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THE OREGON SUNDAY JOURNAL, PORTLAND. SUNDAY MORNING, JUNE 1, ,1919.
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i There lai in sanest houn, ; a eonacious
neia. ' a thought that rises, ! independent,
liftad out from all elss, calm, like tha
star, entiling, atamal. This is tha thought
of identity youra for too, whoever you
ara, as mine for an Walt Whitman.
THE POOR RICH BOY
wwyEALTH was a tragedy With 'the
W hundred million 9-year-old Vin
cent Walsh McLeanj, run down
and killed recently j by an au
tomobile. j
lie was a victim ifcf the folly of
swollen riches. Wealth stunted his
childhood and killed him at 9.
Through fear that he would -be
jk Knapped, . four armed men con
stantly guarded his person- One sat
beside his bed throughout the night.
All his, life he was a virtual pris
oner. His playgrounds jwere sur
. rounded by stone walls ' and steel
pickets with locked gates.. His' play
mates were hired, and were selected
with extreme care. Ona jvas a little
colored boy who served as his chum
for six years.
.He was the pampered idol of for
tune. -His tova at; Christmas vvhpn hft
vsas 4, Icost $40,000. They included a j
working model of the Gatun locks
in the Panama canal and a miniature
steam yacht. AH that two enprmous
fortunes could supply to pamper him
was provided in lavish prodigality,
v. Most of . the year he lived on a
hundred acre tract at Washington.
IV C If he went to Florida or else
where for an outing, hisj corps ' of
guards and nurses accompanied hfm.
lie was never alone. I
He., was . not permitted
to mingle
wilii children like other boys. At
birth, he was sent a gold and rose
wood aradle by King Leopold of
Uelgiurn, partner in a rich Colorado
gold mine of Thomas D. Walsh,
grandfather 'of the child, j
The boy had five nurses in five
lif tllf finfct mancinno in -AmVi.?
he had a private car, especially built
of steel and elaborately j furnished,,
which carried him to California, to
Palm Beach r wherever he wished
' to go. He had half dozen- automo
biles, one of which was of special
t.teel construction. He - had doctors
and nurser and private j detectives
ana ail else mat care could suggest
or wealth buy to make' his life safe:
So far as anybody knoWs, he was
never on the street alonej until" the
day that he mysteriously dodged out
ttie steel gate at "Friendship" to be
run -down by the passing autOj in
which were- three women anc n
which 4was a West Virginia license
tag.
! His pampered life undoubtedly
caused his death. ;If a newsboy of
an .ordinary street urchlnj he could
better have taken care of himself
as the auto approached. I . It wn
traveling at moderate speeq. Unused
to such things unaware ofl the com
mon, means of protecting himself, he
became 'confused, and the inevitable
happened. v
The thing that makes boys strong,
is contact with" other boysi. That is
the virtue of the American public
school. . The school is a nursery of
manliness, self protection ahd growth
In self reliance. The contests and
conflicts and conquests there., are
agencies for making men strong.
Upon no crown prince of Germany
was eveF lavished the gifts! and care
showered upon this poor j rich boy:
No throne ever showered its heir
with such extravagant bestowals.
Nothing could have been more out
of place in America. ;
' Nor could there be a moW foolish
use. of money. To lavish it so prodi
gally on a child until it killed him
when there are so many ways in
which "it could have been used to
the benefit of so many. Is accentuated
folly. Fractions of these two great
fortunes spent in building light "and
airy homes on sites where now there
are dark and gloomy tenements, these
new homes brought - by easy terms
within the reach of poor people
would be a worthy 'use of swollen
wealth. Or . expenditures of parts
of " these r fortunes in a' better wage
to the-workers whp helped pile them
up, would : have been that economic
justice which is the. true rule in
human affairs. ; '
Nor- should there be in America a
status . in which there could be in
one hand riches so prodigious that
-v rv,j:?:L-;"-J :rv;-'-: ' v.- ,-;
a - family tmo thered its own child to
'death in aa ostentatious and heathen
ish, idolatry of its gold. The true
thought'in America should be 01 theJ
country and alt its people, the lift
ing up of the submerged, the quick
ening of the publio conscience, the
cleansing of the etvic life, the per
fecting and finishing of our institu
tions and general .inculcation Of .the
belief that "I am my brother's
keeper."
Spent in propaganda in such ah
enterprise, a mere part of the Walsh
McLean " millions would j have given
the family a happy inner conscious
ness and might have saved the life
of its hundred million dollar boy.
After all, the child of poverty who
sells papers on the street ; and shouts
out his gladness in the woods and
picks flowers by the brookside and
goes whither he wills, is the real
child of. fortune.
The farmers ask passage next
Tuesday of the market road bill. They
are entitled to it. They .have been.
urging market roads for years. . In
the light of all this big road .program,
who- would deny them their market
roads?
TEN YEARS AGO
THE leaps and bounds of-invention
are exampled in an interview
given by Orville Wright 10 years
ago. "How high can you got"
he was asked. He answered: -
As hignWas I want to, but there will
never be Sriy need to go higher than
1000 feet. At that height no known gun
could reach you. . .
Answering the query as to how
high he had gone, he said "300 feet,"
and to the inquiry, "How fast have
ly-ou gone?" he replied: Forty miles
an hmir" Tn trip, mwrv "Hnw faat
could a machine be made to go?" he
answered :
There is no limit that I know of, but
no man unprotected, could go faster
than 100 miles an hour and stick to his
machine. The rush of air is too great.
Trre most interesting thing in the
interview .in the light of the recent
achievement of the- NG-4 was Mr.
Wright's reply to the question, "Do
you think anybody will ever fly
across the ocean in an airplane?"
His answer was :
Hard to tell. " Depends on whether
anybody wants to.
In closing the interview Mr.
Wright, who, with hjis late brother
Wilbur, was the firjst to fly, said
that' airplanes woukj be used for
"military operations aind sports." '
The powers of gifted men cannot
be measured. Such men can not
- measure themselves
How then can
other geniuses
they realize
what
may do?
New York's plan to beat the pro
hibition law by eating so-called so
lidified alcohol in, a small, muddy
green patty, conveyed to the mouth
with a fork, readsi interestingly on
paper. The claijn is that no court
would hold a solid food to be a
"liquor," when the federal prohibi
tion amendment forbids use ronly of
"intoxicating liquors." Bufr in the
ultimate decision the justices are
likely to enunciate that a -cocktail
solid as substitute for cocktail fluid,
is more joke than genuine.
WALT WHITMAN
T
HE good pray poet whose cen
tenary was observed yesterday
was an extreme type of individu
alism. Not only in dress but
in thought and wor he broke away
from convention. Like Carlyle , and
Emerson his style and diction did
not follow set form. By some it is
claimed that Whitman was the first
to introduce democracy fj and Amer
icanism into the literature of the
United States. 'Whitman, himself,
made no such claim.
. He described Bryant as "pulsing
the first interior throbs of a mighty
world." He owned himself indebted
t6 Whittier, Longfellow, Emerson
and Bryant. One of the chief char
acteristics of Whitman was to glorify
the ' commonplace. .
He dressed like a farmer or . a
workman with homespun trousers
tucked into . cowhide boots, whose
tops reached nearly to his knees, a
pea Jacket seldom buttoned, a flannel
s-hirt open at the throat, a red hand
kerchief knotted at his neck and a
broad brimmed Quaker hat in token
of his ancestry.
Whitman expressed a healthy con
tempt for those who would make
men moral 'by law. "Laws," he said,
"have very little, to do wjth morals.
Where the popular virtue is low
no legislature can make it higher
by statute. -Where it is high no
statutes are needed. By too great a
dependence' on law the moral fibre
of the ' individual and society is
weakened."
He wrote:
We generally expect a great deal too
much of law. After all the government
does not exercise anything like the
influence for good or for evil over us
tha't we are- apt to -imagine. We have
grown in the' way of resting on it to
do anything which ought to be -done
by the individual and of making it
answer for such , things that society
alone Is In truth the responsible author
of. No one can be readier than we to
unite in a true measure to prevent crime,
or to reform it where once it has been
allowed to get headway, hut we hunt
immorality to its recesses in the indi
vidual heart and grapple it there, but
not by law. ,
ROUTING THROUGH PORTLAND
HEN transcontinental railroads
bogm to announce that careful
investigation of the freight.hand-
lmg facilities of the Port of
Portland has induced them to route
all ,-pf their ' transpacific cargoes
through this; port in preference to
any other on the Pacific coast, it
begins to look as though all I of the
efforts made for the upbuilding of . the
harbor have not been made in vain.
: Therefore, the announcement made
by Harry; Adams, traffic director of
the Missouri Pacific, that his lines
have decided to use Portland aa the
Pacific coast terminus of , their Ori
ental freight business is good news.
It may be that thai Missouri Pacific
does not handle as ! much freight to
the Orient, or from there, 1 as Bome
other lines, but even so, the investi
gations of its traffic department show
that rail lines interested more in the
upbuilding of business and the hand
ling of it and less in the upbuilding
of property in which they, are In
terested, turn to Portland as' the
most available harbor. lt clearly
shows the way the wind is blowing
with ever increasing 'strength. And
Harry Adams, by long experience in
Pacific coast traffic business, knows
what he . is talking about, and what
he is doing.
. Two automobile collisions,, a man
knocked down by an auto while he
was trying to board a street car,
another injured by a machine while
he was standing at Third and Pine,
were among the accidents" on Me
morial day. The. attention of the
police department and the :clty gov
ernment is called to the fact that ac
cidents are rapidly multiplying. Are
reckless and drunken drivers to be
allowed to run tha pity?,
MEMORIAL DAY
T
HEY marched together on "Nfe-
morial day. Civil war veterans,
Spanish war veterans, world war
veterans and Boy Scouts, or vet
erans of the war the future holds,
all paying homage to the mingled
dust of "those i immortal dead who
live again In minds made better
by their presence" and "who with
their mild persistence urge man's
search to vaster issues."
It was not the march of a par
ticular generation or a 'particular
class. Old age, manhood, Youth, of
all conditions, of all professions, of j community. Manpower, from an in
all casts of thought, of all who ac- dustrial and commercial standpoint
quire title to a larger and fuller j alone, is something well worth con
life by virtue of service and talent, i serving to the fullest possible extent
The world belongs to no particular j From the vantage ground of humanity
class. The constant struggle of a
particular class to dominate it, has
been the source of 1war and out of
this struggle have come our Me
morial days.
It is a struggle that is not ended.
Each day freedom must be
anew.
won
And ye, that wage the war of wdrdslnity; a vote for humanity.
With mystic fame and subtle power, J '
Go. chatter to the idle birds.
Or teach the lesson of the hour.
The world is in ferment. There ;
is a striving for a "new and better
condition of things. The walls of t
the structure of civilization have
i, ow...nn. J'"r
nigh cost of living, labors discon-
. , , . . I
tent, grievances real and imaginary j
against the general order as a whole, j
the contention for a larger share
of the fruits of industry, constitute
a magazine which may be exploded
if the lesson of Americanism and the
true significance of American ideals
is not learned.
The world wftl never be as it was
before the recent world war. But it
can be made mor6 habitable and at
tractive if patriotic men cooperate;
of there Is common sense, mutual
trust, . respect for all classes and a
following after the standard of lib
erty, justice and human sympathy. .
W7here social and economic insti
tutions, however deep and old their
roots, stand in the way of the
achievement of social justice and in
the road to opportunity, welfare and
contentment they must be changed.
Those who ,have prospered under the
old order must meet the conditions
of a' newer day.
Liberty is not license". For its
benificent working it requires self re
straint, a clear and sane recognition
of the reality of what is practical
and attainable and a. realization that
there are laws of nature and of eco
nomics which are immutable and be
yond human power to change.
If we; march together, Civil war
veterans, Spanish war veterans, world
war veterans and Boy Scouts, the
nation will, not be torn from its
ancient moorings whatever may be
tide in the rest of the world. Put
ting down foes within and enemies
without united action will protect
and preserve: ! '
That mystical token of stripe and star.
Which we through the years haveafol-
lowed far
And borne upon many a field of dread
Its streaming splendor of white and red ;
But now from the height of the
' struggling years
It bursts like the dawn on a night of
tears
And we gather beneath it, with radi
ant brQws " ,
Seattle is sounding a bugle call to
arms. -"Seattle must take as great an
interest iri the Portland rate case as
Portland does," is the slogan of Seat
tle newspapers... Thus . that city is
fighting hard to maintain the policy
of forcing Portland and the Inland
Empire to submit te rates ; made for
the special benefit of Puget Sound
That ciiy is determined, if possible,
to force Portland and the interior to
pay such rate as would be necessary
if a train had to f cross a chain of
mountains m order to reach this
city.'
REBUILDING MAIMED. MEN
T
HERE also are the crippled indus
trial workers who . should be re
constructed. , I '
Oregon has abou t i 23,000 of
them added to its long f list i every
year. , We ; have determined to re
construct our maimed soldiers and
sailors. ' We should at the same time
rebuild our maimed-workmen.- It is
proposed in the amendment authoriz
ing, the construction of the recon
struction hospital - at ;. Portland,' and
its . complement clause in the bonding
bill providing funds..: It would under
take the rebuilding both of maimed
workers and such maimed fighters
as the federal 'government may fail
to provide for.
Statistics show that the' industrial
accident, commission ; handles ' each
year upwards of 25,000 cases where
workmen engaged in the hazardous
industries of the state have been 'in
jured and disabled in varying degrees.
This is, of course, but a part of the
actual total, statistics not being avail
able for those not reported to' the
commission. Of- the 'total reported
approximately ; 15 per cent represents
cases of permanent Injury, while, the
remainder covers the scale between,
from trifling accidents to those
trenching close upon total disability.
For the; care of these cases the state
is now spending from. 125,000 to
$50,000 'each month, which sum alone,
diverted . -to the state institution,
would practically, if not entirely,
maintain it.
But the repair and salvage of in
dustrial wreckage' would not represent
the full scope Of the hospital. The
children of . the poor do not, as a
usual thing, Have the advantages of
expert. care and specialized hospital
treatment. Slight, deformities, easy
of correction if taken In early" youth,
are permitted, because of lack of
means, to grow" into aggravated eases.
Boys and girls grow up into shrunken
and -mishapen .beings, involuntary
drones in the community life, to live
through years of sorrow, suffering
and- regret. Such a hospital as is
contemplated could save much of this
wreckage. Such achievement would
be worth "more than the money cost,
humanly and from the standpoint of
economics.
The United States government Is
spending vast sums to reclaim those
injured In the war and bring them
back, so far as possible, to useful
and self-supporting placed in the
the salvage of misfortunate broken 1
units of our civic life is equally to
be desired and commended.
A vote for the building of the re
construction hospital would be a vote
for the building of unfortunate
children and maimed men into useful
and productive units of the commu-
THEIR CENTENNIAL
HE month of May, just expired,
was notable as the centennial of
IT
thp birth nf a numhpr nf h
me oirtn or numner or the ,
world's great; literary
lights, i
ur.lt HrkU
, .
Eliot, George Sand and Julia Ward
HWg 1U
j ' . ,
A Peculiar distinction- nr t.wn of
these, George Eliot and George Sand,
isithat they are both generally known
b their pen names rather1 than by
their almost forgotten real names,
Mary Ann Evans, who became Mrs. j
J. W. Cross, and Aurore Dupin, after
ward Madame Dudeyant.
Both women led unconventional
livjes. The lesser dereliction of George
Eljot loomed larger for the reason
thiit she was an English, woman and
was surrounded by more strict stand
ards than was her contemporary who
lived in the more tolerant atmosphere
of j France. .
George Eliot is notable for her
portrayal of provincial life. Lovers
of j the little comedies of life will
never grow tired or the conversations
of
Madames.Glegg, Deane, Pullet ,and
Tulliver and their husbands. "Pullet
keeps all my physic bottles did you
know, Bessy? He won't have one
sojd. He says it's nothing but right
folks should see them when I'm gone.
Thjey fill two of the lopg storeroom
shelves a'ready but," she added, be
ginning to cfy, "it's well if they ever
fill three. I may go before I've made
up. he dozen of these last sizes? The
piljl boxes are in the closet in 'my
rojm, youll remember that, sister,
but there is nothing to show for the
boluses if it isn't the bills."
i 1
The law's made to take care o'
raskills," was Mr. Tuflliver's dying
opinion. "There's no slipping up
hill again and no standing still when
you've begun to slip aVwn," thought
Adam Bede. "It's but1 little good
you'll do a-watering the last year's
crdp," is a homely bit of " wisdom
expressed by Mrs. Poyser.
Another is, "If you could make a
pudding with thinking o' the batter
it ud be easy getting , dinner."
Then there is Bartle "Masset, an
extreme misogymist. "I tell" you," he
saiji, "there isn't a thing under the
sun that needs to be done at all but
what a man can do better than a
woman, unless it is bearing children,
ani that they do-In a poor make
shu"t way.' It had better ha' been
leffc to the men, it had better ha'
befn left to the men-"
he chief claim of George Sand on
posterity is her mastery of . style.
In jher stories of rustic life she shows
hei originality and through them she
livfs. To Thackeray her diction re
called 'the sound of village bells fall
ing sweetly and ! .softly on the ear
and "it sent a shiver through John
Stuart Mill like a symphony ot Haydn
or I Mozart.; No man has more skill
fully laid ; bare the heart of a girl
thsfn she in the 'Histoire de Ma Vie."
lioth women passed through phases
of j faith.1 While positivism did not
cool the Innate religious fervor of
Geprge Eliot, with' George Sand re
ligion was a passing experience, no
deeper than her republicanism or
moire lasting than her socialism.
RUSH, TO GIVfi
WOMEN BALLOT
Br Carl 8mith, Tfashington .Staff
Correspondent of The Journal.
Washing-ton, May 29. The hurried pas
sage of the- woman suffrage amend
ment In tie house la the first act in the
drama leading to the 1920 campaign.
The woman vota is growing so, fast
through tha action of state legislatures
in passing presidential suffrage bills
that th Republican leaders resolved to
make a quick march in that direction.
Two and two always did make four.'
The.; suffrage question cuts through
political lines, however, and at the fin
ish the neyr Republican "progressive"
speaker did not vote. In. the last con
gress' he voted against it. Two other
Republican leaders, Moore of Pennsyl
vania and Greene of Massachusetts,
stuck to their guns and, voted "No."
Liongworth, of Ohio, insurgent leader,
executed a hasty somersault and voted
for it, for the. first time. v
The Democratic leaders also were di
vided, Champ Clark speaking for it and
Claud Kltchin against it. Kitchin took
occasion to point out that the Republi
cans will hardly be able to claim party
credit for putting it through, since the
Republicans, for 14 years In control of
the presidency and of congress, did not
even permit the question to come to a
vote. It remained for the last Demo
cratic congress to create a suffrage com
mittee and bring the question to a vote
in the house, he said, and in that con
gress the resolution was passed in the
same form in which it has again been
approved. .
The resolution now goes to the senate,-
where the efforts of Republican
leaders to claim credit from a party
standpoint is embarrassed by the oppo
sition ,-of Penrose, Lodge, "Wadsworth
and; Borah, but whe're the amendment is
apparently assured of votes enough to
win, . In the last senate suffrage lacked
one vote. The responsibility for Its de
feat rests most heavily upon the sen
ators from suffrage states who stood
against It despite the verdlot of their
states, and this means Borah and Wads
worth. Suffrage will owe its coming victory
In the senate to the gains it has made in
the conservative sections of the Sodth
and East alike, and the two parties will
contribute almost equally to It. Harris
of Georgia and Dial of South Carolina
bring two Democratic votes from states
where suffrage seemed to have no
chance a few years ago. A hew Demo
cratic senator from Massachusetts,
David I. Walsh, brings an affirmative
vote. In place, of Weeks, Republican, who
voted against.it, and Walter E. Eage of
New, Jersey adds a new vote on the Re
publican side.
Letters From the People
r Communication nnt to " Th Journal for
publication in thb department should be written
on only one side of the. paper, should not exceed
300 words in lencth, and must be siened by tha
wn, waose man aaarees in tun must accom
pany tha contribution.!
The Park Budget
Portland, May 3l! To the Editor of
me Journal Mr. Cheney, the city plan
ning expert, in the Oregonian states that
Portland in 1918 appropriated $28,000 for
"ay.suna service, wnile Oakland, CaL,
a much emaUer town appropriated $85.-
000. This statement is very misleading
Nnaamucn as it seems to cover our entire
playground expenditures ' for that year.
Our park budget in 1918 was $319,621.
For ISIS It is, $307,000. In 1917 the park
budget Vas $154,986.' This increase of
almost 100 per cent in 1918 was largely
caused by the passing of a message call
ing for a yearly levy of four tenths of
a mill, to be used in the purchase of new.
parks and playgrounds. This levy raises
about- $120,000 additional, besides, the
regular park budget. Most of this $120,
000 of 1918 has been spent on the Mar
quam gulch playground, and It will re
quire, the 1919 extra levy to finish up the
jod.
Mr. Cheney suggests that the play
grounds should be connected with the.
senools. .This- has been in vogue in
many of our large cities, and It works
well. Fnirther, Instead of building weed
less community houses, many cities
make use of the schools for all com-f
munuy worn, ims idea is yearly gain
ing ground. Practically all of Port
land's schools have playgrounds con
nected with them,, and many have play
sheds a good thing for rainy days. Why
not use these for the 12 months instead
of the 10 months In the year? Most all
of our school houses and our libraries
have fine large auditoriums, where
communities can congregate. , Why not
make use of these? If this is done, I'm
sure the $120,000 yearly, now voted, will
take care of the growing necessities if
it isn't all sunk fhto a gulch. G. E. D.
Indorses St. Paul's- View of Women
Portland, May 30. To' the Editor of
The Journal I rejoice to hear the sanc
tity of - Christian marriage publicly up
held by the Rev. Mr. Fhrgott. Would
that this generation were always influ
enced by such high Ideals. People do
not read their. Bibles zealously enough ;
hence the spread of ba$er principles.
Marital ties are regarded too frivolously.
What changes have come over the
world since Jehovah ordained in Gene
iss. "Thy desire shall be to thy husband
and he shall rule over thee." There
could be no broken homes if this In
junction were always observed. Aban
donment of the holiest standards causes
all the matrimonial wrecks we see about
us. Is it not time to return to the old
stabilities, the old authorities and sub
ordinations? There Is no other way
to prevent dW civilization from going on
the rocks. The first authority ' that
holds society together originates In the
home. We seem to have forgotten that.
We have traveled far from the rule laid
down by St. Paul, "Wives, submit your
selves to your own husbands" (Colos
sians 3 : 18). Did we but abide by that
rule there would be no -family' disrup
tion. We seem to have forgotten that
St Paul, that spiritual ' giant, also said :
"As the Church is subject, unto Christ,,
so let wives be to their own husbands in
everything" (Ephesians 5 :24). This is
the cornerstone of Christian marriage
loving submission, the only-securtty tor
lifelong union. It will prove at last to
be also the cornerstone of political and
civic authority, in short, of all orderly
government- There can be no order
without subordination. This great and
fundamental truth is further emphasized
by St. Paul thus: "If they will learn
anything, let them ask their husbands at
home." (1 Cor. 14: 35.).
All these principles are pillars that
have kept society an erect structure
throughout Christian history. . In the
day they are abandoned God will not
fall to punish the world. The Christian
home, that preeiojis safeguard of civili
zation, will disapear and with It all the
sacred things that spring from it.
LOUIS COE.
A Question as to Affiliations
f Portland, May 31. To the Editor of
lyThe Journal Has The Journal any
all the leading lights In the Irish" anti
peace league noise are all old Republican
party leaders and there Is not a Demo
crat in the whole bunch? Does Ireland
belong to the Republican party?
' ,lrJ. HENNESSEY MURPHY.
i '
THIS
By Witter
If only you'were here Walt Whitman, j
To tell the largeness of this man I i
For only you could forget In space his enemies- '
rou-who sawXincoln sttnl up before tbe faces of a city,
Alone like this man, j . - j '
Alone. even when friended, (j
Alone with destiny; . ,
You who jaw him facing Manhattan,
Manhattan hating- him,
Never a cheer
That silence.
Thai anger.
That misunderstandingi
.What would you say now .
Of this American,
This liberator, :
This man of destiny?-
Choired by the voices of slaves who
And of freemen who would renounce their slaves,
Called to be a witness of Joy before the peoples of the earth I
Would you not say that lilacs have bloomed again,
And that out of their death their odor Is the odor of life, '
And that a star which hid risen at evening grew pate toward a morning of sun?
Ana tnat trie neauty of thei sinews ot
Summoned now i ,
By this man '
To a new stature, 7 ic;
Shall become the beauty of the sinews of the world.
. f -. -From Poetry, a Magazine of Verse.
OBSERVATIONS
'OF THE JOURNAL MAN
By Fred
Meeting a number of acquaintaneea at Sea-
aide, Mr. Lock ley glean, from them atorlea of
many aorta. But chiefly ha recounts that of
an American who before tha war waa in Kua-
aia and so remained until constrained by the
tutbulence of the times to depart, and who . is
now a T. M. C. A. worker anoof Russian
troops now prisoners of war in Franc. New
sidelights on certain phases, of tha Europ sit
uation stint through this narration.
If you want to hear an interesting
story, tackle the first person you meet.
Here at Seaside, during the past .few
days, I have met scores of interesting
people. The life stories of many of them
are more Interesting than nine out of
ten books that you can find in a book
store. Last night Mrs. Dan Moore, Mrs.
Pi . J. MavcAuley and myself spent an
hour or so in front of the driftwood fire
which blazed merrily In the huge fire
place made of water-worn stones In the
Hotel Moore.
Both Mrs. Moore and Mrs. MacAuley
were born In the Emerald Jsle ; both
are passionately fond of the home of
their childhood. I found I had visited
many places In Ireland with which they
are familiar. We talked of the beauty
and fertility of Ireland, of its history,
its traditions and its glorious past.
Presently we began to talk of more
intimate things childhood experiences,'
the folklore stories told by the peasants
of Ireland, the wit and philosophy of
the Irish peasants. I i could write a
book, and a most Interesting one, if I
could repeat the folklbre stories, the
ghost stories and the fairy stories ' of
their childhood days that Mrs. Moore
and Mrs. ' MacAuley told me as , we
watched the driftwood logs blazing In
the cavernous depths . of the fireplace
and listened to the subdued undertone
of, the surf as it swept up on the foam
wet shore near by.
Passing Locksley Hall, I dropped In
for a chat. Mrs. J. C. Wakefield, the
owner, said : "Like yourself, my son. Dr.
W. t. Carlisle, went overseas as a Y. M.
C. Ai secretary. Billy has been put in
charge of the work among the Russian
prisoners in -France. You remember the
30,000 Russian soldiers were sent ?t
France - to strengthen the French line.
They had riot been Ibng In France, when
thy revolted' and it was a question whe
ther they wouldn't Just as soon tight the
French as the. Germans; so they were
made prisoners. My son speaks Rus
sian as well as he does English. He
also speaks and reads French, Italian
and German, so' he has no trouble get
ting along in Europe. Billy will be
38 years old In October. When he was
a little, chap he went to school 'to Miss
Dimmick In the Park school In Port
land. Later he attended the high school
at Fourteenth and Morrison streets .and
was a student under Professor Davis.
'
"How little we know what Is waiting
around the corner for us, or what fate
has in store for us. Fifty years ago,
when I was a little girl, at Amherst,
in Cumberland county, Nova Scotia,
one of my fellow townsmen was Pro
fessor T. T. Davis. Now little I thought
then that the ! day would come when
Professor Davis and I would both be
residents of Portland and he would be
teaching my son. Professor Davis has
been principal of Lincoln high school
so long that the memory of man run
neth not to the contrary.
"When Billy graduated from the Port
land high school he went to the Uni
versity of Calif rnla. While he waa in
college a Russian diplomat came to the
United States to secure three young
Americana to go to Russia as dentists
for . the-. nobility. Billy was selected as
one of the three. The Russian govern-.
ment paid Billy's way to Russia and
gavo him a salary of $200 a month for
the first year, -until he could get es
tablished. His patients ;were membersl
of the Imperial family. One or two or
the grand dukes and other members of
thfe nobilitv became auite fond of Billy.
He made lots of money. 'They paid
-Po.wer Needed j
From tha Astoria Budget
One of the great needs which confront
Astoria in her battle to build up a great
industrial city here Is the power neces
sary' to develop the electrical energy for
operating the plants. "Every indication
points to the fact that we have that'
1 - .1 ... 1 . I- .... ... I . ( M . n tu
developed, and it lies In the great reser
voirs of oil and natural gas, which are
located In the various sections of the
lower river' district. There Is not an
other section in the "Northwest where the
outward Indications for the presence of
vast' quantities of ol and natural gas
are so pronounced as in this section and
still no organized steps are being taken
to develop, them. To sink a well for oil
would not be a very expensive matter
and the good that would result to the
community and the whole state as well,
if one of the main reservoirs could be
tapped would be enormous. It would
furnish the cheap power that 'Would
quickly put Oregon , in the efront rank
as a manufacturing- and Industrial cen
ter. - !
The Peace Terms,
From tba Weston Leader
The peace terms do not seem to suit
anybody particularly which is pretty
fair proof that they are Just about as
equitable as could have been arranged
in the present era of world selfishness.
Calls It "Best of the Measures'
From the Salem Capital Journal
The Roosevelt highway is ona of the
piargest development propositions ever
submitted to the people of Oregon for
adoption or rejection., it means a per
manent road along' the coast from Ore
gon's northern boundary to tha Califor
nia line and In its course It will traverse
all our coast counties, opening many
valuable districts to settlement and de
velopment. The effect of Its construc
tion will .be to Increase the amount: of
MAN
Bynner
would be freemen
These. Mates,
Aft D v IMPRESSIONS
Lockley
: generously. Billy stayed in Russia un
til Russia -went to pieces." First one
rarty was in, power; they would be
overturned and some other party went
In. Billy has seen peasants rush out
and. take the shoes from people, who had
been shot and who fell in the street
Many 6f the peasants .were without
shoes and had - gunnysacks wrapped
around- their feet. The1 czar had . 84.
paiaoes. The peasants were taxed to
their utmost limit, to support the royal
Class in luxury.
! "When things settle down once mora
Billy will go back to Europe, for he
can make more money there than in the
united States. American dentists seem
to have much greater skill than Eu
ropean dentists ; consequently they are
Very much in demand and get high
prices ior tneir work.
F- at ek a
t "Billy married an English rirl. Miss
Maybury. from Nottingham, Eng. lie
met her in St. Petersburg -while she was
Hunting her sister, whose husband, waa
a member or the English embassy.
! . "The English people seem to know
yery little about our country : . In fact.
f ery few Europeans know- much about
the united States. When- the ship on
which (hey were passengers was " ap
proaching San Francisco, Billy's wife
heard the captain say he hoped they
mould get through the Golden Gate be
fore darkl She, asked one -of the of
ficers if they closed the gates at night.
Ho said, What gater She said. 'The
Golden Gate. I heard your' captain' say
he wanted to get through the Golden
Gate, before dark.' She, was perfectly
sincere about It, too. -I
"We weire trying to get a convention
of Elks to come down to Seaside. She
was here visiting me. I said. 'We will
have' lively times in Seaside If we get
the Elks (here.' . She said, -Will their
keepers b with them? I saw an elk
in the zoo in England. They er fine
looking animals. She asked me how
many 'we expected' to be there. I said,
'We are hoping to get 300 or 400 Elks
She said. 'My ! that will be a big band
Of them.' She , was -quite disappointed
to learn that instead of having fine
antlers many of the Elks were bald
headed, and that the elks she' had seen
at the zoo In England were not the
kind we were hoping would come to Sea
side, i , '
I r"When Billy left Russia the party Ihen
In control would let - him draw only
enough money from the bank to pay
his way ' to the United States. He Is
hoping some day, when stable govern
ment is reestablished in Russia, to be
able to get his money that is on de
posit there. He went to France a year
ago last March. Since he has been
there he has been given two decorations
for his work. ; ,
; "Here is, a letter from Billy, written
from Paris. He says Jbe is hungry for
some good American cookery, such as
hot cakes and maple feyrup with real
Amerlgan. coffee. Listen to twVpara
graph, of his letter. He says:
" "I have been all over France, as
my work, opening new posts for my Rus
sian boys, keeps me on the go. Last
spring while working at the front I re
ceived ' a decoration from the French
government for keeping up the morale
pf the . men in the trenches -and for
caring for the wounded. The last decora
tion awarded me Is for my work with
the Russians. I have just returned from
Nice and Monte Carlo, where . I opened
a Foyer de Soldat. It Is quite possible
I may be sent to Algiers. Africa, to in
stall the work there for the French
colonial troops. From there it is
planned that I go on a tour of inspection
pf our work In Siberia. May is a brick
to stick it out as she does and to carry
on and do her bit. When .you see
Daisy Gadsby give her my regards. I
was sorry to learn of Captain Uadsby's
death.. Glad to hear that Astoria Is so
prosperous."
taxable property' In the state by ,mll
lions within the next few years, sim
lack of roads and transportation facll-
iUea are now seriously checking the ad
vancement of the coast region. This
highway proposition should be given
serious consideration because of Its Im
portant bearing upon' the future growth
of Oregon and also on account of the
proposal of the government to match,
dollar for dollar, the money appropriat
ed by the state. It Is the best of all.
the reconstruction measures submitted
to the people at the election next month.
'Carry On
By D. A- Walters
Toe sons of Ood are hearkening to the Master's
world-wkla calls;
He calls for strong and patient hands to re-
- build tha fallen walls,- .
To replace tha homes and temple destroyed by
cannon baUe- ' '
"Carry on; carry on."
Swing round tha world, ye minute men, with
messages alive,. '
That the church may everywhere possess the
spirit of the drive.
That la time to aava tha starving our ships may
safa arrive - . .
"Carry on ; carry m."
Tbe church wakes from its life of ease; tha mul-
' titodes arfie;
The star of Bethlehem agaia - lend luster te
tha skies:
Plate duties that w shunned once ara tha ones
that now we prlre
"Carry on; carry
Well bad tlia heathen children and well teach
; them hew to pray : '
While training well their hearts and minds weH
give them time to play.
For fat this I era that has corns tbers dawns tha
. children's day t
-' , "Carry tm; carry on.'"
-.'':. ' ' ''..,
God of - oar homes, God of our flag, ws renew
our pledge td This .
With the freedom that's ours we would bare
tha world sa fro
And publish wide the Savior's call. "Coma ya
. weary unto Me." .
"Carry oa; carry a."
Portland. May 2. . - ,
Ragbag: and Bobtail
Stories from Everywhere
A Tip. to Parade Spectators '
JLUCII ingenuity was shown by' one
woman who felt that a big parade
marching past was too Impersonal. She
longed, :- says the Philadelphia Publio.
Ledger, to establish the usual friendly
f00!.1 ,ntaot" w,th th stalwart lads
..i11.-1 M they ,wunf -long the street
withthe "get-there" fcadence that the
War, v tau-ht lh,!rn- She achieved the
result by a very simple ruse., From her
high perch In the grandstand she blithely
chirruped "John !' whenever there waa
an interval of silence. . A great many
startled Johns fell for It, lodked up and
"Tilled invoftmtarlly. Then when a band
or, nurses came along she changed the
name and called "Mary !" Altogether,
she had an extremely sociable afternoon.
1 - The Shoeblack
I !hrfhten what I look uson and find the
world Is good. ; .
Ttcr sprinkler lays tha whirling dust, then tarns
!ft into mud. ;
TIm. mud sets on torn shiny shoes, than happl-
Mesa in -mine: -
His victim looks tot me. of course, thea pays
ito set a shine. .
real" I am an enUmlstt . I nn. thin V.
it- fun i-. . ....
IVf-en automobile splashes spoil the wort that
1 hare done
Win fortitude I stand the shock because a-
fellow then
Will have tn
hars to "pay another dims te hare ' 'em
' . ghlned again.
.-.. . -
-Philadelphia Evening: - Ledger.
I Uncle Jeff Snow Says:-:
These here, glner'l strikes the workln'
men starts la some rumpuses, but If ever
the, farmers in the United States starts
in on a glner'l strike it'll be like a tor
nado to boy whlstlln' .compared "to
these here city strikes. . ; V
The News in Paragraphs
World Happenings Briefed for Benefit
ot Joutfta! Readers
GENERAL ,' - ;
. 51 ve 7800-ton cargo vessels were
launched at Hog Island In 48 minutes on
.Memorial day. f
Field Marshal von Hlndenburg expects
soon to go to Switzerland, where he will
take a long rest. ,
Twenty-one persons have been lynched,
Tlv?. if thm burned to death. In the
United States so far this year.
England la threatened with a country
wide police strike; Liverpool , men bu
already voted In favor of stopping work.
The new taxes proposed by the French
government will cause living costs to
soar far above anything yet experienced.
Martial law prevails at Lima, Peru. "
Since the outbreak began nearly 100'
strikers- have been killed and 209
wounded. : ; , : . .' .
Representative Me Arthur of Oregon
.had the distinction of presiding over the
house for an , hour during Memorial
services Friday, j , , .
The Jury In the case ofUohn S. Plngresl
on trial at Salt Lake City on a charge of
wrecking the Merchants bank, failed to
agree and was discharged.
Three American nurses, Florence Gra
ham of New York, Ella Delton of To
ronto and Alice Hagadorn of Patmer. N.
Y.. were killed In an automobile accident
at Chateau-Thierry, France, recently.
One thousand Nleuport and 600 8 pad
airplanes and 1000 HIpano-8utia and ,
800 Gnome motors will be shipped to the
United States under an agreement be-!
tween the French government and this -country.
:i
NORTHWEST NOTES '
county-was, sold Friday to Nissan Bros.
at 60 cents a pound. .
The first victim of spotted fever in .
Grant county this year was Lee Parrish '
of ' Beaver valley, who Dasaed awav Krl-
dy.. - ,r ,-' , -. ' . u
The Oregon Parkin comoanr at Van
couver opened on Thursday for the fruit
canning season which, will end in Sep
tern be r. , - i "i
Seven and- a half sacks of featUsxl
whiskey were- seised; In a raid on the
steamer TamalDals at Aberdeen 'Frldav
morning. .- ' . ,
Resignations of four Washington grain- i.
Inspection officials- are asked because J
screenings were found In. barley after j
shipment. t ' -'.
The graduating class at Oregon A art -J
cultural college on June 10 consists of
more than 100 students, two thirds of
whom are women. ; .
President JCerr afmounces that Dr. T.
V. PoliriK will remain at Oregon Aarricul-
tural college as Y. M. C. A. secretary
and general student advtsorl
Portland parties were at Bend this
week getting leases from land owners In'
the region of Dog mountain. They will
start ooring tor on at one. - , -
The W-5. the fifth concrete shin built '
at Vancouver by the Great Northern
Concrete Shipbuilding company was-.
tauncnea oaturaay morning. .,
Zeno Sari lost his left eve. Tf fl'Dol--
larhide broke his leg and Henry Lake
was badly Injured When a water gauge
burst at Cottage Grove Friday. .
Mrs. Emily Wright of Palo, Iowa, and
Mrs. William l-Aneley of Forest Urova V
met for the first time in 61 years last
weea. Tney were girlhood mends.
News has been received at North Pow
der that Frank H. Oorham, formerly of
that place, has been murdered by Mex
icans on nis estate pear cimmai, Mexico.
Lee Lochackl. one of the five prisoners -
who sawed their way" out of- the. county
Jail at Everett on Slay 14, is hack In
prison, having been arrested at Vancou
ver, v . ...... -
Mrs.'F. It. Olmstead. who recently re
move! to Hood River from Portland, Is
art aunt; of Lieutenant Commander Head,
pilot, of the NC-4 In the transatlantic
flight. ,
The senior 'class of the Chehalia hlch
school will plant four trees in the school
grounds in memory or the rour high '
school boys who gave their lives for their
country.
O. Olson, who" has Just rounded -out
ntxty-second year in business in the
wlitz river valley, tsftnouncea that he)
has sold, his store at . Kelso and win
retire June' I.
Representative McArthur seriously ob
jects to the proposal of the Astoria
Chamber of Commerce to send a delegation-
to Washington to work for the
lower Columbia naval base slte4 ,
Sheriff Tl Taylor of Umatilla county
and former Sheriff William Esch of Ma
rlon county are the two most prominently
spokon of in connection with a successor
to Robert I Stevens as warden of tha
Oregon penitentiary.
7 Edward Tiffany and P. M. W, Del to
Were arrested at Yakima charged, with ,
stealing- S300 worth of tires, besldea
stealing a truck to take the loot away.
The tires. In addition to much other sto
len goods, were found in a barn.
May baa been the record month since
the war both for the number of shipping
board vessels clearing from the Colum
bia and the number of placements on -the
vessels- made by the Portland branch
of the sea service bureau. - ... v
" '' Gordon' ' and James Gage, sons of O.
W. Gage of Marshfeld, served two year"
In-the United States navy, and In that
time were always members of the same
crew and - were not separated during
their entire term of service.
Tis t)uty and Honor to-Talk
About W. S. S.
J Stories of achievement In the aommu-
Ittion of War Savings rAUmpa, sent to The
Journal and accepted for publication. wUl
be awarded a Thrift Stamp. 1
Featuring War Savings Stamps,
talking, about' them to clubs and in
dividuals, is not solicitation, but ed
ucation. The War Savings move
ment is one of the greatest, per-u
haps the greatest movement in all
our American history. - W should
not be apologetic: In its connection,
but proud.
' Thrift ffumps and IBIS War Savings
Stamps bow oa ; sale at .usual agencies.