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THE OREGON SUNDAY JOURNAL, PORTLAND, SUNDAY MORNING. 'MARCH 2. 1319.
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We. eir,: ara Amerfcaaa-f-n4 we stand
for human libarty ! The -uplifting force of
the American idee I imder oeery throne
on earth. Franca. Brwil than ara ana
victories. To redeem tba earth from king
craft and oppression this is our mission I
And we shall not fail. - God baa sown in
oar. soil the seed of His millennial harvest.
nd Ha will not lay the atekla to the ripen
ing crop until His full and perfect daj baa
one. -Henry W. Oredy. fc address before
Merchants' Association, at Boston. Decem
ber J3. 1S89.
. WAVELETS AXD WAVES
HE annual motion of the planets
In their orbits deceives our eyes.
They really move round the
sun in. circles, or almost In
circles. But if you look at a ring,
a stove lid, or any other circle edgo-
l wise you will see it as a straight
r-1!V . . ...
- people on ; tne eartn are ooiigea
to look'at the orbits of the planets
edgewise because they lie . la tha
same; plane with the earth's orbit
5 AH the members of our solar system
- go circling round the 6un on about
the same level. So to use the other
: planets ' seem to swing' first a fixed
distance to the right. Then they
i slop and swing the same distance
-back to the left, like a pendulum
vibrating. , ....
' Each planet might, so far as our
: eyes-are : concerned, be the bob tf
; a pendulum swinging back and
forth in the sky. This illusion made
-it very, difficult for the old "astrono
1 mers to figures out their real move
meats. It was only by the accumu
lation of small hints and suggestions
1 that. the trutnaA. built up in the
? process of the ages. A pendulum or
! a. star . which swings back and
t forth, repeating the same path per
1 petually, is said to oscillate, or vi
j brate Men of science rather-prefer
; the word "oscillate" in their books,
! though It means essentially the samel
the bother hand, that - New Thought
; lecturers- seldom speak of Moscnia-
JMiops,. but usually of "vibrations"
When an-oscillation is set up in
I' air or. water It travels forward in
the form of a wave. First one set
T of particles oscillate. They impart
" their motion to the set next them
and themselves come to rest The
second set of particles oscillate .in
m their , turn "and, pass tlje motion on
it- to a third set. Each set of particles
after It has oscillated comes to rest
' f again,- though not always instantly.
The vibration may die out slowly
j5 er instantaneously. It depends on
; cireumstaooeav
l The ocean is continuously osoil-l-
lating under the force of vinds.
i tides, earthquakes. The tides swing
the entire body ; of the ocean back
I - and forth twice a day.;. 'The vInds
, cause "Waves, which travel in all
I directions. They run up along the
-1 sands of the shore , in a- thousand
j. forms, little and big, slow and swift
1 But if you will stand by the shore
; and watch the waves for an hour
f; you wille rewarded with the sight
j of -. two -or three enormous ones,
i' which eome in from China, perhaps,
V or Honolulu at least, overtopping
j; all f the wavelets, ' frothing at the
r crest, combing as they : break, and
; dashing far -up the beach before they
I lose their momentum.
' It you have an inquiring mind you
will, wonder what caused Hue" over
towering billow among u the little
. ones. The ; answer is obvious. It
was caused by the union of .count-
. less wavelets- which-- happened to
vibrate In harmony. Wave; motions
r .have the habit of adding- themselves
f 'together with astonishing . results. '
m. The phenomenon can be made
1 visible by. tying one end of a long
half inch, rope . to a post and holding
;the other in the1 hand. While it
f Swings freely Jerk It suddenly, aA
wave . will travel along the rope to
2 the post- .Thera.ft will be reflected.
or -turned back on its course, and.
finally, reach your hand; again, If
tne rope is not too, stiff.
By adding jerk to jerk in due
succession .you can set a series of
waves .traveling, some running one
way.? some tha other. .Occasionally
two of them will meet or Interfere.
If : their v vibrations are in unison
they will produce double the effect
of either one aloneand you will be
delighted with a repetition :of. the
mammoth ,wav -on thesea shor
or something -of the: same nature.
t if, cot quite so ' big.- - Little wavo
added ..to little waya;makes uiy
mately - a big. wave.
Nobody an; foretell Just bow big
it , may become. - But "the caretakers
of suspension bridges are constantly
on guard aaginst such accumulation
of wavelets. Aa a rule they' do riot
like to see either dogs or horses
trotting across, A dor, oo matter
how email "he may be, ' starts - vibra
tions In the metal of the bridge every
time he puts down a paw- Xf be
were . allowed to trot all . the way
across, the vibrations he sets going
might so accumulate asto endanger
the structures Certainly -it would be
endangered if dogs and horses were
allowed to trot across habitually.
The strongest suspension bridge o
the world could be shaken down by
continually tapping one of the cables
with v tack hammer if ,the taps
were properly timed, r." v
Beware of little waves. The Wg
waves which travel cross the seas
in .mountain bjghts can be guarded
against Danger . lurks in the Im
perceptible' vibrations which suddenly
join' forces 'In' a way that cannot
be foreseen and wreck a suspension
bridge or a civilization. ,
The guardians of our suspension
bridges -would be grateful-' If they
could keep all the vibrations in their
structures ' in plain sight for they
could then take measures to counter
act their effect It is the hidden
waves that they fear and have reason
to fear, the ; waves that travel back
and 'forth in the, substance of thu
metal, never showing themselves on
the surface, .but preparing for a
union that means destruction.
So vibrations travel under the
smooth, inert surface of the . social
order. The constant taps of stealthy
commercialism and secret rapacity
; on the wires of great enterprises.
like tne League or rations, mat
promise delivery of ; the masses of
mankind from ' super life burdens
might gather in one mighty power
wave and break down a social order.
, Two workers in a Brooklyn brush
factory were found to be ipfected
with anthrax. Bristles imported from
China and used In maklngthe brushes
were scraped, and white mice inocu
lated with a solution of the scraping,
dievl in 21 to AS hours. Post mortem
showed : the organs of the mice to
be infected with anthrax bacilli. The
workings of science are marvelous.
A WORLD EVENT
It wuuijj De worm a journey
across the continent to be present
at Ifcrr New York mass meeting
A C J -X L S - " ; J a. tT t: I
10 u auaressea oy iresiueui vvii-
son and former President Taft
The speakers, the time, the themo
will create a scene inspiring be-yjid
compare. The president and the only
living ex-president, 'standing before
an audience that .will jam the great
theatre ' to r capacity, standing there
and togethjerdeliveringibiow3 in de
fense oft te causey rip which the
masses ana the best minds- of the
whole word are struggling, will be a
setting for - an,, occasion that men
now young will " tell about in the
days of their sere and yellovTleaf.
.The theme will be the noblest that
has been before the world In a cen
tury, and the cause, in what it prom
ises for mankind, the greatest since
Jesus Christ began his labors. , A
mighty f audience moved by it and
thrilled i with it will create such an
atmosphere as. was never felt in the
old Metropolitan; Opera House, over
whose stage the mightiest figures
in every- walk in America have
passed. I ' "
Not in what will be said there, but
invhal will be done there, the oc
casion will have an electrical effect
throughout this ' country and thja
world. To Americans It will be; a
mighty i express! on of the fixed fact
that inj extraordinary times and ex
traordinary causes, great Americans
are Americans first and partisans
afterward. To the war-wrecked peo
ples off Europe it will be a reassur
ing omen' that the two living Ameri
cans la. whom . the people of this
country have expressed their greatest
confidence and on whom they have
bestowed Hheir greatest ' gifts and
highest' authority are exponents and
advocates of an . order on earth in
which wars will be stayed, rule be
by reason, justice be triumphant and
the rights- of man be supreme.
The occasion will not be a great
mass meeting merely. It will be a
work! event.
You must pay one fourth of the
tax on your net 1918 - Income bv
Marches. You may paye balahce
in quarterly installments, or you
may .pay all . on f March 15- Hereto
fore ,the full amount; of the . tax has
been payable on June 13, but the
process is changed by the new reve
nue , law. A full statement of tha
workings of , the law appeared in
last sunaay's Journal. -
WALT WHITMAN
THIS - is Walt Whitman's centen
nial, year." Ho was born In
1819. He died 1892,' 17 years ago,
but he has not yetsbeoome quite
respectable. Our free j libraries keep
his "Leaves , of Grass" Under t lock
and key lesOt pollute the morals of
the public, ; , . ; -
Walt did not pass his early years
at college, luckily, for our literature.
He, started out as an errand boy and
graduated from that exoellent school
Into a printing ; office. Then he
taught school for a, while, and finally
edited i paper of his - own. Thus
he acquired the best kind of an old
fashioned genuine American educa
tion .like' Lincoln and Franklin, i. '
- He - traveled -.- a ' good deal but not
in palaoe cars. His carpenter's trade,
w-hiolA.be -r learned of bis i father,
enabled him to earn1 a living any
where. Like another carpenter, ; he
slept where night overtook him, and
knade friends with publicans and
sinners. . - ; . .
4 All his . life Walt sought pref
erence the company and talk of com
mon - worklngmen. Intelligent ; him
self, he" liked . intelligent company.
The society ; of ' "uncommon"! people
requires i one . to adopt their: habits
of thought, beliefs, prejudices, Tftfey
detest, argument. .They, outlaw od
dities, i. Everybody, 'must conform.
Walt never conformed in everything.
It if : easy to Imagine the figure
he would have cut in refined circles
with hlreasy, muscular manners, bis
flannel shirt, his habit of going to
the roots, of things in his talk. But
he never entered any drawlqg rooms
In, person ' and his books seldom
enter them now,
Like Byron, Shelley, Keats, he did
his great work around the age o(
30. ' His "Leaves ; of Grass" was
Ignored by everybody until Ralph
Waldo Emerson praised' It, and thea
It shocked everybody. It mentioned
subjects which chaste Victorian liter
ature was supposed to pass over in
silence. Walt Whitman was? one of
our greatest poets. With Mark Twain
he stands in the forefront of our
literature. '
It is assumed that the: public
realized and appreciated the very
fall, very complete and very, f a:r
reports of ', the legislative proceedings
carried by The Journal. Debates,
parliamentary moves and. all the
other proceedings were faithfully
and impartially recounted as they
happened. The Journal's work is a
new high record in reporting; legis
lative lessions In Oregon.
THE LATE. SESSION '
IN THE past It has been usual for
the people; to follow each recur
ring i session of . the legislature to
its grave with doubled fists and
menacing . lamentations. Thje time
The Journal fails to hear the custom
ary Ululation. There appears to be
a sentiment, new as it may seem in
Oregon history, that the legislature
vvas, on the whole, a good legisla
ture. There is reason for the senti
ment. Politics, until the last few days of
the session, was subordinated to leg
islative ; effort. The result was leg
islative j enactments .rather than po
litical achievement Earnest men
were n -thesenate and the house
who had gone to Salem with a more
insistent desire to pass bills than to
pass the buck. These men predomi
nated and made the session credi
table. Esnecial credit for the generally
pleasing outcome of. the session is
due, , undoubtedly, to the hard work-
ing members of the joint, ways and
means committee 'of the senate and
house, who, by their careful and
tireless work, accomplished the seem
ingly' impossible task of keeping the
appropriations within the six per
cent tax limitation amendment.
When thg; session "opened, it was
the concensus'"of ' oplalon that this
qould foot be done. ; The governor
called attention to the existing con
ditions in his message and -doubted
the ability of the leglslatorsTto; meet
the money . demands .without disre
garding the ltaUUUon.;;2hAt! they
were able to do so and ' stm have
money in tha bank was a pleasant
surprise, 1 .V .-
. It was a peculiar ; session. ;With
the exception of . few perennial wan
derers there was no lobby; to. hamper
the. work or entangle the efforts of
the members. There was no . Iron-
bound organization in the senate,
and. none at all in; the house. -There
was no delegated leadership, do "or
ganization whips?' no steam rollers
toflattn out recalcitrant men or
unwelcome measures.
Individual leadership in either
house sprang from personal ability
and not from delegated authority.
Generally speaking, men fought their
own battles and won or lost them
upon merit more than upon dicta
tion. : '
It has been many times contended
that a legislative : body without an
organizatio.n machine would ; disinte
grate! into a :mob, inefficient and in
effective. The late session seems to
belie i the theory. It did much work
well. 4t took seven 'weeks to "finisn
its labors, but, for the first time in
the legislative history' of the state.
it closed in the afternoon twilight
and vvithout turmoil; strife, bitterness
or hasty and. thoughtless action, in
stead oi meeting its end in the pale
hours of dawn with white faced and
haggard members filling the last mo
ments with discord and contention.
It has done ; much to make people
believe that even ; a legislative ses
sion may"hot be entirely bad. after aU.
Apartments in New York at $50,000
a year rental are the newest Idea;
Nearly 140 a. day for mere rent -on
the home nest , is some overhead.
The ; new structure 1$ to be at the,
corner of Fifth avenue and Seventy
second street, the site for which H
62 by 172 feet and cost $1,250,000,
The ; building will be 12 stories ' and
Uf$ i biU for Its . constructlo will
total $1,730,000.
THE TAX TOTAL
TAXES" to be raised in Multnomah
county!r this year total $9,790,-
005.40. lit is an increase over last
1 yw of $1,314,231. .The oounty
will pay 36.15 per cent, of the entire
state axes. v The city of Portland
wilt pay 96 per cent of the county
taxes, : according to compilations by
Assessor Reed, . . - -
..The growth in the cost of govern
ment iai one of " the unexplained, facts
fn civilization. The cost of the fed
eral government before the late war
had Increased more than 400 per cent
since 1878,' though the population had
Increased but 84 per TcenL The cost
per capita increased nearly five fold
id the period.
, In 1816 there were 6327 names on
the' federal' payrolls, or about one
to every ,1300 of population. In 191t
there -was one salary drawer on the
federal payroll to every. 242 of popu
lation. Our taxation has so risen that the
total of all forms of taxes, federal,
state and locai,t now eats . up one
tenth , of. the" - national income. It
means that one family in ten Is now
supported 'byovernmental expend'
ture directly, and probably three
times as many indirectly. ;The in
crease in what it costs us to : govern
ourselves is going on,' at a'treroen
dous ' pace: and npbody seems to
know how to put on the brakes
The Journal's League of Nations
vote is not for those alone who favor
the league. The balloting is .open
asj well to those opposed. What is
wanted is. a fair test of publio senti
ment. Mail or bring -your ballot-
ti The Journal. The Voting will not
last "long.
THE HORRORS OVER THERE
TWO dollars a pound for dog meat,
$7.50 a pound for horse meat
and $30 a pound for pork are
given out by the state depart
ment at Washington as ruling prices
for foods - in Russia.- Milk is sof
scarce that thousands of babies are
dying. ' The country is almost baro
of all manufactured articles, espe
cially wearing apparel.
General strikes, assassination, hope
lessness as to the future and turbu
lence are prevalent In Germany.
.When revolution is quieted by armed
force, in one part of the country it
breaks out in another. . . !
Famine conditions in Bohemia, hun
ger, starvation and agony in Austria,
desolation and destitution in Siberia
and Bulgaria, slow death by starva
tion In Poland and multitudes per
ishing miserably from lack of food,
clothing and the implements of agri
culture in Armenia glimpse the hu
man wretchedness still prevalent in
countries touched by the war, nearly
four months after the armistice was
signed.
Yet it is but a faint , oomparisou
with! the horrible conditions in all
these lands during the 51 months of
the terrible conflict. The present
slow ieath by the tortures of desti
tution cannot kill In the numbers
and, with the awful cruelty and bru
tality that appalled civilization while
actual fighting was in progress.
It : is a strange thing for men to
contend that the nations should not
agree to act tSgether in an effort
to prevent these horrors by estab
lishing a system in which wars may
beminimized, If hot prevented alto
gether. Men in high.places at Wash
ington are arguing -Walnst such, an
agreement, semiiigly'oblfvfous to ah-i
unconcerned about the awful misery.
and suffering among the peoples of
war stricken Europe. They seem not
to realize that, if no League of Na
tions is. formed, in the next . great
war America may be the land into
which these horrors will, be brought,
with . our own people as the war
racked and suffering victims of con-,
fllct ; . , '
You have the opportunity now "to
throw your influence against war
and in favor of an agreement to en
force peace. If "you f avop. su.oh , an
agreement, fill out a coupon and mail
or bring It to The Journal. It way
help save your son or brother or
husband from having to go out and
fight in another war. r1-O
A price list of the text books
printed "and "sold by the state of
Kansas reveals that the ordinary
price of a "reading chart" is $12.
Kansas 'sells It to the schools for
$10.90. The saving exceeds, 10 per
cent. On the third reader the saving
is almost exactly 20 per cent Ga
the Civics book it is barely less
than 50 per cent. Word -oomes froni
Kansas that' the state printed books
are as good or better than those
sold by the trust at higher prices.
A CITY CHORUS
THE great municipal chorus which
is organizing in St Paul, capital
i of j Minnesota, is . said to .have
three purposes. The first is '"to
fulfill the desire for musical expres
sion." j Everybody who -desires to
express; himself musically under
competent direction is welcome in
the choru without money and with
out price. i ' . . -
The second purpose Is "to create
the ' desire for' musical expression,"
wh'ch is supposed to be a good thing
in itself apart from any possible fi
nancial returns. The St Paul au
thorities, including the mayor whose
name is Hodgson, believe in expres
sion, at least they believe in one
kind of expression. Some poet has
remarked that the Almignty's rea
son for creating the world was to
express himself, .'
: The third reason for forming and
supporting this chorus, ; which is
likely" to include a thousand voices,
is "to ,i add to the happiness of the
people of St Paul." Here are a
mayor In all his glory, and a city
council, ; together with " V quantity
of musical people, merchants and
lawyers, openly ; proclaiming, that
human happiness ; Is a thing .worth
spending, municipal ' money on. . The
city chorus seems to be a develop
ment from - a Schubert club ' In St.
Paul, -"which has had the curious
habit of encouraging "assembly slng
iQf'V ail ' ' performances. . -This
Is very much . as If 'our symphony
orchestra should take a recesS of
half an r hour at , every performance
and play old - home . songs - for i the
audience to join : In singing. ' We
wonder if . that would not be an at
traction. In its way , "My Old Ken
tucky Home" is Just as sound music
as the VP'athetio Symphony," though
not so grandly pretentious,' of course.
Americans usually function only
as listeners at musical performances.
If they .were encouraged to Junction
as performers, even slightly. It might
help arouse- enthusiasm. It might
kindle a latent' spark of genius here
and there-into living flame. Any
way, they I are going to try some
thing of the sort in St Paul.
; The big municipal chorus of a
thousand voices would delight the
heart of the old hymn writer j who
craved. "Oh for a thousand tongues
to sing.' because it is obviously a
direct answer to his prayer. .
Letters From the People
( OomraunieaUona sent to The Journal for pub
lication in this department should be written on
only one aide of the paper, siiould not exceed
SOO words in length and moat be signed by the
w. ter, - whose mail address in iuli miut aooom
pany the contribution. )
Does Not Aflree With Mrs. tlnruh
Redmond, Feb. 24. To the Editor of
The Joura.l--I note la recent Inter
view that Adah Wallaoa Unruh says:
" 'A man's home la his castle. may sound
good; it smacks of old cave days, and
that his authority has been constantly
limited and his government has gone o
far that today it compels him to 'give
certain educational privileges to his
children and respect to his wife's au
thority." Asrain in heY letter of Febru
ary 21 she condemn the man for doing:
aa his wife asked. There is ho question
but what - Harme should be man's castle
and a srood wife (few there be who fol
low such teaching- as set forth in these
two articles) should be his queen and
helpmate. And as to his authority: If
he Is to be considered head of the house
hold why should he not be in authority?
Today even if the women have . what
they call equal right, if as man fails to
provide for his wife it is grounds for
a divorce and he Is halld Into ?court
and raked over the coals. And she, dear
angel, may be out chasing; around 'in
club and society, while he Js working
hard to -get along, perchance has to go
to a restaurant or hotel for his meals
or wait until she sees fit to come home
and do a little cooking. As for this
particular legislator, I believe he' did
right in voting as he did. If an honest
vote of the women of the state could be
gotten I believe that Adah Wallace
Unruh would lose her right to cast that
Jittle scrap of paper that she thinks
amounts to so much. She says that she
happens to know that "a great majority
of the thinking women of the state have
come reluctantly to believe that the path
of duty in the direction of the; jury
room Is a very plain one. and one that
they cannot longer conscientiously ig
nore." I, too, happen to know a little
about this line, and I find that this
agitation comes from women f
wanted to, and nave married, but-uo
not want to settle down and be j-ife
and helpmeet as their maker had in
tended. -Yet they claim to be 'the. lead
ing lights of the community and the
young and coming wives are trying to
follow In thei- footsteps la Jt ,;any
wonder that there's so mucijf dissatisfac
tion among the later ;eds?; i'll venture
to say that the legislator who voted
"no" on the" "Jury; question does not look
upon his wife Ws. hl slave or as his'
chatteL but' aft Ibelng his superior in her
realm s fio most men who have good
wives. - SAH BROWSi. k
f' - f r "a,"
Irrigation Money Well Spent
Seattle, FeWjl- To the Editor of The
Journal -No money spent by the states
or by thelfederal government will bring
as 'large returns or continue to bring
them for the present generation and
for the, generations to come ats the
money spent for Irrigation. Every acre
of arable' land brought under, water
will bring better return' per acre than
any non-irrigable land. There are many
suggestions from all parts of the Un'ted
States to provide -work and homes for
our returned soldiers. Tiiere la nothinar
that will give as jmany men wdrk.- and
provide homes for all who wish to; leave
the city aa to put the irrigable' land
under water. As a starter, the land bo.
tween the-Cascades nnd the HooaUes will
do. Twenty acres of saga brush; land
under water will support a family f
five, or six, and then some. . Twanty
acres of land will take care of 15 milk
cows, or for raising apples, hogs and
everyUilng that a farmer raisea. except
grain, and that also If used for the rais
ing of stock. No man need be idle for
Ue, next two years if thiaproposition
la put through.
You who have the proeperity of the
country at heart, write your congress
man, your legislators and tell them to
work for the irrigation appropriations.
Start the work. Don't wait untU we
have two million more men with us
who will have to work for a living.
Start now. "Push it along. It will bring
prosperity to all, whether rich or; poor,
ana your children will thank you for
having the foresight to do this work.
Go to It. Put Jn the pep. If you want
to eeo the result of irrigation, investi
gate Utah, Arizona and Colorado.;
- W. K. COL.TOM.
Daylight,. Saving on the Farm
- Philomath, Feb. 21. To the Editor of
the Journal!, a .farmer's wife, would
like to give you a few. of the reasons
why farmers protest against turning the
docks ahead this summer. Farmers
rise, between four and five o'clock J.t
we tarn the clock ahead one hour, that
means three or four. They have to get
up at that time to gettheir chores done.
Three o'clock leaves quite a while- until
daylight. They go to bed -at "nine, that
means eight, with the sua shining in at
the window. Do you call that daylight
saving? - And that means 16 hours work
for the farmer. While other are striking
because they have to work, eight hours.
The hottest part ,f the day ts between
12 and 3 o'clock. The farmer eats bis
dinner and rests between 12 and '1, so
has two hot hours in which to work.. i; If
he eats dinner at 11, he has three hot
hour to work. Try pitching hay la he
top of a hay loft, with the. sun shining
on the roof, and the hot dusty hay pour
ing in on you, and see if two hours in
the heat of the day Is not enough. The
children have a mile er two to walk to
school. We are determined they; shall
have enough sleep and rest even If we
can not, so they get up and eat and go
to school; no time to- help father and
mother, : The farmer doesn't quit for
supper by the clock, but by- the r sun,
which mean S or. 9 o'clock means eight
or nine hauri between dinner and sup
per. Mother ha to oook two supper, or
the children -have to eat between meals.
I it any wonder they have headaches
next morning, and are' unable to go to
school T . The kaiser could ? not have
thought up v better plan to hinder Am
erican production than .turning the
clocks ahead. The farmer is the real
producer. If you fasten a bait and- chain
on hi foot, you cat down production. If
there are any of - the city ' people who
have - spunk and backbone enough to
make a garden, they wUl : have - back
hone enough to get .up at i o'clock like
THE PLOUGHMAN
By Oliver Wendell Holmes
"'LEAR, the brown path, to
. Lol on he comes, behind his smoking team, . r
V With-toll's bright dewdropj on his sunburnt brov, .
The. lord of earth, the hero of the plough j
First in the field before the reddening sun,
Last la. th -shadows when tii e day Is done,
Line after line, alonr the bursting sodj '
-Marks the broad acres where
Still, where he treads, the stubborn clods divide, ,
The' smooth, fresh furrow cunsdeep land Jwide; -Matted
and dense the tangled turttipheaves
Mellow and dark the ridgy cornfield cleaves
Up the steep hillside, where the laboring train .
Slants the long track'that scores the level plain;
" Through theinoist valley, clogged with! oozing clay,
The patient convoy breaks Its destined way;
At every turn the loosening chains rejsound, ' ;
The swinfinf ploughshare; circles glistenlnel round,
Till the wide field one billowy waste appears.
And wearied hands unbind the panting steers. v
.These are the bands whose sturdy labor brings
The peasant's food, the golden ponip of kings;
This is the page, whose letters shall be seen
Changed by the sun to words of living jgreen;
Thls is the scholar, whose immortal pen. r
'r-Spells the first lesson hangar taught to men; .
'These are the lines which heaven-commanded Toil
Showjs.on his deed the charter of the ioill I
::y. '.,i: -
O-Gracious Mother, whose,benIgnant breast
' "Wakes iis to life, and lulls us all to rest,
How thy sweet features, kind to every iclime, j r
Mock with their smile the wrinkled front of time I 1
We stain thy flowers they. blossom o'er the deads
We rend thy bosom, and it gives us bread; , K
O'er the red field that trampling strife has torn
Waves the green plumage
" , Our maddening conflicts scar thy fairest p ain, .
- Still thy soft answer. is the growing grain. . ;
"f; JOURNAL MAN AT HOME
Fred Iiockley. .
I Kid atoriea are the bill of fare today. Mr.
Lockley haa it all his own way, to be wire: and
so, if other parenta think they can tell neUar
stories than ha citn well, let them set that to
him fn their own way. He baa brought it on
himself.
My little gtrfs name is Hope. She is
three years old. She takes after one In
being very "set." Or; to use a less harsh
term, she -: is quite determined. She
takes after her mother In" being very
good looking and exceedingly bright. A
day or so ago I was going over to Van
couver by auto with ex-Governor Oswald
West, C. S. Jackson and Francis Jack
son and a naval officer, Ensign Gage.
I happened to repeat a bright saying
of my little girl. I noticed that both
C. S. Jackson and 6xis West seemed
restive and could hardly wait UU I got
through. 4 ; ,
The minute I finished Mr. Jackson
said: "My little grandson, Sam,, isn't
quite"' so old as your, little, sjirl, and he
said something a whole lot' cuter than
that a day or so ago. He was at kinder
garten and the teacher had a Washing
ton' birthday! program and told the lit
tle tots all about the father of our
country. My 'wife wanted to know how
much he had learned "about our "first
t, so she said, 'Well, Sammie,
hat dldV you learn about Washington,
today? Sam looked up at her reflect
ively and ffeld- 'About Washington? Do
you mean(Clorge? "
' Before 1 could make 'any. comment
Ozzie West said, speaking of the father
of our , country x "My little girl said
something mighty clever when she was
a little tot. She went to Sunday school,
where the teacher told her ,. tat GoS
was her Heavenly. Father. She cam
home, and while we were eating, supper
that night she said in a very , self -satis
tied- way, I Just learned today I had two
fathers. " My wife gasped and " .said;
What do you mean? Who has been
telling you that? Well, I got my regu.
lar father, the one I knew about alt the
time, and Ood ; so I've got two father
now.'" , ,. - " .-
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Yesterday I was In Corvallis. I start
ed to tell C. E, Ingalls, president of the
Oregon "Editorial ' association, something
cute my little-girl had eft id. He saldj
"Go en. I'm listening. When you are
through I will tell you something thatn
really , was elevr that my mtie ooy
said, and be' is only ZVk years old."
It was clever, all right, bnt I think he
and his wife made it up.
Isn't It funny how every parent will
squirm and wriggle while you are telling
them the really clever thing your
children ay and consider the time
wasted while they are listening, and then
tell you things' that -are neither clever
nor funny-that their children have said,
and. think they are perfectly wonder
ful. 7
My wife l trying to teach our small
daughter good table manners. If 'eh
take too big a bite my wife, looks
shocked and says. "Why. Hone : what
would the people at the Haaelwood
think of a little girl that takes big
bites. I can't take you totunch at the
Hazelwood unless you eat politely.
Hope ay. "Why does father take, big
bites?" "Poor father doesnt know any
better. No one would, ever cH him a
perfect lady,, and I "want people to say
when they see you eat, What a perfect
little lady," my wife respond. In a
half-hearted way I cooperate with my
wife in my daughter' training, a" much
as a pernon-who is used a a horrible ex
ample could be expected to. cooperat,
A day or' two ago I aw my ltttt
Hope squirming and wrie-glinjr Rj she
ate her supper, so I asked. "Why do
you act that way?" - She gave another
squirm., and said; "I think I must have
a scootieon me."
"Aunt Mary" had cut out a paper
A work up a good
appetite for hi breakfast, and give tlw
weeds au day io win in uib uui cm., -stead
of transplanting them, as he does
if hejUga them up in the evening, Most
city "people are using the extra hour to
burn no good gasoline. We pay the
fiddler. MRS. X. E. 'HATHAWAY.
Forever?" -
Vajicouver. Wash., Feb. 23. To the
Editor of The Journal A Oresham cor
respondent, replytPS to a contribution
anent or present capitalistic eystem, by
Mr. Julnsoott, writes r "Iv say that the
system which i -rullnar today is the y
tera that WiU rulw 'orever,' .
Now, to all modernists "forever"
means a fong time. I am nearlng my
four-score years i Jrt I feel that this
Greshsm contributor must be at least
four score years my senior, and that
bis outlook on nature ha In no . wis
changed since the day of hi child
hood. Prior to the Civil war bo Intell
gent slaveholder would assert that the
slave system would "rule' forever. To
day the most .Ignorant whiskey man.
would refuser to predict that Ktng Alco
hol would "rule forever." At thla pres.
ent - writing ther are " emperor - and
king In Europe who would hesitate to
affirm 1 that monarchy will "rule for
ever." S Possibly thla correspondent de
votes more time to contemplation of
things . spiritual and celestial than he
doe to Investigation of his temporal and
natural surroundings, . f"
. "Even thl will pas away.. Is the
Infallible sentence 'pronounced en -and
eeer yth-rng - which exists;- Nothing
ean - - withstand omnipotent .evolution.
Nothing stays Its onward course. -And
It never hesitates. Students of history
meet his coulter's gleam V
his feet .have trod:
of thy tasseled orn;
cow for her. She put the cow out to
eat grass on our green rug. She got
the silver cup Ira Powers sent hec to.
muK tne cow, air-tne time carrying on
an extended conversation witl the cow.
Presently she bent the cow's bead clear
over toward her back.' My wife said,'
"Hope, why arej you doing that to your
cow?" Hope said, "I'm fixing the cow
so she can bite her fleas." f
The other day my daughter came to
me with a very
ting her hands
at me and said
troubled look, and put
on my knee looked up
in a very -grave voice.
Father, do you think mother always
tries to be poUte?" I said, "Yesv in
deed; mother la always very polite."
Hop shook tier head doubtfully, - and
aid, "I -hope so; but. sometimes she
doesn't -answer me very politely."
j i - a - . '
. My wife; has the very annoying habit
of usually being right. If I insist on
having my way I my wife is very eweet
and resigned and I go ahead and i do
what I said . I was going to, and later
wish I hadn't.
.'. -. a e ' a ' -...-When-;w
Vere first married we dw
cided it. would "! be undignified ever . to
quarrel, BO I eajd whenever we couldn't
agree or I felt like sayuig semething
I would later regret, I Hvould go out
Ih . i. a mamjI Bnf .linn wau4 ' lX7a
III .no " Di'VU l V " I' - wvw.
Vere married In June. Th nelghcbr
said they never (had seen a more indus
trious man than .1 war-that. I spent
most of my time - chopping woodland
that oftentimes I was lout chopping
wood whet they went to bed. I chopped
up all the fir wood we had and had to
order two loads of oak knots for; the
fireplace, y Christmas I had chopped
more" thari seven cards of wood. ; My
wife had taught 40 children In the East
Salem ilgh school and when the disci
pline required to .keep 40 children
straight is all applied to one poor man,
no wonder he takes to the, woodshed.
We finally Qecided that to prevent the
clashing of our wills she. In all un
important matters, could have her "way
and do the deciding. In Important mat
ter I would do the deciding. My wife
says it work fine.; She ha never had
a chance to test my Judgment, for an
important matter to be decided has never
arisen yet. To save my face, we usually
jafompromlse on. what we can't agree jn.
fVor example, if I want coal and my wife
wants briquets we compromise)' and set
briquets. Once in a wiile I kick over
the traces when, my wife happens' to
leava,the ivelvet glove off the hand of
steel.' When my son. was j small-his
mother used to tell him that God didn't
Ilk lltUeiboys that didn't mind. f One
day ray wife told me bow to do some
thing. I (said : "For once in my life
I'm going; to use my own Judgment-and
do as X please." My little boy looked
at me sadly and. turning to hi mother,
said, "Mamma, what 'does God do to
papas that don't mind?
I a a
- Yesterday I saw a baby . that , could
never hope to stop a pig In a blind,
alley. I have seen a heap of bowl'egged
babies In I my day, "but thla. baby ' was
more than bowlegged -it . wa hoop-
legged. While i, wa framing- up-j
a sympathetic remark for the
mother the baby's, father smiled with
pride , and 'said, .'-Say, Isn't he the cutest
thing you ever aw? He's so differ
ent from mere common, ordinary chil
dren with leg like broomsticks. Say,
can'tVyou Just ' see his legs are 'built
for horseback riding. Like as hot he'll
win all the championship prises at the
Round-TJpi or maybfr as a cavalry gen
eral Ilka Phil Sheridan."
Can you beat It ! - v
i a - '
Well, sir, whenyotx lead a double life
or go , in I double harness or whatever
Is the proper expression ' for double
blessedness, isn't 1t strange how proud
you are of the- little pink package the
atork hands you?
in years to come will pronounce our
present , day . economic system insane.
Insane and stultifying. -And-the yourve;
and frivolous of future generation will
read our religious creeds, doctrine and
dogma as in idle pastime Just as the
child of today reads the Arabian Nights
and Gulliver' .Travels. AMOS.
TheRed Cross urse
tamr Simmons, in Ne-York Tribune
I cannot nel, -oh Christ, by crae of blessed gar
ment's touch.
Bat bear me .pray for wteadfast strengths end
- eonrase eeernuehi .
My cacer '. tbey nay not tread tba' wa sea l of
CaUttee. v
But make Uiem awtft is bitter seed, tireless- la
serrinc Tbeet ;
Mine are the broken ones of earth ; tle maimed,
the enieified:
Grant foe of Joe u at tinted store, leet one ahonld
ha deaiedJ -. .,
Behold ny a 1 baiter box. my ointment rare end
' sweet, , ' . ..
My sifta of iprloa. wherewith I kneel to dry thy
. . o holy feetl .
Te see Thee face to face, each day my .heart
eriea ant in rain . ..- . ,-t.
And yet, fO soul of mine, rejoioet be comforted
ataisl .
Bar X not! known, la iIU dear beside -soae
; .-I angajslied bed - i
The fayrtie,! tender radfanea- of that sorrowing
,i thorn-crowned beadf j -,
" l - Si'T J V '
ntothe rfrer-Yt-f V"
.. JTrem the AtfanU Ccnstitittion ; V;
"To protect himself against the high
price," Mr. Armour la quoted, "tho consumer-can
quit eating meat" Just as If
the vegetable trust wouldn't raise 'rates
on htm 1 ,
Ragtag arid Bobtail
Stories From Everywhere.
The Artie Little Artist
MISS OLIVB, TEMPLETON. leading
Woman of th Hiib.r Klnclt pnm.
wny, who m the l anor guest at a
tea givenT Thursday at the University
Club by the Professional Women's
league, said in the course -of her little
talk: -:,..., ; t, .
"I wonder if any of you share the
thought that wa held by a jittle Port
land gtri iio la playing this week, for
the first time in her ' life, in ."Daddy
Long Lgs." I asked her how she liked
being an actress arid she said. 'I don't
like the part I plar.-at all ; but I would
like it If I had a part like you and Mr.
McGovern, and could . :y Just what I
wanted to Say Just like you do.' ""ho
dear child I If we ehouid say what wa ,
want to say a assure you tt wouldn't
sound at all like what we do say.;'
"Only"
Only a little word of lore.
"UWen with smile so hrlahr.
- ' Tet it counted far more than gold.
In Uod our father's sight.
Only lovely ffower.
But it lightened Mother's' woe
A a ctrangf-r l)d it gently
.' In the -Uny-hands of snow.
Only a friendly greeting.
Hut it lifted a fainting heart,
AncT gave to a weaker brother, -
The strength to du hla part. .,-
"Only" God help u irmeUiber
And aver keeiv in tnind
The sreateet lesson we hare to learn
Ja ever and always be kind.
Maria W. It.
rortland, February 22.-
' Uncle Jeff8no.v Says:
I wisht I could b'lleve this war's the
last one. but I can't. When the peace
ta!k and powwow la. over, If the landed
gentry In Germany .and Austria Is left
to. climb Into' the saddle agin, there'll
sure be some more -waVsome time or
nuther. If a debt of more billions of
dollars is piled on the people than most
of folks has got that many dimes, them
bondholders'U git fewer and richer and
grab and swell till the people'U have a
mlxup agin. War breed In special priv
ilege jist like disease and file hatches
In .certain places. . '
; Tlfe News in Piaragraphs
World Happenings Briefed tor Benefit
of Journal Readers
- . GENERAL
Irrl Ration snd waterpower projects tc
cost - S3.60O.O0O have been Inaugurated in
California. , , ' :''(-;
Oakland.' strike of shipyard men def
initely ended Thursday, and the workers
have returned , to work. '
Teri thousand men are affected by a
15 per cent cut In wages at the Calumet
and Hecla copper mine, in Michigan.
A resolution for an investigation of tha
price of bread, milk and eggs ha beeu
adopted by the California legislature.
President Wilson haa granted a f re
prieve to Sergeant Edgar Caldwe1na.
soldier at Anniston, Cal., sentenced by a
courtmartlal to be hanged.
A Villa band swept down on the town
of Moctezuma, Mexico, Thursday, drove
the small garrison away, burned the sta-
tlon and dynamited the bridges!. t
The three Northwest states will be rep
resented on the committee on committee
In congress by Hawley of Oregon, John
son ot Washington and Frenctjof Idaho.
The engineer was killed, the fireman -scalded
and another? member ot the tralil
crew pinned beneath the wreckag6-when ' '
a Southern PucLf to train Jumped the
track at San Mateo, Cal., Friday. , ?
' Final' action wa taken Friday night
in the senate to furnish Information t-e
garding promotions in overseas serine,
and altto the names of officers who have
not seen oversea service,
NORTHWEST NOTES .
J. M. Pevera of Eugene has been 'ap
pointed assistant attorney general of the
state.-
' A sulphur and Iron spring has been lo
cated on the ranch of Silas Pearson, near
Elma, Wash.
For refusing to send his children to'
school, Oru:n Lynch, a dairyman of JUan
county, wa fined $25. , -
. The seed corn twed In the jTaklma valley-
this year will be f urnlHhijd In a large
measure by boys' corn clubs. ,
About 100 union painter- went on
strike at Sookane Saturday to enforce a
wage Increase from to $7 a day.
Striking Washington shipyard worker
are cohsidering taking a referendum tote
on the question of returnlnif to work.
Echd lifted the last of the flu restric
tions on February 2. The'vent was cel
ebrated by a -ball In the evening..
Mr. and Mr. rA E. -Hoffman if Sandy
have received word that their son Ed
ward was killed in action on July 19
last,'. ' ,-,' ' ;"' ' '
Representative men and women of
Everett' have formed an "AnftrUari. ,
league" for the discussion of subjects ol
Interest, .v .vMj'-.i ;-,-- - ,
The capture of two sacks filled with
bottled liquor at Drain Thursday wa
followed by the arrest of Ed Smith and
Tom Burns.. ,-. '
; Necessity of caring for the city's hew
Industrial population has caused the
launching of a housing campaign al
Vancouver. : - ' '
Gertrude M. Kress of Klaniath Kallf,
19 years old. and Mrs.' Louise Oof f, hi,
died at the state hospital for the insane
last Thursday night.
A nude Infant boy tp a pasteboard box.
tightly wrapped' with string, wa fpun.t
Friday morning In the tiaacineut of the
public library in iSalem. " : . v.
Patsy Dllllam, a Seaside txiy. Is borne
from overseas. He enliated In the . A
C in' 191T, and went over the top In all ,
the big battle to France,
- Fifty-five Clatsop county boy, mem
ber of ; the Sixty-fifth artillery, wer
given an enthusiastic roptlan and ban
quet on thelf return to Astoria Saturday,
A 'record for. marital adventures In
that of Mrs. Ktta Nelson of Yakima, whd
married Dan Nelson oh February 15 and
started divorce proceedings on Febru
ary 27. "
FOREIGN
Bolshevik forces on the MunnanW
front wer repulwed with heavy losses by '
allied troop last Monday. . , .
Heavy fighting with serious losses ori
both vide took place Thursday between
Esthonian nd Boishevikl pear Salis
bury. ; ; ' V '
The former !Crfnan emperor declares
hels entirely without funds, and has ap
pealed to the German government I of
money.- v - . , -
Captain Coll. a French aviator. whl
recently crossed the Mediterranean an-l
mad the return trip " In 24 hours, will
toon make a flight from Paris, by way
of Madrid, to Morocco. , j
APlea to the Children to
t Continue Their Saving
' I Stories of aehleremeet In tha aeennmla
rlon of War Savings . SUsope. sent to The
Journal and aeeeptad for puhheatioa, wuJ
be awarded a lbriftSump. J
The -pennie. little rhlldren, which
you so gladly gave. -
The nickels and the qatrter which
you have helped to rave.
They sent our valiant soldier far,
' far across the sea .
Our gallant, fearless laddies, who
fought for Liberty.
And now the war 1s iover. what will
. that money do , . , . .,
For our soldier boys In khaki, and
; our sailor boys In blue?
It , will help them to return to us,
tall, straight and daunUenamen.
You have helpeJ to send them ovr.
, y and to bring thc-rn back atr"1"!
Catherine Pri"ntri-. In the Ft-b-...-i
ruary St. Nicholas. . '
Ttinn tramps hu v jr oav. i
Ing Stamps now on sal at usual J
igenclea. I
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