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io THE OREGON DAILY JOURNAL, PORTXANP. WEDNESDAY; FEBRUARY 19r 1919. ' AST KDKPENDEirr K EW8P APEB U a. JACKSON. . .Publisher fubiishext everr day, afternoon tad raornjn t eept numb; afternoon). t Tba Joorn Bua- - may urMomjt Ma asauuu ; w m .- irregon. . - fcutered st the FoeteffW t Portland. fe tniumtaiou throeycn tfa mails msaiA class matter. TiXEi-HON . Main tit; lion. , All aevactaaeat metr vr .sueea mmmxim, iOHKIGW JlDVeHTISUfO KEPKKMENTATITK - lre,smi A KarKnor Co, 5?Bf1k""i 25 ruth mm. Kw Xori;,00 Maliam HuUding. Cfclescot Subscription term kr m&ll ia Oregon and Wasb- tairte: PAtLt (MORNTSO OH AFTEHtfOOTO Om year.. ,..15 O I One Moots. 0 SCNDAT Otl nr..'. .$2.50 I One nwnrli .....$ .25 1 VltX (M0BNIN9 OR AFTEttNOON) ASD . SCMDAT Off rt-. -. .t7.C0 t On month. -- People mm not to see that their opinion 'of the world ) also a confession of char acter. We can only see what we are, and if we mibjhaTe, we suspect ethers. Emenoa LNVADING ENEMIES; "A' NY foreigner who comes to this country and advocates the overthrow of our form of government by force is an invading enemy who Is treated with great leniency when he is simply de ported to the land from which he came," : These words ring true. The con clusion is undeniable. The language Is from a letter fiy Secretary of La bor Wilson to Micrometer lodge of the International Association of Ma chinists of Brooklyn, which protested to the secretary against the deporta tion of, 58 "alien radicals." Secretary Wilson continued: v. ' When, our own citizens desire to change ,th form of government they "can do ao peaceably In the manner pro vided by the constitution. If we cannot make prepress by the peaceable process of discussing and voting, we are not likely ' to make any progress by the riotous procesB of cussing and shoot ing". The man who cannot be de pended upon to vote right, cannot be depended upon to shoot right. This assertion is from a real worker. lie began life in a coaf mine at 10. All his youth and early manhood was spent with mining tooU In his calloused hands. . When his mind was mature enough to think, he became an advocate of labor organized and collective bar gaining. He was soon put on the employers blacklist and driven from the mines. Ho saw his father live : and die a worker in the mines, and Jiiat fact nerved hl,s strong Scotch mentality for a heroic struggle in behalf of men who strive with their hands. NcHivIng man knows better the Ins and puts of the old labor struggle. No roan has done more for the Amer ican worker. No man has earned a clearer title to speak as one informed on what is best and w)rst for those . who go out to live by the sweat of toll. Workers can find no safer guide or surer leadership. He knows eco nomio Justice. He is motived by eco nomic morality. The ballot, he points out, is m the-, worker's hands, and It is. The ballot is everything. It is all, it is the climax, it is finality, It is power complete. It Is the instrument by which abuses can be corrected, the implement with which wrongs can be righted. - The great earth is covered with people. Their interests are conflict ing. There can be but one rule by which ' orderly, decisions can be ar rived at the decision of the ma jority. There is but one way to ascertain the decision of the majority the ballot. Any other process ex cept use of fhe ballot and obedience to-the ballot must end in confusion, t and confusion is chaos. . Id America everything that is needed to carry' out the ultimate and . only means of majority government, has been provided ; and Is in the voter's hands. If things are wrong, if there are abuses, it is the voter's own fault. The election system is complete There is a secret Fallot and a fair count. No armed men stand guard to Influence voters at the polling places. No loungers ar,; permitted there. All the guaran tees : that , governments can give or citizens ask are In the voter's hands. What - more could any form of government givet -What more could any citizen ask? Why then change the fornt of government? Especially, why resort to violence to change the form, of government in Ameriea? There is no answer. There "can be no intelligent reply to the idiotic proposals of ignorant foreigners who come over the Atlantic ; and begin to mouth revolution and "Bolshevism. The thing to do is not to be pes tered with them, but to send them back to the countries from which they. cam. - ' They come; over here and fly the red flay; in opposition to the Ameri can flag; and preach change, revolu tion and violent overthrow ' of the government. ; As Secretary Wilson, says, "If they cannot be depended upon to vote right,' how can they be depended upon to shoot right?" If the Borahs and Poindextcrs could have bees present and seen the oue- mindedness and enthusiasm for a League of Nations in the great crowds at the Portland conference. they would have discovered how out of, tune they are with the masses of the American people. If Sena tor Poindexter could have heard the perfectly audible . Jeer ' that went over the audience whenever his nam; was mentioned in -- half sarcasm by former President Taft, he would have felt the ground-swellj If the anti league crowd should manage to de feat ratification of the plan in the senate they will raise the biggest political rumpus this country has seen in a long time. MR. TAFTS REPLY IT IS announced from Washington that Poindexter, Borah and other senators will fight the constitution of the League of Nations. With fall information and fine logic, former President Taft has aa swered them in advance. His answer is so complete, so final and bo over whelming that it is reprinted on this page from The Journal's news report of his speech in Portland Monday. With Mr. Taft's presentation of the case well Jn mind, no unpreju diced man can be convinced by the shallow arguments on the other side. There Is no contention of the oppo sition that Mr. Taft does not an swer and irresistibly answer. His bigger and broader conception of the American constitution and Ameri can sovereignty is so apparent that the opposition's contentions are puny and futile. Mr. Taft was never so splendid in his statesmanship. In his presi dential career, he was not more full of prestige and power than he is in the splendid fight he is making for the League of Nations. It is difficult to understand . the senate opposition. For the sake of the noble American dead in France, it would seem that the American people would be unanimous for any plan that would promise to end or even lessen war. If we are not willing to ' enter into covenants with other nations to end war in the name of our hal lowed dead we ought to do it in the name of our crippled boys who are now ' coming home. If not for them, wc ought to do it as a pro tection to the living who are yet unmaimed and unniutilated. We. ought to do it for the sake of saving them and others to come, from being" drafted for service in futune wars. Finally, if for nothing else, we ought to do it in the name of those mothers in America who are weeping for their dead. The noblest instincts of the race appeal for just this thing to the consummation of which Mr. Taft is devoting all his mental and physi cal powers. Contrasted with the splendid analysis which the former president presents on this page, the senatorial quibbles at Washington are shallow, empty and childish, if not perverse. The house at Salem has passed, 54 to 1, a bill to license realty agents. The purpose is to-; .control the activity and confine operations to legitimate agencies. Several states are taking the same action as a re sult of requests by those engaged in the realty business. Its effect would seem to be to put unfair operators out of the game, a con summation devoutiy to be wished. A GROWING OPINION THE Oregon supreme court stands by its decision reversing the Multnomah county circuit court ana giving to tne daughter an equal share with her brother of the estate under the Myers will at Salem. The" thought is gaining ground in human opinion that great estates arj not wholly at the unrestricted disposal of those who have accumu lated them, but that the accumula tor is a trustee temporarily in pos session of large properties. The common good is believed to be bet ter served when large fortunes ara more widely distributed, and more quickly disintegrated. If the old process of entail against which Thomas Jefferson argued was bad, the preservation intact of great inheritances by will, is, in principle. likewise bad. The sooner the swollen fortunes." so named bv Theodore Roosevelt, . and which were so vehemently denounced hv him disintegrate and pass into many hands, the better for the whole mass of the people. This is more and more recognized by governments, as evidenced in the greater and greater share of such estates they take in inheritance ' taxes. The decision at Salem Is not based on this principle, but it divides into two parts a big estate that other wise would have remained undi vided, and to that extent is in har mony with growing opinion against the entail of big properties. Another generation will probably see the principle asserted with far greater emphasis and much wider accept ance. LAND FOR SOLDIERS , THE soldier who called at The Journal office the other day to inquire about land for a home, saia tnai many or his comrades were engaged in the same miesL They have to , begin life anew and they prefer to build homes on farms. This is a good sign. It demon strates wholesome i tastes In the men who 'have' been fighting our battles across the seas. The soldiers of the Civil war felt the same longin? for 'land. It is a deep-seat .Ameri can trait. . Congress gratified the land hunger of "the Civ II war veterans by instituting the homestead system. which, gave 160 acres to each veteran on easy terms. j". Land is less plentiful now than in 1863. The old homestead policy is impossible ofrepetition. Even in those days its consequences were not wholly favorable. The homesteads wrre for the most part remote from markets, so that crops were ofterJ valueless. The labor of clearing, breaking and building was frequently ruinous to the "veteran's health. His lack of capital exposed him helpless to the wiles of the usurer. In many cases he lost his land after a terrible struggle to make him self a home on it The land hunger of today's returning veterans should be more prudently gratified. If they receive smaller allotments than the Civil war troops the difference can be more than compensated in other ways. The government can procure tracts or subdivision among them, using its purchasing power for their common benefit. It can aid them in selecting suitable farms. It can lend them money for stock and buildings. It can undertake clearing operations on a large and economical scale. It was remarked the other day n the United states senate that it was nothing short of criminal to permit the individual soldier to waste his life grubbing out stumps when the work can be done so much more expeditiously and cheaply by ade quate machinery. The problem of settling the dis charged soldiers in civil life is neither trifling nor transient. The trend of the future history of the United States depends largely on the way It is solved. IF RECONSTRUCTING STATE ENGINEER CUPPER cor rectly argues that reclamation is a sound plan for reconstruction A great sum went to the gov ernment from Oregon for federal rec lamation, and but a small percentage of it was returned. There is a just claim which Oregon may well ad vance for a goodly share of the fund to be provided under Secre tary Lane's one hundred million dol lar reconstruction bill. Any original investment in reclama tion is a bagatelle in comparison with the centuries of returns that will come back. Production from well tilled and well conserved soil, once established, never ends. The water that is once connected with arid fields insures, production on non producing land that goes on through ages.- Tne ore Douies in mines wort out, but with fit husbandry, the soil yields forever. It is man's incompetency if broad wastes lie unused and unproductive with abundant water In plain sight in the wilderness of snows on neigh boring mountain ranges. The Eden of plenty with green fields, snug homes and white school houses that suddenly appear in the midst of bar ren landscapes on the Eastern Ore gon plains are living and eternal proof of the importance and utilitari anism of irrigation. Paradises of pro duction in Klamath county where yield of a number of products in creased ten fold as a direct result of federal reclamation, are testimony that nobody can contradict or dis prove. Vast areas in the Inland Em pire lie barren, waiting for water, man and the plow. Nothing that Oregon nay do can go further in reconstruction or yield more for state development, than i liberal and aggressive policy in reclamation. There is no better Investment than War Stamps. Hold what you have and buy more. A NEW PARTY FOR years it has been a common topic of conversation among progressive people that the time had come for a new party in the United States. Their idea is that the new party should include all the liberals and radicals, while the con servatives should mass themselves together in one of the old parties, or in both. Years have passed and still the idea of a new party is hardly more than an Idea. The prohibition party has never grown. It served an edu cational purpose and laded away. The new National party is said by many to have "died a bornin'." More vigor has been exhibited by the farmers' party of the Dakotas and Montana, but time must tell whether it can move forward into national importance. The ;San Francisco Call speaks of a current movement "It organize a liberal party." Such a party would be of no greater promise than the half dozen more or less ineffective begin nings we already v have unless it could Include all the liberals, or at least a large majority of them. As Idng as men of progressive minds remain divided between the old parties they will continue to annul each others votes and the conserva tives will, In large part, control the country- - J For the conservatives are only su perficially divided 1 by party lines. They aim to control both .the big parties, and until Wilson's time, generally did so. When they cannot accomplish their ends by that method they : drop party differences for the time and unite . on a ' non-partisan basis. . .'... ., , The : Call accuses the bi-partisan conservatives of defeating woman suffrage in the senate, We do not see Aow the accusation can be con futed. Suffrage drew support from both parties and both contributed opponents, - As long as the United States has no open and pronounced liberal party there will ,. always be danger that conservatives will control both ma chines and govern " the country in spite of popular disapprovals President Wilson has" been hind ered constantly by reactionaries in his own party, Just as he is opposed now' by Reed of Missouri relative to the League of Nations. If there had been behind him ail the liberal element in his own party and that of the Kenyon group in the opposi tion, he would have been spared much painful effort. With the com pelling motive of the war gone, a motive that held in line many who would otherwise have opposed him, the president, with his liberal views and forward purposes, will be more strongly opposed than at any time during his time in the White House. If the expected happens and the reactionaries and tariff beneficiaries in the next congress come to the country s is their wont, with the tar'ff as the ultimate of reconstruc tion and a cureall for every national ailment, the Progressive party that Mr. Roosevelt organized might make auother attempt to survive. THE WOBBLY OPPOSITION By William Howard Taft In the following, from his address at Tha Auditorium in Portland Monday. Mr. Taft makes a formidable reply to the senators who are fight inc the League of Nations. Ha takes up their objections and answers them, in detail. No more complete analysis of the ehallownens of their contentions has beea made. In the president's addresses and mes sages during the war and since, he has promised to the Ions harassed peoples of the allied nations that 'the United States would press for a League of No tions which should secure permanent peace when this war ended. Thus he revived the morale of the war-weary soldiers and workers of our allies, These promises were not repudiated by any American when they vfere made. They were echoed in all the appeals to the American people and they found ready response among them and no pro test. The nation is thus" pledged to the idea of a League of Nations to render peace permanent. Good faith requires that what other nati undergo to secure the peace of the world. we Bnouia ourselves be willing to as sume, uniy now, after the war, after the reaction that the ending of i war brings and after impatience 'at the de lays in reaching peace conditions, do we hear on the floor of the senate the criticisms of the president's promise of a League of Nations. If uttered during the war they would have been out of tune with the overflowing spirit of the American people and their determination to win the war and end the possibility of any such war in the future. Nqw, for the first time, do we hear tha nkim that we did not go into this war for the Deneiit or the world, but for our own selfish purpose. s , Senator Poindexter attacks the eighth article of the constitution of the league on disarmament as follows: "The pro vision is unconstitutional pairment of the sovereignty and inde- penaence or tnis country. Congress, under tha nonstlt mines what our armament shall be ; and therefore it is quite true that even if we made an agreement, congress would retain the constitutional power of vio lating that agreement and increasing the armament beyond the limit set, but that aoes not prevent the treaty making power from entering into the obligation. It is not a transfer of sovereignty it is only an agreement to limit our fortifi cations and our means of attack in con sideration of other nations doing the same thing. The most famous agree ment that we have made on this point is the agreement we have with Great Britain by which w,e bind ourselves not to fortify the boundary between Canada and the United States or to place war vessels on the lakes. That agreement is of 100 years' standing and has been praised by every statesman who has re ferred to It. ' It was first made by cor respondence between two secretaries of sta.te and aft -uiuuuiw lit a treaty. Does Senator Pointdexter claim mat in m was unconstitutional and de stroyed the sovereignty of the United States? The senator cava m rr.nn agree with another nation to take over ana govern tne exclusive right of manu facturing munitions and instruments of War. W'h V not. if nthtrr nations t n. do the same thing and to limit their production in the same way? The trouble with Senator PnimiTt.. conception of this government is that it nasn t me powers or otner great nations to help along the world by a joint agree ment that shall prevent the dangerous increase of armament nn tna n- r.r apy nation. In assuming to exalt the sovereignty of the nation as above everything, he falls into the error of minimising its power to do anything to help preservation of peace. benttor .Poindexter objects to article 18. in which the leaeim ia i - -w w via, the traffic of arms in countries where it is deemed necessary in the public welfare to restrict the traffic. No one Who is not a Hen rrhr tnw Lit could apply that article to the United states, xi. or course, refers to coun tries of the backward- peoples who can not be trusted with firearms, and whose use of them the world may well restrict to maintain its safety. a The most eitrem nosltlnn r n . . . ucnawi Poindexter is that the United States cannot consent to arbitration of Issues between it and other countries because it might affect the vital interests of the nation. There have been 100, arbitra tions between the United States and other countries, many of there of very great concern.. The questions of the payment of the Alabama claims related to a principle of International law and International safety that was of the highest Importance. The arbitration of the Alaskan boundary was another. The arbitration of ur rights in the Bering sea and In the seal herd of the Pribyloff islands was another. In this arbitration we submitted to the decision of an im partial tribunal the question whether we had the rlcrhta claimed. The assumption that either the court 5 ?5 ,ratlon or the executive council or the league by unanimous ii. ,4 would seek to take away the sovereignty .""i : tor ,lne "Miwndence of the United States is utterly gratuitous. It Is mo extreme a vlaw t - v.. . to be riven anr wnfo-hr .iT!. to machlnfcry for the peaceful adjust ment of differonriM .i.i -m - uajvu inier national courts. - To recur azaln'to 'triaTnKi.tiX. .i.tv ,n thread through all of Senator viuvcAkci aiiacKs upon the consti tution of the league, namely, that the league minimises the sovereignty of the United States and of every nation which Joins it. there is a misconception In the mind of the senator as to sovereignty that needs to be pointed out. No rea sonable and patriotic and property self respecting citizen of the United States can claim that our sovereignty should be more than, a right to freedom of action within the limitations of international law, international morality and a due regard for the rights of other nations. The only sovereignty which we ought to claim is sovereignty regulated by these limitations. It is exactly analogous to the liberty which we enjoy as individuals, which is liberty curtailed and regulated by law in order that other citlsehs may enjoy the same liberty.. It is an exer cise of rights on my part consistent with the exercise of the same rights on the part, of every other man. It is not com plete liberty of action. Proper national sovereignty is similarly restricted, a a Now, the league does not propose In any way further to restrict that sover eignty but only through the Joint com pulsion of all nations to keep a would be outlaw nation within the proper and existing limitation. The league is not a super-sovereign. It is only a partner ship. Its power is in Joint agreement not in the establishment of a govern ment. The senator's objection Is funda mental. If it were analysed and logi cally developed, it would be seen to be a reactionary doctrine that belongs to the German view of the state, and its needs and its rights. It is not conso nant with any hope by international ac tion of settling differences other than by the power of the sword. It leads di rectly to the proposal that "might makes right." It is based on a doctrine of su preme national selfishness. It is the pessimistic and despairing view of any possibility of restricting war. It con templates with entire acquiescence the p.ospect of another war like that through which we have passed in the next 10 or 20 years. It perverts the glorious idea of a national sovereignty to keep it from helping the family of nations. It per verts our grand federal constitution in order to render helpless for the good of the world what, under the providence of God, has become the world's greatest power. Will the American people ac quiesce in suCh a small view of our re sponsibilities for mankind and of our governmental capacity for international benefit? We may be . confident they will not. Letters From the People (Communications sent to The Journal for pub lication in this department should be written on only one aiJe of the paper, should not exceed 800 words in length and mint be signed by the writer, whose mail sddress in full must accom pany tha contribution.) Lake Is a Great Asset Portland, Feb. 14. To the Editor of The Journal. The representatives of the people of Oregon are soon to vote on house bill 376, a measure to protect the Malheur bird reservation from being ex ploited as a money making proposition for a few. A vote "Yes" means to con serve the assets of the state by preserv ing the greatest natural attraction of living birds in the United' States. A far greater asset to Oregon as an at traction to tourists, than the drained lake will ever be for any other purpose. ARTHUR K. DOWNS. President Oregon Sportsmen's . league. Watch Vote on Lake Bill Portland. Feb. 15. To the Editor of The Journal The Malheur lake bird reservation the greatest bird retreat for migratory birds in the United States shoule be preserved as such and dedi cated as a memorial to the late' Theo dore Roosevelt, by whom it was created as a reservation. Watch your repre sentative's vote on house bill 376. See whether he votes for conservation of the lake as such, or to turn it into a poor commercial enterprise for the bene fit of land sharks and promoters. MORRIS R. COX. Malhrur Lake Portland; Feb. 15. To the Editor of The Journal If the picture of a duck makes a goose of a legislature and at the same time makes Oregon a nut, wouldn't it be a good time to let the squirrel and the fool kUler loose? R. L. CAMPBELL. - Yankpe Girls Are Best Portland, Feb. 14. To the Editor of The Journal I am glad to see we have one real American man in Portland, as "Yankee Girl's Husband" proves to be. As to French' girls making better wives than Yankee girls. I will say, no real American man or woman would say such a thing. The French girl 'doesn't live who can compete with the Yankee girl wife. All she needs is the right kind of husband. There will be many Yankee boys who have married French girls who will be. sorry of the bargain before many moons go by. The great trouble with the majority of men is they are so conceited that they can't see their own faults, so if trouble comes up it is always the wife's fault. 'There is no better wife or mother than the Yankee girl, as has been proved. She is always ready to do her part, and more, to make the home hftppy. If hubby will do his part as well and take the in terest in home that she does, there would be less divorces and happier homes. Yankee girls, don't get discouraged be cause a few so called men have been carried away by the French girl's flat tery, for a man led by flattery never makes a good husband. Consider your self lucky that you didn't . get one of them. I am strong for the Yankee girl. J. W. J. The Syndicalism Bill Portland, Feb. 13. To the Editor of The Journal Please publish the syndi calism bill in your "Letters From the People" columns of The Journal. What authority, if any. does the United States exercise over the Philippine and Hawaiian Islands, now? J. N ALDEN. The bill (senate bill No. 2) is too lon to reproduce in this space. Write to Secretary of State Olcott, Salem, and - ask him to send a copy. The United States owns the Philippines SBd the Hawaiian islands. Hawaii is under a territorial government similar to that of tha former "territories" such as Oregon and many others once were. The United States governs the Philippines mora directly, though there is considerable native participation. Legislation has been enacted by congress looking to tha eventual independence of tba Philippines. The Soldier's Job . Portland. Feb. 14. To the Editor of The Journal Regarding soldiers return ing to their jobs, there has been much talk. I believe when a soldier leaves to fight for those at home as well as himself, he is forced to leave that Job whether he enlists or is drafted, and is entitled to it when' he returns, whether it is held by man or woman. But if a woman or girl has to support hersel or dependents, she is entitled to any Job suitable to her ability, the same as Is any man (not a returned soldier whose former job she may aspire to). But if a man has the income to support his wife, she is not entitled to a Job as long as more deserving ones are Idle. In any case, give the soldier his Job if he had one. I am not a returned soldier. FAIR PLAY. Approval for Catholic Report Washougal, Wash., Feb. 14. To the Editor of The Journal The propositions laid down by the National Catholic war council to guide legislation for re construction (as briefly summarized in Thursday's Journal) could well bo in dorsed by all right thinking people, re- e.arri'lMS of relfgiOtt Xf occupation. iz this Is really a government by the pec-J COMMENT AND SMALL CHANGE ' A moonshine still gets by all right un to someone can'tVkeep still about it. The boys can't come home fast enough totpep up with the welcome awaiting Another physician has discovered a cure for the "flu." Better late than not at all. A contemporary wVo called the Wash ington militant a Bolsaevixen has the right idea. "Hot Words Hurle3 in Tilt Over Roads." Headline. Chance for a rivet catcher to, make good. Now that there's talk of lettine Hawaii into the union as a. full fledged state, there's also talk of taking steps to see that the native musicians are not al lowed to play "The Star-Spangled Ban ner" on their ukuleles. . We respectfully suggest that' the state boxing commission put up a "squared ring" in the legislative halls at Salem, and that when any of the members feel particularly belligerent they be allowed to fight it out. A "battle royal" is great sport. JOURNAL MAN AT HOME By Fred Lockley. Interesting passages from the testimony of member of the Sixty-fifth coast artillery sra re produced by Mr. Lockley today testimony to the artillerists not only, but also to all other war lighters and war workers. There follows a story of some marvelous gunnery, and a tribute to tha Rev. Dave Thompson of Portland closes the article. "It was worth going overseas Just to know how much the home folks thought of us," said one of the boys of the Sixty fifth. "There was glory enough In this war for every branch of the service, but 1 want to tell you confidentially that it was the artillery that helped bring the Germans to a "realization of the hopeless ness of winning. We couldn't have done what we did if it hadn't been for the infantry mopping up the country we had been hammering. We were able to do our most effective work through the help of the aviators, who acted as eyes for our big guns. If you don't think our fire was accurate and destructive Just ask the Germans. It was team work that put the Job across. The bluejackets took us across, the S. O. 8. kept supplies .and ammunition coming to us, the signal men and all the other branches of the service worked- with us to win victory. We have come back with in creased knowledge and respect for the French and British soldiers. We lost only three men killed in action. Yes, our allies lost over 4,000,000 men before we got Into action, but we got there to help give the knockout blow and to shorten the war a year or more. We were glad to go, but glad is no name for our feeling at getting back to the good old U. S. A." e When I was at Corbie I met a most charming English officer. Lieutenant Miller. I asked him where his battery of 11-inch naval guns was located. He said. "Right here." I looked In the di rection he pointed, and said. . "Right where?" Ha smiled, and paid, "Come with me. I'll show you." We were but a few rods from an apple orchard. The orchard did not exceed an acre in size. Standing between two trees in plain sight was a huge 11-loch naval gun. It was so cleverly camouflaged and its protective coloration was so exactly like the green of the apple leaves and of the orchard grass that I had not seen It The big gun was firing at the roads back of the German lines. "We are putting our shell about 15 miles distant to prevent' the Germans from bringing up ammunition and sup plies to their batteries - and food and small arms ammunition to their men in the trenches," sa"id Lieutenant Miller. From the concealed battery of naval guns I went to a battery of 10-inch how itzers. Each time the howitzers were fired I balanced on my toes and dropped my mouth open so my eardrums would not be Injured. It Is wonderful how accurate the gun ners become by long practice. When I spoke to a British officer about a won derfully accurately placed shot he had just made, he said : "Not at all unusual or remarkable, sir. Merely a matter of mathematics." To my mind, one of the wonders of modern warfare is being able to hit an unseen target miles distant Here is the report of a bit of gunnery. It happened at The Dardanelles when the Queen Elisabeth, In cooperation with the first kite balloon ship, the Manica, sunk with three shells a 12,000 ton enemy transport loaded with troops and stores, which lay over 12 miles away on the other side of a mountainous peninsula : "Through the glass window of the lit tle office the operator could be seen sit ting at a table. Over his head were strapped the ear-pieces of the telephone through which he communicated with the balloon that hung high over the ship in the pale blue of the Mediterranean sky. The operator wrote : 'Balloon to Q. E. C, 12.1 open fire on enemy transport In M 22b.' High over the- sea the ob server in his creaking basket had seen In the shining strip of water beyond the dappled hills the great transport lying in the narrows. The mighty 15-inch gun roared, and its shell could be heard trav- pie. why do we have to put up with the overshadowing menace from large in dustrial combinations? There ought to be some way to make this report of the Catholic war council something that can bring results. In line with the plan pro Dosed, If we are to have "social Justice and a contented people." There is quite a contrast between this wise report and the spectacle of the National Security league apologizing to congress and the public for its activities In presuming to gauge the loyalty of congressmen. One can hardly conceive of the National Se curity league recommending so wise a course as that referred to above. One la almost tempted to think that Its ac tivities were more in tne inwresi l . certain class than of the public at large. IT. V. MOSS. Reply to "A Farmer" Portland, Feb. 14. To tte Editor of The Journal I have taken great interst in the letters from the people, and In reply to "A Farmer" I wish o say that he should use his common sense to bet ter advantage than knocking labor. I thrnk he would greatly benefit himself and millions of other tollers, as common sense teaches us that If tho farmer has a full granary the horses will bo fat; if It is empty, tie poor horse goes hun gry half the time. The sams applies to the poor laborer; for if he has to go on rations of. say, one spud a day to make his bill and his months earnings balance, it is ' c fact he cannot havs his three spuds a day, because he cannot get. them. As demand regu lates prices, why cannot the farmer see that the better tho man is paid, the better he lives ; so. naturally. tie great er the demand for food. Tho farmer has a lot of nerve to tell labor what to do h. t has a guarantee of $2.29 s bushel for wheat for his next crop. The government, guaranteed that price ana tho people have to pay It The common laborers haven't any fat guarantees, so It la up to laborers to. make their own wants known. Now, "Farmer," why should you tell ta laborers what to do, when we all know that the laborer never tells the grocer what ha will pay for butter? Why not boost for prosperity to all. Instead of maxlng threats T Tou know it got tho kaiser In bad.nd will NEWS IN BRIEF . OREGON SIDELIGHTS New families are arriving at Eugene almost dally, the Register says, to make that city their home. . j - The Eugene water 'board has bought 20,000 worth of Liberty bonds. In addi tion to the ffiO.OOO already owned : by the board. The Canyon cttyEagle rejoices that "spring will now soon be serving butter cups. Johnnie Jump Ups, clear skies, warm sunshine, etc John Day citizens are planning already for a great Fourth of July celebration. A race meeting of several days' dura tion, preceding, the Fourth, ia proposed. "Lane county apples Sold In England." says the Eugene Register, "netted " the growers J2.6S a . box. The pessimists who have shed tears whenever they looked at the orchards will have to take a back seat" A county, organisation for community and county development Is proposed by Mrs. Winnie Braden, executive secretary of The Dalles Chamber of Conjmerce, who has called a meeting of presidents and secretaries of all county commercial organisations for next Saturday. c eling-wlth an even thunder, mile after mile through the air, changing Its note to a lower key as it crossed the coast line, and rushed on over the land. The clamor faded slowly away, and died In a remote explosion. 12.3 BOO yards over,' wrote the quick-moving pencil in tne cabin. "Again the gun roared out and the shell sang its triumphant song, which slowly died away. '12.5, 200 yards over,' wrote the pencil. The gun spoke a th'rd time. Far away could be heard the faint thud of the bursting shell. "12.8 direct hit' wrote the pencil ; and then, almost without a break, it continued : Transport settling down forward. Bows under water. Ship half submerged. Sinking rapidly. Forward funnel sub merged. Stern settling. Ship entirely disappeared.' With three shots the long, gray battleship had sunk the big enemy transport far away beyond a range of tall hills. The blind gunners had been directed by the eyes in the air." Rev. David A.Thompson of Portland, pastor of the Miapah Presbyterian church, on the east side, was a fellow passenger aboard the Orlssa, a small Pa cific Mall steamer that before the war plied in South American waters but was now In the service of the British government bringing cargoes of nitrate from South America to Liverpool. Dave and I were stationed-at Bordeaux when I. B. Rhodes, who has Just returned from France, was regional director. By today's mail I received a number of let ters from friends in France and England. In one of the letters was the following interesting account of what Dave Thomp son Is doing at present It appeared in the Red Triangle, the official overseas publication of the V. M. C. A., published in Paris, and reads as follows: "From holding down a pulpit to run ning the biggest restaurant In all France seems rather a long jump to take at single leap. The -Rev. David A. Thomp son of Portland, Or., has taken this leap, however, and without a single gasp. Many American soldiers over here have learned from him that preachers can be practical. As head of the Tourney Y' in Bordeaux, France, the biggest Y. M. C, A. activity In the world. Dr. Thompson" Is seeing that between 4000 and 6000 soldiers every, day get Waldorf- Astoria food at cafeteria rates. 'Firstly meanj soup to him nowadays, and ice cream is the doxology.' 'Food first is his war-time text. Tho clink of plates doesn't bother him a bit more than the rattle of coins in a contribu tion box. 'The Tourney Y' has grown from its rather small beginning, back in the early days of the war, when Mrs. Vincent As- tor and Mrs. Henry Russell of New York used to fry all the eggs themselves, into a stupendous enterprise. It takes 10,000 potatoes a day to feed the soldiers and the sailors and potatoes' are about as easy to get hold of as firewood or dia monds over here in France From 7 o'clock in the morning uptil 9 :80 at night there Is never a moment when a long line of enlisted men isn't snaking Its way through the crowds in the cafeteria. And all that time no sailor or soldier enters the building without being welcomed personally by Dr. Thompson. "It's easy to understand the popu larity of the restaurant when one knows that it's one of the few places In France where the boys can always get white bread with butter, and real sugar In their coffee American coffee, without a hint of chickory about it For 29 cents the' boys can buy bread, butter, coffee, and two fried eggs for breakfast For three francs and a half, they may get a luncheon or dinner that ranges all the way from soup through meat and pota toes and vegetables to excellent home' made dessert all for about 65 cents In good American money. On Sunday special dinner which includes turkey. Ice cream and one other dessert Is served. Thanksgiving ' and Christmas dinners take in everything In the market, and all the mince pies and - pumpkin pies and puddings which aren t on the mar ket In France." get anyone else, no matter from what source it may corrif A TOILER. License Fee Results Portland, Feb. 11. To the Editor of The Journal I notice in the press re ports the legislature is about to more than double the license fee on automo biles in order to raise as much money for road purposes as possible, which is right In the main, but it will certainly nave an injurious errect upon the rural delivery service, where autos are now used. Many carriers'-do not now re ceive sufficient salary to pay the up keep on equipment and support fami lies. They are simply holding on to see ir congress will come to tho relief. On routes where autos are used the farmer's mail is at his door In less than one-third of the time used on horse routes. Tho carrier. In order to reduce his expenses, will naturally return to the horse system, which is a long step backward In efficiency. I notice congress Is about to give Oregon $1,050,000 a year for three years, besides $1,181,000, also au thorized. This being true, I think in tho interest of efficiency and of the farmers, the legislature, should so amend the pending bill1 that, all cars used for iw-.ll delivery purposes, should b exempt from the license fee. Let us hear from all other carriers by writing letters to their senator and representative. , A RURAL MAIL CARRIER. Olden Oregon . Columbia River Has Borne a Surprls- lng Number of Names. The Columbia river has been known by various names. it was called "Wauna" by th Indians. The Span lards called it "La' Roque" or "La Roc, from! the cape near tho entrance of the river Into ? the "ocean. It was then known as "Thegayo," and later as "Rio do Aguilar." By tho Americans It was first called the "River of tho West' As early as 1771 Jonathan Carver referred to It as tho Oregon," a name which It Is supposed he heard while among the Indians of the Great Lakes. Afterward It was christened "Columbia" by Cap tain Gray In honor of the first ship that sailed upon its bosom. Ragtag and Bobtail Stories From Everywhere. Sic (semper, and All Tbat , IT WAS the year 19S0. A centenarian, a former Prussian soldier now resid ing In the United States, his ge-en-feebled mind brooding . over the Great Wrong, addressed a letter to Its per petrator, long since dead, whose nam by universal consent had not been uttered sinee the conclusion of the peace of 1920, says Cartoons Magasine. In due course the letter found its way-Into one of the aerial mall cars of the Over head. Limited. There, In sorting the mall, a clerk, aged 23. came across it A puszled frown was evident on his countenance as he read the superscrip tion : ' . ... "WILHELM. 1L I." "Funny I never heard of that place be fore," he commented, and tossed the let ter In with the rest of the Rhode Island mall. Stars' lone. In tba night : ' On a hill . With pines s round ma Spicy and still. And a heaven full of tiara Over my head, white and topaa And misty red; V Myriads with beaUng ' Uaarts f fire That aeons Cannot vex or tW Up the dome of heavta Like great hill. I watch them marching Stately and etui,. And I know that IV Am honored to be Witness . . . Of so' much majesty. k Sarah Tea-dale in New Tori Sua, lneJr jcTFISiiow Says: This lde e v. . . . counts liirV- V . r,ner Keepin- ao rnrh11t.'nM r'." ' -' right - , agricultural depart ment Shama In i. . . wutin t i: "Bsningion is mighty Sti,,.t0Lta1 "m a11 bot What ttnm (h,.t . ' "ie larmer fn-V-r nd J 6 P cent on his and 1 wf J7m WaM "r haw-ll1 and wife fer their work the figgerin' rrium",01 th vestment is et gage 11 turn him into a tenant If the. undertaker hain't ketched him first-. It's Jist as well it t - ' . much flsser'n and goes on'raisin' calves airhet uo TfT ?. to.5" J"! , . - , yuifj r I gent IOF the land hogs like he always done befora. The News in Paragraphs World Happenings Briefed for Benefit of Journal Readers GENERAL o ; WV. Brow. lieutenant governor of Saskatchewan, died at Iteglna Monday. The Ktrlke of engineers which ha closed the publlo schools of Denver tor ar 'now open'61 8etUed nd tn hools ( Thorough Americanization of Hebrew immigfnt8 wa! urged by the ftfty-Mlxth Brlth, just closed at San Francisco. Record prices for hogs were secured fi nJi.Ui5Uo.n in Maroon, I1L wn sow with nine piga brought 14815 an other sow 1340,and a spring pig $120": . Rbrrt. -...faKf. a shipbuilder, was Anna Barbe at San Francisco. Sunday. The woman claims she fired in defense or tier honor. . h Nebraska legislature haspassed a bill barring! Catholic nuns and others rii--',"1" tht dr,ff of. tnelr religious orders from teaching in the public schools of the, state. The American tank steamer J. M. Guf- ?? r??rJ?1 J,"1 week 1" disaster icon miles oK Cape Usee, was towed to Hali htad y jBriUah steamer Kamor- NORTHWEST NOTES William B. Wooten, who came to Ore gon In 1853, Is dead at Eugene, aged 81. South Bend will honor Pacific county's dead soldiers by planting memorial trees in the courthouse grounds. . ' A permanent exhibit of the resources tf Lane county is being planned by the Lane County Fair association. Contractors have begun work on the six-mile stretch of the Columbia high way between Hood IUver and Mosler. Articles of Incorporation of the Peo- rle s Publlo Market, with a capital of 50,000, were filed at Astoria Monday. Walter Leo Kelly, only son of Mr. and MraCharles Kelly of Oregon City, died of pneumonia at Camp Meade, Mi, Feb ruary 14. . The Elliott & Ell wood Logging com pany of Clatsop county has reopened its camn and losririnar nmrallnni u r in progress. Weston Is going to have a $3000 com munity building in honor of the soldiers who went to war and the pioneers of the county. . The Idaho legislature on Monday re fused to double its salary when tho house killed the bill to increase the per diem from $5 to $10. Frank Perdue of Canyonvtlle was ar rested In Jackson county on hit wty home with three different . kinds of liquor in -his possession. The city of Umatilla has applied for a. captured German machine gun, and Hen ator Chamberlain has taken tho matter up with tho war department The body of a man named Bayer, aged . about 30 years, was found last eiaturday In ' th slough near Cathlamet It is thought ho committed suicide. Chairman W. P. Murphy of the Yak ima draft board, who is compiling a list of those who pleaded alien citizenship to escape the draft says tho total will reach 600 names. Plans for 'draining and restoring to use more than 160.000 acres of rich over flow lands in wentern Oregon are out lined by E. L. Powers, chief of soils a; Oregon Agricultural college. Commissioners of Walla Walla and Franklin counties at a joint meeting voted to hold special elections In both counties April 8 to vote on the question of Issuing 82S0.00Q In bond-to construct a bridge across Snake river between Burbank and Pasco. . FOREIGN Belgium's right to Indemnity is rec ognized by the German government Fighting is being pushed about Lem berg, with the Ukrainians claiming gains In an attempt to cut off the rail way lines of the Poles Into the city. On account -of a mutLny on th Brlt- Ish steamer Durham Castie. delegates representing th South Agrlcan Nation alists ran ea to reacn tne peace confer ence at Paris. Dr. Schlffer, German minister of finance, has asked th assembly to vote a loan of 25,300,000,000 marks, the great est loan the German people .have ever seen asked to raise. - ' War Savings Stamps Bring Soldiers Back !Iom 1 Stories of achievement in the accumula tion of War Savings Stamps, sent to The Journal and accepted . for publication, will be awarded a Thrift Stamp. There was a War Savings. Stamp lesson in the return to Oregon of th rallant Sixty-fifth after valorous ac tion abroad.. The War Savings 1 Stamps you purchased last year ielpod to buy th ammunition that lies boys flrd In fighting their way , to victory. Th War Savings Stamps you ar buying this year help to pay their way back horn to Oregon. There are still thousands of bur boys on the other side just as anxious to get back to Oregon as w ar anxious to havo.them back. . Do your bit Buy War Savings Stamps. It Is worth while. Thrift Stmps .nd 1919 War - Sav ing Stamps now on sal at usual agenoj. t -V. ' i . t ' J