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; THE OREGON . DAILY JOURNAL, P ORTLAND, MONDAY, JUNE 16, 1919.
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GERMAN PROPAGANDA AGAIN
D
T-PEAT of the peace treaty
through attack upon the league
is the chief hope of Germany.
, . - Thfi -German' government Is
' known to be regularly making its
appropriation for propaganda, just as
: J Germany did before the war and dur
tlng. the war. Germany's best card
J is through use of that propaganda
J In the United Slates, to strengthen
J opposition to the league."
' . German propaganda, 'on which mil-
:.. lions were spent as we know from
t court trials, blew up American mu-
- miiuti wii lis ill . unit; vi. jnar. t nab
s propaganda wa,s brought-to bear upon
members of congress who were In
duced to vote to forbid Americans
.from traveling on ships carrying
munitions of war.
" Germaq'propaganda did not appear
exclusively as a German activity.
"TheAvork was done through societies
of one kind and another. It was done
in the name of pacifism and under
; other disguises, but it was made-in-
Germany and paid for by Germany.
- . German propaganda got us into
the war. v After spending millions
In spreading it broadcast through-
out America, the German govern
ment " thought the work had secured
the desired results. - The German gov
ernment was led to believe that Ger
man propaganda and German influ
ence in America had raised up a
sufficient anti-war. sentiment and a
sufficient pro-German, sentiment to
prevent congress from declaring war.
Germany's game through propa-
ganda. cost us tens of thousands of
dead American boys, cost us tens of
thousands of .American boys crippled
for:, life, and cost us billior.s . of
. money.
Willi the German government
spending money now in propaganda
J In ' the United States to defeat the
peace treaty through the fight on
the league, .Germany is refusing to
. sfgn the treaty. She is encouraged
in that refusal by the results of her
.propaganda work against the league.
H Is a cunning game. It fs mislead
ing many Americans, just as German
propaganda misled many Americans
before and during the war.
,It Is the same old meddlesome in
lerference by Germany in American
' domestic, affairs. It is the same
old '. "meddlesome Interference . by
..Germany in the domestic" Affairs
of all nations. In this fight against
the league American citizens are con
fronted with the same sinister influ
, -ence and the same old ' game that
Germany played with its result of
j timing us finally into a terrible con
flict., to pay the cost' of which, we
. shall have to bend our backs to taxes
'and bonds for a generation.
J Th game is perfectly apparent
Th'e German propagandists -are sup
plementing the work of the Amer
ican senators who are opposing the
. league for partisan and other 'rea
i sons. News' dispatches from Paris
a few days ago showed how Ger
v: many Is encouraged now not to sign
while ' a ' month ago she was " ready
to sign ; and reluctantly accept her
- fate. If the peace' treaty is defeated
' In the American senate now, Germany
ill gain addefl tifhe In " which to
squirm j'out of lhf terms which the
now united, allies have fixed as the
iust payment she ; must . make for
bringing, on the war.
" 1 Delay. . postponement, controversies
"at, Paris; disputes and 'differences in
America that - . is what Germany
' wants,' and that Is . why Germany is
- spending money to fan American
controversies into - flame. ' ' Tire one
and. only- way to meet this cunning
German game is to be' now as -wo
' were ; In war, a united people,- de-
iermined to secure In peace? the fruits
of victory won in war.
f The game 'of. the' propagandists Is
. to flood American senators with, pro
tests against the League of Nations.
The thing for 100 per cent .Americans
toi-do.1 is to meet; the -propagandists
at their own game and f lood Amer
ican senators, with letters urging ap-
proval of ' the -peace, treaty, as it
" stands. - " ;
The issue , is . this : Is ! Germany to
run J the domestic affairs- of .this
country, or are the American people
to run their Own affairs in their own
way without- meddlesome interfer
ence by paid propagandists from
abroad? ' '. i ' ' -' s."
5 The German government still mikes
appropriations for propaganda vork
and is using much, of the money in
propaganda throughout the United
States in the hope of beating the
peace treaty through the ftght on the
League of Nations. We face the same
old game that-got us Into the war.
If Germany can defeat the treaty by
creating controversy and confusion in
America, she can gain more time and
perhaps rob the allies of the fruits
of victory. There is just as much
need now to be 100 per cent Ameri
can as 4urfng the war. We are com
batting the same enemy government
and that government is up to its
old gahie of trying to divide America.
.SHIP BY TRUCK
"S'
IUP by truck."
That was the slogan on each
machine in a motor truck
parade in Portland Saturday.
As you watched it, the show im
pressed you with the thought that
the men behind truck production and
distribution are convinced as to the
great service the new transportation
vehicle is to render. Their confi
dence in the efficiency of their ma
chines stared at you from each pass
ing truck In the slogan "Siiip by
truck."
A highly 'Changed condition is un
doubtedly to come from this inven
tion. It is to be an evolution In
transportation. Local traffic will
more and more be handled by this
chc"ap and highly convenient device.
It will be the farmer's method of
transporting is heavy products to
railroad station and steamboat land
ing, if not to the market place itself.
Confined ,to no fixed routes, bound
to no track of steel, free to function
wherever -there is a good road, the
power truck Is one of the forerun
ners of a. new and marvelous age.
Sign the treaty, or face an allied
drive on Berlin, is the latest an
nouncement from Paris as to the at
titude of the allies' conference. The
armistice was granted Germany on
certain conditions, and her refusal to
sign is a refusal to abide by the
terms of the armistice. If there can
be no agreement through diplomatic
negotiations, the inexorable alterna
tive of war is to fight the issue to
a finish on the field. Next Saturday
is reported as the day for military
advance in case the Germans refuse
to sign.
KILLING THE KILLER
CAPITAL punishment, which was
restored in the state of Wash
ington by the recent session of
'if liri3lfitiirf is Tint 4a K. rtf
purbed in its administration by the
referendum, which was threatened
by those opposed to the death penalty
but failed for insufficient signatures
to the petitions.
It is a question provocative ofL. un
ending deb.ate and discussion. Those
who believe in lopping off heads
lhave it in their blood. Argument
will not change their convictions.
Those who oppose it are as deeply
rooted in their beliefs. It is, natural
that this should be so since the
taking of human life, or not taking
it, is the prize for' which the de
baters contend.
The main argument always ad
vanced in support of 'capital punish
ment is that it is a preventative of
murder. It can be justified, if at
ail, on that ground alone. It will 'be
interesting to note, after a sufficient
lapse of time, whether the return
of Washington to the -old order will
bear out that contention. The state
punished Us murderers, . such-of them
as were convicted, for a long, long
time, by killing them. It has had a
spell when it incarcerated them for
life. Now it has reverted to the old
system. After the hangman has op
erated for a time .the statistician can
get his pencil out and tell us whether
killing the killer stops the killing or
doesn't.
It is common knowledge that most
of the airplane accidents result from
spectacular maneuvers by airmen. It
is highly probable" that the.
ble tragedy in Portland would have
been averted had the pilot adhered
more rigidly to the rules of safety.
BUT ONE ANSWER .
WAS it, or not, significant that
the Seattle and Chicago dele
gates to the national conven
tion of ihe American Federation
of Labor cast their votes against the
resolutions to express disapproval of
wartime prohibition and to advocate
the exemption of beer from the na-'
tional prohibition amendment, on
which propositions they were out
voted by more than six to one?
Chicago was never noted for Its
dryness. Its nearest approach was
found in the limitations upon manu
facture enforced by the wartime pro
hibition act. j Seattle has been dry,
theoretically, as most seaports are
supposed 'to be, with prohibition
within an wetness Just beyond. But
in spite of the partiality of the re
strictions imposed upon liquor, 'the
representatives of labor in those two
cities contend that the improved con
ditions growing out, of the lessened
consumption? pf intoxicants bound
them to the support of prohibition.
It is that fact which is driving
John Barleycorn farther and farther
into oblivion. The mass of mankind
without liquor has been given a sober
and sobering glimpse of the mass or
mankind : with liquor. It teaches its
own lesson, and there is but one
answer , to the problem. , '
The news comes that, the German
government is doing propaganda work
in America for German purposes, Just
as was done before and during the
war. That government is spending
money lavishly to have the peace
treaty defeated I in the American sen
ate through the, fight on the League
of Nations. The object is plain: De
lays and? disputes all "work to the
advantage6 of Germany. .Through dis
putes among the allies, such as the
fight of American senators on the
league, Germany gains, time and
stands a chance of robbing the allies
of the fruits of victory. It is the
same old German game.
A FAMOUS COMMUNITY
A BUSINESS of 12.600,000 was done
by . the Puyallup cooperative
berry growers last y$a.
They began business as a co
operative organization in 1902," and
canned berries at a cost of 12800;
which they could not sell. It took
them two years to pay off the first
season's deficit.
W. A. Paulhamus was one ofthc
members. As the whole Northwest
knows, he . became presiding genius
of the organization, and. in conjunc
tion with the board of directors com
posed of berry growers, is its di
recting head.
The system at Puyallup was re
cently explained to tue writer by
Mr. Paulhamus. Information about
it is of value to those who hope for
more scientific marketing.
The association has already sold
f386,000 of canned berries for delivery
out of the 1919 crop. Besides the
berries grown at Puyallup, straw
berries, raspberries and loganberries
are heavily drawn from Oregon. Seven
carloads of strawberries ywere im
ported this season from Sacramento,
California.
There was never such a demani as
now. Everybody has been expecting
prices to. decline and the pantries
and warehouses are all empty.
Prohibition, is a further cause of
demand. Berry juices are requireu
for soft drinks. Every first class
hotel, in Mr. Paulhamus' view, will
soon have a soft drink bar in its
lobby.
There are 1800 berry growers in
the Puyallup association. The berry
farms range in size from one fourth
of an acre to 17 acres. Most of the
growers have cows and poultry. The
chickens run In the berry tracts, con
sume pests and fertilize the soil.
The territory covered by the grow
ers is seven miles long and two wide,
and is the most densely populated
area of its kind in the United States.
There is a commissary department
which furnishes supplies, bought in
huge quantities at low cost, to the
member groweVs.
The distribution is, through two
cooperative stores, and the manner
in which these stores are financed
is unusual. Thus, if 'a member
grower has $50 or $100 or $500 for
which he has no immediate require
ment, the association uses it at his
pleasure and pays him eight per cent
interest. He can draw all or pat of
it at any time. The association thus
becomes his banker. ,
While his money -so earns money,
there is another source of profit from
its use. The low cos at which gro
ceries and usual supplies are bought
by the association, and the low ex
pense of overhead and the non-profit
from 'conduct of the stpres, yields
members a saving of 12 per cent
on their purchases, as proven through
long experience. This 12 per cent
added to the eight per cent which
the surplus money of member grow
ers draws, gives a profit of 20
per cent. 5 ... .
Until last year, the association oper
ated without revolving fund or capi
tal of. any kind other than their
berry plants and canning plants.
Then, for a proposed extension of
operations, a fund of 52700 was cre
ated. The canning plant at Sumner has a
capacity of 26 tons of red raspber
ries per day. The association ships
100 to 150 carloads of fresh berries
each year. The value of berries sb
shipped last year was $596,000. f
One Oregon canning establishment
paid an excess profits tax - last year
of $38,000. That sum went to the
government, and of course repre
sented part of the sum between what
this privately, operated concern paid
growers and what it got : as profit
from the canned products In the
Puyallup cooperative system, there is
no such margin the growers get all
the profit ;
The association, through its man
agement, sells the output throughout
the East on established brands at the
best prices, and" the individual grow
ers have prorated to ., -thera ' the
amounts to- which' they are respec
tively entitled, i There is ; no , profit
for anybody but themselves, no ex
cess profits to a private "individual,-
no excess profils to be paid the gov
ernment. The association has been in exis
tence 17 years. Aside from a few
Scandinavians, and fewer Italians, all
the growers in the ; association are
native Americans.
WHEN THE SIIRINERS COME
IT IS doubtful if many Portland
people have definite idea of what
is going to happen to Portland; a
year from now when the national
convention of the Shrine meets. '
As a starter, it means that an army
of visitors from all the nooks of the
nation, equal. to a fourth or a fifth
the population of Portland will -de
scend upon us expecting enter tiln-
ment and ' accommodations. It will
be some little 'task to tuck . many
thousands of extra people away for
the night, ' to feed - them and to .'en
tertain them; r iOf course it will, be
done, easily and with more pleasure
to the strangers within our gates
than accorded ! by any city at any
prior convention time, ,lut the size
of the i merrymaking avalanche gives
a glimpse .of the "task that is ahead
of the city.
Then hee are some other facts :
There will be some seventy-five bands
imported to make music for the time'.
There will be fifty thousand or more
uniformed and march ins: men. ' on
woot, on horses, on camels and, may
be, on elephants. W. Freeland Ken
drick, the Imperial potentate, will
bring- more than one thousand men
with him from Philadelphia. There
will be 150 pieces in his band and
300 foot and 100 mounted patrols.
Five thousand rooms have already
been reserved and are under contract.
It will be a great time. Those
who attended the Elks national con
vention here in 1912 are still talking
about it. Portland still holds the
lodge record for lavish and pleasura
ble entertainment. Next yaar it will
hang up a trophy In the inner, shrine
on a record for other cities to equal.
ALL REMEMBER
THE OLD OREGON
Spared. Oblivion, to Which Naval
Nomenclature Dooms Other Ships.
From the" Philadelphia Evening Ledger.
American warship nomenclature has
something of the nature of an endless
chair While the states endure and so
long as1 navfies are needed government
vessels commemorating these common
wealths will plow the Beas-. The system
is somewhat confusing, for the lands
man will doubtless often fail to differ
entiate between the old and new Ten
nessee or the first, second or thlird In
diana. On the other hand, there is a
certain imaginative appeal In this prin
ciple of succession. Vitality in the name
itself is preserved even though great
fighting ships eventually go to the scrap
heap. It is in that direction that the
historic, Indiana. Massachusetts and
Iowa, veterans of the Spanish war, are
now headed. To League Island, where
they are now .stationed, has come, the
order that they surrender names they
so gallantly assisted to make -glorious.
Hereafter they will be designated, re
spectively, as "Coast Battleships No. 1,
No. 2 and No. 4." ; More formidable
fighters will carry on the succession,
and bids will soon be opened for the
wonderful dreadnaughts entitled to bear
these state names. . Presumably they
will surpass in strength the newest Ten
nessee, now the most powerful battle
ship in the world.
It is significant that the old
Oregon is to undergo no path
etic second christening, signaling her
decrepitude. As a matter of fact, she
is a trifle more antiquated than the
Iowa, once "Bob" Evans' -pride, but even
the official zeal in passing on the state
names to" newcomers is halted fn this
instance. Though placed out of com
mission, the Oregon will still be the
Oregon. Short : as the public memory
is, it remains undlmmed concerning the
dramatic cruise of Captain Clark's
sturdy battleship between the early part
of March and the beginning of June,
1898. When she left Puget sound it was
evident that war with Spain was near.
Long before she reached her destination
the conflict broke out. and the Oregon
raced if 13 knots an hour can be called
racing-down the long Pacific coast of
the continent, through the Straits of
Magellan, up past Argentina and Brazil
and steamed into Key West in ample
time to be made useful for the great
naval victory of July, in which Cervera's
fleet was destroyed. Had the Panama
canal existed in those days there would
have been very little pressure on her
engines. But Soutl America had to be
all but circumnavigated by the Oregon.
The feat and her prowess in the San
tiago battle have ricihly entitled the
veteran vessel to keep her name as long
as she floats.
I .
A similar privilege was accorded the
old Kearsarge, which in the days of
her youth so decisively defeated the
Alabama, wiliest of all raiders not
even excepting the Emden toward the
close of the Cvil. war. The original
Kearsarge was eventually wrecked at
sea. Not until after she had vanished
in the ocean grave did a naval new
comer succeed to her honorable name.
The keel nt the present Kearsarge, which
now ranks as a p re-dread naught, was
laid down in 1896. That vessel is con
spicuous as the only battleship in the
American navy which is not named after
a state. Perhaps when Dewey's Olym
pia, which proved exceedingly useful to
Admiral Niblack in the Mediterranean
during the great war, has ended her
days, a superb new Olympia may vio
late tradition and at the same time
glorify the fact. As iris now, the name
ruling is strikingly rigid. No other navy
in the world is so systematic a chrls
tener as is our own. It is debatable
whether or not this rigidity is entirely
a good thing. True, we achieve some
variety in baptizing torpedoboats and
destroyers after our sea heroes, bat in
picturesqueness of warship nomencla
ture there is no question that Britain
is highly successful. There is an un
mistakable salty flavor about War
spite, Inflexible and Undaunted as naval
names. Occasionally, this penchant for
adjectives begets amusing oddity. The
Inconstant, one of -he British light
cruisers, is certainly strangely named.
Another ship is with piquant politeness
dubbed the Attentive. The classical
names contribute their quota of color
to King George's navy. Somehow they
seem "shippy." Melpomene and Mino
taur have a ringing nautical sounds We
have used mythology ourselves with
our naval colliers. The mysteriously
ill-fated Cyclops was an instance.
m m .
On the whole, it may be noted that
personalities play a. much larger part in
the warship names of the foreign nations-than
In our own naval lists. En
gland has ' honored Lord Nelson and
Collingswood, and France Jean Bart,
Admiral Aube and Dupetit Thouars, the
latter the founder of her Polynesian
Island empire. But the haphazard sys
tem which prevails' in France, as in
Britain, has resulted in some remark
able departures from the traditional
Gallic sense of the. fitness of things.
That the mild and philosophizing Ernest
Kenan, provides a name for an armored
cruiser is a fact that hardly seems in
accordance with the proprieties, and it
is equally queer to have a battleship
named after an ".Encyclopedist," as Is
the Diderot. A Italy , has done the right
and inevitable thing with her euper
dread naught Chrlstoforo Colombo, but
an instance of ""mixed motivation was
surely Instanced in the Dante Allghieri,
which great J; name . u suggests nothing
whatever in 'i sea lore.". Nearly all the
German: and Austrian .naval names had
a pompous imperial quality. The" Al
manacb de Gxlha Is really a Wretched
inspiration for ship nomenclature. What
marine 1 achievements could, for ex
ample, be expected of the Erzherzog
Max, which was one Austria's, or of
the Friedrich ier Gross, now Ignomin
iously anchors in Sea pa Flow.
It may ; be objected. : of course, that
Tennessee and Arkansas are hardly
nautical names, but considered as con
forming to the scheme whereby it is
probable that all the sovereign compo
nents of the taion will be honored in
the federal navy, there Is warranty In
the policy. To the sentimentalist, the
only . painful feature ; Is the fact that
splendid ships that have seen their best
days must surrender naStes to which,
they have added luster to spick-and-span
newcomers, which have not yet
made history. It would have seemed
specially cold-blooded to have num
bered the Oregon. She is indeed fully
deserving of retaining her original name
with her uaextlnguishable laurels.
Letters From the People
t Communications tent to The Journal for
publication in this department should b written
on only one aid of the paper, should not exceed
40O words in length, and most bo sifned by the
writer, whose mail addreaa in full must accom
pany the contribution. .. -
Flocks and Herds In Coos County
North Bend. June 10. To the Editor
of The Journal I would like to express
my opinion on what was printed in your
paper June S. referring to the herd law.
I wish to say that Coos county is not
a stock country. Land is too valuable
for cattle or sheep to run. Coos county
is naturally a dairy country, one of the
greatest In Oregon, and dairymen can
not afford to have neighbors' cattle and
sheep running in the pasture with their
milch cows. There is no fence outside
of a woven wire fence that wilt -keep
out sheep, and if any man is to put up
such a fence it should be the man who
wants to run sheep, nbt the man that
does not want sheep. As for sheep run
ning through the Umber and rough land,
sheep will not do well in timber land in
Coos county. There are too many stray
dogs. A sheep raiser would have to
corral his sheep and take good care of
them, and if he bad to climb these hills
and mountains over rocks- and through
brush to get his sheep home every eve
ning it would b a very expensive, busi
ness. The majority.of sheepmen In this
vicinity will turn their sheep out on
the road and not care whom they bother,
and of course the sheep will go to the
first open piece of ground they find, re
gardless of fences, and if the owner of
tlM ground complains the sheep owner
will tell him to put up better fences
that they don't have to take care of their
sheep. The roads hereabout are cov
ered with sheep, no matter which way
you may go,-though if any man has a
right to the pasture on the road it should
be the man who owns the land on either
side and not a man that lives on a hill
side, in a 10x10 cabin and with a quarter-acre
corral for hi3 sheep at night
and a milch cow to keep him in milk
and has lived on the ranch 25 or 30
years and if he lives there that much
longer will have to move off or else the
brush will run him off. . He does nothing,-
but look after his sheep and sees
that they have plenty of feed, no matter
wnere they get U.
This state of affairs is one reason the
herd law is In Coos county today. An
other reason for the herd ' law is that
the tillable .land in Coos county Is too
high priced to raise even hay for dairy
cows.' The most scientific and most suc
cessful dairymen are buying a good deal
of their hay, which Is shipped in. ,i
The year before this herd law was vot
ed in it was a hard winter and hundreds
of cattle starved to death while the
snow was on the ground. I think the
herd law is the most successful thing in
Coos county.
As for saying there will not be much
stock raised in Coos countys that is
wrong : for if a man has to fence in his
piece he is going to get busy and clear
and seed his land. as . every successful
farmer does.. T. II. G.
Mr. Coe Replies to a Critic
Portland, June 7. To the Editor of
The Journal The person - signing four
initials, "M. L. . H.," who takes ex
ception to my remarks on Christian
teaching as to what goes to make up
true marriage , obligations, makes a
number of effective points, but they are
altogether irrelevant. . The simple
quotations I gave from holy writ stand
like eternal bronze. They have not been
and cannot be refuted. Their plain, evi
dent, direct meaning cannot be hidden
by an avalanche of words that really
deal with some other subject. It is -surprising
that "M. L. T. H." thinks
woman is placed In an undignified posi
tion, by the teaching of one. whom she'
calls Paul. I presume she means St.
Paul. I fail to comprehend her evident
feeling in the matter. It seems to me
full of the spirit of latent rebellion, even
against God himself. Now, the chief
virtue of human beings is to be humbly
obedient to higher authority, the highest
of all being God. After that comes
those who are authorized and competent
Infallibly to ' interpret His ho'ly word.
Such have made of marriage a sacra
ment and laid d6wn the law as to the
governance of the family. Hence, the
divorce evil and broken homes can be
prevented only by recognizing those
just authorities and subordinations
which God long ago prescribed and
which the church for centuries has been
teaching. Time will prove that those
teachings are sound. The arrogant
"social" innovations of present day se
cular paganism with its lax marriage
and divorce laws, will bear its' own bit
ter fruit of destruction.- Strange that
the modern world cannot take to heart
the lesson of ancient Home, when all
authority gradually disappeared and in
novation and novelty was the rule. The
beginning of the evil was the disap
pearance of authority in the home.
God's laws are immutable. Their Infrac
tion brines the same penalty to human
society today as in the days of the
Caesars. To save ourselves let us re
turn to the old. moorings. Let us love
and trust each othem, in humbleness of
spirit, while worshipping God in purity
and faith. If we but do this, our mod
ern problems, so-called, will vanish as
a mist. LOUI3 COE.
A Rebuke
Portland, June 12. To the Editor of
The Journal I was glad to see the state
in The Journal by the Canadian Vet
erans association branding as false Mr.
Hazen's articles in the Portland Tele
gram on the lack? of unity in the Brit
ish empire. I have talked with many
Canadian soldiers and they are all generous-
in praise of English troops. One
young Canadian veteran remarked to me
that he was tired of people In the states
always trying to make little of the
fighting qualities of .British troops, and
the only thing he Jlamed the British
for was that they praised everyone but
themselves, when, at the same time they
fought against fearful odds from the
beginning of the war.; I can't under
stand the Telegram's printing these ar
ticles, as ft -is plain to everyone that
Mr. Hazes is very much prejudiced
against the British, and now is the time
to bury our "ancient grudge" and. to at
least give thanks to England if but for
helping .win the war.; -
- NATIVE BOTt.
Missouri's Centennial. . ,
from the New York E renins Post-
Missouri is' planning a suitable eele
bration - of her one hundredth birthday
ss-ar state. She was admitted to' the
t-nion on August 21, 1821, after a bitter
fight over slavery, but her constitution
jj COMMENT AND
SMALL CHANGE
We wouldn't mind "hopping of f pro
viding that we could keep one foot on
the ground. v
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More than over this year are we hop
ing that-the department at Washington
will succeed in making it a safe and
sans Fourth of July.
.
" Jay E. House arises to remark that if
the bald-headed men - would vote to
gether they could elect the president- A
shining example of the unity of action,
as it were. ..
Now the paragraphers are saying that
it wasn't necessary for Sergeant Alvln
Tork. the greatest individual hero of
the war. to marry in order to prove his
exceptionel bravery.
Maybe yqu re not receiving that long
expected lettfci because your corres
pondent la waiting for July 1 when the
first class postage rate is scheduled t
drop a cent.
' ' . - -Judging
from the manner In which
society reporters reiterate the "quiet
wedding" stuff, one might be led to be
lieve that unless a "quiet wedding'
were specified it ' would follow that it
was a loud and boisterous affair.
OBSERVATIONS AND IMPRESSIONS
OF THE JOURNAL .MAN
By Fred
' 'From a letter written him by his friend.
Major Hotchkiss from' overseas, Mr. Lockley
quotes for th purpose- of presenting the edu
cational actiTitiea of officers and men still on
tha other side aa they "carry on" in unlTersi
ties of . Enaiand and France and in establish
ments created ont of hand to answer their par
ticular requirements. J .
When I last saw Clarence n..-Hotch-klss
of Portland he was a captain in
command of the camp at Winchester,
England. By today's mall I received
a letter from Jiim and learned that he
is now a major. He is n the Tenth
provisional regiment. A. - E. F. U., A.
P. O. 909 Beaunne, France. In hie let
ter Major Hotchkiss writes: t
"When you were my guest I was com
mander of the American camp in Eng
land. Now I am a student at the A. E.
F. university in France. Announce
ment was made that two officers and
27. enlisted men could be sent from Eng
land to the army university in France.
I was so fortunate as to be one of the
officers chosen. I wanted to be -one of
the pioneers of the army university, as
I had been with the Amerrcan pioneers
in France, our division, the Forty-first,
being a part of the first 100,000 to ar
rive overseas. The students, began ar
riving at Beaunne en" March IT. Y.ou
will be interested In knowing the courses
chosen by the' soldiers.' There were ad
mitted 1331 to the coure in agriculture,
269 art, 3195 business. l&Vteachfng,'16?4
engineering, 235 journalism. 219 law,
2687 letters, 407 medicine,, 1391 science
and 253 music Of the 13,114 men apply
ing for the various courses 11.837 were
accepted. The others were advised to
take up other work.
"You will realfze with what regret
I left .that company in England. I had
been in command of it nearly two years.
I felt toward my boys as a father feels
toward his own family. As you- know,
companies E, F and G were under orders
to return, and by now they have un
doubtedly reached home.
a
You will be interested In knowing
that I found many Oregon men in the
university. We formed an Oregon club.
The following a;e members: Ed C. Lap
ping, Astoria ; Benjamin F. Caro, Rose-'
burg; Sergeant Major William W. Gei
ger, Portland ; Second Lieutenant
Thomas N. Burns, Rainier; Wilfred A.
Gartley, Portland: "Sergeant Major
Kenneth P. Morrison, 571 Elm street,
Portland; S. G. Marks. Aurora; Floyd
Hi Keith, Astoria; Sergeant Ralph H.
Roach, Weatherby; Ernest A. Kuch,
The Dalles : Douglas Phillips.' Salem ;
Charles M. Stump, 703 Hoyt street, Port
land ; Corpoaal C. B. Flannagan, Marsh
field ; First Lieutenant E. T. Stretcher,
Flavel avenue, Portland; Major C. R.
Hotchkiss. Portland; Captain Lv A. 'Mil
ner, Portland ; Sergeant "V. A. Thomas,
Portland ; Captain J. A. Grant. . Port
land ; Second Lieutenant E. A- Robins,
Portland; Sergeant Royal A, Fultz,
Portland.
' I
"Our university has an exceptionally
strong faculty. Dr. John Erskine heads
the department of education. Colonel
Ira L Reeves is president of the univer
sity and commander of the troops. -The
course closes June 7. , We do not know
whether we shall be ordered to the Unit
ed States at that time or not. but like
good soldiers we are cheerfully waiting
whatever the orders will be.
"This is certainly one of the show
places otthe A. E. F. General ;Pershlng
reviewed the troops here and addressed
the students. . We were also visited by
the military affairs committee of the
house of representatives, . and on two
different occasions Secretary Baker
has visited us. 1
"To give you an idea how thorough
our college courses are, I will tell you
what the boys in engineering, industries
and trades take. They are required
to study plain surveying, topographical
surveying, field astronomy, highway en-j
gineering, railroad engineering, mechan
ism of machinery, hydraulics, sanitary;
was adopted on June 12, 1820, and the
centenary will be reckoned from that
date. Pierre Laclede, Daniel Boone and
Lewis and Clark will be among the
famous men to be remembered. There
has been disagreement among historians
as to who had the honor of first setting
foof upon the soil of Missouri. Some
stand for Hernando de Soto, some for
Pere Marquette, but Missouri will honor
them all impartially. Since St. Charles
was the early capital of the state, one
of the expositions will be held there.
Among -other pioneer Institutions fea
tured will be the St. Louis university
established in 1829 by the state charter,
though it bad been conducting a mission
school for years before that. A melan
choly interest will hang about the first
distillery, founded by Auguste Chouteau,
a descendant of Laclede, and the first
brewery, founded in 1810. That pro
hibition had no standing in those days
is shown by the fact that Chouteau re
ceived a concession, from the then
Spanish governors to stimulate his ' en
terprise. -
Shopkeeplng ' Tuature ;
From tha Katrnuh Y.) TfllaaeV i.
- About the French shopkeepers we are
(.ready to believe the very worst that can
be pieced together from the "experi
ences", of any home-coming soldier, but
for the reason that the shopkeepers are
shopkeepers and not because they are
French. Of course, they have over
charged the American soldier ; their
habit has ever - been . to overcharge
everyone who could be overcharged. An
indignant parent, remonstrated wjth us
the other day ; Can, - yes.- but wouldn't
you think, JreTHed, wouldn't you think
that, even ' shopkeepers would not have
taken advantage of men come to fight
their battles,? men who understood
neither the : language, the currency not
the trading methods? And we replied
that we might have thought so, but on
our last trip west t, a - town near a
cantonment we found soldier committees
had been . appointed to determine what
stores charged . fair . prices and ' what
charged unfair, prices, and the lists of
these were published in the daily news
paper of the camp.. ' No, efcfce the day
NEWS IN BRIEF
- OREGON SIDELIGHTS
Malheur county has a sinking fund,
and of this fund $1350 is invested in
bonds of the Victory loan. ,.
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"Hoodvt TU ver." . asserts the News,
"showed the right spirit when it voted
for the- Roosevelt highway. And now
it will. be up to the coast people to
visit us- and render - thanks when the
road is completed."
a ; ... .,- .z '
A splendid "three ring" program at
Vale is promised for the Fourth of July
by, the committee in charge. A sol
diers' ' reunion is to be a principal fea
ture. As elsewhere, the . determination
to break Independence day rewords is
avowed on behalf of the Malheur me
tropolis. , . . .
-Woodburn furnishes the man ' that
made Diogenes famous. The Independ
ent says of him : "B. K, Hall was given
the contract to raise Young street bridge
for $10. F.verybody else thought It
would cost from $25 to $40. Hall hired
M. L. Hendricks Monday and the two
old stiffs' did it in two hours and a half,
raising one end 12 inches and the othet
eight inches and placing caps under
neath. Hall says It would have taken a
gang of others three days to do the
work.- He says he is fisv gr after."
Lockley
engineering, irrigation, contracts and
specifications,-concrete designing, steel
designing, foundations, and to learn aU
about stresses and other kindred sub
jects." - . '-
' '
i I have not space to give all the in
teresting information furnished m lv
Major Hotchkiss. but here fs a brief
summary of what the army university
is doing. More than 150,000 soldiers
have enrolled for vocational and other
training in the post schools of the A. E.
F. Approximately 23,000 are taking
university courses in French and Eng
lish universities, and In the A. E. F.
university In Burgundy. About 7500 of
the soldiers, -who are university men,
have entered French universities, and
about 2000 are entering English uni
versities. The work taken up in the
French universities will be in letters,
science, "law and medicine.
A battalion of engineers and three
regiments or- negro stevedores converted
the extensive hospital buildings at
Beaunne f late class rooms and barracks
for the university. Approximately 1000
acres of land near-by is used for labora
tory, work by the agricultural and horti
cultural department. Reveille is at 7
o'clock; military drill from 8 to 9 o'clock.
ana irom ociock until late in the ar
ternoon the time is taken up with school
work. . Three hundred of the students
have. already been appointed to West
Point They are taking special courses
in military instruction. One of the pe
cullar features of the work Is that in
many cases a buck private has charge
of the classes and tells majors and cap
tains and other commanding officers
where to bead in. Most of the instruct
ors have university degrees. The dl
.rector of the college of letters is Major
William H. .Parker, formerly professor
of political economy at the University
of Cincinnati, The director of the col
lege of law is Captain Warren A. Sea
vey. W. Hi Lough is In charge of the
business, course. He was formerly con
nected with the New York University
School of Commerce. Captain Carl V.
Burger has charge of the class in paint
ing, and Major Harry F. Cunningham
has charge of the industrial and com
merclaV side of the art department.
Wandering through the university one
will find classes in .English, mathe
matics,' philosophy, psychology, history,
civics, - sociology, biology, chemistry, all
of the ; modern languages, sculpture.
commercial art, architecture, engineer
ing, city planning and housing, sani
tation, ventilation, vocational courses,
Journalism, dental, work and theology
One ,of the first things done by the
university was the placing of an initial
order through the Y. M. C. A., for
$2,000,000 worth of text books. Brig
adier General Robert E. Rees, who was
in charge of militarizing colleges and
universities of the United States last
year, is organizing the educational ac
tivities of the A. .E. F. in Franee.
It - seems rather . strange, when you
think of it, to see one of our-boys
who wient to France to learn to throw
bombs at the Huns, to bury his bayonet
in the vitals of some German, peacefully
pursuing his Studies in floriculture or
dairy husbandry or learning what to
feed hens to make them lay. Here Is a
lad wearing the Croix de Guerre who
is studying the fertilization of soli, learn
ing about forage aTid fiber crops, study
ing rural sociology, cooperating in coun
try life and rural organization. Captain
Hotchkiss sent me a sheet on which
student has marked a selective course
he is taking. ' Here is what this particu
lar student Is taking up-: American for
eign relations, current history, argu
mentation, sociology, psychology, news
paper editing, special articles, evidence,
industrial and commercial geography.
Whild the boys are keeping the watch
on the Rhine, it is a fine thing that
they can prepare themselves to come
back well equipped to "carry or' in
civil life.
Abraham gave one of them 400 shekels
of silver for the field of Ephron traders
everywhere have distinguished between
transient customers and those who are
in-clrcustance to become permanent pv
trons. Shopkeeplnjr nature is not
French nature . any mors than It la
American nature ; it is simply shopkeep
ing nature. , . ;. "-'.:
dlden Oregon
Singular Provision Made by Pioneers
for-Financing the Government- .
The fathers of Oregon were sensitive
on the subject of taxation. At the cele
brated Champdeg meeting It was de
cided that jbo law levying a tax should
be passed. To ' finance the provisional
government the legislative committee on
ways and means in 1843 -adopted the
following : W, the subscribers, pledge
ourselves t pay annually to the treas
urer of Oregon Territory the sums af
fixed to our respective names, provided,
that In all cases each individual sub
scriber may at any time withdraw his
name from such subscription upon pay
ing up all arrearages and notifying the
treasurer of the colony of such desire
to withdraw." '
Curious Bits of Information
Ct v For the-Curious
Cleaned ? From ' Caziosje Flaoee
'Little Margaret tells her family's ex
perience in raising incubator chicks. One
night after some eggs had been in the
Incubator for two weeks and Margaret
was helping to turn them she dropped
one eggyupon another and crushed th
shell. ' Her father ' pasted ' a piece of
pper tape over the shell. But her mother
was certain it would not hatch, that the
shock would kill the "peep." As It Jakes
eggs' three weeks to hatch, you can im
agine Margaret's surprise when, a week
later, the chick that was pasted came
out looking just as fine as the others.
Margaret thought that remarkable, and
so will the rest of us.
Ragtag and Bobtail
Stories from Everywhere
Of His Malice Aforrthouohl
SOME doughboys were sitting around
the camp fire swapping experiences,
says the Loa Anrflcs Tlmcn. K,-h in
tarn recounted some hair-raising . acci
dent in which hSfchad figured. Finally
it came the turn of a chap who had
traveled all over the world. They wait
ed breathlessly for his varn but h de
claredhe had nothing to tell.
"Haven't you ever had an accident?"
they chorused in amazement.
"Acciaenii no." -"Never
bad anything happen to you?"
"Oh. a rattler bit me once."
"Don't you call that an accident?"
"Hell, no, the thing bit me on purpose."
A Super-.Mercenary
The ex-crown prince I If I were he
Would I set rich' Well, rather I .
I'd buy a case and then with (lea
. I would exhibit father.
f - .'- -Washington Elar.
I'nrle ieff Snow Says:
Down in New Mexlnn on flmo far-
back Ma's ashamed to - own she was
old enough to be there, a Injun medicine
man woricea nisseir into a terrible sweat
to keep back a earthquake, with a dance
rOUnd t fin nA Fhlirbln1 In .11 mnt
of trash. The weather was mighty good
fer earthq takes and sure enough one
come a-nppin- along that afternoon.
And them Membres River Injuns tuck
after that medicinn man unit if h k.Hn'i
of got to Silver City first and been pro-
mciea Dy u. 8. troops they'd sure of
skinned him alive, or somethln.' These
U. & senators flghtin" the league of
Nations and slch things makes me think
of that there Injun medicine man.
The News in Paragraphs
World Happenings Briefed for Benefit
of Journal Readers
GENERAL
Weedon GroRsniUh, actor, author and
artist, died In London Saturday.
The citjt of Butte has adopted an
ordinance making It mandatory to keu
all dogs within enclosures or chained.
-The $2,000,000 bond Issue to' establish
the Bank of North Dakota Is declared
legal by the North Dakota supreme
court.
George B. Grigsby. Democrat, has been
elected delegate to congress from Alaska
to succeed Charles A. Sulser, .who died
recently.
The Germans destroyed or carried Out
C:,.irr"nc'' Printing machinery valued at
$100,000,000, which must be replaced
chiefly from" the United .States.
"An official report announces that 755
German planes and 71 balloons had been
destroyed, while the American losses
were 307 planes and 43 balloons.
A prees dispatch from Amsterdam
says the former German emperor -and
the former crown prince will return to
Germany as soon as the peace . treaty
is signed.
Senators Poindexter of Washington
and Borah of Idaho will leave Wash
ington shortly on a speaking tour of
the nation in opposition to the League
of Nations.
Lieutenants W. McR. Beck and W. A.
Bevsn, In a DeHavllsnd airplane, made
the flight from Portland to Sacramento
Katurduv in A hnura ini) Ik mlnut.y
( actual running time.
President Carransa of Mexico an
nounces that he will not be a candidate
foC. reelection and under no conditions
will he continue In office after the expi
ration of his present term.
Ralph Albert Blakelock, noted painter,
who was released from the state hospital
for the insane at Middletown, N. In
September, 1916. after spending 17
years In the institution, has been re
turned to the asylum.
' - ' NORTHWEST NOTES "Ib
i ne jittie city or washougad Is lav
ing two -miles of hard surface pavement.
Among macy other Interesting fea
tures, Hood River will have a log-rolling
contest on July 4,
J. V. Tallman. well known business
man. is the hew president of the Pen-
Out of 60 students In ths pharmacy
depcrtment of the University of Wash
ington this year 30 are women,
A f majority of the labor unions of
Spokane have voted - favorably on the
erection of a $100,000- labor temple.
To replace the old building recently
burned, the school district of Empire, 'n
vwo luu ill, t KB ui rii . i nun i m i . i .
A copper strike In the Hercules mine
northeast of Baker was made a few
days a (to. The lode can be traced a dis
tance of 20 miles.
Edward J. Marshall, born 1n Portland
45 years ago. a veteran of the Spanlfth
Amerlcan war. died in Oregon City
Saturday morning.
Dr. J. M. Waugli of Tfood River, re
cently returned from France, nun Junt
received news of his promotion from a
major to a lieutenant colonel.
Violet Pasch Ormsby.'a cow owned
by the University of Idaho, recentlv
made a 7 day record of 27 M, pounds of
butter out of 693 pounds of milk.
Gold mining is becoming a big asset
In Curry county, particularly on Sixes
river, where several companies are. de
veloping extensive hydraulic Drooertles.
Charles Clark. Montesano high school
boy. who suffered a fractured skull in
an automobile accident near Sutsou,
died without having regained conscious
ness. The old Clstnon mill nlant at Aatnrla
which has been closed down for thren
years, has been purchased by Clem W.
Rodgers and will immediately resume
operations.
In great demand over the stats and sev
eral members of the 1919 class have
recently accepted positions in . various
high schools.
nuunion di v. u i it inr 1 1 11 n i vr r.i i v m r m
Ths wheat crob Af Wmhlnrtan ihl
year will be more than twice the size of
last year's crop, according to the re.
port of the Spokane office of the bureau
of crop estimates, ,
In an order ale-nod Yiv Ihe nnhHn
service commission the O.-W. Tt, A. N.
company is allowed to discontinue its
iuesuay special livestock train from
Eastern Oregon points.
The bodv of Emil Llndholm ftt Afc.r.
dean. Wash., who had been troll Ins- nff
the mouth of ths Columbia, was found ,
naiuiu, riigni lira.! v.oiuin u in neacluV
He had been missing since May 25.
, Tom LassUer. agent In Centralis for
the Seattle Union-Record, was kid
naped Saturday, carried to Rocheater
in an automobile, where he was let out
svnu warned not to return to centralis.
Fred Dawson, arr Albany - drugrglst.
won $140 In prizes at the convention of
Rexall druggists In Spokane. He cap
tured first place In two con teats for
the best talk on different phases of ad
vertising. .
.Churches Are Helping In
National Thrift Campaign
( Stories f arhteeement In the aecam'ila
tlon of Wsr SsTtnts Stsmpe, sent to The
Journal and accepted for publication, will
be awarded a Thrift Stamp. , .
The churches are one of the most L
jmpvnani oi'ine units or national
cope which i have pledged actlvt
participation in th national thrift
campaign. Besides, fraternal and so
cial organisations, scores of national
associations are keeping the benefits
of thrift before their membership
through the columns of their publi
cations and through the organiza
tion of thrift clubs and Having
Stamps societies in plants and of
fices. ... :
. Many churches also have organ
ised thrift clubs among their congre
gations and have established earn.'
cles for the sale of Thrift and Hav
ings Stamps to facilitate the prac
tice of thrift ,
Thrift Rrampa and 1919 War Kals
FUtwilw now on sale at usual agencies. .