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THE OREGON SUNDAY JOURNAL, PORT LAND, SUNDAY MORNING. MAY 5, 1918.
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LKST H'K FORGET
B
Y A single vote out of a total of
800, Portland won the honor of
being selected as the scene for
. the 1918 encampment of the
"Grand Army of the Republic. That
happened at the 1917 encampment.
nerd at Boston. The date for tho
gathering in Portland is August it)
to 23.
ISO encampment has ever taken
place, in a Northwest state. In the
51 jmeetings that have been held,
the nearest points to Portland were
Los Angeles, Denver and St. Paul. As
a result, few of the -old veterans of
Ihe.; Northwest have ever had the
privilege of attending a national en
campment. They are looking forward
to ttie Portland gathering as the only
oppprtunily they are ever likely to
have to participate in a nation-wide
reunion of old soldiers.
The G. A. R. was organized at De
catur. Illinois, in 186G. At one time
it had a membership of 500.000. Its
membership roll has dwindled to
about 130.000. The average age of
the members is 74 to 75 years.
; The attendance at its encampments
has never been below 50,000. It has
reached a quarter of a million. It
is estimated that the number of vet
erans, that will attend the Portland
i c reunion, will reach 30,000 to 40,000.
Among the guests will be many nrcn
iu imiiuuai reputation.
There is peculiar fitness in having
the encampment in Oregon this war
eyear. The veterans have come down
J to us from the battlefields of the
: Civil war. They are the loyalty of
that crisis in the nation's life visual-
Ized to us in bent forms and whitened
'.locks. They symbolize the spirit and
r the devotion that held the union
Ii one and inseparable, and preserved
. It undivided to the posterity that
is profiting so much from 'their sac
t rlfices.
m , Of kind and in common with their
i ; devotion of that day, is the devotion
j of ; Oregon In these, days of similar
f travail. Oregon is the proven and
V 'acknowledged home of loyal conse-
cratlon in the struggle in which we
j ; are now engaged. Like the men and
women who are to come among us
i . at this encampment, the men and
j women of Oregon are four square
in loyalty, 100 per cent In determina-
'Hon to win this war and man-size
in the resolution that liberty shall
not perish, from the earth.
! ; Nothing could be more appropri
ate than that the spirit and purpose
of tha ..veterans of yesterday and
the spirit and purpose or the men
arid women of Oregon today, should
be touched together in a delightful
.unison' and be blended and bound
together In a message of harmony
and hope to America and to the
bleeding peqples over there.
No time could be more appropri
ate than is this war time for these
remnants of an army that was, to
hold their reunion. The government's
) sanctionjs expressed in the one cent
f a mile fare over . the -railroads and
$ a Godspeed to . the veterans from
' Director General McAdoct
"! In the parade of the former fighters
'who' now strike palms with those
t other veterans whom they once op
' posed, there will be a scene to link
v that other war with thei tragedy m
i ; Europe, and to start afresh the fires
i of loyalty that burn 5o brightly and
so hopefully in this land Of the
' boundless West.
Portland is to fee asked to support
I 'this gathering by contributions for
necessary .expenditures, if, with full
measure, we honor those who fought
1 for us before, it wilt be pledge to
those Who figftt for USl nnw that
America will never be foriretfni or
jungratcful.
u In its great moral example of iw-
.., I . .. 1
4, .any exprpseq in me sacrifices of
men, we national G. A. R. encamp--ment
fo be held in Portland is far
above and beyond mercenary consid-
erations. The gatherinra Of VPfpii-
ans should not; be nientiioned in the
; same breath with dollars. Their lives,
i their, work and their devotion lift
; their annual reunions far away from
i contemplation of profits and cash
Wglsters. - But there remains - the
consideration that no less than $300,
000 is the estimated amount that tha
veterans will leave in Portland dur
ing the 'week of their national encampment.
ITS MIGHTY MEANING
A"
REMARKABLE story was printed
In . The Journal yesterday. It 's
a simple story on its face, but
a mighty story in its mcanipp.
In a few brief paragraphs, it wis
6lated that the railway vJiuslment
board, headed by Secretary Lane, has
recommended a , wage increase for
the employes of American railroads.
The increase will give the eitipi.s,
it is estimated, an additional ?2o0,0tfi.-
000 a year.
It is not the figures, but n. man
ner of determining the increase that
makes the incident an event. Aa im-
partial committee delved into Ihe
facts, conditions and relations of the
service for many laborious we-eks.
The members of the comm'i'ec had
no particular interest In the employ
ers, no particular interest in ihe em
ployes. , Uninfluenced, impartial and
open minded, they studied the situa
tion, reached a conclusion and made
recommendations.
Who can question . their findirgs?
In what other way could mere hu
mans approximate Justice? Amid
frail and mortal men, and by frail
end mortal men. what other process
could more nearly lead to accuracy
of conclusion? N
The action was by public author
ity. 4The proceeding was on a com
mon sense principle. ,The process was
sternly and grimly practical, fully
and completely rational.
There were no preliminary bouts
between the parties to the wage dls
pute. There were no threats, no ex
pectations of interruptions of trans
port.ition, no menace of lockouts or
strikes. The whole process was one
of peace, order, sobriety and quiet
purpose.
Is itjiot the beginning of a new
order? Is a new and saner epoch
not at hand? Arc not these indus
trial clashes and wars between cap!
tai and workers hereafter to be
abandoned for a sane and practical
system of adjustment?
Amid the travail of war, men's
thought as to other men Is being
mellowed. The magnate is no, longer
in the self sufficient belief that he
can isolate himself and be a world
of his own. He must rely' on some
other men to-help fight. These mod
est and humble men of whom, he
thought little, he highly regaids.novv
as necessary parts o the great force
needed to beat junkerdom. There is
comradeship now because of the com
mon .peril.
Accordingly, a public wage adjust
ment board functions. It sifts and
delves and concludes. The precedent
will beootnfe a practice. The methods
in economic life in war tune will be
come a fixed system in "peace time.
Thalia why tbjf story about rail
way wage increases is a story with a
mighty meaning.
A pretty little incident appears In
today's Journal in the brief letter of
the sergeants on the west front in
France who read 'n The Journal the
verses "From Dad" written by R. P.
Campbell of Ashland. The acknowl
edgement of the poem and its' senti
ment from the boys over there is
evidence of the numerous messages
and reminders that The Journal car
ries to its many readers somewhere
In France.
BEHOLD THE DIFFERENCE
H
AVE you ever thought seriously
about wlvat you pay for elec
tric light and power?
Do you know of any reason
why they should cost more in Amer
ica than in Canada? They do, though,
end, what Is more, in America, many
companies, like the Portland Railway,
Light A Power company, are.cl'amor
ingfor even higher rates.
ke the province of Ontario, Can
ada.. Though both cities get their
power at Niagara, the rates at To
ronto, Canada, are less than half as
much as at Buffalo. N. Y. At Buf
falo, the transmission is only 25 miles.
against 85 miles at Toronto. The
comparison is with Buffalo rates
after they had been reduced 23 per
cent by the New York public service
commission. These facts are frfri a
statement by Sir Adam Beck, head of
the hydfo-eleetrio power commission
of th province of Ontario, set forth
In a news story on this page from
The Jour n'a l's Washington corre
spondent. ' ;
There are even more Important
facts in the story. Power is trans
mitted 250 miles to a Canadian town
of only 25,000 inhabitants Just across
the river from Detroit, and sold at
40 per cent less than the American
made rates in Detroit. More to the
point, in spite of the far lower Cana
dian rates, the Canadian power pro
ject. is piling up revenues.
The rates are cut in Canada tn
avoid piling up undue profits. If the
rates had not been reduced, the reve
nues would have so accumulated that
the entire debt of the Ontario prov
ince would have been discharged in
10 years.
A saving of $2,000,000 in 1916, as
compared with 1912, has been made
to the 112,000 domestic consumers in
the province by reductions of rates.
Do you ask why American rates
aw tso mucrr mgner? And whv
American companies, as in the case
with the hydro-electric driven street
cart system In Portland for instance.
are clamoring for higher rates?
The Canadian commission did :not
add $5,000,000 of bonded debt to its
interestvbearing obligations in a sin
gle night, as the Portland Railway,
Light & Power company did.
The Canadian system is run for ser
vice, not for. profits.
The week saw the annual gather
ing at Champoeg, the renewal of
historic associations and the dedica
tion of the Pioneer memorial build
ing provided as a monument to
the ' long ago meeting which car
ried such a weighty decision to the
Oregon country. It is 75 years
since 52 settlerT cast the vote
that made Oregon American do
main. The hardy spirits that have
gone,' the bovfred forms of others of
snowy locks are part of the span of
years through which Oregon annals
have been in the writing. In the
valleys and prairies over which they
roamed, a militant and onward race
is carrying forward the great work
they so well began in rearing a
stable commonwealth.
NOTHING, NOTHING
w.
THING takes the courage out of
a man like politics. The moment
a man makes up his mind to run
for office he and his friends be
come wilted leaves. A pigmy's straw
can pierce them. A summer zephyr
sets them all a-quiver. It would be i
an interesting exercise for ; the stu-!
dents at Reed college or some other
place of scientific study to analyze
the qualifications for an ideal can
didate. .
The first thing he must do is to
get rid of all his opinions pn every
conceivable subject. So much is cer
tain , without analysis. The reason
for it is clear. Each opinion that th
candidate has necessarily clashes
with somebody else's opinion on the
same subject, and pop goes a vote,
like the Scotchman's "saxpence."
Sandy was telling his friends in the
"Hielands" his adventures in London.
"I hadn't been there half a day," he
complained, "when pop went sax
pence." London is a terribly extrava
gant town. In the same way the
candidate loses- votes if he indulges
in the luxury of opinions.
So, if he is awake to his interests,
he shucks off his religion, forgets
his views on prohibition and the
League of Nations for Permanent
Peace, silences his lifelong notions
about the value of Latin in school
and shuns the tariff.
Intellectually the candidate makes
himself a wan spectre through which
every light pan shine and every
breeze can blow. Thus he becomes
all things to all men and votes are
supposed to stick to him like burrs
to a starving calf. Like an empty
bottle, nobody can accuse him of
holding anything objectionable. Like
an aeolian harp, he responds melo
diously to every wind that blows.
Like a chameleon he takes the hue
of everything near him. The candi
dates favorite hymn is "Oh, to Be
Nothing, Nothing," and most of them
live up to that noble aspiration.
The candidates' "slogans" often af
ford charming examples of emptiness,
preconcerted and deliberately com
mitted. The purpose in choosing
them is to say the least possible in
the most seductive language. One
slogan conspicuously visible in this
campaign engages the attention as a
jewel of nothingness. The candidate
who Invented it should one day be
president if he keeps on as he has
begun. His triumph runs thus, "Ef
ficiency Through Harmony." You
can read it on every billboard. It
grins vacuously in every window. If
its perpetrator can keep on saying
nothing so sonorously and elegantly
for 40 years more we shall expect to
see him occupying the White House,
if not as president, at least as the
president's footman.
"Efficiency" in what? "Efficiency
for what? There is no answer. "Effi
ciency shines for this candidate as a
remote star in the depths of space,
utterly without relation to hman
things. He regards "efficiency" as a
sort of flaming seraph, securely
lodged in the New Jerusalem, ever
more evoking "harmony" from his
golden harp.
The candidate who has achieved
the ideal of being "nothing, nothing,'
nas made himself "available" in the
eyes of the professional politicians.
So long as he uses his brain at all.
so long as he bas the faintest shadow
of. a mind of his own, he remains
to that degree "unavailable." .It is
"the broken and empty vessel" that
they look upon as the best, vote
catcher. All this shows what hope
less romanticists the "practical" poll
ticians are. They take fiction for
fact. They taje shadows for realities
They take for their guidance rules
which never work In practice, or
hardly ever.
It is true that the people will elect
specters and shadows to office when
they think it does not matter. Good
natured Tom and Easy Going Bill
slip In at "yellow dog" elections. The
voters . throw them the offices as
they throw bones to the dog. What
difference does It make? And it must
be confessed that there was much in
our old "orthodox" theory of gov
ernment to encourage this shift-
lessness.
The voters were taught that their
government rnmst not do this and it
must not. do that. It must keep its
hands off everything useful or serv
iceable. It could levy taxes and
waste them, but when It came to pro
tecting the people from pirates, or
giving them serviceable highways, or
providing any ot the thousand public
utilities which are essential to life
and prosperity in the modern world,
the government must abstain. All
that sort of thing was "contrary to
economic law." I
So - the people - reve'rently bowed
their heads to economio law and al-l
lowed their government to : remain
-nothing, nothing," like the poli
ticians that fattened on It, wind
bags feeding on wind. The war has
forced & new theory of government's
duties apon the free nations. They
have learned that their governments
ought to do" whatever the peoplo
want done. i
vanaaa, cav ute apeciai water power
And hereafter we shall see fewer , committee aa eye opener on what pub
yellow rioir" elwtinria where the i he ownership of water powers can do.
ttannia 1K. .n !,,..
people grin over the shindy between
spectral cancuaates " ana asK -vvnai
difference does it make?" It is KOing
to make a great deal of difference .
now that the government is really
taking hold of its functions.
aa k . ,
'"l ;
tions when the people discarded the
yellow dor politicians and selected 1
the real man if thav roiild find him
ine reai man u may couia una mm.
The great and lasting political sue- :
cesses in the United States have been
mn ku :! ..-fh
, . 1Z i
au ii uu ajxip ami iougm ior mem.
We have. some such men in public
lifA InHav .Inhncnn nt rn1 ifni.nl a la
. ., . . . . . , I
one of them. Borah of Idaho is an-
Other. They do not fch'ant "Oh, to I
Jje nothing, nothing." They ask the
people's votes because they are some- j
ining, something. Roosevelt never
has shaded his opinions to win pop
ularity and, next to the president, he
is unquestionably the most popular
man in the United States today. The
colonel pokes his views defiantly,
belligerently, in the face of the pub
lic and the public like him for it.
At least part of the public likes him
and the other part feels obliged to
respect him, even when it laughs at
him.
The people may throw their votes
contemptuously at Easy-Going Jack
when they think it makes no differ
ence, but they love a fighter and will
tie to him until death. We have
plenty of examples of this in Ore
gon politics. Governor Pennoyer
,. . . ... . ,
climbed high because he signified
something. .Senators Chamberlain and
Lane climbed higher still for the
same reason Governor West has
grappled the people of Oregon "to
his soul with hoops of steel," not be
cause he has evaded and double-dealt
with issues but because he has faced
ihetn squarely.
But the best exemplar we have of
courage and honest thinking in pub- j
lie life is the president. He has and which that company turned over the
holds a whole big brainfull of opin- I Proceeds will retire the entire debt lh-
r-i- i . . . . , curred in buying It within 25 years.
ions. This is enough to set him a j Sir Adam that ne wai not
thousand years journey above the ! appearing to advocate a policy of pub
herd of nolitical nothings. But he i lie ownership In this country, because.
. i y, j k k..
not only has and holds opinions but,
wonaer oi wonaers, ne aares to i
change them when they do not !
rt.,or. ,itr. ih faM '
" "
He throws into the discard both
the, politicians' 6acred mottoes, first
you must be nothing, nothing, and, :
second, you must ba consistent. As
long as Mr. Wilson is consistent wim i
truth and fact he does not worry
over consistency with yesterday.
Tomorrow is Thrift Stamp day. It
is to be a red letter day in the sale
of stamps. Every state in the
union is a competitor m mis inten- ,
sive drive. Can you not help make
Qregon the flag state in the race for
first placet Aren't you in favor of
backing up the American soldier and
sailor boys?
KING CHINOOK
A'
FTER but a few minutes out
with his boat and troll the other
day a fisherman caugjit a 30-
pound chinook salmon a few
yards above the Madison street bridge.
Portlanders enjoy a privilege not
dunlieated In anv othr r-itv nf th'a
aupucaiea m any oiner city or tn s
country. The finest of all game( fish
and the finest Of all food fish is the
Chinook salmon. During the Beason
from April to June, hundreds of
thousands of these fish, clad as in
silver mail, follow the course of the
wiii.m.ti, .h..,,-!. ,,-
Willamette through the city, power -
fully impelled by an instinct stronger
than life to t ie sunnf trravel bars
axiu sauuiuQ vcus v wic u;ci
river.
From Sellwood to the falls at Ore
gon City,, almost any person with a
spinner that flashes in the water, and
hOOk and line Strong enOUgtl tO riOld
them, may .secure his own supply of
fish, can furnish the family table and
fill the jars for next winter, and in
so doing enjoy a sport that royalty
might envy. There are, of course,
restrictions imposed by the necessity
of keeping one's head cool when a
furiously fighting 30-pounder is at the
ti" " ;nT " "" In
other end of the line, and some small
pointers to remember such as keep-
ing the sinker Just grazing the bot
tom without snagging, but it is a
sport for which anyone may be a
candidate and a Joy that only fails
of frequent mention because it is so
familiar
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wuen uuc rises ycw.o u,
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IOHOWS II1C W1UU1U uifturittj uiwugu
a country verdant with spring and i
heavy with the perfume of apple
blossoms and reaches the falls of the
Willamette Just before sunrise, then
has a few hours rowing and trolling
in surroundings of splendid gran(eur
he may get his fish or he may lose
his tackle the day will be profitably
begun. He will reach his office in
time for the day's tasks inrtune for
the work to be done and full of rest
ful Joy for life itself that no equal
amount of time spent in slumber can
give him.
Since not more than one out of ten
salmon will heed a spoon, all the
people of the city niight fish with no
fear of diminishing the supply. It is
a privilege for the many and an op
portunity to help the food conserva
tion campaign of this and the years
to come that should be guarded and
perpetuated. v--
WATER POWER
AT I LOW COST
By Carl Smith. Washington Staff Cor
respondent of Tha Journal
Wwhinrton. May 4. sir Adam Beck.
head of the hydro electric power corn-
n;1alon of ' the province of Ontario,
One striking- illustration waa the dlffer-
inc, ,n M of w at Toronto ln
Ontario, and at Buffalo, N. Y. At
Toronto it costs leas than half aa much.
oniy 25 miles to Buffalo. Prior to the
time the New York public service com
mission fixed rates in Buffalo, he added.
the Buffalo rates were 25 per cent
higher than they now are.
'
He eav notnr Illustration: Power
u rT& 250 mllem to a Canadian town
of only 25,000 people, across the river
from Detroit. Mich., and sold for 40 per
cent less than in Detroit. But the On
tarlo commission g-ets plenty of revenue
from the rates It charges. Sir Adam
'said, and has been continually reducing
r8lS.
If we had not reduced rates, our sur-
Dru. wouid .... we.wouid
have discharged the entire debt of the
province in 10 years." he said. "After
I Kon jcus iq nave wis inrKVB cur
on de'iivVrinT e. ec' c enlrgV
in
the world, and we have effected a re
ductlon of S2.00O.000 ln 1916, as com
pared with 1912, for the 112,000 domes
tic consumers in the province.
a a
Sir Adam explained thai, the Ontario
commission adopted the principle of
charging- a standard rate to all conaum
ers. The small consumer gets the same
rate as the large consumer ln fact.
little the best of it, as compared with
the practice in the United States of
making low ratee to large consumers.
This is considered both democratic and
Just. Domestic consumers are graduat
ed, however, on the basis of the size of
their, houses ln the payment of a month
ly service charge. For the man with a
house of less than 1000 square feet of
floor space the, service charge is 30
cents a month, while the man with a
mansion pays the maximum rate of 90
cents a month. In rates, the small
.consumer pays 2 cents a kilowatt hour
i for the first 80 kilowatt hours, 1 cent
for the next SO and one half cent be-
yond that. The largest consumer does
not get the benefit of the 1 cent rate
until his consumption reaches 90 kilo
watt hours. There are no "flat rates."
a a
Another suggestion of what public
ownershlo has accomrjlished waa eiven
! in the statement of Sir Adam that upon
the purchase of the privately owned
plant of the Ontario Power company,
with 160,000 developed horse power, the
jUCed S60,000. and under the contracts
Ihe said, "that is your business." but he
. wanted' to place Mor(S tne cornmittee
the facts which have been demonstrated
by the Ontario commission. Reduced
rates have doubled the sale of power in
wtvtr Amrniinl t lahai a nH -- a tA sroaf
industrial activity, besides yielding a
large nest egg In the form of a surplus.
Tne average aomestic ana commercial
a 4Aa 4ka avtiTiraa iBAflna Via at m t
ls s centa a kliowatt hour, serving a
population of l.&oo.ooo people,
Letters From the People
f Communication aant to Tha Journal for rsob-
lieation ia thia department ahonld be written on
only one aide of the paper, anould not exceed 300
wcrda ln length and must b aigned by the writer,
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The New Postal Law
Canby. Or.. April 30. To the Editor
of The Journal On the first page of
the Woman's Home Companion of May
is an article by Bex Beach, noted au
thor. entitled. "Will You Sanction
This?" It Is a timely word against the
new postal law for all magaslnes and
periodicals, which goes into effect
July 1. 1918.
As this Is an uniust and discriminat
ing law,, especially to western people,
it ought to be repealed and will be if
the people of the west and south get
busy at once and send in as many pro-
1 181 aramst this law to their congress-
raen or.iuwuuu,
or should send in a petition
, for repeal of such a. law. The article
by Bex Beach should be copied by the
; 't p,e "houId ,5 Vned
i Rnd do nis wt to have congress repeal
I or modify such an unjust law.
! An who rad t11" lettr nd ra
1 familiar with the new law on maga-
. elne to go lnto effect Juiy i.
i i9is, should make an effort to read the
: above mentioned article.
EVANS.
The Kaiser's Religion
Portland. May S. To the Editor of
The Journal Kindly inform me of what
VreAt, a. Vctemon
The kalaer. In hi eapadyt aa king of Pru.
ia, ia head of tha Prussian Evangelical church,
a Protestant body.
PERSONAL MENTION
Will He Get That Salmon?
Blankety-blank-blank-blank (mean
ing various harsh epithets).
That is the only way some of the. ex
ipreaslons of Wilbur Murphy of Dodge
; Clty Ia.t wno says 0n of his reasons
j for coming to Poriand was to fish for
Chinook In the Willamette, ean be pre
sented with propriety.
"Although business was primarily the
cause of my coming to Portland, I had
hoped to get a few catches of salmon.
and now i find that if I am to have
I much luck I shall have to get a seiner's
outfit- I understand the seining season
la open they are cleaning the sal
mon from the river. If I can't catch any
I am going to buy the biggest Chinook
I can find and take it name with me.
(Dodge City dallies please copy).
Seeks In -Vain for Rain
"I came '. north a few weeks ago to
get in a little good old Oregon rain
or mist, and feel like asking for my
fare money back from the railroad
company, for the little rain we have
had lately hasn't been enough to get
the Southern California dust out of tha
throat," said Walter McManus, form
erly a Portland resident, who has
lived ln Los Angeles for five years.
"That's not saying I didn't get the
refreshing feeling,' for X did. and got
it good and strong when we slid into
the SisylTous." Mr. McManus will leave
within a few days for Vancouver and
other British Columbia xltie before
returning to California.
Miss R. Gore of Vancouver, B. C, is
registered at 'the Washington.
Mrs. Fred V. Johnson of Baker is stay
ing at the Washington.
Mrs. George E. Jett of Baker Is an
arrival at the Washington.
J. B. GalDraitQ of . Uan Francisco Is
THE CRISIS
By James Russell Lowell
I1THEN a deed is done for Freedom, throufh the broad earth's icnioi crew
M Runs. a thrill of lov nronhetic trembling on from east to west,
And the slave, where'er he cowers, feels the soul within him climb
To the' awful verge of manhood, as the energy sublime
Uf a century bursts fun-blossomed on
Through the walls of hut "and palace shoot the instantaneous throe,
When the travail of the ajes wrings earth's systems to ana iro;
At the birth of each new era, with a recognizing start.
Nation wildly looks at nation, standing with mute Hps apan.
And glad Truth's yet mightier man-child leaps beneath the Future s heart.
For mankind are one in spirit, and an instinct bears along.
Round the earth's electric circle, the swift flash of right or wrong;
Whether conscious or unconscious, yet humanity's vast frame
Through its ocean-sundered fibres feels the gush of Joy or shame;
In the gain or loss of one race all the rest have equal claim.
Once to every man and nation, comes the moment to decide.
In the strife of Truth with Falsehood, for the good or evil side;
Some great cause, God's new Messiah, offering each the bloom or blight,
Parts the goats upon the left hand, and the sheep upon the right.
And the choice goes by foreverwtxt that darkness and that light.
Backward look across the ages and the betcon-moments see.
That, like peaks of some sunk continent, Jut through Oblivion's set;
Nnr an ir In rnurt or market for the low. forebodine Cry
Of those crises, God's stern winnowers,
fly; ,
Never shows the choice momentous till the Judgment hath passed by.
Careless seems the great Avenger; history's pages but record .
One death-grapple inv the darkness 'twixt old systems and the Word;
Truth forever on the scaffold. Wrong forever on the throne.
Yet that scaffold sways the future, and, behind the dim unknown,
Standeth God within the shadow, keeping watch above His own.
AT JOAB POWELL'S OLD HOME
Trora tha Ktmi Cilr Star
Many, many years ago, when wilder
ness still was king in Jackson county
and the new formed townships pf Prai
rie and Van Buren were Just being brok
en up into farms by the early settlers
from Virginia and Tennessee long be
fore the Civil war: before even the
Mexican war a half century before Ex
celsior springs were ever heard of two
springs, one of white and one oi biacic
sulphur water, were discovered in Prai
rie township, the fame of whose healing
qualities spread far and wide among the
primitive pioneers. Washington Irving
and his party drank from their waters
when he, was making his "Tour of the
Prairies," and visitors from as far
down the river as St Louis came and
camped there in summer. They were in
a beautiful grove, in a little valley
among the Snl hills, through which a
branch of the Sni-a-Bar creek ran. a
short distance south of the old Warrens-
burg stage road, over which the traders
and travelers would come irom tne war
rensburg and Harrlsonvllle region to
the river port of Sibley, then one of the
most important steamboat landings on
the river, and stop to fill their Jugs
with the famous waters.
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The grove. In time, became one of
God's first temples, for here it was that
Joab Powell the Billy Sunday of pio
neer days first gathered his congrega
tion of PrlmltiY Baptists around him
and preached to them In rude and un
cultured phrase years before there was
a church house 1ft the township. And
every year a camp meeting was held in
the grove, which was attended by set
tlers from the remotest limits of the
country, and in the "High Rock Pool
nearby his. converts were baptised. The
grove is still known as the "Old Camp
Meeting Ground."
Then came the Civil war. with its
"Order No. 1L" when people had other
things to think about tha nsulphur
springs and camp meetings, and after
the war was over it was found that the
old springs had disappeared washed
over and buried in the detritus of the
high waters of the Snl, they became
only a memory or a tradition In the
families of the oldest settlers. They
passed into local history a3 the "Lost
Springs of Prairie Township."
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And now, within the last year, they
have been rediscovered and the old
memories of their early fame are being
recalled. The discovery was made by
Todd George, a resident of Lees Sum
mit, now county treasurer. V,b.He hunt
ing in the Sni hills he found' traces of
sulphur water dripping from the stony
ledges of the creek, and pursuing bis
investigations, he finally came upon evi
dences of the rough masonry that once
Inclosed the springs, and. by excavating
and Inclosing them ln a "rain barrel,"
he succeeded ln restoring them to their
old time purity. The springs are on
the farm of Judge William IL Wallace.
Ask any of the old timers of the
Summit now and he will tell you the
way to get there. The directions are
very simple. They run about in this
wise : Take the Lone Jack turnpike road
out of Lees Summit east, pass a school
house on the rlfcht and another on the
left, and go on until you come to the
third fenced-in- lane bearing north. Open
the gate being sure that you close it
after you and go northeasterly past a
persimmon grove on your right, then
past a black jack knoll on your left,
until you come to another gate. Opera
tion of opening and closing same as be
fore. Drive straight ahead until you
come to an old stone house that s the
Mason house on the Black cattle ranch.
buUt lonr before the Civil war then
turn to your left and go down by the
old orchard and you will find a dim
path leading over the hill to the Sni
branch. Follow this dim road until the
underbrush stops your machine, then
hitch to a tree and go down the path
way on foot. You will find a tin bucket
hanging by a rope from a tree branch.
wiut a sign wh ii. .co-ov .vwu. ...
then follow the path to the spring. And
while you are there, walk about a quar
ter to the west and you will see a large
boulder lifting its massive shoulders out
of a clear pool, formed by a natural
dam this Is "High Rock Pool." Joab
PoweU's old baptizing place.
"I remember the old springs well.'
Judte Wallace said. "They were a fa
mous resort for the people of the county
ln the days before the Civil war. As a
little boy I used to ride down to them
horseback, behind the women folks, from
my father's farm up near Little Blue.
I used to carry Jugs of water home.
I remember the women used to put a
pinch of salt ln the water before drink
ing, to make the strong sulphur taste
more oalatable. I suppose. I have no
recollections of Joab Powell he was be
fore my time, but his fame as a preach
er extended all over the county, and the
annual camp meetings held In the grove.
among the arrivals at the Washington.
A. Weiss of Everett. Wash., is regis
tered at the Washington.
Flora Lane of Kalama. Wash., is
among the guests at the Washington.
Arthur Peterson of White Salmon Is
an arrival at the Washington.
A. Rosenthal of New York Is a guest
at the Washington.
Mr. and Mrs. H. B. Cole ot Rock Is
land. 111., are arrivals at the Perkins.
Oeorge Hubbard of Bremerton is a
guest at, the Multnomah.
Mr.aauid Mrs. R. Swan ton of "fa-coma
are registered at the Imperial.
Terranc McBrtde or Helena is an ar
rival at tha Portland.
Morris T. Fraser' of .Victoria, B. C.
... a a . a
tne taorny stem oi nme.
from whose feet earth's chaff must
which continued long after his time,
were like the old time county fairs.
You wUl find some people still living
about Lees Summit who heard the old
fellow preach."
And thsy were found on the same
road that you take to go to the Lost
Springs, ln the person of John Harris,
the oldest inhabitant of Prairie township'-
and in Louisa Harris, his wife,
who Is none other than the youngest
daughter of Absalom Powell, brother
of Joab Powell, the famous preacher
of camp meeting days in the primeval
grove. John Harris is now M years
old and first settled ln the county in
the '30's. His wife Is 7S and. tbey
have been married (7 years.
"Yes. I've heard Uncfe Joab preach."
said Mrs. Harris, ln the soft, gentle
drawl of the daughters of the Old
South, mellowed Into the pathetic
quaver of age. "And I've been to the
springs and the old camp meeting
ground many a time. But I was only a
little girl then. We used to have pro
tracted meetings out there that lasted
for weeks at a time. They were gener
ally held In the fall after harvest time
and people used to come from miles
around from Sibley and Independence
and Blue Springs and Lone Jack and
Wayne City and even Westport Land
ing to attend them.
"Uncle Joab was a powerful eshorter
and he sang the old-time songs and
preached the old time religion. He
didn't have much education. The Bible
was the only book he cared much about
and he had his own way of expounding
that. He talked pretty rough some
times to the backsliders, but everybody
loved him. Uncle Joab was a mighty
good man, always ready to help. He al
ways said that good works were the
only thing that counted with the Lord."
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"Most everybody in those days rode
10 me roeeiin,.- ui wju-a.-..
Uncle John Harris. Bry few could af-
id i
ford a buggy we had target them from
St. Louis and th!y cost $200 or IJ00. and
mat waa a gooa aeai or money in uiose
times. And every horse had to carry
double. Joab Powell preached down In
that grove where those springs were
years before we ever had a church. He
used to stand under a big walnut tree,
It stood there for years after the war
we used to call It 'Joab's pulpit.' I
went out to hunt for it a year of so ago,
but it waa gone. lie had a powerful
voice you could hear him singing or
preaching a mile away. He used to read
his texts by saying: 'I will now read
from the 2-I'd verse of the 1-1'd
John.' and he always referred to St.
Peter and st- i'aui as uenerai reier
and General Paul, the great command-
ers in the army of the Lord."
"What did they pay a preacher In riour co,Unf. m a brrr, an1 cormnM1.
those days?" was asked. i at JI2 arB mla Wtn wheat flour In
"Pay? Preachers didn't work for pay order to conform to government rwqulre
ln those times. Joab Powell was Just ment. and the substitute coat more
like the rest of us. a farmer he never than the wheat flour Itaeif. The corn
got any pay except what he earmSd out j pany employs 1! persons and Its iy-
of his farm. He had 00 acres up near roll Is 11200 a month. Government T
Lone Jack. Just the other side of the -friction he Id a Its production down to
Mason farm.
"Uncle Joab was always helping those
who couldn't' help themselves. He al
ways said, it was better to give than to
receive and nobody ever thought of
paying him anything," added Mrs. Har
ris. "He went away to Oregon soon after
the division ln the Baptist church came
he Joined the Missionary Baptists and
thought it was his duty to help spread
the gospel to distant lands," aald
Uncle John. "But he used to write back
that he was mighty lonesome out there
and wished that he was back in the Snl
hills again."
"But he never did come back." Inter
jected Mrs. Harris. "One time In the
'60s 'Qutlla Lobb came up from Inde
pendence with the news that Uncle
Joab was coming back and would be at
the next meeting in the grove, and we
had the biggest meeting that year we
ever had everybody came In hopes to
hear him again. But he didn't come,
and he died out there ln Oregon."
Martin Jtice. the poet leaureate of
Jackson county, who died several years
ago past 90. and whose book of "Rural
Rhymes" Is to be found in almost every
home in the country durtrlcta. came to
Jackson county ia. 1S3J. with a party
from Union county. East Tennessee, of
which Joab Powell was a member. In
one of his poems he pays this tribute
to the old pioneer preacher:
That old faahloned praacbar I'll Barer forget
aim.
Bat will ever renteaibar bis Undue ta aae;
Full well I remember ta first tame I avet blat.
When I waa a ber la Bast Tatinaaaea;
Bat bow I a as old. assay year bate liseasl
o'er ma.
And be la etleep on a far distant shore;
Bat often ia fancy I saw him before as.
As I saw bias ia yoata. ta tb good day af
yor.
That tarla old praacbar, tba plala sisople
preacher.
The old fshkBd praacbar of lone, kmc as.
is a guest at the Benton.
Mr. and Mrs. Tf. B. Henderson of
Tacoma are registered at the Carlton.
Mr. and ' Mrs. P. W. Rtttenberg f
Eugene are arrivals at the Nortonla.
James Patterson of Oakland is a guest
at the Cornelius.
T. B. McLeod of Boston Is registered
at the Portland.
J. R. Clark of Bell Ingham Is an arrival
at the Imperial.
Will Urn Allen of Wheeler is staying
at the Perkins.
U. Harvey of Chicago la among the
guests at the Multnomah.
Captain F. J. McOenn.. master of the
Rose City, is a guest at the Perkins.
Ragtag and Bobtain
Stories From' Everywhere
Hoover Has Nothing oa Lzekiel
A FORT SCOTT preacher claims, says
the Coffeyvllle (Kan.) Journal, that
Herbert Hoover did not invent "war
bread" or "victory bread." It dates
back to Bible times anyway. Here la
a passage from Kseklel 4-9 : "Take thou
also onto thee wheat and barley, and
beans, and lentiles, and millet, and
fitches, and put them In one vessel and
make thee bread thereof." This order
was given during a siege of Jerusalem
2400 years ago to conserve the wheat
supplies of the cefenders.
Hymn' to America
Hail. Amertra, Leader af Natioat!
Rh d Land. brr all raraa ar fr.
Well dmritnc art Ibna ot the bnmac
"That thy trn aont and danttitrn ri taaa.
rroaa thy haad proudly art in la, nortliiand
To Uij let larad by anrt aoatbem a
Wa r)oica tii Uky aiilendor and iit.
Ana w pledca oar aUrcianr to thr
Hail America. Bonntna MuUr
Wtth tb Stan and HtriuM for lh rrMl
Tby tatr honor forTr. otir watchword.
By thy yuatioa and atrancta ar blaat.
Tby fair citim. tho crvat linman rntri.
Tt with rttiavna mKhtjr of brain.
Whoa ku ihutichla away tba mart ot tba
nation.
Whoa good dredi mniit undying famr
Tb broad aco) of thy groat aeau of learning
la rolling a k-il of I -If
Tli rough which mankind wli! know all are brola
r. And aboliab war. dWord and atrifr
Powerful hh; of tha world tby harbor. ,
That all nation thy roaamerr may tha re :
And thy flag o'er earth' broad waur blgbwaya
Symboltsa thy law Jut and fair.
Oter paa of thy anow-roerd mountain.
And neb Tallya belo d of the aan.
O'er thy peot'le. arlf-ruled. the Creator
IS miles rrancly on work nobly dona.
Kluabeth kan HUpkrna.
Portland, liay 1.
I'nrle Jeff Snow Sa:
There's a whole lot of candidates
blowln' around the cornera these days
that'd be a heap better off by May It
if they'd each plant a war garden and
fergit the office huntin'.
Nothing the Matter
With Portland
By H. S. Harcourt
The Porter-Scarnelll macaroni factory
at Columbia boulevard and Kenwtck
stre-eta. Kenton addition. Is claimed by
John Soarpelll. one of the ownera. and
K. H. Pick, sales manager, to be the
best-equipped institution of its kind In
the United State. He asserts that It
is not "one" of the best, nor "among" '
the best, but "the" be.t outfitted Indus
try of that nature In North America.
It is best because it haa newly InstaiKJ
devices, direct from the manufacturer!.,
most recent inventions for Ihe produc
tion of Its 91 kindn of food product,
notwithstanding Its first equipment was
leas than two year old. It accom
plishes In 4S hours what formerly re
quired 10 days to to weeks.
One could not bee in to dexrlbe the
imnrcvernenfa In m thnrt newtmitier ar.
I tce. Th moirt important of theae.
aside from Its nanltary Inventions, la a
patented dryer that takes the paste
from the press ar.d within two days
and nights haa It ready for delivery Jo
the buyer. Heretofore this material ha
been hung up in a closed and heated
room for long period before dry and
brittle. Now the flour In the kack can
be manufactured Into edible and be on
the tables of consumers within hour,
if sales and deliveries are x-dy.
With time the essence of everything. It
Is clever tuilnes to turn one'e money
over so quickly. Likewise, this proceia
injures freahnons of the food, effectinjt
a pronounced difference between the
local product and that manufactured
beyond the Mlsalsslppl," which has
b,, months in transit on overcrowded
, railroads.
"We brought our factory superintend -
ent frorn Milan. Itily." explain I John
Scar pell i. factory manager. "There Is
no more experienced man in this lire In
j the world. He Is the great-grandson,
i the grandson and the son of macaroni
. manufacturers. One might say that he
j was reared among macaroni and bred
; to the business. None can excel him ln
this work, no matter where found.'
V. H. Pick, rules manager, explains
that the company malntaina a poultry
farm of Its own and haa Ita own freMt
e?gs. One hundred and fifty are uk1
in every barrel of flour of which erg
housewive. to visit the t.lnce st
any Ume iat thry may , for Uif.m.
-.tiv how thi. t.ni..a f,w-t
, produced In a modern fartniv. nir
400 barrels of flour monthly, which
ennhle the fau-lory to fill no more than
a little over half Its orders.
Tomorrow: 'Article No. 102 of this se
ries : The Durable Roofing Company.
THROUGH
a a i i . - - a - -
by an. on.
Good morning. .
Io you ever
Stop to think that
P la
The war won't last
Forever, and that
After while the soldiers will be
Coming home, and
Bands will play, and
Flags will fly. and well
swa Ba
Scramble for good -aa)
Seats from which to see the
Boys go fnajx-hlng by.
And we'll be proud, and '
ftH
Lumps will rise, in
Our throats, ana we'll ,
Want to cry. and some wllL
And after It's all over, and
We're getting down
Again to the facts of
Life. It's going
To be mighty hard for some of
Us to explain
Why we didn't
Write oftener. -
BBS pal
Do you ever
sob .1a
Stop to think
Of that?