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THE ; OREGON DAILY JOURNAL, PO RTLAND, SATURDAY; JUNE 7. 1919.
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thing. 1 am in favor of it extension or
enlargement. I want to lift awn -to
broaden rather than contrast their prifl-lcges.-
Abraham, Lincoln,
NEXT WEEK
SOME of "the livest advertising men
In America and-that, of course,
means the world are coming to
Portland next week, incident to
the convention of the Pacific Coast
Advertising Men's association.
Stepping on the heels of the dis
play publicity congress will come
the Rose Festival; home Industry and
Us products are to be given promi
nence during the entire week.
It Is a great opportunity for Port
land. Added fame can brighten the
name of our vigofous City and pro
gressive state with every repeatable
evidence that we do things better
h ere than elsewhere.
The ' rising sun as a mil blown
Portland rose inclining from the
crystal chalice of Mount Hood should
' be ; their vivid . impression of our
floral beauty.
Days and nights filled with music
and melody should be the contribu
tion of our best talent. The ce'ase-less-
J'oar of our industry should be
speak the resistless urge of the
electric current from our unfailing
mountain rivers, and . the light of
"day " should 'scarce be missed under
the illumination of,nightv Portland's
hospitality should combine the finest
traditions l ot old Virginia with the
splendid liberality "of the West.
y Ad men have authored nearly every
proud community ulle and almost
air, the 'famous sales-promoting 'slo
gans knowjn to national advertfsing.
The complete exoneration of Henry
. FprdVin the Eagle boat .charges is a
I !itt disappointment i to the in
triguers who sought to. ruin the mil
lionaire Idealist. The report brought
out that Mr. Ford refused his entire
share of the profits, or 58 per cent
".ot what his company realized from
the con-tracts. Because of his teach
ings and his acts of humanism, Mr.
Ford is looked upon as dangerous to
the groups of swollen wealthy, and,
" as a measure of self defense, they
' have sought to assassinate his repu
V tation. lie is fast bringing them all
to bay.
VOTERS AND IRRIGATION
AS ANALYSIS, of Tuesday's vote
with reference to the irrigation
measure shows that it was suc
cessful by -reason of the large
majority it received in Multnomah
. and the coast counties.
- While '.the figures- are not complete
they .show on the face of those at
hand that the counties of Eastern
Oregon only gave the measure a
majority of about 2000. Multnomah
gave it a majority of 5D72. The
counties; of Clatsop, Coos, Lincoln
and Tillamook raised this to iO,049.
The adverse vote came principally
r from the Willamette valley. The
wily county voting Jn its favor was
Ben ton j. with a vote of 11W to 922.
Southern Oregon, Including Douglas,
Jackson and Josephine, gave a com
bined majority -against the measure of
fewer than 4000 votes.
Iowa Js the eighth state to declare
- for suffrage within the last three
months. The only , state west of
- the Mississippi 'that has failed to
grant presidential suffrage to women
- is New Mexico. No fewer than 15,
500,000 women, are at this time en
, - titled - to1 vote for president, only
-73,000,000 votes fewer than were cast
at the. last presidential .election.
AFTER JULY FIRST
WHAT is this, we hear from the
south of us? I Is it the sobbing
of lost souls, the moans of the
. tortured, the distant and des
pairing cries of the lost? Or can It
be the sighs of an Franciscans as
. they lean, with their elbows on the
mahogany and their" feet upon the
. brass watching impotent while the
staggering pepdulunx ticks them on
ward , to July 1? ; .
,. Here in' our beloved - city, of' roses,
I where thernerry bootlegger now - and
then plays hid j and seek about our
, bvibbling Benson fountains, we take
no heed of the morrow as they do"
iT ta Golden Gate. We are dry,
maybe not extra, but more or less.
July "i hold no headaches or no
terrors for us. We have had 'em, and
they are memories of fast fading
days and nights. ("
But out .of the luxurious realms
of remembrance we rouse Qursejves
to merge our tears over the ebbing
fountains of "Frisco and wonder
what will happen when that town
goes dry. Here we have the gentle
dew -of heaven with which to soothe
our parched .) and crackling tongues.
But what of , them, shrivelling under
the eternal sunshine of that sun
kissed land? :,:'-' ,. . . .
And, horrible afterthought, what of
fHornbrookT What of the satchel
shaking brigade which so long has
troubled the northbound consciences
upon the Pullmans? And, unanswer
able question, who is going td get
it all when no ?one can have any ?
THE ELECTION AND , AFTER
IT IS usual, after elections have
pome and gone, for the friends of
unsuccessful candidates or meas
ures to tell why and where they
failed. The sponsors for the reconstruction-program
are now confronted
with the task of explaining why the
reconstruction bonding bill, and its
companion measures, the 95,000,000
amendment and the reconstruction
hospital amendment went by the
board.
Why, when 12,000.000 of the total
carried in the bonding bill was to be
devoted to irrigation and drainage
reclamation, did both Eastern Oregon
counties interested in irrigation, and
Willamette valley counties interested
in drainage turn against the measure?
And Why this attitude when the ex
penditure of that 'amount by the
state was contingent upon the ex
penditure of a like amount by the
federal government?
And yet again, why the displeasure
when "the expenditure of this $4,000.
000, in land reclamation and develop
ment would not have brought, in
the final analysis, the charge of a
single cent against the state treasury ?
Is it possible, that the voters of
Eastern Oregon do not desire to
cooperate with the federal govern
ment in irrigation, or that Western
Oregon does not desire the ajd of
federal funds for drainage improve
ments? ,
The Journal does not believe that
the voters killed the reoonsfructiori
bill because of its reclamation fea
tures, but in spite of them. There
was too much public 'building 'pro
gram in the, measure to suit the
taste of the commonalty.
Multnomah county cast its vote
heavily for the bonding bill. Part
of that, the labor vote, was inter
ested in the building program. Part
of it 'came from the business men
and their associates who see the
menace of possible unemployment
corning vrtth the fall and winter
months'. "..
Outsideef Multnomah county there
is some skepticism about the Immi
nence of unemployment.. With the
farmer, the fruit and berry grower
it is more a question of employment
than of unemployment. They want
men now and cannot get them,
though the wages are high and there
are idle men in Portland. They be
lieve it to be more pressing that
their crops are harvested than that
provision be made for additional state
buildings, while Marion county, judg
ing from its negative vote, still JioldsJ
to the doctrine that any attempt to
put state institutions outside its
boundaries is an attack upon its
sovereignty.
In the light of events it was un
doubtedly a strategic blunder on the
part of the reclamationists when
they hitched their measure to the
building program. If the favor with
which the Gallagher guaranty amend
ment was met by the voters is any
indication the reclamation feature
of the bonding bill would- have had
a' different fate had it stood alone
on the ballot.
It is to be particularly regret led.
from the standpoint of state develop
ment, that this feature of the re
construction program was defeated.
It was constructive and forward
looking. Approved and administered
it would have brought land develop
ment of at least ?4,000,000, together
with all of the increased valuations
and added productivity that would
have sprung from the conversion of
idle land into Intensively cultivated
fields and farms.
Oregon is committed to, and en
thusiastic concerning, the construe?
tion of roads and highways. Xbe.
vote shows that. The development
of -the farm by the side of the road
is just as important. Undoubtedly
if that question, divorced from any
other, were to be submitted to the
voters of thes state for their approval
It would not be given a ' negative
answer. ;.''.
It seems . nearly . time for another
congressionaliunket to Europe. If
they wait much longer, mernbers can
no more come back from there with
sensational revelations with which
to entertain their colleagues and get
space in the newspapers.
THEIR DISPUTE
ONE of the items in the order of
business was vacations. Each,
of the women social workers
asked for a. month's absence
on pay. ; A. mere man suggested that
two recreational 'weeks should re
cuperate anyone from any duty, ho
matter now; arduous.
But the head .of the executive staff
a woman disputed the complacent
male wisdom.;- Women. . ah m
require at: least one month in every
tivnTva tfw imr4al:HAi;n-
: The discussion occurred 'at a Meet
ing f liha'diectinflr. board fit nriA
the civic-patriotic organizations. A
physician member ot the board up
held the assertion of the head of the
executive staff. Then came the In
evitable question : If professional
social workers need "a month's rest,
how about stenographers? : How
about housewives? How about women
in industry,, women who substituted
foe men during the war and are made
to' appear as competitors for Jobs with
them now? . ; lk
If women require more time for
recuperation from work I can they
possibly constitute a formidable, eco
nomically competitive factor for that
work? - ;. " l
We dare say these questions will
be disputed for a considerable period
yet before v they are authoritatively
answered. But there is certainty
that men working the full year can
not compete with - women., working
but il months when the tasks re
quire gentleness and patience : under
irritating . and exasperating condi
tions. Few, for Instance, expect
many men to return either to elevator
operation or to care of the needy.
That actual construction has al
ready begun on, the livestock exposi
tion building is good news. A struc
ture to cover an area larger than any
similar building In " America,' is a
notable distinction that cannot bode
other than permanent leadership for
the livestock Industry centered in
Portland. ; From it will radiate In-
iflnences to broadly and strongly
stimulate stock growing in the North
west. .
BACK TO FUNDAMENTALS
STRANGE is the power of 6hips
over railroad rates. When Los
Angeles and San Pedro were
, separatecommunities, the trans
continental freight rate paid by Los
Angeles was the sum of the rate to
San Pedro plus the local rate from
San Pedro back to Los Angeles. This
was because ships landed at San
Pedro. So Los Angeles annexed San
Pedro .and found the cost of port
improvements and a 22 mile strip of
land small in comparison with the
freight rate economies.
The people of Portland, or, rather,
the Port of Portland district, author
ized a bond issue of $1,000,000 at the
election on Tuesday. The money was
voted for the purpose of bringing
more ships to the Portland harbor.
If the port had no shipping It could
not command the advantage of the
water competitive freight rate. With
increase In the number of ships
regularly entering the harbor the
argument will be strengthened In fa
vor of a rate which will also recog
nize the speed and economy of the
Columbia river water grade.
Shipping, industry, rail routes, state
development and distributive power
are all inextricably related. Our new
power to attrapt established steam
ship service will mean renewed
power- for" community benefit in every
other desirable direction.
No matter from what angle you
view it, harbor activity is inexorably
a factor for safeguarding Portland
investments. Ships passing in and
out of the harbor are fundamental to
payrolls and. payrolls are essential
to the stability of , investments,
whether In property or enterprise.
Industries are dependent on' the
ships and the ships are dependent on
the industries.
On both rest the prosperity -and the
future of Portland.
Hindenburg has asked permission
to live in Switzerland. The kaiser is
in Holland. The little countries bor
dering Germany are crowded to stand
ing room with German generals, field
marshals, princes and other royal
nobodies whose homes are not what
they used to be. But they wanted
war.
FIXING HIS PRICES
T'lE farmer is about the only man
in the world who permits the
buyer to dictate the selling price
of his product.iThe really, good
farmer has but little time to attend
to the details of marketing and for
this reason has been the easy mark
of the -profiteer, the speculator and
those who trade on the fact that the
average farmer is usually too busy
producing to spend much time watch
ing the newspapers for daily market
quotations.
Cooperative marketing associations
of farmers retain skilled sales mana
gers whose duty is to watch mar
kets and devote their whole time and
attention to selling their members
products to the best advantage.
Cost of production plus a fair
profit should determine the price of
farm products. Onde crop conditions
are evident, there should be no
necessity for wild fluctuations in
prices. Cooperative marketing asso
ciations of farmers, properly organ
ized and efficiently managed will
solve this vexed question to the ad
vantage of consumer and producer
alike. Speculation and wasteful dis
tribution will be largely eliminated.
The farmer .will be always assured
a fair price for his product and the
elimination of intermediate profits
should help reduce the high cost of
living.
Statistics given out by the agricul
tural department at Washington some
years &gg indicated that the con
sumer was paying'an average of over
$13 for What the farmer wassellihg
at $6. Railroads, speculators, prof
iteers and others got. the difference.
The grain gamblers In the Chicago
wheat pit came in for their; share. .
J Scientific marketing and ' scientific
distribution adjusted to modern busi
ness requirements are pressing prob
lems at the day.- -
College , and high school gradua
tions are following" each other ; fn
swift ' succession - these June . days.
The year , and the graduates are in
the period, ef bloom and beauty.
It is unseemly but It is life that for
either ;- there should come the vere
andyellow leaf.
SHIPPING MEN IN
CONFERENCE
By Carl Smith. Washington Staff Cor
respondent of. The Journal.
Washington. June 7. The recent ship-nine-
board conferences --with represents
i i .-J n.n, Int.rtstli
"v" "u","" . Jl"! "1
brougnt IOtin some imerwu
ions of views "concerning the future of
the American merchant marine. Great
importance 4s attached to the declara
tion ot Chairman Hurley and J. H.
Rdsseter,' director of operattdns of the
snipping board, in favor of regular trad
routes and sailings, and to P. A. S.
Franklin's fervent Indorsement of re
marks y Mr. Hurley that in selling
ships to private owners the government
should see that there results an equit
able distribution. Mr. Franklin is pres
ident of the International Mercantile
Marine," which operates over 900,000 tons
of shipping. Mr. Franklin on this point
said: "When these ships are sold they
should be scattered through the United
States. This could be regulated by the
shipping board, and they should do their
utmost to ses that they , are scattered
and not all congregated in any one
place."
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Mr. Franklin said he considered it es
sential that shipping houses be built up
In every port and that each port and
section should do a part to create and
build them, "for," said he, "it Is only by
getting public money iato these enter-,
prises, ahd the people of the port and
the section themselves interested all
over the United States, that you are go
ing to be able to absorb these ships that
have been built by the government dur
ing the war." Unqualified private own
ership, maintenance of the seamen's,
law ahd present wages. Immediate sale
of all wooden ships and steamers under
6000 tons, continuance of the construc
tion program and a federal charter for
operation were other steps favored by
Mr. Franklin.
. Director Rosseter placed much empha
sis upon the value of regular sailings
and declared It would be a mistake to
entrust the merchant fleet to random
sale and charter. "Without regularity."
he said, "without some direction or' con
trol, without some control of needless
competition between ourselves and the
fierce competition that is coming to
us, we are going to fail." American or
ganisations must be perfected for
handling the ships at foreign ports, he
pointed out, tpr obtaining return car
goes, and for working out the gains of
triangular voyages. There must be a
definite scheme of foreign trade, he said,
addfng. "By foreign, trade routes I
mean this very important point, which
I would like to impress on you regu
larity of sailings in all the ports. Ref
erence was made to the tramp steamer.
The. real instrument of advantage to
tha industry and agricultural interests
of this country is to be best served by
the regular liner."
There was a coltSquy between F. C.
Marsh, representing the Farmers' Na
tional council, who is an advocate of
public ownership, and Mr. Rosseter. Mr.
Marsh desired to know whether the big
Shipping, companies did not practically
exterminate the tramp steamer. "On
the contrary." replied Rosseter. "the
tramp steamer tonnage of the world has
been represented as 0 per cent. and. 20
per cent has been regular lines.- The
mistake we have made all over the
world, as compared.. with the Germans,
is that the Germans' had 90 per cent
resrular and 10 per cent tramp."
Joseph Powell of the Atlantic Coast
Shipbuilding association doubted that
there is enough available capital to take
over all the government ships, and sug
gested leasing of such ships as cannot
be sold to advantage.
Farmers' representatives disagreed on
the question of government ownership
an operation, some favoring and soms
opposing. James O'Connell, representa
tive of the American Federation of La
bor, said the federation has taken no
position on the -question, but If private
ownership is adopted there should be
strict regulation.
Once Prized Viking Memento
Neglected by Chicago
From the Chicago Daily News.
Rocking gently on the waters in Jack
son park is .a small ship, whose tar
nished shields and carvings and faded
red and white stripes seldom arrest the
passing steps of visitors. Its graceful
lines pass as unnoticed as Its unspoken
name the viking galley. There is some
thing sad In the motion of the weathered
relic whose name should bring with it
the breath of romance and the thrill
of fear something as sad as the in
effable contrast of disuse and past glory
that hovers about a discarded costurfie
that had served some opera star. The
galley Is slowly decaying.
Chicago might well be proud of this
relic which stands almost forgotten in
its midst. In 1893 when this city was
the mecca of the works of many lands,
during the World's fair, Norway sent
the boat, an exact reproduction of the
old viking ships, remembered in English
history when ths, Norsemen swept down
on the ishmd, raided the towns and
drove back again through storms and
waves to the rocky coasts of Norway.
One of the most feared of these raid
ers was then Leif Erlckson, who, his
torians declare, landed in Vinland with
his daring crew of seaman 600 years
before Columbus discovered America,
and sailed back again to tell his country
of the new land. The original of the
ship which made the trip was discovered
in Gokstadt, Norway, In 1889.
- A famous captain of the day, Magnus
Anderson, dreamed of reproducing the
weathered model, and building a ship
just like it that could make the trip to
America. A grave consultation, was
held. According to an authority,
"Eleven of the oldest and most experi
enced sea captains" agreed lit could be
done. And so Captain Anderson began
this work of love.
All the love of the sea be built into
It. all the art of the shipbuilder's craft
bo well known to the sailors of the
craggy country. The decorations were
exact reproductions of the old ones that
studded the viking ships. The prow was
adorned by "a colossal and superb
carved dragon's tail, finished In bur
nished copper." says a historian. Around
the outside of the bulwark Are rows of
embellished shields of great beauty, and
almost amidships rises a roofing, painted
In red and white stripes. This roofing
in the olden days protected the vikings
from wind and rain. v
There was festivity and pomp on the
day the ship was launched in Sandefjord
In 1893.' , About the water .were crowds
of cltisens in picturesque native cos
tumes, there was speaking and toasting,
as - the ship dipped and moved grace
fully off into the water. . It was sailed
across the water to the United States
and - transported to Chicago, where
Americans admired it ,at the World's
fair.
For many : years it was pointed out
with pride.'- Theft" people began to for
est its significance. Its history. They
even forgot to admire Its beauty, and
only an occasional person stopped to
took at it. or think of the adventuVes
which the Norsemen had on sea-eagles
of It kind. t
-But now as effort is being made to
formulate protective measures i to pre
serve the viking galley for Chicago. Two
of the caravels of Columbus have al
ready been damaged by the elements.
Persons Interested in Chicago's; histori
cal relics are bestirring themselves to
prevent" .the galley meeting a similar
fate. ; ' v ...... r. - ; .
rComnootoation Mn to Th. Jml for
Jl.pnbMcsttos in this department .hould b written
on only one aid of tbe pPr. aboald not exoeed
OO won in lenstn, and mart De ugnea or im
wriur. who mail artiir i in foil most acoocn
pajjy tba contribution. 1
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- The Great Dipper and Csnopus
Fern vale. May 21. To the Editor of
The Journal There is a phenomenon
connected with the Great Dipper which
I should like to have you explain, name
ly: About 9 p. m. the position of the
Dipper is east of the pole star, the
handle lying perpendicular to that star,
and the two stars that form the upper
and outer rim of the Dipper being In
such a position that a line extended
through them would touch the pole star.
At 3 a. m. the position of the Dipper
is reversed, it having, apparently, passed
around the pole star to the jwest and
turned over, so that the cup how faces
the two stars that form the rim, from
west to east, would meet the line drawn
from east to west earlier in I the even
ing, in the pole star. To the liay mind
my mind these movements are incom
prehensible and, having no text books
on astronomy available I must appeal
to those who have a wider range of
knowledge than I for a solution of this
problem.
Also, in what part ' of the southern
heavens may the immense sun Canopus
now be seen? This star, or sun. Is re
puted to be 133 times larger thai our
sun, which, it is claimed, has a diameter
of 880.000 miles. This statement gives
Cmopus an approximate diameter of
120,000,000 miles. Are these statements
true, or should they be taken cum grano
salis? B. A. CHIIjDERS.
f The "motion" of the Great Dipper with
reference to the beholder on the earth is only
apparent. Tha act ml (notion i the earth's,
carrying" the beholder with it. l'"r all prac
tical purpose, the Dipper is seen from oppo
site sides of the earth in the conree of tbe same
nisht. The polar star remains ) constant, be
cause the axis of the earth is in a line 'that
passes throush it. Illuet ration : Compare with
these eeleitial bodies and their morment ay
man cunginc to a rone attaenen to tne ceiling
of a room, the man's head thrown somewhat
back and he looking particularly at the point
where the rope' is attached, and generally at
certain groups of, say, flies on the ceiling, a
little distance from that point of attachment.
Now let the man start himself turning around
on and with the rope. He sees the point of
attachment (or the pole star, as a fixed point,
no matter where his head is. Sat he sees the
flies (or the xtars forming the Great Dipper
or any other star or stars) constantly changing
positions, rein ti rely to his eye. The sole differ
ences are, first, that the aprJarent motion of
the flies would be so swift as to be continuously
erident, while that of tbe stars is so slow
that it is only by comparison at intervals of
some length that (notion is seen to bae taken
place, and, second, that the. man on the rope
is conscious of himself as in motion and knows
the flies are stationary, while in the case of
the ntars he is altogether unconscious of the
earth's (hi own) motion and deems the stars
to hare changed position. Canopus is to be com
pared with the sun by its -volume (bulk), not
by its diameter, when it is spoken of as "189
times as large." Spheres, in volume, are to
each other as the cubes of their diameters.
Thus, a sphere 6 inches in diameter is to one
11 inches in diameter as 218 is to 1331. That
4s to cay, the larger is about six and one-sixth
times the smaller in volume, though its diameter
is less than twice that of the smaller. To ob
tain the - actual diameter of Canopus, there
fore, multiply the cubic contents of tbe sun
(when ascertained) by 188 and extract the
cube root of the product. Canopus is invisible
from any point north of the parallel of 87 de
grees north latitude, and henee eannot be seen
from Portland. The inquirer is further re
ferred to these elementary works: "Primer of
Astronomy," and "Story of tbe ' Heavens," by
Robert 8. Ball, and "Book of Stars," by A. F.
Collins. Statements of astronomers representing
matters mathematically verified can be relied
on; however, care must be taken by the layman
lest be misapply or misconstrue terms used in
these statements.
On the Subject of True Love
Portland, June 4. To the Editor of
The Journal I have been reading lately
a lot of silly letters that appear in the
Telegram on the subject j of affinity.
Now the essence of all divorce is that
people have not the least conception of
what love Is. Animal passion is one
thing, admiration is still another and
there are many things that cause peo
ple to tie up, such as i convenience,
money, etc. But love Is quite another
thing. As we trace a stream back to
its source, so we trace love back to God.
God is love and there is no love outside
of God. When man was created he had
the gift of love for beasts; birds, flow
ers and all other things in naturOvSome
claim that love dies, which is false. Love
Is Indestructible. As God is eternal, so
love Is eternaf, but when! envy, strife,
jealousy, malice, wrath, hatred and all
these evil things come Into a person's
life, love goes out, for God and the devil
can't live in the same house at the same
time. When two; people HVe together in
the bonds of love, there Is no green
eyed monster or any other power that
Is able to separate them, so long as they
want to continue. You cannot define,
fathom or analyse love for It is a
spiritual gift any more than you can
analyse God. You can tell some of the
qualities of love ; "love suffers long and
is kind; it does not behave itself un-
fseemly, seeketh not her' own. It is' not
easily provoked, believeth all things,
hopeth all things, endureth all things.
Love worketh . no ill to your neighbor,
therefore love Is the fulfillment of the
law. eLove covers a multitude of faults.
Love never faileth and ; when people
learn what love Is their married life
will be a happy one." That's what Paul
meant when he said, "Be not un
equally yoked together with unbelievers,
for what fellowship hath light with dark
ness, or believers with unbelievers?"
Christ said: "He that loveth father or
mother, wife or lands more than me is
not worthy of me" Here is the whole
thing in a nutshell. When both parties
strive to 'please God, for God is love,
they will please each other and their
matrimonial vows will be bindJng. There
are some people so contaminated and
even dissipated that they are not fit to
enter the matrimonial state, and there
are others so selfish or who for some
other reason have lost all love for chil
dren and they don't love , the creature,
let alone the Creator. I Such people
ought to cultivate love for children be
fore taking upon themselves the respon
sibility of bringing them into the world.
A. J. CLARK.
Journal's Cooperation Appreciated
Portland, June 4. To ithe Editor of
The Journal We wish to express to you
our appreciation of the fine support you
gave the Roosevelt coast; military high
way during our campaign. The splendid
results obtained are largely due to your
consistent attitude toward the measure.
S. C FIcR, President
Roosevelt Highway Association.
- From the .Sunnyside Teachers .
Portland. June 4, To jthe Editor of
The . Journal The : teachers of Sunny
side school fully Appreciate what your
vaiuablepaper did for their cause in the
campaign for . Increased i salaries, and
herewith thank you for loyal support.-1
E. HELL. Secretary.
' A Is Mistaken '
. Portland. June 4 To the Editor of
The Journal A says there are no flyers
living today who flew an airplane be
fore the war." B says there are. Who
is riarbtr C E. ERICKSOV
Letters From the People,
I . COMMENT AND NEWS IN BRIEF
1 1 i . ii ' ii i . a .1 . ii -1 i 1 1
SMALL CHANGE
Skin deep beauty has befogged many
a wise Jury. i ,
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Over-dressed chorus girls are apt to
spoil any musical show. . i
Prosperity often comes from find ng
the other fellow's lost opportunities.
It Is all right for a man to be born
a poet u he refrains from working at! ttJ
Bathing suits reveal V lot of cases
where nature seems to have bungled I on
the job. . j ; . , j
If you must drink strong liquor, it is
better to shun the brand found In these
bone dry towns. . i
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It is possible to be a real : society
woman without having one's picture
taken with a dog. ) -
I
Every man cannot be president, but
any of us can tell Just what the presi
dent ought to do. j
. .
It is risky to waste too much sym
pathy on the other fellow's wife, even
if he is a mean cues.
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It Is safe to assume that this agna
tion against the short. skirt has not been
promoted by any fair one who nei
snape axe tge venus di mho.
OBSERVATIONS
OF THE JOURNAL MAN
By
I Conditions in Siberia as Dereetved t Mlaior
l:elt while in the medical scrrW with Yenka
trr are reoorded by Mr. Lockles, who Into a
I w. pa per article aeewis to compress an satire
volume of real information tne things ion
really wants to know about that hge conptry
and its huge troubles. Tbe narrative of Kajor
Belt will be concluded' in a succeeding Install
ment. ) - ... ,
Do you want to be a' millionaire?
That's easy. Buy a hand printing press
and go toi Siberia and print your 4wn
money. A day or two ago I came from
Albany to' Newport with Major' Waiter
C. Belt, who recently returned from (Si
beria. He told me many Interesting
things about "stage money" and jths
frensied financiers who are working
their printing presses 24 , hours a day
turning out currency. j .
. . . ...
"I came "to Oregon 20 years ago," said
Major Belt. "I started practice af
physician : at Oresham. A few years
later "I sold my practice to' Dr. Short
and moved to Portland. I became jthe
company doctor for the O-W. R. &f N.
and was located at La Grande for a
while. Later, while acting as assistant
surgeon . In the United States pujblio
health service at Newport,,i-I enlisted,
and on April 24. 1917, I was comrriia
sioned captain. From Vancouver I was
sent to the Presidio, whence, after two
months of special training. I was sent
to Camp Fremont as regimental surgeon
of the Thirteenth Infantry, and also
Colonel Cnow brigadier-general) pvlc
Alexanders regiment.
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"In October, 1918, I was ordered to
Siberia with four majors and 25 other
medical officers. We . arrived at Vladi
vostok in November, 1918, shortly before
the armistlc was signed. We found! our
own soldiers ot the Thirty-first arid
Twenty-seventh regiments, as well as
Csech, Japanese, Canadian, Italian.
French amd British troops. I was "Sent
to Kharborbosk, the headquarters of? the
Twenty-seventh Infantry. It is about
500 miles from Vladivoatok.-For a while
I acted a. chief sanitary officer of j the
zone of--f advance.' - When i. the troops
went - into winter quarters in brick -far4
racks- about December 1. I was serst to
Spaaekol, about 200 miles from "Vladi
vostok. I was put in charge of the
military hospital at that point. There
4 were seven of fleers and 72 enlisted jnen
under me. We bad 160 beds andihey
were occupied ; most of the time. JiThe
hospital Is of brick. It was built by
the Russians. It was roomy and Jwell
built, but was without modern sanita
tion. Out of 900 patients we treated,
only one died. Ke died from blood 'poi
soning- from an ulcerated tooth.
We
had a good del of smallpox and some
spinal meningitis, as well
minor
all-
ments.
"The Chinese troops were sent out to
wipe out; a band of Chinese bandits.
They drove them into ManchurlS-' I
was told they brought back over) 200
left ears - as. evidence of their success.
They also brought back a nurnbep of
wounded Chinese soldiers. They were
to be sent to our hospital. ' as they re
fused to be treated In the Japanese hos
pital. By mistake they? were taken te
the Russian hospital. I sent for them.
but the Chinese colonel told . me
h
e
Russian doctors would lose their face if
DIVIDING HUNGARY'S LANDS
By Bassett Digby.
Special Carrefcr"ridrnce n Th Journal anl .Tht
Chicago Daily News. i
Stockholm. The solution i of the pand
problem In Hungary is Interestingly
described in a letter recently received
here from Budapest. One of the vtorst
flaws in that country hitherto has been
the Irrational apportionment of .agri
cultural land. The great church estates
and secular estates held in entail rpade
cheap land almost unobtainable -forj the
peasant. There was nothing for iti but
to emigrate. . !
This became- increasingly ; plain of re
cent years, when the steep upcurvje of
young male emigrants to i Americf at
last awakened the government toi the
necessity of taking measures to stem it.
The foolish course was chosen, I the
course of sharpening the laws forbid
ding emigration Instead of increasing
the -chances of a hard working yung
man to make good at home. Thef op
portunity of the revolution was seised
to break completely the land grasping
ring of absentee landlords and prijests.
The church was often found more) re
sponsible for the growth of revolution
ary sentiment than noblemen. The no
bles were often responsivei to requests
Olden Oregon
Proposal to Connect Coasts Through
Canal Links ana juvers.
Before, the railroad became a means
of communication there were sugges
tions for connecting Oregon with the
East. In 1820 Robert Mills, a. Balti
more engineer,' suggested that a canal
connect the waters of the Atlantic with
... ... - . . a
those of the Mississippi, xnen ne wouia
penetrate the continent with a steam
boat to the headwater of the Missouri
Here a portage of 040 miles would be
TTl&Ue IU SAC! VWUIUUIS (ftwr.
Paying ; for a , Plague
' frem 'tbe Lew Aasele Times
Every now ; and 'then evidence , iij ' re
vived to show , the, havoc j wrought by
Spanish infiuensa. In the reports of one
of the big Insurance companies It j ap
pears that the war claims for the United
States and - Canada for " four 3iears
amounted to less .than $3,500,009, while
the death losses paid for four months of
influenza reached the stUDendoua total
of Sl,00,00a . In the whole hlsory Of
the world . there was never a piagu. an
epidemic or a tragedy that scotched the
indemnity organisations so harshly as
did the brief career of the "flu."
OREGON SIDELIGHTS
The new T. M. C. A. building at
Powers, the Patriot says, is about com
pleted and Is now in the hands ef the
painters and decorators.
Complaint of wanton mutilation of
road signs In Klamath county by shoot
ing Is voiced by the Klamath Falls Her
ald, which says some signs nave .been
entirely destroyed. . ?
1... l.nrt cUaHne would Mt a gMatf". "uur-
boost if powder were cheaper
will try an appeal, first, to tier
r, ana ne
nator Mc-
-Vsvrv. and. If nwiMMrr. to the county
court to handle it at wholesale for land
owners' benefit, ... i
loganberry growers now figure, the
Salem Capital Journal says, that the
crop will be ready tor picking about July
1. They are getting a little anxious to
contract for pickers and are filing appli
cations, at the federal employment bu
reau at Salem. a
- In an appeal to Salem people, the
Salem Capital Journal says: - "It is well
understood that Polk county will assist
in the big events of the three days and
that with Salem as the center for the
biggest celebration of the Fourth ever
known In this part of the valley, tt la up
to the cltisens of Salem to remain home
and get in on the joyous events."!
AND IMPRESSIONS
Lockjey
he took the Chinese wounded elsewhere,
so they stayed in the Russian hospital.
There was a good-slsed graveyard near
our hospital. Most of the graves were
those of Czech soldiers who had fallen
on the Ussurl river front near by.
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'Food in .Siberia was abundant, with
the exception of sugar. A meal of fish
soup, cracked crab, broiled salmon, a
salad, Chinese pheasant, French pastry
and tea cost about 75 cents. - Chinese
pheasants sell in the game stalls at the
market for about to 60 cents each In
our money. I was told that at Omsk
more than 800.000,000 bushels of wheat
was stacked, waiting for shipment. The
transportation system is completely dis
organised. So it could not be mowed to
where it Is badly needed in Russia.
- .
"At Vladivostok I saw acres and acres
of munitions, railroad material, trucks.
autos and supplies of all kinds stacked
on the docks. Much of it Is being ruined
by exposure to the rain and snow. Ap
proximately $750,000,000 worth of equip
ment and' supplies is stacked on the
docks there.
e e
"German propagandists have gone all
over the country, telling the peasants
that the railroads are public property
and that there Is no more need of pay
ing for their use than bavlng for the air
they breathe. The result Ha that every
train Is jammed to -ap4j:ltyvwlth .rest
less, homeless peasant shifting from
place to place. We, vibuld reserve a
compartment anfi have toj eject a lot of
peasants whose odor was as, strong as
their ignorance was abysmal.- At the
next station a lot moras, would try., to
force their way into oiw compartment.
We would "have to use force to throw
them out, for they explained that they
had as much right, there as we had.
"It all free passenger traffic could be
abolished for six weeks, the trains could
get a lot of foodstuffs and supplies to
where they- are urgently needed. ,
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" "Many of the. people'are very tntefli-
eent. They were , political exiles . and
had been expelled from Russia because
they could think .and wanted better c6n
dlUons. They are keeping the schools
going by a system of voluntary con
trlbutions or by entertainments and do
nation parties. There is no government,
hence no- taxes and no money to sup
port the schools. The women there are
not immoral, but unmoral. The political
exiles were not permitted to have mar
riage ceremonies , performed, so they
dispensed with marriages to a large ex
tent. The cost of the services of the
priest and of the wedding festivities Is
so excessive that many of the peasants
cannot afford to have the marriage rites
performed till they have accumulated
some property, so it often happen that
a couple may have two or three qr a
half dosen children before they are able
to afford to ne legally married.
"TJie Russians have no use' for the
Japanese. The Chinese also hate them.
The Japanese have about 75,000 troops
there. They brought Into the harbor of
Vladivostok a ship which they had .cap
tured from .he Russians in the Russo
Japanese war, which was poor phychol
osrv and bad strategy. It aroused a
feeling of bitter hostility."
for little farms, but the churches and
monasteries werejimplacabl. What they
had they held. '
Of Hungary's 63,000.000 acres of culti
vated land '(leaving out of reckoning
forest and sugar beet land) only 3.000.
000 acres were held in so called dwarf
farms little farms of from five to eight
acres and 24,000.000 acres in small
farms farms of from eight to 140 acres.
Almost half of Hungary's cultivated soil
.was held in large estates. There were
almost -4000 each over 1200 acres. The
Magyars themselves have -been worse
off than the Slovaks and the Rouma
nians. - Magyar peasants unable to ob
tain land amounted to 48.4 per cent of
the population ; Slovaks 83.6 and Rou
manians 81.5.
As 80 per cent of the Hungarians live
by agriculture, one can see how insuf
ferable conditions were when nearly 60
per cent of the farming soil was out of
their rtach. " It meant either emigration
or service by the man, with the vwhole
of 'his family, on a great estate, where
he - could never hope to achieve Inde
pendence ; that, or leaving the land and
becoming an industrial worker.
(Copyright, 101ft, by Chicago Uaily News Co.)
Curious Bits of Information
For the Curious
SUased Fro Curiowe Place
"'According to figures issued by the war
department, the combined B r 1 1 l.s h,
French and - American batteries . shot
away lfiOstlt.000 rounds of ammunition
during the year 1918. The average num
ber of rpunds fired monthly was 12,
710,000, which is about ' four - times
greater than the average number fired
during the Crimean war and over six
times as many, rounds as' the entire
Union forces expended during the whole
year 1S64. In the Civil war the Union
forces averaged four rounds' a gun per
day; during Uli the average was 35.
i
And He's '.-Quite Riflht at That
Frota the Atlanta Constitution "
As to the "luxury tax," Editor Finch,
The Richland Philosopher," says : "The
writer can get all the luxury, that he
is looking for by eating good bome-r.iade
com - bread and drinking good butter
milk. If you are looking for a good
breakfast just try some home-mads
ham meat and lean gravy with good old
fashioned, biscuit also fried or boiled
eggs and home-mad e butter with a good
cup of hot coffee. - There's luxury for
you!" I
Ragtag and Bobtail
Stories from Everywhere
They'd Have to Go Some
UNOUa SAM HODGE came down
vfrom the Kentucky mountains with
his early produce to market, says Every
body's. , Ills team of oxen was some
wnat weary with a two days' pulJ- But
when Sam reached the city llrruts he
Wll ronfrnnliH with k - i . ,.c ,
He pulled Ms whiskers a momont in
silent meditation, and then drawled out
to his oxen: "Well, I know darn well
we'll never make Jt, but we'll do our
doggone best.
How Poetry Is Wrillcn
To start a rhyme, begin wilh A,
Plweed to B without delay.
And the to O or Ten I):
. Thene failing, K or F or U -If
Ii is hopeless, I and J. . i .
-Our second stanza asks for K
Or t.; and il brings us half war.
No luck ! Then try with N, U, T,
T start a rhyme.
If Q. It. -g will not obey.
T. useful V., at V ewyj i'
V. X and T. trim three;
And end triumphantly with 1..
' M,r author, it the way
To start a rhyme.
. .,. Philadelphia. Erenina ledger,
lTnele Jeff Snow Says:
I shouldn't wonder but wbat in the
name of patriotism and beln' up to dale
peoplell soon be asked to vote bonds m
UI' r'Th county to buy all the Jedaros
a $25,000 airplane apiece. It'd make
plenty oj work Tor the returned soldier.
.Tr?i.the .B,tt,n' out of tn fir timber
to the undertakers assemblin' of the re
mains when any leetle accident hap
pened. -m
The News in Paragraphs
World Happenings Briefed for Benefit
of Journal Readers
' GENERAL.
Since the war, it is estimated. Europe
ha5 L?Ll!:i00i00) cat". 39,500,000 hogs
and 3,800,000 sheep.
Investigators have found a shortage
of 3300,000. In the accounts of the state
prison at Jackson, Mich.
Dr. Harry A. Garfield, federal fuel
administrator, is on his way to Oregon
and Washington for a brief stay.
Herr Levins of Munich, editor of the
Red Flag and a revolutionist loader in
Bavaria, has been sentenced to death.
Canada's debt, when expenditures au
thorized for the current year are made,
will aggregate $1,950,000,000, or $220 per
capita.
W- -J. Wallln, recently cashier of ths
State bank of Rosebud. Mont., is umler
arrest charged with speculating with the
banks funds.
The anti-Japanese boycott, which is
being fostered by the national students'
organisation at Peking. Is ; spreading
throughout China
After being held for ransom five davs
by Mexican bandits, A. I). Ayle and il.
Barton, Americans, were released on the
payment of $2000 to the bandits.
Forty thousand persons belonging to
the bourgeois class have been expelled
by the Hungarian soviet government on
the ground that It is utiabfo to feed
them.
There was a further increase In the
number of strikers In the Paris district
Thursday, when the laundry worker'
union declared a strike In Faria ami
the suburbs. ,
Fifteen members of the house, 10 Re
publicans and five Democrat, have be:n
appointed by Speaker Gillette tn con
duct five investigation of war-time ex
penditures of the war department.
A plan, to permanently ellminStn
strikes, lockouts and other labor trou
bles was presented at Thursday" srslon
of the building trades department of
the American Federation of Labor at
AUatitic City.
Dr. Juan B. Rojo of the Mexican em
bassy at Washington, told th pan
American commercial congress Thurs
day that Mexico will protect all foreien
' Investments, in that county, and If otiier
countries are only patient Mexico will
pay all her debts.
NORTHWEST NOTES
Peaches In Lane county have t
In too heavy this year, and thinning will
be necessary.
The Dallas city council has purchased
two carloads of oil to be used this sum
mer for oiling the streets.
C. O. Blgelow, a pioneer of ,7orhrfne
county ana a native of Oregon, died at
Grants Pass Tuesday, aged 64.
Farmer on the Ochoco project held a
meeting Wedneaday evening to form an
organization for closer cooperative ef
fort. The Royal bakery, at Vancouver, will
becln at once the conntruction of. a new
(.building, which will cost approximately
$25,000.
The fortieth anniversary of .the clam
of- 1879 of the University of Oregon will
be celebrated June 14 on the campus of
the university.
The C. A. Smith shingle mill at
Mamhfteld, which has been idle for
mors than a year, started up this week
with a full crew.
Construction of a sawmill at Glen
brook, Or., of 150.000 feet capacity, with
office headquarters in Eugene, will be
started immediately.
The arrival of 600 berry pickers at
Hopd River Thursday has temporarily
relieved the labor , hortktgo, although
many more can be uned. ,
The army recruiting office at Aber
deen has booked five recruits during-
the paat three day, or t the rate of
about 60 for a full month. .
At Roseburg. Thursday evening, J. W.
Hall wan accidentally shot In the !!
of the head by a neighbor who fired at
a cat. Tbe wound is not dangerous.
The preliminary work for the paving
of roads in (Marks county . has ben
done, and contracts for the various
stretches of paving win ne ii auring
July. I
Manlev radelford. who was publlshe-d
as a slacker for refusing to buy Liberty
bonds, has brought auit tor damages
In Yakima , county against tne bunny.
side Sun.
A mystery at Seattle is the disap
pearance of 2M quarts of whiskey which
Sheriff John Stringer declares was de
livered to the court room or-tsunerlor
Judge Clay Allen.
Ron Havitesl a Lebanon dotitrhboy
who has been serving with th heavy ar-
tlllerv for two years in France, has
been dlcharged from service and ar
rived home this week.
Hood River will celebrate the return
Of 208 enlisted men on the Fourth of
July; All concessions will be operated
hr the city and the funds uned for
equipping an automobile park.
Th Coos county grand Jury calls at
tention to the fact that bank report of
the county show deposits of inot-e than
$1,000,000, wnne mere were aiww?tKea isni
year but $35,000 In money,' notes and
accounts. -' - ,
Have You Ever Known Man
Who Regretted Saving
; - Money? ""
fStortea of acbieeernent in the iminii
lation of War Barings MtamiM, sent to The
' Journal and 'eepted for publication, wiil
be awarded S Thrift Stamp. J
The old proverb truthfully says
that the fool and his money are soon
parted. There Is no virtue In pov
erty. But poverty often breeds vice
and disease and all manner; of evils.
The spendthrift is never happy,
never satisfied. He knows no peace
of mind. , -
Have 'you ever known anyone who
regretted having saved money?
. Have you not known many who re
gretted not having saved money?
Thrift stamps and I(tt War Prir.gt
Stamps sow . on s.e at osual agencies.