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s THE OREGON DAILY JOURNAL. PORTLAND, MONDAY. - MAY 12. - 1919. I r - A WDEPENDKNT NEWSPAPER ! C ft. JACKBpN . . . . . . ..... ...... PubUeher l-ublinbed every day. afternoon and morula (except Sunday eftenoea). it TN Journal Bmldtac. Broadway , nd TaahiU aUee. Portland, Oreaoo. Entered at the Feetof fiee at Fort land. Cum, for truimwio ttuavik Um aaaiie a aeoottd elaea matter. - - --- -' - - TELEPHONES Main 7173; Home., A-05t. U) department reached by tbaaa sumbeni. Tell tlia operator what depertaaaat yew Mat. yORKIGN AIVEKT18Ua BKPRESKNTATiyE Pnjam Kent nor BrowwulJ BttiMln. 22& rifth arenas. ! otk i , 0 Mailer liuucunc, (.main gubocrfptirm umi by mail, or to any addraa In the United Statee or Mexico s J' .,. DAILY (MORNINO OB ArTEKNOON) J One rear..... 8I.OO Ob eaU...8 .SO . UDAT' ' K One rear. .... 82.50 I On month 9 ."S ; VTlW (MOBSWO 6U AFTERNOON) AND SUNDAY On year. .... .87.80 I Ona month. . . .8 .68 On re mora tha bceeeabr power Makea ail thln new. "And domea tha red. pkrazb'd hilU - With loin bin l Tfaa blackbirds have their wUU, The throstlei, too. ii;-t;--v; '.''i..: - -Tennyaoa. WHAT WATER IS DOING I P EVER, there was reason for any thing, k full reason appears In jp ' ATft tail I fca- VVUUkj AW w t . "r ti every means for -extending lrrl- ?. gallon. i V Wheat output increased five fold, ,oat ten fold, potatoes ten fold and ! alfalfa grown where alfalfa wag never j grown : before are things : Irrigation has accomplished in Klamath. No- body-doubts, nobody distrusts plans f? for reclamation out there. - AH know T by demonstration that water placed f on arid land will not only yield. ji crops, but Immense crops, j: -This year, livestock will feed In .Klamath pastures in a 40,000 acre basin below Klamath Falls that was f formerly covered by water. Twenty I thousand aores are in Oregon and the remainder in California. Next year I ; the 'area will be tilled and big crops of agricultural products thereafter will annually reach world markets from a. basin that was only waste I before. . ' '. I In - the .whole project there are 64.000 acres. Engineers say it is a r sufficient area to maintain an entire clty the size of Klamath ;Falls. Rec lamation In this project 'was finally I effected, after many years, through ' the efforts of the Klamath drainage i district At. Bonanza, the people will have . COOO acres under water this year. : After striving in one way and an t other,' they have at last adopted the plan of pumping water from Lost river, which flows through the dis trict ' - If irrigation is worth water pumped by-, machinery and lifted upon the 'higher lands, what is it not worth In scores of districts all over Eastern Oregen where" it can be had by dams 'and gravity flowt - t Another new project is 16,000 to ' 50.000 acres ; in Langell valley, south- east of Bonanza. The people - there recently voted to "accept the offer by the government of. water from Clear : lake, which :; lies" south of the Cali fs fornia line, and which is to -be '.brought ; into Langell , valley by a j gravity system; It is also planned to water a big body of;fertile5 land in Yonps valley, north of Bonanza, from j the same system. t Tule lake lies 30 miles south and east "hi Klamath Falls ' but west" of ; Langell valley, and Is separated from It by a range of mountains. It was "previously the outlet of Lost fiver and is being drained by diverting its ; water Into the Klamath river by the ; Lost river dam and diversion canal. : The lake is very shallow and a strip cf about 5000 acres along its north shore i'ls - reclaimed ' and. . put , under cultivation each year. There will probably be a land opening at Klam- ath Falls this autumn by which the last strip of land reclaimed will be opened to homestead entry by the reclamation service. This has been 'done formerly by land drawings. A ' number of new private irrigation en terprises - are.- also going ahead to rapid completion. t The Kern brothers have a large tract near Keno, 12 miles south or Klamath Falls, and J. Frank Adams, a prominent pioneer stockman, has Just finished diking 2006 acres of land' bordering the Upper " Klamath lake, north ' and - west . of Klamath rails.'" . " . ; The- Enterprise tract Js , a new pumping - unit of several . thousand seres recently. ..launched Just..east of IClamath Falls and which will be rushed to completion as fast as pos f :ble. The, ranchers will likely get IJie water op the land this year. All these are new projects in Klam s th, and do not include the numerous 1 .n portant reclamation systems , that h ave changed the whole nature of .lamath and brought; that region -to prominence as "a cereal, hay and pcrctable producing district So cer- in are the Klamath county people f the value of Irrigation that every ch of land on which water' can be iced will ultimately be brought !:r - tillage. 'In time the process will convert an already rich domain Into a producing empire. " What has been accomplished at Klamath and the- vision of what is yet to be done there, should awaken all Oregon to the importance of sup porting every measure that makes, .for irrigation. Every acre of land brought under production adds to the taxable wealth of tha state, to the prosper ity of the state and to the money in circulation In the state, all of . which should be an Incentive to the people of non-irrigable - districts to be ag gressively for Irrigation. The poor are . asked to vote on a 5,000,000 bond Issue f or reconstruc tion. No questions aa to tax receipts are asked- ; They should vote the bonds. They were asked two years ago to vote on ' $36,000,000 bond Issue for roads. An4 no questions about tax receipts were asked. And they voted the bonds. But, whether they have children in the schools or not,' they are not allowed to vote in school elections unless they can pro duce a tax receipt It - Is in the schools alone that government is by property. FOR LIFE HIS left , arm hung limp by his side. The remains of a gaping wound were in bis shoulder. You could lay your hand in the' depression Portions of bone and muscle and tissue were -gone. - He -was with the American artillery j at Vesle river when the Americans ; were chasing the Germans after Ludcndorf rs hordes had been .turned back at the second Marne. He Is but 20. He joined the colors in Portland four days after America declared war. A. big shell exploded within eighrfeet of him that day at the Vesle river. The fragments and concussion threw him many feet, and- when the surgeons looked him over In the hospital, they found eight wounds. Jle-was seven months in the care of the doctors, -and was then invalided home. How is it to fare with this lad who gave so freely and gave so much to his country? Will that public which is so kind now become busy with its own affairs later, and for get this boy and the others who came "home maimed and mutilated for life? Wars do not end when they seem to end- It is the product they leave ot dead boys and crippled boys that Is a big part of all wars. For the boy with the dead arm or the lost leg or the blinded eyes, war has just begun, and it is to be a long war, a war. through life. What' this boy with the limp arm gave for the people of America, John Rockefeller and J. P. Morgan"and An drew Carnegie with all their wealth combined could 'not buy, j His, country 6hould never forget him. Nor should his countrymen for get him or forget the other crippled boys like him. " The free public schools are the chief bulwark of the republic. It is there that the children of poor folks get their education and, in most in stances, all their education. What a travesty when eligibility to vote on financial measures affecting the pub lic schools must, be attested by a tax receipt 1 THE LEAGUE HOME A&lDE from the - recognition of Switzerland as a most sincere neutral in the ' world war the, the selection' of Geneva as the capital, of -the League of Nations Is logical and appropriate, for the reason-that Its traditions and history in; the . long struggle of democracy are in singular harmony with the principles of the league. Puring the days of the Reformation. Geneva became the refuge and strong hold of the Protestants. It was here that Calvin and Knox found asylum. It was here that Rousseau was born. he who rebelled against the unjust distinction between ; the aristocracy ana tne poorer classes, the latter of whom he championed. To the modern world Geneva is best known as the i headquarters of the International Red Cross society, which distinguished itself during the war with its activity In behalf of wounded and refugees.; Already identified with international movements, Geneva has within it a spirit of reconciliation and softening of national enmities. X National wafexpenditures dronned 1400.000,000 last month. The savin was about $20 for the average American family. As demobilization goes on. there will be further reductions. It is the one bright spot in the cost of living. -: ON THE BALLOT THE reconstruction program on which a referendum vote s to be taken June 3 includes three meas ures which have reference to highway improvement. Under the Dresent la can only bond itself for roads to the extent of two per cent of Its total valuation. It is proposed to increase this limit to six per cent The In crease would permit the raising of a sufficient amount to secure immedi ate Improvement of a much larger mileage of road. Counties with a small valuation and many miles of road are now only 'able to proceed piecemeal. With every section press ing for its roads at once, it is im possible to satisfy all. The market road bill provides prac tically for a two mill levy. Dac miHgoes Into the market road fund and the other mill is to be raised to match the amount awarded to the county. The purpose ot the measure is to aid weaker counties In the development of roads. Al though1 Multnomah county will con tribute '36 per cent of the mill tax It will not ahare in the distribution, the contribution being allotted to other counties. v : i r The allotment of the fund is to be in the hands of the state highway commission but the conduct of con struction work Is to vest In - the counties. The third measure is the Roosevelt highway bill, providing for a main highway along the coast in order to complete the itate system. The measure is peculiar in that it provides for a state bond issue of 12,500,000 contingent upon the fed eral government making a like ap propriation. If within two years the national government .does j not agree to cooperate, the bonds will not be issued and the measure be comes null and void. JAU three are deserving measures. , Ruth Garrison Is adjudged , crimi nally insane and Is to remain in con finement in the penitentiary until cured.. Society will say that it : is little enough. But what f of the man In the case he of mature Judgment who had a wife when he was court ing the girl? ' BRING HIM TO JUDGMENT THE peace terms propose trial of the kaiser, and other persons responsible for the war. v : Why not? The crime was the most horrible in all history.': Why punish theft of a loaf of bread and then condone the crime of the ages? The president of the United States Is subject to trial and. impeachment The person of a kaiser or a junker princeling Is no more sacred. Divine right is humbug. The idea that a king or a czar or a kaiser is above law and not-responsible for his acts while other folks are, is a hand-me-down from' times dismal and dis carded. -..; It would be highly fitting tc in augurate the new order of world democracy by bringing ; before ! the bar of civilization the war maniacs who caused the world to be drenched in'l blood. Mankind is .entitled to know authoritatively t through the proceedings in a high tribunal the part played by the Hohenzollerns in initiating the bloody shambles. The trial, conviction and sentence cf the royal instigators would be notice to races and peoples that society has been recast and . a new order begun. It would warn future monarch s, if any there are to be4 to comprehend the responsibilities and perils of plunging the nations into butchery. Pursued by Prussians and Bourbons, Napoleon tdok, refuge on, the British warship Bellerophon July 15, 1815, and became a virtual prisoner of war. A fair tribunal to have tried him, a procedure to have authenticated all the facts for a truthful history, would have been far more satisfying and informing to posterity and quite as just to Napoleon. The right to try William Hohen- zollern is questioned by some inter national authorities, but the proposal is one of the best in the peace treaty. A new flouring mill was recently opened at Klamath Falls. It Is one of the largest south of Portland and Pendleton. It replaces the mill burned in July, 1817, during the I. W. W. troubles, when J several; industrial plants in that city went up in smoke. REFEREND? IT la said mat an attempt will be made to referend the bill which licenses real estate agents. . The measure was passed by the late legislature. It requires every real estate broker to take out a license authorizing him to engage in the business. The fee for the license is only $5 a year. Under so light a fee, there can be no objection to the measure on that score. Another provision requires the op erator to give a bond of f 1000 as a guarantee that transactions will be on the level and as a protection to the buyer. This is the only ground to which objection can be raised. . Yet it is exactly the provision in which the public is most interested. The protection of the buyer, and a bond guaranteeing that protection, lias long been needed. Tjie : proposal to referend the bill i the very best of all arguments In favor of the meas ure, because It shows that somebody wishes to -engage In the business of selling real estate without giving guarantees of square dealing. - ? The measure was passed at the; in stance of men engaged In the busi ness under the legitimate and well known rules and regulations of the activity. They are satisfied with the usual commission, and rigidly observe the ethics of. the business. The same measure has been passed in other states. Any attempt to referend It should be beaten. ROUTE TRAFFIC FOR PEACE. IN NORMAL times the bulk of ' the grain produced jin the Norlhwest moves westward for export The western roads Qthus enjoyed the haul and 'western ports the shiDoina As a : result ; of the war and "the withdrawal I of ships from the Pa cific trade the grain was, and is now forced eastward by vrall and through already congested Atlantic ports. This is a serious situation, for once chan nels of trade and commerce become firmly established it is almost im possible to- change them. - ; The westward shipment - "of grain means more traffic-and revenue for our own - western roads and more business for our pots. It produces a car " movement westward when there is-nearlyalways a shortage of cars for lumber shipments bound east . This is a question' of more than local interest It is one which strikes home to every western railroad and every port on the Pacific, and it will take the combined effort of these forces to change It -. r- If you rob the western roads of the revenue they have enjoyed from this traffic, ' other commodities jpust necessarily carry the burdens.: ; - Letters From the People; ' f Communication sent to - Tha Journal for pafeUcatioa) IB thia department ebmild Be wrtuan en only one aide of tba caper, should not exceed 800 warda (a leaa-th. and mnit be ained by the writer, vfaoae mail add re la full moat accom pany toe contribution. ) . . ' Ar Plea for Market Roads Dufur. May 2. To the Editor of The Journal You said something- in your editorial in today's Journal, beaded "Tha Farmer a Want It." referring. & you did, to the 1 mill state tax for the construction of primary market roads. Every farmers' organisation in Oregon has been beseeching the powers that be for over 15 years to allow them to build market roads to their shipping points. X dare say our city cousin would long since have helped us to get good market roads If they could have but once had the experience of driving a team as it mired and floundered over our , dirt reads, hardly able to draw the wagon the experience that every farmer has an nually. Good market roads will help maJerially to stabilise our. markets by keeping the markets well supplied at all seasons of the year aa needed. Many farmers within a few miles of Portland are practically shut out from, the mar keta a greater portion of the rainy sea son owing to im passable roads, while their produce deteriorates or spoils al together. , : - . .;-4 ;; j .- 'r We farmers have always been boost era for good roads and willing to pay for them, but .we believe it is a very poor policy to ; bond the i state to the limit for trunk lines all of which parallel rail or water transportation,: leaving the farmer no hope or resources to build market roads. Even now, he is only asking far a very Bma.ll amount to build primary maraev roaas, not an maraei roada . -."i ' ' ' - Many counties are already bonded to the limit to build highways, and, unless the voters in June : grant them i the privilege of levying an extra tax for mar ket roads they can never hope for good roads for the next generation. This is enough to drive- a farmer from such; a county if not from the state. M. At. BURXNER. From a Would-Be Producer Portland. May . To the Editor of The Journal. I have read iseverai let ters in your valuable paper regarding the dairy business. I would like some reliable dairyman to advise me, as I am a man past middle age and: thinking of putting my small savings Into a small dairy. I have in mind two cows that I can purchase that yield 10 to 85 pounds of milk each per day, total '165 for the two. One tests 4.4 per cent and r the other 4.2, making them . equal to 82 quarts and one pint per day with an average test of 4.3. My wife and I reckon that we can raise our kale, tur nips and other green Telish for them on our small suburban acreage 'Then we calculate that 82 quarts a day at 14 cents a quart would equal 111.48 a day. Figuring this average for 200 days in the year would equal $3444 for milk, and, figuring on calf from each cow at $500 each for there is a standing offer at this figure for calves from these cows makes a total Income of $4444. Figuring feed and expenses at $3.4$ per day, equals $1270.20.. for 885 days, leaving-a net income for my wife and" my services of $3173.80 a " year. But fearing ' we might lose a calf Iwill deduct $500. and that the milk might ran neiow tnts fig ure I will deduct $673.80. leaving a sure net income of $2000. Are we right? AN OLD SUBSCRIBER. A Wounded Soldier's Grievance : Portland, May 3. To the Editor of The Journal This is why soldiers some times go Bolshevist, when the armis tice was signed the war . department promised .to Bend the wounded home first. This is how the promise was kept in this case. My brother enlisted in the army and fought all last summer. On October 25 he was hit on the arm with a piece of hand grenade or shell. The wound was improperly taken care of and Infection set in. He did not blame the doctors. The long months of suffering in the hospital he took aa he had taken all of the hardships as neces sities of war. But now let me quote his last letter : - ' . - , 'This is the first letter for quite j a while. I have had nothing but a bunch of hard luck since I left Paris. My teeth almost drove me bugs, but they have let up a bit now.- It sure la quite a joke, this getting- home stuff. I was marked for the states by hospital ship last November, and three times since then. I am new with what is known aa the rail bead detachment. It; Is a labor outfit in the Seventy-seventh 'division. The trouble is my arm U not as good as it used, td be, and It Is hard work to soldier alongside of a man ' with two good arms. Sometimes I wonder if the country gives a damn about us who al most gave our lives for her. It doesn't look quite right to send a partly crip pled soldier back to a labor outfit : Z have never made a single kick In this man's army before, and I have suffered hell with the rest of the boys, but ; I can't help thinking that I sure got a rotten deal this trip. Well, It wen't be long before I will be out of It alto gether." :- ,: ' ' ;: He is only a buck- private, one of millions, but to us- he was the United States army. When he t was wounded we thanked God he had not been killed. We appreciated the - thought fulness of the war department in sending the sick and wounded home first. I We were thankful for the good care and kindness given him by the Red Cross. We waited patiently for his return. Now he has been decorated he has a shovel in his wounded hand. " .... , If when he gets back: he listens with open ears and receptive heart to the ranting of-the Reds I wonder1 if X shall blame him. . ! As for me well. Senator Chamber Iain has gained another vote. . ALBERT NrVA.' , Islam and Buddhism ' Vancouver. Wash., April 29. To the Editor of The Journal In a recent ser mon, a clergyman of this state, alluding to the - degrading influence : Of ; war. stated that the recent war had Increased the spread of : "Islam," Buddhism and kindred religions throughout Africa,' Now it Is more probable, that this asser tion emanated f from lack of ' thought rather than from lack of Information regarding the tenets of oriental religions and faiths. It is imaginable -that the Islamic religion and the Budhistic faith might spread In the same place and" at the same time. , but' it is unthinkable that theae diametric opposite could spread through a singlet and same cause. The word ."relIgion'invartably implies spiritualism, a belief in some manner cf nlrii. and a lack of such belief is ever J branded as intimity. Now, accorCins to our sense of religion. Islam Is the most Intense, even vehement, form of spiritualism in ' existence, whereas, through Its " absolute absence of spirit ual or mystic concept, we are compelled to consider Buddhism as uncompromis ing infidelity. In brief, Islam is mystic religion. : Buddhism is natural philosophy. Uautama never led a is onscipies away j from nature. He forever Insisted that: they keep their feet on the ground. And he ever warned them that any attempt on their part to sense any force su-' perlor to nature was Tain, unprofitable, impossible, and must end disastrously. Regarding unnatural speculation he asked: Khali any saxer aea with mortal eyef , Shall say aearche know by mortal mindf ; . i f - Veil after Veil may lift but there muet be TeQ after Teil behind. ' He taught that man was an absolutely responsible being : that his power to will was free : that there was no power or force outside nature to help, ninder, or take cognisance of his actions or ex istence : that his : happiness or misery depended solely upon himself. He warned . ' particularly against t prayer praise, adoration, and sacrificial tribute, and asserted that such were insidiously idolatrous. Concerning these he spoke thus:. Fray not the darkaeaa will not brtcbten. Aak naucht from ailence for it cannot ' , . apeaa, Tex not Vur modrnfal minda with nioue naina. Ah I brother, auters. aeek No from the balpleaa cod by gift and hymn. Nar bribe with blood -aea- feed with fruit and eakem. ? Within youraetraa deliTerance muii ba eought. Bach man bU prisoo makea. Now it must be evident to all that this pniiosopny lacks the mysticism and spiritualism which are the basic essen tials to all orthodox religions and thus It is not a religion. J. HAROLD. The Wearing of the Red Portland. May 7. To the Editor" of The Journal 1 come to you for infor mation. I .attended the Russian and Socialist mass meeting May 1. I noticed the American flag floated, to the breeze over the head of the orator and that they also wore red hats, cravats, rib bons, etc I would Itke to ask. Does Old Glory represent Bolshevik Socialism Is there not an ordinance forbidding sell ing Bolshevik and I. W. W. literature on the streets? They were doing this all the afternoon. I have not been long In the United States only about 65 years and I find I can ' learn a great deal from the learned Russian as to how to conduct a government. Wilson is not in it with an ignorant foreigner. The most illerate of them can give : Wilson pointers. At least, to hear them spout, one would think so. ;. R, - Urges . Tolerance Portland, May 8. To the Editor of The Journal -Every civilized nation is passing through a mental revolution that is destined to change our religion and philosophy, aa well as our social "rela tions. No nation began it. nor can any prevent it. It is the completion of one cycle, and the beginning of another, in the evolution of human society.. Man is gathering his mental forces preparatory to an advance into the, at present, un known. Old forma of society, and gov ernment also, are doomed to the discard, but the living; content, the kernel of all history, the productive power of labor, will be retained and carried forward 'in another form. Man has reached the point where, owing- to the control he has gained over nature, he can, by rearrang ing his social . relations, produce suffi cient to satisfy bis reasonable needs with but a minimum of effort, Marconi Is quoted as saying. Three hours a day -that constitutes the real wealth of society." i During the transition we can avoid serious trouble if we bear in mind that the faculty , of reason is an individual instrument, that each individual is dif ferent than any other, and that im pressions made by surroundinga give rise to more err less different ideas; there- It does not necessarily follow that thejn are animated by sheer deviltry, and we have no moral right to suggest that they b Jailed or exterminated. Every body possesses the natural right to his opinion and to the expression thereof. The general is derived from the special. No individual is either infallible or im peccable. The wisest, men are still very Ignorant, and themost ignorant still pos sess some knowledge. AH knowledge is relative and subject to change, and the entire race will never know everything, because being is- more than knowing. Let us be tolerant. There is room upon the earth for us an, when we use our kninds tn & natural manner. S P, J. M'CARTHT. . Mr. Richards to Mr. Linscott ! 'Albany. April 26. To the Editor of The Journal I would like to say for Mr. Linscott's benefit that he need not think he has a monopoly on butting Into the ignorance of Bolshevism, for I too found One of those sports who was looking for old man Boishevikl with the few sprigs of hair sticking straight up and whisk ers sticking straight out and a knife in his hand. So that Mr. Linscott may be able to relieve the minds of all auch.T want to tell him that from late Investi gation we have found that Bolshevism ia a disease, and a vefy contagious one at that It baa been known' to attack peo ple several thousand miles from the point of its conception, and whole armies have taken it while on the battlefield fighting those who had it, as is shown by General von - Hoffman's statement that he did not dare to move German troops from the Russian border to the French front after the Brest-Litovsk treaty was signed, because the men were all In fected and breaking out with Bolshevism, and some time ago a bunch of French soldiers caught it and mutinied, and lately a lot of our own 'boys from the automobile city of Detroit got it and did likewise.' i It is very serious. Tt goes to- their heads, and. very few ever recover from the attack; however, the fatalities are not so great -so far, as there has been but one death to each 4000 or population, while in our Civil war we had one to 800. it is a little' surprising, though, that more people have not the Bolshevik Scare, W. S. RICHARDS. j i .i, i, I i l ! I i - ' ' - Olden Oregon Of State Capital Location Campaigns Orego . Had Full Share Before the state capital was finally located at Salem, the seat of govern ment was !-t several places. . For a while it was at Oregon City, then at Eugene, and. later at Corvallis. The first loca tion was at Oregon City and then at Salem, in territorial days. In January, 1855. a bin was passed by the legisla ture removing the capital from Salem to Corvallis. There was strong- opposi tion, as - work had already been begun on public buildings at Salem. -The fed eral t.uthoritie" held the change Inopera tive until ratified by congress. Governor Curry moved his off lea back to Salem, and for a while there were two capitals. In December the legislature met at Corvallis, ' and decided to relocate ' the capital at Salem. Curious "Bits'of Information . For the Curious Cleaned From Curious ,f Flaeaa ; Can you ff sure out ' how ," a .; w.oman could truthfully eay: , Jly father ia my son, and I'm my COMMENT AND ' SMALL CHANGE Reserved seat court checks for crim inal cases is suggested. --- . e' -"TJ. 8. Planes at Trmunv.'' rearia a headline.'" Not trespassing, we note. Some of the bla ones' that arot'awav Sunday can thank the weather for iu a a - Seems' to be the open season for "notes" arain. The "Muie-inlivr. many" kind. Why not get the new battleshln Ore. gon for a port ship? It's a good fighter, iuu, ana n aeawvrwy. How time " files. Now. In vaudeville. theyr'e sinainar sonars about the . war songs they used to sing. e . Now that the German officials are In Paris, they don't seem the least satis fied. And, after All the trouble they went to to get there. A publid hearing on the elevator ques tion is sueeested. In which event the people will probably get tt) upa and aowns oi tne situation. . MEN AND INSTITUTIONS OF THE OREGON COUNTRY : i By red Lockley f From s number of iatereatinc incidenta t chan-e enrountere with- intereeuot atraacera Mr. IioeUer ia thia article -paaaee from en : rerainiaeene to another until he ia found re emintinc tba history of the ericin and riee of Willamette unireraity as told by that excellent institution 'a lint graduate, and ether. I One cannot travel far without meet ing interesting people. A few days ago I went by boat from Portland to The Dalles. Aboard the boat I became ac quainted with Mr. and Mrs. C E. Parker and their family.;' v-; ' "I used to own the land on which the city of Bend is now located." said Mr. Parker. "On October 28. 18 04. my wife here, who at that time was Blanch Kever, and I were married. So far as I know, this was the first marriage that took place on the site or the present city of Bend. I sold my place because I didn't Imagine there would be a city there for the next 0 years; but I was mistaken." A week or two ago I was going1 by electric car from Portland to Oregon City,, where I was scheduled to talk be fore the - Congregational Brotherhood. As I looked out of the car window, -ad miring the scenery, I heard a lady sit ting just back of me say to the gentle man who sat beside her: "What are you going to do tonight?" Her com panion responded: ''I am going. to the monthly meeting of the Congregational Brotherhood. A man from Portland re cently returned from overseas is to talk. We had a fine address last month from Colonel May." "Who is your speaker this timer' the lady asked. The man responded, "Fred Lock ley. I don't imagine be is a very good talker. I have been reading his articles for years, and it's rare that a man who writes as well as be does amounts to anything as a speaker. I wish Lcould hear him," the lady said. "Mrs. Elizabeth Lam bert Wood knows him. and she speaks well of him." "Oh. I guess he's all right, but I shall be greatly surprised if he is much of a talker." Just about here I '- opened my : purse. took out my overseas Identification tag and handed it to the lady. She started to read It aloud: "Fred .Lockley, A. E. F." Why we were Just talking about Fred Lockley." she said. "How do you happen to get his tag?" "That is my tag. and my name is Fred Lockley." I responded. "Tour men is a pretty srooa guesser. i am airaw m speaker to nfKhtwill not be able to qualify as an orator." We aiL laughed. The gentle man said; My name is Rands, and this Is Miss Kelly. I am hoping I'll prove a false prophet and that you'll make an interesting talk." I got my'revenge a little later when Mr. JJye, in announcing me. said. "This is Fred Lockley. .the Journal Man Abroad, r He ia going to demonstrate thr.t the tongue Is mightier than , the pen." Which, of course, was too good an introduction to pass by, sor I told what I had overheard on tne elec tric car, to the great confusion of Mr. Rands.- 7 e On May 3 I was traveling up the Wil lamette river by steamer to Champoeg and met a crowd of most interesting pioneers, who told me many Incidents relative to Oregon's history, when Ore gon was still under the provisional government-Last Tuesday night. May . I made a short talk at the Alumni as sociation of Willamette univej-glty In the Methodist church, at Twelfth and Taylor streets. One of the ladles there intro duced herself and said, "I heard you talk at Champoeg the other day, Mr. Lockley. J. R. Robb. who came to Ore gon in 1842. was my father. He was one of the 52 men at Champoeg who on May 2. 1843, voted to organize American gov ernment for the Oregon country." e e e Attending this banquet and meeting many of the early day graduates brought to my mind talks I have , had with those whose lifo history Is closely Interwoven with that of Willamette university. Some years ago I spent sev eral hours with Mrs. J. K. Gill. She Is the oldest daughter of Dr. and Mrs. W. H. WlUson. She said: "My mother's name was Chloe A. NORWAY NOT FOR BOLSHEVISM By Bassett Digby Special Corrarpendeiiee to Th Journal and The Chicaco Daily Nawa. "' Chrlstiania, Norway.- Disquieting; re ports about Norway's internal situation have recently been saining circulation abroad. The world is asking what truth there is In the rumors that Nor way may suddenly adopt soviet rule and communism and how far she is Bol shevist Already. What is . going on under the surface- s After close investigation of the situa tion and conversations- with numerous intelligent observers ot all political creeds, I am able to report that Lenin Is likely to have to wait in vain for a Norwegian revolution. There ia cer tainly more Bolshevism in Norway than in Sweden or Denmark. Bolshevists ac tually havi control of the national labor or Socialist party in Norway and of Us official newspaper. Social Demokraten. The split in the party has existed for some years, but a landslide came at the party's annual congress last spring, con siderably to the Bolshevists' surprise. They turned out the party organ's mod erate Socialist editor. Jacob Vidnes, a man of Brantlng'a stamp, and put in the Bolshevist Scheno. Ever since they have; been aggressively digging 'them selves in with all the advantages wbich party control gave them. V, .i Precisely what .their majority la In the party Is difficult to estimate m these days of InternaUonal excitement- i They mother's mother ; my abater is my daugh ter, and I'm grandmother to' my brother. " - - ."' Here's the way it is figured out: A Mr. Harwood had two daughters by his' first wife, the eldest of whom was married to John Coshlck .this Coshlck had a daughter by his first, wife, whom old Harwood married, and -by her he bad a son i therefore, John cosmck's second wife could say aa above. Work it out for yourself. Senator Root Is Not Worrj inc t From the Ke-w York Time - . Republican senators and ether, as NEWS IN BRIEF OREGON SIDELIGHTS John Day is to have a race meet to open Juna 80 and continue until July 3. The Crane American avers that It -does not take a keen observer tosee that conditions were never better J reign of prosperity in Harney county than thU year.- : ; Business men of Astoria, members of the Chamber of Commerce, have adopted i,i in..hMii Idea and enjoyed Uhelr first getUng together in this wise last Monday, wun so wavw.vw 4 The .need of building construction at Baker, the Democrat says, was never so forcefully presented as now. with population Increasing and no chance u house those who seek to become resi dents of the clty. . . , - Tribute to a chief product ;f Oregon, by the Eugene Registers "Prunes are higher this year than ever before and Vi lAbn.l7h a m makinc CODV OUt Ot the boarding house keeper's dUemrna; ling house class. Its real worth la be- a-innlnr tn Ke nnnreciated." : tt,,t th. nrrniA lAne iro leiL Liie Clark. While she was attending W1I braham academy, Jason Lee came there and preached - a sermon from the text. The harvest truly is plenteous but the laborers are few, My mother was so im pressed that she volunteered her serv ices to come to the foreign mission field in Oregon. There were , 81 of them. i ney came on the Lausanne, starting on uciooer v. is?, wintering at the Sand wlch Islands, and arriving at Astoria May 21, 1840. There were a good many children aboard and each day mother spent several hours teaching these chil dren. . Among; those aboard were Jason Lee and his newly married wife. - His first wife, Anna Maria Pitman Lee, had died ' during his absence from, Oregon. I There was Rev. Alvln Wallar, with his wife and two children; J. R. Richmond, with his wife and four .children; Gue tavai Hines. Hamilton Campbell, the Parishes.: the Judaons, the Abernathys and others. ; "Jason Lee called a meeting on Janu ary 17, 1842, to organise a school for the children of the missionaries. They called the school the Oregon institute. Jason Lee. David . Beers. Hamilton Campbell and Dr. J, L. Beers were the trustees. Late that fall the Methodist church took, charge of the 'school. Next spring they hired Dr. W. H. Gray, father of Mrs. Jacob Kemm of this city, as superintendent and secular' agent, at a salary of 1400 per year. A little latei Mr. Gary came out from the East and sold the Indian mission manual school, which had ' cost about $10,000, to the Oregon- Institute for $4000. A square mil of land went with it, . The Oregon institute was opened on August 16, 1844, My mother was the first teacher. She had 20 pupils. -For tha first two years she was the enly teacher. In 1850 Rev. Neahmiah Doane and F, S. Iloyt were appointed teachers. In ; January. 1853, the -name was changed from Oregon in stitute to Willamette university. My father was Instructed to lay out a site. to give away about 20 lots to mechanics who would settle there, to sell what lots he could.-and to dispose of the balance of the-land at 812 per acre. Willson avenue was named for my father." .:..'- Not long afterwards I met Emily York Moore, the first graduate of Wil lamette ? university. She said : "My father was Rev. John " W. York. We livefe. at Corvallis. I rode on horseback from Corvallis to Salem with F. S. Hoy t and "Presiding Elder Pearne, who 'was on his way to Salem to start a paper to- be called the Pacific Church Advo cate. This was in 1855. I stayed with Professor Hoy t and his family for the next five years, doing housework for my board. Among my fellow students whom I remember best were Claude Grubbs and his brother. F. H. Grubbs, who married my : chum, Lucy Lee, daughter of Jason Lee ; Jim Odell, brother of General W. H. Odell ; Thomas Crawford, who for years was a teacher in Portland; John B. Waldo, who later became a judge; George Williams, who entered the army and lost a leg at Get tysburg ; Emily Belt, P. 8. Knight and C C. Stratton. While I was at the uni versity I taught one of the classes, and many men who have since become well known in Oregon were pupils In my class. I remember one of the boys who used to give me a lot of grief was C. B. Moores. He was a good hearted little rascal, but full of mischief. I think if he bad gone five minutes without set ting into mischief I would have been worried and thought he was sick. I graduated in 1859. I was the first gradu ate, and there were no other graduates until 1862." - e Willamette university has certainly been a powerful factor In the molding of character of Oregon's sons and daughters. It Is due In no small de gree to the influence of Willamette uni versity and other pioneer educational in stitutions that Oregon citlsenshlp Is of such a high character, and that Oregon, being a leader In every form of patri otic endemvor, has become known as "the Volunteer State." constitute anywhere more than half, but less than two thirds of Norway's Social ist party. The moderate Socialists pro fess to hope to oust them when the party -congress is held in a few weeks, but that Is doubtful. . '. .- Who are these Norwegian Bolshe vists? -Are they farmers? Emphatical ly not. There are very few big estates In Norway. The farmers cultivate their own land and dwell In their own houses. Like all agrarians they have a strong property feeling. They have wrested home and living from the earth by their own exertions and are proud of their in- dependence. - Are tne Boisnevists fishermen? in very few cases. The great majority of Norse fishers own or hold part share In their boats, it has been hard work to earn their little capital. They scoff at the Idea of holding property In com mon with improvident weaklings. More over, many of them combine fishing witn farming. ucn few Bolshevist fishermen aa there are are almost all hired men, working for fishing com panies. - Are the Bolshevists ' discontented In. dust rial workers and unskilled laborers? Yes. It is Instructive to find that . in Norway as In , Germany and elsewhere it Is almost entirely among the prop ertyless young . men : that ; Bolshevists are found. - --- -;-.--- - (Coprricht, 1819, bl The Chicago Dally Km. sailants of the league plan who have denounced ft as a contrivance for steal ing away our sovereignty will read Mr, Root's letter, to Chairman Hays with dismay." -Not only Is he Quite uncon cerned about our sovereignty, ' but he would make more compelling the obli gation to resort to arbitration,, against which they have protested as. a sur render of our sovereign rights.1 Like all of this distinguished jurist's comments upon . the proposed constitution, this part, its most important part, is con structive, is intended as a contribution to the bettering of the Instrument. Ragtag nd Bobtail Stories From .Everywhere The City Child's Status TOM, the country 8-year-old. present g ing himself one day In even more than hie usual state of dust and dis order, was asked by his mother, says everybody's, if he would not like to be a little city boy. and always be nice and clean, in white suits and shoes and stockings. HThey re not children : they're pets." he answered scornfully. The Germ Toter - Willie bad a little cold: lie aneeaed and- anuffled aa Ibat everywhere that Willie went Folk wiahed that be would o. Newark Advocate. . Uncle Jeff Snow Says: Down on the wash of the Membres river nigh the Mexican border 'long 'bout tha time Glner'l Grant writ a book tellin how he licked the C. S. A.. Jim .Cronan and a pardner he called Pete Cadaver ('cause the first was hla name and the second was the descrip tion of the one lunger : from Chicago) found some dry vaah gold d login's that yielded fine. They had a donkey, which animal they ca.ll a burro down there, and they kep' a-loadln' Mr. Donk heavier and heavier ever' trip they made to the river to wash out their black sand. . By'm by tl.ey had him packln' in 600 pound a trip. Thh the burro upa and dies. Jim said it was lucky they'd made the critter pack sand while he could, and Pete said overloadin wan what killed him, and the discussin' of the subject busted the nardnershW. There's plenty of morals to this here fable, r Draw 'em yourself. The News in Paragraphs World Happenings Briefed for Benefit of Journal Readers GENERAL The war department stated Saturday that demobilization of the army has passed the 3,000.000 mark. - More than 1600 persons are under ar rest In Hamburg charged with rioting, plundering and disturbing tne peace. The stock exchanges at Berlin, Brem en, Hanover. Frankfort and Hamburg nave temporarily suspended operations. Two sailors and four negroes were killed and a number of persons wounded in a race riot at Charleston, S. C, Sat urday night. On Saturday SadI I. Lecomte. a French aviator, established a new height record for a monoplane by climbing 26,900 feet. - Revolutlonlsta whOj-lnvaded Venezuela from Colombia were defeated completely in fighting on April 2 and 80 and have retired into Colombia. A dispatch from The Hague says the .Dutch government has decided to sur render tne former uerman emperor to the allied and associated powers. While attempting to rob two plrls at San Francisco Saturday, Roy A. Bryant, a discharged soldier, was shot and seri ously wounded by Patrolman Don Wood. A "week of mourning" has been de creed by the German government to give expression to- the "sorrow and depres sion" called forth by the announcement of the peace terms. Appointment of Brigadier General Douglas Mac Arthur, formerly brigade commander in the Rainbow division, to be superintendent of West Point mili tary academy, was announced Saturday. NORTHWEST NOTES A request has been made at Spokane for a city ordinance to regulate flying over the city; The state of Waahlngton on Saturday com Dieted Its Victory loan quota of more than $44,000,000. . .. With a quota of .$43.760,, the little town of Gardiner subscribed for $85.6i0 worth of Victory bonds. Frosts during the past week have practically ruined the early blossomed strawberries In the Chehalls district. A convention of Japanese people from nine Washington counties will be held in Pasco in June, lasting two days. Linn county's $600,000 road bond election has been formally ordered by the county court. It will be held June 3.' Requests; from 20 high schools for commercial teachers have been received recently by the Oregon Agricultural college . Salem soldiers who served in the re cent war overseas will be honored with a memorial to be erected on the court house lawn. Petitions are being circulated for the recall of County Judge Jamea Watson and County Commissioner Archie Phil lips' of Coos county. , In accordance with a late court de cision, the Hood River county court has allowed county officials back salaries amounting to $4837.47. The body e Miss Eva Apple Of Spo kane, who had been miaalng for some , time, was found Saturday in Lake Washington, near Seattle. Clinton Marion Smith, an 8-year-old boy of Grants Pass, lost moat of his left hand last Friday when he applied a lighted match to a dynamite cap. f Special training in "parentcraft" for prospective fathers and mothers is belnc considered as an additional public school course in the state of Washington. For extraordinary heroism in action. General Pershing has decorated Private Fred V. Ballesteer of Tacoma, Wash-, with the distingulahed service croea. The mystery of numerous robberies In Dallas during the past few weeks was cleared up Saturday by the confeenion of Rudolph Frickberg. a 18-year-old boy. Louis Mueller of Pendleton has pur chased the Ben Colvin stock ranch in Morrow county, including 8000 acres and the stock, for a considerauon of $160,000. Members of the First Presbyterian church of 8alem will commemorate the fiftieth anniversary of the founding of the church in a four-day Jubilee begin ning May 18. .'.- The secretary of the Interior hss ap proved stock-raising homesteads In Th Dallen land district to the extent of 509 860 acres, thus disposing of vO in dividual petitions. Private John W. Rlstau of Spokane, officially listed by the war department as "killed in action" and carried on the honor roll as dead, appeared in person tn that city Saturday. A request "of Hill military academy that the battleship Oregon, be detailed to Portland as a training ship for academy students is being considered by the navy department. Last Friday 15 students In a Marah field school were taken ill with influ enza and a number were so weak before school was dismissed that they could not be removed to their homes. "Thirty-two Meth'odlat preachers, with an average salary of lens nan a month, presented an automobile at Ritz vllle. Wash-, to Dr. Mark Freeman, a missionary from Banka, Sumatra. Nearly $2,000,000 has been received by State Treasurer Hoff from 25 of the 36 counties of Oregon, while the receipts from the other 11 counties are expected to swell the total another half million. Right Now Is the Best Time ; To Practice Thrift (Stortee of arhieeement In the accumu lation of War Kanna-a fetanne. aent to The Journal and amer-ted for publication, will be swarded a Thrift Stamp. Right7 now , Intelligent saving is more than mere thrift : more than a promoter of personal or family efficiency It Is a direct aid to your government in helping it to meet It war-assumed obligations, if you will convert these savings Into Thrift and W. S. S. until such time as you really need the cash. '. i Thrift Stmti ami 1919 Stan; now on 'e at 1 Wir