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I bar no patience with the foolish talk
which would make sin nothing bat imper
fection and would preach that man need
nothinr but to bare hi deficiencies tup
plied, to bar hia native goodness educated
and brought oat, in order to be all that
Uod would bar him he.
Phillips Brook.
TWO YEARS AGO
WO years ago today America
I went to war. Overnight the na-
. I tloo turned 'lt feet from the
T path of peace and sent it on
and daughters across the sea dedi
cated to the cause of a victorious
liberty for all humanity. Twq years
have ended and they are coming
home again, laurel crowned, their
work well done. . Victory has come.
Carnage and combat have ceased.
From the fields of France world
harmony, International sanity" uni--vp
r sal Justice of nation to . nation.
people to people and man to man
will blossom and fructify. War will
be no: more.
Ii has been a period of sacrifices,
suffering ' and . sorrow.' Many who
went bravely away died as heroes"
die, falling, face forward to the foe.
To them a' nation's heart yields "It
fullest meed of grateful reverence,
all honor, love and undylqg fame.
Many are coming back bearing the
: Ufe-long sc,ars of battle, wrecked
and torn In body but . with, courage
undaunted. To them , a nation's
"hands go out In kindly sympathy.
To all ;we give the orown , of a
country's pride. . , . '
' ' It has taught us much, this two
years; of war. Still more; America
is a " new America In the eyes, of
the world.. ' i 'V-
To Americans the war, has taught
, the" virtue of self reliance. : it has
taught us how to suffer and still to
- smile. It has taught us how tsj
fight and ret be just and merciful.
It has taught us to deny, self for
the common O0d ; self control for
the benefit of . others, oneraiBS of
purpose and national unity. Patriot
ism has been reborn. The flag 1
our flag. The nation is our nation.
It has taught Other . countries the
leaders sneered .at America and
Americans two years ago. The sneer
vanished when General Pershing's
forces 6et their feet on the soil of
France.- Prussians said tne dollar
was king in America; that Americans
would not . turn away from ' the . fight
" for wealth to the fight for liberty.
- They jeered at our. unarmed power
and said the manhrbd of the- nation
was fattened and flabby with ease.
I They saw their T mistake. Before
the echoes of the war; vote had
I died away in the-halls of congress
the nation had laid : down iU varied
J implements of peace to take op the
irnJlemiU of war. The multitudi
f noU$;wheels of Industry turned yith-
out a pause "from peaceful to war
j like occupations. Without confusion
or unnecessary fielay . the- nation's
highways rocked to the rhythm of
i a million marching men. " ; . t
Throughout the land ; the purse
strings of the rich and the poor,
the high and; the low were opened
t wide until,5 In the two ; years, i26,
' 000,000,000 and more flowed into the
treasury to back the -arms' ana the
men of- the nation on the battle
line. . ,
And . the men. All their "footprints
pointed always toward .Berlin." Their
.breasts . 'were ' always towards . the
, battle line.' t When Uhey started they
'. never paused. 'Their' buglers never
; learned to blow retreat.
Out of the conflict a new nation
haa arisen. Dominant for righteous
j ness and justice to all mankind; tol
i crant of the weak ; sponsor for the
I oppressed; symboV of world human
! ity and International Justice, we have
? 'taken our place ; in the conncil of
5 the world;: never to vacate- it. al
ways to .stand for equal Justice be
iwpen nation and nation, man and
man.' - -. . .
-. . - ,'-.
America has a proud - record ; at
this anniversary, time. : . It r has a
noble , part, to play while other an
niversaries eome and go. 5 The year
wm see no tarnisument of its 6hield.
The" Icy-East is. felicitatin itself
,- over its', emergence from an vncom-
monly open -winter. Private-" letters
from the arctic wilds of New York
. and New England assure us that the
- w pather ' has Jecn so mild that the
transition to spring with, its blooms
is hardly noticeable. In Oregon,
where we have blooms all the year
round, winter ' and spring are : norm
ally Indistinguishable. Living as we
do "in- a land of perpetual mildness
we .can hardly appreciate the full
surprise" and . delight -of the frozen
easterners over an open winter.
COAST TO COAST i
ON ANOTHER page serious minded
Portlanders ;urge , the vPort of
Portland commission to put on
4 steamship service between JUie
Atlantic and Pacific coast via the
Panama canal.
They suggest for a beginning , that
ships be chartered, and -that in the
end vessels be built In Portland
particularly adapted to the trade.- )
It is a proposal for Portland to
have service at cost of operation
It would 'be a service, on which no
profit would be paid to ; private in
dividuals or corporations a service
in which no dividends .,' would be
paid on watered stock. "
There are men on the Port com
mission who are capable of em:
ploying and superv'sing persons . to
handle such a ; project They can
find and . employ a man - who wou Id
operate ' isuch ? a coasfr-to-coast lino,
economically, effectively and success
fully. They can, with .the ..business
brains ; now? on the commission, find
the way i to operate 4 such a line as
efficiently, and successfully as. it can
be done under private control
Water service in normal times is
the . cheapest transportation in ' the
world. Operated without having to
pay dividends on watered stock and
without having to pay profits to any
body, the minimum in the delivery
of freight by water would be reached.
It would be a service at . cost,"anJ
at the lowest cost known to man, .
There could be a fast freight and
passeng er" service, or a fast freight
service. ; without . passenger ' service,
and a slow freight service under
which a maximum of economy and
efficiency could be attained. ,
' Rail rates are higher. They hav
been, clirobjng- for a long . time.
Higher : wages, and higher cost of
materials may make them' higher and
higher, w . . ; , "(
Unfriendly decisions by the inter
state commerce commission, taking
away more and more rate concessions
from coast terminals, make the out
look for low rates by rail more
and more unpromising.
Higher transcontinental rates woull
little 'concern - Portland if this : port
had a coast-to-coast line of steamers;
operated at cost with rates at that
minimum never attained except In
water transportation. Unfriendly dc
cisions then by the interstate com
merce commission would have little
effapt upon Portland commerce.
fio 1 greater measure - for ; the de-.
velopment bf, the port could be pro
posed. ' 'r I . v.
Not vstnfce the ?i peak of - the ' real
estate ioorn; a. deeade 1 ago have
been so'rnSny saJe of Oregon: farms
as at the present time. Scarce an
up-state paper comes to The Journal
but announces a farm . sale. The
Salem Journal the , other day an
nounced the transfers of. -three in a
single' ', issue. And - the " movement
seems to be increasing." "
100 HOURS A WEEK
THE World , of Vancouver, B. C
publishes : a characteristic letter
: from a farmer named Thomp-
buji, nu uvea at : mwn ouaiy
called Dewdney Mudsill. - We cannot
believe that any. community of Oregon
farmers : would reconcile themselves
to living in a place called Mudsill.
even if the odium were softened with
prefixed Dewdney,- but - tastes
differ.- - - '-
Mr. ; Thorn peon writes the ; "World
on- the subject of the davliKht savini
scheme, which he. bitterly opposes.
His argument runs that dairymen will
be driven' but, of business by the
extreme early Jiours required, either
thev proprietors" nor their help, he
contends, cajt stand (he' strain.
lie says . also that -the only effect
of the daylight savinit scheme in th
cities Is.toj'give an already idle class
another hour of daylight to' waste
in frivolhy. and. devil try." He refers
of -course to ' worklnprmen. Daylight
saving will not, affect the "idle
class" which does not work.
Mr, Thompson compares the hard
lot of the farmer with the easy time
city waTge-earners enjoy. The latter.
ne points out with some venom, work
only 4 hours a week, while the
farmer, at best, must out iin 100
hours and .then let many tasks go
undone for want of time ;
The effect of Mr. Thorno'son'to ar-m-
merit upon the reader's mind; Is not
exacuy wnat ne desired to produce
when he wrote his letter to the
WorlJi His 'purpose evidently was' to
disgust everybody with daylight sav
ing, exhibit the farmer's hard lot
and convince mankind that all; work
ers ought to b compelled to nut In
100 hours a week at some kind of
drudgery. v , H -,
He certainly exhiblta the farmer's
hard lot, but he falls to convince
the reader that-other workers ought
to be . brought down to the same
working conditions. On the contrarv.
he moves one to ask why it is that
a- farmer must work 100 . hours a
week, to keep the wolf, from the
door while a -city laborer can earn
more and live better on 44 hours'
work.
-Jf Mr. Thompson 1 wem : ' trulv
Intelligent- and .progressive man -he
wquia try to devise a scheme to
make the farmer's life as easy and
pleasant as the city worker's. . He
would bear In mind how vain it Is
to set up a "back to the land" cry
as long as conditions on the land are
as , he . describes them. How can ws
expect a sane man to leave a 44-hour
a week city. Job at good pay for a
100-hour a week country job on less
pay. . 'V - . "
The secret of the farmer's ills is
his markets. He loses the fruit of
his toil at the point where, he sells
its product. If Mr. Thompson were
shrewd he would turn ' his thoughts
to - market saving and - not trouble
himself to argue against daylight
saving, which is in sober earnest a
subject of little real consequence to
the. farmer.- - ;
Oregon taxes Eastern Oregon. A
prominent citizen over In thaf coun
try insists that the tax money, from
there Is spent mostly in,, other parts
Of ' tne state. Doubtless the state
highway commission has the Lake
view, and ...Klamath'. Falls districts in
mind. It is down grade from both
sections to . Bend, -where there ; is a
railroad. A good highway over which
modern trucks could haul 5 ' traffic
would help', a wretched situation.
Five millions worth of livestock,
wool,. grain and other output went
south from Lakeview last year, and
Klamath Falls sent in the same di
rection -a ; much larger, volume-:
FROM APPLES TO ALFALFA
Twtx anuusAxsu or tne au,uuu
acres of orchards set out in the
Medford distrct during the boom
dUg UP.- -..
Some of the land has been cropped
with alfalfa, other , with wheat, and
still other with varied products: f Al
falfa at 28 per ton and wheat at
more, than 12 a bushel were an allur
ing bait to the ; orchardists whose
prices for ; apples and y pears sagged
while the war; was on -and Oregon
apples and y pears were, .unmarketable
overseas because there were j no
ships to carry them across. One or-
chardist feven dug up 20 acres" of
fine Newtown trees ; last year and
sowed the tract to '.wheat. New
twns sold recently at 14 a - box - in
a Medford. orchard,' and be is regret
ful now, ' '
There were not many cases, how-
ever, in which the good varieties. of
trees were abandoned for Alfalfa and
wheat.'f The 20,000 acres of trees dug
up represented badly selected varie
ties, (as well aa trees planted on
ground unsuited to apple or pear cul
ture.- In: general,, the change was a
wise step, for the Medford district
yields ; three 'crops of alfalfa with
two and 'a half to four tons per acre,
on unirrigated land and five to seven
A '. . . ......... ! e "
ions on iaiia unaer irngauon.
That crop In war time sold as high
as 128, and is quoted now at price3
around f 15 to f 18 in . the valley.
Orcharding in ; the Medford district
has lost none of Its intensity and but
little of t- its prestige by . reason of
the, Jean years of the- war. . Pears
from one' orchard that went at 1135
when the war was on, brought 95 in
the orchard since the armistice. was
signed.-The- fundamental fact learned
from experience-. 4n. the Industry, Is
that the Newtbwn is the4 most profit
able apple and that pears ; from the
district are probably , the best inth3
world and. an even better crop than
Newtown apples. .
The fruit Industry in the district
has 'become highly stabilized. It is
now on a thoroughly commercialized
basis with all 'the former speculative
features land over capitalized trim
mings s absent. It is a far better
status . for ; those who reside in that
delightful region. of sunshine, balmy
breezes, i big apples . and unbeatable
pears, lAA -y1 ': ' -.
' There is business -optimism at
Marshf leld, Coos county. ' Litigation
has thrown the C. A. Smith milling
and ' logging operations into : tempor
ary stagnation. The armistice tempor
arily disjointed lumbering operations,
for every sawmill In the county was
doing war work. Fir lumber for
shipbuilding, Port Orford cedar ' and
spruce "for airplane building construc
tion,' and other forms of lumbering
activity, came to a standstill when
hostilities ceased. -But there " are
boundless ' resources and 'a militant
people on Coos; Bay, and, . as they
have a right to do, they face - the
future with a smile of confidence.
LOVE GROWN COLD
THE Turks are shipping their
German ..military tutors back
to' the. Fatherland. The hot af
fection of yesterday is cold hash
today and not - very appetizing hash.
Never .was a country worse fooled
than Turkey by the Prussians, and
never ' did any eqgntry more deserve
all 'the- punishment it got. To a ro
mantic soul there may have been
something touching in the love be
tween Turk and kaiser. An ;alliance
for - massacre and plunder no doubt
presents a -: roseate aspect sto sus
ceptible hearts, it is so chivalrous,
so military, so aristocratic. ' ;
; But. all that is over now, and Turk
and kaiser look with anxious eyes
upon a new and strange world whicn
ha little use for either of fhem.
. What will become of suqh as they
on an earth where war and loot have
lost their ancient charm? What plaoe
will they, find, for themselves among
men who lay down the law that
everybody must work and none may
live by privilege? ' - ,
To' make matters all the more
melancholy for them there is nothing
left of their love but ashes." Brother
in 'crime, hey have become foes in
misfortune. "The saddest of love is
love grown cold, but ,'tis one ' of- its
surest phases.", - -V
When you start for &n all rail
journey to Klamath - Falls : you-., are
compelled to go on a long excursion
into California before you reach Tour
destination. As you ride thither you
ruminate on this question: How Is' It
that in the scheme "of things there
was money, to build ' a ' railroad lino
from California' to Klamath Falls; but
none ' to build an Oregon, railroad
td Klamath Falls? It is a wrong that
ought to be righted, and Oregon
people should keep up ' the agitation
until the change is made. v
- CHARLES IL' CHAPMAN, :
AFTER I laVfyears as . a writer ' or
editorials In the Portland news
paper field. Dr.! Charles H. Chap
- man has . severed his connection
with The Journal to engage in news
paper work In Idaho.; V
Five years cf this .18 year period
he ..was" an editorial writer on
The Journal, and the remainder in
a similar capacity On the Oregonian.
It ls with regret that The Journal
announces Dr, Chapman's retirement.
Of gentle nature, affectionate im
pulse, a heart full of love for man
kind, he' is personally beloved by all
who know him, know his hopes, his
aspirations and his purposes. -r
There is a great store of knowledge
In , his mind, and a i powers, to inter
pret that knowledge that is brilliant
and impressive. -A power of expres
sion and analysis ls""also there, an1
it Is a power of wondrous ' facility
and clearness. - The English language
is handled ; by ' few writers who are
so nearly Its master." - v -'
No man in the newspaper, world
fought harder for America and the
allies 'during the war. No man Strove
harder to keep the home fires burn
ing. No man. wrote more powerfully
or effectively in the first line of
the home trenches. ' No man stood
stronger in upholding the American
formula and ' American institutions.
Men who love I the i submerged and
struggle for them encounter oppo
sition. ' It is thej unhappy fact that
we make the mistake in America of
considering ourselves , divided into
groups, ' We ; make -i the mistake of
calling ?; ourselves "classes" and of
believing that all who are not with
our particular "class" are against
us. It is a lamentable status mat
we some time may be able to over
come. I" ' :
A foe of special i privilege; a be
liever in equal Justice, a thinker with
the courage of t his every conviction.
Dr. Chapman encountered those who
misunderstood and came . under the
displeasure of ; thoso w'ho were will
ing to misrepresent and malign. It
is the same thorny path that many
a;:. man of greater I renown has trod,
men who In laterj times and under
other conditions were . revered and
acclaimed. - -
His co-workers -on The Journal
know Dr. Chapman's qualities of
heart and mind. He has their friend
ship and their enduring good will.
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THE PHILIPPINES
L
OVERS of genuine American
principles will; learu.wlth pleas
ure that the president favors in
dependence , for the Philippines.
The' islands are probably too far
away ever to make their, admission
practicable as sovereign .members of
the Union. On the , other hand we
do hot wish to hold - any people in
permanent subjection. Hence there is
no alternative, at i tlie . proper time,
to granting ;: them complete inde
pendence. ' j - -r
, That has been the constant promise
of our 1 statesmen, j and it has been
equally the constaat wish of the
people at home and -In the Islands.
k Possessions like the Philippines in
remote quartecs ofj the globe deprive
us " of the advantage ? of : our conti
nental position. With"" outlying islands
to defend we. niust J maintain a mil
itary and naval establishment which,
so long as we I'ej snug and solid in
the heart of the continent, is largely
unnecessary, ,
The . most telling argument against
Philippine independence t relates to
Japan. If we give the islands' their
freedom will not ! Japan grab them?
In other times Japan might" have
been tern pted to do so. Under the
stern vigilance of a League of Nations
grabbing will not be prevalent.
Is the Oregon public service com
mission not concerned with the ef
fort of Inland Empire " farmers and
the Oregon country to get rail rates
down the Columbia based on a water
grade haul? If endeavor o get rates
Udjusted'to the fundamental principle
or transportation does not concern
a state public service- commission,
whom' does ; it concern? What is a
state commission for if not to find
out ths true formulas of iate making
and ' see- that they are applied? IC
rates are incorrectly or falsely
made, who but a public service com
mission '."''.a .Id know it-soonest and
be first ' to move for justice ? ,
HIS OWN! RODFTREE
E'
LSEWHERB In ? today's Journal
will be found a section devoted
to the home i and to home build
ing, a problem prominent in the
minds of Portland citizens at this
time. It is in! interesting subject
and - one that lies close to the con
tentment . and progress of - a com
munity, i
Palaces do not nfake a city, for
they house the rich, and the rich are
the exceptions. Cottages do, for they
contain the , common - man and the
common vwoman, the bone and sinew
of all communit:es. ' ' . ,
Rent is a spectre which; stalks Its
victim from month to month. It
saps his earnings and narrows the
margin between the wherewithal and
the ability to pay. It costs more
than it gives, for without his profit
the landlord cannot live. It leaves
nothing to the. tenant but cancelled
checks and the remembrance of a
shelter. ', ;
A: home breeds, confidence and
6elf respectl . . He who owns one ; is
his own master, J undominatcd by the
caprices of any j overlord. What he
spends to buy it remains his own.
It does not vanish as rent 'does, to
hide In the bank accounts of others.
Portland is a city of homes. Forty-
six per cent of the population ' of
Portland live ' in their own' dwelling
places, a higher ratio than In": any
other city in the country. Nowhere
is a setting more ideal. "The call, of
the home is in the very airl ; ! r;
.'.The home breeds good citizenship!
He who owns it - has it to defend.
Tenants do not" fight for their land
lords as a usual thing. It" makes a
difference At it is your own fireside.
You want better conditions to sun
round it. You have- more interest
in the community . which contains
it You want - better govern
ment, better schools, cleaner condi
tions. The homeowner Is a consistent
foe to Inefficiency in official life, to
laxity in public morals and public'
control, to inefficiency in government
of city,' state' and nation.
I Efforts are", being made' to foster
the home-owning ' habit in Portland,
even to 'a higher degree than now
prevails , here. They are ' laudable er
forts tending towards the stabilization
end ... the , upgr adit ion of the city's
population. .The more . homeowners
Portland has , the more - first class
citizens there will be. . .
The oftener the toller turns at
night towards his own . fireside the
higher Portland will rank In solid
citizenship and the less fertile soil
there will ' be for unrest. No man
plots against bis own roof tree.:?
If unable to buy a Victory - bond,
you caa, at least afford to buy War
Stamps. The1 test of devotion Is the
same today that it was in the day
of Picardy and the Marne.
Communication, aent to The Journal for pub
lication tn this department, should be written en
only one side of the paper, should -not exceed 300
arorda in length, and must be signed by tt writer,
whose mail address in full must aoeompany the
contribution.) , -,
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Hails " Dawn pt New Era ;
, PorUand, April , 3 To th Editor of
The JournalThe Bahai movement ta
not a sect, nor a cult, nor merely a new
philosophy. Its claim is that, throug-h
Divtne power centered In Baha'o'Uah
and Abdul Bah a, alt rellffion and,' con
sequently, all forces of civtlizaUa-v r
receiving & new impulse. ; This iropulae
Is the keynote of all ths upheaval in our
social and national affair.' It is felt by all
those who actively seek the highest that
they know we are at the dawn of a new
era of human consciousness, when the
unity of life Is being realized. Just as
in the springtime .the appearance of the
physical sun upon a new point in the
horizon causes all earthly life to awak
en to a, newyear of activity and pro
ductiveness, so In the spiritual realm
which is th plane of humanity, the ap
pearance of the sun of truth in the nu
man temple reawakens and revivifk"?
all souls to. a new cyoA of clvtlliation,.
most productive because tt is the. latest.
Baha'o'llab. came in , rulfiUment of. the
prophecies of all ? relicious books. : He
has united at :. this time : innumerable
followers oi every reUgion. not by .taking-
thehi out ot their present affiliation
Or activity, but by -teaching- them - the
reality of the truth Which they already
possessed and supplementing- U with
that which unites them with all others.
His teachings have the same basic prin
ciples as did the divine teachings of
Christ, but "are according-'-to the stage
of the maturity of the world and the re
quirements of this Illumined age."
PORTLAND BAHAI ASSEMBLY.
The Uniform
Myrtle Creek, March 80. To: the Editor
of The Joyraal-r-On February II I was
discharged from the . marine .corps -at
Ou!vnti-o. Va. At that time I was noti
fied to return my uniform Inside ofa90J
days. I see in The Journal tnat are
soldiers are allowed ; to keep their uni
forms. Does this include the marines
also? . r GEORGE O. PUCKETT. ?
"' This question baa been answered many rimes
in The Journal. - In order to answer it with all
completeness, and in the hope that it' mar meet
the eyea of many who. have not noted previooa
answers, the full text of the act passed by . eon.
cress is here published, as follows; . r
"An act permuting any person -whe has served
in the United SUtee armr. njr or marine corps
in the present war to retain hia uniform and per
tonal .equipment, and to wear the aaate andst
certain conditions. - '
"Be it enacted by the senate and boose of
rep reaenta tires of the t'nited SUtes of America,
in eoDcreie assembled, that any person who
erred in the United Statae army, nary or marine
corps in the present war may. upon Honorable
discharge and return to civil life, permanently
retain one complete suit ot enter uniform cloth
ing, including the overcoat, and such articles cf
personal apparel and equipment aa may be au
thorised, respectively, by the secretary of war or
the secretary ot the Bar, and may wear such
uniform clothing after such discharge: Provided,
that the uniform above referred to shall include
some distinctive mark or insignia to be pre
scribed, respectively, by the secretary of war or
the secretary of the navy, such asark or insignia
to be issued, respectively, by the war department
or 'navy department to alt enlisted personnel so
discharged. The wprd navy" hs.11 include the
officers and , enlisted "personnel of the coast
guard who nave served with the navy during the
present war.
Section 2. That the prevMooa of this act
shall apply to all persona 4 who served in the
United states army. naTy or marine corps dur
ing the present war honorably discharged since
April 6, 1917. - And in eases where such eloth
inz and uniforms have been restored to the gov
ernment ou their discharge, the same er similar
clothing and uniform in kind and value as near
as may be shall be retarwed to such soldiers,
sailors and marines."!
Charges Ignorance ! -PorUand.
March 30. To the Editor of
The Journal I see . by one of your re
cent . publications ; In your paier that
you are very ignorant of the new con
stitution - of - the ' Russian republic
adopted in July, 191S. This has recently
been translated into - English. Among
other provisions of this constitution
those relating- to land, natural resources,
factories, railroads and banks, are aa
fplIOWS, 4'',- -a-'-'.u ii - ;.':-
-For the purpose of realizing the so
cialixatlon of land all private property
in land is abolished, and the entire land
Is declared to be national property and
is to be apportioned among the hus
bandmen without any compensation to
the former owners. In the measure of
one's ability to till tt. 4 , .
"All forests, treasures of the earth
and Waters of general , public: ntlilry,
all implements whether Animate or in
animate, model farms and agricultural
enterprises, are declared to be .national
property. -'
fAs a t Irst - step . toward complete
transfer of ownership to the soviet re
public of ail factories, mills, mines, rail
ways and other means of . production
and transportation, the soviet law for
the : control by workmen and the es
tablishment of the supreme eowtet of na
tional economy la hereby confirmed, so '
as to assure the power 'of the workers
over the exploiters.
."The transfer of all banks Into the:
Letters From the People '
"LIBERTY ENLIGHTENING THE WORLD"
' By Henry Van Dyke
THOU warden of the western gate, above Manhattan Bay,
The fogs of doubt that hid thy face- are driven clean away!
Thine eyes at last look far and clear, thou liftest high thy hand
To spread the light of liberty world-wide lor every land.
No more thoa dreamest of a peace reserved alone for thee.
While friends are fighting for thy cause beyond the guardian sea:
The battle that they wage is thine; thou tallest if they fall;
The swollen flood of Prussian pride will sweep unchecked o'er all.
Oh, cruel is the conquer-Iust in HohenzoIIern brains: .
The paths they plot to gain their goal are dark vith sharrfsful stains:
.. , No faith they keep, no law revere, no god but naked Might
They are the foemen of mankind. Up, Liberty,' and smite t
, Britain, and Frincc and Italy, and Russia newly born, v
': Have waited for thee in the night. Oh, come as comes the morn. m
Serene and strong and full of faith, America,; arise, '.
With steady hope and mighty help .to join thy brave Allies.
O dearest country of my heart, home of the high desire.
Make clean thy. soul for sacrifice on Freedom's altar-fire:
For thou must suffer, thou must fight, until the war lords cease,
" And all the peoples lift their heads in liberty and peace.
April to, 1917, -
OBSERVATIONS .AND IMRESSIONS
,OF THE JOURNAL MAN
By Fred
tFirst of a series of three articles narrating
the adventures of Bert Bates aad the eerviee ren
dared overseas by Iris regiment, the Sixty-fifth
coast artillery. i this which Mr. Ixiekley I're
senu today. The giaty-fiftu was in the thick of
U from early September to armistice day.
Bert Bates is a Portland boy. He was
born n what has long been known as the
"Haunted Caatle." on Portland Heights.
He has two gold chevrons on the sleeve
of his blouse, which Indicate that he has
put in a year's service overseas. We
sat down together in the Victory Loan
trophy train a day or two ago, and he
told me something of his experiences at
the front in France. .
J "Tea, ' I am a Portland boy." he said.
"I was born here in Portland on May 2.
H97. My people moved to Roseburg In
1901. Mr father, B. VT Bates, Is editor
of the Evening- News there. I went to
the grammar school and later to the higlv
school at Roseburg. putting In my after
noons and evenings as printer's devil on
my father's newspaper.. Too don't re
member me, but, I remember you very
well Indeed. After I graduated from the
Roseburg high school, and also grad
uated from printer's devil to reporter,
I Interviewed you once at the TJmpqua
hotel in Roseburg. At that time I had
no idea , that you would ever be inter
viewing me. - - ; . i(
; "The same day our country decided to
lick the kaiser, I decided that I myself
would take a hand in it, so I enlisted,
on Aprtl "ti in the Sixty-fifth coast ar
tillery, and was sent almost immediately
to Fort Stevens, at the mouth of the
Columbia - river. Just across from Fort
Canby-. We spent seven months at Fort
Stevens and went from, there to Sari
Francisco, where we -went aboard tha
steamer Northern Pacific.. She was one
of the Hill line's fast passenger ships.
She is built like a knife blade, and she
certainly can travel. The Huns call her
the "Ghost Ship." because she slipped
back and forth from America to France
through the submarine zone as illusively
as a shadow. .?.';'-
. ,
lt took us only six days to go from
San Francisco to the Panama canal, and
six days from the canal rone to Ho-
beken. We spent a week in Camp; Men.
Httr then went aboard the Mauritania
en route to 'Liverpool. In addition to
our regiment, the Sixty-fifth coast ar
tillery, we also .had aboard the FJfty-l
fifth artillery and a base hospital unit.
We crossed without convoy, making the
ownership of the workers' and peasants
government, as one of the conditions of
the liberation of the toiling masses from
the yoke of capital; Is confirmed."
..-- A READER.
- Ridicules Daylight Saving
-Oakridge. -April 2. To the Editor of
The Journal Here are a few true
stories of , some penny-wise and pound
foolish people who want to economise :
Once- in -Dakota wnere trees : are
sanv ': thr waft a. : woman : whose
mother-in-law smoked a pipe and used
a. oreat many- expensive matches. Bo
to save matches this woman kept
fire all of the hot summer days, : so
her mother-ifi-law could light; her pipe
with a burning stick.;
i Once- there was a man who liked
clabbered milk., but his daughter.! who
had a great deal of It, thought It was
a waste to let him eat It when the pigs
liked it Is well. So she fed the mtlk to
the pigs and fed her father ether foods.
- Once there was a woman who wanted
to economize. So she charged her milk
man 20 cents for "a five cent bottle of
ink. Then her milkman charged her
13 cents for . a quart of milk, which
made .the poor woman feel badly, in
deed, as she so much wanted to econ
omise. ', - -r - -" ' ''
Once some .legislators thought that
men eould do more work If they had
more daylight. So they paaeed a law
that all clocks should be set one hour
fast. This caused the workingman to
rise in the middle of the night, and go
to bed with the chickens, while the
noon and4
society buds lay abed until
danced the night away as usual.
; ' ' U R.
A Letter of a Dissenter
Walla Walla. Wash., March SI. To
the Editor of The Journal Although
t am 7, 1 am still In search of
knowledge, for I don't want to . die of
stagnation. In my search I read all
kinds of literature and the forum writ
ers of the press, for I may find out,
after years of search, what the "soul"
Is. and what God" Is and His laws"
that Mr,1: Carr speaks of.
Now I am perfectly Ignorant of-what
the "soul is, and I know absolutely
nothing about "God." My conception is
like that of the late Ambrose Bierce
fa giant archbishop In full canonicals.
I Mr. Carr1 says, "This earthly life is
not theN end ;' the immortal soul faces
eternity. Hawing- read that work of
the great Russian biologist, Bile Metch
nlkoff, entitled The Nature of Man," I
am more inclined to believe his state
ment after years of research, than I am
In one who depends on Bible research.
"It Is absurd to expect anything to fol
low death, but absolute annihilation.
And that was the consensus of opinion
in the research laboratory .tof the Uni
versity of California hospital. Should
Mr. Carr. say "soul" to those teachers of
surgery they would simply say. "what
in the eoulT For Bible truths" don't
go In a research laboratory. '
Mr. Carr refers to "might is right.'.
Possibly it could . be shown . that might
IS right. Space at present will not per
mit. We all know that the kaiser held
that . Idea, and an army .with more
might conquered htm, putting us in the
right. : Force has so far done, wonders.
It made- this a free country reputed
free, but far from It and going further
away all the time through the prohibi
tion movements of saints .who want to
control individual action by law. -
As I said at the beginning, I'm in
search of knowledge, and am now find
ing out what "liberty" is by " reading
John' Stuart Mill's great essay. I find
very few Americans who know," or have
Lockley
trip In eight, days. . Landing- at Liver
pool, we went immediately aboard tha
tram, going direct to Southampton. We
spent 1ft days at Camp Romepy, a rest
camp near Liverpool, and then crossed
the channel from Southampton to Havre,
At Havre we were loaded aboard side
door Pullmans with the familiar legend.
'40 homines. chevaux.' We spent three
days and - three nights aboard the box
cars, coing from - Havre to Limoges,
Limoges, as you know, la where they
make Haviland china.. '
"We were three months at Limoges
and La Courtine. There was a big ar
tillery school at La Courtine, where we
were instructed in the use of the 9 point
2s. the famous English howitzer. You
have seen them on the front, so you
know what powerful guns they are. They
fire : a projectile weighing 800 pounds.
We were there until August, when we
were sent to: help close the gap at the
St. Mlhiel salientt
- .
"At Pont a Mousson we pulled" our
guns with tractors, at night, into posi
tion at the front. We were in front of
all other heavy guns, the French 75s be
ing immediately back of us. We lay
there that night until- the aero hour,
which was 1 o'clock. When the word
went down the line to commence firing
it seemed as if all hell broke loose.
When we had pulled into the woods we
thought we were the only "heavies, but
at the aero hour the, whole woods biased
with gunfire. Other butteries there had
been so cleverly camouflaged we did not
know they" were there. 5 We fairly filled
the air with our projectiles. They called
the Sixty-fifth regiment of .coast ar
tillery the "Circus artillery, . because we
put up our. show, played one or more
engagements "heavy barrages-and' then
pulled It Into a new place. Ours was the
only American regiment to successfully
handle the point 2s. One or two other
regiments that were equipped With these
guns were shot to pieces. I remember
one:f American ' regiment tried to take
their guns up to the front by day. The
Germans got their range and slaught
ered the men, cutting them all to pieces.
Someone had blundered in giving the
order to go forward by daylight,
' "We put . our first shot over at the
Huns In the early days of September.
We kept It up constantly to the eleventh
hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh
month, when the armistice was signed."
any conception of liberty as Mill under-
stooa it, , Tne wora, on many American
lips: is Jargon.
, During a Bible discussion with a de
vout Methodist here (my mothers re
ligion) I said to him, "Don't you be
lieve in free speech? . "I certainly do.
he answered. ; "I am an American, but
no man has any right to attack re
Ilgf on and the church as you do. Men
like you should be shot, i Yet, I also
am American and was nurtured on tales
iof freedom, on, top of the Green moun
tains of Vermont.
- Z shall still' continue reading The
Journal for educational purposes, as I
find very many able editorials in It-
even If you, old say "Back to the Bible."
f 'vil-ii -..?K A. JOHNSON.
Land, Labor and Privilege .
: Portland, April 4. To the Editor of
The Journal I have been a reader ef
The Journal for eight years and have
great . admiration - for It, the editorial
page especially. I also take notice of
the letters from the people. Some are
full of wisdom, but occasionally X find
one that I really. deem silly. In one
of recent date, signed "A Farmer," the
writer asks why the laboring classes
"don't get together and do something
for themselves- build factories, start
banks," and perhaps grow wings and
fly. ;- " '
tn making reply X would ask if "Farm
er" believes in labor organisations. Also,
does he believe money, builds the various
industrial plants of the world? i answer
the last question : No labor does.. And
labor is tne progress or the woria, Tne
voice of labor Is calling for development
of America's waste, the land held by
speculators, ; lying idle. Just a few
months ago the slogan .wae "Work. or
Fight." That meant human, beings. But
the lands of the country that we nobly
fought and worked to save can be in
idleness and hand out invitations for
Bolshevism, fW. W.im and. God knows
what other Ism. - For the dog la still
in the manger. It would be labor's de
light to, develop the vast water powers
of the country, but the Patrtland Rail
way, Light 'Js. Power company, also the
fuel barons, will tell our lawmakers it
will cost too much for any government
undertaking. Thereby he same old, dog
Is still. In the manger. A sfew wait in
wealth while the many must go on a
beggar. - Labo will build various hluh
ways all over the country te increase
the valuation, of land owned by big cor-
porgtiona) I am in savor of good roads,
put. to maKe . tnese roaes . va luaois we
mustsnatoh away, the idlenesa of land J
and water power and give ' permanent
employment to the people, thereby leav
ing no opportunity for radicalism or
bloodshed. Make the good old U, S. A. a
home of humanity. . "
I favor the League of Nations. " Per
haps under it there will be more expen
diture toward prod action rather than
destruction.- Disarmament will mean a
terrible load ' lifted' from the back of
labor, j To be.- sure. It will criptpie the
steel barons to a big extent, but where
llee the humanity of any human being
who "has to see other human beings but
chered that he may command big profits
from the products he deals In. In fact,
we are tired of such, and will I hlpe
without bloodshed) endeavor to reach
higher planes of civilization.
' . - ' A READER.
- , - ' -Harked Down
: Frost the Brooklyn ' Eagle.
"In "the afternoon Bargain's
serves tea to its customers."
' "Five o'clock?" ,,'."
"No, 4:51." - -
store
.:
Ragtag and Bobtail
Stories From Everywhere ; t
.Intensive Farming
A" INDICATION of What will happen
when capital sets to farming, comes
from the East, where J. P. Morgan has
hired a former k viator to - work as? a
flier on his big wheat ranch in Montana.
One of bis duties will be to take tha
ranch manager to distant parts of th
ranch in an airplane which will be
equipped with wireless for communicat
ing with ranch headquarters. Some
uass to mis Kina of farming 1 V
Crusader Song f ?
fAir; "Battle llrran of tha Rmihn"f t
For five long weeka 1 ve tried my beat to do each -
daily chore. , m
i oav prusaea 017 teeth sod every Bight save
save
Mlp
slept tea hours or mora.
I bare tried to keep a smiling face, and
someone each day, :. .
Hurrah, for our band, hurrah 1
CHORUS -
Cheer our band of good Crusader best Cm
saders in the land; , f
Cttaer our loyal.' kindly leader. We'll salote her
while we stand. " - J .
I wash my hands before each meal aad eJeaa
each finger aaii; .
And to keep my hair brushed neatly back I hardly
ever fail. j :
I try te mind sgr teachers, and each little rule
obey. I
I;
nurran, lor our pana. nurraoi - -
On tha way to School I uke deep breath la
fresh air aad the sub: i
And tea and coffee at my meal are orgiee that .
lahuat -
reocila, rulers, fingers from my ssoutk 1 keep :
..away. . :
Hurrah, for our band, hurrah I ' a
I , love to take warm soapy baths, espeoJally
- when they're deep. t
Or ahowers when they're fresb and cool, and up
and down I laan. 1
A glass of water -before each ' meal I drink
meat every day. .
Hurrah, for our band, hurrah f
aa uaae
L
' ; Lucile Allen Case
The A. lm Mills Open Air School, porUaad,
Uncle JeH Snow Says: . j
. There is loft of folks that thinks
they're thinkln' hard, when all they're
dolnv is worryin.' hard, with no more
real eense'n a . chicken with Its head -cut
off, ...... . ...r-i - -
The News in Para'fjraphs j
World Happenings Briefed for Benefit
. of Journal Readers I
GENERAL ; -
The world's first "air port" is belngr
established at Atlantic City, N. J. j
At Vernon," CaL, Friday, IB. D. iEly
was killed by Jkn Cameron, a heavy
weight negro pugilist. . , ... I j
Miss Nora Miller is just awaking at
Oakdale, Cal., from a two months' sleep,
following an attack of influenza, i
Record show that at the throe Fort
Worth air fields 10 men were killed
from November 7, 1917, to April t. 1919.
Additional 'credits of $85,000,000 to
France and 2 5, 000, 000 to Italy weres an
nounced Friday by the treasury depart
ment. , i,. -J-i -k .'sv-t I
Lieutenant Colonel Frederick W. Dick
man and Major John W. Butts were
killed at Americus, Ge., Thursday la an"
airplane fail. . .. ;.
General Aurello Blanquet, minister of
war under Huerta, as reached- Mexico
with the Intention of overthrowing-"the
Carranca government. . - .
t The site of "Old Salem," boyhood
home 1 of Abraham Lincoln, has peen
presented to the state ot Illinois by
William R. Hearst. y 1-
Baron Rosen, former Russian ambas
sador to the United States, arrived at
New York Friday. He flod from Petro-
grad to escape the soianeviKi.
NORTHWEST NOTES
All garbage useful for hog feed ia col
lected free In Spokane, , ,
' Hammond, Or., will nave its streets
and install : a municipal water system
the coming summer. . ' f
: A contract was let' this Week thr a
new r bridge across Indian creete ;.at
Hood River, to cost 12200. I .
Mr. Mary S.Oallaway dropped dead ,
at Hood River Wednesday a tha re
sult of a cerebral hemorrhage. 1
Construction work was begun Ithls
week on the new $500,000 flouring mill
to be built by the Port of Astoria
A civil service examination will be
held at Ontario, Or., May 21 to select
a postmaster at rlluntington at $1200 a ,v
year. . ..-
The big lumber mil! at Powers.! em
ploying 150 men, and the logging camps,
with lOO men, will soon begin opera
tions. . , I
Clinton A. Lathrop, convicted at Spo
kane for shooting bis wife to death last
February 2, has been sentenced tot life
imprisonment. , . , f
Many former. Oregon Agricultural -college
' students who - Iiave been in
military service are reported to be In
the hospital at Camp Lewis.
The Centralia Chamber of Com
merce has adopted a budget of $3900
for the coming year,- Mrs. Kate liob
inson is the new secretary. - ,.
'' The Edwin Briscoe boys' home at
Orlllia is left $132,000 by the will of
the late Mrs. Elizabeth Foss, Seattle '
pioneer and philanthropist. j L
Bids will be asked on April 2i fof the
construction of a new Pacific highway
bridge over the Cowlitz river ati To
ledo that will cost $125,000. 1
On account of '' farmers being butry
with spring work. Judge Belt has bos t
poned the April : session of the circuit -court
for Polk county to April 21,
The State - board of control jaS re
appointed Ht VL Weathers poon of K1-; ;
gin and Charles Ai Park of Salem as
members of the state board of horti
culture. . - . I .
A coastwise movement for higher; sal
aries for teachers was launched In; Ta
coma Saturday by Dr. A. K. Wlnshlp of
Boston, editor of the , New England
Journal of Education. I .
Pendleton ' Elks have completed ar
rangement for the erectloiv of a 'new
temple, which will be one of the finest ,
in tie Northwest. It "will include -r
rooms for the . Pendleton Commercial
association and a theatre.
' . FOREIGN ' - j
Of the 24 'members of the new 'gov
ernment of Hungary.- W are Jews,
Charged with Inciting riots. 200 'Ger-
mans have been arrested in Seville
and Barcelona, 'Spain. v
The General Association of Women
Students gave a reception to 7 Mrs,
Woodrow Wilson at Paris Friday
Herr Mangold, chief burgomaster of.
flarnthninksn. Oermanv. )as beers re.
moved faem office by order, of Marshal
Foch. I
ReDorts In circulation that the Xlou-
manlans had evacuated Bessarabia are
444 by the Roumanian minuter at
Vienna.
Every Day Should Be Thrift
Dayiri U. S. A. .
(Stories of achievement la the aecnnrila-
tion of War iiavings SUmps. sent to The
Journal and accepted (or publication, wiil
be awarded. a Thrift Stamp. j
The first Thrift Day" in America
was August 11, 19 IB. - That was the
first time one special day was ever
officially ' set aside for the purpose
of encouraging attention to thrift.
The day was celebrated in California
as "Thrift Day". 1 response , to a
proclamation of Gov. Johnaon. The
occasion marked the opening ef the
thrift congress, held at the Panama
Pacific exposition by the 'American
Society for Thrift- , r 1
Now every day is a Thrift. Day"
for our very beet citisehs. j
1 Thrift Stamps and 1919 War Kav.
Ings Stamps now on sale at usual
agencies. ,- ' .
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