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THE OKKGON DAILY - JOURNAL, FORTLAND, WEDNESDAY. MAY 8, 1918.
AM Bf DEPENDENT KEWSPAFSB
C a. JACKSON Publisher
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. eept Sunday aiurnoon) at The Journal Build
in l,- Itmtiri a XaoUiUl MmU, forUaiMt,
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He can leee danger for tba right. A Poor,
tender, painful body, ha can run Into flame
or balleta or peatuenee. with duty for nil
galda. Emvrson-
THE VICTORY AT HOME
TWENTY million Americans are be
lieved to have bought Liberty
bonds.
The third loan Is heavily over
subscribed. The drive is described
by thoaa who know as the most suc
cessfully conducted by any nation
during this war.
' A most gratifying feature is the
enormous, number of subscribers. The
remotest corners of the nation re
sponded. At Ketchikan, Alaska, with
A population of 3000, 1065. persons
bought bonds. That far away city
more than trebled its quota.
A wide distribution of the bonds
Is the soundest form of war finance.
A loan so absorbed gives the least
shock to the financial structure. It
minimizes the disturbance that so
tremendous a financial operation tends
to bring upon money markets.
It has the other highly advan
tageous effect of attesting the wide
spread support of the cause. It is a
great vote Of confidence in American
purposes and plans. It Is a brilliant
victory in the home trenches. It is
the i most heartening and strengthen-
Ing tidings that can be sent our
soldiers and sailors.
- Few things could be as discourage
in ,. rKhJ.,n.!A
i. . j4iatfA.itt.ninM
lyuil 40 lliV1 g UitJUCcal fciailiam t 1.1 1 11
, than the loss of a big battle. Money
wlns wars, and with 20,000,000 Ameri-
cans buying Liberty bonds Wllhelm-
strasse knows that the mightiest war
chests in the world are in the strug-
gle. against him. The 5,000,000 sub-
scribers to the first and the 9.000.000
In tho second Liberty loan, multiplied
Into a mighty army of 20.000,000 In
v. the third, means, that the young giant
of the West Is aroused and deter
mined.
There Is a second victory to be won
In the third Liberty loan! Secretary
McAdoo has described it. He says
K
each and every purchaser keeps his
Liberty bond, he helps to protect tlw
eredlt of the government by maintain-
Ing the market of the bonds at par,
"'f n . . p. in1e war
fore,' who keeps his Liberty bond is
renderlng-a double service to his coun-
try aunng tne period or the war.
To. buy a bond and soon afterward
offer It for sale at less than the
market value, is bad business for
the Individual It is the history of
United States bonds that they go to a
premium In time. It is the predic-
uon oi nnanciers mat every. WDerty
bond will be worth more than its
face value within a short time after
peace comes. The Spanish war bonds
-which had an interest rate of but
wiree per cent, aia u. roriunes were
made from the Increase in their mar-
ket value.
To sell the bonds during the war
a cijuauj uau vr.; mc cuuuuj.
disturbs war finance. It hurts the
nation's credit. It is therefore as
r 4, ."
!?fLlK! 7"; "S U '? t0 bUy them
In the beginning.
Some, of course, will be driven by
necessity to sell. But to hold them
la a splendid business poliy for. the
Individual, a high service t6 the coun-
try, andean especial moral aid to
American fighters.
lt I a wonderful thing to be an
American auu conicmpidte uie grana
armr of buyers whose savings went
l I i . . . .i
, ,r ' J11
uaiaii ins nine, vvc tic uiscuver-
ing the stern stuff and splendid devo
tion that free institutions produce in
a people.
Be of good hope and despair not.
. jl. .-..u.rt a. k. in , A
ays mo presiucm w ma state coun-
11 Af dpfpnsn "nnr idpala f luetic
:;:nTv.ih:
r;; V sn
,
thiva np0iiaild ITialnrw haa nnni
th. ru.I . Vh innrt
?.nlPd in tmi and h Iv
.tt!",?.8!'
B,7 .h
backi of the oppressed. But that
was unified and liberty forces dl
rMad I tKarlv h in lhefl lattdP
..UW:,f..VH.w -
day. learned wisdom. Her armies
inarch under a common commander
and therefore they ahaU march to
victory. .- Mr. Wilson speaks confi
dently because he knows that our
ideals are backed by intelligent brains.
LOOKING AHEAD
UNLESS some unexpected hitch de
velops, the financing of the Sell
wood spinning mill has been
.completed. It, is practically cer
tain that the effort to start the in
dustry will succeed.
The city's payrolls are a great part
of its life. We have seen this proven
in Portland by the sudden and start
ling development of ihe ship building
industry. It transformed Portland
from an almost idle city to a very
busy city. It changed Portland from
a condition of depressed business to
very active business in all lines, Wc
do not need to wait for that industry
to become less active to know what
such an enterprise means to a city.
It has been folly for QreKon to send
to Pittsburg and Philadelphia for
worsted yarns spun from Oregon
wool The Oregon wool should have
been spun in Oregon and the freight
on the wool and dirt to the East
been saved and the freight on the
yarns back to Oregon been saved.
And the payment of wages should
have been to Oregon workers instead
of to Pittsburg . and Philadelphia
workers.
The place for the raw wools to be
prepared for use is here, where the
wool is grown. In the excellent and
very extensive woolen mills at Port
land, Oregon City, Pendleton and else
where In-Oregon, and the big pay
rolls they maintain, this fact is
abundantly confirmed.
We shall need such activities a?
the Sellwood spinning mill when the
great war work is laid aside and the
thousands of workers in it must turn
to other employment. It Is no use
for us to .close our eyes to the very
tangible fact that such a condition
of greater or less unemployment must
be expected right after war ends. It
is a condition that will have to be
faced, and in preparing for it now by
such enterprises as the Sellwood mill
we are both prudent and wise.
It is estimated that a payroll of at
least 500 workers will be provided by
the spinning mill and its auxiliary
activities. The heads of the Port-
land 'Chamber of Commerce, notably
Mr. Dodson and Mr. Corbett, have
rendered high service in what seems
to be a certain success in financing
the enterprise.
There must be more Portland cap-
uai ior more inausinai activities or
ixr cfia11 1 o f o caa tha fvMiit rf mit I
e.n. t. -.ts 4i . mi.
vvv oiiHii u vvt &yj him t. k ui w v a uui
laiiuic iu (Jiuviuc: litem ill lurc pauo
of hands and depressed business.
.Tust. a nnr whpnt and rmr-fr nr.
needed to feed the troops in France,
so our railroad equipment is needed
to transport war supplies to the At-
lantic ports. Good patriots restrain
desire to travel as severely as
thev db their raooetite for hum and
white bread. Mr. MtfAdoo helns s
check -our propensity to wander by
disallowing summer excursion rates,
"e does It, not because he dislikes to
see people enjoy themselves, but be-
cause the cars that carry pleasurt
seekers back and forth between home
ond resort can be put to more useful
service.
MISS MARION TOWNE
ISS MARION TOWNE, who won
distinction as a member of the
Oregon legislature from Jackson strike any day apd then a long good
county, has applied for a com- bye to the black ignorance, reaction
mission to be assistant rnvtnact.. i I
i ... J ll.Ukl it.
I tho TTr,nj ci.t.
... . " y
ni,t,s owne is a cnief yeoman and
assistant to Captain Wiley, head of
the bureau of naval intelligence at
the Bremerton navy yard. She en-
"sica irom ftiedrord, Oregon, shortly
after war was declared, and who nn
of the first women in the Northwest
to join the navy,
Miss Towne's annlication in hA ni.
lowed to take the examination for an
assistant paymastership involves the
question of whether the navy will
grant a commission in the reserv-s to
Women. So far as known nniv nni
other woman has aDDlied for n -nm.
mission. She is" Miss ?n nn-wv
'who has applied for a commission to
serve in the office of the Davmastpr
general.
ivris ia mm s.; .
8nd there la nn miKi;nn k
l would clvft ahl sorviAo in
pacity to which the naval authorities
may admit her. A Bremerton news
dlsP4lch the Seattle Post-Intelli
,or Towne to receive the cov-
- auAiuus
cted commission.
The seven Soldiers ot rn e.-
mont who r- i,nii ..t
giaryi robbery and assault said to
have been committed during a Joy
pl(1, hv Ktarlio.ht
LAmlnt iha innnntn' .,''
.1 " uvuii.uicui,C5 Ul 111 II-
tary discipline. Tney m . .
,magined that they wsre .till It
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CHEAPER SCHOOL BOOKS
T
HE West Klickitat Pomona1 Branca
has passed a resnluttnn in
I of the state mannWnrJIV".
i 4m . . " v. v v ku
books. The books.
.i.. -v...... t. '
sow 10 at
The population of Coquille. as we
YCSt AllCKliai TOmona rranra
.. . ...7 " "
"the failure to
TCl nh ?&W been due to
5! trus That may or may
r fwy Ce manufac-
tyre and sale at exnpnsK .t km-
tums to somebody. .
1 , c . .. .
ocemuigiy me contents of the mul-
titudinous "series" of school books
are "strunir out" and d m,v-
J them as expensive as possible. Mat
ter that would nor fill two columns
of ' The Journal is amplified to in
flate books that' cost several dollars.
Tidbits of knowledge are . divided
and subdivided. New "series" - are
constantly published to replace old
ones which are often fully as good. '
, The text books have been erected
into a sort of idol in our schools.
There seems to be a constant effort
to make them more elaborate, com
plicated and dear.
The ideal textbook is a bald state
ment of the facts to be learned, brief,
pointed and cheap. Elaboration and
illustration should be left to the
teacher. That is what the teacher is
for. The tendency is to make the
textbook supplant the teacher. That
is probably one of the reasons why
textbooks are so dear and teachers
so cheap.
If teachers knew their own best
Merest they would resist the len
p611 Witn cheaper books, some
of the money saved in time might be
added to their salaries, where it is
sadly needed.
Just at present teaching Is one of
the poorest paid vocations in the
country. And yet we all agree that it
is the most fundamentally important.
The hand of mercy has been out
stretched by President Wilson to the
four condemned soldiers somewhere
in France, and the sentence of death
will not fall upon them. The young
est was but i8 and the oldest only
20. Two slept at their posts, and two
were disobedient to orders. Under
the hard lines of military discipline,
a court martial condemned tiiera to
death. The. country is glad that the
president gave unconditional pardon
to two and commuted the 6tern sen
tence of the others to three years
imprisonment.
A WOMAN
C
OINS of strange sorts and various
denominations pennies, nickels,
dimes, quarters, old bills, soiled
and worn, all evidently treasured
for many a day and hoarded against
the coming of hard times, were
poured on the counter at the Browns-
ville bank from a stout money bag
tne other day by a woman who came
to Oregon straight from Prussia only
a short time ago.
She was eager to buy Liberty
bonds. She denounced the Huns. Her
experience in her native land in com
parison with that in America, filled
hr wllh to helo the United
ot9tM ,vin fhit. vv9r
In t
nussiau iuuubu ne is, uer- sav-
ings are a part of Oregon's subscrip
tion to the Liberty loan. The pen-
mes, ie picneis ana uie uia cms,
S0lled and orn are in the UnIted
States war chests.
No war money is more sacred. None
is more eloquent in its message. It
woman's protest to the Hun
crimes against Belgian and. French
women. The self denial, the saving
- . . . . , , .
" with which it was ac-
cumuiatea are ait in L-merty Donas
ke the world safe for woman.
wf Pope who said, oman,
the last; the best reserved of God.
Revolution shakes its gory head at
Austria's rulers. The spectre will
not down. Kaiser Karl must feel
sick at heart,as he contemplates Czar
Nicholas immured up there among
the Arctic bogs in Siberia. The same
fate hangs over his own head. It may
nnrl htarntorl tvrsnnv nf the Tlans-
1 buu uinutw J f
L , ,ri
ourgs. ma nuuso irum wmwi ivaisc-.
Karl was born has reigned longer man
any other in Europe and upon the
whole more uselessly and cruelly,
If his subject peoples have a spark
of manhood in their breasts they will
frp.a themselves
BRETHREN IN UNITY
I
N SPOKANE, according to an ac
count in the Spokesman-Review, a
long step has been taken toward
church unity. Two of the older
churches in Spokane, one Presby
lerian and the other Congregational,
have joined hands and hearts and
wil1 henceforth travel the heavenly
way as on8 b00-?'
"Minor differences of doctrine.'
says our contemporary, "have been
sunk in a spirit of cooperation toward
tne greater aims oi organizes unns
tianity" " Tne tv,' churches are
"Poi their resources." They i
to
will
have the same minister. Presumably
they will worship in the saraj
building.
From the town of Coquille, in Ore
gon, which is not so large as Spo-
kane but cruite as deeDly nermeated
with the snirit of Christian tmitv.
comes news of a fclmilar tenor. We
learn om the esteemed Sentinel
fhat two fpthndist rhnrc.hPs In Ho
nnniA "fpdpratpd almost a vpar airo
I" -a-
and have been getting along together
i ery amiably ever since." Why not?
If anybody in the world can get
along amiably with his friends and
neighbors, surely it should be
member of a Christian church.
The Sentinel ventures the some-
ih.t n
7"" "n ZZ
accu Hiuiviua vi vHuuio ilia J usva
vur vuo j
of the present year:
nl.akA tTr. tho nin Tl DnnV
1 B" ' w.v0"i u-iv(
was 1398 in the year 1910, and at
that time U waa growing at the rate
of 60 persona a year. Hence it now
has probably about 1700 population,
,.f k ,1-
ia.hn,,t mfamiii.
I " " -
Evidently their separate resources
must be meager. Tlieir pLtoi mu
L- ,", Jil: L
- work must be continually hampered
for lack of money. United, :they.
would form a sturdy," self respecting
Christian body, able to face' Satan's
darts without flinching, and com
manding the services of a well paid
minister.
State Dairy and Food Commissioner
Mickle rallies to the support of the
dairy Industry and issues' the warn
ing that some chance must be given
the dairymen to live, or their herds
will be slaughtered and the industry
be reduced to a remnant No line
of enterprise has been more beset by
the conditions produced by war. .
NEWSPAPERS AND
NEW POST LAW
By Carl Smith, Washington I Staff
Correspondent of The Journal
Washington, May 8. Representatives
of the newspaper publishers are again
asking congress for a divorce from tho
magazines and weekly periodicals with
which they are joined under existing
flat rates, and with which they re
main linked under the new legislation
of the war revenue act if congress does
not make a change before July 1. The
newspapers believe they are already
more than paying their way as to the
vast majority and as to the great bulk
of their circulation. The exceptions
are as to some of the bulky Sunday
editions oi papers carried over 300 or
400 miles and for papers carried under
the privilege of free, circulation in the
county wherein they are printed. The
newspapers, therefore, object to taking
cn the added burden of rates of post
age to which is added an intricate sys
tem of paying different rates on space
devoted to news and advertising, a plan
which presents many difficulties in re
porting on different editions for differ
ent zones each day.
e
Congress looked at the second class
rates, looked at the report o$ the post
office department, which indicates thai
the government is losing over $80,000,000
a year on that class, and said, "They
don't pay enough." The newspapers
agreed that not enough is paid, but ths
deficit comes from the magazines, they
say, the big publications which rake
the "velvet" from the advertising world,
because the postoffice department car
ries the most of them many hundreds
and even thousands of miles beyond the
vicinity of their publishing plants.
The senate committee on postofflces
and post roads gave a hearing to the
newspaper publishers at which these
points were brought into the fore
ground, particularly by E. B. Stahl
nian, publisher of the Nashville Banner.
Mr. Stahlman has made a close study
of postal rates affecting newspapers
and magazines, and he asserts emphati
cally that when the newspapers pay 1
cent a pound they are paying their way
up to 300 miles at least. "We ough'
to pay the cost of service to the gov
ernment, ' including a fair overhead
charge," he said. "We do not ask to
pay less. This will mean some in
crease to the larger newspapers, which
have a substantial circulation beyond
the second zone, and, they ought to
pay whatever It costs. Under the
rates of the new postal law, I believe
can demonstrate that we will pay
125 per cent . of the cost, on the
average. My paper, with a circulation
of 50,000, costs (20,000 a year at present
for postage, and for the first year,
under the Increase, will cost $5000
more, increasing year by year after
that. We are in one pot with the mag
azines and we ought not to be. We
want to stand by ourselves, and pay
to the government the cost of service."
The newspaper representatives con
tended that congress should take up
the question on the basis of charging
to each service its real cost, and if
adequate information cannot be had
in time, to postpone operation of tho
new zone system applying to them until
a later date. Generally they are satis
fied with the plan proposed in the
amendment offered by Senator McKel
lar at the last session.
That the postoffice department has
nothing but estimates and arbitrary
assignments of "overhead" to back up
its figures as to the cost of carrying
newspapers through the mail was dem
onstrated by the senate committee's
examination of First Assistant Post
master General J. C. Koons. By charg
ing up to second class matter a share
of all expense of the postoffice depart
ment, including maintenance of post
offices and salaries, and averaging the
cost on this basie. whether sent short
distances or sent to Alaska and tho
Philippines, the department haa ar
rived at. the figures which it continues
to use at all investigations. If these
figures are accepted the cost of send
ing newspapers to the first, second
and third zones is 6.44 cents a pound,
of which about 5 cents 'is "overhead"
and the rest actual cost of transporta
tion. These figures some members of the
committee vigorously contested. Sen
ator McKellar. who contends that the
newspapers are really paying their way
at the present flat rate of one cent a
pound, declared that it is manifestly
unfair to put into one "pet" the news
papers, which ordinarily circulate with
in 800 miles of the place or publica
tion, and tho magazines, which aver
age over 1000 miles, r.nd then strike
an average of which the newspjipero
must pay the seme as other second
class mall patrons. Mr. Koons declined
to admit that the departments calcu
lations aro wrong. Great numbers of
catiers are carried on rural routes
he said, and carrying newspapers iree
'n the county or puDltcaon cosu
S2.000.000 a year. He said he does not
believe the papers ever can afford to
n2v the full cost ot carriage, but
they should pay more than they do,
"So we propose unaer tne new iaw xo
Increase the rates gradually." said Mr.
Koons, "and give them four years to
adlust their business to 1U It Is not
a large increase, . oniy ,iw,uvg uw
first year for all secona-ciass matter,
and at the end of four years, after n
rates are increased to the maximum,
the government will still be losing
ififl.000.000 a year on this class oi
mall."
Senator Watson asked if It would
net be wise to defer the operation of
the law for a year. In view of the
confusion It will cause, the high cost
of print paper and other elements ot
an uncertain , situation, since the re
sulting revenue to the government from
eacond-clasa matter will be an increase
of only $4,900,000, and fort newspapers
lone only $2,000,000. - Mr. Koons said
that reasoning would apply as well
to other postal increases and to other
fcrms of additional taxation. The press
of the country haa generally supported
tha increase of postal employe' par,
ho said, and the Increase decided oq
will cost the government $31,000,000,
will add one fourth to the expense of
second-class matter, and if not paid
for In part from additional rates, must
be paid by taxation.' Mr. 'Koons waa
also of opinion that there Is no good
reason for distinguishing between news
papers and magazines further than the
"automatic distinction" which be said
Is introduced - by the aon system.
whereunder newspapers "are put la a
class by . themselves because they cir
culate mostly within the first three
ones and therefore will not be greatly
affected by, the higher charges In way-
off cones. -
Letters From the People
I Coaamwrieatlooa aaot to Tba Journal tor pak
BeaaoB la tbia department ahosld k araittaa oa
aatl mm akla of tba papa, aboold not aieaad SOO
vents in lensth and must ba alsnad by tha wntar.
wboaa null address la tall mwt aonoeapany tha
cootnbUae.J .
A Valued Testimonial
Portland, May . To the Editor of The
Journal I have for several years been
an admirer of The Journal. Its splen
did civic policy, which has led it into
the path of the people's welfare, haa
been a source of particular gratifica
tion to all who strive for a better world
The articles you have for some time
been running under the caption "Moth
ing the Matter With Portland" exempli
fy the persistent ir..ereet The Journal
takes in building up the economic uie
of our community, and we all realise
that a .healthy and progressive economic
life Is a strong Incentive to high moral
and Intellectual existence.
I am inspired to write this little ac
knowledgment of the good service The
Journal is rendering Portland and Ore
gon, because it Is the fulfillment of a
duty I feel all good citizens owe to a
publisher that has served them long and
well, and because in. these days such
publishers deserve ail the encourage
ment we can give them.
PAUL. TURNER.
A Telegrapher's Statement
Portland. April 29. To the Editor of
The Journal I wish to contribute a few
lines anent the attitude taken by the
large telegraph companies of - America
up to the present time. Many of us
have followed the game for many years.
My experience covers 25 years with both
the large commercial companies, like-
vlia th navimiwr talearranh work.
Some of us haVe diplomas covering Che
"Old Time Telegraphers" throughout
America and Canada. Not a few of us
have been persecuted - by the commer
cial companies, for. no other reason than
that we were affiliated with union or
ganizations; in other words, we are on
the' -blackball" list, with our photos
attached. Since when has the Western
Unlonany legal or moral right to estab
lish a BertiUon system?
The public shotld be informed con
cerning this system and be on its guard
when approached by representatives of
the Western Union. We are going to
shoot fair In this last struggle, and ex
pect the company to meet us In the
opem All we ask for, or ever have re
quested. Is to be permitted to breathe
the fresh air and enjoy God's sunshine.
We don't believe It necessary to go
into details over past conditions or
treatment at the hands of the large com-
mercial companies, but we are ready to
fight to the last ditch. I believe mostl
of us would enjoy a few bouquets while
we live instead of crepe after we are
dead. A. O. MILLER.
Argues in Behalf of Mr. Moser
Portland,' May 7. To the Editor of'
The Journal As a regular reader of
The. Journal because of Its attitude on
the 6 cent fare, may I be allowed. In
the spirit of fairness, to say that I no
ticed a day or two ago in your paper
what purported to be a sizing up of the
gubernatorial situation in which Senator
Gus C. Moser was practically eliminated.
I do not Imagine that Mr. Moser needs
any words from me but from expres
sions Incidentally heard by your cor
respondent recently In Eastern Oregon,
Klamath. Coos Bay, Rogue, Umpqua
and Willamette regions. The Journal's
estimate relative toy Mr. Moser is wide
of the mark. It will be recalledaln this
connection that notwithstanding very
"similar talk about Moser four years
ago with five other candidates In the
race for governor, bunched here In Port
land and Oregon City, with two Others
from up-state, Moser came out a close
second, carrying Multnomah, his home
county, by nearly 4000 plurality : and
from present Indications he Is evidently
stronger throughout the state with a
substantial class of people now than
four years ago. C. E. CLINE.
The P. IL, L. & P. Complaint
Portland. Or., May 2. To the Editor
of The Journal The Portland Railway,
Light & Power company is whimpering,
crying and lamenting because owners
of automobiles carry a few wage earn
ers free to work or part way, as the
company would do for 6 cents. It seems
to regret that the wage earner escaped
Its grasp and bought Thrift Stamps.
Regarding power supplied to war in
dustries, the company's men talk as if
it furnished the power for nothing. The
company is beyond doubt well paid for
it or It would not be done. It generates
the electric power about which it is
grieving by the cheapest and God-given
means, namely, water.
Mr. . Letter, the company s attorney.
says the stockholders have not received
a dividend in five years. Well, now. if
a merchant or a man In any other
private business can not make a go of
it, he will, if honest, quit before bills
get too big to pay; If otherwise, he
will wait and go into bankruptcy. If
the automobile owner is cheating the
Portland Railway, Light & Power
company, what is the Portland Railway,
Light & Power company doing to the
wage earner, namely, women that re
ceive $50 a month and less and that
have invalid and Infant dependents?
The people know the greed of such
corporations as the Portland Railway,
Light & Power company. How many
Liberty bonds ha the company bought?
Has it bought In .the same ratio to ln-
came as the $3.57 per day wage
earner has? I am going to buy stamps
or bonds with the 6 cent fares that I
am saving by walking to and from my
work. A JfTNEY VOTER.
PERSONAL MENTION
Traveling Salesman Bays VV. S. S.
Harry S. Beeman of Chicago claims
to hold the record among traveling
salesmen for War Savings Stamp pur
chases. "I have bought $900 worth and
if any other salesman shows me he has
invested more than that amount I will
buy some more," Mr. Beeman said. He
Is staying at the Benson hotel.
e
Fleet Corporation Member Here
Regtna Brodenlck of Washington, D.
C member of the Emergency Fleet
corporation. Is an arrival In Portland
. n tm a m,Ae m Dmimn V....1
Marquet, Mich Folk Visitors
Mr. and Mrs; Alton Robertson of
Marquet, Mien., are registered at the
Benson.
' a a a
A. R. Graham of The Dalles Is a vis
itor at the Perkins.
William S. Salt of Medford is regis
tered' at the poruana.
' Mr. and Mrs. M. Duvall of Tillamook
are staying at the uregon.
Mr. and Mrs. P. J. Eychane of Denver
are arrivals at the Carlton.
T. H- Sharp of Bremerton Is a guest
at tne canton.
EL I. Kerr of Los Angeles Is regis
tered at tne canton.
T. B. White of Sutherlln, Or., Is stay
ing at the Carlton.
F. II. Rood of Raymond, Wash., la a
guest at the isortonia.
Thomas Brannick of Fort George,
COMMENT AND
r SMALL CHANGE
It's a ttoor ahlnwnrkar who cant af
ford a Ford.
Had to wait far V.v ahnivara tn irtn
forth May flowers.
Must be rlnilrl v w&thr In Tendon.
No moonlight raids recently.
Henry X of Detroit bousrht S6.000.000
worth of Liberty bonds to flounder his
peace ship.
A political candidate Is -not worth
your vote unless he is buying Thrift
e lamps ana war savings Stamps.
Washington countr sheriff who de
stroyed great quantities of good Oregon-
luaas win a xew momna dsck is now
In Multnomah county JaiL Serves him
right.
aa ak a
" Notwithstanding Secretary McAdoo's
arasue errorts to curtail travel this
year the fact remaJna that Inernsvainrlv
large numbers of Americans are already
going aoroao.
Enthusiastic war gardeners, boastful
or peas and beans that are "up." won't
feel quite so cocky If a wttherinsr frost
p comes along and lays low the Under
young sprouts.
. .. ..
nope tne proof readers con t choke on
this one: The new Russian flaar la
strawberry red In color and Is leUered
as foUows: "Rosslskaya Sotzialylts
cheskaya Federatlvnaya Sovletskaya
nespuDusa,
JOURNAL MAN ABROAD
By Fred
Somewhere in France Hers In Francs
gasoline is so difficult to procure fhat
the almost universal custom when one
goes out in a car Is to give a lift to
others going in the same direction. I
had a hundred mile Journey to make
by auto recently, so X gave a rift to
Miss Brandon, a Y. M. C. A. worker,
and her sister. They were going to a
Red Triangle hut about 10 miles dis
tant. Miss Brandon's sister had. just
arrived from Paris and she told me
some most interesting details relative
to the recent air raids on Paris and
the work of tho long range gun which
from a distance of more than 70 miles
slays women and children and other
noncombatants. "I um a Red Cross
worker," she said, "so I had a most
excellent opportunity to ascertain the
facts at first hand." She told me she
had done several years of social settle
ment work In New York city. "My pres
ent position is that of secretary to a
woman who Is one of the leaders of the
work of relief and reclamation among
the French," she said. "I was chosen
for this post because I am an expert
stenographer and typewriter. We travel
all over France by auto. I act as chauf
feur. I took a year's work at an au
tomobile school, learning to drive auto
mobiles and trucks and to assemble and
repair them. I have been licensed by
f"7 """"" " 1 '
""". "L".. l drive oth
tne rrench government to drive
autos and trucks.
I accepted an invitation to eat a
chicken dinner at the "Y" hut over
which Miss Brandon assists In presid
ing. Miss Christie, a charming and
capable young woman, who is Miss
Brandon's fellow worker, spent her girl
hood in Turkey and has traveled widely.
The chicken was delicious and I was
desperately anxious to take the bones
in my fingers and get all the meat from
them, but I was afraid it might not
seem Just the thing. But I found a
way. 1 said. "I can pay no higher
tribute to the excellence of your cook
ing than to take this drumstick In my
fingers and thus get all the meat."
Miss Christie rose to the occasion no
bly, and said. "I was longing to take
this backbone in my fingers. I'll fol
low your example." And she did.
Forty miles farther on I picked up
another Y. M. C. A. secretary and gave
him a lift to his destination. 30 miles
or more' distant. I happened to men
tion that J. C Clark of Portland, a
long-ttme friend of mine, had charge
.at Shanghai of the largest Y. M. C. A
boys department In the world. My
seatmate said. He is a very capable
UHA; Tn DC UCA I TUV Copyrtsbf, ltLI
WVT l V- if
OVERTIME "That fellow is laying
by $30 or $35 every week," a machinist
said enviously of one of his fellow wock
men. When asked how it was possible,
he said he did It by working overtime.
In Ensirer to the question, "Is his health
good?" he said the man's health was
bad, that the doctor had told him he had
beginning kidney disease. , It was the
habit of the man who was' telling about
it to leavo his work at the regular hour
every night. There-was a little boy al
ways eagerly awaiting him and he could
not resist the temptation to come home
and play and romp with him. Inciden
tally he was healthy and cheerful, yet
he always regretted that he was poorer
than his friend. Estimating the rela
tive wealth of the two men. there can
be no doubt that the man with no money
in the bank but a high reserve of health
waa the richer.
It has" always been found that the
sickness and injury rate rises when men
work overtime. In one munition plant
in England, with a force of Sft.OOO, It
was found in two departments that the
sickness rate among men working over
time was 5.5 per cent, as against 3.7 per
cent among those on double shifts. In
Canada, is staying at the Multnomah.
Calvin Wiltney of Brooklyn. N. Y.. is
an arrival at the Cornelius.
Harry Keefer of Baltimore Is among
the guests st the Portland.
Mr. and Mrs. Robert Sweeny ot Spo
kane are staying at the Benson.
E. J. Newton of La Grande is regis
tered at the Perkins.
J. H. Culp of Albany Is sn arrival st
the Oregon.
Mr. and Mrs. F. C. Wallers of Eugene
are visitors at the Imperial.
Louis Long of New York Is a guest
st the Portland.
R. S. Shaw of Astoria is staying at
the Imperial.
J. J. Adams of Aberdeen is registered
at the Oregon.
Mr. and Mrs. C. H. Paysen of Great
Falls, Mont-, are staying at the Im
perial. lW. L. Byrne of Spokane Is a guest
at the Portland.
Eat More Potatoes
From tho Eoaena Reaister
From homes all over the country
hays come complaints of the high cost
of wheat substitutes, and while com
plaint or no complaint, high cost or
no high cost wneat must be saved as
a patriotic duty. It Is a fact that higher
cost of substitutes has In many cases
been an actual hardship.
The potato la a native American
crop, but our enemies are showing as
a great many tricks tn the way of us
ing potatoes as war food. The per
capita weekly consumption of pota
toes in th umiea states is only
quart tn spite of low cost as eom-
pevree! witn outer looos wnereas in
Austria tho average weekly consump
tion Is t quarts per person. The people
of Germany consume II quarts of po
tatoes per person each week.
Potatoes may be used as wheat sub
stitutes in dozens of ways, and nearly
every good newspaper tn the - United
States has been carrying potato recipes
for weeks. ; They caa be used directly
in bread, and can be prepared In many
appetising ways that will cut down the
consumption of bread. Many house
wives - hare found baked potatoes can
i be - used, directly . as . a .aubstituts - tor
NEWS IN BRIEF
OREGON SIDELIGHTS
Cm.vi f rim nrio ftxlnc the Pen
dleton East Oregonlan wants to know
what's the use ot waiting until the llan
season Is about over.
finma Ih. tfmwip Kentucky people
of the valley." says Lhe Hood River Gla
cier, "say that Sheriff Applegateof
waanington county snouta
named Applejack.
CUybourn Allen f Looklnglass. Doug
inn eauntr. with his docs, recently ran
down and killed a monstrously large coy
ote, so famed for oepreaauona ui.i
..l.kk... nf alavap auldad a Durse of
$1.60 to the $20 bounty he collected off
the county. x m
After a brief experience as an amateur
entomologist, the editor of the Burns
Ttraea-Herald reports : "Tha Tlnian-Her-
aiM rmit nf rrauhuiMn flourished fOT
a few days, but the little pests .either
couldn't stand the association with the
bunch In this shop, or the constant but
ting of their heads against me wmuww
nana trylnar to set out."
On May 1 the fcugene Guard recorded
the following pertinent observation:
"May day has arnveo ana im unmi u
by the May breakfasts and other -festivities
which In times past have marked
Its advent. War activities and anxieties
have overshadowed ancient customs, and
none of the young ladles have been
heard singing. 'I Am the Queen of the
May, Mother."
Lockley
man. I spent two years In Chins, and
when X left Clark gave me a letter of
introduction to a friend of his In Pe
trorrad. Russia." A dsy or two before
that I had taken a $0 mile ride by
auto with a Y. M. C. A. secretary
who had just come from Gibraltar and
was en route to the Azores.
Later: I stopped this letter to help
serve chocolate to a group of -young
Enrlish and Scotch lad a. They were
wounded three days ago In the "big
drive." They were sent to the hospitals
here. They were what are known as
"walking wounded" cases. One boy had
got a bullet through the palm of his
hand. Another had a nasty shrapnel
wound in the forearm. They were all
wounded In the arm or hand. The
trains are bringing in wounded men by
thousands. One of the boys, an ar
tilleryman from Norfolk, said to me,
"The doctors call It septic poisoning
from - the shrapnel. My arm throbs
like an engine all the time. It Is very
painful, but, thank God, we are holding
them. This battle la the beginning of
the end. Germany didn't break through
and she won't. Your troops are fresh.
They are going In and I believe we are
on the road to victory."
Another lad. a Scotch artilleryman,
whose talk was so Toroadiy Scotch that
I could hardly get It all, said, "The fog
was dense. We were given the range
at 5000 yards. Suddenly the fog lifted
ana there was a great gray wave of
Germans less than 200 yards distant."
Still another said, "They charged In
mass formation. Our machine guns
broke the gray maves as waves are
broken on the beach. But new waves
of men came steadily on. In one place
I saw a windrow of dead and wounded
men more than breast high. The Ger
mans climbed over their own dead and
kept coming on. They finally drove
through r.nd cut off our division, but
though we had to give ground to the
terrific Impact, they didn't get through.
I can only talk In generalities for I
would not be allowed to tell the won
derfully Interesting things they told me.
8ome day I want to be able to write
some of the things I am forbidden to
discuss now.
A Frenchwoman said to me this morn
ing, "All France loves America. Tha
" 7 in wnicn uencrii rer
sning has orrered all you have In this
hour of critical need la beyond all
praise. Every train going to the front
is rilled with splendid young men from
your noble and beautiful land. For all
time we will owe you our gratitude and
love.
4 - UUALini Keeky
one department, among 1000 overtime
men, the sickness rate was as high as
$ per cent. The monthly sickness rste
for the entire plant rose from 2. per
--ent in juiy, 1914. to over 4 per cent In
the first quarter of U15. when work
speeded up. and in another plant to 7
per rent, the Increases were attributed
to overtime and niaht work. In an
other factory. In the spring, there was
much Sunday work. The records show
no fewer than 22 per cent of the men
sick at one lime. By August the Sun
day work was reduced, and the sickness
decreased to a trifle over 4 per cent.
When it is Impossible to avoid long
hours, workers should psy special at
tention to conditions which msy help
Drjng aown ratigue. They should guard
against cramped posture at work, pro
longed or . excessive muscular strain,
poor ventilation, inadequate heating or
overheating, poor lighting, and against
exposure to Industrial poisons, gases
and dusts. A preliminary medical ex
amination is always helpful In assisting
an employe to choose work fitted for his
pnysique.
Tomorrow :
Home."
"A. Deadly Enemy at
bread with complete satisfaction. Th.
composition of potatoes Is similar to
wheat, and they do much the same
work as wneat In the body.
There Is a call to save- everv nAiinit
of wheat that can possibly be saved
oetween. now and the next harvest.
Wheat substitutes are scarce and high.
Potatoes are cheap., and so plentiful
tnat ir they are not eaten tn large
quantities in ia spring there will be
waste on a large scale. The duty of
every American household Is clear.
War First; Politics Nowhere
From the C res has Oat look
Look your public servant In office over
carefully and apply the teat of Jeffer
son. Is he capable, is he honest. Is he
faithful? Answered In the affirmative,
let the- chasers of thj fleshpots of poll
tics, know that you are standing pat
for the period of the war and let the
c tamers go chase themselves.
Olden Oregon
How the Hat Was Passed to 8end
State fenvoy to Washington.
In 1$47 there was a general unrest
among the Indians and Governor Aber
nethy decided to send someone to Wash
ington to lay the situation before the gov
ernment officials. He appointed Judge
Qulnn Thornton, who accepted the trust,
although be had no means to pay his
traveling expenses. As the bark Wbiton
was about to sail for California, a con
siderable quantity of flour was sub
scribed by the Oregon settlers to pay
the delegate's passage to California, also
to provide means for ths remainder of
the journey. Very opportunely ths United
States sloop of wsr Portsmouth was
found at anchor In California waters,
and when ths commander was told of
the mission of Thornton, he considered
It a matter of such Importance as to
warrant his return to the Atlantic coast
snd he conveyed Thornton to Boston
free of cost. Thornton was the first
Oregon delegate to visit the capital.
His visit proved very opportune, but
not sufficiently early to arrest tha trou
ble with ths Indiana,
Ragtag and Bobtain
Stories From Everywhere
Bocae Dog Finds New lim.
o1r.;v:htrM7-'
nlht k! 15 Journal of Zoophlly. One
n ght he Mew Into an American occu
SLlf,i Ci?ln y his own-if
?ff. No lJ's Land, l-a
American grub was a caution. After
imoJ ,?m mon -y down as If '
among friends.
nizes but one master, and so he fol-
TvVn?Jffi!r th" COri-r" -ho rt
?u??,. rtfd htm- Thla-Sammle apeak.
lnder- Prc Me ears when
spoken to In his native tongue The
and has started In. Since Roger la
lOXtn'h wl "Uy i,arn to com.
a good American dog.
AlthOUCh Jin tlnMn-t 1 ... .
tTwhTrhr1 tr th MMly company
is luXh "'J' -elected maater
enrv1 " reading thus:
he mw ii kneW V00 th,n h-
nn saw ii and came after It."
'And So It Goes
D,n th Intermission, says the
bul2i .fc nlmated conversation
nn5 !l thrOUh 1,1 e of the men
0nAen ho m P h side show.
Smatter?" asked somebody.
Dldn t you hear? The glass eater
has quit Jumped the show?"
vvhy. what's the matter with hlraT"
a?0,1 "or.e b!cu 'ound some
ground glass In his bread.
Laughing madly, the India rubber raaa
bounced out of the tent- .
Paradise Drpreeatrd
WhtJ tha fanrata all atop drlppiu
,A1 "" UaaiT
tora baa sathtstnixti
Aaint tha blistard vaeaa;
When tba ptpin Bavsr fraaaaa
And plumbers ea to plumb.
Wnea ary proa part rlim
And a daaa by Tacutua
Vfbaa wallpapar never buataia
Sod plaater 4oaa sot tall.
Wh" larceBoaa laandfT alatara
riunder oa sot at all;
Wbaa kitchen atalda Soo t ssntur
And tabledotba abaw na stain.
And hoabanda never attar
A ainda wont profaae
When the rota are never faded
. rid ataa so dona la price;
when panirlea are not raided
hy children or by uira
Then wives will never be weary.
Coaamntan win all trow fat:
But hMT.oal It would be dreary
To live la a boose like that I
Philadelphia Ledger.
Uncle Jeff Snow Says;
Little Sandy Schlasmeier man !
some time back that if he could invent :
war" to run his motorcycle 'thout nu
thin but water In tUe contraption. Old
";ueiiera give him $10,000,000
not to tell nobody elae. Since then he
roost ruined his .engiqe tryln to git It
to work with water, and his brother
Bobbys tryln to break him of the trick
of feed In It with all sorts of concoctions
um nopes oi gettln' It down by de
grees to a water diet.
Nothing the Matter
. With Portland
By H. a Harcourt
"I knew a man." says W. F. Ross, of
W. F. Ross A Co.. msnufacturlng Jewel
ers. Allsky building, "who paid $1500
to a Paris Jeweler for a necklace for
his wife. He wanted to present her
with something from "abroad. It would
be o much better, you know, not to
speak of the distinction of wearing
French Jewels. I was asked to pass'
judgment on the purchase, but didn't
have the heart to tell what I knew. I
excused myself as best I could, for the
fact was I could have sold him an ex
act counterpart at a gooi profit to my
self for $150! But of course, my neck
lace would not have been from 'abroad.'
It Is Indeed singular how people will
suffer themselves to he gulled by these
foreign dealers. Most of their work,
for example. Is extremely crude. The
design may be attractive, but the finish
would not pass muster here. Such work
ss Is turned out of their shops would
not be allowed to pass out of this place.
I can assure you."
Aside from hls'offlce force. Mr. Roes
employs nine men. .all experts. These
msnufaoturs snythlng desired In the
Jewelry line, practically all on ordera.
They do, all klnda of stone cutting and
mounting, and have on display a great
assortment of Oregcaj and Montana
agates. A number of stones sre shown
also that are thrown by storms upon
the shore of lale Royal. In Lake Su
perior. These sre about the size of a
navy bean, split lengthwise, and are
the image of a green turtle. They are
found on only one place on the beach
end on a space not more than 10 to 10
feet in length. Others contain many
kinds of Images, as shrubbery, moss snd
birds. Some beautiful, clear moss ag
ates are of the number. One of the
city firemen. Mr. Ross says. Is posnesnor
of an agate containing a perfect picture
of a fireman's helmet. There sre those
which hsve birds Imaged In them, snd
others with frogs. How these things
occur no one knows, nor Is It so much
as conjectured why agates ars not
found In all parts of the country In
stead of In a few places.
Mr. Ross, now sole owner of the busi
ness, has been msnufacturlngewslry
In Portland for 12 years. His'Tuslness
Is prosperous and constantly Increasing
His work rooms srs on the fourth floor
snd have large windows and fine ven
tilation. He pays 40 to 7$ cents sn
hour, with sn eight hour dsy. He is
a believer In Portland. Once csnital
awakens to the enormous loss suataO.
by permitting waterpowers to reroaNn
unharnessed, this city will begin a ca
reer prosperity enjoyed now only by
the territory served by Niagara. Mr.
Ross believes. Others ars of the same
opinion.
Tomorrow Article No. 105 of this
series: The Portland Rubber Mills.
War Information
Complete Accurate
Official!
Prepared by the Committee on
Public Information, and to Be
Obtained, for the most part. Free.
The imrinis) ef the Untied statae. that
the neaole asay know tba troth about the
war and war peraunaa, la beats t a aeries
ef psntteatioae a ths vary klcfaest emlse te
sB patriots.
These satpfcleta. ansae of theen of mnr.ll
arable volume, assy be btalwed.aMataae free.
In the eweeo froaa say to day the aobjtcf.
Matter ef these peHphlrta will tserhntkated.
and ths pfteaa at thane not sent f jse will he
stated. Bat ta any event, nathinx need be
sent fee? posts an. They caa the tender ertfeee
the sara priee autad. at sot him a ail
Triendly -Words to the
For elf n Born"
By Jeeeph Bafftnaias. aentor CtresH Jndea
ae the Third Curat. J9a
This pamphlet is of the "LeyeJty Lsaflat
astiee. tuch aro doaaxnad for the bne? aaaa
v ewneea who wants the tarportant fnrta
of the war and tha CsMed SurtaV.rtS
patie la H pat ataaply. tersely ed
TWs arm be sea reaa. ekes paatene free, m
eoanaat. by sxldreesrna: Committee on Pa bike
3ucmatk,a, 19 eacasos tteee. Vr.eUa7te.