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THE OREGON r DAILY JOURNAL. PORTLAND. -TUESDAY, JANUARY 21. 1919.
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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,
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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."
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"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." -
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"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