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THE OREGON SUNDAY JOURNAL, PORTLAND. SUNDAY MOKN1MU.. umjnuii- " 10 AM IWDEPENDENT NEWSPAPER C . JACKSON. , . . Publisher 1'l.blhhed every day, trnoou and noraiac -1 t Aui aiUrnoon) , t Th Journal Build in, Broadway sod Yamhill treta, Portland, Orefon. - - :' '2 . Littered at the posinffie at Portland. tr'm '' trmiwrnlMiua through th mails as eond cl" i miUir, ' "ffcl-KPHOWEs Main 717tt Horn. A0"1 All departments reaenea bt Tell th operator what department yon want. t ureiom AOVEaraiaa Fkn rATivE Benjamin Ksnlnor Oo., grw B"!: . 225 'Fifth .vm. New Tork; 00 Mailers, ltuildlng; Chicago. ' Butxertption terms by mail In Oregon snd Wash- "iMT (MOENINO OB ArTEHSOON) On r....,$5.00 I One month .50 t RUN DAT On yes... ..$2 50 t On month ...... .26 DAILY (1I0RMNO R AFTEBNOON) AND , ,. , f SCNDAT yr..., .$7.50 One month..,..! Whll peso 1 near. It to necessary for tit American prop la to continu their ex penditure on the basis of a reasonable standard of comfort, and to act aside regu larly and systematically a portion of their Inoom for investment in government e-. rarities. Continued economy must atill b our watchword." Secretary McAdoo. WILSON IN ENGLAND THE enthusiasm of England Is a repetition of that, of France. President Wilson, was given all In honor and tribute that the British nation could bestow. Nothing was withheld. The welcome was. all pervading and absolute. j Two million Britons Joined in the demonstration. No visitor was ever no ' showered with plaudits, say the cables. Only on the return of the British 'armies from the Boer war have there been such scenes. It Is a great people's tribute to an Idea. Of course, there la grati .lude for what America did In tho "war. There Is acknowledgment In these oyations of tho timely help that may have saved the island empire from the Hun. : And there i, the pxuherance West, proclaiming America's entrance into the war, and why she entered. They heard it at Intervals from Wilson addresses and "Wilson diplo matic notes, all through the 19 dread ful months that America struggled. Democracy made safe for all future time was the shibboleth in every battle. It had not been said before, and it was a new hope, a new In spiration, a new purpose for the British people to fight and strive for. It was a rainbow of promise in the darkest hours of the great con flict, a star of hope when the merci less Hindenburg was thrusting back the British line In trie awful mo ments at PJcardy. It sank deep into the British heart, burned strong in the British soul and steeled heart and hands to strive on and on for the victory. And now the Hun regiments are broken. The victory is sealed. The war clouds are dispersed. And the man who proclaims that the British democracy should be made safe; that the French : democracy should be made 6a fe and all democracies should be made safe is on British soil, urg ing his plan, forwarding his cause and their cause and mankind's cause and peace's cause, pleading with chancelleries and governments to make a new kind of peace and order a new kind of world. In the light of Britain's past and in the hope of Britain's future, his welcome could not be other than one of tumult and shouting. The soul of the nation is poured out in the noisy demonstrations. The overflow ing heart of a great people, throb bing with the hope and promise of a safe ' future, is flooding forth . its emotions. Toward, not merely the man, but his idea, the tide of re sistless human sentiment is set. It is mankind's cry for a league of nations. is on the job in peace as well as in war. Which are you T : Are you doing your full part ; to fill up the 1918 War Stamp quota? THE LAWS OF MOTION Th only war activity In which Ore gon has not made a 100 per cent record is War Stamp sale. A million American fighters are on German soil. They have not quit. How can you? SIX DEAD S" G I a fames from- tlie return of peace and Jria .deliverance from the horrible ordeal. There is Joy and gladness liver the Bheathed sword and the silenced guns. The thunders of the artillery ' on the fields of Belgium ' and France no more reverberate in London, But above and beyond all, there Is the Wilson conception of a different future. There is the Wilson slogan of democracy made safe. That promise of democracy made safe means more to England than to other nations. - For years, the Hun menace hung ' like a pall over British thought. Lord Roberts' warning a dozen years ago, of a future conflict with Ger many, shook the empire to its foun dations. It filled the nation with fright It plunged British statesmen into dread reflections. t Through many years, Prussian junkers openly talked of a coming conflict with England. Army officers discussed it in cafes. The whole German population was familiar with it The facts -about it filtered through to England, and kept the British' public in a state of constant apprehension, almost consternation. ' Wilson has opened up to England and the English people the contem- plation of an order of democracy afe. That is what British people . want .after their decades of appre hension. The people in this tiny heart of a great ertipire on which the . sun never sets, are not strong 'enough in manpower to meet alone such an onset as Germany was able to de liver. Prussian Junkerdom with its -. armed hordes was a towering threat against British national existence. ; That was what' brought England into the war, British statesmen knew ; full well what Prussia victorious over France and Russia would mean. They knew what, with France con quered In two months, as was .planned, and Russia prostrate In two ; i or three months more, vVould mean. They knew that the- invasipn of Bel ; .glum and the consequent seizure of channel ports were merely prelimi ' tiary . to a later thrust at the heart v of England. . It Is to the glory of the British ', wind and British soul that' the na ' . tlon anticipated the invader .and' met him at a time when resistance was , . not hopeless. It is to a people who have been ; so menaced ' and so hedged about with peril, that the president of the 1 United. States goes with his comfort ; ing proposal of Europe organized for peace and safety. V-f Jte Is welcomed, as a promise of good order on the continent . !: He : is accepted as the messenger of a new, dispensation. He is hailed as the evangel of a permanent peace in which England win be free to go forward with no great armed power on the.' continent V to tnake her afraid, j Every soul in England knows the Wilson proposal. The tradesmen, hostlers, truckmen,; gardeners and farmers,, as well ay the statesmen know It and value it They heard of IX dead! That is the ' number of auto mobile victims in Portland for De cember, with the month not yet ended. . Mina Smith Is among them. She was a widow, and her three sons of 17, 12 and 5, are- parentless. She was crossing the street that H,at ivas not even crowded. The uniden tified driver of a big Winton killed her as he 6peeded by. He did not even stop to ascertain whether she was dead or alive. Things cannot go on In this way. The majority of drivers are careful. But there is. a minority that is reck less, autocratic and dangerous. Presently , a bloody record is going to be made that will arouse the town. The wanton killing of Mrs Smith has nearly brought that about Once thoroughly aroused,-the people will put restrictions on driving from which guiltless and guljty will suffer alike. Some drivers think the streets are for them alone. Their speed Is im possible. They have nothing but contempt for the crowd. In regal air they sit at the wheel and expect everybody to get out of their way. Their honk is an imperious command It takes no practiced eye to pick them out. Anybody can stand on a corner and recognize them. The po lice cannot fail to know them if they seek to do so. If these drivers, contemptuous of life and limb, are not controlled, a day of , reckoning will come. Wrath is being stored up. The crossings are places of death and mutilation so long as these autocrats of the streets go unstrafed. The killing of Mina Smith is crime. The orphaning of her three sons is a crime.. It Is time for those who murder with automobiles to be governed. . Keep your War Stamp pledge. Don't fail Uncle Sam. His war bill worries him now. Are you helping, or are you a slacker? ZIONISM TRIUMPHS T States united for a up to HE Jews of the United have not been entirely on the Zionist program new state in Palestine within a short time. But the Jewish congress at Philadelphia has healed divisions. There is hardly any more opposition to the plans which Mr. Balfour laid down for the great -en terprise and which the progressive Jews of Europe accepted. ii was the "conservatives" in the united femes who held off. Now they have come to a better state of mind, and all are working to gether. The conservatives stuck to the odd theory that "it is the mis sion of the Jews to teach mankind through suffering persecution. They are a race apart, chosen for sacri flee. They must remain homeless wanderers on the face of the earth to the end of time." Jews of modern minds see no par ticular reason why they should be persecuted wanderers cut off from home and country any more than other people. They desire a land of their own, where their extraordl nary genius can evolve a civilization suited to. Its Inborn gifts. Palestine stands ready to become just such a home and country. The . Jews are wise indeed to seize upon the op portunity. 11 with - the first message that came i There are rainy dav natriot. nd over,, the waters out of the Great sunshine patriots. The real patrldt ALILEO died In the year . of grace 1642. Newton was born in the year 1642. Thus the apostolic succession of mind was kept unbroken. Forty-two years be fore Galileo died Giordano ; Bruno was burned at the stake in Rome. The chief of his offending was that he had taught the Copernican theory of the solar system all over Europe. In those days the higher educa tion was a great deal more demo cratic than It has been since. Europe was sown with universitiesand they were all governed by the . students and teachers, mainly by the students. Any wandering scholar, of whom there were hosts, , could, stop at any university and earn his bread and lodging by challenging the' profes sors to a dispute. People were not so terribly afraid of argument then as they have since become. - Bruno I traveled from end to end of Europe, living by his wits and teaching the Copernican system until the inquisition finally grabbed him in Venice, shipped him off to Rome and reduced him to ashes: Thus: the voice of science was silenced forever, or the inquisition thought it was. Some have made the same mistake since then. But the silence became vocal in Galileo, who also had his little dif ficulties with the Inquisition, though he escaped the stake. His vital service to mankind was the inven tion of apparatus like the telescope and the pendulum clock, with which the Copernican theory, could be j demonstrated toVhuman eyes. With j the telescope an observer can actu ally watch the moons of Jupiter1 sweep into the place predicted for them by the rules Copernicus . fore told. With the pendulum clock as tronomers can bring their predictions to the test down to the thousandth part of a second. It takes an ex tremely agile star to wriggle away fromlhw telescope and the astrono mer's clock. , But Galileo did more than that for mankind. - Perhaps the service we are about to mention was more precious even that the invention of the telescope. His mind bridged gap of two thousand years back to Archimedes, the Grecian of Syra cuse, and recovered the knowledge of the laws of motion. The laws of motion were forgotten, like almost everything else of any value, in the general slump of mind that followed upon the fall of the Roman de mocracy and the rise of the Augus tan autocracy. Up to Galileo's day hardly anybody dreamed that mo tion obeyed any laws. It just went as it pleased, hippyty-hop. Archimedes, 300 years before Christ knew very well that motion obeyed the strictest laws, " but a Roman soldier killed him in the sack "of Syracuse, and the brain of the world died with him until it was resur rected In Galileo,, the greatest man ever born in Italy. It had shown signs of life in Copernicus and Bruno, but in Galileo it was fully re-born. Newton took Galileo's statement of the laws of motion -and cast it into workable form r for modern science. The first law is that, so far as rest and motion are concerned, everybody stays just as it Is unless something changes It If it happens to be moving, on It goes in a straight line, and on it will go forever. If it happens to be at rest it will stay at rest There is nothing in bodies themselves to alter their state of rest or motion. Horses understand the first law of motion Very well. When they see an automobile running along . the road without anything in sight to keep it going they suppose a miracle is happening and are scared half to death at the sight Cows manifest an intelligence Inferior to that of horses by paying no attention to the miracle. Tne eartn is now aoout as near to the sun as it ever gets. It is some 3,000,000 miles nearer than it will be at midsummer. But it has already begun to. move away. At any chosen instant it is moving in a straight line in a certain direc tion. At this moment that direc tion is away from the sun into the icy gulfs of infinite space. If there were nothing to interfere with the earth's wild ways it would keep on going just as it is headed ' now and we snouia aw presently rreeze into icicles. But something . interferes. The sun's gravity pulls the earth out of its wayward course and enforces law and order in the solar system, so that In due time summer will bloom again.' ;' . ' ' ', . '' ' A cannon ball fired into the air would never stop of Itself. It would go on forever. But the air acts upon it like a brake, for one thing, and the earth's gravity pulls down on it every i instant until . at, last even if It is fired frofi a Big Bertha, it strikes the ground and comes to rest The first , law of motion is a law not only of matter, as Galileo and Newton stated it. Great as they were they saw but half the truth. It is a law of mind, too. Once set the mind of man going in, a certain direction and It never stops unless something stops It Our . pedagogues know this very well, though they do not talk about it a - great deal. 5; They , use the first law of motion when they fill the child's mind with dead tra dltlons and outworn knowledge ; ex pecting that as they start it so it wilt go down to the grave. ' And In most cases so it docs. The kaiser and his fellow conspira tors spent a lifetime starting . the mind of Germany off in the direc tion they desired. The mind of a nation is a mighty entity. Enormous labor is required to put it in motion. Labor just as enormous is required to stop It . once It Is started All the rest of the world had' to unite its -forces to bring the German mind to a halt. But the labor of bringing Germany to a halt set the whole world out side Germany going in the direction of militarism, exactly as our earth Is now speeding off into the Im mensities of frozen space. In the effort of fighting German militarism the mind -of civilized man accumu lated an immense momentum toward militarism on its own account It is like the momentum of a planet running wild to destruction. . U is all the more dangerous be cause our " militarism has been outwardly successful. It has al ready, done wonders. What wond ers can it not do? That is pre cisely ihe language of the kaiser and Tirpitz 10 years ago. Today many of us are repeating It with as much faith as if the ruin .of Germany- did not lie ghastly before our eyes. We see what it leads to but we imagine that the first law of motion does not apply to us. We can stop at any instant. Galileo and Newton tell us that we cannot stop before some tre mendous clash with opposing "forces brings us to rest in destruction un less we bethink ourselves in good time. The sun is today applying its .omnipotent brakes to the earth to stop its - mad plunge into black infinity Have the people the will to apply the brakes before our militarist momentum becomes un controllable? The desolate highway of the ages is' strewn v ith the wrecks of nations as proud and self-confident as ours, ' lost and perished for want of intelligent will . to guide them. The maddened mob plunges to Join the great congregation of ruin. - Nothing but intelligent will can stop it democracy -safe; and they want ,the victory sealed in a lcague to make it safe. " Letters From the People RING OUT WILD BELLS By Alfred Tennyson. Ragtag and Bobtail ' (CommonlrfaUona aeat to The Joornal fot -publication in this department should b written on only on aide of th paper, should not exceed SOU words in length and must be aiirrted by th writer , whoM mail addrea in fuU Bitot accompany the contribution.) . ' 'Peace -: :, Malheur. Dec. is. To the) Editor of The Journal Humanity aemanas a peace formed, maybe by a- league i nattnna that nhn.ll X tlOt be broken. There has been more or less (generally more) ' criticism of President Wilson and hla - Immediate associates an through the -war. But who can say thev have not mit their part of the war. through in so thorough a way that it, became the surprising event oi tne world? -a Why the howl of the ns- emntle4, , "Crucify -him r 7 Has there been a critical time in American his tory,- when it needed, a real mam; .that God, did not produce him? Why waa not ; Washington, - Lincoln or .w lison born in some other country or at some other time? Because God had a real man's Job for each of them here, and he makes no mistakes in choice of workmen no more than when he called Moses the lawgiver, Joshua the general, or Samuel the Judge and prophet. Wilson was the chosen of the American people.-' and doubtless the choice of the Infinite B.uler. And he has done remarkably well. France, England, Italy, Belgium and Others will bear witness to his singular ability. President Wilson, his cabinet and the host of helper s Democrats and Republicans have done remarkably well, and any man ought to be proud to belong to a nation which has pro duced such men. Will the world be bunkoed, gold bricked, at the peace table? What kind of peace does the, world want? Last ing peace, and very lasting at that. What is peace? At the international council it should be the harmonious ad justment of differences of men and nations. Real peace has two arms rigteousness and justice. Peace with out both arms would be merely a truce. No one in America knows more about the war than does President Wilson. No one is better fitted . than he to put the world's proposal before the great council no Bismarck peace, no . holy alliance, no tottering balance of power. ED EDGE SR. O ING out, wild bells, to the wild sky, " A The flying cloud, the frosty light; The year is dying in the night? : Ring out, wild bells, and let him die. , Ring out the old, ring in the new, Ring happy bells, across the snow; The yejr is going, let him go; Ring out the false, ring in the true, r Ring ouiUlierienhjfQfps the mind, For thosefht Irere we see no more; Ring out the feud of rich and poor. Ring in redress to all mankind. ; Ring out a slowly dying cause. And ancient forms of party strife; . Ring in the nobler modes of life, With sweeter manners, purer laws. Ring out the want the care, the sin. The faithless coldness of the times; Ring out, ring out my mournful rhymes. But ring the fuller minstrel in. Ring out false pride in place and blood; The civic slander and the spite; Ring in the love of truth and right 1 Ring in the common love of good. Ring out old shapes of foul disease; Ring out the narrowing lust of gold; Ring out the thousand wars of old, Ring in the thousand years of peace. Ring in the valiant man and free, The larger heart, the kindlier hand; Ring out the darkness of the land. Ring in the Christ that is to be. Stories From Everywhere Where Lurifer Llf DEPRESENTATIVB NICK SINNOTT of Oregon recently described Crater lake on the floor of the house in these - words: . "Southward. Crster lake. cauldron-HV aid circular. 7(00 fett high, is perched amid the peaks. Perpendicular sides of slaggy lava rise over a thousand feet : from waters of Indigo blue, sir' miles across and 2000 feet deep. To the scien tist a mighty volcano collapsed within Itself. Mount Masama 16.000 feet high, telescoped. To the poet, the sea of silence.' a lake 'of mystery. To me, a shell hole of a war of worlds who knows? Could the great blind poet have seen this marvel ere his pen had Lucifer and his host of rebel angels Hurled beadloos, fUmlnjt from the ethereal aky With hideoua ruin and combustion down- . - In MUtonie Imagery here' he'd have found the impact." JOURNAL MAN AT HOME By Fred Lockley From th solemnity of th burial of a com rade at sea, Mr. Lockley proceeds to a recital of incidents of hospital and trench, closing with th tribute paid by a British officer to th soldierly and comradely Qualities of Americas brothers in arms. Keep your pledge. The 1918 War Stamp drive is nearly ended. . Save for the day when your soldier boy comes home. In War Stamps your money is invested at four per -cent compound interest and helping your country pay jor the war. A REAL EX-PRESIDENT F The Peacemaker's Task Portland, Dec 27. To the Editor of The Journal Wilson, that great, that wonderful man of the people, is now discussing with our valiant allies the 14 principles referring to the settlement of the great war. There is dissension at home. What did we fight for? For a league of nations ; for the freedom of all peoples, large and small. Shall we lose our honor? We must perse vere. "America" Is te word that is being uttered in the remotest of places by the smallest of nations. Shall; we cease to be their mother? We must keep the Monroe doctrine adopt it for the whole world. The whole world must adopt dis armament of all nations. They must organize an international guard, main tained by the league of nations, to see that all provisions thereby adopted shall be i obeyed. If such a system of safeguarding the world is not adopted, modernism, with its reserve of wealth and scientific re- ORMER President Taft is trying to do in America what President Wilson is trying to do in Europe j source, would eventually bring on a still more deadly war. God forbid it! Let us all stand together behind the president for a league of nations, for freedom, for opportunity for all, and all will be well. JOHN R. MONTCHALIN. The Standpat Senators create sentiment for a league of nations. It Is a great adventure. There could be no more beautiful episode than this former chief magistrate nnrl th nrpspnt. rhipf mac-ist.rat nf th TTnlfoH Statpa otrlvino- tno-oth. I '- wie tiduor OI I .w "-"""o -o--. xne 'Journal For many weeks I have fighting together, republicanism and been reading articles in the naDers about democracy joined, for an organiza- President Wilson's visit to Europe. There inn nt th wnrlrl tn malr rlpmnmcv 13 at 11118 tUMe very much talk in con si umi iic una iuo mucn power ana a lot of rot like that. Too.my notion. safe. The Knoxes, the Lodges, the Poin- those senators are jealous because our dexters, the Penroses and other briga- president did not ask the advice of those diers in his party are against Mr. 'eIIOW8'" , 7 shVild But Taft. And Mr. Taft is against them la rlght and lt hurts Uie upper c,ag8 ln he is pleading with his countrymen Washington that he didn't take a month to support President Wilson in his or w to ask their advice. He was efforts for a league of nations. by lpIe b Mr. laii, is in a wuinwinu cam- senators will give him a chance to do paign, making public addresses, pub- what is right, as he is the man of the lishine articles and eivinsr Interviews hour. A JOURNAL READER. to create American public sentiment in favor of the league. Within three days, he delivered six public ad dresses before audiences numbering thousands of people. He is trying PERSONAL MENTION Scottish Rite Dines The Scottish Rite degree of Masons Alrt a nrlvtitft ilinnAr 4n tViA T?a .. with all his power to organize and lor or the Benson Saturday night, at unite American public sentiment be- which about 15 members were present. hind the league idea, and give Presi- Back in Former Place dent Wilson tne prestige anroad oi p. c. West is at work in Portland having an undivided country behind again as salesman for the National Htm n "V.ub. . an.nlwA elimnl HAT- XXT a . ... j . I OCl WO 1 J Dlgliai VVI3 -i-Ml . C9L .Mr. lans auuuae as an ex-presi- 8Dent most of his time In American can dent is reminder of Washington, Jef- tonments, being stationed at Camp Lew- ferson and Madison after they left J3 and Hampton Roads, Va, and was on . T . his way to France on a transport ship tne. wnite itouse. in a aigninea wh(, .u- news nf the nicnlnp nf th retirement, they counselled with j armistice reached him by wireless. The wisdom for the safe KUidance Of the transport turned about and landed Mr. -kii. t lira thm M Ta West back into the United States with l"lJ"""v- " out even seeing French soil. He was lift the country S Ideals, give the na-js?nt to Vancouver . barracks and mus- tion. a firmer place in history, and 1 tered out of the service the day after iic ita nowpr iinri influence tn maVP. I Christmas, iir. wests family resides ueinuurao j . in nuic it auu ueiiiiu- I nelius. racy all over the world secure and CUUUliUft. . ThA nnint v-imnnntr M . Ita annual It is a glorious exemplification of dinner and meeting ln the Tyrolean American citizenship. room of the Benson Saturday night. Between z ana memoers were nresenL GOOD EXAMPLES ' . l J alias uvts ncruvers Miss Ellen Davis, stenographer at the Tmnsrifil Viais rOfivPTAti frnm mn Hlnsa war drew to its Close was, Cf the influenza and will return to work There is something singularly impres sive about a burial at sea. Just prior to my departure from Liverpool, while we lay in the mouth of the river, one of our passengers, a tall, fine-looking High lander in kilts was taken very sick and was carried ashore. Two days out a Russian officer, and a Canadian Y. M. C A. "secretary. Alexander Peden of Montreal, developed Spanish influenza. Peden's case developed into pneumonia, from which, he died. At 10 o'clock next morning we gathered at the stern to pay him the last honors. It was a strange assembly, such as could not have been brought together except in war. Here was a group or. impressive Russian officers en route to Moscow ; here a famous French aviator, and one of the Royal flying force ; here were British and American officers, Aus tralians and New Zealanders ; men from Africa, naval officers and American bluejackets and returning wounded American soldiers. Priests and T. M. C. A. men were in the group, with here and there an officer In mufti, or a civil ian. A Methodist minister. Rev. Willsie Martin of Boise. Idaho, in his uniform of Y. M. C. A. secretary, conducted the services. As the group of passengers, j bareheaded, stood in respectful silence he read the impressive-words of the Church of England burial service. Four sailors stood by the rail holding a can vas stretcher on which was the body sewed up ln canvas and draped with the Union Jack. I am the resurrection and the life saith the Lord; he, that beileveth in me, though he were dead, yet shall he live, and whosoever llveth and be lieveth in me shall never die," reud the preacher. A lone gull circled high over head. The sun glinted on the blue green waters. Behind us was the long, white path of the ship's wake. "We brought nothing into this world, and it is certain we can carry nothing out. The Lord gave, and the Lord hath taken away; blessed be the name of the Lord." "I heard a voice from heaven, saying unto me. Write. From hence forth blessed are the dead which die In the Lord. Even so saith the spirit, for they rest from their labors," came the message from the Book of Prayer. At a signal the sailors raised the end of the stretcher and the body slid Into: the sea. The heavy weight at the feet- made the canvas covered body stand upright for a moment. It almost seemed as though, before the body sank, it took one last look westward toward home and loved -ones. . "On our trip over to England a godp. many of your soldiers had the 'flu,'" saldr-one of the ship's officers to me. We burled 33 at sea on the trip over. The burial ceremony tinged our thoughts and talk for the next few hours. Lieutenant W. W. Johnson-WUson of the Royal Sussex regiment, an Oxford man who was en route to the United States on government Business, saia . Tn the last few years deatn nas reen an' ever present guest with all of us. The last time I was in the hospital I had a bullet through the trachea. The bullet passed through my body, severing the air passage to tne lungs ana hy in, a r?nd hole when it made its exit. We happened to have a skillful surgeon, who connected a silver pipe with my bronchial tubes so that I breathed through the tube la my chit in place of through my nose. On 'the bed next to me was a sturdy six-footer, a wonderful specimen of physical strengtn and prowess. He had been shot through the stomach and Intestines. The doctor said to him, 'You will pull through if you lie absolutely still. If you move about you will bleed in ternally and die.' He also .told me not to thresh about. It takes mental disci pline to obey orders of that kind. I obeyed. The chap on the next bed be gan moving about. I saw his face turn ashy gray, so I summoned the nurse. She looked at him, shook hr head and said, "Too late. He Is gone.'" Of Mankind's Common Stock ' In eontrft ehara I bid nty face Aa I viewed U win of this poor race. How it. with sword and fir in hand Goe forth to conquer and demand Ita fellows blood; his sacred nfht Racrifice to the cod of mlcht. I m now convinced as I oontesaplat It fred, its lust to dominate The lit man race, of which I'm part. it yoriuiiT deprared in heart. Mr aoni with panes nf sham bowed low, I cried: "Oh Oodl Where shall I so That I tnicht not be counted in With this ain race, so steeped is sint" "IHj not exalt yourself." said tiod. "I te bnt one race on all earth's sod. A brother yoa to all mankind; All must confflts to rdon find. Has now rcpentanc changed your heart f Iou't naught to boast: man sUil tnoa art." t pondered Innf. reply to find. W !.ni this creat truth cam to my mind: ! If one have virtne. sense of rtfht, r'Tn ruiiured in aom heavenly light propbet, ascev about nim thrown. My rirtnea, then, are not my own. TM source of tratn and tore lot a sees And it to all mankind bespeak. Its power will make Hans meek and wise: Our profiteers t will cirilii. . GL Am B. Uncle Jeff Snow Says: r Some folks seems to think this here peace conference ln Europe is- goln' to settle ever neighborhood row and put life into ever reform folks has talked about since Giner'l Lee surrendered. - The News in Paragraphs World Happenings Briefed for Benefit Of Journal Readers Annual Dinner Held L INCOLN'S motto as the Civil "Malice Toward None and Char- Monday. ity for All." As soon, as Grant On Second Honeymoon Trip received Lee's sword at Appomattox Celebrating their fiftieth wedding an he began measures for restoring the I niversary, Mr. and Mrs. Dan Mason of prosperity of the South and laying are Btaylnjf at the seward. Mr. tne lounaaiions oi us . new amity j Mason is in the nardware business. Hotels Are Crowded with the North. uenerai Lee fc&ia commeniing I Earlv Saturday afternoon hotels Tb on those great- times,, fighting was f gan turning, away , soldiers 'and other mil. Hntv hecaiise w fonirht aa onlv 1 transients seeking rooms for the- night. a. Christian may. to make 'bJSX peace and friendship with "jour foes, tions are made early in the week and To fight for . hate or- bloodlust is the Saturday, arrival stands little chance ... of obtaining a room unless he has SOroia. erdered It lii advance or is willinsr tn w 4.1 A .J-j Aa. -IT A I L.ee saia mat uuu, tne aii-iainer, i pay tor notch prices. a . II A. - MM I fc at) naa maue if, uieii s uuiy u uner vueir Greonre l Russell, cattle man from lives for ideals, but not for anything Prinevllle, has arrived at the Imperial Irtwpp than ideals as high as heaven. to pend New Years. True . men do not forget what they are fighting for in - the heat and fury of the fight Itself. When the battle is won they : remember that winning was not the end but the mean3 to an end, and they press onward to the goal. Two years ago we were all talking about the high Mr. and Mrs. E. C Perry of Sclo are I guests at the Oregon. Captain Edgar R. Ferry or washing- ! ton, D. C, who is in charge or muster- I inar out the soldiers at Vancouver bar I racks, is soendinsr Sunday at the Bemmm. Mr. and . Mrs.' J.' C. Dei n is of Tacoma are guests at the Multnomah. Mr. and Mrs. - P. J . Mulkey of Con don are - staying 'at thefew Perkins. Frank E-'t Robertson of Spokane is aims -with which the.; United ; Stales guest at the Portland.. - " . antorino- thA war. The. twnniA I "nwn waiaport S most promt -"- O V I . . . n-l., . T have not forgotten those to make Saturday. Dr: Linton Is a doctor, law-icisco. Another officer, a Canadian, said : "I was in the hospital last fall. The chap near me had -jhis foot amputated. The orderlies and nurses had more than they could do. This chap became de lirious, slid out of bed and ran outdoors on the bandaged stump of his leg. It made me feel sick to see him clumping along on his freshly amputated stump." It is extraordinary what men will do when called upon. Major C A. Allen of Methwold, Stoke Ferry, Norfolk, an of ficer of the Royal Sussex regiment, mo talking of the .'German drive on Cam bral in March, ln which: the Germans killed or captured" more than 100,000 British troops and took immense stores. "We were overwhelmed by mere mass of numbers," he said : "I knew of cer tain companies that were told to hold important positions, and who held them till they were wiped out. I know of one point that was vitally important. A captain was in command of a mixed force holding It- He was killed. A major took command and was killed. So Important was it to hold the . Ger mans there that a colonel took over the handful of men, and killed a brigadier general took com mand and carried on till his force was practically wiped out. You Americans certainly have good stuff in you.' Last January an American officer was. sent to us for instruction in trench fighting. It was in the - Ypres sector. I have never seen nastier weather than we had for the few days while he was with us. There had been a snowfall. It be came slush. A cold rain set ln. We walked along the trench In cold, muddy water up to our knees. A duckboard had floated off, and he stepped off into a shell hole and went out of sight. He came up covered with mud and water, and expressed a very harsh opin ion of the Germans, particularly of the ones who had made the shell hole he had gone into. We took the best dug out we could find, which was more than waist deep In water. I had to send a party back to bring up rations. He volun tered to go witn tnem. it was three and a half miles to the supplies. It took them 48 hours to make the trip. He came back covered with mud from head to foot, with dark circles around his eyes and gaunt with fatigue. We were being strafed by rhe Germans. You would have thought he would have been jolly well fed up with it. But he never whimpered, took what , came cheerfully, ate the same rations the men had, which were mighty scanty. GENERAL Four women will occupy seats ln Cali fornia's next legislature, v The department of labor has dropped all investigation of the Mooney case. Stanley Stoner of St. Louis has tieen appointed deputy Red Cross commis sioner to Palestine. A fire in a huge grain elevator at Portage La Prairie, Manitoba, Friday, caused a loss of $400,000. Being refused 'a 40 per cent Increase ln wages. 150 riveters walked out Friday at the Chicago Shipbuilding company's plant, Opposition Is developing ln Washing ton to nromotintr Malor Generals Per shing. March and Bliss to the full rank oi general.. A new issue of $750,000,000 or more of treasury certificates of Indebtedness was announced Friday by Secretary of the Treasury Glass. NORTHWEST NOTES The Salvation Army of Centralla fur nished a Christmas dinner to lit needy persons. ' Idaho lumber concerns are discharg ing alien employes to make room for re turning so'diers. -Vor tho aWnd time in two months the when he was t Eugene city officials have lifted the banon public gatnerings. , A barge, supposed to be the one lost about 10 days ago off Yaquina, has come ashore near Tillamook. William D. Robson, an army slacker . of Dallas, has been sentenced to serve one year in the federal prison. Joe Despaln writes from France to Pendleton friends that his wounds are all healed up and he is out of the hos pital. Burnham S. Hyland, aged tS. a pio neer of 1853. and Lyeurgua Davis, aged 80, a pioneer of 184S, died at Eugene' Friday. - A. V. Slocum, operator at a moving picture theatre in Roseburg, la being sought on a charge of passing numerous worthless checks. When" his machine backed off a bridge near Roseburg Perry Stanley, a farmer, ; sustained a broken jaw and a compound fracture of the right arm. Mrs. Frances King Headlee has joined the relief commission to be sent to Asia Minor by the American committee for Armenian and Syrian relief. Professor J. B. Horner of Oregon Ag--rlcultural college has written a profuse history of Oregon which will be ready for distribution at an early date. While the great majority of logging ramps in the Columbia river district have closed down, the Palmer camp on the Walluskl is still in operation. Armln C Young, son of Mr. and Mrs. Knh Young of Independence, wao was u-mmriMl in battle In October, is -the and by his cheerfulness helped to buckifjrBt Polk county boy to reach. home. us all up. Your country, with its fresh ness, vigor and enthusiasm, came ln at just the right time to deal the knockout blow." yer. fisherman, director of schools, drug gist, and attenas to a hudiki occupations on the side. Mrs. T. M. Moore ana daughter are visiting at the Cornelius. J. A. Maxwell or in ew port is regmwrcu at the Oregon. Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Marshall of Mill City are guests at the Seward. Mrs. Holly Moore and Miss Sarah Moore of Eugene are visiting at the Ben son for a few days. O. J. Piper and daughter, from Cor vallis, are staying at the Multnomah. w T? 'Perkins and ranit j. wraner oi San Diego have arrived at the New Perkins for a few days. S. O. Krantx of tne west oasi jani- bermen's association at beatue is a guest at. the Portland. Mr. and Mrs. S- Shsdd of Pullman. -Wash., are staying at the Imperial. Mr. and Mrs. u. . ormm ing are registered at the Cornelius. Peter Weber of Boise, Idaho, Is a enest at the Seward. Mr. and Mrs. C. S. Williams of Ho aulam are spending today at the Ben son. Mr. WlUiams Is In the automo- KITa tinalnMS. R. N. Allen of Seattle Is a guest at the Multnomah. . , W. a Hammer of Hood River Is vis iting at the New Perkins. Mr. and Mrs. H. Hogel of Astoria r in th city for a few days. Mr. Hoger Is one of Astoria's prominent business men. They are staying at the Benson. - ; L. E. Swlsler of Seattle Is staying at the New Perkins. Cantata George Gund of the Intelli gence service, who has been at Camp Lewis and Seattle for the past week, returned to Portland Saturday. He is at ths, Benson. James Dillon of Redmond Is at the New Perkins. , Mr. and Mrs. William Seeguist of La Grande, where Mr. Seeguist is engaged in business, arrived at the Benson Sat urday for a few days visit.; ; ' J. Chandler Egan of The Journal and Mr. and Mrs. F. .W. Hanebut are regis tered at the Bellevue hotel, Saa Frarr Paternal Love By Mina Maker Gatcna Ne'er one to mm toj father said. "I lova von." Nor even one kissed he my baby face; No tender words to me by him were spoken. Nor e'er knew. I a father's fond embrsc. Lip apeak not th lanfosre of hearts snch as bin. Mere wordi tell not of love swb as he bore; Yet, oft in some roush deed bis lor unfolded; Deep in his soul I read, it o'er and o'er. 'Twas-felt in the touch of his clamy fingers. As they trembled upon my fevered brow; "I love yoa" I clesned from the tear in bi voire, As be said only this: "How ya feelin' aowf" Portland, December 18. v t Martini, a laborer, is under ar rest at Seattle charged with threatening with death .two bank presidents unless thev left $700 for him at a designated hotel. ' FOREIGN . ;' The Abyssinian government Is sending troops to aid the Christians against the Moslems. Under pressure of the entente the German ambassador and his staff have left Constantinople. Most of the members of the royal houe of Austria have sought safety in neutral legations in Vienna. . ; A dispatch from Warsaw states that the csar and his entire family are alive and are In hiding in a neutral country. The Melville, flagship of the .American destroyer squadron. will sail from Queenstown January 6. -fene will be re lieved by the Cortair. Buy Some War Savings Stamps IT will help put the state of Oregon over the top and also prove the best Invest ment YOU EVER MADE. v War Savings Stamps may be pur chased at Banks, N c w s p a p c.r --t : : : Offices and Postoff ice : : : , Portland War Sayings Stamp Committee