G THE OREGON ' DAILY JOURNAL, P ORTX AND. I.I Oil DAY, MAY 5, 1919. ' A!T ETDEPEXDENT KEVSPAPEB C. 6. JACK SUN .......... ... . . . . mbnshal i ublwhed errery day,- afternoon and sseraine . 'except Sunday afternoon), at Tbo Journal Huildin. Broadway s and lamhiU lUwt, I on land. Oregon. JJnlered at the Poatefftee at Portland, Ont , for tnaamiaaioB tfcreesa- the aatla a ascaaa ruaa Biatter. . ,. - . Ij.l.KPMONKlt MU 171i Hmm. AOel. All denertmnts reached tor Umm numbers. leu the opra tor what department yon wm iOKElG.N ADVEKTISINO BEPBE8EJITATIVE Benjamin Kentoor Caw Brunswick BalMinc, . 22 & Fifth sent). Jiw York i 900 Mailers feubriftkn terms by mil. or to ear Sadreai to tba united etataa or atextce: - IlATf.Y J1UR!ING OK APTI6BJ0O3 Ona Jeer. ....$5.00 One month. ... .8 .80 ICKDAT Dm mr,....llll I Ona .20 1AILT " (MOBJJINO OR AfTEBMOOB) AND ; - - r 19 (J I'll Ona' year. V. ..87.8 I On stoats. ....$ . . Enthusiasm m wttli tha roTrUtion of tree and aatiefyina' objects of dTotloti. and it la enthusiasm tliat acta the powara free. Woodrow Wilson. OVER kOnTLANp is over. Ur.v?n. the final test she followed I ithd example of up-state counties, . , and climaxed her , war record with another filled quota. T&otuands upon thousands of people who have been anxiously hoping", are gratified . and glad. They are people, not only in Portland, but throughout Oregon. - people who wanted the state as a whole, in this last summons of the government for - help, to be faithful and true to the high standards set up while the war was on. It is a glorious record. , First in volunteers; first -- in the percentage - of service men In proportion to popu . lation, first in so many other things ' and in tbo 'front rank Jn this last and hardest of all loans to-float it is citizenship and loyalty that is the stuff out of which enduring repub lics are made. In the hour of that gratitude that so many will feel over the result, may we not all pledge ourselves again, Id maintain in L peace that high standard of citizenship that we have ; set up in war ? . Have the growing youth of the state not absorbed from . these, high examples of devotion that spirit of loyalty so that it .may be carried on through the next genera tion? .The state owes a debt to the de voted workers who never rested or halted while this great thing was on.' 'It owes a debt to those who, frQm the humblest $30 buyer to the heaviest subscriber, bought the bonds. , At the Civic league luncheon Sat urday the topic was teachers salaries. Ben Selling appeared and offered to match subscriptions up to 920,000 for Victory bonds. Teachers were pres ent in number and 940,100 in bonds " were , taken. More than 60 persons "subscribed.. The 950 bond of a teacher, on 9900 a year has a mean ing. So have the bond activities of Mr. Selling. Both are good meanings. A NEW LAW IT WILL be interesting to the law yers of the state, and, since they pay the bill, also to the taxpayers, to note the working out of the new ' law providing for the appoint ment of "a "code . commissioner to supervise the recomplIaUon of the laws of Oregon. The new act pro vides that the justices of the " su preme court, or a majority of theni, shall appoint some competent person as code commissioner, to superintend . and assist In the compilation, annota tion and, publication of thV new set of laws. His compensation is fixed : at 95000, while an appropriation of 915,250 was voted by the legislature to cover the entire cost of the work. -: Just what, and how onerous the duties of the new official will be 3s somewhat uncertain, since he is "directed and authorized to enter into a - contract with some responsible law book publishing company under ' which contract the company is to do the work of compiling, annotating and publishing the code in such par ' titular form and manner as are desig nated, in v the authorizing statute. Under the wording ; of the, law ap parently about all. the code commis sioner will have to do will be to keen his off ic open at the State bouse in Salem, and dra,wi bis , salary, particu larly since it was the current under- Saw . standing ;during the legislative . sessimflar Places of ; eaierWrnT sion that the. largest and most re sponsible -Jaw" book concern ' on the coast had the" code practically ready for the press even prior to the con vention of the ' session. The vframers - of-the statute were particularly,; kind to the officials of the state in the manner of free codes, since, every , one from the governor to the various Justices of the peace are to be provided -with sets free of cost. . The ; code ; . compilation 1 statute formed one of the trading points of the session, ' it having been - fathered rnd; lobbied through, by; Conrad .P, Olsnn. former Justice of the gunreme f -.urt by appointment of the gover : l r. It has been the general as- sumption that be would be appointed by the court under the authority of the act put through . the legislature by his efforts. , " Carl B. Fenton of Dallas- was brilliant young man, an athlete of high reputation and a soldier who went through the fiery furnace over there. His death J after hi return home, from the after effects of flu contracted In the ' service, will be widely lamented. CAPITALIZING MOUNT HOOD T HE construction stage of the Mount Hood loop highway has, been advanced - a step by the formal signature of Secretary of Agriculture Houston of the project agreement made some weeks ago by the state highway commission and the United States forest service. There now appears no reason why construction on this important road cannot begin, this season. The surveys have been made and the route has been located. The' construction will be done by the federal government as the road lies through the national forest The completion of plans for the construction of i this forest section . 1. ...Ill . A V. .. ...... ,A4 scenic - roads in America leaves the way . open for construction outside the national forest. This must be done through the cooperation of Multnomah, .Clackamas and .Hood River counties with the state.5 Pos sibly further aid may. be had j from the federal government; under the post road act . The old Barlow road must be re- graded and brought up to the present day standard and similar work done In the Hood River valley to make a connection with the Columbia river highway. From a cost standpoint the im provement of the entire road 'from Portland around the base of the mountain to Hood River will probably 1 involve an expenditure in excess of 11,000,000. This is a small amount compared to the revenue "which will be derived indirectly from the road. As a tourist attraction it will be world wide. At no other point in the United States is it possible within an hour or two to go to the region of eternal snow and enjoy the grandeur of mountain and forest. A vast .area for recreation will be opened, leading to the establishment of summer and winter resorts in numerable. . .. The highway as now proposed will serve as a trunk from which will radiate spur roads, bringing a closer connection between Portland and Central Oregon, adding to the com mercial as well as scenic value of the highway. lt v"CfirrttabIe that fire insur ance- companies et this city refused to subscribe to the Oregon or Port land quota of the Victory i$an," said Emery Olmstead. Though f the companies take $6,500)00 in premiums out of the stafe annually, the only two companies which have sub scribed are the Pacific States Fire Insurance and the Oregon Fire Re lief, both home companies. VILLAINOUS HOOVER A' CCORDING to the philosophic mind of sundry German politic ians the quality of food seems to depend entirely on who is required to eat it They believe that it is more blessed? to recejve than to give, and they howl if everything that Is given does not have the gold label of supreme excellency branded upon it beforehand. Over in the vicinity of Coblenz there are a large number of Teutonic individuals who have been cinching up their belts for breakfast, looking at the, dining room pictures for luncheon and gobbling what they could find in Mother Hubbard cup board fordinner for some four years 6r more. ''The signing of the armis tice found them ready for food. In fact, they clamored for It and. in due time, the United States authori ties began to ship in food by the carload. White flour, bacon, rice, canned milk and various other things were distributed. The German poli ticians grumbled. The flour was not white enough, the rice plump enough ; we strip or lean and the strip of fat did not alternate Just right in the bacon, and tbe milk bore the wrong brand. But they licked the nlattpr clean and let out their belts before they began to find fault, something like the little lad who vetoes turkey Just after the-dessert on , Thanksgiv ing day. Coincident with the publication of the ' Germanic wail by the press agencies Victor Henry, of HoqUiam, returned from a visit of more than a year in a. German prison camp, and has told of German hospitality to Americans during; the war Mr. Henry and large numbers of r-LfellOW fi-lipcta lhf n nlv comfort furnished by thoughtful Hin- cenourgian hosts. ' For breakfast they had carrots and. water. For lunch they had water and carrots, and for dinner they bad the same. For amusement they built highways and railroads, dug ditches and did other, entertaining things. Marks of appreciation were given them by the gun iutta of their hosts when, they stumbled and faltered under the bur den of their; overloaded stomachs. If they were tardy in their - appre ciation of the many courtesies shown Miem, me Kindly Teutons reversed. VSlw contrast'the polish .of ....i. i.u "iuirei3 un mose or Day onets made In Germany. -v c Mrv Hoover should see to . it thai there are no hulls in the rice, no weevil in the flour "and no mould on the bacon. , - One killed, 60 injured, property damaged to the extent of ttlW,l Is the Portland record of. auto accidents for April. There were 590 accidents, ranging from bent fenders to wrecked ears,' or- at' the rate of nearly SO a day. " And still the. speeders speed and the plungers plunge! A PUBLIC SCANDAL F URTHER. Investigation reveals the . Marquam gulch transactions as a public scandal. " . r Ten years ago i Galtano : Dis- tefano paid 9375 for a, small fraction of a lot in Marquam gulch. Average property In Portland is worth little if any more than it was 10 years' ago. Many a holding will not bring today what it brought, in , those days of realty boom. ; But a jury awarded Distefano 13000 for his fractional lot on the Marquam gulch .hillside. There is -not a man or 'woman in Portland but knows that the price is preposterous and the -transaction a public scandal. - Tbe same is true In the ease of Nlcoleta Oimareo. He bought half a lot in Marquam gulch some . years ago at 9223. He built on it a small house which ' the assessor ; values at 9260. A jury voted to give 93372 for the property. Yet that jury was under oath, and was acting as the purchasing agent for: the people of Portland in acquiring land for a public park. The price paid is at the rate of 96000 a lot, or more than lots will bring in many of Portland's best residential districts. But here is the lot for which C P. Smith some years ago paid 9725, and for which a Jury 'bound the city to pay $6250. Lots by the score In Irvington or Laurelhurst can be bought for much less. Lots with seven -room modern houses on them have, in instances, been selling for less in these districts. One such with a splendid house and garage sold for 95000 in Irvington. The prices paid In the Marquam gulch suits are preposterous and gro tesque, and ought to be investigated. A California automobile, numbered 51403 was on Portland streets Sat urday. A block away was another California car, and its number was 521,549. When California has them numbered at the million mark and Oregon roads are built per present program, will all the Golden Staters come to see us? WITH COVENANT SIGNED T HE more we see of the learue covenant the more there Is to commend. Just now the British aeiegauon nas issued a com mentary, upon that section of the document dealing with the Monroe doctrine and in its analysis sets out its conception of the American doc trine and of Its relation to the inter national pact which it is hoped will bring uninterrupted peace to the world. The, Monroe doctrine, the commen tary says, has shown itself to be not an instrument of national ambi tion but a guaranty of peace. A simple principle of American foreign policy in Its inception, it has become a recognized international understand ing adopted and extended to the whole world under the league cove nant . With that doctrine extended and applied in the deliberations of .the international tribunal of the league it will be difficult for one natioa to wrong another. America has always stood as the guardian of weaker na tions on this continent, protecting them from possible interference from the outside. It has done more than that for it has always enforced the same rule against itself that it has demanded of others. With this principle acknowledged no Japanese, question will ,' arise to vex the other nations because of con ditions existing between China and Japan. Whatever the contentions that may exist between these two nations they will go for considera tion and settlement before the coun cil of tha league. There the case will be tried out in all of its various phases and justice done between na tion and nation. Without the league all nations stand upon the old basis, unrestrained In their ambitions and plans for ad vancement to the disadvantage of their neighbors. When the final sig natures are affixed to the covenant orderly and equitable settlement tif international disputes will be the rule of the world. It will be a great advance over the old way, with a world. at peace and peace secure. The assurance to - Mayor Baker from Chairman Hurley that contracts will be available to keep Portland shipyards from closing down October i Is good tidings. There are things public officials -can ' do to forward the interests of the community, of which Mayor Baker's endeavor with the shipping board are example, j A BETTER WAY REAL; and permanent benefit of the war is the discovery that lisabled men can r be re taught ind retrained In occupations that will render them self supporting and useful to ! the world, j jfo more Im portant work , Is being I carried on than that of vocatienal education of disabled soldiers, sailors and marines. In - other ; days tbe only l, way in to Its defenders was by the payment of an . Inadequate pension i in case of partial disability or: suppor. in a soldier's home in case of total loss of earning- power. Neither of these brought a life of satisfaction.. An- interesting feature of ' voca tional education for soldiers, is its origin i L Schollacrt, -a Belgian liv ing In France.' early in the war gave asylum to a number of bis wounded countrymen. While convalescing they amused themselves:: trying to work at various trades with which they were familiar. It was immediately noted that their recovery -was hastened and those i incapacitated from following their former trades were acquiring a knowledge of some other trade not incompatible with their injuries. The Belgian govern ment took up the idea and developed It JSoon Jt was adopted by France and Great Britain, and by- our own government j Our system goes ; f arther than others in that besides training, a place is found for the man after he has been trained. While undergoing the process of rehabilitation the dis abled one is allowed a fund of ; at least 963 per month with allotments to his dependents. : His books and tuition fees are paid by the gov ernment. Training is given in the best institutions ranging from Yale and Harvard, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, agricultural colleges, trade and Industrial schools, and, jn many instances, direct to the in dustries and commerce. how much better such a plan than the old' way. Instead of embittered men living on the pittance of a pen sion or In the cold and forbidding interior of a so-called home, set apart from other men, we are to have returned fighters who can still be -a part of the useful world, In the sunlight of opportunity and in dependence. It is a policy that inculcates the living truth that "a man may be down, ' but never out" TROOPS MOVING; ALSO BUSINESS BrCarI Smitl. Washington Stuff Correspondent of The Journal. Washington, May 6. The war depart ment is now hitting; its stride for the return -r of troops to American shores. Those who doubted a short time ago that the boys could be returned at the rate of 300,000 a month are beginning to see that it can be done, and already ia being done. On Easter Sunday 14 000 men. arrived on six transports at the port of New York. That was a big days record, but not all the troops are coming In at New York. Troop ships are also coming In rapidly at Newport News and Boston, and lesser numbers at Philadelphia and Charleston. An important factor in speeding the return of the men is the addition of Carman passenger liners to the fleet, a factor which wUl count still more heavily as soon as these big ships are refitted for troop carrying, thereby doubling- or trebling their capacity for human freight. The German vessels are in good shape, so far as their in teriors are concerned, ' in spite of their having been tied up so long. Paint has not been recently applied to their ex teriors, and the weather-stained, rusty looking sides of the ships detract from their appearance as they steam up the channel to theli- piers. ; On the ships the fittings are as the Germans left them, jwith "enemy" lan guage all about, On the Kalserln Au gusta, Victoria, which; brought Major Skeen and the nurses of base hospital 4, the signs painted here and there informed the passengers when they were on the "Kaiser deck." or the "Kronprlnz deck," or the "Sonnen deck." These Inscriptions did not ap pear to worry the returning soldiers and nurses in the least. The Kalserln brought something over tOOO persons. After discharging her passengers she went to drydock to be transformed Into- a troopship, and on her next voyage over she will bring 5000 or 6000 men. The more commodious and comfortable Quarters on the Initial trips of the German ships are being used largely for the transportation of base hospitals, comprising war nurses, sol diers wives and casuals, who could not be bo well cared for on regular trans ports, two ayr alter the Kalserln came the Zeppelin and the Graf WaJder see. each with the same weather-worn look, and the eager faces of America's eons crowding to the rails. .They are being followed by the Prins Frledrtch WUhelm. tbe Kroonland. the Konigen der Nederlanden and others from the docks along- the Weser and the Kibe. One of the most appreciated trans ports in the service is the Great North ern. which the government comman deered on the Pacific Coast. Her speed makes her a favorite, and makes It possible to load hertmore heavily than some of the slower-going boats. Her sister ship, the Northern Pacific is still at the navy yard in Brooklyn for com pletion of repairs made necessary when she grounded on Fire Island In Janu ary, ! I a Xectdedly hopeful is the business sit uation as found in an exhaustive report prepared by a committee of the Cham ber of Commerce of : the United States. The present volume of business la de scribed as one of "the wonders of the time." la view of the curtailment in many lines of industry and the slow ness of the building trades. ' .This In activity Is due, it ia stated, to coat of labor and materials, and it is pointed out that building booms ordinarily do not start at high trice levels. Indica tions are seen that In the present situ ation the revival of building on a large scale may not depend upon a lower Ing of costs, for reasons thus stated: "We may realise that the cost must be considered not an actual but as a proportional matter, and as In relation to our purchasing .power rather than the actual labor and material costs. If salaries, and wages maintain their level and the costs of necessaries decline, then our ability to build may be as great as ever. The outlook is distinctly better and the outlook Is for an In crease during the next four months of from 15 to 20 per cent in tbe volume of building, -compared with the same period last year, and for muchi greater activity 1 next fall, should business be good, for it all depends upon that," As to lumber, the report says in part: "The general feeling Tin the' lumber business Is that the worst Is ever and that from now on there will be a steady gain tn output and sales, with no de cline in prices. Rather, there is the belief that any large demand will result In an advance la costs. Tbe largest -single consumers, the railroads, are slew In buying, and that condition Is not likely to be remedied until congress makes necessary appropriations. Stocks of yellow pine are generally light. - Tbe demand, from planing 'mills and from sash and door factories is ' Improving-. Tbe much hoped, tpr export demand Is not In evidence to' any serious extent. There is quite a demand for shingles. In hardwoods there is excellent demand from furniture manufacturers. , Pacific Coast manufacturers of fir and kindred woods are actively- engaged in extend Ing the territory in which their.: prod ucts can be sold. Letters From the People tCaaauuLieetiaa aaat te The Journal foe peblieaUoa in tbia depaftaaaiit abeoM be writtM on only an aid, of ba paper, should aot uaed SOe werdS m laasth. end araat ba aisnad by tbe writer, wbeae mail addxaaa in full mast aoeesv pan lha eoetribnUoa.1 : Systems and Revolutions - Ashland, April t. To the Editor ot The Journal Tour editorial in your last Sunday's edition headed, "Overthrow Our System r sounds well, but eith all the boasting of what we have done and admiration ef things done, the 1 "one thing needful.' namely the aboUtlon of legalised : parasitism. Is yet to be at tained. As said abolition cannot be achieved without the overthrow of our system, there are a lot -- of people and may their number Increase ! who. to abolish parasitism, are wilUng to see the overthrow and to aid in its accomplish ment. Many of us hate to face the odium cast at us by, the misinformed and the cruel criticism of the mental prostitutes among the Informed, but take the con sequences just the same. A . revolution is any movement that te verses the attitude of the courts on a legal question. Admitting the correct ness of the above definition, we have had a number of revolutions tn the last quarter, of a century. As legalised parasitism, or exploita tion, is the primary object of the present system, said system must be overthrown. Our system is political, because we use the police powers to uphold and protect the exploiter and enforce parasitism, thereby forcing the laboring class to submit to exploitation by the exploiting class. c ' Our political system, must be over thrown and an Industrial sy stem wherein the attitude of the courts will be reversed when the question of the logal right of one. whether Individual, firm or corporation, to exploit anyone comes before them will succeed the po litical. The establishing of an Industria lahcrtng man's government would over throw our system. As this can be done by the electorate amending tbe constitu tion so that a department of Industry will be provided for,- why oppose the overthrow? The overthrow Is inevitable. D. M. BROWER. "We have had a number ot rcvolutiona in tha last quarter of a century." la a atatcmcnt In the abora. Then ara aukloc prostata. We ha, made trcaMndooa proateai in the paat aix years. Our advancement ia even reflected at the peace conference, where tha plenary council preaeribs theaa policiee for application ao far aa prtarfble In every taacue nation: Elfht-hoor day, one day of rest in aevan. tha payment of a Hvin wace, equal pay for men and women for tbo same work, the riffht of eollecUve bargaining and the abolition of child labor. All cannot be dona ia a day. Another Defines Bolshevism Vale. May To the Editor of The Jourral In reply to Ernest Barton's addendum to Mr. Moras' letter. Bol shevism is not a term in Itself except to denote "the majority." Thus the so called Bolshevism simply denotes that the majority of the Russians are for the rule of the people by the producers or workers Instead of the 10 per cent of the people which make up the cap italist class of Russia. Mr. Bat ton says the so-called Bolshevism stands for robbery, assassination and violence. If he will read he will find that the sen ate Investigation of the soviet govern ment found that the robbery was while the cxar had control and allowed the capitalists to take all of the poor man's production and all the profit of his labor. Now the workers who have been fighting looked around and found they had been fighting "for Russia, and so they took it. The committee on the in- vestigaUon asked one man testifying before them if he had seen any terror ism. Whereupon he replied. No red terror ; however, General Cutoff told me he had signed the death warrant for 700 Bolshevlkl." And .the only vlo. lence was when the rich refused to deliver to the' government the lands and other possessions that the law called for. Under the soviet rule in Russia, everybody is allowed to vote provided he can make it known that he is pro ducing something. instead of. taking the profits of another man's labor. In answer to tbe question, "Does the hod carrier succeed the architect? At all odds. If there were no hod carriers to put up a man's house the plans of the architects would be but air castles ; thus the hod carrier must oe recog nized. The argument is heard that one gets along according to his mentality. I will cite the case of President Wilson, who ia supposed to be the smartest man In the world, while he does not re ceive in one year a salary or income eaual ' to Rockefeller's daily Income. Margaret Carnegie, according to the daUy papers, will Inherit a fortune of J800.000.000. Will It require great men tal ability te fall heir te this? LESTER BLANCHARD. .. Credentials of Officers Riverside. April JfJ.To the Editor of The Journal Has a state officer or a county officer a right to stop or arrest a person without showing more than his star? Or can they be called on to show their credentials and have to do so? Has the same officer a right to stop a ancher's car and search the same for liquor upon comity; into a town or on a county road? Officers of tbe lew are not required to how credentiala when makin arraatx. except a badse. If in doubt take number of badce and report to sheriff. Officers have a ritcht te search automobiles for liqaca ) , A Question on Naturalization Portland. May ' 1. Te the Editor ef The Joarnal What " standing, has an honorably discharged soldier? I am not a eitlsen . but served from the time of my Induction until I was honorably dis charged. March 19, 118. -1 have tried to get my final papers in camp but was turned down. Can such a soldier bold property, or is he entitled to final papers upon asking for them? Please answer. AN EX-SOLDIER. (The inquirer should see V. W. TemUnaon. room 837, in the new poscoffioe building, of. ficer in charts of natara liistinn matters in Ore- ....... : -: Wants Daylight Saving Repealed . Portland, April JGl To the Editor of The Journal Although tt is somewhat past March' SO and the docks have been turned ahead an hour, let us not stop discussing: tbe daylight saving question. People are setting up an hour earlier, but moat of them are doing so against their best judgment. -:: What Is obnoxious to two thirds of the people ef the United States should be voted out by congress. Some advise tha W though tbe clocks are set ahead an,, hoar, those who do not care to get up by tbe new time can make it aa hour later. If one does that he is out of time with everything the West of the day. That Is all right for very elderly and retired people who do not have to work for others and can stay around the home all day. Another very Important thing Is that it works a hardship en the health. An extra hour's sleep In the morning means a great deal to those who are nervous and restless, as it Is Impossible to get to sleep on hot summer nights, even If the clock says It Is time to retire. v I say again, let as keep discussing this question the rest of the .summer, and let us see that a measure get to- COMMENT AND ; SMALL" CHANGE Wonder if -Pendleton is going to have a Round-Up this year. - . .... .... .. e e ' ..v- For a regular fan the day Is never too nice for a baseball game. . . ... . Now, the Victory loan is over, all aboard for the Rose Festival. a, We hope Europe can raise the dough for the million barrels of Northwest flour consigned to over there. "First contingent of American army to sail for France." says a news dts-i patch. Looks rather like old news, doesn't It? . The little ones In the household ran probably best answer the cook's ques tton. to ft?w to keep chocolate from sticking- to the aide of the pan. e r ; A contemporary remarks that the Mississippi judge who ruled that the United States Is still at war must have based his decision on bis last grocery ' '. ' .. i.YJ1 a a ,ad' father pans him If he doesn't get up and. build the fires. P,. .w,heB n. ua' man th forestry officials are forever after him to help prevent fires; v Taking it all In all. no one is going to miss John Barleycorn more than the persons who write vaudeville sketches f "5 ,"' .And in the meantime is L n lng b9t ot tn time that OBSERVATIONS AND IMPRESSIONS OF THE JOURNAL MAN By Fred (On tbe beast, tha charm and tha romanoe of Hawaii, Mr. Lockler dwells today, mentumiug besidea the wonderful resources of the islands. Hi closes with a short quotation from Mark Tr ain, who could writa about .these marvelous isles without jokins about them. Recently I was talking to Henry Schu-mann-Heink, a naval officer, a son ot Madam Schumann-Heiak, the great singer. He Is a personal friend of Claus Sprockets, and he is familiar with the Hawaiian sugar industry. He Intro duced to me another naval officer, whose home is tn Honolulu. They told me many interesting things about the islands and about the tremendous profits made in the sugar Industry. Vast for tunes have been made in sugar. When the duty of $34 per ton on Hawaiian sugar was removed when Hawaii was annexed to the United States, the price of sugar did not fall accordingly, so the already large profits made were greatly augmented. The sugar industry is the leading in dustry of the Islands. The fifty or more sugar producers are incorporated in the Sugar Planters' association. They con trol about 200,000 acres of sugar cane. By building up the soil by careful methods of cultivation, the Hawaiian cane is made to yield four tons of cane to "the acre. Pineapples do exceedingly well In the islands and bring- from 14 to $22 per ton. There are about 15,000 acres de voted to. pineapples. Rice Is another profitable crop, the labor in the rice fields being performed almost entirely by Chinese. Coffee, cotton, cocoanuts. honey, soy beans, sisal, tobacco, and the growing of mangoes, breadfruit, guavas, oranges, grapes, figs, bananas, alligator pears and limes, all add to the wealth of the Islands. John Fleming Wilson, author of "The Man Who Came Back," the play which has been recently showing In Portland theatres, and formerly editor of the Pacific Monthly, was for some years a resident of Honolulu. He told me he had never been. In a place where copy was so abundant: almost every man you met could tell you interesting experiences. , ,. ; Think of the possibilities to a writer of movies in the story of Wing Ah Fong. In 1858, when he was a lad. he was brought over by the sugar planters In a shipment of coolie laborers. In 1860 he married the daughter of a Por tuguese sailor, a beautiful woman named Cones pcion. Ah Fong within a year or two was the leading dealer in bric-a-brac. Soon he became the leading silk merchant of the islands. He began to acquire sugar lands, and went Into the sugar Industry extensively. By 1890 be had three sons. 13 daughters and over 83,000.000 available capital. In 1892. with his eldest son. Ah Fong- sailed for a visit to jChina and the mysterious East swallowed him up. - His daughters were talented, cultured and beautiful and were greatly sought, not alone on account of their wealth, but because of their personal charm. Captain Wh!tney, an officer in the United States navy, married Miss Harriet Ah Fong, and sev eral of her sisters married Americans or Europeans. e The Hawaiian Islands not only have great commercial possibilities, but from the tourist standpoint they are a gold mine whose riches have hardly been THE CRY OF THE BRITISH POOR By Alice M. Archer Special Correspondence to The Journal and The . Cbicae Dnfl? News, London. -Sewing trades all ever Great Britain are to come under the ' trj4e board shortly to be set up by the min istry, of labor. A trade board is, to be set op also for all shop assistants. At a recent meeting attended by both em ployers and employee In the London dressmaking trades it . was agreed that It was advisable to fix a prescribed min imum rate of wagev The London Em ployers association and the National Amalgamated Union of Shop Assistants. Warehousemen and Clerks came to an agreement, resulting tn an Increase ot wages for employes amounting te about 8 shillings (81.80) a week. In the prov inees. notably the west and east of Eng land, there are still ease of women who after 19. years In the dressmaking trade receive only $3.50 to 84 a' week. The new sewing boards will make these low rates of wages Impossible. There will be two sewing boardsone to deal with tailored and non tailored garments and for dressmaking proper, and the other, for the sewing trades. Is te be responsible for millinery and corsets. There will be a joint committee of rep resentatives ' ef each beard, which will decide in doubtful cases whether a gar ment is tailored or not, the difficulties troilueed Into congress so that by next March there will be no setting clocks ahead. M. A. Wants Action Against High Cost Portland, May 2. To the Editor ef The Journal I wish to commend a statement printed In the editorial col umns of The Journal a few days age anent the high cost of living. Th lady suggests asking our good president to . "do something" at once. I would ask, Why should common commodities be higher than during the war? I do think that, while feeding Europe, the powers that be must , not lose sight of the fact that our own country ; be , not starved. -, There f are thousands who de not command a wage commensurate with the prices one must pay for necessaries. Flour, butter, milk, eggs and meat are common articles of food, and leent to me to, be beyond, bounds. X may not understand the witu atlon fully, but am sure thousands are In my own plight, and profiteers are waxing rich ' at the . expense of the poorer, working , classes. 1' IndesM -her NEWS IN BRIEF OREGON SIDELIGHTS "Baker's sprinkling cart 1919 model, is VU IHO JOD Or tn KHUU - 1 Pour bungalows are simultsneously tinder construction on West Court street. Baker, the Democrat reports. - Pendleton's brand new band, from a brand new bandstand, will give Its first concert on May 8, A little later the band will appear In brand new uniforms. Work on the Baker-Cornucopia post road started April 80, and the contractor expects to complete the unit to Irr Powder river within 80 days. "This." ays the Democrat, "Is good news to the people of the eastern part or the county, who have hoped against hope for years for such a happy conaurrunatlon. '; Henry Bolken of Union county and J. W. Fisk of Malheur county, government trappers, have reported to the Crane American some big catches ot coyotes and bobcats during tbe winter months. Bolken recently captured 17 coyote pups In their- den in the foothills of Steeu s mountain. , ... i e e i . i- The Burns-Buchanan 'mail route Is carried by the oldest carrier in Oregon, writes the Rmt Divide correspondent of the Crane American. "He always gets there. He burned a lot of gas tnis wtrttar tA lnaf mm rAnil horaer on the route. ,but the Divide has received Its matt on time every mail day during ine last winter." . i Lockley touched. It Is a land of contrasts. One can look up from the flooded rice fields to the rugged peaks more than two miles high ; from the cane fields . and the patches of taro one looks far above to the lava-covered slopes of the volcanoes. Here you will see the flaming scarlet petals ef the Poinciana or the drooping yellow bells of the golden shower: here is the lavender bloom ot the Pride of India : and here the Cocia Nodessa, cov rd with its mass' of pink bloom. Pas sion flowers, night blooming cereus. and a score of other blooms are to be seen. . a .... It is a land of pleasure as well as beautv. Tou will th, t.w their beautifully made - surfboards SUM vi native manegany or koa wood, rubbed with ooeoanut oil until they shine riding in upon the incoming surf, erect on their boards, like Cte sacks on their swiftly running native horses. Here you will see the visitors out tn outrlarear nr mwltnaia ahvr,ir, flying f ish on the wing, with a native i.eiper to retrieve tne tun. with a hand net. s Life is not a difficult problem; in the islands: With a bit of land on which you can raise taro. yams, bananas, sweet potatoes and a few chickens, you. are Independent. From the taro root the natives make pot, one of their chief articles-of diet. e Certain things that we have, the II.. walians do without. For example, they dO Without man v nf nm ivinuvn. nt. They have only U letters in their alpha bet, which are a, e. i. o. u. h, k. l. m. n. p and w. but with their lesser alphabet they seem to get along just as weU as we do with, more than twice as many letters. , a ', Ktlauea. the world's greatest living volcano, has ef late been more active than usual. It Is well worth going to see when It is indulging in its fiery pyro technics. Haleakla Is the largest extinct voicano in me world, its crater Is over zauo reet. aeep and -the saucer-like de ore salon la over SA m Ilea in r .-., .e ence. This' crater lies over. 10,000 feet aoove tne sea. ? a a - Some years ago I visited Jack Lon don at his home at Glenn Ellen In Cali fornia, He told me he had traveled over the world, but that because f the evenness of its temperature and the beauty of Its scenery, as well as the charm of 'its people, to his mind the Hawaiian Islands were the most desir able place to live of any place be had visited. - If you have an opportunity, see this urwuorn, ajun-aissea iano or cnarm and eeauty. When I think of Hawaii I tunic or what .Mark Twain said when he spoke of the beauty of the islands, which haunted him In his sleeping: and ssuni nours. - - "Some things leave roe, but It abides." he said. "Other thlnars ehansre. but it remains the same. For me its balmy airs are ever blowing. Its summer sess ever flash in the sun. The pulse of Its urc-oesi is in my ear. i see its gar landed draw f, tntn mstn A m plumy palms drowsing by the shore. Its mw summits xioaung ime islands above the cloudracks. There stlU lives !n my memory the breath of flowers that perished V ,, years or more ago." Aloha, Aloha Hawaii. In connection with this latter point hav ing been Increased by what sometimes are called in ths trad "female-male gar ments. I . s 1 . ... There are homes In London "not fit to house a donkey In." as a London county councillor recently told his audience at a meeting held .at St Martin's church, Trafalgar square. The object of the meeting was to inform the public ef the conditions under which countless men and women and little children are liv ing in the borough of Bethnal Oreen. London. As long ago as 1901 the bor ough was condemned. Kvem further back. In 1384. this district was described by the metropolitan board of works as a small and fourth class property ia an "a red and worn out condition. In the 84 veara that hsva slnni ,llnt It has grown mere aged and more worn. out. xet its population has increased. There are 130.000 people In 17,000 tene ments on 7S5 acres of land, or about 172 inhabitants to an acre. It is esti mated that If the lowest legitimate stan dard of space for each person (400 cubic feet) for living and sleeping (even In barracks It is 600) were enforced throughout the borottgb, fresh accommo dation would have to be found for at least 8000 persona CoPrrls-ht.0l. br Chieaso Da Or News Co.) plea that something should be done at once. Why net start a peUtion circulating- to this effect T ' ANXIOU8. Olden Oregon Coos Bay County W as-Made Knows and Settled in 1853. In May. 1353. a party of miners or ganized at Jacksonville for th purpose ef exploring Coos Bay. having been en couraged by Indian tales of coal de posits, gold, timber, a deep sea harbor and splendid fishing.: Empire-City was th name given the first townsite estab lished It was located by Captain W. H. Harris. Marshfield, located : by J. ; C. Toiman. was second, and North Bend, located by F. G. Lockhart, third. Soon thereafter coal mine . were opened at Wee t port by Flanagan and Mann. Ship building was commenced by Captain A, Mw Simpson at North. Bend. A sawmill was started at Empire City by II. H. Luse. In January. 1854, ' the ship Daman's - Cove - was the first vessel to enter, Cooe bay. .;' Ragtag and Bobtail Stories From Kvery wtiert Out How Did She Kill If rs. J. Rabbit? A WOOLLY poodle at -Fort Worth, nays Capper's Weekly, la rfiiK-nvr.i be mothering seven little Jackrabblt. The dog was recently bereft of her fam ily, then her ' ftvn.r nntiAxt making- frequent tripe to a wooded spot iinnsrw xoec rrom tne nousa and, following, discovered the interesting-reason. The old dog had killed the mother rabbit near the house and then been led by scent to the little rabbits, but instead of killing them, took charge of the orphans and Is bVingtng them up. The poodle is now to be - allowed to bring the little rabbits home if It wishes to, and any Truthful James can do the rest. The Zero Hour at 8 a m. When you wake up ' Bitter ia lh taste Of Fortune's rup. Wealth la bat a trifle; .' ' Mot Is all success; : Fame la but a babble; ...J"" kncm emptiness. w hat to you r" Are pratae and blame t Kothtnat , But jrouM ptar the camel Xhue our blh resolr - And tlisn I, Orer the too To sleep aeain! . " rhiladslphia Etsnlnj Led nr. . facie Jeff Snow Saj: i Ws don't need to take the r&ad to clt to a square- deal, that theinl Itooahati fellers tuck, 'cause we've got the 'nllia tlve and referendum. But the; Idle land In Rooshy and the Idle land: in Oregon was put there by God Almighty fer hin Children to use and enjoy theirxelves on, and not fer speo'iators and ;rltocratN to hold Idle. ! Them Rooshan lords of the earth wouldn't git off the backs of the people till they was bumped off ; but they'U git off In Oregon Jtat as easy as feathers falls, if we JistrJnvite 'em ta1. n n., a .11 . , iv wciibiuio an use! American cltisens.. . - The: News in Paragraphs ; World Happenings Briefed for Benefit of Journal Reader, p ' " ,: v ; GENERAL :.- . -" Public debt of the United States gov ernment ; reported Saturday by the treasury Is 324.824.345,000. Thomas Skel ton Harrison, former Philadelphia Saturday, aired 12. More than 8000 workers at the Los Angeles Shipbuilding and Drydock com pany at Ban Pedro are on strike; . William O. Sharp, former ambassador to trance, has been presented with the grand cross of th Legion of Honor, On the basis of reports from 58 cities, unemployment conditions showed a de cided improvement during - the past week. - Th grand Jury at Chicago has In-,' dieted 10 persons charged with election frauds In the February mayoralty pri maries.': . The war department, announced Sat urday that demobilisation of the army has returned 1,843,391 officers and men 4, VI, tile, . - ' ?. Piers and other property of the Hamburg-American line at Hoboken. N. J., have been taken over by the govern ment.' The purchase price was 2,t00,0o0. Soldiers and sailors' government In surance will be continued automatioally one month after the end of the month in which a man Is discharged. evenJfthe man does not pay his premium. For shipping liquor into dry territory, Joseph -Eccles. president ef the Ameri can .Sugar company; John Browning, son of the Inventor of the Browning run. mnn I t i uutn. . n I .luh ,.. - . were iinea iyvu eacn in Ban irrancisco. . NORTHWEST NOTES ' A total ef 13,000 sheep will be sheared In Deschutes county this year. A monster tabernacle that wilt seat 3000 people has been erected at Klamath Valla. ' A permanent poultry and egg associa tion was organised at Uresham Satur day night. A full million dollars will be spent in Aberdeen this year on street construc tion and new buildings. . 'Prunes in Lane county are dropping badly, and the crop will be far shorter than previously estimated. John F. Vaughn Is president of a newly organised company at lleppner that will erect a $80,000 hotel. Since September 1 the rainfall at Pendleton has been 11.34 Inches, nearly an Inch more than the normal. Contracts for 103.24 miles of .road work will be let Tuesday by the state highway commission, providing th bids are not too high. Contracts for export flour, amounting to probably 1.500.000 barrels, were .placed In the Northwest Saturday by th grain corporation. Sororities and fraternities at the Uni versity of Oregon must pay a 50 per cent penalty because they nave not paid their war revenue tax. - H. E. rlck has been named manager of the North Pacific dlvtaion of th United States shipping board, with headquarters at Seattle. An order for 78,000 barrels of flour, valued at $800,000, for foreign shipment. was received by the Astoria Flouring Mills company Saturday. After a strllte of a few hours, union electrical workers at Yakima n Satur day forced their wage scale from 75 cents an hour to 80 cents. At Colfax. Wash., Saturday, Marlon, the 3-year-old daughter of T. J. Crow ley, was-killed by a passenger train while picking flowers along the track. - Members ef the newly created state $6 per day and expenses during the time they actually sit as members of the board, .t . Mrs. jClara May Noah, supposed to have committed suicide at Cheney, Wash., Is declared to have been mur dered. The body was exhumed and found to be covered, with bruises. . FOREIGN :: . The Roumanian army is reported to have occupied Budapest. ' Three American soldiers were killed and eight injured In a railroad accident near Orleans, France, Saturday. As the result of an acute coal mining dispute In New South Wales, the Aus tralian government has commandeered all coal In th commonwealth. Desperate fighting between govern ment forces and communists is proceed ing north of Munich. Already more than 100 persons have been killed. Saturday, awarded the British military cross to Captain R. Ciilee. D. Murphy and F. Stone of the American army. Dishwasher Accumulated Fortune on Small Wages , - f Stories of echiereasent la the aocaasula tten of Vt'a Basins ft temp, sent to The Jfeamal'and accepted fur imblication. will be awarded Thrift Stamp.! A dish washer recently died in Albany, N. T., leaving the sum of $12,000 which had been saved out of wages never higher than $12 a week. It required 24 years, according to the press dispatches, for the man to save the amount mentioned. Twelve 'dol lars a, week for 20 years would mean a gross income of approximately $12,000. ' However.' the small savings of the first few years were, put out at compound interest, and there was also, no doubt, a lucky investment in town lots or suburban real estate. Thrift SUmpa and 1815 War Ea v. Ings-Stamps now on sale at usual agencies. . S t