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America htm fnrnisbedt to tha world the
character of Washington, And . if our
American institution had dona 'nothing else,
that stone would entitle tliem to the re
spect of mankind. Daniel Webstar.
TO AMERICANIZE AMERICA
A bill at baicm would reestab
lish Washington's birthday as a
holiday in the public schools of
"Tha United States ?s acknowledged
to be possessed of absolute freedom
and independence, said Washington.
"If their citizens should not be com
pletely free and happy," he added,
"the fault will be entirely their own."
Such was his ideal freedom and
happiness for the people he had
struggled so hard and sacrificed so
much to make free. Freedom to live
out . their own lives in their own
way, liberty to; play a part in the
world's work unhampered by the
tyrannies 'and oppressions that had
always beset mankind, the right to
be governed only by their own con
sent and full freedom in the pursuit
of happiness, was the thought that
this 'great figure of the American
revolution cherished for his country
men, then and to come.
. Under wooden crosses in France
lies, a generation of Englishmen.
More than a generation of French
, men ' wrapped in the - tri-color, are
: asleep In the valleys of France. The
heroic dead of America, Italy and
the others lie amid the wild flowers,
the vines and the hills where liberty
has Just made her great stand for
survival.
These dead are mute . evidence of
the grand assault which the ever
living, never dying doctrine of force
and divine right recently made on
government of, for and by the peo
ple. The awful stillness of their
silence Is a tremendous warning of
the peril to which freedom must al
ways stand exposed.
, Freedom is so' sweet that we
thought it- unopposed. We dozed
and dreamed in our fancied but
false security. We even foolishly
flatter ourselves, now, after these
dead have made their sacrifice for
the cause, -that liberty is forever
safe. We continue to forget that the
struggle of the few to prey upon
.the many is as old as man himself
and that the" conflict between force
jand . freedom will go, on until the
mountains fall.
-The public schools are the nursery
of Ideals, fair and false. America
dry Is the fruit of a generation of
idealism, in the American public
schools. If we have been warned by
the late . attempt of. autocracy to
overrun the earth, then, as ' prudent
people we should begin the Ameri
canization of America. . The awful
sacrifices we have just made should
impel us to go into that nursery
where , the man and woman of the
future are moulded and fashioned,
and ' there, in the public schools,
hold up before the-children the ideals
of -America as George Washington
visioned them. """ .
.Except that transcendent figure
that walked In Galilee, there is no
nobler model for the schools than
our first president. Washington Is
of everlasting fame. There never
!was a more majestlo character. In
patience, wisdom and patriotism he
stands alone.
Until then history furnished no
counterpart to the scene when Wash
ington, resigning his commission to
congress, presented a carefully item
ized aooount of his personal expenses
during eight ""years of war- and re
fused to accept compensation of any
kind. for services that freed people
and " established a continental : re
public. ' ijf-- !-
HIs labors , were without 'price,
though his , service was priceless. He
asked no title, no diadem, no pre
ferment, no special . honor. All the
reward he sought Was his own Inner
consciousness that he had helped
establish for his countrymen the
principle that men are created equal
and 'entitled to life, liberty and the
pursuit of happiness. On this rests
Washington's Immortality. ' . ...
The bill at Salem ought to passwV
, The mm federal employment bu
reau is provIngeits usefulness. : Thus
through the intimate touch of the
central authority at Washington with
ants in every .state and .all large
cities, the exact status is constantly
known, and on January 12 the Wash
ington office reported a shortage of
labor throughout the South,' and a
surplus in these 12 states : Califor
nia, Colorado, Idaho, Illinois, Indi
ana', Iowa, Missouri. Montana, Ne
braska, North Dakota,. Oregon and
Utah.
HOLD YOUR BOND
DO YOU know the truth i about
your Liberty bond?
Have you noticed how many
': people are eager to buy your
bond? Have you noticed, the ad
vertlsements and ; heard of the per
sons who go to the industrial plants
bond huntng and seen, the offers
that come by mail proposing to ex
change oil stock or some other stock
for Liberty bonds? .
Have you thought what it means
when so many are eager to buy
your , bond, or to swap something
for it or by some means to get It
away from you? ..-
It means that your bond is not
a scrap of paper. It means that it
is as good as gold, better, in .fact.
than gold, because it is becoming
more and more valuable every. day.,
There could be no stronger proof , to
you that you should hold your bond
and get for yourself the value that
so many others are trying f o ' take
away from you.
Of the more than twenty million
people who bought Liberty bonds,
few ever saw a bond before. It is
because of that ignorance of the true
value of bonds by the many that the
Liberty bond sharks are. trying so
hard to get something for nothing.
The sharks know that the bonds
will soon be worth more in the mar
ket. They want that .Increase and
jan get it only by depriving you and.
your kind, of it. They count on your
ignorance of the true value of your
bond, and are hot after yoy, expect
ing that in your ignorance they will
be able to cheat you. They want
to suck profit out of the sacrifice
you made when in your patriotism
you were helping your country fight
the war through to victory.
Hold, your bond.. It is the best
material possession you have. In
the increased value and increased
purchasing power it .will take on, it
will return you a bigger profit than
any other investment you have. If
you are compelled, through financial
pinch, to get money on your bond,
inquire at Liberty loan headquarters,
or consult your banker if you have
one, pr go to some legitimate broker
whom you know or whom some
friend will tell you about. In any
event, do not sacrifice the best thing
of material value you ever had or
ever will have to some Liberty bond
shark.
The senate bill to make Washing
ton's birth&yy holiday in the pub
lio schbolSjpf Oregon Is ' presented
by the 'laughters " of the "American
RevolUto pf. whSch there are 11
chapters in' the stat.. As an organ
ization, they are trying-, to keep alive
the beacon .fires of liberty t lighted
on the New England hills in 1776.
After what we - have just passed
through, howcan any member of the
legislature oppose their bill?
PROBLEMS OVER THERE
IN MANY a way "there --has been
a most delicate situation for
America in the negotiations at
Paris.
Here is a case: During the war,
America, by great exertion, by con
servation and by stimulated produc
tion, has amassed surplus food andH
other commodities. This surplus was
still below the demands of the
allies. '
The armistice' suddenly freed much
shipping for voyages to distant ports
like Australia, from which supplies
were not to be had during the war
on account of the shortage of ton
nage. The sending of ships to those
ports left America an over-supply
of commodities, with her warehouses
congested, terminals crowded 1 and
docks piled up.
. There was a further factor: The
blockade- of central - ports which re
mained effective after the armistice,
prevented the Amerian surplus from
going in quantities to neutral coun
tries and newly liberated peoples. It
was a situation very detrimental to
America.
For weeks American - representa
tives have been earnestly arguing
for modiication of the blockade, says
David Lawrence In the New York
Evening Post. He says :
It is difficult to explain all the Influ
ences Involved in this delicate situation
President Wilson, Herbert Hoover and
Colonel House have been much con
cerned with the prospect. They knew
that an excellent chance to absorb United
States production would be offered if
neutrals adjacent to Germany were
permitted to receive food from America
for the next two or three months. Sud
den decrease in orders from the allies
for American foodstuffs while no other
outlet Is available, has been disquieting
to American representatives.
After weeks of delicate negotiation.
President Wilson's view relative to
the gradual lifting of the blockade
has been accepted by the allies. 'Tha
effect will be to permit Americaii
surplus products to go Into neutral
countries as well as to newly lib
erated peoples, and at the same lims
liberate American products for a
freer flow over the Atlantic.
The agreement to use 2,000,000
tons of German shipping for; carry
ing food and other ': products from
America; is the first fruit of this
successful ; negotiation, r; Another ; will
be more ships for bringing V largely
increased number of .American sol
diers home. ' " h," ' -
There is a great deal which, by
his rj-Snce at tba scene pf-nego-
' , - - V "
tlation, President Wilson Is able
to, do. that could not have been ac
complished 'otherwise. i '.-J . -
After all, a burglar is not to be
criticized for throwing up his hands
In the presence of a woman ' with a
revolver? He knows" first that the
gun mights go off, and second, she
is liable to shoot, and third, that It
is better to be a live captive than
a dead burglar. Nor ' does , his : sur
render in the least dim the fame of
Mrs. Etta Farrow, whose apartment
house burglars will hereafter be skit
tish about entering. . .
NEITHER HOT NOR COLD
MERSON says of Montaigne that
E
he has been more read and
better: liked by men of practical
mind that any other author.
Perhaps our New England philos
opher would have hit nearer the
fact if he had linked Montaigne and
Horace together in this Judgment, for
both of them are very dear to read
ers who seek the middle way be
tween : wrangling fanatics.
Both the French essayist and the
Roman poet were Laodiceans neither
hot, nor cold. Horace lived in an
age of reaction The Romans '' had
tired themselves out with fighting
one another, and had finally settled
down to peaceful Indifference under
the despotism of Augustus Caesar,
"What's the- use?" was the watch
word of the age. "For the last
hundred years we have been busy
killing one another and what has
come of it? Nothing but more kill
ing. Let us take a rest and get
what we can out of life,"
This feeling is the backbone of
Horace's poetry. The "Gospel Hymn'
Interprets him pretty well In the
line, "Let us gather up the sunbeams
lying-all along our path.
He himself condensed his phil
osophy in the magio formula "Carpe
Diem," which Emerson translates.
"Seize the day and make the most of
it for it will never come back again.'
After every period of fanatic fights
ing comes an Augustan Age of re
action when everybody forgets what
the battle 'was about, and thinks
only of sucking the honey as he
plucks the flowers of ilfe." It was
easy for Horace to be a Laodicean
neither hot nor cold, because that
was the spirit of his time. It must
have been hard for Montaigne, be
cause he lived, not at the end of
a period of contention, but at the
beginning of the fiercest the world
has ever seen.
The year of his birth, 1533, came
only a little while after Luther
posted Bis Theses on the church
door at Wittenberg and opened the
tragedy of the reformation. His
adult life coincided with the wars
of. the Huguenots, which divided and
ruined France for a whole half cen
tury. But Montaigne contrived by
somewonderful magio to be friends
with' both sides. :
The Guises and Catherine de Medici,
the Catholio leaders, all liked him.
When he was thrown into the Bas-
tile on one of his rare visits to
Paris they intervened and saved his
life. Henry IV, the Protestant hero,
liked him just as well, and went out
of his way to visit Montaigne tw'ce
at his little chateau not far from
Bordeaux. The Bordelaise also liked
him and showed it by electing him
mayor of their city for two terms
King Henry's friendliness to Mon
taigne is not astonishing. He was
Laodicean himself neither hot
nor cold. And Catherine de Medici
was a politician of the Machiavellian
type, who had too much sense to
be a fanatic at heart. She put - on
a cloak of fanaticism in order to
make tools of those who.- were in
earnest, like our own profiteering
patriots. -The tricks of that trade
are very old.
Neither side saw any danger in
Montaigne. He was not a "menace"
because he kept his ideas to himself.
or only talked-, them ,to people of
intelligence, who let them go no
farther; It is only " the- mob and
the mobocrats wb. hate the Laodi
cean. So long as he; keeps within
the rather . narrow,, pale of intelli
gent people he is fairly safe.
When Montaigne was 48 years old
he left his -countrymen to fight
among themselves over religion as
much as they ""pleased and retired
to his chateau, where he built him
self a tower for. a sudy and spent
the mt .o.,'lIls--'yeara,writJtpg essays.
Thoseessays.!' like- Horace's ' poetry
and the "Meditations of the .Emperor
Marcus Aurelius." .are textbooks of
the Laodicean philosophy, which can
be summed up in a few simple pre
cepts. -Here is an instance:
Men are hopeless fools. They do not
know, how to be happy and they never
will learn how. No sooner do they make
a little progress toward common sense
and comfort, than they 'go- crazy and
destroy It It is useless to try to
teach them anything;. ' It is useless to
try to do anything: for them. The only
course for a rational man;la to keep
out of the. blood-and filth fa well as
he can, seize the day ' as it roea by;
and amuse, himself with his pen or
some other hobby. , -
The. Laodicean is always a man
or v woman,-of .moderate opinions.
Half docs not lafflrni great deaL
Heisstowo denytT He keeps; an
open -mind, . always ready ' to wel
come" truth and give due weight
to evidence-; as-" it may turn up. The
world's - greatest ' statesmen have
been of the ' Laodicean type. The
Emperor . Augustus himself was one,
which explains why he was1 so fond
V The chieT work of Augustus during
his. longr reign was "to reconcile the
old Roman factions,! the reactionaries
whom Brutus had led and the Lib
erals, who . bad -followed" Julius
Caesar. Under his beneficent tyranny J
they- forgot t&eir, points ;of. differ-1
ence and t thoroughly enjoyed them
selves as' " slaves, together. Queen
Elizabeth of England was - another
Laodicean. She 'never was more of
a fanatic -than the fanatics .who tore
at ' each other's eyes around - her
obliged .her to be. It was her in
difference ' to ; their - quarrels :thtt
enabled her to see her course clearly
and steer the ship of state safely
into harbor.- Wr".
The 'long line, of English states
men have been notable for their cool
indifference to superstition of all
sorts. Elizabeth had her Cecil, whose
brain stuclc Implacably to' the main
point of the game, never missing a
trick, because of preference ; ,or
prejudice, v
The statesmen of 1688, who framed
the British constitution upon the
theories of John Locke, were Laodi
ceans, cool, keen unexcited, thor
oughly informed. They builded well,
for the constitution they made, or
remade, has .lasted to this day, . ever
growing stronger. No supreme court
has dared to wreck it by interpreta
tion. Our revolutionary fathers were
also of the Laodicean type, students
of the French pre-revolutionary
authors and indifferent to supersti
tion. .
Benjamin Franklin, with his ex
quisite love of literature and science
and . his eye keen for the "main
chance, was the perfect type which
they; all resembled. Washington's
common r sense was as amazing as
his integrity. He was devoted to
the cause of the colonies, not for
abstract reasons, but because he
saw the practical advantages of in
dependence. Had h not cooJIyad
judged those advantages worth fight
ing for he would have kept out of
the trouble if he could.
Lincoln was another Laodicean,
who never permitted fanaticism to
blur his mind. Surrounded with
blazing zealots he remembered con
stantly the wise principles of mod
eration. Always ready to conciii
ate,, always merciful, always with
his faee to the future, still, like
Washington, Cecil and Augustus, he
held to his purpose inflexibly because
he understood its advantages. A
wise Frenchman said of the Bon Dieun
that "He forgives all because he
understands all." Lincoln was like
the Bon Dieu in that particular and
some others. The race of the Laodi
ceans is ancient. Socrates is the
first of them whom history re
members, but there must have been
many nefore him. The world has
been a slaughter house age after age
in spite of them. What would it
have been without them?
War or rumors of war in Portugal,
in Russia, in Germany, In Poland
and otherwhere give us glimpse of
the need of a . league of nations
Happily, the Paris conference .yes
terday began discussions of the plan.
History 1jl waiting1, to wrfte the great
story of mankind set free from the
turmoil,; agon and sacrifice of re
current-wars. Until.- recently we of
America have lived in little appre
hension of conflict. But over there
peoples and governments have been
under constant dread and amid con
stant sacrifices to be prepared. Yet
America' seems to have supplied the
mind and the man for pacifying and
harmonizing the nations through an
organized league.
HUMAN WASTE
OME years ago C. B. Smith, was
W sentenced to the penitentiary
ll for passing a worthless check
at Eugene. He has been re
siding, there ever since, except for
an interval when he was out on
a parole which he violated so that
he had to be locked up again.
v - 1
It is-now announced thai Smith
has invented an improvement for
auto-trucks which may be valuable.
Even in prison, where the environ
ment is not stimulative to the mental
faculties, his brain 'has been at work.
perhaps to the profit of the-world.
The question forces itself upon one
what kind of a man Smith would
have been had his career been
started differently. Suppose a com
petent vocational leader had studied
him as a child and noted his in
ventive gift. Suppose there had been
schools accessible where a child with
the inventor's mentality could have
been put in training to develop his
talent.
And', suppose that, after Smith
had been-thus trained, he. had been
provided with an opportunity to
demonstrate what he was capable
of. .Would' the - world have been
the gainer or loser? Smith's procliv
ity for passing worthless checks
showed perverted ingenuity, perhaps,
rather than hopeless depravity. His
mind hungered for tasks .upon which
it might exercise its Innate powers
and not finding anylegltlmate ones
it turned to the Illegitimate.
It is not .agreeable ; to contemplate
the wealth of undeveloped and un
used, human capacity which . is per
mitted to gbt to waste or to' run in
'harmf ul- channels. , . The , world Is
prodigal . of " Its. human T as it Is of
its inanhnate : resources; jyhtlt . we
permit "nuaterpowers-io"?lie nse-
less and pay. exorbitant prices for
fuel, and light we can hardly be ex
pected to care much for the latent
capacities; in the brain of a school
boy. : . , J' .
It is characteristic of the savage
to feast when he' has plenty and
starve : when be has nothing, with no
thought of providng for the future.
Civilized man has risen past that
kind of Improvidence, but when it
comes to husbanding, his human and
inanimate .resources for- his own
benefit man. stands , today about
where his ancestors stood a million
years ago. -
Letters From the People j
(Coflunonleatioaa sent to The Journal far pab
Scatioa in Uiia department ahoold be written on
only ana aide of the paper, afceuld not exceed 100
words in lenath and must ba eicned br tba writer,
waoee wnU add rate is foil must aoeompaay the
eonvipution. . .
The Two-thirds Vote Question
Portland. Jan. 22. To the Editor of
The Journal In view of too discussion
i n the very recent past reg-ardinaT - the
validity ef the constitutional amendment
prohibiting the liquor traffic, submitted
to the states by congress and which has
been ratified by more than the requisite
number of states, I am sure the decision
of th United States supreme court II n
the case of the Missouri ; Pacific Rail
way company vs. the' State of Kansas,
handed down January. 7. HI,, will be
interesting and instructive. ' j
The claim has been made by those
opposed to tha constitutional amend
ment referred to that it was Invalid be
cause It did not . receive a two-thirds
vote of all the members-elect of both
houses of congress. The case depended
upon the validity of the Webb-Kenydn
law, which was passed toy congress over
the veto of President Taf t. The . vote
by which it' was so passed was two
thirds of a majority, but not two-thirds
of all the members-elect of both houses.
Chief Justice White delivered the opinion
of the court and In the course of his
remarks decides that two-thirds of both
houses means two-thirds of a quojum
present and doing business, and not two
thirds of all the members-elect. He says :
"The identity between the provision of
article 5 of the constitution, giving the
power by a. two-thirds vote to submit
amendments and -the requirements we
are considering as to the two-thirds vote
necessary to override a veto, makes the
practice as to the one applicable to the
other. At the first session of the first
cona-ress In 1719 a consideration of the
provision authorising the submission of
amendments necessarily arose in the
submission by congress of the first 10
amendments to the constitution embody
ing a bill of rights. They were all
adopted and submitted by each house
organized as a legislative body pursuant
to the constitution, by less than the vote
which would have been necessary had
the constitutional . provision been given
the significance now attributed to it." j
Indeed.1 In the case of the submission
ef the first 10 amendments it was done
by a two-thirds vote of a quorum and
not by a two-thirds vote of all the members-elect
of both houses of congress.
Chief Justice White further on says ;
"The construction which was thus giver
to the constitution in dealing with a mat
ter of such vast importance, and which
was necessarily sanctioned by the states,
and aU the people, has governed as to
every amendment to the constitution
submitted from that day to this." .
The case clearly holds that two-thirds
of both houses means two-thirds of a
quorum and not two-thirds of all the
members-elect. This being true con
cerning the provision regarding the
adoption of a bill over the veto of the
president, it necessarily follows that the
same language used. In the submission
of constitutional amendments must be
given the same construction. If the con
tention of those opposed to the prohibi
tion amendment is correct, then no
amendment to the constitution has been
legally adopted, as every one of them,
as is shown.by Justice White's opinion,
has Seen submitted by a two-thirds vote
of a quorum, and not two-thirds of all
the members-eject.
I think that this new agitation can
safely be tout down as a bit of propa
ganda on the part of those opposed; to
national prohibtion, rather than as an
honest attemnt to criticise the action
of con cress. -EDWIN RAWTXEN,
Sunt. Oregon Anti-Saloon League
On Influenza Prevention
Portland. Jan. 22. To the Editor!
The Journal Will you kindly give space
in vmir arreat and always fair paper,
for a few thoughts, which no one iia"
compelled to take with inordinate or
undue seriousness. I simply wish to
Challenge attention. So-called Spanish
influenza Is one of the big things up
sermost in the public mind at present.
Influenza is prevalent and is the cause
of suffering, but the prenx "spanisn
is the cause of the epidemic It is I
new name for an old. old disease. In
fluenza, Spanish or otherwise, is in the
becrinninr simply a severe cold. This
eamrjaien against the influenza Is a cru
sade of fright ; and is not altogether an
unmixed benefit.
Fear Is a mental condition, of much
greater consequence - than . the medical
profession will admit. Fear is more
powerful as well as more rapid in its
work of destruction than any drug
known to medicine. I have had in my
practice at least two deaths from shock
caused by a sudden fright. They were
both instantaneous and there was not
anv Dosslble chance .for doubt.
This. cra8a4e fills. the Jay mind with
mortal tt&Pr--teW nwxing a cure
doubly difficult. "-TWMUJintom of fear,
when it becomes fijied, becomes a real
entity and has a Wotopowerful ma
lign Influence. Personally, 1 have no
more fear of Spanish Influenza, germs
than I have of catching the measles
from the man In the moon.
When doctors disagree, what are the
sick to do? Hark! I wjjl give you a
hint: Heat is the natural antagonist of
cold. At the first appearance of the
first symptoms, tmake a Judicious appli
cation of heat: reverse the machinery
of life which has gone wrong as a re
sult of the systemic shock caused by
the more or less severe ghiil. Continue
the perspiring process until all pain Is
relieved and soreness all gone. 1
In conclusion, -time , is most import
ant. You must not hesitate. If stasis
and stagnation Is allowed to take , place
and congestion has become a fixed and
real condition, a speedy. , restoration
cannot be expected, if Indeed a, cure Is
at all possible. '. .
The secret of cure is counteraction In
the initiative. Put no. confidence is
serums ; they- are at best just, a guess.
Just a speculation, . only prospective.
Truth is simple, but unpopular.
WILXJAM FRANKLIN PKUDEN.
Judicial Presumptaousness
Portland, Jan. J80.-r-To the Editor of
The Journal The Journal January
stated that the American Bar associa
tion severely criticised the military ad
ministration of justice. The instances
of maladministration fully justify the
statement that the workings of courts-
martial were at times "unworthy of the
name of Justice and law." 4 The same
must be said of some court findings with
regard to alleged violations of the pro
hlbltlon laws and other laws. At times
(Ires Imposed are exorbitant and pun
ishments unreasonably severe. There
are laws that have been drawn-loosely.
leaving too much to the discretion, or
Indiscretion, of the judge. The bone
dry law is tan-American. The object of
government roust be to protect the law4
abiding citlson in the enjoyment of life,
liberty and property. To Interfere with
the self-determination of well meaning
citizens by any- state authorities, but
especially Jjy the judicial, breeds bolshe-i
wism. The fathers of this republic rec
ognized this fact and took the supreme
court out of politics. . . C COLE.
With the President ; : -Harrisburg,
Jan.. SO. To the . Editor
of' The Journal I have believed "all
along that the sentiment of the general
public was with the president, on his
peace mission, despite the - fact that
speeches,- editorials - and cablegrams
have been used against, him. The fol
lowing excerpt from, a . letter which I
THE FIRP OF
By Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
WE sat within the farm-house old
Whose windows, looking o'er the bay, :
Gave to the sea-breeze, damp and cold,
- An easy entrance, night and day.
We sat and talked until the nlfht, ,
Descending, filled the little room:
Our faces faded from the sight,
v Our voices only broke the gloom.
"The very.tbnes in-which we spake' N.
Had something strange, I could but mark;
The leaves of memory seemed to make
A mournful rustlfng in the dark.
- - - v - ;
Oft died the words upon our lips. ' k
As suddenly, from out the fire
Built of the wreck of strjuided ships,
. The flames would leap and then expire.
And, as their splendor flashed. and failed.
We thought of wrecks upon the main... ,
Of ships dismasted, that were hailed i
And sent no answer back again.
The windows, rattling in their frames.
The ocean, roaring up the beach.
The. gusty, blast,, the bickering flames, -AU
mingled vaguely in our. speech;
Until they made themselves a. part -
Of fancies floating through, the brain.
The long-lost ventures of the heart, ' i
That send no answers back again.-
O flames that glowed! O hearts that yearned!. :
They were indeed too much akin.
The drift-wood fire without that burned.
The thoughts that burned and glowed within.
JOURNAL MAN AT HOME
By Fred Lockley
(That ft is not only food and. plesaant for
brethren to dwell toaether ia unity, put that the
time baa come when it ia absolutely neceasery lor
them ao to do. and to work in that way. beeidea,
is the proposition which Mr. Lockley acta m in
his article for tba day. lie sustains his conten
tion with a citation from Ufa, on a workins scale,
and doesn't so thousand mile from Portland
for his ease in point, either. 1-
On a recent Sunday night I spoke at
the opera house at Camas and thereby
hangs a tale. Camas - has done some
unusual and noteworthy things during
the past two years. To begin with.
Camas, with its suburbs. Oak Point and
Forest Home-, does not have a popula
tion to exceed 3000, and yet on the serv
ice flag of this little community there
are ,240 stars. This, of course. Is par
tially explained when It is understood
that the Crown-Willamette paper mill,
employing about 100 men, Is the dom
inant industry of the community, and
that many of the stars on Camas' serv
ice flag represent workers in the mill.
Camas is setting the pace In more
ways than along the line of war work
and patriotic endeavor,. The Kev.
M. G. Everett, , who presided at
the meeting where I - spoke, teld
me some most interesting things
about Camas. Mr. Kverett hails from
Tennessee, is 33 years old. Is full of en
thusiasm Chd energy and Is helping to
make the eWorld a better place to live In.
"How does It happen.' I asked, "that
you are. holding services in the opera
house? r
"Like all small communities, we have
too many churdnes," he said. "The Bap
tists, Methodists. Presbyterians and
Christians have churches here and each
tries -to support a minister, A priest
comes from Vancouver to conduct serv
ices in the Catholic church, and occaj
atonal services are held . in the- Gferrnan
nitheran chofch. We are so; split up
nto ' small and ' ineffective groups that
no one church is strong enough to put
oh an aggressive program to challenge
the attention of men who are doing
things In the Industrial world.
. ' a
, "When I trame. here a year ago last
April as pastor of the Presbyterian
church. X realized that we were not get
ting anywhere along the lines of real
service to the community. I realized
that in .place of having two. sermons
each from five pulpits here each Sun
day to mere handfuls of people who
represented probably less than 10 per
cent of our population, it would be bet
ter to have all the people hear some vital
message delivered by one - man. . The
day for the preaching of creed,- doc
trine and dogma has, gone by. Such
preaching leads only to-dry rot, decay
and spiritual death. - The Ideal arrange
ment .for a community eg the- size of
Camas is to have a large central build
ing, well equipped, with a strong preacher
selected by a committee who represent
the various religious and humanitarian
elements of the community. He should
have two helpers a young man to spe
cialize in service to men along spiritual,
mental and physical lines, a young fel
low who 'can act; as umpire at a ball
game or judge at a field meet, a good
mixer and a woman to visit the women
in their homcsanoT help them with all
their problems. The money paid to the
five preachers in this town and toward
the support of the five churches could
put a community program of this Icind
across. Our church Is ready for such
a -program. Why should not the young
people work harmoniously In such a
community service T They work together
without friction or religious animosity
In high school. Why not In religious
community, work T
- "When T first "proposed a union serv
ice a good many shook their heads and
said It would never work ; that, first of
all. the people wouldn't come, and sec
ondly, we couldn't raise money to finance '
celved . from a traveling salesman of
Portland, and who" was not a supporter
of Woodrow Wilson at the last presi
dential election, proves to my satisfac
tion that I am right. His letter In part
reads thus s .
Tou.eui be proud of the day you
boosted for Woodrow Wilson, back In
1912. i He win go down In history ss
ona of the greatest of Americans. It
is a shame that sncn men as Penrose,
Lodge and Knox "should create the im
pression In Europe that there Is dis
sension In the ranks of the American
neonle. X have -aueationed railroad men.
uiiifisra. rn taj. oeoola in all walks and
ranks. It Is simply astonishing how
everyone is'so staunchly .for him.
14 ooints is the rock on wntcn peace
has got to rest, or all of Europe will
plunge Into Bolshevism worse than Rus
sia's. , It was "fot lor -the American peo
ple that he went to .Europe, but for the
small nations damorisg for self-
determination, who would undoubtedly
bo disregarded unless they had a power
ful champion. ' T. J. Jr
Llebkneeht -and the i War Lords
St Johns, Jan. 22. To the Editor of
Thef- Journal Until the armistice was
signed Liebknecht was the herb of Ger
many. He was ana always-nia vesD
bitterly opposed to the autocraue rtue
af Germany and was counted on as the
man who could cause a revolution. Why
did opinion change . so suddenly' abotlt
this msnT ' Hjndenburg, according to
our ' press, - controls the . army, that Is
righting the reds,- as they. are called in
Germany, and in Tne jour-nan iaai nigm
we read that General Ludendorff, the
German chief of staff and military 41-
re-'rector, is organizing a campaign against
DRIFTWOOD
the plan. Last April we leased the
opera house for each Suffday night for
a year. The trustees of our church as
sumed all financial responsibility, but
oar collections and contributions have
taken care of all expenses and SB per
cent of the money we have spent has
come from people who do not contribute
to any regular church. At the first serv
ice we held in the opera house we care
fully checked all who-came in and found
that more than 300 men attended who
never went to church. They felt less
constraint In coming to the opera house
than, in going to church. We are reach
ing a class that never goes to church
and we are getting our financial sup
port from, those, who .have never con-
iriDutea to reugious organisations, oaaiy
enough, we have never made a single
plea for money. The money flows in. As
an example, we took up a collection one
Sunday night and1 1 found S228 in, the
plates. ..
"The church has not been on the job
to meet the real need of the. people, and
it is time we got on- the- job if we hope
to -survive. . We have been long on piety
but short on service. It is 'Hitne we
linked up the piety of the church with
the humanitarian interests of the com
munlty. emphasising religion, education
and patriotism.
. "Who are our preachers? Men like
yourself: anyone who has a messase
army officers, physicians, business men
men like Harry Stone and Dr. W.
Kerr : professors from Reed college or
the Washington State university, and
'ministers who are real men with a real
purpose to lift and help.
;Let me give. you one example of the
type T of sermons preached here: Last
April health conditions -were bad In
.Camas. We were having epidemics, while
neighboring communities were Immune
from them. Rev. Mark Noble, pastor of
the Baptist church, who. In spite of his
S4 years. Is one of the youngest . and
most useful men In Camas, with myself
and others, took up the matter with the
military authorities, for wo are in the
military health zone of Vancouver. The
federal authorities sent a , nurse here.
who spent three weeks investigating con
ditions. Dr. Garrett, state Inspector of
dairy products, with Dr. Chalmers, coun
ty health officer, and an army officer
from Vancouver, came to Camas and took
the matter np with our Civic club and
with the Commercial club. These three
officials spent a day or so visiting dairy
bams and back yards, looking up sewer
age and sanitary conditions. They took
dozens of photographs and had slides
made from them.. 'Our text for the next
Sunday evening at the opera house was
The Gospel of Good Health and Effi
ciency." These three men were the
speakers. As the talks were made the
slides wjre thrown on the screen. When
the people in the audience saw the pic
tares of their own dirty back yards they
were surprised and In some cases very
indignant. When they saw . the filthy
conditions of some of the dairy barns
from which they were buying their milk
they were amazed and angry. Tou
never saw such an epidemic of cleaning
up in your life as took place' during the
next -few days. A committee was ap
pointed to make a complete survey of
the town. A good many unsanitary
shacks owned by Pittock at Lead batter,
who own a large part of the town. were
condemned and torn down. Modem toi
lets replaced the disease breeding type
we had suffered to exist. Dairy barns
were, cleaned up. , Epidemic conditions
ceased to exist.
"The sectarian church that falls to
get into step with the needs of man
kind will die. It has no right to ask
the public to contribute toward its sup
port. We must practise Christian
methods as well as preach, them.
the Russian Bolshevik. When did
these two autocrats decide to espouse
the cause of the worklngman? The
American people are not satisfied with
the European situation,- and this is one
of them. The soldiers that killed Lieb
knecht and his followers were . called
loyal troops. Who were they .loyal to?
Surely not to the people that caused the
revolution and helped to overthrow the
autocracy in Europe? Also, please tell
me by whose orders are Hlndenburg and
Ludendorff commanding armies, and
what for? 1. M. HOLCOMB.
Socialist and Christian "
alia Walla, Jan. 24. To the Editor
of The ' Journal Patrick 0Halloran
saya. There is perfect harmony between
Socialism . and aU religions, including
Christianity." If such is a fact, wby
do i Cardinal Gibbons and all of the
Roman Catholio press oppose Socialism?
While I am not s Socialist Z know a
few of them probably SO and not one
is a Christian : in fact they talk against
the church early and lsrte.
A. JOHNSOV.
The Fund for Mrs. Roosevelt
Bandon, Jan. 1. To the Editor of
The Journal I read In Tuesday's Jour
nal that a bill had been introduced by
Senator Smoot of Utah to give Mrs.
Edith Roosevelt $5000 a year and ' free
use ' of the malls. Now while we are
giving, let us give the mothers of all
soldiers killed .or crippled for life In
France fSOOO a year and free use of the
mails as long as they live. It wouldn't
begin to pay them, and X think they are
just as good as Mrs. Roosevelt ; perhaps
a little more deserving of charity.
1 . - CONSTANT READER.
Ragtag and Bobtail
Stories From Everywhere
Who Wouldn't Be Happy 1
I JH WELL, sah, Ah's ba5k rum
wanderin' all ovuh de face o' crea
tlon, said Brother Shook, (quoted In the
Kansas City Star). wo had been absent
for some time. "When mah yallah wife
run off wld dat gamblln' man Ah quit
home, and Ah's been on de gad evuh
Jnce. ,
"Did yo kotch up wid 'emT' asked
Brother Bobshy.
"Did I kotch up Wld 'em? Man. -dey
kept kotchln'- up wid me, de best I could
do. When dat scoun'el stole mah wife
Ah left so's Ah wouldn't be yuh when he
brung huh back. And. bless goodness,
everywhuhs Ah went dah dey. was. twell ,
It got to be like a bad dream. But dt
whlte folks finally slapped de gamblln
man in jail and mah wife's fust husband
come along and she tuck up wld him.
And Ah comes smllln' home to peace and
happiness." .
VaHllation
. This weather is a cruel thing. -As
heartiest as a Nero, ' '
Today it ralle like senile spring, -Tomorrow
drops to aero,
-Boston Transcript.
Uncle Jeff Snow Says:
The way our big politicians Is peerin'
'round fer a presidential candidate kinder
looks like they'd fell down on gluln'
Pershing to lead the elephant back to the
White House. When about a million
more boys gits back from France and
our home tralnin' camps mebby they'll
tell the bid timers of both parties Where's,
a good place to git off at -
, The News in Paragraphs
World Happenings Briefed for Benent
. Of Jourrfkl Readers
GENERAL
Representative Hawley is confined tor5
his home in Washington on account of
illness. -
Work on 22 buildings at Fort Whipple,
Aria, has been ordered suspended by
General March. ' . .
William O. Sharp, ambassador- to
France, sailed from New York to that
country Friday. .
Several hundred recruits of the Polish
army sailed from New York Friday on
the steamer Leviathan.
Most of the work of the food adminis
tration as such is expected -to be com
pleted within the next month. .
The Dominion of Canada has decided
that all enemy interned prisoners shall
be deported with the least possible delay.
The steamer Empress of Asia, after an
8000-mile trip from- Liverpool, landed
1871 Canadian soldiers at Victoria Fri
day, --j
' The greater portion of her 1400.000 es
tate was left by Miss Mary Bums, lx
Angeles avlatrix, to be used in fighting
tuberculosis. . '
Johns Hopkins university is be
queathed S200.000 In the will of Kugen.i
G. Mergenthaler, son of the Inventor of
the linotype machine.
A goverrrment ' brief was filed In the
supreme court at Washington Friday up
holding the action of the lower court in
the case of Eugene V. Debs.
'The Texas legislature has voted to
amend the constitution of Texas so as to -put
women voters under the same re
strictions, as applied to men.
The British "Who's Who" of the 1919"
issue lists the commander of the Ameri
can forces ttn France as "General air ,
John Joseph Pershing, G. C. B."
Repeal of sections of the shipping act
so as to permit the building of ships in
American yards for foreign account Is
proposed in a bill just introduced in the -senate.
Three American mlneewner of Chi
f-huahua were captured, by Villa a few
oays ago ami released alter ne nna given
them a lecture on better pay and shorter
hours for employes.
."" NORTHWEST NOTES .
-5 Sumnter Valley railroad, employes de
clare the strike is not yet ended.
Pacific college will resume work Mon
day, the Influenza ban being lifted on
that day.
The citizens of Selah, In Clackamas
county, are petitioning to have their
town incorporated. -
The Fischer flouring mills at Rllver
ton received an order from the govern
ment Friday for 2500 barrels of flour.
One veasel from the Pacific fleet Is to
be- assigned to Alaska waters to patrol
the northern coast and assist wrecked
vessels. . ,
' The Northwest Parliament of Chris--tlan
Ministers closed at Yakima Katur
day. The Dalles was chosen as the place
of meeting, next year.
Increased telephone rates In Washing
ton, asked by Postmaster General Burle
son, were again suspended Saturday by
the public service commission.
Three of the most prominent women"
of McMlnnvllle Mrs. K. J. Pratt, Mr.
S. E. Cummins and Misis- Grace New
ell died from Influenza tills week.
The Washington legislature has pause,!
a bill requiring one year's course In
American history and government as a
condition of graduation ' from high
school. : , .
John Flynn Of Baker has received no
tification that his brother, Qutncy Klynn.'
was killed in action In October. He la
the fourth of Baker county soldiers, who
went away on the same troop train, to
die.
FOREIGN
The Omsk government, headed by
Admiral Kolchak. Is rapidly tncreaainjf
Its authority both east ana west of
Omsk., - ;
Ra strained are the relations between
the Csecho-Slovaks and the Poles that
a state of war may be declared at any
moment
J. J. - Hoff. Paris representative of
the Standard Oil company, has been ap
pointed, a- If night of the Legion of
Honor.' . '
The rallied shiDning and food com
mittees have- decided to furnish 270,000
tons of foodstuffs to tne starving people
of Germany.
The body of Rosa Luxemburg, tl.e
Spartacan leader -who was killed by a
mob. was found Friday in the Lund-
wehr canaL ,
The influenza epidemic, which cauned
more than 8000 death among the na
tives of the Samoan islands, has about .
subsided. ,
The Brltlshair service at the cloxe
of the war was the largest In the world.
She had - 21.000 planes, 1300. aeaplaneu
and 103 airships..
The Australian government shas sanc
tioned the formation of a company to
survey an aerial route between Au ,
trails and the Far Ease.
.When Stamps Cost Less;
? Buy More W. S.S
' Stories of achievement In tha aeeumn'a
tlon of War tterinta Stamps sent te 1 he
Journal and acceptable fer publication wui
be awarded a Thrift Stamp.)
Here's a lltue tip. -
It isn't very often we let good news
out so far In advance, but here goes
just this once.
The U. -S. A. Is going to get back
to tba old - two-cent for one-ounce
letter postage schedule on July 1.
On and after that date it will again
cost' but 1 cent to send a poml
card. '
. Here's the W. 8 8. feature of it:
Prepare to Invest your postage stamp
savings in War Savings Stamps. In
the couse of a year the average fam
ily's postage bill amounts to several
dollars. The saving when we get
back to the old rates will be con
slderatle. Invest this savings with
Uncle Sam. -
Thrift Stamps and 1510 War Sav
ings Stamps now on sale at usual
agencies.
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