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S3.B0 I On month $ .25 ' ' DAILY (MORNING OR - .AFTEBNOON) AND , BUN DAI Ona yar.....$7.f0 Ona month S .6 I aay thla with defarenca, bat if there ia Hot a Icafu of Nations created in Paris the whola thing ia a failure and I don't think they are goiag to make a failure. Therefore, I think tha people at Waahinf , ton had better get onjie band wagon. am H.Taft. RECOVER THE LOOT SOME of the land looters have been sent to Jail. Many have not. Puter, McKinley, Sorenson, . Hyde, 'Jones, Mays, Potter and many others whose names were con juring words a few years ago, have i had their punishments for the wrongs" they perpetrated upon the public, or for some of them, and in some sort of measure. The fraudulent trail of wrong and public damage does riot' end with them. They were in the game,for . the money they made out of it, true enough. They got their; money, or much of it. And they gotjheir pun ishment 'for the getting. But they were mere Incidents in the transac tions. Some of them were only pawns in the game.. They were not the chief beneficiaries of the steals. There would have been no Incentive for them to have stolen publio land from the governmfint and the state unless there had been those in the background, ready and willing, with, wuuiu uiey cuuiu, ana pia, aeai. Does the government' ease its oon--science and perform 'its duty alto gether when It brings punishment only upon the. wr&ng doers, and the lesser ones? Is there not a greater duty ' remaining in the government and owing to the publio which it Is supposed to serve the duty of re covery and the enforcement of' restl tution? United States Attorney Haney has answered in the affirmative by the recovery from Willard N. Jones of $18,000, principal and" Interest, due oecause 01 me fraudulent acquis! lion of nine timber claims In .the Siletz reservation. But It is only a partial answer, when measured by -the thousands and thousands of acres, and the billions of feet of timber of which the publio has been f despoiled. Attorney General Brown, on behalf of the state, has given an affirma tive answer in his successful assault upon P. A. Hyde which will result In the ultimate recovery of $725,000 'i worth of school land for the benefit of the Irreducible school fund of the state.; , , - John H. McNary and United States Senator Charles L. MoNary, as dis- trlct attorney and deputy for Marion ' county, gave an affirmative answer whea in 1906 they convicted A. T. Kelliher of forging applications to school lands, out of which procedure several thousand acres of land were r recovered for the public and the ' school fund. : These are partial answers. They . point the way, but thejfdo not end . the issue. The great loot of timber lands Is In the hands of the big ones who stood in the background while the Puter tribe performed. This loot, as state and federal courts have al readydeclared, still belongs to the . people, to the school fund, to the ; school system and to the, school I children, for now and for the years to eome. : - i low can those entrusted with , authority , over " the affairs of the , state refuse or neglect to be prompt, energetic , and ' faithful In efforts to recover thai domain of which the ' people and the schools " have been robbed by , the fraud and deceit of unscrupulous men T .", - : Shall the big beneficiaries be free i in the full enjoyment of -their great i loot, while the lesser ones have the I penalties to pay, and the punishments to suffer? . WHY A .THIRTY- MILE TUNXEL? E' I VERY community, says the In terstate commerce : commission. is. entitled to enjoy the benefits of Its natural advantages. Isn't t it about time for thet communities of the Columbia basin to begin, en joying their natural advantages? They have a water grade . route from the Inland Empire to tide ; water many times superior to a tun- nel under the mountain range. Yet I General II. M. Chittenden, once army I O. K. JACK80 . TH E TRUSTEE OF PEACE Ky Woodrow Wilson r " For the sublimity of its thought, the matchless (race of its expression and the delightful interpretation of what Is In the ; following; from President Wilson s win take an imperishable place as a classic I DO not believe that it was fancy on welcome uttered In the streets of this great city and in the streets of Paris something more than a personal welcome. ' It seemed to me that I heard the voice of one people speaking to an other people,; and it was a voice in which one could distinguish a singular combination of emotions. There was surely there the deep gratefulness that the fighting was over. There was that sort of gratitude that the nations engaged had produced such men as the soldiers of . Great Britain and the United States and of France and of Italy men whose prowess and achieve ments they had witnessed with rising" admiration as they moved from cul mination to culmination. But there was something more in it the con sciousness that the" business is not yet done; the consciousness that Jt now rests up6n others to see that those lives were not lost in vain. ,. J have not been to the ; actual battlefields, but I have been with many of the men who have fought the battles, and the other day I had the pleas ure of being present at a session of the French academy when they admitted Marshal Joffre to their membership. That sturdy, serene soldier stood and uttered not the words of triumph, but the simple words Of affection for. his soldiers and the conviction which he summed up in a sentence that I will not try accurately to quote, but to reproduce In Its spirit. It was that France must always remember the small and weak could never live free in the world unless the strong and the great always put their power and their strength in the service of right. This is the after-thought the. thought that something must be done how not only to make just settlements, but to see that these set tlements remained and were observed and that honor and justice prevail in the world. And as I have conversed with the soldiers I have been moreand more aware that they fought for something that not all of them had yet defined, but which all of them recognized the moment you stated it to' them. They fought to do away with the old order and to establish a new one. The characteristic of the old order was that insatiable thing which we used to call "the balance of power" a thing In which the balance was determined by the sword that was thrown in on one side or the other a balance which was determined by the unstable equilibrium of competitive Interests a balance which was maintained by jealous watchfulness and an antagonism of- Interests which, though It was generally latent, was always deepseated. The men who fought in this war have been the men from free nations, who are determined that sort of thing should end now and forever. It is very interesting for me to observe how from every quarter, from every sort of mind, from every concert of counsel there comes the sugges tion that there must bow be not a balance of power not one group of nations set off against another, but a single overwhelming, group of nations who shall be the trustees of the peace of the world. It has been delightful in my conference with the leaders of your govern ment to find how our minds moved along exactly the same line and, how our thought was always that the key to peace was the guarantee of peace, not the items of it, that the items would be worthless unless there stood back of them a permanent concert of That is the most, reassuring thing When this war began the thought considered as the interesting thought of as one of those things that it was as a university man, I have always as if that in itself were a condemnation; something that men could talk about but never get. Now we find the practical leading minds of thenvorid determined to get it. No such sudden and potent union of purpose has ever been witnessed in the world before. Do you wonder, therefore, gentlemen, that in common with those who represent you I am eager to get at the business and write the sentence down ; and that I am particularly happy that the ground Is cleared and the foundations laid for we have already accepted the same body of principles. Those principles are clearly and definitely enough stated to make their application a matter which should afford no fundamental diffleuitv. Ann back of us is that Imperative yearning questions quieiea, to nave an tnreats against peace silenced; to have just men everywhere come together for a common object.0 The peoples of the world want peace and they want it now, not merely oy conquest 01 arms out oy agreement great object that brought me overseas. It has never before been deemed United States to leave the territory of the United States, but I know that I have the support of the judgment of my colleagues in tn ment of the United States in saying iu.u ecu noni me imperative uu am as i coma tonis great lAUIlldLUL V. engineer and chairman of the Seattle port commission, estimated that the savings of an easier, grade through a 30 mile tunnel connecting the in terior with Puget Sound, would pay the interest on and eventually meet the cost of a tunnel at $43,000,000 to $49,000,000. Why should the interest on the cost of a tunnel be imposed in the rail rates of the Columbia water grade when nature without! cost for construction or maintenance has already made the level route? Through the water grade route In land Empire grain growers have ac cess to the only fresh water harbor on the Pacific coast . whence every ship that comes here sails more swiftly because the arnacles that foul the hull drop off in fresh water. The Columbia harbor is one of greater capacity than any other on the Pacific coast because it extends from Astoria a hundred miles to Portland and Vancouver. The en trance has been made as deep and safe as that of the Port 'of New York. The ship that sails by the Colum bia and goes to Puget Sound has an additional loop of 600 miles tacked onto her voyage. The vessel that enters the Columbia has choice of being at anchor within 10 miles of the open sea or of proceeding to the head of navigation and the docks of Portland and Vancouver. Nature made the water grade route and the fresh water harbor. The government and the port commissions of Portland, Astoria and Vancouver have Improved and are continuing to enhance the value of the harbor. Go farther. Let the Interstate Com merce commission recognize the river route with a justly due rate differ ential. Bring cargo and ships" to the fresh; water harbor. Join Interior and tidewater with their natural link. Capitalize their natural advantages to the prosperity of all Columbia basin communities. If we do less we may properly begin to fear that our strong men have been encrusted and deadened by the barnacles that orop oii tne snips. Thousands of people bought War stamps ror Christmas remembrances, wnai is neuer for a "New Year's gift? There would be the advantage of starting the recipient off in the new year with. ; the greatest object lesson in thrift ever given a beonle. A gift of stamps might easily become the nest egg around which would gather accumulations that would lead , on to . an independent fortune. Never was there suoh a chance for parents, to teach children, for wives the hearts of the people of the world. speech at Quiidnaii, London, Saturday, In the literature of the nations. J mypart that I heard In the voice of power for their maintenance. that has happened in the world. of a league of nations was indulgently of closeted students. It was thought right to characterize by a name which, resented. It was said to be academic. of the world to have all disturbing of mind. It was this incomparably excusable for a oresidAnt nr tho that it was my paramount duty to tasts at home and lend such counsel may I not say final enterprise of to teach husbands and husbands to A . teacn wives tne gospel of saving and accumulating. War Savings Stamps, In the lessons they incul cate, will bring thousands to old age comforlably provided for, who might otherwise live the later years or tneir lives as dependents. FLYING TO INDIA T lilt, wona ouzzes -with nmippfa ror airplane mail service. France already has two lines running, one from Paris to fit. isazaire, the other from Nice to Cor sica. Spain plans to set ud nostal an lines from Madrid and other cities to her Belearic islands. Another is talked of between Vien na and Budapest. Our own ninehour flight between uiicago and New York will be regular, commonplace affair before long. At last accounts; six men in one of the largest air machines ever built were en route by air from Ipswich, t-ngiana, to Delhi, India. The dis tance is over 670H.miles, and it was expected that the end of the journey woum be reached' about. Christmas. The route was not specified in the cable dispatches. It was supposed to re via France, Italy, the Mediter ranean, Palestine or Egypt, and across Arabia to the Persian gulf. The last section of the journey, the Vancouver, B. C .World surmises, was tnrougn Karachi and on to Delhi. ; ine experiment is a pathfindin plan for ' carrying mails between Britain and India. Beside this underT taking, the crossing of the Atlantic would be comparatively easy. The bringing of India within seven days of London and Australia within 10 will mean closer contact between the motherland and her colonies and a strengthened British empire. These and; many other airline projects are eloquent of the. progress made in I flying. Fifty-one months of war with all the big nations of the world struggling strenuously for supremacy in the air brought per fecting devices to the airplane and made progress In flying that would not have come about In a decade of peace. ' In Friday's Journal there was a cable from Paris reviewing' the course of recent " events In ; Europe and de scribing the currents and cross cur rents of sentiment with reference to the peace settlements and, the league of nations. In a column and a half, the article gave readers, a perfect view l of the formerly tangled situa tion that . ; Is now - changing to a status in which agreements and con structive settlements are almost : cer tain to eventuate. The story is by Paul Scott Wowrer. and If you have not read it, you should do. so. It is one of the most informative stories that has come out of Europe. "Stealing news is not to be Joler ted" exclaims the Portland Evening Timbergram. But it is eloquently silent on the great subject of steal ing school; lands and annexing tim ber lands. ; ... Letters From the People (Commn&ieations ant tt Tti Jrnimsl fn. mK. lication in thia department tbonld be written on ooljr one aide of the paper. abouJd not exceed 0, worda in length and mutt be eigned bjr the writer, whoae mail addreae in full must accompany the contribution.) Rebukes Parental Indifference Portland. Dec. 18. To the Editor of The Journal Again We hear repeated the falsehood that "he is the son of a minister, and they nearly always go wrong. some years aro I addressed inquiries to more than 300 sectarian and non-sectarian schools and colleges, po lice -departments and superintendents of penal institutions, and their collated re plies informed me that 98 per cent of the sons and daughters of clergymen grew to manhood and womanhood re spectable, honorable and useful citizens. I became convinced that the libel of the children of ministers originated in evil minds. Can it be truthfully said that the training of the' young bank clerk was the impelling cause of hia downfall? Was ll the restrictions of the home that led the seven youthful automobile thieves, arrested within a week, to com mit the crimes they have confessed? Rather, cannot their departure from rectitude be attributed to lack of pa rental interference? Prisons today over flow with young men. Few gray hairs are there. Are not the fathers and mothers of these .beardless criminals guilty. In -all conscience, of the crimes their children commit? Do the young acquire efil inclinations at firesides? Not often.' They are met with on the Btreets, at night, and in the evil asso- clatiohs of these hours. They are found in such churches as supplant the teafch incs of Christ with those of the. world, offering amusement and not holiness. This particular son could not but see other young men pursuing courses which to him seemed attractive, and to emu late tlvrth fell from grace and became a felon not because he was the son of a minister of the gospfl, but that he sought the companionship and longed for the ways and practices or otner boys whose parents permitted them the liberty that meant criminality. In other words, this bank robber is a victim of the times. He Js a creature of the spirit of avarice and lawlessness so noticeable on every hand, seeking o get spmethlng for nothing and the best or a reiiow man. H. S. HARCOCRT. A Memorial Suggestion Portland. Dec. 16. To the Editor of The Journal I have read in The Journal several opinions as to a fitting memorial to the boys who have made the supreme sacrifice in the : -great struggle for democracy, as well as to the ones who are returning home bo crippled as to make them unfit, for the trades and occupations for which they had educated and prepared themselves. It appears to me, as a mechanic that a trade school or factory might very well be established where all the small wooden toys aa well as wagons, sled, rocking horses and , Innumerable other things for the larger children could well be made by the Oregon boy who is abso lutely unable to do hard manual labor. The output of such an institution would go on tne tjnristmas mareei wiuioui the made-by-the-Hun stamp on it and would, I believe, be a lasting memorial as well as a paying one to and for the Oregon boys. Why think of a highway that one in 20 might see or enjoy, when we have a tax frefm which to build our roads? The boy without legs and al most without hands could make wages in such an Institution, with a little train ing, but might not be able to own or even ride In a sightseeing car. . p. K. BALDWIN. Claims Highly for Socialists Portland, Dee. 17. To the Editor of The Journal If the people who profess Christianity were real Christians all the Christian countries would be paradises. The Christian ideal is a Very lofty one. It means the brotherhood of man. Judg ing from the unbrotherly actions of Christians toward each other we are safe in saying that Christianity is never practiced ; it is merely professed and unctuously preached. Why is this re ligion not practiced? Because it is a tender seed that cannot take root in the rocky and barren soil of social ine quality. Christianity is a religion suited only to the soil of social equality. The Socialists, therefore, are the only true Christians, for they alone are trying to change social conditions so fundamental ly that equality and. cooperation can be established. Then, and . not until then, can Christianity be practiced. So you see that a Social-Christian is a practical and sensible kind of Chris tian, but the Christian Socialist is "taboo." .PATRICK O'HALLORAN. The Eagle on the American Coins Corvallis, Or., Dec. 26. To the Editor of The Journal Please state what it was that led to placing the emblem, the American eagle, on our coinage. F. A, SIKES. . tin the act of confreer of April a. 1792. establishing the mint, the devicea for the new coins were prescribed aa follows: "Upon one side of each of tho aaid coins there, shall be an impression emblematic of libertr. and npon the reverse of each of the gold and silver coins there shall be the figure or representation of an eagle, with the inscription '.United States of America.' " The eagle had already been used on the coinage of the congress of the con federation and of - that of some of the states. The choice of the eagle as an emblem was dne to the conception . that thia bird symbolise freedom, loftiness of spirit, magnanimity and re lated qualities, to which America preeminently aa- puea.j ; , Sea Power and Other Hatters Portland. ' Dec 21. To the Editor of The Journal Did England ever control the high seas? Does she still control? Is this country self-supporting? What is the meaning of "freedom of the seas." If Germany had .declared war, on only this country, could she have invaded It without going through neutral waters? v 5 SUBSCRIBER. England baa for 'many years had the atrong et navy in the world, and in that aense eon- trolled the sea. - That "control" baa not for y? many years been abused, nor exercised to its limit of actual physical force Bare in the war with Germany. England'a naval power was never so great as it is today.1 Thia country may be called self-suDPorting. It produces all essen tials of buman use. "Freedom of the aeaa" baa bo established definition; to produce one will be ona of the tasks of the peace conference Ger many need not have sailed through the territorial waters of any neutral power. 1 It Is Not Compulsory Sherwood, Or.. Dec 24. To the Edi tor of The Journal A says a soldier go ing into the service is compelled to take out the Insurance. B says that, -while advised to do so. it is not compulsory. Which is right? - - .-A READER. ' Action Can Be Taken ' Portland. Dec. 20. To the Editor -of The Journal If a party signs a contract fVT a. Tumlr tn t nntd for in mnrtthlv in stallments, with a partial payment down, vTo Woodrow Wilson No wind 'makes for hfm that bath intended port to anil into." Montaigne. Ha gaina w wind wha ha no pott In aw. But drtfteta vainly with a taiUeea crew. The tenrinf breezo for him with linn-held helm -. - ; - Ke atom or breakers can him overwhelm. Item C Seiu. Baaioem Uanager of,the New Tork World. and afterward wishes to cancel the con tract (the book was not delivered), can any action be taken under the laws of Oregon to force him to fulfill the con tract? ' READER. 1 Like Common Scolds ; Eugene, Dec 26. To the Editor of The Journal The spirit moves me to try your patience with a few more words about our president, this time with ref erence to the small fry politicians who are making themselves smaller in the public eye by their undignified haste.' tn congress and out, to denounce as foolish and dangerous every proposal Mr. Wil son makes as soon as they learn what it is. ... . .--.., . :- . . I am not a Democrat, I have voted with the Republicans twice for1 every time I have voted against them. I voted ror Roosevelt when he ran against Wll 809, because I admired the energy, prob ity and clear-sighted nes of the man. But x was disappointed at the coarse person' alities in his speeches in the last presl dentlal campaign, and more so at his re cently published diatribes against the president and his policies, and am driven to the conclusion that physical and po litical discomforts are soaring him. For the course of -a few men In the American -congress of late I am at a loss for a reason, unless it be that their solicitude for the prestige of their party leads them to throw mud at any shining mark outside its fold, to prevent as far as possible the eclipse of their leaders. After hampering and delaying In many ways the legislation needed for the win ning of the war. these men yielded re luctantly and ungraciously to pubUc opinion, and the war was won. When In the late political campaign the presi dent requested friends of the adminis tration's policies to endeavor to elect men who would support a continuation of those policies, his critics denounced him as an Impertinent meddler. though a man's political rights were sus pended by his election to the presl dency. declaring themselves - supporters of the administration a declaration more emphatically negatived, by their present fault finding than even by their past course. When conferees were sent to the peace council they complained that the sen ate ought to be directly represented at that council, although It is the time hon ored custom for the administration to make treaties and leave the senate to confirm or reject them. When the pres ident decided to go to Europe they de nounced him as a meddler and usurper, although his trip was in response to urgent requests by foreign statesmen that he come and consult with them. When he expressed approval of the plan to form a peace league of nations as a basis on which to erect the structure of world peace at the conference, our leg islative halls resounded with clamor against the formation of such a league at this time." British and French states men agree with Wilson that .the- present is the psychological moment for the launching of the league. And now they have found another mare's nest. A league -of nations for the prevention of war would supplant the Monroe doctrine ! Of course It would. It would be a Monroe doctrine for the whole world, and that creed, so produc tive of good in the past, would be sup planted by something so much better and grander that the human mind, until the present juncture, has been unable. to conceive of it as possible. And President Wilson r seems to M no more affecte"d by the carping of tils critics than a file would be by the gnaw ing of a parcel of rats. (Apologies to Junius.) WILLIAM H. WHEELER. All Inquirers Attention fThe answering of inquiries concerning the locations of military units will be greatly ex pedited if the division (if known) as well as the regiment is designated. The nse of abbreviations should by all means be avoided; these are in- nnmeranle ana tneir translation reqniraa time. speu tnem out into, tne words they represent. waste no words in nreliminariee. bus ask m queauons in onereet inrm. as appears, lor ex ample, tn tnose tnat follow 13 thia column. And all I wm ... I - I mrA .V. . - . 11 ... ... . .... U1VC t , Mil vmfr contributors to this department) are prced to use tne exact aatelin and address styla and form that are to be seen in every communication herein published, forgetting the ordinary form used in social or business lettef writing. They will greaUy oouse oj ao aouxg. j Ammunition Train 313 Astoria. Or.. Dec 22. To the Editor of The Journal Did Company A ofHhe 313th ammunition train leave Camp Miiia-Zor jrrance? Where is it now? A READER. (This train is part of the Eighty-eighth di aion. at Gondrecourt. France. Company . D at Souee. ) The Fifty-second Telegraph Battalion Portland, Dec. 23. To the Editor of The Journal Where Is Company D. Fifty-second telegraph battalion, signal corps? Where was it November 11. W. K. B. (The Fifty-second telegraph battalion is at Beauteauge. .No other Information. 1 - The HSlh Engineers Portland, Dec 18. To the Editor of The , Journal Where is Company B 118th engineers; has It been ordered home? SISTER. ( Companies D, F. H, I. L and N St St. Pierre oe Uorps, near Tours: companies B and E at SommeviUe. near Chavillon: Com' pany G at Is-snr-Tiile; Company K at Baasons, near caroon Blanc; uompany a at Mlramaa, near Salon. IN information as to return. The Twenty-third Engineers Portland. Dec. 21. To the Editor of The Journal In what division is the 23d engineers. A MOTHER. (Headquarters at Traincourt; companies scattered. ro otner information. J The Sixty-eighth Engineers Portland, Dec. 16. To the Editor of The Journal Where and In what division is company A, Sixty-eighth engineers?. Is it soon to return? A SOLDIER'S WIFE. (The only tnformatnm available la that the Sixty-eighth engineers' headquarters is at Uon- taerchaume, near Chateau vonx. j It Is at Llbourne, France of The Journal Where is the Sixty ninth coast artillery 7 A, SOLDIER'S SISTER. The Twentieth Engineers Woodland, Wash.. Dec 19. To the Ed itor of The Journal When was the fourth company. Twentieth engineers. when the armistice was signed? Is it at the same place now? A SOLDIER'S SISTER. (The Twentieth engineers headquarters is at Tours; ether units in aboat 6t places. Js other information. - - ' The- 338th Artillery Dilley, Or., Dec. 23. To the Editor of The Journal In what division is the 838th field artillery; Where Is It now, and Is.lt listed for home soon? ' - M. II. BRIGGS. ' In the Cighthy-eighth. No information aa te return. The Eighty -eighth division ia at Moa tremux Chateau, near Belfort, and at Is-sur- Tiuey so muss wen of liellorf- J . First Engineers . Portland, Dec , 24. To the Editor of The Journal Where is Company A, First engineers? - Where was r It : when 1 the armistice was signed? Did it do any fighting between October 20 and Novem ber 117 MRS. T. H. ROE. I The Jfint engiaeers is In toe First diviaion. COMMENT AND NEWS IN BRIEF SMALL CHANGE ; , Loderidorff to lead thai Balnhawikl. h? And will he lead them in the same direc tion be led the. Huns? - v . If the Germans aver da start far Ttasr. dad again, maybe . they will start for tsagaaa.ana not tor Paris. Singular, that starvlnar nonulaf innn and provisional governments are so often found, sticking around so close to- getner. - Answering the question, "What must do to- be saved?" an eminent dlvinn once aid, "Dot Get God in you, then ao as you please." Those who have been caviling. lor a "program" might please note that President Wilson has been all this time leading up to "Get Justice" which is exactly the same thing) "in ywu, uicn ao svs you pieaBe. "The president gave hla views eral subjects and explained Just what the American people expected of him. The premier and foreign secretary were equally frank, and a whole week of ac complishment under ordinary proce dure was crowded Into a few hours by waiving, diplomatic formality." London news dispatch. Junker newspapers, which kicked on Wilson's leaving the country to "meddle in the affairs of Europe,' please copy. JOURNAL MAN AT HOME By Fred fHow a Tonne- man atartina- with minus 85s.&0 became a shecD kins? in Oregon is told today by Mr. Lock ley, repeating the story aa it came from the lips of Wallowa county's heaviest taxpayer, who invites other young men to come to wauow ana ao even better in the business than ha haa done.J Looking over th"e tax rolls of Wallowa country a few weeks ago I discovered that Jay H. Dobbin was Wallowa coun ty's heaviest taxpayer. I knew Jay Dob bin many years ago, when be was far from being the heaviest taxpayer in fact, at times it kept him guessing to get the money to pay his taxes. Mr. Dobbin was born, in DeKalb county, Illi nois, F ebruary lz, 1S70, ana came to Ore gon when he was 19 years old. We took dinner together at Enterprise and under pretense of getting Information about the- early days of Wallowa county I got from Mr. Dobbin something of his own story. He doesn't pretend to be dif fident or modest. He really ia "How much money did you have when you struck Oregon?" I asked. "I had $1.60 when I reached Union, but I owed $60 on my fare, so I really had $58.50 less than nothing." said Mr. Dobbin. "I got a job a farm hand at $20 a month, near Union. I worked a year and a half, and then rented a farm, for I had always liked to be my own boss and work for myself. I had saved most of my wagea I had sent back the $60 I owed for my fare, and of course had spent something for clothes, but I had wasted mighty lit tle money, as I had a goal in sight- owning a place of my own. . "I rented a farm between Union and North Powder, on shares. I rented a larger place the next year, near Telo- casset. This place had 400 acres of good pasture, so I bought some cattle. I worked hard there for three years. I not only did all the farm work but I did my own cooking. . I bought and sold till I had $1200 in cash. I put this into cat tle. Hard times came on in 1893, and In the fall of 1894 I sold the cattle I had put $1200 Into, for $600. I had a lot of 3-year-old Steers which X sold at $18 a head. For a bunch of horses I could get but $10 a' head. I took what money I had gotten out of my cattle and bought a half interest in a band of 2100 sheep. I paid what money I had and signed a note for the balance. J. A. Rouse was my partner. We had 1300 lambs and 800 ewea We paid $1 a head for the lambs and $1.40 for; the ewea. Ewes are worth $15 now. We drove our sheep to the Snake river canyon, between the Imnaha and the Grande Ronde rivers. I did the herding. Coyotes and bears were plenti ful, and it required constant watchfulness to protect the sheep. Presently we sep arated our sheep into two bands. I took one and Rouse took the other. In those days it was not the custom to put up feed. The first winter we were in the sheep business was a long, hard winter and we lost a lot of our sheep. After HOW TO LIVE By Dr. Woods-Hutchinson, Former Portland Physician TUBERCULOSIS IN THE WAR (No, 3) One of the most Interesting of the Italian hospitals was a great estabusn ment for tuberculous soldiers In the Villa Cello on a hilltop wtth a superb view off over the Campagna and the distant hills. Here were received the men who had broken down, presumably from tuberculosis, or who had failed to pass the draft board for the same cause. They were given a tnorougn ana care ful X-ray examination, their sputum was tested under the microscope, ana tney were held under observation for -from one to three weeks, meanwhfle sleeping on great galleries in the open air, liber ally and abundantly fed and given the best anJmost skilled of medical treat ment. Then those who were found not to be tuberculous, which were quite a con siderable moiety of the number, were sent back to their regiments or to such work as they were fitted for behind the lines. Those that were In an early stage of the disease were sent to sana toria which Italian government had butjt since the war, far up In the which is with the army of occupation. un armistice day. at Nouart, 25 mUes aoutn of Sedan, and at (St. uiner. ;o recora ui i tween dates named. The Twenty-third Engineers Hillsboro. Dec. 25. To the Editor of The Journal In what division is . the First engineer motor train of the Twenty-third engineers? Where was it when the armistice was signed? Is it in the army of occupation? A SOLDIER'S SISTER. fThe Twenty-third engineers baa headquarters at Vraincourt, west of Verdun: its companies are) scatter eu. its orner intwiauua. i . i The Thirty-seventh Engineers Portland. Dec. 19. To the Editor of The Journal To which division does the Thirty-seventh engineers belong? Was It in action? Where now located and when expected back? E. A. S. CThe Thirty-eeventh .engineers was on .No vember 28. at taut in part, at Soniily. France, near Verdun. No other information. The Twentieth Engineers Hood River, Or, Dec. 18. To the Edi tor of The Journal In what division is the Twentieth engineers, forestry? A READER. (The Twentieth engineers headquarters ia at Tours; other units ia about 60 places.) The Twenty-fifth Engineers Goldendale, Wash-. Dec. 19. To the Editor of The Journal To what division does the Twenty-fifth engineers belong? Is it In' the army of occupation? Do you know when It is expected to return? Do the volunteers expect to be returned be fore those who 'were drafted ?- - ETHEL FENTON. ( Headquarters at ' Vraincoort; companies scat tered. No other Information. The question of volunteers or drafted is not taken as the beats of the Question of continued service or return. 1 Olden Oregon Meager Record of the Oregon :..-,.. ' Constitutional Convention. . The only record of the proceedings of the Oregon constitutional convention In existence consists of a small pamphlet OREGON SIDELIGHTS In the Canyon City school notes in the Eagle there is a report of progress of "the advanced classes in typewriting." Which Is a very good sign of the times. The Wlllamlna "Times is watching to ee President Wilson's "self determina tion" proposition "start something in about every neighborhood just to see who is who." . That Lane county - is a corn growing section with untold possibilities has been demonstrated, the Eugene Guard says, and the farmer who does not get in the movement now will find himself far behind in a short time. Pleasing prospect viewed by the Vale Enterprise: "A start was made thia year by the introduction of several silos. These will increase, dairy herds will soon become popular, and then within the near future the Enterprise will an nounce the establishment of a cream ery." "Throughout the country cane raising has experienced a great revival in the past two years, and there is little doubt." says the Eagle Valley News, published at Richland, "that sorghum cane will be a profitable crop for several years to come. Sorghum cane will grow to penecuon in isagie valley and sev era! of our farmers are thinking of planting it next year. ockley lambing next spring we had fewer sheep man we bad started with, and we had figured on having twice as many. Our sheep averaged but six pounds of wool each, and wool went down to eight cents. ... in those days the cattlemen elected many of the sheriffs. The second year we were in business the cattlemen threw out salt with strychnine in it and poi soned some of our sheep. We were on free range near Asotin, but the cattte men objected to sheep being in the coun try, so we had lively times. In 1895 we went back to that same range and the cattlemen tried to run us ' off. We re fused to be fun off, so the cattlemen got out warrants for our arrest on the ground that we had on Shovel creek threatened to kill them with Winchester rifles. Bud Prescott, Charley Downing, Bob uti and myself were arrested and put Into Jail. "The judge, when the case came up, ordered the indictment quashed. The cattlemen were then put on trial, but on account of the uncer tainty as to who had committed the as sault against us, the case was dropped. "After the second year I bought out my partner. I also bought a band of sheep from John Stanley. Within a year or so I owned four bands, or about 8000 sheep. I employed four herders and one camp tender, and acted as camptender my sen. "Pete Beaudoln is the "pioneer sheep man of Wallowa county. I probably come next. I kept working along till I was running 28,000 sheep. This made it necessary to have winter feed, so I grad ually bought out homesteaders who were anxious to move to town, till I owned 4000 acres. MIn900' I married Etta Huffman, Bert Huffman a sister. We have three daugh ters and one sdn. My wife's brother, Guy Huffman, ia my partner, and much of the success of our business is due to his management, as he is a natural stockman. AAA "If you should write anything about what we have been talking about I wish you would say that if a man will come up to Wallowa county now there are more opportunities here than when started. The old feuds, between the cat tlemen and sheepmen are now but a memory. There is a sure market at a good -price fc every pound; of mutton and wooL . Ia prixe fighting did you ever notice how some new chap steps Into the ring and the old champion becomes a has-been? Well, the same thing hap pens in the sheep business, and I want to see some ambitious young fellow come up here and begin to build up a good herd and begin to qualify for the coming sheep king of Wallowa county. Hard work and -square dealing will win In the business Just as it did 4000 years ago for the sheep business is one of the most ancient of all Industries." mountains, while those for whom the outlook wasNless hopeful, or whoss disease was complicated by wounds or other morbid conditions, were sent to hospitals arranged for' their reception, each man being sent to the establish ment nearest his Jiome and family. There were nine of these big govern. ment sanatoria and six hospitals for the less' hopeful cases, with two hospi tral trains specially fitted up for con sumptive cases. When I was there, about a year! and a half after Italy entered the war, there had been over 80,000 sputum ex aminations made and about half that number of X-ray studies. And this Is onry a sample of the thoroughness and efficiency of the medical work done by the medical department of the Italian army. At t:.e great general medical bos pital at Udine, only $0 miles rrom -, the front, I was again shown records of some 20,000 laboratory tests made with' in .the past year. Tomorrow : Food of War Workers. of 100 pages covering motions made and their purport. The debates were not a ex ported owing to lack of provision for a reporter. In the brief record it ap pears that when the convention tried for several days to fix salaries, without success, Watkins of Josephine courfty offered this resolution : "That in the opinion of this convention, $1X50 is an ample salary for the governor, provided that, after the good old schoolmaster fashion, he .boards around." The reso-4 lution was voted down, and the salary of the governor made $1300 per year. FUTURE FINANCIAL FOUNDATION PERHAPS your whole success in life will start from that investment in War Savings Stamps wh i ch you are going j to make TOMOR ROW in orderi to help Oregon go over the top. -4 War Savings Stamps may be pur chased at Banks, Newspaper : : : Offices and Postoffice : : ' Portland War Savings Stamp Committee; Raag and Bobtail Stories From Everywhere x 'To Forestall Any Recall -AID the colored lad (quoted ln the : Camp DIx Times) as he was being-' mustered out on being asked what . train he was going to take for home ; Bourn, I a in t sonna take no train. I Uvea 200 mile away, and l'se gonna run de fust 18. jest to make sho' dey don't change dey minds befo I leaves tamp." - This Is lust a Limerick - One night a wild, ravaging leopard Was fired npon by s bold sheooard; Next mora there was found Lying dead en tlx ground The leopard the aheopaid bad peopard. . Boston Transcript. Uncle Jeff Snow Says: Some folks is worry! n over how Bill Hohenxollern Is goin' to make a llvin, -beln's he's plum busted, all but a mil lion or so. it makes me think of the friends of Esrey Morgan, who had the . eredit of" klllln' seven or eight people down on the Brazos river In Texas long bout '78. They tuck to worryin about how he was goin' to stand the cold weather that winter In jail waitln fer his trial at Bastrop. A bunch of patriots - and charitable folks gathered around one night and, took Esrey to a cotton- wood tree where he stayed till mornln', when the sheriff cut him down; which' plum stopped all the worry. . The News in Paragraphs World Happenings Briefed for Benefit Of Journal Readers GENERAL The cost of livtaar in New York state ' has increased 62 per cent since 1914. The surgeon general reports that in fluenza is definitely on the .decline in army camps. The canttal Issues committee of the' treasury department will suspend activ- . ities December 31. ' New Tear's dsywill mark the lnau gutatton of an aerial postal service be tween Valparaiso and Santiago, Chile, An American relief expedition, carry ing physicians, nurses and supplies win ' Bail from New York next month for. Syria and Armenia. Even near-beer will not be allowed In Montana, the attorney general ruling that all beer is outlawed, regardless of its alcoholic, content. Secretary Baker states that all war material captured by the American army will be brought home and dis- , posed of as congress may direct. Sergeant G.. B.. Haskell was killed and James F. Moore, a flight Instructor, was severely injured when their sir- " plane fell near Fort Worth. Texas, Sat urday. It is understood that President Car ransa will soon issue decrees remov ing import duties on foodstuffs, agri cultural implements and irrigation ma chinery. Secretary Baker Is urging legislation authorising medals for members . of . armyl draft boards and state officials who helped administer the selective service law. - After knitting more than 10,000.000 sweaters, socks, etc., America's army of women knitters have been instructed to cease work, as there is a sufficient , supply on hand. With 41 state legislatures about to meet, suffragists are organizing a drive in every state to Induce each legisla ture to pass resolutions calling upon its senators to vote for the federal amendment. Alex T. McKenzie, a prominent poli tician, committed suicide at Tonopah. Nev., by piuglng to the bottom of a ' 1200-foot shaft. He was under Indict ment for the Cooting of James Cusicav- -a mine superintendent, . iiol' . : .'.Ar NORTHWEST NOTES Clatsop county's budget for the com ing year totals $357,500. Approximately $195,000 will be spent for better roads. To assist quarantined families In pro curing cooked food and delicacies. Pen dleton has established a community kitchen. The department of labor will send a representative to the reconstruction , convention to. be held at Portland Janu ary 9 to 1L A directory of manufactories just Is- - sued shows that Washington state has at least 2000 factories manufacturing 1000 commodities. George E. Sanders of Albany and Roy : C. Jones of Tillamook have been ap pointed majors in the Second regiment, OreLon volunteer guard. . Nine thousand tons of rice are on the way to' Seattle, the first importation al lowed since the American food restric tions cut down rice Imports. Thomas A. Phillips, employed by the ' Smith-Powers company at Marshfield, was instantly killed Saturday when a , falling tree struck him. He was 23 years old. ' . One of the worst gales 4f 'the season raged throughout the Grays Harbor-' ection Saturday and Saturday night. Roads were blocked with trees and all work was suspended. The Todd Dry dock Jc Construction corporation at Tacoma has a contract ' for three scout cruisers for the navy de partment. They will be 588 feet long . and have great speed. The keel of one was laid Saturday. i FOREIGN ' Elaborate preparations are being made In Brussels to receive President Wilson. . ' A Tokio dispatch says that half of the Japanese troops in Siberia will be withdrawn soon. France is asking outside aid to assist in rebuilding her 28.000 factories de stroyed during the war. . More than 2300 cars loaded with ex plosives, war material and merchandise were left in Belgium by the Germans. One million tons of shipping will be released from the French army service and diverted to American export trad a Of 14 women candidates for seats In the British parliament only one was elected, and she will refuse to accept the seat, '. . - . - The total war expenses of France are estimated at $50,000,000,000; of Great Britain 740.000,000,000, and of Belgium $4,000,000,000. . .. . ' t