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The foundation! of our public morality
mntt ba laid tleey in tha public intelligence
and virtue. Qeorse William Curtis.
THEIR GAME
I
S WHAT happened to Victor Ma
son, returned soldier, there is an
illuminating story of Bolshevism.
lie was penniless and without
'tmploymrnt. The wobblies found
him. He was a willing listener to
their propaganda. He became a
;crnvert.
I He was supplied with money, mys
terious money, whose money nobody
knows. With his pockets full o
red literature, he went from Port
land to meet the special train car
rying the .65th,' to let the soldiers
in on the new gospel. He had
turned Bolshevist agitator, a role
that he quickly renounced when sane
men explained to him the folly of
bis course.
It is an edifying incident. It shows
that the propagandists are at work.
It shows that they have money
with which to carry on proselyting.
It tallies up perfectly with the
Btory from Seattle to the erfect that
with the arrival of a Bolshevist ship
- from Russia manned by a Bolshevist
"t MVU' rnnnov Knffin r Ka iicrd vi
the spread of Bolshevist propaganda,
. ending finally, in the temporary dom-
. lunuuir ui me iduur ouuauuu oy
Bolshevist leadership.
It tallies up with the situation in
Philadelphia, where federal authori
ties declare 10,000 reds are actively
. spreading their propaganda. Red
,Jlterature is left j in publio buildings.
Some of it threatens use of bombs
. on important structures. The post
office and city hall have been
threatened. Private factories are in-
: aded, and terrorists look for those
most likely to listen to their argu
ments.' They preach and spout Bol
shevism by the hour. Recruits are
gathered in until presently the
propaganda has full sway In the
factory. Threatening literature is
$ent to . the head of that institution.
Terrorism is then in full swing.
This' Is asserted by a prominent and
experienced government secret4 'service
man at Philadelphia.
The plan' is to make the govern
ment of the United States soviet in
type." It is the same movement as
. that' by the Spartacans in Germany.
It would apply the Trotsky and
Lenine scheme to America.
The case of Victor Mason in Port
land, who ,was rescued from the
Bolshevists, fed and Igiven a Job
and Is now a wobbly no longer, is
concrete evidence of how to treat the
disease.
Anything to lessen unemployment
Is the best antidote for Bolshevism.
The minds unhinged by war are
- times, arid most minds were more or
less unhinged by the conflict that
tilted civilization and upset world
equilibrium.
-- Make Jobs for idle men, whether
"returning servioe men or not. Find
work fenough for all. Take back the
" . 1 an 4 a r9 wVt IrtK 4K a 4 a a a ..... .
. iuug vi wauyit mo sbAtcs was roDuel
UBd give those who want lands a
aTVl anAA of If
' We spent money lavishly to win
the war, and must spend it In more
than normal -amounts On the unusual
business - of saving minds and. men
' from, - mischievous consequences di
rectly resultant from the war.
Any: sane publio work that prom
tses aid in relieving unemployment
Is a tremendously splendid invest
ment. It is the personal and public
: duty of .all to encourage every actlv-
ity that affords employment for idle
men.. '
There has been no time just like
this,' and' we must do things we have
v not done before. ;
: The Publio patly calls it a piece
'of political stupidity for the Dem
, ocraU In congress to have" permitted
the Republican reactionaries to reject
the suffrage amendment- The amend
ment must soon be submitted and
mo ; jju ijt iu juwer wnea me suo
mlssion is made will win immense
credit. Very likely the submission
will be made yery soon after the
coming chango fn tbu Control of the
senate.; The Republican- reaction
aries will then swing Into line "for
the good of the party." Political
blindness has ' seldom blundered
fworee than .id the rejection of .the
auffrage amendment
SLACKER HONEY
E
NACTMENT of legislation to main
tain the, price of Liberty bonds
was discussed AVednesday in the
United States, senate.
AH over America at the time, and
for a long time past, there were of
fers galore to buy bonds at reduced
prices. There was and is so much
clamor to buy bonds far below par
that you wonder where all that
money ; was when the bond drives
were in progress.
When the United States govern
ment was appealing to the people
of all walks and stations in life.
when speakers and literal millions
of citizens were calling upon: all to
buy Liberty bonds, where was ail
this money that is now so clamorous
to buy the securities?
It was waiting to get something
for nothing. It was biding its time.
letting little men absorb the. bonds
and waiting for the, day when the
pinch of necessity or other misfor
tune would drive them to sell thera
at a sacrificial figure.
It makes no difference whose
money it Is that was in "hiding then
and is out Liberty bond buying now
it is profiteering money. It is
parasitical money. It Is mercenary
money. It is slacker money. It is
money that is preying upon the
patriotism of those who did more
than they could afford to do to
support the r fighters.
That is why the bonds are below
par. The financiers, at least raose
financiers who profiteer, will declare
otherwise. But just the same If all
the money were as patriotic as the
money of the man who bought bonds
and was driven by financial pinch
to sell, the universal loyalty would
keep up the bond price.
But all money is not patriotic. A
lot of it is paytriotic.
It was held back waiting for the
time when it could profiteer out of
the sacred Liberty bonds through
which American mothers and fathers
were supporting the great cause for
wliich their sons were striving and
dying in France.
The senators seemed to agree that
there is no way to maintain the
bonds at par. Are they sure?
Is njpt the shed blood of 70,000
noble American dead something on
which an extraordinary nation can
base extraordinary effort?
The Lewis county, Washington,
farmers have decided to operate their
exchange another year in spite of
a technical "loss,' on the books of
the concern. The loss is compen
sated many, times over by the actual
gains the farmers have enjoyed .by
virtue of owning their market. Such
a loss s urely imaginary. We
might in the same way say that the
expense of the courts or public
schools- is a loss to the country.
WRONGED SOLDIERS
P
ROTEST1MG that he was too ill
to obey an order to drill, an
American soldier in France dis
obeyed and was sentenced to
death by a court martial. He was
saved by presidential clemency.
An American soldier went to the
bedside of his dying father without
leave, and was sentenced to death.
His life was saved by interference
from Washington.
A " sentence by court martial of 43
years was imposed upon a young
soldier who had been in the army
only three weeks, because he refused
to give up a package of cigarettes to
his superior officer, a second lieu
tenant. A soldier convicted by court mar
tial of having "a pass in his posses
sion, was sentenced to dishonorable
discharge, forfeiture of pay, and
imprisonment for 10 .years. The
sentence was later reduced to three
years. After service of two months
the judge advocate general has
recommended suspension of the re
mainder of the sentence.
Disfionoraole discharge, forfeiture
of pay, and 40 years' imprisonment,
afterwards reduced to 10 years, was
the sentence pronounced upon a
soldier who absented himself without
leave.
A private, who, without leave went
home to see his wife and sick baby
In destitute circumstances, was sen
tenced to 15 years' Imprisonment.
The sentence was later reduced to
three years, but the 15 years' sen
tence remains as grim evidence or
the genius of the American court
martial.
These cases are from the testimony
of the judge advocate general. They
are examples of the military insti
tution of America under the rules
and regulation formulate by re
actionary military officers.-They are
described by high military authority
as making the American military
establishment the most drastic and
reactionary of ary similar establish
ment in the world, Russia, Prussia
and Spain . alone excepted.
The Chamberlain bill proposes a
reform of the system. The shocking
character of the sentences admin
istered for such trivial offenses
shows that the reforms should be
speedy and sweeping..
The change should ( have been
carried out a generation .ago.
Judge , Wallace of Crook county
says the projected . Mount Hood
Loop road would shorten the trip
from Madras to Portland" 80 miles.
That Is, it would cut down the dis
tance one third, which is worih
while. No ; wonder Judge Wallace
and his fellow citizens of the Interior
country A art eager -for the road.
Portland has as much to gain ' by
it as 'they eince easy communica
tions make for trade. Road build
ing might well be the great ambi
tion of Oregon for the next 20
years.
The California court records show
that George A. Fox was foxy enough
to euchre Mrs. Anna O. Walters out
of her $70,000 orange grove down
near Los Angeles. He has been sent
ito prison for his trickery, his sen
tence running from one to 20 years.
This Is pleasant to read, but It leaves
curiosity unsatisfied in one' particu
lar. Did Mrs. Walters get her
orange grove back?
A PORTLAND ASSET
"I
N COMPETITION with milk
from all the "larger cities of
the West, Portland dairymen
won five first places out of a
possible six, along with one second
and two thirds at the Western Dairy
Instructor's convention at Boise,
Idaho," says a Journal news story
The five gold medals were for
raw milk, pasteurised milk, raw
and pasteurized cream and shippers'
milk, and the second and third prizes
were for raw cream and raw and
pasteurized ' cream. The story adds
that "for five years Portland milk
products have not been bested in
competition, but have carried away
more first place medals than any
other city In the West."
The story continues:
In the exhibit at Yakima. In 1913
Portland won th gold medal aa high
city. Eigrht medala, 100 and 65 diplomas
were brought here from the exposition
at Ban Francisco. At the Portland con
veittlon in 1916 thla city took mix out
of seven medals, and 16 out of 17 at
Yakima laat year. ,
It is enviable distinction. It is
strong reassurance to Portland milk
consumers. It is splendid advertis
ing for the city.
It is reminder of the time back in
1909, when The Journal for nearly
two years carried on a campaign
for pure milk for Portland. We had
a rotten milk supply then. Open
cans of milk infested with flies
fresh from nearby manure piles.
were a common sight at many
dairies. One herd of dairy cows
from which Portland consumers
were supplied, was found to be 100
per cent in the last stages of tuber
culosis, and many other herds were
dangerously infected. The state of
mind of the dairymen was , such that
at one of their meetings a speaker
was applauded to the echo who
said: "The dirtiest dregs in the milk
can are the best food for children."
dairy official publicly declared
that, "of 10 gallons of tuberculous
milk, five gallons fed to hogs will
kil. them, while five gallons fed to
boys will fatten them."
A discouraging feature of the then
situation was that the pure milk
campaign was violently opposed by
the Portland Oregonlan, which said
among many other spiteful things
that if dirty milk was good enough
for our grandmothers it was good
enough for us.
But the great cause of pure milk
was finally won. Portland is known
and heralded throughout the coun
try hv the. nrlr.pa Khfl has wnn an
the pure n?ilk city of America.
Vigilance shDuld never be relaxed.
The milk supply should remain un
contaminated. It is a Portland
asset.
INFECTIOUS VICE
0
NE of the strange . and sinister
phenomena with which medical
men have to deal is that of
"mental infection." It is not
invariably sinister, because good
traits are infectious as well as evil
ones. But the good is only slightly
nfectious.
A rogue may live with a saint
all his life and die a rogue still.
And the chances are that he will
tincture .'the saint with his roguery
before he quits the world. For
evil is virulently infectious. "One
sickly sheep Infects the flocks and
poisons all the rest."
No poet ever dreamed of sending
a healthy sheep among, a flock of
sick ones to impart his health to
them. When Father Damien took up
his residence among lepers it was
with the expectation of dying a
leper himself. What is true of the
body is still more true of the mind.
Nations cfctch the vices of th
nations they wage war upon.
We have the Poindexters and
Knoxes insisting that wars must con
tinue, that there is no hope of chang
ing the old-order and that we must
not have a League of Nations, but
have the same old inconclusive peace
that has always begot new wars.
Bolshevism and its propaganda- is
with us.
What an Ironical trick of fate it
would be, if, after spending 18 bil
lions of money and sacrificing more
than 60.000 lives to kill the weed
of Prussianism, the Poindexters
should be able to fasten Europe's
twin maladies upon us I
SWINDLERS AT LARGE
S'
ECRETARY GLAS3 Is urging, con
gress to pass what is equiva
lent to a national- Blue Sky
law.
He .would require all corporations
or persons desiring to sell stock
through the mails, or through ad
vertisements circulated through the
mails, to file with the secretary of
the treasury comprehensive state
ments concerning the stock, j It aW
would make the persons required
to sign the statements personally
responsible for any falsity - therein.
Provision would be made la the law
for the victims of the misrepresenta
tion to recover damages.
The mails are being floodedwith
stock VfloUtions, many of doubtful
worth. smd many fraudulent. Mining
stocks, oil stocks and other gilded
baits are offered in exchange for
Liberty bonds, and there are reports
from aU . parts of the country of
persons who have, fallen victims to
the swindler!.
In his letter to Chairman Kitchin,
Secretary Glass 6ays:
The millions of hofdera of our Liberty
bonds are beinr solicited by paid agents
to exchange their bonds for these se
curities. Public protests are coming- m
from all parti of the United States. It
la a. gTave menace twth to the public
and the covernment. It is an evil that
should be suppressed.
BARKING FOR
MORE WAR
Medievalists, Munition Makers and
Mad-Doc Militarists in Chorus.
From the rhfladalphU Publle Ladcer (Repub
lican) , February 14.
These United States are still at war.
Woodrow Wilson is a war president. We
have hardly finished publishing- the ter
rible casualty lists that recorded tha
cost to this country of securing that posi
tion of military supremacy which now is
enabling us and our allies to prepare
terms of peace. Our troops are in mili
tary -occupation of German territory.
Soma of them sent to Russia, while the
fighting In France was still fierce and
undecidedfor the perfectly legitimate
purposes of protecting the military
stores of the allies and preventing their
capture by the forces of thekaiser, are
today dyeing the winter snows of the
Arctic Archangel area with good Amer
ican blood in the course .of military
operations that our participation in -the
war forced upon them.
Has the time come, then, tested by the
single fact that we are at war, when it
is either patriotic or safe to shoot the
president in the. back as he stands up
before all the world as the official
spokesman of the American people?
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But there is another test, one that will
mean more to every American home that
has had a "service star" in the window.
The other test is the undisputed fact that
President Wilson, whether or not his
plans are the best or his efforts finally
prove effective, is fighting day and night
in the French capital to secure such. a
peace as will permit our American
mothers to keep their boys hereafter and
not send them to the shambles because
the very life of our nation is menaced
by a Europe-made quarrel. Five years
ago we thought in this happy country
that injustices in Europe were "deplor
able" but characteristic ; and that, while
we certainly "deprecated" them without
passion, they were not particularly any
of our business. Now we know that
even the least of these injustices may
cause the death by violence of more
Americans than the Europeans whom
the injustice in question directly affects.
So it is an American interest to provide
a just peace for Europe.
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This is what Woodrow Wilson decent,
peace-loving American citizen is trying.
to do. He may have undertaken the im
possible : but in the .peasant villages of
Poland, in the murderous coal mines of
Silesia and In every conscript-cursed
country from the Pacific to the Atlantic
the dumb driven cattle" there made of
our brothers .' most earnestly hope and
pray not. One thing at all events is
very certain, and that Is, that if Wood
row Wilson were to throw up hia hands
and come back to America with the
message that he had found It impossible
to get a peace carrying content and
opportunity to all and that this latest
peace must be like the old one, leaving
some nations in shackles so intolerable
aa eventually to compel revolt, a great
sigh of despair would sweep over the
Old World that all the fanfares of im
perialism could not drown.
Tet at the very crisis of his crusade,
when the scales swing hourly between
success and failure, a company of incor
rigible partisans gathered in a luxurious
New York hotel and, in the name of Lin
coln, sought to assassinate the Influence
of a war president, wrestling with press
ing problems of reconstruction on which
hang the .whole future, not of a nation,
but of a world. It is amazing ; it would
be incredible if this petty spirit had not
peeped out elsewhere before ; its slash
ing assaults upon our war president were
no doubt cabled to Europe and are being
chuckled over today by every protagon
ist of the ancient and unholy system we
had hoped to slay, a system of secret
chicane, of callous bargainings in human
flesh and of universal youth sacrificed
to the Moloch of militarism.
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James M. Beck, one of the speak
ers, took the responsibility of saying
that the president, in his effort to secure
a permanent peace, stands "as one man,
and one man alone, against the express
mandate of the American people
pledging this country so far as he can
to policies subversive ' to all the, pillars
of this government and which set at
naught the most sacred traditions as ex
pressed in Washington's fare-well ad
dress." Continuing, he added :
I say that Woodrow Wilson's foreign
policy, from the time he took the reins
of office until the present hour, has been
black stain of dishonor upon the
American neoDle. His principles have
been a crary patchwork of contradic
tions, but to one idea he has been con
sistently loyal : and that is that this
great war, the greatest in the history
Ul uie wui iu, uiusk cuu t li a ptsuue wit.ii-
out victory. He emphasized that in 1915.
and at the present hour he only" so far
modifies this policy as to make it "peace
without, full victory." and that is ex
actly the significance of that- which is
now taking place in Paris, to the con
fusion of ourselves and our faithful
allies.
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Then Mr. Beck goes more Into details.
rHe accuses the president of making his
League Of Nations "a pretext" to dic
tate a peace without full victory, of com
mitting "incredible baseness in
the name of the American people," of
bullying Great Britain and France,"
and , of menacing financially- crippled
France with withdrawal of our finan
cial support, and threatening- Britain,
dependent upon her navy, with a greater
American navy if she does not accept
his policy. He even invokes the shades
ot Lincoln and Washington, who are
represented as amazed at "Woodrow
Wilson's work In tha last - four years
sapping the foundations of our
government with a policy of universal.
world-wide Intrigue that could only mean
permanent abandonment of Washington's
policy. As for Lincoln, he is made to
complain: "I poured out my heart's
blood to save the constitution of the
United States, and that which I have
saved you (the president) have gone far
to undermine.
It is difficult "to 'deal patiently with
aa irresponsible farrago of misrepre
sentation, partisan malic and haphazard
bludgeoning Ilk this. It the references
to Washington have any discernible
meaning, they imply that President Wil
son has disobeyed .Washington and gone
tra for "entangling an lances." Yet every
schoolboy knows that that la exactly
what he has most meticulously avoided
doing and those who have sat at the
feet of Mr. Beck in his belligerent out
bursts, have lmastoed that an American
"alliance" with tha allies was exactly
what the latter most wanted, President
Wilson always refers to the allies as "the
nations with which we are associated"
not suited and his League of Nations Is
the only known , schema by which -the
United States can help these nations
keep the peace without entering Into
"entangling alliances' with them. Pres
ident Wilson is in this regard the true
heir of Washington, and Mr. -JBeck ' has
been one of the most persistent rebels
against the Washington tradition. That
is, of oourse, on the assumption that he
has meant the plain Implication of his
own words - something one cannot be
quite certain of after the irrelevances
and non sequittura of the Lincoln dinner.
Aai for "bullying France and Britain,"
that is a libel. The president has tow
France the plain truth that a League
of Nations is her only sure support. She
cannot have an "entangling alliance
with this country to defend the annexa
tion of the Saar valley or the western
bank -of the Rhine. Would Mr. Beck
himself give her one? Not if his touch
ing references to Washington had any
meaning. The president also told the
truth to Britain nothing more. If she
does not vest command of the sea in
league of nations, she wUl some day lose
it to America. That is not "bullying.
but the unescapable answer to a simpl
sum in arithmetic population statistics
and human nature.
Letters From the People
(Communicatlona aant to Tha Journal for pub
lication in thia department ahould ba written on
nnl. m. ari.I nt tha nun. abould not axoaed
S00 worda In length and aiuat ba aicned tha
writer, whom nail addreaa in iuu raun aaooui
ptny tha contribution-)
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Denounces I. V. W. Methods
Portland, Feb. 15. To the Editor of
The Journal Steps must be taken, and
that soon, to weed out the I. W. W., or
tha Government will have a lot of
trouble, for if they are not allowed to
operate under the name I. W. W.- they
will organize under some other name.
What to do with them is a great ques
tion. The whipping post has been sug
gested, but that would do no good, for
they imagine that they suffer as mar
tyrs, and to chase them from town to
town only encourages them. I have come
to the conclusion that tho best medicine
for such people, if you cannot get them
converted, is to put them to work on
our public highways and force them to
work. That would break their hearts
quicker than anything else, for they
certainly will not worn unless tney are
forced to. I have had them in my em
ploy in different parts of the United
States and Canada for a good many
years, and I have paid thera more than
the union scale, and I nave ouiit Dunn
houses for them and furnished them
beds and fuel free of charge, but they
were too lazy to cut the wood and keep
their bunkhouses clean, and, in one case,
in North Dakota, they stole blankets
from the railroad company and stole coal
so that they would not have to go
to the trouble of cutting the wood that
I furnished them. It makes no differ
ence how . well you treat them, they
simply will not work. They will work
fairly well for the first two days, then
every time the foreman's back is turned
they will lay down on the work.
Before the conscriptlen law was signed
I suggested in a letter to President WII
son that the government had a better
chance to do these men a kindness than
anyone else, to force them into the army
and make men of them, if Xhut was
possible. I received a. letter frdm the
secretary of war saying that "as soon
as the conscription law was signed
many of these men would be drafted,"
but, evidently, the government discov
ered that the I. W. W. could not be
trusted.
I have read an article by George L.
Rauch, In which he claimed that educa
tion was the I. W. W.'s only hope. He
is sadly mistaken, for some of these
men are college graduates of every pro
fession doctors, lawyers, or even preach
era and as education alone has utterly
failed in Germany, even so it would be
with a degraded man, whether an I.
W. W. or otherwise, and I never have
seen a good I. W. W. It takes a higher
power than education to convert a man
Christianity is the only thing that will
do that. A. J. CLARK.
The Foreign Born Wife
Portland, Feb. 14. To the Editor of
The Journal A few evenings ago a
number of our wounded soldiers arrived
in Portland. Back they had come, not
scathle8s. indeed, but living. Back from
where flying missiles wrought havoc un
speakable, where human flesh cooked in
-liquid fire. It was a glad welcome home
and it is safe to venture the opinion that
the welcome would not have been one
whit less warm had each returning sol
dier brought with him a French bride.
Each great-hearted mother would have
had unstinted greetings for each shy
newcomer, and each of the latter would
have said, by action if not in words, as
did Ruth of old, "Thy Deople shall be
my people and thy God my lion.
At Catigny. at Chateau-Thierry, at
St. Mihlel, in the Argonne and elsewhere,
our young crusaders proved themselves
men. Shall vk consider our heroes so
lacking in intelligence that they must
be dictated to in their choice of life
partners? Does anyone think for a
moment that they will suffer such die
tatlon? Those of us who know the
French people as they are, highly resent
any assumption of their inferiority. The
owing of the French philosophers, flow
ered in the Declaration of Independence,
Franklin and Jefferson were tremen
dously influenced By French thought.
Where can be found a more stirring
hymn for democracy than the "Marseil
laise"? Would the glory of America be
greater without the names of Paul Re
vere, Whittier, StepAen Olrard, Gallatin,
Fremont and Du ChaUfu? That gallant
American officer who said, "LaFayette,
we are here," did not sneer at the French
people.
Your Merrill correspondent, writing
under date of February S, appears to
think that Americans with foreign born
mothers are destined to be hyphenated.
Woodrow Wilson's mother was foreign
born. What does the worthy lady of
Merrill think of his Americanism? What
is the greatest name in American naval
annals? Farragut. Yet Farragut's
father was a Spaniard. Americanism is
not of the flesh but of the spirit. Read
the names of those who shed their blood
for democracy if you doubt it. And do
not overlook the tact, in passing, that
Luther's race was in arms under our
banner "Ackerman, Anspacher, .'Abend
roth. Auer. Baumgartner, Bohlinger,
Branstator, Bauer." Shame on little
Americanism. The writer is an Ameri
can of the old stock, and a soldier as
well He la married to a foreign-born
wife and has no apologies to -offer. "Evil
to him who evil thinks of it." Your Mer
rill correspondent goes on to say. "As for
the soldiers who marry French girls, one
could not wish anything worse upon
the soldier." She speaks' of such a sol
dier as being "Isolated in his own coun
try." If any American soldier, white,
black, yellow, red or brown, ever faces
social ostracism on account ot the na
tionality of his wife tell it to the ma
rines. J. F. SANTEK.
The League of Nations
San Francisco, Feb. 13. To the Editor
of The Journal Newspaper columns thia
morning tell us that had the war been
continued another year new Inventions
would have mad it twice aa deadly and
destructive as "all the four years that
had sons before." This means also
twice' as ruinous in its money cost ; for
these Inventions are . extremely ex
pensive ; tanks already are billed at
$50,000 each, and airplanes up to $100,000.
Lacking some more ideal system, such
as the League of Nations, .which may
COMMENT AND
SMALL CHANGE
The- Canoplc brought 'the pick of the
troops.
Twenty years will iold Berger"for a
while, anyway.
All together, now, around and around
with the Ro tart an 8.
According to reports, some officials at
the Hog Island shipyards tried to hog
it all.
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Notice where a Chinese has Joined the
I. W. W., hia motto being, probably. "I
won't wash."
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It seems that there are a number of
aviators anxious to go sailing, sailing,
over the ocean waves..
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General Pershing says he will not seek
the presidential nomination, but even a
general may change his mind. ,
Crook county wants connection with
tha proposed Hood River loop road, which
will be very well it there are not too
many crooks in it.
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It is said that the fare on the proposed
airship line from New York to Chicago
will be about 1520. Naturally, only thv
high-flyers will make the trip.
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There are columns and columns of
legislative news every day. but we've
noticed that the summary of what really
is accomplished doesn't take up very
much space.
JOURNAL MAN AT HOME
By Fred Lockley.
SJapan'a national sport is tha principal thaaaa
in Mr. Loeklay'a articla for tha day. introduced
by brlaf racital of tha remarkable exploit of aa
Annamtta w rattler whose feat Mr. Lockley wit
noted near Bordeau. )
When I was stationed at Bordeaux,
France, my duties frequently took me to
L& Corneau and Cazeau. At the for
mer camp, which waa about 30 miles
from Bordeaux, I was asked to msfte a
talk at the Christmas, celebration, which,
owing to the delay in the arrival of the
Christmas packages from the home folk,
was held early in February. It seemed
strange to have Archachon oyaters from
the nearby sea coast the main Item of
the banquet, and still stranger to have
the Christmas festivities held - in Feb
ruary. Captain Orville Anderson was In
command at La Corneau. He was a
Montana man from Kalispel and a lov
able, capable officer. He - took me in
the sidecar of Bis motorcycle from La
Corneau to La Teste. He was killed in
action last summer.
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While visiting our boys at La Corneau
I was greatly Interested In the Annam
ites who were stationed there. They
went about their work on the roads
with large home woven straw hats and
loosely woven straw coats to keep oft
the rain. They looked anything but
soldiers, but when In uniform they, drilled
with a snappiness and precision that
were hard to beat. One evening one of
the Annaraites challenged our men to a
wrestling bout. Their champion wrestler
was a little chap named Low Han. Our
boys nicknamed him Low Hung, be
cause he was heavy set and very short;
He was about 5 feet 2 Inches high, and
during the evening he took on 11 of
the best wrestlers among the Yanks
and threw each and every one of his
opponents easily. He simply settled down,'
and when our chaps grabbed at him he
was like quicksilver, and they found
themselves going over his shoulders in
one, two, three order.
The Annamltes, like their kinsmen,
the Japanese, are skillful wrestlers. In
the January issue of the Asia magazine
a recent visitor to Japan describes Jap
an's pastime According to the writer,
Japanese wrestling is not exactly a
ladylike sport. Wrestling is almost a
part of Japan's religion, and dates back
to an era antedating the birth of Christ.
The, writer In Asla says :
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The wrestlers are trained In. a relent
less and Spartan school of training. In
which bruises ana smasnups uim wouia
kill an ordinary man are regarded as a
matter of course. As one Japanese devo
tee of the sport put it to me, uenue
minded ladies might faint if they wit
nessed this very coarse training." It is
all in the game ror tne novice . to re
cashed and bleeding from head. to foot
after being brutally knocked around the
hard gravel of the private training arena
during the morning exercising. The
young students come out at 4 on cold
mnminca and train until 8. Their fat
and muscles are hardened by continual
ramming at wooden posts, and their
heads are hardened, too, by pushing vig
orously against the walls. According
to the old tradition there are 48 devices
or "hands" 12 thrusts, 12 grasps, 12
twists and 12 undergrips ; but a cham
pion of today has 150 or lev hands at
his disposal. The aim . in a maximum
of force with a minimum of disturb
ance. The commonest grip is an inter
lacing of arm or a grasp of the oppo
nent's girdle and the victory goes to the
ne who thrusts bis adversary out of
the ring one foot outside of the sand
bags is sufficient.
Because of their enormous stature and
girth, it has often been assumed by for
eigners that the wrestlers are a race
apart, a strange .Jittle group of native
giants handed down from antiquity. As
a matter of fact, the wrestlers, recruited
from the fishing, farming and forester
classes, have splendid physiques to be
gin with, and become strong and muscu
lar through their long training and the
encouragement that is given to their vo
racious appetites. Friends are very fond
of giving them big banquets and are
amused to see how much they can eat.
One prominent trainer, when invited by
hifa backers to a dinner, took all his stu
OUR BOYS IN FRANCE
By Harry Hansen
Special Correspondence to The Journal and
The umcaffo uauy news.
Paris. The French say Americans are
hypocrites. They have told the boys so
politely, of course. The boys find that
soldiers are served with wine here, and
that in America no restaurant can le
gally serve them strong drink. They can
smoke in the canteens or certain or
ganizations here, and not In the olub
rooma of the same organizations in
America. They find religious organiza
tions frankly and not covertly In politics.
What effect these discoveries will have
On the thinking soldier remains to be
seen It cannot be gauged offhand.
Have the boys acquired a taste for
French cooking? Some have. It must
be remembered that most of the boys
have lived on "slum," and that only a
minority have been billeted in French
homes, or lived In Paris or -other large
cities, or have been In a branch of the
service which made It possible to dine at
French tables. Therefore tne number or
men who have acquired a taste for hors
d'oeuvres and sauces and salads Fran
ca! se Is small.
prove a success If we resolve to make
It one, the world must fall back on
the old discredited "balance of power"
with Its "preparedness for war':" Tooth
ef which- have proved dead failures.
itvm nm the mint at view of national
selfishness, does not common sense die-
tats that it would be quite worm wnue
4M thia TMffua of Nations a triaL
.j .vn,MAf aama ot our old no.
tlons aa to tariffs, balances of trade.
acrerelgn rignis. eic, wncn me un
total of all t these alleged advantages
im a mnra Him Affset bv the actual
money already wasted In war, not to
mention the coming cost In cash, and
worse far worse the blood and an
guish of America's eons and mothers?
Let us decide on a new deal a square
deal for all humanity. ' ;
NEWS -IN BRIEF
OREGON SIDELIGHTS
The Pendleton East Oregonian testifies
that "February is one of the most beau
tiful of the spring months."
From every mountain district - in
Baker county, the Democrat says, comes
the good news that snow baa been pil
ing up the past 10 days to a depth that
insures plenty ot water for irrigation
the coming summer.
More than I0W people attended the
first meeting of the Pendleton Choral
society at the Presbyterian church Mon
day night, and all pronounced it a splen
did success. Everybody took part m
the singing and enjoyed it, the ast
Oregonian says.
No new casesoflnf1uensa have been
reported in Eugene for 10 days and
nearly every day one or more quaran
tine flags are taken down, leaving it
very few up at the present time." i the
Register's announcement made on Tues
day. "The epidemic in Eugene is con
sidered a thing of the Past,"
Twenty traveling men whose homes
are at Eugene, have formed an organisa
tion "to make Eugene the traveling
man's home." One of its objects, as re
ported by the Regirter, la to "dispel the
old Idea that this city Is a mighty poor
place in-which to spend Sundays.' Ac
cordingly, the Chamber of t.ommerce
rooms are to be made available for all
such sojourners.
dents along with him. saying. A11 my
followers coma along with me who can
drink a gallon ot sake apiece." There
Is a touch of Rabelaisian In It, especially
When one contrasts it with the usual
foreign impression of the dainty tea
sipping, cherry-feting Japanese.
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The day arrives. In the court of the
Ekoln temple, where the Kokugi-kwan.
or wrestling amphitheatre, is situated,
a large and noisy throng la circulating,
through which an occasional wrestler
struts, followed by admiring glesha girls
and other satellites. Fat and -pompous,
with his topknot sleekly smoothed back,
he glances around with a condescending
air. knowing that he is the conquering
hero of the moment. On one side of the
long path stretches a row of booths
serving tea. Rising over the hubub of
voices and the clatter of wooden clogs
on the stone pavement rolls the thump,
thump of the big drum, which hangs in
the yagura, a tower 40 feet hih near
the entrance to the amphitheatre. Thia
is beaten day and night as long as the
wrestling Is going on. Somehow, wrest
ling would not be wrestling without the
drums. From early in the morning un
til late at night on the day preceding
the opening of the amphitheatre the
drums reverbrate Incessantly, The
sporting blood of Tokio is up. All the
Juvenile and loose ends ot the city
crowds go through, the main streets be
hind drums, which are carried oh a pole
by two men and beaten by a third, to an
nounce that "sumo." or wrestling, is the
one vital headliner that will crowd ev
erything else out for the next 10 days.
Far off at the back, a mute protest to
the drum In the yagura. Is a sleepy cem
etery with a crumbling monument in
all this commotion, a trembling finger
pointing back to the origin of Ekoln. the
Temple of the Nameless Dead. When a
terrible fire In 1057 took a toll of 100,000
victims, a common pit was dug for all
the bodies on the site of Ekoln, and the
temple was erected to say masses for
the dead. Because there was no support
Sswm the gifts of relatives, wrestling
matches were organised and a small ad
mission fee was charged to obtain an
income for the temple..- And now the
wrestlers still stamp In the arena near
"the Mound of Destitution" and the altar
flanked by two scowling guardian sta
tues of Nio-san.
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The wrestling hall covers an acre and
seats 13.000. Ejiterlng the circular hall
one snatches glimpses tnrougn open
doors of green room life wrestlers get
ting their topknots greased and alressed
in most meticulous fashion, and geisha
girls watching the operation with sup
pressed giggles. Inside, tier of seats
slope down to the arena In the middle.
The affable editor takes me into a large
empty box commanding a tine view of
the arena and whispers that the box of
the crown prince is the next one to the
left A vast impersonal fusing together
of thousands of heads, a dlssy hum ot
countless conversations tiring to unac
customed foreign ears, a curious t meres
slon of somberness produced by the enor
mous patches of black and mouse gray
and blue that predominate In any large
Japanese group. The people are divid
ing their time between sipping tea,
smoking their Infinitesimal pipes, seating
bowls of rice and watching the wrestling
matches.
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Down in the center Is the arena, cov
ered with a sloping roof like that of I
Shinto shrine, gracefully recalling the
time when wrestling matches were given
in the court of a temple to trample the
ground for building and the proceeds of
the contest went to repair temples and
shrines. Up in the roof Is a little shrine
to Nonl no Sukune, the patron .deity of
wrestlers, to whom offerings of rice are
made before the matches. In the first
century before Christ, the emperor of
Japan had an overbearing and insolent
officer of the guard, one Kehaya. The
emperor ordered the strongest men of
the realm to wrestle with the herculean
bully. Noni no Sukune challenged htm to
a bout and . trampled mm to deatn ana
received as an imperial-reward a great
estate. As a posthumous honor he was
deified as the first to reduce wrestling
to an elaborate science. The rour pil
lars supporting the roof of the arena,
each draoed with a different color, white.
blue, red and black, stand for the four
seasons. The purple curtain with white
wave pattern draping the eaves signifies
passion calming me elements, ai eacn
ot the four posts sits motionless, like s
Buddha, one of the elders, or "toshlyori,'
retired .wrestlers who have attained
champion rank, and now organize
matches, administer finances, take pu
pils, and receive a pension zrom the
wrestling association.
It would be a fine thing If the influ
ence of army men could introduce the
hors d'oeuvres to the American public,
but no American restaurateur will do It,
It means aJpss to him. It would be ex
celient also if the American waiter would
not speed the guest. But the practice of
two houra for luncheon will never be in
vogue in America. No employer would
stand tor It.
There has been some speculation about
the attitude of the doughboys to her royal
highness the American girU after en
countering the mild-mannered, submis
sive French- creature, who has been bred
to consider man an angelic dl.taton. and
who lives up to the part, even though
she doesn't believe it for a moment
Most ideas on this subject ere the re
sult of mere Speculation. It Isn't likely
that casual acquaintance with half a
dozen French girls through a year or
two of residence in France will have
changed the habits of a generation. The
American lad will tall for the same old
game. ' . ,
Olden Oregon
First Protestant Church on the Coast
Built by Methodists in 1842-4. -
With the migration to Oregon there
grew a demand for churches and schools.
To meet this demand the Methodists be
gan a church at Oregon City In 1842
and completed it In 1844. This was the
first Protestant Church on the Pacific
Coast-" However, the chapel of the Or
egon Institute at Salem bad been used
for religious services as earfy as , 184L
Prior to that time the Methodists held
religious meetings In homes, in ' groves
and in the mission building, their mis
sionary work having been begun by
Rev. Jason Lee in 1834.'
Ragtag and Bobtail
Stories From Everywhere.
"War Crosses
A' FEW week ago three negro soldiers,
all members of a regiment that had
seen servioe, were overheard holding
the following conversation, says the New
York Globe: Said the first, "Dere's Jes'
one souveneer Ah wishes Ah had one
o' dese yere Iron crosses from de body
ob a dead German."
"Huh! Dat ain't nothln !" scoffed
the second. "I wants de real thing like
de Frendhtes has a Cross de Qerry."
The third soldier sighed mournfully.
"Dere's Jes" one cross to dls boy," he
said. "Ah jes wants to git a cross de
Atlantic dat's all i"
" Playing the Game
When Jimmy Jimaon starts to pitch
at baseball in tha lots.
He (tree his little bead a twitch,
li tiaa hinwlf iu knot.
U - ku fcvv m Hftm him kttM.
And timbers np hia toe.
And awtnc tha ball amaaincly
Before he lets it so.
But Tommy Tomaon's not the same;
He doesn't move around
A Jimmy doe; a different earns
He playa upon the mound,
lie alcea up tba boy at- bat.
He looks him In tba eye;
Then takea a little aten Ilka that
And leu the peUet fly.
And that the cam of life it played.
When yon are 1 and 20 ,
Tou'U find in ey'ry Una of trade
Of Jims and Tome a plenty.
I think thia bumble notion
For moral well will serve:
There's nothing in tbe motion
It you haven't cot the curvet
A. H. Powell in Capper's Weekly.
Uncle Jeff Snow Says:
It Is plum outer possibility fer a man
to keep track of what's coin' on at Sa
lem, with a two-ring circus oratjn and
schemln 18 hour a day. "The senators
passes the buck to the rep'sentatites,
and they kick it back agin. Each one'H
blame t'other er what happened and
what didn't happen, and no man or
woman'll be able to tell who's respon
sible; and here's the 'nlshatlve runnln
these 15 year, and the game still goln' on.
The News in Paragraphs
World Happenings Briefed for Benefit
. of Journal Readers
GENERAL
Cable service betwefki this country
and Guam, the Philippine. China and
Japan has been Interrupted.
The house has ' agreed to senate
amendments on the postoffice bill, ap
propriating $850,000 to the air servioe
and 3200,000.000 for good . roads.
Three thousand tons of gas shells
made at the Edgewood arsenal, a near
Baltimore, - were taken to sea a few
days ago and dumped overboard.
President Polncare has written a
French Inscription for tha equestrian
Statue Of LafaVBttA- tn ha arrarf In
Mount Vernon square. Baltimore.
w unnea states ruei administra
tion announces that an Increase of 75
cents per ton on the price of anthracite
coal will be allowed In the near future.
Secretary Glass and Colonel Lindsay
of the war risk Insurance bureau are
conducting an inquiry on costs, with
a view to reestablishing the marine In
surance bureau. , ,
Three hundred mayors of cities
throughout the conn try have accepted
Invitations to the labor conference to
be held In Washington the first week
In March for the purpose of outlining
a reconstruction program.
NORTHWEST NOTES
Umaplne ' has secured a permanent
FT.. - . ... n . . ...
teiepnone line rrom Miiton. ,
Pendleton psys nearly one fifth of
the taxes in Umatilla county.
J. C. Matheney, aged 50, dropped dead
at Pilot Rock last Monday of heart
disease.' -;
Roys snd girls' clubs are being or
ganized throughout Clackamas oour.ty
by T. la. Olmsted.
An election will be held at Relah,
Wash., March 4. to vote on the ques
tion of Incorporation.,
The "W-l," the first concrete boat to
be constructed at Vancouver, was
launched Wednesday afternoon. "
James Llndley, who drove four cows
from Indiana to Oregon In 1851, is dead
at his home In Lebanon, aged 89.
The city of Bend is $19,000 in debt,
snd a bond issue for that amount Is
talked of to place the city on a cash
basis. f
An Increase in fares on the Spokane
streetcar lines from 5 to 7 cents is
asked in a petition to the public service
commission.
Lieutenant Chapman of Sheridan,
who returned to- Camp Lewis a few
days ago from overseas, has reenllsted
for service in Siberia.
School Superintendent A. C Davis of
Yakima has asked for a leave of ab
sence for six months that he may go
to France for theY. M. O. A.
l no Treuuon v i iiiv ntiniiiiiKLun ec
Idaho Water, Light & Power company
for an electric franchise in Chehalls
has been rejected by the city commis
sion; The farmers and dairymen of the
western part- of Umatilla county are
holding an institute at liermlston. Lec
tures and demonstrations are features
of the program.
A new transportation company he a
been organized at Spokane that will
carry freight and pajuwngers by auto
trucks over the . network of roads of
the Inland Empire. ,
If. E. Van Ogle, who. with a party,
whipsawed lumber at Walla Walla to
make a -raft which carried them across
the Columbia river in 1553, died at
Ortlng, Wash., Wednesday, aged , 84.
FOREIGN
Prices of all meats in England will be
reduced 4 cents ' pound beginning
March 1. '
General Joseph Pllsudskl has - an
nounced his Intention of resigning as
chief of the Polish state. -
Bolshevik forces operating In the
Ukraine have suffered several severe
defeats at the hands of tbe Ukrainians.
A drafting committee of three mem
bers has been appointed at Paris to
draw up a convention for the interna
tional regime. on parts, waterways and
railroads. .
A preachers' union Is the latest sug-
frestlon advanced for the" betterment of
iving conditions among the clergy of
England. The Idea I to boost salaries
and cut the length of sermons.
Automobile in Garage for
Winter; "Kiddf-". Get
War Savings Stamps
' (Stories of achievement in tbe aesumnlv
tion of War Sa vines fitagipi, sent to The
Journal and aeevpted for publication, will
be awarded a Xartft stamp. - .
A friend Of ours who has two
automobiles, a small one for busi
ness and a large one for pleasure,
was t cleaning . and - tuning up the
large car in preparation for the com
ing spring and summer, when he win
again be able to take the family into,
the country on week-end trips.
Yes. the old boat's been In the
garage all winter," he said, "and the
kiddles War Savings Stamp books
re several dollars to the good as a
result. - , "
The money that we might have
spent for gas. tires and repairs has
been put into W. S. S-, and besides
the actual money Saved and loaned
to Uncle Bam we have been able by
example to teach the youngsters the
virtue of thrift and patriotism."
Thrift Stamps and 1919 War Sav
ings Stamps now on sals at usual
agencies. ' '