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s THE OREGON r DAILY JOURNAL. PORTLAND. -TUESDAY, JANUARY 21. 1919. v a s.. jacksox.. . published wtj day. attero and mornin e ; oept Sunday afternoon) , at Tim Journal BttUd tn. Broadway wd XtsUU strew. Pertlnajd. EMmd At the PsetofTioa at Portland. for traiwmiasioo through the mails M elaae matter. - TELEPHONES Main 71TS; Horn. A-SOSl. - All departments reached by these wmbe - Tell the operator wrist department ftm went, rORKKiX ADVEBTISING KKPKE8KNTATITH . Benjamia Kawtnor Cow. Brunswick BalMlnc, - 226 fifth sretrae. New Tork; 600 Mailers auiKUna, UhJeaco. Subscription terms by mail tm OrecoB and Wash- inston? - DAILT f MORNING OKrrEBXOOX) v One year. .... .15.00 t On Month ..... $ .BO '. I ' BTTSDAT ! Ob year. , . . . .$2 60 I One month. . . . .$ .2S (llOKNINO OR AFTERNOON) AND - BTJNDAY i One venr. S7.50 I On. month t .69 Men If bis own star, atul the soul that can . Render an h on eat and a perfect man. Commands all light, all influence, all fate. Nothing to him falls early or too late. Out acta our angels are. or good or 111, Our tatai shadow thst walk by us still. Ralph Waldo 'Emerson. PAY THE MEN RITTNG to the OrcgonJan, Brig adier General Lord, assistant to Director of Purchase, Stor age ana Trarrio Director or 'Finance at Washington. D. C. says: I Since the signing of the armistice. I approximately 800,000 enlisted men .have been discharged from the army, land these men have all been paid in i full, and there has been no delay what ever In connection with the settlement of their acounts, although it has nec fessarily thrown a great deal of work J upon the finance officers who have the aettiement of such accounts, f With an army of the size mentioned above, no matter how perfect the pro- cedure nor how earnest the effort 'made, there will necessarily be a cer 5 tain; proportion who will not receive r their pay or who will not receive It as 'promptly as they should. There has 'been no little complaint from troops lh this country, wherever they may be located, and in cases of casuals ar riving from overseas, payment Is made f Immediately on their arrival. Even then, certain casuals succeed occa tsldhally In getting by the paymasters J who are awaiting the arrival of these 1 casuals at the ports of debarkation In ithts country, and these cases, wherever they attract attention, result In com ; plaints of failure to pay our casuals. I General Lord goes on, to say that demobilized men are paid ZM cents "railroad mileage, and have been given . rate of two cents a mile over.-the frallroads, leaving them a balance of HM cents a mile. He also says that soldiers arriving at debarkation points with'rrearages due them for eer-vice in Europe, are paid in full , without requiring other evidence jthan the service man's unsupported ,vord in case he has no papers show ing the' amount due. t Doubtless General Lord believes . that these plans are carried out, and idoubtless in most cases, they are carried out. Doubtless there is pro "". fMsion for all men to receive all their ;duei3 before discharge. !" But the trouble is, that there are .eases in which returning men have ; not been fully provided for. There Tare well authenticated cases in which jxnen do not receive, all their pay. jpossibly it is due "to the lack of alertness of paymasters, tr to their j personal negligence, which is alto gether likely. Brass buttons and an Officer's uniform have turned many a head. That is one of the unavoid- t able weaknesses of hunfan nature. . Or it . may be that the processes .tof red tape, which bungle many .things, get in their deadly. work here. " in any event, whatever the reason, imore men fail of prompt payment jthan ought to. No single case should i happen In which a demobilized man should have either delay or diffi-' t fculty ureceiving his compensation. - Even then there would be but small reward for the service rendered. Gen jeral Lord should searchingly investi gate the situation, and not, as high . - military men sometimes do, pass the matter up as unworthy of attention. j. The Oregonian is correct in declar ing that the situation is not all thalt 'General Lord thinks it is. It is, how fever, wrong in its exaggerated - fshriek s about soldiers being - p'sorapped." Whenever and wherever ;did that paper care a whoop about " the common man? What day did it. !from Its fancied heights of superi "ority, not look down on average peo ple as cattle? . Its screams against the government are exactly like Bolshevik screams against the -government. It is play ing politics, and, in doing it, is giv ' ing off" wild-eyed Bolshevik propaganda. Those who had the pleasure of a .voyage on that beautiful piece of marine architecture, and those who knovy through others of her wonder ful powers , as an ocean greyhound, are rejoiced to learn that, the North ern Pacific has been salvaged from the sands at Fire Island, and that she is to continue to play her part in the, world's work. And there will be another reason for the common sense of, thankfulness: It was an intrepid financial mind that con ceived, planned and bad the great ship built. It ' would have been a cruel fate for this, one of the last of ihe creations of the Uta James X HilL to have found a dismal dissolu tion before her career on the deep was, well begun. 1 j SEND HIM TO 1 PETROGRAD i WAS. born in America, I am sorry to say," said one of 13 Bolshevik! when booked at' the police station as' a result of the clash between police and a Bol shevik parade at "Seattle last week. "To hell with the American flag.' shouted a Bolshevik sympathizer as the parade passed, I j At a meeting which preceded the parade, the speakers criticized all things American. When the police interfered with the meeting, one of the speakers was urging a strike of longshoremen to prevent the load' ing of supplies far the American army in Siberia. "We will be Bol shevik! now," exclaimed a man on the platform when a police captain ordered the meeting closed.. The crowd started down the street singing I. W. W. songs and cheering the red flag. Under the czars In Russia or tho kaiser, in Germany, there might be excuse for this sort of j thing. But America is not Russia ' and is not Germany. The man who deolared that he is sorry he was born in America should go to some other country that suits him better; Rus sia, for instance. The same is true of the man who insulted the Ameri can flag and of those i others who cheered the red flag. There are things in America to be reformed. Men are not perfect, and governments administered by men cannot be perfect. They can be and are being improved. But the Improvement cannot be made by lunatics who want America brought to the present Russian level. This is no place for a Babel of Inco herence. Your man who says he ia sorry he was born in the best coun try in the world, a country that is doing more for democracy and the rights of man than any other coun try in the world, would be a pretty specimen to rule over the most ad vanced people on earth and, with his tribe, make his thought their thought and his plans their plans. This distemper will pass. It Is the Turning of irresponsibles made in sane by the success of Bolshevism in Europe. They are on the ram page after their repression during the war. They will sputter for a time, having little effect, except' in isolated cases, other than putting ammunition in tne hands of those who oppose progress. Their foolisn capers and antics will, be pointed to by reactionaries and be used to frighten back into reaction those who are ready .to aid in the further de mocratizing of America.' "I was born in America I am sorry to say." Send him to ;Petrograd. Authorized to do so by the Colo rado public service commission, the Denver street railway has been col lecting a seven cent fare with an additional charge of one cent for transfers. The supremoi court -of the state has ordered the fare reduced to six cents, the' rate consented to by the Denver city council. The de cision was based on an amendment to the state constitution in which it is provided that the public service commission may not regulate rates of. public service corporations in charter cities. The home rule amend ment was effective in Colorado but not in Oregon. PADEREWSKI P ADEREWSKI, the celebrated piano player, has been made premier and foreign minister of Poland. One would not naturally expect him to fill those important Offices very well, thougli he may do so.. We have no disposition to pre judge him. But the temperament of a musician is quite unlike that of a statesman. The musician is necessarily" predis posed to passionate expression. That is his business in life. The states man succeeds best when he controls his passions and listens to the voice of cold reason. There is no reason in the world why a statesman should not be a lover of musio and even an amateur performer. Sir Arthur Balfour Is said to play the piano creditably but he has not the pianist's -temperament. On the contrary, he Is a cold, calculating philosopher" who keeps his eye fixed on the main chance unwaveringly. Speaking confessedly without full knowledge of the circumstances, we are inclined to i believe that , the choice of Paderewski for premier exhibits the age-long disqualifica tion of the Poles for political self government. They know neither how to choose their rulers nor to obey them after they are chosen. The Poles brought their historical miseries upon themselves by their lack of political sense. Before the partition of their country they were free for, generations to frame a sensi ble government but they had not the capacity to do it. They could only wrangle, among themselves until finally their enemies devoured them. The choice of "a piano player for premier does not positively promise anything much better for the future. Not that a piano player is not an estimable person, highly to be re spected and cheered when he capti vates an audience by his deftness. But a man may be respectable add famous without being a capable J statesman. ' ' " Still Paderewski . may surprise the world. Mankind frequently makes mistakear -judgments of people, 1 as- sumlg that they :, can only exhibit capability to one J direction. . They used to sneer at President Wilson because) be was a "college professor," but by this time they have ceased sneering. The professor ha surprised them by his supreme statesmanship. Perbaps Paderewski has a similar surprise in store f or, his critics. HOW LONG? I N -AMERICA, from July, 1914, to Novemberr 1918, the increase in the price of men's overcoats was 185 per cent. Women's blouses went up 64 per cent. Knit underwear advanced. 130 per cent, percales 264 per cent, shoes 100 pet cent, foods an average of 83 per cent, fuel 55 per cent, clothing 93 per cent. The figures are given out as au thentic by the National Industrial Conference. -Ope of the least of the increases is rents, placed at 20 per cent. The estimated average increase, in the budget of a worker's family is 70 per cent. A hundred million people are won dering if there will be a return to the normal and when the" descent will begin. There is no war now with which to explain prices that have all along been catalogued as "war prices." The future is contemplated with curi osity and perplexity. The news of the day mentions an Ohio lawsuit which was begun some years ago over a calf and is not fin ished yet though the calf is a full grown cow. The story carries the impertinent implication that Ohio law is futile because it does not get results. Whoever wrote the account should bear in mind that the law in Ohio, as well as other states, does get the only results which 'are really important. We dare say the lawyers have been comfortably paid during the whole progress of the case. MARTYRS T HE Oregonian, now speaks of the czar's "martyrdom," at least in its headlines. It does not show much judgment in choosing its idols but the attempt to make a de cent martyr out of the late Nicholas is particularly hopeless. It is interesting to recall t,he names and histories of some other royal criminals, besides Nicholas, who' are numbered among the "martyrs." There are Charles I of England, for instance, and Louis XVI of France, and Nero and Caligula. The list is long and all the names in it wear haloes for the same kind of reac tionaries as those who adore the late czar. THE NEW ERA HE whole church, the whole task for the whole world." Such is the slogan of a dis tinguished body of Presby terian ministers from all parts of the United States deliberating in Port land on the problems of present and future. The purpose is Ho enliven every man in the church to a realiza tion of things that can be accomp lished in the New Era which think ers believe Is ushered in by the gi gantic upheaval that is sequel to the late war. i Thus early, the forces of Presby- terianism are organizing for a great drive for the beterment of mankind. As an example of the church's new conception of world affairs, the Pres byterians will spend $500,000 for the relief of Protestant churches in the war zone and $500,000 on returning soldiers and sailors who went to war from Presbyterian homes. Thirteen million dollars will be spent this year, and perhaps $75,000, 000 in five years in only a part of the activities of the church. It is the belief of these church leaders that the New. Era movement can ac complish more for humanity than the war accomplished with all its sacrifice. The Portland conference is a step in -the marshaling of all their forces as comrades for a world wide crusade under the banner of the Prince of Peace. Perhaps there are possibilities for fulfillment of this great conception. We have, in the great tide of changed thought toward national prohibition, seen how the walls of some of the old order have been bat- red down. May it not be that, in oth'er great fields, there are to be like revolu tions in human conviction and human purpose? As remarked yesterday in the paper of Dr. Foulkes, formerly of Portland, now of New York, "the church has been, like the American people, not exerting its full power." It is going to exert it now. WOMEN IN OFFICE I N GRAYS HARBOR county, Wash ington, the new auditor and clerk of the superior court are women. But each has appointed a man for her assistant, so that the domi nant sex remains dominant in the county offices. It is an odd phenomenon that women should have waged such a vigorous contest for the right to vote and then stopped short. One would naturally have expected them to claim at least half the offices. Oregon has one woman in the legislature. There will be no woman in the next congress, although sev eral million women now enjoy the right to vote.. In the British elec tions all the women candidates for parliament were defeated. - v There seems to be a pretty ;.com- mon understanding that it is Indeli cate for a woman to h old : oJf ice, just as it was formerly deemed In delicate for her to vote. iHugh Murray suggests in the To ledo Leader "Goats on every hillside as a good motto for Oregon. It is better than good. It is excellent. Goats can live on brush where cat tle would starve and they, are less apt than sheep to be destroyed by dogs. Why is not more of our hill country stocked with goats? . T. PAER LISTS TO. VILLAGE CHIME By Ralph Watson "What you so quiet for. Pa?" Ma asked suddenly, after a long period of silence, broken only by the clicking cadence of her neeedles. "Ain't you feeling good?" "Fine," T. Paer assured her, rousing ! from his chimney-corner reverie. "Klne," he repeated, and then added in a shame faced Bort of manner, "and kinda mushy, maybe." . - "They ain't no cause for worry, then," Ma responded, smiling' quietly above her knitting. "That's the way you feel most of the time." "Maybe," T. Paer answered absently. "Maybe it is, but it's the old town clock that's got me goln this time." "The town clock?" Ma repeated. "I didn't know they had one down here." "They ain't," T. Paer answered. "It's the one up .at Salem that kept strikin in through the window all last week when I was up to the legislature." a "Well," Ma replied practically. I'm glad to hear it's still running. It ought to been worn out long ago." "It ain't, though," T. Paer told her. "It sounds just the same as it did years and years ago when we was kids up there." "I'd kinda like to hear it again," Ma said. "It use to have a pretty tone when the nights was still, and it told us across the town that bedtime'd come." ."You didn't use to say so," T. Paer grinned, "when it struck 10 in the sha dow of the ivy that grew over the front gate out "in Yew park." T "I don't remember what 1 use to say," Ma smiled reminiscently ; "but I do what Dad said if you didn't - hear it strike." "I wasn't afraid of him," T. Paer boasted. "I had too much head start between the front door'n the gate." "I thing he kinda had your number," Ma said. "You was awful polite to him about that time." "Well," T. Paer answered, "we was always good friends except the time he turned the hose on my shine through the hedge'n wasted my last ten cents." "You did look kinda funny that night," Ma admitted ; "funny'n nervous." "Who wouldn't," T. Paer demanded, "to be give the water cure on your sec ond visit? But I stuck it out." "Yes." Ma chuckled. "Dad said he guessed it'd take more'n a hose to drive you away'n he didn't have the heart." "I can be coaxed." T. Paer answered, "but I can't be drove." "I know it," Ma admitted. "Some times I think Dad musta sized you up quicker'n I did." a "You know." T. Paer mused. "It makes a fellah feel kinda funny to sleep in your old room'n have your mother come'n tuck you in Just .liko' you was a kid again'n then listen to the town clock' strikin' through the same window you used' to crawl in through) at two e- ra " "And find your mother gone to bed in your - bed," Ma supplemented, "so's she could catch you in the act." . "I never did think that was just fair," T. Paer contended. "It was takin' a unfair advantage of a fettah." "No more'n when you crawled out after she'd tucked you in," Ma con tended. "You wasn't any easier to manage then'n you are now." "You was the cause of it," T. Paer answered defensively. "If it hadn't been for you I wouldn't of crawled out'n I wouldn't have had to crawl in." "That's your etory," Ma smiled, "but if it hadn't been me It would of been some other glrrp you ain't changed much either." a a " 'Nd that's your story," T. Paer answered. "Bat do you remember that time I put the pencil under the strikin" weight of old dad's clock so's I could take you to a party'n stay out after ten without gettin' caught?" "Yes." Ma chuckled, " 'nd then forgot to take the pencil out." "Well," T. Paer answered reminis cently. "the clock didn't strike, but Dad did. That was the last llckln' I .ever got." "But not the last you ever deserved," Ma commented. "You was a awful trial to your folks them days." a "I was under a awful strain," T. Paer defended, "with the competition I was up against. But I couldn't help thinkin' When I listened to the old town clock of how much better it'd be for everybody if the legislatures take it for a pattern." "Why?" Ma asked wonder ingly. "What's the clock got to do with the legislature?" "Nothin." T. Paer said, "but I've watched a lot of 'em come'n go'n most of 'em come to Salem'n start off all right' n then politics'n, Jealousy'n selflshness'n logrollln'n things like that gum up the wheels'n ball things up until the people cuss the whole institutlon'n ' wish they wasn't none." - a a "But I don't see where the town clock ccrnes in," Ma persisted. "Well," T. Paer answered, thought fully, "all the time the legislatures'rs jlmmyin 'round in a circle all tangled up. the clock's just runnln' straight ahead., tellln' 'em in the same even tone that the hour's passin'n beln' forgot just like they is, unless they play straight ball all the time." "It is kinda solemn," Ma sighed, "when you think that every time It strikes another hour's gone'n can't be brought back." "Some of 'em," T. Paer said, "even the legislature, -wouldn't want to get back if they could." "It they thought about it." Ma baaard ed, "maybe they'd want to. bring 'em back'n do over again what they done before." "Maybe,1 T. Paer answered, gazing into the coals, "but if they'd let the old clock talk to 'era through the window in the night time they would'nt have to want It to tell 'em Its story over again." "No."" Ma said, aa she folded her knit ting into her work " basket under the table lamp, "but I guess a lot of them legislature men must sleep with their windows shut." . Words That flood oo From the CoQuiHa Sentinel The sister of a young lad - here in Coquille bought a knife for a Christmas present for him. A day or two later he was examining It more closely out of doors than when he received it amid the excitement of Christmas morning. And as he did he spelled out the words, "Gei-mania Company, Made in Germany." His father said, "You are not 100 per cent American if you keep that kind of a knife," and Wrrhout the slightest heal- tatton the boy swung his arm and threw the knife be had prised a hundred feet Letters From the People ( Communication sent to The Journal far pub lication in thia department should be written a only one aide- of the paper. ahomM not exeaed 10 words in least) and must be aicned by the writer, whose mail srirtisse la fail araet aoooaapaay the contribution.) ; - - Advocates Ban on Crowds Portland. Jan. 20. To the Kdltor of The Journal To one who watches the work of the city health board In - its effort to stamp out the influenta epidemic comes the- thought of a care ful shifting of responsibility for action which might interfere with the busi- ness activities of the . city, an evasion of their plain duties and responsibili ties. One thing, however, stands out clear and uncontrovertible to them the influenza, will not yield to any half-way measures, and the serious minded part of the publio is conscious of the . fact. Statistics, bulletins on prevention and cure and generous doses of oratory will prove ineffective. My experience with the public leads me to believe that advice and persuasive oratory. will not in .the main be taken . seriously if they prove obstacles to the. enjoyment of what they are pleased to call "life's pleasures," especially so if there are no compelling rules to limit these enjoyments.- We are dealing with a serious question when we face this terrible scourge, and no half-way measures or evasion of our plain duty will ever prove effective. The health and life of the people are of greater moment than the successful mid-winter sales of mer chandise, or continuing the work of the public schools, or the privilege of the church services, or the pleasures of the careless and indifferent part of our citizens. I know the sentiment of soma of our business men is for unrestricted business ; the dollar is of the utmost importance; and as one business man said to me on another occasion. "If the people haven't sense enbugh to look after their own affairs, believe me, I am not going to help them ; my business is to make money, not to make of my establishment an advisory health bu reau." Personally I do not believe In closing business houses, but I am unalterably opposed to unrestricted mid-winter sales where the people crowd and jostle each other in an attempt to get something cheap while there is an epidemic of such virulence in our midst. Theatres and public meetings of whatever char acter should be forbidden, public schools should be closed, and a strict quaran tine should be applied 1A all cases. We cannot hope to successfully combat this plague in any other way, and the soon er we wake up to this fact the better it win be for all concerned. X M. HARDIE. A Soldier's Delayed Pay (K The Dalles, Jan. 18. To the Eaor of The Journal Can anyone tell pn why our government is so short of funds as to be unable to pay our boys "over there" their regular wage each month? Vast Bums have been gath ered In on this side. I know expenses have been tremendous, but surely our boys deserve their wages paid more promptly than they were, after all they went through for us. One of my brothers went over in August, fought in various places, then later fought 21 days without relief in the terrible battle of the Argonne forest till the. armistice was signed. His pi a toon of 48 men was entirely cut off from all help. Only 14 of the 48 (he fortunately one of these) oame forth alive from that hell. They went with out water two days, without food four days, slept In mud. rain and cold. fought cooties as well as Huns. After being relieved, nearer dead -'than alive. ho received one month's wages with his insurance of $6.50 deducted 'from it. Three more months wages was stfll due htm. He said he willingly trained, fought and risked his all to help freedom's cause, but money was a very necessary article, to any half com fortable existence in future. I am won dering, along with him. why this three and four months' delay was necessary, or how many of our "big business men" would willingly go through all our boys have. Just for democracy's and freedom's. sane ana $36 a montn. and wait three months to receive that? Surely this is a small thing to ask for such hard work. M. M. CLARK. Urges Fifllit on "Flu" Portland, Jan. 18. To the Editor of The Journal While the consolidated health bureau and the city council are endeavoring to solve the flu problem valuable time Is lost In Ignoring its natural habitat and general rendezvous. Science has so far failed to "locate" this germ, but all agree that its favorite field is in the throat and nasal passages ; also that contagion lurks in a cough or a sneeze or in "crowds. While there ap pears to be a doubt as to the efficiency of the mask, the fact stands out that these germs are given the keys to the city and allowed to take possession of our principal thoroughfares without a dissenting vote. We court their ac quaintance and carry them to our places of business and our homes, enabling them to reach the members of our house holds who are unable to go after them. If so much danger lurks In the nose and mouth, how many times must that danger be multiplied in walking our streets, the condition of which is not only disgusting in the extreme, but positively nauseating. Let us not sanction for another day the filthy habit of expectorating on the thoroughfares, where the soles of our shoes alone can carry as much contagion as one concentrated cough or sneeze of the whole city. A few moments would suffice to pass a resolution effecting a change. For the sake of argument, ref use cans could be provided on the streets as in our parks, and gauze and paper also at a nominal price, or, as with masks, donated when necessary. The contents of the cans would be disposed of at the crematory, as in hospitals. This Is merely a suggestion. It may have merit. It would add to the "city beau tiful" and, according to the rules of health, greatly assist in stamping out the epidemic. M. McM. Rejoices in Prohibition Victory Bend. Jan. IS. To the Editor of The Journal In connection with the glorious' news of today, I desire to thank you most sincerely for your logical and able editorials during the last two years in support of prohibition. That the con stitutional amendment would be ratified by a sufficient number of statea during this month was evident to me as soon as same was submitted by congress in December, 1917 ; but that it should be ratified withthis amazing unanimity is astonishing,, and can only be accounted for by the candor with which our large papers throughout khe dry states have so intelligently paraded the manifold blessings resultinjg from a dry regime. To those of uif who came, daily, into contact with liquor users in our busi ness pursuit, the1 full realization of the terrible curse of the liquor traffic to the nation easily? unfolded itself and con sequently we can fully understand the wonderful blessings that will result from this day's glorious news, which truly is the most beneficial legislation ever enacted for the welfare of the entire nation. , 1 D.- WIER. , The Soldier's "vVonTan - Substitute ' Pendleton, Jan. 17. To the Editor of The Journal X have read your editorial discussion of my letter in the matter of the replacement; of returning, soldiers COMMENT AND SMALL CHANGE All quiet along the western front, a e. a With tho new telephone toll rates in effect, talk Unt aa cheap a it waa. Thtoga we need to" amy before we were married: "Red balMn jthe aide pocket." Some men take real delight In saving money to send their wives to the coun try. State legislatures do well to aet aside a lUUe- "dough" for returning dough boys. If the egg market breaks enough It wUl help to unscramble the high cost of living. The late kaisers backers are quitting him. remarks the Wall Street Journal, von by von. Now that Clackamas county officials have raided the "Crawfish Inn." soma of the victims will try to "crawfish" out of it. , Otis Blackstone says that in these days of short skirts a fellow has to be careful about the "Uttle girls" he takes to sit on his lap. Goat-getters: The "fresh-air fiend who opens the window and then beats it up to the composing room to escape the draft that hits us squarely between the radiator and the front door. JOURNAL MAN AT HOME By Fred Lockley I Of a military man of whom Journal readers bare read much, lir. Lookley write today, item iainc his 28 years' record as a soldier and aa head of aa officers' school. The discussion ends with a Keoserelt reminiaeenoe. 1 Several days ago I made a short talk at the University of Oregon on the subject of "Oyer There and Over Here," a subject, by the by, that gives wide latitude for discussion. Eric Allen, dean of the school of journalism, took me through what he calls his "laboratory." but which I would have supposed was an up-to-date print shop. From there I went with Professor Allen to pay my respects to Colonel John Leader, com mandant of the state university. He is tall, slender, good looking, haa charm ing manners and has the athletic, out-of-door, soldierly look possessed by most of Great Britain's younger officers. He looks to be 33, but he must be nearer 43. for he has put in 23 years of active service In the British army. He was graduated from the Royal military col lege of England and saw service in the Boer war and in the Boxer troubles. He was Great Britain's military observer attached to the Japanese army during the Russo-Japanese war. He has also been attached as military observer to various other armies and has trained foreign troops. He raised a regiment in his native country at the outbreak of the war and took his men of Ulster from the Emerald isle to France and Flan ders, where at the battle of the Somme the Ulster division stood its ground against the onrushlng horde of Huns until the men of Ulster were almost wiped out After Colonel Leader's discharge from the hospital as unfit for further serv ice he was recommended by the British war office as an instructor, and di rected the Oregon state officers' train ing school at Eugene, with great suc cess. The first training camp opened In June, 1918, and made good from the start, many of its graduates securing commissions and being sent overseas. Here are a few of the subjects that were taught to the candidates for com missions: Military drill and parade, sanitation, hygiene, transport, scouting, discipline, tactics, strategy, road mak ing, engineering, field engineering, making bridges, constructing dugouts and trenches, signaling, topography, musketry, mathematics, camouflage, first aid, physical training, school of the officer, army records, staff organization, gas drill, French, machine gunnery, trench warfare, military law, bombing, grenade throwing and bayoneting. I had only recently come from Colonel Leader's native land and had visited Cork, ' Bandon, Bantry, Glensariff and many other places where Colonel Leader had spent his boyhood,, as well as Amiens,' Abbeville and other places In France where he had served, -so we had a pleasant visit. Rarely a day goes by that I do not learn something, and I learned some thing from Colonel Leader. His ste nographer, a most charming young lady, asked me if I had met a certain young man (naming him) in the marines. 1 and sailors, and beg to say that I have not overlooked the economic problem presented by the war-born employment of women. I did not touch upon that In my published letter for two reasons. first. I desired that the communication might- be as brief as possible ; second, I do not regard any woman as pa triotic who took a soldier's position with the view of permanently retaining It. That is so axiomatic that it is ob vious. Most women were employed with the tacit understanding that they were taking the 'place of some man in serv ice, and for the war period only. A man who donned the blue or khaki did so leaving a moral obligation upon both his employer and upon the person who filled the place made vacant, to see to It that tha job shall be available to the soldier upon his return. Therefore sex gallantry, is not a factor to be con sidered. It is up to the employers. and up to the persons now In the places which the boys lert to xace tne cannon, to make good. If they fail, no matter whether men or women, they are moral slackers, and entitled to feel the lash of public opinion. I am convinced that, the industrial, social and economic problem of the em ployment of demobilised men can be solved only by sanity, and through or ganization to assure restoration of the pre-war status.. STEPHEN A. LOWELL. Land Frauds and the Soldiers Imbler, Jan. 16. To the Editor of The Journal I see the efforts of The Journal 1n exposing the stealing of our public lands are bearing fruit, our public domain has been squandered, and stolen by rich corporations. Nearly all of our raUroads tn the West, Middle West and South have been given or have .mi.n emDires of land. Look at the Credit Tdobiller scheme, whereby the Uslon Pacific got every other section for 20 mUes on either side of the. rail road clear across " the country. Even stohuvler Colfax, vice president of the United States, was tainted' with that steal. I have deserted the party that was then in power, and am proud of having done ao. This case is typical of many. If our public domain had not been obtained by fraud we should now homesteads to give our returning soldiers, so they could have homes of their own. r .ove-rnffr-Wtthycombe outlines a great ehma in hliT-message to help the sol diers to get farms. He would sell them stump lands. They must pay a reason able rrrice. Then one Item of expense among many others they must assume is $100 an acre for clearing the iana of stumps. X imagine I see the soldiers running after the governor to kiss the hem of his garments for , inaugurating such a grand scheme to help them. I think a better scheme would m to limit the ownership of land according to law and for the government to condemn an lands owned over and - above . the limit, or, say,- a section., andpay the NEWS IN BRIEF OREGON SIDELIGHTS A return of gold mining -in Baker county to its before the war basis," says the Baker Democrat, "is much to be desired. Thiav will com surely, and there are signs of It already," "In the good old "days of yore, says the Canyon City Eagle, "gasoline and boose were not affected by cold weather. Now they freeze like ordrnary water. John D. and John Barleycorn are turn ing out some poor goods." County Agricultural Agent Tweed of Baker,-enthused from attendance at the recent irrigation congress in fortiana, rejoices that "while many project in this state are estimated at $100 per acre. In Baker county the' highest estimate is 171 per acre." . : With membershlo at record point and almost out of debt, the ugene Chamber of Commerce, the Guard says, "is now ready to begin the work of reconstruc tion and readiuatment." and "every man eager to do something in the way -of improvements." "Already several new enterprises call ing for increased production in this ter ritory are assured lor saiem, tne capi tal Journal says, "and others are In prospect. The year 1919 promises to be one of great progress and prosperity at and about the capital city." repeated the name, while I searched my memory. "Is he a relatiye?" I asked. "Not yet," she answered. "I don't be lieve I met him," 1 said.- "Just a mo ment, Mr. Lockley," said Colonel Lead er. "Think a moment. Don't you re member seeing a handsome young fel low, the one with such: soldierly bear ing, who had such an absorbed look on his face as he was writing that letter to Eugene? Don't you remember the mln iature of a beautiful young lady on the desk before him? Dori't you recognize the original of the picture V "Why, of course, I remember him," I answered. And I hope the recording angel will weep several large tears on his lie book and blot .out my fib. Well, what learned was that no Irishman needs to kiss the Blarney stone and that when it comes to saying and doing the gracious thing the man who Js born in the Em erald isle Is always there with bells on. . Colonel Leader, who la now a regular member of the faculty of the state unl versity, is tourinj; the state organising military training in the high schools. While at the 'university I had the pleasureof meeting Colonel William H. fXB9en, U. S. A., who is commanding officer of the S. A. T. C. and who served as .inspecting and examining officer of the state officers' training school. He is an old-time Indian fighter and later served in the Spanish-American war and in the Philippine insurrection. He is one of the old-time, hard riding and hard fighting army officers of a time when battles were fought on the ground and in the open and not from trench and dugout and from the air. Captain George O. Lung of the med ical corps, U. S. N., was for a year the White House physician. This was dur ing the fall of 1902 and the early part of 1903. At that time Theodore Roosevelt was president. In speaking of his work at the White House, Captain Lung re cently said : "Upon one occasion Colonel Roosevelt and myself were riding up a steep hill in New Hampshire. It was heavy pulling, so President Roosevelt got out and said he would -.hike It. followed suit. The others remained in the carriage. He started up the hill at breakneck speed. I had on light patent leather shoes. For three miles we prod ded at a high pace. I panted and gasped. My collar wilted. I perspired. It was a pace of four miles an hour. "At the end the Colonel was all in, 8o was I. But the president exclaimed. 'Great! Bully!' I said. 'This- exercise ought to be made a test for promotion The colonel thumped his hands together and shouted : 'By George. I'll do it !' And I have an idea that Is what inspired his order that army officers go through severe physical tests. - m Roosevelt as president prescribed that officers of the army, navy and marine corps should ride 90 miles in three days as an endurance test. lie -rode 98 miles himself In a driving storm of rain, snow and sleet In one day. He left the White House at 3 :40 a. m., rode to Warrenton, Va.. and gdt back to the White House at 8 :30 p. m. owner a reasonable ' price -for it, and then sell it at a reasonable' price to the landless on long time. If people own their homes we have a country of happy homes, and they will fight for their country to the last ditch. Christ whipped the money changers from- the temple. and said, "The foxes have holes, and the birds have nests, but the Son of Man hath not where to lay his head." I think this is the trouble in Russia. They have got that fool Idea into their heads that they are entitled to a home and a few acres of land. Let us all support Senator Johnson in his resolu tion in congress to have our soldiers brought back from Russia. What are they kept over there . for now? Whom are they fighting, and what for? A. F. WILSON. The Land Recovery Campaign From the Bedmond Spokesman i no rgrusna journal is making a campaign for the recovery of School lands, amounting to more thaii 300,000 acres alleged to have been fraudulently ootaineo rrom the state and which it claims the attorney general asserts can be recovered to the , statejachool fund. Several cases have been tried and in each case so far the courts have ren dered judgment forthe state. The mat ter will doubtless come before th e, leg-In -Iature at the coming session and the members of that body -are expected to do their duty. the Soldier Boy's Viewpoint From the Salem Journal And a good many of the soldier boys who marched away to war so proudly w'ill come back home Just as manly and possessed of as much self-respect and self-reliance as when they went away. They will not especially welcome charity or even sympathy from the professional patriots who are now the most ener getic constructionists. Exposing Timber Thieves From the Houlton Herald Some individuals think it is foolish ness for The Journal to keep up the ex posure of timber thieves, but the politi cal atmosphere in Oregon will never be purified except by turbulent agitation. - Olden Oregon Five Schools That Were Founded by the Earliest Missionaries. - Among' ithe educational institutions of the Northwest growing out of the labors of the early missionaries were the Wil lamette university at Salem, the direct successor of the Methodist mission at Chemeketa ; Whitman college at Walla Walla, founded by Cushing Eella as a memorial to Marcus 'Whitman ; Pacific university at Forest Grove, founded by a later set of Congregational home mis sionaries, and a Catholic school at St. Paul, founded In 1843 by Father Blan che! but maintained only a few years. r Ragtag and Bobtail Stories From Everywhere Hearsay THE "paas-it-along" method of mll- itary communication frequently led to amusing results. An officer at the end of the British line told the nearest private to pass the word along to an other officer at a distance: "We are going to advance. Can you send us re enforcements? And this is the 'message the other officer received: "We are going to a dance. Can you send us three and four pence?" Unrle Sam Ttappiest man I aer see Was my Uncle Baa From Kansas. Neer wore , , No collar, Linen or otherwise. Owned bia own (arm, , . Made hfs own money. , IiTed as he dam pleased . An' worshiped Uod Aocordin' to his .Own conscience! 1 C Seiuin New Tork World. Uncle Jeff. Snow Says ' If some of our real forehandy leg lslature chaps wants to git into the swim fer nomination fer United States senator, or eomethin' a way up. he can hltthe bullseye by Introducln' some kinder bill or amendment to make the next legislature cut , down expenses e per cent ever time they meet till fur ther orders. Any amendment raisin the limit now sot will have as much" chance of gittln by Vox Populy as the kaiser has of glttin 'lected president of France. The News in Paragraphs World Happenings Briefed for Benefit Of Journal Readers GENERAL John Franzen, -an employe of the As sociated Press for 82 years at Merlden, Conn., ia dead of influenza. The Masonlo temple and other prop erty were destroyed at Bloux -City, Iowa Sunday, with an estimated loss of $1,000,000. . Five thousand sailors were called out to combat the flames that destroyed the navai training station at Pelham Bay. N. Y.. Sunday. According to a late ruling, 400 Japa nese who enlisted in the United States army may apply for and obtain citizen ship in the United States. Several thousand citizens joined 1000 soldiers in a riot at Des Moines, Iowa, Sunday, when a traffic officer arrested a soldier for disorderly conduct. Memorial services were held In the senate Thursday for the late Senators Jacob H. Galllnger of New Hampshire and James H. Brady ot Idaho. Major General Morrison, at San Fran cisco, announces that returned soldiers may wear their trench caps and Other overseas equipment until discharged. Lieutenant E. .A. Elliott of Boston. Mass., died Sunday night from Injuries he received Saturday when the airplane he was driving fell at Lake Charles, La. Sergeant Walter B. Reel. Just re turned to Denver from France, where he was wounded three times, has been ar rested as an escaped prisoner from a Nebraska penitentiary. From 60,000 to 70,000 German helmets are being loaded on freight cars at Coblenz for shipment to . the United States to be used as prizes in connec tion with the next loan campaign. President and Mrs. Wilson have re ceived so many presents during their visit to Europe that a large quantity of them probably will have to be taken to Washington on an army transport. NORTHWEST NOTES. The people- Of Umatilla county are going to vote on a $500,000 road bond issue in March. W. E. Roche, about March 1. will be gin the erection of a fruit warehouse at' Yakima costing $10,000. ' Emmett F. Gallaahan, general super intendent of the Irondyke- Mine com pany, Is dead of influenza at Homestead, Or. Senator Chamberlain advises Portland parties that all restrictions on the im portation of lime . were removed Janu ary 1. A stock company with a capitalization of $75,000 is proposed at Chehalls for the rebuilding of the Gingrich furniture factory. 1 The epidemic situation in Pendleton is changing from influenza to smallpox, nine cases of the latter disease being reported. The Trout Lake Development associa tion "to promote the welfare of the Trout Lake community." has been or ganised at Guler, Wash. Colonel E. E. Kelly, former prosecut ing attorney for Jackson county, has returned from France and will reiunw his law practice in Medford. The city water company of White Salmon has provided a larger and? better water supply for the city and expects to furnish water for Irrigation of a por tion of the lower valley. Lieutenant Harold J. Warner, son of Mr. and Mrs. T. C. Warner of Portland, who has spent two years In army serv ice. I has returned and will resume the practice of law in Pendleton. ni nn In aarlafartnrv and profitable use in some of the schools in iwearora, m wmwi having assisted financially in the pur Chase of the necessary equipment. Rumors that the Oregon Agricultural college has been closed, ss well as the city schools of Corvallis. are false. The college is operating in air Us depart num. and there has been no interrup tion from any cause. FOREIGN". . i a . vtilont snMemle of smallpox haa broken out at Dresden. Great Britain, during tne war, smierea a loaa fli coal of approximately 185,000,- 000 tons. Kiev is n the hands of BOIshevl-t forces who have overturned the Ukrai nian government, . . jt .i.iImi In Vienna Val reached a severe crisis and bread rations have been oraereu aecreasea onm The Siberian army is nearlng a, June- a iaU V. A. .. a rsf Vie A fC 1 H flCr! government in the Arctic Plchors? dis trict. . v...i ha TTrenrh aviator. has won a prize of 25,000 francs for be ing the first airman to land on the roof of a house. The Bolshevtkl are rapidly retiring . . " . T-..1. ., KA nmm smith tit PetTO- grad. . Before giving up-Livonia they hot ZZ men ana ,wunreii. Captain James Norman nan or -'- . . An.v. if th. fimniia fSjr, sown, av n"i"" - - Lafayette Escadrllle who was supposed knied. has returned to France from a German prison. Soldier's Mother Buys W. S. S. With Keepsake Stories of achievement in the aorumnla ton of War Sains -Sumps sen to The Journal and accepted for publication will be awarded a Thrift Stamp. I John F. Schoeni, 1072 East Main Jstreet, writes : "One day father snowed me a $10 gold piece. X asked "where he got it, as gold money dur ing and since the war has been scarce. Father told me that a woman had bought two War Savings Stamps with It, and that there had been tears in her eyes as she made the purchase. She told father that gold piece was the last piece of money her son, now a soldier in France, bad given her. . But she was willing to sacrifice it for Uncle Sam." 191S Thrift Stamps and War Sav ings Stamps now on sale at usual agencies. -j
