THE OREGON DAILY JOURNAL, PORTLAND. MONDAY, 'AUGUST 19 1918.
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ic It ba a duty to reepect other men'
claim, aa alao U It a duty to maintain our
own. That which is aacred in their penona
la aacred in our also. Herbert Spencer.
AMERICANIZE AMERICA
T
HE plan to teach English to
foreign born adults is worth
while.
It is good for the adults. It
fit them better for the things they
have to do. It makes them more
efficient in carrying on their busi
ness or pursuing their vocations.
Inability to speak English in an
; English speaking country is a heavy
! handicap.
Ability to speak English enables
them to be a part of America, to
' enter Into Its thought, to better
understand its institutions, to take
part in its folk songs, and to under
stand and enjoy its literature. All
this Is essential and fundamental to
'true citizenship.
A citizen of a country who cannot
speak the language of that country
ran be but a half baked citizen.
If his reading is all in the language
of va foreign country his thoughts
I are mostly of that country and his
I Inspirations drawn from that coun-
try, and he can never comprehend
the real enius of America.
; It Is a good time now for all in
J America to become real Americans.
If. any In America do not want to
t be .Americans they should go some-
where else. We have been too
' lenient and too lax in the Amcri
' canlzation of America. Politicians
and office seekers and party con
ventions catered so much to hyphen
ate Americans In order to' get their
votes that those of foreign birth or
descent were encouraged to remain
In distinct groups and but partly
Americanized.
That very thing fooled Wilhelm
trasse into a belief that America
wouldn't fight. He was assured that
pro-Germans in America were so
-numerous and so powerful that they
would not allow America to fight
,;Oermany. On that assurance and
In his madness, William did things
' that forced us into the war.
' We want no more such misunder
standings o America. We want no
more dreams by foreign war lords
that their subjects In America are
tin-Americanized and therefore dis
loyal to America and loyal to a for
eign throne. What we want is every
"resident of America to be either 106
per cent loyal to America or to
clear out to a country to which he
can be loyal.
a gooa way to 6iari lor sucn a
Status is to begin teaching foreign
adults the language of America. '
. One of the most complex and diffi
cult taxation problems ever encounter
?ed by any nation now confronts con-
gress. To raise a revenue of eight bil
lion dollars from a field which last
year scarcely bore four billion will re
; quire a series of readjustments in
the lives of individuals and corpora
tions in order to meet the burden.
It is to be noted that in solving tha
t problem congress is forgetting parti
sanship. It can be taken for granted
'.that American genius and sacrifice
;will rise to the occasion.
TAKING A VACATION
A'
NEW war Industry Is the pick
ing of Evergreen blackberries
which grow wild in Oregon's
foothills.
Th onfy cost in getting them to
Hhe caDnery is that of picking and
; transporting. Up In Lane county
Ith berries are bringing six cents
' pound at the cannery. Many of Eu
?genes residents' drive out in their
, automobiles and; spend the day pick
ling them.
Besides an enjoyable trip to the
country the net profit runs as high
- as 6ix or seven dollars a day to
individual pickers.
The demand for the fruit Is un
l limited the cannerymen say. The
berries are made into Jam and Jelly
' for the soldiers.
1, Old residents of Oregon, will recall
' that It was once the habit of town
people and country people, to rig up
their camping outfits and go to the
mountains and river bottoms to pick
berries for winter consumption and
have a general good time.
In reviving this custom there is
in addition to the healthful recrea
tion and profit an added compensa
tion in the performance of a patri
otic duty in helping to contribute
to the Jam ration of the boys "over
there."
The most consistent conscientious
objector yet reported is the Mary
land man whose conscience did .not
permit him to milk cows because
the milk went to the naval academy
at Annapolis.
THE PORT
r
0 THOSE who read the signs of
the times it is becoming; in
creasingly evident that Portland
is about to slip her moorings
and swing out into the current of
larger commercial affairs. The pres-
sure of world trade Is becoming
heavier week by week and month
by month. As we watched the west
ward progress of war industry two
years ago until it finally reached
and energized Portland, so we now
behold the water
transportatlon
needs of the nation extending nearer
and still nearer to this port.
The government is building a
great merchant marine. This mer-
chant marine will seek to make use
of all the accessible and properly
equipped ports. The attention of
the shipping board has already been
directed to the Port of Portland
and the Columbia river. Our equip-
ment in docks, channel, elevators,
handling facilities and railroad con-
nection with water terminals is
being eagerly studied. Our ability
through local organizations to
charter vessels is being inquired
into Trade with Alaska, trade with
Siberia, trade with the Hawaiian
Islands, the Philippines and the
Orient, trade from coast to coast
through the Panama canal, and
trade. ultimately. with Europe,
beckon invitingly to Portland.
Though these are days of war
they are likewise days of prepara
tion for peace. Whether war con
tinues long or peace comes soon
the demands of .trade will include
this port, if it is prepared. For
a few years past use of the Colum
bia as a port has waned. During
those years ports of the Columbia
have taken warning and have been
busily providing such facilities as
J-.,.. ...i j ;
docks, wharves and gram elevators
There Is yet work to be done in
providing coal and oil bunkers, a
belt line system, and adequate dry
dock and repair, equipment.
The trade which is about to come
In Portland and the Columbia will
i.inv ait nnrt inveetmpnia that
jc4.j "
have been made and demonstrate
fully the urgency of supplying im
mediately every lack In port; equip
ment.
There must haVe been goodness
in Senator- Gallinger, or the i people
of New Hampshire would not have
kept him in the United States senate
for the long period of 27 years. At
81, death removed him from1 publia
service, or his years in the I senate
would doubtless have been length
ened. His is another case of the
unusual mortality current among
members of the senate.
RECOVERING U-BOATS' TOLL
A"
N AFTER the war industry will
be the-salvage of. the victims
of the submarine. Not only
will there be the inducement of
recovering a large amount of treas-
ure but that of satisfying the great
need of tonnage which will! be re-
quired. j
During the past few years a flood
of patents have been issued for feas
ible as well as impractical schemes
for raising sunken ships. One
patent is a powerful electric j search
light for locating and Inspecting
sunken vessels. It is a large sub
marine telescope mounted on a
barge and drawn through the water.
illuminating the bottom of the sea
within a certain, radius as it ' travels.
After the wreck is located another
patent provides for raising it
means of an electric magnet. When
lowered in the water it attaches
itself to the iron hull. It is then
manipulated so that it crawls! around
the hull, digging a trench as it
goes through the mud and sand.
bringing the hull to an upright
position.
The next operation is to
raise the
hull
Here is where another patent
comes in. a Bieei caoie is wonra
a . ! 1 1 I I
unaer tne suDmergea nun irom mo-
torboats. Each epd of the cable Is
attached to a pontoon equipped
With a powerful Winch., Other
caoies are similarly placed j to pre-
serve tne proper naiance. At mis
point the genius of the (inventor
makes the tides raise the vessel
sufficiently to permit' its being
towed into shallow water.
Whenever there is a great neces
sity the American engineer!
Will be
the mother of invention.
The state government of Australia
has guaranteed 83 cents per bushel
for wheat and the commonwealtti
government has allowed an addi
tional 12 cents, making ai total of
95 cents per bushel,
KEENANLAND
V
ILHJALMER STEFFANSON'S ex
ploits in the far North ar)
gallant but the world reads
about them with a yaWn. Ten
years . ago .what Steffanson
would j have excited all of
is doing!
us. To-,
day our mind3 are fixed on matters
of more pressing import.
The explorer has discovered that
"Keenanland" is wrongly placed on
our maps. Who cares T The kaiser
has no armies in Keenanland, and
the allies are not trying to drop
bombs from airships upon it.
Keenanland signifies nothing in the
near East. It does not lie on the
road to India. No Bolshevik! inhabit
it. The kaiser does not want It
for a colony and submarine nest.
Most people would be thankful
if his love of fortifying dangerous
spots could be centered In Keenan
land. Why not get Keenanland cor
rectly located on the maps and then
send Wllhelm there to stay for
the rest of his turbulent life?
He would be out of mischief. In
fact we imagine that most of his
energy would be used up keeping
himself warm. If in a moment of
absent - mindedness
he forgot and
let tne nre
go down who would
the inevitable con
mourn for
sequences ?
"if the evidence or the federal
trade commission can be substan-
tiated. many of the packers can be
put in Jail," said Senator Borah in
an address on the floor? of the sen-
ate Saturday. As shown by the tel-
egram gent by one of the packing
house officials to tne company s
manager at Omaha, Cudahy said not
to sell any more beer cheek men
at 12 cents and to consider it
worth 18 cents. Then the telegram
added: "Would suggest you hold
the stock, as we have been discuss-
ing with the rood aammistration
about having tne specifications lor
canning meat revisea so mat cnee
meat might De included, ana wouia
like to have this extended to shank
meat and bull meat." "Shank" meat
and "bull" meat for Amertan sol-
diers reaaenmg me sou oi trance
with their blood so mat Mr. Luaany
could increase his profits, ought to
make jails yawn for somebody.
THE PORTLAND POUND
M
AYOR BAKER favors renewal
of the "contract with the Hu
mane society for conducting
the city pound. So does Com
missioner Mann.
That was what the people voted
for in 1916, and the vote was . five
to one. Most of those who voted
expected the arrangement to be
npranpnt not tne transitorv affa'r
permanent, not .me transitory ana.r
which the commissioners are mak
ing of it.
Mayor Baker's convictions In fa
vor or renewal or tne contract are
based on his study of city pounds
f . . rr-i &
80 operaiea in eastern ciucs. iuji
plan is followed, and is highly sat-
I, - . .- .
lsiaciory m oo leauing ciues ui i
a
ine society in tne lyvo years oi
its stewardship has been driven from banian mountain barrier to the Adrl
pillar to post, having been required At,r'u the army recuperated
to m0VC he Pund no lessrrtvha fiv
times in the period. That and
other disadvantages under which
the organization labored, did not
give it full chance to do its best
(work. It is entitled to that chance.
if on no other ground, on the un
answerable voice of a five to ono
vote by the people of Portland.
The pound administration, mean-
wuiic, iiu . uc .naiici Ul ii-
nance. Some things are more im-
portant than a cash register. There
are some ideals and some thoughts
that are not controlled wholly by
tne clinlc 01 oia
Did you ever listen to the appeal
or - starving ana nomeiess Kitten
s H followed you on the street?
You have- and yu remember that
i,s hungered mew touched you U
the auick. The Humane society as
mir,lefoffti. nf tha nitv nmmH
taKes care oi an uie nunieiess an?-
i . m .11 1U 1 1
mals, famished kitty straylings in-
eluded.
But the city doesn't.
As a people, we have not risen to
a proper level of regard for animals.
We need uplift in that field. Con
template these figurse:
The preventable loss of life among
food animals in transit to Chicago
alone per year is: Cattle, 1796; calves,
2198: swine, 9330; sheep 3120. Most
y nf this loss is due to crupl and in-
. . , r.
considerate treatment of the animals
in loading, unloading and on tne
Journey. .
When you stimulate higher regard
for dumb brutes, you help the na-
tia's pocketbook.
That was a striking statement by
cenator Borah while addressing the
senate Saturday. . Speaking of the
meat packing business, he said:
..Aftpp the w-, of course. T shall
stand for complete government own
ersniD. Government ownership of
.u. nankin business nrnnntml
f kllU (11VV fVQ -'W J f
by as influential a senator as Mr.
Rn..h ia Anntmnlatinn nf mio-htv
cnange in human affairs. The Borah
utterance gives a Klimnse at the
f.hnnht.s that have been started in
motion by the federal trade com
mission's revelations as to the. pack-
ers' operations.
THE HOME TOWN PAPER
a4-
N
EXT to a cheery letter from
home what is more welcome
to a stranger1 in a strange land
than the old hometown paper?
Imagine the eager haste with
which the soldier overseas tears
the wrapping from the little journal
that contains intimate chat of the
folks he knows best of all back
In the states.
Picture him reading , and absorb
ing every word and line, even to
the "ads."
t . Workers m the hospitals and serv
ici "huts" at the front, realizing
probably better than anyone else the
need of home news to sustain the
spirit and the morale of the men
in service, ask repeatedly for more
"home papers." To meet this de
mand in one locality in which he
is particularly Interested, William
Boyce Thompson, New York banker,
has inaugurated the "Home Paper
Service" through which every man
in the army and navy enlisted from
Westchester county. New York, will
be put on the mailing list for
the paper published in the town
that was home to him.
The movement seems to offer to
the right-hearted citizens throughout
the nation opportunity to worth
while service. Country publishers
may be depended upon to do their
share to help the game along.
ANABASIS AND
ODYSSEY
Antiquity's Greatest Romances Out
done by Thodb of the Great War.
From the New York Evening Port
The Czecho-Slovak legions have b-
corne problem, possibly of world-wide
significance. But they are also a ro
mance. One cannot read of the wander
ings of these bands of armed men in
the heart of Bolshevist Russia without
being- carried back to school days and
the ever frsh story of another little
army caught thousands of miles away
from home in a hostile land and fighting
Its way out to the longed for Thalassa,
the blue waters of the Euxlne, or, as
we call It now. the Black sea. The
Czecho-Slovaks did not come Into Rus
sia in the same character as the hired
Ten Thousand who followed Cyrus and
Tissaphernes to the Tigris. They are
Austrian subjects taken prisoner by the
Russian armies, willing prisoners who
came over to take their place in tbe
ranks of their "enemies" against their
own "country." When Bolshevik Rus
sia stepped out of the fellowship of the
allies, and the eastern front disappeared,
the Czecho-Slovak legions started out
for the only allied front there was. In
the west, by way of the Pacific. Un
der Xenophons of their own some of
them have reached Vladivostok. The
others would have followed In good time
if Bolshevik hostility had not compelled
them to turn their arms against the so-J
viets. Jt is romance as well as world
politics that an army of probably not
more than 60,000 men should be able
to shake to its foundations Lenine's
soviet republic, ruling nominally over
125,000,000 people. Lenine may yet live
to regret the day when he set himself
to oppose the Anabasis of his fellow
Slavs.
The case of the Czecho-Slovaks Is far
from unique. More than one allied army
has had to make its retreat to the sea
in order to take its place on another
front- u bean wlth the first days of
th h th littl b-i-h.,. rmv
the war, when the little Belgian army
was driven out from Namur and fell
back through the French and British
lines all the way to Havre, where it
caught breath and reembarked for Os
tend and the lines on the dunes of the
North sea, where It has stood ever since.
Still more tragic was the march of the
decimated Serb army after its heroic
stand against Germans, Auetrians and
Tl.- Tt .4
""6'"- "
and sacrifice until the remnants of the
I OBtU Okl III J , CUiU Vtlt.ll ii o l'ni I ui
the Serb nation, br.ok through the Al
fellow countrymen In America, and was
then brought around by sea to Sa
lonika, whence it marched and fought Its
way back to Monastir, where it now
holds a fragment of its native soil, like
the Belgians around Nleuport. Contin
gents of Italian prisoners from Ru'ssla
prisoners like the Csecho-Slovaks who
had gone over from the Austrian armies
have been passing through this coun
try on their way to Italy after three
years of wandering through Russia and
entered Finland, the small British naval
forces at Helsingfors destroyed their
submarines and fell back through semi
hostile country to the Arctic. In four
years enough raw material has piled up
for a dozen modern Xenophons.
How emphatically central are the cen
tral empires is best shown in these al
lied round-the-world expeditions, mis
sions and messengers compelled by the
Teuton land barrier stretching from the
Baltic to the upper waters of the Tigris
and Euphrates. At one time neutral
Roumania made the gap between the al
es in ttusoia ana mo ames in oeroig,
I Ta7a Pniimanla narrtm In it txja a taa Id fa
I T vi w uaaauaaaw v a v .vvr
the Teutons and Bulgars had dynamited
the Serbian bridge. Gallipoli is among
the tragic might-have-beens of the war.
From more sources than one has come
the statement that if the allied fleet off
the Dardanelles had fired a few more
salvos in the spring of 1915 or con
sented to lose a few more ships, the
Dardanelles would have been forced, the
western allies would have struck hands
with Russia, and the history of the last
mre sni "BVO Deo" w""en
for a brlef and in an obscure
corner, the two allied fronts did join.
That was m 1917, when a Cossack patrol
rrom tne itussian armies wmcn naa
I m, ,,- .,
into Mesopotamia came Into touch with
General Maude's army on the head
waters of the Diala. Soon after came
the Bolshevik uprising and the retire
ment of the Russian armies. Ia the
strict geographical sense Kipling has
been Justified. For the allies, east "has
been east and west west, and the two
fronts have never really met.
But if the allied fronts have not men
the allied peoples have. It has been
a Volkerwanderung on a scale unprece
dented in history. The west has poured
intc the east with Englishmen fighting
on the Tigris and the Euphrates. The
east has poured into the west, with
Hindu troops fighting in Flanders, with
laborers from China, Burma, Annam
Africa and South America at work be
hind the lines in France. To us has
fallen the- opportunity to write the
greatest of all Odysseys, the migration
of millions of Americans across 3000
miles of sea to face hard actualities
in that France and Italy which to the
vast majority in this country were only
nistoric names. xiio irauura oi me
seas may well recur In the plaints of
the kaiser and his diplomats. For the
seas of the globe are being ploughed In
a hundred directions by the goings and
commgsof Germany's enemies. When we
read of Chinese coolies being brought to
Australia to replace labor called to the
European battlefields, or learn of a
French military mission arriving In
Guatemala to train troops for possible
service abroad, we realize how diverse
the ocean, currents wnicn the war
mongers at Berlin set In motion. The
vrcx iiiaviioa tfu, uotvo aau -atci i taste ox
romance. The voyage or the schooner
Ayesha with its refugees from the Em-
den is bound become one of the
fascinating adventure tales of history.
Along with., the vast changes in the
organisation of our civilization to which
hare look forward after the war. we must
think ef the great transformation which
1
the war will have worked In millions of
men by tearing them from their homes
and transporting them Aladdln-like Into
magically new pi aces. The Chinese
coolie ' wrenched from the habits of
5000 years on the Yang-tse-Kiang and
dropped Into a munition factory at
Lyons, and the Senegalese chieftain
passing his hours of leave in the gal
leries of the Louvre, represent but the
extremes of this migration of peoples.
Letters frm the People
I Communication aent to Tha Journal for pub
lication in thia department should bo written on
only one aide of the paper, ahoold not exceed
300 word in length and most be signed by the
writer, whoa mail addrea in roll most accom
pany the contribution.
Protests Substitute Prices
Imbler, Or., Aug. IS. To the Editor of
The Journal I bought 100 pounds of
flour and 100 pounds of substitutes the
other day at the Riddle store in Imbler.
I paid $5.70 for the flour and 111.15 for
the substitutes. The bushel of corn on
the open market Is worth about $1.40
The bushel of wheat Is worth about
$2.20. And because the price is not regu
lated on the substitutes, they charge me
$8.50 a hundred for the corn meal and
corn flour, which Is $2.80 a hundred
more than they charge for the wheat
flour. And this is a fair sample of all
the substitutes.
Now if this is not highway robbery
right in open daylight, I do not know
what is. Our congressmen, who are not
eating cornbread. sit back and make no
errort to protect us. ir we can elect a
few men like Senator Pierce. I will
guarantee there will be something done
I do not know how much these out
rageous extra prices on substitutes will
amount to in the united States. It
would be an enormous sum, which had
much better be spent or given to help
win the war. H. F. WILSON.
PERSONAL MENTION
Southwestern Tourists 'islt
Mrs. U. S. Stewart of El Paso and
Misses Agnes and Helen Stewart, tour
Ing the Northwest, are In the city this
week, guests at the Portland.
Attending G. A. R. Encampment
From Albany, N. T., come E. M. Cham
berlain, L. Chamberlain, M. Richardson
and M. Frederick to spend G. A. R. week
in Portland. They are at the Oregon.
a
Washington, D. C, Girls Here
Spending the summer in the Pacific
Northwest, Misses Alice Short and
Emma R. Lowell of Washington, D. C,
are guests In Portland, registered at the
Benson.
At the Benson tfts 'week are Ida A.
Durant. M. Glennola Sill and Mrs. Han
nigan of Denver, here for G. A. R week.
B. W. Brown and R H. Barton of San
DJego, Cat, are among the guests reg
istered at the Multnomah.
Mrs. W. R. Miner and Miss Eva Lee
Miner of Boise, Idaho, are registered this
week at the Portland.
Mr. and Mrs. A. Steelhammer of Salem'
are down for a short visit, guests at the
Washington.
Mrs. P. McMahon and Misses N. and
A. McMahon of Boise, Idaho, are guests
at th Oregon.
W. C. Van Emon and W. H. Cox of
Klamath Falls, Or., are registered at the
Imperial.
Mr. and Mrs. J. E. Haven of Peoria,
111., are recent arrivals at the Portland.
Mr. and Mrs. H. J. Dodd and Mr. and
Mrs, R. H. Cooper of Olympla are at the
Benson.
James W. Burfick, business man of
Weiser, Ida., is In Portland, at the Mult
nomah.
Captain L. Llebe of Oakland, Cal., is
at the Oregon with Mrs. Liebe.
A. B. Robertson and D. H. Maekay of
Condon, Or., are registered at the Im
perial. Mrs. J. C. Quirt of Anacortes, Wash.,
is among the guests at the Washington.
Mr. and Mrs. C. C. McCormlck and
Mr. and Mrs. A. D. Walcott of Marsh-
field are at the Imperial.
J. F. Welsh of Astoria Is In the city
today, registered at the Portland.
Mr. and Mrs. W. G. Brady and Miss
F. H. Brady of Brooklyn, N. T.. are at
the Benson.
J. W. Rankin of Salem Is among the
G. A. R. guests at the Multnomah this
week.
A. C' Burk of Hood River, In the city
on a business visit. Is at the Portland
E. L. Coe of Gooding. Ida., Is among
thn rrnt n rrlvn n a t the Orprnn.
Seymour Young and J. A. Fisher of
Salt Lake City are at the Washington.
Mr. and Mrs. G. T. Brown of Cor-
vallis are among the guests aj the Im
perial.
Mr. and Mrs. C. W. Serrens or Eureka,
Cal., are registered at the Benson.
Alexis S. Hart of Kennewick, Wash.,
is a recent arrival at the Multnomah.
H. J. Adams of Medford Is In Port
land this week, registered at the Oregon.
R. S. Relnhart of Toppenlsh, Wash.,
is among the guests at the Imperial.
F. R. Savage of Woodburn, Or., is
registered at the Washington.
Mrs. E. Baira oi tsponane, wasn., is
at the Washington.
The Woman Slacker Rebuked
From the Villager
Probably the average woman under
stands her individual responsibility to
this war as well as does the average
man. ll sne aoes not, u. one unes ncr
war work very much as she does any
diversion, we should be Inclined to hoist
the blame to the shoulders of those of
the opposite sex who enlarge Into
panegyric whenever women and war are
mentioned together. It Is difficult to
attach the blame with certainty ; that
there is some blame, however, must be
admitted. There have lately been nu
merous complaints, unofficial but defi
nite, that numbers of women who have
joined Red Cross workroom forces are
playing fast and loose with the engage-
v,Ant uhpn thu wrtrk to be done nlea rah
they come ; when It Is dull, they remain
avray
When easy and interesting ban
dages are to be made there are volun
teers in plenty ; when too familiar and
rather more difficult sewing is to be
done, places are empty. This is a sorry
sort of understanding of war service.
(.Each one of us, man or woman, is under
obligation to contribute to this high
cause not what he or she will but what
he or she can. There Is no election and
nothing Is really voluntary, for where
there Is no actual drafting by law it Is
only because the moral force for draft
ing is deemed sufficient. The Red Cross
is not a "charity" but an arm of the
military service. The wounded do not
appeal with tears for our sympathy ;
they have rights we are bound to re
spect, and one of them Is the right to
get back Into the trenches and carry on
the fight. Florence Nightingale once
said to a class of nurses : "Our brains
are pretty nearly useless if we only
think of what we want and should like
ourselves and not of what posts are
wanting us. What would you think of
a soldier who, if he were to be on duty
in the honorable post of difficulty, as
sentry maybe in the face of the enemy.
were to answer his commanding officer,
No. I rather had mount guard at bar
racks or study musketry'?" Those
women who hold their work for the war
In the light of an entertainment should
be deprived of the privilege of wearing
the Red Cross.
The Changes Needed
. . From' the Salem Journal
I John A. Logan, member of the prison
COMMENT AND
SMALL CHANGE
It is the allied troops that are now
going forward mit Gott or only a short
distance behind him.
The very highest authority on unlnter-
national law has declared against the
bombing of towns in Germany. What?
"Parrots as Sentinels" is a laconlsm
of the esteemed headline. And parents
as sentinels, is also a very good notion.
President Wilson's occupational sched
ule for his vacation shows him "idle" 15
hours of the first 10$. The kaiser
will be wishing that' as much might be
said tor the army of which Mr. Wilson
has the honor to be commander-in-chief.
There are men In Portland today who
have taken orders from a general who
had commanded troops in tne war oi
181Z. And these old men in Port
land are hobnobbing with boys who will
be assembled in their own national en
campment in 197S. And all that distance
In three lives. Longevity Is an interest
ing contemplation. Is itnot?
Let the two kaisers set up new kings
as they will, if it amuses them. They
will last about as long as Napoleon's
puppets lasted aftei. Waterloo. There
will be this difference, however, that it
was 'legitimate royalty that pulled
them down. This time it will be legiti
mate democracy that will do the pull
ing.
JOURNAL MAN ABROAD
By Fred -
( That mortal dancer can become ao common
place a thins that one turns from it to (et peer
ish about trifle is illustrated in the opening
paragraph of Mr. Localey's letter today. Mr.
Lockler relatea an incident to show .how rapidly
"wound stripes" may be accumulated U one has
good lurk. Then he tlla what a breeder of
fighters is ancient Plcardy. 1
Somewhere In France. I saw a Y. M.
C. A. secretary looking greatly trou
bled, so I said to him, "How ' Is the
world treating you these days?" "These
doggone Germans are getting my goat."
he said. "You know how attached you
get to anything you have had for a long
time? Well, for years I have had a
genuine cowhide traveling bag. It has
gone with me on all my trips, and I
wouldn't have taken cost price for It.
I left It the other night in my room and
those Germans flew over and dropped
a bomb beside my house, and one of
the pieces of the bomb ripped my bag
open and tore it up so badly it Isn't
worth mending. Oh, yes, I know it
was lucky I wasn't there myself, or it
might have been I instead of the bag.
but nevertheless I am sore at them for
ruining It. If I ever spot the fellow that
did it I'll make him pay for it or I'll
take It out of his hide."
With L. C. Wright, religious work di
rector of this district, I went In a Re
nault car to a famous old town on the
English channel. We visited a Y. M.
C. A. secretary who was a patient in
ward 1 of the Philadelphia unit. All
about him were recently wounded men
"Ozies," as they call the lads from Aus
tralia, Tommies and Yanks. I talked
to a lot of them. It Is wonderful how
philosophically they take their wounds.
One lad I heard about earned his three
wound stripes In a peculiar way. He
was wounded by shrapnel, which en
titled him to one wound stripe. In being
taken back to the dressing station a
shell went off near the ambulance he
was In and a bit of the flying metal
found Its target in his anatomy. That
made two wound stripes within a few
hours. He 'was hurried to a field hos
pital, which was attacked that night
by German air raiders. An aerial bomb
dropped beside the hospital and several
of the patients, he among them, were
wounded. That made three wound
stripes for him within !4 hours. He Is
wondering If anyone else can beat his
record.
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During the past few weeks I have
been traveling over northern France,
through picturesque Normandy. Artols,
Plcardy and Normandy are In the
heart of the war activity. As I look
down into the quiet waters of the
I cannot but think how, during the past
four years, this little stream has run
red with the mingled blood of French,
British and Prussians. As I pass an
cient cathedral, poppy-decked meadow,
straw-thatched cottage, forest of beech
and oak, orchard and wheat field, shell-
HOW TO BE HEALTHY
By Dr. Woods-Hutchinson. Former Portland Physiciaa
LESSENING SOLDIERS' RISKS
Modern war Is fortunately not all tear
ing down and destruction. There Is an
other aspect to Its activities and a wider
one. This Is the protection and saving
of human life and lessening the human
suffering by modern medicine and sani
tation. Now that our boys are going
over by hundreds of thousands, it may
be some consolation to know what splen
did preparations have been made for the
care of their health and the treatment
of their injuries. We know, perhaps,
that the hospitals are doing fine work,
but we hardly realize that the patient
care of drainage and camp sanitation, of
water supply and food, and the resultant
prevention of epidemic disease have ac
tually reduced the deadliness of war. It
is impossible not to shudder at the new
devices which have been contrived by
the foe to destroy lives and bodies. Yet
the same Ingenuity that sharpened the
attack has strengthened the defense.
Science and skill have also been at woric
preserving the fighter and doing the ut
most to repair the deadly work of shell
and shrapnel.
I was In Europe for almost a year
from January to December, 1917. Six
weeks of that time I spent on the Eng
lish front, three months along and be
hind the French front, and a month on
the Italian front. The rest or the time
t was visiting the base hospitals, camps.
establishments for reeducation, and so
on. Throughout, my observations I was
impressed not only by the medicine and
surgery of the Uleld and base hospitals,
but by the extraordinary precautions
taken to protect the men rrom injury
through bad food, fouled water and the
germs of disease. The physician and
surgeon have made this world struggle
probably the least deadly ever fought In
proportion to the numbers engaged. The
control over wound Infections is now so
masterly that of the wounded who survive
six hours 90 per cent, recover, oi moso
who reach the field hospitals 95 per
cent recover, and of those who arrive at
the base hospitals 9 per cent get welt
It Is now understod that the treatment
of wounds depends for Its success upn
a thorough and radical operation in al-
parole board, says a change Is needed at
fhe prison. lie Is correct. His Idea Is
a new prison, and this is also correct,
for the present building Is not well cal
culated for the purposes for which it is
used. What is needed more than a new
building, however. Is a change of sys
tem. As at present managed, the prison
is a place for voluntary sequestration,
and prisoners take a vacation at any
time they feel like It. If they would get
clear out of the country, the situation
would not be so bad, but instead the
state is put to the expense of hunting
them up and returning them when their
vacation is over. The governor thinks
they. should have some kind of employ
ment Inside the prison walls; but while
there are 80 tons of flax straw In tha
prison walls that has been there for two
years, his excellency falls to couple
the convicts on to the Job of preparing
It for the market and getting -IV out, ot
NEWS IN BRIEF
OREGON SIDELIGHTS
Roy M. Johnson. an Oklahoma oil
producer, who Is at Eugene with his
family on a trip west to escape the heat
in Oklahoma, tells the Guard that at
Ardmore. his home town, the thermo
meter has registered as high as 112
during the present summer.
Baker county's fair board has decided
to hold the fair about the middle of
October for three days, tne exact dates
to be set later. The fair will embrace
all former features . except me racing
and the livestock exhibit, and will be
hiil in iatii instead of at the fair
grounds.
The Warm Springs Indians have be
gun their annual pilgrimage to the Wil
lamette valley to pick hops, but It Is
observed that as the hop yards are be
ing gradually grubbed out the number
of Indians coming over from the reser
vation Is not so large as In former
years.
"Many a man ln the 'shipyard dreams
of the farm he will buy." says the
Wnodhuni Independent, "but does not
make a motion to accomplish such an
object He merely thinks about It and
may possibly do so after farm land
prices soar, which they will right after
the conclusion of this war. The time
to buy is now, not when everyone la in
the market for a farm."
Lockley
wrecked building and peaceful barn
yard, French history and French fic
tion have lived for me. The characters
of Dumas and of Hugo have walked
with me and talked with me. It Is no
new thing for Plcardy to see her
streams red with blood. Ancient Pl
cardy, like Belgium, has heard the
clash of spear and sword, the twang of
the crossbow, and now It sees the sun
glinting on the swift wings of the air
planes and hears the thunder of the
cannon or the detonations of aerial
bombs.
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I am staying at a chateau whose
owner is a descendant of Marquis Cab
lnas, a friend of Franklin and Con
dorcet. Condorcet came from Plcardy.
He was a brilliant writer, a philosopher,
a friend of America and of freedom.
yet Imprisoned by the peasants during
the Reign of Terror, and a victim, like
other illustrious Frenchmen, of that
bloody day of retribution. Calvin, the
religious leader, came from Plcardy
So did Peter the Hermit, who preached
the first crusade. The Plcards have
always been fighters. In speaking of
Plcardy. a writer in the Stars and
Stripes, says:
"For Plcardy ardent Plcardy. as the
greatest of French historians has called
it has always been a battlefield and Its
people always warriors. The very tow
ers and battlements of Its peaceful con
vents give to Its hillsides the look of a
country dotted with fortresses. Tradition
says that the Plcards owe their name to
the pique, a long and wicked lance which
was their favorite weapon. France has
no greater fighters than the proud and
gallant Plcard captains, the Sires de
Coucy, the crumbling remnants of whose
chateau were wantonly destroyed by the
Germans In this war. When Francis
raised his army to do battle with his
foes In England and on the continent, one
of his legions came from Plcardy. and
the first regiment of national Infantry
in France's history was thle "Regiment de
Plcardie.' created by Henry III In 1588.
Even in peace times the Plcards fought.
Nowhere else In France did tha fight
of the workers against all lordly lnjus
tice and oppression by th rich come so
early. Nowhere else was the fight so
harrdy and so stubborn. From Plcardy
came Camllle Desmoullns, whose pas
sionate eloquence) on that famous July
Sunday In 1783. when he harangued the
crowds from a table In the Palais Royal
gardens, stirred the wrath which spilled
the first blood of the French revolution,
and which two days later led to the
storming and capture of the Bastlle. In
the days to come, when sightseers from
America make a pilgrimage to the streets
of CantJgny, where the American troops
first took part In force in a battle in Eu
rope, they will find tt no more than a
good attemoon's walk up the road to
Amleis where Peter the Hermit was
born."
most every case within eight hours of
the time a man is hit. and. if possible,
within four hours. You can not wait to
send a man back 40, 50, or perhaps 100
miles to) the rear, because every wound
nowadays is a badly infected wound.
After the shell strikes. Its fragments are
thrown up laden with every kind of
germ, because the soli of the battle area
U one of the most richly fertilized In
the whole world, and we get in the
wounds all the bacterial contents of this
fertilization, including, unfortunately,
the tetanus bacillus and the) gas gan
grene bacillus. To combat these the sur
geon has to remove not only the lacer
ated fragments of tissue, but he must
lift out almost In one piece all the
flesh surrounding the wound. When
every bit Is removed in this way the
wound will often heal in about two
weeks.
Hospital arrangements have under
gone a great change from former times.
It was the old. notion that hospitals
should be placed In a good safe position
well In the rear. Now they are Just as
near the guns as we dare put them. I
have been In French and British hos
pitals containing between 3000 and 4000
beds within 12 miles of German guns.
These field hospitals are usually com
paratively safe from harm, though per
petually harassed by spasmodic alrplan
bombardment, just to keep everybody
uncomfortable according to the Hun pol
icy. The big guns are awfully stupid.
They are all right at smashing up the
landscape, but when It comes to hitting
a particular object at which they are
aiming they are often curiously inef
fective. I have seen Important bridges
and roads barely three miles behind the
rear trenches and not more than four
or four and a half miles from the Ger- ,
man guns left untouched. In one place
there was a combination railway bridge
and canal bridge, both of vital Import
ance to traffic. The whole of the sur
rounding country was literally torn and
pitted with shells of every description,
but this bridge was never hit In the
whole 11 months' bombardment.
Tomorrow Lessening Soldiers' Risks
(No. 8).
the way of the coming harvest. Be
sides this, there Is the entire crop of
1914 also tn the prison yards, and noth
ing has been done with this, and ap
parently there Is no Intention of at
tempting to do anything with It. One
of the most needed changes at the
state's caravansary is the turning of Us
management back to the board of con
trol. The governor has proved himself
absolutely Incompetent to manage It.
Young Houses
From the Cleveland Plain Dealer
McAdoo says that the traveling sales
man must cut down the size of his
trunks, and we've always thought that
some of the things they check should
have been furnished with wheels ef their
own and been coupled on behind tha reg
ular cars.
Ragtag and Bobtail
Stories From Everywhere
Something Due to Patriotism
gECRETARY M'ADOO. in commenting '
on the sales of War Savings Stamps,
took occasion, says the Los Angeles
Times, to remark upon the splendid work
done by the pretty moUon picture ac
tresses. "It's a funny thing." he remarked, "but
I know of hundreds of cases where men
had refused to buy stamps from other
men. put later Dought them rrom tne
screen beauties. I heard of one, how
ever, who was an exception.
" "Why didn't you buy your War
Stamps from mer asked the girl, and
added. 'Some other girl was prettier, I
suppose.'
" 'On the contrary, I bought mine of a
girl who was plain enough so that I
could get a little credit for being a pa
triot," was the answer."
Looking Down the Abyss
She frailnr at the Grand Canyon)
Oh, the magnificence of it all: the su
perb coloring; the awe-inspiring cliffs;
the majestic pinnacles ! Oh. Arthur. It
is perfectly errand !
Arthur (with emotion) Gee. I could
spit a mile.
Dobbin Is a Poor Linguist
Hundreds of American horse were
bought back from the French when the
first forces from the United States land
ed on the other side, and the drivers,
says Capper's Weekly, had much trou
ble with them. At first they couldn't
understand the reason. As one of them
said, "When I yelled gtt-up. they Just
sort or looked around as If they thought
I was foolish, and stood still, and then
I remembered I heard a French driver
yell 'allex' at his horse, so I yelled 'allez,
and away my team went. These Amer
ican horses had learned French.
Pretty Hard Lines
"She has rejected me by letter. There
Is no hope."
"Are you sure It's final? Nothing be
tween the lines ?'
"There's only one line."
Love's New Sueet Song
Just a snng at twilight.
When the lights were lnv,
Entwhile used to be the
Amatory go.
Moonlight and a garden,
TroubedouT and maid.
No one to o'erhrar them
Thus tbe scene was laid.
Than folks took to hymning
Amorous intent.
When a crowd of 20
On a hayride went.
Subtle Implications
Lurked tn "Adeline."
Aa, for Instance, warbling
Thus: " for you 1 pine."
Bat the times keep changing
Trllbee, reader, gttmpee
North Chicago's beaches.
Crammed with spooning simp
Howls, nkululstions,
Snorting fsxophonet.
Msndollns and fiddles.
Barber shops and gmana
Mixed ia earr.phnnle
Jaimaragtime hash I
Is, O sapient reader.
This tha tender pashr
Ah. what a satiric
1'icture I might paint 1
But I do not care to.
Briefly, then It ain't.
Chicago loet
L'nele Jeff Snow Says: '
If some of our four-minute orator
would cork up their patriotic fervor a
few days and take to the' roads with a
hoe after the Hun thistle that we uster
lay to Canada as the place where It
come from, the country would be a
durn sight safer fer democracy.
Olden Oregon
First Republican Newspaper, the Argus,
Was Founded In 1858.
The Oregon City Argus, published for '
the first' time on April 21. 1855," was the
first distinctively Republican paper in
Oregon, If not on the raclflc .coast. The
publisher was W. L. Adams, who prior
to that time was well known as a school
teacher and as a forcible political writer
and speaker. He wrote over the signa
ture of "Junius" and was the author of
a locally famous political satire entitled
"Brakespear ; or. Treason. Stratagems
and Spoils." It was Illustrated with a
number of rude cartoons which added
spice to the text. The leading Demo
crats of that day were mercilessly cari
catured under fictitious names. In 1SS3
the Argus was absorbed Into the Salem
Statesman.
Journal Journeys
Alsea RKer Country Is Well Worth the
Tourist's Attention.
Lutgens Is located on the north shore
of Alsea bay, about 14 miles south of
Newport. AUea bay Is three miles long
and varies In width from a quarter of a
mile to a mile. Alsea river empties into
the bay about five miles east of the bar
at the mouth of the bay. Vessels drawing
eight feet of water can cross the bar at
high tide In good weather. Tidewater is
considered the head of navigation. It Is
about 12 miles above Waldport. From
Tidewater, navigation Is carried on by
ahMuOw bottormed scows. Alsea river Is
about 25 or 40 miles long, although Its
source Is not over 20 miles from the
coast on a direct line. Following Its
winding flow one will travel 27 miles be
fore coming to the jorks of the river. In ,
Benton county. Here is located the town
of Alsea. There Is much excellent farm
ing land in Ala valley, whose principal
products are hay. potatoes, beef. mut-
ton, wool and butter.
For details of a trip to Lutgens and
the Alsea country, call on or addrs-ss Th ,
Journal Information and Travel Bureau.
Information free.
Our Honored Guests
Henry James in loe Angeles Express (ISIS)
Welcome the grand old men whose tre4 we bear;
No battle note is in the ftfe and dram.
As gray and prond the marshaled Usee appear.
And we are glad and proud to see them coma.
Upon each brwi a anowy crown of years,
T.t tn their eyee a light that woo Id not dim.
Bate each looks up, and looking, sees threats
tears.
Tha Stars and Stripes, that float beeue of
him.
They beard ia years agoM the call war.
And patriot valor stirred each yosjtfcfnl breast;
There was a land they loved eoRb dying tor
Bo rose an army. North and East and West.
Oh. nerer nobler ranks were aent afield.
And never braver lade faced shot and ehafl.
Tilt from tbe tower ot stale the ybells pealed.
And cried tha watchman: "Peace, and ail ia
well!"
Full many Ha where Southern rivers wind
Unkaown. trn marked the places of their sleep;
Bat whether there 'neath tree by cypress twined.
Or where tall ahalte of stone their vigils keeps
Or whether they survive tha deeadea fled.
Ia friendly- converse, fighting battles past
Tnea are oar soldiers, living they, or dead;
Aifeotioa reach all and holds tbam last.
Tim travels swift and snoa no mora ahaH march
These age-worn be rase tktroagh the ctty street.
Te sew o'erhead the high, trrnmpasj arch
And blossoms Veer has scattered for their feet.
Whew ashes of the final camp are eotd.
Tha last gua sounds aboee the elosing grave,
gtin shall tbe tale ef deeds they wrought ba told,
i 4 btm shail belong the annals mt tha brave.
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