rain or shine" Mow fickle Is April. - That was a corking tunt the British pulled off at the Hun "sub" bases. War Savings Stamps advance one cent in price May 1. Buy them now and then. A Lane county man walked 100 miles to be arrested. He certainly must have needed a rest. To the bums who idle around and dream of what they would do with a bunch of kale," we suggest, "go and grow some." The Huns in rtindenburgs army who haven't been killed, wearing their fine new uniforms in which they were going to parade in Paris on April 1. must feet pretty sore now about being all dressed up and no place to go. OREGON SIDELIGHTS Now is the on of the year. .the Ragtag and Bobtail Btorlea From Ereryirharw The Lady's Name, Please? Haines Record observes, when the most; A PARTY bent oa seeing London, cays popular of army camp song "Keep the - Everybody's, rolled out of Hyde Rome Fire.J Burning should m.k .way Fark T automobile and iun for the farm slogan. Soil Turning. "I nearly forgot to tell'- you that 1 got the New Year's Journal and how I did enjoy it, is a sentence in a letter from Webster G. Corliss, writ ten from somewhere in France to his parents, Judge and Mrs. Corliss in Portland. The young man is with the Oregon engineers. Aside from a home letter, nothing can more in terest the lad over there than a home paper. Many boys in France are regularly receiving The Journal. It not only gives them the news, but it backs them to the limit, and they appreciate it. THE PROBABILITIES N' O DOUBT every word that Mrs. Margaret L. Mann says about her management of the state . industrial school for girls -is true. She only keeps bcr charges on bread and water for short intervals, never foe more than a day and usual ly for not more than one meal. We lake it for granted that she is an ideal woman for her position. Nevertheless, it is interesting to ask what motive Professor Thomas on's sociology class could have had for misrepresenting the facts about her discipline. They visited the in dustrial school to learn the truth. It is hard to understand why they came away and disseminated some thing that seems to have been quite unlike the truth. as a general rule, reports of cruelty in public institutions are well grounaea. wnen there is smoke there is more than likely to be fire The heads of those institutions are usually not teachers. They have not tne educational ideal. They think only of drill, discipline, "break ing the will." Mrs. .Mann seems to be a happy exception to this rule. And yet we can not help wonder ing how Professor Thomason's pupils got those stories of cruelty into their heads. Did they invent them out of whole cloth? It is a task of unre mitting difficulty to keep the Squeers methods out of our so-called "re formatory" institutions. Human be ings with power in their hands are prone to misuse it. Nothing but a-' pitiless glare of publicity prevents, Washington, April 24. The day of the 40-foot harbor as the "real thing" in a deep waterway is emphasized and has tened by the river and harbor bill of the present session, which the' house has passed, and which is destined soon to pass the senate. New York has 40 feet through the main channel, and will have 40 feet through Hell Gate from Long Island sound, under the present bill. Boston has 40 feet at high tide. Nor folk has 40 feet, and Charleston, S. C, will get a 40-foot channel to the navy yard there. This leaves Baltimore and Philadelphia as the two great' harbors of the Atlantic coast, which must strug gle along for a time with less than 40 feet. Baltimore has 35 feet, and Phila delphia claims that the Delaware at high tide will also take care of vessels of 35 feet draft. Baltimore and Philadelphia members displayed some worry over the failure to provide 40 feet for them, but nothing was done to relieve " their dis tress. To produce a 40 foot channel to Philadelphia would require 63 miles of dredging ia the Delaware, but at Balti more would mean the deepening of only 11 miles- in the Patapsco river and five miles in Chesapeake bay. Representative Moore of Pennsylvania discussed the question of policy of going deeper and deeper with channels to keep up with increasing draft of big vessels. It is a serious question, he said, whether the big ports must have 40 feet of water to accommodate less than one per cent of the ships engaged in International trade. The Panama canal, he said, has been supposed to place a limit of 40 feet, and thereby establish the greatest depth for ocean traffic between Atlantic and Pacific, but the Kiel canal has sills five feet lower, Inviting the 45-foot vessel to use it. Mr. Moore also sug gested that the result of 40-foot water at New York, Boston. Newport and Charleston will be to produce further congestion, and tend to concentrate business at the favored ports, while Philadelphia and Baltimore, which are exceptionally located to take care of trans-Atlantic business, may lose part of their traffic to other terminals. The Hell Gate project for New York went into the bill over the protest of the river and harbor committee. Charleston went in with the indorsement of the committee, after Secretary Baker had recommended it. The new project for Key West. Fla.. which was hotly con tested and went into the bill despite the opposition of the committee, is for a 26 foot project, and involves an expendi ture of about $232,000. The Florida dele gation urged that it Is distinctly a war measure, because of the need of adding new facilities along the southern coast and the advantage to government ves sels, such as destroyers and submarines. ' I Communication! aent to The Journal for pub lication in thii department should be written oa only one tide o( toe paper, ahouid not exceed SO words in length and must b algned by the writar. whoee mall addaa in full miut accompany the contribution. 1 Those Sponsorless Petitions Portland, April 23. To the Editor of The Journal Please allow me space in The Journal to more specifically state the case as it is in regard to that flaw in the jitney petition and also ask a few questions. I am the woman who unearthed it, and I want the public to know the facts. Before I called the at tention of any city official to the fact that no names of the sponsors appeared on the petition I asked if a state law required that an Initiative petition should contain such names. Both Mr. LaRoche and Mr. Bush replied that Somewhere in France. If I could but paint with words a picture of what I have seen today you would see France through my eyes as a land of charm and beauty, the home of a heroic people. I spent the afternoon afoot with Dr. Francon and a mountain cllrrber named Knapp. I am staying .a a small com munity whose population in normal times Is about 9000. On the top of a high hill overlooking the city Dr. Fran con said, "See. on the hillside below, my farm. Twenty hectares of land 1 own. Fee how pretty it lies. I know every foot of it. We French love the soil. See there, close at hand, lies Italy. Yonder is Switzerland. See where the third rantre of hills dips down to the plain. There, in that little village that nestles in the hills is where I was born. There in that same little cottage was With linrl iBCTI I i lt.Aa A miMa's . e . . .. ,.' explanations of th vrl Alia TmlwaamViV ft niri. of the EuKene hln scnooi ui - . ... T-: " o?nuVfyKlacy wSs" Ir! wr?tah to ap- cient edifice surrounded byVhTgn brick !i.r f0r receiving their diplomas, and wall. "That la the town house of the will wear blue-collared miaay Diouses . jjuke of Dea, on of our largest landed and white skirtsi j proprietors." said the guide. Archaeological note from the Weston j The eyes of the beautiful young Leader "While excavatng for the . American girl on the rear seat were west wall of the Nelson building work- suddenly illuminated, men unearthed a battered re c -hl ch no ,.Who ,anded one was able to lefentify until it was j taken to Porter Graham. He l,on5 j Pleasure Before Business hTr'se uU'byVeTt'e K5. ToVurt Owing to an unfavorable signat a train cell In his undertaking business more ; had been brought to a standstill close than four decades ago." by a football field where a game was In progress. The engine driver was a devotee of the game and In a few minute he be came absorbed. Leaning over the side of the train, be watched the players so Intently that he failed to observe that the signal arm JOURNAL MAN ABROAD By Fred Lockley our ground Is cultivated With you h&A dropped, denollni a clr ,lne OULT,CZ"r' 5", , it n The guard, noticing this, went up to IllUUll laiiu ucju uv" j vour tongue? not put to beneficial use. l . . ... ; . . n w muwt inai is me . .v,. A our land, and use It to the Desi aa- , " " " " ' ' . . ... vantage for from the soil comes our! is? said the engine driver, wlth livinsr 'None of us Is very rich ; none out looking up. -Then go and tell the very poor We are a contented people. "hap in the box to shove It op again. I'm TiKre in our soft climtte we raise many going io see tnis matcn out. the engine driver and said : "What are you up to? Can't you see theu-should, and Mr. Bush showed me a ballot on which were several Initiative b fatner and n(9 father Mort VAi,,Ann n n ..11 V ...... . V. & . . Lllll119, ttllU O.H UU1C 1 1 1 IIAIIIC Jl III? sponsors. I .hen asked him what he was going to do with the Portland Rail way, Light & Power company's petition as part of them bore no such name. Mr. LaRoche firmly held that they did, as he said he had seen one and passed on it the previous day, and It bore the re quired name. As a result we went to gether to Mr. Funk's office and found, as you have learned, about 105 petitions without the sponsor's names, and 78 with their names. Now, why these two different kinds? Will some honest man please tell? Again, the petition which was given to Mr. LaRoche for his inspection and which served as a representative of all petitions, bore the name of thex sponsors, but had the name of only one signer. things not raised elsewhere melons. apricots, apples, almonds, celery, grapes. pears, peaches, filberts, walnuts, berries, wild strawberries, spruce, hemlock, mag nolias. Ixjmbardy poplars and oaks oh ! many things more than 1 can enum- ; erate." v Naturally "Does the new question department you started work all right?" "No ; 1 find It won't answer." Johnnyrake and Cornmral Muh Pit. Iloorer. you're the man (or me. 1 like your wheatlraa 4n. by gee! You make it pmaifole. Old Srout. By rutting all the white bread out. Here, as elsewhere In France, the nn r. cheerfully and capably per forming the work of the men in the To get my till ot johnnr-.k. fields and In other occupations. I have fntil I mt ba.e tummyad.a. " i a. L'caiih 4ku-kinit-TH v, no as.ll . ... him. My father's father served with . ,L. VihY m ust so on till L m . to J' v ,a -. , T . , , . .v, atrree that the ilgnl must, bo l"1 lown on the farm, where we could raUa .-apoieon. listen . ao jou iioi er 1,10 nhiovd. But the French, ih. iinni rnrn th&t mrmr trrw : though wonderful fighters, are essentl- It made the fineat eornmeal. too. ally a peaceful and a peace loving na-i And baked in akillet on th. hearth . V i.i,inlT fnrnril oaererlv n big corn pone, beet bread on earth! tlon. They are looking Jorra Mcerly o eornmeal m.ht to the day that Germany shall be forced .,.. bnh! to give up the dream of world dominion. In the Paris Gaulois. Rene Fauchols re- i feel the heat of summer daya centlv had this beautiful bit of verse , Between the corn rona. and the hate church bells? Sometimes on a still even lng one can hear the bells of five vil lages. It Is the distance that makes their notes so mellow. From nearby Revard one may see Mt. Blanc with its glaciers. From that hilltop above us you can see range on range Into the far distance, the glittering sides of the Dauphlnose Alps and of the Jura moun tains.'' On the hill side below a peasant woman wearing wooden shoes was stak ing out her brown milch goat, while at the edge of a tiny bit of woodland a woman was binding Into bundles the twigs trimmed from the trees. You will see diminutive donkeys coming to town Mrs. S. Btrker, 319 Kast Morrison ! pulling carts piled high with twigs trim street. Now wiiy, if. as tney claim now, j med from vineyards or perhaps- with It is not necessary that sponsors" names j the roots of grapevines. In place of appear, did this particular one have it ' delivering wood by the cord, the sticks on? Why did those two gentleman make 1 re tled lnto bundles of six and . sold the plain statement that thev were re- at BO much per bunch. As my gaze quired, by law and that if "l got one swept the rich valley with Its small out my name must be on It t Whv this farms. Its red tiled houses, its solid discrimination between two parties? "tone barns and Its well tilled fields. Why lecal for the one and illegal for the I said. "You have a beautiful land, my The six cent fare . is not only a "bone-head" enterprise, but it is wholly possible that it is falling of its purpose. Nearly everybody re sents the six cent fare. Thousands walk. They loathe the deliberate breaking of the contract with the city for "a fare of five cents and no more." They resent seeing a ten cent piece go for a fare with a return to them of four pennies which mean nothing. Nothing but harm to the company and all concerned can come from this foolish demand of the east ern owners for a six cent fare. The public service commission has made a mess of it. It is doubtful if, in power and ap peal, any war address yet delivered in Portland equals that by Dr. S. II. Clark of Chicago University, at the First Presbyterian church last night. Without recital of atrocities, without resort to flamboyant oratory. Dr. Clark held his audience In deep intent upon his every word, and left an impression none can forget. He speaks at Lincoln high school tonight. WOLF AXD LAMB A BAD MODEL T HERE is one significant fact about our common school system thai is not commonly known. People often wonder where it got its immense love of form and ceremony, itsr predilection for military rigor 'n examinations and promotions and its complete subjection of the teaching G Congressman Hawley went through the motion of offering amendment to the river and harbor bill in the house for Oregon harbors. They were fore ordained to defeat because contrary to the adopted policy of leaving new projects alone until the close of the war, except Buch as are' recommended because of emergency by the chief of the army engineers and the secretary of war. Mr. Hawley however, had the sat isfaction of drawing forth a neat little tpeech from Representative Green .of Iowa, commending the Oregon people for offering to put up dollar for dollar with the government for such improvements, and he also drew from Chairman Small of the rivers and harbors committee a statement that there is no other member of - the house he would better like to accommodate. After these little com pliments the steam roller trundled over each of the Hawley amendments. First the Coos Bay Improvement went down Then followed the proposed appropria tion of $64,000 for the Coquille bar, en trance and harbor, and finally an amendment to ' adopt the Improvement recommended by the engineers for Yaquina bay and bar. m On each amendment, before It was voted down, Mr. Hawley made brief explanation, and in each case was obliged to admit that It involved the adoption of a new project. Chairman Small reminded the house that adoption of new projects Is not in order unless they come in the emergency class by recommendation ot the secretary of war. The Coos Bay amendment proposed $130,000 for a 22-foot project from the entrance to Smith s mill, where, Mr Hawley said, the port district has spent $650,000 and has reached Its' limit of indebtedness. The Yaquina Bay amend ment carried no appropriation, but would have formally adopted the project recommended by the engineers, under which the expenditure of $836,000 is con templated, one-half to be paid by local interests, which have already begun the work. m m "I want to commend the state of OreEon for the idea of its people in putting In I some money or their own, said Repre sentative .Green of Iowa. "I have long contended that much of the criticism of river and harbor bills wouldi cease If the people would put up dollar 'for dollar with the government. Congress has never seen fit to make that requirement, and only In a few cases has It been done, but it ought to be. There would not be much trouble about river ana harbor bUls if that were done. While such Improvements are of benefit to the country at large, they are of the greatest benefit to the communities where they are made." Representative Johnson of .Washing ton said he refrained .. from' offering amendments because of the general policy the committee has pursued in framing the bill, and he praised the committee for bringing out a v good bill. other? Will Mr. LaRoche please come forward and answer? Now an injunction can be filed against that petition, and it thus be prohibited from going on the ballot. Mr. Bush told me that It was the city council's place to file such an injunction' and Mr. LaRoche admitted that they could. We know that they did so In the case of the six-cent fare, and the case was tried before a court. Why. then. d- they not take action in this if they are so anxious to defeat that ordinance? Have we not elected those men to office to transact our public business and look after our Interests? We. as a people, as taxpayers, as voters can demand it, should demand It. and must demand it if we win. and not until then will the public be convinced that our city officials are keeping faith with the people. 'An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure," and the only safe way to defeat that ordinance is to keep it off the ballot. We have the 'goods," and can slay the Goliath ! Let the Davi-1 come forth ! Just one more question : Why was It that r . -a I called to have bv name taken from the petition one of th gen tlemen in Mr. Funk's office told me I was too late ; It would do no good, as the petition was now filed, and, no matter If my name were removed the petition would go on the ballot any way. Will the gentleman not so "high up" please explain? MRS. CLARA FENDER. friend." "Yes, ours is a rich land and a friendly soil." said Dr. Francon. "Our villages touch elbows. We are always withtn easy reach of each other. All Bread of our home oh. year of tha end How good 'twill be to eat. When we recall in Midden mood Thirt and the fighter'e eranty food. How clean 'twill taste and aweeU Wine of our rineyard year of the end How warm 'twill glow to night. A we recount in brae old eong Victory, tho the tet waa long. Nor wearied we of fight. Bells of our towcm year .of the end On Sabbath eoft nhall chime. f'rooning rcuuiem o'er the grate. Sheltering warm the fallen brave Here or in foreign clime. CSIrN of our town oh. year of the end How proud ha!l be your thought. When there appear the hearta of uteel Showing yon atiU the love they feel, lor all tha war haa wrought. Row of mir garden year of the end By alopee of Loire and Meuae. Terfume you'll bear of glory a thrill. Coior of vict'ry a irn will I And glow of peaceful hue. HOW TO BE HEALTHY Copyright. IS IT by i. Keetey The breeze that fan my un tanned cheek , KuiUea the eornhlade and cornflower . That open out in morning hour ! Rut clu. their bluebell a In Bleep. 1 In unny hour. Oh. I conld weep Viith longing for the row of corn. Ioan on the farm, where 1 wa born! Lalrln Goaa. Cove. Or. I'ncle Jeff Snow Says: j What with caterpillar limine, auto I mobiles and auto trucks, and fixln's to ! make a auto do the rhurnln', grind the ; barley and cut the hay while It's restln I from plowin' land, need in' spuds and ' oleanln' out the barnyard, there won't i le no more deed f-r a bona ort a farm ! purty soon than ftr a elephant. If the ' milk trust keeps up its licks a while ! longer the cows w ill disappear, most i likely ; and a feller In New York has In ' ented a machine to make artificial eggs I that'll do ever'thlng but hatrh. The-dog , licenses has wlpod out the dogs a heap., and the Hermans has Invented tnakln' j wool outer paper. It looks like while empires and kingdoms Ix a-fallln' the I animal kingdom's liable to go a-tumblln' Saw Oregon's Mint at Work Molalla, Or., April 22. To the Editor of The Journal I see in The Journal of April 13 a communication from Cyrus m. wamer or AiDany, Or., In which he thinks there may not be another person in Oregon that has seen that mint at Oregon City that was coining the gold rrom uamornia. i can tell Mr. Walker that I have seen the same mint. My father left Illinois in the spring of 1845 for Oregon. From Fort Hall we went to California, arriving at Sutter's Fort. November 20, 1845. The Mexican war coming on, my father sold his oxen, bought horses, and in company with Felix Scott, Eugene Skinner and others. arrived at Oregon City on June 16. 1846. I was well acquainted with such men as lit. MCLougniin, McKlnley and George Abernethy. My father was a mill wright. In November we were sent ud to Champoeg to repair a mill for Aber nethy. I have two sisters living in Port land, who were born in Illinois. Like Mr. 77alker. I have wondered if there was anyone now living who saw those early days. If I could write as I could when younger I could tell many things of early days that have never been told. B. F. BONNEY. CHEATING ILL HEALTH A butcher was dying of a lingering disease at the Massachusetts General hospital. Dr. Cabot, who was attending him, relates his experience and says the remarkable nature of this butchpr. his ever ready fund of fun and good humor, kept at hay the specter of death, and that "In the pleasant land of counterpane" he maintained to the last a happy life. Whenever the doctor came to examine him and asked him to turn over, or made some trifling request, the butcher responded with such engnging alacrity that one might have thought he was about to participate in some happy event. He beamed and thanked the doc tor for shifting a pillow as it he had been given a diamond. He chuckled over the doctor's clumsy attempt to tilt the glass feeding tube into his mouth with out forcing him to raise his head. "Step by step, as he went down that last gray week of his life." says Pr. Cabot, "he taught me all unconsciously as many lessons about art. beauty and playful ness as about heroism. Not a moment of his ebbing life seemed prosaic or joy less, for each had in R the foretaste or the aftertaste of a smile, born without effort and dying without pain." When the mind -turns from shadow to 1 to- sunshine, the body tends also to assume 1 the radiance of health. Stevenson said there was no duty we so much under rated as the duty of being happy. The habit of being happy enables one to be freed, or largely freed, from the domlna- Kothing the Matter With Portland By H. 8. Ha r court tlon of outward riroumtanre. Thonph the trait is apparently totally lacking In j The Standard Boiler works, 444 Brendle some, while existing to a high degree In ; street. Is the property of- the Albina others, experience lias shown that con- 1 Engine & Machine works, and is no sclous cultivation will develop it to an j longer very strenuously In the boiler appreciable degree, even in stubborn making business. Twenty-five men are cases. As In- little Pollyanna s "Glad piujru mo r.... flame." it is possible to find something I they mostly engaged In making aux to be glad about In every situation in lliary ttlngs for the hulls of steam if(. j ships being built by the Albina Kn- - . . .v.- ! Klne k Machine works. They llke- ' " "1UBI re-ju-ej in minus wb mry mot- fr the. teauwla. are ; they might be worse. If we should count up we should be surprised to find kingpost. bretchings oil for tanks. smokestacks, forced-draft system. now seioom rne mings we rear or worry , . cratings. atalrways. ventl- about really happen. Half or our ; ,R " e(c Tlme w whn lht grouches are unjustified ; the other half ; wa, renownwd for the class of holers we should be magnanimous enough to . u manufactured, but these were the forgive. Sadness is selfishness. Bur- aRym when the word wj tranquil and dens that have to be endured should be j ,t not BO murh trouble to procure endured cheerfully, relinquishing the j material This latter Is a problem now. doubtful but fascinating pleasure of , n a question seemingly Impossible of aweuing upon mem. Tomorrow : Need of Raw Food. quarters during a business trip to the various towns of Oregon. "While In Astoria I saw an American flag flying from a small mast on the cabin of a fisherman's boat," said Mr. Martin. "I think it would be a splendid plan for other salmon fishermen on the Columbia to follow. Get patriotism in the air that's -what Is going to win the war." Olden Oregon For several Oregon the whit from the Columbia. solution. All concerns employing Iron and steel In their manufactures expeil ! seriouj difficulties In procuring ! stock. Not that there is a scarcity at the place of production, but on account of lack of transportation facilities. Secretary of the Treasury McAdoo, greatest of all railroad managers, needs , his trains for other w ar purposes, and years after they cam to ! hat h derea goes, machine shop ittes never took a salmon : 'n close proximity to the boiler worss Curious Superstitions of Northwest Indians Concerning the Salmon Thi rirkt -waa I on account of the impossibility oi se- tacltlv conceded to the Indiana as an curing iron ana steei irom in ra.iern Inherent one. Kespecttng this fish the market, was comperieo nnin inw Indian, hart manv aunoraf It Ion. Of aiu-h 1 10 days tO decline $1.000 Worth. Of WOTlC i rvvelll of lone is registered vital Importance was Jt to their lives e manager say. no n, w .... Charles ONeUi of lone is registered i,,.! viitatinn u. ci.hr.t his orders will be filled, and may f.nd at the Imperial. ..,h mm ..,. Th. .!, some difficulty in securing worke.-s f t-rAwl t Ha r vawtr 1 n f a v lSti t ar&a m nAT'. L. O. Laughlin of The Dalle. Is at the j - numero. Perkins. when his supplies do arrive. ."Of coin- ERMANY'S : quarrel with Holland resembles i the one the wolf in the fable picked with the lamb. Both animals were drinking from a brook, the lamb about a rod below the wolf. But the wolf, accused the lamb of roiling the water for his drinking and killed the poor creature I The German army sings like a saen What the American Soldiers Sang From the. Philadelphia Press for his crime. Not to waste gool meat, the wolf then ate him up. If the kaiser can make his quarrel with Holland slick he will not let any good meat go to waste. The little country will be Invaded promptly. Whatever food and supplies it con- gerbund. and It sings solemn ar ' appro priate songs, prescribed after due con sideration by . the proper officers. It could not understand . the shouts from the opposite trenches : "Give us your lit tie ymn .of 'ate, Frita IT It waa dum founded to be fought by men who. in stead of singing "God Save th - King" outraged the German proprieties by that PERSONAL MENTION Expects Men to Desert Stores "With mills and camps operating eight hours a day and with big wages prevailing, l iook ror many store clerks to desert the counter for the camp and mlllyard this summer," said Thomas L. Minner, Seattle lumberman, registered at the Multnomah. "It would be a patri otic move. Every able bodied man ahouid give his brain and muscle to the war program. There are enough girls and women willing to do the lighter work." e Finds War Is Big Game "The war Is the big game. Seven months ago I was selling auto accessories In St. Louis and now 1 am helping Uncle Sam buy and inspect accessories. I was drafted, but if I had realized what a big thing the United States has on its hands I would have enlisted when war waa declared." These patriotic words were spoken by Corporal Harrison M. Mc Daniels, quar termaster'a corps of Camp Lewis, who Is registered at the Imperial hotel. Noted Surgeon Visits Portland Dr. W. L. Dick, a noted orthopedic surgeon of Columbus. Ohio, and wife are in Portland visiting Dr. and Mrs. C. J. Smith. Dr. Dick, who is an uncle of Dr. SnVth. has been touring the Northwest. He practiced for a period at Pendleton some years ago, having come west at that time to secure a change of climate. Flags for Visnboats I'rged Fishermen should show their patriot ism to the United State and fly the American flag at the masthead of their boats. This is the opinion of W. W. Martin, salesman for a Chicago rubber firm, who is making Portland his head K. Nail of Eugene is among mo rivals at the Multnomah. j John Peterson of Astoria is staying at the Benson. John A. Lystul of Glendale is a guest at the Oregon. Charles Mix of Astoria Is among the arrivals at the Oregon. Mr. and Mrs. H. V. MCl-ean or aiem are staying at the Nortonla. Mr. and Mrs. Walter uraKe oi v.- land are arrivals at the Carlton. M. K. Snyder of Pullman is a guest at the Washington. Mr. and Mrs. A. N. FreaericKson oi Cathlamet are staying at the Imperial. W. W. McAndre-.vs il feeaiiie is ai the Portland. C. P. True of Medfor is an arrival at the Perkins. H. a Mason of St. Helens is at me Multnomah. p. D. Sanders of Boise is staying at the Benson. Horace Faster of Spokane is among the arrivals at the Portland. Mr. and Mrs. E. G. uuaiey or Kansas City, Mo., are at tne .Nortonia. Mr. and Mrs S. I', t oner oi aeaiue are 3taylng at the Carlton. E. F. Garlough oi lamma is staying at the Washington. Gilbert Tobln of Ntw torK is regis tered at the Portland. Mr. and Mrs. H. K- Mayes oi nooa River are staying at the Carlton. Mrs. O. L- Anderson Of Helena Is a guest at the Nortonla. J. L. Guy of Blind Slough, Or., is an arrival al the Perkins. J. E. Stearns of Eugene Is at the Multnomah. . E. H. Brook3 of Denver is among the arrivals at the Benson. L. X. Hale of The Dalles is staying at the Oregon. A. C Wheeler of Hall. Wash., la reg istered at the Imperial. E- Sullivan of Astoria is at the Mult nomah. E. L Brunk of Salem is staying at the Washington. High-Powered Speller I'rnea the New York Tisaee Visitor 1 suppose. Willie, that you can spell all the short words? -.Willie (who hears much talk about -au tomobiles) Tes, t 1 .can spell, words of four cylinders. : milled to pass on several days before . mon labor." he says "there Is abund- nets were laid for Its capture. No re- , "-nee, dui reai m-i-...... ward of money or clothes would Induce i Fmployes of this Institution work an Indian to sell salmon the first three ' p,M hourB and are paid H fcO to $ 50 weeks after its arrival, and throughout ; a J,y and. it appears, there always Is the w hole season upon catching a fish , work for aKllled help. J. Shaw Is the they would take out his heart Immedl- i -unerlntendent. He worked In Portland atcly and conceal It until they had op portunity to burn It. Their great fear for a long time, and from here went to Peru. A.ter spenomg several years in might be eaten by dogs, which they feared would prevent the fish from re turning to the river again. was that this sacred portion of the flan that southern republic, he returned to the United States, and waa located In Vancouver, B. C. until a few months ago, when he returned to his first love. Portland, which. ac-ordtng to his way of thinking. Is the "best city of this gn-en earth." Article No. 81 of this e- Tomorrow The Student's Lament T. E. of Keed Coilete. In Cirie League Forum The street car men. a while ago, an nmirweri their w aires were too low to keep them Independent. A visit to the rl : The W. M. Myers Company. boss they made, before whom their com plaint was laid with sundry threats at tendant. "Our hours are long, our pay is small; not one of us will work at all unless we get more money." This was the burden of -e song that made the boss think deep and long. The scene was far from funny. The boss gave up. and he "said "he would although he didn't think he should give added com-' pensatlon. "I'd almost choose." he said, "a strike. The war has et our profits like straw In a conflagration. Tou see. I Dave a kindly heart. I honestly should hate to part with such a crew of workers. I'll add each passenger a cent each time he wants to come or went they're but a bunch of shirkers." To raise the rate he had to fight a month or more with all his might before the high commission. They, after figuring it out. said he was right beyond a doubt, and gave him full permission. So now the poor suburbanite, who comes at dawn and goes at night. Is praying for fair weather. He says he needs some ex ercise and watches eagerly the rise and fall In price of leather. And those of us who live away from school, and take the car each day. all mourn the fluctua tion, for though made poorer by the war, we have to pay still more and more to get an education. Her One Weakness From Cartoon Magaalna She: The man who marries me will be in lock, for I have but one expensive habit." He : "And srhat Is that?" "She:, "Extravagance." War Information ' Complete Accurate Official! prepared by the Committee on Public Information. an4 to Be Obtained, for the Most Part. Fret. Tba goeersaaeat of the C sited Stat, Aat tlx people mar know tb truth Mow! aw war ana war operatioaa. la laawla rlaa o( p-Jbueattoee V Um n klaawx fame to au imimnm. Tbewa twaapliUta, saoat ef taaaa of ao JdeiabMi (uikaaa. aa uetUuawd puMase lxaa. la tbta apace from da day the ewfc1 Batter of um iapnita will aw tadieawC and the pneee ol tba lew Dot aeot free wui St watoO- t a as eeot. Dotaing aewd fee aot tot votage. ' '"ad eiUte ttoa ' I" etaieO. " ") aa ail "American Interest in Popular Gov ernment Abroad." R Protawaor E. H. Oreeaa of tha Caleerarty of llliaoM Content' A deaf htetorteal aorownt. w,th Quotation from W afiiit n. Monroe, Wet aier I'tncoia and othet pubMr rnrn, anowtns America coDtlnwot raw nitim of kef rital tnterat In '! fau-a of likwtlaal tlirooarhnut the wrW. I nvablHbee! aaaterial ,h aovarnmrnt arcbie throw aa tritir. light on tlie pulfa- of tha I ntta4 iinntK the arreat aronimiie reeotaUowi nf IMtt. To tho- iutrre-ted in hjorw-a .vrf. tl.U uempblet will ffoee an ItMCfra- tum tn allowing that thi- nation la bat Urlng true to rta dwtiny b helving U make tba urld afe for aVasorracji. It rhia wOl bo aent Itwa. alaw eUa fraa. aa laawramatMa. 4aeaoai ftaaw. M aakiagiaaa.