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THE 0UCII --- - . T T 'a INDEPENDENT " kewspapeb c a. JACSfcOX. , .PvMiaba Sl-ubltnliad ry or. aftroooe Jmd moraias Building, Broadway (Da Portland, Ortcoa. V. XmhiU (treat. Kotored it the Portoffw at Portland, OntoBj for, trintmimloa utronca low elM BtUM. -' - ' ; ".- ' . liXKPHONKS Mta t!7( Hon. J Tall tha epuator what Oprtotnt 7Q want. ORIUM ADVtaTISlNa BEPBE8E.STAT1VB 52ft FiftA aaee. Waw.Xoekj e MaUara ' ' BnlfcllB Chieaso. -- fcubwrirtlnn oT F W tlx IJntUd Btatai or MLm.wm, 5 DAILY MOKM.NO OB AFTKRNOOrO On tir..M.M.I)0 I On meets. . .8 SCXDAT. yrar. . . . .2.o t One TJMBtk. . ...$ . VfcAILT UIOBNINO OB AiTEBNOOH) AND - SUN PAY . -. - On yaar.....8T.B0 j On saot,....$ .68 For those who aea Troth and woald -follow hr; for thoaa who raoocnU Ututic nd would Ud for her, mcms is not too ; only thine. Binem! Why. Fajaahood haa of too that to r'i and Injuatice often haa that to ir. Mut not-Tratb and Joatiee hare aematalnc to ! that la tsalr own by proper ni(ht thtlri In aaaanea, , and Dot by accident? Henry Oaorga. - ' A GOLDEN AGE r- HE tremendous forces, put. in motion oy me war are -visualized in action by the peace con ference yesterday by the adop tion of the principle" that each na tion in - the league shall, as far as possible, : apply the eight; hour day, cne day of rest In . seven, the pay ment of a ; living wage,: equal pay for men and women for tire same work, the right of collective rbar-gaining- and the abolition of child labor and the further principle that labor is not a commodity or article of .commerce. " ' The plan received-the unanimous 'vote of the plenary council. It' is action wholly advisable, but so t ex traordinary as to be almost beyond belief. Time was when the worker 'was not even paid for his service. When the Assyrians and. Egyptians .wanted cheap labor they went' to war and .made 6laves of their captives. After, -that came the feudal system, rem nants of which, with the worker ' abound to his master, still existed in : modern times in some countries, .pf ,! . Remembering . serfdom and ' the stages of unutterable penury and ; struggle through which labor " has ; Tgradually risen, the spectacle of . ce-1 gotiators at ; the mightiest i of all ! peace conferences legislating for all workers in all ' countries to be I granted dignity, a living wage ? and I decent living conditions is a glorious! even If a long delayed recognition i Nof the worker. C v ' . . - ' - - I ; Carried - out, the effect would be 'to relieve workers in America from f competition with European pauper labor and give to the workers or all countries a new and golden' age. It is good news' to hear that the battleship : Oregon is not to be scrapped. It would be a shame to j scrap so value! ft scrapper. A NEW LAW Vi UNIFORMITY In city bulldlnr is i H l a modern idea. . Our fathers ffl never thought . of It, or if they V did they never observed It. The -eow trails of Boston became - the ,.treet3 of the metropolis of Massa 1 chusetts. . Skyscrapers , have sprung j up beside inconspicuous 'buildings, I hotels and apartment houses ! are built where shacks nestle side by side with them. Everything has been i hodge podge v without order or ; thought of civio beauty or conveni : ence. ; v r-osr ; i . What has been true In the East vhas been true," to a , lesser extent, .In the West,' until finally publie spirited people began the agitation , .for the formulation of some definite plan Of city building. Beautification of the city has not been the Aole, or the major objective. Distribution of population, relief from congestion, economio - reasons,' have been the basis upon which such "movements have been founded and 'have grown. ' -J Existing conditions,"; and possible .relief Jrom themi were taken into consideration by the last legislature when it gave municipalities the power to govern, guide and ;" restrict ' the i construction of buildings, both publie and private, within their boundaries. "When the new. act becomes effective in May city authorities may divide i their cities into districts within each i of which certain kinds and sixes of i structures may not, be erectedV Not ! finly is power given to regulate the height 1 of-.3- publie buildings,- apart ment, tenement, clubhouses and resi- dences. but their sire and the class of tenants to reside In them of busi- ' j ncsses to be conducted In them. -5 Certain, districts may be set apart snd designated for particular kinds of business and industry, while re C f trlctions may be provided " that ; will bar the construction of build ings 'ntended for use not in keep- . 5ng with tho general character of the district. t v . rijnicipaljUes having c'ty planning commissions are required to secure recommendation from-, such commis sions fcefore mapping out van y plan of restrictive districting, Vhlle in those not having such commissions the administration of the , - law is tested in the city council solely. During the consideration of the act by the legislature It was argued by Its advocates that the time had come when city authorities . should be given power to control and regu late the laying out and construction of Oregon cities, In order that future needs could be foreseen and taken care of - in the beginning. It was pointed out that Portland has no alleys in the downtown district, a lack which causes congestion and confusion Jn. the busiest sections where crowds are densest and street space most In demand. .-.- The law grants wide powers and vests . broad . discretion in the : city councils of the . municipalities. THE PLUCKED PEOPLE T HERE were fair promises when establishment of the Marquam Gulch park and playgrounds was proposed. .' It was to cost only $100,000. Ac quirement : of property sites : by the public was to be easy, so it was said. It' was a beautiful and simple prop osition, It was also said. But the dream did not come true. The, public "was a buyer Of propert&J and, as a buyer of property f or'.com mon use In Portland, the public is al ways skinned." i'The old" and never- varying; Idea that it Is proper .for everybody to! Join, In and make the publie suffer was , never better illus trated. ' ; , Though valued for assessment pur poses at only $670, $4100 was allowed by a Jury for feet of lot six, block 72. ' It Is a far, higher price than - like Irvington property will bring. ;.; ti,,;ivr . ..- ' Though assessed' at only : $300, a fractional ; lot in block 73 cost the city, under .'condemnation proceed ings, $2200, or 71-3 times' the assessed value. Only in three Instances was the purchase price less than -four times the assessed value; and in one of these the seller is" what we usually style : a "soulless corporation."J The prices ran in -a number of cases to seven times Uie valuation f- tax purposes, and the average purchase price was five times the tax. price. What encouragement can there be for going forward with enterprises for bettering the city if at every turn in acquiring sites the people must be plundered? Public funds are v sacred funds. They are - trust funds. What' are courts. Juries, lawyers and witnesses, if they give such funds away with no proper regard for the tremendous fact that it Is the people's money, and' sacred. money? 5 . 7- . Down at San Francisco the police recently were called. to quell a riot between 15 union grave diggers out on strike and 23 non-union strike breakers and sympathizers. , The surest way to break such a strike would be for people to stop dying. A BEST OREGON COUNTY VERYBODY in Union county is making money. Many are get ting rich. In four years, dairying quad rupled in that county. v' . Union is one of " Oregon's banner Counties in the Variety of its prod ucts. La Grande, the county seat, has a population of 7000. It Is one of Oregon's best payroll cities. Nor mally the O-W. R. & N. headquar ters there pays out $125,000 a month to employes. Two big white pine sawmills pour their payrolls into county andcity. , Foundries, plan ing mills, brickyards and other manufacturing plants' further swell the payroll total.. La Grande is the only city in Oregon whose government is under the city manager system. People there seem generally satisfied with the, plan. The city" has. many attractive homes, numbers of retired farmers who : are wealthy, nine miles of paved streets, ft splendid Chautauqua auditorium, a paid fire department, with . an automatio alarm " system, and splendid water brought from the mountains 20 miles away. b ' It has a Y. M. C. A., one of the -finest Elk homes. In Oregon, numer ous churches, large department stores, two wholesale grocery establishments and is distributing point for Wal lowa eounty in many commodities. The weather bureau records show one to three nights - a - year below xero about three days of severe heat in the summer, some winters with do sleighing and others In which the tinkling bells and laughter of merry sleighing, parties . are heard for a period of four" weeks. . No- county is more substantial. It is the site Of .the famous Grand Ronde valley, which in immigrant tlmes .the ; weary -, wayfarers heard Of and looked forward to with -yearning , and hope.'; .Soil cropped " there since Oregon was first settled, is still yielding with ; almost undimin ished fertility. -r' ; ; There . is a normal apple crop of 300 carloads, an export cherry crop of Binss and Royal Anns that totals 50 "to .75 ? carloads. The " Maraschino cherry output is , very large. Cove cherries, won - grand- prizes Vat the St . Louis; Panama, Lewis and Clark and Yukon. expositions. The ' normal wheat ' yield is a - mil lion and a half to" two million bushels. The loals. and -barleyyield totals about half that ' aggregate. The wheat js high gradeT 'and " is extensively manufactured into flour by a chain of mills," of which" E. M Kiddle is: the ' head,' and by other mills. '-. r - . " ' -' . - - Union county farmers are highly progressive in thought and practice. They are well Informed on modern farm methods. They are building silos and. growing corn with which to fill them. ' , Production . of corn was formerly looked upon as hopeless, but use of acclimated seed has caused it to be widely and - successfully grown. This, in part, accounts for the quad rupling of the dairy output in the past ' four years. Many claim that Sandridge land produces corn the equal of that of Middle West states. Union farmers are following the modern method of feeding their al falfa and . other hay crops to their own improved livestock. Scientific feeding sheds are in use and in five such sheds recently inspected pure bred Shorthorns and other strains in each numbered from 75 to 200. The purebred fat stock of Union county has led to the 'annual live stock show at La Grande ' and re sulted in, the gathering in of premi ums by Union county livestock in all the big shows of the country. - Union county has- ft population of 20,000. The good roads .spirit has seized the people and they are planning for a big: bond, issue. The public schools, C not ;,- only in the cities but in the rural . districts of the. county, are modern and efficient with higher standards a. constant aim. There are many . men in various lines of business who have amassed fortunes of $40,000 or $50,000, and not a few a great deal more, within the past 15 or 20 years in Union COUnty. '- . ' Bruce bennisfc publisher of the La Grande Observer, ft live newspaper, is accounted among those ..W'ho have succeeded well .with life in Union county. There are farmers who have retired on a competence;' and settled in La Grande, Union ' and : other towns in large numbers. . There are merchants and like men of business who have made their pile and turned over Union county's many profit making endeavors to others. It " is announced that the supreme court of the United States is soon to hear argument on the Julius Wilbur, case, now on appeal. By the time that historic litigation is finally finished the term bootlegger prom ises 5 to be ' marked archaio in the dictionaries and intoxicating liquor only be found in museums. THE AMENDED COVENANT T HE Paris conference has amended the League of Nations covenant to meet as far as possible the objections of opponents in America. v The Monroe doctrine Is recognized. Mandatories are made optional. Vari ous other changes attempt to con ciliate American objectors. Unhappily, opposition in the United States will not be silenced. There are those who do not .yet realize that there was a war. The ease of their swivel cnairs, the excess war profits, the I. W. W., the pea nut partisanship of small men in big station, a surprising ignorance, and the inherent desire of some for war and war profits and excitement. provide a formidable array of those who oppose any kind of a league. An overwhelming majority of the American people favor the league. But a poll by - the Literary Digest showed that of 1377 newspapers queried, 181 opposed any kind of leaguet478 favored the original cove nant conditionally and 718 voted for it unconditionally. The circulation of the newspapers that want no league is 4,326,882, of those that favor the original cove nant if amended, 6,792,461, and of those that favor the original cove nant unconditionally 9386,449. We shall, .therefore, continue to hear of opposition to the league. But in the end, the league will be adoptedby the nations and mankind enter into a peaceful and .glorious existence. V There are few in America who will not wish Samuel Gompers a speedy re'eovery from the injuries sustained by him in his accident of a few days ago. His steadying influence is too vitally important during the readjustment ahead of the country for him to be in retirement at this time. THE MANN PLAN C OMMISSIONER MANN, is entitled to . much credit ' for brinKinjf f orward the plan for inexpensive industrial sites, in Portland. IL H. - Ward and the members of the realty :. board 1 deserve praise , for the strong backing the- have given the . plan. Beyond ' doubt,i-Commissioner . Mann and the others have laid their, finger on one of the weak est ; spots in Portland's situation. ' For some reason; industry after in dustry ' has passed Portland by and gone ttf- rival cities. ' Charges are made that, this results from inability or investor to 'get building sites at prices within reason. It - is "alleged that, ; after- investors have been - sat isfied on .every other point," Portland has been pur out of the running by high priced build'ng sites." Whatever the- facts, the situation Is, well worth public attention. . - Mayor ; 3aker , recognizes the im portance of the plan, and in naming a committee of 15 will select men en tirel y. ; free from en tangling alli- anccs.v It may also be advisable to so enlarge the scope of the plan as to make sure that it harmonizes with the " port as .it may ' be '" finally, de veloped." - Such speed,' too, aa is compatible with wise action is vital. : -There is A country-wide race among investors to, establish new industries.- -The war is going to make new . industrial geography, and - Portland, in bidding, for Industries, VJs . far behind those cities which. have foreseen the future and already, provided desirable build ing si tes. ; - f j ' ' 1 5 ; ; y ; ; i . , .. After tho oleomargarine " manufac turers put the referendum o:. the famous oleo bill enacted by the last legislature it will be up to the voters to say whether' they want to take the butt out of butter. WORLD'S CHIEF EXPORTER "Wfcat the V. S, A. Can AccomplisB by Living; Up to Resources i- By O. P. Austin, Statistician of the Ng. tional City Bank'bf New Tork. . The Industrial resoureea of the tJnlted StaUs so. far exceed those of any other country as to give assurance that we may become the world's chief exporter of manufactures. We are already the world's largest manufacturer, our total output of manufactures in the year im mediately . preceding ; the war having aggregated in value as much as that of any other two manufacturing coun tries of the world, though the manufac tures exported by us were less in value than those of Great Britain or Ger many. The United States produces 40 per cent of the world's pig iron, over 60 per cent of its copper, , 60 per cent of its aluminum, 66 per cent of its cotton, and has over 50 per cent of the world's coal with which to turn the natural products into manufactured form, more railroads for assembling these natural products than those of all Europe combined, and now a t.m. ship . service for their distribution at least equal to that of any other coun try, while of available capital for. the industries our supply far exceeds that ui any 01 our rivals. .'' wnue u. is true that the United states is a large producer of food oiuus, wneat. corn, meats, etc.". it is aiso true that her own people are con suming a rapidly increasing share of wcse proaucts and that the future of our commerce, therefore, lies in enlarg ing our exports of manufactures. Food stuffs, which formed 56 per cent of our exports in 1880, were but 19 per cent in the latest normal year, and it there fore becomes the more necessary that increase our exports by turning into manufactured form as large a share as possible of the manufactur es material wnich we produce. With our own population demanding an increasing share of our foodstuffs and manufacturing material, we must increase our output of manufactures for exportation if we are to maintain our position m we rront rank of exnort. ing nations. Prior to the war we were neck and neck with Great Britain and Germany in the matter of toti air ports, though those countries were . far nea 01 us in exportation of manufac tures. The total value of manufactures entering international trade aggregated immediately prior to the " war over 17,000,000,000 per annum1, of which we auppuea Dut about 11,000,000,000, or one seventh of the total, a thou eh we .- clearly the world's largest producer of manuracturmg materials and turning uui. a. mr larger iotaior manufactures man any other country. While our own conaumntinn nf man,,. factures does far exceed that of any other country, the fact that we have far more of mamifa.ntiirina i than any other country and also far more 01 capital With Which to turn ti natural products into- the manufactured iorm. suggests tnat we should retain for the future a large share of our recent gains in the exports of manu factures. The exigencies of the war so sumuiatea tne output of our factories tnat we actually exported in 1917 over $1,000,000,000 worth f manufactures, as against ti.uuu.uuo.ooo m the year prior to the war. our total exports of manu factures in 1917 being in value actually more than one-half of the grand total of the world manufactures entering In ternational trade in 1913. While thl increase, in the stated value of our man ufactures exported during the war period Is, of course, due in some deeree to higher prices, yet It Is perfectly appar ent irom utese xigures that we did enormously increase the Quantity of our production and exportaUon and that we have therefore the. capacity to greatly ana permanently enlarge the share which we supply of manufactures en tering world markets, and ample sup plies of capital available for that pur pose. This increase in our exportation of manufactures in recent years occurred not merely in war materials, but in fact in all classes of manufactures sent to all parts of the world. The people of South America, Asia, Africa and Oceania have thus made a closer acf quaintance with our manufactures, and we have meantime enormously in creased the producing' power of our factories and the available supplies of capital, and it is therefore in the power of the manufacturers of the United States to so enlarge their output as to enable us to maintain our standing as the world's greatest exporter of manu factures ; and this should include cot ton manufactures, of which we have in the past supplied hut about 5 per cent of those entering international trade, although we produce 66 per cent of the world's raw cotton. New York Disctisses Mayor Baker s Plan From the New Tork Evening Post. Mayor Baker, of Portland, Or., sug- greets a League of Western States as a means of obtaining "adequate considera tion" for the demands of the Pacific coast region and prompter action in re sponse to its representations. The solid South and the solid East, he contends, are walking away with everything they want or need for their development be cause the leaders of those .sections "jrtand shoulder ' to ' shoulder behind : cxperative programme." Harkening to his words. The Oregon Journal conjure tip a vision of Seattle, Portland and San Francisco grouped. .about the peace table tit ratify- a. league covenant giving to each an equal chance at ran traffic water commerce and other desirable things, f "One can ' almost glimpse the beneficent smile lighting the faces -of Seattle's ambassadors as they place the famous Seattle spirit at the disposal of the Portland people. But in so far as such a league. might do away with the Je lousy of port for. port, -city for city, establishing a community of interest and endeavor, it would : plainly have possibilities, v s- Letters From the People - fCommunfcaHoM aent to Tho Joaraal (of tmblieatioa In t hie dopartstoat should ko written en eal otM aid of tho paper. abooSd not eaeotd SOO words la tencth. and moat be aicned or tbo writor, wfaona nail addraaa to full Bust aoeopa. panx tba otribatiOB.J - - A' Man of Peace- Salem, Apr U 27. To the Editor of The Journal What must we as a nation think of the political storm caused by that political wlsard, Wood row Wilson, who stands sternly and firmly above the hurling elements, 'looking down in dis dain upon the pretense and the futility of the would-be autocrats, who in their fury call him everything from a So cialist to an autocrat. Just think of being called an- autocrat : a- Bolshevist Is a respectable member of society com pared to an autocrat, for the autocrat has lost sight of the Godly .command to control himself, but listens' to Satan's voice, which offer him all worldly pos sessions if he will but go out and serve him that, is, go out and get a Job of controlling someone else. Itti so much easier to control others than ourselves, says the tyrant, and forthwith he pro ceeds making warfare on those around him, while he In his egotism condones his own sins as being purified by the wonderful man - that committed them. Just a little ' more i democracy, if ; you please, and ihree more cheers for Wood row Wilson and hi brave stand for us, h.s people.-: Let Italy and other force fight over a, little trlp of land If they will, but Woodrow will stick to princi ples. You can depend on it. It was the autocrat who caused all the bloodshed and sorrow of the past three years, and if it had hot been for the Socialists of Germany -refusing to take food to the front for the German soldiers, even more of our boys would be lying dead on foreign r soil, and when the Gentian soldiers agreed to be taken prisoners rather than fight our boys, many, were surprised but the ignorant loyal slaves of Kaiser Wilhelm . fought us cruelly, brutallr. 'as the beaet behind them bade them do. "Ixyalty Is all-right when It is loyal to principle, not to men, except they be mep Of principle. At present we behold the big national spectacle Of peace leaguers. The autocrats demand that 'which is not Just, while Wilson founded on the rock of truth is not moved either by favor, I promise or threats. There is more grumbling over possessions-than, universal peace condl tlons. .Wilson was blamed by many for not , entering the war ' earlier than he did, but then wisdom is justified by her children. - Wo . entered in time. Any way, Wilson is not a man of war, but a man of peace, and as such he will be known on the pages of history, that wiU accord to him the greatness of George Washington and Abe Lincoln combined. - - -LAURA J; BONE. Great Crises and Great Leaders . Touchet, Wash., April 22. To the Editor of The Journal Your open forum is very interesting and much' enjoyed by one who never declines true knowl edge and broader views on any subject, and I would like to share expressions of idea with some of your worthy cor respondents. It Is said there is nothing new under the sun, and it certainly seems as If history Is repeating itself in present conditions, as we are all familiar with the great commander's edict, as given in the book of Joshua, when he com manded the sun to change its law of force and time to aid him in his battle against 'his enemies. He was obeyed and came out victorious, "and there was ho day like that before it nor after it." We are now facing another great prophecy given us nearly 2000 years ago, and which many believe to be al ready upon us in the person, of General Fboh, the great French commander, and who Is openly called "The Gray Man of Christ, It is said he spends an hour on his bended knees every morning upon rising, and every evening before retir ing, "in- communication with the one he considers the All Highest, the ruler of mankind, winner- of battles, and upon whom he bases hts hopes or victory. But General Foch Is not alone in his mental superiority; since-our own wise, noble and beloved president, while s suming the role of Joshua In changing the time of the sun, has also become a brother with Christ, if not the real re turning spirit. In that he is chosen liberator, so to speak, of all the world, and la striving to bring peace on earth and srood will to man. J. IC Craig, in The Journal of April 12, say in regard to what he term "the enemy of humanity and calls It "infidelity. that It ha done nothing to malt the world better, and asks, "Where are its schools, its hospitals, its asylums Of mercy?" I could cite many institu tions under these head but will only refer to one, well known all over Amer ica and other parts of the civinxea world, the . Stephen - Glrard college, at Philadelphia, one of the finest educa tional institutions in tn wona. MELiVIMA oUK7Ar, The Roads of Clackamas Molalla. April 22. To the Editor of The Journal For some time i nave oeen look! ns; around for what CiacKamas countv beast of as - "its good roads,' but so far have not been able to find them. Where docs our extra levied tax money go? The taxes in this county are JuSt about double what they were last year. Of course, automobiles are higher in nrice and, of course, our vnntv officials must have them. T would like to see the members of our county court take trip through this part of the county In the spring or win ter when the iarmer ts iore m nt hi nroducts to town, u no is aoie to n them at all. and see now sweet temoered they would be when they got back. If they ever did. They would see a fair sample or. tne wonaerrui roaas hev are howling their neaas err about. I know of a piece of road four miles in lensth. on the main traveled road. that ha never had one day's work on it bv the county in seven years. uiacK amas county is losing some of it most prosperous farmer on account or its bad road. Of course, the county courts are doinar a-little paving on tne I'acino highway for their own convenience, so they can take an lifter dinner drive or go on a Sunday fishingexcurslon. The farmer can struggle along la the mud, nif when he appeals to the court for a little-assistance to repair a bad road he Is refused In a net very courteous manner. I -know irom experience. Now let the Clackamas county court quit Its self praise and do something that will be a real credit to It. Any body can crow, but it takes real men to deliver the goods. A FARMER. Likes -Journal's Editorials -Portland, April 28. To the Editor of The Journal The facta you so ably set forth in your editorial article headed. 'Overthrow Our System?" in Tne sun day Journal .of April 27 ought, to be read by every v voter in the country. That to what att good men of all parties, and of no party, wish to see. It is pfogres- stvenessHhat win save the world from rulnv It was the standpatters in Russia who brought - that great nation to her present condition, Those who oppressed the Russian people, stealing their land and property and sending all who pro tested to Siberia to die in slavery, are now paying the penalty for their oppres sions with their lives and property, If the reactionaries of. this country could have had their way and prevented, the enactment Of the progressive laws you noted in your article. Bolshevism would have had a good show ftr this country. COMMENT AND v ;-, SMALL CHANGE How' your Victory garden? rd Northcliffe landed, 0 to speak, on Orlando. v The . municipal elevator - proposition seems to -be still up In the air. 'The supreme court of Oregon also vote dry, aa you've probably noticed. The battleship Oregon, la view of It scrapping record, la not to be scrapped, lair enough. . - - ,-. . - - We'll have to finish this Victory loan business - up by Saturday . night. Do your bond buying early. J In London,: housewives are offering atrliVlJ tbe noUon SictSf the atres as an inducement to attract serv ant. Why pick on the "movies T i Over ;ne million'five hundred thou Skl? w.oni?n in Gr't Britain are un-St.fi- tUw. hbnd, according to J,"rtlcs. Why not send a bachelor ship from the United State? - Ain't it funny that some folk you can't f (miss, v. - . - ii.f0.nl? 0lk you Jus miss a pile? An the folk you can't miss you see lot. An other folk once in a while, MpN . AND INSTITUTIONS OF THE . OREGON COUNTRY By Fred Lockley. . ,l i Here to the atory of tba early oifffcmltiaa U telephone had on thia eoat in catting itaelf adopted, m told bjr Mr. Lockler. juotin Samael ttUbbard. It how how hard it is aotaetiBtaa for wiae mn to aidestep fortune, but that it ean ba done if eomplicaat aeU-aapianey. ia uf liciantl oateocephalic. I The miracles of yesterday become the aommonplace events of today. A few years ago we explained how impossible it was for men to even rise from the earth on account of the law of gravita tion. -.Today we go out on the roofs of the business ; buildings of Portland to watch a squadron of airplanes Sport ing in the -air a playfully as. a school of porpoise in t the water. Banking, looping, nose dives, tali spin and other spectacular aerial stunts are accepted as matters of course. " A few years ago we explained to! each other how impossible it was for one's voice to carry any considerable distance on a wire : yet I have sat with the telephone receiver to my ear here on the Pacific coast and listened to the sound of the Atlantic breaking In surf on Our Eastern shores. No matter how often I put the telephone receiver to my ear and hear central say, "Pendleton wants to talk to you." or ."Seattle Is on the line," or "There is a long distance call for you from ABhland," I never quite get over the thrill of It. It seems so extraordinary to be sitting here In my4 orrice in rne journal building, talking to Ed A lrich in his office In the East Oregonlan building in Pendleton, or to Arn S.-Allen at the Y. M. C. A. at Seattle, or to any one of scores of acquaintances, who occasionally call me up from distant part of the state. I can't help v7ishing sometimes that my grandfather's great-grandfather could drop into The Journal office for a visit with me. I Should like 'to go around the city with him for a day or two and learn what he thought of electric lights, automobile airplanes, long distance phones, skyscrapers, movie shows, not to mention hundreds of other thinra which fwould seem to him like witcheraft or black magic. A day or two ago Samuel Hubbard, government director of savings, and my self spent an hour together and talked about some of these modern miracles, j "Wo,"' said he, . "I have no middle initial; my name ia: plain Samuel Hub bard. -"My father's name was Samuel Hubbard, as it was his father's name. My son's name 1 also Samuel Hubbard. We call him Samuel the fourth. I was born in San Francisco, May 17, 1863. My father came to San Francisco in 1850. His father. Judge Samuel Hub bard, was on .'the supreme bench of Massachusetts. ' My father was purveyor of the Pacific Mail Steamship company. His job was to outfit the ships com pletely, from marlinspike to anchor. He outfitted the first ship that ever flew the flag of the Pacific Mall between San Francisco and China. He went to Scotland for his company to supervise the building of two ships on the Clyde the Vancouver and the Vasco de Gama. He 'spent several years there superin tending the construction of these ships and seeing that they were properly out fitted for the Pacific Oriental trade. On her way to the Pacific coast the WINTER TRAVEL IN SIBERIA By Paul Special Correapondeaee ef The Journal and Tba Chieaso Daily New. This to tha twenty-third Inatalhnant of a artos of railway travel no tea allowing transporta tion and ethar eonditiona in Siberia, by ooa of tha apeeiai corraapondaau lerrins The Journal from that country. J - Novo Nlchalaesk. Siberia. The stories of eastward-bound Russian refugees are much the same. They were driven out by the Cossacks and their homes were burned behind them In order that the int-adlng German might get no food or assistance or shelter, or else they fled when the Bolshevik! rose to power. They carried with them what they could of their most treasured posses sions a spinning wheel perhaps or an iron bound chest holding a few valued knick-knacks, ikons, pots and kettles, the- family samovar, utensils of ham mered copper that had been In the fam lir since the day of Ivan the Terrible. Many a sewing machine of American make was transported over the count less verst of this heglra. Most of this household miscellany they loaded Into the snrinrless Russian carts and set out, with their faces toward the rising sun and terror In their hearts. Week after week and month after month they traveled, each family or group hastening as far and as fast as possible from the scenes of desolation that lay behind. - 8a exeat were tne numbers mat tne roads were filled with them and the most-perplexing confusion resulted, spe cially at oentral point which offered transportation by railroad. These con ditions worked inevitably for. the dis ruption of families. 1 -I The special point of confusion in the The reactlonarle represented by the Oregonlan and our stand pat senators do not rule the country and we can take heart and thank God for our present executive and hope for more like him. t like your editorials. Such ideas would not be expressed In the Oregonlan in a hundred year kof past and . present policy. - C 8. A ' How Did. It Get It? From the Salem fcptl Journal. The Oregonlan ha a "special" dis patch displayed on its front page today, in which it I asserted that . the tele graph line refused to carry newspaper torte .criticising -.f Postmaster ; General tturleson. If tht f the policy of the government controlled lines, - then how did the Oregonlan get the story over the wires that It printed this morning? : It contained' "roast" .for Burleson ' In every sentence, and read uke the kind of stuff that Is being sent out from J. Ecurne' Washington bureau of political mis-information. . ... , .' i State-Owned Russian Babies, ' -From the )hio Stat Journal. Well, we see that -the children born hereafter ia Russia are to be the prop NEWS IN BRIEF SIDELIGHTS . The Powers Patriot reports that auto iramo is once more possioie oeiween Powers and the outside world. . . ....' Anyone who' has eaten - the apples grown in the Siuslaw country, the Eu gene Register i think,' "will commend the . Judgment of the Hood River man who plans to put out large commer cial orchard there. .) a . "William Penman of Baker, the Her ald says, has donated a lot at the east end of Washington avenue to the town improvement committee to be used for camping grounds. . Every auto tourist will be Invited to camp on this ground. That Oakland prices I set the market for livestock, wool, mohair.r eggs and live and dressed poultry throughout Douglas county is the boast of the Tri bune, and It proposes hereafter to pub lish every week the Oakland market prices. , - 1 a a ' A rainbow at night was seen at "Wood burn recently. Pet ChapeUe reported to the Independent that he saw It at 10:80 p. m.. In the west. It was a per fect arch, white and without the colore of the usual rainbow. "It 4s supposed that this was formed by the moon, say the Independent. :i Vasco de Gama was lost In the Strait of Magellan.. The Vancouver also came te grief, so that neither of these ships went on th Pacific coast run. "In 1878 the telephone was. still con sidered a tjy. My father secured the Pacific coast rights for-, the telephone. He certainly worked hard to interest the Western pubtio In the telephone, but while his friends were good natured. they poked quiet fun at his hobby, and told him it could never amount to more than an interesting toy. You have probably- been In the' Union club, on the corner of California and Montgomery streets. In San Francisco. You may have noticed that on each stone In this building is cut , a Chinese inscription. These stjnes were quarried In China and on - each stone was marked the position it should occupy in the building. When the stones came to San Francisco the contractor had to hire a Chlnar man to read the Inscriptions, to tell where the stones should be placed. "Do ..you remember General Colton, who was one of the ,big four v In the early days of San Francisco? My father secured permission from the directors of the Union club to install a telephone line from the Union dub to the residence of General Colton. My father was anxious to- interest the big capitalists of the Southern Paciflo so they would take hold of the telephone and introduce It. General Colton could see no par ticular advantage in being able to talk from his residence to the Union club, so my father had a line put In from San Francisco to San Jose, and had General Colton and some of the other Southern Pacific officials talk over the line. - But st ill they were not in the least interested. His reason for -interesting the Southern Pacific officials was that he thought they would Install It in thelr long snow sheds, so the watchmen at each , end could keep in touch with .each other and prevent train wreck. In those days the snowsheds were constantly caving in or catching fire, and the trains had constant grief from this cause. Finally the railroad official ! and other cap italists wearied of my father's impor tunity and told him they wanted nothing further to do with, it; that there was no value in a toy of this description and that railroading was an industry whose officials had neither time nor inclination for playthings such.aa tele phones. My father finally interested William Ladd of San Francisco, who was willing to put real money into the proposition. With Mr. Ladd was a man named John L- Sabln. who was a genius in the development of the telephone industry. When Mr. Ladd died, John I. Sabin be came president and manager of the telephone company. My father, however, retained his interest In it. Today the toy and plaything that the railroad officials and capitalist dismissed with such Impatience ts incorporated under the title of the Paciflo States Telephone company, and has a payroll of $29,000. 000 a year. 1 was recently elected one of the directors of this company. "The djvelopment of the telephone In dustry on the Paciflo coast Is like a tale from the Arabian Nights." Wright early days of the refugee flight were such towns a Minsk, Grodno and Smo lensk and It was there that the Tatlana committee found the most pressing need or its cervices. This committee was named In honor of the Princess Tatlana, second daughter of the czar.- It under took the stupendous and as It proved impossible tasx or cara indexing and otherwise Keeping track of the refugees. The purpose of this was to help the scattered members of famine to find one another and to avoid all that de moralisation and despair that was re sulting from the breaking up of home ana tne scattering or the people. The Tatlana committee' oerfarmed great labores. It indexed and accounted for a great ; many people and it dis tributed -Quantities of clothing and necessities. However, the roods that the committee distributed did not by any mean an go f those who most needed them and there was lack of proper su pervision. Trainloads cf refugees would be dispatched eastward with no destina tion and would be' shipped on from one railroad division ' to another with : no provision for feeding the fugitives ex cept what the local semstvos might of fer. The local semstvos rose to the oc casion remarkably for a time," but at length, as no supplies came from the Tatlana committee or elsewhere, they became discouraged and gave up. With no adequate provision made for them the refugees were eventually re duced to a condition In which they had to beg or borrow or steal In order to keep themselves alive. - fCopyrtrht. 1919, by Chieaso Dally Nrwa Co.) erty of .the state and It will be interest ing to note how the -little boys noses behave in cold weather under strict fed eral supervision and control. How to Succeed as a Prophet From the: CUraland Plain Deafer - Ypu can get a reputation as a prophet if you're careful "What you predict. For Instance, it has been noticed that when a person predicts that prices will be higher, he is always right ; otherwise he ts only occasionally so. ' Olden Oregon Aaron Rose tn 1851 Founded a Town That Killed Its Rival. While returning -from the California mine In 1851, Aaron Rose located , on the Umpqu river and founded a town site, which Is -now known a Roseburg. The Place rrew . rapidly, and in - two years had outgrown Winchester. wblclM- wa then the county seat of Douglas county. The result was that Roseburg absorbed ; the traffic of Winchester, which ' declined and virtually disappeared." Ragtag and Bobtail Stories Frbm Everywhere - AnsHcrrina Fool Question - ; -MOT to long ago a local newspaper- v man waa annoyed, ears the Buffalo News, by a casual acoualntanc . who, accosted him twice or thrice a day with mo query: -wen. what' new?" with out any tdea of ever mtimr rniv One day the newspaperman had more iime man usual' The acquaintance, as V usual, greeted him with "Well. whafs nwr' whereupon the newspaperman choked him Into a corner, made him" " listen to the day's news from China, the s flurry in stocks, the effect on British consols, a " reported solution of - the fourth, dimension9, the world's coal sup ply, an address at -the-Johns Hopkins university nd the hundred other things a newspaperman absorbs during the -w -.-kbis day. The chance acquaintance missed as many as three train and two meal and i.ever thereafter asked a man iu oe as newsy a ne could. - Let's Head The' Sport Page Beadlinaa derlan tha Hindoo tear Around tut ft.lk . .Whila Qaorea aaarrta Lord KorthcUfft hurts! caw ana u at fault. tt papars aay mrt amy day Tha Uannana wili rvfuoa t "-V.? th' vet. and MuntchVtackad. ' WiU ethar UrUia nawa. ' , ,B ,town nan ahot dowa Br thoaa who atick then up . When thay o oat to walk about And aaa a ahow and aup. - BbJJ"'b ' raad aaeh thrillin baad We like to turn to where . It aay the men look food arils And that tha team a a bear -Colco Kswm Uncle J ff Snow Says: What the use of delegates to nation al conferences and conventions to rec ommend t) a congressional committee to recommend to congress what to do about anything, anyhow? 'Specially when they come back and never tell lis nothin' that's important -fer fear It may make 'em advocate some thin' or other? ' The News in Paragraphs j World Happenings Briefed for Benefit of Journal Reader f GENERAL ' f Charles Jackson. Inventor ef the cor set, died Tuesday at Redlands, CaL, aged 95 years. ' f The Victory ship, Crane, from Nsw York, has reached a point 1000 miles from San Francisco. t Net earnings of the Standard OH com. rany of New York for 1818 were I28.848.. 87, after paying all Income and federal taxes. r Senator Lodge says he Is convinced President Wilson will be compelled to call an extra session of congress be- fore July. ' j . The Wall Is te Tractor company' fsc . cne, wis., was ciosea inaefl nuciy l uesaay, mrowing BOO men out tCe employment. . More than IS oAn i1rn,ini' A "V' Petition sending to the referendum mo naj-ns nquor jaw nave been se cured in San Francisco. ' t " Leaving a not stating that he wished tp forestall pain and old age,' K. B. Tyler, a wealthy retired oil man f San Francisco, kiUed himself by gas. T ' T i The war department has appealed ko the police chiefs of the country to aid -" government in preventing peddlers and street fakers from wearing the unl vi uis mi my or navy. NORTHWEST NOTES The Seattle office nf th wa .a board will be abolished May I. - Vancouver. Wash., will send a float'to the PorUand Rose FesUval in June.. . Work on a 25 by 60 addition t the Vancouver high school ha been atarted. ; - Yakima 1 organising a naUonalguardr J company. Already .82 . have baoiT en- roiieu. ' - - ....... i Contracts amountihg to $289,114 "were slon Slondayahln'Kt9n nlnwjr eniia- -Three robberies last Sunday, netting', the burglars nearly $500, are reported from Aberdeen. - i George W. McCarver. one of the old est of Oregon's pioneers, was bur led .at. Oregon City last Sunday, , j Nine . submarine chasers, en route I to Bremerton from the North Atlantic, ar rived at Everett Tuesday. . A rattlesnake hunt last Sunday on the Amos WUkins ranch a few mile from Eugene netted 63 reptiles. - Orders for 450.000 railway ties hive been placed with the mill in Lane county. The price paid will be $878,000. tonald I. Butler,- 7-year-old son f of Mrs. X. C. Butler of Cathlamet, died at Astoria Tuesday as the result of being run over ty a truck, i ChaJmer Patterson, graduate of the University of Oregon and a veterans of the world war, has been added to the faculty of Albany college. I The charred body of Charles Moon was found near hi mine In Sam valley. Oregon. Monday. It is thought he was " murdered and his body burned. Yakima county ha voted a bond tis sue of $500,000 and the money will bV spent in improving the canal that irri-' Sate 4700 acres of land in the Selah lstrlct. - . The estate of Andrew J. PeUrson, who died at Spokane last December, - will escheat to the state, no heirs having been found. The estate la valued tat ' $28,252. . ; -- 1 Berry grower and farmers of Clattop county will gather at a banquet at Astoria May 14, when business men and - farmers will discuss berry culture and market conditions. . , i Declaring that the police are syste matkcsWiy departing members of the negro race from Spokane, prominent e groes have appealed to the city council that the practice be stopped. '.. 1 ' t B. Frank Pautmeler was found In? a dying condition In his orchard near Albany last Saturday, Knife wound on. his body led to the belief that he stabbed himself while Insane. . ? FOREIGN '- ' .' j ; It Is reported that 14 divisions of Itsl- -Ian troops have been sent to Flume .to hold the city. . j A large . section of - Yokohama ? wss ravaged by fire Monday, more than' 2900 buildings, being burned. ., ., i Six hundred and eleven members W the bourgeois or wealthy class have been seised as hostages by the communists .at Budapest. j Finnish volunteer last Saturday 'cap tured : Lotlnanooito on the Whit: aaa . cutting off the Bolsheylki from the Mar man coast.,' i . An exhibition of French art wni-Ua waa opened at Zweibrucken in Bavaria this week "to make the country ac quainted with the genius of France." . The Bolshevik commissioner at Petfo grad has ordered the sale at auction vt ait the sclentlf k Instruments belonging to the Institute of public studies. j There Are Things' You Cati Easily Do Without f IBtoriea of eelrlavaaant tn tba seenmahk. Hae at War ,-Bevtnca mtmp. arat t Tlie Joarnal and aept4 tor pebttemtloa, wis be awarded e Tbrtft gtaaip. . . Your government asks you to sav. When and where should saving be gin? - - f Saving should begin a soon aa the point of efficiency has een reached! The thing to.de without are thons that do not directly provide efficien cy. Real happiness, of course, is en element of efficiency Just ss ate proper rest and normal recreation, i The things best done without are those that cost much and add little to efficiency. ' j Thrift Stamps and 1S19 War Sav ings Stamps now on sal at usual agencies. i - '