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V THE OREGON DAILY JOURNAL. PORTLAND, MONDAY, MARCH 24, 1919. Alt TS DEPENDENT SEWSPAPEK C, & JACKSON ... . PublUher PublUhnf every day, afternoon and morning (ex cept Sunday afternoon) . at The Journal Blild ; inc. Broadway and TamhQl street, Portland. Oregon.. . ..' .. ; - : Entered at tha Poetoffice at Portland. Oregon, for tratjrnUiou through tha mail a second ctaM matter. - TELEPHONE Mala 7178; Hunt, A-6081. All department reached by the number. Tell tha operator what department yon want. fORKlGN ADVERTISING REPRESENT ATIVB Kenjasnfn Kantaor Co., Brunswick Building. , 229 rlfth- aTei.ua, Mew Tort; JataUers - Building, Chicago. -v Subteriptica term ty mail la Oregon and Wash ington: - , DAILY MORNING " OB AFTERNOON) One-year . .. .$5.00 Ona Month. . . . . $ .50 . ' SUNDAY. Ona year. ... .52.50 I Ona month.....! .25 DAILY (MOBS IN O OR AFTERNOON) AND -SUNDAY On. year ,...$7, "0 Cne month..... t .63 Tla caiy, whan our own eat 'acape tha ' slough T,o pratat and lecture to one floundering " there Beck deep." Aaaehylua. GOVERNOR IS LAW A' . J. JlL1i a- JL V lLi. sA WTIM AJ -.- v v holds that Ben W. Olcott is governor in, fact and' In law, that Mr, Olcott' tenure of of fice will be the aull term for which Governor WlUiyoombe was elected, and that Mr. Olcott may resign the office? of secretary of state without impairing his title to the governor- Mrt Brown's opinion is based on the state constitution and on the decision of the Oregon supreme court In -the Earhart-Chadwick case. S. F. Chadwick was "secretary of state when L. F. . Grover, then gov ernor, was elected United States senator. Grover resigned and Sec retary Qtadwlclc, under the succes sion provided for in the state con stitution, became governor, just as Mr. Olcott became governor on the dealhof Governor vVithycombe. , . A - friendly proceeding was begun and under certain stipulations was brought before, the supreme court. Under the decision of the tribunal. Secretary Chadwick was declared to bo governor both in fact and in law, aw' -he ' served "c governor beyond the term for which he was elected secretary of Btate. Attorney General Brown suggests thAt if the state treasurer will re fuse to issue a warrant' for the .saltry of Mr. Olcott as governor, the issue can be quickly brought before the supreme court in order that the matter iTiay be placed be yond cavil.: :.- This first step by Governor Olcott rin' seeking a way by which he may resign as secretary of state, name a successor, draw b.u t one official salary and bring a third man into position, to share the responsibilities 'of the various boards of. which Jjoth the governor and secretary of state are members, will be looked upon . by the people of Oregon with com plete approval. Joseph V. Ba'ley of Texas, who formerly represented the Lone Star state; in the United States senate, Is peeved at the Democratic " party. He ! is peeved becau.ee national prohibl- , tion came under a Democratic ad ministration, jand a majority of Democratic- senators and representa tivesvoted for woman suffrage. He says he has always voted the ticket straight, ' but hat he never intends to do it again! Probably .one of the '.troubles with the senator is that the Democrats down in Texas got out of the habit of voting for Bailey, after Bailey got into the habit of v voting for the Standard Oil company. A GREAT AGENCY mHE last congress committed manv I sins' of omission In its closing days. One, and a big one. was . its failure to provide funds for nt . administration of the United states employment bureau. It' was , a serious failure in the face of un : , employment conditions throughout tne country at this time. . . Local .employment bureaus, even i, when, properly, and honestly run. are but a makeshift.; They reach their own little field- They know nothing of the general condition thrnmrhnnt ' the country.' Oftentimes they are . less. . : : - The " federal mnln.vmnt worked on a larger scale. ' Each of ltssuhd!vislons knew at all times where men were needed, and where men .could be found if at 'all. it ..met the whole situation, and covered , ine wnoie iieia. it was not work ltr for fees but to serve. Its effort and desire was to connect the cm ployer with ?- the employe, to keep all Industry - supplied J with . man power and ; all manpower supplied with - employment, r : ? s - Like, a great many good movements the federal bureau met with oppo sition. The 1 q c a 1 employment agencies did not like it. It cut Into their business and ate into "the'r profits. m .. " - . But laboring men did not oppose It. They used Jt. ; It found them jobs, if there were Jobs to be found. V It found men for employers - if men 1 were ' to be found. It .worked both ways in the interest of the em ploye and the employer. ' During last year when labor was at a premium it picked the berries, gath ered the f fruit J art! harvested thji crops of -Oregon and the country generally. It mobilized the man power of the nation and kept the wheels of bus'ness and industry turning at top speed. It was a boon and a blessing. Congress . has crippled it. The failure to ,;; provide for 7 It - was a grievous omission and a regrettable wrong. Mayor Hanson is reported to be on the verge of a physical and nervous breakdown. There can scarcely be a more shattering process than the responsibilities of a mayor in time of a strike like that at Seattle. Officials are mortals, Wd 5n times of great stress they are en titled to such aid and comfort as the pub lie can give.: COUNTING THE COST . IT WILL cost the American people tiOO.000,000 a year for the next 25 years to pay off the war debt, according to treasury estimates. This will mean that a total of f30.000.000.000 vill have to be col lected during the period to get back to our flnancia) situation April 6, 1917. Most people think this colossal expenditure enough to make us want the League of Nations as a guaran tee against like future expenditures, to say nothing of our dead that we are counting and our cripples that we are trying to reconstruct. Ten million dollars over and above its war and income taxes and all other expenses was the net profit that went-in 1918 to the Distillers' Security corporation, the largest producer of liquor in America. Look ing back from the threshold of national prohibition, one must real ize that money . has lost its power over at least one moral and economic issue. MR. BARBUR'S FIGHT Cu.L.uaaiuxcn bahhuh is wnet ting up his scalping knife for the sand and gravel trust. 113 charges that the city is 'being forced to pay an exorbitant price for sand and .gravel, and that the bids submitted, by reason of their identity in amount, are prima facie evidence of a combination being maintained contrary to law, and against the public interest. There should be no sand and gravel trust, or any other trust. The public ought not to be forced to pay outlandish prices for such materialSar for any material. Com missioner Barbur is right in his position v and The Journal wishes him well In his efforts to reach his objective. There is a peculiar feature about this sand and gravel business, how ever, which seems generally to have been overlooked. The bulk of the sand and gravel sold by the com panies controlling the business in Portland comes from the bed of the Willamette river. It is a pretty well understood doc trine of law that the. beds of navig able streams belong' to the state, to the general public, Land do not vest in private ownership. If this be true, -and the courts have repeatedly said so, then the sand and gravel companies of Portland are charging the public of Portland high prices for material that belongs to the pub lic. n other words they dredge up public-owned sand and gravel and sell it to its owners at a high price. The state land board, by the terms of the state constitution, is given Jurisdiction over the sale, lease or other administration of the state lands. It might be, and' would so seem, that th stato land board holds Jurisdiction over the river bed out of which the sand and gravel com panies are digging their fortunes at the expense of the state. ' It might be that the irreducible school fund of the state could be made, greitly to rOfit from the sale of state owned sand and gravel. It nvght be that th ' state land board could so administer the sale of sand and gravel taken from the state owned river beds that materials desired for public purposes could be secured at cost, "Or practically so. - The Journal suggests to Commis sioner Barbur that it might be, a good thing to call the state land board to his assistance ir. his con troversy with the sand and gravel trust. The trust could not operate if it had no sand or gravel to sell. Picking an average of live chickens every three minutes through a period of nine weeks, working 44 hours per week. Herbert Smith is the champion chicken picker of Missouri if not of the world. At so much per chicken his average par was 10i a week. If you ever defeathered a hen you know that Herbert is an artist in his line. . A BOGUS OBJECTION mHERB is one current objection to I the. League of; Nations covenant which ought to be fairly exam ined and confuted. It is grounded on an apparent unfairness in repre sentation. tThe British .Emnlrfl in have six votes" in the body of. dele-' gates to our one This seems to give the British over-representation. M The opponents of t the league afi using the point for ' all it is worth and ' a great deal- nrore.-'-'yhe" body' of aciegaiei S not , the kernel of tho league by any means. ll"is" author ized to make suggestions and. that is about all it can do. The working body, the body that decides and exe cutes, Is the executive council, : in which the "United States and he British Empire' are equal. - '.J. In the body of delegates, which E is deliberative t and argumentative only, members from progressive common wealths like New Zealand and Aus tralia must be in the highest degree useful. We ought to be thankful, to have our representative come under their influence. In j.be executive council, which Is-the supreme organ of, the league, the five free nations, England, France, the United Stages, Japan, Italy are equal. Can you make out any unfairness in that arrangement? The attempt to referend the legis lature's action in approving the pro hibition amendment seems to be a proposal to supersede the constitu tion of the United States, which sreeifically "provides that ratification of proposed amendments shall be by the state legislatures. It must be a question among lawyers as to why such a step fs actually proposed, and effort made seriously to carry it out. Even to Taymen it seems an absurd business NO RED FLAG TIE news aispatehes tell us that back in New York the other day p. large convocation of etrik- - ers marciieu to meir meeting places carrying red flags and breath ing defiance of the existing order. . Such a habit would be unhealthy in Oregon at th'3 time, under the terms 'and provisions of the Gordon Red Flag" act, passed by the last legislature, with emergency clause atiachsJ. This law, now in effect, makes it a felony for any person to carry or cause to be carried or displayed any led flag or other emblem or banLer for the purpose of manifesting disloyalty to the government of the United States or a, belief in anarchy or other political doctrines or beliefs whose objects arc either the disruption or destruc tion of organized government, or for the purpose of manifesting defiance of the laws of the United States or of the state of Oregon." Punish ment for violation of the statute is imprisonment in the penitentiary for not more than 10 years, a fine of not more than $1000, or both. The bill .was one of the battle points of the last session. Its place upon the books makes a red flag an undesirable possession in the state. The threat of New Jersey workers to go on a general strike when the war prohibition measure becomes effective July 1st is probably nothing but talk. Strikes as a means of running the .. government are not the American way. The place to decide the issue of prohibition is at tho ballot box. The- ballot is the best. tool workers or any "other Americans have, if they will only use it. FOR AMERICANS FIRST REFHESESiTATlVE JOHNSON... Of Washington, , would take the hyphen ohf of America. He is chairman o'f the house commit tee on Immigration and he announces that he $vill reintroduce on the first day of the next congress the bill providing for the suspension of all immigration to the United- States for the next four years. Not only does Mr. Johnson intend to stop the flow of immigrants Into the country, but he. intends to sweep back some , of the flood that has already come upon us. He Intends to incorporate a provision in the bill.to the effect that-all aliens who withdrew tlir applications for citi zenship during the war in order to escape the jdraft shall be deported, while the same penalty is - provided for all those naturalized citizens who agitated revolt or' preached the over throw of the American system of government during the war. Mr. Johnson evidently believes that those who are not willing to fight for the flag should hot expect or be per mitte4 to enjoy the privileges and the protection that come to those who live under it. He seemingly holds to the idea that the alien who seeks to overthrow or oppose the government would feel more at home in the company of their brethren in Europe. There are a great many people in this country who agree with Mr. Johnson in those beliefs and who will wish him well in his task of writing his proposals into the law of the land. V - y But there are some who will doubt the wisdom of entirely denying the privilege of immigration to those men and ' women of ' foreign birth who wish to escape the difficulties and the turmoil of the old world for the peace and prosperity of the new.... ;; r -. . - ; . There are immigrants, and immi grants. There is the wheat, and the chaff. This country needs the wheat. It has no need for the ehaff. There is a class of people in the o'ld world who are not good citizens and would never be. Then, there are those who, if given . the opportunity, would make . citizens of which the nation would be proud. - There were those, and k many of them, in our armies who sealed their devotion to Amer ica with i their" life's blood. The governor of Iowa charged "with accepting a $5000 bribe for granting a pardon, the mayor of Los Angeles' indicted t for alleged acceptance of A $25,000 ;lribe for $ giving i immunity to the under . world, ' are. announce ments in the day's news." Both pro claim their innocence, but accused officials ' always do that. v They can not be accounted guilty until the evidence is all yln. .Meanwhile, the trail of the serpent runs its slimy way. It was once a disgusting, trail in Oregon. k DESTINY IS STILL WILSON'S ALLY Tim Swiftly Proving: Validity of Plans and Need for League - . From the Philadelphia Erening Ledger t March 18) When President Wilson lands - in France today he will go with, new en dowment of strength to the task at Paris. The forces of destiny are still upon bis side. The Reeds and the Shermans' are but thin voices in the present clamor. The really powerful enemies of the president and the League of Nations are behind the scenes in Kurooe. They are the hidden groups who hold that their own peculiar interests are above those, of the state the internationalized banking cliques, the adventurers in empire, the munition makers and the exploiters of misery. These are the powers which the Paris conference is trying to disarm, and they have had a sobering interval since Mr. Wilson sailed for America. The ground has rocked under then feet and the skies have been fUled with omens to prove that a decent and per manent peace Is imperative. They have realized that it is the faith of the peo ples of Europe in the United States and in Its : chief representative that actu ally is holding their, civilization to gether, and they are in a mood to listen to- reason. If the president returns, as he proba bly will, with a League of Nations plan in which the Monroe doctrine is ex plicitly as well as tacitly sustained, it will not be because of the senate criti cism., but because some of the old world statesmen have had time to look .about them and to consider the consequences of a failure at Paris. From the first Mr. Wilson has insisted merely on a peace drawn in the interest of the people rather than in the interest of special groups, and for that he has been called dangerous, and even pro German. He has realised what every rational man must perceive now, that out of -the present turmoil in Europe there can come only anarchy or a new "tyrant nation if the new international agreements do not finally eliminate the possibility of wars of conquest. It is reasonable to assume that the president has proceeded on the assump tion that neither alternative would be safe for America. Yet there are sena tors in the United States who still in sist that they do not know what he is driving at. a But we are learning. It is easy, to recall the wild tears that were shed in newspaper editorials, the hands that were wrung in print, the cries of out rage and horror that arose among edi tors and politicians who vowed, that the world was coming to an end when Mr. Wilson first sailed for the peace con ference. That sort of thing is in the past. It is interesting to observe that the stofm of criticism from the tory side in every European country has abated and even the reactionaries now admit the wisdom of the League of Na tions plan. Are they too late, as they have always been? Have they plotted and quibbled too long? Is peace of any sort to be impossible for years in the old world? . a a a i The unhappy soil of Europe has al ways bred tyrants of ' one sort or an other. The tyrants who menace: the continental countries now are the half mad leaders of Bolshevism. Like those who preceded them, they are exploiting the ignorance and the unhappiness of oppressed peoples. The fools and scoun drels in older governments are, in the final analysis, to be blamed for this new affliction, since their crimes and their errors have made the- foundation upoiy which the lunatics like Trotsky can rear structures of their fantastic pre tension. If there bad been no war there would have been no Bolshevists. If the diplomatists at Paris could have made it plain at the beginning of their sessions that a fixed peace was to be established in the world, the hys teria that is devastating parts of Eu rope would be dying out now instead of spreading and gathering force. The Bimple fact of the matter, already obvious to any one who has seen Europe at close quarters since the war ended, is that the masses in the different coun tries are heartily and properly sick of hating one another. They themselves are attempting a sort of reconciliation, which their representatives at Paris have worked overtime to prevent. Yet the American policy of paclf icatlon in Russia and a lair deal for the German people was called heresy by the old fashioned statesmen when the sessions of the Paris conference were begun. The wisdom and the necessity for some such policy is acknowledged now everywhere. On the whole, Mr. Wilson's sojourn In Europe has been vastly bene ficial. He showed the European diplo matists a way out of the appalling blind alley JLnto which they had been driven. And if they had been readier to follow him their own outlook now might not be so gloomy as it is. The American critics of the president's European program would be wiser to wake up and wish him luck. He is one of the- few men now striving to steady the. faith and renew the courage of harassed and doubting millions in every European country. For Europe will have either a League of Nations or years of the devastating mania of Bolshevism. If driven to it we might withdraw utterly from Europe and leave the older nations to their fate. . " But Bolshevism will be only a crazy flash in history. It is already tearing down all the social machinery which has been set up by centuries ot experience to meet the complicated needs of life in all the populated areas of the globe. Wherever it spreads it will leave weari ness and destruction and discourage ment. Given a start in Europe, jt will makes the way easy for any new tyrant who could get an army together for a career of plunder and conquest. What a Chicago Daily Says About "EYerybody's Say-So" From the Chicago Post. Contributors to the above named col umn are members of the Post's volun teer staff. Most of them, naturally, live in Chicago; but tney are scatter ea over all the union, while not a few of them reside abroad. : The Post holds them in gratitude and esteem. They are colaborers with it in the double task of reflecting and of molding intelligent pinion. The Poet, therefore, embraces this occasion to of fer - them greetings and ' to take them, one by one, by tha hand, as it were. In acknowledgement of the past and as a pledge for the future. -. - May .it be allowed, at the same time, to offer a paternal admonition or two? " Make your letters as short as may be. As the "Say-So editor- receives much more material than he can possibly print, the shorter a letter th better are its chances of making the copy chute. : Don't exceed 00 words..- If possible, use only 200. 1 And if you want to de liver a "knockout, pad it thinly - with only 100 words. Remember that brevity is the soul of wit. Write temperately. "Anything that will take the temper out of your pen or typewriter is usually too hot to be used on ordinary print paper with safety. Moreovr. haven't you noticed that the mailbox ; lid no sooner clangs shut over one of these incandescent outpourings than you begin, to regret It? Nevertheless,: we "welcome the "retort courteous" to any sentiment expressed in the "Say-So" or other departments of the Post : and, nothing else standing in the way, we wfll always print it- Permit us to use your name unless there Is a valid objection. A signature serves a letter as a grindstone serves an ax improves its edge. Finally, bear In i mind that this is a big world : that "live and let live" should be our motto. We must dirrer, out let us differ as amicably as we can. Letters From the People Communication aent to Tha Journal tor pub lication in tUU department ahould be written on only one aide 61 tha paper, inouia not exceed 800 word in length, and must be aigned by tha writer, whose mail address in full most accom pany the contribution. J Salmon Obstruction Madras. March 14. To the Editor pf The Journal In the 14 years that I have been in what is now Jefferson county it has been a current topic that there is an obstruction at the mouth of the Deschutes river sufficient to hinder the salmon from entering that stream. The people of this community, includ ing the Indians, are demanding a rem edy. They would prefer to find the remedy in a legal process. They do not wish to resort to any means other than lawful means to clear away the ob struction. To my certain knowledge the authorities of the state have been noti fied from time to time, without any re sults. How long are the people of the state going to put up with such tyranny, such injustice, such brazen effrontery? There is no wonder that the once vast territory of what was all Oregon has gone to other states like Idaho and Washington. There is no wonder that, tne great state of California is reacning out for the southern counties of Ore gon to annex them. Will the great Willamette valley not soon look -around for California to take it over also? Why is it that the people of the state of Oregon would like to see the legisla ture abolished and would vote for it if the question was put before them? Has not the state an executive? Has not the state an attorney general? Do not the people pay taxes to have the people served ? Who are the people of the state of Oregon? Are they the fish wheel, trap, seine and cannery owners? We have but few Socialists in this part, but really we fear that such practices will lead to socialism. JUSTICE. Says Men Still Barbarians McEwen, March 14. To the Editor of The Journal-Tit is pretty hard for. a high strung old hayseed to keep still and let someone else do all the talking, especially . at a time like this, when everything is in a chaotic state. We all have our likes and dislikes, and one of mine Is that 'there is a difference of about J6.80 between the wheat cost and what I have to pay for a barrel of flour. But this is' just a minor affair. It looks to me like we were traveling a road without any particular destination in view. The people who have been doing the actual work and making things go are demanding a greater portion of the world's good things and have served notice to" that effect. And no one so far has devised a plan as to how these' workers are .'going to get this advance, but instead, the last few months have seen some of the best machinery for turning out Bolsheviki that one could conceive of. This revolutionary move ment of, the world is a mysterious af fair, to some, and all the king's horses may be unable to stop it. This move ment is a voice' from the unexplored regions of misfortune," and will have to be settled with. . Now if the laboring people are going to get a little more cheese, la it the in tention of the one who does the paying to pass this extra pay on down the line to someone else? Mr. Hayseed wants to register his vote with the noes. Then, if this extra pay can't be passed down, there is only one of two things you can do : Do without it or get it out of the budget called profit. But Mr. Laboring man, if you take it out of profit, they'U be calling you a Socialist and an all around bad man. Tq get this you 'Will have to throw the boss man overboard and to work collectively. The extra pay is there, all right, if you know how to get It, and you don't need to use any force, or bombs, but use what gray mat ter you have, or had when you. were born. This thing pf doing things by force or destruction don't want to be thought of. Many things have occurred lately that make my blood almost boil, but we have always had this class of merciless men in . the world. We as a breed are very nigh barbarians, but I hope, and think, that Wilson will soon right many of these wrongs. JOHN HAYSEED. Establishing- Citizenship Milwaukie, March 20. To the Editor of The Journal I was born in the United States. My father was born in Ireland. He never took out his papers. Ami I a citizen? How could I prove I was a citizeen If my father had no papers? IRISHMAN. Having been born in tha United States, you are a citizen, under a proviaion of tha eonstita tion of the United States itself section 1 of the Fourteenth amendment.) It would therefore be necessary only to prore birth in tha United States in case your citizenship were questioned. They Can Keep Them Tygtt Valley; March IS. To the Editor of The Journal Did congress pass a bUl allowing discharged soldiers to keep their uniforms? If not, can they be purchased from the government? GEORGE A. TILLOTSON. Endorses Senator Norris - Oregon City, March 14. To the Edito of The-Journal I was very mutch please when I read in The Journal that : a nation-wide "Anti-League Organization had been effected, and I like the ex pression of Senator Norris of Nebraska very much, and X can't understand why you are trying so hard to get all the people to vote on the present draft of the league, without trying In any way to get them to . understand what ; the effect of the league, in its present form, would be without disarmament , of the member nations of the league, and the formation of a strong police force, and the revision of a large number of the articles of the league. I know you ran understand what the possible result would be, and that is why I blame you for the course you-are taking. There are 12 articles there that are very dan gerous, in the present form. Senator Norris' has said just the right thing. . ij.-wv .GEORGE HICINBOTlIAM. " i y-- a . ' i Real Journalism , -. t ; From the .Pendleton East Oregonian, . One of the bright spots in the present legislative session was the passage of the appropriation for use In tho recovery of state lands alleged to have been se cured by ' fraudulent ; :; processes, v The lands in question 'were a part of the school resources. :' The money from the sale of the lands went to the irreducible school fund. If frsuid was indulged in. as seems plainly evident, the crime wee COMMENT AND '.-A SMALL CHANGE Some weather. i a a - . a There seems to be some fuming about Flume. "Will a woman be able to drive a man to drink after July I? - - a a The end of a perfect day should not be upset by a wild night. , . a a a Admiral Oman has . been appointed governor of the Virgin islands. O boy 1 - When the bright lights go out there Isn't much left to do but go home. : - a ; a .. , Sleep Is sweet but we don't care to have it become chronic not with us. a e e .... More than JO German ships, we read, are coming to the United States but not by the subsea route. JOURNAL MAN AT HOME By Fred (W, H. Holmes haa almost reached his three score and tn ; yrt he U a native aoa of Ore- natunuiy, ne la charged with lure of the early days, and of an the days between then and no, for that matter, especially as he ha mored smong and been ona of those who have made Oregon history. Mr. Lockiey relates for Journal readers much of interobt. taken down aa f '.n,.T .,,iolm . 7iu clo with some profitable reflection of his own. J While en route to Hot Lake a few daystago. X found myself ' seated in the dlnmgcar across the table from W. H. Holmes of- Portland. We started to eat our soup at Big Eddy and we were finishing;' our Ice creates-aa we pulled Into Arlington. ; Eating for nearly 60 miles sounds like a long drawn out meal, but as we ate we talked of old days and old times. . . a-,;, Mr; Holmes is a pioneer Oregonian. He was born in I860 in Polk county at Holmes Gap on the Rickreall, about four miles from Nesmith's ranch. "It will take me a trifle more than 24 hours to reach my destination at Twin Falls." said Mr. Holmes. "Seventy-years ago, when my parents came through there on their way to the Wil lamette valley. It took them several months. I will spend one night in the Pullman. They spent nearly 100 nights camping In the sagebrush by the side of the road. Times have changed. They made as much a 15 miles a day with their ox teams. Today we cover their days journey in half an hour in an auto. It took them six months to travel from Independence. Mo., to the Willam ette valley. My daughter and her hus band. Rafe Bonham, are in Mexico, where Rafe has gone on government business. Not long ago he took 'a trip to Nome, Alaska, on government busi ness. We think nothing of going on a journey of thousands of miles now adays. I wonder how they wUl be trav eling 70 years hence. e "My father, H. N. V. Holmes, was born in Wythe county, Virginia, not far from the birthplace of Mrs. Wood row Wilson. My mother, Nancy Porter Holmes, was born in Missouri, ' Her parents were Virginians. My father and mother lived in Illinois,' and had four children when they went. In the spring of 1848, to Independence, " Mo., to join the immigrants who were bound for the Oregon country. Bolivar Walker was elected captain of the train. There were three of the Walker brothers Bolivar. Claiborne C. and W. W. They all set tled in Polk county. Bolivar and Clai borne married sisters, Laura and Kate Purvine. Fifty years ago I used to know almost everyone In Polk county. My father was a" member of the first territorial legislature. He served four terms in the Oregon legislature. . "In 1871 and 1873 I read law with Governor William Wallace Thayer. When he was on tha bench he was in strumental in having me appointed clerk of the supreme court. I started practicing law at Dallas. From there I moved to Salem. Tou rememoer wnen I ran against Judge W. G. Piper for district attorney of the district com prising Marion. Polk. Tillamook. Yam hill and Linn counties. It was- a close race. I beat him by only 26 votes. " "If you will draw a 60-mile circle around Salem and look up the history of the Oregonlans who have made his tory In Oregon and have made national history, you will find a surprisingly large number came from within this 60 mile circle. I could tell you enough in cidents to make a book, about Thayer and Chadwick. Pennoyer and Moody, Lord and Geer, West and Olcott, and t GUNBOATS SAIL FAR INLAND By Junius B. Wood . Special Correspondence to Tha Journal and Tha Chicago Daily Mews. Coblenz, -Germany. There was a (Copyright. 1S19. by The Chicago Daily News.) novel sight In the basin of the Rhlne Marne canal at Toul when five, British inland M. L. type of gunboats passed with bluejackets on the bridges wig wagging messages. "The French natives and American doughboys In. the ancient walled city, who had not before seen such a spectacle, lined the bridges and shores, watching the craft. The boats, under their own steam, had already come that far across France on their journey to the Rhine, which they will descend until they reach the British bridgehead at Cologne. It has been' amusing In the last few days to see these vessels following the plodding ca nal boats in the narrow waterway. The voyage of the gunboats has a bearing- on the Important question of international law Involved in bringing in supplies to the American bridgehead and sending out troops by way of Rot terdam. Neutral Holland, though tac itly willing that the troops and' sup plies of the allies and America should cross her borders, hesitates about put ting the permission to do so in writing, because she does not want to establish - ch a loKst reluctant to i i a ii . - . 'fj permit America to cross than to give other nations the same privilege, be cause the chances are insi ", a crime against the boys and girls of Oregon. It Is logical that thr affair should be sifted to the bottom and -the lands regained If possible. . The Portland Journal has led the fight in behalf of the step that has been taken. It has presented the issue In clear cut manner and has gone to much work and expense in. digging up the facts thus far.made publl. : . - The Journal has rendered a real serv ice to Oregon and Is to be congratulated upon its stand. Such work as that Is a credit to the profession of journalism. The Journal's ' Policy Appreciated from the Port Umpqua Courier ' The Oregon . Journal celebrated its eighteenth birthday last Monday. The Journal is considered one of the best papers on the coast and probably has a larger circulation than any other paper published In Oregon. -The , Journal is the only newspaper published in Port land that ever recognizes the lower Umpqua country In its news columns. Notes Ballot Figures of Ifarch 4 From the Peek skill - . T l News --A. fair Indication of the atUtijde in the west - toward - the proposed League 'of NEWS IN BRIEF OREGON SIDELIGHTS The i Pendleton ' Civic club has the erection tof & community center . on its .program. ' 7 1 .- 'V---. " ' "With the smile of sunshine playing over the features of old Washington county," says the optimistic Hillsboro Argus, "the season is drawing nigh when our county roads will be improved here and there and there's going to be better 'going this winter." v Forty per cent of tho cost of the right of way and grading of more than two gnlles of the four miles ot new Pa cific Xhighway that is to be built be tween Walker station and Cottage Grove will be paid by the Southern Pa cifio company. " according to word re ceived by members of the Lane county court from officials of the company .at Portland. Lockley the scores of young lawyers I have known who have made good. Salem has had hundreds ot interesting char L actere such men as Asahel Bush, John Minto, Ben Hayden and dozens more. Some day someone will have the vision and the ability to write a book about Oregon's early days that will give , to our children and our children's children a true picture of the sturdy race that founded our commonwealth and helped make Oregon 'fly with her own wings.' " a a . Mr. Holmes is right. Some day someone will have the vision to see the dramatic possibilities o the coming of the white men to the West of the con quering of the wilderness and will write a history of the settlement of Oregon. : It has, not yet been . done, though many attempts have been made. Some day someone will take the bricks made by present day' writers and of them will form a -worthy memorial to the sturdy men and women who, build' ing better than they ksvew, laid the foundation .of our commonwealth. ..a All over the West you wUl still find the trail blazers who b.ave crossed the crest of life's divide and are walking toward the sunset shore. Not long ago I met such a one, the Rev. J .II. Corn waui. xxv wan oorn on ucunr a. iooi. I In Arkansas. He came to Oresron by wagon across the plains In 1848. Ills father was a Cumberland Presbyterian and a friend and co-worker with Dr. Marcus Whitman. In 1809. the year Oregon became a state. Mr. Cornwall was offered by General Joseph Lane the appointment to West Point. He would have been the first cadet to West Point from Oregon, but he de clined the appointment, as he had de cided to study for the ministry. He was a circuit rider and lived for much of his life at Forest Grove and at Dal las. He died r recently at Dallas. Henry Livingstone, a cousin of David Livingstone, the explorer of Africa. isJ another pioneer. He lives near : wen a tehee at present. He came West in 1849 to. the California goldfields. In 1861 h, came to what is now Port Townsend. He recently celebrated his ninety-eighth birthday. On January 1 of this year Judge Web ster of Salem . retired from the office of justice of the peace He had served in that office at Salem for many years. He was born In the spring of 1833. The first election campaign he remembers was in '1840, when William Henry Har rison was elected In the "log cabin and hard cider" campaign,-with the slogan. "Tippecanoe and Tyler, too." .He cast his first vote for John C Fremont for president in 1856. . a a - : In these days of reconstruction it Is well to reconstruct our Ideals, so that we may help make the world a better place to Jive in. Away back in 1883, when Joseph Pulitzer founded the New York World, he tied this creed to the masthead of his paper. If it is a rood creed for a newspaper it is equally good for each of us as individuals. In speak ing .of what a newspaper should 'be. he said : "It is an institution that should always fight' for progress and reform, never tolerate Injustice or corruption, always fight demagogues of all parties, always oppose privileged classes and publio plunderers, never lack sympathy with the poor, always remain devoted to the public welfare, never be satisfied with merely printing news, always be drastically independent, never be afraid to attack wrong, whether by predatory plutocracy or predatory poverty." never fight on European soil again, and hence the precedent would be of little consequence. For this reason the gun boats are making a long detour through France instead of proceeding directly from England across the channel and up the Rhine. , Though no supplies except those car ried by the Hoover food ships have ar rived at Rotterdam from America, a number of men. from the army quarter master corps are already there prepared to handle the supplies for the army of occupation. The 4 2d, 3 2d and other di visions are scheduled to go home by that route. This neutrality point has been circumvented by an agreement pro viding that the soldiers shall, proceed unarmed to the , port of embarkation and that the rifles, ammunition and artillery shall be crated and sent across Holland classified aa freight and not as muni tions. . ; a . a a . . It Is recalled that a similar point arose between America and Japan in 1899, when , the transport .Morgan City was, wrecked on the inland sea. Col onel Arthur L. Conger, acting chief of staff of the expedition, was permitted to land the regiment of troops, on the wrecked, transport at Nagasaki, where they were given the freedom of the city and allowed to drill, on condition that they did not bring any arms into Japan. Nations is the result of a "straw bal lot," taken, by The Journal of Portland, Or. The result was 2226 for the league wfth 26 against It. Senator Borah should not be wasting his time In the east.. , Oregon Christian College at Monmouth Fore runner of State Norrrfat. In '1854 the Tiev. -John E. Murphy, Elijah Davidson. J. B. Smith. T. II. Lu cas and S. Whitman donated a section of land In Polk county on which to found it town.-The proceeds from the sale of town lots were to go to the establish ment of a college under the supervision of the local Christian church and to be called Monmouth university. Tho ' town was named Monmouth. Money was do nated and a small building was erected. The school was placed in charge of the Christian church of Oregon. An en dowment of $20,000 was raised from the sale of 40 scholarships at $500 each. In 1858 a wf oden building was erected at a cost of $5000 on the present state nor mal school .grounds and the name of the school changed from Monmouth uni versity to Christian college. In 1882 1( became the Oregon state normal school. Ragtag and Bobtail - Stories From Everywhere IVo Lingering Death For Him AN amateur w navigator, making his fii-. i . , .... hi iwivra, was in ine uiroea of the. mal-est mal de mer extant, nays me .-New York Telegraph, when the ehlo surgeon visited him in his stateroom. VVhat S the matter?" was the latter'a callous query. .- "O-o-oh, was the only response, as the young man rolled over In agony. "Come, get up," derided the surgeon, grinning unfeelingly. "The ship's been submarined -and. will sink In 10 mln Utes."- . 7- - . -: - . "Ten minutes?" the sick man nro- tested feebly. 'tCan't you make it any sooner?" To Any Chorus Girl r Oh, lady, what blithe and pepiy br:n: Oh. slater, what a figure Jimp and trim lou hare I And what a uilir sown tou ra wearing I Ludt how your tout ensemble intrigues the liml Ob. dimwl. you're a tnantrrpleca of rnakeuo i A queen! a doll I and all that sort of rot Put, oh iyonr poise I trust this will not break - - up)! Oh. lady, what voles you baTen't got! litcago Post. Uncle Jeff Snow Says: It's a heap easier to arbitrate n 'tis to fight, and It don't cost nluh so much. Down in Georgy. before the Revolutionary-war. two farmers got to flghtln over a shote pig worth about 11.25. and they and their posterity has kep' It up till now. -with much court costs and lots of casualties in both families. Down in Callfomy me and a feller named Brown got into the same kind of , a mess, only we didn't. We left our pig fuss to a old feller we thought had a square heart and a level head, and he give It to the Salvation Army j which was s heap better'n fight in' over it, anyhow, even though it . was my pig, by gum I The News in Paragraphs World Happenings Briefed for Benefit L of Journal Readers GENERAL Job E. Hedges has been appointed re ceiver for the New York Railways com pany. , The American Forestry association will aid in restoring the forests of Great Britain. France and Belgium. - For being bitten by a spider, the Cali fornia industrial - accident commission has granted Benn Gresgwell $303.!fl. Up to the end of 'February the United States had expended nearly 3300,O00,0U(h for food for the destitute of Europe. Between $10,000,000 and $11,000,000 of United States money Is available for the construction of roads In California. Oscar Wallace.' an American citizen living near Progreso, Mexico, has been attacked by bandits and carried off either dead or wounded. Statistics furnished by the war de partment show that the government has on hand 487,100,640 pounds of wool re maining to be disposed of. The United States is' arranging for a 99 year lease of two islands oil the coast of Colombia for a military base. The payment is said to be $40,000,000. The Russian soviet government , nn nounces that it Is prepared to deposit $200,000,000 in gold with American banks for the purchase of supplies needed la reconstruction work. NORTHWEST NOTES . : John Erasmy, an aged man, was con victed at Kend for shooting robins for food, and fined $26. Total appropriations for the recent session of the Washington legislature amounted to $36,031,349. One hundred thousand, sheep will - he under the control of Deschutes national forest officials this year. Walter Thayer of Portland has been appointed manager of the big $350,000 Liberty hotel at Vancouver. r Death la announced at Gold itill of Robert -A. Cook, a prominent Oregon pioneer of 1852. Mrs. V. O. Peterson was struck by f gravel train in Tacoma Saturday and Instantly killed. The safe In the Peoples Market at As toria was blown open Saturday night by burglars, who escaped with $400. Men representing Portland capitalists are taking extensive options on coal lands lying west of Vader, Wash. Word Is received by his mother in Al bany that Walter Gray, who as gaascd and later wounded. Is dead In France. During the past week there has benrt a decrease of 26 per cent In the number of men employed in Industrial plants at Astoria Lane county banks have subscribed for United States treasury certificates of Indebtedness to the amount of $706,600. Farmers of Latah county, Idaho, own more than 'half the taxable property of the county and pay more than one fourth the taxes. The North! Coast Power company haa filed a new tariff with the public service commission i Increasing streetcar fares from 6 to 7 cents. 'Thirty-five Cottage Grove boys from 'overseas were riven an enthusiastic re ception by the Masonic lodge of that city last Wednesday night. James Harding, manager of one of tho largest hotels in Tacoma, has been sen tenced to serve 40 days In jail for having liquor In his possession. During the last 10 days orders have been placed with North Bend's mills for more than 20,000,000 feet of lumber for early delivery to the markets of the mid dle west,- . ' FOREIGN. ' ' ,, The population of Rhetms, which was 15,16$ before the war, is now only 8453. Great Britain must ralne this' year by taxation and import duties $7,600,000,- 000. Han FranciBco reports a surplus of unemployed of 12,300, an Increase over last week of 4100. ; The first lot of flour Imported Into Germany since the armistice, was placed on sale this Week at $40 a barrel. The French war office has consented to' the immediate repatriation of Oermar prisoners of war born in Danish Schies wig. The Russian Bolshevik government Is planning to use aircraft In dropping printed propaganda in England and France. A statement comes from Saloniki that the Bolshevik armies have been reor ganized and are under command ot German officers, A report from Pefrograd states that a revolution of the' Mnhevlk."br mod erate element of, the Social Democratic party, has broken out against the soviet government. Reports from Petrograd give details of the formation of a Chinese working men's organization, with S0.O00 members, to carry on revolutionary propaganda and establish Soviets in Chins, Society Has Budget ' 4 System Plan " ' , EtorSe of achievement in tha aecnmnla tioa of War Savings Sumps, sent to The Journal and accepted for publication, will be awarded a Thrift Stamp. - Why not run your home on the budget plan 7 -It is the only practical method. . In order to get you started along this line the American Society for Thrift Is Issuing a simple yet thor oughly adequate household budget which will be sent free to any ad dress in the United Stateg. Write the American. Society for Thrift, 220 . West Forty-second street. New York city. Thrift'" Stamps and 1913 War Savings Stamps now on sale at usual agencies.