THE OREGON DAILY " JOURNAL, POkTLAKP WjgUNlsSPAY, M AY 21, 1919. ,
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Wa cannot- live our right lifa a a na
tion or achieve our proper success as an
industrial community if capiul and labor
ere to continue to b antagoaistiq iuatead
of. being partners. Wood row Wilson.
AS HUMAN BEINGS
HOW are- the men and women who
do the daily labor of the world to
obtain progressive Improvement in
the condition ef their labor, te be
mad happier, and to be. served
better by the communities and the In
dustrie which their labor sustain and
advances? how are tney 10 De given
their right advantage as. citizens and
human beings?
' This tremendous question is thrown
on the floor of eongress by 'the pres
ident's message.
It contemplates a sweeping change
toward better conditions for those
who "dQ' the daily labor of the
world."
Their labor "sustains and- advances"
lh a "communities and industries"
which they serve. This is a funda
mental truth nearly always over
looked. Portland would be a dead
town but for those yho work. By
workers is meant not only those who
hammer and forge and saw, but those
Who operate typewriters, toil over
lopg columns of figures in ledgers and
do the other labor that keeps. indus
tries and Institutions in motion.
With the assistance of capital ere-
itcu iu uo ucgumius uj iuii, iiicj
create the wealth that sustains the
professional man, the merchant, the
tradesman, the banker and all the
other non-producing groups in soci
ety. They are the foundation on
plch the community rests and ex
ists. ; "How are they to he given their
right advantage as citizen and human
beings?" the president asks. It is a
worthy que lion.
There is no better antidote for Bol
shevism than consideration and solu
tion .of the president's query, Old
ago is just ahead of these workers.
It is coming on apace. Incapacitation
i is always In sight. Disease, with Its
days when toilers cannot work, lurks
on every hand. There should be a
margin between what it costs to live
and what they are paid with which
to make provision against that old
age and those periods of incapacita
tion. ', r AH this has to be admitted. When
admitted, the president's tremendous
question, hurled into the lap of con
gress,' is Justified and made worthy
of immediate and conscientious con
sideration, ' Mr, Wilson offers a plan. He thinks
this "progressiva advancement" of
workers cannot be achieved by legis
lation." He says:
We cannot live our right life as a
nation or, achieve our proper success as
an industrial, community If capital and
labor are to continue to be antagon
istic instead of being- partners, if they
are to continue to distrust one Another
and contrive how they can get the bet
ter of one another ; or, what perhaps
amounts to the same thing, calculate by
what torn and degree of coercion they
can manage to extort on the one hand
work enough to make the enterprise
profitable on the -other Justice and fair
treatment enough to make life toler
able. .
He says there is a real cornmunity
. of . interests between capital and
labor, but it has never been made
evident In action. "The genius of
our business men and the sound,
practical sense of our workers," he
says, "can certainly work out such
a partnership when once they realize
exactly what it -is that they seek
and can N freely ; adopt a common
purpose with regard to it.
Tha president proposes the co
ordination of the several agencies of
conciliation and . adjustment that ac
complished so much during the war
in settlements of disputes brought on
by the "mistaken; policies of the
It is a proposal to make perma
nent in peace the methods used in
war, perfected and extended, for har
monizing employment controversies.
Above all, it is a proposal, by exer
cise of justice, to give those who
work their rightful share of the
fruits !of their toil and a better
opportunity for happy and coa
tented ; 1'vlng.
If applied it would be the death
knell of : Bolshevism.
- Five thousand-school, children in
Portland wer without milk last
year,' according to statements at the
Dairymen s council Monday. ' The
statement concerns you you and
evejfy other citizen. Wholesome,
nourishing , milk must bo a part of
every child's diet if we - are to ex
pect a nation of universally robust
and self sustaining people.
HARRY HAWKER
He HEARD- the ca) of the air.
The world was watching the
movements of tnea . bent on
crossing the wide expanse of
ocean. Fame was ready to affig
its seal to his name. A day ' came
when bold Americans were about
to snatch the prize of being first
to sail through the sky over the
ocean.
Hawker, intrepid, dauntless and
determine!, made tha leap. As An
dre rose tha( other day into the
air for nis flight to the Pole and
never came back, Hawker sailed into
the sky, poised for a -moment, and
then darted forwar4 'or the pop
quest of space. The time for arrival
is long past and the waiting world is
without tidings.
Sleeping all over the earth are the
men who have tempted Fate in deeds
of daring. The roll, already loos,
seems to have added to its column
the names of the intrepid Australian
and his companion.
They .are the first of many sky
men who will yet be sacrificed to
trans-Atlantic voyages.
More of the Oregon & California
grant lands have been classified, are
being surveyed and will soon be
open to settlement. Does the public
remember the "midnight resolution,"
remember the "Bean Bill," remember
the fiht made in the Oregon legis
lature, and out of it, to help, the
railroad retain these lands, and ' re
member that through It all, stead
fastly and constantly, The Journal
struggled to have them returned to
the public, which was done?
FOR girls;
A RESIDENCE hall open to all girls.
A home on which there is ho
indebtedness and in which board
and lodging will be furnished at
actual cost.
A place in which the labor will
be contributed by Sisters of Mercy
Such is the end sought by the
drive for tiOO.OOO for the Jeanne
d' Arc residence hall, formerly the
Virginia Hill, hotel.
Establishment of institutions of
the kind Is token of a spreading
Christian oivilization.
in the grand struggle as our im
perfected civilization stands at pres
ent, many a girl can barely survive.
Thousands of them break under the
strain. Many a human wreck origins
in the effort of the girl wage worker
on small pay to meet the heavy
demands of living cost.
To where there is one now, a
hundred such residence halls on the
terms and conditions of the. new
Jeanne d' Arc home would be a boon
to the girU of America,
The drive merits full material as
sistance. .
Soil in which there are frequent
hand grenades and other explosives
confronts farmers at their tillage
in the war aone. An electrical de
vice rings a bell whenever it nears
metal and warns the ploughman of
the presence of the explosives. No
invention could be of more immedi
ate value to French and Belgian
farmers.
WATER THE LAND
Voters or Oregon ought to give
favorable heed to the plea of Jay
Upton, president of the Oregon
irrigation congress, ior me adop
tion of the Gallagher amendment pro
viding for state guarantee of irrigation
and drainage district bonds. It s the
prayer of Eastern Oregon for develop
ment, but it-touches the productivity
of 4,000,000 acres of wonderfully rich,
but now non-productive, land in
Western Oregon, as well as the 3,000,-
000 acres possible of Irrigation in
Eastern Oregon.
The Gallagher amendment Is the
pet child of Eastern Oregon. Its
adoption means the more speedy rec
lamation of the vast reaches of fer
tile, but now arid, land in that sec
tion of the state.- But it does not
stop there, for its provisions would
reach out to aid the wet lands of -the
Columbia and Willamette river val
leys and bring them under plow and
crop.
To many the thought of the state
guaranty of irrigation and drainage
district bonds does not have a pleas
ant sound. The history of Irrigation
in Oregon changes the discord into
melody. No Oregon irrigation district
has ever defaulted in the payment of
the interest on its bonds; but the
long period of non-production stretch
ing between the period of construc
tion and the first harvest has been
used by bond buyers as a pretext for
heavy discounts resulting in great
loss of revenue to the settlers upon
the land. ;
To;meet this condition is the real
purpose and intent of the Gallagher
amendment. It provides that Irriga
tion and drainage districts, when ap
proved by a commission consisting of
the attorney general, state engineer and
superintendent of banks, may issue
interest bearing certificates running
to the state, equal in amount and in
interest rate, to bonds issued by the
state to secure It for bond money ad
vanced to the districts in case of neces
sity. Even though the state might
In some Instances l meet j defaulted
Interest payments,i the money would
come back to it, both aa to principal
and interest, when the lands began to
produce. -Settlers
upon irrigation or drainage
77 : -
projects shoulder a heavy load dur
ing the three-year development period.
Everything is going into the project
and nothing corning out. Men of
slender means, seeking to develop the
raw lands of the state, bend and
break under the strain, while those
who come after taem profit t their
expense, as does the state through the
Increased land values resulting from
their labor. : Bond discounts, because
of this condition, have run as high as
19 per eent, which means that but 00
per cent of a district's funds can be
put into development. Irrigation and
drainage development converts land
worth 11.25 to f 10 an acre into land
worth $40 to $100 an acre. That Is
what' the irrigationista of the state
are trying to accomplish through the
Gallagher amendment. It is worthy
of approval as a business proposition.
The language is to have some
changes. What use will there be,
by. and by, for words like these;
Lit-up,. Jag, tanked, pickled. Inebri
ated, soused, stewed, corned, half
shot, spifllcated, half seas over, three
sheets in the wind? ,
AS .PATRIOTS
EVERY election is Important.
Every election should be a
challenge to every citizen to use
all diligence and all intelligence
in helping seeure a sound verdict at
the polls. That policy Is an essential
in making self-government all it
ought to be.
It is pot often that so much of im
portance is crowded into a single
election as is true of the special elec
tion to take place June 3. The deci
sions that day mean more in public
welfare than is true of the average
regular state elect'on.
We do not know what is just
ahead. In America we have had no
experience Just like that through
which we are passing and to pass. ,
For two year a very large number
of our young men have been away
from their usual work. 'AH will be
home by the early autumn. Just
what will be the employment or un
employment situation when all are
back, and at a time contemporaneous
with the end of seasonal employment?
Just how many shipworkers will
have employment at that time? How
many of them may be out of employ
ment, to be thrown in competition
with the returning soldiers and sail
ors? We owe something to the men who
for one year or two years have been
in the country's service. We are un
der obligation to see that, after
months of hardship in the grand
army of the republic, they do not
come home to be privates in a great
army of enforced unemployment.
Issues like these are presented to
the voter of Oregon in the special
election. With all our strength and
all our wisdom and all our courage,
we should meet these issues as the
returning fighters met their obliga
tions in camp and campaign on No-Man'e-Land
and on the diver-infested
seas
on our conscience, we should all
study the ballot measures and vote on
them as American patriots.
WASTED MONEY
Some distinguished body of reso
lute men ought to make a survey
i of the perquisites and petty ex
travagances of congress. It should
be a survey that would, give publicity
to all the little grafts that have be
come recognized as the members'
privilege through long years ef cus
tom, and whioh, In the aggregate, to
tal a very large sum.
Two years' pay and maintenance of
a United States senator now averages
$40,580, and the same item for a con
gressman Is $23,180. Thirty years ago
senators got along for two years on
$23,670 and congressmen $13,150. In
the period the pay and personal roain-
tenace has almost doubled in each
house.
Fourteen policemen in the five-story
house office building and 17 In the
four-story senate office building are
examples of the waste. Seventeen
policemen on guard in a single build
ing in a private business would
quickly become the subject of inquiry
by the head of the concern. About 1$
of them would, after brief investiga
tion, be stricken from the payroll.
Doubtless - most of these office
building policemen are like the spe
cial guards and special telegraph op
erators put on duty when President
McKinley was assassinated. Fifteen
years later they , were still on the
payroll, In spile of the fact that they
were put on duty in an emergency
and that tae need for their services
had passed years and' years before.
A good housecleaning at Washing
ton would save enough money to
provide a huge fund for reconstruc
tion work, and now would be a good
time to inaugurate the plan. .
INSURANCE AGAINST IDLENESS
IT SHOULD be kept In mind that the
$5,000,000 reconstruction bond issue
may never be used. It Is entirely
optional with -the state board of
control to determine whether such an
unemployment emergency may arise as
to warrant expenditures of money on
the proposed state buildings. In oth
er words, while the $5,000,000 bonding
act would, if approved, authorize the
expenditure of that sum of money,
yet the board has the determination
as to what proportion of the : total
shall actually be expended.
The primary purpose of the $3,000,
000 bonding bill is the relief of un
employment, should such exist, dur
ing the period of: reconstruction and
readjustment following the end of the
war. Had the legislature, and the
publie generally, not foreseen a seri
ous period of idleness close upon the
heels, pf the army of returning sol
diers and sailors, there . would have
been no reconstruction program sub
mitted to the electorate for its ap
proval. Its sole purpose is to t meet
this contingency, and it has been cast
along the lines of public construction
and development, so that whatever
sums qI money may be expended will
be in the nature pf a public invest
ment, and not a mere donation,
" Governor Oicott, upon whose word,
business integrity and foresight the
people undoubtedly place great reli
ance, has outlined the policy that will
be pursued by the board of control in
the expenditure pf any sums that
might be secured-through the sale of
reconstruction bonds.
"As chairman of the state board of
control," he told the Oregon Civio
league, "I will 6ay that, so far as I
am concerned, the money will not be
expended unless a real emergency ex
ists, ; an emergency that the people
themselves will recognise as such"
WHAT IS IT IF NOT
PARTISANSHIP?
Anti-League Senators Convicted Out
of Their Own Mouths
From the New York World.
Attacking the World and the Times
fer temperate and measured criticism of
Senator Iodge. the Trtoune enters a
blanket defense of all the Republican
senators who are trying to destroy the
League of Nations, and says :
"They are accused of being animated
by narrow partisanship. No evidence.
or even probable Justification, is ad
duced, yet the accusation is made. Sen
ators may well smile in the presence of
the indictment." . '
If these senators, led by Henry Cabot
Lodge, are not animated by partisan
ship, what does animate them? What
other explanation can be offered of their
extraordinary conduct?
Early in March, almost the day that
President Wilson departed for Paris, 37
of them signed a resolution prepared
by Senator Lodge declaring that "the
constitution of the League of Nations
In the form now proposed should not be
accepted by the United 8tates." No
definite changes in the covenant were
suggested, no amendments were sub
mitted. The only possible object of this
partisan resolution was to serve notice
on the peace conference that more than
a third of the senators, enougn to de
feat ratification of the peace treaty,
were opposed to the constitution of the
League of Nations and would not sup
port the foreign policy of President
Wilson. This was obviously an attempt
to drive a wedge into toe peace con
ference and isolate the president of the
United States.
When Senator Kqox was requested by
Senator Hitchcocg to submit amend
ments to the covenant which in his
opinion would eliminate Republican ob
jections, he flatly refused. Senator
Lodge adopted the same policy of
evasion In the course of his debate with
President Lowell of Harvard. Dr.
Lowell put these questions to the sen
ator:
"Aa our senior senator and as the
leader of the Republicans in the senate,
we have a right to ask Mr. Lodge two
Questions : First, whether he will or will
not vote for the covenant of Paris pro
vided it is amended as he wishes ; and
second, what amendments thereto he
desires.'
These were fair questions and honest
questions. How did Senator ' Lodge
answer them? We shall quote his exact
language from the official report:
"I hope from my heart it will be
amended. I hope we shall have a league
In proper form, properly prepared, free
from doubts, excluding what . ought to
be excluded. I hope it will be done-
done somewhere before the end Is
reached. In my belief it will be done
somewhere, and not in Paris.
"President Lowell asked me why 1
did not draw up amendments that I
thought necessary and send them to
Paris. I happen to be a senator of the
United States, but I cannot speak with
the authority of the senate."'
The first paragraph clearly explained
the object of the Lodge round robin of
March. The Republican senators did
not wish the league covenant amended
by the peace conference. They were
scheming to keep their: amendments se
cret, and then frame the covenant to
suit themselves. That Is what Senator
Lodge meant when he said' that "It will
be done somewhere, and not in Paris."
And that is why he declined to submit
any amendments of his own.
In the way of corroboration ,of the
charge that Senator Lodge and the Re
publican senators who follow him have
been playing party politics with the
treaty of peace, it is necessary only to
review their conduct since the final
draft of the league covenant was
adopted by the peace conference with
the amendments suggested by Mr. Taft.
As soon as the amended text was pub
lished, Senator Lodge and Senator Cur
tis sent telegrams to all the Republican
senators urging them not to discuss it
or reach a decision "until there has
been opportunity for conference." A
caucus of the Republican senators was
called to meet ; in Washington before
congress convened. In pursuance of the
policy of losing no opportunity to em
barrass President Wilson in the peace
negotiations in Paris, Senator Lodge also
issued a statement vigorously support
ing the Italian envoys in their demands
for Fiume.
a a
As an index to the temper and the
point of view of the Old Guard senators
m their fight against the League of
Nations and. President Wilson, the
Tribune cannot have overlooked the
telegram from Senator Brandegee to the
Sun which was printed Sunday, in which
the senator from Connecticut, who is one
of the Lodge entourage, said :
"I want you to know that Hhere are
some determined and resolute men in
the senate who have decided to save
this country from the shame and dis
grace which President . Wilson Is pre
paring for us.
The "shame and disgrace" to which
Senator Brandegee refers are the treaty
of peace with Oermany and the cove
nant" . the League of Nations. The
Tribune may reply that this telegram
is not an evidence of partisanship but
of hysteria, but it is nevertheless the
hysteria of partisanship that has gone
mad.
a a " -' ? r.
What the Times said about Senator
Lodge is true and what tha World said
about him is true. The senator from
Massachusetts and the Republican sen
atora associated with him are playing
politics with art issue upon which the
very fate of mankind depends, and if
they bava any higher, motive than to
defeat President Wilson in the hope of
gaining ' partisan advantage thereby,
that motive has not been disclosed, nor
can any evidence of it bo found.
Bill Hohcnzollcrn May Get His
. But Wilhclm II Escapes
"From the Chicago Post
nnvi- .iiim wUl ret Bill Hohenzoilern.
and they have our consent to do with
him what they wllL But it pains us to
think that William XL king of Prussia,
emperor of Germany, and senior part
ner of "Me. und GotU will escape,
There la no such person- any more.
There is a dusty-gray, drawn-lacea.
jumpy-nerved, furtive-eyed old man at
Amerongen who dreams at night of Nick
Romanoff s mutilated ooay in a nasty
grave. This and nothing more. Imps
rialisra has flown, and there is left only
this lump of clay upon which it once
hung trappings.
We feel cheated. The color goer out
of our dream of vengeance for the Lusl
tanla, Edith CaveU. and ten thousand
other atroelties. In our dream a grim
hand, preferably an American soldier's,
reached up and dragged the despot from
his throne, squeaking like a mouse, and
hurled him into the bottomless pi, amid
thunderous applause.
That's the way t happened in Charne
Chaplin's "Shoulder Arms." But, doubt
less, it is not done In real life -after one
passes the age of 13.
Letters From the People
rCsKnaniaatioaa aent to The Journal fox
publication in tint department should ha written
on only one aide ol toe paper. naKJ aot exceea
see wore la leasts, ana miut oe eigne) rr ue
writer, wnoee mail addraea in full aiiut accom
pany the coBtatbutiea.)
Jonathan Bourne and tfie League
Eugene, May 19. To the Editor of The
Journal If there were any troublesome
clouds obscuring the forecast of politi
cal events In Oregon, Mr. Bourne must
be Credited with having done his part
toward clearing them away by elimin
ating himself from the list of probable
candidates. He proclaims opposition to
the League of Nations as a "paramount
issue for the. next campaign" ; and the
man who does that is practically out of
the running.
Petty politicians may harangue
against the league, which they would
all have acclaimed as the grandest
project of the ages If circumstances had
enabled them to put their party label
on it, but the people of America want
the league-, and some day they will have
it. Heaven grant it may become an
accomplished fact before we are again
plunged into a sea of blood.
WILLIAM H. WHEELER,
Singing Birds Again
CorvalUs. May 19. To the Editor of
The Journal Imagine my surprise when
I read the letter of O. A. Yates in The
Journal of May 14. saying that ' Ore
gon has no singing birds." He says we
have larks, robins and a few small birds.
but no singers except the wren. It would
seem from this that he does not consider
larks and robins singersfovhich prob
ably accounts for his view that there are
no singing birds here, for most bird lov
ers agree that both are among the finest
of American Bongsters.
As J was reading the article in ques
tlon, a robin perched on the topmost
branch of a white birch by the back
door and piped his beautiful evening
song, while a meadowlark across tha
way burst into Joyous song of exquisite
sweetness, both seeming to protest
against being classed with "birds that
cannot sing." A towhee hopped Into the
lilac bush at my feet and started the
Interesting love song 'heard so frequent
ly. From the branches of my Mon
terey cypress came the clear, beautiful
notes of the white crowned sparrow, a
rusty song sparrow poured melody from
a thicket nearby and the Vesper spar
row started his evening song as he sat
on a rose bush in the garden. Along the
parking, in one of my eucalyptus trees.
a lutescent warbler sang his soft yet
lively song, and during that day I,
as I worked, heard the cheerful notes
of three other varieties of warblers.
On the top of a pear tree sat a lazuli
bunting, in brightest azure, and vied
with aU the others In making the alf
ring with bird music. Two blocks away,
from a cluster of maples, came the li
quid notes of a half dozen russet backed
thrushes, like the tinkling of tiny silver
bells. From Puget Sound to Berkeley,
Cal., I have heard them at all times of
day and night,, sometimes scores at a
time, in songa that rival the nightingale.
If one likes the eons of the domesti
cated canary, he can enjoy the softer
but sweeter notes of our two varieties of
fincli goldfinch and purple finch. To
day I saw in my linden trees a long
tailed chat. His physical gymnastics
were laughable, and his vocal gymnas
tics rivaled those of the mocking bird.
To be sure, we do not have the bob
olink nor the skylark as native birds.
but the former is coming westward and
some have been seen In Oregon, while
the skylark has been imported by "some
club" or society and, I think, is increas
ing In numbers near Portland."
It would take a volume to describe
the song birds of Oregon. They are
here In countless thousands.
J. A. GILKET.
Questions as to Fences
Langlois, May 13. To the Editor of
The Journal Please give me the Oregon
law in regard to building a division
fence. The line of division has been es
tablished by a surveyor. The adjoining
party refuses to help put in his half and
his stock is quite a nuisance. Is there
any law to prohibit chickens from run
ning on Other people's land where they
do damage to the crop? What is a law
ful fence? - N. L. M.
fTour nelshbor is required by law to build
and maintain Uia portion of a diruion fence. The
law Is far too Ions to quote here. For fall par
ticulars aee auctions 6732 to 5790, Lord's Ore
con Lawa. There is no statutory law in Oregon
that aaya anytumg about tne destruction of
growing- crop by chickena, bat uader the com
mon law it is probable thai damages may be
obtained against the owner for auch destruction.
The subject of "lawful fence" is a long and com
plicated one, in Oregon. Varying prorerrons are
made for various sections, to suit local condi
tion. , Apply to your district attorney for this
and other information.
Bond Coupons and V. S. S.
Portland, May 19. To the Editor . of
The Journal Please tell me about the
Liberty bond coupons. I took my cou
pons to a sub-postoffice to cash in for
War Savings Stamps and they told me
that it was out of their hands, as they
couldn't do it. -
And do you have to be on the bank's
list before you can cash the coupons
there? It's funny that the government
wants you to put the interest of the
bonds in War Savings Stamps and then
the postofflce won't change them for
you. J. J. L.
( There - wrest km been aome wiisnnder
standing at the substation mentioned. Poet
master llyers baa arranged for the exchange
of Liberty bond ooopoua fur War Savings
Stamps, at 4h "main poatoffire and at all
substation. This exchange is effected in
stantly and aa a aaatter of coarse, the ceupone
being received fos the stamps exectlfr as eaah
would be. Banks rash Liberty bond coupons
on presentation by any holder.!
: Pigeon Found
Frances, Wash.. May 17. To the Edi
tor of The Journal On Thursday, May
15, I caught a pigeon, with, a brass ring
on the left leg. and on the right leg
an aluminum ringr with A. U; 81 J 8471.
Could you telt me where to notify
owners? 1 am a schoolboy, 13 years old.
I live one mile east of Frances on the
C J. Habersetzer farm.
FRANK E. MATNARD.
Portland Teachers Acknowledgement
Portland, May 1ft. To the Editor- of
The Journal Your paper was of very
treat assistance to th . teachers of
Portland in their recent campaign. Tour
work assisted in making their- fight a
snnrsmfnl one.
On behalf of the teachers and their
friends I wish to express to- you our
appreciation of your help and assist
ance. jsiuubM!! tinvuiuiu&
Wheat Slarket : Prospeets t
' ' Tram the eektull 3S. Y.) Newt. . ,
The . winter , wheat crop, of unpre-
COMMENT AND
- SMALL CHANGE
Thlnss that rlnn't wnrrv - nuvt
Luxury tax on cures for baldness.
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Even when aerial travel becomes
common good roads will be appreciated
uy inooQ wno may De rorcea to land lor
repairs.
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Dispatches say that Triads are Iteinw
made for the restoration of the ex-
kaiser. If Wilhelm knows when he's
well off, he'U stay where he is.
. California hotelmen are planning the
last "wet- celebration on June 25.
Probably to allow five days of grace
f or thai "mornin after bracer,
Vancouver, across the riven has
barred peanut and popcorn wagons
from its streets. Portland vendors will
probably be able ta handle any extra
business that comes over the bridge.
Maybe the nine American members
who have quit their jobs at the peace
conference are like the doughboys over
there they're anxious to get home.
But they have an advantage over the
soldiers. In that they can come when
ever they are good and ready.
OBSERVATIONS AND IMPRESSIONS
OF THE JOURNAL MAN
1 By Fred Lockley
l Billy Sunday and his family are the sub
jects pf Vr. Lockley'a article far the Say. He
Tisits them at their Hood RiTer home. and
describes the noted evangelist aa assistant vet
erinary, and "Ma" Sunday as farmer's wife
pro tern tod is other most excellent roles.
Almost every man, woman and child
in the United States has heard, or at
least . read, about, Billy Sunday, but
"Ma" Sunday is hot so well known.
Ma Sunday la like the works In a watch
out of sight, but very essential to the
well being of the watch. By this I do
not mean to reflect in any way upon
Billy Sunday's works, or to Insinuate
that Ma Sunday is the driving force that
makes the wheels go round in Billy
Sunday, but I do mean to say that she
is a very important part of Billy6un
day's family, and that Billy Sunday
would be lost without her.
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C. S. Jackson, Henry Reed and X ate
lunch with Billy Sunday, Ma Sunday
and the rest ot the family at their ranch
in tha Hood River valley recently. Billy
Sunday and Ma Sunday know the least
about acting like distinguished citizens
of any people I have ever met. When
we reached the Sunday farm, Ma Sun-;
day waa out taking care of her chickens.
She has 800 White Leghorns ; so it is
some job to feed and care for them.
While C. S. Jackson and Henry Reed
went out to talk to Ma Sunday . and
admire her Leghorns. I went down into
the pasture to see if I could help Billy
Sunday care for a sick cow. I saw a
rather slender man with a much worn
canvas hat, jumper and khaki trousers,
trying to keep a cow from lying down
on her side.
"My name is Fred Lockley, I am
on The ; Oregon Journal, of Portland,"
I said, as I extended my hand.
Billy Sunday shook hands and nodded
his head toward the cow, saying, I am
feeling pretty tough. I hate to see
Flossie suffer. We have had her nine
years. The trouble is I don't know
what Is the matter with her. She's
bloated a little and in pain. I know
enough about a cow to know It won't
be good for her to lie down, as it will
make her bloat more. My boy George
has gone to Hood River to get a vet
erinary surgeon. He ought to be back
inside of half an hour or less, as it's
only seven miles to Hood River and
George la a good driver. I am trying to
keep Flossie from lying down. If you
like you might take her by the horns
and hold her head upright and I will
press myself against her shoulders."
Flossie was feeling pretty bad. She
groaned at times, and there was a look
of suffering in her eyes that made
Billy Sunday wince.
"She had a calf a day or two ago and
probably her trouble has something to
do with that," aid Billy, -though I
don't know what. The trouble with an
animal Is it can't tell you where It feels
bad or what alls it, so It has to suffer
In silence." "...
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While we braced Flossie up. we
talked of farming matters and other
things. : Presently George Sunday or,
to give him his proper title. Captain
George Sunday, for he has but recently
returned from France dashed up In his
machine with Dr. M. K. Welch of Hood
River. Paul Sunday, who is 12 years
old, was aent for a stick of fire wood
to put under ' Flossie's head, while
George went for a block , to brace her
up so she couldn't He down. Meantime
Dr. Welch took her temperature and
said, "It's three degrees below normal.
It's only 98. It should be 101. She has
the milk fever, though it's a misnomer
to call this trouble milk fever. I'll give
her a hypodermic injection of atropine.
They UBed to use strychnine as a heart
stimulant, but it's not safe. I can give
her a grain and a hair of atropine witn-
cedented acreage, is now' reported to be
in condition of 105 per cent as com
pared with normal. It Is rare Indeed
that any crop indications, for the coun
try over, reach 100 per cent. The con
dition of the winter wheat crop to this
time is"5 per cent above normal. There
was practically no winter killing and
the growing weather has been almost al
together very favorable. There has
been no deterioration from any cause.
This indicates a still greater crop than
had been anticipated by reason of the
Increased acreage.
Ordinarily this would mean a low
actual market value of the crop, and
those assiduously hunting for reasons
to criticise the administration even at
the expense of the farmer, expected to
be able to point out a . reckless "waste
of publio funds in the wheat guarantee,
A it haooens. however, the grain crop
conditions and the needs of nations J
throughout the world are such thst In
spite of the unprecedented wheat crop
In prospect for this country, the price,
established In the markets of the world
and not by our tariffs. Incidentally
would la any event have been higher
than thai present guaranteed prlcev
. Telephone Serviee
-i - Frees the Outlook. .;"
The Japan Times satirizes the bad
telephone service of Japan by telling
this incident: "A lady In Karuiwaza
called up ' her house In Toklo,' left by
the next train, got the call and talked
to herself In Karuiwasa- six hours after
she arrived In Tokio. That's not a
joke. It's the solemn truth."
Olden Oregon
Early Descriptions of Characteristics
or Bnaxs : anoiana c
Southern Idaho was originally called
the Snake country, from the Indian tribe
which inhabited it- The origin of the
name Is explained by Alexander Ross,
who says : "It originated from the char
acteristics of these Indians in quickly
concealing themselves when once discov
ered. They seem to slide away tn the
grass, sagebrush and rocks and disap
pear with all the' subtlety f a serpent.'
According to Father DeSmet. they were
"called Snakes becauss in their poverty
they are reduced like reptiles to the con
dition of digging in the ground and seek
ing nourishment from roots."
NEWS IN BRIEF"
OREGON SIDELIGHTS
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Boring for artesian water Is in prog
ress on the school grounds at Drewsey.
Reedsport is in line for a cornet band
and an orchestra. A Marshfield band
man is a chief promoter of -the enter
prise. . '
That Klamath county J Pvin".-
banner county in its fight esainst the
squirrel pest, is the report.! the bio
logical survey expert who has checked
up the work. Excellent cooperation on
the part of the farmers is in large part
the explanation. 1
Halsey's council has ordered the old
board fence removed from around the
tract of land in Soufh Halsey known
as the city park, and will replace it
with a new woven wire i fence. It is
the desire of the council to make this
a real park, the Albany democrat s Hal
sey correspondent writes.
-That was a grand rain the tint ot
the week." remarks the Haisey Enter
prise. "It made all nature which was
Smiling before, laugh right out loud,
and when nature in the Halsey part
of the Willamette valley laughs out loud
It is some laugh, a ear menus. ,
out danger, and with better results than
if It were strychnine." i
v . .
He poured a little nuxvomlca into a
small vial and held Flossie's bead up
and let the medicine trickle down her
throat. "That will start her secretions.
he said. Then he performed upon the
udder ajt essential operation. 4
Billy Sunday watched the operation
with intense Interest, and said, 'Flossie
is one of the family. Doctor. Don't you
spare any. trouble, time pr expense to
put her on her feet again.
Presently Ma Sunday came out on
the back porch and called us in to din
ner. Billy . Sunday said,! "I'd a heap
sooner stay here' with FlosBie, but I
suppose since I have company I had
better go in." "Go ahead. I will take
care of Flossie, and by! the time you
come out from dinner I'll have her on
her feet." said Dr. Welch. He made
good, aU right, for when we came out
from dinner Flossie was! leeung setter
and waa standing on her feet, to Billy
Sunday's great delight, i
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We staved at the table for an hour,
and I don't know which I enjoyed more,
the beaten biscuit with rich gravy, the
boiled carrots, baked potatoes and roast
veal and lemon pie, or the constant
interchange of wit and i comment that
flashed back and forth across the table.
Billy Sunday is very humorous, rather
diffident and bashful, yet exceedingly
friendly. He has a geat habit of
throwing his arm around your shoulder
or giving you a friendly poke in the
ribs as he tells you a 1 story or em
phastses some Incident he la telling.
Captain Sunday, whoj returned re
cently from France, is a very whole
some, likable chap. It! was my good
fortune to sit at the table next to Cap
tain Sunday's wife, Harriet. -Billy Sun
day Jr- who is 18, happened to be away
in Portland for a day's trip. Paul sat
opposite. Mrs. George Sunday has two
very charming children. George Jr., and
John Mason Sunday. - I
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Billy Sunday told us some of the
humorous incidents of his recent trip
through Southern Waehlngton.and On
trtl Oregon while talking for the Vic
tory loan and Ma Sunday, who "has a
keen sense of humor, told many - an
odd. funny incident, in which she didn't
spare herself or her husband in , the
least. She seems to enjoy having the
auto break down In some out of the
way place and staying at some home
steader's cabin' just aa. much as being
the guest of John Wanamaker, Andrew
Carnegie. John D, Rockefeller or W.
J. Bryan. , -
"Tea, traveling around! as we do all
over the country, we stop with all sorts
of people; and after all. they are very
much alike," shesald. "Some have a
little more money or a little' better
position than others, but the same im
pluses animate all of us, and most of
us have the same high Ideals of service
and patriotism. Takel John Wana
maker, for example. When we were
In Philadelphia he turned over his big
Packard car to us for 11 weeks, and had
his own chauffeur report to us during
all that time. He did it just as cheer
fully as the homesteader, and his wife
would make a shakedown in the corner
of the room and give us their bed : so,
after all, we are pretty much all alike.
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C S. Jackson and Henry Reed de
cided that they would have to return
to Portland, but Ma Sunday and I were
having such an interesting time I told
them to go on and I ould come in
later by train. We spent the afternoon
together. . She showed me all over the
place. - She is one of the most abso
lutely home-like, natural and whole
some persons I ever met. There is
absolutely no pretense whatever about
her or her husband, Billy Sunday.
Curious Bits of Information
For the Curious f f
O lea sad From Carioea - Fleece
The daisy was never known ! in the
South until after the Civil war, it is said.
Now every part of the South visited by
the Union army is covered with daisies.
"Sherman brought them to us." said a
Southern man, and the march to the sett
can be followed tn the summertime by
keeping where the daisies grow. The
seed seems to have been, transported in
the hay that was brought along to feed
the horses. The Ladles' Home Journal.
Lieutenant Jim Europe's &rvtce
From the New Tor World. ,
. A public funeral in New York for a
negro bandmaster is probably unique
among popular tributes to - the dead.
But there were unique aspects to the
career of the man who is to be thus
honored. Coming to the city unknown
but with an idea, he became almost in
stantly a celebrity as the originator of
jazz music, and while the publie craze
for dancing lasted, "Jim" Kurope and
his band of -colored musicians occupied
a conspicuous place among popular en
tertainers. H had brought a novel
form of amusement to the great mart
for such commodities and his reward
was great. . -
But, having entertained New York in
Its hours of idleness, he put bis peculiar
talent to a more patriotic use when the
country entered the warj, and It is on
this substantial service that his claim
to public honors at thai hands of his
race rests. ' Kurope's jazz band was a
distinct asset to the. American forces In
France, the exact extent of which may
not be measured ; but its strains ani
mated and heartened the soldiers to a
remarkable- degree. And - this is the
testimony not only of the men in the
ranks but . Of commanding -officers and
premiers. ,; k . ; . ,
It was ths negro band-leader's "bjt" in
winning the war. and the cheerfulness
and efficiency with which it was done
showed ths patriotism behind ' the rols
of public entertainer.
There'd Be Some Against It
From the. Toledo Blade
We ought to have a referendum on
spring. If not, we shall never know
whether the majority ia in favor of it.
Ragtag nd Bobtail
Stories From Everywhere
- A Real Boy Story ?
TTUIS won't Surprise the mothers.
Three farm kids aged , 8 and 10
years, respectively, while at play in a
barn the other day in a neighbor' -g
state, says Capper's Weekly, came across
a box ef horse salve. They were hun
gry and It looked good and smelled- good
to the boys, so they ate most of It,
then became deathly sick. A hurry call
brought the doctor, who found Jhem
suffering from a poison the salve con
tained. Hut. next day the boys were
ready for their three square meala as
usual, with something on the side be
tween meals.
What Hakes It Whirl
Tia said love makes the world go 'round.
And when van find the eirl.
And you lave her. and ahe lotss you.
It surely xeakaa it whirl
But aome insist that dollars are .
What make this aithere revolve,
And that perpeutal mutton, sure.
A Max aecouni weuld solve.
It seems to take both love and gn!d
a To make it whirl )u fine.
Ami i una s arrow ougut to pa
ShaiH
mi lias
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Cartoon afagssiaa.
Uncle Jeff Snow ays:
If some hell-fired Hun set a house
afire over the head of a neighbor, tuck
his wife into slavery and left their
children to freese to death there wouldn't
te no trouble to git him outer Holland
or any other country If folks knowed
wnere he "was hldln'. But with kings,
princes and kaisers some people ceems
to think it a a heap different. "The way
lawyers and statesmen'!! palaver 'bout
slch a he-devil that's got 'Bteen million
dollars of loot stowed away handy docs
best all creation.
The News in Paragraphs
World Happenings Briefed for Benefit
of Journal Readers
GENERAL
It la now rennrtMl that flensrit Tr.
shing will return to the United Ststes
In July.
' l&ieftt rfinnairv r rn
Latest casualty figures from Berlin
how. that Germany lost In killed dur-
ing the war-1,678,000 men.
Orders have been received at Mare
Island reducine the enlisted force, ex
clusive-. of the training camp, from oo
men to 800. t
" For violating an injunction order re
straining them from picketing. 17 strik
ing machinists were fined tOO-and two
men were Bent to jail in Chicago.
Recommendations of the general staff
that the course of Instruction at West
Point b reduced nrimsrllv f a thru
years nave been approved by Secretary
Baker.
As announced by the war department;
every effort will-be made to give every
regular army officer opportunity for
overseas service before the end of the
present emergency.
Sherman Leonard, representative of
the New York Life Insurance company,
fired a bullet Into his brain at Oak
land, Cal., Sunday. A motive for the
President Wilson has been Invited to
dedicate the : place where the monu
ment to commemorate American inter
vention in the war will be erected, at
the mouth of the Glronde.
W. V. Kellar, who was tarred and
feathered at Lullns, -- Texas, in May,
1818, for alleged disloyal statements,
has obtained a verdict for JiO.Out)
against 11 citizens of the town.
News is received that W. A. ltarri
man, son of the late K. 11. Itarrimait,
has purchased 10,000 shares of stock In
the American-Hawaiian Steamship com
pany. The amount involved is about
$.000.000.
NORTHWEST NOTES
A commercial club has been organ-'
ized at Zlllah, Wash., with 100 mem
bers. - Lane county Kike have started out to
raise a fund of 19000 In the Salvation
Army campaign. t
Pendleton dairymen are preparing to
organise for the betterment of the ln
dustry in that section. :
Governor Krnest Lister, who has been
111 for several months, has been taken
to Seattle for treatment.
The steamer Empress of Japan arrived
at Victoria Tuesday with 8oO members
of the Siberian forces aboard.
James I. Muffley of Newcastle. Pa.,
has been chosen and accepted tits Ta
coma Y. M. C. A. secretaryship.
Reports from : Beaverton ara to the
effect that the Canyon road will be
open for traffic early next week.
Louis Lambert, aged IS, was crushed
to death under a log at Hunnyside camp,
near Cnttskanie, Monday afternoon.
Starting four years ago with a capital
of only JlOOO. Jess Hanson, a farmer
of Polk county, has cleared $18,300 from
chickena.
Two delegates from each of eight live
stock associations met in Baker a few
days ago and formed a central live
stock board.
The First Methodist church of Astoria
has raised its quota of $14,000 in thw
centenary campaign, and an additional
$4000 besides..
Last week two canning clubs, two
garden clubs and - two animal clubs
were organized among the boys and
girls of Chehalls.
Construction of eight miles of the pa
cific highway from Kelso north was let
by the state highway commission Mon
day for $171,617.
Notices have been poeted In Beaver
ton requiring the paving of the Paclfio
highway to a width of 32 feet through
in main part ox town.
TTnurteen whales have been taken thus
far by the three members of the Ameri
can Paclfio whaling fleet off Bay sta
tion on Orays Harbor.
Airplanes to be sent from Mather field
to Portland for the Roho Festival have
been Invite! to stop at Oregon Agri
cultural college en route. ,
William Folarer, who enllnted at the
outbreak of the war. is again home lv
Oregon City, after an absence in Franc
of more Utan 18 months.
Twenty-nin students of Pendleton
high school were graduated Monday
night. B. F. Irvine of Portland deliv
ered the-graduating add res. .
Pensions have ben sranted In Ore
gon as follows: Mtley Fitzgerald, noee
bnrg. $12: Jo"hn Ureen. Hood River,
Frederick Smith of Seattle, rharsred
with failure to fill out his draft ques
tionnaire last September, pleaded guilty
and was sentenced to 20 days in jail.
An ordinance passed by lh Seattle
council granting street oar men an
eight-hour day and time and a-half for
overtime has averted a poeaibl strikev
- Plans are -being worked out for th
construction of a dam ac-rons Iost river
bed below Merrill, by which later it is
proposed to Irrigate the reclaimed lands
of Twle lake..
As f a memorial to ..the soldiers and
sailors of Clatsop county, the chamber
of commerce has indorsed plans for a
civic center for Astoria to include
racetrack and athletic field.
Let Spirit of Franklin Guide
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fully. - Invest wisely.
Buy Thrift and W. 8. S. Buy gov
ernment bonds. : "
Get full value for your money no
matter whether you buy food, cloth
ing, amusement, or anything else.
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Start on your way today!
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