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THE OREGON DAILY, JOURNAL, PORTLAND, . FRIDAY, APRIL 18 1819. ?, A.f INDnPEXDEJflf KEtVSflPE O. 8, JACKSO.1... ...... i....PnWbfc ' ii n Ux h 4 vr Maw afCjtrttdOB and MOT niOS IrV' tM Monday (ItwnMll), at Tha Journal Build- ) n, feruadway and JaaeJUU straw. . roruajau. -. Oregon. - , "-. fcnrerl t tb Postoffle at tortlBd, Oregon, for trsstsmtesioa tareusk ta anil a aweoBd ciass matter. aiLbi-HOWES Wain TlTSt Has, A-S0B1. ii department rachd fey ikes numbers. Icil tbs operator what departasent yoe sreaU. t(":KH;.H ADVERTISING) HKPKESEN TATfVE I njamfn at Kentnor Co., Hrunawtck Buikfrng,. 1:25 tifth avenu. K York! SOS Mailers liuildiu. ChJoegst - y fcuMcrtr.ti.Hi trrma by mall, or to any addr.ln tii I niW State er Airstco; Daily (iiunxud on ASTtfiNOON) Od .. . . . . .85 00 t One month,..... '.00 : . SUN DAT On year.. .' . . S2.S0 Oa month.. . . . .$ .28 DAILT tMORNINO OB AFTKBKOONJ aVKU - 8UNDAI - - ,- fn vr. . ; . '", . 17. BO On raontS. . i . t .88 Blind and naked Ignorance Ltohvvra brawling indumenta. vutasiiaaMd. On U thing all day long. . . Tcnnyso. ' f ' A UANSO! THOUGHT N HIS San Francisco address, ! hayor Hanson said: "r J X have wondered if the great re lX sources Of this country ought not to be developed with this labor power and deserts be made to bloom like a rose i food raised where tbe cactus and th sagebrush now hold sway. If our gov ernment were to secure great areas of cheap, undeveloped lahd of the nation, and by diking, clearing, watering, etc., this land and this labor in time of stress, it seems to me It would be wise., . ' : This . U ' true vision. We . preach to people to go back to the land. But agreat deal of land is held out of use . by speculators, ' waiting for the price to Increase. It is closed to settlement except at prices the landless cannot 'afford to pay. The way is barred by the man who waits for settlements' to . grow up around his - land and make it more valuable. ; Vast areas are thus held beyond the reach of men who, If given the . opportunity, would go out on the idle acres, build homes, till the soil, and make it produce. Th's In turn would give sustenance and sur vival to hand3 now Idle and make contentment in minds filled with discontent. . Today the men who are holding land out of use, holding it for the advance lb price, are supplying arn munition to Bolshevists and at a time when half the world is topsy turvy with illusions and 'fantastic dreams. . . Then," there are semi-arid areas and undraincd .reaches, and the streams which manpower - can bring together and turn the cactus and sagebrush- into alfalfa and wheat and livestock and other needed products. The manpower needs the employment, and the hungry world needs the production. .What better end can government serve than to promote plans, and, if necessary, financially back move ments by which 4 these great ends can. be served T a-; Government in the mightiest na tion known to man ought to be something more than an agency for paying salaries to congressmen . and departmept clerks. America is not a Germany, under the Hohenzollerns. Here, the state exists for the citi zen, not the citisen for the state. As a purveyor of news, was it a merd, oversight that the Oregonlan failed to print the fact that the heirs have engaged counsel and are preparing a suit to break the will of the late Mr. Piltock? Is a case destined to become one of the most famous in the court annals of Ore gon, not news to which Jthe readers of the Oregonlan are entitled ? OIL STOCK r tESTERDAY The Journal returned f to a Texas oil company a check H pffcrcd 'as payment -for a pr?)- posed .advertisement, V -Hundreds of dollars tendered as pay for speculative oil. advertising are thus refused by this piper. There are good -oil properties. There are; many bad ones. All that offer-' stock for sale are a bid to people to gamble. i , . . In another Portland paper . are regularly printed numerous oil ad vertisements. Here is a sample: -Price to net about 12 per cent. Her cules .Petroleum company.., This issue par 'value $10 is traded on the New Tork curb market. Monthly dividends of -1 per cent are being paid, etc., eto. In a recent public statement, the secretary y of the treasury declared that oil and mining stok., take and otherwise, ,were being promoted to 6uch an extent that legislation ought to '-.be passed to deny them ase of the mails. In - Contrast, Portland bond houses fro doing valiant work through newspaper, advertising In promating the sale of -Victory bonds, the sound est and safest of all known Invest ments. They are advertisement pro motive of the welfare of the. Re public. They appeal to the people for loans "of. money that will not go i to the "7 coffers of syndicates . and "culators, but into the treasury of t United States to" pay the war : ' t not speculative oil advertis- i i b suspended at least while V, : loyal workers are straining- every nerve to put it over? - i If Mr. Spencer, , director of the purchasing division of the railroad administration, who is supposed now to foe on i his way from , Washington to Portland for the purpose of solv ing the difficulties existing between the purchasing . agents of the . rail roads and the railroau lie rr.ixu facturers who have shut their mills down ' because, of these , conditions, can patch up ; the trouble and start the mills to running- again he will prove to be the tie that binds ,, to some 3000 laboring men now out of employment. SAVING SIXTY THOUSAND SIXTY thousand dollars- would probably be saved by the set-, tiers on the - Warm Springs rec- lamation project at Vale, Ore gon, in their next sale Of bonds, . if the Gallagher amendment were nqw in effect. . : : L Their first sale of bonds was an issue of 1730,000. ' Their next and final v" sale, will be ' 1600100. i With the first five years' interest on the bonds guaranteed as they would be under the ' Gallagher amendment, ! it 13 insisted that the bonds would go at par. The initial issue of 1750,000 went at 90. - . i . i Thfl bonds bear six per Cent In terest, which is an excellent interest rate on. bonds. School bonds, or municipal bonds bearing such a rate. of interest go at . a premium. But because the name "Irrigation" at taches to the Vale and other recla mation projects, and ' because so many shoestring irrigation projects have faHed, bond buyers are more Or less chary, and such discounts as the 10 per cent tinder par in the first Vale issue are the" consequence. The guarantee by the state of the interest for. the first five years, the period in which the settlers are put to it , to make ends meet,-would, jit : is ' asserted, sell the bonds, at par and, in the coming issue, save the Vale settlers $60,000. This is the opinion of John H. Lewis, formerly state engineer of " Oregon, and of Others including bond experts. i The pHibosed1 guarantee by the state undSHie Gallagher amend ment also applies to drainage bonds, and In Western OregoA alone there are 3,000,000. acres of wet lands that must , come under drainage projects before they will -become fully, pro ductive. There is thus Incentive for Eastern Oregon and Western Oregon to support the - Gallagher amendment, which will be on the ballot at the coming special election. Work is . now in progress oh . the Vale project. The contract for con struction. Is held, by a Los , Angeles Company J. 1L Lewis, - fomer -State engineer of Oregon, is project man ager. : .' The present project comprises 30,000 acres, of which 12,000 is already partly served with water. An addK tionil ig,000 acres will be brought under cultivation - when the present plan is completed. There will be water enough to Irrigate an addi tional unit of 10.000 ; acres, making 40,000 in ' all. Water will be ready for delivery early in 1920. The Mal heur river Is the source of water supply. ' ! The storage water which is auxil iary to the Malheur river supply Is to be impounded by a dam on the middle fork of the Malheur near Riverside, 83 miles above Vale. Its storage capacity is 170,000 acre feet of water. , i The sorghum crop of A. Von .Rea- den, 3i-3 acres of irrigated land on the project near Vaie.-turned off in one season a gross profit in molasses and cane seed of $880 and a net Profit of $660, or, $200 an acre. j At ; late prices, alfalfa grown on the old Vale project has been netting $100 per acre annually, and . often even more. The value of the present annual output Is $500,000. It is1 estimated that the completed project will in crease the output annually $1,380,000 and , give a total income from the w.ww acres vi aooui SZ.UUU.UUU a tn AAA . - . k i year. ' When the news reaches Paris that Congressman Hawley, having turned the searching beaoon l, of his states manship upon it, has decided 1 that the League of Nations covenant Is too loosely drawn to receive his ap proval, the peace conference will probably , throw up its hands and quit in despair. ; AMERICANIZED TEACHERS - " i i m : G OVERNOR COX. of Ohio, is for American-rirst teachers. I A bill in the Ohio legislature proposed that all teachers inl that stale be required to take the oath or allegiance. It passed the sen ate, but was beaten in the! house, j Governor Cox says if the house stands by its action, he will initiate a bill, and that he will . go Into -the district of every member opposed to the measure afid seek his defeat, whether Democrat or Republican, j We recently saw the peril of par lor Americanism. It' was : an alleged Americanism that was for some for eign" country first and for America afterward. It was a strong influ ence In getting us into the war, be cause It said America wouldn't fight, and the" Hohenzollern Junkers be lieved it. ',"- i It' played its part in the schools. Subtly and Insidiously, it glorified foreign potentates and i foreign- insti tutions. .It held them up to be admired By the" Impressionable minds of young boys and girls! We paid " r'-" i'.-n ts permitting spread of the poisonous propaganda. , No teacher whaT' fails to take the oath of allegiance should ' have a place in the schools. No , teacher who Is not an Ameri can first and- an American all the time, either by birth or naturaliza tion, should be permitted to teach our youth, i The schools shoaldbe the nurseries of the spirit of democracy. The belief of the children Id the glory of the republic . is ; guarantee of that liberty bought with blood and de fended in blood. - - Let us have no teacher who does not vision the philosophy of , Flan ders field with its crosses, row on row. After the United States shipping board had issued its famous statis tical , circular on "Old Ports and New," In which it gave the depth of the Portland harbor as 20 feet and had begun to " hear from the various civic bodies and organizations of Portland, it doubtless came to the conclusion that it had somehow used the wrong measuring stick. III .1,1 II. ! it A GREATER BEND r S THE Bend Commercial club sound in its opposition to the - Strahorn railroad? Bend has a remarkable location. Connected by railroad with Klarzath Falls, Lakevlew and Crane, it Is easy to vision great railway yards, shops and feeding corrals at Bend. . Apparently, it is the line south ward to which thOsBend lumber com panies object. When you have jour neyed through that district there is left in mind great areas of reclaimed meadows and fields to be. Along the way, meadows here and - there where water has been applied, vis ualize the potentialities. In the mountains along the way are opportunity for great reservoirs of Impounded water to irrigate the lands below. You can picture to yourself a landscape like that at Ontario, Vale, Weiser, Payette and the great Boise valley where sage brush and rabbit land Is turning off alfalfa at the rate of $100 net per acre. Some day that dream will be realized. Governments an1 peoples ought to hurry it forward as a means of supplying lands to the landless and homes to the homeless. Transportation has to be provided before that dream can reach fruition. Beyond Bead to Lakeview, Klamath and Crane is a vast expanse of coun try greater in area than most states. Bend's water power, her timber and her alfalfa fields now and to be, are logically the great supply house for it all, If ; transportation becomes available. Transportation would tie the great Harney country to Bend, I because Bend's great route through the Deschutes Canyon to tidewater is the inexorable course that traffic would follow. The myriads of dry acres out there once made-'-productlve . with -water would be a huge cornucopia with Behd at the lower end. Or & vast funnel with Bend at the point through which a great empire would pour its products. Is not a greater Bend dependent upon the union of her boundless water power, great forests and inex haustible alfalfa fields with transpor tation? Determine today what you are sro- ing to subscribe to the Victory loan. It is as easy tp do it today as two Weeks hence. ; Are we s-oinK to let other states beat old Oregon over the top? i BRIG16 THEM INTO OREGON T HE people of Klamath and Lake counties are a long way from the old homestead. When they visit their fellow citizens to! the valley . counties necessity compels them to trespass upon the back yard of California to get into Oregon if they Journey by rail, or to climb over more or less undeveloped moun tain roads should they travel other wise. U Is easier for them to do business with California than to deal with "the folks at hpme. ' But the people of Klamath and Lake are Oregon people. They want to meet and mingle, to assocjate and deal with the people of Oregon. Lack of adequate transpprtation has made them go away from home. Thex have been pleading for a long time for relief. ' Happily, the state highway com mission . has decided to build -400 miles of highway in the two coun- jtlCs to link them up with the rest of Oregon. Both counties are- pledged to go the . limit of their Indebtedness in cooperating with the state dollar for dollar, while the federal govern ment will do 1 its share. -Still . other J cheering . word comes from Washington, where Senator Mo Nary has been urging completion of the Natron cut-Off to connect Klam ath Falls with the Oregon line. of the Southern Pacific. News dis patches give the information that he has been given r'MCh encouragement by th e railroad administration and is - now prepared ; to urge the I con struction upon the railway directors, who will be furnished funds for the work should , they recommend its completion. .j The improvement would bring a most important ; section into direct touch with the. markets and Indus tries of Oregon. It would make the Klamath and Lake district , part of Oregon in fact, as well as In law ; 'There are the accidents of indus try: jBoth arms of an 18 year old "'--'-- V-i- . r' .-- , ha) was run over, by a train, at TrOut dale Wednesday night. : Where is his place in the world now T Is it not also society's business to be con cerned with the reconstruction cf the Industrial hapless? OLE HANSON'S CAREER Resume of the Achievements Ot Seat tie's Famous Mayor. - Br Ward A. Irvine "Anyone who attempts to take ever government (unctions here -will be shot on sight." - "I hereby fiotify you that unless tha sympathetto strike Is caned off by S o'clock tomorrow morning. I will take adrantaa-e of the assistance and oroteo- tion offered by the national government and operate all essential enterprises. "Any man who will not leave his party for the good of his country should leave hia-country for the good or an parties. "There should be in each state some place where a man who is willing and able to work can, find employment under deoent living conditions. a ' . These are noted statements reflecting the character of Ole Hanson. Seattle' fighting mayor, the man that frustrated the first attempt of Bolshevism fasten Its talons on Aiqericaj4-wtto was shot into national prominence from the set to the rise of the sun. They picture Hanson, the tighter, hurling ultimatums at his opponents, and Hanson, the friend of the worker, proposing means to bet ter the lot of , the teller.- Thar Is Hanson, man of lightning decision, nerve and honesty, and friend of his fellow man. .."..". The Seattle mayor did not receive his baptism In politics in the Queen City Way back in the nineties he was 'called from his home in Wisconsin to Pennsyl vania to assist John WanamakeT in his contest for the united States senator- ship, waged against MatttUsw S. Quay the boss of the Quaker state. Every county -was visited by Han son in whirlwind Speaking tour. Montana, also. heard the oratorical bombs of Mayor Hanson, hurled in behalf of F. Augustus lieinxe. In 1802. after an accident in Texas which threatened his health. Mayor Han son. with his wife and three children started west in a prairie schooner. Their first residence on this coast was a tent, raised On Beacon hUl in Seattle. The father purchased a grocery store, sold out, and later abandoned the Insurance business for real estate. In the last five years preceding his election to the mayoralty of Seattle, his income was rated at tlOOO a week. a a Mr. Hanson's first political office In the state of Washington .Was as a mem ber of the legislature, to which he was repeatedly elected. Here he was staunch advocate of public ownership of utilities and a protector of the work ingman. He fathered eight hour laws for women and miners, and drove horse racing from the state. As a supporter of the initiative, referendum and recall, the Seattleite was identified with pop ular government "The ballot 'is the only form of revolution," the mayor be lieves. a - Mayor Hanson's fighting Qualities were first displayed in Washington during cne er his campaigns for the legislature. A candidate for sheriff of SeatUo asked his support, and after receiving a re fusal, wrote Hanson a letter In which the latter WaS charged with being an ex-convict. It was at a Taft rally that the offender -was next seen. Mayor Hanson pulled him from, his seat by the collar and Brave him an artistic whinninir. reports state. The candidate for sheriff was badly beaten in the following elec tion. Reviewing the defeat Hanson is quoted : "Hell ! who would vote fox him? The Irish hate htm because he Was. licked by a Swede, and the rest of us dislike him because he is such a liar." After his defeat for United States Benaton by Wesley L. Jones in 1916, Hanson was groomed for the mayor's chair. Into this office he rode on the tide of SODular dlsarmroval at tUc nr-ta of Mayor Hiram Gill, his predecessor ana principal opponent Even yet, he was rated as only an ordinary office holder, picked as the best of a poor lot his claim to lame consisted of a repu tation as a 100 per cent American. With the purchase of the street car lines of Seattle for 915,000,000 and of a hydro electric water plant for $3O,0o0.0O0, it was hummed about in Seattle that there was a progressive mayor at the city nail. a a a . . But It remained for the general strike to wing the name of Hanson to the far corners of the United states. "Shoot at the first outbreak of disorder," the 000 special policemen were directed. "Go to your work as Usual ; I Will protect you. Beameues were told. "Strike, and I will dismiss you," was the word to civil service employes. "Call off your struce, or, witn the aid of the govern ment i wui 'operate essential enter prises," was the ultimatum to the gen eral strike committee. The strike was called off, the people were protected, the civil service employes did not strike, and the police were ready to fire. That w Hansonword is law. Mayor Hanson works 20 hours a day. "I get sufficient sleep In Tour," he ex plains. The part of the 20 hours the mayor is not at his office is spent at nome witn ms wire and nine children. Reeling Up the Hose After the Fire; A Parable : H. H. Wintor in Popular Mechanica. tId you ever live In a country town whose fire' department was composed of volunteers? And did yob -ever notice how keen everybody Was to run with the cart and help lay a line of hose, and what a scramble to hold the hostile? But when the fire was out. the crowd dispersed, and few were left to be Im pressed the moat officious disappeared on one -excuse and another, leaving the few faithful, conscientious workers to clean up. Of course there isn't any ex citement in reeling up a lot of wet, dirty, cold hose, but It has to be done after every fire ; and those who should, and don't are slackers, Six months ago the prospect was that the government would be obliged to put out a big Liberty , loan every three or four months. f or an Indefinite period. Happily this has not been, and Will not now be. necessary. The fire has ap parently been subdued, the world eon flagratlon . has been checked, -the gale which drove the sparks every way is subsiding, and we hope the danger is over. :, Now there remains the hose to gather up, and some of It to replace, with comparatively few ladders that were lost or broken ; but taken alto gether our . toss ttas been small ; oem pared to that of ether countries. In faet U might with propriety be called a Thanksgiving", loan. . As th Victory Liberty loan it offers the double oppor tunity of celebrating the great victory, and also as an expression of thankful ness that we did not have to go on for : months and years at an awful cost of: precious lives. Any sacrifice of mere i dollars in order to put the loan I over j promptly is so Insignificant compared to th prie w tnlg-hi have been called j upon to pay. that t the nation should i cheerfully shoulder the load. Had the' xvsr continued, even this country -with ; soon felt Its depressing effect Because the living of our- usual life has been so slightly interfered with, few realise the many sacrifices that would soon have been necessary. For these reasons alone we should pat the loan over : quickly, patriotically, willingly. .'- 'f v Picking up the hose Isnt an xciting job, but we must net say to the world we are slackers by falling to do so, even though we lack the excitement of daily combat to spur us on. Letters Frorri the People a; IConamuileationa Sent ta Tee Journal tor trab- oobuoo in uu department atiouie Da written en -? ena itda af taa paper. aboiiM not aaea4 SOO words tt length. n4 Must ba aignad by 4na wiltaf, wboae mail adUraaa tm fuU mart aeaOaapaar tbe coamoauan., . . ; Oil Indications on YVHlapa Bay ' Long Beach, Waah.. April 7. T th Editor of Th Journal -Our government tells - Us j that the production of petro leum is at its crest and that from now on we must look for consumption to ex ceed production, unless . new oil fields are ; discovered. The government, through Its corps ot geologists, ought to know what It is talking about, and if its verdict is right the Question arises, "What are we going to do about it?" Each one should be. eager to help to stave off this Inevitable collapsa of pe troleum bit production and should give to the public any facta that might lead to the discovery of new field. At the mouth of the Columbia rlvr, in the state of Washington, on the How kan farm, just four miles north of the towns of ItWaco and Chinook and wUft in a few hundred feet of Wlllapa Bay, there lies a body of earth fairly satu rated with paraffin . petroleum. This oil earth has been known to our resi dents for about IS years. Oil can be and has been distilled from this earth. The ground gi ves out a strongs odor of kero sene and, when heated, bursts into flame. Pools ot water on this ground glisten with a . film of oil. Tests of this oil show it to be a paraffine petroleum of the highest specific gravity. The oil shales we1 read about as likely to be the final producer cf petroleum seem to be born With the oil in them, but the ground named, at the mouth Of the Columbia river receives its oil from a leak in mother earth, either through gas pressure or gravity. Whether the inflammable gas that apparently arises from every part of earth in this section generate from oil, coal or swamp condi tions is asyet undetermined. One might ask Why: not. more oil cropplngs if this section is underlaid With oil. My answer to this would be: This oil is colorless and a quick evaporator and, under Or dinary circumstances, mutt be found by Us Odor or by Oil films on the water. In the Instance written about, the oil leak happened to flow into and over a lime formation, became emulsified and therefore retained. The location of this oil showing Is within a few hundred feet of the county road running from HwacO to South Bend, Wash. No Investigation has been made showing the extent of this oil soaked earth, which may be 10 tons er 10,000 tons. ALFRED A. SMITH. The Elimination of Hate KeedvlQe. April 14. To the Editor Of The Journal The success of the League of Nations depends Upon the righteous anblioatien Of the principles of self-de termination. 'Without this the League of Nations would be a miserable failure. Wilson's: 14 points must form the back bone of t the league. What a splendid vision Wilson has for the future, with the world united' in one brotherhood. We wish him success. When some Of the peace envoys proposed Brussels for the meeting place of the League of Nations because It was. more cen trally located among the ruins of war und more apt to keep alive the burning embers of th hate ot a bitter past. Wil son nobly said that It Was the intention to remove hate from the world and en throne Instead the spirit ot love for our feilowman. Where is the man who Is so dead in his own self-centered, so-called righteousness that he can't grasp the tieautifSl thought of our president ex pressed In those wordsT The world-has grown tired of, rearing hat. Humanity, bleeding as it never has bled before, asks tdday for truth that shall lead us out Of he darkening shadows of future wars and establish society Upon-a plan ot equality free from the selfishness which breeds hate and sends brothers out to oay one another. Let Us grasp the Vi sion. Let us first learn to govern our selves, and If we succeed, we can be as sured that ,the heritage Of bate left to a dying world fti this war will be swept away and love will reign Instead. O. K. FRANK Holding Open the Polls Silver Lake. April 8. To th Editor of Tne Journal 'As r have been a con stant subscriber to your valuable paper since the first issue, I hope you Will settl a dispute between mysfelf sad others. In the election held here in 1918 the election board held the polls open until about 9 o'clock at night in order thit a certain threshing crew, might : come in and vote, I contend that 6 o'clock was the lawful time, and that they broke the law. Please give the law and the penalty, if any. J. H. O. fTha law nrdTldes that oollinc tolace shall be kept open on, election day from 8 o'ctork a. a to I oclwa p. n. At s p. m. the doors must ba closed, and nS more voters acSHIUed. though Sit voters ihsid the poll in place at tha Hasina- hour mar tot. . There seems to ha ttn fwrsonal penalty for keepine S polling plies nia fetter 8 p. ta., sat it would De sufficient to in validate tha , entire - tot east at that Doflinr place. . i Offered In Correction Mill City. April 16. To the Editor ot Th JOurnal-ln Saturday's Journal, April 12, appears th report of Captain James O. Convitl of th soldiers' and sailor commission' to Mayor Baker, stating that th lumbermen, through the organisation of th Loyal Legion of Log gers and Lumbermen, are barring serv ice men from employment This state- men is erroneous. The tlrabermen do not employ all their men through the em ployment agency of the "Four L.'s" and in no way are excluding service men from work. , Furthermore, he states that although it Wasn't Intended to, this agency; automatically excludes them. Had he explained more in detail X would have shown" the fallacy in this. Here, at camp 12. Mill City. Or., we Ob tain our men through the lumbermen's emDlovment agency, and are glad to give employment to soldiers and sailors when ever tber is an opportunity. This camp, local IT, district 2, is 100 per cent for the organisation and fully one sixth of the 90 men here are service men. They fuily reaOse the benefits they are to receive from the organization, and are working: harder than the civilians for It As vide chairman, I ask any ' skeptic to come and examine Our records. i C. E. HENDERSON, Agent Camp 22. Mill City, Or. 1 Landlords and Children 1 Portland. April 15. To th Editor of The JOurnal--Aii answer to Mrs. Adah Wallac iUftftth, tn regard to renting to people with children, I ask you to grant tn space to say : - I have read with interest your, not Published Id Th , Journal, and I not you have both the side of being m land lord, as you word It ; also you are not mother of children. Ot course, there ar two sides to look at and ; I am very much afraid you haven't gone into de tall on the other side. First it is always the person that has no children that lways knows how to brin them up I COMMENT AND SMALL CHANGE If plans go not awry It will be a case of ace high in Fortlandon Monday. vr ime that eau de cologne topers carry highly perfumed breaths? S.hti ?.uU23h3r' th novelist-says he d ?""' .like Chicago smoke, lhttsburg should Invite him over there. a a l AnV TJ"11 department stor end aJ?d.Iln8ier,,lgr ry ne.r bargain u?i.we hf,T takn w notion as to wild, wild women. a a .r.IlLay.thJ?ttvry " cement ? t. , highways is going to make It that much easier for the different sec tions of the state to stick together. .AnPt tn Prt that there is rather f-iSt'!.S-,uat,onJa E8n Germany, be. fwSen.dlMernt branches of th Soclal- sts, the pffic lunch-hound wheexes, Ah, a delicatessen." a a - ift.PJrouv wrttt" mean, Sarcastic letter to some one against whom you hold ?itnV"2rjr. P8. keP the letter until fha? 1l-?ostage etmP will be cheaper anyway you w 1 want to "tnd ll OBSERVATIONS AND IMPRESSIONS OF THE JOURNAL MAN By Fred Lockley Met akah.Ha sound just like the tofiea that the- ead SBn rattles in the asiastrel show but Jtat about aU the fan that eaa be sot vt of it; all the rest la solid business. ABd here is the story ef the mitt who put the business in it. loose who suffer from ennui will do well to Imssine thniMlm keeping up with Father un ssb for a weak two. It may do tuco) tx-d. 1 Metlakahtla is on Annette island. Off the Alaskan coast It lies a few miles to the south of Ketchikan. On my last trip to Alaska, when our ship pulled into Ketchikan, one of the officers pointed out to me Purple mountain, Which rises to a height of 2560 feet just back of -the picturesque village of Met lakahtla. Not long ago I spent several hours With Dr. H. J. Minthorne. formerly a resident of Saiem. but now living at Newport Dr. Mtntheme. with his wife ana aaugnter, spent three years with Father Duncan at Metlakahtla. Me told me many Interesting things about Alas ka's grand old man. "the Apostle of Alaska," as William Duncan is .often called. ' a Not many residents of Portland know how closely linked are Portland and Metlakahtla by ties of friendship, trade and commerce. If you will look over the old hotel registers of the Hotel Esmond or St Charles hotel, 'you will see now and again the signature of WUI lam Dun can. Between 185S and 1908 he was a frequent Visitor in Portland. In 1887 he came down to Portland to purchase a steam sawmill outfit, for his Indian village. The first sawmill which oper ated at Old Metlakahtla was operated by waterpower. WTien the natives first saw the Water wheel in operation and saw it sawing wood, they were greatly astonished. One old chief Was fasci nated by the sight and after watching it for hours to see if there was any trick about it, finally came to Mr. Dun can and said: "1 am going to die as soon as possible I X am old most of my friends are dead ; none of them has, ever seen water saw wood:. I want to die as quickly as I can So I will be the first to tell them of this great wonder." On , June 28, 1889, the sawmill caught fire and was destroyed, with all the lumber that had been sawed for the proposed village! Within a week Mr. Duncan was on his way to Portland, where he purchased another, complete sawmill outfit and equipped a larger and more modern sawmill. Within three months the mill was in operation and a new lot of lumber was prepared to build a village. a Mr. Duncan decided to publish a paper to b called "The Metlakahtlan" and also to issue a hymn book and church manual In the Tsitnshean tongue. He had no equipment neither did h know anything atoout printing;, but that did not deter him in the least He sent one of his schoolboys td Portland to learn how to set type and run a prss. The Indian boy came to Portland, learned his trade in a local printing office, and bought a press, type and other equip ment and returned to Metlakahtla, where he taught other natives the trade, and the first issue of the Metlakahtlan WINTER TRAVEL IN SIBERIA By Paul Wright Special Correspondence to The Journal tfid Tbe ("hicaao TJailr News. This is the fifteenth installment of S series of railway travel notes, , showing transportation and other conditions in Siberia, by one of the special-' corTespcBUents serving The Jouraal from that country. VerkhnS Udinsk. Trans-Baikal Rus sia's monumental patience, its dogged determination, is one of the many evi dences of greatness that the visitor in this land discovers among the people. Before he has been here many weeks he realises that along with patience, the Russians have other admirable quali ties of mlndt and soul. .Presently the stranger is aware that he's losing what ever disposition he may have possessed at flfst to condescend ahd patronise. He finds himself saying over . and over again i "This thing is admirably done," "That achievement is splendid," "In this respect the plodding Russians are evir dently In advance of the western na tions," "This device shows ingenuity, fer tilliy of Imagination." Here are men tioned a few points of Russian excel lence, chosen at random and offered with no attempt at methodical treat ment: The tipping system has been done away with.. An evil that is growing in America. t the injury, of waiters and dren, but they never loved them enough to have any, and are always ready to criticise other people's. I d hot blame anyone for not renting furnished rooms to people with small children, but it has gone even farther than that In Portland. N one her seems to want children and it really is amusing to not how th landlord expects t charge , $40 a month for a $15 house, and then expect it to Show no signs Of wear, and he never want to do any repairing. It is all clear profit h wants; and most all of them here are making as high as 20 per cent on investment. Z have been in many cities, but I am honest when 2 ana a me place to llve-if you hav.4 say that Portland Is a beautiful eity nd children. It has surely become Very necessary that a law be passed to punish those people who class children with dogs and cats. I know ot a man. and a minlstef at that who - has a house, and h says. "NO children, cats or dogs, nor music of any kind. I know of a man In De troit Mich., who built In opposition to- th average landlord, a fiae lot of house and flats and would not rent to anyone without children,- and Ji has no trouble, and they are just a nice home as there are in the city. Of course, they haven't oak floors and delicate thing like that but are very modern and a perfectly fit place to live. Look' around Portland,1 and see "some of tho ptg etys people have to live in. at bis? nt and you will surprise yourself. Profiteering NEWS IN BRIEF - OREGON SIDELIGHTS ftoseburg' ninth annual Strawberry v.amivai, in connection with the timp- 3ua Sportsmen's tournament, has been ated for May 23 and 4. a a P. ft Weaver of Myrtle Creek has marketed a hog that weighed 671 pounds on foot and at 15 cents per pound, the price paid by th purchaser, netted Mr. Weaver 1101.25. a - Tom Walnaniwtt" writes the Madras Pioneer's Warm Springs correspondent "gave big feed to hia friends and neighbors last Friday. Hi-as close pot lacb mamoke hl-u.tillicums." s The work of; organising industrial clubs Is making great headway, says J. Alton Thompson, county school super intendent of Peschutes couhty, quoted In th Bend Press, Hog and poultry raising and cooking will be the main features this year. a. m "The demand for labor is yet SO much greater than the supply that 14 per day is said to be offered for un skilled men at the bay," says the Co auille Sentinel. "At that rate no one need Worry about the returning soldier finding it difficult to get a job." appeared in November, 1818. In the fail of 1888 the Indian colony secured a con tract for furniture from a local dealer at Portland. Occasionally you will see. even todays ' in some Portland second hand store a substantial, well made yel low cypress bedstead or bureau that hails 'from Metlakahtla. The old mall steamer Idaho rarely made a trip north in the late '80's . without taking: freight or supplies from Portland to 'Metlakah tla. , ' , as John W. Arctander spent sev eral summer vacations with Will iam Duncan and tells in his book, "The Apostle of Alaska," some most Interesting incidents about this hard headed old Yorrthireman. Early In the game Father Duncan realised that he must teach the Indian children trades. In 1870 he left Metlakahtla and Spent a year in England and learned the follow ing trades so as to be able in turn to teach his Indians : The making of soap, brushes, baskets, rope, shoes, brick, tile, dressing deer skins, photography and the manufacturing of woolen goods, in cluding carding, spinning, weaving and dyeing the wool. He spent some time in Manchester, learning how to card and weave wool. Me went to Yarmouth to learn rope making. He also learned cooperage here. After learning these trades he decided to buy band instru ments for his Indian boys. He heard of a manufacturer who had given his workmen a splendid set of band instru ments. He thought possibly he 'might be able to buy them second hand, as he understood they were no longer used. There were 20 instruments and after a little talk about what they would mean to his boyB,the manufacturer gave him the instruments. a a When Father Duncan landed in Vic toria, he found he would have to wait eight days before taking the vessel for the north. He went to the best musician in Victoria and told him he was willing to put in 12 hours a day for eight flays, and wanted to learn how to play all SO of the fnstruments. The teacher ex plained that it was perfectly impossible, but Mr, Duncan, when a boy, had played the violin and the flute and had sung tn the choir, so he put in the entire eight days learning how to, play the instru ments. He organised a band at once, and within a year the Metlakahtla Brass band . Was famous. It made a trip throughout the Pacific coast states, at tracting much attention wherever it went. " Metlakahtla has four official holidays --Christmas, New Year's, the Fourth of July and FlOneer day celebrated an August 7. Ort August 7. 1887, the na tives moved from old Metlakahtla, off the Coast of British Columbia, to new Metlakahtla, near Ketchikan. The Ca nadian government had decided that the Iftdlam had &o legal right to the land they occupied. President Cleveland was appealed to, and set aside a reservation for them on Annette Island. The Whole tribe moved to this little island off the Alaskan coast and transferred their al legiance from the Union Jack ' to the Stars and Stripes. Others Who eerv the public, has re ceived in this land of caste a blow from which it has not yet recovered. True, in some reactionary centers the tipping evil has reappeared, but it is not in good stsnding. Anybody who tries the new plan is better satisfied to know that 10 per cent of the bill goes to the waiter and that it is not an affair of generosity. The Russian bath is a noble institu tion, practically all Russians bathe once a week; quite likely the average Russian bathes more frequently than some folks who have hath tubs in their homes. Furthermore, the Ruslan had In stitutionalised his bath before the bath tub was known in western Europe and America. The Russians have developed coopera tion to tf higher degree than was ever dreamed of in the United States. The cooperative societies have been of im mense benefit to the people and soldiers in these years of war, in tns "sobrortias" and "narodny ocms" ciuds and public meeting houses -all over the land there are amateur theatrical performances that would put to shame the amateur actors of the states. These people have a natural dramatic talent iCoprrtsht. lols. b Chicago tJail Ne Co.) been worse than terrible, and I don't think they need any pity. A READER. Says Let the Russians Alone Portland, April ll. To the Editor of The Jourrfal The American soldiers' mutiny in Russia proves that the Amer ican people won't stand for false doc trines. They know, that they have no business tn Russia. Some people don't realize the conditions in that part of the world. The boys don't see any rea son for fighting over thre. If the Rus sians want Bolshevism, let them have It After they fail to accomplish success tney win be cured for life. If the aU "Jli k..00p!L ot Rua' Bolshevism would weaken. ; There wouldn't be s chance for their propa ganda. W have, no fear of that spirit here, fof the American people don't rec ognize It We would be better off In trading with Russia, and thereby profit than send men over to stop bullets, for ne reason. MARK JUBITT. Olden Oftfipn Oregon'sXClNril War Governor Was Also a Town Founder. : During the Civil war Addison C Glbbs Was governor 1 ot Oregon, Governor Glbbs was a : native ot New York. Me came to Oregon In 1850 by way of California and located the town of Gar diner, at the mouth of the Umpqua river. j ln 18S9 he move'l to Portland and was Ragtag and Bobtail Stories From Everywhere That's the Stuff! ' A N Illinois , judge ' trying t a case in which the defendant was seeking to avoid paying far a stove he declared he found was second-handed, instead of spending a day getting at the facts by letting he lawyers ask questions, says vappera weeaiy, asked abruptly: "Where is th stove?" "At my home," answered the plaintiff. "Call a taxi r directed the judge, "court is adjourned tiU we get back.'7 The Judge's examina tion of the stove convinced him the stove was new. When the .as was resumed the Judge c'.opped proceedings by order ing t!-e plaintiff to pay for the stove, as ell as court costs and the expense of tne mum. - .- we need more Judges as keen after facts and as disrespectful of legal mossbackism. . The Dogs of Orenco In behalf of the dog of Orenco, and In view of the article In The Sunday Journal of April 13 signed "An Orenco Dog Owner," Gertrude Scott Bernal sub mits the following: 'it. fUr of (lrsnco, ft is plain you think it so . That this place r Just for you And not for ait unlicensed dog or two. Pirese remember our recent fight i?.in(lJnl!'.!Tuti? 6out dogs ill coma to light itiihk uf tha Hun war across th water! Men were not th only ones who fought it. urate dogs were not consuls rad . a SseSae to health, i.?'lJ'r0Tr1 T" rU boundless wealth In seeking, out our fatten boy with first aid. W?.wfuT!f7x U" "kv God ever and. Would that Orenoo wer mors humanely wis And not th faithful dog despise f h"-hf without a Hetna TEL!!r f ?" " much iv. I. , .mMtI bM " noney to siva, As fof ''safety and pc ," " n bl etnd with any polic. Uncle Sett Snow Ssys: I reckon if we had a 75 per cent Us on big estates of say over a million and f. n " .litmus, ana, 90 per cent on all over two million, ori somethln like that the heir wouldn't be able to git high priced lawyers to fight over the remains. Also wa oould' ouiia ooa roacs . thout bonds and some.4 Tfafe News in Paragraphs World Mappenings Briefed for Benefit of Journal Reader GENERAL Rlf V Amsrlnan atni ......... in Central FaYk.Ne'w Trk. WedPeSda as a memorial to the city's herolo deadj A news dispatch from Paris says It? has been decided that Helgoland Shalt be dismantled and. so far as possible destroyed. , 1 More than' $1,100,000,000. has been COM lected by the government as the flrsti installment of tax payment due on month ago. j 2lf?,,,nt8v,et troops, after heavy! fighting, have compelled th Rouma4 nians to begin a general retreat inta Bessarabia. 1 If the decision of the six Important! unions in France is adhered to, May will be observed by a general abstenl Hon from work. j Failure of certain Jewish interests to obtain the Inclusion of a religious )lb ertles clause in the revised Lesgue ot Nations covenant was announced Wed 4 nesday. I It is ellen-nrl that Alhort Pn,i win!,' a German, has confessed to New York authorities that he was paid 160.000 by ucnnaii snnis 10 piace Domos on Brll . . . . r rri. . . v w ' M. VI IISI Vwlt yard, call for Immediate preparation of, a landing place for hydroplanes as a step to permit the carrying out of pracJ , t ,1 1 i-. , .... . . i . .... 1 1 ia ii ucinrsen jnarv isisna an San Diea-fx 3 A anta1l riits tissrtl ttattA r9 tfss.h paraded through Philadelphia to Inde pendence hall Wednesday,- where thejf prepared a petition to President Wilson svnHi.iK i or recognition 01 uie new jvo rean republlo. NORTHWEST NOTES H. E. Momyer, assistant superintend ent of Crater Lake park, reports nlni feet of snow at the lake. More than 1000 chickens perished In l fire which broke out at the Baiser Hart poultry ranch near Beaverton last Tues day. j. Rowland Smith, one of the earliest pioneers of Winlock. Wash., passed away at his home April 9 at the age of 86 years. j George A. Davis, posing as a wOunder war veteran, has confessed at xakim that he was a deserter from the Unite States army. Harmon L. Douglas, retired Call for nla redwood lumberman, died at A ber. tieen Wednesday, after, an Illness Of lesS than 34 hours. J Work has started on an adrfltioii which will double the capacity of th Astoria Pulp Se Paper company's plant on Young's bay, j A special election for territorial dele-l gate will be called in Alaska to fill th vacancy caused by th death ot Charles A. ulser laat Saturday. j Certificates evidencing faithful war service in the Red Cross will be given several hundred Seattle women at exerf Clses in that city on April 22. I The sailing vessel St Nicholas left Astoria Wednesday with a crw of 20S fishermen, who wilt spend five months In th work at Nushagak, Alaska. j Dr. C. Henry Wells, prominent 8 attle physician, met his death Wedna4 day night by falling Into a freight ele4 vator shaft In the Hotel CroekeU Id that city, 1 The Honor Guard Girls, as an organJ location in Albany, passed out of exist 4 ence Wednesday night Funds rmaln4 lng tn the treasury were turned oveS to the Salvation sArmy. 1 State Senator E. L. French of Vans couver has been appointed by Acting? Governor Hart one of the members of the industrial code commission provided for byWt of th laat legislature. 1 Loss to winter grain and stock in the Willamette valley during the winter? months Will not exceed 1 per cent, ac4 cording to F. L. Kent, Oregon field agent of the bureau of crop estimates, Albert cooper, a young boy of Cot4 tage Orove, was seriously burned about the hands and face when he picked Up a bottle of carbolic acid that had been) thrown Into the back yard of his home. Perry J. Lee of Hoqolam has arrived home from Franee with a paralysed arm. He was wounded twice at -Ar aonn and all his valuables and Sou 4 venire which he cherished wer stolen from him. Intelligent Saving Is. Merely a Matter of Postponed . Enjoyment , . , t Sterlet ot aehleveatsnt in th aeraaisla tioa of War Saving Staaspa, seat to The Jaurnsl and accepted for tnibUMtieo. vul b awarded S Thrift Slssap-j Intelligent saving Is postponed en joyment with "interest" added. Intelligent savers really savs to spend for worth-while things. They forego foolish expenditures that later they may buy something really worth white. - - They let small sums, which spent separately would buy little, grow into substantial buying power. . " i Then they have homes Or cars or educations or provision for old age or businesses of their own or. capital Of wife or a real vacation.'5 War Savings stamp will help you get something : to show for your money. , Thrift Stamps and 1019 War 6av imrg rtamrs now on at wzil SRSTlCi-'j. i