10 THE OREGON DAILY , JOURNAL,; PORTLAND. TUESDAY, I.1AY C, 1910. i , AS TXDEPXNDEVT KtXVSPAPEB 7"" :. S. JACKSO ... I ............ .PnbHabel I'ubUnhed eeery day, afternoon and nomine - (oxoapt Sunday afternoon), at The Journal Kuildina, Broadway and ... XamhlU.. sUeet. Portland, Oreeoo. .,ntrea at me ronnim ai j-oruann, vnri. for. treiteMissioa ibrooxii ins mim as eeoww rUn matter. i i.I.f 1'HftVF.H Uala 71TS.I Home. A-60S1 AH department reached by theee wambers. Tn the eiraUr what department yo was. loREKJX AkVEHTIStNO REPRESENTATIVE - 22 Fifth aranae, Ktw Sorki atf Mailers : 3uwririnn terms by mall, or to any address is the I nstall Kiln or Mexico: IllII.Y UKIMWO nit ABTEBSOOIO . Od year. ,...15.00 On month, i . . . . 8 .69 r ' , . SUNDAY . . I1.SA t One month..... .25 IpAILX iMOBNIMO fVtl AFTJSRSOOH) AI One "yeay..i;.'$T.66 '.One month.... ,t .88 , t The four Liberty loan put the punch into Victory. The Victory Liberty loan - (U put the' puncti in prosperity. Charltn ' M. Bcnatb, - THE TIDE OF FORTUNE MEN, at some time are masters of their fate. These are the reported words of one Caius Casslus, who some Ityvo i thousand years ago was a prom- ; jinent citizen of Rome. 'i - Portland and Rome are half a world part; but, the parallel between them 'is . close;; enough to be Interesting. I Bothcgan life as small tillages on r- jtho banks of a river, a long way f pom-the sea; both attracted a sturdy, undependent type of citizen, and both developed Into busy ; and prosperous cities. ' Rome became mistress of the (known - world; the Roman , system. . the Roman law, the Roman organiza-1 jtion," were in many ways the most I jenduring and prpgressive In the his tory of government;, and yet, in the ' ibf ginning, the Romans faced much I lhe same problem as the citizens of i jPortland face today. Rome's river, the Tiber, looks like A T trout brook compared v'-i'th the hVillamette Ostia, Rome's seaport at ithe Tiber's mouth, is only a few pours away by automobile. But 2000 jyears ago the biggest -cargo vessels jwere propelled chiefly by oars, and a -galloping horse was the fastest : 'transportation known. Besides hav- Irig to fight their neighbors, therefore, fto protect their women, their farms jand . their cattle, the Romans had to contend with exactly the same situ jatiou that confronts Portland, namely, ithetr location. j The: world's trade moves in ships; jships must load In harbor, and no ' aailor will' prefer a. distadt or diffi icult harbor to a nearer or an easier jone unless he gets paid for it. Yet Jloma solved '.the problem. Rome, not Ostla, became the great center of trade. It was in Rome, not InjOstia, jlhat the products of the Campagna jand jthe Apennine farms the wine. the oil, the grain were collected for iexport.; It was to Rome, and not to jOstia, that - the Greek and Tyrian shipmasters brought the gold and (Bilks and -tin and spices, the manu factures and products of the Medi terranean world. Rome, jiot Ostia, handled the goods, financed the ven tures, loaned and collected the money. jAnd the citizens of Rome, . not the citizens of Ostia, dictated the policies jand enjoyed the prosperities and privileges pf their , time. t The strange thing about Portland's ituatlon today is not Its novelty, but the fact that so -many of her citizens ; know y seem to care, anything about 4 to We hear much talk about the . 'Inland Empire" and Portland's pros- erity, about the wool, the grain, he lumber, the other exports which t Naturally ; flow (or ought to) into Portland from the great Columbia ' asin country, , But hdw. many people ' actually Jtnow the few plain, business facts of the matter? , ivHow many know or take, any in : fereBt in the very real and acute llauger which ! threatens their city ? ; I -t . , ( The public Is informed by Chair , mam Cprdley of the state, lime board . that tlie price of agricultural lime is to be Increased because convict labor . s not available. Dean Cordley may be all right in his results, but he Is mistaken in his diction. The diffl .'rulty .wlth -convict labor seems not so much , with the lack of the labor as the elusiveness of the laborer. ONE BALLOT MEASURE lNE o the measures to be oh the special, election : ballot is the soldiers educational bill. ' . frwpyova , grant - f25 a . month or 1200 a year, for four years, to any soldier, sailor or marine who attends v any, : educational institution in. the state. It -provides this: Any and all honorably - dlschart;e4 soldiers sailors and marines, who have 1 been in the Berlqe pt the army, navy or marine corps durine the war with . Germany en!lste4 or inducted , into such service from the state of , Oregon., may. if they so desire, receive financial assistance while attending any institution in - the state- of Oreron, whether public or private. The benefits , of the act are not " extended to studepts of ' any army ; training corps, or men of-the limited service of the army -who ' did not leave the United States. ' . "Limited": service J has a definite meaning to army men. It refers to stenographers and like service, or to men . who, from ' physical disability or otherwise, did not c-ualify for the regular army work. v A levV of two tenths of 1 mill is to be fixed each year to cover the cost. On the 1918 valuation, it yould yield around i 1197,000 annually, auto matically Increasing, 5 of course, with Increased valuations of taxable prop erty, v.-- -. ;.-. i:-v..V The legislature referred the bill to the people because of the strictures of the 6 per cent tax limitation. Young men who gave months and even years out of their lives for mil itary or naval service earned all this bill gves. ; '. ONLY- ELE"EN H IS father suddenly dead, and 11-year-old Milton Chadsey alone with the body far from human 1 habitation, was a story of child heroism exclusively 'detailed . in yes terday's Journal. This mere child in years - was a man in aation. When the father expired from heart failure, the boy covered the body with canvas, built a fire to keep off wild animals and went out -to 'find- help. The forest ranger station four miles away, reached at nightfall, was empty and locked, and the night was spent in the forest. The next day he walked 13 miles, reached Palmer junction, sent ames sage to the coroner at La Wlnde, and on the arrival of the coroner, led the party back to the father's body. The unutterable loneliness, the loss of his father, the mid-mountain sur roundings, the soft snow and all the other dreadful things piled upon this child & an age accustomed to think of marbles and baseball, were met with resourcefulness and devotion. to honor the years of maturity. In the loss of a husband, the mother at Walla Walla has found a son, and the five saddened broth ers and sisters have discovered a brother worth while. All worked to putiOregon and Port land over. The heads of. depart ments worked. The canvassers who left business and solicited bond sub scriptions worked. Above all,, thou ands who bought bonds worked to earn the purchase money. And back of it all was the incessant, intelligent and constructive planning and per fecting of the organization by the fftate Liberty loan manager, Robert E. Smith. . s A MOMENTOUS ISSUE T HE delay in perfecting a con stitution for the League of Nations--and in signing the treaty of peace is unfortunate, not only from an international standpoint, but from a national standpoint, for all eyes are focused On Paris, and events which in other times . would be con sidered momentous .are being allowed to pass without notice. For Instance, the Democratic na tional committeeman for Oregon having taken up bis residence ir. the state of Washington and tendered his resignation, the quesUn of choos ing his successor is now before the publie. Like other parties, the Democratic party has within its ranks many brethren who become deeply con cerned over the choice of a national committeeman, not that he cuts any particular figure in national affairs, but because it js he who is expected to blaze the trail through the politi cal wilderness to the pastures, where the "faithful" may have license to feed, even for only a brief period, at public expense. This momentous issue is percep tibly dimmed, unfortunately, by the foolish persistence with which the American people keep their eyes fixed on the attempt at Paris to make the world safe for democracy1, and lose sight altogether of the vital necessity of making a few safe places for Dem ocrats. - In the - midst of this condign lethargy, the executive committee is said to be hopelessly deadlocked, a fell calamity, and nobody seems to have thought of summoning, the state central committee, by which a more representative choice could be made than by an executive commit tee mainly, if not altogether,' in Multnomah county.. WTiy spend time on a League of Nations, or on Orlando, or mere Balkan questions, or the terms for the Germans if some of the fafthful old war horses are to be left with out jobs? Over In Germany, a place formerly noted for its efficiency In Industrial organization they are deporting' all alien labor in order to give employ ment to the demobilized soldiers.' If Uncle Sam would deport all the alien bomb makers and trouble breeders who are spreading - their nnUnm propaganda over this nation, it might help some Acre. A CnEERY OUTLOOK R OGER E SIMMONS,'. trade com missioner for the United States department of commerce, has a pomiorung tale to tell a th- lurobermen of ; the Northwest par ticularly and to the people of the Northwest in general., The collapse of Russia. s according to his story, will make the demand for lumber far exceed ih supply, for several years to come. ... !i Russia, potentially, is the largest lumoer . producing section, of. the world. Bolshevism . and the chaos that has followed in Its wake has put that country aside ' as a supply source to meet the world's demands. The waste of war has created an enormous market for lumber through out th'e ' war stricken district ' of Europe, while long halted construc tion project$ from all sections of the continent swell the calls. The United States, Canada and Sweden must meet the problem from their forests. The Northwest is the great , timber ' producing section ; of the United. States.i Mr, Simmons has been in Russia for two years studying ; conditions there. He speaks from experience and! information gained at first han.d so that his story, must have un doubted basis of fact upon which te found it. If It has, there should be no idle camps' or - mills during the next few years. With them run ning at top speed there ought to be no majo- problem of unemployment in this section of the country. It is a cheering outlook. : , , THE BLOSSOM FESTIVAL THERE is nothing sweeter: than the apple blossom, except it Is the apple. Thre is nothing more pleasant to the senses of man than an orchard blooming in the sun light," unless it is the taste of the fruit when the family is grouped about the winter fire. J; The people of Hood River valley were hosts to hundreds .of Portland people Sunday, the : apple blossoms unrolling before the eyes of j the motorists a picture, the duplicate of which thesun will fail to find In all his ; journey from the ea&t of morning to the west of night. Hood River's apple blossom festival furnishes a spectacle which can be enjoyed nowhere else in the world. It may be that somewhere else on earth can be found a reach of land across the -bosom of which is flung 13,000 -acres of apple trees in almost unbroken succession. . Should this doubtful thing be true then it would, be possible for mankind to see as much of bloom and to drink in as much of fragrance as gladdened the visitors to the valley on Sunday last. But no place in the lap of Nature is such a picture set in such a frame. No orchard country has such a sentinel as Hood to watch its blos soms fructify. Nowhere else does such a river sin its ever chan.erin? melody, tumbling through the sunn flecked shadows of such a fairyland. It Is a festival event that should be perpetuated as one of Ahe annual features and spectacles of the state. It is more than beautiful enough and out of the ordinary. Oregon is probably first in the Vic tory loan. The Iowa subscription to the fourth Liberty loan was not ' a popular one; but was Ainderwritten by a fund provided in advance. IV Is charged that the Michigan fund, as well as that in Iowa, to the Victory loan was underwritten by the banks. If the truth is finally known, it will probably appear that Oregon was the most steadfast - and most faithful state in all the Union in every loan, as well as in many other activities. It is a war record to be grateful for, and never to be forgotten. AMERICANIZE AMERICA St.vi!jNi'x-rivEi per ceni oi siz, 000,000 worth of fish taken from state waters of Washington goes annually to persons nut citizens of the United States, 40 per cent go-f ing to alien enemies. This is the statement of Fish Com missioner Darwin of the state of Washington. The statement applies in large part to salmon fishing on the Washington side of the Colum bia river. The Oregpnian raises the point that it is not a satisfactory situation, and its contention is sound. The late Oregon legislature passed a bill making full citizenship a requisite to fishing. : The Washing ton legislature refused to pass such a bill. The ground for beating the bill in Washington was. the claim that so many aliens- were engaged in the business that fishing -would fall if aliens were debarred. This is one of the, great American mistakes. Alien ownership ofx land, alien exploitation of American natural resources, alien operatives in Ameri can factories, who in some instances run as high, as 72 per cent of per sons unable to speak English, were among the difficulties we had to contend with during the war. The Dumba incident is .a green memory. So are the activities . of Captain von Papen and others.. The attempt by European official agents through their unnaturalized country men in America to obstruct the man ufaciure of munitions and other American activities ought to be a sufficient .warning. ' Those who coie to America from abroad to fish, or mine or; work should be made welcome. But they should be met at the port of de barkation with the constitution of the United. States and with a certify cate ': of admission to ' American free schools to learn the ' American lan guage and absorb the spirit and pur poses of American : Institutions. .. If they decline, to avail themselves or these privileges, tney should be sent back to the country from which they come, - What will men. not dare for whis key? vWitU all hands lost, a launch used as a whiskey runner from Ohio into " dry -.Michigan has . turned up with" 60 . cases of whiskey on board. The- sole survivor "of ? a-rwrecked launch carrying bootleg whiskey from California Into dry Oregon has been .rescued from the' sea at Eureka. The perils of bootjegging is one of the romances of a doomed and disappear ing liquor traffic in America. The Seattle news dispatches tell us that Senator PoindexterV presiden tial . boom has started." 1 So far the only sound that it has caused-is Xhe press . report. 5 r FOR ROOSEVELT HIGHWAY Great Project Shown as Boon to All Sections of Oregon. , - IF. K- Beala. a pioneer dairyman and atoek breeder of Tillamook ooanty, dbjeaaaed the Booae wlt Mehway is an article tn a went Imam nf the Tillamook JUeadlisUt. which article is here reproduced. It well present the economic sod military advantage of the proposed coast highway-J : .;. - ' 3 - . - - -, The Roosevelt military highway biU to appropriate the sum of 1200.000 by the state contingent upon an equal amount being appropriated by the : federal gov ernment Is one of the most important measures that will appear on the ballot at the election to be held next month. The military importance of this highway has long been realised by i the military authorities of our government. Events In Europe during the war clearly demon strated that transportation afforded by the highway systems of Europe was of inestimable value In the successful pros ecution of the war, the value of the high ways far exceeding the value of the rail ways or of any other method of trans portation. ' i If the Roosevelt Military Highway measure carries, the fact that the peo ple of Oregon have taken the initiative in the matter and have made a substantial contribution to the project, should and Will appeal to congress. It is perfectly safe to predict that a special appropria tion wilt be made by congress to matcht our state funds. , ' I The military importance! of. this proj ect Is not all that is to be considered, t it will develop thousands of acres . of Ore gon's most fertileJandsj lands capable of producing many millions of dollars annually and of sustaining a large popu lation. This change from wild, non-productive regions to prosperous communi ties will bring added population, aug mented wealth ' and a tremendous In crease in assessed valuation, all of which will be enduring assets to the state. a a . In the coast counties, where im proved land for soiling and grazing pur poses is valued at from S300 to S500 per acre, dairymen find it unprofitable . to raise hay on their valuable lands and are relying more and more on the Wil lamette vaUey farmer and the Eastern Oregon, alfalfa producer to supply them with the hay and grain they consume. The coast territory furnishing a market for these interior products is poorly served by roads. This makes the cost of transportation on merchandise like hay and grain prohibitive. The cost of local distribution is so great that many dairy men find it necessary to raise their own hay. or a large portion of it. This re duces the size of their herds and the number of their hogs and thus m&teri-' ally lessens their consumption of bay and grain. For example,' the cost of transporting a ton of hay or grain from Tillamook City, the railroad terminus in Tillamook county, to certain of the rich est dairy districts is $10 a ton. The Roosevelt highway would reduce this cost by 8 or more, per ton. . - a. . " - The conclusion is obvious. These farm ers -would increase their herds, raise more hogs, and thus double or treble the amount of hay and grain they now con sume. , Under the, present adverse con ditions "Tillamook county alone, with its 15,000 dairy cattle and its large number of hogs, purchases annually close to a half million dollars worth of Imported hay and grain When the Roosevelt highway is completed, these consumers will draw heavily upon the Willamette valley and Eastern Oregon bay and grain districts for these supplies- It is safe to-say that in the immediate future. the coast countries of Oregon, with the expansion of the dairy industry which the highway will bring about, would fur nish a steady and ever increasing mar ket for Eastern and Central Oregon and the " Willamette valley products to the extent of S3.500.O00 or more annually. a a In this connection I wish to say I find a great deal of interest among the peo ple throughout the coast counties in the irrigation bill to be voted on in June en titled "State Bond Payment of Irriga tion and Drainage Bond Interest." it seems to be the disposition everywhere in the coast districts to support this worthy measure, which provides for the state guarantee of interest on Irrigation and drainage district bonds for five- years with a provision for repayment This support is perhaps due to the fact that a number ofour dairymen are interested in Eastern Oregon alfalfa lands and, as above stated, many are looking to that section of Oregon for their supplies of hay and grain, but in a broader sense th.j support comes from a feeling that the irrigation districts of Eastern Ore gon are great assets of the state and that the state can well afford to use its credit ta assist in the development of this won derful region. e ; So let us work together and vote sol idly for these two measures which are of such great importance to the whole state of Oregon. An increase in hay and grain production In Central Oregon, Eastern Oregon and the Willamette valley con fers a direct benefit upon the dairymen of the coast ; hence we of the coast will support, any reasonable measure to aid irrigation' and drainage, both from our selfish interests and from our desires to see these great irrigation and drainage reclamation projects of : the Willamette valley. Central- Oregon and Eastern Ore gon developed. The Roosevelt highway will provide a -continually enlarging home market for the Willamette valley and Eastern and Central Oregon bay and grain producers; therefore they should support the bond measure to construct it, both from selfish ; motives and from state pride. The Roosevelt highway is a military necessity!; it also contains vast economic possibilities for the state of Oregon Therefore every good citizen will support It. ' Every citizen of every part of Oregon, directly or Indirectly, will receive commercial - benefit from ' it ; every patriotic American citizen must see the military value and necessity for it. So let us all join hands atross the mountains and work untiringly and vote unitedly, unanimously for the Roosevelt military highway. . .-i: Where 25,000 Brave American - Soldiers Are Buried From the New Tot World ; Thirty : kilometers north of Verdun, near the line where the. closing battle of - the great war was most) fiercely waged, the remains of 25.000 , United States soldiers are being assembled In what will be the greatest of our na tional cemeteries. , 1 - ! . . Arlington has more ' than 20.000 graves, ' Chalmette, more1 than 12.000, wnatianooga more man ij.wv, -i rea erlcksburg more than 15,000, and Nash villa ; and Vicksburg more than 16,000 each; Antletam and Gettysburg, rank ing among the most sanguinary fields of the Civil war, have cemeteries -contain tog 4751 and 3836, respectively. ; The precise " system With which our dead In Franca have, been cared for Is tn keeping with ; all - our military operations overseas. It Is not possible to bury in one place the remains of U the brave Americans who cUed. tn bat tle, twit the vast graveyard at Ro-mame-ous-Montfaucon will - testify most Impressively to the valor of the nnlu that rin,ll nvrrramc the hosts lot autocracy and should -be the object of patriotic pilgrimages forever, - Letters From the People Communication sent td The Journal for publication ia this department should be written, on only one aide of the paper, should not exceed SOO words in length, snd muat be signed by the writer, whose mail address to lull miut accom pany the contribution. I V " Strongly Indorsing Wilson Athena, May 3. To the Editor of The Journal Tour editorial of a few days ago under the heading. The Threatened Americans," is fine. What a reproach 'it is to this country that we cannot stand, to a man, back of our president. No nation ever had a; representative that they had more reasons to be proud of than we liave o& President Wilson. His position is'unique and un parallelled, and he has acompllshed almost the impossi ble, despite the harpings and carpings of Uttle men. Unassuming, without vanity, with an unswerving belief that right must ultimately prevail.' he has battled along from day to day. One would think khat a man big enough to become a united states senator could grasp the magnitude oCthe situation and be help ful by friendly suggestions and a helpful ness in every way, and cast to the winds politics and political ambitions. Never In all the history of tie world was there a more compelling need of all good and true men to work for a common cause. I. B. WOOD. Objects to Senate Bill 269 Athena, April 30. To the Editor of The Journal Verfly. it Is easier to criti cise than to construct, but criticism in the-oright spirit should be rather com mendable than otherwise. And I wish to offer some such criticism upon senate bill 269 soldiers', sailors' and marine educational bill to be voted on June 3. This bill is not equitable, for the reason that it offers a certain benefit that only a few can take advantage of, on account of financial and various other reasons. A great many of the boys will of ne cessity have to go to work to support themselves and even others depending on them. Those in better circumstances wilt find the $200 a year benefit avail able, and use it- Now, it isn't that I should not like to see such young men helped on their way and think it a priv ilege to pay my share of taxes to furnish the means, but that it does not treat the rest of the boys fairly. My boy, who served two years, would not think he had a square deal if he could not go to school on financial grounds or because he felt he was trjo old, if my neighbor's boy, who served only tKree months and whose father- had means, were to take advant age of It. Now, I put extreme cases, of course ; but there are plenty of extreme cases. Of course the law was not framed, I am'sure, with any idea of unfairness. It was not made for the purpose of giving a certain few a benefit; but if it had been it would not have been any worse. The fact that the young man does not actually handle any money makes no difference ; ; he receives a benefit of a certain value. I. for one, cannot vote for the law as it stands. I think the boys should all receive some kind of bonus from the state, but it Bhould be based upon the amount of service and not upon a flat rat basis. By all means give them a bonus, but make it equitable, and avail able to alL F. B. WOOD. The War's Spiritual Consequences Vancouver, Wash., May l.-r-To the Editor of The Journal For more than four years frequent allusion has been made to 'the great spiritual awakening" to which the war wouia give Dirtn. mat awakening is now here. Does it fn any degree meet the expectations of those who foresaw its coming? Trulv a universal awakenins is now in ; full progress, yet many assert that the forces which are now in operation IO JlUk cjjiiitwip cull. kuu .j forces, if not checked, will degrade civi lization to a state approaching barbar ity. Now to the faithful religionist, or the erudite natureist, the world chaos of today offers no cause of alarm or distrust. The faithful preach that "God moves in a mysterious way his wonders to perform." and they sing. "Tea, though I walk in death's dark vale, yet will I fear no ill; for thou art with me, and thy rod and staff me comfort stilli- The evolutionist comforts him self with the truth that nature ever fol lows the path of least resistance and that her course Is ever onward and up ward. The philosopher rests confidently in - the belief that what Is to be will be, and that what is is always best. Science trusts in nature. Religion con fides in God. The one relies on an ef fect ; the. other trusts the cause of that effect. Neither shall be confounded, for their hopes are founded on the same, eternal truth. - Now the viewpoint of the godly and the learned is not a universal viewpoint. The great mass of the people lack con fidence and entertain doubts regarding tin world's future; "this from the fact that their lack cf understanding renders them egotistic, selfisBr and self-conceited. They cognize nature as a creation for their special benefit, sense her as their duly appointed guardian, and feel 4fcat they are her sols wards and "first and greatest care." This is vain, presump tuous and arrogant. To nature, man is of less consequence than is the grass of the field, for does not all animal life depend absolutely on vegetable exist ence? Truly our non-importance and lack of significance in the stupendous scheme of nature la, or should be, pat ent to all. 'God moves." Evolution evolves. Therefore let. all trust In the God , of nature. AMOS. Inquiries About Soldiers These replies are to questions re spectively signed as indicated by the side-beading: " Anxious , Mother It is expected . that the 823d field artillery will sail early in May, If it has not already sailed. An Anxious Sister The Thirty-first infantry is not listed with any division, and no information as to its movement is at hand. ' . r A - Sick- Mother No information . - is available about "the 203d center tank COrpS."". - ' :. " ,-;'..'. f. .; Mrs. John Carr There is no Informa tion available' concerning "M. T. C. Co, 828." As to "company F. Eighteenth In fantry. First division." the First division is a part of the army of occupation, and hence no announcement has ever been made as to Its, return, since that army is not at present subject to orders for return. ' An Anxious Mother The Fourth engi neers is with the army of . occupation. The preceding answer,; is hence appro priate to this Inquiry. - - ! Free Speech '" Portland, May 4. To the Editor of The Journal In your editorial today on May day you say s The city of Port land was in striking contrast" (to Paris, Cleveland, etc) ; "There were no dis turbance of the peace, no riot calls, no mobs to quell, no outbreaks of lawless ness and no casualties. There aretoo many Americans in Portland fbr such conditions to gain much headway." ? - Right you are ; for there are. too many honest to God Americans here who be lieve In fair play. The May day gatb- COMMENT AND V. SMALL CHANGE Some weather man. ' , It's apple blossom time In Oregon. The bushes are getting ready for the Rose Festival, i - .. e . .Mias Edith Plnn waa in the bank at Washougal when it was held up. Prob ably not of the safety variety. Now the police department is staging its own little "drive." Gamesters en trenched in gambling dives are the ob jective. . -, i ';e Wo- read that -'a boose-laden launch turns over on bar.'; Sounds almost as though femeone might have spilled a schooner . -f 'v;-: "--''V'- ..:'-e 1 - '.v " -j. lThe men who held up the bank at J v ten pair or tne yre<h behind on purpose. All men re not hnre-iBh i MEN AND INSTITUTIONS OF THE OREGON COUNTRY By Fred In this article Ur. . Lockley takes tip the career of a man whose work for many years hat been with the! Oregon prune and the put tins of same upon the map. The present installment is preliminary to the matter of achievement with prunes, beins rathel devoted to the - prooeasea by which this prune 'promoter qualified for bis treat work. The phone bell rang the other day. I found H. S. Gile of Salem was on the wire. He said,! "We want you to come up to Salem and tell us about your ex periences overseas." My first Impulse was to say it would be impossible for me to come, but there flashed; through my mind a score Of incidents that caused me to make my "no" a "yes." So I promised to come. . - Twenty-five years ago or so Mr. Gile was president of the State Christian En deavor union. Professor "W, I. Staley of Salem was state secretary and X was state treasurer.! For two or three years our relations were Intimate and exceed ingly cordial. After my talk at the Baptist church at Salem, X made a shorts talk at the Young Women's Christian association, and then went to Mr. Gile'a home, where I spent the night. When we had talked over old times 1 1 asked Mr. Gile to tell me something about himself and bis connection with the fruit Industry of Oregon. "I was born on a farm on' September 6. 1861. near Smith's Falls, Ontario,' said Mr. Gile. "Both my father's and my mother's people came from New England. When I look back to my box hood days, it seems tot me that the boys of today have a good deal more done for them than the boys of my, genera tion. Before I was 18 years old I was getting up before daylight to feed and milk 'our cows. After a breakfast : by lamplight, I drove 2 miles with our milk to the cheese factory, hurried home, put up jthe team, got ready for school and walked half a mile to the school house. "When I was 20 years old X had a sick spell. After X got up I did not seem to regain my strength. I felt I was more of at liability than an asset on the farm, since X could not do a full day's work. I told my father that if he would lend me $50 I would go across the border to the United States and find some lighter work than farm work and support myself. With the $50 my father lent me I went to Chicago. X got work as a book agent, selling "Great Events of the Past Century. The book sold at from $5.50 to $7.50.- depending on 'the type of binding. .With- long-legged toots and an umbrella I spent the winter of 1881 walking (through. Egypt' and all over Sangamon county, selling this book to the farmers. I avoided -towns and villages, because I realized they had - THE COTS WHERE POOR MEN LIE v . By Alice M 1 . Special Correspondence of The Journal and The Chicaso Daily News. : London. It Is reported that many of the houses inj Bethnal Green. long fa mous for wretchedness, have rooms so small as to be incapable of occupation by more than! one person without caus ing illegal overcrowding, and so low that a tall man cannot stand up in them. In one part of the borough the houses are built back to back ; in six of the 'streets there are cases of leaky roofs; three of the streets are infested with rats. Itl was officially reported in 19 :: that in the Plgby -street area there were 34 families occupying each one room, and 77 families occupying two rooms each. ! There are underground living rooms in most parts of the area and In one lot of tenements there are people sleeping on and under the stairs, which are open to the street. The weekly rent paid for a tenement of four rooms and a basement is 12s 6d ($3.12), and nearly all the houses are sublet to lodgers. Of the people who live in this slum area the majority, naturally, ere in a condition of abject poverty. Their work consists mainly of tailoring ana - tne erlngs In Paris. New York. Boston and Cleveland would have passed off in peace and been as orderly ' as Port land's if the fReds" had been left alone. People do not have to attend their meetings : also, there is no law to keep them from walktng away if they do not. like ' what Is being said. I do not belong to either the Salvatioef Army or the Holy tollers, but I am . American enough not to disturb their street meet ings. I do not believe In all of their teachings, butX do believe in ; free speech. If X were looking for free newspaper advertising I would have tried to break up the "Reds" meeting last Thursday; but, remembering that I was a true American whose forefathers fought for i "freedom of speech,' I walked . away without making any trouble. r J- K- C. For ibe Education of Soldiers ' CorvalUs, May 5 To the Editor of The Journal Please Inform me. if the law presented to the last legislature in regard to the schoolboy .soldiers high and, college of our state being given $200 for educational s purposes was passed? I thought It died in committee. If passed, did it Include the S. A. T. C? C. D. C. fAnewers to these mMStfofM may be ln an editorial article tint appears P uue pace M . ' .' "-.' .: . - - ':. ,'" ' - Olden Oregon Diversity of Spelling and Derivation of Name "Coquille." , - While the accepted . spelling . of the liver and town in Coos county la Co quille, there Is a difference of opinion as t tho pronunciation. - By some it ia called Ko-keeU by others, Ko-quell, It depends on the origin tf the name.- If named after the French word meaning a shell. It is Ko-keet An early spelling of the word was ScoqueU which is said to have - been an Indian tevm for a species of eel. In a map of jltSl the spelling is Coquette, bnt this may have been an error for Coquelle. The name Coquille appears In a map ef 1855. - NEWS INBRIEF -s , OREGON SIDELIGHTS V Albany postoffice, the Democrat says, bids fair to get into the first class pretty soon. Judging by the current showing of Increased business. - 'Race prejudice ; against Japan would die out. Editor Bruce Dennis of the ; la Grande Observer . believes, if Japan would only stop talking about It. .... . . ...... Salem the5 sedate, according to the Capital Journal, is going to have such a real, old fashioned Fourth of July thir-year that 1f the lid isn't taken off It will be blown off by the enthusiastic celebration." Sure sign of springif not Indeed of summer regtsterea oy ine .ugenw Guard: E. J. Arnold's merry-go-round, which has been stored at the fair grounds here since the last county fair, has been set up on the vacant lot at the corner of Olive street and Eleventh ave nue West, and wUl be run for a few weeks." - -? Zjockley been canvassed mora and it would be harder to sell books there. I stayed with the Job for a year; then I went back to Canada to visit my people. I paid my father what X owed him, and gave him $200 In , addition. You have no Idea what this $200 .meant to him. In those days the farmers of Canada handled very little money. The system then in vogue was to take your product to the store, receive credit and trade it out. Once a year there was a settle men t The farmer's aim -was to try to break even. - "After visiting home for a few weeks X went to Iowa, where I secured the agency for a book. Meantime I took up the study of telegraphy. As soon as I was able to send and receive a mes sage I secured work with the North western Railroad company as telegraph operator, being stationed at Maple River Junction, not far from Carroll, Iowa. After a year and a half I found my pay check was not increasing very fast, and as I lookd ahead there seemed to be very little future to the Job. I secured a position as express- messenger, running between Burlington and Cedar Ttaplds. Finally X was promoted to the overland run between Pacific Junction and Den ver.. It was a hard run, as we handled lots of ; baggage and the pouch mail. From that position I was promoted to that of general agent at Nebraska City for the joint offices of the Wells Fargo, American and United States express companies. This was an important transfer point. -I stayed there three years. - -. ..-,: . I ' "I sized the matter tin and decided that If I worked half ahard for my self as I did for the express company X would be making a lot more money-. secured a leave of absence without pay ior 9u aays ana came west to size up tne opportunities out here. "I landed in Salem in the fall of 1889 Salem looked good to me, for a peculiar reason. That reason was that it was a slow, ooiervative and sleepy place. Looking around the country I realized the "wonderful possibilities of : growth and expansion of the city as the coun try settled up and developed and the larger farms were broken into smaller holdings. With George Sroat I started a' retail grocery store, with which we com blned he buying and shipping- of fruit. The fruit shipping business waa origin ally the tail of the dog. but the tail soon 'wagged the dog. We dropped the retail grocery business and confined 'our at tention entirely to the shipping of fruit. Mr. Sroat went to California, so X started in business for myself in the old State Insurance building.? Iater I took in Walter J. Jenks and we changed the name of the firm to XX. S. GUe ft Co." . Archer making of wearing apparel, boxmaklng, boot and shoe work, haversack and army equipment work, brushmaktng all of them sweated industries. Apart from overcrowding, . insanitary houses prevail all over the borough. In the year 1916 877 complaints, and in the year 1918 -1081 complaints of Verminous children were officially recorded. The decrease In excessive Infant mor tality 184 per 1000 in 1898. 119 per 1000 in. 1908. lt)6 per 1000 in 1916 is to be accounted for by health visiting, schools for - mothers, compulsory notifications and maternity benefit. At the meeting at 'the Church of St Martln-in-the-Fields. the vicar told the people present that for considerable time he had occupied a house In one of the condemned areas. He , told them how the new baby in a family might arrive frequently did in the same room where the old grandmother was lying dead in her coffin. He also pointed out the danger to the community at large of having clothing and blouses and- toys and other articles made tn these Insani tary homes, where all the business of life was carried on. (Copyrisht, Xl. by Chios so Daily News Co.) luriotis Bits of Information for the Curious 'l Glejtned From Curious Places Three years are said to have been spent in the following curious calcula tion concerning the Bible, the accuracy of which you are at liberty to test for yourself. If so inclined s , . ' , - OU TESTAMENT . . - The middle book Is Proverbs. :r r The middle chapter is Job xxix. : The middle verse is In Second Chron icles, twentieth chapter, between the seventeenth and eighteenth verses. "The shortest verse is the twenty-fifth verse. First Chronicles, first chapter. " KEW -TESTAMENT The middle book is the secona epistle to Thessalonians. The middle chapter la between the thirteenth and fourteenth of Romans. The middle verse is the seventeenth verse, seventeenth chapter ef Acts. The shortest verse is verse $5, eleventh chapter of John. .-: ".-s... The twenty-first verse of the seventh chapter of Ezra hae all the letters of the alphabet in it ' ' The nineteenth chapter of the Second Book of Kings, and the thirty-seventh chapter of Isaiah, are alike. - ' The Roosevelt Highway . ' From the St. Helens Ubt ' .The coast counties are practically iso lated, from the rest of Oregon so far as connecting' roads ' are- concerned. When the Roosevelt highway is built, that Isolated section will be connected with the jrest of Oregon. - Goodly por tions or links of ; the highway are al ready constructed and paid for and the completion and connecting up of those links as a trunk or through road.: will make the- present links more useful, ... ! ... . ,MMH 14. lN a K'nrilx . Amhltlnn - : i C-mak th- Thrift sfaeazine. f Every man should strive continually to live tap to all the remarkable things the politicians tell him about himself lust before election. 4 -- - ... Ragtag and Bobtail Stories From Everywhere . Addicts All IN THE JOURNAL, of the American Pharmaceutical auonlatinn v 1- Shelford. It is noted by a writer in the Philadelphia ledger, has an article de scribing , research in drug-addiction through the curious medium of gold fish. He had a shallow tank, In one end of which water, was flowing with amps m solution; at the other end un tainted water entered"; and the outlet was in the middle. When morphine was put in the water a number of fish BWam OVer tO Where It waa anri rnfnmaA to leave. With ' cocaine In the water tney- remained until they died. , With ethyl alcohol they chose an area where the solution was about 10 per cent, A tadpole took kindly to a 20 per cent otunon or aiconoi ana water. The ex pression "drinking like a fish" la evi dently less Innocent than is ordinarily supposed. - We Are Growing Particular , We like all liaraan ereeturaa, be They fat, tall, short or lean: ' . But we don't like the man who calls Hie auto "thuh aiitb-eheen. " - Some folks depress one tool at time When we are teelins friakyi ' anions them is the man who lays -- "Comuuky" for Coulakey. We can forslra the office boy Who speaks of "det" and "dlMea"! Bnt people eery much annoy Us when they say: "Bay. listen!" . .- -CUicao News. ; Uncle Jeff Snow Says: ' Th Tin Invaa ...... - - - - - tut K,IYC(, OUQ the way some of these here 2x4 nations In Eurone howls ahnnt ft vtn' tin . of their garden-patch principalities to one anotner in tne peace table divvy makes a feller think the Lord must have quit lovln'.'em quite a spell ago. The News in Paragraphs World Happenings Briefed for Benefit :' of Journal Readers y:-- GENERA Ii - The allies last Saturday officially rec ognized the Jugo-Slav kingdom. It is reported thst Field Marshal Hln denburg has resigned as chief of the German army. On May 1. Oermany-had 325,000 men. of various classes under arms, but only 225.000 available for service. Bank and bourse employes of Paris struck Monday, demanding a minimum salary of 200 franca (monthly. The United States government has con tributed 2000 army cots for 'the relief of poor persons in New York rendered homeless by rental evictions. Striking members of the Typographical union employed on the four daily papers in Albany, N, Y., have voted to return to work pending arbitration. A nationwide campaign in favor of government ownership of telegraph lines soon will be launched by the Commercial Telegraphers' union of America. Daily expenditures of the war depart ment from March IS to April 15 aver aged $14302,000. agalnat $28,711,000 be tween July 1, 1918, and January 81. Secretary Clans says the ordinary ex penditures of the government duritiff April were less than $1,004,000,000, This 1 18 than for any month since April, King Albert has decor tied Major Gen eral Edward M. Lewis of the American army with the Insignia of commander of the Order of Leopold and tlie crops of war, Senator Moses of New Hampshire has Issued a statement urging the nomina tion of Major General Ieonard Wood as the Republican candidate for presi dent in 120. V What is said to be the largest sincrle purchase of Victory Liberty bondm went of the Mississippi river was $l,0o0.oo, made by the Marl & Itefining company of Ponca City, Okla. , . Germans and Poles have reached an agreement whereby the Poles will de liver 90,000 tons of potatoes to Germany, the latter permitting the Poles to ship goods to Csecho-Slovakia. i NORTHWEST NOTES Just half of Vancouver's Victory loan quota has been raised. , There not a death In Cottage Grove during the month of April. Highway improvement has started on the roacf between . Cottage Grove and Lorane. -Out of a total of E10 industrial casual ties in the state last week, only three were fatal.'. Funds now In the hand of the state Industrial accident commission total $1,787,427.89. H. C. Allen, un to two weeks ago state engineer of Idaho, died suddenly at b Prague, Wash- Sunday. Mrs. Wllilam K, Baydler of Beaverton Is dead at Salem from the effects of in fluenza contracted last winter. "Articles of Incorporation have been filed at Salem by the Wallowa Marble Ac Granite company. The capital is $26,000. ' The Hood River Fruit company In 1918 handled a tota1! of 110,000 boxen of fruit, mostly , Newtowns and bpitzen bergs. .. The financial report of the Port of Astoria for-the first three months of the present year shows net earnings of $24,122.67. " . To avail Itself of 7,000.000 feet of tim ber, the Cleveland sawmill which has been operating nqar Fall City, has moved to Pedee. - . ' 'On account of a return of influenza, the mayor of Monmouth has ordered the closing of all nublks meeting places, churches and. schools. Arrangements have been made for the erection of a $10,000 dormitory on the campus of the girls' college of the fiugene Bible university. m A, C. Thayer, who had a complete still at Vancouver and win manufactur ing prune brand,, was fined $2i0 and sentenced to 90 days In jail. . - By the will o the late Janes M. Blos som of Hood River, a large' list of books from his private library is bequeathed to the state hospital for the insane. The'Grants Pass Red! Cros chapter gave a reception in the courthouHA last Friday afternoon to the returned sol diers and sailors of Joseptflne county. - The Butte, the tenth -wooden ship to be launched from the yards of the Standifer Construction company, left the ways at Vancouver Monday afternoon. The body of an unlndentlfied Than ap parently about 60 years old. was found by a finherman Kunrlay evening at Hub bard Jake, a short distance from Salem. Mr. and Mrs. Daniel Khaner, near Che halls, have received details of the death of their son, Charlea. In France. Of the entire company of which he was a member, only 14 escapeeV death from a bu rating shell that was filled with phonograph needles infected with gan grene poison. Government Gives All Opportunity to Save. (Storie of achievement in the aocnran'a. Hon ef War bt1h atampa, sent to The Journal end accepted for publication, wiu be swarded S Thrift Stamp. J ' Your government has made ft both easy and safe for you to save. You can put aside as little as a quarter st a time by buying Thrift Htamps. As soon as these are converted into W. 8. S. an irvestment of $4 and a few cents your money starts earning In terest for you. Soon you have saved m. very considerable amount without even missing the rhoney invested. . Try it, Eegln today. Save regu larly. Buy Thrift and W. S, a whenever snd wherever you can. Hold on to the stamps you have and increase your holdings regularly. Thrift Stamps and 1919 War Eav ings stamps now on sale at usual agenda- '