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THE OREGON DAILY JOURNAL, PO RTLAND, TUESDAY, AUGUST 13. 1918.
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The eanse of freedom Unidentified with
the deUnies of humanity, and in whateTer
part of the world It ain ground by and
by; It will be a common gam to all tbo
who desire It. Kossuth.
LIBERTY WHEAT
WITH the 1918 harvest practically
out of the way a national plat,
for a still greater harvest in
1919 has been announced by
the United States department of agriy
culture. American farmers are asked
to ow to winter wheat this fall
not less than 43,OOO,(X0 acres. Th'S
Is an increase of 7 per cent over
last year's sowing. The department
suggests that even a greater area,
approximating 47,r00,(XiO acres or an
Increase of over 12 per cent, couli
be sown if conditions are favorable
in all the (states. 'From the 4j.00O.0O)
acreage a harvest of 630,000,000
bushels might he expected, it is es
timated. A discount of 10 per cent
is allowed for winter kill.
The plan fixes definite acreage by
states and in a campaign to be
launched immediately by the depart
ment and the state agricultural cot
leges and lt-ading farmers through
out the country, growers will be
asked to ; make good their stats
quot;i$. The minimum quota as
signed Oregon is T90,000 acres and
the maximum 602,000. Recommen
dations regarding ttie planting it
spring . wheat will follow later.
While the latest estimate of the
1918 harvest is 891,000,000 bushels of
winter and s.pring wheat, the reserve
supply this year is the smallest on
record and practically exhausted.
The need of building up a reserve
is evident.
in buying their equipment The
persuasion of dealers can easily lead
to the acquirement of implements
which are not suited for the work
to which they are to be put, either
by reason of lack of power or the
nature of the ground to be worked.
It is not so much a question of
saving a few dollars on the price
as it is that of securing a machine
which will do the work and adapt
itself to local conditions. What would
be suitable for one road might not
always be good for another. There
fore, before investing county money
in road machinery the conditions of
the county should be well "studied
and only that which will render tho
greatest service be purchased, apply
ing the same rules which govern pur
chases on private account.
The proposal to extend the draft
age from 18 to 45 comes at a psy
chological moment. It serves notice
on the German government that al
though the presence of 300,000 Ameri
cans in the front line helped turn
the tide of war, we stand ready for
every effort and every sacrifice
necessary to make that defeat as
thorough as possible.
AM DEUTSCHE RHEl.X
HlS ALLIED ARMIES are still a
long way from the Rhine but if
they keep forging ahead they
will come to its banks by and
by and perhaps cross it. Already
the Rhine begins to be mentioned
significantly in the war news.
As the ' accounts of the fighting
to the westward filter through the
censorship to Berlin, the people who
have supported the war lords in their
crimes cannot feel entirely comfort
able. Presentiments of coming trouble
must race1 through their minds.
It is one thing, to inflict those
horrors of war upon their neighbors
and quite another thing to feel those
horrors in their own beer gardens.
As the allied troops push on toward
the Rhine the sense of this differ
ence will become lively in the minds
of the kaiser's slaves.
And when the Rhine is crossed and
city after city is bombarded, th;
poor simpletons will learn a lesson
which will make them less eager
to plunge into the next war drama
concerted by their lords and masters.
The Germans must probably have a
thorough trouncing in their own
Fatherland before they will be pre
pared for honest membership in a
league of peace.
omy, alike beneficial to producers,
distributors and consumers, the zone
system of milk distribution has mue1!
to commend It. In San, Francisco the
food administration is to make itself
the head of a great distributing or
ganization which will control the
milk supply and the routes of the
milk distributors. The city will oe
divided into zones and to each zone
two distributing agencies will be as
signed. Each milk wagon will go out
fully loaded. The radius of distribu
tion will be greatly restricted. The
competitive element which is, or
course, the primary cause of the
present duplication on milk routes,
will be minimized. It is expected
that wagons loaded to capacity and
delivering from door to door, or
nearly so, will operate at about hatf
the uual cost. The expense 6f so
licitation will be materially reduced.
Thi complicated web of rnj.lk distri
bution will be so simplified, the tolls
on the business will be so lightened,
that it is hoped the emergency of
the dairymen will be met from the
savings of the zone system rather
than from the pocketbooks of consumers.
first step to that is a civilized mar
keting system which will yield fair
profit to the producer without pil
laging the consumer.
War garden patches are helping t3
keep away war trouser patches.
Instead of a boastful march on
Paris the German public is now read
ing of the wonderful skill displayed
by their armies in the march on
Berlin backwards.
UNTRAINED
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During July the sale of War Sav
ings and Thrift Stamps totalled near
ly two hundred and twelve million
dollars, surpassing all previous
monthly records. This represents a
loan to the government of two dol
lars for every man, woman and child
in the United States.
"The matchless service of the Asso
ciated Press, always first with mo
mentous news," says the Oregonian,
enabled that paper to get out ain
extra at 8:53 Sunday morning, tellfng
of the capture of Chaulnes. "Thous
ands of copies," adds the Oregonian,
complacently, "were sold immediately
and other thousands were bought
eagerly by churchgoers when they
appeared on their way to morning
worship." Unfortunately, the "news"
was not true. Chaulnes had not
been taken by the allies and it is
ttill held by the Germans two days
after the Oregonian's announcement
of its capture. The Associated Pres
is not infallible, despite the Oregoni
an's constant efforts to convince its
readers of the contrary. Moreover,
it is an undeniable fact that nine
tenths of the real war news which
is published in the morning paper
has- appeared the previous day in
The Journal.
BUYING ROAD MACHINERY
CZECHO-SLOVAK NATION
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mHE GREAT revolution in road
I building through the introduc-
tidn of machinery is most for
. cibly suggested by the operation
of two steam shovels on the Colum
bia river highway in Hood Rivet'
county. These shovels differ from
the ordinary shovel i that they
are mounted on caterpillar wheels
and propel themselves over soft
ground as well as hard. No track
has to be laid for them, neither do
they have to be snaked along by a
large stesl cable. It is estimated
that one of these shovels will do thu
work of fifty men.
The indications are that the con
tractor operating these shovels will
make a profit on his contract, a
- rare event nowadays if the stories
told by contractors are to be relied
upon. His ability to do so will be
attributed mainly to these shovels.
which have solved the problem of
ever increasing cost and scarcity of
labor. If these shovels had been
available during the construction of
4 the highway in Multnomah county
it is said that at least one hundred
i thousand dollars would have been
saved to the taxpayers.
Road construction and maintenance
In the future are to depend greatly
on the employment of machinery
Progressive counties are beginning to
. appreciate this fact and as a result
are equipping themselves accordingly.
' It is a natural evolution following
the course of modern progress.
.The danger to be feared is that
. good, business Judgment wilk not
always be exercised by county courts
F SERVICE alone entitled a people
to recognition, the rich lands of
Bohemia and Moravia should be
redeemed from Austria and set up
as an independent government. This
much is due the Czecho-SJovak, who
is not only fighting with the allies
on all fronts but has kept Russia
open to allied influence. , When Rus
sia's vast armies melted away the
Czech o-Slovak, who had deserted
from the Austrian army, remained
and formed a nucleus which is to
day the main hope of the redemption
of Russia.
In the United States the Czecho
slovak is recruiting in every com
munity where a Czecho-SIovak set
tlement exists. They are in the
ranks on the western front and on
the Italian front there is a steady
access of Czecho-SIovak deserters
from the Austrian ranks. As soon
as they are safe within the Italian
lines they seek enlistment in a Slav
unit and turn their faces toward tho
trenches they have escaped from.
While it is impossible to appraise
tne work oeing done Dy the Czecho
Slovak in the cause of freedom, its
value is large and will become more
apparent in the days to come. It
has been the anchor which thus far
has held the dismasted and rudder
less ship of Russia through storm
and mutiny.
When the war is over the Czecho
slovak is deserving of a national
existence.
RITING from Paris, Elizabeth
Shepley Sergeant tells an in
comparable story of the heroic
endurance of some United
States troops. The incident took
place a little before the Fourth of
July. A Yankee regiment reached
Chateau-Thierry after a march of 36
hours. Its colonel was asked if his
men did not needa rest before they
went into the fight. "No," he said,
"they'll go right in."
The Germans were advancing along
the highway from Metz to Paris.
The colonel lined up his men square
ly across the road and the Germans
advanced no farther. They wera
stopped. And then the Americans
charged and drove them back.
The same men were in the fight at
Belleau wood and took the last cor
ner of it from the enemy. They
could have fought no better if they
had been practicing the goose-step
for a hundred years. No soldiers
ever did or could fight better. They
met the kaiser's bravest and drove
them from the field.
There are Americans who feel that
; is a slander upon the men we
ave sent to France to say that they
would have made better soldiers if
they had been under the drillmaste
from their youth up. The best drill-
master for the soldiers of democracy
liberty. How many times must
our troops rout the kaiser's before
our kaiser-worshippers will confess
that they are better soldiers than
his?
IT IS A LONG
ROAD TO KOLA
Moreover, a Hard Road and Kultur
Shall Scarcely Get Over It.
The reported fall of Lenine and
Trotsky indicates that the eastern
battle line will soon be reestablished.
The kaiser has cashiered some of
his generals for the Marne disaster
This is another instance of junker
stupidity. The real cause of failure
was the generals and privates of the
allied forces.
ZONES AND MILK
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DEAR LAND
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HE California food administration
proposes to install the zone
system of milk distribution in
San Francisco. For the period
of the vyar the hitherto inalienable
right of each housewife in the block
to have her own dairyman ia to be
abrogated. She must exercise her
capable powers of selection between
two. The clinking processional of
milk wagons sacred to the hours be
tween midnight and 3 a. m. is to be
suspended ad after September 1.
only feline romancing and tue baby's
cries are to ''sturb the Bay City's
slumbers.
Portland will wish ' the California
food administration great success.
This city is as inviting a field for
the experiment as is San Francisco,
but it is to be doubted if our reluc
tant initiative would actually encom
pass the determination to test tho
zone plan without the iexample vt
successful performance elsewhere.
Viewedjjfrpro the ambition forecoo-
N POCAHONTAS COUNTY, Iowa,
farm land is selliBg at $223.50 an
acre, -according to the Manson
Democrat, a newspaper of thai
locality. Ten years ago the same
land could have been bought for
$103 an acre. It is not a single life
time since it was bought from the
United States . government for ?i.2o
an acre.
The rise in price has been rapid.
It has kept pace with the cost of
food. Dear food implies dear land.
What makes food dear? Not always
scarcity. There was no food scarcity
up to the time of the war and yet
food prices continually rose. In fact
food was rotting on the ground in
some parts of the country while
prices to consumers sailed sky high
in the cities.
Food is dear even today more on
account of our barbarously primitive
marketing methods than on account
of scarcity.
Dear land is not a benefit to the
working farmer. It burdens him
with taxes. If he tills another man's
farm it raises his rent. It prevents
his buying a farm of his own. It
condemns him forever to the status
of tenant. Dear land benefits the
proprietor farmer only when he get
ready to sell out. And it forces him
to sell, not to another working
farmer, but to a landlord who joins
acre to acre for rent.
Under the influence of the high
price of lajid Iowa's farms are grow
ing larger and her farmers fewer
The last census exhibited a marked
decline in her population. At the
same time her tenants are becoming
more numerous In proportion to the
farmers who own their land.
The farms of the United States are
falling into, the hands of men who
make food dear in order to get the
profits of extortion. The profiteers
are being transformed into a land
lord and ruling class resident in the
towns and dominating the rural
neighborhoods. ,
Simultaneously rural life loses Its
vigor. Tne young people wno win
not submit to semi-serfdom flee to
the cities. The rural church, school
and home decay. "Ill fares the land,
to hastening ills a prey, where
wealth accumulates and men decay."
We must reverse this process or
see our country march toward ter
rible miseries. We want no nation
of landlords and tenants. We want
working farmers who own the land
they till. For this we must have
cheap land. To get cheap land we
must first set cheap food. And. the
From tha Philadelphia Erening Ledger
The proclamation of martial law In
the Russian province of Archangel and
the landing of American marines to co
operate with the French and British
forces in protecting military supplies at
Kola, on the Murman coast, occurred at
about the same time. The news reached
this country on the day before the
Fourth of July.
But not one person in a thousand
knew enough about the geography of
Russia to tell where the Murman coast
is or to explain the relation of the pro
vince of Archangel to the other pro
vinces. Archangel, or, as the transliteration
of the Russian spelling has it, Arkh
angelsk, is the northernmost subdivision
of Russia. It touches the Arctic ocean
and extends east and west from the
Ural mountains Finland. It is
bounded on the south by the provinces
of Vologda and Olentz. It has an area
of 326.000 square miles and a popula
tion of 500,000, or a little more than one
and a half persons to the square mile.
The White Sea cuts It into two parts,
leaving about a quarter of its area west
of that sea. This part Includes Kola
and the Kola peninsula.
Kola is the newly rediscovered ice-free
port of Russia. The Norse fishermen
had known of It for generations, prob
ably for centuries. The tag end of the
Gulf stream approaches it and then
loses itself in the icy waters of the
Arctic. The fishermen have been in
the habit of spending the summer on
the water with their nets. In the au
tumn they put into Catherine harbor,
on which Kola lies, cured and packed
their fish, and In the spring sold them.
Kola is at the head of the harbor
About half way between it arid Ekat-
erina, or Catherine, at the mouth of
the harbor, lies another fishing village
Alexandrovsk. This village had a popu
lation of less than 500 in 1914.
The war has changed the whole
aspect of the country roundabout, for It
brought about the discovery that Kola
was far superior to Archangel as a port
for landing military supplies. Arch
angel is on an arm of the White sea
300 miles farther south than Kola, but
its harbor is frozen for seven or eight
months of the year. And it is connected
with Moscow by a railroad with a single
track. When it became evident that it
would be Impossible to move the stores
that had been landed at Archangel the
work of extending the railroad which
connects Petrograd with Petrozavodsk
on Lake Onega so as to connect with
Kola was forthwith begun. It was
pushed forward with all speed until
now there is said to be a double track
line between the capital and this open
Arctic port, a distance of 874 miles.
The line between Petrograd and Pe
trozavodsk has been open for several
years. Two hundred and thirty-seven
miles north of Petrozavodsk the new
road reaches the town of Soroka, on
the White sea. In the same latitude as
Archangel. Swerving to the northwest
the road touches Kem, 35 miles away.
Kem is the most important industrial
and administrative center of the region,
but It has a population of only 2000.
North of Kem the road runs for 224
miles through a district of small lakes
and extensive swamps and immense
forests of fir to Kandalakcha, a fishing
settlement. Thence it crosses the Kola
peninsula for 179 miles to Catherine
harbor and Kola.
The section of the road across &e
Kola peninsula to the Murman coast
was built under the greatest difficul
ties. The workmen were almost literally
eaten alive by midges and mosquitoes,
the pest of the Arctic regions in surfi-
mer. They appeared in great cloids,
and it was almost impossible for the
workmen to prevent themselves from
breathing them and swallowing them.
The engineering problems solved were
most perplexing. The ground is a float
ing sod In the summer, supported bv the
water from the melted ice beneath.
which in turn rests on the frozen subsoil
that never thaws. For one stretch of
133 mijes it was necessary to drive piles
to support the track.- In other places
cofferdams had to be built to keep
out the water while search was made
for firm foundations. At one place a
lofty wajl of granite lay across the line
and it was found necessary to tunnel
it for half a mile to make a way for
the tracks.
after Um war. Thia Is in line with a
policy strictly adhered to from the time
of the sinking or capture by the British
navy of the first German U-boat. The
best Germany can do is to make guesses
as to the failure of scores oi her sub
marines to return. But in connection
with the Deutschland certain circum
stances and facts cannot be kept down.
For instance. Captain John Thompson
of the British mercantile marine sank
a huge German U-boat In the Mediter
ranean in June. 1917. For this King
George rewarded him with the distin
guished service order. Captain Thomp
son believed at the time that this ves
sel was the Deutschland, and the find
ing, after the sinking, of a lifebelt
bearing that name supported this be
lief. The distinguished mariner, when
In New York and questioned on the
subject, said : "I am the man who sank
the Deutschland, but I cannot talk
about it" And there the matter will
have to rest. The British government
does not, however, undertake to prevent
anybody from forming an opinion based
upon the Information at hand.
Letters from the People
f Communication acnt to Tb Journal for pub
lication in thia department should ba written on
only one side of tha paper, should not excead
300 words In length and must be signed by tba
writer, whoa mail address in full must accom
pany tha contribution. )
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COMMENT AND NEWS IN BRIEF
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SAtALL CHANGE OREGON SIDELIGHTS j
Ragtag and Bobtail
Oury has been captured. Sounds
rather gory.
Ten per cent war tax on a soft drink
will make it rather hard.
The big objective of allied airmen
seems to be to get a German "ace"'
in the hole.
What care we. so long as the allies
gain their objectives, whether or not
the Huns say they give ground volun
tarily. An Astoria fisherman is reported to
have been pulled into the water by a
fish and nearly drowned. A whale of
a story.
The allies have been doing some sharp
fighting in the neighborhood of Ham.
And they probably needed no one to
egg them on.
Bennett Thompson, life termer, who
escaped from the state prison, has been
recaptured by a deruty sheriff named
James Jesse. Something familiar about
that name, too.
Stories From Everywhere
Madras' school board has decided to
add to the high school course the teach
ers training provided for by state law.
Owing to the rush during haying,
there will be no picture show at Ukiah
until August 17, when the entertainment
of the publC with war pictures will be
resumed.
i
"To be the first high school girls In
Oregon to adopt a uniform and by this
patriotic effort aid In the patriotic con
servation movement.' says the Argus,
will be the honor won .by the Ontario
high school girls when school opens on
September 1."
The city council of Corvallis has or
dered the city engineer to report all
cases of cement walk wnere a section
fails to join the section next to It even
ly. If the discrepancy equals an inch
or more it is up to the owner of the
high side to get busy. Several falls
have resulted from uneven sidewalks.
JOURNAL MAN ABROAD
By Fred Lockley
Money Matters
Portland, Aug. 12. To the "Editor of
The Journal I read an article in the
Evening Telegram a short time ago in
which A. Slaughter of Salem, Or., in
quires regarding fiat moneys-irredeemable
paper money made legal by law.
One of his questions in the same article
was: "If such money, so issued, will de
preciate, kindly explain why the first
issue of fiat money during the Civil war
did not depreciate, but remained at
par?"
The Telegram's reply to this question
was misleading, as I understand it, the
Telegram saying : "Because the first
issue was so small it did not threaten
the financial fabric."
Nowp as I have it. at the commence
ment of the Civil war we, like all "other
nations going to war, needed money,
and the New York bankers offered to
loan to the United States money at 24
per cent, but honest Mr. Lincoln told
them the United States could issue its
own money, and the first issue was $60,
000.000, good for all debts, both public
and private, and was always at par or
2 per cent premium, but when that issue
was exhausted we had to have more,
and by this time Mr. Lincoln was so
busy with other affairs that he could
not keep watch of the new issue, and it
was entrusted to New York bankers,
and they fixed it by inserting three
new words, "good for any and all debts
both public and private, except revenue
only." Those three words changed the
value of all the rest of the greenback
issues and opened the way for specu
lation, as the premium on gold went up
at one time to $2.85 and the average
value of the greenback was 50 cents on
the dollar. Now. the New York bankers
could take $100,000 in gold and go to
Washington and purchase $200,000 in
greenbacks and then buy $200,000 in 4
1 More Oregon men who are making ood
and ry good indeed in Franca are noted by
Mr. Lockley. who further recites testimony to tha
Talor of the colored soldier of America in the
midst of the Huns, in whom they are able to
inspire terror and upon whom they do terrible
execution. J
Paris. I have met Roy R. Clark here.
He is an O. A. C. boy. I have known
him for many years. I was chairman of
the boys' committee of the Portland Y.
M. C. A. when his brother, J. C. Clark,
was boys' work secretary. I remember
when the call came for J. C. Clark to go to
China. We had a long talk, and I ad-
Oregon people don't realize how Ore- to take Prisoners. t,o learn what troops
gon boys are making good wherever they wel"e opposite them. A score of Germans
are placed. Take Roy R Clark and his tackled these two colored soldiers, and
brother J. C. Clark as examples. When though they fought hard they were over
J. C. Clark was at the Oregon Agrl- ; powered. They hit one on the head and
cultural college, my nephew, Claiborne j , ' ' . u " ''c
Shepard. was active in college Y. M. C. A,
particular job has been to work with the
colonial troops- Arabs, Berbers, Somali,
Senegalese. Camarouns, Algerians, the
Malagasy, as the natives of Madagascar
are called, and other colonial troops. He
said, "The Berbers and Somali are won
derfully keen and I greatly enjoy work
Ing with them."
We spoke of the two American negroes
who had been awarded the War Cross
for bravery in action. A secretary who
was with us said :
"I have recently been up there. These
two colored soldiers were in an advanced
post. A German raiding party came over
J
Double Portiata
COME of the senior boys from the llt-
-' erary class of an Kngllsl school.
says bhort Stories, were taken to see
"The Merchant of Venice."
When Shy lock. Jn the court scene, was
urgently demanding his pound of flesh,
a bright cockney boy. in eager tones,
cried out to the Judge:
"HI. you! Ask him for his meat
card!"
work. Shepard hall, the Y. M. ,C. A.
building at the college, is named for him.
He led J. C. Clark to enter the Christian
life and to take up religious work as his
life work. He went into the Y. M. C. A.
He went from Portland to Shanghai. He
haj recently put up a Y. M. C. A. build
ing there for the boys' work, about the
size of the Y. M. C. A. building in Port
land. He now has the largest boys' de
partment in any city in the world. He
has recently been made director of boys' I tion among their fellow soldiers. There
to
he found he was on a stretcher and two
Germans were carrying him to the Ger
man lines. With a yell he leaped off
the stretcher and reached down and got
his bolo knife from inside his legging,
and carved the two stretcher bearers up.
"Come on, you white trash," he yelled at
the rest of the Germans, and started
for them with his long, bloody knife.
They dropped their guns and ran.
"When he and his chum were given
the cross of war it excited great emula-
work for all of China.
Roy R Clark is red haired, freckled.
sunny-tempered, quiet, very modest, but
are about 6000 colored trops In their sec
tor, and for the next three days you
could hear at all hours of the day and
wonderfully efficient. The boys are of I night the grindstone squeaking as they
Quaker' stock. They were reared in the ; sharpened their long knives. Every one
Chehalem hills, near Newberg, and in j of them is determined to carve up a few
their home they say "thee" to their
mother. Roy built the municipal bulk
grain elevator in Astoria. He came over
here and standardized the work or manu
facturing and erecting Y. M. C. A. huts
Germans and win the croas.
"I happened to be in their sector on
May 13, Mothers' day. The Y. M. C. A.
secretary had planned elaborate Mothers'
day exercises, but the night before the
per cent bonds, thus getting 8 per cent never utter8 a ,harp word. Eut how he
on the original amount They could , does make Mng9 m0ve ! Oregon has
men piace tne Donas wun tne l nuea .MM b nroud of t
in the Bordeaux area. He was called to Germans had pulled off a raid that re-
Paris, and is now the Y. M. C. A. con- suited in their leaving some dead oer
struction engineer for all France. I took j mans in the hands of the colored troops,
a 40 mile ride with him recently on an ! So thejs called off the Mothers' day ex
army truck. We were takinpr out build- ercises and held an elaborate funeral
ing materials and a crew of Greek la- j parade) back of the lines for the dead
borers. He never raises his voice. He Germans. Colored men love ceremonial.
so the funeral was a tnorougniy enjoy-
to b nrond of the wav Oregon
States and get 90 per cent of green- j hoya are making good in the farther parts
uxvk3 isaucu auiu line it uume ana luan
able occasion."
it out at 8 per cent to 15 per cent.
How easy it is to make money, espe
cially if you own congress.
KASSON SMITH.
A Landlord's Version of ltt
Portland, Aug. 12. To the Editor of
The Journal We hear much about prof
iteering in rents, from people who know
nothing about it. I am going to give
some concrete facts. We all know that
a man who has no money and never
expects to have very much, can always
tell and is always willing to tell a man
who has money how to invest it. So it
is with an apartment house. Someone
who knows nothing about it can tell
how to run it and what to charge. The
figures I give are based on actual costs
for the past five years and the present
cost of fuel. I am not charging any
thing for advertising or for my time, !
for collecting rents, looking after re- '
pairs, etc. Now from figures submitted, I
which are correct, it will cost this
amount to operate for the coming year,
and possibly fuel may go higher, and
apartments cannot lay in a supply, nor
can they contract for any time. I own
an unfurnished apartment which cost
me. with ground, $45,000. It would now
cost $70,000 to $75,000 to duplicate It.
I I wish some of these wise people jtvould
tell me what rental I should get out of
such an investmerft, with the following
expenses: Lighting $92.43. fuel $1228.60.
gas $44.70, garbage $53, Insurance $150,
janitor $960, repairs $331.20, telephone
$335, taxes $423.28, water $137.45. Total
$3755.66.
APARTMENT HOUSE OWNER.
of the world.
I doubt if any war hajs ever seen so
! many instances of individual courage as
I thin one is ehowine. The Germans are
When I went up to headquarters here j KOOj fighters but they fight as a pack
to secure a movement order to the front , wolves and are not good individual
I found to my great pleasure that the j fiKnters. The British, the French and the
man in charge of that department was Americans have constantly shown won
George A. Watson of Salem. He is one of j ,jei ful instances of individual initiative
a group of Salemites in France, every j anfl Dravery. For example, here is the
one of whom is making good. He is in 0f ficias.1 record of Captain A. M. C. Mc-
the headquarters office here in Paris and j Ready-Diarmid of the regiment.
attends to all circulation matters that j Tne official account says : "He led a
is. the circulation of Y. M. C. A. secre- bornbing attack against a party of Oer
taries who require passports or red trav- mana who had broken Into our positions
eling cards and orders of service to go an1 drove them back 300 yards, himself
through France. Italy. England. Russia, ruling 80 of the enemy. Throughout this
Spain or Switzerland on Y. M. C. A. j attacjt ne ied the way himself, and It was
work. He has had an opportunity f ! ar)8olutely and entirely due to his mar
meeting many well known people over j venOU3 throwing that the ground was re
here and he is greatly enjoying his ' gained. Captain McUeady-Diarmid was
work. j eventually killed by a bomb when the
I met a secretary recently who has ! Germans had been driven back to the
been working with the French army. His place from which they had started."
HOW TO BE HEALTHY
By Dr. Woods-Hutchinson. Former Portland Physician
A SUPERFLUOUS PLAGUE We i of ours is still peppered and sprinkled
really are making some little progress au OVer with malaria pockets from the
in wiping out diseases. Some great j rtio Oranrte and the gulf to the inter
plagues are already practically extinct ; national boundary : most thickly, of
in civilized lands-r-the Black Peath, course. In the South and Southwest,
leprosy, yellow fever, smallpox, so f ar j more sparsely in the North and North
as any' noticeable effect upon the death j east, but the disease is far from un
rate is concerned. Old diseases are j common as far north as Southern New
dying out, while the new ones which j England and hundreds of cases still oc
seem to be taking their places are only J cur every year within 50 miles of all of
old ones which have Just been found j our great seaboard cities from New
nut Other diseases ought to be ex- York downward. So that though we do
Taking the Fire to the Firemen
Yesterday morning a fire was brought
to the city firemen. Instead of their go
ing to the fire, says the Eugene Regis
ter in a recent Issue. About 7 :J0
o'clock a car belonging to the U. of O.
Jitney company, and driven by William
Webb, was seen by the firemen at the
station as it passed on Eleventh avenue,
to be ablase. the fan of the machine
blowing the flames down beneath the
car and the driver did not see them.
The firemen called to the driver, who
stopped at the corner of Eleventh ave
nue and Olive street, and they extin
guished the flames with chemicals.
The carburetor had. been leaking and
the gasoline had Ignited. When the car
stopped and the hood was lifted the
flames burst out In a large volume.
There was little damage to the engine
or other parts of the car. Had the fire
started while the machine was in the
country, or at srry other place lu the
city and distant from fire headquar
ters, it Is probable that It might have
been destroyed. C. J. Fulton, who was
driving behind ;the burning car, first
called the attention of the firemen to It.
All Meat i
"I want a piece of meat without any
bone, fat or gristle. ' said the bride on
her first trip id market.
"Yea, ma'am."' replied the butcher. "1
would suggest that you take an egg."
By Way of Pleasantry
A 1 benevolent old gentleman, was
stopped by a tramp who askeid for
mteney to get a night's lodging.
"Well, look here, my man." te old
gentleman said,, "what would yolu say
if T offered you work?"
"Bless your Hfe, sir," came the re
ply. "I wouldn't mind a bit. I can
take a Joke same as most people I
His Jubilee
Judge Are you aware of any mitigat
ing circumstances in your case? I
Prisoner Yes, your honor. This Is the
fiftieth . time I have been here for
vagrancy, and I thought that perhaps
we might get up a small jubilee.
Evidence
"A man has just telegraphed me that
he has married' my daughter."
"Is he a good, practical man?
"I guess he is. He wired me collect.
Indian Clvlno
Queen Mary of England, says the.
Boston Transcript, sent a beautiful
bouquet that had been presented to
her to a soldiers hospital. To Show their
appreciation, the Inmates commissioned
one of their number to stand at the
hospital gate the following morning,
holding the gift, when the queen passed.
He did so with rather unexpected re
sults. Queen Mary, seated In her car.
saw the soldier standing there, bouquet
In hand, and assuming that he wished
to present It to "her, she rsached; out
and took it. After she had thanked
him her car passed on. The soldier
stood quite dumfounded- then recover
ing his speech, he said: "Well, she's
pinched "em."
In Qrrp vVatr r ;:
Jack's Uncle (coming up on piazsa)
"What do you suppose? Jack has Just
rescued that young widow, Mrs. Wiles,
from the surf.
His AuntThere! I expected some
thing like that would happen. Now' we'll
have to rescue Jack.
The Difference
"Oh, no." soliloquized Johnny bitterly,
"there ain't any favorites in this family.
Oh. no! If I bite my finger nails, I get
a rap over the knuckles ; but If the baby
eats his whole foot they think it's cute."
A Song of Triumph
To. ho. ho! und pottle o' rum!
Saihn' der sea py old Cap Cot!
Send der babies ta Klnkdom noma!
Hoch der kaiser und Dewtach lands Qnttl
Put dret barges oa der ana,
Sink ain lifepoat m" a shot. .
Hit a tugboat, too. py gum!
Iloeh der kaiser una
Ieuts-hUd'( GMO
The Germans did their best to inter
fere with the completion of the road.
The rails for the section from Kola to
Kandalakcha were shipped from Brook
lyn in 1915. Part of them were, on the
steamship Silverwings. But from some
undetermined cause the ship foundered
off the coast of Nova Scotia and sank
with her cargo. Arrangements were at
once, made to send more rails. As the
road is in operation they must have
arrived safely.
Kola has been 'like a boom town in
the West as a result of the discovery
of its importance. The bay is 30 miles
deep, with the town at Its head. Where
it widens out a little there is a large
island named Zemenova, that has been
developed as a receiving station. Ex
tensive piers have been built and large
warehouses have been put up. Thou
sands of men were taken there to en
gage in the work of construction and
to handle the military supplies before
Russia dropped out of the war. The
supplies were landed on the island from
the ships and transported In barges to
the railroad terminal. Hundreds of
thousands of tons of these supplies are
now said to be lying there exposed to
the weather and guarded by the Ameri
can, French and British forces.
The Germans have been making dem
onstratlops in the direction of Catherine
harbor in the hope of being able to
seize the military supplies. The nature
of the ground over which they must pass
is such that It will be almost Impossible
for any considerable force to penetrate
the country if they are opposed. The
only feasible way to get there la by
railroad, and It is easy to destroy that
if conditions make it necessary. Not
even the Germans can march through
a boggy country Infested with m-
qultoes and with no solid ground on
which to camp. Kola seems to be pretty
safe at present, for it is a longer read
there than the road to Paris.
Fate of the Deutschland
and Other Lost U-Boats
From the Chriatlan Science Monitor
PERSONAL MENTION
New Inspector Arrives
E. N. Kavahaugh, formerly grazing
inspector for the forest service at Al
buquerque, N. M., arrived Monday to
take over the work of T. P. MacKenzle,
who left Saturday for British Columbia
to become commissioner of grazing for
the British government.
Auto Party Visits
Driving to, the city from Monument,
Or., a party of residents of that town
is at the Portland. The party ' con
sists of Dewey Swick. Mrs. L. D. Swick,
Mrs. J. W. Arbuckle. Mrs. P. McMa-
hon and Misses A- McMahon and N.
McMahon.
Naval Officers Here
Registered at the Oregon are the of
ficers here to take out the Commandant
Challes. French ship built by .the Foun
dation company. In the party are Cap
tain Belios Letouv. Second Captain L.
Port. Lieutenant Loding, Chief Mechan
ician Cogulnl, Second Mechanician Brel
noud and Third Mechanician Jean.
Illinois 'People' Visit
Mr. and Mrs. J. M. Hamill and C. P.
Hamill of BellTilte. 111., are In Portland
for a few days while touring the North
west. They enjoyed a drive over the
Columbia river highway this afternoon.
During their stAy in the city they are
guests at the Imperial.
e
Astoria Party Guests
Among residents of Astoria who are
visiting here are the following at the
Portland: Mr. and Mrs. Frank Patton,
Mr. and Mrs. G. C. Fullott, Mr. and
Mrs. J. Stacy and Mrs. A. W. Bell.
Inspecting Business Possibilities
Looking over business possibilities on
the Pacific coast, C. E. Cawnenoe and
G. E. McShea ef Scranton, Pa., are In
Portland this m'eek. They are regis
tered at the Benson.
T. C. Butler andE Halsbe of Her
mlston. Or., are registered at the Mult
nomah. Mr. and Mrs. H. Kalanquin of Idaho
Falls, Idaho, are at the Washington.
Among those registered at the New
Perkins are Mr. and Mrs. S. E. Drew
of Vaeter, Wash.
Ralph Jones of Baker is at the Mult
nomah, accompanied by his sister. Miss
Lillian Jones.
Mrs. Maude Logan, Miss Wanda Lo
gan and Dr. E. Rea Norris of Bend, Or.
The exact truth about the undersea
cargo boat . Deutschland will not b
made public until Great Britain ret. 1 are at the nsnn.
ready to. , make pubiie, some 4 time j M. H. Abbey, proprietor of the Abbey
tinrt hut aren't, and among these ma
laria is easily one of the chief. "Ma
laria?" we say, "Oh, that's the disease
that can be wiped out in the tropics!"
And then we proceed, to fight it in our
own homes by slapping at the mosqui
toes that carry it after they nave dii-
ten us.
not meet the Anopheles mosquito upon
our streets, we easily may on our trips
to the country, or our summer vacations.
Although we ourselves may not shake
with chills and fever, or carry quinine
In our pockets, or hear talk of "chill
days," yet the disease is still abroad in
the land how widely and severely may
Because malaria does not nounsn in i fce gatnered from the fact that the eco-
cities and large towns, on account or nomjc damage done by it every year
lack of pools of surface water lor its t trom los3 of ttme, loss of working
power and decreased efficiency Is esti
mated upon good authority at the start
ling total of no less than $150,000,000 ! To
insect-carriers to breed In, ana De-
cause the discovery that the bottoms
of nondi and sloughs when drained
make the richest cornfields, has made j uy nothing, of course, of the suffer
ing of the patients, and of the grief,
anxiety and distress inflicted upon their
families.
the disease much less common In the
rmmtrr districts, we are Inclined, to
think that we can treat fever-and-ague
as a thing of the past a closed chap
ter. But the plain, unvarnished lact
is that the whole of this great country
Tomorrow :
(No. 2).
A Superfluous Plague
House at Newport, Or., Is at the Ore
gon for a few days.
Mr. and Mrs. J. B. Kelly of Cordova,
Alaska, are guests at the Imperial.
Mr. and Mrs. Herbert Yost of New
York are at the Multnomah.
Among the arrivals at the Washing
ton are Mr. and Mrs. L. E. Loring of
Camas, Wash.
B. B. Cleaver, paint manufacturer
of Pendleton, is among the Multnomah's
guests. Adldn a fruU farrneV of Rich
land. Wash., is at the New Perkins.
James Fullerton. a well known farmer
of Eugene, Is at the Multnomah-
Misses Alice Jackson and Alice
Thompson of Butte. Mont., are at the
Portland.
Mr and Mrs. Edwin Arnold and chil
dren 'of Washington, D. C. are at the
Benson. . , ,
Mr. and Mrs. H. J. Patterson of Al
bany are guests at the Oregon.
Mr. and Mrs. W. R- Criff ield of Walla
Walla, Wash., are In Portland for the
winter. , .
E. Hughes of Eugene Is In Portland
for a few days, a guest at the Washing.
R. C. Hlllman of Corvallis is a recent
arrival at the New Perkins.
Mr. and Mrs. F. O. Bell of La Grande
ere at the Multnomah.
E. A. Wood yard of Yakima, Wash
is at the Oregon.
A. E. Clark of Lewlaton. Idaho, is an
arrival at the Benson.
Mary P. Sherwood and Miss Sherwood
of Salt Lake City are at the Portland.
James Cram Jr. of Prineville. Or., is
a guest this week at the Imperial.
Mr. and Mrs. .E. L. Bate of Tacoma
are registered at the Washington.
R. M- Kelly of Hood River is at the
Portland this week.
C. Joseph Davlse and H. CU;KUoro
of Yakima. Wash., are among the guests
at the Portland.
M. F. Hanville of San Francisco is at
the Washington.
The Tax Publication Measure
From tha Harrisburg Bulletin
The last issue of the Oregon Voter
defends the iniquitous, grafting delin
quent tax publication law and deplores
the fact that C. S. Jackson, editor of
The Oregon Journal, has succeeded In
getting this tax publication matter in
the form of an initiative bill to go on
the ballot in the November election.
The Oregon Voter says. If carried, this
measure will divert revenue from the
publisher to the postal service In the
way of providing postcards for mailing
notices to delinquents Instead of adver
tising in the few county-seat newspa
pers of the state. Nothing is said, how
ever, about the difference In the cost to
the taxpayers providing this change is
made. Over In Lane county the Ku
gene newspaper publishing the delin
quent tax list was allowed to charge 50
cenfs per line for this advertising, and
we know personally of one case wherein
a taxpayer whose taxes on a small town
lot amounted to $1.85 was required to
pay $4.S0 after the tax became delin
quent and was "advertised." and taxes
In many cases in larger amounts were
Increased in the same proportion. Mr.
Jackson has done a good service to the
taxpayers and the state In getting thia
initiative bill on the ballot for the No
vember election, and the Oregon voter
(not the Portland newspaper by that
name, representing the big Interests)
will do the rest. They will forever put
an end to the present Impractical, In
efficient and expensive method of han
dling delinquent taxes and thereby save
the taxpayers thousands of dollars annually.
T. h. ho! und nottU ' mm!
Pig engagement py old Cans Cot!
Sunk mud scows "neah der ocean 'a
Hoch. der kaiser ond TVutachlasd 0ttl
Prt torpedoes tt made ti bum
Kin, iwei. dret. nnd dey missed dee shpet.
But der Timmena, you bet dy nT?,m! ,
iloeh der kaiser und IawUohUnd Oottl
New Tork jlarala.
Unrle IcTTSnow Says: -Ma
is all net up over a travelln
speaker a-tellin' the Corners Patrlotlo
club that there's need of draftln women
fer work. Ma's plum ready to ten her
that till these here louts of men hangin'
around pool rooms In the cities and the
best flshln places In the country Is
routed out and drafted the women will
do purty well 'thout any draftln. Hew.
somever. she owned up that a lot et
women, especially In the cities, needs
trainin' fer a set-to with hard work; but
she gits back to these pool rooms ever
time in her argufyln'.
Olden Oregon
How a Pioneer Newspaper Migrated
From Mllwaukle to Portland.
The fourth newspaper printed in Ore-
n-......... Star writrh wan
?ir"t issued at Mllwaukle In 1850 In
May of the following year, when Port
land began to lead MUwaukle In the
race for commercial supremacy, the
paper was moved one night on a flat
boat to Portland, an event which much
incensed the people of Mllwaukle. who
charged that the plant had been stolen.
It was claimed, though, that the paper
had been given to the printers for sal
aries due and that they had only exer
cised their right In moving the locaUon.
It Is Interesting to note that on the 8tar
O W. Nixon, the well-known Chicago
editor, began his newspaper career. He
was an Oregon pioneer of 180, and in
1851 taught achool at Mllwaukle. After
removal to Portland the name of the
Star was changed to the Oregon Weekly
Times. It died In 1864.
Jturnal Journeys
Scenery About
Headwaters
John
Hard
Day Klver
to Beat.
For scenic beauty it is hard to beat
the country around the headwaters of
the John Day river, In the Blue moun
tains. On the' watershed of the Mal
heur the road goes through magnificent
yellow pine forests. The ground is open,
with little or no underbrush. In com
ing from Seneca to Canyon City on the
Burns-Canyon City road yon paee
through a forest of yellow fir. Straw
berry peak, 1200 feet high, look over
the entire country- Hunting, fishing
and prospecting are all good in Grant
county. In the county are over J.000,003
feet of yellow -pine in the national for
ests, and' 3.000.000 feet In private own-,
ershlp.
For routes, rates and other details ef
a trip to Grant county, call oa or ad
dress The Journal Information and
Travel Bureau. Information free. '