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II all our wiahee war gratifiatl, moat of our pleaa m would destroyed. , i ' Blchard Thatoly. ! LIME FOR THE FARMS '.--'. z ' VTltt& Oregon 'limo plant is now rcaay jor. me aenvcry 01 urns f to tne farmers. ' : idO" tons per; day; 1 A slight' addition -of ' rnachlnejry would double' it. . Tho price of the lima is 1.75 oer ? ton jdn toard the cars at Gold Hill f " The freicht ehuran will mftVa th Average cost to farmers of Westera wtsgvn uuufc ao.M per iuii. iwu to three tons per acre Is the usual . amount put on the land. A dressing of three tons will neutralize the acidity of the land for a period of k .......1 . . iu . lime; to sour land will, if fertility of the isoll is right, double , the yield iot clover, alfalfa, vetch, and other . leguminous crops. Experiments at the i Agricultural college have, on proper soil,4glv?n even belter results. f .The thing for farmers to find out ; Is whether their land is acid and If ' ' the ! soil fertility Is not exhausted. at. If acid and if the fertility is ' gone ji.'Hm and manure will yield the de .' sired results and make, the expense fHof putting on the fertilizer a good ; investment The important thing te ,;dois Driest to ascertain, -what the Tf land requires. This information can ; f r -bej obtained "by communicating, witft J VtM proper authorities at the Agri- J v'eultural colleue. iv The 'problem of making the lime t ', puui a success is now largely up 10 ,i,;th' farmers. They must .usevtho :VPrjduot or the plant cannot ruti. if 'U.jthty use enough of it the capacity Jof the plant will be increased, and !.ithi priee be lowered. There is many t'.an acre of seeded pasture land in . th4 Willamette valley, to ear nothinc r 'of sour fields, on which the lime T can be used with hisrhlv nrofi.Ahi .T-res jits. If you owe a business man for "thth- vnil hivd hmiirht rt him K yi sends you a statement "of the ac count by, mail. He does not,v in S jOrdfer to notify you of the amount : you! owe him, put a costly advertise-,- nient in the newspaper. He can do ; ?,, H kt . far less cast . by malL -Bill -308X yes on the coming ballot, pro ,U ; poses to put the business man's : plan Into effect in delinquent tax ;..'. notifications. It proposes to send - the; statement by mail just as the - business man does.) At present the Viscounties - use-the advertising method, i 1 'The plan , has cSsf the taxnavera nf ' t frregoi between $150,000 i antf 1200,- .iu t Wrf-itoee I9it s - ,r J - . IS DEMOCRACY SAFE? ; i mtfceino. Echo - to .th.;-official ftf,oran'" of ' The 'Kcighbors of ! itg. VVoodcrafl, " V ' fraternal border 1 1.' i . hose . membership,: is large and i, riitsvtioance Jill) .conducted;' - " i J Erho! edllirhrtlv .4 ;ta; some " $(.6ir more v pompously y JnonserAiitive ; yhewspafers; t jierV ;fia sayingrDemocracr tntrst I be ' J 'made sate for the world.'' . a aakittvai cerw oi JtTesl- depi; Wllsph'sV famous': epigram " Viat the' -world loaust te , made safe for dem6cracy!UC.lmplies that -.there ?-someinmg; unsarc .m J democracy, lhaMt langerous," explosive. . 6,icret.Jnnu'endi'is:that while i'littie I democracy; inay be ; good s thlnj if it "Js -properly circuittscribed ; and hooped 'n 'xMth i i Iron "band''' ami '"' -f 'democracy upda the" whole U 'some-' ' tiake precautlons The -bsl'-people I . T;hIsi ;bonntteJrard.jgaTnst;iLV. I ; , j 2lTo,f tjioAQ" whosttindi --work In tliitjaf: democracy vppears'lik i v( ' ; f arsenior .w-hichv'Us Useful- jn, doses of i ' . '4 "t' thousahd.'P - - iwd. deadlypoison If person swallows I f . ; Jt)ore ;of.,it..,,,rhe Paclfi Echoi ays '-'l 5 editorially". f ilial , certain "American i - ,Big, Busmess. magnates -,VU3 not be-? " Ueye;lh.at'-;demqcrjicy;Vls safe tfor Cp ;;ine.j-,world:-fth'aU.:is(l'r6)'theIr.-ipai 1 ' ticolar corper .of 1L They., are icared of democracy, real democracy.' The Echo ayt.., these men have formed an : r.-;. InrlalbU ;'tM'" autocmtlo ; wTrnnient whtclt im splnairor its wb about avary aepartmmt of our nation's actlvitlw, about our law-making-, our aooroea of information, our press ' end - ur thouhtv crUy nampering and n-Uconlainc,-our leader,,-. - That is, to say, they are secretly hampering t and " antagonizing - Presi dent Wilson. , ,. . - It f for 'this secret. Invisible gov ernment, craftily spinning its web of intrigue that "democracy must be made safe."- The most pertinent question in "connection with the Pa cifie Echo's remarks is, "Will the people who are giving their all so gloriously . to , win the war submit to see the fruits, of It gathered in by this . .,.;.! invisible ; government?" Probably fnoVV " PROGRESS OR NOT? m O DOUBT r the war is, drawlnisj Wjo. its close.;: Statesmen In the allied countries 'warn - us not to look, for the end. of it Jurft yet. , But they fear some relaxation of effort from the .,- expectation ' of early peape and therefore make the prospect a little ' darker than it really is, perhaps. . " There must be no relaxation of effort, for -the peace we all long for can only be obtained from an enemy beaten beyond the power of resistance. But even the statesmen, whose business it is to ward off untimely hope, drop words, now and then which promise peace withiri a year. .Germany's military back is broken. ' - Students of human l affairs will soon begin to lookback oyer the war and compare it with former wars. What lessons can be learned from it? What does It, foretell as to the future of mankind? Does it upon the - whole Indicate progress or retrogression t Judging from th way the war began and the devises by which it has been fought are we going forward or backward? Have justice' and mercy operated to prevent needless suffering or has suffering been inflicted' from love of cruelty? A letter in the Evening Post tells of the -fate ;f an Armenian mother who bad 1 been captured - with ; her baby by the '.Turks. She was first outraged ; before the eyes of her husband. ; When he tried to "save her he was shot Then the woman was tied to a tree. Her baby wast tied to another just out of her reach. The baby perished of hunger. The mother, died raving - mad. 'This Incident Is typical of the'way the war has been waged by the central powers. The Germans have been - doing Justtnat- sort of thing in, Belgium; The. -Bulgarians did. the same in Serbia. The Austrians have hangedr. more than 6000people- ln Bohemia. Poland has lost half its population by battle and. misery. do these facts indicate progress? So far as methods of warfare are concerned can the Germans ani their associates claim any orlty over . the Iroquois Indians? This war has been more relentlessly cruel than any other fought for more than J0O years. The . scientific apparatus employed is necessarily cruel in its operation and the minds of those who use it have reverted o savagery. In the light of these facts con sider the "next war,'! of which the Germans are already talking. I its horrors would be as much worse than those we have been witnessing as new inventions and stern expert-. ence couia make them. One more war waged 1 as it v must be waged would ;turn . mankind into hordes jf 6avages occupied in cutting one another's throats with as 'much refinement of torture" as they could devise. " We-have been told over and over again that as long as the war' lasts we mus bend our minds to it and think of .nothing else. Suppose we lapse into a Estate of continual war and preparation for war. jrhere will be no Copper tunitv; to think of such things, as social betterment, re ligion, poetry, literature. The world will forget, all its - old Idves and fix its Heart on .-. slaughter. - - ' These are some of the considera tions which move President Wilson to speak s j earnestly and often for the league of nations. For it U only by a league of nations, solidly and democratically formed, that the world can be saved from becoming a shambles. ' On the oft repeated question of whether it was paid 150,758 within four -years for delinquent advertis ing,; the Oregonlan : remains "silent On the highly interesting question of whether it got vaway with 130.071 of the taxpayers' t money : for de linquent, advertising n a single year the Oregonlan remains silent-How could silence be more eloquent ? POTATOES . iuv).i . , wjuiMrx announces ft? w lift pardonable.- satisfacUon i that a company ,of - potato , farmers who -planted 60 acres last; spring have .obtained a. net re turn 'of $9000 forr their, time and toir. This, means tiSO'-an acre. .1 reward of .merit "as rare as it Is . Kiamatn county, with " its lava 8011; is ; probably exceptionally well adapted :to . the - potato. ' but almost any; part, of Oregon will yieli heavy crops of that .edible. - The lighter alluvial, soils of the valleys - are particularly friendly to its - develop ment as they ; are, to all bulbs and tuber.', - vi . - -- ' Iv ,r , Pota& farming would ; long --ago THE .. OREGON have become one of Oregon's staple Industries " were It not - for' the mv dependable markets. '., This year's erop may bring in big returns,'-while next year's may be m drug on the market Pebple, the country over,' eat about as many potatoes one year as another and would be willing to pay rea sonable priee from season to season if they .were permitted. But those who control our . markets find more profit : for ; themselves In wasteful fluctuations than they do In stable conditions. ' y- . Ira 1- V",i. HOME RLXE IN OREGON. THE home rule amendment to the Oregon -constitution was - sup posed originally to xonfer upon ., municipalities the power to enaet any purely local legislation which did not contravene the criminal laws of the state, Butlthis Interpretation of. the amendment:: has rfot found favor with 'the courts. They have decided la ? effect I that It , confers upon municipalities a more restricted power, and yet one that is of great value. As the courts understand the home rule! amendment it -gives cities the right to enact only, such local legis lation as does not conflict with the "general' laws" of the slate. But even thus restricted It is a wide and beneficial right . It may be. considered from two points of view. We may think of the restrictions it puts upon the legisla ture. Or we may think of the powers it gives the cities.. It pro hibits all special legislative acts de signed to. serve personal or partisan ends in any city. Under the old system the legisla ture could In effect impose upon an City a charter which consigned it to the greed of a street railway corpora tion or a gas company. It could practically compel the acceptance of a charter, which made the city a I rich pasture for the henchmen of the reigning boss. The legislature could Confer franchises wherever and upon whomsoever it liked, and for any consideration it liked. It could, in a' hasty night session, throw one sSt of official out and li.lt. annth-r J s " i set In. The legislature's power foe evil over the municipalities was al most unlimited. "The home rule amendment put a sudden end to all these practices. Oregon cities now frame their own charters and adopt them without consulting the legislature. They con trol their own local franchises. They are, or may be, perfectly independent of state politics and state bosses. The home rule amendment is one of the solid pillars of the Oregon system:- ' -; A dispatch says German prisoners seize-and- eagertytfevour t ood that American soldiers would think medi ocre, and frankly admit that it is much better than . they are ac customed to. The Americans have superi-keservoir, have folks at home willing to stint themselves to save food for their fighters, and have a home government that spares no cost or trouble in feeding them with the best the land affords. On the basis of the food supply alone it is im possible for Germany to win and anybody but simpleton war lords would know it. MOVING A LIBRARY T HE Agricultural college is con fronted uthis fall with the pleas ant task of" moving its brary to new quarters. The college's 35,000 books' have for years beea housed after a hit or miss fashion in .narrow and ill-suited quarters. Everybody connected with the in stitution must feel happy over" tho prospeot of seeing their old calf- bound friends and mentors arrayed comfortably on . spacious shelves. The new library building t Cor yallis " Is an improvement whose de lay has made it all the more appreci ated now that , it is actually ready for use. But moving 35,000 books is no child's Job. It requires trained muscles, sturdy arms and stalwart backs. And requisites cT that sort are today more common the armj than out of It . ' ' Luckily, in the , emergency,, ue Agricultural college professors have seized: the opportunity to demon strate the genuineness of their de mocracy. They may be seen at all hours r of the day and night so a report says, trundling wheelbarrow loads of Plato, Shakespeare and Mil ton from the " old j building to the new.' "They also serve who only push and wheel," as Milton might have observed. Lieutenant Leslie ..Tooze, reported! as .killed by a German sniper, was with the Ninety-first division - which was in training Ion- at Camp LewH, and; with which there are a great many-Oregon boys.' -The report of his death indicates .that the Ninety first has been In action. Lieutenant Tooze was : a highly "Intelligent and lovable young man. He was a speak er at Roseburg and - other Southern Oregon points during the third Lib erty loan drive last April. SUGAR AXP SOCIETY ARDLY anything on earth is so stable, as', social - customs, and yet they change under the stress of war. ; What entertainer would four years ago ; have dreamed of asking his guests to bring their own sugar to a party where Tefresh menls were to be served?; President Benjammlde Vheeler-tf .the rnmi! ,tT,lv-4v ;j iK .v. v" DAILY:' JOURNAL; 'PORTLAND; 'MONDAY OCTOBER .-1918.' thing this - fall at his' annual official reception and", nobody looked glum over It- ' - ; - ; V ' ' ' Sugar was so common-' for; many years before the war that we wasted It recklessly Everything had to Toe sweetened, even the 'children's, les sons at schooL Now we have been obliged to .revert' to conditions not unlike those 'Washington Irving dej scrmes in -bis ."Knickerbocker His tory." : - - " Sugar was so scarce in that' day that each family had but one lump. To be sure the lump was large,, but it was sedulously conserved. It 'was hung, by a string over the midd j of the table and each guest took w a tN anstemious nibble at U after every sip of tea,. - ' . This custom, was . not, deemed un hygienic then. But now-a-days when wt, demand - individual communion cups it will be hrd 'to endure the common 1 sugar : lump. Still we may have to s eome to it - delinOuenttax: exposures XTmatnia's Costa - Mora Than EUcht Tunes Any Needed - Cost. Umatilla county taxpayers have paid during tbeN past eeven years appro xl mately $llt.l5 for the publication ot dellnauent tax lists, or an approximate average ot $581.4$ for each yearr Had the Delinquent Tax Notice bill been in . effect during that period, the cost of notifying the delinquents would have been at the outside approximately S512.40. This la on the basis of an av erage of 1220 separately listed parcels of delinquent property for each of the even years, with a letter sent for, each parcel, under 3 -cent postage. i x The sheriff a office of that county, In estimating the coat of notification by mail, fixed the charge at 2 cents per letter. That estimate was made, ho w 'everhen 2 -cent postage vu in effect and allowed 2 cents for the postage and 1 cent per letter for envelopes and sta tionery. That there may be 'bo ques tion as to the sufficiency of the. esti mate, 2 cents per notice has been al lowed for postage for the entire' seven year period, and. 2 cents per notice ad ditional for the -envelopes and J station ary. In other words, had the Delinquent Tax Notice bill been the law, the en- tlm frUt gf KAtlla law la It' M w " ior "wm-jrcr penoa wouio nave oeen ap proximately 176.05 less than the aver age cost of one year's publication of the delinquent tax list In the county papers of Umatilla county. Putting the same facts in still another way, -thr coat of publication for the seven years has been 803.89 per cent of what tho cost of giving direct and actual notice by letter mail would have been for .the entire period. . - - --. The Journal does not believe that the taxpayers of Umatilla county willingly pay more than eight times the actual cost of securing direct and efficient pub lic service to secure Indirect and Inef ficient service. It believes that the taxpayers, not only of Umatilla county, but of all counties of the state, want to be given one dollar in service for each dollar of tax money spent, and not to be compelled to spend eight dollars to get: one dollar cf service. --That la tha reason The Journal believes the voting taxpayers will vote "30S X- Yes" - on the November ballot and enact the De linquent Tax Notice bill into a law of the state. 'Bring in the Americans" the Cry in France IVom tht Boston Tranasript It Is well-nigh impossible to take up a copy of a French iwtmm ..i . finding in It soma heart-warming tribute to the , American soldiers. And the charm about all of these tributes Is their constant confession of total ltrno- "'"-" nneucjjs. oeiore the soldiers came to them. So now, this having been found out, it is a- case of "bring In the Americans" when anything is needed In , w Aprop8 or this tendency, the Paris Figaro of August 17 tells a story. A local train for the country in stalled by some strange condition of the wnionvo, na.il an nour the train stood still on the track. Kverybody grew rest less and morose. Tho passengers beat their feet on the floor and uttered objur gations from the windows. More time went byj The conductor down the track, blaspheming methodical ly. Nothing availed to start the engine. Suddenly some one shouted, "Why don't urmg in me Americans? Tho cry went up and down with a lanri, surely enough, .upon ho scene, from itcchb oi ine irain, appeared two young American soldiers. Tfc the engine, took strategic possession of w uvunyeu a.u jno OiO Slag OUt Of the firebox, broke ud some gaiI inh, . bits, renewed the fire, hammered a little i.b nu inert, ana presto I tip started the train all at once and proceeded with out a moment's further Interruption to journeys too. Ana amis, . it seems, the Americans are going everywhere techingiha French- to maintain ii. storage plants, to build bridges, to turn ww course ot rivers. . Just Plain President Is Wis ; Only Title From tb PhiUdalphi Icdgar. General : Pershing's message to the president-thanking him for his appre tfatiOR of the work of : our soldiers tn Prance recalls a controversy .that ragetf hotly in tho early days of the republic. Oeneral Pershing's message j began, "His Excellency,, the President of the United States." ft Is many years since such superscription, appeared On a communication from an American, to the chief executive. There is nj -.formula ymoi;rioeu in . me consutuuon f or ad dressing the president. The Massachu setts constitution directs that the gov ernor shaU be addressed as "Hla Fhr, cellency" and the - lieutenant governor as "His Honor.?- But the federal eoa stlttUon speaks' merely of the president and vice president- V V " ;i ' When Washington reached New York on April 23,; 1789, preparatory to taking UW..VUD.W oi iice as prcmaent there Was much discussion in : congress aa ta th proper method of addressing hint,. Joint vufiuniviees ox me nouse ' and senate were appointed to devise a form. v They finaUy reported ; that .the ; forms of thl consUtntioa were good enough. The, sen. ate was not satunee end 'appointed a new committee which recommended the style ot "His Highness, the President of the United States and Protector of Their Liberties." ; After, a long 'debate on the subject the -iiouse appointed :a second committee, but the twe commit tees failed to agree on anything and no report ; -was ever.s made. --y'Jt j was sug. gested. however, that the vice president be addressed as ,Hls Superfluous Ex- t' .""I'TT "" me preceoent jwtucn is touovei today by, directing its reply to Washington's . first address to congress merely Te the. r President. This was toe simple for many and some communications written by , men. who thought - Washington favored v greater formality were addressed too ths nresi- dentas "Hl ExceHency." Itwaa said that Washington -preferred "Ills MlghU neas. after the rash ion prevalent In the Dutch republic But all frills gradual ly disappeared and communications for years have beea- addressed either, to The President. to me President of the rnlted States", or te'.-Mr. Prsel- denLTi-r---- ;-i-:hJ-. - v Oeneral "Pershln has-reverted to' the early and long-abandoned - formula per hapa because of the contagion of ..the rrencn example , of formality-Tn '- ad dress. But the president remains mere ly "The President." - , The- phrase ; of ; Genersk 1 Pershing would mean nothing unusual if used in Portugal, for every. Portuguese in ad dressing another-calls him -"Tour Ex cellency, as - the -common Portuguese word of address. Vosse," te merely a contraction of the phrase which In other countries Is used only in addressing per sons m nign positions. ' v . Letters From the' People m lUommBlcaOoBi aant ta The Journal far pub HcatioB la thw dapanaMnr aboald b writ tea on only on tida of thm n. hnM m-wA lW ot1j ia Urigth and araat be aicaad hr tba " . mui, wu aiiiiMi ia xaii jmw aoeoao. paojr tba eontribation. Denounces the Telegram Portland. ' Oct. 11 To the Editor of The Journal The Evening Telegram loudly proclaims in Its columns and by hectic street car ads that tt is real, simon-pure, honest. straightforward newspaper. I venture to say that there is not a more mendacious, dishonest; un fair newspaper in the entire country. Ev eryone is familiar with its antics at the Time or the prohibition campaign in Ore gon, when it strenuously supported the measure ; and still it was then, and Is now, a strident supporter of Pat Mo Arthur, who, during his whole political career, has worked and fought for the liquor interests. It has sought to prove Itself a high moral force in the com munity, and no newspaper has been more vicious and unfair in its attacks on former Governor West, who. was respon sible, more than any other man, for cleaning up .the. dives and infamous road houses In and near Portland. It poses as a supporter ef the administra tion In its prosecution of the war, and at the same time publishes conspicuously Theodore Roosevelt's malevolent and un patriotic attacks on the administration in the form of editorials written' for the Kansas City star. The latest exhibition of unmitigated mendacity was its editorial orr .Thursday concerning the telephone service in Port land, Everyone knows the '-telephone service Is poor, but it has remained for the Telegram, without citing a, fast to substantiate its statement, to declare that the fault Is due to government con trol. Every telephone user In Portland, including the Telegram, knows that 'the service was extremely poor fc many weeks before the government took con trol; knows -there was a strike before that time that almost paralysed the servreg; knewa that the telephone com pany 'has carried large display adver tisements In all of the papersfor more than a year In an effort to obtain oper ators ; and the Telegram knows that the poor service is due to inability to get help. But it sees an opportunity to rap the administration, and to fight govern ment control of public utilities, so it ig nores the real facts,, and makes an un fair and untruthful appeal to the tele phone users. VThelelepKbae company is not alone tot tnis situation. Street car service was never poorer, The company la breaking In new men all the time, schedules are not maintained and the cars are over crowded ; but I have not yet seen a pro test in the Telegram against the com pany of whose interests It was so. tender at the time the six oent fare was foisted on the people of Portland. It is safe to say -that if. the government had taken over the street -car lines Of Portland we would now see government control and the administration- blamed by the Tele gram for the rotten service. Service in the big stores and the little stores is poor because sufficient experienced help is hard to obtain. The condition ia general in every line of business and every ac tivity, but the Telegram singles out tne leiepnone service oniy, oecause that has been taken over by the administration. Its unfairness and malice are obvloua Such a paper should be condemned by every right thinking person. 11.11. A Renter's Plea for Relief Portland. -Oct' IS. To the Editor of The Journal For some time I have been wondering .when you or someone else would take up the subject of rent profiteering. People who have lived long in-their own homes here, or have long rented, do not realise how the new comer' to Portland is "soaked"- for rent. I came two ; months ago. The best Z could get for my family Cwlfe, child and myself) 'was t-Wo . rooms and kitchen, supposed to be -furnished. The rent was $28.50. .The' furniture included, for ex ample, one spoon, two breakfast cups wtinoui nanatea ana one cup with two handlea'Tbe house is a two story house. about 30x45 feet. Now figure where four families . lived, besides the land lady 'and two -er . three grown children. I paid 128.60. Two more families paid $22.50 each. X presume the other family paid $22.50.: Tha total Is $9. - We were told there "would be hot water on Satur day (for the men to take a bath). Hav ing a child. It"we next to impossible to get into a tnodern apartment One apart ment landlady said she didn't care for children, but I noticed in ber own room two cats, a dog and a parrot. I wonder how some of these people would like to oe treated as they are treating: othera It is robbery, pure and simple. They may as ven say, "liere comes a ship worker. 111 pick his pocket once a week u b rents a room from me." They are entitled to rent fair rent. too. It Is acknowledged that thmrs in every line are much dearer than four years ago. But not In proportion to rents. It is the first Impression of a town mat lasts, and' I can assure you the rent profiteering ' landladies are cnoung Portland as hard as they can. I know nearly 200 families who hava left their homes, 600 miles from Port- iana. ana come to tne coast as a oatrt otio duty, owing to the call for lahor last" February - or- March not because may wantea to work in shipyards, and not for this big money, I don't know of -more thas two -. or V three of those famines who are as well off as they were 12 months ago.' f I forgot to mention' that this house I have mentioned had one wash basin and one:touet for four families, and -one bath for the whole outfit of five fami lies oo water' In any other room than oath room. I don't know whether you will pub lish this letter or not. but if you cart take the stand on delinquent tax ex posures I think your can -afford to halo the actual patriotic, shipbuilder, or. any one etse wno nappens to be in. process ox.oeing roooea oy tnese greedy land ladles. :-:J:ZSjpij.' SUBSCRIBER.- .. : -Let Kultar Be Obliterated , "Portlad.Oct. 14. To the Editor of The JournaWThe Hun has launched his "nth peace offensive and It has failed: Peace by. negotiation is the Hun way of evading, the real issue. - but the allied leaders are too well educated by past i - - . ' '- f '. : ' , , , - ' Ju 6 IcqMment'an - 11 ' 1 1,1 1 1 I I II I I I I I I SMALL CHANGS ! l!?!rt Belgians, 1 our Idea of hint: If var -breathing pas sages are clogged, clean out the flu.. T. mTSnJK V iirrtmm lnner . in Paris through a grating. car'L.I'V WT 0'treet car company is observing the board of health's aed-etreetasurowd women are urged to wear chiffon 72Si!.fv STierd against the "flu." .j senna in a net, aa it were. n4t Jund,fpT : "WTO exchange vTi !Vnw tJk.ln- machine for good baby buggy or perambulator.." Nnff said. , " y5U1 reaUy have a great desire to bli why not contract a HflH Sn,ct r'1"" and aak to be In terned at The Auditorium. - ' However mtuVaa.w.t. o' our phelaa """ " fu" we aiways reel a little mor?rlal,n our daUy dinner when suJnu,t a couple el pork chops on our way home. 4eIL. th fo,Vrh liberty loan went over ,mJJ alL kj1?w the time that it WOUJd CO. ana i.m itu c. v-i- "Pjber. it. too. will be taken care of! Ana: in the meantime m i,n an k war stamps and help to stick; the kaiser JOURNAL MAN ABROAD By Fred - Contianiat Ua trip tbroagh Of atMats at Southampton, Mr. LocbWr ptoeaada aatil aa tocataa ia Ua eatakirta tha avartera ef a lot -of Ontroa boya. With thaw h taika aod of tbaa ha reports much af iataraat to aQ thair frtaaot and raUtivm and . to all OraaxmiaBS ia saaaraL la a anocaedins Inatallmant. aUOaull other Ora oa bora ara -to ba saaad.) Southampton. England Almost every home In this, town, no matter how tiny its lawn, 1 wall kept and has a name. Along the Lodge road I noticed such names as these: The Brambles, Inver ness Lodge. Hants Villa.. The Briars. Rosetta Lodge, Sussex Villa, Stnla. Westburg, Thorton's Charity, and hun dreds of others. Look where you will, you see the uniformed Waacs and Red Cross nurses. To our eyes many of the signs en business houses here are long and cum bersome. Think of addressing letters to your bank if it happened to be "The London County Westminster and Paris bank."- Think of the reporter and lino type operator having to - nammer out "The President of the London Provin cial and Southwestern bank." "The Na tional Provincial and Union Bank of England," or "The London Joint City and Midland bank." The last half mile of the trip on the tram Ta through a beautiful avenue of wide spreading oaks, one of the finest I have seen In England. In one block I counted 19 bicyclists, most of them women. Lack of gasoline or petrol, as they call it here has driven the people back to the blcyclei The - rationing of horses Is strict, particularly if they are kept for pleasure. Horse feed is high In price and hard to get; so the bicycle has tome back. - 'I got off at the end of the line and soon located the boys of Company H, 162d Infantry. They are located In large, airy, comfortable barracks and HOW TO LIVE Br Da Wooda-Hotcunaoa. fonaar .Foctlaad Pbjsielaa MODERN METHODS OF QUARAN TINE (No. Ih-Vtw better Illustrations could be -found the; letter that'SUll eth" than the word "quarantine." In deed, we are doing our best to get "rid of it entirely and-to talk ot "deUntion." "isolation" stations, "observation" camps er any other phraseology whkb will avoid the bated and unpopular - term. And with good reason, for the. word is misleading ,as well as unpopular and to almost totally inapplicable to modern methods ot barring out disease. "Quar antine" is simply the Italian word, for forty quaranta and Its use grew "out of the fact that 40 days was the period for which ail ships or caravans with their passengers and goods were held in confinement before being allowed. to enter the country. v ' x It was a stupid and brutal perform ance, often Imposed for spiteful or com mercial reasons, or for purposes of pure blackmail. Little or .no consideration was -given to the comfort or even the health of the prisoners. The buildings in which they were housed were often filthy sheds without proper water sup ply, and they had to either provide their ow food or pay exorbitant prices for miserable and , scanty . supplies. If the disease - which they were supposed to be carrying did break out among them, they often got little or no medical at tendance or assistance, bat were left to scheming and lying by Germany to even consider such a proposal. All Indications point to another year ot bitter and , bloody war. and yet I hear people say, dosens of times each day, "The war will be over in a couple ot months." or "The war Is about over." Is this "war. is about over" talk or feeling the 'reason for Oregon's not get, ting first, honors in the fourth Liberty loan drive? No doubt it is. But how lean anyone who has followed reports closely consider hub peace buk seri ously. Germany has msde Intermittent peace proposals almost without number since the winter of 1914, when she de manded huge indemnities from the al lies, but aside from each one being slightly lees exacting than the previous one. they, are all made In Germany, for Germans, and would benefit ne one but the Hun himself. - . I do not believe there is anyone who would like to see peace declared .any more than I, , and yet I would see this war continue even another year, that we might pay the Hun ia his own coin, rather than give him peace now, while his own country' remains un touched.. The Hun knows he is getting close to the end of his rope and has done about all the damage he is capable of doing. .Nosre wants to held up his bloody hands and cry "Kamerad," and so save "das vaterland" from a. terrible but merited visitation-; . - , . I beard a" speech ' recently by a re turned soldier of the Canadian army. He told of having seen blind Belgian women from a Belgian asylum for the bUnd who bad been forced to submit to Germans and become mothers.- cannot but feel this: "Let the war go on -anti German militarism and'.-kuUur shall have : been . wiped off the face of the earth f orevsr r? R. L l BRANDON, y : PERSONAL MENTION Seattle BosJoess Mso Stricken , j. L. McLean and J. P. Rudd of Seattle are at the Multnomah, having come to Portland to care for J. H. Price, a busi ness associate, who was. stricken last week with Spanish Influenaa. The three are Interested in the ship fittings busi ness and Mr. Price .bad come to the city in - connection with '.contracts with - the Kiernan Kern company.- He is believed to have contracted- the disease before he left Seattle.'.,-;.. ; j - ." . fngireesmao 'Is. Visitor .- v William : La Folletts of Pullman, Waatu. eongressmsn , from the Fourth Washington district I a.gtffst- at the Oregon. Mr. La Follette was defeated : 1 - OREGON SIDELIGHTS . 1 r.-Ar" ' - - : A hut SOkby 100 feet and to cost probably $12,000. Is to be built on the Oregon Agricultural college campus at Lane county's - aggregate assessment this year, exclusive ot pubiio aervtce cor porations, is above tnai - of 191? by twm, , . - a . ' . - w Delicious ripe strawberries are still on the-market In Forest Grove, the News Timee says., and the-roses continue to bloom profusely. , , ..' -The Rev. F. T. Porter, former pastor of the First Christian church ef Salem, who left May 22 to eater the Y. M. C A. work la France, Js on bis way home. Cement bridges are being bunt by Lane -county to replaoe wooden structures on the road from Coburg to HarrUburg and over Muddy creek on the road to Brownsville, - ' Lake county cattlemen who are buy ing stock Is Lane county are Quoted la the Eugene Register as reporting snow already - around Lakeview and predict ing a hard winter in Eastern Oregon. - Theo. H. Scheffer of the United States biological survey, who has as his special work the extermination of moles and lafkrebbita in Oreaon and Washington. Is now campaigning tn Baker county.-! with MAineurs pesis next on me un. Lockley are well fed 'and well cared for, and. being far from the scene of war, they are putting in their time slgh'tseelng. Naturally they want to get to the front, bet they are engaged in the Important work of handling transient' troops, and are doing it well ; so they will probably stay, on the Job." Sergeant X. C Garver of Tualatin, the aupply sergeant, said: "We have been here since January 11. An aver age of $700 men a day pass through our camp. Our high water mark was 10,029 tn one day." Sergeant Ralph E. Hurn of Klamath Falls, con nected with the medical department, said: "The health of our boys Is remarkably . good. We have had only one case of venereal dlaease tn our group of Oregon boys since we have been here. He was one of the boys who spent his furlough in London." Ser geant Orvtlle L. Lytle ot 237 East Eighty-eighth street. Portland, said: "I have Uved in Portland quite a while. I went there from HUlaboro. I used to carry The Journal on the Ockley Green route. I worked for the Carmen Manu facturing company for some time. Later I took a course lr gas engineer ing and worked at that trade." Ser geant Albert R. Hough said : "My home Is at 32$ North Twenty-third street. Portland, near Lovejoy, not far from the Good Samaritan hospital. I was a Lincoln high school boy and worked as a shipping clerk for the rubber mills before I enlisted." Sergeant Dean Sea brook said: "You have struck a bunch from the Rose City, all right I live at 4(4 East Ninth street north. In Irving ton. I graduated from Jefferson high. When I enlisted I was a student at the University ot-Oregon." O. W. Allen said: "My Job is that of bugler. I was a Lincoln high school boy and I live on Council Crest" fight it, out as best they could alone. Just as " Oermany treats epidemics iq her priapa camps today. It was Tittle wonder that Quarantine became ope of the most dreaded and hated words in the language. Bo dire and vivid .was the impression that it made: through the centuries, that some thing of this Idea of horror and hard ship still clings to the - term in the popular mind.. Any proposal to quar antine a house on account of scarlet fever, or to "declare a .quarantine" against a disease in a port, rouses fierce and agonised protest and is regarded as a most serious matter, next almost to a sentence ot Imprisonment or death. The modern, method of barring out disease from a country or preventing its spread in a community Is almost totally different from quarantine. In the first place. Instead of shutting up sick 'and weU together In one ship or camp untU all who were susceptible to. the disease had caught It and had either recovered or died, the sick on board a vessel, for Instance, entering the port of New York, are promptly removed to a hospital, where they are given the best and most skillful of care and . treatment It is not a pes tho use, either, nor even necea sarily a special fever hospital or hos pital for infectious diseases. Tomorrow : Modern Methods of Quar antine No. 4). by Dr. J. W, Summers of Walla Walla In the recent primariea Eastern Oreo on Men in City -George Wolfe and J. L, Maxwell of Wallowa 'and J. A. Wilson. John Reeves tend" Clem, Marks of Joseph, are among JsssTern uregon visitors at the Imperial, -while looking after business interests In Portland, '' ' ' x Leioh'too's Brother Is III ' Charles Lelghton. one of the clerks at the Multnomah, left Sunday night for Seattle, where he was called by the seri ous Illness of his brother, a .victim of Spanish influence. Dr.-and. Mia, H. E. Houston of Kails pel 1, MonW are guests at the Benson. N. L. - Ward, of. Goldendale, Wash, tn the city, on business, is registered with M Ward at the Oregon. , . R. E.' Allstott and D. S. Barlow' of Heppner, Or., business visitors, are at the Imperial. Mr. and -Mrs.- R. &. Demond of Salem are state capital guests registered at the Cornelius. j-r J H. '-Shaner of Astoria, a bustness visitor 'th the city. Is registered with Mrs. Shaner at the Portland-7 . - X, R. W." Sweet, shipbuilder of Seattle, Js a guest at the Multnomah. ' - : , 7 A W. Callow-, of Marshfleld, tn Port land on business. Is at the Benson.- : R. E. Bejl of Tbe Danes -la regtatered at the Cornelius. , - Mr. and Mrs..1 A. Thompson of Balera are registered at the Portland... J. B. Jenkins of Atlanta, Ga, In Cie Northwest oh a business trip. Is .at . the Benson. .:. . .-. P. H. Cody of Wheeler; JOr, is atfthe Oregon."-:,' ". .' -'- r Charles Miller of Eugene; in the city en business, is at tbe Imperial.- , J. A. Macauley of Astoria Is at the CorneUus. .- " . . r -.. v . : - E. A. Wolf ord of Seaside Is a busi ness visitor, registered at the -Portland. Dr. and- Mrs. tL . Boss of Holland. Mich., spending several weeks in 'the Northwest, are registered at the Carl ton. - . ' : - - . ,r - Mr. and. Mrs. .WUllara -Mooney; of Salem, in the city for a short visit are among the guests at the Washington. Mr. aad Mrs, Hplywarth of ' MUlaf, 8. D are" gui th'S week at the Crltett.vi:"-": :f,';- ' M.' ' Somrnarstrom. shipbuilder of Co lumbia .City,- Or. is reglsteredat ; the Washington.- . -, . Mr. and' Mrs.: C. H- Collins of Albghyr Orders at. the Carlton.. -.. D. M. OampbeO of Clatsop Beach, Or., is a guest at ths Washington. . . , . - ' : - - a Ragtag and" Bobtail ; Stories From Everywhere : In tbe Role ef Daniel" 1 1 I TKCLE JACJC-asd Uncle James aad . come to see their slater . and her " sweet Utile children, and, like tbe good natured fellows they are, they were soon InTeijcled tnu the nursery. Fes? awhile, says Pearson's Weekly, there 'was noth ing more than the usual amount of up roarious riot which denoted that the lit tle ones were perfectly happy, but at last the noise Increased ta such ter rific extent that mamma hurried up to rind out the cause of It "Why. children, children r she cried, "whatever . Is aU this noise about V ; But Utile Freddy, only smiled.- si --"It's all right mummy," be said : : , "-r? Playing a -new game We've locked Uncle Jack and Uncle Jamas up.' ia the ousboard.- aa' whan id, at I wl nerir lm ,n to play going Into play r wu you stop and see us The Patriot P'B trtbeta to tba ataaacU? teral AatarW fV.J" Maataeea. tba popular fa. tT. . wirata.. aartaia aawoetae aeUvtuaa of ibat intaraatia ebamataC ) seisbbor-a bn Im nfealr avHrad. . "1 ie ia aaat aad trUa. , ami Toavar canfaJly baa head Hia sanUa patch for aia, xvnm aoa As dHpptas fnai ale aara. Tba ebild ia toUtes at a paaa That raaOy vaaaa ear feus, Tina was tf set 11 ariaa Tbia Hllaat Toaua aaad to lark u CT,1r aaaating 7a. - ' wbaa laberSlajaorwl Tto ba doaa Wa aoatabav alvara touad Our erafgr-aUtxiad Uttia aoa . f ot aayahare arouad. Bat sow tba waak-aads sar fm Bui what ba . pllias wood , Or Taklat laaraa or eatttas sraai Aroead tha Dalahborbood. Ba baaa't aaddaola srowa toad Ot wor ba bataa U Kill, Bet ha'a sat eat to bar a boad, Aad re aaa bat ha wWI Natural lendeney 4 unny about that aleepwsikar." "What was?" "He got up tn the night and went; straight around the corner to a wake.- The Lonely Bootlegger As a reporter walked down the eorri dors of the courthouse this morning, be was attracted, says the Canyon City Eagle, by the sweet tones of a violin escaping from the iron gratings of the Jail and moaning "The Last Rose of Summer" and as L. C. Lutton is now occupying those Quarters for bootleg Xing we were Impressed with the thought that if bootlegging was profit-, able it was also mighty lonely. Circumstantial Evidence "Ton seem to have had ae accident here." said the amiable Idiot "My friend," replied the sa roast la mo torist "If a shattered wind shield, two smashed mud guards, a bent axle and a broken wheel, not to mention the long strip of cuticle missing from my nose are any Indications of what has hap pened here, your, deductions are emW nentiy correct." Talktno" te Baby rnddla him. maedle hi at. mix blm ep rtabt: Zik..nr':b" ewra. sooa sad aleht Cjtt lat hia oaaas what ou awaa vhaa yoe atye ' Oopr box I Marrer fori ooma-up-ta-dajt" VhrT thT " thm rwr rUla ward) Ltt h"uon bUa. " aorard da tbaaa. awxl.1 tbmm aar. aaeh ooa. Rpaaklna tbam phualy -would apoU ail tha faa. nabiaa wara meant to ba gnrtlad about Dou't teach tbcia apaecb let than flsara H out I -OraoeJt BaU. Uncle Jeff Snow Says: - My granddarter Jeruahy hafe a idee that tf there ain't noth!n;doltr' lit the " dance, theatre or party line, we mhrhC as well have the 8panlsh Influensy jest fer the excitement of the thing. Olden Oregon From 1S45 to 1170 San Francisco Controlled Portland's Commerce. From 1845 down to 1170 the trade ef Portland was controlled substantially by San Francisco interests. Portland mer chants were under the thumb of San Francisco houses, and some of the Port land firms were simply branches of California houses. This dependence fi nally became irksome and agitation for relief began, la 1187 Marshall J, Kin. ney, who. was agent at San Francisco for his father, Robert C. Kinney, wtuf was operating a flour mill at.McMlnn- ' viUe. sought to charter a ship te come to Portland for a cargo of flour, but : he found great difficulty la securing one. One great objection to overcome was the statement that It was not safe for any sailing vessel to venture Into the mouth of the Columbia river. He Hnally succeeded In Chartering :a barkJ the Cutwater, which came to Portland' and loaded a cargo of flour. This weal ths first flour shlppetf Independently ef San Francisco influences. The follow Ing year Joseph Watt of Amity chsrV tared a ship to load wheat for Liver pool. This was the first cargo of Ore- gon wheat to be shipped direct from Portland to a foreign country. The) shipments of Kinney and Watt were the forerunners of others from Oregon to foreign ports. Previously to thlsj Oregon wheat had gone te San Fran cisco and had been reehlpped as Cali fornia wheat , The Publication Measures Titles of Two . Initiative Bills te Remove a Public Burden The 1117 legislature was urred to re peal the delinquent tax publication law .. ana suosutute mau notices, but an or ganised newspaper lobby prevented It The same legislature at the bidding of the same lobby passed a Uw allowing sj nwsnyw,traV W VMV aVVS SSBSJ aS . StWeettJBBJse in many instances more than double what im cnanra iot commercial aaverusing. : There will be two measures on the No- - vember ballot intended te bring about ' better laws in both cases, and taxpayers. If they wish, can effect their passage. The titles are found below: ' ; ; rjriTUTrrx i ttx rTopo r.o piiru. ' X TIVI PKTITIOW . InHiatad by C fl. Jactaoo aad B. W. Racaad DcHnqaMt Tax Vatlea S1U Tarpaaot Ta aa- ' peal praarBt lawa rwrniriaa aavapapor advarttea not at d-liaqaaa tosat a ad 'la Uca thunaf b- ' --it) that tax eoOaetof aba II. after taaaa filiiwjnt each rear. Bail by. latter to aaeh ' . wacr at roaa property. a saaraaa faralabad by him aad natos ee reU, a wrlttaa aettos oataiBias ' daaertptioa. amnrt ef taxea, rata of tntaraat. panaitlas aad data oe aad' at tar jrbieh earUfteate of daUaqoaney ahall iaaua: arorkilne let aorttec ' daUaqaaat hats aad proof by earliiirata a bmU-.T ins aad poaUae. aiaMnc aaeh eertUieata bonrto-S avidoaoa, toaraof , and aabjactlnc aollaetar to daav w asaa aoatetnad iot laiiara to aoatpUl arita aei. j.- SOS . KO . i, -. . v1- ' T? BO If yea faver this at aa dare, fete. Tea, BfrruTXTB . Btu rsopoaro bt Dtrru- " .. TIVS PETITIO.V 5 . . ' '- Inltiatrd by O. . Jaebaoa. 10 SalawHi Art. i FerUead, Orraaa, aad SL W. llaaeod. 1109 Eaat Dart atxart. PorUaae. Orae FUios Caaapoa-i aatkm for PubUoatioa oTLecal Wotleia Pnrpoaat : fnins essapaaaaUsa for pabUratiaa of sU aotooaa.-. eltotleaa, sweat fii -raporta. praeaaaiasa, na tn auutr iaal adwtha- ita of wnavaawra, kin won mow or hereafter -i k- raoairad pabUabad: oraridin. thTi papara aaay wrtract lor knrar ratea; thai pnbjie. aaaoat chanad for pnbik-tlaaj thaf lacU adr." imM vwratrad for Irrteattea. aehooa aad rrmA dktricta ba eebUalwd to local papary, aaiandiM Haetioa ZOOS Lord Oraaoa Lawa. by Unf- tnt uaaaiari per eirealaOoa ia aeantica at 1 S,- -. OiHt or SMra bobs anu; mmum aectiee 2911' Loed'a -Oresoa Un sad .CbapuT S. Lees Of 191T. ' " . - ' -. , 'I'll IS ''"''.'I ''""'. l-'er KO II yes iavor this Bieatars, vote Tea v