THE OREGON DAILY JOURNAL, PORTLAND, MONDAY, FEBRUARY C, 1C1D. i ROETETOlCTt KW8PAPEtt fX- JACKSO.V i...... . .Publisher PubJwtaed every day, afteroooa and morning (cs- eept nuuaay hwhohj i i am otu ins, Broadway and Tsmbill street, Portland, umoia bnicrra as tne ronmiice at roruaou, vivbwh, for tranfmiasioa through the mails a second iiXEFHO. K8 tUi T178; Home,; A-406L, Alt departments raacbad by these mabtn. iOREIO.N ADVERTISING REPRESENTATIVE iwnjtmm as aaiunor ' miunKi siuini, 226 Fifth inniM,. Nt Jk( 0 JUlkn KuUrting. Cnicego. j, hibscripfloa term by mail in Orern and Waah- U ' HA1LT (MOB5ISO Ot AFTKHJTOOJf) 'fCtoa year IS.OO I One month. ... .8 .(0 8 - SVSVAX' "-" ', ;j On year...... 12.60 I Om month t .28 U SAiLT (MOHNINO OB AFTEBNOOJO AND SUNDAY ;-no -yrar. .17.50 I One month . Thou wilt find rest from vain fancies if thou doeat every act in life a though it Were thy lust. Ms reus Aureliu Antoninus. ON TRIAL , fyHE people of the United States T own janas mac contain more than 600,000,000 barrels of oil, tJ fiTtf fW trvnn f Aol - 00,000 acres of phosphate lands and , 5 more than 50,000,000 undeveloped I fevater horsepower. t: That "legislation Is now pending in Wongrcss to trade or give all of it "kway" Is the statement of Glfford ipinchot. Bills passed by the house are mainly sound; the senate bills ljp.re bad. There is a serious danger that the senate bills' will be jammed J through In the dying hours of the present session, one senate dm, jfavbile masquerading as a leasing bill, I Would surrender with the title all "control of waste, output, price and Tt.abor conditions. It would foster jr speculation in coal, oil, gas and I phosphate and give no assurance f'of prompt development. Even the leasing provisions afford no protec tion to the public against extortion monopoly. Jz Worse still, the bill gives title to -'fraudulent oil claimants, many of f-Avhom have already had their claims "denied by the courts. Finally, there I is a joker in the bill which would I ovcthrow the present lease law for coal lands in Alaska, and would turn those lands over forever to, private hands, A leasing bill was passed -by the house May 23 last. The house also passed a bill covering water power, power on navigable streams, on pub- i Uo lands and national forests and In torn a t i Anal ivd(opwdvo A Unoa I added -by the house brought out op- 1 position . from the president to the Matter bill, but the measure was passed over his protest. I These bills are all in conference. 2 n the hurry of the last moments !,cf the session, measures may go through that will open the way for further plunder of the people's gpatural resources. a A . Democratic, congress is on trial ren ;a great issue of safeguarding f the people's interests. I "No penniless soldiers are found in jJParis,' says General Pershing in a . rttalement (to the American people, pie adds: "There are Individual cases of delayed payments due to a change a- the pay system which took place urlng 'hostilities. .The new pay sys em enables a soldier to get pay . I from the paymaster when money , is fttue i him." Pershing is accounted (good authority. SCORE OXE FOR AMERICA HE Springfield Weekly Republican comments at some length on th.e I which has lately been decided i In favor of the defendant by the state supreme court. I The origin of the case was inter- : testing. A certain ' lawyer exerted thlmself diligently and crookedly on feehalf of the vice combine in a - Jjew Mexican town. His decent, pro- ifessional brethren tried to have, him fdisbarred for his performances. But Jthe vice combine was powerful. Its rwires stretched into unforeseen quar- i: ters. r ; 1 The judge of the local district became active in the. crooked law- yer's aerense. He made 4 affidavit before the state bar, examiners, who - r,had j urisdlotion ' of he affair, that ?the lawyer was a model of all the . jvirtues, ! or" something to that effect. . ' Thei affidavit ; .was enough. The ferooked lawyer was set free with all bla . imperfections on his head. I At this stage of the plot entered tthe editor of the Santa Fe New Mexican, a newspaper whose devo tion to the public -welfare deserves 'praise. He published articles to show -that the' Judge's political, business and personal affiliations might have -prompted him" to file his affidavit jon behalf of the crooked lawvr - Somewhat earlier in the progress ci . xne - meioarama ,-. ine . lawyer and his pals ; had ! procured; the indict - -ment of the New Mexican newsnaDw J for criminal libel, -and the " trial of f the Indictment was pending before i i the Judge although nothing ' had been done In It .for months. The case was dead.' But the judge now contended that f the newspaper's at tack upon him for his affidavit "Im paired his ability to administer jus tice"" in the trial : of the indictment for criminal llb. So he sentenced the editor to Jail for contempt of court. 1 . The editor .naturally appealed to the supreme court.' . His lawyers took high ground, standing for the constitutional and American rignt to '; a free press ; and free speech. They argued too, that If the editor could be jailed for attacking a ques tionable lawyer who had allied him self with a, questionable judge, any vice combine, thereafter could run to cover . in the courts and save itself safe from pursuit. The state supreme court sustained the editor on every point. It de cided that a judge, may not use contempt proceedings to protect him seV from personal criticism nor may vice shield Itself under the judicial ermine. It !s a stunning victory for American principles. ' The legislative - committee of ' the houe .at Salem has reported a bill favorably which will please the peo ple of "Oregon. It is the Richardson bill to start off the investigation of the school land frauds with an ample appropriation to pay its expenses. Every penny invested in that cause jpromises to bring back dollars for the good of the school children. BOUSE BILL 77 ET AL ON THE fourth of November, 1913, the workmen's compensation law was adopted by the people In a voie oi bijsw to zs.mjb. II was an overwhelming mandate of nearly three to one. The measure carried every county in the state. The vote in Baker was 1060 to 685. In Benton it was 1249 to 485. in Clatsop 16400 292, in Co lumbia 1358 to 316. TO votein Hood River county was six to " one, in Josephine four to one, in Klamath three to one, in Lane three to one, in Multnomah three to one, with all other counties voting overwhelming ly in approval. That vote was the people's rejec tion of the efforts of ambulance chasers and casualty companies to beat the law. The preceding legisla ture had passed it, and 'the casualty companies and damage suit lawyers had invoked the referendum upon it. The verdict of the people was an emphatic approval of the compensa tion act and an equally emphatic repudiation of the old system of casualty insurance, damage suits, con gested courts, Increased taxes and be deviled people. . House bill 77 . at Salein virtually proposed to scuttle .the compensation act by amencimeftts which gwouid cut. the; heart out of its best pro visions. It would deprive the employe of the -progress he has . made against the fellow' servcjit and contrib utory negligence provision. It would give the employe the right to elect whether . or not to accept the adjustments of the acci dent commission or hire a lawyer and go to court in a damage suit. which in turn would force the em ployer to. resort again to casualty insurance, court trials and all the follies of the old order. The people in 1913 spoke, and spoke with emphasis on the exact issues presented In house bill 77. Under the highly satisfactory conditions brought about by the law in clear ing court calendars of congestion, they would speak In far more em phatic terms now. It would be time wasted to pass the pending bill. It would be referended and be beaten to death at the polls. The bill at Salem for counties to buy In property on which taxes are delinquent would eliminate the spec ulators who sometimes profit heavily from such investments. Since the county Is always compelled to bid in the undesirable property why! not also let it buy the better holdings? THE CONFERENCE THE Northwest league of nations conference to be held ini Port land February 16 and 17, ishould pe a notable meeting. Delegates are expected from' Oregon, Washing ton and Idaho Mr. Taft will be here with a number of eminent speakers. The conference should diffuse un derstanding of the league's alms among the masses and greatly v en hance; its fundamental popularity. Its weakness in the United States up to the present has been the fail ure on; the part of its advocates to reach the masses with their propa ganda. '.The leaders, realize this and are endeavoring to remedy It by holding nine, great conferences from which popular propaganda may spread far and wide. People in general have taken the idea of the - league . for something desirable as a matter ot course because they were told that it was desirable, but they have not really thought much about it. The purpose of the coming conference 'I to make them think. .- Not until the masses have become active partisans of .the league will it take deep root In our national polity, and- this partisanship can only be procured ; by t live debate and open discussion. ' ', It Is perhaps not' too much to hope that by the time I the Portland -conference assembles adefinite framework-for the) league of nations win have been given to the world from the peace table at Versailles, Thus far the league h.as been hardly more than an abstract idea, attractive In Itself and promising immense advan tages to the world, but lacking sub stance. 4' ; . .; '-; i 'I I' ' ) ' Those ' who . promote it stand In much the same situation as Madison and Hamilton would if they had been obliged to argue for the adoption of the United States constitution with out being able to say what the eon styuaUon was. Fortunately for them and us they had the document in their hands as they spoke and wrote and ' could cite it sentence by sen tence. When the promoters of the league of nations are able to tell us exactly I what the league means by reference to a defiqite framework their task vUl become far less Arduous than it is now. That is no doubt one of the reasons why President Wilson contends that the - framing of" the league should Je the first work of the peace conference. There will never be another Ger man kaiser. Or German autocracy. In extending ' American trade to the ends of the earth, might it not be desirable for some American sales men, American consular agents. American tradesmen and other Amer icans engaged in trade extension to be able to speak the German lan guage, at least in the many regions where the German tongue is exten sively used? It is one thing for school boards to put the German language out of the schools. It Is quite another thing to legislate It out of Oregon.. THE FLU "C UT out of your newspapers all mention of flu and your death rate will drop .50 or 75 per cent," is the advice given by a correspondent In a recent Journal. The history of the epidemic in Portland 'doesn't square with his contention. Take the second flu wave in Port land: There had been little mention of flu in the papers for a consider able period, and on January 14 the new cases were 422 and the deaths 17. January 15 there were 514 new cases and 22 deaths.. There was then in its beginnings the campaign headed by -Dr. Sommer with new measures adopted and full account in the newspapers of what was being done. A gradual subsi dence of Uie epidemic at once set in. January 31 there were 22 new cases and two deaths. February 1, the new cases up to noon were 24, the deaths one. There was exactly the same ex perience in the first flu vyave in Portland." Health authorities, througn publicity in the second wave, put their measures into effect, made a flax .quarantine, a real, quarantine, ed ucated the people on how to observe precautions and cut the death rate around 1000 per cent In a" little more than two weeks. The Eskimos of Alaska read no newspapers. But they are dying by thousands. Flu has wiped out whole villages. Prices in some lines at least are beginning to fall. Every cut in the cost of things increases the buying power of War Stamps. Every Stamp you buy is a loan made by you to the government to help pay the war bill. The government protects you against loss and pays you com pound Interest. Every Stamp bought from your savings safeguards you against a rainy . day. Nowhere in the world is there a safer or better investment. Hold the War Stamps you have and buy more. 4 MOUNT HOOD THE project or building a "scenio road" around Mount Hood Irre sistibly attracts the lover of . a i ' . . , lauascape oeauiy. us economic features may possibly be somewhat less alluring, though If it would traverse a rich agricultural region, as Mr. "Holman says it would, t might be profitable to the pocket as well as the soul. - The more accessible Mount Hood is made the more travel It will at tract. The world is so crowded with beautiful scenery easy to reach that tourists are disposed to shun places difficult of approach. Particularly do they like comfortable hotels, which are not too expensive. In the good old days of European travel Switzerland drew tourists al most as much by its cheap and ex cellent hotels as by its scenery. Those good old days are quite likely to be with us again before a great while. ! Everything indicates a rush of travel to Europe as soon as pass ports and transportation are obtain able. The battlefields will be visited, the ruined - cities mourned over. Paris will be doubly delightful: for the long privation it has endured. ; To compete with such attractions Ore gon must put her best foot forward. A scenio road around Mount Hood would help materially. 'Whether this is the best time to undertake such a project is, of course, open to debate. .The cost might be considerably less a few years from now when wages and materials are lower. But on the other hand, the construction of ex tensive public works is one of the crying needs of ? the day. Oregon, as well as .the rest of the country, is threatened ' with : un employment. The army .of .Idlers Js not yet disastrously large in Oregon, but, according to reports it acquires constant accretions. " Nobody can say what its numbers may be six months from now unless timely 4 measures are taken to draw off the idlers into productive" work.' " There f"Fno work more productive 'than , roadbuliding. Mr. Holman assured us that - this projected road would give access to a large area : of tillable land. It would, therefore. Increase 'our popu lation, add to j our-tood production; and enhance Portland's trading terri tory, while at the same time it would open to tourists a region of wonder ful interest and beauty. There is reason to believe that the tourist business will be one of Oregon's principal sources of Income hereafter. Perhaps "the sooner we arrange to Mevelbp it the better. Advertising of the Delinquent Taxpayer Forbidden Froat Printer's Ink Realizing that the publication . in newspapers of delinquent tax lists Is a needless waste of public money as well aa an unnecessary and often humiliating burden Imposed on the tin fortunate taxpayer, the Oregon Jour nal caused a bill to be placed upon the ballot at the recent election In that state, repealing the provision of law requiring the publication of the de linquent tax lista and substituting therefor a notice of delinquency by mail. As long ago as 1905, this newspaper began an agitation for the repeal of the delinquent' tax publication law. Present at the legislative sessions of 1915 and 1917 were representatives of the newspaper urging the ; passage of such a bill. But In each instance, failure was the result. The conclu sion was forced upon the publisher tnat this law, now become economically unsound and unbusinesslike, could be changed! only by vote of the people, and a bill was initiated and placed upon the ballot. Now, the cost of publishing annually tue delinquent tax lists in Multnomah county. In which is located the . city of Portland, is about $12,000. while the cost throughout the entire state is aproxlmately $30,000 per year. It is estimated that the total cost of notifying tax delinquents by letter, as provided in the measure recently adopted by the .people of the state. -will not exceed $2000 a year. 8 an evidence that the bill had the state-wide approval of the people, it passed by "a majority in excess of one fourth of the total votes cast. Striking at a kindred evil, the Ore gon Journal initiated a measure regu lating the publication of all legal no tices such as summons, sheriff's sales. Insurance companies' reports, etc This bill was also adopted in spite of the determined fight waged against It by practically the entire press of the state. While many publishers feel that the discontinuance of this form of adver tising, which generally brought the top or a still higher rate, is a, distinct loss of ineome to which they are en titled, it should not take them long to appreciate the fact that what is poor business for the people of the state is . poor business for the pub lishers. Letters From the People (Communication tent to Tht Journal for pub Hcation in this department abonld.be, written on only one aide of the paper, lbould not axceed 300 words in length ami must be aimed by the writer, whose mall addrew in full must aotwmpanr the contribution.) ' Relating to Reconstruction Portland, Jan. $0. -To the Editor of The Journal Here Is a passage from the writings of Herbert Spencer that Is pertinentln these days of reconstruc tion : "Had we to deal with the parties who originally robbed the human race. .f Its heritage, we might make short woik of the matter. "Why not make short work of the matter anyhow? For this robbery is not like the robbery of a horse or a sum ot money, that ceases with the act. It Is a fresh robbery that goes on every day and every hour. It is not from the prod uce of the past that rent la drawn ; it is from the produce of the present. It is a toll levied upon labor constantly and continuously. Every blow of the ham. mer. every stroke of the pick, every thrust of the shuttle, every throb of tNe steam engine, pays its tribute. It levies upon the earnings of men who, deep underground, risk their lives, and of those who over white surges hang to the reeling masts ; it claims the just reward of the capitalist and the fruits of the inventor's patient effort; It takes little children from school and compels them to work before their bones are hard or their muscles are firm ; it robs the shivering of warmth ; the hungry of food ; the sick of medicine ; the anxious of peace. It debases and imbrutes and embitters ; it crowds families from eight to 10 into a single squalid room: it fills the gin palace and groggrery with those who have no comfort in their homes; it makes lads who might be useful men candidates for prisons and penitenti aries ; it fills brothels with girls who might have known the pure joy of motherhood ; it sends greed and all evil passions prowling through society as -a hard winter drives the wolves to the abodes of men ; it darkens ,f alth in the human soul, and across the reflection of a just and merciful creator drawa. the veil of a hard and blind and cruel fate ! "It is not merely robbery in the past, it Is robbery in the present a robbery that deprives of their birthright the In fants that are now coming Into the world. Why should we hesitate about making short work of -such a system? Because -1 was robbed yesterday and the day before, and the day before that, is it any reason-' that I should suffer myself to be robbed today and tomorrow any reason that I should conclude that the robber had acquired a vested right to rob me? - 11 the land belongs to the people why continue to permit landowners to take the ' rent, or Compensate them in any manner for the loss of rent? Con sider what! rent is. It -does not arise spontaneously from land ; it . is due to nothing that the landowners have done. It represents a value created by the whole community; Let the landholders have, if you please, all that the possession of the land would give them in the absence of the rest of the community. But rent. the creation of the whole community, necessarily belongs to the whole com munity." J. It- HERMANN. Would Abolish State Senate Carlisle, Waslw Jan. 28. To the Edi tor of The Journal I have Just read your editorial beginning with this sen tence : "How would it do for the house and- senate committees on roads at Salem to hold joint meetings and act in concert in framing road legislation?" While indorsing the editorial, I want to ask. how would it do for the citizens of Oregon (of whom I am one), to abol ish that worse than useless institution known as the state senate? -To call it "worse than useless ts to put It mildly. It is hard to understand, after the won derful lead taken by Oregon In direct legislation and other; political reforms, why there Is not a determined more to stop the utter nonsense, not to say anything of the huge expense, of that absolutely useless appendage to our not over-useful legislature. 1 wish every Oregonian who reads this would get a small blank book at once and enter in it every Item of delay, expense, loss of seeded legislation and the hundred and one other things that , will be plainly In evidence before this legislature ad journs, as a debit: charge against the senate, and in all fairness, if be hears of any one advantage arising from hav ing two. houses instead of only one," give the senate full credit. Then let us hear not full accounts, for we alt know most of the debits but let us hear any and every credit earned by that body. It won't take much apace. - SB. MOBSS. Those Who Didn't Get to Go Klamath- Kails, Jan. 2S. To the Edi tor of The Journal In a letter in The Journal of January 11 "One Who Didn't Get to Go" seems to think it a hardship that the soldiers who were sent overseas should be given preference -in employ ment over those in uniform who were as anxious to go and do their parts at the points of danger and credit, but were not permitted to go. His letter is so sincere and conservative that it seems worthy of notice. Those accepted for enlistment or draft and sent to the camps passed a rigid physical examination and, excepting by accident, are presumably still in excel lent physical condition. More than that, they have- had most unusual advantages of training of body and mind which the better fits them for life in general and for Immediate hustlinc for Jobs. Thousands of those overseas, if at or near the front, and though not serious ly wounded, underwent experiences which will leave long lasting, perhaps ure lasting conditions of body or mind. perhaps both, from which those who didn't get to go will be grateful they are free. There are thousands of others who because of some slight "physical defect," or because they were a few years, or perhaps many years too old, were not permitted to go -even to the training camps. But they also were Just as anxious to go; and thousands of us have lived on "short rations" and worked and denied ourselves in hun dreds of ways the world will never know, and have given liberally of our scant means for the support, education and superior comforts and medical care of those at the training camps as well as inose overseas. "Certain inequalities are an inevitable result of war. In the course of time tnose at the head of adjustment of af fairs, and others as well, will learn that help belongs not to any one class nor because of any one circumstance, but because of needs and merits. In the meantime let us all be patient, and if we can't be patient then be as patient as we can. EARNEST WHILE. I. Walker and I. B. Getem Portland, Jan. 81. To "the Editor of The Journal Why the public notice to look out for J. Walker? The gentleman doesn't walk over women and children, the people don't scatter when they see mm coming, and the army of traffic of' fleers don't expect him to kill people and run down policemen. Why not watch I. B. Getem, who will testify he ran over Mr. walker because he did not stop or because he did stop. His own testimony concedes his guilt and that Mr. Walker had no chance. People with umbrellas are plainly to be seen and are an easy mark for a killing. If permitted to carry sidearms for self defense they would have an even chance when I. B. Getem is at large with his delirium and a high fever. E. F. FUNK. Wants No Militarism Walla Walla, Wash.. Jan. 30. To the Editor of The Journal While Mr. Wil son is trying to make the- world safe for democracy, the reactionists, the imperialists and the militarists have started in again to foster the Bolshevik spirit in the United States by trying to saddle the country with the para phernalia of despotism universal mili tary training. Do they think they can make a Prussian serf. In time of peace, of a free American? Do they really want to start a revolution in order to hold their soft position in time of peace? As Senator Townsend said in a late senate speech, "These officers never had so prominent a position be fore in their lives and they would like to keep their men in line as long as possible. Some of the soldiers are al most In rebellion because of the treat ment received and are now receiving. (Congressional Record, January 22). I should think the example of Ger many, after 40 years of preparation "to keep the peace of Europe," beaten to her knees, would teach . all nations the futility of military preparation as a method of keeping the peace. It is a crime almost as great as war Itself. Tou truly say. "This country has not yet been so Inoculated with the virus (good word, for It surely is foul matter) of militarism that it is ready to submit to the dictatorship of the general staff a military autocracy. I have talked With "soldiers who want no more army life." "This is the last chance of the -militarists, and they know it. That's why sporadic crops of universal military training bills spring up in congress, only to die for lack of nurture, In com mittee. Such proposals have not the s-host of a reason, now war is over. There is no future for the militarists. For tho first time in the world's history war has made the worklngmen of the world think. A. JOHNSON. - Calls for Farmers' Roads Salem, Jan. 31 To the Editor of The Journal Last night at the state house we listened to eloquent speeches on the road question. I paid particular atten tion to Mr. Thompson of Pendleton, who is a member of the state highway com mission, who said they would speed up and complete the Columbia and Pa cific hishways and asked the members of the legislature to brace up and vote a $10,000,000 bond issue, so they could complete the road program. We have no objection to the Columbia, the Pacific, or any other highway, nor the bond Issue, but the road program of two years ago was made before America entered the war, and at present, pro prams ; and treaties are set aside to meet conditions that are now confront ing us. The facts are these : The most important business Is to produce foodstuffs for the human race; so, to the farmers of Eastern Oregon, who produce wheat by the millions of bushels, we say, "speed up." and to the small dairy farmers of Western Ore gon, we say, "speed up and. take good care 'of your sucking calves and milk your cows "mush on" hand your milk to the market seven days in the week in mud. rain, or sunshine, as there are thousansd of children In the United States and millions of our allies crying for milk and yv will get our reward and go down in history as benefactors of the human race. But let us insist that the market roads are entitled to receive careful consideration. E. WENSTROM. Seeking a Mess of Pottage From the Medford Mail-Tribune. Th. ttirmer the welcome that PreaU . urtluni nvcivc from the Manias and governments of Europe the bitterer, unm and venomous tha criti cisms hurled at him by political oppo nents f-Z nome. v vn n omca w ciit itrmr dawa : for" a similar recru- descense of partisanship. Instead of sup porting the leadership which has won world .? wwe acciaim jw ucewui -forts to win the war, and standing unit- COMMENT AND , . SMALL CHANGE u One leather coat doesn't make an "ace." . . , "Multimillionaire plies needle," reads a headline. Wonder what be uses. We take it that there was bo yellow at any rate in America's colored troop ers. " I " . - we suggest a monument to the lassies whoput the doughnuts Into the dough While cheering returned soldiers and sanorsbear In mind that a Job will cheer them most. Hustle may do thething In IS hours of toil In sweat and dust efficiency, thinks, pushes a button . and it ia ac complished. Sheldon. If you build castles in the air, yeur 1 -kTTL n2i K. l08t ; th"- where they should be. Now put the founda tions under them. Thoreau. lo?na - Edith Hyde, 22. has been declared by leading artists to be the most beautiful woman in New York. A case. It would seem, wherein beauty Is but Hyde deep. The former German kaiser, the wires say. is going to grow a full beard. But hell realise, before they get through with him at the peace table that he's had a mighty close shave. j Considering his wide and successful experience in pounding the ivories, may we not reasonably expect that Mr. Paderewskl will have considerable suc cess in knocking some sense into the Bolshevik! in Russia? JOURNAL MAN AT HOME By Fred ft.tten from aa Oreftfn soldier Tsar, now aerrinc with tha army of oeru nation In Germaaj, are Introduced in evidence by Mr. Look ley today. Beeide the actual interacting information they convey, they are of intereat and value as show, inc. quite unconsciously, the American soldier boy's attitude toward the : business of being a warrior. J . When I knew Myrton Moore in Pendle ton he was more interested in marbles and tops than in potting Germans, but today be is "over there," doing his bit to help bring freedom to Germany as well as the rest of the world. Myrton Is not yet 20 years old. He is the son of William Moore, collector, of customs for this district. " Here are two interesting letters that Myrton has written to his mother. The first is dated December 7 : "We are. still hiking through Germany. It Is a wonderful trip down the Moselle river, almost as beautiful and pictur esque as some parte , of the states. The hills are almost perpendicular and the people have terraced them and planted Trapes. They are carrying manure on their backs up the steep slopes to fer tilize the grapevines. The people over here farm a rocky hillside and pasture a plain. It seems queer to be friends with people whom you would have shot on sight a month ago. We were billeted last night In Enklrch. In the house we were billeted in was a German artillery man who had fought against ' us In Pl cardy and Montdldler, and was wounded there. All the Germans that were sol diers seem pleased that the war is over." The other letter, dated December 18, was written from Ebernhahn. Germany : "I received your letter of November 12 and was pleased to hear that you were all well -and happy over the armistice You spoke of your desire to have been with us and to see us celebrate. I think you would have- been disappointed, as there 'was very little cheering. No orte could believe it was really over, We had heard of the German envoy coming across the lines, but thought nothing would come of Jt, We had been relieved at the front and were in reserve, and were inarching back when a lieutenant came riding by on a horse. He said the ar mistice had been signed and that the fighting was to cease at 11 a.l m. The way the guns were going then It seemed like one side or the other woulcl get sore and start it over again, but at 11 a. m. everything was quiet. Everybody ONE OF THE PLANS FOR PALESTINE By Ben Special Correspondence to The Journal and tha Chicaco Daily News. , London If the plans and ambitions of the recently proclaimed nation of Judea are fulfilled. Louis Brandeis. now justice of the United States Supreme court, win be the first of the new rulers of Israel. The dream of the renatlonal lsation of Palestine, which has lived for 2000 years in the hearts of the Jews, is fast entering the realm of reality. Judea is sending its delegates to the peace conference. Its existence as a na tion has been recognised by the allies, its declaration of independence has been signed and its diplomats and politicians are already busy molding the future of its institutions. j Ittimar Ben AvT lsthe first of its peace ,r ih London. An impas sioned idealist who already vislons.Judea enrolled among tne great powers m world Is Ben Avl. But his idealism and 1.1- o citation on behalf Of Judea have not impaired his worth as a diplomat. I "Israel cannot leap to its feet, full ii,hU" he exnlained. "It has been scattered and dormant too long. As delegate to tne peace conisrenw, am to outline the demands of the new Judea. The first and most Important of these is the political desirei of the TT.v.... nation. We desire a British trusteeship for a period of 25 years. W do not want to estannsn a paniaraenv w - tihIm tnr sit least 25 years. The British have emancipated us from the Turk. Great Britain is more capaoie overseeina Palestine as a colony than any mer one cum.u j. edly back of the president In jhla en deavor to end the old regime of ithe rule of autocratic might and Install that of democratic right, utmost endeavor is o n riiacredlt the president ISC alaS iutwuw - before our allies and lend support to the reactionary influence, wnicn, m - i imarli-s- seek td fperpetu- ate the old regime of privilege, and the rule of force. I . r. . C a m Unl t A SMHM TO 1 no uiuvto - . have sadly degenerated. It spends most of its thns damning the president. No matter what he suggests or prgjwew, . n, loaves undone), it is wnsi u, " - proper theme to set the tongue wagging of this bunch of political scaldalmong- ers. ! 1 I According to European . papers, , jno foreign visitor ever receiver popular welcome in r ranw, and Italy as that accoraeo -rMai, Wilson. The London News ceus ir.. a peoples' welcome, not oaiy Mprr.n lrr.. th president's spacious statesmanship, lofty vision and unfatl iner wladorn, but also" sending greetings from the free people of Wtouu free people of America on the morrow of their Joint victory. It W tnis, ana more than tnis, lor w the enthusiasm la the knowledge that. President Wilson, alone . among the statesmen of the world, represents the definite purpose to make an enduring neace 'trpon , oasis fiai;iu i"' another war: A-'-' L' lv-:; I . nit,.-4n la vint -nontilar in the war worn count riee ot Europe and the people are resolvea to put. an eiiu m.cvnaiuvns that permit 4 to revival, to i end once and for all the burden of large) arma NEWS IN BRIEF "OREGON SIDELIGHTS a rtn i.m, KMni mw ' American flflv nsiw fi'..., n v.m , Vi Hntna of the Washington county courthouse, taking the place of a woraout and faded one that has been retired. - "Farmers are taking advantage of the fiaei weather and ! hav begun farming operations already." writes the Heppner Gasette-HmM' Lexington correspondent under date of January 30. ' e ' X A -notable increase indeaHngs iw town lots throughout the state Is becoming ap parent from a perusal of exchanges, r or many weeks there has been uncommon activity in ranch and farm transfers. Henry Chexem of Lane county, who Is a propagandist of sorghum raising, is go ing to try It again next year. In spite of what drouth did to his enterprise last year, and expects to make it a big winner. "Charles W. Vaughn, attempting to reach Eugene from Bend by way of Mc Kensie pass, was forced by deep snow to back out and make the trip by train. He thinks the pass is sealed for some time to cpme. - ! From all over the varmint infested counties the current reports, of coyote and i other pelts turned in f or t bounty always conclude with "and when sold to the furriers a further substantial sum was; realised." v "The Portland clty council. observes the I Eugene Register, - "has passed an ordinance forbidding the display of red or black flags, and any piratically in clined vessels inJthe harbor on the lower Willamette are hereby warned to keep the Jolly Roger concealed." Lockley thought there was some mistake, and that, the artillery would open up again ; but when the topi sergeant told us iwe could have fires all night if we wanted to it seemed m.re a dream than a reality. About thonly celebration was the doughboys shooting up flares and rockets. The sky looked ' like the front line ; during the German counter attack. "Since November I (we were then near Sedan) we have hiked to the Mo selle river through Lorraine and Lux emburg and down tha Moselle to Cob lens on the Rhine river, and from there to- Ebernhahn, near Wlrges. I will en close a Hst of the towns we stopped in so you can follow our course. We stopped a day and a night in Coblensand saw most of the town, i Everything is high in price and one needs a card for most everything in the line or 'eats miiK, meat, bread, butter and numerous arti cles. Three of us had prune pie with a pink glucose frosting ; it was only eight marks. We had lunch in a neat little restaurant. Our 1 menu was potatoes, roast beef, string beans, carrots, bread. jam; and coffee, j It cost nine marks for the three of ua not bad, considering. We ! spent the evening. In a swell beer garden. There was a nine-piece orches tra and they sure could play. 1 can't see how saloons in this country make enough to pay the janitor. It takes the people alt evening to drink one glass of beer, and it costs only 30 pfennigs about 6 cents. "Every man you see lias been in the army. The waiter in the cafe was in the artillery. The bartender in the res taurant was in the Infantry. Everyone of them from 18 to 60 was in the army fighting against us, and now we are buying their junk. -Bui such Is war. I think they treat us well morethrough fear than love. "We were near Sedan on November 8. From there we went to Verdun. We stayed two days in what was left of the old barracks. We crossed the lines at Etain, going through-Lorraine and Lux emburg and stopping six days in Cas tlngen. We crossed the Moselle on De cember 1, staying, our first night on German soil in Wawern. 9 The towns from there on. In order, are: Cassel. Treltinherm, Gesantansicht, Enkirch, Breidel, Lelfsich, Mauhousen, Lay, Cob lenz, and Ebernhahn." . Hecbt. "If the English will agree to this, our plan then Includes the appointment by England of a Zionist as governor general of Judea. It Is more or less known araorg Zionists that Justice Branaets is tne most logical man now living for tha po sition of governor general. Under him there should be two subgovernors one a Christian and the other a Moslem. Both should be appointed by England. We also Intend to have attorney generals for the various provinces and mayors for the various communities in Palestine. These are to be elected by the people. "After 25 years Judea may be in posi tion to govern herself. As a totally in dependent nation and a part .of an en tente Including Armenia and Arabia, Judea would be a powerful asset to the western world not only as a producer of culture and contributor to the world's markets, but as a mllltarV barrier against any power seeking to control the Sues canal." . v Ben Avis desire for a British over lordship is Inspired by the fact that were Palestine to proclaim a complete inde pendence today and seek by popular vote to elect its own ruler, the Moslem and Christian peoples living there would out number and outvote the Hebrew popular tlon. The result would be a nation in which the Jews were In the minority. By England's recognition of Judea as a Jew ish nation and giving Its Moslems and Christians representation through sub governor generals, ''the Zionists are con fident that their dreams will be most practically fulfilled. ments and exploitation of weaker na tions. It is because President Wilson has openly championed this cause that he has become the hope of the people of Europe, who rely upon him to com pel a democratic peace aand upon the United States to ; support him in his efforts. "1 . .... . 1 But the political LUiputlans, blinded by the tog ot partisanship, are unable to see events in their proper perspective and , real significance,' decry everything American, repudiate American leader ship of world affairs and would betray the cause of democracy to the reaction aries for the sake of securing a mess of political pottage in the coming resi dential campaign a. thing vfiat looms much larger to their myopic vision than the peace of the world. :' " Oldeti Oresron Early t Northwest - Boatmen Covered Every Navigable River. While parts of the Columbia and Its chief tributary, the Snake, were opened to navigation by 180, no steamboat had yet appeared on the stretch of navigable water between Colvyie and the Arrow lakes. Captain Lew White launched the rForty-nlneMn November, 1885,- at CblvlHe. In the following month , the Forty-nine ascended, the Columbia 180 miles, nearly to the head of the lower Arrow 'lake. Meeting floating ice, the vessel returned. Early in 1888 a steam er was built at the mouth of the Boise 'river for navigation of the upper Snake. At the same time the Mary Moody was constructed by Z. F. Moody on Pend Oreille lake,' - . . ' ' Ragtag and Bobtail Stories From Everywhere Railroading Under DlffleulUrs piIE first train from Powers this week w Cttfne down yesterday morning, Wednesday evening being the first time it was considered prudent to run the train up there, says tho Coqullle Senti nel of a recent date, it wilt be remem bered when that line was - built five fr,1 years ago there Was a sliding hill where everything sunk and It was a long time before a stable track could be secured. Indeed, during one period of continuous rain since then the track was chained to trees on the hillside to keep it from creeping away. John Doepllurk Trivate Wh was it, picked front cItII life And pi u nerd In deadly, frensied strife . Against a tfertl'a dreadful aaiglut Just piaia "Joha Qoe Buck Private." j Who ..jnmned the counter for the 'trench. And left fair shore lor all the stench And mud. and death, and bloody drench T -your simple, plain "Buck Private," wb" bM " were on the hos, I With courage paler the Moody top Who waa It made the Mun ewtne atopf J. Doe (so tripes) Buck Private. Who. underneath "his training tan r v to. every yngle inch, a man? And, bet ot all. Assertoant "John Doe, Just plain Buck Private." 5i wn' did "well f ' vtno smiles so bland yet fights like bell Who.Sen" " h "freedom bell t . TWae oaly 'Doe Buck Private." :, Who was H hinged and struck and tore His bayooet deep Into Hun goreT "". helped to win the war John Doe (ne brains) j Buck Private.' ?'" heeding net the laurel pile mends rondtatlj aside the while John Doe (Uod's kind) Buck Private." h.i ,,."'"-,k . . - j Allen It. Tbomnon, 8t Hj, Detch.. gjtt rHv., in HUn and Stride Uncle Jeff Snow Says: -4. T)l way pome feller gits awaf with the Belgian babies' milk bottles in Port land every oncet In a whllo is developln Into a Infant Industry. The News in Paragraphs World Happenings Briefed for Benefit Of Journal Headers . i e.1,eo ?nf? Cuba have resumed dip lomatic relations. i Miss Margaret Wilson, daughter f the president, is ill with Influenza at Brussels, , 1 Passports for negroes desiring to at tend a. pan-African congress at Paris have been denied by the state depart ment. , v.?aSi0f my-ewned property in the .Philippine islands have been com. KOOOOOO. 8 nearly Kxportatlons of butter, prohibited duringjthe war. will be permitted under an order Issued Saturday by the war trade board. ; j Mrs. Elizabeth p. Mitchell, who re cently died in San Kranctwo, bequeathed $50 000 to the different charitable insti tutions of that city. Retr Admiral Chidwlck, who was chief of staff of Admiral Sampson dur ing the American-Spanish war. is dead at his home in New York. A masked bandit entered the office of Frank Cator, an insurance broker in San Francisco, and compelled Cator to hand over 180 In currency. Passports to Europe for Mildred Mor ris of Denver and Clara Wold of Port land, militant suffragettes, have been cancelled ;by the state department, A report by General March shows that approximately 10,000 men are wnoiiy unaeeeunted ror nearly three months after the ending of hostilities. For failure to trade stolen silver for ammunition, Jose Si gal a, a general In Villa's command, was executed last week a few miles south of presidio, Texas. - . . ., j NORTHWEST NOTES V Klamath county In 1918 spent 113,107.70 for good roads.. - . , Eggs in Seattle last week dropped 32 cents -peri dozen and butter 20 cents per pound. i The big shingle mill at Kelso has resumed operations with three shifts of 7 H hours each. -. January was the) wettest month ever known in Astoria, The total precipita tion was 19.34 inches. The total county indebtedness of Klamath county is now $132,24.7. The total cash on hand is fl7s.7o6.7s. i Approximately 40,000' out of 64,000 acres of the Lower Klamath lake marsh lands have been drained for cultivation. The fruit manufacturers payroll at Salem, Including 1 the. manufacture of fruit Juices, now amounts to 8417,000 annually. ' : - - Mr. and Mrs. H. H. Diets of Aurora have received word that both of their sons, Edwin . and Jonas, were lost In the world war.- - Millers and grain men are looking forward to another call by the govern ment within tha next few days for bids on export flour, A. H. Colby, a former Portland busi ness man. Is in a critical condition in a Seattle hospital, as the result of the amputation of his leg. Thm annual report of the Wlnlock Creamery company shows that In 191 the creamery manufactured over 100 tons of butter, with receipts 813,600 in excess of the previous year. . Principal Stay T. Smith of the Wood land school at Ballard was attacked by 20 boys Saturday and badly injured. The boys had been terrorizing the schools for k vetk or more. : FOREIGN Australia Is considering an appropria tion of 810.000,000 to place soldiers and settlers on farms. ., Ten billion francs have been ad vanced to Belgium hy the United States, Oreat Britain and France. . Bolshevik forces In Northern Russia are said to be using gas shells, sup posedly supplied by Germans. , Many German officers are planning to come to tho United States to evade payment, of war taxes at home. War rather than give up the German merchant fleet to the allies Is the cry of several German newspapers. The American Red Cross has estab lished a sled service between Archangel and the outlying American posts. rr Kiijhrf c 'RntahMrik retrBntatlva mt Copenhagen, has been notified that his further presence was not desired In Denmark. . . According to statements In the' Rus sian press all parties are alarmed at re ports that the allies will retire from Siberia in the spring. The Swiss . authorities have Issued stringent regulations resrardlng the en trance into Switzerland of Socialist dele gates to the conference at Berne. I V Keep Your War Savings Stamps. Buy Some More (Stories ot achievement In the eeeaaaale tione of War eatings 8 U saps sent Jo The Journal aad acceptable for publics tlurj will be awarded a Thrift Sttfan.1 Do not, except In the event of ex treme necessity, . "cash In" on your War Savings Stamps. The more "baby bonds' that are turned in the more Victory bonds Uncle Sam will have to sell.'---'.' ' .-' Jay Cook used to say "the easiest way to get money is to save IL" And ha was no "Jay." Buy War Savings Stamps and help bring the rest of the boys back from Franca. " ' i ;" ""' safaeaaeaTaTsTSBBBTsa) Thrift Stamps and 1918 War Sav ings Stamps now orr sila at usual agencies.- r . -