8 1" WIXErENDENT NEWSPAPER C. JACKSON . . . ... ..Pnbltehw Published avary day, afternoon and rnj1 , (eseept annday oob. t Th.ioMU HulMing. Broadway and XanshiU : sUree. Portland, Oregon. . Entered at the Postofflee at fwrtland. "; Qr tnrum -ion throngs U- m ea aeoone ptiH matter. , -: - - ' -; TELKPHOXE4J Mgin 7 U8 JZZiZZ. , All )ictiUMiti reached by tbeae Ten the Ojtrutor what department 70a want. rOREIOM ADVEBTISINO BEPRESENTATITE t 225 Fifth avenue, Ke Ttork; 00 Mallers Building, LDieuo. Subscription trr 1 by mail, or to any address- U the United tul of Mexico: DAILT (ilORXINO OR AFTERSOOXJ - - Om year.. ...85.00 On goonta $.. , - B DVD AT . j One year. ... .82.60 t Ob month DAUJT InOKSINO OB AFTERNOON) AND On yaer....".T.0 I Ono nvmtli I . nVbm tbcy lay me in;, let itbe Mid of that. aa I traveled along Ufa' road. -1 always endeavored to pull ap thutie ami plant a rose in iu stead."" . - " , ;. Abraham Lincoln. TO RESTORE THE KAISER ' , tKSY Gerrfian pefoplc political "M leaders, subordinate govern ment officials, professional men and farmers--want the return . of the . monarchial form of government in. Germany, says a .news dispatch.' . ? Naturally." There has been nothing but bedlam in Germany, since Novem ber 9, r when . the : revolution began. Almost every German has become a politician.' Many are half crazed with the five' years of turmoil' which the war brought on. v r People - weary of turbulence ' ' and yearn for rest- Revolution,- civil war, disorder and violence have' been the order since the ' monarchy' collapsed. It may be accepted, as true that many Germans are ready to go back, to a throne as the .only promise of relief from , Incoherence; and Illusion. The teachings of r 40 ears In the : - t ' J' ' . . J! dooks ana scaoois ana cnurcues auu colleges fi&ve - not "been." forgotten. Germans now living, grew up under a tutelage that " exalted autocracy. The lessons and influences of child hood are difficult to displace. Then there, are the junkers,! always sagacious I and .Running.; Afon&rchy is their Idol.'their.fcrced and their faith. They are born tothe belief that some are superior: and . the others Inferior, and that- it ' is & , heaven born right of the superior , to rule over the in ferior,. Of course '- they want . the . monarchy restored. ' v- How- far- this revitalizing impulse for a return to kaiserdom H spread ing through Germany, nobody knows. That it is greatly strengthened ; by the- excesses, strife and -incoherence , incident to fall of the throne is not doubted. 1 That it will continue , to grow is almost certain. It examples the need of an organ ized interhatioal body that all races will respect and thit can Exercise Influence and guidance in ; pacifying peoples and quieting disorder.' This would be the province of ' the League of JNations. it would steady and stabilize free , governments and 'lead peoples into the - domain "of sane, harmonious and peacefur life. . The American junkers who are fighting the League. of NatlOna are directly aiding German junkers to : . restore the German throne. . , Of two of the best known men in the Nrthwest in a debate on the League of Nations - at Seattle, 'one, supporting the league, discussed the covenant "as though the 'Aionroe doctrine : clause had not been- in serted" in the amended covenant,1 and the other, in an answering argument said he did not "'know whether the Monroe doctrine had been : mentioned in . the revised covenant.;' And they were debaters on the most 'Important issue now . before the world t . 1. itiii proposals received by the state ' highway commission this ; week there is noted a, tendency to- ward cheaper prices. 'V; On -.the w hole the bids ran under those re ceived In April and were below the estimates of the engineer. Wh ether this can be attributed to the anxiety of contractors to secure the work or whether it reflects i a real economlo condition is not clear. If the latter, the predictions of a long period of . high prices after the war arc not being, realized. 1 Oa -ihe: other" hand, if based n th e over zealousness of Contractors it is not a healthy sign. . It may predict a stormy time for the highway com mission when it comes to- making Yinal settlement "with the contractors with their claims for extras and other incidentals. In any. event, . a comparison', of road costs in other states 6hows that Oregon Is getting its work contracted for more cheaply than most. : The cost of pavement in this state is running ..in the; neighborhood of OO fUVl n mils T .K j reaches from $25,000 to nearly : $30,000. - In some states the cost is- so great that work contemplated is not un dertaken at present but is. advanced Into the futpre In the expectation of a lower cost. With nearly nine million dollars worth of work "under -contract the highway "department of Oregon Js responding to the demand ' to provide a source of employment throjugh, the period of readjustment. " - . Anything Portland does to build up her: back country increases her own importance nd her own : busi ness. WU there were no 'farmers, out in the Willantette jValley and Eastern Oregon there v would be no Portland of consequence. ;The market roads cut the cost to the farmer" of getting his products to market. That builds up his business, i In voting for the market road bill ; Portland is voting for herself and her "own prosperity. VOTING FOR HIMSELF I O MEASURE on next Tuesday's ballot is of more importance in its effect on Oregon than the proposal for 'the state to guar antee . the, interest on irrigation and drainage bonds. : . ' ; .J '.The guarantee 'will not cost the state a dollar. No taxes will have to be levied., f ' ''. ' ' : On 'A the ; contrary, 'the guarantee will tend to heavily increase ' the state's taxable property. "It will aid irrigation and drainage projects. ' If In effect at the time ifr would have saved the farmers' in the A'ale irriga tion project 175,000 on 'their first bond issue by .increasing the rata at which the bonds .were. sold. That kind of a saving, .that stabilizing' of the irrigation bonds as a security;' Is an encouragement to general irriga tion, f Since the .state takes no chances, having alwijjs the irrigated land as security., for "the .guarantee, why not giye irrigationists . the bene fit? Why not give Willamette Valley farmers, whose lands need drainage, the benefit? ; By irrigation, idaho has , pushed herself far forward in , the " scale of states. , She is rapidly overtaking Oregon. The Boise Valley hasbeen transformed " from, a rabbit 1 resort into one of the most wonderful: pro ducing section's in America- Nearly half a million acres ' there that was formerly arid 'sagebrush prairies has become a great J alfalfa region, to which thousands upon thousands of cattle, and- sheep are driven every autumn for Over (winter feeding; The other day, The Journal told how sandy sagebrush plains at Hermiston have been converted into wonderful -farms, yielding $66.25 per acre on alfalfa land last year. The Journal has frequently told the great story of the Klamath Falls country, where every man, through what he9 has seen, has become an enthusiastic irrigationist, and where every, square .yard of ground on which -water can: be placed Is being turned A into steady and profitable productions '-!. ,4.:'l- These . and many other object les sons in irrigation are before our own eyes. They, are j the proof 'of how acre after acre and section after section of-arid land Js beingEurned into -taxable wealth, to help bear its share of state, county . and s school taxes. i , If there is one man who more than another should vote for any and very measure in aid of irriga tion and drainage ; It,, is the Oregon taxpayer. .- In ; doing so he is voting for his own pocket book. J. J. Van Allen, with mansions in New York" and Newport, announces that he will go to Europe to live as soon as " prohibition becomes ef fective in the United States. Being a social ornament Mr. Van Allen can be spared. " Meanwhile If booze is dearer to him than his country. If he thinks so little of America that booze alone keeps him here, he is emphatically of ; the tribe that we should get rid of. We want America Americanized, v TnE SENTENCED CHILDREN T HE United , States supreme., court will soon pass' judgment on the constitutionality of the child labor law, which was passed in the form of an amendment to the revenue act by the last congress. It" provides that; a 10 per cent tax shall be .. imposed on' the profits of establishments employing children. In I9It a national child labor law was enacted, but it was declared to be unconstitutional by the' supreme court. Concerning the two laws there seems to be a popular miscon ception. : Whilej the law of 1916 confined its prob ibition to the. ship ment s in interstate : commerce of Child-made goods T the present law makes no distinction between goods shipped into another ; state and those which remain in the sUte in which they are made, f Both laws had the same standards,'' a" 14 year age limit for work in factories, mills, can neries , and . manufacturing establish ments, a 16 year ; limit: for employ ment in mines and quarries and an fight-hour day -and no night work for ch ildren v between 1 i , and 16. Concerning the ; probable action of the supreme court, Owen R. Love- ijoy, secretaryof the national child labor, committee says ; that unless the , supreme court goes squarely back on its previous decision it will affirm the , constitutionality of the law. Whether congress can, do by indirection what it could not do by direct prohibition does . not J enter into, the' case, ;he thinks. In the congress has-laid a prohibitive tax in order to destroy the article taxed,, and-, its- power to do this has been- helped by the court: - A federal -district judge In ' a Southern. state, has held the new law invalid," If ' the supreme, court fol- lows his view and sentences the chil dren to further servitude in factories, it -will be a near crime. , "" - In this - country of prodigious abundance,' in this land where pro duction is so enormous, vvhat are we as a people If children of 14 ' must be f made to toil ? How guilty we must- be of incompetency, how; lack ing we must be in capacity, bow greedy ' we .must 'be s in our . selfish ness, 'In all this mighty abundance, if children, who ought' to be In scnool, must, instead, be harnessed to machines! The conscience of - the - American people is against this criminal thing. The -sentiment of the American people is . against it. The purpose of the American .people is against it, and if the high court in ' the coming bearing frustrates it, there will be millions who will think .the tribunal ought s. to be deprived of power to annul legislation. . Many Oregon mothers" arc hoping for the passage - next Tuesday of Ihe bill to give ) such , returned fighters as want to attend college, $2iv a month to help defray their expenses. There could be no more effective recompense to the boys for the time they sacrificed, in their country's service. There could be no recogni tion more fit of the mothers, whose devotion and work did so much to help win the war. If you vote for the bill you vote for the mothers and their sons.' If you vote against it you vote against them. - wims WE BUY PouTLANU . stanas in a.;iov jnace In the percentage of parks and playgrounds to populations Other. CUies ;Oi Her ciass are iu: r higher place. , i The thing that holds Portland back in providing parks Is the fact "that on severy foot of ground it attempts to buy, ; the city is cinched. The inevitable experience is that as soon as the city goes into the market for land the price goes up. A single ex ception -was the purchase of a tract of the O-W.-R. &.N. in the Marquam Gulch park, site .'in which tha aiW road accepted the fair, offer? -made by the citjv s Even juries in condemnation suits, where they are on oath to b,e -just in the findings, fixextottionate- prices for the "public to pay. v The common remark Is, "Olr well, it is the public that Is the buyer; it is expected to pay a big price. . ? ' I , This was the evident psychology of the juries In the Marquam gulch cases in which prices were 'fixed two and three times as high as those on lots offered the city for a park site in the heart ot Irvington, one of the city's best residential districts. Offers of $1750 a lot in Irvington are widely different from $5000 and $6000 a lot in Marquam gulch. Citizens who want parks voted for their districts June 3 face this record of the public always cinched in land purchases and face the fact that many people .are getting tired of the practice. If they would , present op tions on proposed.. purchases as in the Irvington offer, the park meas ures would s stand ? a : much better ctemce of -adoption. The farmers ask for the market road bilL The 1917 legislature denied it to them. While we are going forward with all this splendid road program, would It 1 be fair to dis- Lregard that great body of taxpaying and producing ; citizens the farmers ? Emphatically, not. . Give them their market road bill when you go into the booth .next Tuesday. THE DEADLY TUT RECOMMENDATIONS relative to rats were carried In the . annual report of City Health Officer Parrish. Rats, it is asserted by government experts, are ; responsible for " more deaths than war.- As carriers cf in fection, and infectious germs they have played a prominent part in all the great" plagues which have . swept over the world. -Resides being a propagator of disease the rat is destructive f to property. A government bulletin says : "The economic . loss due to rats is enormous." Assuming that there are. iuu.tu,uw raw iu ijie uuuu oiaies, and that In a year each; rat destroys two dollars' worth of property, the total annual destruction would ; be $200,000100. ; i. - v If half this loss were represented in grain it would mean the. destruc tion of the: product of 5,000,000 acres. So from both a health and property standpoint the rat is an undesirable citizen and should be exterminated. It costs more to feed him than it does to destroy him. But to destroy him close cooperation is required. His birthrate - Is very high, i About the most effective methods are traps and poison. - The rafr is a cunning animal,, and In hunting him down considerable strategy .has 'to : be brought Into play. ."Like many human beings . e can be fooled once but not all the time. You have ; to s change the. bait. - - i ANOTHER' FORTY MILLION CALIFORNIA Is; not satisfied with Its" "present state road system and on July 1 will vote on the question-cf : 5-4000,000 bond issue.- .The state has already "issued road .bonds to the extent of $33,000,000. While, I no doubt there "has been considerable waste in the expendi ture of this, the general benefit in the development of. the state and in the attraction of tourists has more than offset it and has created a de sire Xor more . roads .tapping every productive ' and scenio center, , i In addition, to voting on a large bond Issue 'there . is a movement - to raise $iXX,000 for the construction of a paved road into the Yosemite val ley.; A unique plan' has been devised for raising this money. Certificates costing $5 will be offered for sale to automobile owners. . These certifi cates will be good for entry into the park In lieu of the toll of $5 which is now charged. Each, certificate will be good for entry and reentry during any one' season In the. next 10 years. A paved road into the Yosemite will have the effect of making this world famed -valley a' winter as well as a, summer resort. - : . This, novel .Idea in financing road construction might be borrowed and applied here in Portland. . Take the Mount Hood section, for example. - With a paved road to the base of the mountain an all year round resort-would be I made acces sible. All winter 'sports could be en joyed, winter grandeur as well . as the charms of summer. - HE AMENDED COVENANT Republican Contributions Such Should Silence Their Ratline TYom Uia Independent. If only Republican had the irit to serve, their party and the world by coming- out in favor of the covenant as now- amended, it would be ' eood political strategy. Then, instead of a fight which would do "nobody any rood, we should have 'both . parties - competing; ' for the credit and: honor of having originated, popularised, amended and ratified the League "of -Nations. w r .j . It is well for, the Republicans to. re member that ".Messrs. Taft, t Lodge, Hushes and Root, easily their most In fluential and competent men, have all made susrsestlons for the improverqent of the covenant and that these have been substantially adopted in the re vised draft by President Wilson and. the peace conference.- . - All four urged that (1) the Monroe doctrine be specifically recognized, (2) domestic questions be reserved from the jurisdiction of the league, and (3) se- cession.be permitted. ..c .j - ai Messrs. Taft, Lodge and. Hu.?hes sUg gested that (1) the language of the cov enant be ; revised,- and (2 the council should-act by unanimous, vcte. Mr. Root proposed that (1) justicia ble questions .be referred to arbitration. (2) they de defined, (3) provision be made for a general conference- to form ulate international law."4) any nation may be relieved of its - obligation to guarantee independence of league mem bers after five years, (5) the i league shall have full powers to inspect arma ments, - and (6) the covenant shall be revised at the end of five or 10 years. Mr. Hughes advised (hat (1) no nation shall be a mandatary .without its con sent, and (2) the provision for .the guar antee of the" independence of league members as against external aggression be entirely stricken out. . A comparison of the tentative draft of February 14 with the revised draft of .April 28 shows that the conference has adopted in to to the three sugges tions in which the four distinguished Republicans co'howr as well as (he two recommendations In which Messrs. Taft, Lodge and Hughes unite. In addition they have completely incorporated Mr. Root's second and Mr. Hughes' irst point, whereas Mr. Rook's first, third and sixth points are substantially recog nised in the original draft. They have failed to adopt only Mr. Root's fourth and fifth points and Mr. Hughes second. In other words, in : the five cardinal instances where more than one of these eminent,, constitutional ..lawyers have united on any particular point their recommendations were adopted, three were already partially recognised and but three were rejected., r . . .. -i - It la perfectly clear, therefore, that as all of Mr. Taff s: and ? Mr. Lodge's five suggestions have - been accepted. and as Mr.; Hughes got six out of his seven points and Mr. Root four out of his nine, with three partially recognized, the Republican party heed pot worry about its prestige in the peace negotia tions in the coming presidential elec tion. In fact, it would not be stretching a point too far for the Republicans to welcome the new draft -as a Republican victory, v If they do riot claim it is t victory they will have to accept it event ually as a defeat, for, as President Wil son has well said : "No party has a rigut to appropriate this issue and no party will in the long run dare oppose it." How Coast Highway Would Help the vWholeState From the - Eugene Guard v When it wa first announced that the state legislature had passed a measure providing for the construction of a coast highway to be known as the Roosevelt memorial .highway, and appropriating $2,500,000 to be matched by the govern ment, and that ' the measure a would be referred to the people for ratification, there was a tendency to immediately bury the proposition. At first glance it looked like a wildcat scheme, dreamy aitd visionary to say the least. How ever, there has been time for thought, and reason has displaced distrust, leav ing little, if any, opposition to the plan. Those who were most antagonistic have begun to realise that once this road is built it will mean, millions, of dollars sayed to the rest of the state In taxa tion .alone. The development of "the coast counties, which have so far-been neglected by both the state and the nation, would mean , Increased valuation in taxable property and- thereby lift the heavy - burden from other -.sections' of the state. Besides, it would develop one of the most productive sections in the world ; we have more scenery unseen in Oregon than has ever been found in all Europe. and what we need Is to give the visitor an opportunity to visit the various places of beauty and get a real . glimpse of a natural Garden ; of Eden. ' The Roosevelt hftrhway; will pay for Itself, In travel. and pleasure, , not taking into consideration the increased wealth it will produce. Vote "310 yes" and help the coast sections to help you. Roosevelt Coast Military Highway , .. ' . From the Astorian ; r ;.. -.-This -measure - proposes to bond ' the state for $2,500,000 for the construction of the Roosevelt coast military highway down through the seven beautiful coun ties of the state from Astoria to the California line. Issuance of the bonds by the state are dependent upon appro priation of a' similar amount by- the federal government, and in , event the federal government fails to make the appropriation by February . 1. 192L the act providing for the issuance of bonda by the state shall -be null and void. .'The proposed highway is to pass through Clatsop,: Tillamook,. ; Lincoln, Lane, Douglas Coos' and Curry counties. Por tions of this higtoway already are con- structed and " paid for. , Proponents of this measure point out the. wonders of the natural beauUcs of the seven, coast counties ; the development of the won derful industrial resources of that sec tion, and the immense value that would accrue to other parts or the state as an outgrowth of the construction of this highway. . The coast counties 'believe that they 'are entitled to this highway, and not only do they believe that, but they are- certain that- Us construction would be of immeasurable value to other se-ions of Oregon.-.1 '.-,i--."V Letters From the People t Communications tent to. The . Journal for publication in this department should bo written on only one side or tfts paper, snouia not neeca SOO words in lenjrth. and Hi tut be aisned by the writer, whose mail address . is full most accom pany the contribution. ; , Would Elect Chief of Follee , Portland. May? 87. -To the Editor of The Journal Charges of inefficiency in the police department ' are made with glaring headlines in the papers of late and I ask space to say to the people of Portland that so long as the office of. chief .of police is filled by appoint ment of the mayor, as it is now and has been for many 'years past, charges of inefficiency and graft will be made, with a considerable foundation, of fact lor basis, c We adopted the. commission form of government some years Ago with a view of wiping out "divided responsi bility." yet we failed - to wipe it out In the most vital part of our government. That is. we left the power of appoint ment of chief with the mayor, when he should have been elected - by vote of the people, just as constable and sher iff are. We are told by politicians tnat the people can't choose a good, chief. Well, with two exceptions the mayors have done worse lor the last Za years. Captain Spencer and Charles H. Hunt each in turn, started out right, but each in turn was squelched by his superior officer. he mayor, 'for the good of the party." . There is Just as much reason for a "superior officer ever the con stable or sheriff as there is for one over the chief ; nevertheless the constables and sheriffs . of the' past have given much less cause for charges and crit icisms than the police.; Practically every mayor : since 1890 i has wrecked his political fortune through the po lice department and I submit that it is not fair to any mayor, whatever his other delinquences may be. to force such a' condition upon him ; and the only way of avoiding it is to elect the chief as we do other officers. The -older men on the force will tell you the pres ent system is retained for the purpose of maintaining the party strength of the party in power, whichever it may be, and that the solution for the ills of the department is to have the chief elected by the people and ! thus be freed front the incubus of politicians, capitalists, churchmen 'and the various insidious in fluences which have . handicapped it so sadly in 'the past -We've been the "fool of the family' for other states to "copy after; now let's try it once more for other cities to copy after. Never mind if Seattle or some other jay town does or does not do it that way; let us try it, and I'll wager that after candidates have run the gaunt let of the numerous women's clubs : of this city prior to the primary and ream lar elections, we shall have a man elected who: will clean up the city and keep it clean, or resign, or.be recalled and a better man put in his place who can and will do it. Under existincr con anions tnat nigmy desirable change can not be brought about. J. E. HUNT. Senatorial Reactionaries ? Pertland, May 27. To the Editor- of The Journal It-appears to be impos sible to frame a, concise and exact ex planation as to just what kind of moral delinquency is- rampant in the,, United States senate that, can so prey upon' It as to put It into the mercenary power or a jf enrose, or a Knox, or any of the rest of the political henchmen' of the Wall street gang. It is the same old gang that howled "high tariff as a protection for American labor against "cheap foreign labor." - and readily al lowed cheap foreign labor to be shipped into the United States in order tot lower the standard of wages-that the Interests might realise .bigger dividends on their watered stock. j The foregoing may be old stuff, but you can make a safe bet when' you venture to say that the same tactics are being used by these usurpers in block ing the League of Nations and every other move that tends toward the wel fare of mankind. They are trying to .mold public opinion against Itself try ing to make the' public think it is too dense - and ignorant . to discern really what is good for it. Any Intelligent person that ever lived or traveled in the particular districts from which Brande- gee, Knox and Penrose were elected can readily understand why they are re turned to Washington. It was hard to find an English-speaking citizen in some of these districts a few years ago. especially In the industrial centers. They could all say "Republican." and "Full dinner- pall," while they were working for I LI 0 on the 12-hour basis. We can honor , conscientious. . right minded men who possess the senatorial togas, but can - we consistently follow the lead of political tricksters? - R. I WALTER. In Honor of Our Dead Heroes By Alice M. McNaught llace a flower on the srSTs . Of a soldier today, . Place it there with a prayer For Blue. Khaki or Gray. lie's hero who died . For hi country. I aay Place a flower on the grave Of soldier; today. Wre a garland of flowers For our soldiers todsy; Weee the colors they lore , . A we tenderly lay Crow their mossy green beds A we silently pray; Weave a garland of flowers . For our soldiers today, . ! . TA'eare a garland of -flowers For oar soldiers today; Weae ft lovingly round ' -Their headrtonee of gray. " They fought for the rights We enjoy, honor, today; Weave a garland of flower For our soldiers today. - Drop a flower on the water For our tailors today ; Drop it there with a reverence -. As we- march -on onr way By ther storm-tossed, wild ocean; Neath ita billows they lay. lrop a flower on the water , For our sailors today. Wave Old Glory in honor "t our loved heroes todsy. ' .''Wave it long, wave it strong, -As in battle's array; To "Our BoysM who are with us, i .- -To those pasted away. , i Wave Old Glory, fire s shot. For onr heroes today. -Portland. May 89, MayMemories ' - By June McMillan Ordway TJpon this hallowed cronnd we atsad. . : While whiivertnc zephyrs say; - - Thoish saddest hoars have come between. It waa but yesterday. , .. U: , With onr loved colors, we shall wreathe - . slay blossoms rare and sweet For tboee who saarehed bst yesterday .- . . and bravely death did suet. " Bat yesterday we cheered them on; . Hark 1 heat their mighty tread -: While sweet, white Mliea whisper, - "They sleep: they are Dot dead." rortland. May 88. Vital Lines , ' From the New Tark VTorld - . -' May 7. 1518. the Hindenburg line; May TallM. the dotted line, i - ; - ' s By Clyde A. Beals ". . - ' . . - ' of The Journal Staff j WEsrnourru -The passinj of V friend of kin .Whose kindly word or smile to us his been A cheerful rift. In trouble -clouds, seems hard. - ' We would accompany him the way Is barred. Today."' Perhaps the morrow will unfold . ' The shrouded . roster with ' our names enrolled. . Men die. . Their- deaths wealth of good confide .To us, for death reveals - what life will hide The .struggles of the tortured mind of those , - Whose tides of life were; hopeless undertows; Consuming ills- the 'Superhuman trial Steal others' strength and yet they've nerve to smile. Men die. Unfailing death exacts its toil Where quiet reigns, where oceans ceaseless-roll, . Where flames of battle pitilessly rage, . 'Mongst ranks of those unwise, and 'mongst the sage.' The lives men lead meet each the final test; -With fear, or peace take they their endless rest? We mourn? Far better by their deaths to learn The lesson in each life we may discern; For modes of life like lava seek a mold Our present flaws' by those who've gone are told: Unselfish service, beg the living dead. Their lives reach out to lead can we be led? COMMENT AND - SMALL "CHANGE t1-' ' X " :-:?-r- . .. . .- ... .'vyi:-::V::. , Memorial day.- $ The Balkans, it acems. have (emmrir. Uy balked the treaty, - ... , ' Spain' recognizes the new republic of Poland. ; Well, ifs all right with us. ; Have you broken any of the S48 laws that became : effective . in Orearon . on .Thursday? k ? r ; "You poor bey," she said to the young man in uniform. "Did you lose your arm 'over there? "No," he replied, "I forgot it in my hurry to get off the ship." . - :- v.:'-. -" - . ' Mr. Morfrenthau thinks there, will be another great war in 20 years. Is it going to take as long as that to raise a new breed of men who will think they can whip the world? - OBSERVATIONS AND IMPRESSIONS - OF .THE JOURNAL MAN By Fred X rWtth a lofty tribute to the oeroee j of America's wars all for liberty Mr. taciltj. at this "time for memory end for -tears. In cludes eulos-istic utterances ot two of America s noted orators oa occasions commemorative oi thv deeds oi the soldiers of the .Civil war. 1 Memorial day this year has a new sig nificance for us all. In times past we could strew with flowers the graves of our hollowed dead. This- Memorial day sees thousands of - mothers and wives with hearts bowed down in grief and with tear-dimmed eyes, wending . their way to lay love's tribute of flowers on other graves . than those of their loved ones. Their fallen heroes sleep in a foreign land. The graves of their loved ones are being . cared for by sad-eyed French mothers whose sons also fell in the world war for liberty. Row on row I have seen the wooden crosses on the smiling hillsides of Northern France, where our boys are at rest and "where Glory marks with solemn round the bivouac of the dead." More han 70,000 of our hero dead are consecrating and making holy: the - ground - where they sleep the: sleep, that knows no waking. They splli. the red ,wine of their youth. They gave all they had, to make this a better world; for men to live in. ; -' ..,",- . .... . - - . ; i inW ' In"" Europe Lieutenant J. H. Yates, who handed me this tribute he had written to our fallen' heroes : These are the jronng, the strong, the true, the Who." waiving-' their jt claim to life's full worth. . To future senerationa cladly save The treasures which belonged to them on esrUL We dare not let them, dying, count for naught. They gave their all to death, and we must give Our beat to life! Their pain and loss have taught -A lesson to our profit; and the. cost They paid that earth might be a better place For men to live in. will be basely lost . By us. How then should we have heart to face That world that lies beyond death's open door. Where we shall see our great loved dead once motet- . . e e - . - No longer is there a North or a South, or-'East or West, for the blood of our boys poured out on sodden field in Fl sen ders. In shattered trench or sheil-torn field-in France, has made us all Ameri cans and wiped out social antipathies, religious animosities and sectional feel ing. - :-'.-' -i "- v : "' ''. ' t Henry Watterson delivered an addresa over the graves of the soldier dead at Nashville, ,Tenn.. on Memorial day, 1877, that breathes the very spirit of patriot ism r Her said : V ' We are .assembled, my countrymen, to commemorate the patriotism and valor of the brave men who died to save the union. The season brings its ti 4. Yt nava if tt homaera to the dead: inspires the living. There are images of tranquillity all about us; in the calrri sunshine upon , the ridges: in the tender shadows that creep along the streams ; In the waving grass and grain that mark Ood's love and bounty ; in the flowers thatf bloom over the rnanv, many graves. There is peace everywhere in this land today . - Peace on the open sees, In all our sheltered bays and ample streams. Peace where'er our starry banner gleams, - And peace ia every brwese. The war is over. It is for us to bury Its passions with its dead : to bury them beneath a monument raised by the American people to American manhood and the American system, in order that "the nation shall, under Ood, shave a new birth of freedom, and thst the gov ernment of the people, by the people, snd for the people, shall not perish from the earth." The Union is Indeed restored, when the hands that pulled that flag-down came willingly and lovinarly to put It up again. I come with a full heart and a steady - hand to salute the flag .that floats abov me my flag and your flag the flag of the. Union the "flag of the free heart's hope, and home" the Star- Curious Bits of Information For the Curious Gleaned From Curious Places The foUowing anagrammatle sentence Is sald to have been published In a vol ume of sermons during the reign of James I of England: V This dial shows that ; we must die all : yet notwithstanding, all' houses are turned in ale houses our cares Into catesr our paradise into a pair o' dice: matrimony into - a " matter of money ; and marriage Into a merry age ; - our divines have become ry , vines, it was not so in the days of Noah, antno. " Olden Oregon Indian Have Told; of a Terrible ' , Forest Fire In 1848. In 1848, according to Indian tradition, a great forest fire swept over the Coast range of mountains. The fire was so largo that. It is-said, the : flames' leaped across Yaquiua bay. Many Indians per ished. Only those were saved who took refuge In the water, and even they suf fered much while their heads were ex posed to the heat. - Much wild game was destroyed. . , . , . The' Roosevelt Highway Needed . From the La Grande Observer 1 Western - Oregon - papers vv?T(Uiout ex- NEWS IN BRIEF OREGON SIDELIGHTS . Reedsport citizens on June 9 'are to vote on the question -of incorporating their busy ana growing umo city. All branches of the building industry in Baker are crowded to their capacity to fill orders, and the cry is for more houses for rent, the Democrat states. It is announced,' the Herald says, that n . v i t . V. . very sLvsuia.uic; iu.i tj tit vi io uunua . J Jill . t -1 V. v.ll. Vbm : K.An planted in potatoes again this year. This section is widely noted for its spud 1 . i . :- S I me IS uifl year ui mfl niviinici Pourth of July celebration, all over Oregon.- And that is none too big a word -to describe it, judging by the plans and-specifications as tentatively an nounced by the various newspapers of Tuockley Spangled banner of our fathers the nag mat. unlirted trinmnhantlv nvpr few brave men. has never been nh. scured, destined by the God of the uni verse to -waft on its simple folds the eiernat song oi ireeaom to all man- aino. The hundred of tknnaanila wrTtn foil nr both sides did not die in vain. The Power, the divine nower. which - mad for us a garden of swords, sowing the land broadcast with sorrow, will reap thence for us. and for the ages, a na tion truly -divine; a nation of freedom ana oi tree men: where tolerance shall walk hand in hand with religion, while civilisation points out to patriotism the many open highways to human right and see R. G. Ingersoll, in an address some years ago," said: Aft WA C!OVf.-thA rrmvm nf tha fiat-rtfa dead with flowers, the past rises before us iino a a ream. Again we are in the giant struggle. We hear the sounds of preparation the music of the boisterous drum the silver voloea nf hrni rina-lea We hear the appeals of orators ; we seo the pale cheeks of women, and the nusnea races or men ; we -see an the aeaa wnoee oust we have covered with riowers. r we lose sight of them no more. We are with them when. they enlist in the great army ot freedom. We see them, apart from those they love. ; We see them as they march proudly away, under the flaunting flairs, keeping time to the wild music of war march ing down the streets of the great cities, through the towns and across the prair ies, to do and die for the eternal right We go with them, one and all. We are by their side on all the gory fields. In all the hospitals of pain, on all the weary marches. We stand guard with them in the wild storm and under the quiet stars. We see them pierced with balls and torn with shells, in the trenches by the forts, and in the whirlwind of the charge, where men become Iron with nerves of steel. We are at home when the news reaches us that they are dead. We see the maiden in the shadow of her first sorrow. We see the silvered head of the old man bowed with the last grief. Those heroes are dead. They sleep under the solemn pines, the sad hem locks, the tearful willows, and the em bracing vines. They sleep beneath the shadows of the clouds, careless alike of sunshine or of storm, each in the win dowless place of rest. Earth may run red with other wars they are at peace. In the midst of battle. In the roar of the conflict, they found the serenity of death. I have. one sentiment for the soldiers, living and dead cheers for the living, tears for the dead. : -e - . e They have fought the good fight. We strew their graves with flowers today and In memory pay them the tribute of our love and devotion. Soon we, too, shall be vttustered in the grand review and join 'our boys and their, sires and grandsires who have given their lives for their country.- In fancy I hear the Great Commander say, "Well done. Enter Into my rest. . '" - e .- : Cover Uiem ever with beautiful flowers. Deck them with garlands, thoae brothers of. ours. Lying so rilent by sight and by day. , . -Sleeping the years of Hieir manhood away. Give them the meed they have won ia the past; Give them the honor their future fonmast; Give them the chaplet they won in tlie strife; Give them the laurels they lost with their life. Cover the hearts thst hsve beaten so high; Beaten with hopes that were doomed but to die; Heart that have burned in the heat ot the fray; Hearts that have yramed foe the home far away. Orwe tiiey were glowing with friendship and love; Wow tbeir greet stills have gone soaring above. Bravely their blood to the nation they gate. Then in ber bueom they found them a grav Tover the thonand who -sleep fsr sway. Sleep whtre tlieir friends eannot find them today. They, who in mountain and hillside and dell, Rent where they wearied and lie where they feB. SofUy the r fades creep round fhlr repose; Sweetly, above them the red poppy blows; Zrphyrs of freedom fly gently o'erheed vVliinperfng prayers for the patriot dead. ception couple together the two great highway projects which are to be de termined one way or the other in the special election of June 3. One of the usual arguments set forth Is that the Roosevelt . highway will be the means of great advantage to the eastern por tion of the state because It will afford better facilities Xor the marketing of the products ; of Eastern Oregon, so much needed by the people of the re gions along the - coast. There 'may be some truth In this, but' the main rec ognizable fact is that Oregon needs the highways - both the eastern and the western projects because of the advan tages that will accrue to the state as a whole. '- '. Oregon borders on the majestic Pa cific and it Is hardly conceivable that a greater drawing card could be provided than that ot a boulevard skirting the ocean's shore from Astoria to the Cali fornia line. This Is a drawing card enough to attract any tourist who ever expected to turn the wheel of a car on any -part of the Pacific Coast- No affi davits or testimonials would be needed to explain the scenic grandeur of such a highway and there is no guesswork as to what such a road wou:2 eo toward attracting the visiting throngs to this state. There is just as much reason for one project as the ether, and there is ample reason for Tooth,- - - - - Ragtag. and Bobtail Stories from Everywhere When the Hindenburg Line Broke A DUSKY doughboy, burdened under " tons of medals and miles of ribbons. , service and wound .chevrons,- stars, et at., , encountered a 27th division scrapper in ' te ians a lew days prior to the dm- ' Bton's departure .for the states, says the Gas Attack, . - - ,- "Whah yo all beri scrannln In dl hyuh- wah, bossr meetly Inquired the ' colored soldier. .S . --J - : "Why. we've been ftrhtlnr -un In Bel- glum with the British.", replied the New -Yorker, proudly. , . . -. ,r ,. . Well, we-ben down In d em woods watcha can dem woods, 'way down south?" ,- ----- . .; .; . - - "The 1 Argonne?" sure-ested vountr Knickerbocker. " " - "Yas, yas, dem's de woods de rAh- gonne." ,-. ' -. "You know our division was the first to break the Hlndenburir llneu colored boy." explained the Twenty-seventh man. Y'know. boss, we all felt dt ol' Una sag way down In de Ahgonne." - The Psalm of Life . ChilL in. ; " PHI. '- ' .':.-:.. Bill. " -' Brooklyn ClUten. " - Uncle Jerf Snow'Suys: Jack Thibert. who come back with battery B, 'lows it was worth a million dollars to have tuck part in the world war. but a million dollars investment alone, that line is all he wants to make at present fer a while. If not longer.,? The News in Paragraphs World Happenings Briefed for Benefit of Journal Readers ' .- GENERAL . - : ; - For the -week ended May 24; 2S7.42S persons were reported as unemployed in New York city. Adjutant Casale, a French aviator, in a flight for altitude at Paris Wednes day, ascended 31.000 feet. This consti tutes a world's record. Jack HIggins, who will celebrate his one hundred and first birthday on July IS, took a ride In an airplane over Wa bash, Ind., Wednesday. . A growing demand for farm labor is decreasing the amount of unemployment over the country, according to the United States employment servicer Collective bargaining by farmers or ganizations will be permitted under an amendment to the Clayton .art, . Intro- :. duced Wednesday by Senator Capper of Kansas. , A trip to the north pole by airplane would be impracticable, in the opinion of Donald B. McMillan of Freeport. Me., an Arctio explorer. Such a trip could be made by dirigible, he says, but would cost 81,000,000. - William Cyrus Lawson, superintend ent of the Yukon Gold Twnlng com pany, - died at Dawson Wednesday of rtomaine poisoning. Lawsoii wu one of 3 taken 111 after eating dinner at the camp, and the sixth one that has died. 1 Praise xt the Y. M. C. A., rather than condemnation, is contained In the first official report of army authorities dl-. rooted by Secretary Baker to Investl fate the records of welfare organise, -ions In France, especially the Y. M. C. A. - ' , ' " , The -attention drawn to the arrange ment by which France and Great Brit ain were carving up Kamerune and Torroland between : themselves without any relation to the League of Nations has caused a reconsideration of -this plan. - NORTHWEST NOTES There are 27 known cases ot smallpox at Yakima, Wash. . i. -t A 'a.nf hwt TJtraaRf i.rnw Danicii . w r-y mil . ... - counties will meet In Tacoma . July 10. The first Leonard Wood Ohio n WaahlnsTton was organised at , (Seattle Wednesday. The Columbia river Is rising rapidly and lowlands in the vicinity of Vancou-' ver are flooded. The greatly feared Canada thistle has made Us appearance on several Cen tral Oregon ranches. ; - - Joseph tiongtsln, boom man employed by the Crown-Willamette Paper -company at. Astoria, was drowned lnsYoungs river Wednesday night. The Presbyterian -church at Pendleton has completed plans' for the erection of a new $100,000 building, and most of the needed money is raised. ... Frank Iogenhall, 3 years old, com mitted from Multnomah county, escaped from the insane asylum at &alm last Monday night and has not. been found. Joel Berreman of Thllomath won th pold medar given by the Hon. Mark Weatherford at the Weatnerford dentate at Philomath college last Monday night Cutting of the first crop of . elfalra hay has Btarted in Umatilla county, , Sales thus far hsve been on a basts of $18 per ton In the stack for the new, bay. ''. "' During the past 25 months the T diet on Meat company has furnished the stockmen of Umatilla county with 100 pedigreed animals for breeding pur poses. . William Booher of Athena ,wu the hlghent bidder last Saturday at the less Ing of renwrvatlon wheat land when he bid $21.60 for the crop on a tract near Athena. . . e;: ; Ninety-one former " Centralla high school pupils and teachers ved In various branches of serylr-e during the world war, and eight of these died in the service... -.: . - "r- '". The U. H. S. Oregon, the last ship of America's old hattl fleet to retain her name, has arrived at the Puget Hound -navy yard at Bremerton and will proo- ably be put out of commission. -. Otto -Toedemeyer and .Herman Id er hoff, both of Wilson vllle. were arrested at Oregon City Wednesday, charged with assault and battery on the. person of O. Gosimt, a returned soldier. The new tariff of the Port of Astoria belt line railway has been filed with the interstate commerce cvmtmlsUrn The -.witching charge p-x car is and the charge for storsge is HM ... day. . .. A meeting of sit dl-charged soldier sailors snd marlii-s from Kn ""O surrounding towns will be held at Kit gene next Wednenday night for the pur pose of organizing a post of the Amer ican legion. - ' The mail stolen two weeks ago frhm the Elms, Wssh,. postofflce whem the safe of that establishment was blown, was located Wednesday under a tog near Malone. Only the registered let ters were missing. Proof of the effectiveness of the game reserves of Cow Creek valley - may be assumed from the fact that heavers have commenced to cut down rlp-rap- B ing along Cow creek, and It Is feared ley will break the irrigation dams. In a raid on I. W. W. headquarters kt Seattle the police found a formula for nitroglycerin, guncotton, quick drying phosphorus ana seeds said by the liter ature in the seed box to be capable of producing Insanity In 24 hours I and death within three days. - - - Tike Out the Shine and Buy War Savings Stamps 'Stories of achieve ent ia the m. Istioa of War Savings stamps, sent to The Journal snd arceirted for publication, will be awarded a Thrift Stamp. Men's and women's clothing is oft en discarded before it is worn out because of the objectionable "shtae" fvhich appears on material after 4 short time. , This condition can - be remedied by sponging the -.shiny places on the garment with . pure vinegar-boiling hot.? Rub -the vine gar into the material plentifully and vigorously. Then . press with pre.-, ing iron as usual. This process who;Jl be repeated whenever the chine ro- . appears. : -t- Thrift X'ftmpt and 1019 War Raving fUm Bov.od tale at usual ageucies. : ,