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THE OREGON DAILY ' 'JOURNAL. PORTLAND, WEDNESDAY,' JANUARY IB," Publisher ttrbltabed ererr aitanm aid Bsornina (- rapt Bandar afternoon), at Tho Journal Build In, Broadway end XajnbiU (tnM, fecUutd, fcotered at the Postofflce at FortJeiwl. Oregon, for tripsin am on tbro-wa te ataua M - maUsr. TaXKI HOMES Mais TITS Ham. A-SSel. ., All anarnnta raebad ny tfteaw rmasoers. ' Tall tba opemtor what department yon want. .MivniiK a livrnTlllSIl H"PK8EJT.ATIVB N Benjamin aV Kentnor Co., Brunswick building building, Chicago. ' - -- SKibecrtptko tarma fey mail is Oregon asd Wssfcv . tegtoas .. UA1LT (liORXINO OR AFTEBWOOS) Om rr. ....S 5. 00 I One nentfc .a STXDAY ' ' One year S2.50 I Ona month ..... .2 PAtXZ (MORNINO OR ArTEBMOOH) ASD Oh mt inn I Ona month. . .. .63 Our combined armies from sow on will represent a league to enforce peace with justice Secretary of War Baker. AMERICANIZING AMERICA S' , CHUEBEL'S bill In the house at Salem forbids ownership of land for more (ban seven years by an alien. The bill applies similarly C . JACK.... ........ . . to ownership of controlling stock in . 'corporations by aliens or alien cor t ; porations. ' It Is a step toward Americanizing America. Even seven years is a long " time for a foreign born Immigrant vs. to make up his mind to become a - naturalized citizen. Refusal or neglect to take out v&iation papers is a bad sign. fif. -MjMallen doesn't think enough of (.KflWountry and its institutions to ., ' jVSecome a citizen, it means that he -. thinks more of some other country. " It he thinks more of some other country, it is difficult for him, in . . case of ' trouble, to be loyal to '"' " America. It was that sort of thing that . , dragged us into the late war. Per sons here whose thought was not "America first," led the German kai- ser to believe that they could pre vent America from entering the war. ' " - It is. open history that the Prus - sian war lords were convinced by , representations from the United States that they could carry on diver rightfulness without drawing Amer ica into the conflict. They took the step. In tJt .-price tve paid, we -have learned a lesson 'or the future we must hereafter have an Americanized "America. The Schuebel bill is an effort toward that end. The Oregon public service commis- lon, has notified Washington au horitles that it opposes the McAdoo plan of .having the railroads remain linder government control experi mentally for five years. The trouble jkvith .the Oregon commission is that H doesn't know much. LOOKING FOR EVA HE detectives who searched Chi cago' for five years to find Eva Marsh and only succeeded when she was dead, were far short of the record set by the Portland sleuths who apprehended Murdereiyj Liard. It is amazing sometimes how pear a detective can come to his oal and still miss it. It is equally surprising to observe the mysteries they solve on the slenderest clues. cheap Chicago hotels. The task of identifying her should not have in volved superhuman difficulties. And yet the detectives could not find her -or at least they said they could , BOt ' ! It would be exciting to-be told how much money was paid out to ; the sleuths during those five years &nd what efforts they made to earn It. The disagreeable- suspicion in trudes itself that they probably .knew. where Eva was"all along but kept it to themselves for the sake Of .drawing regular pay. Eva must have read the news papers sometimes. If her friends had spent haif the money in per. sistent advertising better results might have been achieved. I It is delightful to read, that Eva's ashes were saved ' from interment In the potter's field, but it would have been more delightful to read that she had received her inherit ance of f 100,000 and lived to enjoy U.. - ' 'i States raise up .no better citizens, po squarer men, no human atoms . more intent on rendering - to eaeh . man that which is his due, than ' Thomas M. Baldwin of Prineville, former grand master of the Masonic order io Oregpn, whose death oc curred Monday while on a visit to 'Portland. -JUDGE LOWELL'S LETTER B ECLARING; that, the problem or returning soldiers and . sailors is being used ' by "promoters t and alarmists for - their own purposes Judge Lowell of Pendle ton says xn" this page : : . What la . needed- is nothirnr but com ; inon sense, and a persistent recolleo tlon that the. boys now returning the same, men who left a few month or a year ; or more ago. They will not be so changed that their tastes. naoua or manner or Ufa will be ma terially different from what they were oerore. They will desire to perform the same duties, .mingle with the same people.- It la folly to attempt the so lution ot the problem. If it is a prob lem, upon any other basis. Is there not a phase of the situa tion ,yvhich Judge Lowell overlooks? Fully 2,000,000 women are said to be in positions: usually occupied by men. They, patriotically responded to the. calf for help in the time of national crisis. Generally speaking, they have proven to be very efficient. Many of ttemwiil not desire to give up the work that they thus entered in time of stress, and thousands, upon thou sands of returning soldiers and Bail ors will resent the idea of . sup planting them. The thought of dis placing a woman who volunteered to help man the home trenches, wilt be so repugnant to many a returned service man that he will indignantly refuse to supplant her. That is the heart of the problem, It is a phase that Judge Lowell does not take into the account. THE GRABBED LANDS 0 N" THIS page "W. J. C." asks for a full and more connected 6tory of the frauds by which school and other Oregon lands have been unlawfully acquired. A book of 1000 Datces could scarcely detaiT the whole story. Puter's book on the Oregon land frauds has 488 pages, and it leaves the story but partly told. The report of the Marlon county grand Jury, for instance, declared that more than 300,000 acres of school land alone in a single list of applications were involved in fraud. A Journal correspondentassigned to investigation of the report and the lists of lands Involved in that report, put in more than a week cf time in assembling facts from which to give the public some idea- of the extent of the land grabbing operations. The accounts which The Journal has printed, taken together, give a well connected story of the frauds and the methods employed by the fraud ists, as far as space and time have permitted the paper to go. Fac-similes of the blank applica tions for purchase and blank assign ment!, which, after being 6lgned by a dummy entryman, were later filled out and used- in getting school lands in the Blue mountain reserve, were printed in The Journal. They are indisputable evidence as to the fraudulent methods employed. They are prdof so indisputable that reams of-, further, articles could not add to their clearness or to their convinc ing character. As to "W. J. C's" proposal to in ordinately use the taxing power as a means of requiring restitution, that would be impossible. It is only lands taken by fraud of which resti tution should be required. Only by lawful procedure in a court of jus tioo could it bs determined that lands to be restored were acquired by fraud. Owners of lands ' lawfully acquired must not be disturbed. As to the prosecutions of the suits, the state has its own salaried attor ney general. He is an able lawyer who will conduct such cases as the state sees fit to bring, just "as he' did in the F. A. Hyde cases which re stored over 5700,000 worth of lands to the state school fund. With one lone man aboard, many an automobile bowls its way from the suburbs into town, passing en route groups of persons on each corner, waiting for a street car, which presently comes along, nearly always crowded. As a cooperative effort in fighting the flu, would it not be a good thing for the automo biles to pick4 up a load of the wait- Lfng . people and as far as Possible, SHDOW AND SUBSTANCE R. TAFT seldom writes about ihe league of nations without! saying something worth bear ing in mind. He has pub lished a pamphlet"" answering the question, "Why a league is neces sary." It is full of pertinent con siderations. Mr. Taft points out, among other things, that the war has brought into existence "a niber of war ring nations." The Czecho-Slovaks are one example. The Poles are ooe more. They are belligerent, ambi tious, eager to devour one another. As Mr. Taft mildly puts it. "They h&ve the frailties and ambitions of other people. They are not going to be perfect." Evidence of their lack of perfection is already abun dant. If they are left to their own ways it will be still more abundant- The factious Poles are by , them selves enough to keep the world at war for a century to' come1 unless they tare held down a little by a league of nations. They never did anything but fight in the day of their power, and there is no evi dence that their habits have im proved. Mr. Taft says frankly that "if there is not a league of nations" formed in Paris the whole war is a failure. We shall have won the shadow and lost the substance. . There is nothing surprising in the stbry that Kaiser Wilhelm is golhg crazy. He . had not much sense to start with and no doubt his troubles have preyed upon kis mind. Perhaps also belated repentance for his crimes adds., to his mental disorder. The llChenzoHerns are a diseased family; i At times their malady shows itself In physical derangement ' at other times in mental,- The oddity of it is that Germany should have consented for so many years to be governed by a dynasty of ; serni maniacs. But when we i remember that people 'bearer home often feel perfectly satisfied to be governed by idiots the .wonder wanes. WHEN WRONG, WHEN HIGH t? T HE lateatloa ef Freeideat WUioa to attead the raeeUar ef the peace congress at TeraaQlaa will naet with the approval et Amerfeaai. Oregon Ia, IToTeraber xs. Mr, Wllsoa's preaeace ia seeded ba sest ef the nigs potitioa fee holds la the eoaaeila of the alllea, sad of the Implicit eeafldeaee whleh an tba allied people repose, ia aim Oregoaian, No vember ta. J"or win the prealdeat'a abaeace from the eoaatry rloaily obi tract perform ance of hla faaetloBv Oresoaiaa, So rem her Z9. A. Joaraey to Farli will place lm mo mere oat ef toaeh with Washlatrtea than weald a Joaraey to Ore yon. Ore-fc-OBlan, November 2. Hla vlalt to Parti and the other allied capitals woald be a fit climax to Amer ica's part la the war. Oreronlait, No vember taVi The Oregonian urged President Wilson to go tor Paris. It now con demns him for going to Paris. j In urging the president to go to Paris the Oregonian said he would be no more "out of touch with Washington than he would be on a Journey to Oregon." tit now say tnat oecause the President is in Paris he Is wholly out of toucfc with Washington and everything there is at a standstill. Side by side on this page are two editorials from the Oregonian, one urging the president to go to Europe and the other assailing him bitterly for going to Europe. One was printed November 20 and the other January 14, 54 days later. The two articles speak for themselves. The national house of representa tives has more common sense than its oratory against the European re lief bill seemed to indicate. The bjil passes by a vote of more than three to one. Our honored repre sentatives' bark is a good deal worse than their bite, but how pleasant it would be if they could contrive to get along without the bark. It adds nothing to their dignity and occasionally betrays the country into believing that they are as foolish in fact as they make themselves appear by their talk. BAKED ONIONS A POLITE gentleman stopped at a stall in the Yamhill market on a sunny afternoon not long ago to buy some onions. .He abhors the odor of onions when anybody else cats them, but in his own breath he deems it quite pardon able, though he takes sooie precaur tions against it. In fact, the gentleman" relishes his onions baked, better than either raw or boilecf. He says baked on ions are inodorous, while the baking imparts a certain- delicacy of flavor which can be attained b,y no other device or cookery. Readers must have noticed an ar tistic delicacy clinging to the word "Baker" which naturally passes over into "baked" and mitigates the harsh vulgarity even of onions. The gentleman says that baking onions must be fine big ones. He tries therefore to persuade the mar ket people to sell him that sort They" smilingly agree to do so, but when his eye is turned they fill the paper bag with contemptible nub bins. me gentleman nas waged many a bitter controversy with the market women over this point, but they always turn the trick on him and send him home in a flood of angry tears. Why do they not grade their onions and charge a higher price for the big ones? The gentleman has pondered this question a great deal but never found an answer. President Wilson does well to "in sist upon the return of all American troops without delay." The men are eager to come home and the ' people want them here. They were drafted to fight tire kaiser and overthrow his tyranny. That purpose they have nobly fulfilled. Now It is time to bring them home. MERE AMATEURS T HE two men who held up the pawnbroker Benjamin Garfinkle Tuesday morning do not strike' one as being ' experts. To begin w-ith, they chose their time badly. The hour of 830 in the morning is not favorable for holdups. Must business men would have deposited their cash In tho bank the night before and not taken in a .great teal soearly In the day. wfPdare say that was the case with Mr. Garfinkle, so the bold bandits would not have "got -nuch if their holdup had gone through to the end. This brings us to the" second bit of. evidence that they were mere amateurs. ; The one who was dele gated to hold the pistol upon Mr. Garfinkle fired it off prematurely, which 6hows that he was nervous. Perhaps he had hot had his morning toddy. Perhaps he had pot had his breakfast. A third, but unlikely, .sup position is that his conscience shook bir nerve. "In any case "he has proved his un fitness for the hold-up hbislness. We advise him to seek some employment which ; makes "fewer demands upon hint, such as a, jobon a farm or a clerkship In the ; legislature. r Once ha Jrf tnrmpA nrnnr InlimaHcMr at fits of ; hold-ups with none" of the risks. ... Two days ago Karl Liebknecht was killed in a street battle. Yesterday he was made prisoner by Ebert To day he flees to Leipslc. Whatever one may think of thes cause he is fighting for, it can hardly be denied that Liebknecht's life just at present is enviably exciting. THE WILSONIAN APPEAL Charge That He Is looking for the Millennium Admitted From "the Christian Science' Hoaitbt Why do people of all classes and of all ranks listen with attention, and why does the multitude applaud, whenever ana wherever Woodrow Wilson speaks? He is not, in the commonly accepted sense, eloquent; he is not a "polished" orator , he aoes not piay upon tne emo tions or arouse the passions of men; he is not a Calhoun, a Webater, or a Blaine; any more than be la a Sheridan, a Burke or a Disraeli; he has not the meiUfluoua voice of a Depew or a Bryan, the hanuner-and-tons method of a Roosevelt, the charming manner of a Taft; he does not count,, for effect, upon giddy flights of rhetoric, nor upon digressions into illustrative anecdote, as did one ef the greatest of his predeces sors ; in short, it is the message that he has for the world, and not the manner of its delivery, that appeals alike to those who hear and to those who read his speeches. And this message is the same today as it was 15 years ago, when he was talking to groups of educators rather than to groups of nations. If one will take the trouble to run over the utterances of Woodrow Wilson as the head of Prince ton university, as governor of the state of New Jersey, or as president of the United States in the ante-war period, one will perhaps be amazed to find how consistent are his views now with, those to which he gave expression long before the problems of today could have been anticipated by the most faraighted indi vidual. The explanation of this, the rea son for it, Is that he has always looked beyond his immediate environment, be yond existing social, political, and eco nomic boundaries, beyond the horizon of his period, to the larger aspects of human relationship and human interest. Others wre not able to hold him down to established conventions at Princeton. New Jersey politicians were unable to discipline him to partisan reg ulations. As governor of New Jersey, and as president of the United States, he could not be held by precedent. Not the White House, the Capitol, the Dis trict of Columbia, nor the United States of America could for him arrogate to itself the right of control, in the name of democracy, or in any other name, over the expanding thought of. freemen. To him human beings, not acres nor square miles, nor republics, kingdoms, or em pires, have always constituted the world. When, but a day or two ago, he said that the United States was not concerned about the peace of Europe, but about the peace of the world, he expressed the sentiment that has insnired and moved him throughout his quasl-pjiblic and public career. It was not the interest of Princeton unit versity that concerned him, while he was at the head of that institution, so much as the Interest of education ; Princeton was a email .matter compared with .the movement to which it was dedicated. When politicians, seeing his strength ;as a champion of advanced thought and as a Voter getter, undertook to tell him that he should consider the interest of the i Democratic party, he put them aside. As governor of New Jersey he measured the interest of that state chiefly in its relation to the Union. In all of his ad dresses and speeches he has treated the interest of the United States in Its relation to the world. He is In Europe, today, not to advance any selfish interest of the country of which he Is chief magistrate, but to advance, to the great est possible degree, the, welfare of the world of which his country is a part. This, it seems plain, is why all classes and all ranks sit or stand at respectful attention while he speaks ; this is why humanity today is hanging on his words. Some there are in Washington, and some there are elsewhere, who complain that he is looking for the millennium. Well, to be frank, so he is, anS what ia more; he is working for it ; and it . is because he is both looking and working for the realization or a world in which all, not merely some, nations, and in which all, not merely same, people. shall be wholly free, that he has won the sympathy and support of the masses everywhere. a a Wilson is taken to be the erreatest known antidote today fcr militarism, on the one hand, and for nihilism, on the otner. What Do You Know? From the Independent Here are some snapshots at your een- eral knowledge a list of the questions given to the boys and girls of the Friends' School of Baltimore and Ger mantown. Pa. They test excellently your knowledge of the textbook of cur rent events. Name: 1. The food administrator of the United States. 2. The director gen eral of-arailroads. 3. The secretary of war. 4. The secretary of the navy. 6. The general ln command "oTThe -Amerl- can troops In France. 6. The president oi tne united states senate. 7. The prime minister of France. 8. The British am bassador to the United States. 9. The great trench sculptor recently deceased. 10. The sculptor of Lincoln. lL The president of France. 12. The state which granted suffrage to women in jvovemher, 1917. 13. The party or or ganizauon which deposed Kerensky. 14. The organization to which the Nobel peace prize lor 1917 was awarded. In what way distinguish. 15. Viscount istui. l. ixrd Northcliffe. 17. Nicho las Murray Butler. 18. Katherlne Bresh. koveky. 19. Ferdinand Foch 20. Sir KODen aoraen. 2L Anna Howard Shaw. j-losa Bonheur. 23. Leon Trotlrv 24. Count von HerUlne. 25. James W. Gerard. 2. Sir Herbert Beerbolim-Tre. VI. Georee Eliot 28. Florence Nifht ingale. Explain: 29. Personal maernetism . an No Man's Land. 31. Wolf in sheen' clothing. 32. Bricks without straw. 38 The Blesses. 33. Barrage. 35. Habeas corpus. 36. Status quo ante. 37. A mer curial temperament. 38. Neutralizing straits. 39. An Utopian project. 40. The House of Hanover. what important events do voil aaiuwii ate with: 41. Halifax. 42. Cambrl. . Breat-Lltovsk. 44. Guatemala. Who wrote ; 45. Penrod and Sam, 46 Travels with a Donkev. 47. Over tho Top. 48. Enoch Arden. 49. Pendennis. 59.. Gulliver's Travels. s On what rivers located : si. noma 52. Cologne 53. Paris. 54. Montreal. 65. Belgrade. 68. West Point. 57. Cambridge vm.iiiuj. mo. wasnmgton, U. U. juxpiau or define: 59. Paiin. . an Hangar. SL Levee. 62.- Tolplanlnr. 63. Hiberate. 64 Fletcherise. 65.-1 W-..W 66- Rookle.t 67. Highbrow. ; why well known: 68. Henry Pomeroy Davison. 69. Colonel E. M. House. - 78. Samuel Gompera. 71. What is the chief - - i Bagdad. 79. The Riviera. 80. Delphi. 81. The Flare. . . 12. Arrange these names to the order of their time: Mark Twain. St. Luke, Vachel Lindsay, Homer, Sir Walter Scott. Shakespeare. Letters From the Pepple (CommnnieatiiMia acnt to Tba Jntiml fn mh. Heation in tMa departaacntr abonld b written on only om aid ot the paper, abould not exceed SOO wonl. to length and muat be aed bj the writer. wboee mail addicaa in (all inut accompany tba contribution.) The CrllbbTd Lands Atorla, Jan. 12. To the Editor of The Joumal-r-I have been interested of late in the perusal of The Journal, which has become adhlly duty as well as pas - time, in the hammering which ou are giving the so-called school land graba and frauds by which "buainess" men have come Into the possession of certain, great tracts of valuable land for which they have never paid an ade- cuate compensation ; also your efforts iu vm-armca me people 01 uie state as to the extent and nature of these frauds and to auemt an &nrf m..r,. tn .k.,ii and to suggest ways and means to "shell .ui wo ivinmi amu wue reauiuuon made. The series of articles which you have teen publishing, it seems to me, give the average reader a rather disjointed knowledge and " conception, and I, for one, would be glad to read In your paper a concise story of the events as they occurred, In order to help 'the Ideas of ine general public to crystallize. I read divJAtm,! mA w vw. ..., . wlw VUWII Will' i TT L. I " . natterV'itY- ,1 the work that ha. already been accom- plishedby the grand juriea and courts. to .have the work go on by legal prosecu- tions. wMrh Ikvki.m i .-... i.v... Name the former presidents ot the United States stUl living.. I" Locate : 74. The White sea. 75. Hog and expensive litigation, which no doubt !, allled countries, with whom the presl would be the delight of the legal fra- dent w,u rank- ternity in the big fight it would entail Mr wi,8on' presence Is needed be and the big plums which could be gath- cause of the high position lie holds in erea. is tuere not a better way to han- die the matter? And may I suggest cne, which, so far as I have seen, has never been spoken of? These lands are now fraudulently owned or in possession of non-residents or other parties, and are being held out of use for speculative it"Jv,o'", vmue oi wnicn nas never Whv .. .V w w me siaia. Why not tax these owners to th fun state.. I would like to see printed an- zxzoA His! ."' o rixai 7 xneteiurning Soldier Pendleton. Jan. 14. To the Editor of The Journal The m-oblem nt ,m ment of returned soldiers and sailors now occupying so large measure of space in the public press, ought not to ciiucuii or solution. If approached free from the cloud of tirftmni,r ,n alarmists who are apparently endeavor- ing to use it for their own purposes. and whose verbal and printed ebulli- tions are more entertaining Oian IHu- minaUng. What is needed is nothing common sense, and a persistent recollection that the boys now returning are the same men who left home a few months or a year or more ago. They wiu not oe so cnanged that their tastes, I sages .to congress by cable or wireless, habits or manner of life will be ma- If an Important bill -should need hla sig terialiy different from what hev wn nature, it could Km Kent v.r..uu. before. They will desire to perform' the ome uuues, mmgie witn the same peo- pie. ii is rony to attempt the solution Ui prwowm, ij. n is a proDiem, upon any other basis.. . . . wmcra ana mo re- turned doctrinal re have led the nation l believe that its sons will return to nation which came to the aid of de tneir homes transformed, new men. dob- nunuv in th v. r . . a lurfd mm111 notlon.J J?ni o a 1 04 ? ,dT!aUsm of 0,6 at?hi San " V. n,true at the end of the Civil war. It will not u ,dTV Wh1 "?:n Wi" de.ire I""; "7rri 7""" ,?a J'L"8.,, adfP' ,. iT,i J " Vii , w i tense of making public improvements . ;-" ,T..T" ";;i.ir" ... , v&AOVUVClr ui - ganize to assure- to the men as they re turn the Job which each respectively ten. in order to do mis committees in each locality ought to be organized to survey the situation, to ascertain what each man was doing when he entered the. service, to be advised when each will return, and to have the place or a kindred position ready for him on his arrival. Unhappily, there will be some who will not return, but most will be nere wttnin another year. The problem resolves Itself into an individual, not a mass, matter, and, so treated, does not present serious difficulties? The writer suggests that the legis lature proviae ior a survey organization which shall touch efery eommunitv. Alarm now is both premature and un necessary, cool heads and sound sense can meet the iasates successfully every- wnere. bi mm fax A. LOWELL. Trust Company Portland. Jan 10. TO the Editor Of The Journal Please answer through about to go Into effect, about five yeara The Journal If there are any trust cam- ago, that, taking the number of doctors panies that handle estates in this city. In England who would care to go on What I mean Is, a company that you these panels, which waa about two can trust to handle your affairs such thlrde of the entire profession, and the as real estate, life insurance, etc.. and number of health policy holders coming deal it out as you wish, after you are I under the law, it would give on an a v dead? A READER. I erage every panel doctor in England an I If the Inquirer will send The Journal hia ram. I pirie mail aouress ne wiu oe put in tne way of I obtaining the informs tlon he seeks.) Colombia an-TTRound Robin Hood River, Jan. 10. To the Editor of xne journal Please state what Theo dore Roosevelt meant when he said, "1 acted while congress talked," relative to hla action toward Colombia." And, also, state what Is meant by his "round robin" ln the Spanish-American war. Both ofHant Jennings Bryan's efforts in hia these The Journal has mentioned ln edl- I behalf, Woodrow Wilson would not have torial comment since Mr. Roosevelt's received the nomination from the Dem death. READER. I ocratic party in lals. B .aaya that he 1 Mr. Rooaerelt. while president, had tha I otJPorttjnity. and seized it Tery promptly, to ob- rastSt !uiMS.rtt time to obtain on satiaiaetory terms irom Co- I lombia by negotiation ln the uxual manner. Tha I L T;:"IL .'1 I of tho United Rtatee immediately recognised I Panama a independence and proceeded to deal I with tt for the canal rone and rights and prie-1 ilegea needed to put the United States tn a1nd not 1J, tt is axUeroely doubtful if secure position with relation to the construction I Mr. Wilson would bar been tha nominee ia and control of the Panama canal. . Thus Mr. 1912 had not Mr. Brysn, fint. broken awy noamin acteu wn wwiik laiaeo. i ne i from bis TU tractions aa a member ot we Je " round robin" was an appeal, or rather demand I k.w. i.i.u. atiMl hH that tha American troops in Cuba, smitten' with I nuwun mwm wwnKiiwwv wrrei mm I a sanitary standpoint, after the battle of San, I tiago. should ba returned to the United fltatea. 1 on tha part of the government at Washington. I Such a proceeding on tne pars or inferiors ia I The Journal I have written to my par rank ia strictly aaainat military regulations, trnt I . -r -j try i- i i -m the audacity of Booaerelt and bis associated sig- tnri w.u,.Vrit h tbe nalpsbie mrrtt r I the demand, net only carried their point but I renoerea tnem immune rrom muitary aucipiine. J I Aeroplane or Airplane? I T T tK-. -I Moro. Or.. Jan. 10. To the Editor of The Journal What Is the difference Inland sim1.i1 naekagea. There ia no Bares! post an airplane and an' aeroplane? If there 1 i- O which' la th Mmw I is no difference, wnicn is tne correct I word to user I ELM IRA E. EDWARDS, f I PseUie." and "at sender- rk." It is aceord fTbe words mean the asm thing, and. ao far. I prescribed by tha postoffie department that either is correct. Bom pnblicaUona continue to I . The form first employed 'witmlane.' The t i .i ... Mh., rnhHeatinnii ir I nso tha shorter and more purely Jtngiim lorm I arplansv"i . l!- . ".'. Wilson and Bryan in 1912 -Portland. Jan. II. To. the Editor ef The Journal A rays that but for, Wil- i x COMMENT AND NEWS IN BRIEF ' SMALL CHANGEf Wear k mask. They're off at Salem. How 'far re mains to be seen. . , - J William lTohncollrn fa m I the ghoet -of Edith Cavell will nurse him. Though errs are gettinr cheaper I near-actorS are Still clear ot th dmnr 'One. rh f . rI? , SSSSbSSXF' ivm City iJ?T "l??j!82 J Perkina ! cause to IeeI .Perky. g ERF BuT no? InghI. l enable . us to again bring home the bacon- ' t Otta Blackatone say a that the differ- ' ence between some men he knows and a unk, is that the skunk's hide Is worth onethlnr. . Though he expresses xhls vjanwfllinr- to have the large powers settle all !,ev?ui8t,l?f,M ? orJd ?!iac?tere 13 notn abput President Wilson, A German is reported as aaying that "r ,i khr, in spun- lffiiJz;ISi v reZ:,ut f.. tht, ??i?ren wH' mako better dtisens than heir parents WHICH DOES IT Oregonian Urges Wilson to Go to Paris Editorial of tba OiccoaUn. Nor ember 20 """;u" "l "J" peace con approval of Americana. The peace con I will decide the future of almost A"lftn"d "V". ?Pland ot z n A"la and Ar,ca-,nd effect, draw uaJ-w conttution for the world. It will be attended by the i rem term ef all councils or tne allies and of the Implicit confidence which all the allied Peoples repose In him. He had defined the war aims of this and the allied na- tions in terms which have won accept- ance aroonr them, and. finally, by our enemies. He is bent ni.arri int.- pret and explain his 14 principles and w onng tnem into complete harmony ith th. - ,h. v.. v. . men. irtbV0 'r ln r ob- Jection that no former president has left the territory of the United States during n, !rm OI ornce. This is a time when nW prcednt" ar heing made ln the 1 war diplomacy, statesmanship and ev1"3r other field: Never before was tnere uch occasion for the presl- dent to s abrod Nor will the presl- v " ""B"l:o lrom tne country sen oualy obstruct performance of hia func t,on8- He will not. aa would have been tl1 case before steam power and tele- araphy came into use, be cut off for from communication with his subordinates.. The voyage will occupy wee at most, ana he will throughout -n wireless communication with both America and Europe. He will be able to end instructions to his cabinet or mes- he back in Washington In two weeks. A Journey to France will place him no more out of touch with Washington than I would, a journey to Oregon. I Of the nature of Mr. Wilson's recep- uon m juurope there can be no doubt, M will ho r-.ii . H1 P- the United States oclared war have been an inspiration to U oxle and to all peoples struggling to win freedom to continue He; more tb? My T. man, lea to tne dlnintegration of the Hapsburg monarchy and they did much to trea tne morale of tho German army ani neonle Hla -vi alt to -Pari. to America s part In the war. HOW TO LIVE By Dr. Woods-Hutchinson. Former Portland Physician HEALTH, INSURANCE (NO. 6) In P"narla.nd- for iriHtsnca. It wn m calMi1sitd. Uhm T.lovd Onrtro-n hunmnn art wa income from this source of a little Over aiuUO a yeai r. And aa this arrangement does not Interfere in the slightest with the doctor's own private practice and already paying patients, and as he Is not obliged to attend the members of the worklngman's family at this price, but may charge a small additional fee for them. It will be seen that from the undoubtedly would have received it, and that Mr. Wilson was not under any bW to Mr Bryan for mnnwauun, wui warn unur uon(. tions after said nomlnation'to Mr. Bryan h political support given him by Mr Bryan. Who IS Tight? A. J. MARTIN, f Tha Inouirer doubtless haa In mind 1815 rooted tha New Tor delegation, which waa ODUOSea tO WUSOB. 1 w J Mail to Russia Portland, Jan. 1L TO the editor OI T . i -" have received no answer. Please inform m4 if you can now send a letter direct to Lodz, Russia, ARTHUR OTT, (Tba only mail aerrice between tha United States and Koasia. at this time operates br way k .mi M utters interchange wtta Kuans, nor nas users aver psen, Russia has never entered into any con relation united sutes for that purpose. At present matter h aocepted or Russia only "ia or pacaagn ior sou must. Dear. n w .JLt1 . -TJ, '""P.lrte ddre tbeso inscrfptioas: "Via Pacific and 'at " f"- i Open Windows and . Drafts - From tha Illinois Health News Simply to open a window does not !n aura bavins ..pure . air... It .permit tba OREGON SIDELIGHTS The Wallowa Sun on January ' 3 entered upon its thirteenth year. "It has been clafmed. remarks the Canron dtv Eaale. "that the Sumpter railway does not pay. We are willing to take tnat statement ot tne case ana sight and unseen trade the print shop for the railroad." The fonument correspondent of the Canyon City Eagle writes "George Ir win was down from HeJlflre Klata a few days ago. George has got ao 'durn'J mean that hia neighbors have ail moved away and he ia all alone." The Weston Leader congratulates It self that "for five years now it baa suc ceeded In keeping such meaningless banalities as 'cards of thanks' out of its columns. Lodge resolutions in mempry of departed brothers have aleo passed here into the Junkpile of obsolete cus toms." - i " a a "The dearth ot litigation In the circuit court here," says the -Coquille Valley Sentinel, "la atill remarkable. Only one case has been filed so far this year and-only two since December 18, a pe riod' of 14 daya. If this keeps up more lawyers will want to follow our friend Roberta of Myrtle Point out into the open air, which he finds such an eltx i r. " WANT HIM TO DO? Oregonian Condemns Wilson For Going to Paris j Editorial of Tha OresosJan, January 14. The president, from the day of hla first Inauguration, has taken all Initia tive into his own hands until he has finally destroyed all power of initiative Wn his cabinet and in hia party Jn con- KTess. vine on ly present member oz the cabinet who haa ahown any of this quality is Secretary Lane. He ia the onJy one who haa made any concrete proposal for readjustment to peace con ditions, but hla scheme needs much fix ing before It will be workable. The other cabinet member "are obedient clerks, especially since Mr. McAdoo stepped out. The Democratic members of congress have degenerated Into rub ber stamps for the president's decisions, the only exceptions being those who have made well-merited criticism of the ad ministration and have received condign punishment, and those few who have bad hobblea to ride. When the present session opened the eleventh hour for demobilization and readjustment legislation had struct. If the president. had called upon congress to give this Vwork preference over all else el t would doubtless have got "down to business with all the speed of which it ia capable. He said nothing ln his address about care of the soldiers during demobilization, left everything to our "quick and resourceful" people, simply commended the Lane scheme, stated the railroad problem and gave It up, and announced that he waa going to Europe to settle the affairs of the world and would run the United States by wireless. , Since his departure the government has been like a family deserted by" both parents, or like a flock of sheep milling around without a shepherd. The dollar-n-year men who had injected some busi ness energy and efficiency iato the de partments have returned to their own affairs, leaving the small size ehiefs to shift for themselves. In the absence of the big chief to tell them what to do and of the bustnesa men to show them how to do It these tame politicians are at a Joss," any initiative or courage they ever had having been drilled out of them. The socalled Democratic leaders In congress are in aa bad a predicament. They are not accustomed to propose any thing without the president's O.' K., " and they bave been used to carry their troubles to him. They can scarcely do that by wireless. About the only Demo crats who originate ' an idea are men like Senators Chamberlain, Hitchcock or Reed, and they expose the adminis tration a deficiencies more ' unsparingly than any Republican could. Since the president himself has reduced both the heads of departments and con gress to this condition of Impotence by taking all initiative into his own hands, his duty is to come home and take the lead in urgently needed legislation, that the soldiers may be paid, fed. healed and put to work and that industry may.be speedily readjusted to the new conditions which have suddenly arisen. The seal of the American people for. the aalvation of democracy ln Europe 'does not flag, but they do not forget that the president was elected for the primary duty of caring for democracy in the United States. If It should not soon receive more attention than it now has. It may get Into a bad way and may even be compelled to call upon the democracy of Europe to help. Surely the president does not desire such an anti-climax to his efforts to "make the world safe for democracy." doctora point ef view the new situation Is not wholly unprofitable. As a matter or tact, when the act got fairly Into op eration, my friends' and relatives in the English medical profession, who for the most part had bitterly fought agalnat and ruriously denounced the proposed legislation aa socialistic and confiscatory of their established rights., frankly con fessed to me that what it had done waa to bring them In a modest but ateady Income, in cases of popular doctors run. ning up to 2000 and even $3000 a year, from classes and families which for the most part they had either been treating as a matter of chatty, without hoping i twiicci aiiyimng more man a small part of their fees, or bad been attend ing for nothing In the public hospitals, oiBpensariea. ana workhouses. heat of the room to escape, but It may -ffot insure the interchange of air. If the window be opened a little, ao that a direct draft may blow Into the room, it may do positive . harm. The cold out side air naturally sinks to the floor. There it catches the dust and bacteria and picks them up in Its journey. For this reason when a window' la slightly opened it should always be behind a shield of board or other substance which will direct the current upward.. Drafts are dangeroua If they carry bacteria, or If they constantly strike one portion of a body the rest of which is abnormally heated, but even weakly persona may find a walk along the shore of Lake Michigan during a northeast gale In vigorating if not continued too long.- Olden Oregon Describing the Portland - Lewis ton Boat Trip In. the Early '60s. In the early '60a It waa a magnificent steamboat ride from Portland to Lewis ton, Idaho. - The fare waa $60, exclusive of meals and bertha, which ware $1 each. A traveler would leave Portland at S o'clock in the morning and reach the Cascadea about noon. Then would come a five-mile ride over the portage rail road, lie 'would embark on another steamer for The Dalles, where he would take another ride on a portage of 14 miles to Celtlo. Early the next morn ing, on another steamer, he would bead for Lewiston. It took two daya, and sometimes three, to make the Portland Lewiston trip. . Only one day was 're quired to make the return voyage. Ragtag and Bobtail Stories From Everywhere The Conservative Venireman DTJRINO an address to a body of law students ex-Prealdent Taft pointed out. aaya the Pittsburg Chronicle Tele graph, that too much care cannot be taken in the selection: of the jury. In this connection he told of an fntelllgent looking farmer who had been examined by both defense and prosecution and waa about to be accepted when the prosecutor chanced to ask : - "Do you believe in capital punish ment?" - . The farmer hemmed -and hawed , and after.' a moment's reflection replied : "Yes, air, I do, if it ain't too aevera. a"he Ragtime Horace riay an that Intearr Vitae Ra: l alTea me lojp.) -Loae your bluea and ao on a musical- f . Oh hoy I) It's tha latest, cresteat. aort of new aenaatioa Wstclt your-step 1 There's pep in, this btre : syncopation. Don't It beat creation how it hits yoa with ; a alam. , ' M honey Iambi) So play that mysterious, aerioUa-draa Oh niaier please!) I'd cet delirious if it should weary us and aa (I'm on my knees.) Take my rings and other thinss. my aoeka or nightie. If you'll only play that fltshty. Gosh Almlhty. HicMy-Uchty. ... Integer Vlety " Ka-hs 1 t-ouis CnUrmejrer ia New Republic. : Uncle Jelf Snow Say a: Kow that the state labor folks has quit reaolutln' after a ateady week ot it ln Portland, the legislature's v atart In. Congreaa'tl unload about 10 times more 'n the legialature on ua, and-then the labor leaders, the legislature swing mules and the congressmen ln the wheel will leave it all to Providence, and we'll run along somehow. In spite of all of 'em, Jist -aa we allua done before. The News in Paragraphs World Happenlnga Briefed for Benefit Of Journal Readers GENERAL T . r . - . inrnen m. un, s(cu i, waa inaugu rated governor of Ohio Monday for a third term. A home for aged and dependent law yers la proposed ln a bill Introduced In tbe California legislature. Catherine Breshkovsky, the "grand mother of the Russian revolution," haa saiieu uum jjsa xor. ocaiue. Seven prominent realdenta of Tucaon and Douglaa, Aria., have been arrested, charged with . smuggling arm a into Mexico. Firee atarted In front of the White House in which were burned s petechia of President Wilson resulted in the arrest of 17 women Monday. W. R. Nicholson la held at Fort Worth, Texas, charged with shooting up a Santa Fe passenger train Sunday, wounding several passengers. A resolution has been Introduced In tha California legialature ursine the pur chase by the government of Lower Cali fornia and the Coronada islands. Of 2.500,000 checks for dependents' al lotments and allowances deducted from soldiers' pay for November and Decem ber, only 930,000 have been mailed Lieutenant John E. Carbut ef Fheri- -dan, Wjro, and Mechanic R. L. Qulnn of Pittsburg were killed at Fort Worth on Sunday when their airplane fell (000 feet. ; . Milan Hitchcock, noted real estate op erator, who had been missing el nee No vember 21, returned to Chicago Monday, t unable to give any account of hla wan derings. Senator Vardaman has introduced a bill in the senate giving men who eerved in the army abroad $36 and those who .aerved at home $30 a month for six months following their discharge. NORTHWEST NOTES The rare phenomenon ofa snowbow waa witnessed at Hood River Monday. A week of dairy schools Is announced for Tttlamookcounty, beglnrring Janu ary 20. - Mrs. Homer I. Watts, wife of the may or of Athena, ia dead from an attack of influenza. The Umatilla county treasurer paid out Siir!ne 191 g t?.ri91 fnr rnvntK and ntlier acalp bountlea. Construction of the new milt of the Crescent Shingle company at . Kelso -atarted th la, week. Union county aportamen are asking for the reeatabliahment of the hatchery on the Mlnam river, near Elgin. . Mrs. Anna Mclntyre of Athena, $.1 yeara old and nearly blind, knitted 41 sweatere for soldiers overseas. The Coos Bay shipyard has closed down for an Indefinite time on account of a etrike among the employee. Every effort la made to eafesruard tha legislature ln seaslon at Boise, but two members have contracted influensa. Thd two Smith sawmills at Marshfleld, employing 60 men, have closed indefi nitely. Shortage or logs ta given aa. uie reaaon. . William D. Stuart, who waa elected prosecuting attorney of Wahkiakum county at the last election Jiaa re signed. - The state fair board haa voted an In crease of $6000 In the premium lists of livestock and agricultural exhlblta at. the Oregon state fair. The Washington state : aenate has Sasaed the criminal syndicalism bill over io last session veto of Governor Lister by a vote -of 37 to 6, ' Charles W. Washburne, pioneer bank er and farmer, , died at Junction City Monday night, aged S5 yeara. He had spent 65-yeara ln Lane county. ; . FOREIGN : . - A company haa been formed at Mel bourne to finance an aerial transport service from Australia to London. Raymond D. Foadlck haa arrived at Coblens to make a study of welfare and ' moral conditions In the American army. A dispatch from London statea that I Ull miwiijf . ?. v Aliici iu during the summer ot next year Is' cer tain. i ' American Christmas mall to Sweden has not yet arrived and is believed to have been loat on the missing British steamer G'tano. . Soldier Due for Happy Sur prise On a Future Birthday (Stories of achievement in tba accumnla tlon of War Havings Stamps sent to Tbe Journal and acceptable for publication wlU be awarded a Thrift Bump. , "Dick" Squires, wfien' he enlisted for overseas service for Uncle Sam, was working in hia father's grocery store. "Dlckw was In France on bis birthday and his parents. In honor of the twentieth anniversary of the arrival of their first-born, each bought $1000 worth of War Savings Stamps and registered them in the son 'a name before putting them away in a safety deposit vault. Dick" doesn't know. lt yet, but ln five yeara, when the stamps .mature with their accumulated Interest, he ia going to get thia $2000 aa a birth day "rift." It is the hope of the "old folk a" that he will buy an lntereat in hla father's business that he may "carry on" whert the "old gentleman" la ready to retire, bat whether or no, the money loaned for him to Uncle Sam will be forthcoming as a nu cleus for his career. , MIS Thrift , Stamps and War Sav ihga Stamps now on sale at usual agencies. -