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i I " 3 " THE OREGON DAILY JOURNAi;,, PORTLAND,. WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 7, 1918. it I' I N I2f DEPENDENT NEWSPAPER s& tk JACKSON Publisher i f abUbed arery Ur. afternoon and mera'ns (- aept Bandar afternoon) at The Journal BiW- inc. Broadway and Yamhill atteeta. Portland, t c Orefon ' Lnurad at the poetoffkw at Portland, Orecoa, fo I trammlaalon tbrouch the maUa at aaeond claaa natter. 1 TELEPHONES Main 7178; Home A-60S1. I All depertmenta reached by theae number. 1 TeU the operator what department yon want. I FOREIGN ADVERTISING REPRESENTATIVE Benjamin Eentnor Co., Bruntwick Bulldlnt. S3B Fifth arena.. New Tork. 00 MaUera f Bniktlna. Chicago. ' Subeerrptien tenne by maU, or to any addrees In tbe United State or Mexico: DAILY IMORNINO OR AFTERNOON) On year. 18 00 On month. .... .60 BITMniT " x One Tear. $2.60 One month f .28 , VAIL? tM6BNU0 OR AFTERNOON) AND Bt'NDAT 1 1 One year T. 80 I One month t .68 It if for n. the lirinf. rather to b dedicated here to the unfintahed work they hare thai far so nobly advanced. It la rather for n to be here dedicated to the (teat teak remaining- before u; that from theM honored dead we take increased dera tion to the cause for which they here cave the lat full measure of deration, that we here hiahly retolTe that these dead shall not hare died in rain. Abraham Lincoln, at Gettysburg. THE CASUALTY LISTS HE lengthened casualty lists are beginning to come. The actuali ties of war are "being brought to many a home. Nor is it alone the bereaved homes that are touched by these rolls of tthe fallen. The whole nation lays its sympathy on the hearthstone of every saddened household. There is no for 'getfulneas In any heart of the sac rifices made, of the ties severed, and beyond and above all, of the gallant 'and effective service rendered at a cost of the supreme sacrifice by the honored dead. We all tried for loDg to avert these sacrifices. Hoping against hope, we ' remained out of this conflict, sub JJmitting to Insult, enduring the de struction of American lives and prop Jerty, and resisting with protests and expostulations the blows on blows palmed at us by an unscrupulous and cruel autocracy. Our protests were (.scorned, our expostulations spurned. Indignity was heaped upon indignity and cruelty upon cruelty. Our president, with a heart full iof concern for the lives and welfare of the young men of this land and -for the ties in every home in this land, kept, us out of the conflict un- Itil contumely and opprobrium were cast upon him by some of his own countrymen. Unkind and ungenerous J things were said of him ; but he bore Jit all in silence in the hope that ihis country and Iris countrymen Jlcould be spared war and its cas ualty lists. J But at last we came to know of Jthe designs of Germany. After de- Sfeating France and Great Britain the Jwar lords Intended to enter Canada J;and Brazil and presently to homo ttnd blas4 their way through the en- Jtire AVestern Hemisphere. We then realized that we must right now in I alliance with England, France, Italy land the others, or that our children would have later to fight this sinis ter and malign power alone. We chose to fight now In a war to end war and leave to our chil dren a precious heritage of perpetual peace. Our young men flew to the colors. The old spirit of the cm battled farmers of that other strug gle for liberty was strong within them. Impetuously and with all tho fire of a magnificent youth they begged to be allowed to go. The - red blood of the free west was afire with that spirit that wrenched lib erty from tyranny and gave freedom to mankind. On the Marne and the Alsne they "have made their record. It is new . and matchless history. They have made a new Bunker Hill nd a new Lexington. They are going - to make a new and greater York- .. town. The price they paid, the sac riflces they endured are being re vealed to us in the mounting casu alty lists. With Abraham Lincoln, we can say .of them. "The world will little note ; nor long remember what we say 'here, but it can never forget what , -they did." And he went on, "It Is for us, ihe living, rather to be dedi cated here to the unfinished work j that they- have thus far so nobly carried on.' .With hearts full of consecration, Iwe can go forward with the task in which they fell, and again say with Lincoln -It is rather for us to be here dedl- , eated to the great task remaining I before us : that from these honored i dead we take Increased devotion to the cause for which they gave the last i tun measure or devotion; that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not I have died . in vain ; that the nation f shall, under God, v have a new birth ef t freedom, and that government of the people, by the Teople, for the peo- Iple, shall not perish from the earth. .The half million tramps who '.swatmed restlessly over America be , .fore the war have so shrunken in t Dumber that they are but a remnant. '"Their absorption ;into useful employ A .caent' b tho answer to thoso who looked upon the hobo as! a Hopeless Idler who wouldn't work.j More prog ress has been made by the accident of war In salvaging hundreds of thousands of them to productive use fulness than was made by the efforts of reformers in a generation.- A care ful study now of what ft was that converted this army of vagrants into self respecting workers would afford some, wholesome truths out of which to profit in the future. ! WHAT THE KRUPPS THINK T HE Zeitung, a Westphalia paper. asks, "If Paris were to be blot ted ut would anything be lost?" That is, of course, anything worth while. The Zeitung is owned by the Krupps and reflects the opin ions of the big cannon men on human affairs in general. As to Paris it answers: "No; if it were blotted out ! nothing of any consequence would be lost." Paris neither cultivates i the goose step nor posts a statue ; of Wilhelm II in the Place de la Republiqua. Therefore it is a thing of naught. The sooner the German Berthas bring it down into the dust the better. Paris is not the only world's treas ure that the Germans have decided to destroy as soon as they get the chance. Whatever we love of poetry, beauty, human kindliness is to go down into ruin together. All that s worth keeping is the paraphernalia of the war god. The Zeitung's verdict upon Paris was passed while the Prussian arms seemed likely to be within striking distance of the boulevards before lpng. It was of some moment then. Now the wheel of fortune has turned. Time has brought in his great re venge' and it makes no differenc-j what any German thinks, of-Paris. In Governor West's time, certain quarters filled the night and the day with shrieks and screams every time a prisoner escaped from the peniten tiary. But you don't hear a yelp now. It is the most eloquent silence that has ever been observed in Oregon. THE GREAT AIM L LOYD GEORGE has captivated tha people of England with a speech in which he says that "Prussian- ism must be beaten until it is impossible for it to rise." In support of this stand he quotes President Wil son, who said that "no halfway de cision would be tolerable or conceiv able." With the present trend of the war on the western front the downfall) of Prussianism in Germany is only a question of time. But if whenj it falls in Germany it raises its head In some other country what will the world have gained? j . The causes which have made Ger many a menace to the world would do the same in France or England or the United States if they wera allowed to operate. In fact, those causes have made Iffance a menace to the world more than onoe. Under Louis XIV France tried p do exactly what Germany is trying to do today. She tried it again under Napoleon England was obliged to fight Franca to a finish in those days, justa3 she is obliged to fight Germany now, in order to save the liberties of the world. Militarism is the same old demon wherever he happens to reside. Like death, the National Woman's party loves a shining mark. It lays ,he b,ame for ,nc de,ay in adopting the suffrage amendment on the presi dent's shoulders, though he has come out squarely for their cause. If the Woman's party managers were a lit' tie more candid they would place the blame where it belongs. And that is on the shoulders of men like Lodge and Weeks of Massachusetts and a number of fossilized relics, from the South. The greatest obstacle in the path of. woman suffrage in the sen ate is the southern dread of negro women's votes. AN IDEA T HIS is a good season for pears and apples. Pear trees in par ticular are overladen. It is a joyous sight to see their bend ing branches with the fruit already looking big and tempting. There will b plenty of apples, too, up and down the -Willamette valley. What is to be done! with all this good fruit? There is but a moder ate market for it, owing to high transportation charges and other obstacles. Some apples will be made into cider to be kept, theoretically, if not practically, sweet for Christ mas festivities. Home canning on the farm will dis pose of many pears. But there is sure to be a surplus, as in most other years. In the good old wasteful ante war days the surplus would have been left on the sod to rot and nobody would have cared. But we cannot afford to waste as we did of yore. Why should not frnlt-gleaning parties be organized in the city to go out into the country and harvest this delicious and abundant food? Many a farmer wooW let it go fo the picking. A coturoittee to take this matter in hand is one of the needs of the day.; Perhaps the food administration may think up some plan suitable to the situation. If the country desired any more evidence that railroad management in private hands was wasteful to th? last ' degree the predicament of the Colorado & Midland road would pro vide ampld supplies. The adminis tration declines tMake over this road becauserthere is ua use Xoc Jla exk- tence. Since it will be a dead weight on their backs the owners have de cided to junk it, the courts permit ting. In time of peace the road could make a pretence of usefulness by dividing spoils with others. But In war we are obliged to deny our selves luxuries of that sort COUNTING THEIR DEAD G ERMAN news dispatches say: Prince Henry of Prussia, while speaking at Hamburg, deplored German discouragement at the present time, and denounced those who took this attitude as poltroons and panic sowers. Hindenburg played and lost. He gambled on beating the French and British before the Americans could ajrrive. The iron dice of fate played him false. He lost. The Marne was his Nemesis. The news of the beaten army is filtering through to the German people. They are learning that tha Americans are on the west front, and coming millions strong. They are war worn and war weary. They are counting their dead. They are inventorying their prospects. They are casting up the account. With many new divisions released by the collapse of Russia, Hinden burg failed to break the British in Picardy. It was worse with his plan to crush the French at the Marne. There history was repeated. . Fate has for this war ordained the Marne to be the Gibraltar' of France. It was Germany's dead line. It split the Hun divisions in 1914, and split them again In this last descent upon Paris. ' It was to the Hun hordes' what a Russian winter was to Napoleon's legions. Withered and bombed and blasted, 700,000 Germans fled before their victors, whipped from a field and scourged in a struggle of their own choosing. All this is why Prince Henry tells the discouraged Germans at home that they are "poltroons and panic sowers." The oratory of Germany is in action. The newspapers of Ger many are explanatory, as they slowly confess to the tremendous fact of the second Marne. How long can the truth be hidden from deepest Germany? Seven hun dred thousand German soldiers who fled from the. fatal Marne know the facts. On the minds of other Hun soldiers in the far flung front the truth is dawning. For four horrible years German homes have been feeding out their cannon fodder. They were en couraged to it by promises of vic tory and deceptions about the im potency of America. Delusion and propaganda helped them forget the butchery of their manhood. But- the speech of Prince Henry gives us a glimpse of their thoughts. They ; are counting their dead. They are taking stock. They are in ventorying the future. American casualty lists are length ening. But Germany is paying a terrible price for them. Every American that falls is a Jar for tho throne at Berlin, a tick of the clock that will strike the doom of Lkaiserism. The hour may be long postponed, but the iron dice fell wrong for Hindenburg. The submarine is dying. America is arriving. The second Marne was a catastrophe. Tho angel of destiny has written out the ultimate verdict and signed and sealed it. Let every ounce ot our American power be thrown into the struggle, let every one at homo go on helping hold the line, let every man, woman and child stand true and steadfast, fighting with the last dollar and the last ounce of strength until the last gun is fired, and our gallant fighters will hurry the end. If there Is need of reason why America should prosecute the war with the utmost vigor and never accept a compromise peace, it is sup plied by the torpedoing of the Britlsn hospital ship Warilda with 600 sick and wounded soldiers on board, Americans among them. The appeals of the wounded men for help as they struggled weakly in the midnight water must echo through every rural community, in every city byway and to the mountain tops throughout this country until the sinister govern ment that sent wounded soldiers and women nurses to the bottom lies prostrate, humbled and penitent in defeat. It is indeed a sinister gov ernment that makes war on wounded soldiers, women and babies. THE RUSSIAN COMMISSION H IS friends in Oregon, Washington and elsewhere are urging William H. Galvani for a place on the proposed . eoonomio commission fo Russia. - -He is highly eligible. A Russian by birth, he speaks the language as his mother tongue, a highly important qualification in going among the Russian people for political and eco nomic purposes. He knows the Russian people, their history, their problems and their4 traditions. Always an opponent of the Romanoff dynasty, and, an active propagandist against It during his 35 years' residence and citizenship in .the i United States, his record and his ideals peculiarly fit him to bo received with confidence by thosa who wrested power from the czar by driving him into exile, and who are now " struggling to bring order out of , the chaos brought on by con flicting theories now striving for mastery in Russia. -A fluent and forceful speaker. highly - informed on : the aspirations of Eussla ana tae . intentiona : OX America, full of realization of the importance of spreading confidence among the Russians regarding the purposes of the United States, Mr. Galvani would be an emimently fit choice for any commission the Ameri can government may Intend to send to Russia. Wicked old San Francesco is Joined to Its bottle like Ephraim to his idols. The Bay City Just simply can not find it in its heart to interfere with the operations of its bootleggers who peddle out booze to Uncle Sam's troops. The result will be a dry city by order of the federal authori ties If it does not mend its ways within the ..next six months. But a city can not mend its ways without one or two reformed characters to serve as saving yeast for the sinners. In that particular we fear San Fran cisco resembles Sodom: the one or two can not be found. DID "DOUGHBOYS" REALLY DO IT? Head the Testimony of European Ex perts, Neutral and German. From tha Philadelphia Ledger (July 28) Do we Americans, seriously "blooded" for the first time In this war, take too flattering a view of the achievement of our boys, with their French comrades, in the stunning "punch" they recently landed on the ribs of the German thrust toward Paris? It is easy to make us believe that we do. We know that we are sinfully proud of every last "dough boy" of the lot. It fills our throats, our hearts and our eyes just to , see them swing down the familiar street to the thrilling music of war. So we well know we are prone to exaggeration when we talk of their exploits "over there." We would be ashamed of ourselves if we were not. ' But have we exaggerated this time? Well, let us forget our American dis patches, with the writers love ; for our lads breaking through them at every sentence, and try to get some calm and impartial testimony on the point. We have, first of all, the testimony of the war maps. One has only to look at them to see what has happened. The Germans crossed the historic Marne and struck south, for the double purpose of pinching out the Rheims salient and building a springboard for their next tiger leap upon the French capital. We held and turned back a part of that thrust; and then, in conjunction with the French, we struck a shattering sur prise blow into the side of the German advance, with the twofold result that we cut away a wide swath of tactically iuauiD iciiiiuiy aim ranipciieu a nasty , retreat of the German forces south o? I the Marne. This last movement was the official German register j of the strength of our blow much as ; the fly ing indicator of a "try-your-strength ma chine" registers the blow of your mallet. The German high command, in refusing to fight with the flowing Marne behind their army, gave unwilling testimony to the grave menace of our lank attack. Then let us consider the evidence of the neutral press. Captain B. W. Norre gaard is a great Swedish critic of pro German inspiration. His articles are syndicated throughout Scandinavia. He discusses at length this whole thrust and counter thrust in this week's article. His first conclusion is, that it is well nigh impossible to doubt that this is "LudendorffB maximum effort." The prolonged preparations, the length of line assaulted and the magnitude of the forces employed all indicate a major offensive and not a mere diversion. Yet he finds it almost impossible to believe that "Germany's greatest military blow should lead to so miserable a result." The meaning of this is that, looking with pro-German spectacles at the facts gathered from German sources, he can not escape the conclusion that this Is (jAmanv'fl nfor miHcummA, cmoaVi Hut when he considers what the Fr'anccXf American troops did to It, he cannot crdlt his own knowledge that we have smashed the smash ! That is not an American opinion, but a pro-German neutral opinion. His Inference is that, if all this is really so and he rubs his eyes as he looks at the debacle then the great German offensive has failed : and "July 15 may perhaps be reckoned as the turning point in the war." This. then, is what the Americans and the French have accomplished, as seen from Stockholm. Were our cheers too loud? Were we blinded by our admitted prtde? Have we said anything stronger of the victory of our "raw troops" than that they helped to bring the great German offensive to failure and assisted at "the turning point In the war?" Next, take the Dutch .testimony. The Kieuwe Rotterdamsche Courant says : "The German offensive east and west pf Rheims failed through the Franco American thrust. Von Boehm's army narrowly escaped the fate of the Aus trlans on the Plave. The danger to Rheims and Epernay seems to have been averted by a single blow. In less than a week the Germans who began the offensive were forced to the defensive and in the Champagne not only lost all the ground won, but were obliged to surrender a whole stretch of what they formerly occupied." We have not seen this succinct account of the short, sharp campaign, in which our boys shared, exceeded in optimism in its summing up of results achieved, by any American correspondent. Yet it comes from a country which imports its news from Germany, which has always been genuinely and even anxiously neu tral and which of late has been inclined to feel a grievance against the allies, and especially against us. But let us put the Germans themselves on the witness stand. They at all events are not particularly prejudiced in favor of the Americans. In fact, it has taken them considerable time to admit that we are over there at all. Though they are unwilling witnesses, still even a super ficial glance reveals their ("official re port" itself to be very illuminating. Its most conspicuous fature is a complete loss of temper. Look at this chivalrous account of the forces which have just given them so sound a thrashing : "The French subject peoples, Al gerians, Tunisians, Moroccans and Sene galese, were in the thick of the fighting and bore the main burden of the strug gle. Senegalese battalions, which were distributed among the French divisions as battering rams, stormed behind the tanks in advance of the white French men. Americans, including black Amer icans and Englishmen and Italians fought between the French." Having failed in the stern clash of arms, JJiey "call names" and "make faces." For the conclusive and humiliat ing extent to which this cheap conduct confesses openly to defeat, apply to ths nearest American schoolboy. The chap who Is compelled to run away and who "makes faces" and spits out insults as he runs Is a thoroughly well licked cub. The German press is quite as amusing. The Berlin correspondent of the Koel nlsche Volksseitung is reduced to ths last resort of a whipped and panic stricken coward... He raises the mad mob cry of "Betrayal i" ' He says that tha plans of tha German headquarters J were betrayed. tthnejny br-Oermani soldiers from the ranks. This is a highly probable story, it being the invariable custom of the German high command of all command to confide its military plans to the soldiers In the ranks. BuUf a frightened and frenxled coward does not always study with care the prob abilities. Take It all in all. it looks as If the America which, would "never fight" had succeeded In sending overseas an army which it "could never create." and "never transport to Europe" If it did create it ; and as if this Impossible array of a "pacifist" nation which never did, could or would exist, had helped to win a notable little scrimmage ,in the district of the Marne, which had put the German high command out of temper, the Ger man press out of Its mind, the German plans out of joint and had begun' the jubilant job of i putting the Germans themselves out of France t Letters From the People . Communicatlona aent to Tha Journal for pub lication in thia department ahould be written on only one aide ot the paper, ahould not exceed 800 words in length and must be aixned by tha writer, wboee mail addreaa In full muat accompany tha contribution. J Foretells Germany's Doom Portland, Aug. 4. To the Editor of The Journal Germany would be better off if she would lay down her arms to day and accept democracy. The 'im mense sacrifice of manpower she will be obliged to make for a lost cause would greatly weaken the nation. She can never withstand the pressure of the tremendous onslaught of the American army. America's strength will be for ever increasing, while Germany's will be decreasing. A link in her gigantic military chain is broken. Further re sistance will only break every link. America's strength Is underestimated by Germany. America's great manpower and wonderful resources are bound to defeat Germany. When the common people of Germany realize they are beaten, they can throw their war butch ers overboard and set up a republic. Then the world can dwell in peace. E. A. LINSCOTT. The Price of Fuel Portland, Aug. 2. To the Editor of The Journal I wish to say a word in re ply to Fred J. Holmes' statement that labor is now S5 per day whereas in April it was $3.50. There is no mill on this coast paying $5 a day for common labor, or shipyard either. They have raised their wood 200 per cent and are still rais ing it. He advised everyone to get in an early supply. But no one could get an order filled, for the simple reason that they are piling it up in their yards for a higher price this winter. We are told by a man who has just returned from New York that a man can live 30 per cent cheaper there than here. A SHIP CARPENTER. A Primary Election Mitup Butteville, Or.. Aug. 3. To the Editor of The Journal It has developed that a strange political mlx-up occurred at the late nrimarv eWMon Mv 17 lat held at Donald, Marion county. It Is a ( mix-up the nature of which the framers of the Oregon primary law did not foresee, or precautions would have been taken against its possibility. Donald is a regularly Incorporated city under the laws of the state of Oregon and is embraced in a justice of the peace district. In normal times polling the largest number of votes of any precinct in the district, and knowing a good thing when they see it, the Donaldites concluded that they should name the candidates on the respective political tickets for the office of justice of the peace. And then the mlxup happened. "Happened!' is the word, because they all say 4t was not dons Intentionally. OneJhEsnry .Emmanuel Marty, a stal wart Ifinjublican in fact, as he hlm3elf admits, V standpat, reactionary Repub lican from away back, one who has time and again pointed with pride to the achievements of the leaders of the Re publican psjrty in tha interest of good government in this country, and who has also, as he himself says, viewed with alarm the reprehensible conduct of the leadersof the Democratic party was nominated on the Democratic ticket at the primary election for the office of jUBtce of tne Pea(, the Donald dls trict. One William Marclus Johnson, a dyed-in-the-wool Democrat of the Jefferson ian, Jacksonian and Wilsonlan type, and one who has many times pointed with pride and viewed with alarm, the same as- Henry J-.mmanuel Martv. but from ' widely different angles, was nominated on the Republican ticket for the office of justice of the peace In tha Donald His. trict. Both Mr. Marty and Mr. Johnson, at the time of the primary election was held, were prominent business men of Donald ; both popular and each had a numerous following. Moreover, their re lations were -of the most cordial nature ; not so tender, perhaps, as those of Damon and Pythias, but quite strong, for these prosaic, mercenary times. But now, it is said, all this has been changed and these two gentlemen when they meet on the street simply glare at each other and pass on. Were it not for the good offices of Benjamin Franklin Quinn, peace maker of Donald and a diplomat of the highest type, something rash might have been done before now by orte or both of these gentlemen, placed In such delicate and ambiguous posi tions before the Donald electorate. The outcome of the mlxup is awaited most anxiously by the friends of the two candidates, who declare they are Inno cent of any attempt to bring the pri mary law into disrepute and of trying to get Into office under false pretenses. NAPOLEON DAVIS. PERSONAL MENTION Himes Leaves for South George H. Himes will leave Thursday morning for Coos Bay, where he will read a paper before the state editorial convention on the history of the first newspapers south of Salem. Mr. Himes will be gone for about 10 days, investi gating and collecting a number of relics throughout Southern Oregon to add to the collection of the Oregon Historical society. To Inspect Timber Sales "T. T. Munger, forest examiner, has left for a 10-day trip to the Baker, Whitman and Minam national forests, where he will inspect timber sale work. J.'W. Hoech, cashier of the Eastern Oregon Banking company of Shanlko, accompanied by his family. Is at the Nortonia for a sojourn. Mrs. Cole Smith of Shaniko Is visit ing at the Nortonia. Mr. and Mrs. H. D. McClean of Salem are at the Nortonia. Mrs. R.A. McGeorgs of Fort Stevens Is at ths Carlton. Mr. and Mrs. L. L. Phelps of Oakland, Cal.. are at the Carlton. J. M. Burke of Seattle Is an arrival at the Carlton. Mr. and Mrs. C. H. Irwin of Redmond are at the Washington. John Ovall of Salem ls a visitor at the Washington. Irene C. Morgan of Washougal, Wash., is an arrival at the Washington. .Mrs. Thomas Roberge and baby of Florence, Or, are at the Portland. Ij. d. Morse of San Francisco Is at the Oregon. Miss Audrey Pearl of Taeoma la at j the .Oregon, H.; W, George or Omaha, Nebula -at i 1 COMMENT AND NEWS IN BRIEF SMALL CHANGE Today's best joke : Von Hertllng'e peace iauc The Tanks will make hamburg of Hindenburg. Flames makes a noise something akin to a cooling drink. It's always safe to give to the Red Cross until It hurts. The Zeps seem to have lost their zip If they ever had any. The service offers work to the boys who can crank a tank. t Wonder how many Yankees the Boche now think there are on the western front. Can't help but feel that its also .the hottest season in many years on Unter den Linden. e e If the Bolehevikl ever start anything with Japan it's curtains and slow music for BolshevikL When we hear of farmer friends shocking the oats we know at once, ot course, tnat they can't be wild oats China pheasants in Rose City Park are digging up and eating young pota toes in the war gardens. Hope they cnoKe. Our idea of a cooperative working agreement is mat wrucn exists between tire persons who lay the pavement and toe ones wno tear it up again A contemporary : "Mr. and Mrs. Hans Skrenner attended the christening of a baby at the home of Mr. and Mrs. G H. Barrels." Probably tapped a little keg, too. JOURNAL MAN ABROAD By Fred Testimony to tha excellent work of a group of young American women who bear name that are among the best known of America i today borne by Mr. Lockley, The Journal' ataff cor respondent in France. Mr. Lockley further tells something of Captain Archie Roosevelt and hi wounded arm. lie also quote an Oregon man who is now an officer in a Krench artillery regiment, after acuve aerrice in the iamuua i'oieien Legion. ) Paris Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt, whose husband, Theodore Roosevelt, Jr., is here in France, at the front, was beat ing out a swui ana merry luH u i typewriter. kb i bw ucr i morning. She is the type or American girl that one instinctively likes at first sight. She is quite pretty, but it is not that so much as her air of friendliness ami frankness that attract by inspiring trust and confidence. Mrs. RooBevelt has done wonderfully valuable work over here, but she is so modest about her work 'that her name is rarely men- j tloned In connection with what has been done. When her husband enlisted to come to France she wanted to come along so that in case he was wounded she could be near him. She heard a rumor that the wives of officers were not to be permitted to come over ; So. fearing action of that kind might be taken, she at once went toY. M. C. A. headquarters and offered her services. She was the first volunteer woman worker, and there was no precedent, but the committee accepted her services, the understanding being that she would teach French to the secretaries sent over.-f She thus became the pioneer woman Y. M. C. A. worker in France. She has managed a Y. M. C. A. hotel, has or ganized activities for the soldiers, has been a mother and a sister to lonely soldiers, and done more good than 20 men secretaries In reminding the soldier lads of the ideals of the home land. Mlsg Martha McCook, Miss Gertrude Ely, Mrs. Roosevelt, Mrs. Vincent Astor, Mrs. Ethel Harrlman Russell, and scores of other American girls of their typo have been powerful factors for righteousness over here. Mrs. Roosevelt and I talked about Colonel Roosevelt, and she told me some interesting things relative to his work along the line of war activities. "I have just been over to see my brother-in-law. Captain Archie Roosevelt, who Is In the hospital here," she said. "He Is wild to get back with his men. He was wounded early in March, and here it is 'June 17 and he is still unable to use his arm. The doctors have promised him he can leave the hospital as soon as he is able to scratch his nose. How he does try. At first he could only raise his arm so high ; now he can get it up this high (illustrating). His wrist droops, though, so he cannot raise his i hand, but it Is getting stronger, and j ho thinks he will soon be able to use his hand. Inaction is very hard on him. but he should be thankful, even if it is a little slow, that he will .have the use of his arm and hand, for hs got an ugly wound. "By the way, Mr. Lockley, I want to tell you now, while I think of it, that you live In one of the most beautiful cities I ever visited. We were in Port land when the roses were at their best. You were just about to have your Rose Festival. We went up on a streetcar to the top of I think it was called Council Crest. There we saw five wonderful snow-clad mountain peaks, and from the vast stretch of country to be seen I don't doubt we saw HOW TO BE HEALTHY By Dr. Wooda Hutchtaeon. Former Portland Tphynlrtan THE CHILDREN'S YEAR (NO. 3) So successful has prenatal work al ready proved that In some English towns and villages the death rate during the first month of child life has been cut down in the most astonishing manner, almost o the vanishing point. In fact. It goes without saying that such a cam paign could hardly be more timely and vitally necessary than today,' as a means of counterbalancing the losses and rav ages of war. The experience of most of the bellig erent countries has already shown that after the upheaval and disruption of the first year or so of war. with jls paralysis of all peaceful health and life saving activities, there came a quick re action. The lowered birth rate and the pitiful waste of life In war gave a higher value to child life, made it pos sible to secure increased appropriations from the government and spurred ail child saving agencies to redoubled ac tivity. So that in France, England and Belgium the death rate among children has now been actually reduced to a lower level than ever before In their the Multnomah. He Is a Civil war vet eran who Is here to attend the conven tion. Captain Walter Johnson of Aberdeen is at the Multnomah. W. H- Oxman of Cathlamet Is at the Multnomah. Miss Grace Statum of Taeoma is at the Oregon. " Mrs. L. H. Hedlund of Corvallls Is at the Multnomah. Mrs. E. L. Snyder of Aberdeen is a guest at the Benson. T. B. Sumner of Everett is at the Benson. L. Walter Kennon of Corvallis is at the Multnomah. Bailey Hlpklns tf Seattle Is at the Portland. J. A- F.lman of Denver Is at the Fort land. R. W. Ayers of Pendleton Is at the Multnomah.- .". :, : f ilary Q, .Lewis p Waldrpn. la la OREGON SIDELIGHTS "Three weeks ago." aays the Corval- lis Courier, "a Benton county farmer rlnrwl hl mtitncii in tha dust. He took a long chance, but If -frosts hold off, he will be a winner. "Interest is increasing in sheen, both for mutton and wool." remarks the Au rora Observer. "The quicker valley farmers stock up (not overstock) their farms, the quicker their profits wiu begin." The prospects are, according to the Joseph Herald, that therer will be a county fair in Wallowa county this' fall, which "will likely be mostly fine stock and produce and any profits derived will likely go to some good cause." With 300 subscribed by public spir ited cltlxens of Forest Grove, the Ex press says. Road Overseer Todd has graveled the road "west from the end of the Pacific avenue pavement to the Tom Phillips place and the footpaths along the road have also been sanded." The Baker Democrat quotes a local real estate dealer who is running a free emDlovment aeency on the side as say ing that he has had from 10 to- 20 ap plications daily for the past week by men who are seeking employment for farm work and otherwise, while receiv ing few calls from farmers in need of help. "Grant county," emphatically asperts the Canyon City Eagle. "Is proud of its kid soldiers, and. without Retting pro fane, we want to say that by Heck when these kids Eet to the front the folks at home are going to see that they get plenty of pruh and all of the medical attention they need when they are wounded." Lockley possibly five counties also spread out below us. It Is certainly an inspiring sight. I shall never forget your scenery, your luscious fruits and your profusion of beautiful roses and other flowers. I met two officers of a French artillery regiment recently. One was carrying a copy of Collier's, to I concluded that If he could read English he could probably speak it I said to the first one, "You are a French officer, are you not?" He nodded. I asked. "Where do you hail from?" He answered by asking, "Where do you come from?" I raid, "Portland, Oregon." He said, "So do I. I went to the Portland academy a few years ago. My grandfather. Matt Clark, lives at Salem. My name is William C. Towle. My present address is 676 Riverside drlv; ?ew Irk City. I am an 'aspirant' which Is French for provisional lieu tenant In the First regiment of artil- lery. lnis is my cnum, nonert fJ. v. ens or tjrownsvuie. texas, wno is an aspir- ant In the Fortieth regiment of artil- lery of the French army. My folks lived in Portland a couple of years. My father is a syrup manufacturer. He was at Seattle for a while, but now we live in New York City. Say, as a - fellow American and a fellow Portlander, can you take this mone.- and rustle me some American cigarettes? Thanks awfully. I'll call for them there. How did I get to be an officer In the French army? Well I got Into the war a little sooner than our country did. Wells and I and : lot of other lads joined the famed Foreign Legion. There were three regiments. Now there is but part of one left, formed of Danes, Swedes, Spaniards, Norwegians and men of other neutral countries. A lot of our boys in the Foreign Legion saw plenty of action. They used the legion aries sb shock troops. We led many a charge, and they had to I-eep recruiting pretty steadily to fill the gaps. Honestly, the original Foreign Legion which, of course, is now no more was composed of wonderful troops. The French gov ernment granted Immunity and prolac tin for 18 months to all who enlisted in it. This resulted In a host of men who were wanted for murder and every other form of crime enlistlnr id at the end of the 18 months they could be arrested and tried for their crimes, but I doubt if any of them lasted 18 months. While they lasted they certainly won laurels for their organization, of which they were very proud. They would die cheer fully and gladly for its honor. No, the Germans didn't love them. They washed their indiscretions off the slate with German blood. They helped write a red page in France's history." " One often sees provisions over here marked. "Food Supplies for the Front." In the past this was my case. My food supplies went to the front. Each month I have been over here I have taken up my belt one hole. Now I can wear a belt five Inches smaller than I did when I came over. Today when I weighed which Is the first time I have been weighed In France I found that In plaee of weighing 227 pounds I weighed 93 kilos. Multiply that by 2.2. and you have 204 pounds. And that Is with heavy shoes and leather leggings. Stripped, I would weigh about 193 pounds. Thus, hard work and French breakfasts bring their compensations. history. In England and France the average height and weight of children at a given age are higher than before the war. And thanks to war wages plus the intelligent child welfare work of former years, and care bestowed upon keeping tip the nutrition of chil dren since the war, English and French school children and the latest "classes" called to the colors in France show a distinct improvement in physique over previous standards. On the other side of the war front, by contrast, there has been a striking increase of the child death rate In Germany and height and weight at a given sge are markedly lower than be fore the war. The Children's Year drive cannot fall to succeed both in reaching its set goar and in reducing sickness and death among) our children to a lower level than ever before the war, as some par tial compensation for our pitiful losses at the front Tomorrow : Lungs. White Coal and Clean the city on a visit, being quartered at the Washington. J. Dickson of St. Helens is at the Multnomah. Robert Patterson of Seattle is at the Benson. M. A. Goodyear of Chicago is at the Benson. Mrs. Thomas Ross of Echo Is at the Multnomah. Stockton Mazey of Seattle Is at the Portland. J. L. Merrick of Los Angeles Is at the Benson. A. E. Todd of Victoria is at the Im perial. J. Kingman of Victoria Is at the Im perial. Mr. and Mrs. William & Dixon of Chicago are at the Imperial. They are connected with overseas war work. Mr. and Mrs. H. C. Lane of Spokane are at the Imperial. T. A, McCann of Bend is at the port land, - . ; .-. . ' . . . ; Ragtag and Bobtail Stories From Everywhere Mlflhty Queer PIsce for Snake I H. HARRIS of Harris Canyon had an experience with a rattlesnake at ms ranch the other day that makes him extremely cautious about approaching pump, says the Echo News. Ha went to s pitcher pump near th hmiaji a a drink, and as was his custom, stooped unns irom the spout. As he leaned toward the pump after starting tha handle in motion, a big rattlesnake shot its head from the opening above the valve and struck at him. narrowly miss ing his face. The rattler was ,kllled and found to be an extremely large one with 10 rattles and a button. A Tooth for a Tooth Jimmy wanted his tooth after It had been pulled, says Harper's ; so the den tist wrapped it up in paper and gavs it to him. "But what are you going to do with it, Jimmy?" he asked. "I'm going to take it home, cram it full of sugaT. and watc h it ache." Hooveriiing in a Penitentiary . "Some more beans?" "No, thank you." "Really not? Oh. do have a couple more have one more !" "No, no. I could not do it. Ever so--much obliged, old top. just the same." "Yu don't mean It?" "I no. absolutely. I am a conscientious objector against a second helping of. beans. The foregoing conversation, if it actu ally has not taken place yet, is very likely to be held one of these days in the Eastern penitentiary between one of the inmates and a guard around the supper hour, says the Philadelphia Ledger. For "Fighting Bob" McKenty's "boys' have made known their deter mination to "get back" of the food ad ministration. Jay Cooke, United States food administrator for Philadelphia county, yesterday rf-ceived a letter from Convict "B No. S361." asking for a dozen food administration posters "Ho be displayed where they will do tha most good In the penitentiary." The posters were sent out immediate ly. Following as it does the Inmates' admirable efforts in the Liberty loan. War Chest and War Savings cam paigns, the request touched food offi cials as a new, unmistakable proof of the patriotism of the men on. Cherry hill. Ratifying the Hun Defeat Last Friday night Joseph, nays ths Herald of a recent issue, was awakened by a shouting, howling bunch of people wno naa lnvadn the city to let all know that there na4Jjten a big alllexi victory in France. About 12 auto loads j participated, being from Enterprise and Joseph. As the first car hove into j view, our valiant chief' of police halted' . them and told them that they must not make so much noise. "Well." said th occupants, "you'll have to build a larger jail if you accommodate us, as thers are about a dozen cars behind this one." "What's all the excitement about," Mar shal Tatten wanted to know. "The allies have licked the stuffln' out of the Roches and we are celebrating," replied the occupants of the car. "Well," said Patton, "that being the case, I'll go and ring the fire bell and let them all celebrate." When the fire bell rang, Joseph got on its feet in a hurry and rushed out to help and were soon cele brating with the rest of the gamr Sol Keltner of Enterprise was powder man and set off a couple of explosions in the center of the town that made some think they' were being raided from the air. All were glad to hear the news, and after cutting up as much as they wanted to, the autos dispersed to their different homes. Mandy's Barrage A southern judge, the Ran FranjMsco Argonaut says, was up against a tough proposition when Mandy. an old black servitor of the family, who had retired from active service, was arraigned for disturbing the peace. "Good m awn In', jedge." "Good morning. Mandy. Mandy, I am very sorry to sv you up here and I want to know if it is true that you hit Susie Jones with a flatlron." "Tesss, Jedge, I hit her. Jedge, how in yoT "Now. Mandy " "Lordy. that man sho' do look like his paw!" "See here. Man- Ply " "Honey, yo' sho' Is glttln' better lookin' every day." ."Order in court." ".ledge. Is yo' paw still got the rheuma tism?" "Prisoner Is discharged. Next case." "Thankee, Jedge. thankee." t'nrie Jeff Snow Says: Tt 'pears like to me that we the people has about got around to where we Ftarted 30 or 40 year ago in regulatln' these here railroad and corporation charges. They uster charge whatever they could git. and we went to the legis lature. The legislature threw up a sorter buffer, with commissions. The commis sions now lets "em charge what they like, fill up on watered stock and cinch us this way ' and that ; only they in vestigate and hear and examine and deliberate till we're all tired out f oiler -in' their trails. The rlnch grips Us Jlst about the same. We're like Ike Temple ton when he got lost In a fog out In the Tillamook marshes in '84. or some where about that time, He follered a trail all day, an' at night got to his campflre he had left that mornin. Olden Oregon How a Pioneer Editor Gave Proof of Easy Resourcefulness. The Oregon Spectator was enlarged to 24 columns on February 1, 1848, and Aaron K. Waits became the editor. Like most editors, Mr. Wslte had the faculty of quickly adapting himself to clrcum utances. In 1844 he hafl been the editor of a newspaper? in Mich lgan. The first news of the Demo, cratlc national convention w that event ful year reported that certain men had been nominated for president and vice president, and based on that report Ed itor Watte wrote a laudatory editorial congratulating the people on the ability of the nominees and promising the heartiest support of the paper. After the paper had gone to press news came that the early report, was wrong and that Polk and Dallas were the nominees. Mr. Waits hurried to his office, caused the names of Polk and Dallas to be in serted in his article instead of the names first written, and the press was started i again. What he had written in the first place Answered just as well after the names of the nominees had- been changed. Journal Travel Bureau Notes Rate Inducements Are Still Offered Summer Excursionists. While no cheap summer tourist round trip tickets have been placed in effect this year, specUlround trip rates hare been estabUsheTShe different na tional parks, summerVesorts .and Into Canada. - J For - Information , regarding routes, rates, 'time schedules, reserva tions and other details of a journey call on or address "Journal Travel and ln formation Bureau,", Information, free.