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,10 -THE OREGON DAILY JOURNAL, PO RTLAND, THURSDAY. MARCH , 6, 1919.' ",-';-'--"- I Tit ought to be ehmn&ralivelv easy I Mavni Pwivai v U Hrht ' ? Rates ! t "PH narrow nationalism to the. broad There is no sentiment In commerce. rubnabea every 4a, afternoon end mnlM l I Welfare Of mankind heeAHSW - the I ;eept Smeee tlteiMa), at Tbe Jwnul wut . i 7 - t. J. i I - : ' ----- m. HrodwT umi luuitu mm, twjim, j"M'u:ut icuimua v, vwr, uiucbv aun i proposition. Just rates tnrjougji inn Oreftm. i I most rtoen-aoaf ; trarlif inn.. fwptnln I i . .j.n Il ' '- ""l 111 I to. .the .human race as a whole,'. The the water, level cost of haul Instead f clam auMcr, lamers oi tne republic' felt in tnelr I of the present rates based on the ki epjiones m.u tits: Home. a-oi. nea"8 mat trie, nation - they were eost of an over mountain haul to $:ier?TnX,o.Z a mission in ua worm Puget sound. wiU Canse a big grain r.rr, :T7,:w;.7.-r ; : u was aesunea 10 preacir ine gospel l mnvrmtmi Awn th rviinmhia ramjte K.tc Co.. Brun-wtek BujidiM. - Puget Sound can. mean nothing good i """".: cphxo. i 0ur national literature of srevolu aubmerfptum term hi mfl is Oregon aad wib- j tionary and later ! times : is full of for Vancouver, but a heavy grain movement down the C jlumbla would T"10"1 1 - VC.'T izJZZ ,7 rrr;fl '7 1 nZ mean everything to Vancouver. Puget .J daily v (morwwo o ArrBRNOO this feeling. It destroyed an old g . , r - f v MWMrre fh dm ,m.;...iioo Month IJO political party and, founded -a new J" Fnouver, tne I . .. on. in the days of the French revo- e"5" w"'". SUN DAT 1 . : I " I -., t,m'- shores, with rapture. It made the . United States an 1 asylum for tho 5e Pr' ff Important provided she rihnMKMi.'.':Anfl t,aw w tat. th helps get J ustice in. rates for the Co if ad In binding up the broken bearted rouxe ne cannot expeno natioM, proeiaimSng liberty to them becof a Prt fbrough anythjjog that that tare captives and opening the .rugei wuna. orison i to them that r bnnnd. ' wrf M?or .percival never uttered a shall not be setting out upon any more Important truth than when he new policy but only returning to the declared that "this 1 the most im policy of Washington, Franklin and Porant action ever proposed for the JeffM-ann i iuiure oi Vancouver. ; The president' stands for the old and genuine Americanism when ha ine aeserving poor win reel great makes the United States , the appstlo, atisff Hon In Henry Ford's promise and guardian of freedom. It is his 10 ouua a cneaper car than ever opponents who in their stony selfish-Loerore. , ine , time is rapidly ap- ness forsake the faith of the fathers. Proaching when' no, self-respecting It is they who betray the iODes of poor-rarm can fail to provide an Wash intrton and the doctrines of Jef- automobile for every Inmate. Mr, ferson. it is they who make mockery Ford's promise brlnga the glad day or l,mjnln martvrrtnm. anil t.hPV iiHi5 ucma. who would" poison the fruits of his pna yr. J ; . . tT.te I On month t barbarism is to deter" from crime. But it never accomplishes thai- pur pose. It never has, as history shows, and it never will, In the days when English criminal practise was more savage even than Wichita's Jail, crime was far-more prevalent there than it is today with the law and the prisons humanized. Crime is the reaction to social barbarity. ' It decreases almost in direct proportion as the treat ment of accused persons grows Christian. Where is the pertinency of all this fuss and fury over freedom of the seas, ports on the Adriatic, outlets to . deep waiter? The air Is about to supersede the sea as the high way of commerce and travel. Every nation 'has access to the air. Switzer land and Bohemia re exactly, as well off in that particular as England. The wise nation of this day is the one that looks also o the highways of the air for Its outlet to the world. constitution. Our treaties munt be nub- lished after they have been mutually rt- uiec Their text is always available to alt - our own people or to any foreigner wno may care to look them un. At In tervala congTess has compiled and pub lished all , treaties, still in fore. -If we are to have closer relations with other nations we must insist on ' tha same policy, and enlightened opinion of other nauons wui ravor such a change. Every people recognises the hideous Immorality of secret treaties modifying, often to the extent of negativing, published treaties. The practice has sown suspicion and jealousy and has to a great degree pro voked wars. Enforcement of treaties should be an international- matter, Just as enforcement of private contracts is ja community function, when proper ap peal is .nut to its tribunals. go I did not need to b told, a I bar bften told, that th pcopla of the CniUd State would utport tk Leagoa of H tlon. 1 am an American, and I knew thejr would. Wood row Wilaon. i TIIE NEW VOftK SPEECH " war for freedom as they would blight in the bud the fruit of the war W3 MILLIONS FOR AUTOS W It 1917 HAT does it mean a million dollars 'more in sales at the late automobile show than at the ishow last year? is 11,250,000 more than at the showi or six times as -much have just fought. The president speaks for all who ITIiE president made a witty point I have died to make men free. He c close or his New York speaks for the whole human race speccn. lie was upon tne sun- He speaks for the endless ages yet of those entangiing alliances to come. His oononents "sneak for fhh?h Washington admonished the j the transient moment, for a petty More than f 12,000 was paid by people eyuntry to shun... The league of na- clique and for utter selfishness. Mugl 10 see the cars, more than four ons, said Mr. Wilson, Is not an 1 " times as much as in 1918 tangling alliance. On the con-1 Vannnnvtv ia inininar in th fiirht I Of course there were nennlp whn ary. It willJscntangie the insidious j for just rates for the Columbia gate-J'or patriotic and other reasons, re liances which have filled the earth war. The whole region round about framed froin buying machines dur ith heartburnings and drenched it lis siding in with the farmers in their lug the war. With peace assured k. T ... I a I m i ' viuuu. i ngnt ror Justice. Tfiere are Portland- wiey leei mat it is seemly now to This was his retort to the senators ho argue tfiat the Lekgue of Na- way of this, thing. You never know account for the huge increase. Threa ons contradicts the policy or Wash- what human nature will Mo there! times as much money spent at the gton. - He might have argued that were those am on us who wpr with show in 1919 as In 1918 is Mtranrrii- wasningtons policy oi a century i Germany when, she was firhtin us. nary. It is unheard of. Four Umes JUSTIFICATION OF THE DREAMER Without His Vision the Bace Might Better Perish. gnd more ago, before the invention of die railroad, the submarine, the fiy- (ig iiiacniue, uie leiegrapu, cou'.u iardly be expected to work today. ; We-must not be surprised If a licy which was admirably adapted 'the condition of things , when it 30k; a solid week .to travel from MAKING BOLSHEVISTS T as many people attending the show as in 1918 islikewise the unusual. The inference must be that there HE refusal of the senate to pass is abundant money In hand, that peo: measures needed to keep the pie: look upon the future with con- country going, is a national scan- fldehce, and that the automobile I has tremendously increased in dodu- . 'ine IUinuster by the vule-ar Shpr-llar favor uow v.buiu6iuh iui wucn man. the near dls nvnl r.a Poiiott Mnn i th rt mnu h-m .k i. Aw. K.a 11,. . , , , - I m : vMWfsv ' v W vW ituiuvu .UUliaiO ,irX fy rwi CttU , Iw ad the unknown France is a national is to be spent on Oregon roads with- 2r. " disgrace. in a brief period as Years run. to g ainer oi ins uouniry lerried ms Even a bill to giye soldiers an! be lost .sight , of. The automobUe :V" Muors a cnance to change the r war calls for the r6ads. and smooth hard risk Insurance Into better forms was roads beckon ito Deoole to hnv an wiiuiHous nave coangea since tilled by the filibuster. Nothin wa automobile and come mit into na- .asningions aay, mougn our sena-i sacred in the eyes of that grouy ture. 1 . 1- a a 1 I i.uojwi,ors ao not seem io gnow or senatorial direct actionists. ,They Perhaps we are coming to be an I flVPn risfpaitt1 f h apiAuHnwol kill I oiiImwaKiIa wnr mn.nl. rrtw. W iur. hiiwd uevuies some enierwm- on which the many netivitip for for. rv we arc aircaiv r w u.aicu w- warning xarm interests depend. Bui why not? What is life for 2 . . !. y fy TZ closeiea The filibuster was a fit ending to if we cannot glide out into the coun- MWiou ui cwoMu comes io te weekS of obstrucUon through try and revel in the great outdoors? j.v. ,u.w .ume. w uu not. www long winded speeches against the I'hat Is coin a- nn nutQirl th. nnt I r ... I S,n rK " r;.r:Jeasuf 01 auOTS WBIcn wer d- " the people aU over the country b knw. Tle71r; as provtocial m " t0 'l the work are like those in Oregon In their fey are isrnorant Thiv imairinA ,,T. L opinion oi m wagu oi Nations, the af th?v LTniv eL,fatS Wit thecounlrybleedin.fromi.s 37 senators who are under agree, L V .V . . . wounas ana trying to recover from llT0tUmm raC8 e.shock of war, the obstruction Sr. ISS . t pIolted the Unionization of the de? ??nJ . , . r Sherman s partmcnts in order to force the presi- extraordlnarily fatuous remarks in 1( . r.. ?1 .PL, I ,?rint without asking whether he ever J"?" ieads anything except his partisan Z T tn , "' Newspaper. sSrely if he knew what tZJZ l I? effCCt Europe, fs saying and doing, if he tpne. , But Senator Sherman's ear i .closed. He is like the man I in the Arabian Nights' " story, whose head vas bewitched into solid stone. JAnd Uie rest of the objectors are ih like case. Apparently nothing can permeate the dense substance of tieic brains. The president in his Ijlew York speech reiterated the arnings he has uttered so often Lefore. The European peoples are tlisillusioned with their governments. They have lost faith in the old tjplomatio and political machinery,""! uicii iias provea iiseir incapable if defending them from the torment f war. There is not a cabinet in Europe, says Mr. Wilson, that really esires to Ijeep the peace if left to il3- own .devices. Therefore,, if we sfish to stop the hideous business of nH ar we must not leave them to their (wn devices. We must provide new i:id superior machinery competent to, hold the diplomats and junkers i. cheek, - j The. president makes a shrewd re j.iarlt vhen.he says that thj Euro pean discontent w not wholly eco nomic. Naturally misery is 4 factor ii the evolution of, "Bolshevismi" but it is not Ihe only factor. He does . ot . delude himself with , the fancy Mat the revolutionary movements i m be stayed by feeding the hun ; ry populations. Something Jelse Is : eeded and that something is .release :; om the age-long fatuity of National ivernments - exclusively pursuing Ifish. national Interests.'", i 5 This country like all"nhe rest, Ms. 'Vilson warns usj must emerge'frora t ie pursuit - of "narrow natfonaiism ; a to worldwide humanitarlanism. Our f overnroent, he says in plain I terms, :.iust pay less : attention hereafter ' cold and cynical national interests id turn Its thoughts to the welfare f women and children. Imagine a -oup of old-fashioned diplomats c ondescending to think of the welfare f common , women and children. Nothing less . than princes and ichesses engaged their maids.' But 'mes have changed. The women zi children of the world Are de- who tacitly submitted to the pro gram. , The buccaneers figure that the peo ple will forget that there has been wanton obstruction throughout the whole session for the especial pur pose of defeating necessary measures, They rely on that forgetfulness as a means of clearing them of blame later when the killed bills cause widespread accounts of confusion and demoralization, v ine senate is often asinine. It is a place to which numerous wrong minaeu men gain entrance. It is a body that atirs up more dissension ana leunism among the American people than arises from any other influence. It, has always been the citadel of privilege. It has always been the refuge and protection of special In terests. It has always been the . home, isnetier and spawning ground of "in visinie government" It was always the chief instrument for the notorious and proven alliance between big busi ness and government that so long uoiiiiaaiea ine country. They have clipped the wings of the upper legislative branch in Eng land. It ought to be done in America. . - It ought tor be done because that body does more to ; make ammuni tion for Bolshevists I than does any other single Influence in the United States. ITS MOST IMPORTANT ACTION HIS is the most important ac tion ever proposed for the future of Vancouver," declared Mayor Percival when a lution was adopted by the city coun cil of Vancouver making that city i party on the side of ; the Inland Em pire farmers in their effort to secure lower grain rates through the Co lumbia gateway. J . i The same, resolution Js to be adopted by the Vahcouverporf com mission and the Vancouver Chamber of Commerce, after which the petw lion will e prepared for presentation ment to oppose the league will be forced to change their minds or be driven out of the senate. The "more decisive the vote is made in Oregon and the larger the number of ballots cast, the more effective will be the protest against the wicked alliance of the senatorial obstructionists. By cutting coupons from The Journal and getting your friends do vote,-you will help force the senate obstruc tionists to change then minds and help savei. American boys from being conscripted to again tread the blood stained paths of war, A KANSAS JAIL r T IS no surprise that tha hoard In charge "of state institutions has decided to "abolish the jail in Wichita county, Kansas. The general plan of this Jail, ac cuiuiuh o an ezenange, is like barn with a silo in the center. The silo part consists of a sheet iron cylindrical structure two stories high containing cells for prisoners. The cells are six feet wide at the outer wail. Toward the center of the iron silo they tapper to n a foot and a half. . For each-story,' or tier of. cells, there is but a single door. The silo is constructed so as to revolve, thus bringing each , cell In turn to the door. There is no other source of air and light The prisoners live in a'rless darkness except when they are revolved around to the door to receive their food. Under the iron silc is an open cess pool to which there is a pipe Xrom the Inner end of each cell. Healthy men confined in this jail are said to 6icken and die quickly, and one can easily be lieve It-. -. In Wichita county, Kansas, a jail sentence, or confinement in the jail before trial, is just about equivalent to a sentence of death.: Prohibition Is said to have greatly diminished the Jail populations '" of the - Kansas counties but In Wichita county there are still quite a goodly number : of prisoners,-, some of, whom have been awaiting trial for several ! months. The constitutional provision that accused persons "shall have a speedy and public trial" seems to have been overlooked there. We make a point of the conditions in this jail because they are not un common elsewhere. Not quite so bad, perhaps, but bad enough to con stitute ; av reproach- to our civiliza tion. The obvious purpose of prison From tha Chlcaeo Port . "Long ago a man wrote "of the day when the peoples should "beat their swords into plowshares and their spears into pruning hooks." He was a dreamer, Many anotner has dreamed , his dream and passed on with the vision unful filled. Every age has had Its poets and its prophets who ventured to foresee a time when wars should cease when wrongs should be righted and justice executed throughout the earthi" .These men have cried their faith aloud in the aaraest nours or tne world s History. when oppression ' was heaviest when violence was rife. They have believed in the face of contradltlon palpable and painful. With a SDlendid mnmn thv have denied actualities. Their fellows have looked upon them with scorn; silenced them as disturbers ; written them down fools with overwhelming paraae oi racts and statistics. And yet the apostolic succession con tinues. The dream of Mlcah survives after centuries of denial. The swords and spears that he beheld transformed into implements of fruitful - toil have grown mightier in destructive power ana ever more elaborate in diabolic ingenuity. The strife of tribes became the clash of nations ; the conflict of a continent became a world war. But the dream surylves. Why this persistence? It is not enough to say that the mad, like the poor, are,, always with us. The charge of madness recoils. Violence is the offspring of insanity. The dreamer may well say that, all the world Is mad but he. This dream that follows us along the crimsoned pathway of a strujrsrline: race must be something more than an illu sion. It must be the vision of the bet ter soul of man. When we heap scorn upon the dreamer, are we not denying J tne aivmuy within us? Are we not weakly surrendering the very hope of numan redemption 7 Are we not saying. In effect that there is no such thing as progress; that all man has achieved in the realm of the intellect is to be for ever the slave of savage impulses? Ban ish for a moment if you will, con sideration of religion, of . ethics, of al truism. We know men who have be come so wise in their own conceit that these are empty , words to them mere tags that rlbss the selfishness of men. Banish them, then, and leave only the attribute of reason -upon which even these skeptics pride themselves, and what if you scorn the dreamer, be comes of reason? . Is war the fruit of man's power to reason? Is the turning of science to .the work of destruction, the turning of music and poetry and art to the work of inflaming' passion, the achievement of reason t Is reasonv to boast that it can order the material elements of life for the service of mankind and to con fess that it cannot order the life of man himself so that he will use these material elements for his own peace and welfare? If this be true and we must deny tne dream, then it were bet ter that the race should perish. Human ity is a tragic joke and the God who created it a sardonic humorist. But In spite oKhe fact that we have scorned the dreamer and hushed him often as an Impractical nuisance who merely diverted our attention from the serious affairs we had in hand, down in our hearts we have cried out "O that his dream might be true!" And that cry is the dreamer's justification It is because that cry answers him that he persists in his dreaming. He is the brave voice of our timid souls. The great dreamers have refused to be die cou raged. They have grieved, but they have not become impatient because the dream is long delayed. The prescience that enabled, them to see and to pro claim the day of human brotherhood, enabled them to see that only by the way of surf ering could it be attained, What did Mlcah say? "They shall beat their swords into plowshares." It is the process of the hammer and the anvil and the metal white-heated in the forge. The dreamer stands in the smithy and he sees through the show ering sparks that though the metal writhes beneath the blows it slowly takes the rasnion of his dream. Through such a process the world has lately come. The metal has been heated in the forge; it has been beaten on the anvil. Never were fires hotter; never fell the hammer with heavier stroke. And the dreamer has watched and dares to say that the writhing metal comes nearer to the shape of his dream than ever before. Now, if you nave'ith at all, is the time to believe in the dream; now is the time to let the timid voice in your soul speak boldly. The hot metal, still plastic, passes from beneath the ham mer to the shaping: of bands more1 skilled and tools more delicate. rt us help with our faith that the world's dreamers may be fully justified. Letters From the People Why Isot All Nations Treat Treaties as U. S. Does ? From the St, Laoia Globe-Democrat ilr".0"" " to Tb Journal for pes Hcation in thb department abculd be vridca on kZ 2H!L-?m , ""P"' ahoekl eat esaaed 800 word in Unrth and mart be aicned by U " eaaraae m ruu man accom- An Open Letter to Mr. HcArthur roruana, March 4 To Mr. C. N. Mc Arthur, Member of Congress, Third Con- KicBHionai jjistrtct for Oregon.. Wash ington, D. C. Sir; During : the last nours or. tne sixty-fifth congress you saw fit to held up important pending legislation by attacking me for an al leged interview in the Portland Daily News, a paper whose particular claim to respectability rests on its. oast record of having opposed your candidacies for congress and, having shown its readers now glaringly unfit you are for the position of congressman. While it is-a well known fact that you have been un able to accomplish anvthine worth while for your congressional ( district, it was naraiy expectea that you would take this means of gaining a little cheap notoriety. Had you taken the trouble to inquire you would have ascertained that I gave no interview to the Portland Dally News in regard to you or anything: that you have said or failed to do. Two well known and responsible men were in my office at the time a reporter for the News called and they will both testify that I refused to give the News reporter any story or interview. I take pride In the fact that I have never been, guilty of supporting a man as incompetent or unfit as you for cob gress. It is known to everybody that in 1912 I supported M. G. Munley ; in 1914, A. F Flegrel ; in 1915, John A. Jeffry. and in 1918, John 6. Smith, none of whom has ever been guilty of selling the rem nant of a tubercular herd of cattle to Multnomah county. No. Pat, "you can fool some of the people all of the time and aU of the people some of the time, but you can't fool all of the people all of the time" by being messenger boy for a group of selfish interests . while drawing the sal ary or a congressman. Yours truly, F. S. MYERS. Mr. Clark to Mr. Jiibitt Portland, Feb. 28. to the Editor of The Journal In reply to Mark Jubitt where he says that I am wrong in re gard to the kind of medicine I pre scribe to cure the I. W. W. I wish to say. in the first place, that Mr. Jublitt admits that the I. W. W. are wrong when he suggests a remedy ; and he prescribes precisely the same bitter dose that did, only I believe in forcing them to take the dose, for, if you leave the mat ter to their own discretion, it simply spells disaster. Mr. Jublitt hinted that I must be a Christian man, but that if men were punished by forcing them to work, that kind of "Christianity" is not worthy of respect But it is not a ques- turn as' to whether am a Christian or not, but it is the I. W. W who are on trial in the eyes of the general public However, the man who inaugurated Christianity used strenuous means and punished evil doers in the temple by making a whip and driving them out Good hard labor is good medicine for any contaminated person, whether an I. W. W. or otherwise. I did not state that these men were to be forced to work without pay, but I did say that Christianity was a good core if they could be converted. A .man convinced against his, will is of the same opinion still ; therefore, if he Is not willing to do the right thing society will eventually force him to it Mr. Jublitt suggest that I would "make criminals out of these men without a court trial," to force them to work. He also says that I "want to convert them to slaves." They are already slaves to sin what I aim to do is to tree them from this slavery. A child Is not a slave to Its mother when the mother has to use the switch to teach the child how to be free from danger that would Injure its personality. He suggests that "the best remedy is a good job, fair wages and an opportunity to live and not merely exist" which is precisely the dose that I prescribe, only that I want toXorce these sick men to take their medicine when they . rebel against it Al J. CLARK. COMMENT AND NEWS IN BRIEF SMALL CHANGE ' . Bolshevism and War Savings Stamps will not mix. .The only people who don't like chil dren are those who never had any. , Even the element for a moment took part in the welcome to the Sixty-ninth. -Hail, hall. Henry Ford announces that he will soon be building flivvers to sell at from 250 to $350 each. Why worry? Anyway, . the rain will Increase the angle worm crop for the benefit of the chickens when Victory garden spading, begins. .. a e e Wonder what sort of a reception there will be for . some of the soldiers who bring brides with them when they re turn to the "states'? Returned soldiers certainly will appreciate-a comfortable bed. From the looks of things it may be your patriotic, Christian duiy to list your-spare bed room for em emergency call. ' OREGON SIDELIGHTS Albany dealers Will hold an' automobile show March 21 and 22. which, they promise, it is to be "the best ever held in the WUlamette valley south: of Port land." a a '1 The Canyon City Eagle qustee a John Day citisen as saying that in the race meeting at John Day the last .of June there will be at. least 40 running horses on the track. . , . a- a- a r thecal sportsmen are getting out their tackle, the Oregon City Courier says, in preparation for the salmon run, and it is expected that this year will be' the frreatest fishing year for the anglers n the history of the sport V The Jefferson band now has a mem bership of over SO. and the bays, accord ing to the Review, "are. practicing faith fully in their hall over the poMtoffice, making weird and Uncanny: noises which they prornlse to convert into real music in the near future," ; ! i JOURNAL MAN AT HOME '-- f By Fred Locklsy. ( an who care for atbletice will be interested in this article, in which Mr. Lockler eootea at lencth from a letter ha baa just received fnaa a former fellow worker in Y. M. C A. eerrice eretaeas, who tells mm what ia doinf or about to be doins in A, E. V. circlea orer there, While I waji tn London one of my fel low workers was William T. - Whltte more, a writer on the Argus of Albany, N. Y.' Our Office was at No. 1 Montague street just off Russell square, and about -B, minute's walk from the British Mu seum. "Whit" and I took many a jaunt together. I was scheduled to' make a trip through Scotland, but ""Whit's" folks hailed from Scotland and he was so anxious to visit the home of his fathers that I withdrew -in his favor, and he went to Edinburgh, Glasgow, Inver ness and other points in the land' where the beather. blooms.. "Whit" has recently been made di rector of the publicity department of the Y. M. C. A. for England. Yesterday I received a letter from him in which he gave me some most interesting in formation about Bill Royle of Portland and other westerners. He writes in part as follows: e - a Despite the fact that the personnel of base section No. 3 (the United King dom) A. E. F. is greatly reduced and wiU probably be stiU further reduced, every effort is being made to maintain a high standard in the athletics of the base and send capable representative teams to compete in France and the Rhineland against A. E. F. teams there. The athletic department of the base section, together with the. athletic de partments of the Y. M. C. A. and the K. of C. in the United Kingdom, aux iliary to the army athletic organization, have Just been completely reorganised. lieutenant vy imam ii. Kovle of the air service, whose home is in Portland, (jr., nas been designated by Major Gen eral John Biddle as athletic officer for the base section. George A. Sellar of Chicago, president of the Cook County Amateur Athletic Federation, has been appointed head of the Y's athletic de-1 partment which wUl meet the needs of the tracJc. loolball. basketball and base ball teams, and Robert C. ("Bob") War ner of Boston, former 'New England ice speed skating champion, is the new head of the.Knlrrhts of Columbus ath letic department and will have jurisdic tion of the boxers and wrestlers. There Is sniendid team work between all the agrencies -operatlne- to . develoo the army athletic teams of the American troops in the United Kingdom and it is hoped that by dint of this team work and the Droved ability of the athletic chiefs the handicap of the slight supply of materia will be overcome and A. E. r . cruuaptonsnip teams wui oe proaucea In base section No. 3, While Lieutenant Rovla is new to hl job be has made such a success of simi lar work both in civil life and in the A. E. F. in France and England that he has the confidence of all. He is a prac tical athlete : himself, having been a member of the Multnomah Athletic club's championship - hockey team in Portland, a member of the chamnion- ship water polo team of the Northwest and winner or several diving champion- sntps. or several montns lieutenant Royle was the officer in charge of fly ing at the Second aviation school ' at Tours, during which time he found op portunity to promote athletics, and vaudeville entertainments on a rather extensive' scale. In fact, "Lieutenant Bill Royle's Jazz band" became famous tnrousnout tnat netetioorhod of France. and it was said that "Lieutenant Bill" could officiate as master of ceremonies of anything from a musicals to a prize fight, which he could, and dtd. : Lieutenant Royle" got a dose of gas at Chateau Thierry and, going jgbrough a hospital course, eventually landed at Ford Junction, England, where he was officer in charge of flying fori the night bombing school there. Again t he broke into the athletic and - entertainment game and to quote the old story, "if it had ot been for the armistice," he says he woujd have had the chompionship football and basketball teams of the base section in that . night ! bombing school. Although he was disappointed in that arabitioni his work had made such an impression at headquarters that he was picked to administer athletics when that activity of base section N. 3 was reorganized following the reduc tion of personnel here. 6 a e Captain John H. Potter of PhlloHnl. phia ts the entertainment officer for base section 3. His big task now is providing entertainment for ' the men from France and the Rhineland on leave nere. iney are Deginnmg to come through in sizable numbers and may hit an average of 1000 a day in .the near iuture. judging rrom a dlscusslonr of plans, there will be close affinity be tween the athletic activities and the entertainment provided the men, and the tryouts in the elimination contests to determine the representative teams and ainieucs win do staged as entertain ments for visiting- soldiers. ; " George A. Sellar s athletic activities about Chicago-area part of the athletic history of the nation. With iAlonzo Staerg, Dr. . H. P. Kallenberr. Dr. Ray croft and A. B. Da Groot, he organized the highly successful COok county ath- iene organization. iast March he en tered upon duties as athletic director for the Y. M. C. A. with the American forces at Winchester, from which post he comes 'to the -chief's office in the ainietic department at lAndon head quarters. - - j Associated with Mr, Sellar are George B. Cole of Seattle, as assistant chief di rector of Y athletic activities, who is the rieta man a i recti y engaged in organiz ing the various base section teams; David O. R. Foirwell of Kenouha. Win! assistant at the headquarters ofice, and David C Macandrews of San Fran cisco, a Dartmouth athlete of the class of '93 and former Eastern league third baseman, who is directly in charge of athletics in the London area,, the larg est and most important of the areas into which the Y work tn the United King dom is divided. ' ;r . "Bob" Warner, "the K. of C. man handling boxing and wrestling, is well known in boxing and skating circles throughout New England. He is ambi tious, to discover some new. champions among the boxer of base section t and personally is applying the fine comb to all the camps to secure a renresentatlva team for the invasion of France and the Rhineland. .John J. Cannon of New York is opening the Holborn club, at which boxing is to be a feature - and which" will help materially in the de veloping of the base section boxing team. e a e Eddie McGoorty, the middleweight will probably be transferred to the mili tary police in London, it now seems, and thta will -give the base section at least one very hieh class mitt artist as a member of its team, Joe Lynch; ban tamweight champion of the A. E. F.,ia now in London. He recently defeated Tommy Noble, the English title holder, and is seeking a bout with Jimmle Wilde. Lynch may also become at tached to the base section team, as may Auggie Rattner, middleweight, who is here with Lynch and McGoorty. Ragtag and Bobtail Stories From Everywhere. ' The K. and 1. Parent A TOPEKA public health nu rue. called to . jt case on the east side, was shocked, says Capper's Weekly, when the 3-year-old eon of the house gravely walked into the room smoking a pipe with all the composure of an old citizen, while - watching thecandHlixd nurse with, evident enjoyment. The parents, who looked on with complacent amuse ment, explained the child had learned to smoke while taking treatment for asthma. Being .Indulgent parents, that was their t sufficient excuse for declin ing to Interfere with the habit. Borah to Wilson I don't want to play In yonr rrd- I don't like ye anjr mora. ' ..-..Too "II be aorrj wfcea jnm bear HeUJnc un mr Utile roar! Yon' can have roar Ice ef Nationas You can aaw ooioercl I moet re the aloarne doctrine I'm the friend of Libert 1 W. W. 1L la Spokane Spokesman fUriew. ITnrle Jeff Snow Hays: Down to the Corners the war board is debatln' on whether a standln army of a. million would be militarism or democracy.' -1 tried to tell 'em that it depended on whether the standln" army was run vm Prussian or American lines, but the chairman called me to order about the nrevioua question, which he thought I was debatln. The News in Paragraphs World Happenings Briefed for Benefit of Journal Readers THE DUTIFUL RUSSIAN PEASANT I By Paul R. Wright The nabre the subject of "open diplo macy" is discussed, on this and the other side of the Atlantic, the more ob vious it becomes that the only actual reform possible will be to make .treaties the supreme law of every land, as they are in the United States . under four War Taxes and Others - Portland, March B.-To the Editor of The "Journal They have issued a book let telling us how to keep out of the pen by paying the multitude of income taxes. They ought to issue seven vol umes to tell us how to keep out of the pen while paying the other- taxes. Be low is approximately the amount that must come from production, for some one must produce something before it can be used by someone else. Nineteen billions Is the war debt, and the in terest until it is paid, which 'will be in the neighborhood of two billions a year that means the cost of collection and actual interest; one billion for the nor mal activities of congress ; then come state, school, . county and municipal taxes, amounting to about three billion more. All f this must come from those who produce, but this enormous item is a mere trifle compared with the burden on industry that is levied by the land lords of earth. The capitalized land value of the United States is about one hundred billions. The landlords, as such, do not create it. They : may be pro ducers, but not as landlords. As long as this value, which all create, goes into the pockets of private individuals if is a tax on industry. The direct amount one hundred, billions, 1s not the only burden imposed by this falsV system. The producer is .caught between two traps.- If he gets ahead, either the gov ernment imposes some sort of tax to get it away, from him, or the. landlord raises the rent If the government or the landlord happens to neglect the pro duces for a time and he gets ahead, then a feverish land boom arises, until it kills the goose that lay the golden egg. Industry stops, ; and : we have a panic or an anarchistic reaction such DO YCU FAVOR A LEAGUE OF NATIONS to prevent future wars, such as President Wil son and Former President Taft are working for? i "i r . ttneieae" tbia esepoa ts ttrrelote ed i Areaaed b -Xeacae ef Kattoea Editor. Care Tbe Jeera!. PorUaadl Orese," ae tniac It to Tha Joaraal lailaaaa '(flea sad drop It ta tea ballot box. Oalf pence of . votinc ae ebooJd end la a ballot. Li (Yes or No: (bitn your name sere) Address Special Correspondence to Tha Journal and The Chicago Daily Newa. Harbin.- Russia's outbreak of Bolshe ism has-been a thing of -unparalleled ferocity and of entire absence of re straint. The Russian peasant, the serf of the middle ages, who has managed to exist unchanged into the twentieth cen tury, behaved j when the old Inhibitions were removed ; like a mad thing, a- crea ture crazed by generations of oppres sion. jCll the ; world knows now some thing of what that explosion has meant. It is, therefore, the more interesting to know something of the Russian peasant's really innate love of order and that he has a wonderfully strong sense of d.uty even in the face of the most frightful difficulties. . . Any traveler in Russia will notice that at frequent intervals on the open cars of freight trains there are iron ehairs. There sit the ' brakemen. leaving their seats only at the signal to manipulate the brakes. This they do by hand, there being no airbrakes on these Russian freight trains. The brakemen never de sert these posts of duty. There they sit wrapped in their great coats of fur and with their feet incased In the im mense boots of felt There they not in frequently fall asleep in the "intense chill arid are found frozen stiff and dead. The mercury sometimes drops to 6 below zero. When certain eminent' American rail way men were in the Far West, that la, somewhere near the Ural mountains, at the Jlme when the Czechs ..were waging bitter war, against the BoUhevikC their attention was called to an incident that serves further to demonstrate the Rus sian's capacity for obedience. It chanced that between the forces of -the Czechs and the Bolshevik! there, was a line of railway with a crossing, and a Russian flagman was set to guard the crossing. There was no traffic to protect but the flagman stuck. Eventually ; shells began to drop around the flagman's shack: When they came too close he would crawl into the bole beneath the floor. Before long a shell struck his shack, and another, and another. Tho place was pretty wen demolished, hut the flagman aia not -leave. - This aroused the. curiosity of one of the Americans. He managed one day to get close enough to the feljow to ask nun .wny ne stayeo. The question as tounded the Russian, "Why," he managed to say when he found words, "this is my post." That was all there Was to it It was nia Dusmess to stay put This man had the sense of obedience that character izes, his race, and also the lack of Initi ative that is proving such a hindrance at tnts time.- . - ' . (Copyright, m, by Chicago- Dally New Co,) as Is now sweeping the world. It will be sure to come here unless this sys tem is changed. There is but one safe road to travel, and that is to take rent the product of all the people, for taxes, thus opening tbe natural resources to production, on i the hand, and stopping the government and the landlord from taking from the producer hi produc tion,, on the other. There will soon be no incentive to save or work,. Democ racy, security and peace in theworld can come only from the full eaactment of single tax. 3 HERMANN. .' jffhp Can : Give the Answer? ' La Grande. March 4v TO the Editor of The Journal I have often wondered bow many boys Sherman, Poindexter. La Foilette and Borah have in France, can yoo tell me? We have a boy In the United States marines, in France C. W. OLIVER. ' They Are Allowed to Keep Them Aram. Feb. 27 To The Editor of The Journal Why are the soldiers not al lowed to keep their uniforms? INQUIRER. Denounces Legislature's Ways Huntington. Feb. i4.-To ithe Editor of The Journal. Our legislature la get ting to bo a farce. To show you how much interest ' the senators and repre sentatives from eastern. Oregon take in jm farmers.- I will mention the doder ' I bill -passed by this legislature. It makes tit a crime and a fine for any rancher 3 to have doder (or iove, vine, aa some 'ran ttl ' in ' his : field. There are verv ' I few - ranchers in eastern . Oregon ' but tell me. are all these . ranchers going to be fined .for having the pest they have fought for -a long time? Would anyone have doder in hie alfalfa if he could help It? ' If the farmers would undertake to get rid of it entirely, a required in , this bill, he would go to me waii, as it is -impossible. You mSy wore ino.wont and think you have it out and. then next year up it comes. Hop on to the farmer, that is the policy of this-august body. If they want the farmer to get rid of the doder let - them appropriate a few hundred thousand dollars for that purpose. That would be just as sane a proposition, - . E. M. SISLEY. Olden Oregon "Tyler's Lost Minister." a Near Ro ; mance of the Early : Days. Delazon Smith was one of Oregon's early representatives In the United States senate. Before coming to Oregon and while a sesldent of Iowa he was appointed United States minister to one of the South American republics. After he left for the scene of his duties noth ing was heard of him ..-r 11 montb and all kinds of international complications were conjectured. It finally developed that when Smith had arrived at his destination he took a notion to Inform himself regarding an unexplored region of the Andes. ' For this purpose he traveled on horseback across the South American continent and was, to all pur poses, out of the world. In consequence of the vigilant search made for him he was afterward known aa "Tyler's Lost GENERAL i The eentral powers lost 415,000 tons and the allies 803,000 tons of shipping during the war. - The Furness line steamer Appenlne, from Liverpool, was driven ashore by aa Ice pack near Bt Johns, N. F., Tuesday. Statistics Just made public by the war department show that there are 82,639 sick and Injured soldiers remaining overseas. - t News Is received of the complete de struction by fire of the old revenue cutter Corwin as she lay In drydock at Salina Cruz. : ) Secretary -Baker and Genera) March expect to leave Washington Sunday for an Inspection trip that will", take them to the Pacific coast. The Medical- School dispensary at Milwaukee, Wis., has been endowed with 3133,000 by the family of Cud ah y Brothers company, meat packers. Going suddenly insane, I.. F. Smith, a Tacoma, Wash., sailor on the steamer Willamette, Jumped overboard at Han Francisco Tuesday and waa drowned. An extra distribution of 32.000.000 to the common stockholders of the Amer ican Woolen company was voted at the annual meeting at Springfield, Mass., Tuesday.-; .... j No agreement has yet been reached between copper producers and the war department as to the disposal of 140, 600,000' pounds of copper acquired by the government during the war, NORTHWEST NOTES The Albany borne guards have dis banded as a military organization. The bridge crossing the White Sal- mon river at Underwood has been con demned. A reception to welcome heme the boys front overseas was given at Falrvlew . Wednesday night . George Donald, for many years presl- : dent of the Yakima National bank, died In that city Tuesday. Influenza is attacking- horses in Hood River valley. O, D. Jloyt Joet a val uable animal Tuesday. j k ) i, Retail prices on milk took a dron In Tacoma Wednesday,: the new price be ing 13 cents a quart. The Columbia River hlarhway between Hood River, and Cascade Locks is said to be in good condition. j . Mrs. Catherine Martinson, for 49 years a resident of Coos Bay, is dead at Marshfleld, aged 80 years. Three farms west of Vader. Wash., have been leased to a company of men who will open up a coal mine. A campaign has been started In Eu gene to raie 25,000 for the woman's building at the University ef Oregon. A branch of. the state federation of labor has been' formed by employes of the various box factories; at Klamath FaHs.;lc.;' - :- : : . . Samuel Schrimpf. tn old time reel dent of Lane county, was found dead a few days ago in his home near Eu gene.. .. ' !'''. Claud E. Rush, four years ffoap pointed receiver of .the land office at Yakima, has been reappointed by the president i " F. R. ""A rbogatit, who arrived In Van couver Monday from San Francisco, will have charge of the war camp com munity service in that city. Mrs. F. A. Baker of Salem has re ceived word that her son. Aubrey Jones, was killed in action, after having been cited three times for bravery.. Lieutenant J. E. Henry hss been re leased from the navy training station at Seattle to serve as assistant state health commissioner of Washington. The Grays Harbor realty board has received word from eastern naDor mill men accepting an offer to furnish $100, 000 for the erection of a paper mill there. Councilman and Mrs. Henry J. Tay lor narrowly escaped death when their automobile was struck and demolished by a freight train Tuesday at Pendle ton. .,- Li-.-v- " - - The Salem Ministerial association has sent a protest to President Wilson against the appointment of (Jus D. Her ron on the commission Ito negotiate peace with Russia, .- , - FOREIGN I , Premier Clemenceau has accepted the presidency of the Bey 1 -.Scouts of France. . .. The Germans, after three days of com parative nuiet, resumed attacks all along the line upon the Poles Tuesday. An aerial postal service has been es tablished between England and the con tinent to carry mails to the army of occupation. - A dispatch from London states that the allies propose to demand from Ger many 33,000,000,000 a year for a period of 60 years. " - - ' The t ub-commRtee of the peace' con ference commissien has agreed upon the conditions under Wch the international regime of ports wWL be applied. The International Harvester com pany's branch st. Artivar. Russia, ha been looted by the 'Bolshevik! and dam aged to the amount of 3400.000. A number of German submarine tv- Inr In a British port are to be hanriail over to the .allied governments, some being sent to Italy, Japan and other governments. - Buy Stamps to Help Bring Boys Home Htorir of ez-hteeement In the acforatila tioo ef War 8Tlnca KUmpe. cent to The Joamal and swepted for publication, will be awarded Thrift (Stamp, J Were you at the train Wednesday morning to meet the 6th? . Did you cheer them from the curb, as they went marching by? Were you really one of the wel coming committeexor were you mere ly a glad-bander? , Did you help to; bring the .boys home from over there? ,; Your War Savings Stamp certifi cate is the answer. Thrift Stamps and l19'War Sav ings Stamps now on sale at usual agencies. . : 1 what have more or less dode How, j Minister, 5