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12 THE , OREGON DAILY JOURNAL, PO RTLAND, THURSDAY, JUNE 5, -1919. ' AX IXDEPISDBIIT KEWSPAPCT O. g. J ACK80M . . . Pes Usher Psblished every day, afternooa and "J0"? ( (except Sundae afUroooo). at Tbw Jo"1 ! Baudiney Broadway and XamluU sweet. Portland, Oresoa. ' ,., for transmission throoh the maiie a second , .i culss nutter. -r .. . i AU department reached by these Mmbers. s xeu in operator ne iwn-w" " ' FOREIGN ADVEBTISIJiG EEPBESESTAinVE. ' ? 2 s Fifth .mu. Sew Xorki 00 iUUen - BuikUn. CUctnv ' fcnbeeriptlon Urmi by man. er to u; eddrwa . tb United States or Meitoe. Ttk-n.yr 'ixtcitiKTun: cm. ATTERKOOJC) r-nM . ' is.oo I Out month..... -80 - .- nrvriiT On year. . . . .12.50 I One witiH 9 .21 I AWT (MORNING OK AFTERNOON) AND On9 . year. - . . $7.50 1 On Month ..... S .65 'Boon or lata the atmnc need the help at the wk. JTraocb .ProTerb. A VOTE OF INSTRUCTIONS THE people of Portland have again given "la vote: of instructions to their public 'bodies. This time it Is a heavy ma jority for the ; Port of Portland bond issue for $1,000,000 to forward water commerce. It "is reaffirma tion of every vote in which the people Have been asked to pass judg ment upon forwarding the maritime Interests of this city. Unftaggingly and steadfastly the people have voted, time and again, to tax themselves to put the port in Portland and leave nothing undone : that will fill th harbor with ships and the city with Industries and payrolls. The public bodies like the Port f Portland and the docks com mission to which are committed the responsibility -for putting Portland in big letters on the commercfal geog raphy of the. : world, must feel a gratifying satisfaction in the election returns. They gather from the ballot boxes a realization that the people are backing them to the limit, and 'ithat as trustees1 of the city's inter ests and Its commercial future, it is their duty to be vigorous and ag-gressiv- -In measures for achieve ment and apply every agency or in fluence that will build up a great and growing ; commerce. - .There is no doubt that the' heavy vote for the bond issue is a vote , of confidence In the new port com mission. The commission should so accept it, and, by an aggressive and intellignet policy, give to the people .-.that- for which they have voted, and thereby retain the great . con--fidence that has been so generously and enthusiastically bestowed. If 'the captains and leaders of busi ness in Portland will gather inspira tion from the aspirations and in structions of the people of Portland there can be no doubt as to a wonderful, future for this delight ful city : of roses and fortunate geography. i The, American army in France gained 32,000,000 pounds in weight. It was the result of- outdoor living and regular exercise. As armies do not grow fafc the increase was good working musCe, and it shouldbe an overpowering lesson to- people", par ' ticularly. sedentary people of indoor employment. It ought also to sug gest to all employers one valuable means for having contented, vigor ous and serviceable employes. - DIRECTOR THOMAS' JUNKET ' N JUST what way will a trio East I by Director Thomas be worth $600 to the Portland public schools? A former trip at a cost of 1400 of public school money and this one at a cost of j $600 arouses wonder If Portland is not investing too much in Director Thomas. It also arouses curiosity as to just what extent Di - rector Thomas, on these Journeyings, .-is, of is not, delving into the., mys teries of public school problems. i o oecome ;, an expert In school work requires long and patient train ing.; We require a long period of study in a technical institution, a certain period of experience, numer pus examinations and a diploma, be- fore we admit a teacher to service in evenv the lowest grammar grades, The distinction - of becoming such a thoroughgoing school authority as Di- rector Thomas seems determined-to be, is to be attained, not by junkets over the country at public expense, but by long and patient study in an " institution and long time service in . -( the actual work of study and teach - ing. . ' This expensive plan of . educating , Director Thomas as a member jof the senoot ooara, , proceeas on wrong principle. After we educate him at .$600 per- trip, what will he do with . his education? He will still be but . one - member of the school board, - and other- members will have : their ideas . as to how the schools should be run! In highly developed school organizations in the East, and else-; where, the directing head of the sys tem, the : person Ovho .'supplies , the . technical and other, necessary .' infor mation, is the superintendent. He is the individual to whom the 'public looks for .the directing and organizing agency In the schools." He Is ' the brains . and technical working head of the system, and Itis to Wm, not to any' member of the board or all the board, that the people look for intelligent administration of the" sys tem, just as railroad "directors look to the general . manager for results in their system. It is' to perform Just that work that superintendents of schools i are selected and paid a salary. : I ' ; r This $600 i for " Director Thomas' junket East is wasted money. If there is need of further information about Eastern school methods, the rear head of' the schools, a man ca- pabla through his training of under- slatMiing school processes, is the man who should-have been sent. A Joplin,. Missouri, doctor boasts that he lives on 15 cents a day on this diet: One loaf of whole wheat bread weighing liM ounces, three ounces of ; ground wheat and four quarts of watu". H" recommends this regimen to his friends and patients. His license to practice ought to be taken away. It is not a balanced ration. t A DEMOCRACY FOR WOMEN S' UFPRAGB now -goes to the states for ratification by the legisla tures. Passage of the amendment by the senate yesterday is an epochal step in the history of the long-time controversy. Advance of the reform, like thai other progressive move ments, has been both swift and spec tacular in recent' months. Its further progress will be strenuously dis puted, but without serious delay it will run the gauntlet of the states and pass into history as another ad vance in enllghtment Jn. an age noted for its many forwar&sieps. The anti-suffrage Idea is a sur vival of the formulas which civiliza tion long ago discarded. The chief of the tribe ruled because he was the strongest man. His psychology made him assume that, as he was superior, his wife was inferior. The other tribesmen copied .him, and woman, started thus early down the Journey of the ages, the inferior. controlled, owned and orderecLby her liege lord. The error endured through all these centuries and only until yesterday remained, in a modified form, the formula of the .United States senate. After playing her great part in a war to make the world safe for democracy, America, as a guarantee of good faith, owed It to her own history to make an American de mocracy also , safe for American women.' . porn on a farm and operator of a eouiifry elevator on a salary of $75 oer "month before the war. George A. Roberfe ,of Omaha, in the past three months, "has cleaned up a fortune of $2,300,000 through an ad vance of 60 cents a bushel in the price of corn. With others he ac cumulated and ' cornered 6,000,000 bushels, and saw the price jump in a short time from $140 to $1.704, at which he sold the re maining part of his holdings. Why should there not be a scientific sys tem of marketing in which- the men who grew the corn would have received the profit? So long as there is room for such profits from speculation a tremendous influence will always be present to beat down the farmer's price. . THE FIGHT s TANDING before the Portland Traffic and Transportation as sociation yesterday Samuel M Mears. a well known business man, said: It Is time that Portland people who value their investments should awaken to a realization of the facts and under stand in what manner the existing rail road rate structure is unjust and dis criminatory against Portland ana other Columbia river points, and how It de prives both Portland and the interior of the benefit of their location and natural advantages. Do Portland people realize the facts to which Mr. Mears referred? Do they know that the wealth of prod ucts from the Inland Empire can be poured through this crty and be passed on 100 miles "at a rail rate the same as to Portland? Do they realize that freight is moved" between Puget Sound anci the Columbia river territory over frequently longer' distances and by way of the hazardous, costly and less dependable mountain routes at pre cisely the same rate as between Port land and the Inland Empire by way of the Inexpensive and easy, water grade routes? .Do they know that Seattle -characterizes as "absurd" the appeal Of the Inland Empire, Portland and other ports of the Columbia to the inter state commerce i commission ; for the belated justice of . recognition of- the Columbia water grade by a rate preferential in its favor? Do they know that the question - is ' - asked : "Does Portland consider itself a port the same as Seattle"? . Do they know that one - of the substantial reasons Seattle has. ex panded as a v city and - grownt -into national leadership as a port is be cause of r the ' aftificiaf 'advantage which ignores the mountain baflrier and denies to this city the " enjoy ment of geographic position? The Columbia river rate case is-the fight of the Columbia basin. It. is the fight of Portland and of other Columbia river ports, it is. a fight for interior . development and - for port growth, y It is a fight to rid the : ports . of tlw Columbia and the Inland Empire ; of a retarding handi cap. The value of ; victory will be incalculable. ' It is an Issue of J us tics which public .sentiment should up- hoId "witli unremitting "vigor. f Mr. Mears' concluding remark was : ' Think It over and determine for your selves on which side your bread is but tered in this eontlBat fight. Like de mocracy and other good things in this world the retention of our natural geo graphic advantages wiU only be main tained by fighting for them, and Port land is not the only community which has been compelled' to ,fight for Its rights against organised railroad influ ence and secret as well as open opposi tion. . . .. . The Columbia, river rate case will be heard in . Portland by the inter state commerce commission on July 21. .1 PORTLAND AND THE FARMERS MULTNOMAH county threw a strong majority for the market road bill. It is intelligent action. It is also a pleasing incident, in that it is cooperation by Portland with the farmers of the state. ; v The farmers asked for the market road bilL They felt that, in the big road program 'of Oregon, they were entitled to effective roads from their farms to the market places. The returns from the rural disif icts show how strong -was the desire there for the farm roads. If out there be fore election, you sensed the intensity of the road sentiment. Though realizing .that none of the money would be spent in Portland, Portlanders voted to tax themselves through passage of the market road bill in the sum of the added mill as an aid to,, the agricultural section. It was . broad intelligence, and co operation of highest value in com munity life. It means a road system something more than scenic or for' use of pleas ure vehicles. It means a perfected utilitarian system in which all will be for the roads and the roads be for all.. It is also a guarantee of good faith between city life and country life. The two sections of people have common interest and ought al ways to have Common purposes. The city consumes in heavy measure what the agricultural communities produce. and the agricultural communities pro duce what the city needs. Their life lines run exactly parallel and it is a great mistake when effort is made to draw or drive them apart. The voters smashed the lieutenant governorship. The unseemly, if not ghoulish circumstances under which it. was proposed, foredoomed it to a stormy career. While the late gov ernor was in his last moments in the room of death, politicians, through the lieutenant governorship, planned for distribution among them selves of his political estate. Perhaps this protest of the people will save Oregon from other such scandal as the proposal for the new office in the late legislature. 'ON WHICH SIDE? DESPITE announcements of in tention to take part, the Oregon public service commission is not . ye represented m ine Columbia river rate case. The purpose of the contest is to secure long overdue recognition of the Columbia water grade. The interstate commerce commission is asked to give this recognition in the form of a lower rate between the Inland Empire and ports of the Co lumbia. The interests of the entire Columbia basin are vitally bound up in the Issue. Why dhen should the public serv ice commission of this state delay? The forces of Puget Sound are using every Influence of intervention to defeat the possibility of justice for the water grade. The Washington public service commission has inter vened with obvious intention to tight for Puget Sound and ignore the welfare 0- the Columbia basin portion of pur neighbor state. The Oregon commission should take a determined stand for Oregon as -a whole, and do It now while friends and opponents are being counted. Although there is such a post-war shortage of. men in England -that It is said 1,000,000 .single women in Great Britain will never have a pro posal for marriage, there Is an in crease of 28 per cent. in the number of widows who have b.een led to the altar under the marriage bell. Wb4t other conclusion can be drayn than that when it comes to a blushing widow for a bride the Britisher, or any other swain for that matter, un hesitatingly hoists the- white flag of surrender. . ITS LOVELINESS THE Willamette Valley now in the height of its sprirfgtime beauty.- - - The world can scarcely point to a more beautiful , nature picture. Grain . fields with, wheat standing fence - high in places are in the foreground " as you pass in auto or train through a landscape t of - vary ing greeny ' Clover,? - jh its most radiant colorings of plant and blos som, is, everywhere. . " Long rows of loganberries, jeweled with blooms J against the ' setting of green - leaves, dot the perspective, particularly - in i Marlon county. The .snowy sentinels ; above the varying.! blues and greens of the mountains look down from the far off liorizon. Out of spotless blue a streaming sunshine goldens all, and lights up a picture . that is - an Eden of -loveliness. -. - -, The Willamette Valley in June is a theme for poetry and song. It was-the mystic valley that drew the early pilgrims - over the trackless deserts and across forbidding moun tains and through hostile Indian country and down rushing streams on rude rafts to become the pioneers of oor time. - ' ' . It is fit that the annual reunions of that brave and hardy race should be in June. iT month when the Mecca of their, long Journey is in its loveliest - mood- : Two hundred and fifty-two of the 437 miles of the Alaska railroad has been completed and considerable grading and other 'work has been done qn the unfinished stretch. For further work On the road anappro priation of $1,964,350 has. been passed by the house and is now in the senate. The plan is to increase the force of men on the road in effort to regain some of the time lost during the war, when workers were few and materials scarce. . McNARY'S PLACES ON COMMITTEES By Carl Smith, Washington sfaff Correspondent , of The Journal. Washington, June 5. Senator Mc Kary holds an unusual hand in the dealing of the committee assignments. It might be termed a Western flush, for the committees on which he will hold membership for the next two years touch nearly every conceivable point of legislation directly affecting the West. He Is chairman of Irrigation and recla mation of arid lands, the committee to which the Lane land settlement bill is likely to be .referred, the one to ' which the Chamberlain-Smith bill to guaran tee bonds of Irrigation districts wilt go, and the one which deals with reclama tion generally. He is a member of commerce, where the shipping policy of the country will In large part be determined, and where river and harbor bills are handled. There was lively competition for the few places which were open bn this committee. As a member of the committee on agriculture he will have a part in fram ing the annual appropriation bill for agriculture, the premier industry of the West, and with all bills touching the grain Interests, the farming industry, livestock and fruit culture. He retains a place on public lands, where the land settlement biU may go. if it does not go to the committee of which he is chairman. Here, also, Is where-the waterpower bill dealing with powers on the public lands will go, and if that subject is divided, he will also be in touch with the navigable stream bill in the committee on commerce. The leasing bills for oU. coal and phosphate lands also pass through this committee, and all measures concerning the home stead laws, national parks and forest reserves. - On the fisheries committee he will have another place . of particular im portance to his state. He becomes a member of the com mittee on manufactures, which is of growing importance to the West, and which daring the present session is ex pected to delve into investigation of such subjects as the cost of living and prifces of commodities, such as steeL : Going still farther West, to complete the list, he is a member of the ' commit tee on the Philippines, before which will soon cohie the question of granting in dependence to the , islands. To the suggestion that he may owe some of these, assignments to his selec tion as a member of ,,the Republican committee on committees, where the plums were distributed, the Oregon sena tor merely winks an eye for reply. It is well known that his f aUure to enter Into competition for one of the so-called big committees contributed to his suc cess in gaining a ' place on practically all of those which deal especially with Western problems. ' There was a scramble for finance, which means tariff and revenue ; for foreign relations, which means the peace treaty ; for Interstate commerce, which means railroads, and for apropriations, which means the general supply bills. Mr. McNary considered commerce, pub lic lands, agriculture and irrigation of greater value to Oregon. It is understood that he was urged to take . a place on the judiciary com mittee, also a "big" committee, which appealed to him as a lawyer, but would have involved the sacrifice of some of the other assignments. In lieu of the irrigation chairmanship, It is reported, he could have been chairman of the woman suffrage committee, but that would have been only the "gtory of a day," with the victory of suffrage so close in sight. Signs of the times are reflected by the early introduction in the senate of two resolutions to constitute a joint com mission for the investigation of the budget system. One is by Senator Edge of New Jersey, the other by Senator Kenyon of Iowa. They differ only In details, and either probably will meet the -demand for preliminary action. The Edge resolution creates a commis- slon consisting of the secretary of the treasury, three senators, two of whom shall be members of. the' finance com mittee and one of the apropriations committee, and three representatives, two of them members of the ways and means . committee and one of the ap propriations committee. The Kenyon commission is the same except that two executive officers to be selected Uy the president,.-are. added, and no .restrictions are placed upon the vice' president and speaker In naming the congressional 'members. The Edge resolution directs a report by September 1. Kenyon pro vides for a report by December the ; beginning of -the regular session of con gress. Edge proposes an appropriation of 12500 for expenses and Kenyon $20,000. Both resolutions provide that members of the commission shall not be paid. The Kenyort resolution ter minates the life of the commission when it makes its report, while the Edge oro posal keeps it standing until March 4, -1921. '"-. -." ' . '- In the preamble of the Edge resolu tion is presented a summary of what loading economists are ' saying, and Edge, the recent governor of a state which has the budget system, has put it into apt language. . It says : . ... - "Whereas the evils df the present method . Uelh the ' fact .that the esti mates for and expenditures of all de partments are considered without rela tion to each other and . to the public revenues ; that expendiuires for local purposes are considered political! in stead of scientifically : and that 29 dif ferent congressional committees ; report upon financial measures without con sulting: with each other or In any con sistent way with cabinet officers or in vestigators; and ' Whereas there Is need of the United States government adopting a budget whereby labile finances will be nation alized, considered as a unit with rela tion to departmental needs accurately ascertained and the national income, and with responsibUity fixed upon the chief executive and his cabinet for pre senting to' each congress a thoroughly Investigated and clearly portrayed out line of the national needs and resources ; nd. . - "Whereas there is need, of an inquiry to' determine definitely the respective constitutional rights of the executive and legislative branches of the govern ment respecting the responsibility which must he fixed upon each for the success ful operation pf a budget system that wiX enlighten and guide congress and yet not curtail Its constitutional prerog atives." - - Letters From the People I Communications ent to Tba Journal for publication in this department abould be jrittaa on only on aide of the paper, ibonld not exceed S00 words in lencth, and must be aigned by the writer, whose mail address in fall mast accom pany the contribution. J Complains of Certain Legislation Prineville, June 1. -To the Editor of The Journal I have just read the letter of "J. M. R." in The Journal. It con tains the sentiments of many good . peo plepeople who have little use for-ipa-loons or those who abuse the privilege they have had in the past The sams experience has been gone through with here, and I have heard those who voted for the prohibition legislation that we have say that if- there Is ever a chance to vote on the Question again they would vote for it. The legislation that has been put over In this state by the prohi bition lobbyist is little short, of Bolshe vism, as "J. M. R." writes, and It is time that common sense was being used in many of the doings of today. When one thinks of the laws and rul ings that have been placed thereon, is it any wonder that we have people who take, the law into their own hands? While my views are Socialistic, T abhor the idea of taking into my own hands, or encouraging others to do so, the tak ing of iife or the destruction of. prop erty in order to bring about conditions suitable to them. A better way is the ballot, with a rood leader. "J. M. R." writes "in a so called free country." He seems to have doubt as to his freedom. This is called a free country, but is it. when one considers the privileges tip has here? Next year you can own 433d run a Ford worth possibly 1100 orOO) if you pay a big road graft license. whUe the rich man with a $1500 or better car sails around like a king and says, "It's cheaper than the old -way." Sure, and it is for him. But is it for the poor devil with his castof f car that the rich man has got rid of? Talk about your justice Is this it? If we had to have this road built for those who are able to wear It out. why was not this tax put on the gas? Then the fellow who wears out the roads would be paying the bill for repairing, and not the poor devil with hU Ford. Common sense, say I. Some more free America and we have more just such laws as this, and they are always -good for the lower class that need goo. care and guidance. The upper class (our law makers and lobbyists) need no such guidance. When one thinks about the conditions as they really are to the la boring class it Is no wonder there is so much dissatisfaction among them, even at- the high price of labor. 1, for one, wish they might stick together better, and let violence be to the other fellow. for It is only a detriment to their cause. I have a car worth about $200, and it will cost me the best part of $25 for a license, while the man with a $1500 or $2000 car pays no more. Neither of Tus nays any personal tax. Who has th-s best of it? MAT COME AGAIN. Concerning Wines and Beers Newport, May 28. To the. Editor of The Journal I ask space for a few lines on the president's message recom mending to congress that the war-time prohibition law "be amended of repealed in so far as - it applies to wines and beers." Now the question :s a : tter of right and wrong. If prohibition of the traffic Is wrong and not in the interest of so ciety. It should be repealed. What Is the voice of the people on It? By their overwhelming voice the law is held to be right;: and in that majority we find the very best of society. On May 23 Senator Phe'.an of California introduced a bill for he repeal of the provisions of the food control act so rar as they apply to winesi and ers, as recommended by the president. This bill represents the numerous liquor organizations headed by the Association Opposed to Na tional Prohibition, which is backed up with billions of dollars to kill any and all laws that would In any way Inter fere with the saloon business. . The news of Senator 'Phelan's efforts in congess to comity with th -resident's recom mendation has been received with shrieks of joy by pro-liquorites every where. ' s Surely this represents a clear case of right and wrong. And surely also the Brewers Review made a fine applica tion In point when It said : "The chal lenge has been sounded ; the death grap ple has begun- For the brewer there can be, from now on, only two parties, Prohibition rnd Anti-Prohibitio'n." The death grapple is now on in, con gress, renewed and made stronger by the president's message from Paris,. and It will be fought to a brief settlement by this congress, only to be renewed in the presidential campaign next year. Mr. Bryan says: "A repeal of the law as recommended by the president would commit the Democratic party " to the championship of the saloon In , its last hours and mean a six months spree as a prelude to national prohibition." However, be .that as it may. "Watch for the elephant next year." E. W. DURKEE. Improvements on Ceased Land Portland, May 3L To the. Editor of The Jownal If a person sets up a building at his own expense on the prop erty which he has leased, when tie is about to vacate the place, could he se cure a permit to tear the building flown? MRS. CLYDE LITHERLAND. rim imDrovemeata made on leased' land be longs to the owner of the land. Unless .your lease specUiceiiy les you ine ngni to nnw't improvements, yon cannot ao io.j - - i. The Pioneers Were Men of Pep ' Prom the Pendleton East Orefonian Through the artistic skill of A. Phlmlster Proctor and the" generosity of J. N. Teal the University of Oregon was yesterday presented with a bronze statue that will immortalize the Oregon pioneer. It is a splendid bit of work showing a resolute character facing the fortune of life in the early day west. .Though bearded, the man who posed for this statue was not old, as indi cated by the fact be was married Uuring the time he was engaged by Mr. Proctor. This was as it should be. The pioneers were not old people. They were yourtg or of middle age. 'The conquest Of the west was a young man's game, just as war is a young man's game. We are apt to think of ' the pioneers as old people because they are old now. But the men who crossed the 'plains or came west- -via the Isthmus were mostly youths or men in the prime of life.- It required the vigor and enthusiasm of youth to do the. work -they did. Many of those who were In the gold rush of '49 had a few years previously been our boys of the Mexican war. The west was settled by adventuresome men. ' It is reported that the man who posed for- thf Proctor Pioneer , in addition to COMMENT AND. , . . SMALL CHANGE . . ,' .... Speaking of fruits, we are 'all fond pf peaches with cherry lips. 1 A man does not need to look Ilk Na poleon to. bump up against a Waterloo now ana then.. - r i When Oat "still small voice" within seems to make a noise like a calliope there is hope for the sinner, j . . . - r .. '., 1 p You cannot fool all the women all the time, but an expensive birthday present will occasionally pacify one of them. e i ..." I - - The modern jazs "band is all right In its way. but economical old dad J likes the musict of the cash register better. ,:-. j . . - Some folks are mean enough" to say the gentleman who has saved, daylight under the clock changing law is a de scendant of the enthusiast who invented perpetual jnotion. s I. v "Everybody's for June." mumbled the absent-minded man as his eye fell upoh the "credit line" of an article I repro duced in bis favorite newspaper. !"Why, of course "they are ! was what he said. OBSERVATIONS OF THE I?y Fred (Thia is the second article la a aeries pre sented by Mr. Ixwkiey, portrajrln lite . aj It waa lived under crook rule in Skawar.b the early days of cold la Alaska. Tira fir, sTil is tri UHii'hent and virtue doesn't seem j to i har a took in. N i ! "In the fall of 1897 Skagway was split into two distinct factions the skinners and the skinned," said George R- Ded- man, a long time resident or 1 Skagway, now visiting Portland friends, skinners, however, had a better The .organi zation and stuck together, so (those who were defrauded were usable s to obtain redress. Attention was soon diverted from the claim jumpers by a new party organized under the leadership jof Jef ferson R. Smith, from Denver. Colo. Most people know him by hlsi nickname of 'Soapy Smith. Soapy Smith was a most genial and affable crook. He obtained his nickname by a business he made-of traveling throughout) the West selling small bars of soap, at fL He would wrap a $10 or $20 bill around one of these small cakes of soap, put an additional wrapper on it, drop It Into the pile, and let you pick It out. It was like picking out the -rubber ball (from under the walnut shell. To your great surprise, you never was able to pick out the cake of soap around which was wrapped the $20 bill. 'Soapy want ed to go on over the pass to Dawson, but the Northwest mounted police po litely but -firmly refused permission. - I- . Jt.was said that Soapy Smith owned the court, the postoffice and the church at Skagway. You couldn't help liking Soapy. He was the most gentlemanly crook that ever scuttled ship or cut a throat.' For example, a preacher came to him for a subscription toj build a church, i Soapy asked him how much he needed The minister told him. Soapy said, 'Don't be a piker and go around asking for small amounts! Come out with ma and we will raise the whole thing in a couple of hours.' Soapy and the minister went to, each saloon, each gambling house and each merchant and raised the money within a few hours. Soapy would go In and say, I 'Ws are building a church you are assessed $100 If the saloonkeeper or (merchant demurred, Soapy would say, Are you going t5 come through with that $100. or not? If you don't, it will pe apt to cost you 10 "times that amount in. the long , run.' They came through, " for they knew Soapy would make" good lis threat Naturally, after that the preach er was So&py's friend for life, and couldn't believe that Soapy wasn't a big hearted Westerner who was great ly misunderstood. - "Soapy's gang had a great contempt for the real' estate crooks. Soapy and his gang won their wealth in (legitimate ways, such as gambling, running saloons and confidence garoes. 1 doubt If there HOLLAND Tp ANNEX A PROVINCE By W. J. B Dec ial Correspondence to The Journal and The Chicago Daily News, j The Hague. Holland is about to an nex province. But it will do so with out bloodshed, and with the jhelp of. a great army of men carrying spades, not guns. It will take the province from Its ancient enemy the sea. At last the ac tual work of reclaiming the Zuyder Zee is to begin and soon the first spade will turn the ground for the dikes This useful work, which is to give a new province to Holland. ha4 been de layed by the war, not only because of the lacks of. all sorts of material and labor, biit mainly because of military considerations for it Is well kjnown that Holland's waterline inundation defenses are bound up with the Zuyder Zee. The political situation la now considered of sufficient stability to undertake the great work. It will alleviate the. exces sive unemployment trouble. The pro jected four ereat areas to be reclaimed have been so chosen that their soir is entirely a good rich clay wt(lch is the ideal kind of soil for raising good, plen tiful crops. These four areas together will measure 623,093 acres, which 1 con siderably larger than" the province of Zeeland, 444.S00 seres, which) now pro duces Holland's best wheat. .1 j The reason why such a large expanse of the sea will be kept as a lake Is be cause -the IJsel and many smaller water courses continually pour hujge quanti ties of water Into the Zuyder Zee, vso that If by continued storms jthe sluices of the canal leading from Zujder Zee to. North sea had to toe kept 1 closed for day at a time, the Ijsel lake would be able to contain them- whu4r danger of in undating the surrounding land. ., The first thins to be done U to lay the big embankment between IjTorth Hol land province and Frlesiand ! and dig a canal through Wierlngen, jthe island where the former Qerman crown prince is in exile, to regulate the height of the water in the Zuyder Zee. Anbther canal getting married during the time, also had a quarrel with a Oermap neighbor. He was true to form. The jnen' of the early West were of this type. They loved and they; , were read to fight. Those who were contented Or! lacked ag gressiveness did! not come West. Mr. Proctor knew his business) when he chose his model.' A man wh lacked In what we now call pep wouldj have been a poor model for a statue ofjtbe Oregon pioneer. ' , - - . . . - Cupous Bits of Information For the Curious . ; Gleaned From ? Cwtooe iFUeee Following is the explanation f the origin of the name Boston : j. t v .1 In the seventh century a Roman Catho lic monk by the name of Botolph, or Bot holp viz., boat-help founded a church in, what is now Lincolnshire. England. Gradually a town grew up around the church and was called Botolphstown, - ... . V- . '.' NEWS IN BRIEF, OREGON SIDELIGHTS j - 1 Grande's Riverside park Is being improved with a gateway of massive concrete pillars and a rustic stone wan partly inclosing jthe tract. , - ; WaOuski grange. In .Clatsop county, is to build a community hall this sum mer, and as a starter expects to raise a large sum of money at a community gathering at Olnjy on June 14. ; Representatives ef five school d le tricts are working on a plan to consoli date at Dixonvllle. A new school build ing and a high school course are in cidents of the Pjan. , W. E. Johnson ' and M. R. Johnson, editors and publishers of the Madras Pioneer for the past nine months, have retired, giving place to Vine W. Pearce. former "owner and editor, ;who takes over the paperat once. - , Concerning Hlllsboro's new band, which contains some seasoned talent, the Argus saysi "In olden times Hllls boro boasted ofa band of 20 pieces, and the musical organisation was the pride aPf the county seat. In band contests over the stale the boys brought home the bacon and there is no, reason why history cannot repeat Itself.' AND IMPRESSIONS JOURNAL MAN Lockley was ever a smoother bunko man than Soapy Smith, . On July 4. ISM, Soapy was grand marshal , of the Fourth of July program at Skagway. He had (0 mounted men in the parade, lie of fered President McKinley to furnish a company for the Spanish war, but this offer was declined. Soay and his gang could part a man from his money, the most expeditiously and painlessly of any bunch of grafters I ever saw. For example,, a man came oyer the trail one day with a horse. He was going to take the boat that left next day for Seattle. He had a sign on his horse, For ' Sale $1001 He walked up and down the streets of Skagway leading the horse, looking for a purchaser. One of Soapy's men examined the horse and decided to purchase it. The owner made out a bill of sale. The buyer handed him a $100 bill. A group of Soapy's men were standing around. One of them said, "Let me see that bill ; I think it's a counterfeit.' He looked at It and said. 'No, it seems to be a good bill after all.' One of the other men said, 'It doesn't look very good to me ; let me see -it The man who purchased the horse led the horse away while the discussion was going on as to the merits and demerits of the $10. bill. The former owner of the horse said, 'Well I will have to be going.' Where Is ray $100 bllir No. one knew. It had disap peared. The man put up a terrible hoi ler but everyone laughed at him. Finally they threatened.. to put h(m in Jail for creatine a disturbance if he didn't go aboard the ship and behave himself. The man was nearly frantic . The crowd dispersed. The owner of the horse hada't the faintest, idea Which one of them had Ills bill Everyone he went to with his story of the horse ideal gave him the horse laugh Finally one of Soapy's gang said, If you willgo aboard your boat and quit your hollering X will take up a collection for you, though I greatly doubt you ever having the . $iou Din you claim you had They took up a collection and raised sio or i ior mm. which settled the matter. He went away feeling grateful to them. "All of the money secured in this way went into a common pot and was divided among the gang. One of the gang, who helped split the pot., told me they had to pay $500 a week to the Skagway paper to keep them from pub lishing anything detrimental to the op eration of Soapy Smith and his asso- Ucltes. "There was considerable jealousy and bad blood between the real estate graft ers and the confidence gang under Soapy Smith. It was a case of the pot calling the kettle black. The honest citizens were afraid to criticise either side for fear of getting in bad." I Klehl from just behind the embankment to Harllngen in Frlesiand will be dug to facilitate shipping from the Zuyder Zee ports to Harllngen. The embankment and attendant works will take about nine years to build. The whole work o reclaiming, so it is estimated, will last 36 years. '' e " Both from North Holland and Frles ian coast and from an Island .that Is first to, be dumped down midway be tween the two, the embankment con struction Is to proceed. This Island is to be made principally from heaps upon heaps of fagots of brush wood sunk to the bottom of the sea in the form of mats loaded down by stones. The whole embankment is to have such a brush wood ' fagot foundation, which has, in dike construction, been found best fitted to weld the subsoil and dike to gether, so that no infiltration can take place. Concrete is also to play a promi nent part in strengthening the foot of the embankment and -In closing the gaps that are left between the different parts of it. - ' ' e e e The Zuyder Zee waters will turn from .brackish to sweet because of the con tinual Inflow from the rivers by this work and thus in times of drought the waters can be pumped into Frlesiand and North Holland, to supply the land with the necessary, sweet water. An other advantage will be the security from inundation that the new condition will bring to, all the country surround ing the sea. Of course, the existing dikes are to remain and 'each new re claimed area : is to be inclosed within Its own dikes, but those will not have to be quite so high and strong as sea dikes and experts believe that ao fear of floods need be entertained. Another ad vantage will be the easier and swifter communication between-North Holland and Frlesiand, for a railway line as well as a carriage road is projected along thS embankment ; - (Oodyrlsht, ltl. by Chicago Pally Mewa , Co.) which was afterward contracted Into Botolphston. and then shortened to Bot oston, and finally to Boston. From that town of Boston in Lincolnshire came to America the Rev. John Cotton, who gave the name to the New England" town. .So that the metropolis of good bid Puritan Massachusetts was. U seems, named in honor of .a Roman -Catholic saint and monk. :,V":;: . Olden Oregon First State Bond' Issue, for 200,000, ' v.v Paid 1 Per Cent -. " ' IV . The first bounty to volunteer soldiers In Oregon was authorized by the legis lature of 1M4 when a bond Issue of $200,000 was passed- ' In order to pay In terest and redeem the bonds a state tax of" 1 milt was levied. .'The bonds ran for ,20 years and paid an interest of 1 per cent, iWhHe an issue of f 200, 000 was authorized, only $137,700 was iSSUed. , -r-r Ragtag and Bobtail Stories from Everywhere The" Perils of the Hard Road rLD Lute lathers is great feller "to. always lodlTion the bright side of things," said the) gaunt MUsourlan (quoted In the Kansas City Star). "II was riding to town on a load of hay With his son-in-law the other dav when the roads was- so muddy. One wheel dropped Into a chuckhole clear up to the axle, the hay slewed ' and Uncle Lute rolled off and landed on his head in a, puaaie a root ana a hair deep. "Well, sir says he. when they had drug him out and manmd him r. f f v.am 'ers mud roads don't bruise -you up iiae a roc roaa aoes. ir that had been a hard-surfaced road, b'dogged If It wouun t nava plumb broke my neck 1" Th Day I and Mamma, the day be wnt. We didn't cry, not we; , I kep' it la account of her and ah account of ma and all the time he's been away IHe's very almost here) : we've both of us been brave at brave, V haven't cried s tear. Oh. will ha say hew I have trow at , -and will be hug us tlahtft How fanny 'at Mamma and 1 Cried awfully last nifhtl f- "Anne llerendeea to Everybody's. Uncle Jeff Snow Says: Any rich American i?nln tn FnnM t t llvs In order to git boose had orter to iw sjen a stirr income tax that he Can't 'ford to bur much whan ! m-tm. there. That'd help the United States uivion nis iiviu- nere would. The News in Paragraphs World Happenings Briefed for Benefit of Journal Headers GENERAL. Word Is received from Washington that congress will not act on war tlma prohibition. . A 4 per cent beer measure has been killed In the Massachusetts house of representatives., The German government has ordered the arrest of Dr. Dorton, president of the new Rhine republic. Resolutions asking investigation of the shipping board were considered by the house rules committee Tuesday. Harry Johnson, flying from Tenver to Chicago, was forced to alight at Creston, Iowa, on account of a heavy fog. . Norway has refused to Join in a blockade of Germany in case the Ger man delegates refuse to sign the peace treaty. The report of the killing last Sunday '' of Miguel Otto, an American, by Yanuts, near La Colorado, Sonora, has been confirmed. x Kvery mint In the 'United States has been put to work turning out' 1 cent pieces in an effort to keep pace with the enormous demand. Independence for the Philippines wan urged Tuesday by Governor General Harrison at a Joint session of the houwa and senate committees. Veterans of the Civil and Spanish American wars ask' that they be in- . eluded In Secretary Lane's project for farms for soldiers and sailors. Because he had worked his mie IS years and never found a pay streak, Henry Irwin, an aged prospector, shot himself through the head at Redding, Cat Secretary Baker has asked congress for legislative authority and an ap propriation of $10,000,000 for the Im mediate purchase, of the Cape Cod canal. The senate Interstate commerce com mittee has Ordered reported- favorably a bill restoring at once the rata making powers of the interstate commerce com mission. - , j . A gas well near Bakersflald, Cal., produclnr 20.000.000 cubic feet dally. caught fire Tuesday and is now a blaz- . ' ing lorcu nnooung names uunuicua vi feet into the air. The Utah State Press association. In convention at Halt Lake City, adopted Kesolutions favoring the Ieagrue of Na ions, also the return of railroads to private ownership. On account of 111 health following: a nervous breakdown, -Albert L. Lanirer man, secretary ofcthe Anglo and London Paris National bank, committed sulcidi at San Francisco Tuesday by shooting himself. :. ' NORTHWEST NOTES Work has commenced on the building of a new veneer plant and wood package factory at Raymond,- Wash. The prune cron of the Willamette valley is estimated' at 25,000,000 pounds against (0,000,000 last year. The town council of Woodland has decided to erect a town hall commen surate with the dignity of a progressive town like Woodland. Henry Lake of Saginaw, Or., was taken to a hospital in Salem Tuesday night with a broken back as a result of a fall in a logging camp. Ijllue year-oiu nun ruo itrjiin omun was drowned Tuesday afternoon in Tn alatin creek, near Gaston, while stoop ing to gather some wild flowers. H. W. Collins is planning for th immediate erection of a 1500-barrel flour mill at Pendleton. The mill will be in operation soon after January 1, At present the Harvey Mill company at Vancouver has contracts calling for 8.000,000 feet of railroad ties, most of them for the British government. Sugar beet men estimate that the value of sugar that will be made from the crop of the Yakima valley durlmr the present season will reach 3,0u0,00u. William P. Reser. aged 78, one of the best known pioneer farmers of Walla Walla valley, dlod Tuesday on the farm where he had resided since lt7. Donald, 1-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. IL L. Fletcher, was drowned in Grays river,- near Astoria, Tuesday, while playing on a log lying closs to the river bank. At an open meeting of looser and. sawmill workers at North Bend Tues day a local union of timber workers was formed in opposition to the Loyal Legion of Loggers and Lumbermen Because the company refused to con tinue what it called a war bonus, be tween 1100 and 1200 coal miners nre t on - strike at the Northwestern Im provement company's mines at Cle Klum and Roslyn. After traveling from "Tacoma to New York to meet- their son, Mr. and Mrs. George Crate learned that he had dk- 1 the day before their arrival. His de&tn was caused by drinking water from a well poisoned by the Huns. Now Is the Time to Buy War Savings Stamps Stories of aehievenient la the aeenmq. , lation of War Savincs Stamps, sent u 1m Jonmal and es-eep.d for publication, wiU be awarded a XbrUt Stamp. 1 War -Savings stamps are worth more this month than they were last month. They will be worth much more and will cost more'next month than they do this month. The June price is $4.17. Buy them now. Turn In your Thrift stamps cards, each one pasted up with It Thrift sUmps, pay the selling aecnt 17 Cents addi tional and get a War Savings stamp that will be worth $5 of Uncle Sam s best money on January 1, 1324. Buy as many more War Savings stamps as yes aan for $4.17, or. If more con venient tor you to put by Just one little slick two-bit piece at a time, buy a Thrift stamp, with It. . Get the habit and when the rainy days come you'll be surprised how many "baby bonds" you've accumulated just by the practice of a little daily thrift. Thrift Stamps and 1917 Wav Ft!di SUmpe now on sale at oiual aenc;ea.