kTHE OREGON DAILY JOURNAL, ... P ORTLAND, MONDAY, MAY 26, 1919.
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13AJLI MOKN1SO OR AFTEKNOONJ AND
""- 1 SUNDAY . -
On TM.....1T.IO f Ono eaosHk . . , . . $ .
Half tho fail ares in life cam from pull
fas eave's bora when bo ts leaping.
.r ...;,.. Thome Hood.
WHAT CARE THEY?
HOSE United States senators op-
t posing the league did not sweat
and straggle and face Hun steel
on No Man's Land.
They did not ; go over to Prance
and .come back crippled for life; or
stagger, drop aLd die la Flanders.
. What care they If other wars are
to-be fought?
-They were ' not honest In the
original' objections to the league
covenant; for when the points to
which they raised objections were
removed by changes in the covenant,
they remained objectors still.
Nor are they; honest with , the
.people now. They pretend to fear the
league , wll? Involve America in other
wars. It wasn't the league that
Involved us in the last war. y The
league has been decided upon bythe
leading statesmen of the world, de
cided rpon by the great men who
.- directed the last war to a victorious
conclusion, as the one ana only
means of minimizing If not prevent'
tag future wars.
Are Taft and Wilson -and Clemen
ceau and Lloyd George and all the
other; world statesmen wrong and
Miles Poindexter and . Boies . Penrose
and' blackguard Sherman right?
Are the 28,005 people who voted In
The Journal for the Jeague wrong,
. and the 176 who voted against it
right?
5 What care Penrose in Pennsylvania,
where' war munitions are made, and
Lodge in Massachusetts, where army
blankets are manufactured, what care
they for guarantees against war?
,- Here Is the ' list of most of the
chairmanships elated for the United
States senate : - Foreign : relations,
Lodge ; finance,- Penrose ; appropria
tions, Warrea; military affairs, Wads
worth; naval affairs. Page; Judisiary,
Nelson ; Interstate commerce, Cum
mins; agriculture, Gronna; commerce.
Jones; rules, Knox; public lands.
Smoot; education and labor, Kenyon;
mines, " Poindexter. ; The ghost of
Mark Hanna must be grinning.
A SPRINGFIELD JUBILEE
I HE . Springfield irrigation Jubilee,
to be staged under the auspices
of the various public and civic
bodies of Springfield, June 12
to 13, will be unique In Willamette
Valley' history, marking " as it does
the Inauguration of the first Western
, Oregon Irrigation project. '
Since the first settler of the Wil-
lamete Valley began to put hi crops
Into the ground It has been the
current contention that -irrigation
, was something! for desert countries
but not . for the garden spot of Ore
gon, where a divine- providence kept
things green. . This contention has .;
been a persistent and an Insistent
one, even though the promulgator of
it might be spraying his garden or
wetting down his lawn with : , the
hose while he talked. 1
, r Mora and more the suspicion has
j grown among , those who live ' on
i and from the soil that Nature is a
little erratic - when it comes to dis-
:. tributing. moisture over the fields
and farms of the valley. All too
often vegetation, coaxed by the tear
ful days of fay and June Into rank
and . . tender growth, has shriveled
and withered " under ' the " dry and
burning gaze of July and" August.
Memories of - last summer and the
summer before re still fresh, if not
green, in . the minds of those who
. sat impotent tnrough the , long dry
days to watch their fields turn
brown, and their. ' crops run short
for lack of .irrigation.
So' the farmers of the valley . will
watcn witff more than usual interest-
to see what the days will bring
forth for the Springfield project,
upon which water Is to be turned in
. June. H Is the pioneer of its line
in Western Oregon. ; If it does - for
the lands to be ' served by it: what
' its sponsors claim it will not be the
vehicle for the last irrigation jubilee
to be held - in Ms section of the
state. It is ' not .' having . water so
much that makes things grow as
bavins it. w!sen it is most, needed.
Y.. -n C:--; ,'n frn.:crs, arlicu-
larly those who grow garden 'truck,
berries and fruit,! are confronted
with two main problems, to Mry their
land early In the sprint? and to keep
it from getting tob dry In the. sum
mer. The irrigation project, properly
constructed, will' accomplish both.
It will drain the" fields when they
are wet and wet ..them . when , they
are dry.. It will make the valley
in . truth and - fact a year round
garden spot such as few states can
boast. . i ' :
The Old Guard In the : senate is
. good deal like the old guard r in
Germany. It . will holler its head
off about the treaty as long, cs It
can and then sign it. or , else hear
from the folks back home.
IN A NUTSHELL
I
F THE interstate commerce commis
sion would adopt the reasoning of
Chairman Hurley ; of the United
States shipping board it would
not be long before the ! Columbia
river water grade rate ; controversy
would be rrystalized ; into a settled
decision. -:: ! -'; '
The shipper," "Chairman : Hurley
says in .discussing; the development
of -the merchant marine, "wants rea
sonable freight . rates. ; The ; carrier
wants reasonable earnings. These
two objectives are - not inconsistent.
Efficient operation can achieve them
both." . ;
That is the whole question in a
nutshell. ' The Inland Empire Ship
pers' League wants reasonable freight
rates. It wants to pay for what it
gets, and to get what it pays for. If
it costs 10 cents a bushel to haul
wheat 4own the water grade of the
Columbia from Inland Empire points
to Vancouver, or Portland, or Astoria,
or any Columbia river dockage place
it wants to pay 10 cents. It does.
not want to pay j 15 cents for the
service just because Puget Sound
happens to hate a range of moun
tains between it and' the Inland Em
pire.':: j ..
If It costs 15 cents a bushel to
haul - wheat', over. I the mountains to
Seattle, or Tacoma, or any dockage
place on the Sound, then the rail
road are entitled' to that price for
the service they give. But they are
not entitled to charge that price to
a community or 1 a district where
the cost of transportation is but 10
cents. ' --.
In other words, ; if it ' reasonably
costs the railroads hauling freight
down the Columbia river 10 cents a
bushel to furnish the service they
are entitled to that charge, but not,
in justice to the producer, to more.
If It costs 15 cents for the tran&moun
tain haul to Puget Sound the carriers
that serve that district are entitled
to 15 cents and the producers ought
to pay that price if they deal with
that market. ,
That is the logic of the situation,
and the Justice. Sooner or laterthe
interstate commerce commission will
become logical and ; forsake the arti
ficial and fictitious . rate fabrics now
in use. ; :-
The junkers in the American senate
are fighting the league, which is a
part of tne peace ! treaty. The junkers
in Germany are fighting parts of
the peace treaty. How alike I
TWO PER CENT OR SIX?
T
HE normal 'Individual is not
limited by jaw in his ability
to pledge his property to finance
its improvement, t The constitu
tion does not tell him that he may
borrow no more than 2 'per cent
or the value of his property with
which to build a barn or a .house,
to pave the street in front of his
residence or grade and gravel the
lane that leads to his front gate. In
general banking practice he may
borrow up to 50 per -cent of his
property value , and still not be
beyond the boundary of good busi
ness judgment,
"The state constitution V now says
that a county may not borrow
money upon its ; bonds - for the Im
provement of its! roads in an amount
to exceed 2 per cent of the assessed
value of the property within - Its
limits. Experience has; shown that
it Is good business to have good
roads leading from .farm gate ; to
ummei pwce. i rney save r-.oney
ana tney gain time
On June3 the voters of the various
counties are to say whether this
limitation of 2 ( per cent is to be
raised to a limitation of 6 per cent.
Tne real question is whether the
people of the various counties
believe themselves to have sufficient
business discretion to ? say, at any
given tinie, whether they ought to
spend up to 6 per cent of their
property valuation upon public road
construction.
The ' amendment does not say that
any county snail ; spend anything at
all. It does say -that the majority
of the voters can,- if they so desire
and so vote, spend not more ttan 6
per cent for road construction, it
leaves r4he decision In thjeir own
hands to do or not to do, as they may
see nt.
A news dispatch says that "the
allies have takea Mcdvyejvagora.M
Mercyl
PRESS AND PULPIT
fjfH E Presbyterian clergy in
IHI
I
assembly has resolved anlnat
the Sunday newspaper. In the
absence of the text of the rsft-
lution it Is lo be presumed Wiat the
violation of the Injunction aginst
Sabbath day labor is the chief point
of attack. , ; ,
That position is hardly tenable in
iew :' the fact Hiat'lJie fredtcr part
of the content of the Sunday news
paper is written, . assembled . and
printed before the Sabbath day.' And
If the presses do run into it- early
Sunday scours , and the function of
distribution be then completed, these
labors can be justified in the value
of community service performed.
The 'message of the pulpit should
not deny the ; message of the press.
Rather coordinate them that a wider
audience may be reached for ': the
greater social good- . I .... ?
OUR BIGNESS
IJI1
HERE are indications that this
year will be the greatest tourist
year In the history of the United
States. The - - "Seeing America
First" idea planted some years ago
Is coming Into full bearing. : la
queries flooding the i bureau of
national parks indicate a great inter
est In these - recreational eenlers.
Travel to the West by private auto
mobile increased at ' a phenomenal
rate before the. United States entered
the war. The continued "f Improve
ment of road conditions! on the main
highways, especially between the na
tional parks, will result in a much
greater increase. It is becoming easier
to make the grand circuit,; Including
Yellowstone, Glacier, Mount Rainier,
the Cascades region. Crater lake, the
Yosemite and the Grand Canyon of
Colorado. -i'.-K'Ji -r ; '-- ' I -'Z'
Like the ; ocean 3 tide, i the tourist
movement is constant-' It is ' also
gaining !n volume from' year to year.
In winter it lows to the south and
in summer to the north.
By some it Is-urged ! that the na
tional government should actively
encourage travel to the great health
resorts, regardless of whether they
are situated in the national parks or
not ; that the 3 government shouki
create travel bureaus along the lines
adopted by .. France ji and other
countries. Among these is Secre
tary of the Interior Lane, who is
encouraging the use of every , means
o stimulate outdoor) living and the
enjoyment of ; tne 55reat recreation
resources in order .that the habit
of using these resources will become
ingrained. - - I '
There is an added value : Travel
over their own country by Americans
makes them realize its bigness. Some
Americans need that." Some millions
there think all America-Is within a
few states, of which New York is the"
center. I ' :
If - the Actors Association of New
York, which Is haying j a eonjoversy
with the Producing Managers' as
sociation over desired Reforms in the
contracts drafted by the latter,
organizes a strike in the theaters of
Broadway will . it make the public
see stars, or won't it?
SEEKING OREGON PRUNES
NDEPDENDENT" San Francisco
prune buyers ,Hhave asked the
Portland Chamber of Commerce
to tell them where they ; can
buy from 25 to 501 cars of Oregon
prunes. Incidentally, they -want to
buy them In bulk and volunteer the
information that there is a good
market for Oregon prunes. .
Heretofore. the California buyers
have not been much in the habit
of appealing far information as to
the whereabouts of Oregon prunes.
They have just sent their -agents
among the Oregon prune J growers
and bought what ' they wanted, for
the most part paying ; what ; they
wanted, which practice did noi buy
any automobiles for the growers as
a usual thing. . : r ;-
; This year the Independent San
Franciscans, and those elsewhere.
have- not been having such an easy
time. Price fixing by the government
during last year has opened the eyes
Of the Oregon ' growers to the big
gap between the. price they . received
and the ruling prices of the Eastern
markets. They have awakened to
the margin of profit existing between
their produce in their warehouses
and the warehouse of the Atlantic
seaboard. - Having awakened they are
getting together in organized market
ing associations and, incidentally, are
bridging -j'over; the brokerage that
has operated in past : years to keep
them poor. i - ' :
The time is coming. If the growers
go as they are now headed, when
Oregon - prunes 1 will be sold as
Oregon prunes, not as California
prunes. Already the favorite in ex
port trade because that market has
been educated in the! taste for a tart
product, - the agents for that trade
will turn to ' Oregon, and J not to
California, for what they want vhen
the Oregon " fruit bears the ' Oregon
brand and sells upon its own merit.
Old time politicians contend that
you can't sell offices without . or
ganization. The same thing is true
in selling prunes.
Senator Sherman, who says that
the League of Nations is a "gigantic
firebrand for , a w:orld conflagration'
had better watch out how he handles
it of" he may get badly burned.;
FOR THE VEST
D
R. J. W. MORROW, newly elected
Democratic national committee
man for Oregon,, will make a
fight before the national eoVn-
mittee, which meets in . Chicago this
week, for a Western i headquarters.
; If successful he will v perform i a
valuable service, for. there is . tueed
of some jfction for binding tcrxther
the political forces of the West, not
necessarily for partisan but for pub
lio purposes.' ,- " ::rZ-i':-'':
The politicians of the East seem
Interested only in their on affairs,
and rive ' iittle oe no heed . to the
reauirernciiU aod: 'demands'- of- the
West. If these demands ' could be
backed up by the united political
forces of the West; more In results
would .be obtained.
We have always suffered from long
range government and through having
our affairs administered by Eastern
men. The people , of the West know
her needs best, and in the future,
should have . more voice in the
conduct of Western affairs.
Whoever inherits the fortune of
110,000 accumulated by Ira McFar
land of Eugene through 30 years of
window washing cannot be, accused
of having fallen heir to tainted
money.
TIGER OF FRANCE
IN ACTION
Clemenceau a Antagonist. Debater,
Student and . Gymnast.
Vnm h New York Evening Tort
eiemenceau energetic sardonic and
forceful face the German peace com
mission. Speaking as the presiding of
ficer of the peace congress he has told
the German plenipotentiaries. rne time
has come when we must settle. our ac
counts.' and.- according t to Georges
Lecomte. president of the Societe des
Gens Ittres. of Paris, Count von Brock-dorff-Rantzau
has to deal with a man
who. "holding the Incendiary, looting
Boche by the throat, will not Jet him
go. M. Lecomte, who for many years
has been -one - of his intimate personal
friends., has : written a book titled
"CTemeneeau. " in which he pictures
The Tiger of France" as he must now
appear in the momentous sessions of the
congress. -' r:':-::j
. .
Clemenceau as an orator. says M.
Lecomte, "has a horror of emphasis
and : of tumultuous volubility accorn
panied by great gestures. His terse.
tense sentences go straight to the target
Uke an arrow. They are not encumbered
with, epithets. Strong, abort, stripped of
useless words, they - contain only the
words necessary for the expression of
the idea. :V; v-'-
"Clemenceau ts certainly Vivacious and
impetuous in his gestures. But he is
one of those orators who. talking with
arms at, rest or with hands in pockets,
have ; their oratorical effect rather in
their look, their facial expression and
in the compressed energy of what they
are saying. ' V7- " - ' :
"He walks, up and down, master of
himself, attentive to tho least . motion
in the room, never losing sight of the
aim of his vigorous demonstration, evert
when he seems to allow himself to be
diverted for a second by trifles along
the way. '
"Another peculiarity of his character
is, after the examination of a difficult
affair er consideration concerning some
ticklish debate, the clearsightedness
with which he selects the essential point
upon which he must insist, and also the
weak point where, the adverse attack
may well strike and which it Will be
necessary to defend with the' greatest
energy. Then he fortifies it and masses
his reserves there.
"Then with bis cutting and yet ani
mated voice : he demonstrates, chides.
demands, With ail the authority of
his clear thought he holds people bowed
under the force of his arguments. At
these r.-.c merits you could hear a pin
drop. Clemenceau -, straightens up.
throws his Lead back and fixes bis eyes
vn his auditors. He nays no attentiou
to the interruptipns thrown at him. With
Jus accustomed gesture of emphatically
pointing nis forefinger down at the
crowd, he plants his. reasons jn the heads
or tne listeners."
Clemenceau believes in the strenuous
life. M. Xecorr.te says : "It is true that
he gets up regularly at 3 o'clock every
morning, and sometimes earlier. ' Not
having need of a long sleep, , he is not
far from believing that s sleep is a
prejudice, in order to furjflsh him with
the latest news of the evening the sec-
tetary has It sent by messenger to his
home. The messenges are slipped under
the doormat, where Clemenceau knows
h wui . nnd ttem. But how often in
his haste to know of the events and to
get to work, thinking that he has slept
too -iongi tMB industrious and impetuous
Old man conies to lift up the mat be
fore the messenger has brought the dis
patches lor nim to devour.
'"This famous old statesman comts
every night to look under tne door mat
for the news of some - event which be
can interpret In the light of his know!
edge of life and men,.for the instruction
of bis contemporaries. v
"Then, when the precious envelope
has appeared, for three or four hours
he enjoys the delight of a bard battle.
in solitude, until the illuminating idea
springs forth and he hits upon his
stirring phrases. .
"After that he - indulges in a half
hour's gymnastic exercise, which keeps
up the vigorous suppleness of his mus
cles and insures, through a perfect cir
culation, the calm lucidity of bis mind.
. "In battle wnion as a courageous
man he loves he admits no under
handed attacks, no perfidy,, no crafty
insinuauons. . He goes straight from
the shoulder. As they say in the lan
guage of the fencing school, he has a
good thrust and a quick parry. He
plays close, but .his Play is clean. As
strongly as he is assailed, be in turn
remains wittily courteous In the most
difficult situations, but with a courtesy
sharpened and ready for cutting replies."
'..!- .......
Still harboring the bullet of an as
sassin. Clemenceau, together with Presl
dent Wilson, dominates the peace con
gress. The situation reminds M. Lecomte
of another time i when : Clemenceau un
derwent a delicate major operation.
"M. Clemenceau worn out, motionless.
bloodless, not knowing whether he would
be alive tomorrow, but playful as on
his happiest days, assumed tor a mo
ment his air of sarcastic good I humor
and in a very low . voice improvised
wonderful Joke on a visitor whom he
certainly -did not expect? to see. In jthe
most picturesque way j he joked bis
friend about his role in the world and
a peculiarity of the town in which he
uvea." :-; 1 ..
A World-Famed Warship Will
the Old Oregon Ever Be
Prom the Detroit Pree Press
It ts too bad there is no national way
ef saving so famous a fighting ship as
the old Oregon. The navy department
may have done the best thing possible
under the . circumstances in offering the
now ODsoiete Datueanip to the state for
which she was named to be preserved
foe. historical purposes without expense
to tne navy." ana tt is to be hoped Ore
cron will accent the offer. It wnnlH mm.
stitute a sentimentaf calamity were, the
antique craft to be sent to the ' bone
yard or" used for deep-sea target prac
tice, bat nations are r none too . .careful
about preserving mementoes and some
times states are equally remiss through
lack of available funds, authorizing leg
islation and sometimes practical econo
my. , -.:-" :j;.:
A single performance placed the Ore
gon on tne living roll of naval history,
making -her the spectacular ship-of the
Spanish-AmCfifian war period. In order
to sterng-then ti.e American fleet off Cu
ba the Oregron was ordered from the
north Pacific There was ao EAnama
canal then and Captain- Clark brought
his ship around Cape Horn at top speed
without' mishap or enemy hindrance, a
feat that stands out in navy annals
for ulean-cot, efficiency, instant readi
ness and precision in pert ormanee ;
The passing of th old ship empha
sizes the shortUvedness of modern sea
fighters. Her Jceel' was laid in "1891
and ahe was quite newly In commission
when the Spanish war began.?: She was
the createst thing of her: day, but a
mere LiUiputian compared with the su
perdreadaauffhts of the present Indeed
she quite antedated the era Of battle
ship leviathans and possessed neither
size speed, armor nor armament ; as
these things go iiow. But she ia sure of
her fame and long after the days when
the present fleet of naval monsters has
disappeared, the old Oregon, v like the
Constitution. ; the Bonhomme Richard
and the Monitor, wiil stand out in the
nation's1 history for the thing she did so
well in time of need. ; .
Letters From the People
rCommiraicationB- cent ta Th Journal for
publication In tBM oepanmeni- airaaHr am wiiiwn
n obIt m cid of the papr. shonM not exceed
800 worda in lenctb. and miut be aiened by the
writer, wboee mail address in foil mast accom
pany the cucUflMition. 1 - - -
Argues for an "Industrial, State"
Ashland. May 17. To the Editor of
The Journal Your editorial of May 14,
entitled "Every Man's Country," may
have been true- in theory, and in parts,
but I consider it "erroneous as a whole.
In the beginnings of the American gov
ernment everybody except coiored folks
and hired help had a possession in the
government, in like manner as a mother
has possession in her chUd. However?
during our early history commerce and
industry were carried on in a primiUve
fashion and individual initiative was
paramount ; hence the country was at
that time. : with the above exceptions.
every man's country, s Machinery has
now displaced handcraft in industry.
Corporate initiative has displaced pri
vate Initiative, which, coupled with Ju
dicial recognition of a private corpora
tion as a legal person or entity navtng
all '-the rights of any other person
except the rights of citizenship, worked
a revolution that changed the form of
government from a politico-business
man's politicians and property owners'
government to a politico-big business
man's government - The effect of said
revolution was that although in theory
every man may have a voice In govern
ment.- he has a voice only in choosing j
between two or more evils therein. Said j
revolution : has so changed conditions
that the wage earner, the self employer,
the small business " man or the profes
sional man has no possession. . The gov
ernment was planned for the class
that dominated at the time of its birth,
and gave political justice, liberty and
Independence to the class that adopted
the constitution, namely, politicians and
property owners. Excepting colored
slaves and menial whites, it was "every
man's country." The revolution referred
to changed all that and now the country
belongs to a small percentage of . the
inhabitants. This condition coupled
with the disfranchisement (under the
"legal residence" requirements) of a
large and ever Increasing number 'of
job hunters, . accounts for the social
unrest that, if directed intelligently, will
result In a peaceful revolution that
would establish an ' industrio-worklng-
man's government, in which aU would
be industrialists. As the masses would
own what should be owned by the
masses, it , fo.'lows that the individuals
would own what should be owned by
the individuals. Industrialism and co
operation -having displaced politics and
competition, individuality would be re
stored. As there would be no politics.
industrial justice, liberty and independ
ence would be the heritage of every
one. As the government would be the
only corporation. ; governmental initia
tive would - displace private corporate
initiative. It is through the industrial
state that we can set the country re
stored to the peop. -
1. M. BHOWEK.
Glendale and the Pacific Highway
Glendale, May 22. To the Editor of
The Journal In order to shorten the Pa
cific highway five miles a cutoff is now
under construction ' which will . cost the
state over $100,000 and throw Glendale
on tne mgnway. -me nignway . via
Glendale is in excellent condition consid
ering the amount of travel that has gone
over it and the care that has been taken
of it What the citiens regard as more
important is tnat tne roads tnat we ao
have . be better cared for, so that the
roads will not have to. be closed for
certain times of the year.
Travel between Canyonvllla and Glen
dale was practically at nil during the
winter, for the reason that the roads
could not stand it Sections of tne Pa
cific highway were but a conglomera
tion of mud holes, simply because the
money was not available to repair the
roads.i Shall this winter be a repeti
tion of last? VICTOR C. SETHER
War Time Prohibition
Portland. Mav 21 . To h V.rlitnr nt
The Journal In regard to the repeal
ing of wartime prohibition, I would say
that the opposition of some of our Re
publican senator to President Wilson's
suggestion to repeal same Is not strange.
W lien tney would attack the League of
Nations covenant they would do most
anything in rotten politics. Our presi
dent Is open and above board, and if
we are to have a glass of beer or a
drink of wine, let us have a legitimate
place to go and buy it, and not have
to go after it like thieves and bank rob
bers. S. B. DOUSE.
Road Bonding . Measures
From tbe Heppner Gasetxe-Tunes
We cannot conceive that there should
be any opposition whatever to the prop
osition to vote 1290.006- bonds in this
county for the construction of perma
nent roads, - yet it develops that some
are opposed to the- measure. This op
position, however, is only slight, and
the measure should carry by a practic
ally unanimous vote. 1 '-.
- Oregon, and Morrow county as well,
as a part of Oregon, 'is beginning to
wake up to the realization that the
time has arrived for a forward move
ment. Nothing has yet been proposed
that means more for the development
of the - state at large than the road
bonding measures, and while we believe
that the . people of this country ; will
stand bv our own bond issue, we can
not afford to overlook the still larger
program that takes in the entire state.
: The per cent county indebtedness
for permanent roads amendment, the
Roosevelt highway- bill and the market
roads', tax bill should each receive our
support just as readily as the measure
TvertaJnintr to : dur own county alone.
and we muse recognfze the fact that sel
fishness in this matter is not going to
get us as far along as. we should like.
It Is purely a matter of pulling for
every measure that means the building
up of Oregon,
We shall hope to -see those who take
up our bonding program for discus
sion before the people of the county.
include lit ... their argument support for
these various - measures, , that each one
may have just as strong support at the
polls as we give the local issue.
' A Road Meeting at Sheridan
From ute gberidaa Sob
An impromptu road meeting was held
here last Friday night made up largely
from residents from other parts of the
county, the- object apparently being to
, protest against the appropriation oftbe
COMMENT AND
SMALL CHANGE
W favor the bill er ran tine six months'
pay to veterans.
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How did You feel about the weather
yesterday? So did we.
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As a contemporary remarks, this
seems to be somewhat of a backward
and forward spring.
JudrinaT from the number of telenhon
inquiries that come in for : "the score,"
we judge tnat tne town is zuu ox arm
chair fans.
The market sharks report a probable
record crop of grain In the coast states.
Rather rubbing it in on the liquor manu
facturers, isn't it? ,.
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Director General HInes asks for a
billion dollars for the railroads of the
United States, and all " the traveling
public asks for Is a litUe service.
.
In the East there Is rejoicing because
there is still more than a month between
now and the first of July. And it wiil
be mora than a full month, too. They'll
simply overflow.
MEN AND INSTITUTIONS OF THE
OREGON COUNTRY
By Fred Lockiey
Here b another itory of tbe rb of great
mercantile establishment ef Portland and the rise
with it of one who. now a proprietor, started a
meeaenger boy in its eerrio and haa served ta
every capacity intermediate. Incidentally, Mr.
Lockiey detail early ' history of the enedical
profession and the drug business in Oregon.
Now I get me up ta work;
I pray tbe lxrd I may not shirk.
And if I die before 4b aueht,
1 praf tbe iord aiy works's all riant.
1 That verse, or something very much
akin to it, has been the dominating prin
ciple In the life of W. F. Woodward, of
the firm of Woodard tc Clarke. In ad
dition to helping build up one of the
largest : wholesale and retail drug firms
in the West, Mr. Woodward was a mem
ber of the first building and loan, as
sociation established in Portland, For
years ha has been a trustee of the Boys'
and Girls Aid society. He was a mem
ber of the charter commission ; a trustee
and member of the advisory committee
of the Prisoners Aid society a trustee
of the Portland Remedial Loan associ
ation; trustee of the Oregon Social Hy
giene . society ; . a member, and a very
active one. of the city library board ;
chairman of the state council of de
fense and of the selective service board,
during the war, as well as a four-minute
speaker In the war period. But the old
saying holda true: 1f you want some
thing done, go to a busy man." For Mr.
Woodward always seems to have time
and to be doing something toward the
upbuilding of the city of his adoption.
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When Mr. Woodward was 1$ years old
and this was back in the summer of
1882 he secured a position as a mes
senger, boy in the firm of which he is
now a member. - In time he graduated
from- messenger boy to prescription
clerk, in which position he put In 25
years.""; During his 37 years' connection
with this firm he has held down every
lob in the establishment, including mes
senger - boy. night clerk, bookkeeper,
traveling salesman, prescription clerk.
floor manager, and finally proprietor.
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.Taking"; a retrospective glance. It is
interesting to note that Dr. John Mac-
Loughlin. who at one time was governor
for the Hudson's Bay company for the
whole Oregon country, which Included
the present states of Oregon, Washing
ton, Idaho and Montana, was the first
pharmacist, , physician and surgeon to
practice to the Pacific JNortnwest. .e
was not only the first physician in the
Oregon country, but he was one of the
wisest and greatest of Oregon's pioneer
empire builders. It was almost 100
years ago that, Dr. MacLoughlin came
to Oregon. He located at Fort Van
couver, on the Columbia river, in the
spring of 1825.- Here, at the Hudson's
Bay company's .trading post, at which
he was factor, he carried the entire
stock of drugs to be found in the Pacific
Northwest. Once a year these drugs
were replenished from the Hudson's Bay
company's stores in London.
. .
The first drug store to be established
in Oregon ; was started In Oregon City
in 1847. It was during this same year
that Dr. Danforth began the practice of
medicine in Oregon City. One of the
first advertisements to.be found In Ore
gon of a physician is the advertisement
of Dr. A. R. C. Locy, who ran a small
card in the Spectator, advertising his
professional services as "physician and
surgeon to the citizens of the Oregon
country." , Dr. Locy wa a botanic phy
sician. V '
Dr. Ralph Wilson, who came In
184S to the little collection of log houses
which formed Portland, was Portland's
first doctor. He was a graduate of the
Geneva Medical college of New Tork.
In addition to being Portland's first
physician, he was Portland's first school
teacher. .. . '
ON THE TRANS
By Pant
Special Corraepondeaes to The Journal and The
.. x Chicago Daily News.
With the American Expeditionary
Force In Siberia. The vast system of
railways which is known collectively as
the Trans-Siberian is like Russia itself
tn that it grows upon you the better you
become acquainted with it It Is a won
derful network of communications cov
ering in all 5466 miles between Petro
grad and Vladivostok. - ,A nation which
rivm a. series of railroads Uke those
that make up the Trans-Siberian through
a wilderness or rorests, wroogn moun
tains and across plains, possesses no
small part of the world s energy.
Over the 2100 miles from JCarlmskaya
to Omsk the road is.double tracked prac
tically all the war. At Xarlmskaya the
Amur branch. Joins the main line- This
Amur railway, which im newer than the
rest, runs along north of the Amur river
to- Khaborovsk and from Khabarovsk the
TJssuri roads lead down the Ussurt river
valley the tiger country where it joins
the main line again north of Vladivos
tok. Thus the Trans-Siberian Is for all
military and other purpoaes double
tracked from Omsk to Vladivostok. .
All the way there have been evidences
that the Trans-Siberian and its compo
nent parts are admirably done. The wa
ter towers, if they followed American
proposed $360,000 road, bond Issue, A
the election had already been called for
June 2 to vote upon these bonds, no
action at the -meeting could have any
influence with the county court. Other
road matter were discussed and the
measure before th people of th state
to be voted upon Jons were consid
ered. Some 50 or 60 voter were pres
ent and a vot being taken upon th
bonding measure, the result wa unan
imous in it favor. Th .Roosevelt high
way project was also voted upon , and
was favored with only one dissenting
vote. - . ' - ,
Olden .Oregon '
Hood River Had a Narrow Escape
v From a Belittling Name.
Hood rivr was originally called Dog
river. According- to George H. Hlmes,
it : was so named because in the early
forties some Immigrants camping here
were reduced to dog meat iff food.
NEWS IN BRIEF
OREGON SIDELIGHTS .
"A good many or those would-be War
wicks." observes the Salem Capital
Journal, "are hunting for their presiden
tial timber on cut-over lands.'
The State Rural Carriers' association
will meet in Independence on t-aoor y.
That town will also be next to ent?Jtfn
the district convention , t the .Pythian
gutters. .. " - 9 . ':' :-y
The Forest Grove Commercial club Is
considering the question or securing a
state fish hatchery, the News-Times
says. It is believed an ideal site could
be found at Gales Creek or: near that
Plac- ....
"People throw orange and banana
peelings and other matter in the suiter
along Front street until that thorough
fare reminds passenRers on the South
ern Pacific of a hogpen,"! says the
Wood burn Indeiendent. One man was
going to stop off nere. but decided to go
on and escape disease. . Some of the
merchants are in favor of nch provid
ing a garbage can. This w 11 keep the
street from having such a dirty looking
appearance." .
The first drug store In Portland was
opened in 1850 by Welsh fc Kaye, who
"begged to acquaint our friends, ana
the public that we are daily expecting a
supply of drugs, medicines, etc, and
will be happy to serve them: in our line,
as we have many fancy articles and
drugs'."
In 1851 Hooper, Snell & Co-, opened a
drug store in Portland and in their ad
guaranteed and warranted ; as genuine
their supply of patent medicines and
drugs, dyestuffs. winnow glass, surgical
instruments, perfumery and other drugs.
One of the clerks in this store. Stephen
Skid more, later became a proprietor
of the store. In the spring of 18&4 an
other- physician. Dr. J. G. Kreichbaum,
announced he could warrant a cure for
seasickness and all other diseases.
The next drug- store opened in Port-,
land was on June 1 18&5. This store
continued to operate on the Upper wharf
on Front street unt.ll-it was destroyed
by fire on August 2. 187J.
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The predecessor of the Woodard-
Clarke Drug company was a drug store
owned by L. Gross,, who opened his
store in the summer of ,1866. Three
years later Mr. Gross" sold his stock
and fixtures to Charles H. Woodard and
Dr. William Quivey. The firm name
becama Woodard tc. Oulvy. When Dr,
Qulvy died, in 1869, the firm name was
changed to C a woodard Co. In
1880 Louis C. Clarke, who had recently
graduated from the Philadelphia College
of Pharmacy, arrived In Portland and
secured an interest in the firm, the firm
name being changed to Woodard, Clarke
tt Co. On August 1, 1882, William F.
Woodward secured a position with
Woodard Clarke & Co., i and in 1889
he became a partner in the firm. In
1895 C H. Woodard sold his interest in
the store to Louis G. Clarke and Wil
Ham F. Woodward. The following year
the Clarke-Woodard Drug company was
Incorporated to carry on the retail and
manufacturing activities of the firm. A
six story building was erected, and Mr.
Clarke became manager of the matui
facturing interests of the company. Mr.
Clarke Is one of the founders of the
Oregon Life Insurance company and
also of the Pacific - States Fire Insur
ance, company, and is a stockholder, di
rector and, officer In these companies.
In 1911 an eight story ! modern rein
forced concrete building with a double
basement wag erected at! the northeast
corner of West Park and Alder streets,
The Woodlark building is one of the
landmarks of the city. The firm of
Woodard. Clarke at Co, In so far as con
tinuous ownership is concerned, is the
pioneer firm of the Pacific Northwest.
Mr, Clarke having been connected with
the firm for 39 years and Mr. Wood
ward for 87 years. I
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If you are a lover of the out of doors
you will occasionally meet a tall, slen
der, bronzed, bearded man, with bis
wife, trudging over some seldom usen
mountain trail, following the byways
rather than the highways; to explore the
picturesque and rarely visited sections
of the coast I .
Mr. Woodward and his wife are par
ticularly fond of walking, and each sum
mer sees them with pack ion back hiking
down the coast, putting up at home
steaders' cabins, or camping where
night overtakes them, cooking over a
campflre trout freshly caught from the
brook, or frying clams just dug from
the seashore. They are also enthusiastic
mountaineers .and devotees of the cam
era. Mr. Woodward has one of the best
collections of outdoor scenes, taken by
himself, in Oregon. He knows most of
Oregon from personal observation, hav
ing during the past 22 ! years tramped
over a large part of the state.
- SIBERIAN ROAD-
R. Wright ' :V Z.
precedent, would Irritate) the landscape,
but the Russian water towers do nothing
of the sort. They are actually things
of beauty and dignity, tokens, so to
speak, of the greatness of the people
that built them, and they are a great
deal more than that, because they are
strong and enduring. When tbe Bolshe
vik! last summer undertook to cripple
the railroads they realized that the vital
points, those most easily injured by gun
fir and dynamite, were; the water tow
ers and the bridges. It was easily pos
sible for the Bolshevik! to destroy tem
porarily the usefulness of the water
tanks by a few well directed shots that
converted the steel reservoirs into sieves,
and this they did. But they lacked the
opportunity to wreck the supporting
towers. The ruined tanks have since
been replaced on the top of these great
structures. Similarly the damage that
the Bolshevik! did to the bridges was In
many asea only temporary. It takes a
good deal of dynamite to bring down a
steel bridge of Russian construction and
a knowledge of engineering and explo
sives as welt. Train are how running
across al of these dynamited bridges,
although a good many of the steel spans
have been replaced by temporary timber
work. r
CCoprrlgM, 110. by CUeago Daily Kewt Co. I
Curious Bits of Information
For the Curious.
Gleaned froes Carinas rlaeas
Th invention of 'clock . is by , torn
credited to Pacifjcua, archdeacon of Ve
rona, In the ninth century ; and t oth
ers, to Boethius, In th early, part of
th sixth. The Saracens ar supposed
to have had dock which wr moved
by weights, a early a th eleventh cen
tury i and. a th term ia applied by
Dante to a machine which struck th
ours, clocks must have been known in
Italy about the end of the thirteenth or
the beginning of the fourteenth century,
The most ancient clock of which we have
any certain account wa erected in a
tower of th palace of Charles V, king
of Franc, In 1361, by Henry de JWyck
of de Vick. a German artist. A clock
was erected at Strasbourg in 1370. at
Court ray about the same period, and at
Speyer in 139a.
Ragtag and Bobtail
Stories from Everywhere
Hhy the llun Hollered
TIiE boys juat horn from France all
have curious tales to tell. It was
during a lull in the firing in the Ar-
gonne drive that John Elliott, a Topeka
youth, decided, says Capper's Weekly,
to fire off a cartridge tn hlB'ctip In
order to refill the magazine of his rifle.
Accordingly, he raised the gun and
pointed it at a clump of bushes a few
yards toward the German line. Before he
could fire a Boche jumped up with bis
hands in the air yelling "Kamerad." and
marched over . to Elliott and surren
dered. The Hun believed he had been,
seen and that Elliott had a bead on him 1
and he wanted to live.
-'Twas Ever Thus
"TwsVeTer thus from childhood's hour!
X neer yet, on warm spring day.
Eschewed my winter wnderwesr
But what It tross, ' rtuht strlghtwy. -
1 nr-Trr pecked my winter clothes
With mntH belle compassed round about.
But that tlie mercury took s drop
and 1 niut go ana ban! 'era out. 1
I neeer took tny trader flowers
Out where tliey'd summer see again.
But what a heavy winter frost
. Woald make me go and drag them la.
We never broke our backs and necks'
To ret an esrly gsrden in.
But what the evM. blesk winter clung ..
And hung on like the grip of sin.
We nerer made our garden late
To mlaa the chill and wet of spring, ' -i.
Bat what tbe "summer early rame
And yet since childhood's earliest days
l e nearly invea spring s iocnnd mood.
And, wsrm or chill, bleak, wet or dry.
1 wnnia not manse ll ir i could. '
Urn. V. K. Uwing, tn tbe Missouri Ledger.
ITnele Jerf Snow Says:
Our. new preacher Is a-teachln' of ua
that our ancestors was considerable In
clined to lay the results of their own
pig-headed ness and cussednees on Prov
idence. It's about time - sotnebuddy
stood up fer Providence.
The News in Paragraphs
World Happenings Briefed for Benefit
of Journal Headers
GENERAL '
Germanr'a war loana tasmad at' II fell
to 72 during the past week. s .
Ohio will enter the nrohibltion column
on Tuesday and 5600 saloons in the state '
will quit business.
'For diatributlnir 1Hrntnra ennta Inlna-
disloyal statements, five alleged leaders
of the I. W. W. were arrested and jailed .
at uwiana, wai., baturaay.
Rev. John Bantlste flulda. founder nt
the Sacred Heart college at Jnver and
the oldest Jesuit in the United States,
died at Denver Saturday, aged 91.
A storm which swerjt the Oonss Creek
oil field in Texas Saturday resulted in
three deaths, scores of persona injured
and property damage estimated at
more than $1,000,000.
Commander Charles P. Houff of the
Ufiited States steamer Marblehead has
suffered a nervous breakdown and has
been sent from Vallojo, Cal to a naval
hospital at Washington, D. C .
A conference on world-wide prohibi
tion will be held at Washington June
8, at which delegates from Bft foreign
countries will be present. William J.
Bryan will sound the "international key
note." .........
' Lieutenant Omar Locktear, at Atlan
tic City, Saturday, gave a demonstra
tion, said to be the first in the annals
of flyinpr, of catching a dangling rope
ladder from .a second airplane and
climbing Into the craft from which It
bung at an altitude of 2500 feet
NORTHWEST NOTES
Bids have been asked for diking 6500
acres of swamp land west of Woodland,
Wash. -.':.. f -
The Yakima Meat company and Gib
son Bros, have doubled their capital
stock of $50,000 each.
A Iva Lewis, agd 17. was Instantly
killed at Toledo. Wash., Saturday. beUig
crushed underneath a concrete mixer.
The condition of Governor -Ernest Lis
ter of Washington Is extremely critical,
and there is little hope of his recovery.
A 9600-ton steamer, fortieth product
of the yard, was launched at the Skin
ner & Eddy plant In Seattle Saturday.
One hundred thousand dollars worth
of fruit warehouses are In course of
construction in a single block at Yak
ima, Wash.
The body' of. the woman found In .
Puget sound off Edmonds has keen
identified as Mrs. John BiUlngsby of
Friday Harbor. .
The graduating class of the Eugene
high school numbers 106 this year. B.
F. Irvine of Portland will deliver the
graduating address. . ; :
WlUamatte and Columbia river mills
fiave cloned orders asrarreeatlnr 4.500.000
feet with the Moore Shipbuilding com
pany of Ban t ranclaoo.
Fred Beck and Tom Hanson were)
rtainfullv in lured Saturday when their'
auto went off the Pacific highway about
two miles south of Kelso. ,
Seventy-two brand new- trucks, 11-
ued at $220,000, Were assigned to the
state highway commission py tne iea
erat government Saturday. .
Captain Alfred D. Collier, 114 grad
uate of the University of Oregon, haa
returned tovhis home In Eugene, after
17 months' service in France.
To meet a growing demand from stu
dents, the La Grander school board has)
installed a course la gasoline engines,
motors, tractor and automobiles.
The largest prune dryer in the-state
Is being rected by Evan Evans on
mll su4t of Dallas. Or. It will have a
capacity of more than 1000 bushels.
"In a fit of despondency due to pro
longed illness, Robert Speckerrnan. agd
62, shot himself through th head with
a shotgun at The Dalle Saturday
night. ..' -'-'.-- ' ".
Mrs. Winnie Bradem secretary of The
Dal lea Chamber of Commerce, has been
appointed -by Governor Oicott exhibit
agent .for th Oregon products exhibit
at Portland.
Kenneth Armstrong, a student from
jefferaon, Or., has won the gold' medal
awarded by th Alumni association to
the best individual debater In th Uni
versity of Oregon. t , '
Jane- Ttedcrow, a Nperc Indian
woman, and her 6-year-old son wer
struck ny a freight train on the Spald
ing bridge at Jewistou and hurled into
tbe Clearwater river.
Twelve prominent business men of
Seaside have purchased tho Moore hotel
at mat resort iruin Aani . Mwija iw
purchase price was $100,000. The hotel
will be greatly enlarged and Improved.
The farmhouse of Logan Calloway.
thre miles from Brownsville, burned
to the ground last Thursday night. Mr.
Calloway and hi wife wer both ill
with pneumonia and wer rescued with
difficulty. : . : i
From Small Savings Fortune
Was Accumulated
I Stories of achievement ia the aeeumtt
Jatiun of War Having Stamps, sent to The
Journal and s-fii for publlcsuoa, wui
be swarded Thnlt Stamp. J, - ' ;
' Here is a little tory from real
llf : ':"-'- 1
Miss Ji Ilallam ied recently
la Chicago, leaving an tat of
$55,000. For many year h had
been a. successful saleswoman . In
Chicago stores, and her fortun wa
entirely the result of her own sav
ings and Investment.
A friend said of Mis Hallam'a
financial suoce: - a
"Ulna Ksilsm illustrated remark
ably the possibility of achieving j
financial Independence on a moder
ate salary. She - never speculated,
but alway invested wisely,' and
these - Investments included .War
Sayings Stamps, which gave her
good interest and Absolut security."
Thrift Sumps and 1019 War "arias
Stamps now on sale at usual agencies.