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THE OREGON : DAILY JOURNAU PORTLAND, TUESDAY; JANUARY ,23, 1919. A. A.W nlRPK?DENT NEWSPAPER : , O. S. JACKSON , . . Publisher ' lubUhd erery dy, afternoon mud morning - mm Kniulit afternoon . at Tbe Journal Uuuq- . ing. Broadway and Yamhilt street. Portland, Kntered at the Postnffice at Portland, Oregon, lor tranamimion through the mall aa second class matter. . . TELEPHONES Main 7173: Home. A-6051. AU dnpartmrruU reached by these number. Tall the-operator what department yon want. FOREIGN ADVERTISING REPRESENTATIVE Benjamin Kantnor i'.. Brunswick Bonding. 22 Fifth itiq!, Jiew Yort; BOO Mailer Building. Chicago. Subscription terms by mail in Oregon and Washington-: - DAILY (MORXIXG OK AFTERSOOS) On year...,..5.00 I One Month .50 SUNDAY Ona year 62.50 One month .25 DAILY (MORNING OR AFTERNOON) AND SUNDAY . . . One year. . . . ..t7.0 ) Ona mrmth.. ...a .eft ; W are not -at bottom - either all good or all bad, but we all appear worse in ru action than in our liarw. Katfuet. BEHOLD THE MESS! T HAT "many tons of exports have m l .. virwA H f ij (inn ' ' as a result of congestion in Puget Sound terminals, is the '. declaration of a Seattle news dis- . patch to the Philadelphia Public . Ledger. A- sp.ecial representative of the-war trade board has been at Seattle try ing to straighten out the tangle re sulting from the congestion of loaded cars which have stood to the nurn ier -' of nearly 6000 in Puget Sound ' -yards for months. He has been sup plied "With lists of freight awaiting. - permits-for shipment, but finds that , many of the shipments are not to be found on the records. These record less shipments, lying in the terminals Xor a year in some cases, constitute a situation of chaos and disorder of ex-traordinary character, v To find the lost shipments and to find records iy whichthey can be ' Identified is a problem with which the special' agent of the war trade board has been diligently engaged. ,'In the congestion for more than a ' ;year," says the Seattle news dis patch, "approximately 1500 carloads . -of export freight, were unloaded on 'the-ground In the open air for want of warehouse space at the expense of the carriers." It adds: I Much of the traffic was backfired 'I from the congestion on the Atlantic .- ? seaboard, but scarcity of shlpoinir on j the Pdcific through the withdrawal or the principal contributing cause, j. This, however, does not explain the icongestion in the Seattle terminal I yards, in which arriving cars have I not reached industrial tracks for from i I one to three weeks. Frequently, rall . J way operatives have told shippers that I cars for which they were inquiring I were not in the city, but later in . I vestlgations, covering a period of sev--' eral days, would disclose them. I It is evident from the above that Sthe effort to have one or two ports ,do all the business of the Pacific f coast is a failure. It has brought Ion 'bedlam and c-haos. It has re educed Seattle terminals to pande jmonlum and babel. -Sh.ipmen.ts are lost. Fifteen hun . dred carloads of freight dumped on -,the ground in the open air is ex ample of the disorder. This is the 'fruit of the- railroad policy under J which private management of the .lines spurned the Columbia .gateway with its lower "cost of haul and grouted aU possible tonnage over the mountains to Puget Sound. Ignor ing the less expensive route, ignor ilnc the great fact of a 40 foot Colum 'bla entrance and a 30 foot channel l to Portland, the railroads, through a period of years, deliberately threw !all their power. to .the concentration ' of export and? import business to V Puget Sound, 4hd the present long standing bedlam in Puget Sound -.terminals examples the mess they have made of- it - , The Columbia gateway is the nat- sural route for a part of this busi ness. Use of. the costlier route is part of the reason why the roads "are always crying out' for increased j freight rates. i Think of the folly of hauling traf f fid originating' in the Eastern "United 7 States through Portland and on to A-Puget Sound, for trans-shipment to , ; the Orient at a time when nearly "(jQOO loaded cars are stranded in Puget "Sound terminals ! ' ; Referring to bills pending in many ; legislatures requiring all persons ' ' under 17 to learn: to speak the Eng , lish language, the-Forest Grove News- Times declares that Jt is-a good plan. 4 And so it is. And to facilitate the v process, the medieval spelling of . ,1 many English words ought to be " ' simplified. WIDOWS OF PRESIDENTS A PENSION of $5000 a year, and free use of the postal system for all her personal mail are pro vided for the widow of the late ' ex-President Ttooseyelt In a bill which ' has passed both houses df congress and now awaits the president's sig nature. -, . " - The ; wives of American presidents . who survived their husbands have , always been recognized by congress, THE PRESIDENT'S PLEA T OWARD the close of his great opening plea - for the' league of nations, President Wilson spoke a sentence which, no true American can read without a flush of pride and an uplift of the souL He mentioned the United States uniforms, which he had seen everywhere on the streets of Paris. He explained that the men who wore them came to France after our purpose in the war had been proclaimed to all the world.' And then he uttered these great words:' "They came not merely to win a war but to win a cause." He implied'tmmistakably to that audience of diplomats, shrewd and wary men gathered from every corner of ths.civilized world, that if the cause were lost the war might as well not have been won,' for all its blood and sorrow would have been spent in vain. - ; j; What is"that cause which stands supreme above all military victory and all diplomatic advantage as the prime end for mankind to gafh? Mr. Wilson did not leave his hearers in doubt about it. "It is the ause,' he said, "of justice and liberty for men of every rank and every place." Those are mighty words. They bear us in the spirit back to the days of our own revolution. They wake memories of Patrick Henry. They resound with the courage of the seers and prophets who have piloted mankind through the stormy seas of other days into safe havens. The peoples of Europe were listening for just that sentence. It roused new hope in their souls. It swept away their doubts for it demonstrated a man who had burned behind him all the ships oT compromising diplomacy and set out on a march to the promised land. Never was the iron hand better hidden under a velvet glove than by Presi dent Wilson in his plea for the league of nations, but never was the grip of the iron hand relaxed. He reminded the assembled diplomats of the reason why the United States entered the war, not for gain, not for conquest, not be cause if was afraid, not because it wanted to meddle with the politics of Europe or Asia, but only becausc""he of ideal justice. It was the people's war and they that follows it. They entered it for a ficed, it must not be slighted. But it will be slighted, it may be sacrificed, unless the terms of the final setthmredt are such that the war never can be repeated. We went to war to enflwar. Nothing short of that immense gain will satisfy the Ayierican nation. Nothing less will satisfy the world. Mr. Wilson left no doubt-in his)hearers' minds that he knew the wishes of (he war-weary peoples. Without'parading it, he nevertheless reminded them that be was fresh from immediate contact with the masses of England, France and Italy. He had addressed them in countless multitudes. He had received their representatives who, in the pathetic vernacular of the soldiers and workers, told him face to face of their despair and their hope. The diplomats represented the governments, some of which were stained with the intrigues that brought on the war. President Wilson came with -a mandate from the peoples who had fought the war and who now musttoil to pay its bills. Their wish is the same as the wish of the millions here, across the sea from Versailles no fcore war, forever and forever an end to its hate and slaughter, its wae and woe. - And the president warned the diplomats that the people's wishes must be respected. The old days when a few gentlemen assembled at a shining table codld parcel out the countries of the earth as they pleased and erect thrones to suit their will are, gone. "The select classes of mankind," said Mr. Wilson with -ominous -incjsivejiess, "are no longer the governors of mankind. The fortunes of mankind are now in the hands of the plain people of the whole world." ' .. vr. He might have added in plain words, what he only delicately suggested, that-those' plain people draw nearer together every day, forming a united mass of humanity before which rulers must bow or perish. To fulfill the people's mandate one supreme act must be done. The minor arrangements of the peace settlement may be temporary. In all likelihood many of Ihem will be. Mr. Wilson does not assume infallible wisdom for himself and his colleagues. But whatever may become of the minor arrange ments one.major, all-important thing must endure. "We may not be able," -said lie, "to set up permanent decisions but we can set up permanent processes," by which our erring decisions of today may be made inerrant and lasting tomorrow. Those "permanent processes" must be embodied in the constitution of the league of nations, which through all future ages shall, like a cord of. gold, unite the destinies of the peoples. Mr. Wilson described his concept of the league of nations. It is to be "an association of nations" formed for the "continuous superintendence of the peace of the world." It is not something to be called into existence only spasmodically and in emergencies but some thing "always functioning in watchful' attendance upon the interest of the nations." The league is to have "vital continuity" such as permits "no inter mission of its watchfulness and labor." It is to be "the nations' eye" and "an eye that does not slumber but is everywhere watchful and attentive." President Wilson outlines in these words something that is manifestly more and greater than any bench of judges. He depicts a social organ of energetic beneficence, functioning not in the seclusion of a court room but over the Whole expanse of the globe. Mr. Wilson'sf powerful plea probably insures the success of the league of nations. Its enemies, for it has enemies and dangerous ones, can hardly make headway against his courage and commanding logic. But whatever the fate of the league may be, Mr. Wilson has made himself the leader of the world's hope. If he fails all that is best in mankind fails with him. And, therefore, the millions who trust that a God of justice rules our destinies affirm that he shall not fail. "s some by grants of money, others by extension of a franking privilege. Martha Washington, Louise Cather ine Adams, Dolly Madisonu Margaret Taylor, Mrs. Benjamin Harrison and Frances Folsom Cleveland were granted the franking privilege, but re ceived no grant of money, -i- Mrs. AVilliam Henry Harrison, whose husband died in office, was voted $25,000", one year's presidential salary at that time.,. Sarah Childers Polk and Julia Gardner Tyler each re ceived a pension of $5000 a year. Mary Todd Lincoln wis voted $25,000, the presidential salary for one year, a pension of $5000 a year and the frank ing privilege. Julia Dent Grant was granted an annual pension-" of $5000 and the franking privilege. Lucretia R. Gar field was voted $50,000, representing the then presidential salary to the end of the fiscal year following Pres ilent Garfield's assassination, a pen sion of $5000 a 'year and the frank ing privilege." Mrs. Garfield lived until last year. Ida E. McKinlej; received fSO.OOOj, the presidential salary to the end of the year, an! annual' pension of $5000 and the franking privilege. Two widows of vice presidents have also received congressional al lowances. Mrs. Henry Wilson, widow of the vice.president In Grant's sec ond term and who died in office, was voted $10,000; Mrs. T. R. Hendricks, whose husband was vice president during Cleveland's first administra tion and also died in office, was paid $8700 and given the usual mileage and stationery allowances for one year. Mrs. Benjamin Harrison and Mrs. Frances Folsom Cleveland were given only the franking privilege. The sen ate voted a pension of $5000 to each, but the houses .in both cases held up the bill on the ground that their hus bands had died after retirement from office. In the six year period before the Oregon bureau of mines was created, the metal output of Oregon was $6,000,000. In the six year period since the bureau was created, the metal output has been $17,000,000. By surveys through, which authentic in formation was presented to mining capital, twhich . in , turn invested" in Oregon mining, the bureau has prac tically trebled the mineral output of the state. ' There Is a great deal more American people desired the triumph mpst not be disappointed in the peace caAise and that cause must not be sacri of the same kind of Avork for the bureau to do. NO ROOM FOR DOUBTS N OBODY seemed to care a whoop when it was first proposed to attempt recovery of the Hyde Benson school lands. Yet the suits have already made certain the recovery of about $750,-. 00 worth of the lands. That splen did sum will ultimately go into the irreducible school fund of the state as a result'of the effort that has been made. It was away back in 1911 that Gov ernor Test, in a letter to the then attorney general, urged action- -for re covery of the lands. That the lands had been fraudulently acquired was known. That was disclosed by tes timony in the courts in which Hyde anJ Benson were convicted. These facts were pointed out by The Journal, -and the plan of bringing siirts was advocated-' But more than three years elapsed without a com plaint being filed. At last George M. Brown became attorney general. He did not hfat. tate. After an examination of the rec ords in the trials of the Hyde-Benson cases, he filed complaint. The result is common knowledge Suit after suit was won; tract after tract of valuable school land was re stored; around a quarter of a rHil lioa dollars' worth of school land was recovered. . A great principle was es,tablished by the suits. Precedents, were laid down by the courts, precedents that are a' clear guide to officials as to what they can do to build up the common school fund of Oregon. The order of the state land board for suits to be brought and its re quest for an appropriation by the leg islature for funds with which to push the cases for further recovery of other fraudulently acquired school lands are the result of these prece dents. . There is no chance now for anybody to have any doubt where publie duty lies. ." The adopted language of the -peace conference is English but Jt is "amus ing to read 5 that all the delegates but the British and our own speak French. For more than one century French has been thf language of diplomacy and war. Old habits are not changed in the twinkling of ' an ' eye nor by the passing ef a resolution. English might easily become the world's- lan guage fori alt International business but It neverjll until its spelling is made less shocking to the intelligence. Letters From the People ( Communication aent to The Journal for pub lication to thia department abonld ba- written on only ana aide of toe paper, ebould not eiceed 800 words in length and rnunt ba aigncd by tlie writer, wboaa mail addreaa in fall mast accompany the contribution.) - Normal Schools Albany, Jan. " 23. To the Editor of The Journal I have' noticed several let ters in The Journal of. late in which Mrs. Armstrong: advocates the certificat ing o students of the university and college to teach In the elementary schools or tne stste. Mrs. Armstrong at the start of Iner argument is all right. She haa her problem. She sees schools desti tute of teachers and realizes that they should be provided. It is her method of solving this problem or of providing teachers for the elementary schools th3t 13 faulty and open to criticism. She advocates the allowing of university and college graduates to teach in the lower grades as well as high schools, and seems to feel quite confident that there will be a flood of teachers almost Immedi ately into the "grade schools. However, she does not seem to take thought of the fact that these two institutions have already departments of education de signed to train teachers for the high schools of the state, and those .schools alone, and In spite of this 'comparatively small task are unable to turn out teach ers enough to meet the needs of the high schools, so that they also are short of teachers. So how can she expect these institutions to take an added bur den and supply' the deficiency in the teaching personnel of the lower grades when they cannot handle the job they have now? It is true that the element ary schools need teachers, but if they are provided they must be looked for from some other source than that of which Mrs. Armstrong thinks. There is one fundamental reason why these institutions will never be suitable for the trialning of elementary teachers : U is concerned with the money side, of the question, and is another point that Mrs. Armstrong seems to have overlooked. It is expensive to live in a college or university town. Those who fit them selves for teaching in the grades are in variably of small means and should not be placed in the -embarrassing position of t.Trtng to meet i.0-dollar bills with a 10-dollar income. Normal Schools are de signed to train elementary teachers. They know the kind of a student bvdy they have, and everything is handled, social events and all. In the most eco nomical way. Normal schools will be the onjy solution to the problem. Why go to Corvallis or Eugene to train for teaching in the grades? Whil there, why not train for high school teaching? The salaries are better. I might also state that there was such a bill as Mrs. Armstrong favors up in a legislature previous to? this ; but it was defeated, being opposed by both President Kerr and President Campbell, President Ack er man of the Normal taking no action in the matter, he knowing full well that no student desiring to teach in the grades would go to any other place than a normal school to get training. and they (Presidents Kerr and Campbell) knowing that something would be placed upon their bands, by some who had not studied the situation carefully and understandingly, which could not. be accomplished. I do not know how these presidents stand now on the sub ject but I see no reat- -why they should have changed their views. The only solution is the normal schooL There was a bill before the . people last fall, which was defeated by those of Mrs. Armstrong's views, arid some who did not understand the situation. How ever, it will come up again. It must come up. again. For Oregon is very far behind other states in regard to her elementary schools, and the primary so lution of this situation is, as I said before, normal schools. Therefore, more money for normal schools in Oregon. O. B. WILLIAMSON. Urges Vigorous Fight on "Flu" Portland, Jan. 27. To the Editor of The Journal. In a previous letter to The Journal on the influenza epidemic, I called attention to, the fact that in all serious matters of public nature where the health, safety and general good of the public are at stake ; and where business interests come in con flict and may momentarily suffex, in variably the sympathy of those . entrust ed with the inauguration of ways and means designed to ameliorate the suf ferings or combat the situation are to be found on the side of business. It is interesting, too, to notice to what lengths business interests will go to win over the guardians of the people's health and safety to their own way of thinking when the dollar is the issue, as it has been, so now, and will con tinue to be. I wonder why Dr. Seely's report on the influenza situation should contain the Information that the increase in cases was attributable to unusual gath erings, a feature of holiday festivities. I wonder what constitutes an unusual gathering in the mind of the doctor? Iws he think the crowds have lessened very materially who attend theatres and public meetings, because the holiday season is. past? Let him do as I have done and' visit these public places for a week. .Let him also visit our de partment stores, especially on a Satur day afternoon.. Every business insti tution or whatever character Is no toriously carrying out the Idea, "Unre stricted business to the limit," and calling the people out in "unusual gath erings" by the aid of the mid-winter sale. My Impression is that not all the eases in Portland on any day have been reported to the city health board ; neither has the quarantine order been enforced In every case. The people haVe serious cause for anxiety, .and demand that the actual number of flu cases be published daily, and those withhold ing such . information, it matters not who, should be 'brought to account. my opinion, all public meetings 0t whatever character, and mid-winter sales, should be forbidden ; public schools and churches should be closed and the people urged to wear masks. X believe a conscientious observance of these measures will in a short time stamp out the plague. J. M. HARDIE. A Talk to a Soldier Albany, Jan. 23. To the Editor f The Journal A few days ago a young man dropped into the plant, who had been a former employe, and: had just -returned from the service. I asked if he had re ceived his discharge. His reply, was: "yes, but I am In the reserve forseven years." I suggested that there was no danger ofh! being called-in that time, as ther would be no wars , la seven years. He said. "Wen. no; not tuil-ss we have a war : In the United '.States. I then .asked what he' thought, might cause a war in the United States. He promptly replied, "They are not treating us soldiers right. While we were away all of the Industries were running and there was plenty, of work,-: and they were paying good wages : now they are cut ting wages and shutting down the plants and we can't get a job so we can make - ' .-'- v a living. l4ut when" we were dischrrged a fellow gave v us a fine talk. He said they were going to see that we were treated all right, and that we wottld be looked after and given jobs." I soon, saw that he had the same erroneous ideas that prevail among working men, and this lecture had com pletely failed to accomplish anything but intensify his misunderstanding. I also saw the danger of such Ignorance, which is so prevalent, and determined to set him right by telling him the truth, and said to him, "The first thing you want to do is to get It out of your head that any man for whom you may go to work is going to pay you at all. If you go to work for any individual or corporation you will have to pay them for the chance to work, and this has always been so. When you go to work in any plant you are '. produce goods or values. I haven't the space to deal with values produced for individuals for their individual -use, so I will only deal with industries manufacturing goods for sale on the market. These goods, your prod uct, are taken by the management and sold ; the money received for the goods, your product, is brought back and a portion ,of ' it handed to you as w ages and the balance goes to the proprietors for the use of the machines ; just as you would pay rent for a sewing machine, automobile, horse or farm ;-except that in one case youjaajidle-trie money, while in the other case the other fellqw han dles it. And when Vour . rjroduot' wUl not sell far enough to pay this wage and leave a margin for the proprietor, either" the industry must close or your wage must be reduced. And an uprising or war to compel the individual or cor poration to operate such institution and pay you a certain wage when 'your'1 product' cannot be sold for more thar such wage, or net at all, had better be postponed until you become better ac fluainted with what the trouble is and the real remedy. You can never escape paying for a chance to work until yot own the tools with which you work, andJ tnese toois in modern inanstry have ac quired suclr gigantic proportions that they cannot be owned by the workers individually, so your only escape is so cial ownership through- the functions of government, through which ownership each individual will represent the same proportion in ownership that he does Of the working force and will thus be entitled to the full value of 'his prod uct.' " It does not behoove us to misrepresent these facts to the workers. It is more safe to tell the truth. W. S. RICHARDS. To Improve School System Schoolhouse, District No. 18, Jan. 18. To the Editor of The Journal I offer the following solution in answer to several items read in your paper: It is interesting to note how the leaders in education are planning for improve ments. I fail to see, however, that any one of their plans will immediately tend to make any improvements, nor are any withoui their share of petty ideas and personal advantages for those advancing them. The worthy Y. M. C. A., instead of setting up a new sys tem of schools," would do much more good by aiding in the improvement of the present school system ; but its of ficers also see new jobs for them in the discovery that men - do not learn life necessities in school. May I ask, why don't the public schools have li braries that, tfould help teach these facts? When the government has pointed out that 50 per cent of rural recruits fail to come up. to standard in physique, morals and education, it's time to hit at the root, of the cause. Here is the ,-remedy : A compulsory education law; ages 7. to 16, regardless of distance, for every boy and girl while school is in session until the eighth grade is completed ; each school to be a standard school, for if it is not, it is no school at all ; no person to be allowed to teach in rural schools, who has not had actual experience, either in such a school or a training school ; a minimum wage law for teach ers of $80 per month ; the course of study revised so as to teach the eight grades in six terms (years). That has been done in some schools for 20 years. Are we 20 years behind? Yes, that and more, The Portland school board should be praised for dangling a prize before leading educators. We need new blood to do thines in schools. J R- STTJBER, Teacher. An -Ex-Housemaid Testifies Portland, Jan. 24. To the Editor of The Journal In answer to "Sufferer," in the Sunday Journal of. Janary 18, I will say that I am one of the girls' who last summer quit housework and took a man's job where I am getting $3 a day. For the previous eight years I was working as housemaid and I hope never to get into that slave job again. And slavery it is. I now work eight hours. Nobody curses me. I know what to do, and do It right. After the day's work I am free to rest and educate myself and have a little amuse ment. As housemaids have to work from 7 In the morning till 8 at night and sometimes later, and have to work every day in the month, they never have time to see a show or go to church. I had to serve the meals, and eat my meals in the kitchen in a hurry from scraps what was left from sup per. The housemaid is a slave to everyone in the household. Now, after trying what they call a hard man's job, and working at It for the last 10 months, I will say I would rather do this work for a dollar a day than the slaving for "sufferers 12 hours a day and 30 days in the month at $3, a day. Thank God that we housemaids got -our eyes opened. "Sufferer" - says, "Ain't it a pity that we cannot use the rneV as housemaids?" Does she . think to make him a slave, like; the girls? Why couldn't she? The boys could. learn the housework as easily as we learned the man's work. But she must pay decent wages for' a decent day's work, treat him like a man, and- not like a slave. If the girls would get the" same wages and conditions at housework as some where else, "Sufferer"' might have some grounds for complaining. But com plaining because the v girls don't want to be slaves any longer is more. than stupidity. We have shown our patriot ism by taking up necessary jobs and performing ' them so well that our bosses are more satisfied than with men, an- we are showing our patriotism now by refusing to be slaves any lorfger. Pay decent wages, estab lish decent hours, treat the. girls hu man and you may get,, necessary help. -i EX-SLAVE.- Lauding Utilitarianism , Vancouver, Wash., Jan. 24. To the Editor of The Journal Your editorial on January 23 under the heading "The German Election" ' brings to mind the strange fact that Marxf the Jew, did more to Christianise the world than have all the preachers from the days of Paul down to. the days of Punshon (Rev. Wil liam Morley). . .. Marx presented utilitarian and prac tical Christianity which appeals to rea son ; whereas, theologians offer a mystic and speculative blend which appeals only to the imagination. Marx was a utili tarian rather than a Socialist, and -we should remember that utility, like godli ness, is profitable unto all things. . Unquestionably" the wage system must go. and go as slavery has gone and as rum is now going. Even the benefi ciaries of-the system'sare' now asking; "Wherefore strive Where the gods must themselves ield at last? Both they and tbeir altars pass" by wltft the past.' The wage system Is so thoroughly en- COMMENT AND SMALL CHANGE Let's see, when is straw hat day? Baseball chatter in the waffle palace: "Batter up." - Has anybody here seen a copy of Harry Ford's new newspaper? -r; ."'" So long' as the state legislature con tinues to do nothing it will at least be doing no harm. - The war te over. : Coming to work this morning we saw a house with a "for rent" card in the window. -. v Just when we were going to buy our selves an alarm clock, the new baby came. It does fine, too, except that it's rather hard to shut off. The soft-soled police reporter Informs us that there are no pictures of the re cent kaiser and the late brown quince in the rogue's gallery. ,. The chief of police says they belong In the shooting gallery. A good friend of ours has just de clared that his father-in-law is too good a scout to be in the ministry, so he wants to make a newspaper man of him. Now, Just what d6 you suppose he means by that? The East Is taking on'something awful because of the approaching drouth. Newspaper artists', paragraphers and "colyumnists" in particular are playing the deplorable outlook for old J. Barley corn for all it's worth. r- ?r JOURNAL MAN AT HOME By Fred Lockley f'An" we tnaht 'em to refroeck th British oklier." lings lomroj Uno of. Kiplin' ini tial ballad. In like manner might tnoe who take just pride in the Itaridic tradition exult, and with aa just cause, in the light of the records an cited by Mr. Lockley today. In the annaU of the Uruat Mar there shine resplendent the derotion and the daring of the Jewish, fighting man. J A week or so ago I sat at the speakers' table with Bishop W. T. Sumner. In the course of our talk I said, "I believe the war will do much to wipe out the barriers of racial antipathy and religious prejudice." My remark reminded Bshop Sumner of an incident that hap pened at a Western cantonment. He said a society woman wrote to the com mandant of the forces stationed there, saying, "I will be glad to have you send two soldiers to my home to share our Sunday dinner next Sunday. We will see that they have a good dinner and a pleasant time." In a footnote she added, "Send anyone except Jews." The next Sunday there was a ring, at her door bell, and when she answered it two smiling six-foot negroes in, uniform were on the doorstep with a note from the commandant saying he took pleasure in Sending two soldiers to take dinner with her. The note was signed "Major Moses Mosessohn." - When I was In France aVewlsh ser geant asked me if I could help him lo cate Passover bread for 140 of his com rades, all of whom were from Hester and Elizabeth Btreets in New York city. I not only . located the Passover bread tor him, but I was able to direct him to - an English-speaking French rabbi, who lived in a nearby village.. We have been rather accustomed to look upon the Jew as the very reverse of a fighting man, but if we have thought this in the past, we have an other think coming. I do not know how many Jews served in the army, navy or marines of the American forces, but I know that the Jewish Welfare board has more than 100,000 registration cards of Jews in the service. OX the 80,000 records which have so far been classi fied, the records show that there are 69,000 in the army. 8800 in the navy and 1700 in the marine corps. Of those in the army more than 35,000 were in the Infantry, 6509 in the artillery, 9300 in the medical corps, 3964 in the signal corps and the aviation corps, 189o in the engineer corps, 1213 in the cavalry, 1019 in the ordnance, 3521 in the quarter master corps and 8814 In other branches. There were more than 5000 Jews com missioned officers in the army. There are 30 who are colonels or lieutenant colonels, 202 who are majors, 782 who are wearing captains' bars, and- more than 4000 lieutenants. In our navy we have 205 Jewish commissioned officers, one of whom is a rear admiral. In the marine corps there are 25 Jews serving as commissioned officers, one of whom is a brigadier general. Of the Jews in the army, more than 30,000 came from New York city alone; Chicago supplied 2700. As the Jewish population of the United States is about 3 per' cent of our total population, it will be seen that the Jews contributed more than their quota, when it is known that at least 4 per cent of our armed forces are Jews. Approximately 10 per cent of the Jews in service were not within draft age limits, which means that they were vol unteers. In addition to this there were not less than 10,000 Jewish sailors and marines, all of whom, of course, are volunteers. , This means that at least 20 WAR HOSPITALS EMPTYING FAST By E. P. B. Special Correspondence of The Journal and The Chicago Daily News London Americans wounded In Eng land are being moved to the United States so rapidly that it has been found possible to make arrangements to close a number of. hospitals almost immedi ately. ' American Red Cross hospital No. 23 (St. Katherines lodge) has already been closed. Several others to be closed in the next few-weeks include the American Red Cross convalescent hospital for officers at Lingfield, Surrey; American Red Cross hospital No. 21 at Paignton, De von; the army hospital built by the American Red Cross at Rbmsey and the army hospital at Hursley. The larger base hospitals at Ports mouth, Dartford and Tottenham also will soon be evacuated. AH construction at these institutions stopped shortly trenched that nothing but general edu cation can drive it out, and. like rum and slavery, it will fight to the last ditch. Like the liquor business, it is the nur sery of plutocrats, paupers, millionaires and mendicants. The Intellectual classes, the world over, are awakening to the truth that the wage system is the prime cause of ignorance and physical defi ciency, and they are considering the means by which it may be eliminated, and it Is safe to. believe they will find the means. -But the -Job is, a big one.d will require much time. AM(J3. Italy, and the, Juflo-Slavs Froas the Omaha Bee President Wilson has discussed with the Italians the aspirations of Italy, and has expressed sympathy therewith, but further, has. wisely declined to commit himself. One of the really delicate mat ters that will be brought before the peace council? has. to do with "Italia Irredenta," the "unredeemed" territory seized andlteld toy Austria when Prussia betrayed Italy to 1866. Portions of this are now claimed by the Jugo-Slavs. who apply Mr. Wilson's words- with reference to historic allegiance as the deciding in fluence Jn fixing national boundaries. The point Is, certain to be an awkward one. here as it will be In ether places in that region, where Intermingling of races for at least two millenniums has not ffMtd the coalition that might have nATi looked for, wnue ine meiiims pot" has failed there and the fires of (k.i .ntinithv ar slsi fierce today as ever, the difficulty may be overcome If NEWS IN BRIEF OREGON SIDELIGHTS According to the American, it Is a sure thing that "some of the he fruit eaten in Crane is older than the hen that laid it is ever allowed to get. Road note in the Aurora Observer: p-Macksburg people are working nara to secure ounty ana iib paved highway from near Canby throvign Macksburg to Molalla or Marquam. In the1 office of the 'county agent of Coos county are some specimens or stock beets raised bythe. Clausen broth ers on the lower. Coquille river that weigh 36 to 41 pounds e ach. The ter tinel remarks that it takes good soil to raise such beets. -!.. and wife remembered the editor with some very fine sparertbBl and excellent home maae Buii. week, and we hereby extend our sincere thanks." That is from the Drewsey I jo-, neer Sun, and after you ve read it you can make fin of ye editor if you think you've got anything on him. The Crane American" te&s this snake story : "Chartes Erekson of the Prince ton section says he was not looking one day last week for groundhogs or any other sign of an early spring, but was startled beyond conception to discover a live rattlesnake on a rimrock hill near his ranch. This was on January 7. The snake was up and doing, ready for a fight. The out-of-season freak of na ture was a tig specimen, having nine rattles." - ' per cent of all of the Jews In the ser vice of the United States were volun teers. Up to November 1 the record Bhowed that 451 Jews were killed in action, 142 died of wounds, 96 died from disease, and 73 died from accident or ofcher causes, while. In addition : to the dead, 1597 Jewish soldiers were wounded. The fame of the "Lost Battalion" will never die, but it is not generally known that this battalion, composed of New York troops. Was formed largely of Jews from the sweatshops of the East Side. One of these Jewish lada, Abra ham Krotoshinsky, was awarded the dis tinguished service cross for his valor. When the "Lost Battalion" was cut off from the rest of the army, runners were sent out to secure -help- and reinforce ments. One after the other the runners were killed wlthpt being able to secure help, and when volunteers were asked for this East Side Jewish boy, volun teered for the task and made good. In the sweatshops of New York city and In the big clothing lofts I have seen thr.nciir.da of Jews sitting cross legged on tables sewing busily. . They did i.ot seem to be heroic figures. Yet I have seen these same East Side clothing workers clad In khaki at the front. They had as much suap.-preclsion and pride in their Job as anyone. There recently appeared in the New York Herald a little poem by Howard V. Sutherland which pays tribute to the Jewish boys from Hester street. The poem follows: Here's honor to Abe Kowalakiand honor to And. aUJhiiT,Heb'rew brethren who stand in the firing line .. Friedmann. Mayer and Gruenbaum. Eliaas. Kla man and Cohen , Daily we read about them, aa able to hold their own. Once let the truth be uttered: Nobody ioed the Jew - Said he was' all for money.' I did and so did i you; Watched him puhhing his puabcart, thought -ne was out of place . Here in a land of freedom; his was the out cast race." ) Few of us deemed him human or figured a heart might beat . Under Uie ragged garments of the peddler of the street. . Dreams? Well, perhaps of money; never of aught so high - Aa what Old Cilorj wafea for. You thought so, and so did L Well. we were wrong. Confess ill It lin t a That makes a man a hero in s nation's hour of need. There's something else to manhood; or yellow, or black, or white. Tour man in the hour of peril will go to the front' and fight. The Jews, as you see, now prore It. Their chil dren were free at birth. And now, in return, they are fighting for the freedom of the earth, GiTing their Urea if need be that children of later years Shall- be glad and shall, lire fore re r in the free-' dam that is theirs. Hirseh and Pollack and Feingold. RadakV Ftakel and I'ela, Epstein, Jacobs and Mandel. Weinstein, Baruch .and Ueltz, a Feiner, Uorowitz, Isaacs. Bashwittz, Lery and Franks, Sachs and Mirsky and Lchner all of them in the ranks! Then honor to Joseph Schnitzer and honor to 1 ley man Behr. I And aU the Uebrew brethren in khaki over there. lilt prejudice in your pocket. Tbey fought in the days of yore. And now when the world ts threatened, they are fighting. Men can no more. after the signing of the armistice, and the United States army medical author ities have notified the Red Cross that there will be no further need for can teens, recreation huts and other Red Cross buildings at any of these places. Salisbury court at Southampton and the two military . hospitals at Liverpool will be the only American hospitals in Great Britain to be -continued through the winter. American wounded In Brit ish hospitals and at evacuated hospitals will either be returned to the United States or transferred to one of these three hospitals. The medical- authori ties estimate that-by early spring there will be only a few' hundred wounded Americans left In this country. About 2000 American wounded from Dartford and Tottenham hospitals sailed for the United States recently. only the sense of justice will be per mitted to outweigh racial ambition. The Latin and Slav may compose their dis pute with little of real loss to either if they will listen to good counsel. It Is curiously Interesting in this connection to note that the Slavs entered that region 1500 years ago as fugitives, flying from the ferocity of the Ooths, who in their turn .were driven out of what is now Hungary by the Magyars.". s AH the Difference From Cartoons Magazine) "When I hit a man, he remembers it." "Urn I When Z hit a man, he doesn't," Olden Oregon Columbia River Boat Lines Were Bonanzas in Early '60' Business on the Columbia river 1n 1863 was something enormous, v Hardly ever did a .steamer make, a - trip with less than 209 passengers. ; Freight? was offered In such quantities . at Portland that trucks had to stand in line for blocks waiting to deliver and - receive loads. Some conception of the passenger busmes may be gained from the fact that fares totaled $1000 to $6000 a trip, April 29 the Tenino, leaving Celilo for Lewiston. had a passenger load amount ing to $10,945, and a few trips later re ported receipts of $18,000, for freight, passengers, 1 bertha and meals. - The number of passengers carried on The Dalles-Lewiston run In 1864 was 36,000 and the tons of freight 21,834. ,Ragtag and Bobtail Stories From Everywhere It Might Hao Jlappenrd -tXTHEN Dr. Murray Adams, a country ;. doctor in New York state, drove 8 miles to answer a call from the Hard wick ramilyi, to find "that no one in thd family was expecting his visit, he ex plained he had been cniia4 ,.. phone, and someone said : "ive-are sick doctor; come quick, doctor." and when he asked cehtraf if she could inform film tthrt- wufl , n, i t. . ... .. message came ' from . the Hardwicks.-h Some time after the departure of the doctor, considerably vexed in mind. Mrs. Hard wick heard her parrot talking. The bird, perched upon a stool in the hall Was saying, "We are sick, doctor." and repeating the words i over and over. Then, she noticed the receiver of the telephone was down. Mrs. . HardwkJc lost no time In -calling up the doctor an explaining what she believed had happened.' Our "President 0t,rh?u",l', ?'''- V" "" "; in , .,w"rt "th feror thrill; J1 'gic permeates the powers: The world bends to his will. So doth that learneiU ralisnt sonl ... .feel another dawn; V itn added strength his njilrit bold Ooes marching on and- ony America, his nat Its -fond. " lias claimed him until nowT . Anon the whole world takes his hand And crowns before Inm-bow.' Kufus U.' Ames. 4L'H1 Fourth Street. . '.Uncle Jeff hiiow Says: Most likely .our. wise and otherwise statesmen at Salem'll put a' tax of 10 cents a pound on oleomargarine' with the idee that it'll make them solid with us fanners: but I -should think them wops in the cities that ho.s to pay 75 cents a pound now fer hutter'd let out a Veil that 'u.-n,,t.t . i . down them statesmen's spinal colyums. The News in Paragraphs World Happenings Briefed for Benefit Of Journal Readers GENERAL " General Isamel Montes. ex-president of Bolivia, has, been appointed Bolivia's delegate to the peace conference. 'The tranHDort Carnnla mil ths nouil t supply Bhlp Melville have arrived at xora Dringmg 4.1-as orricers and men from overseas. A large group of representative Israel ites visited President Irlgoyen of Brazil Saturday to protest against alleged ill treatment of Jews. Five hundred French soldiers have ar. rived at Honolulu bound for Vladivostok. They Include interpreters, aviators and armored tank corps. Flying at the rate of 90 miles In 22 minutes was a feat accomplished Satur day by Lieutenant Robert B. Baker, stationed at Fort Sill. Okla. G. O. Gilmer of San Francisco Is a visitor to Honolulu for the purpose of making a study of the pineapple wit li a view of turning the waste pieces Into sugar. . ; - - inree tnousand American citizens la mass meeting at New York Saturday night 'adopted . resolutions urging the peace conference to recognize Irish In dependence. : Five Mexican soldiers crossed the border near El Paso Saturday, forced two -soldiers and a civilian to crossi to Mexico, and robbed them of their guns and ammunition. ; Two million dollar will be spent on thk AeHttI llftfAnSMS nf h,h llaitallan ta. lands, the money to be expended In in stalling three aero squadrons with CO - marhlnAft n nr! fiftfl m ah NORTHWEST NOTES' , In the Jordan Valley Irrigation dis trict of Malheur county bas arisen Ruby, a brand-new town. John Rosene, prominent In the com mercial life of the Pacific Northwest, died in Seattle Saturday. ' The South Bend Canning company In 1918 disbursed $14,072.40 for green prod ucts and $4966.40 for labor. Gray Kyle, formerly employed by the First - National bank of Portland, is dead of, influenza at Seattle. The 600-acre farm of W. J. Machette, near Kelso, was sold last week to four Kelso, business men for-$100,000. - Miss Johannah Larson, a teacher In the Blckleton, Wash., nchool, well known hi Portland, is dead of Influenza. Japanese residenis of Yakima have or ganized a Yakima Japanese BuRineHS Men's club with a membership of 65. .-. Eighteen farmers of Cowlits prairie, near Toledo, have formed an organiza tion to purchase Idaho haylor their owit use. Reorganization and expansion of the Grays Harbor county farm bureau was effected at a meeting held at Montesano Saturday. Kr- report shows that 80,928 boxmi of cranberries were shipped last year from. the marshes of liaciflc and Clat sop counties, i". j . After' a lapse of many months the Matson Navigation company has re sumed steamship service between Seat tle and Honolulu. '. - The Linn county- court Is Inntalling a gravel lant on the Willamette river to secure egravel for road improvement work the coming summer. . , Real estate men of Washington ar fighting thel; proposed bill requiring a notice of 80 days before a renter could be required to move from a house- The. Montana Union. American Society of Equity, have signed a contract for a site upon which they intend to erect a 2.000,000-buhel grain elevator on Young's -bay at Astoria. FOREIU.V : Owing to a Binse ui oniant, irciaimi the entire city Is without - gas or electricity. The SwlsH dally bread retlort will be Increased from 250 to 300 grammes February L Czecho-tJlovak troops have captured Oderberg from the Poles after sangui nary fighting. : , It is now stated than Leon Trotsky. Bolshevik war minister, escaped from Narva before the town was captured. Full returns from the German elec tions show that the majority Hoclallsis polled 11,112,540 votesor 39.3 per cent of the total number cast. Bolshevik staff officers declare they have now 1.000,000 men and will soon have 6.000,000 armed, with which they will Invade and overwhelm Western Europe. ; Trunk It Over; Then Buy War Saving Stahips f Stories of achievement fa the aocumola tlon of Wat BsTings B lamps sent to The Journal and seeeptabl lot publication will be awarded a Thrift Stamp. . One' young matron of our : ac quaintance has accumulated a couple of certificates full of War Savings Stamps toy waiting to buy things 'that she thought she needed until she found that she didn't need .them at all. . - ' It's surprising the number of un necessary things you think you mut have, and it's 10 chances to one that you pike right off and buy them. Try this. Walt a couple of days be fore buying something that you be lieve you must have at once. In a couple of days if you find that you still need the thing, probably you do. Buy, it- If you find that you don't need it, after all, put what you've saved into War Savings Stamps. It will -pa you well. I Thrift Stamps and 1919 War Rav ing etampe now on, sale at usual agencies.