THE OREGON SUNDAY JOURNAL, PORT LAND, I SUNDAY MORNING, JUNE 15, 1919.
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1 -Who give, it luster to an insect's wing
' And wneels hi throne upon the rolling
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I hi-: WHIRLWIND?
F TUB' peace treaty u rejecLu,
what will take its place?" asks
the Oregonian in arguing that
tlft; American senate, should
ratify. Nobody knows what might
"take its place." Chaos might "take
lis place" all over Europe.
mere is ciiaos m iiu'mu, riicj" m
Austria, chaos in Germany, chaos in
Jlhe Balkans and near chaos in France,
Italy and England. ..
Workers in France. Italy ami Eng
land are restive and dissatisfied. For
58 months' they have been living and
wnrkinir ahnnrmallv. It has been T8
months of privation, struggle and
agony. Hostilities ceased,- and they
looked1 'for a happy return to the set
tled life of peacf.
But the peace treaty is not signed.
Nothing is settled. Foch is actually
getting . :s armies in readiness to re
new the conflict if the
Germans 1
refuse to sign. The Germans in turn
are encouraged not to sign by the
activities of American senators. The
prospect before these workers of a
return to the hideous and horrible
conditions of war after nearly five
years of agony, fills them with dis
trust and dread.
There never was a situation on
the earth in which a spark could i
more quickly and easily light a con -
flagratioo. An alluring propaganda ' be prevented by a united and militant
of illusion is spread broadcast. Class i public sentiment made plain to the
war is preached and widely accepted. j members of house and senate at
The confiscation of property and its j Washington.
division among those who have no .J Mr. Warburg's interview is ex
property is openly proposed and ; tended, and the reader can peruse it
eagerly approved among millions.
The French revolution came, had !
its day, and passed into history. Its
l fiery path ought lb be a warning.
Ioveirnnt.i form rtn iL-1 v- Tho cn.L
denness of their development is often which prevails throughout the gov
an unexplained marvel. jernment service, congress included,
. Nobody 1 imagined 10 years ago, or j so far as the provision of funds and
five years -ago., or even three years j their expenditure are concerned, he
" ago, that national prohibition would! sums the situation up by saying:
be scheduled in America for January,
VKki. rvonoay ever areamea rive years
ago or' three years ago that every
slate west of thy Mississippi except
one, would be a presidential suffrage
stale. . .
With propaganda constantly fan
ning the smoldering fires of illusion,
no' living man can safely predict that
. .nn..i;,in e ...... .. t:i.-
the French- revolution may not sweep
through Europe and beat against the
- shores of North America within a
month or a year.
Starving men' do not stop to reason.
Distracted and agonized millions do
: not consult precedent or abide, by
-Written rules. Mad ami illiterate
multitudes who have gone through
08 months of fiery furnace in the
expectation that it was to bring them !
to a place of rest and better living
only to find that they are -obstructed
on all sides by American senators
'and other junkers, may suddenly lose
patience and yield to the siren voice
of hallucination,
"'If ethe peace treaty be rejected,
A hat will take, 'its place?"
- Who knows? That treaty, in its
IftnAM. n.nn. I . . . V J , I
trriKuc Lin t-iiniiL. iiiiiiin din. itrnnimn
to the working millions of all nations.
, H is a pledge in which every mem
; , ber nation covenants to strive for,
- better living for its working people
It is a hope and a promise to those
who have been so long in agony. It
- is a pacifying pledge to encourage
the . Paris conference is laboriously
and patiently, working out for them
and ror. ail mankind.
"t dhe peace treaty , be , rejected,
what will take its place?"
Possibly (he whirlwind. Possibly
a social cataclysm beside which the
French revolution would be a noth-4
ing -
Possibly, a class war in which the
illiterate masses of Europe . would
wipe out all traces of present civi
lization and, .set the world ; back a
thousand years.
! "Portland ; has fallen far -
behind
hi the race for business. "Shipmas-
, erft . have not chosen to go up . the
Hliallow river approach to Portland."
These, are choice expressions from a
discussion of the Portland, rate-caso
by the Seattle Post-Intelligencer In
an article on this page. Perusal of
it will show Portlanders how Puget
Sound is fighting to ; keep freight
rates to Portland adjusted to cost of
haul over high mountains rather than
on a legitimate cost through the
Columbia gateway. .
Twenty-seven well behaved girls in
uniforms, of blue and white won ad
miration and were a striking feature
in the floral parade Friday. They
were the cornet band representing a
fruit canning establishment at Sheri
dan. The girls, their uniforms and
their music were, a charming setting
amid the flowers of the decorated
automobiles.
, GOVERNOR LISTER
A'
T ONLY 49, a period of great use
fulness would still have been
before Governor Lister of Wash
ington, had not an untimely
death removed him from earthly en
deavor. He was the desirable type of public
servant. To him, public office was
accepted as an obligation to return
real service. He used his high posi
tion as a vantage point from which
to defend the public interest and
guard the people against the en
croach ments of the selfish pests who
swarm around state capitols and seek
undue advantage over the mass.
His easy reelection in a state of
pronouncedly opposite political faith
was his people's acknowledgment of
the high character of his service. It
was in a mid-term in office and in
the high tide of his usefulness that
Governor Lister passed.
Life is full of irony. Here they
start to have an irrigation celebra
tion up in Lane county and the rain
comes along and jipps the show. But,
when yon stop to think about it,
how could you have irrigation with
out water? ..
THE PEOPLE'S MONEY
P
ALL M. WARBURG, world-recog
nized as a financial expert, makes
some pertinent and compelling
observations elsewhere in this
paper upon the necessity for the
establishment of a national budget
system. :
Mr. Warburg looks at the subject
through the eyes of a business man,
who believes in efficiency, economy
and financial sanity in the conduct
and operation of any business,
whether that of private or public
interest. He believes the time is
here when congress, impelled by
popular demand, should provide a
budget system, but he fears that the
old and selfish influences which have
kept the unscientific and wasteful
present day system in effect will
succeed in emasculating any con
templated reform until it will "make
a noise like a budget" I and function
no further. This, he points out, can
'for himself, but one or two of his i
observations are so sound that they j
merit more than general comment. !
' After outlining the absolute lack of
Ifommon. ordinary business method
The situation is a disgrace to the
intelligence and acumen of the American
people. Similar practices would ruin
any private enterprise.
Going on to discuss the part con
gress has played in the perpetuation
of these conditions the gerrymander
ing and log rolling, the exaltation
of petty and private interest above
the public interest, he says:
Ho determined, at times, has been this
objectionable practice that It is difficult
to find a fitting expression for It with
out using a very ugly word. I do not
doubt that for the men in ..congress.
standing for high standards of govern
ment the budget system would prove a
most welcome protection.
Men of Mr. Warburg's type recog- !
nize all-too clearly that reform must
icome in the manner of raising gov
ernmental funds, and spending them,
or else there can be no surcease from
high tax burdens, inflated costs and
continued economic and social dis
turbance and unrest.
The American people are. not stingy
people. They do not begrudge neces
sary governmental expenditures. They
hue been careless, probably because
the costs of government have been
so 'ndireclly laid upon them that
they have grumbled at the load
without definite realization of its
cause.
They have stood by without con
certed complaint while district has
jockeyed district, section has striven
against section, governmental depart
ment against department, and bureau
against bureau. It has resulted in
outlandish waste and extravagance.
Now the burdens have grown so
heavy, and so direct, that the people
are complaining. They want business
efficiency.
.There is a general demand for a
budget system and it should come.
When the telephone girls go out on
ttie nation wide keymen's strike they
will certainly; take the o out of hello.
THE NEXT ROSE FESTIVAL
P
ORTLAND'S 1919 Rose Festival has
passed into pleasant history. It
furnished record breaking crowds
gathered . from far and near to
participate its three! days of clean
and wholesome entertainment which
they will take back to their' homes
witli thm pleasing memories and
)
, v :
lasting reasons for: their return a
year from now. ? '
The festival management is to be
congratulated - upon the success
which crowned the untiring efforts
of each Individual who gave so gener
ously of his time and effort They
labored ' " under 1 undoubted disad
vantages this season which former
managements were not compelled to
struggle against. The weather god
was unkind for one thing, but ; in
spite of the tears he shed the throngs
of merrymakers continued to smile-
And H was difficult to turn so
soon from Liberty loan drives and
other activities of war time to1 the
promotion and execution of a pro
gram of pleasure only. The temper
of the public has been so long tuned
up to the stern work of war that
it takes time forN it again to learn
to play. The financial demands of
the war left the management face to
face with a difficult financing prob
lem which called for long days of
unselfish toil.
The Rose Festival is a Portland
institution. It has done much for
Portland has brought it many en
during friendships from every nook
of the nation. It ought to be made
bigger and 'better as the years go
on. It ought to be lifted on the
shoulders of a united community
spirit with everybody under the load
and on the job all the time. x
There seems to be this difference
between being the victim of an auto
mobile or an airplane accident: the
former wrecks 'em and the latter
kills 'em.
THE OREGON ILIAD
T
HE pageant of Willamette univer- j
sity as produced at Salem, under ;
the direction of Ella Crowder j
Miller, is in the main the his-1
tory of the earliest missionaries to j
the Pacific Northwest. Staged in
connection with the last commence
ment exercises of the third quarter
century in the history of that uni- j
versity, it is remarkable that many
of the descendants of the Arst colo
nists, missionaries and Indian con
verts of Oregon could participate as
performers. Alanson Beers, member
of the first gubernatorial committee
of, the provisional government, was
represented by his granddaughter,
Miss Lois Evans. Josephine Holman
Albert of Salem is granddaughter
of Almira Phelps,, a missionary ;
teacher who came on the ship Lau- j
sanne in 1840, and Joseph Holman,
who arrived the same year overland
from Illinois.
Rev. J. L. Parrish, another well I
known missionary of the Lausanne,
was represented by his daughter, Mrs.
Frederick Stewart.
Some of the Indian performers
trace their lineage to the red men j
and women who received from the
lips of Rev. Jason Lee their first inti-!
mation of the white man's Book I
of Heaven. !
Also several pieces of furniture
used in the pageant are more than '
a century old; and the roses that)
brighten one of the principal scenes j
in the pageant were the perpetuated i
growth of roses brought to Oregon
by Mrs. Alanson Beers in i837.
.Many of the leading citizens of
Salem, the entire student body of the
university, and 50 Chemawa Indian
school students assisted in the cast,
and the patronage was such that the
alumni association later requested the
trustees of the University to repeat
the pageant at regular intervals in
order that the dramatic events that
brought Christianity to Oregon, that
established Willamette university, the
first institution of higher learning on
the Pacific coast, that essentially
founded the city of Salem, and that
wielded a mighty Influence in locat
ing the capital of Oregon in that city,
j might be perpetuated.
The request comes timely, inasmuch
as only here ,and there in history
has there been a pilgrimage more
far-reaching in its results than the
one which first brought the lamp of
learning to what is now the city of
Salem. The story of sacrifices made.
hardships suffered and privations en
dured by those missionaries in their
devotion to the uplift of a people
living in heathendom indicates in
part, the purchase price of civiliza
tion in Oregon. Therefore, the pa
geant depicting the origin and early
progress of Willamette university in
cidentally emphasizes one of the most
important features recounted in the
great Iliad of Oregon.
The pageant is nota local to Wil
lamette university, or to Salem. It
belongs to the nation and to civiliza
tion. It depicts in human figures
and action the evolutionary process
from barbarism to civilized condi
tions, from ignorance to enlighten
ment, from the wilderness to the
electric lights, wireless and birdmen.
This spectacle of history, repro
duced at other times will be sought
and seen by all within Oregon's bor
ders and beyond. There will be pil
grimages to witness its production,
as there are to Oberammergau.
It is afield In which Willamette
university is distinctive, notable and
unchallenged.
WHAT AN ARGUMENT!
"T
HE Portland contention of ad
justing rates to distance and
cost, of service is impossible,"
says the Seattle Post-Intelli
gencer, in an article on this page.
That is to'say, four locomotives and
four engine and train crews should
beJ used to haul -the same trainload
of wheat 306 miles over mountains
to Seattle, when one locomotive, one
engine crew and one train crew will
haul the same trainload! 218 miles
downhill from Pendleton to Portland.
Any other arrangement than that
costly system with. Eastern Oregon
and f Eastern j Oregon farmers i made
to ; pay for the costlier service In
higher rates : is "impossible" In-the
Seattle view.
Why not arue that white is black
or that the moon is made of green
cheese? .
The floraL parade was more beauti-
It was a spectacle worth
ournev to see. Doubt
less, under competitive ornamentation
and the year of practice, we have
become morej adept and artistic in
decorating the; cars. Besides, what is,
more beautiful than the flowers I
APPLY THE GOLDEN RULE
THE. labor! question should be
solved byJ applying the formula
of the Golden Rule, says Otto
H. Kahnj First of all, labor
should have a. living wage. Then a
living wage should be set aside for
capital. The) remainder should be
divided between labor and capital
on a basis of, fairness and equity.
Such an apportionment Is the ideal
one, but in practice it is difficult,
for the reason that there are many
kinds of labQr and many kinds of
capital. There is skilled labor and
unskilled labor and casual labor.
There is the; skilled and unskilled
employer. Tliiere is the small em
ployer, the lafge individual employer
and the corporation employer. Often
the laborer tnd the capitalist are
merged in the same individual.
While it is impossible to draw a
clear line of j division, certain guide
posts are pointed out by Mr. Kahn
which would! lead to a better in
dustrial condition. Labor is neither
a machine nor a commodity. It is
a. partner of: capital, and as such
entitled to a voice in determining
working conditions. Every opportu
nity should be given the workman
to inform hinjiself as to the conduct
of the business, and Mr. Kahn goes
so far as to, advocate that where
practicable, the workers should be
represented on the board of manage
ment. This' would give them a better
idea of the employer's problems and
lead tp a better mutual understanding.
To provide proper homes for work
ers is an urgent duty of the em
ployer, adds Mr. Kahn, and if he is
unable to do! so, the duty devolves
upon the state. The worker must
also be relieved of the dread of sick
ness, unemployment and old age. He
should receive a wage which will
not only provide for his reasonable
daily needs but will enable him to
lay aside something for the future
and to have his due share of the
recreations of life.
In return for these benefits the
workman should not forget that they
obligate him (to honest effort in he
field of- production. High wages dan
only; be maintained if high produc
tion is maintained. "-The restriction
of production;, says Mr. Kahn, is a
sinister "and harmful fallacy, most of
all in its effect on labor. Under
production is a cause of poverty.
Furthermore, lessened production
makes for high costs.
Mr. Kahn is a banker. He Is used
to the click of gold and the rattle
of the machine that adds up the daily
profits. He ! knows the steel bolts
that make money vaults secure and
his ingoings ;and outcomings are- in
wealthy and fashionable New Yorfi.
Mr. Kahn jvas born and educated
in Germany, j He came to America
in 1897, has since been a member of
the great banking house of Kuhn,
Loeb & Co. jln the war he was an
American cttijsen of great loyalty and
a war workejr of much power. His
appeals to th people of his own race
in America to . stand by the United
States government were among the
conspicuous acts of the time. '
He is not the only man of his type
who speaks (for a new order in the
industries ot America. Charles M.
Schwab has done the same thing and
in much the same language. A great
deal of thought among important in
dustrial figures is running in the
same direction.
On their part, the workers, by a
just policy toward employers and by
disassociatiori from the wild illusions
of reddest Riissia can greatly forward
that promises more for
them than workers ever had since the
world began
OLD HIGH COST
OLD man (High Cost of Living has
grown I wire as tall since th e
dark days at the close of the
Civil Wijir. Even then he was
imposing enough, and our. fathers,
as our mothers, tell us of the inroads
he made upon the family wallet
some 57 yeai's or so ago. In those
days they kicked and complained,
as we do in! these, but had he laid
as heavy a Hand upon them then as
he has uponj us now they undoubt
edly would jhave shrieked with fi
nancial agonjy.
Back in "62 so a delving statistician
tells us, molasses sold for 62 cents
the gallon. - ow it is $1.26, or there
about. Then the thrifty housewife
pungled up 25 cents a peck for the
lowly spud, now she pays just
double the i;um.
A two poind roll of butter was
half a dollar in those darkj days,
now it is fl.liO; two pounds of coffee
then cost 4(0 cents, while we are
now paying 8G cents and above. Two
dozen eggs vere 45 cents ; now one
dozen costsj more than two then.
Three pounqs of beef cost 70 cents?
w;hile now hobodybut the million-
aire can see
out having
Old High
a ruminative cow with
& spasm.
Cost was a kind and
gentle, frien before the world war
made him grow - so talk ; .
PORTLAND SEEN
FROM SEATTLE
Hostile Critic Draws Comparisons in
Discussing Rate Case
From the Seattle Poelntelliencer
Portland j. . has fallen far be
hind in the race for business. Seattle
has made the most of Its splendid deep
water harbor find broad and easy ap
proach from the ocean by expending
many millions of ' dollars for conven
iences. - docks, ! mechanical contrivances
for facilitating! the handling of freight,
and its success! has aroused the antago
nism of the "Willamette , river port.
Shipmasters have not chosen to go up
the shallow river approach to Portland
with tugboats j and pilots, when they
could pass . through the broad tidal
reaches of the straits and -tie up at a
Seattle dock without the aid of pilot
or tug ; and I they have appreciated,
too, the conveniences of modern docks
and freight handling furnished by the
enterprise and cash of Seattle.
Seattle has thus gathered here the
greatest overseas commerce on the Pa
cific coast, second in importance only
to New York ;ln th nation. Portland
has induced the government to dredge
the Columbia land the bar at its en
trance, and now claims to have thirty
or thirty-five feet of water in its ap
proaches, but it has not, until very re
cent years, busied itself in the Invest
ment ot ' cash for- modern docks and
conveniences to attract commerce. It
has chosen to stand back and let more
enterprising' ports acquire the overseas
business, and how has bethought itself
of the expedient of asking the inter
state commerce commission to grant a
rate advantage to Portland so that it
may go after ?the commerce that other
ports have so laboriously built up.
The Portland contention of adjusting
rates precisely! to distance and cost of
service is impossible. Were this grant
ed, every port on the Pacific would
have a' different terminal rate, and the
whole existing iBtructure of business and
of commerce would be thrown into con
fusion. The interstate commerce com
mission has already suggested this in
former rulings. Ships seek the most
convenient, approachable and economi
cal port, and shippers route freight to
the ships at these ports because the
ships are there and because their com
modities may be handled with facility
and with saving of time. Otherwise
they do not care what the name of the
port is, nor precisely how many miles
away it is, or by what route their com
modules reach! the sea.
But. even were Portland's argument
tenable, electric equipment of trans
continental rail lines reaching Seattle is
turning the mountain grades to actual
profit by generating electricity in the
down grades fpr use on the up grades.
So, from1 any standpoint, Portland's
contention Is not practical, not fair, nor
desirable in the public interest. And
tne interstate commerce commission
will undoubtedly so decide.
Letters From the People
t Communications sent to The Journal for
tublication in this department should be written
on only one side of the paper, should not exceed
300 word in length, and must be signed by the
riter, whose mail address in full must accom
pany the contribution. J
Citations From V. C. T. U. History
Portland, une 10. To the Editor of
The Journal A writer in. the current
Everybodys on the great Crusade that
was the origin of the W. C. T. U., says:
"Those 70 women marched out that day
to make America 'dry", and-they have
won at Jast." Do not think this over
states thie case, for although many or
ganizations and the church have later
joined the crusade against the liquor
traffic, alU have built upon the founda
tions laid by the W. C. T. U. in its
educational work. The W. C. T. U. con
ceived the idea and in spite of tremen
dous opposition from the immensely
wealthy "liquor oligarchy," secured a
scientific temperance instruction law in
every state and territory of the Union.
All now admit that has been the great
est factor in producing the recent pro
hibition victories. In view of this fact,
the writer of the above mentioned article
made a grave mistake when he gave the
AntirSaloon league sole credit for the
"political" part of the movement against
the traffic, and limited the work of the
W. C. T. U. to the "moral" phase. The
W. C. T. U. was in politics years before
the Anti-Saloon league was organized.
The first petitioning to congress against
the traffic was done by this body. Sev
eral of the first states to win prohibi
tion did so through the initiative and
assistance and insistence of the W. C.
T. TJ., against the opposition of the
Anti-Saloon league, whose slogan at that
time was local option.
When the W. C. T. TJ. first went into
politics it encountered the active opposi
tion of the churches as well, who closed
their pulpits to the women because the
church was supposed to keep entirely
divorced from "politics." Curiously
enough, in the light of this author's
view of the situation, is the fact that
while the W. C. T. IT., repeatedly, at all
of its conventions, pledged its support
"to that party, by whatever name
called," which should make prohibition
an issue, the Anti-Saloon league strenu
ously denied any connection with the
hated "politics," and waged Its war
solely against the local saloon. Later,
when public sentiment, through long
years of education, had become Irresist
ible, it was forced into line in favor of
statewide prohibition. History some
times makes strange blunders.
ELLA BEECHER-GITTIXGS.
Second Wife's Property Rights
Forest Grove, June 6. To the Editor
of The Journal If a man and wife, have
property and it is in the wife's name, and
if the wife dies does the man get one
third of 'the real estate or does he just
get a life lease on It, and after his death
does it go to the children? And If the
man getsmarned again, if he is en
titled to-one! third of the estate, does
the second wife get anything after the
man dies? I want to know the Oregon
law. Please ! answer in The Sunday
Journal. SUBSCRIBER.
The widower of ercry deceased perron shall
be entitled to the use, dnring his natural life,
of ona half of all the lands owned by the de
ceased. At hia death the land descends to toe
children of" his deceased wife. The second wife
can not inherit any of the landed estate belong
ing to the first wife. The widower does not
receire Uie fee simple title to any of the
lands of the deceased wife. 1
Questions Portland's Civic Pride
Portland, June 9. To the Editor of
The Journal i-At the election last Tues
day some 7000 Portland voters recorded
themselves in! favor of erecting an in
dustrial reconstruction hospital ;at
Salem in pla4 of Portland. It is per
fectly clear hfcw that number of voters
might vote againat taxing themselves
for such an institution by voting against
the reconstruction , bond bill, but how
they could vote in favor of the Indus
trial commission's building a $400,000
hospital out of its own funds in Salem
in place of-Portland is difficult to ex
plain, especially wljen there is no more
reason for placing such an institution at
Salem than at West Scio. Can one con
ceive of 7000: Seattle citizens voting to
erect such a building at Tacoma?
W. F. A.
Of the: Old Pioneer Stock
From tha Kansas City Star.
Sometimes we hear it said that this
race of - ours is accomplishing a rapid
and ' easy journey ' downhill. -One
THE FLOWER
By Oliver Wendell Holmes
WHAT flower is this that freets the morn,
Its hues from Heaven so freshly born?
With burning star and flaming; band,
It kindles all the sunset land:
Oh tell us what its name may be
Is this the Flower of Liberty?
It is the banner of the free,
The starry Flower of Liberty!
In savage Nature's far abode
Its tender seed our fathers sowed;
The storm-wind rocked its swelling bud.
Its opening leaves were streaked with blood. .
Till lo! earth's tyrants shook to see
The full-blown Flower of Liberty!
Behold its streaming rays unite,
One mingling Jlood of braided light
The red that fires the Southern rose,
With spotless white from Northern snows.
And. spangled o'er its azure, see
The sister Stars of Libertyl
The blades of,heroes fence it round;
Wherever it springs is holy ground;
From tower and dome its glories spread;
It waves where lonely sentries tread;
It. makes the land as ocean free.
And plants an empire on the seal
Thy sacred leaves, fair Freedom's flower.
Shall ever float on. dome and tower.
To all their heavenly colors true;
In blackening frost or crimson dew.
And God love us as we love thee.
Thrice holy Flower of Libertyl
Then hail the banner of the free.
The starry Flower of Liberty!
OBSERVATIONS AND IMPRESSIONS
OF THE JOURNAL MAN
By Fred Lockley
( Eminently suitable for pondering in the leisure
this day should give, is the theme which Mr.
Lockley here elaborates. The hopes engendered
amid war's deadly dangers are reasserted and
the prediction boldly proclaimed that, despite
the load. illations of all mannei of evil men, th
world is henceforth to be managed by those who
wish humanity well.
During the past few days I have been
struck anew with the change of atti
tuu of business- men. It wasn't ao
many years ago that the captains of
industry regarded their tnen very much
in the same light as they did their ma
chinery. They wanted to secure the
maximum of production at the lowest
possible cost. The human element did
not enter. When a man was no longer
highly efficient he was thrown on- the
junkpile. Just as machinery .deteriorated
so employers wrote off the deterioration
and depreciation in their men and re
placed them without any thought of
what would become of them or those
dependent on them. This whole attitude
has- changed. We are beginning to rea
lize more fully the brotherhood of man.
A few days ago I was talking to F.
W. Kellogg, publisher of the Los Angeles
Express. "In the old days." , said Mr.
Kellogg, "many newspaper publishers
had the idea that they were willing to
lose money If they could make the other
fellow lose money. There was a natural
hostility between newspaper publishers.
That day has gone by. When the pub
lishers of the various papers meet each
other socially they find they are good
citizens and interested in serving hu
manity. More and more, newspaper pub
lishers aregetting together for mutual
helpfulness. Altruistic work done by
newspaper publishers and others during
the war has had a most wholesome ef
fect, and the whole attitude toward the
public is tinged with a thought of
service to others. Men of large means
are putting their time and money into
altruistic work. We are learning that
the way to build up an efficient organi
zation and the way to win the loyalty
of every employe is to give the employe
a feeling of responsibility and a Just
share in the profits of his work. No
longer Is It considered right : for a man
to make large profits by taking ad
vantage of the necessity of his employes.
"If publishers can and' do believe in
a League of Nations there is no reason
why they should not believe in a League
of Individuals, particularly when they
are engaged in the same Industry. We
all want helpful competition, but we do
not want harmful and destructive cdm
petition. More and more we are learn
ing that cooperation and a kindly feel
ing for our fellows Is the way toward
peace and prosperity."
Recently I attended a banquet at the
Arlington club given to Colonel Weln
stock. I could not but be struck, while
listening to his address, with the golden
cord that ran all through it of helpful
ness to others. He had no thought that
he was preaching a sermon : yet if he
had taken the Golden Rule for his text
he could not have preached a more ef
fective one. He spoke of the results that
have come to the producers In California
through cooperation results that are
amazing, almost unbelievable. He showed
how' by cooperative marketing they are
excluding inferior fruits and other prod
ucts so that the consumer gets better
value for his money and pays less for
it, and the producer turns out a better
says, look at our dances and lounge
lizards. Another says. look at our
luxury and ostentation, and adds some
thing about the fall of Rome. (Rome
always gets It that way when this sub
ject Is up, the general Impression Jelng
that Rome's fall was due to late hours
and jazz.) .
But let's take heart. Nations and
races do not decay, because some young
men are of the night blooming cereus
variety and have no use for a bed ex
cept to eat breakfast in. And anyway,
a very encouraging percentage of them
get over it, barring those who fall out
of taxicabs, and become useful mem
bers of the daylight colony. It is Im
possible to look about at the subjection
under which this planet has been
brought by Its Inhabitants without re
taining come confidence In our collect
ive ability to get on with the job aa it
grows and develops. Limiting our In
spection for a moment to our own fur
row this continent where our kind have
been scratching around for a few brief
centuries we cannot but recognize that
we have made considerable changes in
the landscape, some of them probably
for the better. We have subdued the
wilderness, built cities, overcome dis
tance and killed off most of the original
inhabitants. ,
The Tank's Forerunner
From the Christian Science Monitor
The Inventors of the "tanks," which
first -came into action in 1918 on the
Somme, had a forerunner, at least In
conception. If not In execution, of whom
they were probably wholly unaware, a
forerunner who lived more than 400
years ago. In his letter Introducing
himself to Ludovic Sforza, Duke of
Milan, about the year 1482. Leonardo da
Vinci, whose- Ingenuity as a military
engineer was no less amazing, though
less renowned; than hia artistic genius,
stated that among tha weapons of war
fare which he could construct were
"armored -- wagons carrying artillery
which shall break through the most
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OF, LIBERTY
article at lower cost, and receives a
higher price. It la almost like saying
the door is shut and open at the same
time. It has all been accomplished by
the elimination of waste and by scien
tific methods of distribution and market
ing. In place of cut-throat competition
and veiled hostility the producers of
California are enjoying prosperity and
have for each other a feeling of friendli-'
ness and comradeship. Take the raisin
industry as an example of what has been
accomplished. An association was
formed and all inferior raisins were ex
cluded from the market. The higher
grades of raisins, better prepared, bet
ter packed and more efficiently mark
eted, created an increased demand for
raisins. Extensive advertising was done
and channels of distribution were found.
The association published recipes for
raisin bread and raisin pie, and within
a year or two thousands of -tons of
raisins were being bought by bakers and
restaurant keepers and the public was
demanding more and more raisins. To
day there are few industries more pros
perous than the raisin industry of Cali
fornia. The same thing was done for
the dairy industry, for peach growers,
for the strawberry growers, and for al
falfa men. Today, in place of worry
ing as to how he will meet the mort
gage, the farmer is considering to what
college or university he shall send his
children and what make of automobile
he had better buy. .
For centuries we have been talking
about the brotherhood of man and the
era of good feeling. No matter" ' how
much the world seems to seethe with
unrest the era of th brotherhood of
man' is at hand. Much of our trouble
in the past has been caused by misunder
standing and by judging harshly the
motives of others. When we come to
know others better we see that they,
like ourselves, want to do the right
thing.
Some years ago I ran across a poem
entitled, "Not Understood." I don't know
who the author Is, but I have tried to
make it a part of my life. It Is worth
cutting out and saving. Here it Is :
Not understood, we more along asunder.
Our paths grow wider as tha seasons creep
Along the years; we marvel and we wonder
Why life is life, and then we faU asleep.
Not understood.
Not understood, we gather falte impressions
And hug them closely aa the years go by.
Till rirtues often seem to us transgressions ;
And thus men rise and faU and lire and die.
Not understood.
Not understood. Poor souls with stunted vision
Oft measure giants by their narrow gauge.
The poisoned shafts of falsehood and derision
Are often launched 'gainst those who mould
the age.
Not understood.
Not understood, the secret springs of action
Which lie beneath the surface and tha show
Are disregarded. With dissatisfaction
We judge our neighbors, and they often go.
Not understood.
Not understood. How trifles often change us.
The thoughtless sentence or the fancied slight
Destroy long years of friendship and .estrange ns
And on our souls there falls a freezing bligbt;
Not understood.
"
Not understood, how many breasts are aching
For lack of sympathy T Ah, day by day
How many cheerless, lonely hearts are breaking.
How many noble s)rits pass away
Not understood 7 , -
O fled, that men would see a little clearer.
Or Judge less hanrly what they cannot see;
O flod, that men wAi'd draw a little nearer
To one another: thy'd be nearer Thee,
And understood.
serried ranks of the enemy, and so open
a safe passage for the Infantry." Ap
parently Ludovic possessed neither the
imagination' nor the enterprise to avail
himself of the offer, and the "armored
wagons" were to wait more than four
centuries tor their inauguration.
Milk Problem the Same in All Lilies
From the Chicago 1'aily News.
It has been demonstrated that the
cost of milk consumers could be mate
rially reduced by replacing the pres
ent clumsy, costly, overlapping, -sys-temless
system of milk delivery with
one in which the routes would not con
tinually cross and recross, whenever
they did not parallel one . another. The
remedy for the enormous expense of
milk delivery is perfectly plain. The
trouble ia that nobody is really trying
to keep down the expense. The con
sumer haa no friends except just before
elections. ,
Have They Sacrificed in Vain?
By Tirzah Lamond
Watching o'er tha field of batfle, "
Deafened by its steady din,
Watching as oar comrades falter.
Watching as our lines grow thin,
Jusl on thought is ewer with us t
Just one goal w -hope to gain:
That our lives wa give unsparing
Are not sacrificed in Tain.
"Peace on earth!" wa hear tha chorus,
Kisa above tha battle's roar.
And our hearts are filled with gladness.
That the day will soon be o'er.
When the flower of the nations
To defend the right as slain.
Then the blood wa shed so freely
Will not be sacrificed in Tain. -
Now tha war is e'er and rumors.
Vague, persistent, fill the air.
That . the victory, woo so dearly.
Will bring nothing but despair.
Do thry dare betray our comrades, .
Dara they face tha world again,
: If our boys who lie In Flanders
Sacrificed their lires In TaiilT -Wolf
Creek. Oregon, May 2S .
Ragtag and Bobtail
Stories from Everywhere
The Airplane Doctor's Practice
TEBRASKA'S "airplane doctor" waa
called to treat a Kansas patient last
week, says Capper's Weekly. W. D. Si
dey. an oil driller, had hia skull crushed
in an accident t,hat left a fragment of the
bona, embedded in the brain. The nearest
doctor was at Beaver City, Neb.. 80 miles
away. He made the trip by airplane In
60 minutes,, and performed an operation
that will save the man's life. So far as
known. Sldey is the firSt Kansas man to
be attended by a physician who make
long trips In an airplane.
The Seventeen-Vear . Insect
Tha locust la coming a
And soon will be tuimmlnc
A meal off tha p-eea in tha park
From early each a. m..
This pest commits mayhem
On herbage, until it is dark.
It's not so surpriiina-
He'a busy dcTisina "
New menus from morn until nlfiht;
Perhaps if you'd fasted
At long and had lasted
Tou would, too, bar a food appetite.
. Chicago Nawa,
. Uncle Jerr Snow Says:
Uncle Ham's a-ehowin' off some old
war tanks to the folks at home, and they
bring in lota of folka to town to aee 'em
cavort around. But Uncle's a-goln to
nave some lch and Indignant old tanxi
to ship to Europe Jist as soon a prohi
bition gits to workln', and I've a idee
that them there French. Spaniards and
Eyetallana will consider 'em quite a
sight, too.
The -News in Paragraphs'
World Happenings Briefed for Benefit
- of Journal Headers
'' GENERAL .
The magnificent edifice, the Yildia
Kiosk, at Constantinople, Inhabited by
the aultan, was destroyed by fire Fri
day. The Methodist joint centenary cam
paign has- nearly reached ita goal. Uii
Saturday 1106.000,000 of the 1118,000,000
quota had been raised.
Ramon de Valera, president of the
"Irish republic," has been missing from
Dublin for 14 days, and it la believed
he is in the Lnlted States.
At San Franciaco Friday 35D0 round
of rifle and pistol ammunition destined
for Mexican revolutionaries were seined
aboard the steamer Kortigan III,
Information haa reached peace con
ference circles that the Italian officer
serving with the Czecho-tslovak army
have been replaced by Frenchmen.
Dr. William T. Ellis, correspondent of
the New York Herald and the only
American newspaper man in the Near
East, is being held a prisoner in Cairo,
and Mrs. Allls of Rant a Barbara
were killed in an automobile ciccident at .
Crescent City. Cal., Friday. Mrs. AIUm
Is a sister of Miss Pearl Bengham,of
Medford, Or. t
W. H. B. Schmeid. aged 83. for more
than 60 yeara a prominent jeweler of
Napa, Cal., shot and killed Ma aged
wife Friday and then, sent a bullet
through hia own heart.
- Increasing business, which it la hoped
may offset the railroad deficit sufficient
ly to make an advance in rates unneces
sary, ia reported by the railroad ad
ministration in statistics for traffic last
week.
Charles F. Wyant of Minneapolis,
president of the Mortgage Security com
pany and of 14 affiliated state banks,
has been- convicted of accepting de
posits in a bank which he knew was
not solvent.
J NORTHWEST NOTES
Hod"carrlers and mortar mixers ara
on a strike at Yakima, demanding S3
and 6 a day.
The various schools In Clarke county
graduated 105 students from the eighth
grade this year.
r A chapter of the American legion haa
been fdrmed by the returned soldiers of
Klamath county.
Diplomas were presented Friday night
to 100 members of the graduating class
of the Balem high school.
George Uber, aged GO. eacaped Friday
from the Insane hospital at Kalem.
Asylum: authorities ay the man la harm
less. . "
E. A. Stuart of Seattle sent five anl
mals to the annual Holsteln sale at
Philadelphia which sold at auction for
S 18,500.
Four hundred caaea of salmon fresh,
from the new Alaska pack reached Se
attle Saturday on the steamer Llbby
Maine. ' .
Influenza Is reaching worrying pro
portions at HOod River. Scores of resi
dents of the county have fallen victims
to the epidemic.
' The deaconess hospital of the Meth
odlst Episcopal church at Spokane ha
let a contract for a new addition to
cost $87,000.
The uteamera Senator and Victoria,
first of the fleet to leave this season
for Nome, Alaska, are Icebound in th
Bering aea.
W. G. Chandler, an architect, haa been,
delegated to advertise for bids for conw
struct Ion of the Marsh field armory
which will cot $40,000.
Lawrence Grosa. Vanled in various
Northwest cities for hia I. W. W. or
ganization work, was arrested In Che
halia Friday by Sheriff Berry.
The flrat concrete ship to be finished,
by the Great Northern Concrete Ship
building company at Vancouver will ba
given a trial trip the first of next week.
The Oak Knoll orchard near MM fords
consisting of 420 acres of fruit and
train land, has been Hold to Wllllarrs
Hpr.ry, a Honolulu capitalist, for 115,-
ooo.
While playing "Boy Scout" 6-year-old
John Uptegraph was ahot through th
stomarh and lung at Everett, Wash.,
by another boy who did not know th
gun waa loaded.
The Roach Timber company, holder
of 55.000 acres of timber In Dourim
conty, will noon begin the construction?
of 20 miles of railroad and two larg
sawmills in Sutherlin valley.
Leonard Creawell ' under arrest ' at
Aberdeen on a charge of nhooMnc
T'ostolUK George during a quarrel fol
lowing a poker game admits (lie ahoot
Ing, but claims he shot in aelf-defense.
With wages from 5 to" 70 ixr cent
higher than before the war. the labor4
situation In Eastern Washington and
Northern Idaho ia in excellent condtion.
with the supply about equal to the de
mand. The body of Carl Whlllock, 13-year-old
won of Mr. and Mrs. C I Whlllocla
of MMford. waa found In the Rogn
rivr near Goldray Thursday half a mil
below, where he waa drowned Decora
tion day. .
-War Sa-vinjrs Plan Offers
Grand Opportunity
f Stories of achievement in the a renm" la
. tion of War Savings stamps, sent to The
Journal and accepted for publication, wiU
be awarded a Thrift Bump. 1 , '
The war savings plan offers the
safest, most convenient and moat
profitable method of accumulating
savings that haa ever been presented
to any people. War Savlnga Stamps
represent, without qualification, the
finest Investment ever offered by
any government to Its people.
The government ia tapping new
aprlnga of resources when it goea to
all the people with a financial obli
gation so designed that everyone,
even the children, can become an
owner of a 15 War Savings Stamp,
which is virtually a United Statea
government little baby bond backM
up by the entire resourcea of the
United States.
Thrift Stamps and lflt War Rstitigs
Stamps now on sale at usual agencies.