OflEuOtt-, i3iliV JOURNAL, PORLAm FRIDAY: JANuAKY i. 1910.; i r i i i C. B. JACKHO . euilhed mrf r. afte see tM wire lag -. ccvt Baadey atteraooa), at Tte JootmU 9ausV me. Urusday Mid lamhlU attest, nratM. reon. t Entered at tba Post office at Portland. , tot transmission tbroocn tba mail aa r class aaatter. TJiLKrHONKS Main T1T: Horn. A-St '. AH departments reeebtd by these Bwmbere. - Teli the operator what department yoa want. - Dtnttnm e Kaertstor Co. Bnuaawiea atutomc, ., , 224 tm iffliiu. New loxk; 800 Mailers Building. CtJicsao. . lutMcripffeiB una by mail is Oregon nd Wasb- daily nroRNixa on aptebsoox) 5 One .year...... 15.00 I Oh Heath...,. -80 tOm nw.ii..tlM I One month.....! .28 DAILY 4M0BMISO OH AFTEBSOOM) AND "i. One year, . , . . . ST. 60 I One month .99 V! : t r Are wa aa diligent aa wa ought to ba , to protect American ettizeBitilp aaint the poison that moat arise from ths deeay of harmony and honesty and industry and fru gality; and arc wa aofficiently watchful ax&inat tha deadly, burrowing peats of eos- eurotng greed and cankerous cupidity f Our . answers to these questions make up tha ac count of our stewardship aa keeper! of a ' aaered trot. tirorer Qlereland. THE BRITISH STRIKE r, T HE strike in Great Britain is on a tremendous scale. Jt must cause wonderment everywhere. What is the sudden psychology ..-.under which & ouarter of i million ; British Workers are demandipg a 40 . nour week is tnat psycnoiogy everywhere? -i, It is put a little while ago that " British workers received less wage : for a week than some American . workers got in a day. Their live 4 wre pinched and their outlook $lleak. . 'W'e know that the 51 montHs of war and the tremendous necessities of ' the government . lifted British workers to higher standard's. They were given shortened hours and far nigner compensation. The govern ment had,' by necessity, to go a long way ;to meet their demands, 'and was not unwilling to go to those lengths because Lloyd George, Britain's best friend to labor, was the British gov- ernment's reliance and its soul. ' Now it is after the war: and the tt nation is shaken to its foundations 1 by increased demands from the workers, not a mere few workers, but hundreds of thousands. 9- Is the world coming to be divided Into two great industrial eamps, with rampant radicalism on one side ji and rampant reaction on the other? rr Ck3n,templating England and imag ining what eventuations might appear in other countries, may It not be a "conspicuously fortunate fact that a ' great captain who steers a middle course, who has the complete .confi dence of the multitudes and is loved by the millions not only in his own land but throughout Christendom, is president of tne United States? John N. Metaxa, formerly gover nor of Salonika, has sent to this office three pamphlets In which he pleads the cause of Greece before the American people. Mr. Metaxa fears that Greece may be "sacri ficed to secret treaties." His coun try should not be sacrificed on any account; for the world owes Jt a hqavy debt. The land where 4every field and mountain cave is freedom's home or glory's grave" is too prec ious to the world to "be made a pawn in the game of secret diD- lomaey. r ... ss THE SYNDICALISM BILL A NSWEHVNO a correspondent whose letter Is on this page, The Journal has grave doubts on the subject of the syndicalism bills at Salem. j ; Syndicalism is a hateful thing. I There Is no room for it iir America. . In Coos county, syndicalists drove t spikes in .saw-logs to tear up the I plant as a means of forcing mill t owners into payment of higher wages. " They have done the same thing at mills all up and down the coast. Their acts of vandalism in I some of the fruit districts of Cali ' fornia.were vicious beyond compare. ( When an Inland Empire orchardist f returned home one day, he found the r trees which he had hired syndicalists to setsout7plajated wrong end up. Tlje roots wero in the air and tops In the ground! It waa the I. W. W. ) way of evening up on an employer, j A long list of . like instances of devil- try could be added, j li Was the, work of human rattle- snakes. Such things are despicable .r-ana 6nouia oe. punisnea. if there are ( no Iawa covering such offenses, prop ter statutes should be enacted. It is I also true that there should be law fop punishing men who advocate and teach," syndicalism. But when you go to the length of punishing a man who rents a build i ing for a meeting at which soma j idiot might advocate direct action, 1 questions begin to arise. That may f be a very near approach to a dan-1- gerous length. To what extent might such a provision- bo us 2d to abridge, j free speech? . ' We were told at the time that an NO OTHER w: OULD it not be a peculiar position for any man if he should oooose suits for recovery of stolen school lands?. TUm t rl Krvaevl iiy -in the state, "has directed that suits be brought. The courts, federaLand state, have formally declared in decisions tha lands fraudulently acquired can be recovered. . Suits would be directed only at recovery of lands known 'to have been stolen, and the recovery procedure would be by regular and lawful court processes. ; - 'f . ' 1 " How can any man or institution stand in the way of such suits? What would the public obviously think? There could be but one conclusion: the person or institution opposing the suits must either' be in possession of stolen lands or be acting for some other person or institution unlawfully holding stolen lands. I. W. W. drafted man at Camp Lefcis after American Institutions and pur poses had been explained to him, bo- came one of the most enthusiastic soldiers In the camp. The Journal knows of an I. W. W. who, after similar explanations were made to him, hurried off into the woods to draw from sawtogs the many hidden spikes he had driven Into them. It is probably true that a very large per cent of the tribe could be reached better by edueative processes than by statutes. I. W. W.-ism is despicable and dan gerous. It Is without reason or ex cuse in a land where there is an open ballot and a fair count. But as a means of rooting it out, the really practical way would seem to be with speakers and other educative pro cesses rather' than with statutes which may silence not only I. W. W. free speech but the free speech of all citizens. Instead of education, the czar used repression and force; and in the end, force, in its most terrible form, laid him low. Sam H. Moeve suggests a number of Interesting expedients In The Journal of January 28 for better ing conditions in Oregon. One ot them is that the state develop its unused waterpower. This unused waterpower, properly put' to work, would light and heat the whole Willamette Valley. It would go far toward lighting and heating the In land Empire. But it-Tims away to sea benefiting nobody. Is there not some way to put, a stop to the thrlftlessness that neglects our na tural resources? GOOD IDEAS H AMILTON HOLT, of the Indepen dent, gives a. useful warning and makes a useful suggestion in his league of nations dispatch printed in Wednesday's Journal. The warning is that the league may turn out to be a league of governments instead of peoples. If that en quid happen it would, of course, be nothing better than an other Holy Alliance of unholy mem ory such as the peace conference at Vienna patched up in 1815 at the end of the Napoleonic wars. This farcical outcome of the war can only be prevented, as Mr. Holt well re marks by a continuous and lively Interest In the league on the part of the world's peoples. The diplomats left to themselves may be trusted to do the wrong thing today as they did in all the yesterdays of time. So much for Mr. Holt's warning. His suggestion relates to the or ganization of the league. In his opinion it should have a legislative department composed of representa tives directly from the people. This has been The Journal's consistent de sire. It Is difficult to understand how a league composed only vof judges or diplomats could function adequately for the nations' welfare. There is no known reason why. the parole officer at the Oregon peniten tiary 6hould not be abolished. The position has been used to disorganize and disrupt affairs at the prison. There Is now an efficient warden at the penitentiary who can function both as warden and parole officer and save a useless salary. AUSTRIA "' "L '' a A' USTR1A is now a republic. Its president Is a man named Seits, who began life in an orphan asylum and is a tailor by trade. Seitz is a Socialist. Ho says in an interview that there have been great changes in Austria. They are far deeper than political changes and the loss, of territory. .He gives 'us to understand that the psychology of the people has become free and modern. No doubt they have ad vanced rapidly since they unloaded the Hapsburgs, who were a heavy load to carry. t seems to be the current aspira tion of the Austrians to unite with Germanysince they are of the same race and speak the same language. Their old ambition to rule a great empire with many subject peoplel has vanished. ' There is no apparent reason why all the solid masses of Germans scattered here and there In Central Europe should not form a single federal union on. the model of the United States. If they were to retain their kaisers any such a union would be dangerous on account of Us ex tensive territory and numerous popu lation, but as a republic- the case would be different. Republics governed by the masses Of their i people are not apt to be militaristic They seldom cherish im perialist ambitions. They devote their energies to improving their own wel fare rather, than to destroying their neighbors. ' A German republlo in Central CONCLUSION rri h TrrriQt arlminlstratlvff author- Europe formed from all the German states would, not unlikely, prove to be a center of civilizing and peace ful influences. It would be apt to show itself worthy of a place In the league of nations and., might be ex pected to contribute valuable ideas to that organization. The Hapsburgs throve on the no tion that it was the prime object of every nation tc fight every other nation and concruer as many as pos sible. With the exit of the Hapsburgs comes In the worthier notion that it is the duty of the nations to live together in peace and mutual help-r fumess Just as ' it is of individuals. In the new world big republics ought not to be any more dangerous than little ones. We do not look upon Texas as a danger to Rhode Island., It is as if some of the Portland senators were inviting political cru cifixion. Their fight on the proposed court of domestic relations is in the face of the fact that the tribunal was planned by Portland women and that every woman's organization in the city is solidly behind the bill. Un like men, women voters do not for get. More than one former official who resisted reforms they' sought, is now a political mummy. AT SALEM H AVE you noticed The Journal's news of the legislative session? The paper -has three special correspondents at Salem: Will T. Kirk, A. L. Lindbeck, and Ralph Watson, dean oi' the reportorial world of Portland. News is re ceived over a leased wire, operating directly from the state house intu The Journal office. The news is full and complete. It is not colored. It is a fair and impartial, statement of . -things as. Ihey happen. - ; It is a news service " that $ ought to be highly satisfactory to the legis lators and of great value to the public. ! "Mueh greater support of the Pa cific International Livestock show is planned byrthe American Aberdeen Angus Breeders' association" is the announcement in. a statement just issued. The statement says that re sults at the Portland show have so impressed representatives of the asso ciation that thTplan of heavier sup port of it has been adopted. STEEL AND IRON r HE story that England designs to control the world's iron and steel trade is not incredible. She has been pursuing that design for tht last hundred years with encour aging success. She is not likely to drop it now that her most formida ble competitor, Germany, is out of the race. England's coal and iron mines are conveniently situated for cheap pro duction. Her workmen are expert. Her shipping makes the problem of markets fairly easy to solve. If a great policy of railroad building in Africa and Western A&ia is under taken promptly,, as seets likely, there will be a demand for all her iron works can supply. Before the war Germany's control of the Alsatian iron deposits enabled her to compete successfully with England almost everywhere in the iron and steel trade. Even in Eng lish cities German wares sometimes drove out the domestic. One of Germany's leading motives for going to war was to seize and hold the Belgian and French .iron deposits in order - to arry competi tion to greater extremes and perhaps extinguish the British trade. But all that is over. Germany no longer cuts a figure in the world's markets and is not likely to for years to come, particularly Since the iron deposits left her are but scanty. Some reports speak of lively future competition between England and the United States In the iron and steel trade, with a. supposed advantage on England's side because of her cheap labor. But this advantage is purely Imaginary. If England has cheap labor the United f States has efficient labor which more than makes up the dif ference. Our steel companies, even unden .the comparatively loose com bination whleh they had effected be fore the war, were able to undersell the British In foreign markets, though they kept prices up at home. Tha same steel armor plate that cost Uncle Sam around $G00 a ton was sold to the czar rat a far lower figure. Besides, workers in the principal countries seem on the verge of r ganizing to bring wages to a com mon level. 4 : ' But it is probably Idle to discuss future ; competition between England and the United States In the iron and steel trade, because "there is hardly likely to be any. Combination not competition, is in the air. There arc plenty of signs that our great steel magnates are negotiating a merger with those of England- Industrially England abd this coun try have perhaps finished fighting. Ma j or General Wood betrays his professional interest -when he argues for universal peacetime conscription on the "ground that MtherNw1ll be wars as long as people xist.' His pessimism has an obvious economic background. Should wars cease Gen eral Wood would be in the " same situation as Othello. "His occupa tion would be Kone." Uno-uesUonahl-r there will be wars as long as people permit those who desire war to con trol their affaics. When the people clearly express their will against war by approving the league of na tions General Wood will perceive that his' reasoning Is faulty. Letters From the People (Coannranicationa arat to Tha Journal for pub lication to UUa department ahoutd be written on onljr on aid of too paper, ahem Id not exceed 800 worda in length and nmat ba aicned by tha writer, whoae mail addreaa in full tniut accompany too contribution.) . The Syndicalism Bill' Oswego, Jan. 2. To the Editor of The Journal Your paper stands for rig-ht- It is the friend of the people and of justice. This is not a mere, com pliment; It is the Teal truth, sincerely writen, and your readers will concur In It. Now. we ask you to frankly dis cuss the bill introduced by Senator Dimmlck In the legislature on syndic!, ism. With little discussion this bill waa railroaded- through the senate. 29 to 1.- It Is now before the house and is dealing with an Important question. Is it possible that such a law as pro posed is necessary? Are Americans plotting: violence upon the clases ruling our state? The passage of such a law would sug gest to us that I. W. W. members are far more numerous than we have been led to believe; that these X. W. W. members are all bad ; that they only have one thoughj, the destruction of society. To advocate, teach, or suggest vio lence will be interpreted by our courts to Include those forceful common folk who defend our rights in public ut terances but who do not always choose the right adjectives to describe croc-ks as pleasanUy as the crook likes. It Is not uncommon to hear a' real good American say : "That politician ought to be hung." or "That grafter ought to be hung." 'The politician or grafter is sare. iso one is going , to hang him. at least, not now. But. would such a remark not come under this law? Would it not expose the speaker to the penalty attached to the violation of this law? It seems Wonderfully strange, after 145 years of training in liberty and free speech, that we have got to the point where such a law is necessary. There is one of two conclusions : There are some awfully Daa i. vv. w. members, or else the politicians and grafters are getting Bcarea. , Tne wicKea flee when no man pursueth." A printed page of law s their protection would this law affect the reading or tne ueciaration of Independence, which suggests violence in pretty plain terms, if conditions reach a point where those suggestions are required? Sup pose we discover that the person read ing the Declaration of Independence to an audience is guilty under this law. Senator Pierce .tried t educate the 29 that this law would not remedy ; that the cause for discontent ought to- be removed. No effort to deal Vith the cause is discussed ; yet these senators ail know the cause of discontent as well as we do. I shall appreciate any -effort on your part to educate ub in this law, its needs, and why America has degenerated to such .a point that we must keep crtisens in line with un-American legislation un-American because it can be con strued to apply to many a remark that is not dangerous to society. V. F. COOPER. School Changes Urged Portland. Jan. 29. To the Editor ofl oe journal -mere has been much said of late regarding the scarcity of school teachers. J. R. Stuber of "Schoolhouse, District No. 18." has the right idea in his letter of January 18, in which he says to revise the course of study so as to teach the eight grades in six years. But I would have the age limit from eight to l years,"- instead of seven to 16, as Mr. Stuber advocates. Also,. I believe eight months' school per year is plenty to accomplish the work necessary to complete the eight grades In six years. This would leav the summer months for other pursuits so that the pupils could work as apprentices at some trade or profession that would help fit them for the practical side of life. As to the teacher's salary, there should be a minimum that would insure the comforts of life. But the teacher should earn the salary by doing the work allotted and not by putting part of the work upon the pupils, thereby taking the pupils' time from their studies, aa some now do. Under the present school system. If a child Is capable of taking the work of two classes in one term, he ought to be allowed to do so unless it is a detri ment to health. But some teachers plead they have not the time to bother with such. The school is aTumxsed to he. n it ought to be, for tho benefit of the children, and not merely a system to " e joos wun pig salaries to men and women. Another thing that needs a great deal mo attention is the conduct of the children on the school grounds and to and from school. There are a great many fights on school grounds and on me way nome, usually a big boy at tacking a smaller one. The teacher ought to be paying more attention to those In his charge. HW, COOK. A Plan for "Cleaning Up" Granta Pass. Jan. 24 To the Editor of The Journal Please permit me space to submit an Idea, or a plan whereby the people can correct all wrongs or unjust things that may be Imposed upon them and come Into .their, own rights and do it in a sane, civilised way. it costs nothing. This is the plan.. t.et every community place a box. with a card on it showing the subject to be voted, on, on some public corner and every voter write his name, his place of registry and "Yes or "No" on a slip of paper and cast It Into the box which I shall call a soapbox, aa soap Is the most cleansing thinarthat I irnn. of. And let's. clean hp, and let's do It In a civilised way. Ut pi show the world that America can clean un with. out going Into a Bolshevik system of eiausnwr ana plunder. Where is a man who Is sane w ho wanls that kind of a system, when we can gat around it? i reaa tnatso .per cent of the people want to taka war profits to pay war debts. Now, if 90 per cent vote yes on the subject, what will our senators do? I will leave the rest to you, aa space will not permit me tor do' justice to the subject, although J must Quote Theo dore Roosevelt's words where he said If the people were with him he could do much ; If the people were . not with hlm; he could do nothing. President Wilson has used almost the gam words. 1 ow Senator Borah, is calling ' for the aame. ; And I must say that when greed will enter tHe home of the unborn child and Impose abuse upon It through the abuse of the mother. Just to accumulate the almighty dollar, it is time to clean up. . . W. C. JACKSON. Denies Church Opposes Socialism -Portland, Jan. 2S.To the Editor of Tha Journal Some people,' it seems, are under the. impression that the Catholic 5hurch is -opposed to Socialism. For this idea there is not the least founda tion in fact. The Catholic church baa never yet condemned Socialism ex ca thedra or from the chair of Peter. Not until this is done can it be truthfully said that the Catholto church is an op ponent of Socialism. "A few rich men," said Pope Leo XIII. "have been able to lay upon the shoulders of the teeming masses of the laboring poor a yoke lit tle better than that of slavery Itself." This sounds very much like Socialism. But it is a bold statement of fact back of which V tha highest authority of the Catholic church. Some Catholic secu lar publications as well as some of the clergy and laity of that church oppose Socialism, but this opposition is voiced only in the field of economics, the field where files the flag of the Socialist challenge to all opponents. A man who does not demand the full product of his toil is not true to him self and ia very liable to be false to other men. The Socialist demands the full product of his toll and is therefore true to himself. "To thine own self be true," says a great poet, "then it shall follow as the night the day. thou canst not then be false to any man." PATRICK O'HAXXiORAN. Socialism and Christianity Vancouver, Waah., Jan. 26.- To the Editor of The Journal Before It may be determined whether Socialism is anti Christian, the type of Socialism and the blend of Christianity in question must firstly be determined. Scientific So cialism and philosophic Christianity are one and the same thing, and this thing was plagiarized' from the philosophy of Gautama, Christ's precursor of the sixth century, B. C. ; whereas, anarchic. So cialism and mystic Christianity may be any, or all, means of insidious, per nicious and idolatrous false teaching, and both are anarchy, pare and poison ous. There are at least a dozen schools of anarchic Socialism, and not less than 12 dozen cults of Christian spiritualism, all of which are devoid of mode, means and scientific method. Thus both anarchy and mysticism were, are and will continue to be a stumbling block in the pathway of progressive civilisa tion. A BUDDHIST. "Save the Pennies" Estacada. Jan. 27. To the Editor of The Journal Poverty in this blessed country is generally accounted for on the theory that the unworthy poor do not save their, pennies. So the gospel of thrift is preached at the delinquents, who miss all of it, because they have not clothes fit to wear to church nor nickels to purchase the papers. To save their pennies, to squeeze another egg out of a hen, to get up a little earlier, to work a little later, to skim the cream a little closer, to wear the darned old socks a little longer, to pare the cheese a little thinner, or go without it alto getfier this is the song of salvation up to date. It is a sad and mournful song. May the good I-ord save us from such salvation. If this is the way to be saved, what must it be to' be damned? Anyone who can count as high as a million knows that millionaires are nof made such by saving their own pen nies but by stealing other people's dol lars. But the preachers and professors and certain antiquated agricultural ed itors still keep passing round the same old mouldy chestnuts and empty sneus and singing the same old stupid song "Slave, Save and Starve." No wonder atheism flourishes and the seeds of Bolshevism sprout vigorously. in the hotbeds of discontent. The fool killer laughs and Fate spins. And even Fate cannot keep from laughing as she turns her wheel. J. U JONES. The Sawed Wood Shortage Portland. Jan. 24. To the Editor of The Journal An article by a learned man in The Journal recently stated that a man who made a study of the Bible prophecies needed no record of present day levents, so accurately were they being fulfilled. I agree with him. One message in the Bible whleh has always confounded me runs something like this "To him that hath shall be given ; and from him that hath not shall be taken even that which he seemeth to have:" This, I now know, must have been a prophecy, and lo, have I now witnessed its fulfilling with mine own eyes! This winter we have bee en re duced to the necessity of buying sawed wood by the cord. We ordered from one of the many flourishing institutions handling this commodity. My lord and master, being a man of methodical turn, counted tha sticks as he brought them in. finding, they ran far short of the number he knew to be standard for wood of that size. He piled it carefully and sent for the city sealer of weights and measures, who gravely assured us that sawed wood measured only 115 cubic feet to the cord. We had 101, so the company sent ua a check for the short age. In course of time this wood was re duced to ashes. We ordered another cord from the same concern. This also looked shy and measured short. Upon notifying the company the city sealer again came, protesting this particular company's impeccabUityj and his belief in their honesty nerore ne even saw the wood. He gave me a slip for 102 feet. telling me curtly to get my wood In four-foot lengths hereafter. Now I re ceive a credit slip from the fuel com pany for 10 cubic feet. One hundred and twelve cubic feet ot wood ror 19.75 1 Why is not this position under tha federal government, as are scales, in stead of giving it to a man whose living depends upon the ravor or the men whose influence procures him the ap pointment? MRS. 11. H. KUI1N. Spoilers and Drones Portland, Jan. 25. To the Editor of The Journal The question all-absorbing is reconstruction. A great many of the reconstructionists have plans that will be dollars in their own pockets. For tho last 50 years the capitalists have been protesting, while labor has been squeesed from every angle. The real estate promoter has levied about 50 per cent on the farmer, our protective tariff levied 43 per cent on the laborer, and. then the middleman levied at least 30 per cant on each, so labor of all kinds has been ground between the upper and the nether-millstones. Labor Iim been largely relieved by the Underwood tariff law. which, without tha incentive of the war, would have brought pros perity to the laborer, and whleh would have continued If the president haul suc ceeded in getting a congress for 191$ and 1920, We all know what a Repub lican congress will do' for tha country If we have at the name time a Demo cratic' president. We can expect but little of benefit, to the. people, from con gress for the : next two years, so we must look to our state legislatures. The first 'reconstruction work should be in giving Justice between tba land specu lator and purchaser. We are mil agreed that no one created.. the land. and we should be agreed that all the value thera is in Jana berore .there is labor performed is just what tba land will produce. .Our legislature should paaa . a law which would protect the laborer on land. The labor should be appraised and the - real estate dealer should pay for the labor before he could take possession of the property. Jt thera COMMENT AND, , ' SMALL CHANGE' It will be natural for Paderewski, after he has served one term as prime atintster, to expect an encore. Tha near Sinn Fain parliament at Dub lin is carrying on all its deliberations in Gaelic-which is all Greek to us. Very considerate of the city council to give us1 until March 1 in which to get our flu maska in readiness. But why no? make it April 1? r ; . X Anyway, we've never been so fright ened of the "flu' that we wouldn't indulge in. a shot of Spanish, sauce whenever our appetite craved it. Virginia Rapp is a motion picture actress with a California company. We trust -4 that the artistic temperament doesn't make a knocker of Miss Rapp, As ona of the numerous aftermaths of the great struggle, in relation to woman s war work, certain eastern cities are distressed over the . belle-hop ' prob lem. ' a If there were as many ways for Ger many to raise the money as there aro for her not to raise it as per all these self-appointed attorneys for Ger many, her war bill would be just as good as paid right now. s "What'a the matter with Russia? Russia." Thus an esteemed contemp. This diagnosis is very good very good Indeed. It is so good, in fact, that it is just as good -for any other country, with due allowance for Wnd and degree, of course. 1 JOURNAL MAN AT HOME By Fred (A' nonagenarian pioneer of Oregon ia Mr. Ioeklef'a subject today. Thia patriarch ia of a family lastly famed for eminent and honorable participation in tba- atate'a public affair. The afurdineaa of its etock la indicated bjr tba fact that tha original family transplantation to tha eoil of Oregon waa effected by a widow who came hither aeroaa the plain ia 1892. t ringing eight of ber nine children. Benjamin Harrison Irvine of Lebanon is receiving the congratulations of his friends upon celebrating the ninetieth anniversary of his -birth. "Uncle Ben" baa lived in Oregon during the last 66 years. I visited- Uncle Ben and Aunt Becky at their home during strawberry season several years ago. His father. Jesse Irvine, waa' born in Kentucky and moved out to the frontier in Missouri in the very early 'SO's, not long before the Black Hawk war. Jesse Irvine was what they catted in those days a "Mis souri Democrat."- He died in 1840. In 1852 bis widow, Margaret Hadley Irvine, with three of her daughters and i five Bona, made the trip by ox team across tho plains to the Willamette valley. The Oregon country the land of promise proved to be the land of fulfillment for the Irvine family, and today the sons and daughters and grandchildren of Mrs. Jesse Irvine are scattered all over the West. Givie, the oldest daughter, did not come to Oregon when the1 Irvine family migrated in 18S2. She and her husband had a farm In Kentucky and did not 'feel the lure of the West. In France I met a young aviator from Pasadena, Lloyd Cosper by name. He was awarded the Croix de Guerre for bringing down a German plane. What has that to do with the migration of the Irvine family to Oregon In 1852? It has this to do with It : Lloyd's great grandfather was Charles Claggett, who married Polly Irvine, When Polly II vlna was married she and her husband took up a place near Salem. Thirty years ago I used to see on sunny and somnolent summer afternoons Uncle Charley Claggett and a group of Salem pioneers playing croquet on his lawn on Commercial street, In Salem. . - Robert Irvine, another of the children who made the six months' trip across tho plains in 1852, married a daughter of Lige Smith, also of Marion county. Jesse B. Irvine married Emmaline Humphreys, whose people owned a farm on the Santiam river. THE FINE CHAPS By Anthony Special Corresnondenco to The Journal and tha unicaso xauy new, London. Comforting words to the kin of our boys on this aide of the ocean regarding their life, habits, conduct and appearance were enthusiastically voiced in an interview given to roe after days of careful observation by Colonel .Daniel Moriarty. former head of the 7th regi ment, Illinois national guard, and erst while county commissioner of Cook coun ty, hi. Colonel Morlarlty was on his way to France together with 30 other men as one of the main field secretaries of the Knights of Columbus, who are to ngage in Important work in connection with demobilisation. In tha group were men from New York, St. Louis, Kansas City and other places, and these, while listening to the views of Colonel Marlarl ty. joined In with him, declaring they had the same experience sad observation to tell. e e e "I have been connected with soldiers in the Illinois national guard for many years, and I believe that my experience has been intimate and varied1. said the colonel, whp looked younger and spryer In his snug fitting uniform of a Knights of .Columbus secretary than he has In many years. "I found that our soldiers and sailors whom I met here In England and whom I questioned and observed not only are a fine, bright lot of men, but have kept themselves clean. - Not only the various agencies, but thevin fluence of the original home surround-1 was a law protecting our people, in five years we would not know our own country. The price of unimproved land is from two to three times too high. Every grub that is taken out. every house that is built, every fruit tree that is set out. increases the price of the speculator's holdings. The land specu lator Is a drone and ought to be treated Uka the drone. G. w. dowi.nu. Other Northern PaciHc Heroes ir.n-r&. Jan. 22. To the Editor of The Journal A few aays ago you. pub lished the picture and a very inter ih letter of a Portland hero, a navy boy on a submarine chaser, regarding the removal of wounded and other sol diers from the stranded Northern Pa cific It might be construed from the article that no other chasers ware assisting but the ones named. How ever ' I have- a son who is machinist and ' chief petty officer on submarine chaser Calhoun No. So. one pi tne lat est models, finished, only last spring, and he. too. was assisting In that heroic rescue work, and gives likewise a very interesting account of it in a letter home. I also have anoiner wn im navy who ia electrician on tne upma rine F-3. who gives some scary account of his experiences, although he seema to have enjoyed them. He says in train ing they often go out and submerge to the bottom of the briny deep andsthen turn all lights out and aee how quickly they can rise to the surface, all work ing in the darkness of the depths, and when -the officer in charge give an ..-,- te reneated bv the one it ia ' given to. and no qne else speaks which shows each man at his post to do his part - in the clockwork of eomplleated i mechanism. : JU f." "' v"' Change of Child's Name j Jtarshfleld.- Jan. 7-To thejjEditor of NEWS IN BRIEF . OREGON SIDELIGHTS Hood River pari ies-are projecting ' a country club. Including golf course. - The 1 total oounty 'indebtedness of Klamath county is now I132.249.7t. a reduction of ,167,751 since a correspond ing date In 1914 m, All fear of a shut'down of Baker lumber mills has passed, the Democrat says, and operations wUl .now be on a larger scale than, every , ."With the -Introduction of warm weather," says the Crane American of January 24, "work was resumed on the new Crane Mercantile company bulld- ing. . '. r - ' "Parcel post rates are Just about aa cheap as the freight rates on tha Surap-te-r Vallev railroad." says the Canyon City Eatr.e."'and many people have most ail oi weir gooos cmqe iiun.t At Eugene a man going home lata aved his Dursa from holdups by sneak ing it into a package of beefsteak he was carrying. Or, on the other hand, was It the beefsteak that he sneaked into the purse? ,:- . . . ; . . "Salem: the Capital Journal asserts, "never faced a brighter outlook for an era of growth and' prosperity than at the present time, Because or tne prom the fruit? and other :products of the surrounding territory. If the ?lty does not enjoy a marked ' and substantial growth . this year and in" succeeding years it will be the fault of the people of tsaiem Lpckley Few men were better loved or more respected than Jesse B. Irvine.' X vis ited him at his home In Corvalll some years ago and .ne told me many inter esting things asout early days in the forks of the Santiam and about the boyhood days of his son, Frank Irvine, eaitor oi u.ne uregon journal. James Irvine married Luclnda Whit ing. Margaret, the youngest member of the family, married George Hollen beck. After his death she married Rob ert Miller. Milton A. Miller, -collector of Internal revenue. Is their son. Sam Irvine settled on Salem prairie about seven miles from the capital city. Betsy married and also stUed near Salem. Charles L. McNary. United States sen ator from Oregon, is a grandson of "Aunt Polly" Irvlne-Claggett. "Uncle Ben" Irvine, the last surviv ing child of Jesse and Margaret Hadley Irvine, married Sarah Becky Johnson, whose father, Harrison Johnson, had donation land claim in the forks of the Santiam. Aunt Betty died about a year, ago. "We were Missouri Democrats when we settled near Scio, back In 18S2,""sald Uncle Ben as we sat under the trees at his home the last time I visited him "My brother Bob became a Lane Demo crat. He was a great admirer of Gen eral Joe Lane. Jesse, Jim and I were Stephen A. Douglas Democrats. We surely used to have some warm political discussions 50 or 60' years ago. I be came a Republican, but along about the time Mark Hanna was running the Re publican party, I got weaned away from it and became a Prohibitionist. Neither of the old parties would take up the cause of prohibition, so I worked and voted for prohibition." Uncle Ben Is 90 years old and he has lived to., see his dream of nation-wide prohibition come true. He has watched with keen interest the results .of our early Indian wars, the Mexican war, the Civil war, the Spanish-American war and the Philippine insurrection, and he has seen the sons of the North and the sons of the South' fight shoulder to shoulder in Europe to bring liberty to tho world and make the world abetter place to live In. And now, loved and respected by relatives, friends "and neighbors, he awaits with serene con fldence the day when the Great Com mander shall give him his marching or ders to take the long trail to the prom ised land on the other side of the river. "OVER THERE" Czarneckl lngs in America of our boys have had a telling effect here. They are fine in their appearance and in their conduct In fact, they are the finest soldiers and eatl ora l have seen on this side of the ocean It Is a splendid credit to the mothers and fathers as well as the homes in America that as a whole they will come back as good as . when . they left our shores, though more experienced. Many agen cles. both of this country and those which stretched their hands from home across the sea, have been carefully guarding and aiding our boys. Too much praise cannot be given,, for the great amount of unselfish work that you see done for them on all sides; " "Our boys 'are a healthy, active lot and compare most favorably with all the others. The war experience will be a great thing for every -soldier and sail or who was across the sea, and when X look upon them I feel more keenly the fact that in spite of all I tried -tip do I could not come across with my boys when tney came over here.. If I had not been too old, in spite of my experi ence - or many years in the national guard as an officer, I should have en listed as a private. "--However, now; for the Knights of Columbus, and through their kindness, with other splendid men I am going over to see my old boys and be of help to them as they go home or wnerever tneir auty may call them. I am a. soldier now working In the cause of helping our fighting men, and am glad to be here." ? The Journal Is it possible to change ar cnuaa name rrom the mother's maiden name to her husband's' name, or from ner husband s name, she being married some time before the child was born? READER. m l born in wedlock the child .take the name of the father. If born out of wedlock it takes tha mother's name, nnlesa the mother glrea tt th name of the reputed father. Names, once i n, n oniy po-eaatigwi py court proceedings, j Wilson the People' Man Independence. Jan. 27. To the Editor or -me journal I feel. that some of our leading statesmen should be more co operative with president Wilson's plana, rather than denounce the absence of our president from the United states. We know our president is determined to do the ' will of the peoples f the worlds who have put thelp confidence in him aa a deliverer.. He will never snim nis duty, t Our country needs this man of all men to keep the United States a peaceful country. - V R. E. POBTERFIELD, Olden Oregon How a Nervy Pioneer Got a Sailboat ' to the Snake River. W. H. Gray waa the first man to run a . sailboat of much also with regular freight up the Snake river. That - was in i860, before steamboats were placed otrthe ; river Gray built hla boat, a 60-ton sloop, on Oosyooa lake, on the Okanogan river. In it he descended that river to its confluence with the Colum bia. Thence he descended the Colum bia, running down the Entiat. Rock island. Cabinet and Priest rapids no slight undertaking. At Five Mile rapids he found his sail was insufficient to carry tha sloop uw Men-ald it was Im possible' for him. to ascend. "The aloon waa taken up on an Improrls'ed cable. - Ragtaand Bobtail Stories From Everywhere . Greek Herts Creek II117HATS coming off, out in front there?" asked the proprietor of the Tote Fair atore in Tumllnvllle. Ark. tquoted In the Kansas City Star). a co u pie oi ,ieuers xrom etraaie Ridge swapped mules." replied the "clerk, "and now each la accusing the other of skinning him." :. Well, then, why don't they trade oackl-' "I reckon they are both afraid of getting skinned again." The Ultimate Bliss Aftar tha war ia oeer After -I get bark home. .. I hare but ona ambition . - Under tha heaven's dome. 'after tha war arer ,' ' (That Is, tf I m not d.ad). ' - I shall ba happy all ever. I'm going to bed In a Bed I 'Carolyn .Walla in Everybody'i ... Uncle Jeff Snow Says: Jed Hi lacker, who paid $4.25 for bottle of cold tea last week, is - some pessimist, ' Jed has f Iggered out tint with a sufferin public dependin on boot leggers fer enthusiasm, and the bootleg gers dependin' on moonshiners fer the foundation stuff, and the moonnhtners liable to be .snooted out by revenue of ficers in flyln machines, there won't be no more Fourth o July', Christmas, New Tear nor harvest home celebration worth goin' acrost the road to see. Jed would emigrate to Italy or somewheres. but he lows he loves the American flag and wants to aell some of his logged oft land first. The 'News in Paragraphs World Happenings Briefed for Benefit Of Journal Readers GENERAL. ,'; -By orders of a circuit court in Hono lulu newsgirla have been abollahed from the streets. Smith W. Conklin, a millionaire, waa shot and killed at Fathcogue, N. Y.. by a detective, who tried to kill himself. Leaders of the maritime workers at Buenos Aires announce that they have organised to continue the port strike in- aenmteiy. General Pershing reports that by April he will be dispatching American troop) homeward from France at the rate of 300,000 monthly. - . Louts F. Post, assistant secretary of labor, predicts that a pertoa or un equaled prosperity will follow the re adjustment period. I Government control of telephone and telegraph lines would end December 31. under a resolution favorably reported. to tne nouse Tnursaay. The 12 federal reserve banks broke records In 1918' by piling up an aggre gate or oo,at,ou(r net earnings, as com pared with 811.202,000 in 1917. Army aviation plans in - connection with the proposed army of 600,000 men call for 1003 airplanes operated - by zuuu oriicers ana xz.ooo men. Lieutenants George P. Lercett. an avi ator, whose' home is at Fairfield, la., was killed at San Dlero, Wednesday, wnen nis airplane feu 600 feet. --.--.-. sv. k-ini .aii m j dress at Sharon, Pa., Thursday night on , reconstruction and the problem of employment lor returning soldiers. A convention of the League of the Southwest to discuss the annexation of Lower California ia to be held in Los Angeles the latter part of February. A new Issue of 2800,000,000 In treaau certificates, bearing 4V4 per cent in terest and payable July 1, was nut on the market by Secretary Glass Thurs day. - , , The repair ship Prometheus arrived nt New York from Brest Wednesday after having been stationed in the Bay of Biscay since the United States entered the war. A measure' modifying homestead law privileges In favor of soldlerx who served in the war or on the Mexican border has been reported favorably' in the eenate. , NORTHWEST NOTES. The Wan 'enton Commercial club hss voted to join the Oregon State Chamber of Commerce. Father O'Neill of ITIllsboro haa been appointed parish priest for St. Cecelia's parish at Beaverton. has adopted a resolution calling for the expulsion from Canada of all enemy aliens. " A bill In the Washington legislature which .would permit the marketing of cull apples Is being fought by the state horticultural commissioner.' During the season of 1818 the Sheri dan cannery paid out 1125,000 for fruits and $18,000 for labor. The total output was 3000 tons of earmed goods. Prisoners in the Snohomish county Jail were detected extracting alcohol from corn syrup ?over a slow lire. The still waa seized and search disclosed a half pint of aleohol that had been made. Captain T. K. Brown of Ellensbtirg. Wash., Just returned from overseas, has announced hla 'candidacy for cons-res") next year, to eucread Dr. J, W, Sum mers of Walla Walla. A aaaaeSMAi Iflt aSrl rs - 9i !CTi aiV I HsHAn authorities that producere'of apmce on the Pacific coast who had informal agreements) with the spruce production division will receive their money. Charred, with appropriating to Til own use certain food stores belonging to the army.- Cajrtain W. J. Krgensinger, coast artillery corps has been dishon orably discharged from the army. a -si hi- s FOREIGN. Kins- Peter of Serbia, who has been ill for some time, has suffered a second stroke of apoplexy. Br January IS the whole of Oer- many's western army had bean trans ported to eemoDUisauon centers. ., Dr. Alexander Cesar, a prominent sur geon., haa been appointed representative of .Nicaragua at the peace conference. Spartacan forces have overturned the arnvernmenti in Wilhelmshaveii. Gr- rftany. and occupied the banks and pub lie buildings. Oscar T. Crosby, president of the In terallied Council for War Purchases and Finance, and General Tasksr 1L LUps of the council have resigned. arce cooies or lurKian troops nave-, -ffttnsu Tartar hni4 afit. ara atfainsr4 Armenian villages. About 20.000 people were- slaughtered in Baku and vicinity. Th belief Is expressed In French of ficial circles thta the preliminaries for peace will be finished and ready for submission, between March 13 and March 31. - . , Consider the Squirrel ; but Dont Be a "Nut!" Buy W. S. S. ' fStorlei of aehleeement in tha seeaisn'a tione of War Serine Htampa aent to The Joarnal and aeoeptable for publication will ba awarded a Thrift Stamp. ) The squirrel doesn't have to be taught thrift. He knowa he must store up nuta for the Jong winter. Gee! The. squirrel haa got a lot on some of usj Let's plajp squirrel And let's play Thrift Stamps are nuts and store up a lot of them for the long winter when we can't earn aa much as we can today. - Jt'a foolish to work for money and then let the money- loaf. Put it to work. - Let Uncle Sam have it by buying War Savings Stamps. 'Thrift Stamp and 1919 War Fiv Inga Stamps now on eale at u- .1 agencies.- , -i