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10 r THE OREGON DAILY JOURNAL.'. PORTLAND, TUESDAY, JANUARY 7. 4919- i AT TWTyBFKXOENT TtEWBPAPER B. JACKSON . Publisher SWielwd every 'MiS cepi Buaaay awerooon), - - inc. Broadway sod T.mblU street. Portland. fcatered at tb. Postofle. t Portland, tor trantmiwl through the mnl as eeeona : class tttw. i j - Telephones Mais 7iis A"2i: All departmenta reached by these na i.w .u. ... h.t tnatment tou want. FOREIGN ADVERTISING BEPREgESlAn'B t r ii v J - Benjamin KantnoT JO-. ""V""""" 225 Fifth avenue. New Tort; 0 Meijers Btrtldtng. Chicago Subscription terms by mail in Oregon and Wb- 'paTlT (MORNING OR AFTERNOON) Oo jeer $3.00 J One- month .BO StfNDAT On, I2.IIO One month .25 1AJLI iMORNING I OR A FTEKNOON ) AND i, 8T7NPAT On year. .... .87 30 I One month .C5 If all the year were playing holiday. To sport would be ss tedious aa to work. . Shakespeare. BY UNANIMOUS VOTK EPRESENTING 40,000 organized R Workers, delegates to the Ore gon- State Federation of Labor yesterday morning adopted the 4 following resolutions by unanimous I vote: ' Whereas, there has just been con .JL eluded a -world war of more than - four years' duration." In which mll- lions of men were killed and wounded, untold hardships and suffering Im- 1 nosed upon innocent civilians, and 3 . m- .nitn. e Inllom nf nrnn- t. erty, the " product of labor's toll, has been destroyed, and & Whereas, there Is now under con sideration tne lormation , oi a of nations that will prevent future 5 wars, be- It Resolved, by the delegates to the sixteenth annual - convention of the Oregon State t Federation of Labor now assembled, mat we pieage our "hi support to the president of the- United ' i' States, Honorable Woodrow Wilson. In -i i his - efforts to consummate the" for ' matlon of such a league of nations ; f and be it further' t Itesolved, that we condemn as en '2 emies of humanity those individuals and interests now opposing the afore- said league. -' The resolutions are a pretty ac ' curate index to what the average I' man is thinking about. In this case, 1 1' 40,000 men are presented as em " A. phatically in favor of a league of - -h nations and empnatlcally against those who oppose such a league. Men who work and know why. '. they work and who they are work : I in,T for, think along much the same ..' lines and hold very much the same " 4 convictions. If all workers studied 2J I public questions as organized work era dp, and if there were a way - i now to measure their sentiment on President Wilson's mission abroad, f it would probably be found that 99 per cent of them would be over . whclmlnulv in aTDroval of the Wil-; sort plan. ' 4 Nothing but wicked purpose can r 1 be behind those who want no stcDS " ) taken at the peace conference to set j up guarantees against future war. In i 1 the name of humanity, this question : -I cries out for answer : How can any -' I good man desire a repetition of the agony, sacrifice and slaughter in . the late 51 months of horpor? The resignation of Lloyd George's cabinet colleagues gives him a free . I I It..-.! 4 : .. i l. I UO.I1U iu i'jini jum surii a jfUA Prn- mcnt as hc desires. 1 here have been quantities of talk about his a reactionary tendencies. Many cor- respondents from over the seas as- sured us , that he had destroyed the liberties of his country and might ; I be-depended on to build up a per- mancnt despotism. It is now in his , I power to refute these accusations , f by 5Ms deeds. In a few weeks we v shall be able to judge of his inten- tions by his actions, which are far V more reliable than words. : 1 SPECULATIONS ' I TI?HILE f0,one! Roosevelt's death I lit is univcrpallv deplored, some ' ff citizens have, nevertheless, i t found opportunity to specu- -ijpate upon its political significance. Naturajly a man of the Colonel's commanding and widespread control ' t over the minds of his countrymen . could not leave the world without -1 altering the aspect of affairs. Some say that his departure will I cause the anti-Wilson and anti- ' J league-of-nations propaganda to col ; lapse, inasmuch as no genuinely s, popular figure remains around whom it can rally and who can attract r popular support to it. No doubt 4 Penrose, Knox and .Lodge will con- tinue their sinister conniving, it is $ argued, but it will eease to be sig- P nificant or dangerous. ' I This may all be true. And yet J one should not trust too much to surface indications. The opposition " ; to the president and his policies , certainly did center in Colonel Roose v , velt. He inspired it and furnished it with a large part of its intel- lectual ; momentum. And we must not forget that the J J propaganda is now moving with the momentum which the Colonel gave . ! it. ,The popular dread of attacking a '.war president has been broken -'. t through. . Colonel Roosevelt battered 4 down the temple doors. Whoever i likes may now enters It would not he surprising - to 1 see the Pcnrose 4 i-odge conspiracy moving on about ; .- THEODORE ROOSEVELT : - - , - -i THE twenty-sixth president of the United . States ts asleep with his fathers. - - ', . , . American politics, presents no figure more picturesque. No country ever afforded a politician more daring. No man in American public life so much employed the unusual and the audacious, and none could have used these hazardous processes more successfully. The Roosevelt action with Colombia respecting the canal zone is typical. He always said of that performance that "I acted while congress talked." It was action In which the United States undoubtedly connived in a rev olution against a friendly republic. It was audacious and extraordinary. It was a procedure that might easily have ended disastrously for Mr. Roosevelt's " administration. But the whole effect was sagaciously calcu lated, boldly executed, and Mr. Roosevelt found in it later, many occa sions for congratulating himself. Mr. Roosevelt carried into his political life the same spirit of advent ure with which he went as a stripling in bad health to the Dakotas, and with which he penetrated the fastnesses of the South African Jungles and made explorations along the famous -'River of Doubt in South America. He refused to follow beaten paths. His combativeness led him to chal lenge many an existing process arid program. One of his first struggles was- with Republican bosses in New York, where he became a leading exponent of civil service reform. Though then only in his middle twenties, he became nationally known as a civil service reformer. At 31, he waB made a' member of the federal civil service com mission by President Harrison, and so aggressive was his work in that field that, within six years, the number of employes on the civil service list was increased to 40,000 from 14,000. Quite as aggressive was his service as police commissioner of New York city in which the enforcement of ordinances and the thorough or ganization of the police system gave added repute to the Rooseveltian dar ing and courage. No incident in Mr. Roosevelt's career is more typical of his defiance of existing order than his Round Robin in the Spanish-American war. Most other men would have shrunk from his act through fear of a court martial. Possibly a less resolute and resourceful man would have met a court martial as a result of it. But the very daring required to sponsor it was a factor that tempted Roosevelt to launch it. All precedents were brushed aside and the great men of his party set gasping when, as president, Mr. Roosevelt began his preachments against the "malefactors of great wealth" and went on with agitation for the reg ulation, of railroads and with denunciations of "swollen fortunes." A newspaper cartoon of the time pictured Mr. Bryan as a fowl with every feather plucked put save one, and that one was labeled free silver. The suggestion was that Mr. .Roosevelt had appropriated all other of Mr. Bryan's policies. In this excursion into the domain of liberalism, Mr. Roosevelt executed one of his most pyrotechnic performances. It tremendously increased his popularity with the American masses and led the way for the huge plu rality of more than 2,000,000 votes by which he defeated Alton B. Parker in the presidential election of 1904. i The boldest political act of his life was his leadership of the Progres sive bolt which split the Republican party in 1912. It was a display of the tremendousness of the Rooseveltian power. It was a political performance paramount. Declaring that Mr. Taft "bit the hand that fed him," Mr. Roosevelt launched into denunciations of the Republican party more bitter than any arraignment that party had ever received. Predicting that he would "beat it to a frazzle'! he placed himself at the head of his followers and de livered one of the most terrific blows ever sustained by any party. He more than split the party in the middle. He tore away from It the 4.124,959 votes registered at the polls for his own candidacv. He re duced Mr. Taft's vote to a remnant of only 3,386,399, against 6,297,099 for Mr. Wilson. In the electoral college, the Taft vote was even more pitiful. Mr. Trtt carried but two small states. Utah and Vermont, with a combined strength of but eight electoral votes. Roosevelt carried California, Washington, Min nesota, Michigan, Pennsylvania and South Dakota with a combined strength of 88 electoral votes. The rest of the states with 435 electoral votes went to Mr. Wilson. The record will forever stand as a monument to the heights of personal power to which Theodore Roosevelt had at that time reached in the political arena of the United States. For many years, Mr. Roosevelt was a force for great good in American life. He dealt Hannaism a terrific blow at the moment when it was in the zenith of its power. His preachments exercised great influence in arousing the civio conscience ot the American people. In some respects, he was a forerunner of Wilsonism. As president, he aided the cause of railroad regulation. He was the first president to give impetus and substance to the great cause of conservation of natural resources. He was a power In forwarding the work of federal reclamation. There is much in his presidency and in his lesser roles that truthful history will commend. That Mr. Roosevelt's career was cut sh,ort by his strenuous journey ings in tropical lands is the opinion of many medical men. He had been a sick man for many months. Dr. Arthur G. Jacobson, associate editor of the Medical Times, declares In a recent remarkable article, that the mas toiditis for which Mr. Roosevelt underwent an operation some time ago, was a sequel to the attack of jungle fever with which Mr. Roosevelt was stricken while In Brazil on his trip of South American exploration several years' ago. The- attack of sciatica with which the distinguished patient was but recently confined in Roosevelt hospital is ascribed by Dr. Jacob son to the same cause. "His star has waned forever," said Dr. Jacobson in his article, and "the new world's flaming dawn of liberty will blind his already dimmed vision, and elicit nothing but the crabbed and peevish carpings of age." In Mr. Roosevelt's late utterances, there was undoubtedly the mark of the ravaging disease, hurrying him on to accelerated age, more relentless and merciless foes than this dauntless political gladiator, this American without a fear, had ever known. the same without the Colonel as it did with him. j Behind the effort is unlimited j money. If has in its service, openly i or subterraneously, by far the larger. number of the morning newspapers and many weekly magazines of im mense circulation. These organs or reacti&n speak as yet with hushed voices but, perhaps, their hypnotic suggestions are all the more potent for- their being veiled and oracular. The public mind has acquisced in the president's ideals rather than understood and digested them. The recovery from war enthusiasm leaves the mentality of. the masses in un stable cquilibriurr. It - is not - ade quately informed. It is not anchored by discussion and debate. It is ready to be misled by evil propa ganda."" Coming in the insidious guise which the Penrose-Lodge-Knox propaganda shows itself capable of assuming, we may justly fear great dangers from it. Months ago President Wilson said that "this was a people's war," He made it a people's war by the splen dor of his rrtcral ideals. Now he says there must be a people's peace and there will be one. if his moral ideals supply the framework for it. Otherwise it will be a junkers' peace and will be wrecked almost as soon as 4he treaty is signed. COLONEL YOUNG COLONEL GEORGE S. YOUNG, whose death at Vancouver Bar racks was announced Sunday, was a brave soldier and an' of ficer of that splendid type that jus tifies our pride in "the American army. l He was long in command at Van couver, ana in the period, it was often said of him that few 'officers were so much concerned about the welfare, safety and comfort of the enlisted man. He was ot that mod- est, unassuming type, who, always conscientious in the discharge of duty, are the strongest and best ex ponents of American military life as well as the most successful on the field of battle. On account of his years and health, Colonel Young was unable to go to France in the late war, and it was a keen disappointment that he car ried with him into the Beyond. In passing, he left a military record worthy of the best traditions of the American army. Superintendent Churchill's annual report is, of course, written only to tell, the truth. It bus- no partisan bias. And yet, how instructive are some of its disclosures. Tor ex ample, Oregon's school fund pro vides only one fourteenth, or some seven per cent, of the money needed for our common schools. The rest must be raised by taxes. In slates where the school lands were hus banded for the children's benefit the school fund nearly or auite pays the entire expenses of the common schools. GOOD PROMISE REED college celebrates its re turn to civil life by installing two new professors, one of ar gumentation and debate and the other of history and economics. The argument man is William Snow, a Bowdoin graduate who has taught at other colleges and seen service in Kentucky under the Stars and Stripes. Mr. Snow may turn out. to be an extremely useful man in the present state of public affairs. Argument and debate have fallen Into lament able disuse In the United States. People have become disposed to take their opinions in pre-digested form from partyv brigadiers. This, of course, produces mental flatulence, a disease ; fatal to democracy. . The simple ; truth is that , democ- racy. -lives ; by discussion, Foolish discussion has its uses as well as the wise. If f Professor Snow encour ages a genuine clash of ideas among his students we may feel sure that sound opinions will emerge from it. School directors worry over the problem of how to get money to pay teachers. Teachers worry over the problem of how to get enough salary to exist, on. The taxpayer is more and more called on to "pony up," and still there is a shortage of money with which to run the schools. There is a better way: The stolen school lands, swamp lands and timber lands, as recent court de cisions indicate, can be recovered and a school fund be created for maintaining the schools. Utters From the People (Communications aent to Thi Journal for pub lication in thi department should be written on .i. .1.1. h nanr should not exceed SvU words in length and must be aicned by the writer, whose mail address in full must accompany the contribution. ) Land Grarters and Others Portland. Dec. 25. To the Editor of The Journal I have been reading the editorials of The Journal, which meet my approval in many ways, for they seem to be full of what I deem real human intelligence. Now that the law i- in hot pursuit of the land prafters, it seems to me there have been some detestably rotten deals in the past. It cost the autocrats so little to get pos session of the land by fraud, and noiv that it costs the government such an awful price to reclaim it. "why not make one bifr issue by the nationalization of all land? Speaking of the big profiteers pay ing enormous taxes still leaves a nigger in the woodpile, for they in turn force just that much more from the producers. Now most of the profiteering corpo rations are howling because their em ployes are demanding a half holiday on Saturdays. They, don't see why labor should want such. Rather, they think that all that is necessary through life is a job for a laboring man to toil for a mere existence. To be sure, if he has a few spare hours for recreation of mind and body he will become aware that he is being cheated outf of quite a bit of his God-given rights and will no longer be an ignorant tool of his present master, but will stand by his fellow producer. Give us just three points first, make it a crime for any othe than the gov ernment to collect interest on money loaned ; second, nationalization of all public utilities; third, nationalization of all land, so that all who are willing to labor will have the equal right to pro duction. J. E. POWELL. Deplores Consolidation Multnomah, Or., Jan. 2. To the Editor of The Journal The proposed consolida tion of county and city governments is a subject in which we of this little com munity are greatly interested. While ! "the proposed change may possibly be in the interest of economy to Portland yet there is another side to the ques tion, which vitally interests us. The community is largely made up of work ing people, who have bought their homes here because they wish to be out side of the city limits in the intret of economy to themselves, and where they can have the freedom cf the country untrammeled by city restrictions. We live in a veritable- Arcadia an earthly paradise, come and go as we please, do as we please, "with none to molest or make afraid." We have no laws, no re strictions. Each individual Is a law unto himself, as far as may be, and yet, in my 90 odd years I have never before lived in a community so peaceable, so quiet, so orderly as this no case of drunkenness, no dissensions, no disturb ances. Even the cows refuse to kick and the roosters waive their ancient privilege of crowing at wdnight noth ing to disturb our sweet drerisave the clamor of the alarm clock. But If that horrid specter of city gov ernment should rise up and threaten to I take us unde her polluted wing, our ! grief would be deep and lasting, and our lamentations would reach to heaven. J. 1 1. ALDRICH. The Evils of Mismating The Oalles. Or.. Dec. 22. To the Edi tor of The Journal I believe, with "Olga," that at least the women who have any male support could and should yield their positions to returning soldiers, or try to secure lighter and less strenu ous Jobs. The world now acknowledges that women, for the most part, are equal to men. In the past the woman was In deed too obscure and downtrodden, but now that her fight for equality is recog nized is no reason she need go to ex tremes and ceglect wifehood and moth erhood, which must be done more or less if she is to lead a public life of any kind. Too many have come to look down upon the most sacred calling of womanhood, and call it drudgery. What folly! I be- ; lieve it is mainly our marriage system tnat sends so many women out into the world, away from home. So many are mismated, and produce restless, discon tented children. It is these that are going to extremes. Let us teach children how to choose a mate carefully, not just for looks, money or position teach them to choose on their own level mentally. Let them bo congenial, then wifehood, motherhood and home will come into rightful place. I see no permanent re lief till congenial mating is reached. Then not only will public women labor ers become less, but 'many other evils will also disappear, such as defective, immoral, thieving, hating, killing hu manity, which will come forth no more. Schools are needed everywhere to en lightert those of marriageable ages, aa well as help those already mismated. M. CLARK. The Material and the Soul Portland. Dec. 26. -To the Editor of The Journal Coming back, it seems as though the brightness of the high ideals are darkening in the shadow of ma terial things. Is the world never to see the face of victory?" Shall'the figure be always as that of the Winged Victory of Samothrace? And yet" the hope that Wilson Is the artist to restore, is some what encouraged by these lines from a sketch of Lord Hugh Cecil :) "A few yeaas ago I heard him again. Lord Morley had just made a great speech defending British rule in. India, extolling the material progress of the natives, the network of railways and canajs that had been built by .English enterprise and English capital, and so forth. The arguments were the usual stock arguments, but Morley marshaled them excellently and the house cheered. Minister after minister got up ' and praised the Indian secretary. Then suddenly Lord Hugh Cecil's high voice was heard in querulous complaint. " The secretary for India,' he said, "has talked of . nothing bnt material things; the natives, he declares; are better off than they ever were before. If famines are more frequent, wars have ceased and pestilences are now cured by science. He has told us much about the body, but he has forgotten, the soul. What about the soul of India, the as pirations and hopes of the Hindu.?i--The soul of India once flowered in Gautama Buddha, a soul full of meekness . and pity and love. What have we done to free and strengthen that spirit?. ! , ; " The rlght honorable member's speech filled me with- fear. lt was aa If h described a great room of mag nificent proportions with a noble throne in It; but alms, the-throne has no oc cupant it is empty, and the great room is without a meaning." So much, then, for this parallel that presents Itself In the faee of these claims that are uppermost since the armistice, Italy versus Jugo-Slavia, na val supremacy, domestic politics as against foreign policy. Can anyone say that Wilson will not try to place In that empty throne the conscience of the world; of humanity? O. X. S. Other Sorts of Consolidation Klamath Falls, Jan. 2. To the Editor of The Journal I read in The Journal of December 14 the letter of D. C. Lewis relative to city and- county consolida tion, and have followed subsequent let ters on that eubject. For many years I have wished that this idea- might lu some safe and sane manner be applied to our legislature and to popular vote enactments in general. Relative to con solidation Mr. Lewis suggests: "Before we jump, some well-worked-out plan for government should be provided. Sim ply to consolidate and then rush into the courts to learn to not wis dom." None could say it better. May not the same be as well said of legis lative enactments in general? Would it not be well to have all bills first passed upon by some body of Impartial persons who have some idea of clearness of lan guage, and who also have enough knowl edge of the existing laws and the con stitution that they could put the bill into such form that its meaning would be reasonably clear? Here is a sample of 1917 legislation laws 1917, page 802. Now, who in Ore gon or elsewhere has any "clear con ception" of what it all means? Go to it : "Section 1. No mortgaged goods or chattels other than migratory chattels, the certificate of which mortgage has teen duly filed in the office of the sec retary of state, shall be removed from and into another county or counties of this state unless, notice of the owner's intention to remove be mailed, postpaid and registered, to the mortgagee at his last lUhown place of address, not less than TO days prior or 10 days subsequent to such removal." Applying the ordinary meaning of Words and phrases, ask the answer to these questions : 1. What is meant by mailing notice "not less than 10 days prior or 10 days subsequent to such re moval"? 2.- What is meant by "from and into another county"? 3. Taking this enactment by itself, what mortgage is filed with the secretary of state? Is it that on the migratory chattels or on goods or chattels "other than migra tory chattels"? 4. What are "migra tory chattels," anyway? With our statute books cluttered up with such conglomerations as the above I enactment, is it any wonder that our courts are swamped with undecided '"'-? And. even at that, many hun dreds of persons endure wrong because i . me uncertainty of getting a decision within a reasonable time. Is it any wonder that only about one-fifth of the cases, other than divorce, filed in the year ending June 30. 1018, have as yet been decided? C. C. B ROWER. The Soldier,, the- Land, the Job Medford. Or., Jan. 1. To the Editor of The Journal Everyone seems deter mined to put the soldiers returning to their comfortable homes out pn logged off lands, or on irrigation units, on some faroff desert homestead. One would think the returning man at arms of the j present day was the genus hobo. Why i not consult him? Every man anyone knows anything about has a home and either a place in school or a job awalt- ing him the identical job he left to j perform the duty he was born to. : The women are not going, to crowd I him out not at all. Tljat not the j way of women. When there is any crowding, I have noticed, it Is not the I man who gets shoved out. j Solicitude for our returning heroes Is i good, but it can be run into the ground, and these loggedoff and irrigation prop ositions look like that, precisely. Has young America changed his nature, that he must be penalized to life servi tude on loggedoff lands, now that, he is on the way home? Before 'the war you could not haie given him all the logged off land in f the state, if he had been required to reside thereon In person. Is he any different now? Why not let Hero alone? Let him re turn to his vine, fig tree and Job, and let the other fellow, who- took his place, return to the looking out for a Job stunt? JUNIUS. Questions About Men in Service Portland Is the 162d infantry as sign 3d to the army of occupation or will It be home soon? MARGU RITE E. AMATO. The 162d infantry is to return as soon as it can be moTed; exact date, of course, cannot be known. Portland 1. When will Company I, 306th infantry, arrive?, 2. Where was it when the armistice was signed? 3. Where Is It now? I A SOLDIER'S WIFE. fl. No inaformatioffT 2. It is in the SeTen ; ty-seTehth dirision, which, on November 11, was 1 at La Besace; Varennes and St. Dizier, France, j 3. At Les Vignettes. France. j Deer Island 1. In what division Is '-the Twentieth company. Twentieth engi neers? 2. Where Is It now? 3., Will It return home soon? - W. R, C. 1. No information. 2. The headquarters at Tonrs (Army Postoffice 717), and the other unite m about SO places. 3. No infor mation. 1 Portland 1. Where was the Fifty ninth Infantry at the signing of the armistice? 2. Where Is it now? 3. In what division is it? A SOLDIER'S SISTER. 1. Its division was at Lucey and St. Dizier. 2. The division' is in the army of occupation, and at Hayanges, Germany. 3. The Fourth. Springfield When will the First engf neers. Forty-first division, start home? A SISTER. TThe division is assigned to return at once; exact date cannot, of conree, be stated. Medford 1. Where was the Twenty fifth engineers when the armistice was, signed? 2. Where Is It now? 3. In what division Is Company E? 4. Where were they September 30? A SISTER. (No information on any of these questions except that the Twenty-fifth's headquentera is st Vraincourt, west of Verdun; other units scattered. Portland 1. Where is the 361st In fantry, Ninety-first division? 2. Will it return soon? W. W. 1. The Ninety-first is at Denterghem, Bel dam. 2. The Ninety-first division is to be re turned at an early date. Portland Where is-base hospital 49 located? 2. Is the unit .listed for early return? H. H. MAY. (At AUerey, France. 2. No information. Portland 1. In-what" division is Com pany A, Second engineers? 2. Is it a part of the army of occupation? 3. Where was it when the armistice was signed?' 4. Where is it now? MRS. FRANK LEWIS. 1 . It is in the Second division. 2. Tea. 3. At Fosse and St- IHsier. France. - 4. The Second division is at Modernach. Luxemburg. Vancouver. Wash. Where ' is battery A. 346th field artillery. Ninety-first di vision? ,Has It been ordered home? , A FRIEND. ( The Ninety-first division is assigned to early return. Portland L Where is Company Aj 313th ammunition train? 2. Is Jt listed for home soon? A MOTHER. (It is in the Eighty-eighth division, which is at Lagny. France. 2. No information. 1 Houlton 1: In what division Is Com pany A, Fifth machine gun battalion ? 2. Where was it on. November .24? 3. Has it been ordered home? . A SOLDIER'S WIFE, It, Second division, which is is the amy ol . , COMMENT AND NEWS IN BRIEF it SMALL CHANGE ' Have you seen Mr. Jay Walker? - The mighty hunter sleeps. Peace to Ms dust. m m m Now is the time to begin framing your alibis for not writing more often to your soldierfrlends. The Vancouver (B. C) World remarks aptly that, though Germany started In to lick the world, she had to stop at its boots. . "Portland keymeh demand reinstate ment of men locked out," reads a news item. What's the matter? Lose their keys? Society note:; Mayor Baker proposes an ordinance that will prohibit card playing, except in places open to the public gaze.. JOURNAL MAN AT HOME By Fred One of the objeetiTea of the T. M. C A., at its foundation, was to take the world away from the killjoys, who had usurped tt of pretty nearly. Henre it ia easy to understand why the subject of this sketch found his plaoe in that treat organization. He is Just the sort of chap that Mr. Lockley likes so well to set a atory out of. Does anyone here know Grilley? The audience may resume their seats. It seems that everyone present knows him. kAs a matter of fact, not to know him argues oneself . unknown. For more than 12 years Albert M. Grilley. radium-like, has been radiat ing optimism, cheerfulness and good will at the Portland T, M. C. A. Prob ably no physical director is better known throughout the United States than Albert Grilley. e About two weeks ago I spent a day I or so at Camp Lewis, making, while I I was there, seven talks. Albert Grilley J was general secretary of the T. M. C. A. j work there. While I was there the seveniy-iwo secretaries wno woraea un der Mr. Grllley's direction held a con ference. It was Interesting to see the efficient way in which Mr. Grilley was able to- Iron out the various perplex ing problems that arose. "How do yoti do It and keep so calm and serene?" I inquired. "That is exactly the way I do it by keeping calm and serene," be said. "Finding the right solution for perplexing problems adds zest to the job," he said. "Put yourself In the other fellow's place. Look at it from his viewpoint. Help him work It out. Above all, never lose your poise or your love for the men you work with. And that's about all there Is to it. We have anywhere from $0,000 to 60,000 men here at Camp Lewis and our 'Y' staff varies from 60 secretaries to more than 100. It's a wonderful privilege and opportunity to work with the sol diers. They are so receptive and so ap preciative." e e "How does it happen that so many Oregon men are selected to have charge of big things?" I asked. "For example, how were you picked for this job? How did they happen to select Harry Stone to go all over the United States and install and standardize the T. M. C. A. schools of the country? Tell me all about yourself." As we drove over Camp Lewis and to and from Tacoma, and later in his office and also here in Portland, he told me little Incidents out of which I have built this article. "I was born on the banks of the Re publican river In Cloud county, Kan sas." he said. "My father. George M. Grilley. was looked upon as more or less of an aristocrat because In place of having a sod shanty as all the other homesteaders had. he hauled stones from the river and built a stone house with a sod roof. I arrived In our stone and sod house on January 25, 1876. "When I was 11 years old we came to Oregon. We landed at the home of H. V. Mathews, on the Garden- road, near Salem, on Christmas day, 1887. I spent my first night in their attic bed room listening to the rain on the shin gles. Father bought a 15 acre tract on Asylum avenue at Salem and I started my life work along physical In struction lines, palling our cows and wielding the hoe In our potato patch. I went to the Salem schools, where I graduated from the grammar grade. My first work was for the McGlll A HOW TO LIVE By Dr. Woods-Hutchinson. Former Portland Physician THE SOLDIER IN CANTONMENT (No. 4) Of course it is, freely recog nized that time was the essence of the contract and that there was desperate need of a big army in the shortest pos sible time. But the question one would like respectfully to raise Is whether these methods (of long hours at hard labor) were really those best adapted to make soldiers in the shortest possi ble time. They certainly are not In any other field of human training and have been generally discarded In 'disgust else where long ago. In fact, it looks as if the question of amount of drill and hours Of duty had been left rather too much to the sweet will of the old-style regular army sergeant. The army day seems to be still based upon the anti quated Idea that the only way to do a big day's work Is to put In as many hours a day as possible, whether with the head or with the hind feet doesn't matter. And the way to get the best work out of men is to drive and "bully damn" them from morning till night. Of course, army work problems a"re occupation. On November 28 the division was at Modernach. Luxemburg. 3. No tnf ormaUon. J Salem 1. In what division is battery F 119th field artillery? 2. Where was it during the last week of the war? 3, Where is it now? A SOLDIER'S MOTHER. r Thirty-second. 2. Aloereville and St. thaier. France. 8. In the army of occupation; at Uonadorf. Luxemburg. In Joe Despain's House From the Pendleton East Oregonian. Ed Nelson, one of the local wen pub lished by the Patriotic Service; league as a slacker on the United War fund drive, will have to find a new house in which to live. It became known that he is. living In a house owned by Joe Despain, local Pendleton boy who has done heroic work with the Canadians all through the war. Relatives of De spain"" stated that they will ask the tenant to get out of the house as they do not wish him to be. the occupant of the place when Joe Despain returns. In at the End I . From the New York World In jest only, it might be said that the second ; American army bad one day of the war. It had more .than? a taste of the war ?of the trenches. ' and some of its members had been over -the top, before. When that army aid strike, one day was enough to make the blow felt- ". ', Nor 'wm. It - fighting after the war was over. It is . the soldier's business not to anticipate an armistice. If this were commonly done, peace would not follow. Germany knew, the world knew, that when' the order came to "cease i flrlng " . the American armies were quite as ready to continue toward Berlin. , -s,. vv "It Is .not. boasting It ia. not under OREGON SIDELIGHTS -f v - 0 Klamath 'county's exported products In mt amounted to 240? carloads, of which 1S7X were lumber. v At Meacham the thermometer "has registered 0 degrees below sero, jac cording to the Pendleton East Ore son ians correspondent there. . : "Travel this Christmas time. com plains the Halfway Herald, "has been exceedingly-light.- Imposing a hardship on the news gatherer. And such a waste of good roads in Pine valley." - 1 a j ' R. Vance Hutchins. who for a num ber of years has been IdenUf led with the various - newspapers of Klamath Falls in the capacity of city editor, has decided, the Herald says, "to forsake the lure of the reportorlal vocation and embark In other business." j ; Lockley McDonald Nursery company was wrapping buds. My Job "On January . 1895. I went to work for the Salem T. M. C A. under Secre tary W. C Paige. A year later. When I was 20. I was promoted to acting sec retary, as Mr. Paige had resigned. The board of directors voted to pay me $20 a month. Some months later the Tacoma T. M. C. A. offered me a position as physical director at $35 a month. Salem was pretty conservative and couldn't quite see what need a man had for that much money for only 12 to 15 hours' work a day. so I -went to Tacoma. e "Do you remember the Klondike rush? I was 21 years old and was look ing forward to asking the right plrl to change her name to Grilley. At $35 a month I felt that T would have to put off asking the' fatal question a long time, so I decided to go to Alaska and make a stake, then come back to my girl and my Y job. On February 1, 1897, we pulled out for Dyea aboard the famous "Coffin ship' the steamer Cleve land. I happened to be in the Chtlkoot slide , above Sheep Camp, where I helped dig 47 bodies out of the slide. I was under man In the sawplt at Lake Linderman when my partner and myself sawed out by hand lumber for our boat. Our narty consisted of Charley Craven, John Boxarth. Adam Ohmart. Joel Hew itt. Addison Stone and myself. Some In cldents stay fresh and vivid In one's memory. Going through Miles canyon and the White Horse and shooting Five Fingers rapids are things I shall never fonret. We reached Dawson City on the eve of the Fourth of July. Xtiwas certainly a wild medley of sound. Male- mutes and huskies were barking j and charging up and down the street. men by the score were firing their revolvers to welcome in the Fourth of July ana to celebrate their arrival at the end of their long, toilsome and dangerous Jour ney. Chips were rattling and glasses clinking. e as tta "I prospected Sulphur creek and Jater Charley Craven and I mushed out to Forty Mile, where we built a cabin; ana prospected. With little or no success. That falL when the river had froxen up we mushed-' on down to Eula creek, where we built a cabin and during the winter felled a lot of wood which we used to melt the ground so we could dig down to bedrock. John Singleton and E. Wagner of Salem were wun us. A good deal of the time the thermom eter registered between- 50 and 60 de grees below sero. One day It warmed up and registered only 42 below. As tHe mercury in a, mercury thermometer; con geals at 40 degrees below zero, we had to depend on our spirit thermometers during the entire winter. jOur winter's supply of water was stacked beside the door in the form of Ice. I can't describe the glorious and wondrous beauty of the great banners and streamers of ;llght we saw each night. The Northern Lights are worth going a long way to see. "After spending a year and a half In Alaska I came back, rich in experience but poor in cash, and got a Job In a logging camp as a log scaler. From there I went to Oregon City as general secretary of the Y. M. C. A. and physical director. After a year and a half I went to Lake Geneva. Wis., to the.Y. M. C. A. training school, t learn jail I could about the work I had decided, should be my life workw-that of ia Y. M. C. A. physical director." T - different from those of peaceful life and the professional soldier has a fine con tempt for civilian experience or knowl edge but these problems of both (phys ical training and of accomplishment of work In a given time haver reallyf been very carefully and Intelligently (wofked out Iti schools, colleges, gymnasiums and great Industrial organizations, by committees of scientists, boards of labor experts and federal commissions uv the past 20 years, to fairly definite conclu sions. So far as physical training and Increase of strength and endurancw are concerned civilian experts are practical ly unanimous that the one thing jte be avoided above all others is extreme fa tigue, either of special muscles or f the entire body, particularly during the first few weeks of training,, "Stop Just short of tiring" is their .universal motto, don't poison the muscles and heart and arteries with fatigue toxins. One hour's breakdown may wipe out weeks of training. " j Tomorrow: ment (No. 6). The Soldier In Canton? I i rating the toll, the sacrifices or the skill of the gallant armies who bore the heat and burden of four years of war to say that the American armies were a tremendous factor at the finish. Their swiftly gathering numbers, their potential as well as actual strength and the fact that they were all 'shock troops, all young and fresh and Vigor ous, with a high degree of intelligence and Initiative, faced Germany with the inevitable. j J We were not In the m-ar fh the. pegln nmg, but we were much in It In the end. . History will probably record that the financial, industrial- and military strength of the republic, was the ere clsive factor in what might else, have been worse than a drawn battle. Olden Oregon Distressing Misfortune of the Rev. Ezra Fisher,, a Pioneer Minister. . Some of the difficulties In the trans portation of goods In early days are In dicated In an incident related by the Rev. Ezra Fisher, who In 1853 received a shipment from the east by .water which was eight months on the way. He says In his correspondence that the goods arrived in good order except such as were damaged by the action of an eight pound package of sal soda, which was erhbraced in the shipment. -The eoda had liquefied and-- run over the goods. One hat, a frock coat, two bolts of cotton cloth and six yards of flan nel were ruined, the damage being es timated at nearly $20. Mr. Fisher said he would never have thought of 'pack ing old books with leather covers around a bundle of sal soda and another of saleratus wrapped In paper and then packed or top of or underneath a good coat, a hat, m piece of flannel and cot ton goods for voyage of 20,000 tulles.. . Ragtag and Bobtail Btorles From Everywhere The Devout Little Mary ONE evesing when little Marys bad fractured one of the rules govern ing table behavior she was removed from the family board and made to eat " her dinner at a little table In a corner. Her presence was ignored by the other . members of the family, says Evcry oody's. .- . ;- ' After a period1 of silence the family heard her giving thanks. "I thank thee, Lord, for preparing for me a table in the presence of mine enemies." And that was the last time that Mary 1 ate away from the family table. ' , .". Nature - I love the roaring of the sea, ' The mountains silent majesty, , The clouds in panoramio scene. The towering trees, he grassy green. The flowers, the streams that ailently Beauty and power sing to me. The warbling of the myriad birds Impels cay inner soul to words, And aspirations deeper still Beat ghostly war-dance on my will. At drop of dew, or rsy of Jight, Or anowflake diamond glistening white. . All tell with certitude to me, -I'm fragment' of infinity. ; f I love thee. Nature! Common clod May find thy fingers point to fiori. A. J. Koblnsoa. Portland. December 81. . LIuncIe JeffSnow Says: Down to Portland the high and wine Is Jlst now flndln' out there's too many bum houses and not enough decent ones fer folks to live In. by 30n0 or n!rh a matter. The feller that builds a decent house in Portland Is fined by the as sessor worsc'n Jedge lions fines a man " ketched drlvlrt a auto while filled up with too much bootlegger Juice. Tween the land spectator and the lumber truct' and the food profiteer the wonder Is anybody builds a house in Portland. The News in Paragraphs World Happenings Briefed for Benefit .Of Journal Readers GENERAL All ths freight handlers n strike In New York returned o worki Monday. Sixty million dollars has been appro-' prlated by the Red Cross for Siberian relief. ' Bonds amounting to $58,400" were stol en from O. R. Bothwell at Salt LsUn City Saturday. All teachers in the public schools of San Francisco have been ordered to wear Influenza masks. John Bauer, arrested at San Bernar dino as a draft evader, proved to be a woman who has posed as; a man for eight years. In a fire at Vallejo, Cal., Sunday night the government lost $60,000 worth of furniture intended for dormitories at Mare Island navy yard. In 11 months of 1918 more than 326.- 000 men and women in California se- ' cured employment through , the govern ment employment service. The steamship Temple E. Darr caught ' fire and has been beached near Havana. Two members of the crew lost their lives and others were: Injured. Captain Emery Rice, commander of the Mongolia, who made 41 voyages across the Atlantic during the war, is dead at iNew York of influenza. Thirteen tons of frozen eggs that have been In cold storage since 1912 were de stroyed by the dairy and food commis sioner at Harrlsburg, Pa., Saturday. George W. Simmons, a special repre sentative of the Red Cross, has left San Francisco for Siberia, where he Is to make a survey of Red Cross activities In that country. Cal., Sunday from a self-inflicted wound In a suicide pact , with Sergeant Clar ence Dunn, who killed himself ' twe weeks ago In San Francisco. NORTHWEST NOTES The tota value of Oregon farm crops for 1918 was $83,287,000, breaking all ' records. 4 The Methodist church at Amity,' built 27 years ago, was partially destroyed by fire Sunday. i Elarose, a small Swedish settlement near Rose burg, has 29 cases oMnfluenz.w ' and has called on the Red Cross for aid. Judge Christian Kalahan. one of Cowlitz county's oldest residents and a " veteran of the Civil war. is dead at Kalama. f v v , A. F. ZIpp of Seattle has been sp- ! pointed, to the new department Just -created of traffic manager, for the Pa cific Steamship company. George Barner, a former member of the Centralis school board, was .on the , transport Northern Pacific when the steamer went aground on Fire Island. The warrant Indebtedness.-' of ' Eugene has been reduced $19,257.22 during tha past year. During the same time the bonded indebtedness has been, relucel $60,800. Xenla Bogiavlensky. daughter of thr Ressian consul at Seattle; died In that city Sunday of Influenza.. She was n graduate of the Institute of Noble Girls at I'etrograd. i Marriage after divorce will , not h permissible In Washington state until six years after a decree has ben issued if a bill that has been prepared passe the legislature.' . W. J. Fullerton.' who has just taken his seat as county Judge of Columbia county, won his election by three votes, and a recount has been anked by Mar tin White, his Republican opponent. - At the first meeting of Warrenton's new council. A. Guthrie received a con tract for three : miles of btifk-head iui the waterfront.1 The) Improvement in--cludes a turning basin In the Sklpanon. A bonus of $300 and cancellation of . deferred payments on Liberty bonds for each discharged soldier Is -esked in a. resolution adopted by the Seal tie and, Willapa itarbor Central LaboV councils. Falling to get !ormisnlon to flaunt, a.-red 'flag at the funeral of 'JameH Cooper, Spokane I. W. W. adorned thei neck of the deceased with a red neck tie and red carnations were the floral offerings. . War Savings Stamps Perfectly Good Recommendation. I Stories of achievement Is the accumula tion of War Having Htsmps cnt to The Journal and ' acceptable for publication will be awarded a Thrift Stamp. in a . suburban's r ug store Is em ployed, after school hours, a boy, who, walls engaged to deliver medi cine and other packages. Is tf the same time learning the drug busi ness, with an opportunity to become a regular pharmacist 'and land - a good position in a few .years. ". This boy owes In large part to Ills habit of thrift, inculcated by hls'in terest ln Thrift Stamps and War Savings Stamps, the advantages now opening before him. .. When he applied -for. the place In the drug store the proprietor aKked him for his recommendations. Tho boy was not prepared with recom mendations, but he carried his War Savings Stamp certificate irr his pocket and In a happy turn pf mind, he showed this certificate, contain ing $45 worth of W. 8. 8.; the result of nine months? savings of his small change, to the proprietor. A On the strength of this concrete evidence of the boy's thrift, the drug store proprietor gave- him the cov eted Job. It -pays-to save.. V 1919 Thrift SCampa'and War Sav ings Stamps now on sale at uhui1 agencies. . ..'