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TIU: OiiilGOII DAILY JOUIUIAL, P OUTLAID, FIUDAY, APIUL. 3, -.1313. Fnblbber liihliik4 Amm. fhmm end fmomlnC OX" cut Sunday afternoon I , at Tbe Journal Buiki- n , iiroeae-ay M Xsssnut. sweet, row. i. i.t.r.d a tha postoffioe at Portias. Unfui. for tnaemiaeioa throusb tba Bii ft second '" ciae mitur. lil-EFHONKS Mala tlTs- Hoaaj A-0i, ill cepamnenU reached by theaa sasibers, 1tl tba operator what department res want, 'iUltElUN ADVKBTISINO BEPBE8EN TATTVB Jtrnjimln Ac Kontno Co., Bruiurwirk Baildtns, 225 filth annua, Kew Xerkf 800 Matter Bulldins. Chusaso. . fcutwrriritioa terms by auU to Orates s4 Weh - . lofton; ' ,V;v'' XjaILY (IIOHNWO OS AfTEB00! Ona ya.......0.00Oije month,.,... ,80 - BVVDkX ; - 1 ' Ona year, . . ... .32.10 Ona month. . , . . .3 .23 llAILT IMOBMNOrtArTERNOOir AU Ona yesr. ...... 3T.30 1 One month. . . . . '. What roe want in tha nation yon mutt pnt : Into yout school. ' - Napoleon Bona parte. AN EDUCATIONAL FAILURE ONE drafted man In four could neither read nor write. .The actual percentage of 'illiterates of draft age as revealed when the selective service act was used la raising the army was 24.6. '. . ' -: . Yet wo 'have thought all along that we had an effective educational sys tem. We thought our melting "pot Was : Americanizing ' the great mass that, came a ' million a year from Europe.'- But the draft showed j us that ;-. a staggering percentage could only communicate or be communi cated with - through an interpreter. No nation in the history of the world ever held so- many aliens or permitted any 6uch an unallegianced multitude to share equality with its own people. . With our population so unAmerl canized, it is miraculous that we . A 1 II ' ' axie to ugat ina war ho wen. Here, for instance,, is ; Passaic, New Jersey in which 16 per cent of the population cannot speak English. In FJll River and Lawrence, Massa chusetts, the dismal percentage is 13. What can these people know of American institutions, American ideals or American government T They must get their Information through interpreters and . information so ob tained may be dangerously colored by the purposes or desires of the in terpreter. , v- -f .. .- - - The effect , is for the non-English speaking to gather into groups. The melting pot Is without effect upon them. They are Impervious to'Ame- ican, ideas and American ways of think Inir. : , v , . " No influence Is at work to make them truly American. They have merely changed their place ,of abode from Europe to the United States without coming Into actite contact with conditions and influences that would Americanize them, v The educational system, has here a tremendous, responsibility. It must -of-' state, nation and people In this ... Secretary Lane had a splendid bill before the' late congress , proposing compulsory instruction of all under 21 in' the English language -and other branches, including American Ideals and government. It died on the calendar because congress seemed interested more in peanut politics than in national welfare. The measure should be Introduced at" the coming special session, and public sentiment should Compel mem bers to drive it through and apply it "to the cqun try's school system. "What you want in the nation you must : nut Into vonr achnnle ooM Napoleon Bonaparte. . i And that grim man .never uttered a sterner truth. More than 8,500,000 persons over iO years old in tho United States cannot read an Ameri can newspaper. Without desiring to be unduly curious it might be interesting to .know if, when Robert Throne . of Denver wedded Miss Rose Thomas of Ashland "over the long distance telephone the other day, he delivered the ring through the same medium. A NEW LAW CONGESTION of too docket has I L. been a. favorite ailment of the . ww v vu vui courts a or . ine state for many years past. It has been a disease for which there peemed no adequate remedy, par ticularly in Multnomah county. From time to . time the legislature - pre scribed additional judges and- new districts, but the congestion con tinued. Under the existing law the circuit Judges were given power to call upon the supreme court for the assignment of a judge from another district wh enever : such J udge asked for assistance. The trouble with that arrangement was, however, that Judges hesitated' to admit that they were not able to handle their lltiga-f-ation. The last legislature' provided' a new r!an. ... It has made It -the duty vof ' a ehief justice of ; the supreme :: t to keep tab " on the dockets C. . JACK. SON . of the various circuit court and send to some hard pressed court a circuit Judge who s has time lo spare. In , effect, the supreme justice becomes a sort of director general of litiga tion. All the circuit Judges of the state' are subject! to assignment i by him, and at any time, ht .may: order them to suspend operations in their own courts and sit ' in any other district. - The new law ought to be useful and helpful. It 'should give judges who have little to do, something to occupy their spare time, v There are such Judges as a result of numerous courts created from ' time - to time in districts where there are 'few people and little litigation. If effectively applied, the new law will ' enable - litigants to have v their cases disposed of within a reason able time.- The story from . which ' the play now running at the Hellig was dram atized was written by John Fleming Wilson, a Portland boy. He was" once a reporter on The Journal. Later be established and conducted a newspaper at Newport, Oregon. He has risen to a high place among American writers of fiction. THE FIUME DISPUTE FIUME is a bone of contention at Paris. m The Italian . delegates insist that, along with Dalmatia, it should be ceded to Italy. Italy's claim is based on the fact that its population Is chiefly Italian. But its history is.preponderatingly Hungarian. It Is situated on - the shores of the gulf of Quarnero, about 70 miles southeast of Trieste. r veainiv uiq nuagariou interest in the city its population before., the war was 90 per cent Italian i and Slav, with the Italians : slightly pre? dominant. The remaining? 10 per cent was half Hungarian. The - Slavs, included Croats; Serbs and Slovenes" Across the bay from Flume is- the summei resort of Abbazia, noted for its roses and evergreen laurel. Flume was founded during the Roman period. . It was destroyed by Charlemagne in 199. . . .For a while the Franks controlled the city. It then passed to. feudal lords until the time of Frederick HI, who made it a part of Austria; Under diaries VI it was a free port, but under Maria Theresa - it : was united to Hungary. ' Successively occupied by the French - and ; English it reverted to Austria, and was 'later restored to Hungary.. 'Afterwards It was ceded to Croatia. In 1870, despite the protest of Croatia, It was annexed to Hungary. The older portion of the. city, which is distinctively Italian, is built on the hillside overlooking the gulf. The newer part lies along the .water front. . The port; has three harbors. .The largest, accommodating 150 large vessels, Is "protected by a breakwater one mile long. There are nearly two miles of quay. . The commercial importance of the city is indicated by the fact that be fore the war its manufacturing plants included a government tobacco fac tory, torpedo works, a rice shelling factory, a- , petroleum factory and many smaller plants, among which were sawmills and paper mills. Its fisheries constituted an important Industry. Among ; Its exports were sugar, grain, flour, horses and limber. I The record shows . that Fiume has never been a part of -the present Italy. . It has no standing at the conference comparable with the French claim to Alsace-Lorraine, formerly French territory. Much as we may lean toward Italy and be favorable to. granting Italian claims, It is hard o see how cession of Fiume to the Italians would be compatible with the 14 points which all belligerents accepted as' a basis of peace. - T Hie parade was Inspiring. The music brought back all the old war spirit. The rain poured but It did not dampen the enthusiasm of the big crowds. Could anybody look on the devotion of the marchers and the Interest : of the bystanders and one moment believe that in this last great call of the country, Port land will fail of her quota of Vic tory bonds T HADE IN OREGON D OCK piling, made-o Oregon fir and crcosoted before driving, has recently been pulled from under the Oakland. California. long wharf In unexpectedly good condition ' after having stood the test of service for ; 30 years. Teredoes do not seem to relish a diet of Oregon fir garnished with creosote oiL Untreated timbers, on tne otner hand, offer delectable feasts to the , busy harbor pests. For years the constructors of docks and wharves in - salt water harbors struggled with the teredo problem. without? much success when wooden piling was used. It required but a little while, for the supports to be honeycombed " and weakened 5 by the ever boring Inhabitants; of ; the - sea. Builders turned" to concrete, but It was too - expensive. Creosote seems to nave gone a long way towards solving the ymieaiir-'-'- Thirty yearslaua long time for piling to bear- up" under . the stress of continual service. : Oregon timber did it. and, so far as known, it holds the record.- Jt 1s Just" another proof that Made. in Oregon" goods defy the world. ,'' . - It is a pity that ' it -rained. Th ringing bells, the swinging steo of the gallant marchers,' the tank, the! Highlanders, the nurses, the explod- J ing bombs, the bands of music, and all of the great pageant were an Inspiring appeal to the people to buy bonds, more , bonds and then some more - bonds. " Who could look on the marching fighters,' thinking, of the honored dead who failed to come back, and ot feel a compelling Im pulse to stand by the country until the last war bill is -paid and the curtain rung down on the bloody transaction? - .PORTLAND'S CHINATOWN frHE : heathen Chinee seems to bi 1 an ; inotgestinie morsel for the maw of Portland's police power. He resides apart and alone in the burrows and warrens of - his own mating in" the old part of town, living his own life, following his own customs, enjoying his own bent, fighting his own - wars, and, incidentally and In large part, defy ing the statutes made and provided. To ' the ordinary man. Journeying casually through the streets of Chinatown, there is not much to see. From the outside the buildings differ but t little from other buildings. Strange wares and morsels decorate the windows and the shops, while slippered denizens shuttle silently along. Otherwise It is an Occidental view that greets the eye. But government and city police officials know that things are dif ferent Inside, and underneath. Labyrinths and corridors, hidden stairways and secret doors, peep holes, signals and bars make a for tress of the district beyond the outer works of which the prying white man. may not go unless on suffer ance N3r by force. Behind these trenches and outposts of the Orient strange, and secret activities are supposed to hold full sway, un touched and untouchable by law., The .city council, coming Into action again after many unsuccessful onslaughts, is about to enact a new ordinance expected to batter down tbe.: bars and open up the burrows of the mysterious neighborhood. Its effectiveness will be watched with Interest. It seems strange that there can be so Impregnable a fortification so suc cessfully and so long maintained against the city's authority. It is a condition that breeds long wars, sudden death, and immunity from apprehension or punishment for vio lence and disregard of law. An un barred Chinatown would be a big improvement. - It will be worth noting to see the bars oome down. THE TOLL ON TIMBER F OREST fires have taken their toll of unestimated millions of dollars out of the hills and mountains of Oregon. Started by thoughtlessness and fanned by carelessness they have left whole mountain ranges of blackened and up-pointing snags standing, like melancholy monuments to mark the' criminal waste of resources. How to guard and protect the wealth of the Northwest timber- lands is a most important problem It reaches far beyond ,,the timber owner to touch a large percentage of 'the business, the professional and the laboring men of the: North west states. Much of the prosperity and the employment of the North Pacific coast section is wrapped up in the timber growing in its forests. Burned forests mean ruined owners, abandoned logging camps, vacant mills and idle men. For these reasons the meeting of the standardization committee of the Western Forestry and Conservation association, in session the past three days in Portland, is of especial Im portance to all those interested, di rectly or indirectly, in the timber and lumber industry, a group bounded only by the limits of the entire population. The convention is for the purpose of mapping out and putting into effect the bst and most effective means and methods of combating the fire menace of the forests. Much good work towards that end has already been done, but the danger does not diminish with passing time. Long summer seasons, hot and dry, seem to ; have become the rule. Diminishing forest areas apparently haye had their effect upon -the rain frequency of the summer months. A spark among the trees often means a conflagration. Whatever the organization that has been in session may do to teach carefulness, to . the wanderer in the woods will be a work well done. - One forest fire prevented would pay for all the money and all the time spent in the teaching"; REDUCING RATES E ARE beginning to see that fire prevention : pays. . ., : Portland was recently given a reduction In : Insurance rates averaging about 9.9, per cent in the west side business district and some thing over nine per cent' on the- east side. - -v Before the great fire prevention campaign led by Jay . Stevens, the underwriters macro a survey with a view to raising the rates. The pro posed advance , was .estimated at 15 to TtO per, cent Through the fire prevention campaign.' we got-a re duction instead of a raise. It paid. Surveyors have been sent from San Francisco to Inspect risks for: an. an nounced reduction of rates InvLos Angeles. A year or more', ago, .Jay Stevens began a fire prevention cam paign that stirred Los Angeles to the depths. '.The coming reduction in in surance rates there is the result. Fire prevention . pays in Los Angeles. . The Journal backed the Portland fire prevention campaign with all its strength. . Some ; other Portland papers ridiculed ' It. i The Oregonlan referred to the firemen sent 1 out ; to survey premises and Instruct -the peo ple In - fire .;. hazards as - rmatch In spectors." ; - But ", the ; campaign - was successful, and .its value has been demonstrated, i; Montana 4 is now ablaze with a campaign - against fire carelessness. Jay Stevens was recently there,: and the papersrof the state have been filled with accounts of the fight. Among: other work, Mr. Stevens de livered 75 addresses ., in, two weeks, 6peakmg before commercial bodies business men's elubs, schools and fra ternal organizations ' in Butte, Great Fails and other cities. It is a great work. A man of wonderful effectiveness is leading it America, the most reckless : nation with fire In the world. Is going to be " sobered and the enormous fire waste be reduced. The campaign in Portland should never slacken. It should go on perennially. ' STATES CASE OF JUGOSLAVS Dalmatian. Now America. Citizen, Resists Italy's Claim. By 8. G. Tali of Albany. Or. In Tha Journal on March 1 and" S there was shown a chart of the territory claimed by Jugo-Slav races, and an article which stated that the Italian delegation at the peace conference now at Paris have voted unanimously to quit the . peace table unless Italy gets justice under the terms of the secret treaty. It was also stated that the map showed tho land in dispute between Italy and the new Juro-Slav state, formerly belonging to Austria-Hungary. The manner in which these facts were presented tends to mislead the reader who is' not familiar with the history of mat portion or the country and with the conditions that exist In the provinces of tho Carnlola, Istria, Croatia, Eibvonia, Bosnia, Herzegovina and Dalmatia, all Of which are populated by . and have been developed by the Slavonic race. It is not correct to say that these prov lnces formerly belonged to Austria Hungary ; the word "subjugated" in stead of the word "belonged" should have been used. Then the statement would not have been misleading. I was born and raised In one of these provinces, namely. Dalmatia, on a small island in the neighborhood of the city of Dubrovnlk (Ragusa), and am there fore familiar with all of the coast from Trieste in the north o Cattaro in the scutn, ana Know tne conditions as they existed up to 1890 during my residence in that country. I left Dalmatia in 1891 and came to the United States, which country I have adopted. I know, that the Slavonic people have always longed for the time to come when they would be enabled to establish a government of their own race and for themselves, and thus free themselves from the yoke of foreign governments. If the world war had not started as it did by the Sara jevo episode it would have started later at the death of Francis Joseph. These people had respect for the old ruler and did riot wish to rebel against the gov ernment during his reign, but the torch was Ignited , before his end by other speculative sources. ' Now Italy wants to conquer those people by force of aggression.. Italy wants the control of the Adriatic for what reason? For fur ther expansion. Is that a democratic step that will create a world peace? It has been claimed that this was a war for democracy, to insure world peace by giving to the people the right to voice their wUl as to the form of government they desire. It may be that there are some cities In the province of Istria in which a good percentage of the inhabl tanta are in favor of Italy. In such in stances It Is--quite proper for the arbi trators to consider the facts and disclose how such a condition mm.y happen to exist.. . The explanation is that Italy is overcrowded, and whenever any work o other development starts In a neigh boring country, her working class starts Ait and': this class Is followed by the business .class, and when once located they are there to stay. They not only establish themselves In the new country ana use me resources raisea ana manu factured there, but they practice an emigratory ; sort of business by trans porting their produce from their home country not only wares, but even fresh vegetables,, etc As soon as an observer investigates me extent or tne Italian predomination in the country, he will find the Slavonic population scattered everywhere, and even where the Italians seem to predominate, there will also be the Slavonic race In abundance, and yet they may be in less than a dozen places, including cities and towns. - The Italian government contends that Trieste 1ind Flume favor the Italians; therefore, Italy should get it. The claim for Dalmatia is that, as it used to be tinder the Roman empire, therefore, it should go to Italy. Aren't parts of Asia ana old Greece and portions of other countries of Europe, such as Eng land, France and Oeraaany. also for mer portions of the old Roman empire? Why does not Italy put the claim to those countries for the prestige which the old Roman nation used to exercise? No, it does Dot ; because it- knows that it could not get them, but turas to the people who at the present time are un able to turn it off, and is making aU sorts of claims, no matter how unjust, in order to grab and subjugate those Slavonic people.-and tf it succeeds in dcing se, it will be' an unjust and bold crime that would be committed by one Of the civilised nations toward a group of people who at the present time are helpless to withstand any aggression and who never would have another -chance to realize their wishes as to the unity of their own people and to have a govern ment of their race. Those people are proud of the name of the race by which they are known. They have been in habitants of that country for more than 1E00 years fend have worked hard to de velop it, Hundreds of years ago those different provinces used to be separate governments ot their own, and at dif ferent times have been Intruded unon and overrun by Turkish hordes; they managed to prevent - becoming enUrelv extinct, and started anew.' This fs the reason they have never developed a strong nation, and. as conditions exist at present, their very existence Is' in the balanoe. depending lp alt upon whether justice before the world will be 'done. ' ft appears in the press from time to time that the representatives of h United States In the peace conference are trying to have justice administered according to the principles of world de mocracy, but as reported by the press there seems to be an Inclination among representatives of different nations to follow the course of egotism : Instead of that of democracy. As an lllustraUon. I will put It like this : If the population of . New York city, should be gtvea the privilege to take a vote to determine the form of govern ment the. city should have, and as sta tistics show the majority of the popula tion of said city are foreign born, the foreign vote would overcome that of the United - Suites citizens, ' how would the United States government and Its citi zens take itf Would they submit to that vote apd . permit New ; York city to be given up to any foreign country? I guess not. The above iillustratlon is Identical with the claim the Italians have ; to the - Slavonian territory. The Jugo-SIava depend wholly on the com mercial resources of , the territories of Trieste and Fiume. and. they are the principal inlets and outlets, for the im ports and exports of that country, hav ing dock and railroad transportation facilities. If the Jugo-Slavs are deprived of their claims, which leglUmately: and In reason belong to them, it will be a plain proof of the purpose of those who make It so In entering the world war. Letters From the People, ' Communication aeat to Tba Journal for pub lication la UUa dapartoMnt afaoold b written oa only on aide of tba paper, bmitd not eseeed 300 fforda in length, and moat be aisoed y tba writer, viMae atail addrcas is full stoat araoopiajr the contribution. I . . . The Case of Mr. Bowles I"ortland. April 2Jk To the Editor of The Journal Referring to Mr. Bowles' pessimistic article in your Issue of yes terday, I would say:' First it seems to me that for one vho has been taken care of by the administration as Mr. Bowles has been (for many kindnesses have been shown . him), he has shown mighty little gratitude. Second, If what Mr, Bowles says is true, don't you think Portland will be a pretty good town to get away from while the going :s good? Opposes Police Organization Portland. April 23. To the Editor of The Journal I see there Is some objec tion to policemen organizing themselves Into a union and affiliating with the American Federation of Labor and the Central Labor council. The police de partment is not a tradesman's organ isation, nor is it a labor organization. It is a civil service Job, strictly under the rules and regulations of the civil serv ice board. Any attempt of policemen, firemen or any other city employes who work under and subject to civil service rules to ally themselves with trades unions that are believers in strikes, lock outs, picketing or any radical measure to force better conditions, should be nipped in tho bud. If the Central Labor council is allowed to mix into city af fairs and dictate the civil service rules and regulations under which employes of the city are to work, the heads of the departments, from mayor down, will lose all control of city employes and radical elements will rule. If they do not suc ceed in making the rules and regulations, they ?will control the men who work under civil service. Therefore any fu ture rules made by -the various depart ment beads cannot ana will not be car ried out effectively. The radical outside Influences are fast getting hold of our city departments. and little does the city council realize the extent of that Influence. If we are to retain civil service, in the city of Portland, let us have it straight, or else vote it out and go back to the olden days of political favoritism. There are abso lutely no rules and regulations govern ing the fire bureau today, and the Cen tral Labor council has practically the whole department In its grasp. Now the police department is going over into' the union labor ranks, which is entirely foreign to both police and fire bureaus. If radical changes are not made In regard to city civil service em ployes. It won't be many moons until we shall see- what we shall see. Now is the time to swat the pest, which threatens the civil service laws voted lif by the people. - C. B, ANDERSON. I AiSage'.ounseI' ok. the League" J Portland, April 19. To the Editor of Tho Journal To prove, that X heartily sanctioned your recent progressive movement in taking' a ballot on the rat ification of the League of Nations. I on that occasion handed you a number of signed ballots, with only one lone vote of no." we were voting on the most stu pendous proposition that has ever come up for consideration by the people of the world. . And yet the question may be stated fully in two plain English words. to-wlt. Progression and Retrogression. More simple, these two words may be translated Right and Wrong. I am an Oregonlan. and in all, my long Journey I have never experienced a greater surprise than when I read of the indomitable 37 United States senators binding themselves together in a 'league" ("conspiracy miht be a more fitting word) to oppose and defeat, . if possible, the ratification of the League of Nations. As we all know, the ' powers that be" have swindled the government (which spells "the people") out of untold treas ure through profiteering (which again spells "theft"), and are , reading the handwriting on the wall ;' which means that the day . is dawning when specula tion in things which the people produce. and should and must have in great abundance, must cease. This being true, if said "powers can, through the 37." defeat the League of Nations. they wiU still be left with an avenue to future wars. But poor deluded creaturesthey ought to know that, even though the United States senate should defeat the ' ratification, "governments derive1 their, just powers from the con sent of the governed." Now, the basis of all power, -and the court of last re sort, is the people. When that appeal is taken, and it will be taken If need be. the league will be ratified on the infal lible principle of right. A surprise to me was when the Idaho legislature, by unanimous vote, memo rialised the united States senate to de feat ratification of the league. If this is true, I .don't know what the people of Idaho are going to do about it. I lived a number of years on the border between Oregon and Idaho and know s great many people on the Idaho side of the line, and to all appearance they are equally progressive with ua on the Ore gon side. I know In advance what progressive Oregon will do if either of our tienators Is enrolled in the list of the "indomitable 37V- Wo will simply relegate him.. As for -Washington, if she does not liandle Polndexter In her own reasonable way. she will be Justly, and righteously disgraced eternally, forever and amen. Senator Borah now suggests a plebis cite, but says, that Is "impractical and cannot be worked out because of the time It would take and the concurrent action required In so many states." The sen ator's ; suggestion comes . late, as , The Journal has already demonstrated. As to the time It would . require, it is of small moment in this most momentous question that-has ever come -before 2 the world. Besides, It would not require to exceed 30 days to settle the matter right, and It would be fax-better to take the time required than to settle it wrong, which would be equivalent to no settle ment. ANOTHER OCTOGENARIAN. Says Salt Needn't Harm nogs'? Joseph, April . 20. To the Editor of The Journal-In .The Journal of April 19 I read an article saying a person could not feed a hog all the salt he would eat, as it would cause him trou ble and oftentimes death. - I would like to know who wrote the article, and what authority he had for making such statement. - x nave raised in the last 10 years something like 1800 hogs and have always kept salt in a trough where they could go and est it any time they wished to do to. I very seldom liave s sick hog, and in aU this time I have never lost more than two or three hogs a year. It is fact that If one lets his COMMENT AND r ", : SMALL CHANGE Welcome the Oregon to home waters. ; There seems to be fuming about Fiume. , good l deal of -Up-state Oregon Is knocking out s hit in the . Victory loan series. Th cigar makers strike in Florida Is over. The cabbage crop has never failed. , ,'. Apple blossom time in Hood River has been delayed a week, tut it will come aU right, . ..:...;. Astronomers are probably the only persons who are altogether satisfied with night work. .. The storks are back In Strassburg after an - absence . of five years. Now watch Strassburg grow. . Every tune we start to tell about tho victory garden we re going- to have this summer, someone tells about a better onen -it - -: . . A Portland man arrested three tim-s In one week was fined 3300 on the last charge. , Rather an expensive habit, we'll say. ' MEN AND INSTITUTIONS OF THE - OREGON COUNTRY By Fred ' fAa appeal within an appeal, la the atrae ture of Mr. locklrr'e pieaentation tat tha day. It ia all tor the Victory Liberty loan (or tha tinirhinc of tne task aararaed by America oa accepting the challenge of the lino. On Wednesday I took part in the Ad japlub Victory parade. We marched from the Benson hotel to Liberty temple by twos, carrying flags In the center of which was the letter V. As I marched I could not help thinking of an article I had Just read In The Dalles Chroni cle. . It was written by Alvln L. Buck lin, and because his heart was in it,, it rings true. He says : "The other day I saw a photograph Of a graveyard In France, where rest the honored andheroio dead who gave their all. that liberty might not -perish from the earth, row upon row of wooden crosses reaching into the distance as far as the eye could discern. "I considered this the receipt for vic tory. Victory was won at a tremendous price, for many of our bravest and best sleep now , over there just back of the Inferno where they met their death." . ; "At what a cost was victory won! Mothers and fathers, sisters and broth ers, wives and sweethearts In this country" listen in vain to hear the foot fall that will never come. Someone's dearest sleeps In a grave on French SOU. e e . "There Is no calculating the value of a human life. It is beyond the value of mere dollars.' Some have paid the bill of liberty with .their lives. Some have paid the bill by the gift of sons and brothers and fathers. "Yet the bill is not fully paid. Some of us have not given our dearest that the scourge of the Teuton should not WINTER TRAVEL IN SIBERIA By Paul Wright Special Correspondence of The Journal sod The r Chicago Daily Mews, IThis is the twentieth installment of a series of railway travel notes showing transportation and other condition in Siberia, by one of the apeeial eorraspondents aerrins The Journal from that country. 1 - - In Siberia Again We have, finished the tedious 1064 mile ride across Man churia In our Red Cross train and the Chinese have begun to disappear.; From the car windows we see camel trains crossing the plains at a great distance. We also , observe herds of horses, watched over by mounted cowboys or whatever the Russian equivalent terra wolud be. - This was a day of accidents. Early In the morning the train was stalled when an engine blew out a flue and they had to let the water entirely out of the boiler,! That engine was "finished" properly, as they say out here, leaving us stranded in the middle of an Im mense rolling plain near a stopping place with a welt built station house and two or three dugouts and nothing else hu man In sight, except the steel rails, sti etching on and on forever. . - Our train has now 43 cars. I walked tip to the end of the train against the sun, and on my way hack froze my nose again. This makes three frozen noses so far on this trip, two Of them mine own. These freezings occur almost Instantly and are comparatively pain less. One minute the member Is s re assuring rosy red, and the next it has a classic marble hue and you begin rub- hogs go without salt for V month or two and then lets them eat all the salt they want , they will eat more than Is pood for them. So will a child eat more ice cream than is good fpr him. If you give him all he wants after being with out all winter. I would advise the writer of that article to buy Hampshire hogs, snd get started right. W. E. BONER. . ' Demobilization Portland, April 23. To the Editor of The Journal Perhaps through your pa per you might be able to find out who is responsible for holding our boys at Camp Lewis for many days after re turning from the battlefields. iy son. Lewis B. Goff. - Company C, 162d In fan try, happens to be one of many that are not discharged or even given iur- i loucrhs to visit their homes after two years of service, jay son nas oswi avi Camp Lewis is days. ; ,j - MRS. CHARLES GOFF. (Secretary Baker and General March recently made a tour of the eaatonmenss ta an endeavor t. h,f. daMabiUaataoa taae piece wiuun a hmn ,hm ntnncd islditn mch the camse. That W ondoobtediy Jhe purpose of tbe head of tne war aepeironeiH. v, w. u.bi. aeems to be delay, postponement ana s wearv aome wsit in many -hunvidaai caaea. Unhap pily, red tape ia a fetteb) in bureaus and de partment, and small fry officer and official worship it. art afraid of tt. end fall down before H. - Tbe Jonrnal ean offer ae othes ex planation. ,'. -i. , . -. Unbounded Praise for Hanson Cberryvale, - April 20. To the Editor of the Journal I - want to give un bounded praise to the speech of . Mayor Ole Hanson in Portland recently. We are arriving at a new age m tne his tory of the world. There is not only grand good sense in this speech but a genuine, sincere sympathy for those who toil and who have been so poorly paid In the past- . "Man's Inhumanity to man makes countless thousands mourn,"'; the poet Burns " once wrote, and it Is - to be hoped that this sad utterance about human beings said to be created "a ' litUe lower . than ; the angels" will not be always true. His heroic snd successful v efforts to pre serve law : and order in Seattle entitle him to the highest estimation of all true Americans. Ood grant the time day come and that. too. right speed ily when the dreams and hopes of this manly, courageous snd . warm-hearted American citisen and earnest lover of his fellow beings will be fully realised, i , J, P. AVERILL. v . Bolshevism Considered f Portland April 20. To the Editor of The Journal I read with much Interest f Mrs. Lew W. Grimm's article entitled, "What-Is Bolshevism? Mrs. Grimm ia NEWS IN BRIEF . SIDELIGHTS 1 : Hood River's annual Blossom Festival has-been postponed to Sunday, May, 4. ' Salem's business men have started in to promote what it is asserted i to he "the biggest and best fourth of July ever celebrated In the Willamette valley. . Any small town, the Woodburn Inde pendent boldly asserts; can exist on $1000 "if it circulates freely and nobody takes some of it outside to another town.". a : Clatsop ; grangers will be guests on May a. of -the Astoria Chamber of Com merce.: The business men have at vari ous times been guests of the grangers and are preparing to return the courtesy. Kurene's street commissioner Is 'doing fast and efficient work with the. city s m tractor, the Register says. In one day he scarified and graded nearly two miles of streets, which would have taken three or four days to do with teams. Demand for houses at Baker was never so great as now. the Democrat says. Among other recommendations, the Dem ocrat urges those who ean build, but are now renting, to build, not only as' a good investment but as a duty, thus vacating for those who can only rent. Lockley corrupt the world1. Peace and freedom have been assured us by the sacrifice of others. In a small way we can pay our debt. The means is at hand. "It la a means that carries but little sacrif ico to most people. IV is by ti-e means of investing money at good In terest In the government's fifth loan, the Victory loan. "Tha war has been won. Some have paid with their lives. Have you paid? If you haven't, consider you have an honest debt to meet. You must pay for your freedom, for the opportunities still guaranteed you In a land of free peo ples. "Vow comes the call upon the home array to pay part of the debt Incurred when eternal peace was purchased by the armies of the allied powers arrayed against the powers of avil. , "Consider the French cemeteries, where sleep the best blood of this land. Constder-what the little wooden crosses denote. Consider that those crosses represent the payment of but a part of the debt. What are you going to do about it? Are you going to pass up s debt so nobly paid In part? "Buy Victory bonds Do it today 1 e e , If you cannot buy s Victory bond, you can still help pay your debt by buying the Victory bond's small brother, the War Savings Stamp, War Savings Stamps are the only alibi for those who say they cannot buy a bond. Every citizen can and should do his part Buy Victory bonds and hold them. It you buy War Savings Stamps, hold 'them. Don't turn them back for redemption. Be a 100 per cent patriot and see the thing through. bl..g with violence. If one is careful one's nose need not peel so very much. The local Russians and Chinese do not freeze up so easily as we from the states And Crawford, an Illinois man. who has been out here for years, says that he does not. We shall live In hopes. The " Chinese cook ... and waiters now have a fine big third class car all to themselves . for sleeping In. . which ve hicle was procured for them at Manchu ria station. They were ready to strike because the dining and cook car in which they had slept was such a rough traveler that it was impossible for them to get their rest. It is almost Impossible to eat in that car while the train is In motion. The coffee refuses to stay In the cup and it Is no small matter to have a cup of hot coffee fly up and hit you In the spec tacles. .Furthermore, the cook complains that he cannot make soup because the fluid simply will not remain In the ket tles while he" Is trying: to boll it. . Perhaps, too, it is just as well that the Chinese should not sleep In the cook car. Last night, st Manchuria station we were handed a bulletin by the last group of our American Russian railway service corps men, saying that the Americans are to be given the technical manage ment of the Russian railways, under an Interallied committee, according to an agreement reached in Washington. The previous announcement of a few nights ago was merely premature. (Copyright. 1919. by Chicago Daily News Co.) one of many 'who don't know the real aim of the Bolshevik movement in Europe. There are many well informed. learned men that differ In regard to the fundamental "principle of the Bolshevlki, In act, it has never been proved that they have a formulated declaration of principles. It is astonishing the differ ent Ideas the unthinking have In regard to what Bolshevism is. I beard s man ask, Who is this man Bolshevlki? Is he an L W. W.. Socialist, or anarchist? Some say he Is an awfully good man, while others say he should be hanged." He wanted to know the reason they would not allow Mr. Bolshevlki to speak In Oregon. v, Bolshevism Is the ruins of a monarchy, or. In other words, ft is a rebellion against the oppression of capitalism. Never before In our history has the world been so confused as It is today. Our econorala problem is the greatest problem that was ever before the world. The great wrong of the capitalist system Of the world is like a boil on the human body. It will ache, thump and beat until It bursts Then the principles of, social and economic justice will triumph. E. A. UNSCOTT. For the Anti-League Senators Washougal." Wash., April IS. To the Editor of The Journal By way of sug gestion, wouldn't It be a good idea to put into the hands of those opposing the League of - Nations (the united States senators and others) a copy of Kipling's Recessional"? It might awaken some thing In thVm which ha not become ac tivethat Is, ; spiritual insight. ' . - F. V. MOSS. Older Oregon First Public Schools and Sunday Schools in Douglas County. . , ' Two Sunday schools and two public schools were organised in Douglas coun ty as early as 1S5L Tha first Sunday school was opened by A. R. Flint la bis own home on the site were Winchester was built, j The second was .organized about the same time at Bunton'a Gap, afterward known as Wilbur. This Sun. day school was organized by B. J. Grubbe and Calvin Reed. Is the same year one of the publle schools was con ducted under a temporary shed made by icaning long planks against a pole that rMtxi nn niftk Mvcxinl ngb rmm near where the Wilbur parsonage now stands. - A Mr. Eason was teacher. Tho other school was located on a mound (on Thomas Smith's land elaim, in a log cabin, and conducted by James Walton. Ragtag and BotyaU; Stories From Everywhere i The- Ethics of the "Exclusive" 1 "THE Seattle strike was full of sur- s prises, but they weren't always pleasant ones." said Mayor Ole Hanson ot Seattle, at the luncheon given re cently in his honor bv the Portland Press club at the Hotel Portland. "However, after It was all over, the happy ones began pouring in. . I began, to get telegrams from big Eastern mag azines asking me for the story of the strike. . The first came from McClure's, and I wired the story at once ; the next day one came from Everybody's, and the: next day one from the Americas ; and so on for a week. ' It was great stuff for me,! I sent them all a story. Having visions of all those fat checks I was going to receive, I met Tom Dil lon of the P.-I. on the street one day and told him of my good fortune, add ing that McClure's had offered me 3500 : and as I had sent the same story , to all of them. I expected the same amount from each. . ;:- v,..-'- I " 'Good Ood. man ! Get those pub lishers on the wire all of them except McClure's and kill those stories V roared Tom. f . - "I did! anrl (hw (M wA lllv. sry career with Incidental checks end . . . ended Kiln, to to vnen ana mere. Old Stuff When Johnny cornea aaarehlag t . :n i ... ... home Te have him riae at balf-pae fov sad to bed at nine: hiu uamnv line He n never care to go downtown ia teem ear Tillage email; 4 Temptation will not bother him. for heU here seen it aU. - 4 -Ksnaas City $ta. Uncle Jeff Snow Says: j It 'pears like them there statesmen st Paris had a idee they was a-playln boss with President Wilson, and they've woke up to the fact that they're a-playln' poker, with the marked decks throwed In the stove and a new deal all round. The News in Paragraphs World Happenings Briefed tor Benefit of Journal Readers ( ' GENERAL J A bill has passed tbe California leg islature providing for a 10-hour dgy for women In domestic service. j Germany has Instructed the Argentine government to deliver interned German steamers to the United States. j A strike affecting freight handlers 'at all railroad staUons and piers In New York was authorised Wednesday night. Permits for H.OOO.OOO in new buildings were issued in Chicago during April. The total figure for March was tB.OOO. oou, . 1 It la said that the government of Bt-la Kun In Jiungary has announced Its readiness to retire In favor of a 8oclaI 1st cabinet. The soviet government of Hungary has asked for a suspension of the Rou manian offensive and the arrangement of an armistice. 1 John Cope, biologist with the Ameri can Antarctic expeditions of 1914-1917. hopes to leave London soon on s flight to the south pole, J On April 21 an official announcement by the war department said 120,27 men from the army overseas were at sea en route to this country. 1 Telegraph companies refused to carry" a story printed by the New York World in its edition of last Monday criticising Postmaster General Burleson. Because he was a member of the? I. W. W.. Henry Rappael. a Northern Pa- cific locomotive fireman, was denied American citizenship at Fargo, N. t if A territorial Democratic convention has been called to meet In Juneau May 2 to nominate a candidate for Alaska -delegate to congress, to succeed the late""-" Charles A. Sulzer. , j" Reconstruction of the National Guard was started Wednesday, when the war department authorised the organisation of seven regiments, one extra battalion of Infantry, - one squadron of cavalry ana 1 a companies or coast artillery. lery. j a S50.VO NORTHWEST NOTES Aberdeen Is planning to build a $50,(00 clubhouse for returned soldiers and sail ors. 1 Clackamas county has furnished 3(00 pounds of clothing for the refugees in Europe. Mrs. Sophronla Campbell, aged 91 years, one of Oregon's early pioneers, died at Willamina. a few days ago. Qorg M. Hyfand, former editor of the -Vancouver Columbian, will shortly leave for France on a special mission, Robert Salyer has been arrested 'at Spokane on a charare of Mssinsr bad checks at Pendleton amounting to $100. The summer term of the Oregon Nor mal school will open June 23. Provis ion has been made - lor sit regular courses -----. si , A total of 500 was raised during the college year tor the woman's building project by the Women's league of the ' university of Oregon. j f Salem druggists will be prohibited . In the future from selling bay. rum and similar, concoctions containing gener ous supply of alcohol. Major General William H. JoMleten, formerly commanding tbe 91st division . in France, has been assigned to. the command of Camp Lewis. 1 - Tacoma police are of the opinion teat the death of Orville Billings last Tues day nlarht was caused by a shot from a - gun held In his own hands, j A committee of men from Montana- appointed by the governor of that state, were In Astoria this week Inspecting the . port's facilities for -handling grain. 1 Five brothers, members of the Sigurd- - son ramuy, nave served through .the war with Uncle Sam's fovces. and re turned to their home In Warrenton. I A barn which was being com hie ted: at a cpst of about 12000 on the John Shel-' ton place near Sclo, collapsed last Sat-I urdsy, wrecking a valuable automo bile. . --. . i ' . i :: Joannes K. Mamareles. a bootblack; - walked into victory hall at - Taooma Wednesday with $1000 In silver, gold and currency snd exchanged It for Victory bonds"' -y.',-.&ifX-;'xf-$'y:. 'i j W. J. Patterson, s real estate dealer of Portland,-is under arrest at Eugene, charged with setting fire- to 80 tons; of hay with intent to . defraud ; insurance ' companies.- , . i A weddlngf ceremony by long distance telephone was an occurrence In Ashland last Sunday,- when . Mis Rose Thomas became the wife of Robert Thome, who is located m Denver, (uo,, w , :. J - Tho statute of limitations ' has (no meaning to E. It, Bra Han of Summer ' Lake, who arrived at Bend Wednesday to pay 120 debt which he had con-' trscted with C. 8, Steals 37 years ago. - . War .Savings Stamps Are 1 , Little' Brothers Tp .Victory Bonds - :" f Stories of aehleeesaenc the aecamata- tion- of Wat Serin-' Stamps, wi; te Ta ' Journal end accepted for pubbeatkm, will ; awarded a Thrift Sump, j t , . . - ..... - . - I '1 War Sav in go-Stamps. lHte brothers to Victory bonds, are the Sllbl for folks who say they can't afford to buy bonds ' The War Savings Stamp organ ization is coordinated with Victory bonds, and both stamps and bonds are offered : by the United States government for the same patriotic purposes. ' War Savings Stamps helped might ily toward winning Victory. They -will help mightily In clinching It. i Thrift Stamps snd il War Sav ings 8tsmpa now on sals at usual agencies. v i j