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THE OREGON DAILY JOURNAL, PORTLAND, SATURDAY, APRIL 27, ; 1918.
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dangerous craft,' requiring a ,. clear I in thai somewhat bleak portion of
head and steady nerves. Men who
cannot forego their toddy should be
compelled to forego their automo
biles. There is an incompatibility
between booze and gasoline which
never can be overcome.
After 20 years of former service in
the British army, Thomas McGinn,
45, who struck oil and became a Cali
fornia oil baron, has enlisted to fight
in Ihe British armies in France. At
one time he wai the drill master of
Field Marshal Haig, commander of
the British expeditionary forces in
France and Flanders, now resisting
the Hindenburg drive. McGinn is his
name, and it seems a name that is
often attached to a fighting Irishman.
PBLSSIAN SCIIEMES
F
HER CRACK HKGIMENTS
0 CHEAT has become Great Brit
In's power, of producing muni-J
lions that tiro expenditures or
ammunition in resisting the Hin
denburg drive have not exceeded the
production of British factories diy
by day. During the Stupendous' mili
tary operations the factory outpi.it
of England has practically equaled
tho daily 'expenditure. The enormous
leservea of munitions that have been
accumulated for such a contingency
have been scarcely touched during
the drive. -
The reserve supply is so colossal
that the British resistance to tlwj
drive even in. its recent intensity
could 'be carried on for the rest of
the year without compromising je
qulrtments for 1919.
Qreat Britain is building in a
aingle week more airplanes than she
made In the whole of IPii, more in
single month than sho " built in
1913, In three months, more than she
produced during the entire Tear of
191ft, and is building this year sev
eral times as many as she turned out
In 1917. These statements are from
a report made by Minister of Mu-
' ritions Churchill in the British house
j of commons.
! The report supplies facts to lean
!cr. in gloomy days. This is a war
of machinery. Men must be had,
but they are futile except when
backed up by industrial plants.
Krupp's counts more for Germany
than whole provinces of non-indus
trial .peoples. Manchester, Birming
I:am, Glasgow these are the crack
regiments in Britain's modern army
Her, German occupied districts in tho
rorth do not weaken France half so
much from loss of territory or of
men as because they rob France of
Important i coal and iron mines and
their attendant industrial production
The shipyards of Portland with
their riveting machines and clanking
leel arc part of the battlefield.
The great spruce mill at Vancouver
la an annex of No Man's Land.
The. men at their tasks are bat
talions and brigades in overalls. Wha
they do over there is highly depen
dent upon what we do over here.
The industrials of Italy, France
Britain ana America are piling up a
mighty equipment. With every blast
furnaca and trip hammer stressed
to the utmost, the allies' balance
must presently begin to tell.
If Hindenburg does not win now
his, flood of power must presently
begin' to ebb.
BOM the National City bank of
New York we have received an
outline of the German plans for
using the resources of Bussia and
Ihe Balkans which deserves serious
study. Beyond all question the kaiser
designs in the fullness of time to
make a complete economic conquest
of the whole Bitssian empire. Politi
cal conquest will follow as a matter
of course.
For this purpose his government
will use its diplomatic and military
resources to the best advantage. We
may feel certain of that from what
we have seen accomplished recently.
Unless a speedy victory of the allies
ii the west should slay the kaiser's
hand we may expect to see all Rus-
ia, including Siberia, added to his
empire by a rapid process of assimilation.
The circular from the National City
bajiksets Jorth, how far he has gone
in the Ukraine. This is the part of
Russia bordering on the Black sea.
It includes the months of all the
principal Russian rivers except the
Volga, Whictfjows Into the Caspian.
The-''nevny erected state of Uk
rainians it is called, is superficially
'independent.". In reality it is oc
cupied by German troops and Ger
many has' full economic control of
is resources, which are immense.
'fhe soil of .Ukraine produces wheat
and all 'the other grains, as well as
ihe fruits of the temperate zone. P.s
agriculture is primitive. Developed
by German1 kill and organized meth
ods, it is capable of feeding those
nnumerablc armies wilh which tho
kaiser expects to complete the con
quest of the world.
The Ukraine has also enormous
beds of iron and coal with which
Germany counts upon being able to
obtain a monopoly of the iron and
steel' industry of Europe." This would
be doubly certain if the kaiser could
manage to retain his thefts of Uie
French and Belgian coal regions.
Brhlnd the demon of German mili
tary conquest stalks everywhere ths
spectre of economic conquest. To the
Turks the kaiser has nominally as
our diversified state.-
The station is near Burns, where
the winters are known to be Arctic
There is a lack of moisture unless
irrigation can be practiced. The
growing season Is brief.4 For these
reasons fruit trees survive only with
difficulty.
The account of the experiment in
Bulletin 150 assures readers that cur
rants and gooseberries "may be
grown with some success," though a
little irrigation is essential. The Com
pass cherry thrives in spite of the
short summers and frigid winters.
The Siberian crab apple and the Sur
prise plum may be planted with good
hope of eating their fruit in due time.
"The hardiest crab apples." says the
cautious bulletin, "and a few of the
hardiest and best apples such as Yel
low Transparent and Duchess," stand
a fair chance of living and bearing
fruit. "A small home orchard might
be grown," if these precautions were
taken, the bulletin concludes.
for, use In manufacturing planes near
the battle front. Seven thousand
skilled American mechanics are build
ing airplanes in France for the allies.
There ore; many who believe this war
will be Won from the air. Hinden
burg has reaon to push his drive
with all strength and speed.
BILL TO WREST
MINE WEALTH
By Carl Smith. Washington Staff Cor
respondent of The Journal.
Washington, April 27. In recent hear
ings before the house mines and mining
committee on the administration bill J of blood and tear Is over and right is
human chain of the allies, in the hope
of discovering a structural weakness ;
but the American sector la flawless In
loyalty. In sturdtness. in sangfroid. Now
is the meaning seen of a policy that
would not admit our men to the front
line trenches till their duty was made a
commonplace reality Of the circling
hours to them, and no surprise or shock
could startle them out of the knowledge
of what to do suddenly under bursting
Bhells or bristling bayonets.
Above all else, the accession of brave,
lithe, ardent youth from America, has
brought a new, inspiring confidence to
those who all these weary years have
been holding and waiting, their eyes
turned went ward to where "the land is
bright." Now we are in it all in it
at last, and the trumpets are not to
sound the retreat till the awful business
COMMENT AND NEWS IN BRIEF
SMALL CHANGE
The raising of the Liberty loan
honor flag in Portland yesterday was
an Hem of news that was doubtless
wired all over the country by the
press associations to be printed in all
the newspapers of the United States.
After winning the honor flag in the
Liberty loan, and after enjoying the
pleasurable emotions and justifiable
pride incident thereto, why not keep
the record spotless by making Oregon
first in raising her quota of War
Stamps sales?
A TELEGRAPH STRIKE
T
HE threatened strike of the teleg
raphers is due to the refusal of
the companies to permit their
employes to unionize.
Telegraph operators receive little if
any more compensation that was paid
them 23 or 30 years ago. There are
thousands of operators whose total
advance of salary in 10 years has not
exceeded ?3 a month. The present
run of pay is $30 to $80 per month
A few receive $100 or a little more.
Telegraphing is one of the lowest
paid vocations in America. Though
rtaping a harvest of prof4s equaled
by few public utilities, the companies
have consistently maintained a policy
of beating down wages. They hav-5
been aided in Ihis by the fact that
they whipped the operators in a
great nation-wide strike in 1883 ant
!n anolhpr in 4907. Thos rlcfpnts
so discouraged the employes that the
companies have ever since held them
in complete subjection.
AH steps toward unionization have
been meUwith summary action. Men
who indiscreetly advocated organiza
tion of the employes, suddenly found
themselves discharged, a fact that
had led ihe workers to suspect that
the system is honeycombed with
spotters.
Tiie right to organize is Ihe pres-
for control of minerals. Secretary
Franklin 1C Lane of the interior de
partment made statements of unusual
interest as to some of the resources of
the far west and Alaska, which will be
of vast help to the nation if immediately
developed. The bill, which has been fa
vorably reported to the house, is mod
eled on the food control bill, to encour
age production, fix prices, conserve and
distribute the supply, and prevent spec
ulation and unfair profits.
-
The president is given power to buy
and sell the minerals needed for war
purposes and to make contracts with
producers for a term of not more than
two years. A guaranteed price may be
established for that length of time, and
duties may be placed on imports of
such minerals to maintain the price
level. The appropriation carried is $50,-
000,000, to provide the working capital
for purchase and sale of mineral prod
ucts, to be used as a revolving fund, in
the same way that the government now
handles wheat. There is also a licens
ing provision to make control more ef
fective, and sections against hoarding,
waste or wilful destruction. Necessar
ies may be requisitioned and power is
given to take over mines and smelters
if they are found idle or only partly op
In his statement dealing with some
of the less known minerals of the west
Secretary Lane said :
"I have said many times that in my
study of the resources of this coun
try it has seemed remarkable to me
that there is not a foot of land prob
ably in the United States that U not
of real value. The great men of 'the
past in congress and out of congress
scouted acquisition after acquisition of
territory, both in the northwest and in
the southwest, because they thought
that land was valueless, and yet we find
that every square mile of it contains
something when we seanrh for it, when
we apply intelligence to it, something
that is of very real value.
"Way up above the Seward peninsu
la in Alaska there is a river out of the
sides of which they are getting tin. "We
are constructing a railroad from Seward
up to Fairbanks, and beyond Fairbanks
we find tungsten. We will get anti
mony from Alaska. We have not yet
begun to get an appreciation of what
there may be there. A man who came
out through Susitna valley told me this
last year that he had Been miners who
had gone into that valley, which is just
below Mount McKinley, who held out
every promise that there is platinum in
that valley, one thing of which we are
particularly short.
"You look over the map of the United
victor over insolent might once more
The force that we must bring to bear is
not the force of guns and ships and fall
ing bombs alone. It is the force of a
nation at prayer, a nation at work, a
nation whose children are at school,
whose women are on the farm, whose
men are building something, whose peo
ple are giving with full hands and it
unified devotion all that they can give
to the sole end of winning the war.
Letters From the People
l Communication sent to Tba Journal for pub
lication in this department ahoaltl be written on
only one (title of the paper, should not exceed 300
wmU in le tilth and must be siaucd by the 'writer.
whose mail addreaa in full must accompany the
contribution. J
Even though nothing grows we've) had
the fun of planting.
A loan, it is pointed out, does not
float itself. Buy bonds.
lite decks of the Emergency Fleet
corporation, says a contemporary, are
to be Schwabbed.
After all, the man who brings home
the bacon is the man who shoots rather
than the one who shouts.
As we understand it the situation in
Ireland is this: "Well fight peace
ably, but begorra we'll never be mad
to.
Though tar and feathers are not being
worn In the beat circles, exactly, tney
are being found very effective in some
quarters.
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Colonel Roosevelt needn't worry about
going into a dry state, aays the P.-I..
because every time he does so he takes
nis puncn with htm.
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Instead of making the disloyalists kiss
the flag why not crack them in the head
and give them the lash so that they
might see stars and feel stripes.
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Doubtless a lot of the boys at the
Washington high school think a lot of
the girls are plenty sweet enough with
out seating any candy or frosted cakes.
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Only two more business days after
today to buy War Savings Stamps at
$4.15. They will cost 14.16 next month
and they 11 never be cheaper, uet busy.
now.
Rajrtajr and Bobtail
Stories From Kv cry where
A Truly Truthful Scot
OREGON SIDELIGHTS
Th. rranscs of Lane county and the
operate this year in holding a big corn Aawilr was examining at Scottish
fchow. similar to the one held in Lugene n farmer, says the Rochester Time.
last winter. ou II affirm that when this haDoened
Owin to the stress of war times and yu were going home to a meal. Let
there being such a demand upon the us be quite certain on this point, be
tirae of educators, the Bums Times- cause it is a very important one. Be
Herald says. It has been decided to call good enough to tell me. sir. with as
off t.h-vSp-Ung conleat ln "- , little prevarication as possible, what
county this year. meal it wa vo,. w.r. iVX. t,-
Of the new Cummlngs hill grade, the ..v.. .. . . . ...
Fossil Journal says: "Freight team. ' ' e L . "W W" me"
are able to haul twice the load they . " said the Scotsman.
used to pun over tne oia rougn. sieep . -yes. sir; I should like to know." re-i-hn,iwhip"inn
e Vnd'lns1 , g the counsel, sternly and Impres
fn his mouth, while the horses wag their 6.e'j "u,e """ l th truth."
tails and nod their heads in merry Well, then, it was Just oatmeal."
n county. fhe'A.tany mocrat ' ' II!
says, will probably have no shortage of A Philadelphia lad of grit and gump
teachers for next year1, although the tion saw the sign ' Boy Wanted" in the
larger portion of them'wtll be women, window of a store, says the liiUadelphta
as men instructors are- getting Ledger. He went into the store, grabbed
Ranks depleted last year by men taking th . nobodv was lookinr and
up war activities have been largely "1" , "J , npy " looking ana
who have oua itied n.rcnea into tne
' merchant with it.
filled by women
since then. m
"Enlistments. draft or occupation !
elsewhere draw men out of Woodburn
every week." says the Independent, "yet
the city continues to hold Its own much ;
better than would be expected. Busi
ness continues good and the paved .
streets, bright lights and always, some- I
thing going on, especially Saturday
nights, draw a large number from the j
country."
sanctum of the
The Shipworker's Meed
Portland, April 26. To the Editor of
The Journal A small weekly paper
published in Portland entitled "Democ
racy," has just come to my notice. I
do not in any way wish to condemn
said paper, but there is a paragraph
therein which is anything but demo
cratic, as it hit's the mothers who hav
sons working in the shipyards. It runs
thus :
"Many women are not Spartans. They
are willing to see other women's sons
go into the trenches, while their own
work in a shipyard at (3 to pi per
day."
Now has the party who writes for
"Democracy" any idea of the toilers
who are doing their part fffr Uncle
Sam, working in the shipyards, many
who get up at 5 a. m. and have a
two hours' trip on the cars to their
work, and never complain, having to
also contend with many obstacles and
danger all the time? And I have heard
them called slackers by some. Let the
party who wrote such an ironical state
ment go down to the shipyards, when
the honest toilers leave, and perhaps
he will compare his soft white hands
with theirs, and a qualm of conscience
may strike him, never to envy the well
earned wages which they receive. And
they all buy Liberty bonds. And also
let him watch the splendid ships being
launched, evidence that these same men
are behind the men across the seas.
This is written by a shipbuilder's pa
triotic mother.
MRS. G. MAX METER.
THE PEOPLE MUST KNOW
cnt dr.mand of the operators. Except
signed the Caucasus region with its! by organization there is no other
nralculable riches in oil, coal and
other minerals. But Turkey is noth
ing more than a province of Germany.
It never can throw off the kaiser's
yoke unless the western allies win
the war. The Mittel-Europa indus
trial and military conspiracy advances
rapidly toward consummation. The
Russian slump gave it its most potent
impetus.
Mrs. M. Frater writes interestingly
to The Journal on the uses of cats
in the country. They devour field racy, the companies deny to men the
course by .which they can ever hope
to secure living wages. Thirty-five
years of low wages while the cost
of living has been almost constantly
mounting, is the highly tangible fact
upoji which they have reached this
conclusion.
The operators are not even asking
for recognition of their proposed
union. The present demand is solely
on their right to organize. The fact
that in the twentieth century with
America in a great war for democ-
Lxploitation and Trace
Ashland, Or.. April 19. To the Editor
of The Journal Tho editorial in Tho
Journal of April 16, entitled "On With
the League," was timely and opportune,
and afforded food for thought. Jt
should be read by everyone. All who
have investigated the cause of war
States and you will find manganese in know JJiat the desire for and the en-
the east and in the west. John D. Ryan forcing of exploitation is the cause,
was in my office the other day. and he Exploitation is "strictly selfish utlliza-
told me he waB putting in a plant de- tiou." "Parasitism" is its synonym.
eloping 150,000 horsepower for his "Reaping where, you have not sown, or
mines in Butte, that he had built with taking up that which you have not laid
the prospect of being able to supply the down," explains its meaning quite
power to the mines but which he had clearly.
not been able to use for- that purpose. Secular governments are political be
but now was converting into a plant by caUse said governments use their police
which he would reduce the low-grade powers to enforce exploitation and pro
manganese that comes out of the ore tect tne exploiter. The greatest source
m tne wutie mines, not as a special oe- f AKrioittlon is In trad harrior r..
posit, but as an incident to the mining,
and reducing that he will be able to send
It into the steel plant ; and he said he
found that the amount he was able to
produce would probably save the use of
five ships coming from Brazil to the
United States.
"Out In my western country, in South
ern Oregon and in Northern California,
mice which live on bumble bee larvae
end honey. Hence country cats en
courage the multiplication of bumble
bees and thus indirectly increase the
crop of clover which the bees
pollenize.
BRAINS FOR PLANL: BUILDING
T
s
The Kaiser's "Got!" forgot to at
tend to ono little circumstance con-
inected With the weather near Ypres.
Ilia nfftfirn a nrwin. .
tohl friend Wilhelm. The winds in
J that quarter blow almost continu
ously rrom tne west. Consequently
Prussian gas is blown back into Prus
sian noses while British gas is car
ried swiftly to the same destination.
Thus the kaiser's troops get i double
dose. He should take this matter up
with his "Gott" as soon as he has
disposed of more .important items of
business.
BOOZE AND GASOLINE
LOCAL commer.t is generally in ap
proval of the verdict convicting
Ed D. Brune of manslaughter.
His offense was that he ran down
and mortally, injured Miss Alderson
about a month ago with his auto
mobile. The courts are congratulated
upon nis prompt conviction. There
was apparently none of that dilly
dallying In his case which sometimes
brings our criminal prdcedure into
contempt.
The testimony showed that Brune
was iu lirnjof when he committed his
crime.;- That, was an aggravation of
it.. The very, act of driving an auto
mobile by a drunken man should
constitute a criminal offense, no mat
ler whether he actually injures any
body or not. If he does not kill his
victim today he will tomorrow. The
tooner lie" Is shut up the "safer for
well-behaved people.
AutQrnobile driving in the city ,ls a
HE American public cares but lit
tle about the minor details of
the reorganization of our air
craft building force. What con
cerns it is the major fact that t
man like John D. Ryan has been
put in charge of the work. The more
nearly absolute Mr. Ryan's power is
made the better the American peopla
will be pleased. The purpose in th':
appointment is to secure achieve
ment, speedy and vast. In private
affairs, the appointee has displayed
marvelous powers. It is of value for
men of his calibre to be enlisted in
the government service.
It has often been said by pessi
misls that such men would work
only for 'themselves. Unless they
could pile million upon million in the
mad game- of money-making, we
were told, they would sulk in their
tents. The country might go to the
dogs for all they cared.
Mr. Ryan's acceptance of Ihe avia
tion work is the answer to this pessi
mism. Men of real ability have al
ways been more eager to serve than
to accumulate. They have always
preferred fame to money. Give them
the opportunity and they rise to it
Mr. Ryan has his opportunity. He
has the cause and the chance t?
serve. He comes Into air production
work at the moment when the ground
Is well cleared and the forces and or
ganization well in motion.
With his experience ln big achiev
ing in private life, there is no chance
for him to fail In his new public
undertaking.
right which all modern thought con
cedes as inalienable to Americans is
llustration of the feudal ideas and
medieval methods in the policy of
the companies.
A strike that would tie up the
wires would almost inevitably result
in the government taking control of
the lines. That is the end, in their
greed for piling up gilded and glit
tering millions, to which the tele
graph barons are driving the country.
HURRY THE POSTOFTICE
U
NDER the contract, the new Port
land postoffice building was to
have been completed and ready
for occupancy on the seventh
day of the coming June. The award
to the bidder was made August 7
1316, with the provision that the
structure was to be finished within
22 months.
There has been some delay in se
curing materials with consequen
postponement of the day of final
completion. The specified flooring
is from particular fir material which
is being heavily used in airplane con
struction. and a sufficient supply has
been difficult to secure.
It is important that the contractor
should make the postponement as
short as possible. The building is
badly needed.
Besides, the rent roll in which gov
eminent activities are tenanted.
mounting. It is now more than 140,
000 a year. The new postoffice build
Ing will have ample floor space for
housing all these activities.
In the matter of rentals alone, every
day of, delay in completing the post
office building means a cost to the
government of considerably over 8100.
By hurrying the work the con
tractor can save the government
snug sum for Liberty bonds and War
Stamps.
From tli Independent
TMs war Is a crisis in the history of
the human mind. It is a war for Jus
tice, democracy, humanity and the con
trol of the baser passions by Intelligence.
Democracy rests upon popular intelli
gence and knowledge. An autocracy
rests upon unquestioning faith and obe
dience to the imperial command. Ulti
mately the safety of our American po
litical system and of all tke ideals for
which America. Great Britain, France
and Italy are fighting is resolvable, into
factors of knowledge and understand
ing. The people the whole people, the
farmers, the workingmen, no lees than
the business and professional men
must know all the more important facta
about this war. Above all. the school
children and the young peopla must
know about it.
They awaken at once to the true story
of the American Revolution. They have
read or been told, as their teachers and
their text-books have presented the mat
ter, that the first great war in which
this nation was born and baptized was
purported by liberal-minded Knglinli
men like Burke and Kox and Pitt, hut
they have not quite grasped the fact
that in reality it wa not a conflict be
tween Knglishmen living in these colo
nies and real Knjrllshmen living in Great
Britain, but was rather between real
Knglishmen on both sides of the Atlan
tic and Germans. Jt was a war against
the stupidities and brutalities of a
coarse and ignorant Gorman king of
Kngland who could not speak the Eng
lish language : who, with the support of
a selfish privileged class of Tories, not
unlike tho Junker gang of Prussia, was
Teutonizing British politics. And when
that precious crowd was unable to ob
tain enough KnErlish soldiers to put down
the American Revolution It resorted to
hired Hessians, who were sent over here
to commit atrocities, which they did in
fact commit, of the same sort that their
kindred have been committing in France
and Belgium.
Not less ken is the interest which the
boys and girls show ln the true story of
the Franco-Prussian war. which for
more than a generation the world be
lieved was unrighteously begun by the
French emperor, Louis Napoleon, and
tween nations, existing in the form of
tariffs. When trade flows between na
tions as freely as between our several
states, and when politics is
the French army. The truth became
known when Prince Bljmarck. in a
newspaper interview, later confirmed
and expanded in his memoirs, confessed
that he planned and began that war by
Ingenious mfsrepresentaMon and lying,
including the falsification of a telegram
relating to the Prussian attempt to put
Prince Leopold of the Hohenrollern
roya! family upon the throne of Spain.
Keenest of all Is the Interest shown
in the story of the Pru.sian plan to
create a Mittel-Europa. extending from
Hamburg to the Persian gulf, and the
endless acta of aarsrression. perfidy and
arrogance with which preparations for j
its realization were carried on from
1893 to 1914; and in the history of Ger
many's insolent behavior toward the
United States, from the things that hap
pened at Manila ln 189R. when Admiral
von Goets told Commodore Dewey that
in about 15 years Germany would start
a great .war to take Parl., crush Kng
land. take New York and Washington
and a billion dollars from the United
States, and dispose In her own way of
South America and the Monroe doctrine,
down to the offer made by the German
government, after the war bepan, to
hand over to Mexico a number of our
Southern states In exchange for Mexi
can support of Germany.
These are -only a few of the farts
which" every American should
about, and which never fail to produce
their effect when presented In a straight
forward, quiet way to audiences of any
description, young or old.
... '
The great task that lie. before us to- j
day is to destroy, root and branch, the
whole system of Ideas, purposes and
ways and means whkh constitute Ger
man militarism and German kultur. It
will not be enough to defeat tlermany.
The monstrous organization of brutali
ties and falsehood.! which has ruined
Germany and desolated the world must,
to use President Wilson's phrase, be laid
in the dust. A long and costly strug
gle may be before us. and It is lmtera
tlve that the whole people should know
what it means, why we are committed
to it, and why, as a civilized and Chris
tian people, we must see it through to
tha end.
"Here, boy I" barked the captain Of
industry. "What did you want to take
that sign out of the window forT
"Because I'm the boy t" came the
prompt answer.
He got the Job.
! What It.d You?
I Whn th wr hai bven on.
! When our duty a dene.
When our tailor come tailing tha foam.
When our men of the air
I Are no more over there.
And th nation it wrlromint theia horn.
They jrill come to jour door. '
The young inner of war
Titer will look you oier and through.
And in word or in thought
They will say, like at not :
"Well, we did quite a lot -What
did your-
When the yetrt hire gone by.
And the page are dry
Thtt the tale of the struggle rerord.
With di-mocraey ure.
When we're Imng aecur
ln the ttreiigtti ol our tout and our word
In 'that glonou time
To your knee then may rlitnh
A tWy. or a girl, or the two.
And witl tay, "Home were brave
On tli land and the wae:
Some their c nothing gate
Wlial d! )ou!"
Or it may be at night
You will til by the Dalit
Of a fir in a home that la free;
Vnu will tit all alone
NVatb a roof of your own
In torn year of the fwtur to be.
And a vote down in?Kle
Will eay, "Home of them died.
Or they suffered, their duty to do;
And the one who rould not
';ite their all, gate a M -tjave
their money. Sty, whtt.
What did youJ"
Hextliind. Aftil 10 D. U.
Uncle Jeff Snow Says:
The liown and Out club in full of
fellerir that has nailed a horaeahoe over
the door, hunted up a rabbit's foot killed
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know I ,..,, . .... .. ,.,,j
I ICIll u. r Tl f.l.r-11 l rill J m WI1IKI
man: but who man t advertise.
Nothing the Matter
With Portland
By H. S. Harcourt
HOW TO BE HEALTHY
Copyrtgbt, 11T.
by J. KUy
politico-trade wars and that is the only
kind of wars we have will be no more.
With trade restrictions non-existent.
with an international court with powers
similar to the supreme court of the
A CLEAN WOUND Soldiers are re
milrpd to bathe freouentlv. because, for
cut out, J one reason, cleanliness is important in
and through the lower reaches of the Unjted States, and with organic laws
San Joaquin, they have chrome. Mr.
Wilsie, who has developed some of the
small chrome deposits in south Call
fornia, pockets of ore like those deposits
of mercury that are found, says there
is no question that there are large de
posits in Northern California and in
south Oregon, but they are removed
from our railroads.
"There was a man in to- see me a
little time ago who was building a rail
road primarily for the purpose of reach- is recognized by the courts, it is
ing the large timber belt on the western I to talk about permanent peace,
such that the courts upon their inquiry
into said law would not discern the
legal right of anyone to exploit or live
off another, it would not need a very
large force to enforce peace. Doubtless
peace would "flow like a river." Hav
ing industrialism and freedom of trade
instead of politics and exploitation, per
manent peace would be assured. As
long as the divine or legal right of the
king or the legal right of the exploiter
idle
case they become wounded. It may
mean to a man. all the difference be
tween life and death to be clean when a
bullet hits him. In the Japanese army
the rigid orders regarding cleanliness
were largely responsible for the fact
that the number of deaths from dis
ease atxrwfrom Infection in wounds was
the lowest, at the time of the Russo
Japanese war, that had ever been ex
perienced by any army in active cam-
It Is not so liA for Portland, Is it.
wh"n Its fac-torW-s are found taking
business away from Chicago? When
a Portland industry is Kwn to bej mak
ing things for an Illinois Industry one
begins to get an idea that Portland Is
of more than considerable Importance.
The Western Tool & Die works, of
which Andy fritz is the principal
owner, la located at 109 Third afreet
north, near Gllaan. IP is running day
and night on a contract railing for
1.300,000 stampings for a factory at
Waukegan, 111. These conalut of piece
of metal stamped out of a solid body
by dies set In power presses. The bars
or sheets from which the stampings
are made are received at the die works
as they leave the rolling mills, and are
here fashioned into the shapes required
ln the Illinois factory, with holes
punched In them so that tlity are ready
material that will surgically sterilize the
region, he would better not do so. but
simply place a piece of gauze over it to
keep out further dirt until he can get to
a doctor. If the man attempts to wash
the wound he Is liable to wash material for bolting. All this is accomplished tn
one operation of tha machine, and as
fast as one could tap a table with his
finger the pieces drop into a box and
are ready for Immediate! us. The
contract was awarded the Wwwtern Tool
tt Die works In direct competition with
into it and thus make surgically dirty a
wouna mat waa all right before. Prac
tically all first aid packages used by in
dustrial workers contain nothing but
material for covering the wound to pro-
side of Oregon, and he showed me the
report of a mine in which there is very
rich chromite ; but ln order to have that
chromite, ln order to get that, he would
have to extend his railroad. He wanted
tc get that railroad financed, but, of
caurse, in these times it is Impossible
for men of business to carry out their
obligations in the way of financing in
D. M. B ROWER.
"Oregon First"
Oregon City, Or., April 25. To the
Editor of The Journal Regarding an
article under the caption . "Portland
Leads the World ln Giving for Relief
of Armenians,'-' will you please inform
- r h . ttl'J me o' some of the things that Oregon
2?niJi?.;r teen "first" In. in this war, i. e..
HJ I T3 X1C VTAO IWIilllSj 1 suaiu ii gMUllia, IVll
to see if the government could not help
hjm so as to extend his road a few miles
and be able to tap that rich deposit of
chromite.
what she has led the United States In?
A READER.
fThe tihrate "Oregon First," cam into tiie
at the time of preparation for the Panama-I'a-
eifie International exposition in 1015, when Ore
gon was first to begin erection of a state build
ing and first to send an excursion of prominent
eitieena to San Francisco. Oregon was first to
reach its quota in initial voluntary enlistment
of men for military service in connection with
the present war; first in reaching her quota in
tha third Liberty loan, and took first rank in
tha first and second Liberty loans without par
ticular stress bein laid noon the imnnrtanr at
The casualty lists that are coming ln, those times of reaching and exceeding aunta
bringing grief and pride to many Ameri- nmed Jhfe and other states; fim in Red
can homes, contain the name, of certain TT JSrT;
take Iir-t rank In America and probably in the
world in per canita snrMrrintfnn fnr Arm;.,.
relief: first in timo of completing a steel ship,
al.o a wooden tliip. Oregon and Washington di-
nue nonors m tne coniriouiion ol tpruce for'
airplane construction.
The American Soldiers'
Fighting Edge
From the Philadelphia Ledger
tect it front outside infection.
.mere is a superstition among some Chlnm and other nitres, hut waa In
workmen that a wad of chewed tobacco '' finenr-1 hv th contractor's Ititlmata
paign. The man ln Industry should keep will sterilize an injury, and surgeons knowledge of the fine quality of work
clean for the same purpose. A railway J often have men come to them with a turned out hrre bv Mr. Kritz. Tech-
surgeon remarks that if a man comes to
him with a skin showing evidence of oc
casional baths and with clean under
clothes, and If the dirt in the wound is
from the outdoors, where sunshine had
irot to it. and not from a dirty, scaly
hide, he has observed that the patient
recovers more rapidly.
When a man is injured one of the first
things people will tell him to do is to
wash the injured surface. Unless ha
has gasoline at hand or iodine or some
1 I . 1 . ....
","5CU w"" "cn a waa neia on ; nVcally speaklnr. the stampings sra
by the first aid gauze. In one such in- ; "pressed steel fittings." such as Mf.
stance a surgeon reminded the man of j jyhz produces for scores of Iron, steel
wio uiui ne mignt nave caught
syphilis by using a wad chewed by an
other man, and the patient was no
frightened that he fainted. Ever there
after he preached the gospel of sane
surgical dressings to wounded fellow employes.
Next Monday : Measles Mistaken for
Colds.
is
who are not enrolled as fighters. There
are cooks and orderlies and mess ser
geants, there are buglers and mechanics.
there are railway engineers engaged in
maintaining those arterial lines of com
munication whereby the lifeblood pours
into our army from the pulsing heart
of America. These men, when the word
came and the Hun turned his inferno on
their heads, threw down their bugles,
pans, picks and shovels, adjusted their
gas masks, seized their rifles and fought
like demons. The enemy wear3 the
scars and suppresses, if he can, the
story.
At Toul there came a Buddeo acid test
of our ability, and from the ordeal our
m an .mFit trhimnhant Thpv n rn 1 1 i f IaH
ihcmivu imprvii knew thn wnnM I country have torn me tnat women are
They stood firm ; they met and repelled i no ngcr demanding foot pinching shoes.aj
the shock; they made the enemy rue the uul fhu-
rlesnernt onset. 1 came.
They went singing into the second and
PERSONAL MENTION
Women Wearing Largrr Shoos
Has the war been the cause of women
wearing larger shoes? Thomas Wal
lace, shoe salesman of Chicago, reen
tered at the Benson, says It has. "This
is getting to liwome a great common
sense age," said Mr. Wallace. "Hun
dreds of shoe clerks throughout the
greater battle of the Somme, and their
morale-in their baptism by fire has re
mained unshaken. The chancesfor which
they always longed has come to them.
. Quake Hit Auto Parly
According to news received here.- Mr.
land Mrs. A. P. Smith and Mrs. XV. XV.
j Graves Of Portland, who are. motor
engaged in battle are the touring in Southern California, were
ried of the rest. They would not be tossed ln their car from one side of the I rAVr"nla taving at
rwhere else for anything in the world, road to the other near Klcajon. about 15 J T Cornr ofNew T
he message fT-on tne battle line in 'nV. the Portland. - .
HARNEY ORCHARDS
r
HE Harney branch experiment sta
tion of the Oregon Agricultural
college, has accumulated some
valuable i Information upon the
prospects of gruwing honie orchards
The men
envied
any
The
France stiffens the resistance and deep
ens the determination where the camp-
fires of our patriotic vigilance are ever
nMZ k-. prefer raindrop to
sea exists no longer. We seem as close kes of Califorma.
Heggie of Bend are arrivals at the Ben
son. Ed Mensor of St. Helens Is registered
at the Perkins.
Mr. and Mrs. N. W. Shearer of Yak
ima are guests at the Multnomah.
B. W. Holmes of Toledo, Or., is a
guest at tho Oregon.
Warren Overpack of Warrenton Is an'
arrival at the Imperial.
A. J. Clark of Rainier is among the
guests at the Cornelius.
Marion Veatch of Eugene is a guest
at the Portland.
Slgna Johnson of Marshfield la stay
ing at the Perkins.
Mr. and Mrs. N. A. Woodard of Van
couver, Wash., are at the Nortonia.
Mr. and Mrs. . A. C. Jewell of San
Francisco are arrivals at the Carlton.
Mr. and Mrs. H A. Thompson of Boise
are guests at the Multnomah.
Mrs. Frank B. Hogue of Underwood,
Wash., is a guest at the Benson.
L. C. Pav'ls of Stayton, Or., is regis
tered at the Oregon.
John Edwards of Springfield. Or., Is
staying at the Impertal.
Mr. and Mrs. C. It. Hauoerg or itaimer
are guests at the Cornelius.
XV. II Talent of Astoria is an arrival
at the Portland.
J. S. Wright of Duier. Or., is staying
at the Perkins.
H. J. Schulderman of Salem is a guest
at the Multnomah.
Mrs. 3. H. Sparling of Kelso is reg
istered at the Benson.
Oeorsre Robertson of Bend Is among
j the arrivals at the Oregon.
D. H- Jesse of La Orande is a guest at
the Imperial.
Mrs. Ft MacCrow and aaugnter or
the Cotnelius.
York is registered
Olden Oregon
Patriarchal Simplicity Ruled In Social
. Customs of Early Days.
and wood working plants.
"Millions of stampings and thousands
of dies each year," describes the output
of this factory, according to Mr. Kritz.
At this time, he says, he has more than
2,000.000 stampings booked. In addition
to the greatest number of dies ever on
hla hands at one time. Of late the shop
has been working much overtime on
metal parts of airplanes for the govern
ment. 'Thank goodneas," Mr. Frits
exclaims, "we have at last completed
this tig order." Another order coming
in with almost monthly regularity, and
1 10,000 at a crack. Is for steel reinforce-
ments for railway brake shoes. This Is
heavy work, and requires tremendoua
force to punch and shape the bars.
In the administration of Justice In
the early days of Oregon a greater con
trast can not be imagined than existed
between tha marilnAt-v m.nf ...
tions under whir-h th.. ZZ."! JT. This Industry was established In 1SS
bperated. Mind, of national reputa- 1 Mr: ",mo n fXf.n
Mon enricheil mith a . . " leal designed and die maker. In 1S99. and
r2kriC,,K,t"?e"JL-l!:! 1d i found llttl. knowledge of the benefits
aw IS IVglCW, evil-
formed to primitive customs and oper- !
atea unaer pioneer habits. In eating, in
i'"'. ? cor Pering steel, which star
f ftV I nMol valley In the em)1f IIe thou
Jr l'd'?' ' P,ner n"- nd constantly
sleeping, and In social relations, all dis
tinctions faded away. Only when on
the bench was the Judge superior to
nis legal subordinates. Describing con
ditions
early
preacher, said :
"The kitchen was our sittlna- room.
dining room and parlor. In pure patri
archal style we ate cakes the good
housewife, Mrs. Well, baked on the
hearth. And every morning before
court opened, an aged pioneer, full of
rthe milk of human kindness, with a
Black bottle In one hand and a teacup
In the other, presented himself before
each of us and In soothing Interroga
tory tone asked. 'Won't ye have a
Httle speriur " t
last Sunday. They were uninjured. A
letter from Mrs. Grave says they are
enjoying the trip but long for a sight
of Oregon's evergreen hills and much
the hazardous
Two thousand biplanes, 1700 bomb
ing planes and 127 . heavy battle
planes," all made f rom Northwest
spruce, are now" In Prance. In addi
tion, GO per cent of Ihe great quan
tity or 8pnif;e from Oregon and
Washington has been sent over seas
to Armentleres and Stcenwerck, to
Paris and to Calais aa though we lived
across the channel. Our prayer, tin-
breathed or uttered. Is ever with our
boys, who in this crisis hold alof the
torch of liberty and have in their hands
the salvation of the' bending line that
will not break. "They shall not pass." -All
the might of Germany is brought
in a sullen rage against the links of the
t
Imperial Flies Service Flag
Tlie military service flag of the Im
perial hotel was hoisted in the lobby
Friday. It contains eight stars, repre
senting an enlistment from every de
partment of the hotel, w-lth bell boys
exceeding other employes, in the point
of number. ,
-.
Mrs. H. K. Brooks and baby and Miss
Mrs. Anna Willoughby of Baker is a
guest at the Nortonia.
Mr. and Mrs. Charles Janes of .Salem
are guests at the Carlton.
Joseph Boyakin of Corvallls is regis
tered at the Perkins.
Mrs. tt. XV. Mullins of Astoria Is stay
ing at the Oregon.
XV. P. Simmons of Clatskanle is a
guest at the Cornelius.
ii. E. Todd of Kansas City rs an ar
rival at the Washington.
Mr. and Mrs. J. J. Jones of St. Helens
are arrivals at the Washington.
W. II. Burton of Monmouth, Or., is
staying at the Washington.
accruing from his clam of work. He
discovered It tieceseary to educate
manufacturers along these lines and
his reward he has today one of the
most flourishing workshops on the Pa
cific coast. He Is an expert In tem
pering steel, which stands him In good
nds of dies en
adding more.
Tomorrow: Article No. of this se
ries: The Oregon Macaroni Manufac
turing Company.
Ar(emu Ward.. Vers LlbrUl
From tha Chriatiaa geicaea Monitor
The Cleveland Plain Deale Is repub
lishing letters contributed to It 'by
Arternus Ward between 1857 and 1169.
In one of them occurs what the humor
ist called "A Fragment" which should
go a long way toward disproving the
claim that free versification Is a recent
Invention! What could be freer than
this :
' Tncla Bitbot) h
C'Jwra wr a trao
Aim! looked round to saw what ha
cuv US see;
. Wha prrvrnt-lea
t'nclo Jin 1
I'lnra up bawida of him j
And sq watted dowa by km. i
No Dog Has Ills Meatless Day j
Worn the LnWot Trihwna.
, The latest ruling of the food admin-
Istratlon Is that mutton and lamb may
be eaten on meatless days natll April
IS. That Is, If you - are human. If
canine, you can eat or destroy It any
time you catch It' la the pasture.
War Information
Complete Accurate
Official! N
Prerrd th Committee on
Public Information, and to B
Obtained, for the Most Part. Free.
The gorerntmfnt of Um I'nkaw Htatca. that
the peopla tnaf karaw the truth tbowt the
wkar and war operation, is iseuilts a aeriaa
of puMk-aUona of tha rr hlclmt varae to
an partlorta.
These pamphlets, moat of them of eonaid
erabla rolumr, may h obtained porta tree.
In this aos from da y to war the eobiaet
matter of these fampiilets will be m4eate4.
tnd tha prirt nf the few not sent free will he
stated. Rat in any et, mrthinf need hm
tent for aoMaea. They roat the reader either
tin bare' Jfrtre aUted. or Bething at all. '
"How the War Came to America"
Contents: A brief rntmdwtion rwrlewrng
the poller of the t'nited Htatea with refer,
encw to the Uonrne fjuetrtne, freedom of the
art and International arbitration; aerelofv
ment of oar policy rariewed and explained,
from a-at. 1H. to April. lfllT; aopetv
dl ; tha president ' addreaa to the awwata,
January 2-'. Itl7: hia War Meeeace to Cow
tresa. April S. 1 SIT; hia flac Key addreaa at
Waohinctoa, Jane 14. 117. S3 pare.
( Translations: German. Polish. BotvejaiaB.
Italian, rlpaohh, Swedish. PorUstwast.
(.
That will be sent free, a bo postal tree,
ea request, by aiMrcsainc: (aaaUtat ea
Pnhiie Information, 10 Jsekaos rke.
aaiiington. It. C.