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G THE OIIKUOA. DAiJLY JOURNAL PORT LAND; SATURDAY FEUHUAIlY 8, 1319. I AN PTPEPEKPEXT KBWgFAPBH r& , JACKSON. fnbibd every iter, afternoon rt 1 Sep BBtway anernooni , . Ing? Broad-ray tad X.mblU street. Vottiu. I' Oregoav --v..;.-- - ' ! Entered at tfa Poetofflce at rertlmnd, Ow"; I ,. tor trsmtmission througn in -f class matter. f liti-UONta Oaio 7171! Home. A-0t. All departments reached by thee I - f H ha mntH what deuaitinent too Wan. K)HEiN ADVEBTTSJ-JU "KWS J iu : HIM , .. j - tSOlltnng, vncaao f Subscription terms by. tana a Oregon and , ' DAILY OfORXINO OR AFTEBSOO! . (0l Jii......9Wl 'l,ort' B0 ji - BDKDAT ' ' JlW rear. .'. . . . .0 I One "-" PAILT (UOBNINO OB AfTEBKOOH) AND 4 " SUNDAY. ' One rear. .-.. 80 On month I do not know bow to draw up as In dictment against a whola people. Edmund Burke. AND FOR WHAT? HE president in going abroad revealed the grossest egotism and an inability to resist the lure of the limelight which the average man looks upon with undisguised disgust." The above is from a speech in the senate Wednesday by Senator Sher man of Illinois. Three hours of the senate's time was consumed in a most malevolent and insulting at tack upon the President of the United States. "Agreements made at the peace conference will, for generations to come, vitally -Affect for good or ill the economic, political and moral, well being of mankind," says a statement signed by William Howard Taft and others, and sent broadcast over America. It continues: The creation there of a league of free nations can alone insure the orderly de velopment of the world and preserve peace. To get such a league President "Wilson WISELY DECIDED. BY Ffc.R SONAL ATTENDANCE TO THROW 1113 GREAT INFLUENCE ON THE SIDE OF AN UNSELFISH AND RIOHTEOyS PEACE WITH A LEAGUE OF NATIONS TO SAFE GUARD If PERPETUALLY. An illustrious body or men signed this widely distributed statement Along with that of former President Taft are the-names of Cardinal Gib bons, Arthur Capper, Republican senator-elect from Kansas,, Lyman Ab bott, A. Lawrence Lowell, president -oi narvara, Anna Howara naw, jOscar Strauss, Cyrus H. McCormick land . many other distinguished Americans. ; "The chief thing to be done by! - America is to keep President WH-; son in Europe," said Rabbi Stephen S. Wise, formerly of Portland, in an Interview in the New York Times .cabled from Paris after a month re cently spent in Europe. He added: If the American people knew how lm jjeratlve la the president's presence In ; JParls at the present time, they would beseech him to stay here throughout the , conference. Hia business is Europe's peace conference in France. America has - a great work to do there, and President Wilson, above all men, is deeded to do It. . : f ' America is represented at Paris by ! the man who has come to command the confidence of the people of allied coun- - tries as no other living man has. The faith of the allied people In Wilson is . the American people in , Wilson through- - vu w J cai o va n nj wo.,. wu Viittia are needed; The president must remain at the peace conference ; the American people must stand united behind him In TnaLing peace as In making war. I ' HAVE SEEN AND HEARD THINGS IN LONDON AND PARIS THAT GIVE ME THE RIGHT AND MAKE IT MY DUTY AS AN AMERI CAN CITIZEN TO LAY IT UPON THE HEARTS OF MY FELLOW CITIZENS TO STAND BEHIND THE PRESI DENT NOW. Almost every day now, hours of the senate's time are consumed by reactionary senators, Democratic or Republican, in -fighting the 'ieaguo of nations, in traducing the president and! assailing hint for going to Paris, 611 while Bolshevism is surging in the Untutored mind of large groups of Americans. I A great war has just ended and jthere-is before us the gigantic task W reestablishing dislocated industries in the work or peace. Pending In the senate are these bills for recon struction: . x Reorganisation of the army tor peace time ? Re-establishment of the volunteer sys- em. ,Legallation ' of informal contracts by the war department. I Legislation for purchase) of the 1919 Khat crop.. I Legislation as to railroad control. , Legislation for a new Liberty bond is sue. - v Control by the government of meat ' Control . of radio made necessary. by Ciseoverles during the war. ; Great appropriation bills. ; The water power bills. - k Forty rtUUion dollar appropriation for - Immediate expenditure in building roads. , Bill for big appropriation for reclama tion by which to make lands available for returning soldiers and sailors. -, Other, reconstruction legislation. . I Throughout the country, legisla Itures, peoples committees of relief, reconstruction committees,- the fed lerat 'employment agency, mayors land councils of cities, the Red Cross, fthe unified 7- war .i,work ' organizations land v almost - in&umerablo - activities are struggling -with - the great' task of organizing , the country for the work of peace by adjusting the dis locations caused by the withdrawal of nearly five million men ; from civil life, and I their sudden return to their usual pursuits. But there was the satiate listen ing Wednesday 4 to three long hours of vulgar denunciation of the presi dent of the United States, and for whatr ' - Scarcely a "day passes in which, with the" country trembling, throb bing. 'surging with anxiety, the precious time of the senate is. not occupied with Jong attacks on the league of nations, and. Mr. Wilson, and for what? A- lower order of political Bol shevisny 'was never seen in . the United States, senate. Abraham Lincoln, the great libera tor said;' "The strongest bond of human sympathy outside the family relation should be one uniting all working people of all nations and tongues and kindred." Lincoln had a fairly ; clear concept of a league of nations ssnd understood the pre cise principle, fhat would make It workable, the principle of human brotherhood. NOT RUSSIA A STRIDE leader at Seattle is re ported to have said, "We wjli take over, the plants and oper ate them." That kind of nroDosal is nonsense. Such a plan was put into practice in Hussia, but Russia is not America. American Bolshevists must bear this in mind: America is a country of libraries, free schools, daily news papers and people who read every day all that is taking place through out the world. Nota mere few, but all the people are readers. Russia is a land of dense ignor ance. The percentage of illiterates is enormous. They went through centuries of tyranny. The peasants did not own their own lands. With the power of th czar once palsied. bedlam broke loose. Russia was ripe for what happened. Chaos and anarchy, became a natural order. The illiterate people were fit dupes for Lenine and Trotsky. The industrial plants were seized and operated. Those who stood in the way were murdered. People maddened by the long n'ght of od- pression, frenzied by the sacrifices of war, became drunk with the power won by the overthrow of autocracy. German money. German intrigue. and German propaganda helped on ine enaos, because the demoraliza tion of Russia was to the then ad vantage of Germany. German influ ence was a chief factor in the deliv ery of Russia over to Bolshevism. It was one great means that enabled tne Bolshevik! to seize and operate the industrial plants. Of all these favorable things for mob rule in Russia, the strike leader who proposed a similar course in Seattle has not thought mere is no German' money, or German intrigue or German prop aganda In Seattle to aid him In his desperate enterprise. There is no widespread illiteracy in Seattle to make fertile ground for Bolshevism. There are no people suddenly liber ated from a tyranny that had lonz crushed lives and dwarfed mentality. un tne contrary, there is a citi zenship, bred-up under free schools, free institutions, a free ballot and at the freedom that any govern ment can vouchsafe. More than that, they are people who have just passed through a new baptism of loyahy and consecration to the United States. And there are even graver "diffi culties In the way: If this strike leader should seize and attemDt to operate the plants, where would the money come from to pay the work ers? Without that money how would tne workers buy provisions for thfi fj-rnilies? Where would be the money for buying steel for the shirsL rjav for lumber from the mills, pay trans portation, pay the thousand and one things that would have to) be paid for in order to operate the niant Where would the market be for sale of the output? When a man makes Rinh wim proposals he is drunk on his own areams. He -is .crazed through a mixture of ignorance ' and idiocy. : He is impossible. . Is there any 'answer in Ronatnr Patterson's argument against increase ji salaries 7 Each Official, he says, knew before he rtn for office what the salary of the position was to be. That is true. Nothing was said in the campaign by any ' candidate to the effect that he expected an Increase in salary. Then why in crease 'it after election? ' IT IS COMING THE expected is happening. An organization has been formed at EvansvlUe, Indiana, to include all "the world war veterans of America." it is said : to be some what on the plan of the Grand Army of the Republic, which gathered tha veterans of the Civil war into Its fold and made them a political power In the land for half a century. The new organization will be likely to grow rapidly and in proportion as it is more numerous than the Grand Arrpy of the Republic It will wield more . political power. . Tho soldiers and sailors are intelligent men.:. They may be trusted, in thb long run, to look, out for their own welfare. At present they wait upon the tnolion of the politicians for relief. In a year or two the tables will be turned, - and the politicians will be on their knees to the veter ans. - ' I ; It Is probably not . too : much to say that the history of the United States for the nexf 50 years, depends largely on the alms, ideals j and methods of this : new society; t of veterans. Their published statement of ! principles speaks for the welfare of the great public equally jwit& that of the veterans themselvesl In the heat and turmoil Jl French revolution of 1792 time the was. found to invent the metric system of weights and measures and give it to the world. The French of ; that day combined military vsior with the love of science. Their, children are equally zealous in both "direc tions. They : are planning through the- peace conference to give us a calendar which divides the year into 13 months of 28 days each, with an extra day for a holiday every winter. Of course leap year would come in as usual, affording two extra days. SUFFRAGE IN THE current number of :his Monthly, E. W. Howe of Kansas turns his pen to the subject of woman . suffrage. He wonders why the people defeated Miss Ran kin and Ann Martin. The former, he says, was. "grossly humiliated when she asked for reelection. Miss Rankin was defeated, .but that is a common experience . for a politician of . either sex. They do not as a rule take it as a "gross humiliation" when the people prefer a -other candidate. 1 But Mr. Howe- has an explanation all his own for the defeat 'of-the two women aspirants, to congress. He suggests that it was because "the people are actually opposed to woman suffrage." That is hardly tlikely. If the people were opposed to it they would not have granted it iu " so many states. They might confer it In two or three as a joke but not in a round dozen, including New York. I But it is undeniably true that few women have thus far been elected to high office, or ' to any offices. What thereason may be is a question for debate. Perhaps there are many reasons. One of them seems to be the lingering feel ing in women's minds and men's, too, tha; it is indelicate for them to run for office. Tliey may vote because it can be done inconspicuously but being a candidate is another matter. It plunger them into the turmoil and deals of politics. There was a time when the mere act of voting was supposed to bo fatal to woman's delicacy, but that fear has pretty well evaporated. The time may come when her womanly delicacy will sur-vi- : the heat and dust of a political campaign. There is another reason why women hesitate to run for office. It is because they do ndt trust their own sex. They feel in tlieir hearts that other women will vote against them because they are not men. How much of a part either of these reasons plays in causing th-. abstention of women from seek- i j office, of course, it is impossible to say, but they must count for a good deal. A new million dollar "dry" hotel in Harrlsburg, capital of one of the wettest states in America, is a significant sign of the times. Is this precipitate and unexpected revo lution as to booze to have its coun terpart in other moral and social fields looking to better lives for America s millisns? POTATOES fpHE Eugene Register comments sensibly on the state of the po- tato market. It compares the situation today with that of two years ago. Two years ago the Oregon potato crop sold readily, in California at good prices. The pres ent crop is not greatly desired in that market. Why not? y Tne Register explains that the shipments to California two years age "failed to make a hit" because the tubers were not properly pre pared for market. For one thing, they were not graded as they should have been. Scabby specimens were thrown in with the clean ones. Small and large were lumped in discriminately in the same bag. ' Agin, ' the purchaser was " not treated t fairly in other ways, j The, seller," says The ' Register, would knock r$ff Vsppngy ends and throw what l was left, of the potato Into the sack. This is not what ona cculd call strict honesty." It is not tha kind of conduct that builds up and keeps a market. Many little faults of this sort seem to have contributed to produce In' combination a somewhat disas trous result. California Js looking elsewhere for her potatoes this season.' The goose that , promised to lay an indefinite litter of golden eggs for our farmers has been killed, or at Vny rate, pretty soundly chloro formed. She may recover by and by. f What is the preventive of this nit or miss marketing? Is there any way to stop it? Clearly it must be stopped if our farmers are ever to attain to permanent "prosperity by means of steady, dependable mar kets. The market question lies at the very basis of agricultural wel fare, i Once provide markets which can be, relied on year after year infallibly and the farmers them selves - will attend : to production. - They will study methods -0 of In- creasing yield, eradicating pests, im proving breeds: and varieties. But so. Jong as the market is unreliable the whole structure of our agricul ture, is insecure, A thorough, or ganization of the v potato growers would have prevented the Ill-advised shipments to California, which are said to have destroyed our market there. " It is disheartening in vfew or what organization has .done for" the, po tato growers, fruit growers, nut producers, dairymen, in other states that so many of our Oregon farmers still prefer to "go it alone" f-etters From the People CamnrairfcatfotM tent to The Journal for pob Heation m this department ahonki ba written on only one aide of the paper. abooU not exoeed 800 worUa In length and must be aisned by the writer, whose mail addreaa ia (all miM accompany tha contribution.) The Government's Obligation Portland, Feb. 5 To the Editor of The Journal A bill appropriating 91,250.000.000 of government funds to make good the guaranty price of 12.20 per bushel on wheat for the crop of 119 ia now pending in congress. That there is an obligation of the government to the farmers who were urged to aban don other crops and plant wheat is ob vious to any patriotic right thinking person. However, there are certain factors to be considered unless an in justice bo done the very large majority of people of the country who this year are not wheat growers. The price of 12.80 per bushel on wheat was intended noti only to stimulate production but to insure the farmers a good margin of profit even though they were obliged to pay high wages for sowing, reaping, harvesting and marketing their wheat crop and were obliged to pay for them selves a very high living at war prices. Meantime, before much of the fall grain and none of the spring grain was plant ed, the armistice was signed. Labor conditions Xor the farmers materially improved and the cost of living and supplies .of the farmers began to. de dine. It would seem, therefore, that the government would be exceeding its promises to tho wheat growers If a price of (2.20 per bushel for wheat was made good. It is a most astonishing thing that practically everybody is pushing their uttermost claims against the govern ment while we are passing through this grave crisis in history. A prominent wheat grower was quoted in yester day's dispatches as -having stated that not only shoiild- the farmers be paid $2.20 a bushel for every bushel of wheat they could deliver but that the govern ment should then sell back to the farm ers sufficient wheat for feed and seed at about 90 cents a bushel, which, in an unrestricted and free market, would be about the value of this year's crop of wheat. Counting the wheat crop of the country tf or' this year as 1.000,000.000 bushels at least S500.000.000 will be saved the wheat producers in a lower cost of harvesting and marketing, due to the ending of the war. Then why should thisrvast sum of money not-be saved to the depleted treasury of the United States? GEORGE SMITH. Asks Why Hold the Soldier Portland, Feb. 4. To the Editor of The Journal In the newspapers of the last two month much has been said of our independent American soldier and what he has done in France. Americans have always fostered the thought and practice of independence. Our -forefathers fought for itand won, but now congress passes upon a measure to hold 600.000 men for an army, against the wishes of these men. Many of us, in fact, most of us. have dependents caused by the wave of influenaa which has swept our nation, taking many of our fathers, mothers and relatives, leav ing us to take care of those who remain. Orders were sent to the Columbia de fense headquarters to discharged men whose families were - in distress, but application after, application for dis charges have been turned back with some excuse or other. It seems to us men who were in the war. and for the period of the war only, that holding us for another year, as congress asks, is rank injustice and tends to bring hard feeling against this measure. It seems as if the closing of the war is not yet known here, or else God has forgotten there ever waa a de fense of the Columbia. I say frankly that we men being held have a hard time trying to keep up our spirits when things such as these are going on. I jpeak for many other men who have been here since the first national army men came. Why can't America have her- army of men who have no homes to go to. and who themselves wish to go back into the army or continue in it, and not go against her policy of Independence and freedom and hold men against their wishes? A. E. S. "ThewNew Religion" Suntex. Feb. 1. To the Editor of The Journal There is no new religion. When Jesus Christ said. "It is finished" the plan of redemption was complete.. Man may speculate and originate newisms but the only power that can transform a sinful soul and make a new creature is God. We hear much of "the new religion of social service," that strives to leave God out of its thoughts and aspirations. As well try to make fire without the pres ence of oxygen as to attempt social serv ice without the spirit' of Christ. Such service, without Dlvime ; inspiration, is founded on selfishness, does not reach the heart, and can not endure. The fruit of Christianity is social service. The son of man came not to be min istered unto but to nUnister." What have infidelity and paganism done in all the past to alleviate the suf ferings of mankind? What have they ac complished toward the moral uplift of the people? What progress have they ever made In the way of science and In vention? No nation without the influ ence of the Bible was ever known to erecfan asylum for the poor, the aged, the orphan, or the Insane. They .never ha e originated or discovered a plan that could save even a decaying tooth, much less a sinful soul. But it is said that Christianity is a failure because it did not prevent a world war. Those who make such assertions do not stop to consider that unbelief and positive denial of Jehovah's power was rampant throughout the world.! They overlook the fact that Gertoany with ner higher criticism and ideas of superman denied the decree of the Almighty and claimed to be wiser than Jehovah. They forget that these blasphemers discarded, mm fables, the parts of the Scriptures that did not suit their fancy, or Interfered with their purposes. They fall to con sider that ministers of the gospel from other countries to complete their theo logical education - went to Germany, where they imbibed the virus of agnos ticism and Infidelity of such teachers as Fiscate, Hegel. ScbeUing, Scbonenhanr, Trietsehe and Bernhardt. "He that ex alteUi himself shall be abased. , -.The great leaders tn, the war. who stood for truth and right, charity and brotherly love. Justice and liberty, are followers of the lowly , Nasarene. On Thanksgiving day at Chaumont General Pershrng. addressing the soldiers, said : "As soldiers inspired by every spiritual sentiment, we nave each silently prayed .that the success e righteousness should be ours, r Great cause indeed, have we to thank God for trials successfuUy met and victories won.- With thankfulness we acknowledge that His strength has given us the victory." When the news that General Joffre had thrown back the Germans at the Marne reached the Lon don office, that stern old warrior. Lord Kitchener, said, "Somebody has been praying. It might be further shown that Marshal Haig, General Byng Gen eral Pershing and General March are devout Christians. The Journal not long ago printed the story of General Focb at prayer in a ruined cathedral, for victory over the Hun. The religion of such men as these a religion that professes faith in God and knows no such thing as doubt is the re ligion that has stood the test of time and is the religion of the future. It is the religion that has never failed in the past and is the only hope of the future. The war has taught the different sects to bet ter understand each other, to lay aside petty differences and to cooperate more fully for the advancement of the great cause for which all are laboring. G. A. COLLIER. Contempt for Erzberger , 4 Portland. Feb. 5. -To the Editor of The Journal Tour Sunday Issue con tained two fine letters from your Eu ropean correspondent, Frank Slmonds. It also contained an interview by an other writer with Matthias Erzberger. which shows that the German sentiment regarding things German has not changed and that no feeling of regret or shame has as yet entered the mind of the German ruling class. Autocrats have .learned that no form of demo cratic governmental machinery has as yet been devised that cannot be most effectively and cruelly turned to the uses of autocracy. - The existing gov ernment in Germany, of which Erzberger is secretary of state, is quite patently banking on this fact. With Hlnden burg and Ludendorff, former war-lord men. shooting down their own people as cheerfully as they shot the allies ; with Matthias Erzberger. former chan cellor for the kaiser, head and front of the ecclesiastical German party then as now, jthe world may well be wary of "democratic" Germany. Frank! Simonds bring: 5 out the fact that Prussian stealings from France began back in 1814. with the absorption of the iSaar mineral deposits. Erz berger, In his hypocritical whine of an interview, laments the greed of France in desiring to take back these fields, which are In reality hers, and which will not compensate for the devastation of all her coal and Iron mines by .Hun greed. ' Erzberger was engaged with Bolo Pasha In the vilest kind of spy work ln-Italy and Switzerland, the-kind that buys sentiment and corrupts with bribery. One respects the daring of the soldier-spy who takes his life in his hand to gain essential Information for his country. The bribing spy of the Erzberger type is the vilest thing in human form. Tet this is the present secretary of state in Germany. This latest interview of his shows that he has not changed. Eccleslasticism and politics are a mixture no less deadly in the twentieth than in the fifteenth cen tury. Erzberger deserves the contempt of all honest men. E. F. B. Mr. Wood to Mr. Linscott Athena, Or.. Feb. 6. To the Editor of The Journal I cannot let Mr. Llnecott's tirade against Socialism on religious CTOunds go unchallenged. I know from personal contact that Socialists as a general thing will let cnurcn ana re ligion alone if you will, but a great number of people who oppose Socialism Immediately Jump from a purely al truistic proposition to a question of re ligious faith, the precepts of which they 4mve imbibed Just enough to be bieoted- Soapbox orators are Just like the rest of the world. Some of them are all right and some of them are all wrong, and If they talk religion at all they are way wide of the mark. But somo religious objector will often raise the question, and If he Is not well versed he is very apt to walk away second best. If Mr. Linscott has heard certain Socialists express religious sentiments at variance with his, why should he condemn a proposition that has noth ing to do with his faith or his church? Are there not all creeds and sects in the old parties? Did ever a Catholic condemn the Democratic party because tiere were unbelievers in it? Jefferson, Tom Paine and Franklin did not belong to any church, and yet they were al truists. Why not condemn the Declara tion of Independence because Tom Paine as much, as any man made it possible? Was the Republican party condemned because of Ingersoll's elo quent denunciation of Christianity? Again, my friend is very unhappy in his claim that Socialism "denounces re ligious freedom and thought." If there is one principle above another in the heart of a true Socialist it is the right of free speech and free thought. Religion has nothing to do, in a po litical way. with Socialism, and vice versa. The question of religion has been injected, to do the cause harm. Those who are" greatly benefited by the present social system would stoop to any means to give the cause a black eye. and such splendid Christian gentle men as John D. Rockefeller and his Ilk can point their fingers of scorn at Socialism and say "Unclean, unclean." As to tho "clique" that runs Social ism. I do not understand what my good friend means 'by tat. I thought that a lot of clodhoppers like myself run.lt. F. B. WOOD. The Woman's Job Portland, Feb. 6. To the Editor of The Journal It appears to the writer that there is a lot of talk about women giving up their Jobs to soldiers. Why should they give up these, jobs at (3 to 95 a day to go back to work in laundries, to housework, etc, for $B to 10 a week? If the employers really wanted to do something for the returned soldiers let them say that four hours will be a day's work, wljlch would make work for ten million more men and women. But they will not do that, as it would leave them with only two hours at unpaid labor In stead of six to eight hours. F. RICHARDS. Legislation Worth While Knappa, Feb.' 6. To the Editor of The Journal L have noted, with in terest, for some time. The Journal's editorials and "Letters From the Peo ple." The syndicalism bill is ciuidB s piay. "Born in fear and reared in selfish ness." is right. Some more of the one-sided, money-mad stuff. Ignorance. Why not a bill once in a while in favor of the multitudes? Get up some thing for the good of the producers. We are living In ., modern times and should cut out ancient laws and In stall something up to date. 1 Put limits on the amount of wealth allowed to be accumulated. Limit the greedy. Answer this: If a limit of $100,000 is not enough, for the head of any 'fam ily, then why does it serve a man right to work day in and day out with he and his family barely exist ing? If labor produces and creates the wealth, then it deserves some of the good things of life. Why not advocate and encourage a bul worth j while? JOHN A. RASMUSSEN. Alleges Sabotage m Ships j Portland. Feb. 4. To the Editor of The Journal l have been working in a ; shipyard here and have seen how the company tarns the steamer over to our government. In one batch there are at least two dozen rivet holes plugged up with putty and there were some wood-, v : COMMENT AND NEWS IN BR1EF . SMALL CHANGE .Smile awhile. 4 . More power toMayor Hanson. The grip, glory be. is losing Its grip. . They are discordant notes now coming from the 8ound country. - There's one gTorious hope, however, for Seattle's people: . They, can still come to Portland. : Hearty welcome to the home coming soldiers who have eome over the low;, long trail Into the landof their dreams The season of grand opera nas at lemst acquainted some thousands of Portland ers with their splendid new auditorium. Time was when motion pictures were arrong the feature of entertainment in saloons. Now the saloon must get out of the motion picture. Now that It's all over, we are enabled to come to the , conclusion that the UnHed States was mighty well prepared todo a big share of fighting In a long Comes now the season of the year when you don't know Just what sort of weather to prepare for, and when you probably wish that yon had pre pared for whatever sort you did not. JOURNAL MAN AT HOME i fey Fred Loekley ' Caa-ultr fixurm of tha iml war are pre sented by Mr. Loekley today, particularly a Ubla hawing tb toll taken of the Enropaan Seine rata. Personal impreationa of traope otwenred ovenaaa and an appreciation of tha "wop" are featorea of the article. ' There were 66,592 fatalities' in the American forces during the war for world freedom. Of this number 27,762 were kUled in action. 11.396 died of wounds and 14.649 are reported as "miss ing in action." Germany has released over 4800 American prisoners and re ported that 111 Americans .died while prisoners of Germany. ' . . Lieutenant George S. Trevor of the history section of the United States army has recently prepared a table showing the casualty record of the various bel ligerent. This record Is up to Novem ber 1 and does not include the last 11 days of the war, nor does it record the prisoners taken. The following la- the official list:- Killed and died of Wound. .2.045.000 .1,350.000 .1.100,000 .1,1 80.000 Total Caauattiea. Power: Germany Ruaaia . Austria Franoe . Britain . Woonded. 6.800.000 3.450,000 8.220.000 2.010.000 2.000.000 1,250.000 580.0O0 seo.ooo 200.000 ISO.OOO 145.000 20.000 7.845. 00O 4.SQ0.000 4.129.000 4.090.00e 2.658.000 1.710.000 785.000 400.000 278.000 i Z06.0O0 1 7.000 28.000 6SH.OOO 460.000 225.000 100.000 73.009 46.00O S2.00O 8.000 Italr Turkey .. . . Serbia . . . . Belcium ... Bolsaiia. . . . Roumaaia. . . Greece Killed include men died of wennda tint not of disease. At least 60 per cent (maybe 70 per cent) of tha wounded returned to duty in aorpe capacity. Tha wounded column includes many men hit more than once. Very slisbt wounds are not catalogued. No prisoners are included tn these totals. Russia lost tremendously "in pris oners, and of course this would Increase her total of lighting men put Out of action. Host British lists of dead are larger by reason of including deaths from disease. e ' . In our army the regular army divis ions suffered more heavily because they were put Into the fighting line sooner than other troops. The following list shows the losses of the divisions com posed of troops of the regular army : First division, 6248 ; Second, 2965, num ber Including regiments of marines ; Third, 3617; Fourth, 2986; Fifth, 2504; Sixth, 122; Seventh. 326. e a The 9 1st division, trained at Camp Lewis, and composed of men from Ore gon. Washington, California. Idaho. Montana. Nevada and Wyoming, had 1702 casualties. a While I was in France I saw consid erable of the Thirtieth division the men of Tennessee and of North and South Carolina. The men wore a wildcat, cut HOW ALLIES WON By Paul Special Correspondence to The Journal and tha Chicago Daily News. Vladivostok. When we arrived in November In the Suchan mine district, where American and allied troops were required to bring about order and en able the mines to resume production, it was a peaceful valley. But It had been something else when the troops entered there In September. The Bolshevlki at that time had been ready and were heav ily armed with ' modern military rifles and with machine guns. They had been Informed that the foreign soldiers were the enemies of their class and nation. As the warriors under Colonel Loiing ... aUnA tn tha teeth and were ach ing for a fight, the, bloodshed prospects were very bright. But this was pre cisely what had to be avoided. In ad dition to the undesirabillty of mixing up in an internal class-fight in Russia, it was well known that a battle in Suchan would be likely to pave the way for international complications and m.u I infinitely harder for W V U Miv - - poor Russia to free herself from foreign ers when the proper time anoum So the two things to be accomplished tn ahnw the srood intentions of the soldiers under Colonel Lortng. and, second, to conduct a quick marcn into the center of the disturbed district a ..I,, tho f rno-etlr. oolnts before the Bolshevik! really knew what was hap pening. e . a a n-i.. a,- briefly these: On - September 10. 1918. the troops about 250 Americans. 00 Japanese, 60 or 0 Chinese and a squad of two of Cossacks .oin. Vladivostok, filling SS box cars. That evening they were at TJgolnaya. and the next morning, very early, they were at Kangause, where the broad gauge line comes to an end. A handful of American soldier were left at Kangause, and have been there - - TVia men who were to con stitute the mine guard marched over the mountain pass ana arriveu - 4:15 in the afternoon. At Fanza a u..m. mimhcr of soldiers were left namely, three squada of .Ameri can troops, the whole Chinese detach ment and 20 Japanese to protect the . i tka ramslader of th command entrained for Suchan, arriving there at 7-30 that evening. J-ne aineo gua.ru spent the night in the Narodny Dom, .,niv ttnune. at Mine No. 2. and or vi.". w... ... . when the sun rose th next morning en rivet, painted over. If a workman V s.M.riltvM tn t Vilas 7-i , ahAliM AAV. NOW Will M fly LtVL IWeU.O va.v or - you please let me know through your naper u nua a -" - - ---- numtiMi mm m. na.tr iotlc riutv aa I can prove this by witness. frh tnanlm or anTone.elae knowing of such arte should report then, ml ones to tha United gtataa dutnci anrj. j No Such Contract . i i - tv. A TV. tYiM Elfnv f Tha Jasionaa, - - " Journal Could you please notify me to jhis effect: Ha the United States gov ernment lei wniusw governmant i for . shipbuilding to the . . . A AAA AAA . . amount oi w,vw,wv -" - - BunsuuDbn. (Tha Putted State govenrmeat weeded ahipa Lrvernment allowed steel ahipBtenta for Japan s " . . l Uaaw aK aaa IltlSllllg sill tSlgl lor war -carrying purposes. 1 Knrw Tbelr Geography - '': riots tha Washington) Past Herb' Hoover told ' two Gomaa food OREGON SIDELIGHTS A number of new dwelling house are soon to be erected at Pendleton, but the town needs thern by the dozen In order to accommodate people desir ing to live there, the East Oregonian ays. . ; . . - '.;..: ! ' "It's odd , how many, people .who are ardently opposed to alcohol are against prohibition, and how many who are eager for everlasting peace are down on the idea of a peace league." observe Jthe Salem Capital Journal. , . -Fred Kuns. writes the Lexington correspondent of the Heppner Gazette Times, "has a crew o men cutting down the talm grove opposite the depot on the land which be purchased from K. Nordyke. This grove was th scene of the big celebrations of the early days of Morrow county." From the Democrat's report of the latest meeting of the Albany Chamber of Commerce i "George Taylor was named a committee of one to have charge fthe work of locating a landing place for airplanes in Albany and the member of the board urged that every step should be taken to secure an aero station for Albany." from red flannel, on their sleeves, to indicate that they belonged to the "Wild cat' division. These farmer boy from the South fought well. They Buffered 1772 casualties. X also worked with the Thirty-second divisionmen from Mlch igan and Wisconsin. Ifnade many warm friends with these boys. Many of the men were college men or high school boys. They were punished heavily, hav ing 3213 men killed or wounded. ' v a a a At the Picardy front, in northern France, near Amiens, I was with the Thirty -third division, consisting of the 12th. 130th." 131st and 132d Infantry and other organizations, from Illinois. They lost 1171 killed or wounded. I saw them under trying conditions, and they made good. You can hardly imagine a more cosmopolitan body of men, than the men from Chicago. There was Mayflower stock, and there were Jews, - Greeks, Italians and all other racial elements to be found In so cosmopolitan a city as Chicago. But. Greek letter man of Chicago university and Greek bootblack. millionaire's son or "wop." they took oride in the work and did it well and cheerfully. The scion of wealth and the college, man will come back with in creased respect for his comrade in the squad. The college man's "buddy" was a "wop, and they shared amottes ana grub together. They learned mutual trust, teamwork and respect, and they will all come back better Americana Speaking of "wops," I ran across a bit of verse bv Berton Braley tnat x ukc. It is a tribute to the "wop." Here it is When tha Una la surrey ed through tha scenery For tunnel and culTert ana cut. When the contractor haa his machinery, Tha "big Job" is ready all but "All but" nwans tha shovel and pick of it. The hunkies who work till they drop; And so, in the dust and the thick of it. Look out tor tho Wop! Tha big bosses: bear an the fret of It Thav . r tha fellows who rjlan : But the back-breaking strain and tha sweat of it Fall to tha laboring man. Dago and Rum and Hungarian, All of the immigrant crop; Where i the job we could carry on Sara for tha Wop? Subject for acorn and bederiling. Victim of fraud and ehicane. Still, with hia spade he ia leveling Routea over mountain and plain. Progress His soul is the breath of it; Lacking his band, it would stop; Facing tha danger and death of it, Hera is tha Wopl He knows the best and the worst of ft. Ha knowa the hard-driven toil. The ache and the heat and the thirst of IV Never the dream or the spoil. Caves and explosione make mud of him Who earea a damn? Let him flop I Progress is stained with tha blood of him Only. Wopl SUCHAN MINERS K. Wright .they were holding the mines. They have held them ever since. ; a a Colonel p.. T. Robinson, as envoy extraordinary, addressed the people and Issued proclamations and. in a masterly way, convinced the miners that tho for eign soldiery were not there to injure them, but to assist and benefit them. I have managed to get a copy of one Of his proclamations : "To the citizens of the Suchan Mine District (1) The allied nations have come to Russia to help the Russian people and help win the war against Germany. In the prosecution Of this mission they have found it necessary temporarily to see to the operation of the mines in order to increase the pro duction of coal which Bhall make pos sible the distribution of. supplies from one section ofl th country to another This will prevent the people from starv ing and will keep the Russian babies and the Russian women warm this winter. "To increase tho production of th mines the allies thought It necessary to get the men! who are best acquainted with the mines, and they have prevailed upon Mr. Bgeroff to assume the manage ment of the mines during the temporary supervision of the allies. Mr. Egeroffs order for the operation, of the mine will therefore be obeyed. "2. In view of the fact that th troops are now here ; to protect the people agralnst the Hunghutses there I no need for the citizens to have public rifles In their possession, and all such will be turned In to the nearest anted com mander. In order to prevent mtsunder standing, any person who has need for a rifle will be given written authority to carry the same. This pass will be written In Japanese and ISngllsh and signed by both the American and Japa nese commanders. "3. Peaceable citizens do not keep ma chine guns in their homes, as these weapons are used only in war.' There fore, all machine guns in the vicinity will be turned in, land any one having in formation as to the location of such guns should immediately report that fact to the nearest allied commander." 0,0 The miners went back to work and have been at work ever since. . From ambush a few desultory shots have been fired at the soldiers, but so far as I know no shots have been fired in return- . - robbers in Belgium to go to h with his compliments, and they promptly re turned to Germany. Oldeft Oregon Restrictions Imposed Upon Land - Claimants n Early Days . On of th most important subjects dealt with by the provisional govern ment of Oregon was" that relating to jlitle to the soil. No individual could bold more than a square mue, in square or oblong form, nor more than on claim at a time. Furthermore, all per sons were forbidden to hold claims upon city or town sites, or extensive water privilege, or in place necessary for the transaction of mercantile or manu facturing operations. Dr. McLoughlln considered this - was d lrect evidence of the animosity of the Methodists, who disputed wtfh him n claim at tft falls of .the Willamette, where both hod made th beginning of davsiopment of water power, Ragtag and Bobtail StorltsFrom Everywhere It llloht Be tVnra TWO Irishmen met at a country fair.' a iavi VvAnrK . , . ... ... lowlng conversation : . . Ait, pat. sure, ia it your . - - at uitK lung dmivw fl?et What's the news?" its married I am. and I have a litU -J ,ook" JU8t "ha m t" The other surveyed him critically for a n",mn and then replied consolingly. uwumni mino. so long as he s healthy." , An Enterprising Lad Howard Miller, a Port Orford boy, who lives with his parents on an acreage tract near town, say the Tribune, has a team that harks back to the times of 50 years mm - w a h,. tjr .i,An. yearling calves that hs has broken to urK. ne nas a sled and harness rixed up for them and drives each one either single or douhin. N'nt i rirttr i trt Vie krt his father that he had discovered some good bark for the heating stove and In a short time, the farmer says, there wer 10 or 12 cords of the bark stacked up in the woodshed. The young lad broke his team and made their equipment with out, the help of any older person. Not EveiTXTrapo Juice . Hush UMIe wine rak. Why this stir up? Soon you'll ba carrying Juat grape syrup. 7 . ' San Francisco Call , L'ncle Jeff Snow Ssys: j On the Membres river In New Met- n u.k . T T . . . ...v., .icu was president, a Duncn of Injuns stole Doc Hembree's darter, and. when we pressed 'em hard they klUed her and flung her body In the road with the notion we'd stop to bury her. She wasn't burled till after the whole bunch of Injun was. and we give Doc their hosses as Indemnity fer her life, poo 'lowed there wasn't hosses enough in all New Mexico to pay htm fer that little gal, and their wasn't. When I think-of what them Huns done to the women and children of Belgium and France I ain't a bit afeared of tho allies collecUn too much Indemnity from 'em. Their farms Is all serene, . and their homes is all safe. They can pay. fer all I care, until all their landlords and aristocrats has to work fer a livln' the rest of their natchurl lives, i The hews in Paragraphs World Happenings. Briefed for Benefit of Journal Readers GENERAL . An amendment to the appropriation bill provides that all government em ployes who quit their positions to go to war shall be given back their Jobs. Return of the ' railroads to private control, with government regulation. Is advocated by Paul M. Warburg, former governor of the federal reserve board. General Pershing cables the war de partment denying reports that mall to and from the American expeditionary forces has become congested at French mail heads. American rights In Mexico will ' be amply safeguarded by the Mexican gov ernment, according to Ambassador Fletcher, who is In Washington from Mexico City. The Western Fruit Jobbers assocla tlon, meeting in Chicago, adopted reso lutions condemning . the service of the American Railway Express company, operating under federal control. - NORTHWEST NOTES Freezing weather has put a stop to plowing in the Inland Empire. i no fjvBiLiuii ui iiiv ii ici i ijm i.raiiun Is going begging at f 100 a month. , Sixteen new Influenza cases are re ported in the Brooks-Scanlon logging camp near Bend. The tobacco habit is considered a dis qualification for a position In-the Yak ma public schools. A- few farmer of the Milton section report portions of their fall sown wheat damaged by freezing. A snowstorm which started last Mon day haa left about 14 Inches of snow in the Whits Salmon district. J. S. Dooley. an Alaska miner, was probably fatally shot during an argu ment with five men in. Seattle Thursday night. Th Yakima school board hopes to Institute the system of free text books In the grammar schools of that district this spring. Indorsement Is being given by ranrh rs in southern Wasco county to the proposed construction of the Mount Hood loop road. Mors than $200,000 worth of livestock was saved to the state of Idaho bg government predatory animal hunters during 1918. The Southern Pacific company an nounces that a special. Saturday night train will be put on between Eugene and Wendllnrr. Claud Baker. Pendleton boy. reported dead as the result of wounds received in action, is with the army of occupa tion In Germany. A. A. Elmore of Spokans wa elected "resident of the Washington and Idaho Farmers union at Its annual convention in Spokane Thursday. Announcement Is made of the purchase TKw Via X7 u.hln.tnn WatAf Paw., pany of the Spokane Heat. Light Power company for a consideration of 11.600.000. , Jesse Lon. son of Mrs. JT. C. Long A 9 Vf umrtifl nrilaalntf In AffAr, writes his mother that, although wounded and gassed, he is now recuperating in a camp in Virginia. Friends of John O. Petty, a single man of about 65 years, who disappeared from Marshfleld. three years ago. now believe he -either became . Insane or was murdered for his money. The Wasco county court has arone on record as strongly opposed to the move being-made in the legislature to take "rom the county boards of equalisation the power to regulate assessments. FOREIGN ; An armistice between the Polish and Csecho-Slovak forces, which have been fighting on the SUeslan front, was signed February . ; Rudvard Kloling has published a rooem in London, entitled "Greatheart." which pay noble tribute to the memory of Colonel Roosevelt. There was a brilliant and enthusiastic scene at the reception of Ambassador Davis by th oencner at ; tne Middle P.M.U V. a 11 In Tiinrfnn. . . AVUiri, ...... . . .-w . - w W. r. Child of New York, chief reo- resentativ of the Western Union Tele graph company In Russia, Is , dead of starvation in Petrograd. . Count Karolri. president of Hungary. has Informed hi cabinet that th dl-" .e l.nfl. ah. I WMmmAiA a m wrt as th land reform act is published. Let Uncle Sam Guard Your War Saving's Stamps1; . (Stories of achievement is the acenasnls tion of War Savings Sumps, sent to The Journal and acceptable for publication, will be awarded Thrift Stamp. J Register- your War Savings Cer tificates. They are valuable. War 'Saving Certificate may be regis tered without cost to th owner at any postofflc of the first, second or third class, or at certain specially authorised postofflcf of th fourth class. Unless registered, the United States will not be liable If payment for the certificate Is made to a per son not th rightful owner thereof. r Thrift 'Stamp and 1919 War Sav ings Stamp now on sale at usual agencies. . . . ,