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THE; OREGON DAILY! JOURNAL, PORTLAND, THURSDAY, JUNE 49 1919. 13 AS - INDEIENDEKT WEWSPArXR C. S. JACKSON ...... . Publisher l-ublihd tf dy, tfmim " eiept Sunday afternoon), at The . BaiUling, , Broadway Mi TamhiU atr-ei, Cortland, Oregon. a, - - - - " - Entered t the Postoffiee a Portland. Ontoa. for ftuMnMoa UirMk the mail ae eeooad ' .' elan ttr. - : TELEFHON ES slain 71TJ j. Horn, . A-606J. ' AH departments reached by these aamrteTe. Tn the operator what dpartaeit yea as. jRtlii. AIVKHTISINO KPBE3KNTArili; B-nianfln c KenUux Co.. B ranf JF "?r . if? 825 Sift eeenne. ,Ww Torkj 0 Mallei Building, Chicago. 1 . , Su-btcrrBttea term by mil, er t the United BUta or Mexico:- DAIXT (MORNIxa OS ATTEHS0051 Cne year... ..(9.00 IvOne soatb.. .8 -. BOND AT .. - , One year.. .. .2.0 One bsobSIi. .. . . -28 DAILT (M0B.VINO OB ASTEaSOOXK AD . ROM DAT One yaar.-r. . .7. 1 On month..... . Our Pllcrim toe It waa pithed with hardi hood. Jimes Russell Lowell. A GERMAN ALLY THERE will be a -rapturous recep tion by the German government pfthe speech of Senator Knox, made n t3 senate Tuesday. . The German delegates at Paris are objecting to the treaty. Senator Knox Is objecting' to the treaty because it contains the league covenant, 'xue Germans and Senator Knox are on common ground. Both are resisting the treaty. Both are delaying and ob structing the efforts of the American and entente negotiators. Both are delaying and postponing final peace a nd delaying and postponing "the re turn to normal conditions. The German government jeagerly welcomes Senator Knox as an ally.: That government Is lavishly spending money In America 9n propaganda -work, Jost as it did before and dur- 1 ing the war. Wherever sentiment can be found through objection to some provision of the" league covenant pr to some difference of opinion on tfie peace ' terms, propaganda made fn Germany is used to give it pub licity and thereby to create discord in America. But "no propaganda of its own can serve the German government 60 much, as Senator,. Knox's, speech. ..With that speech Senator Knox is placing the government printing office at Washington, at the disposal of the German government in spreading ar- . gurrients throughout America against the peace treaty! Quotations from that speech go through all the news papers of America and have the stamp of credibility on them because they seem to reflect the thought and wish of one of the coordinate branches of the American govern ment. The alfied and American negotia tors at Paris are trying to hurry the Germans into signing the peace 'treaty. They are trying to carry out the "wishes of the American people and French people and English people and Italian people and people all over the earth for a speedy conclu sion of peace negotiations and a prompt return of the world to a peace - status. But "on every pretext the German delegates are refusing to sign. They delay, on one excuse and another from day to day. They are encour aged to further delay by the speech of Senator Knox,, which gives them ' new promise that they may still further postpone and ultimately escape many of the requirement laid down by America and the allies as a just -reparation by Germany for the hor . rors laid upon the world by the Prussian demand for a bloody war. To hurry the Germans In signing the;; treaty, the allied commander is preparing his military forces for a return to hostilities. At Paris the news dispatches tell us, there is now intense feeling over whether we are to have peace or a renewal of the war. The speech of Senator Knox, In the timely help it will be to the -Germans, may strengthen them in their defiance of the allied negotia tors and result in a continuation of the war. But, since" the fighting must be done by American boys and not -by him, perhaps Senator7 Knox - Is willing to accept the terrible re sponsibility of his alliance "with and his assistance to the German gov ernment. ? t , Senator Knox's duplicity and insln . eerily are exposed by his own resolu tion in advocacy of which his speech -' was delivered. That resolution de clares th&i the government of the United States will cooperate with ."our co-belligerents for the defense of civilization in .the - event that ! the -peace and freedom - of Europe are again threatened by any power or combination of powers." s Here is a distinct pledge by Senator Knox and his resolution that America , will send more armies intov Europe whenever there is another European war . like - the late one. Mr. . Knox in his resolution proposes to make this . rash and promiscuous promise, . .and it-is a 'promise of far.more than is ; proposed by the league covenant. . The covenant leaves to America the "right by her vote in the assembly or . council "of the - league to say whether or not she will decide to join in another European war. Sen ator "Knox's entire speech rIs swept away as Insincere and unsound by his own resolution. He would pre vent an international . pact, such as the league provides, for keeping the peace by submission of international disputes to a formal international body, but would pledge "America to end American armies to Europe whenever another war like the last should .appear, - f i Can the American people be misled by such duplicity? Can they not see that the Knox speech and the Knox resolution are a betrayal of America and the allies and a service to the German government? Locusts, so the news dispatches tell us, have Invaded ; California and are eating up the -crops, leaving bare ground and desolation in their path. If the memory of things biblical does not fail, locusts, in the olden years, always flew over the land side by side with drouth. They are a little ahead of their schedule in California. ARE YOU A SLACKER? AT,L registered electors can vote for director in " next Saturday's election. All taxpayers otherwise quali fied to" exercise the franchise, can vote on the proposed issue. r But will they? Not half of IherrH have ever voted in any school elec tion. Nor a fourth. A bare ten per cent,, or six per cent, or five per cent usually take interest enough to go to the polls. The greatest peril- to America is the indifference of the citizen. 'Las situde at election time Is a. menace. The stay at homes are to be feared. We howl about bad government. We tear our hair when public cor ruption Is exposed. We rail ai the I. W. W. and roar at the Bolshe vists. We ululate about the meat trust, denounce the politicians and then promptly absent ourselves from the polls and let others do the vqjjng. Men and women owe more than that to their country. Government by denunciation gets nowhere. Gov- ernmentby the ballot with all vot ing will correct, the evils, at least if all will think as they vote . and vote as they think.'. We owe something to our country because our country has saved us from being a Russia, or a Germany, or an Austria. The schoMS: are- the strongest pillar In our system. The schools mean more for safety than governor or mayors or' legislatures, or congresses, or presidents. me schools are the bulwark, the for tresses, the supporting foundation, the sustaining pillar of our national defense ; 1 It is non-patriotie not to vote. It is repudiation of your duty not to vote. It is slackerism not to vote. On this page Is an editorial from the Philadelphia-. Public Ledger, the greatest Republican newspaper in America. It discusses the Knox reso lution now under-debate in the sen ate. It makes an exposure that should interest all Americans. THE PIONEERS THE achievements of. the Pilgrim Fathers and the Pilgrim Mothers have been written into lasting nisiory. we nonor and revere them for the perils they braved and the . civilization they brought to this country. They have passed, on, but time has not dimmed the luster , of their deeds nor lessened the regard we, their beneficiaries, have for them. But the Pilgrims of the North Atlantic coast braved no greater dangers and faced no greater hardships than the Pilgrims of the North Pacific coastv Those first austere pioneers of an unsettled land crossed, it is true, 2000 miles, and more, of uncharted water to reach the wilderness they sought. They faced hunger, privation and want. contended with hostile natives, but conquered all and - helped to found the cornerstone of the nation,. Today the Pilgrim Fathers and the Pilgrim Mothers of the North Paclno coast are gathered in annual reunion. They, too, met the same? privations and. faced the same dangers met and faced by those other pilgrims of long ago. They Journeyed through an uncharted "urn, uraci vviui even more alarm ing terrors than the sea. Want was theirs, and suffering, privation and hostile natives who sought to destroy them. The land they came upon was a virgin' land, primeval forests,- diffi cult to transform into field and farm. But they did it, and the remnants of them still j live to view the wonders they have wrought. We, their children and their chil dren's children, are. proud of the Pilgrim Fathers and i the Pilgrim Mothers .we have here to honor and revere. We love to gather about the outer edge of their annual camp fire to hear told again the tales of those old days when strong men, now bowed under the weight of accumulating years, and brave women upon whose heads the snows of time are settled down, fought their fight to f -und the community in which we live in comfort and prosperity. They are our ; pilgrims to welcome, ours o love and .to cherish now; ours always, to honor and hold in reverent 'memory. , "Bed" Rupert, who ; walked away from the state; lime plant somoJittle time ago,, is now supposed, according to rumors -overheard by Joe Keller, to be an officer in Villa's rebel army. Maybe so, but If he is, he had better not stop at any nearby hotels over night if he tries to make a getaway with any of Villa's Liberty bonds or loot. NOBODY KNOWS AT PARIS a member of the Amer ican; peace delegation, who Is a Republican, said: It la now too lata to aeo&rata the league covenant from the treaty. We cannot upeet the whole mix. months woris of the i peace conference, leaving ,tne world In- a more chaotic condition than before, if not aeriouslY endanrerine the commercial life of the United States it- seii. Here ' is what this ; American dele gate means by "if not seriously en dangering the commercial life of the .United States itself: If the peace treaty is not ratified by - the senate, America will remain in a state of war with Germany. ; The treaty provides that r when ! three allied nations have ratified the Paris treaty it becomes operative. When it becomes operative, the nations so ratifying it will resume ; trades relations and begin full commercial intercourse, establishing anew the interchange of products and gooas as it was carried on before the war. America, because in a State of war, would be : left out of all these commercial arrangements. To France and Italy and Great Britain would go the best part of the. opportunity to rebuild the territory devastated by war. . It would be a heavy blow to the commercial life of America. The delegate at Paris says it niight seriously' endanger "the commercial life of the United States itself." How much 'of our surplus products would remain unbought nobody knows. , How may workers would be thrown out of employment nobody knows. ' How many mills would have to close down because we refused to accept peace but chose to remain In a state of war, nobody knows. When two thousand people gather to bid against one another in a scramble to buy 34 head of blooded cattle, as was done "at Carlton the other day, itf begins to look like the dairy industry Is not so dead after alU BACK THE BOYS BOY SCOUTS are good scouts. Good scouts make good citizens. Good citizens make a good nation, which is what we all want, i Young scouts are going to scout in somS direction. Unorganized and undirected they may scout In many directions, lots of them not good. Boy Scouts are organized and directed and they scout .ln the right direc tion, towards sturdy," healthy, self reliant, clean and ; manly boyhood. young manhood and mature citizen ship. "That Is their creed, their training and their goal. . - At this time a nationwide campaign is being waged to finance the work of the Boy Scouts. The movement needs 1,000,000 men and women with one dollar a year each. A success ful campaign will mean a vast army fof young men marching towards 100 per cent American citizenship. It .is worth the ,cost and more. Any citizen who has a dollar and will not spend it in such a cause is not a good scout. Any one who would not contribute that amount to help lead the young boys of the nation towards cleanliness in life, thought and action, to teach them self reliance, manliness and the right kind of citizenship is not only a poor scout but a poor sport. Even $13.20 a week won't permit the yaung women who get a mini mum wage to indulge In the luxury of many strawberry shortcakes at the prevailing market price. THEY WANT JUSTICE ONE ton of coal will haul 5888.4 tons of general freight one, mile over the Washington line of the Northern Pacific railroad. The same ton of coal wll haul 8571.34 jd. of the same general freight one mile over the line of the Spokane, Portland & Seattle company. ".These are general figures in which all 1 classes of freight are averaged. The Northern Pacifio hauls Its freight on the mountain line up one side of the Cascade mountains and down, the other. The Spokane, Port-' and & Seattle hauls its freight along the water grade of the Colum bia river. Because the Cascade moun tains throw their barrier across h'e Northern 1 aclfio tracks, the Spokane, P.ortland A Seattle engines can haul 2682.4 tons more for one mile with one ton of coal than the Northern Pacific engines can haul with the same amount of fuel. Yet the rate charged the shippers of the Inland Empire is the same whether they ship their produce, over, the- moun tain or down the water grade along the river. . : " : ' 1 No other Illustration is necessary to demonstrate the injustice that . Is being done all those who have to transport their freight from the in land ;fields - to tha terminal f markets at the coast. ur: Every time the Spokane, 'Portland & Seattle , company starts a freight train down the Columbia river from the Inland Empire ; 2682.4 tons ,of general . freight, out of every 8571.34 tons hauled . is .velvet, so. far asfuel consumption per mile is t concerned in -comparison with the trans-mountainhaul. : . ' This shows why the Inland Em pire Shippers' league -is petitioning the interstate commerce commission for a rate based on the cost of. haul down the Columbia , river Instead of over the Cascade - mountains. 'They do not believe it Is fair for them to be charged on the JbasisVof moving 5888.4 4 tons on - mile with a ton of fuel' when the - transportation Is done on the basis of moving 857154 tons one mjle with a ton of fuel. 7 All they want is equity. That is all any - of the ; petitioners and sup porting intervenors in the. case ' are asking the commission to give them. That is all the Interstate commerce commission ought to give' them. . : ' ; Senator Vinton, president of the state senate and acting governor while Governor Olcott is flirting with the clouds and the temptations south of the California line, needs, a press agent. Just think of the rumpus he eould have raised by unmaking and making a few appointments and things while he was vested with the power of the executive office. A UNITED OREGON IF SECTIONALISM ever prevailed in Oregon it has vanished. Returns from the -recent referendum elec tion revealed a state united in a movement for state wide develop ment. Eastern Oregon voted for the Roose velt highway. The Willamette valley voted for guarantee of ' irrigation bonds. Portland voted for the mar ket road tax. This is. the spirit .which will make Oregon great and through it Oregon will develop. No state has greater latent resources than Oregon. To make a great state all these re sources must be developed and every section- must be' made to prosper. Sectionalism is the only obstruction which can retard unprecedented progress and prosperity. With sectlonalsm remoyed, as is ra dicated by the election returns, Ore gon . should forge ahead by leaps and bounds. SENATOR KNOX'S GREAT BLUNDER Hie Resolution a Studied Effort to Establish False . Issues From the Philadelphia Ledger (Republican) Apart from the major objection that Senator Knox's resolution aimed at the destruction of the League of Nations is ill-timed and directly calculated to assist the Germans to attain their object of creating divisions among the allies, the extraordinary declaration offered by the Pennsylvania senator is filled With false assumptions and contradictions which ought to condemn it instantly were it not so plainly a partisan maneuver and lacking- in the first' principles of. en lightened statesmanship. It Is all the more fo, be regretted that Senator Knox, himself an ex-secretary of state and fully conversant with the diplomatic re actions likely to follow the introduction of this motion, should have chosen such a moment so carefully calculated to give comfort, and eftcourasrnent to the ene mies of civilization. vBnt that he should at the same time have concocted a resolution, assuming to speak solely for the senate but which at the same time was so framed as to appear to be a declaration of national policy, a reflec tion of the mind of the American people, will be an unpleasant awakening to many, a revelation concerning the mind and character of Senator Knox himself which will be a profound surprise to many Pennsylvanians who thought they knew him well. The Knox resolution is predicated uopn the1 wholly untenable and false assump tions that the League of Nations-will be inimical to our free institutions"; that the American people have had no time to examine and consider or to express a mature Judgment on It ; that the rati fication of the Versailles treaty (the final text of which is still in the mak ing!) will involve a change in the constitution of the "United States; that a safe peace can be attained and its terms guaranteed without any league to ffenforce them, and finally, that the for mation of a. League . of Nations can safely be left until after neace shall have been declared. - But the supreme inconsistency is re vealed in the final clause of the Knox resolution, which, while purporting to speak for the senate alone, assumes to give assurance to the allies and to the world that the government of the United States will cooperate with "our co bel ligerents for the defense! civilisation" in the event that the peace and freedom of Europe are again threatened by any power or combination of powers." In this clause Senator Knox would ap parently offer, on tbe sole authority of the senate, a pledge, of the very support which the League of Nations is planning to carry into effect. Every day makes it plainer that the senators who are wasting the time of the nation in renzied efforts to make capital out of a fictitious issue over the text of the uncompleted treaty, and in a partisan discussion over a measure not. yet before them, are wholly out of touch with the people. If Senators Lodge, Borah and Knox and their hand ful of . rabid anti-Wilson allies on; the other side of the chamber imagine for a moment that they are laying sound foundations for the appeal to the country which must in any event follow their present course, they' are goingr to have an unpleasant awakening. This is. small consolation now for the mischief "they are doing .t Paris or for the obstacles they are deliberately creating to the work of the peace conference. But the nation . may take comfort in the faith that the righ will prevail and that the puny efforts of the men who would de lay the peace for which the whol world is suffering will ultimately come to naught, Scotland's Oldest Newspaper Still Young at 173 ; From the Detroit News A riayiAnt 4aa;aa, ,v rriai i Va,aulaM T . nal with the 20.OO0th number or that venerable newspaper now the oldest in Scotland. The first Issue of the Jour nal was published on April 18, 1746, and rwnriniMttl on oiMnnt h fevt f the batUe of Culloden.Ttought two aays previously, tmi narrative, how ever.; offered the Jacobites, and James Chalmers, the editor, narrowly escaped falling a victim to their wrath, ; He, was m jeiiow apprentice or .Benjamin frank lin. Another notable Incident in the Journal's history was its being publicly burned at the hands Af tha publicly hangman in October, 1753 "an excellent aaverusement," we are told. . . But perhaps the outstanding event 'in the career of the newspaper was in 17S7. when, the, Aberdeen Journal was visited by Robert . Burns during his northern tour. ; In tha office, on v this occasion. Burns met Bishop Skinner, son of the author of r "Tulloehgorum and "The lowle wl'v the Crookit Horn. master piece of literature, which evoked the admiration of the Ayrshire poet. After ward Barns and Chalmers (son of the founder) adjourned to the' New inn. where . Dr Johnson also stayed on his way north. Letters From the People f Communication aertt to Tha Journal for publication in tbia department cbotild b written on only owe aide -r.t the paper, should not exceed -100 word in leoctb. and moat ba aicneU by tba writer, wboaa mail address in hill must accom pany tha contribution.) . "Portland Rose Cream" Portland. June 17. To the Editor of The Journal Here is -a. recipe in which many Journal readers might be inter ested. I call (he product Portland rose cream : Take a pound of fine lard, melt it. and strain it through a hair sieve or a coarse muslin bag. Allow the drippings to fall " into a vessel . of cold water containing "a little alum. Gather the chilled grease together, melt ' it a second time, strain it, and let the drip pings fall into salt water; melt it a third time and drip into very cold water. This removes the rank odor, leaving a pure white grease in which the flowers are to be steeped. A double boiler is useful for this purpose. -The first day flU the grease pot with rose petals; set on the back of the stove where the lard will keep hot, yet not boil. The next day lift out the withered petals and squeeze them free from lard and add fresh petals. Continue this for one week, keeping the lid on the vessel mean while. Keep the lard in a glass vessel tightly corked or covered. To make a perfume, cut it with alcohol. The per fumed pomade can be added to face lotions and is really beneficial as an ingredient. It will take at least a week for the alcohol to cut the grease. If it is desired to make a very light perfume put the petals into alcohol as you skim them out; then strain the liquid. AN OLD VETERAN. Poetry and Poets v Portland, June 17. To the Editor of The Journal When sending . poems for publication do they have to be type written? Are the good poets of the day paid for their contributions or do they get only returns in the honor? INEXPERIENCED POETESS, Book -and magazine publishers as a rule require that matter shall be typewritten, newa oapers do not o strictly enforce the rule. Writera- of tew poetry, or of meritorious Terse, are paid tor their wort. , Twentieth Engineers Cascade Locks, June 16. To the Edi tor of The Journal It was stated in The Journal some time ago that the Thir teenth company. Twentieth engineers. was listed for early ' convoy. In what battalion is the Thirteenth company. and where is it? FRIEND. riavtest information is of date June 1. and to tha effect that tha Thirteenth company waa home from Franca, presumably stationed at Camp Grant. 111., for demobilisation. The Thirteenth company is - m we r uia oaiunon. It waa formerly company a.j Sunday Newspaper a Necessity Fran the Columbus Dispatch In the discussions recently concerning th Sunday newspaper a religious or ganization having proposed a resolu tion to oppose the Sunday paper one of the ministers cautioned the assembly against .taking radical actios ;upon the question. "Let us be sensible about tnis matter," he said. "The Sunday newspa per is just as necessary as the Sunday trolley, which you attempted to condemn several years r ago. - He went on to show that the necessity of the Sunday paper had been amply demonstrated during the war. The ' one thing which many people fail to recognize is the fact that the Sunday newspaper is made Saturday night and not on Sunday. There would be more logic in opposing the Monday morning paper than in op posing the Sunday morning newspaper, if one were thinking only of preventing labor on the Sabbath. But it really makes little difference about the dls cussfons. The Sunday newspaper has established its place and it hasn't harmed the churches, either. It is go ing to remain in its place, too. regardless of all discussions. It is now championed by many of the ablest as well as many of the most religious minds in the world and any organization that opposes it is simply fighting the elements themselves or they might as well fight the ele ments. To be deprived of the news of the world for one day of the week is to be one-seventh ignorant. And to fail to read the great Sunday newspapers with their additional features besides the news is to be more than one-seventh be hind in the matter of - spirituality. Animals -and Birds in the War From the Christian Science Monitor The geese whose extraordinary be havior .saved Rome, as every schoolboy used to be supposed to know, had .their successors in the geese that, throughout Belgium and northern France, hissed, screeched and otherwise behaved strangely when the Germans were com lng, but were not yet visible. Some day perhaps a book will be written, if it has not been written already, about the -be havior of animals and birds during the war. It will, no doubt. Include the par rots that were placed on the Eiffel tower and, until they got used to what ever warned them of something coming, betrayed the approach of distant air planes. In the north of England the keepers of game preserves report that the pheasants were uneasy and alarmed whenever ships were firing on the North sea ; and it was also noticed in many places that cats, dogs, chickens and ducks were aware of distant battles or . . . . ' . . . i . rr.. ine approacn ox enemies, ine cause re mains unexplained, but a likely expla nation seems to be that birds and ani mals are more susceptible than men to air vibration caused by guns or the whirring of airplane propellers. Where the sounds were near and frequent they soon got used to them and paid no fur ther attention. Olden Oregon How ."Very Early Explorers Kept Record of Events Enroute Peter Skene Ogden. who in the early days waa one of the Hudson Bay com pany's most efficient agents, was among the first men who produced lit erature in ' the .Oregon country. This remarkable man, who was equally not ed as explorer and as trader, left a series of Journals of his operations, which have been transcribed. Of the physical char acter of , these journals, a writer in the quarterly published by- the Oregon Historical society says: "No one who has not seen tha original of one of these Journals used' by trappers and traders when m the ield . can appreciate the difficulty of 7 reading their contents. They were made of small sheets Of bea ver skin, often indifferently cured, and tied with a thong: and the writing was done with a quill often wwier very uncertain conditions of weather or com fort. Unless conversant with the French language and with the names and terms common to the country and trade, it is practically impossible to decipher the writing at times, which covers ' margins and outside as Swell as' inside of -the sheets. The wonder is that these Jour nals ara ' so well preserved " to be deciphered at all.1" J - Wri ting COMMENT AND SMALL CHANGE . If British ru1er In Ireland coats S40 a year per inhabitant, it is evident a lot of people aren't : getting their money's worth., f v i , - , . V f '--.;:-,f"f:;;.. ;. , V'.-.- t Y-j : j -t n After all the fuss and bother, has any body seen anybody outside of Wall street who has read the neace treatv through? It has been suggested that the soldier who finds It hardest to return to the ordinary- walks of life is the demo bilized aviator. . . A lady doctor has been telling that brunettes make the most dependable women to employ. Of course, the lady doc" herself is not a pronounced blonde. , .. Fftom all accounts about as big a job as any one new family in town can handle at this particular time Is to find an apartment or a house in which to live. . - Somehow, says the Columbus Dis patch, the announcement of the coming visit of Richmond Pearson Hobson does not cause such a flutter among the young ladies as it did 20 years ago. Two years ago, says the Rochester Post Express, William HobensoUern, in one of his royal orations, said : "The German people is destined for great imngs. ie man i Know it ax tne time, but one of the great things was the greatest licking in history. OBSERVATIONS AND IMPRESSIONS OF THE JOURNAL MAN By Fred - f Jeff Fryer, bow a resident of Independence, pioneered hi Oregon when pioneering waa pie neerlng. Mr. Lockley today presents another installment of the story of an old time hunter, soldier, stockman and all-round anbhitatot of the wilderness, j , . JaffFryer lives -at Independence. He came across the plains by prairie schooner to Oregon in 1M5... I visited htm recently and in talking of the days when .Oregon was still a territory, he said : "I was in Oregon under the provision al government, and later, when it was a tentf tory. I was 15 years old when Oregon, became a state. We lived in Oregon City until 18S2. when my father Htook up a place in the Bethel hills. I went to school near where McCoy is now located. T. R. Harrison waa my teacher. - Later I went to Dr. Hudson and Dr. L. L. Rowland. As you know. Dr. Rowland was later superintendent of public Instruction for Oregon. "In the '50s a good many religious schools and institutions were founded here in Oregon. Two of our neighbors,. Burnett and Harvey, deeded 40 acres of land at Bethel to found Bethel insti tute. Peter Burnett, who lives here at Independence, and I were schoolmates in Bethel Institute in the. '50s. Some of my . other schoolmates were I. G. Davidson of Portland. S. J. Newsome and Frank Stanton. If you will look up some of the records you will find the names of the Watsons, the Rlchles, the Warners, the Holmeses the Den neys, the Harveys and a lot more Polk county pioneers. "People 1 nowadays wont believe It when we tell them about the hunting In the '60s and '60s In Polk county. There was a good deal of standing water In thosa days, which has- since -s been drained off. -The ducks, - geese and brants came in by the thousands. To a large extent the country In those days was open country.- A settler would pvt up a little cabin find a corral for his stockand that was about all there was to it; so a man could' hunt over the whole country. I was the boss hunter of that neighborhood. I had a double barreled muzzle loading shotgun and I used to bring in , enough brant and geese, mallard and teal, to supply all of our neighbors, as well as our own family. . "My father was a stockman. Our ranch was a sort of halfway house. The stockmen from all over the country used to make it a point to hit there for supper and stay over night. Practlcal lv everybody Jn those days lived on horseback. In fact, they didn't want to-j do any work they could n t do on Horse back. We didn't have shiny auto mobiles, or loudly painted bugs, but we did "have good horses and fine saddles. In those days the girls didn't wear, riding breeches or overalls as they do today. . They wore dresses, so they rode on side saddles. Ton could see ...scores of horses tied at the rack when we met for debates Or at singing schools, as well as at dances and barn raisings, or you might see a lot of staid old horses tied in front of some farm house where the women wereaafeoldlng a quilting bee. . - - i "My father bought and handled lots of cattle ; so X soon got into the game. I remember among the big cattlemen of those ' fays were the Hutchisons of Douglas county. They ot the govern ment contract , to supply beef to the soldiers during the joint occupation of San Juan island. From the time I was 12 vears old I was considered a full hand in the cattle business. I madeH two trips on horseback driving cattle up into Washington to the nearest point to San. Juan island. - "When I was 19 years old I enlisted, at The Dalles, for three years or the war, in the First Oregon infantry. Com pany A. Captain Charles . LaFollett was the captain of our company. We gathered at the fair grounds at Salem and from there we went to Fort Van couver. The First Oregon cavalry was organized in 1861. while the First Ore gon infantry was not , organised until 18S4. We were sent to relieve part of a company of the Fourth California In fantry at Fort Yamhill, whose time had expired. From there we were sent up Into Crook county though In those days it was called Wascoi county. We were in Eastern Oregon, APinaT the Snake , Curious BitsNif Information For the Curious Gleaned Ttos Ourtons Pisces Th. mi-w of ttf, world's marriage able men has been reduced nearly eight millions by the war. In Great Britain it is estimated more than a million women never will be married as a con sequence. One English suggestion is to mobilize the' bachelors and compel them to pay an income ' tax or co to the altar. .. . "'j ; - - -f;' r'r-. . z ! Speed the Roosevelt Highway From the Astoria Budget. The people of Oregon voted at the re cent election In favor of the issuing of $2,600,000 In bonds to construct the Roosevelt highway. That verdict of the people was commendable : and shows thej are in favor of development. Now we must see that something is done to carry the project through. To author ize the bonds was the first Important step. The next ; one la for the consti tuted authorities to hasten Work on the project and we . of "the coast counties, who are the most vitally interested, must see that this is done. OKCourse They Are i prom the Boston Transcript :. "A scientist declares that meateaters are more active than vegetarians." They've got to be to get the meat to eat." . NEWS IN BRIEF OREGON SIDELIGHTS The ReedaportTublishlng company has been incorporated. Among other things. It will publish the Port Umpqua Courier, now In its sixth year and published hitherto by J. H. Austin, who will con tinue in charge. The Courier is to have a new home and a complete plant of Us own. ;vv-,V.,.'- . j: Vyt- - The Sheridan Girls' band, which re cently gave a concert at Dallas, is thus complimented by the Dallas ltemlzer; "A - Large crowd enjoyed the entertain ment very much. These young ladies, composing the only woman's band m Oregon, are all good musicians, and their concerts axe pleasing." Compromising their overlapping ambi tions as to Fourth of July festivities, Myrtle Point and Marshfleld commit tees have agreed that Marshfleld shall celebrate on July 4 and 6 as planned; but shall patronize- the Myrtle Point show on the third day, Sunday, July . Myrtle Point has gone to great expense to staee-a three days roundup.. - ..-...' That Enterprise is needing more house room, and is going to get It, is shown in this statement, from the Reporter! "G. W. Hyatt is now pushing the work on his department store building and ex pects to be able to occupy it by the first of the year. There are a lot of apart ments upstairs that will be grabbed up in a hurry when the building is com pleted. It la said this store building Is the largest between Boise (Idaho) and Portland." . Lockley Indians in order, until the spring of 1865.. We were not demobilized, how ever, until summer of 1866. "Tn JTiitVa IBCa T ... , : -www, . .en in Hon orable discharge at Fort Yamhill, and Immediately thereafter I took a contract 1 1 u k. JL11 . . . . . . j u,-; iiwu 'innu J-ar ayette 10 CorvaUis, three times a week. I car rled the mall on hnrtMir n -un paid $S a day. My contract expired In 1870. I figured I had seen enough of tha oountrv htlwun T .- u--.. CorvaUis, so I went to Tillamook coun ty ana oougnt a rancn at JNetarts. J didn't exactly buy the ranch. I bought a homesteader's relinquishment and took over his herd of cattle at $12 a head. My brother, John, and I stayed there two -v-tm. - w nt uti - ac quainted with the Vaughns, Traaks, Ed wardses and Quicks, Dave Stillwell and otner oia seiuers. tsy tne oy, . Dave Btuiweu is .an inaian war veterans and Is, 94 years old. and is still as" apry as many a man of 60. - ; "In 1872 I drove up to Eastern Ore gon, taking up a place on Crooked river, IS miles southeast of -where Bar ney Prine started a little settlement that Is now Prineville,, Barney Prine waa a member of our regiment the First Ore gon infantry. He was the best all-round man in the whole regiment. He was a big. husky chip and could lick his weight In wildcats. There wasn't a man In the regimen that could do him up. He was the best footracer in our regiment. He won a lot of money show ing his heels to other chaps who thought they could run. He would wrap his galluses around his waist and the others would have to eat his dust.-. "I will never forget one trip across the mountains to Eastern Oregon, be cause on my way from Tillamook to Eastern Oregon I stopped off at k our old place in the Bethel hills and mar ried "Mildred Percival, an old time schoolmate. We spent our honeymoon in a prairie schooner, going from Polk county across the mountains to Crooked river. We went by way of Lebanon, Sodaville, .Waterloo, .Fish lake and Clear lake. ? , ............ : e . e "The year after we went up to the Crooked river country there was a good deal of excitement about the Indians. The ranches up there were about 10 miles apart. We didn't like to be closer than that; we needed elbow room. One day Donald McKay rode past our place with his horse in a lather, warning the settlers to go to Prineville, as General Canby and the peace commissioners bad been killed by tha Modoc Indians and ' it was expected the Indians ' of Eastern Oregon would go on the war patfiT My wife started to ford the river. She was carrying our first baby, Claude, who was less than a year old. Her horse got into deep .water and It looked for a while as if I was going to be minus a wife and child. We final ly swam out' to where her horse was struggling in deep water and got her off her horse and onto another horse, and got out all right. "Along in 1876 I came back to -the Willamette valley and rented a farm in the Bethel , hills. Later I bought a place not far. from Dallas. I have been in the stockraislng business practically all my life. I have bought and sold more than half a million sheep. I used to buy sheep at 75 cents. I thought we were going some when the price rose to tl-25 for fat wethers.. Today lambs are selling at $12 to $15, as much as a good fat steer used to bring when I was a boy. I used to travel all over the Willamette valley buying stock and driving to Portland. We generally sold our stock to A. H. Johnson, W. W. Spauldlng. J. S. Keller or the O'Bhea brothers,. Jimmy and Johnny. The Johnson slaughter : house in those days was where St. Vincent's hospital is now located. r y. ' . "Living out of doors is better than paying doctor bills. I can turn a hand spring ywt, or ride On horseback 40 miles In a day and corns back ready for a good meal and & food night's sleep. I never had a doctor In my life except once. X hurt my hand loading some hoga and X had the doctor come and sew it up. Aside from that I never had sick day in my life, and maybe I never will. Maybe when my time comes X will Just sort of run down, like an old Beth Thomas eight-day clock." . Pioneer. Soldiers By Lillian If. Haekieman. Secretary of the J Seas aad Daochtera of Oree-oa Pioneers. , We neer, ne-errhaH forget, ... . .. A lona aa human hearts shall beat. The khaki-clad who crossed the sea. And foosht for cause, for yon and me. But there Is amenaat na here today, A troop ef eokUers. bent and fray. Who bravely crossed the desert way, . The pioneers of yesterday. . To yon! sod yoal and yooi and yoat Who had yoar beta ia ether scenes. And know not what this all mesas, I aayl were it sot for them. ' This might ba-e been a Ionian land. They beid the torch ef freedom hiah. And heard the red man'a wamnc cry. . The piouecrs of yesterday. . ' . And as with speed ymi paaa aloes. ' , And tone yourself in merry ihrona". . Pause I and think of their bteedins feet. Who once trod o'er thia selfsame street They're here today, these piicrias tray, Te tell the tale of other days. - - And gather 'round the eaaayfire brtrht. The ptonteic of yesterday. And aa the time foes fieetinc by, , My thought, en wings sow swiftly fly. There nothing la this world that's new; . For. like Verdun, in far off France. These emcra ia the wilderness. Heard the erys "Too ahall aw peas 1 y . Then, aire -tbent word of thankfulness. These pionecn of, yesterday. They cirtHzed the aa-age foe. rAnd made tbm frienda for weal or woe,. : - And when I heard a eyntc.say; "If it were not tor these 'Mnesbscks' Oregon would ax, on the map," 1 smile, aiMt onto myself key: They were proerewires of their day, Tba pioneer rt yesterday. Portland, Jane 19. ' Ragtag and Bobtail Stories from Everywhere Salesmanship rpOM LOWRY, the late traction mag X nate of Milwaukee, had been solicited by all the beat insurance salesmen In the country, says Forbes' Magazine, but had ' never taken out a policy. He took pride In turning them down sharply. When ever a general agent took on a new man he sent him to see Lowry as a sort of courage test. If he lived through the or. deal and came out with any confidence in his ability, the general agent knew he would .do. Now Lowry would bet on anything that contained any element of chance. At a ball game he would bet that out of the next five men up, three would fly out; in a hotel lobby he would bet that out of the next 20 men to come in, five would have .whiskers. One day a new solicitor called at Lowry's office, and sent In his personal card, giving only his name. Back it came with the request for the man's business. The insurance agent said .he wanted to make a bet. He was In stantly admitted. "Mrv' Lowry." he began right off. "I want to wager $100,000 to $1800 that you will die within the next year." "You're on!" said Lowry. "All right," replied the agent. "Just sign this." And he passed over an Insurance- application blank that had been previously made out ! - t Lowry signed it. Time of sale, three minutes. V Uallelujah! . That wife by Heaven Should he blest Who says aha like old Clothes the best I Cartoons Mussina. Uncle Jeff Snow Says: I hear that four of the great lights of the TJ. S. senate calk'lates to roller Wilson round and git the people to listen to their thunder. I reckon it'll sound like a popgun after a thunderstorm to most - ever'body. But mebby they'll tumble to the fact that them four fellers theirselvea is the total minority in the U. S. A. opposed to a League of Nations and a peace that'll last The News in Paragraphs World Happenings Briefed for Benefit of Journal Readers :;'J: GENERAL " Y Great clouds of srraashormera are rfa. Stroying the orcharda and ar-ln fields of Southern and Central California. In her trial - trio at San Franclacn Monday the destroyer Chauncey main- tainea a speea or more man 3a Knots an hour for more than four hours. At ClevelarfA Ohio, Monday, five armed bandits neld ur the West Cleve land bank and escaped in a stolen au tomobile with currency estimated at $50,000. At tJie head of the graduating class of the raw department of Georgetown uni versity, at the commencement held Tuesday sight, was P. E. Snyder of -Kelso, Wash. The steamers Victoria and Senator, with 700 passengers, after feeling their way through more than 50 miles of ice floes, have arrived at Nome, the first arrivals of. the season. Indictments charging them with con spiring to trade with the enemy dur ing the war period were-rSturned Tuea- -day v against Henry A. Weatphal. C. O. Swanberg and R. R. Russ, prominent San Francisco merchants. NORTHWEST NOTES Yakima Is to have a weather bureau to work in-conjunction with the fruit growers. Harvest will start in Umatilla county Immediately after July 4. Prospects are good for a fine crop. Influenza has broken out at a num. ber of ranches in the La Pine section of Deschutes county. Farmers of Umatilla county are In formed that they will t receive 4Vs cents premium on sacked grain. Mrs. Mary A. Smith, one of the oldest of- Washington pioneers, died at her home in La Center Tuesday, aged t'i. Governor Ben Olcott has accepted an invitation to be present at the Fourth of July celebration at Eugene this year. The Donovan mill, at Aberdeen, dam- . aged by fire to the extent of $200,000 two WeeKs ago, nas resumed operation-. An average of 80,000 pounds of butter fat each month of 1919 has been handled by the Eugene Farmers' Creamery as sociation. The stockmen of Idaho, Including wool ' growers and cattle men, want govern ment control of all the remaining pub lic domain. Dairymen of Clatsop county are plan ning to start a cheese factory for the use of the surplus milk which is pro duced there. Crops In Lane county are In better condition and promise bigger yields at this time than they have in any season for many years. Chehalls and Centralla closed the Boy Scout drive witran addition of 262 new Scouts -and a total fund raised In the drive of $301.50. , J, Battalion Sergeant Major -George P. Johnson is on his way home to Tacoma with his bride, a French girl, whom he married in Paris. bergall Meat company at Albany, which was aestroyea oy lire issi ouhuj, m be rebuilt at once. Rev. Alfred Wralght. aged 83 ysr-. a traveling priaon evangelist, with, headquarters in Los Angeles, died in Walla Walla Tuesday. Oliver Thorbjornson sustained a frac- . tured skull and five broken ribs when he was thrown from a horse on his ranch near Bend recently. Th Oregon bureau of mines crew, which recently left Portland to engage in fiM 'wnrii In Southern Oregon, is operating south of Gold Hill. Dr. William A. Cuslck, pioneer phy tirlen. AmA -1 Vila home tn tSalem 1 ties- day, aged 82 years. Dr. Cuslck came to Oregon by immigrant train in 18,3. A communlty-ownea ana operaiea apartment house to coat $180,000 is to be ...ii. . i 1 w f h htieln a rv-i n ' vuiu immeuiw w -. ' ; . section of the Astoria Chamber of Com merce. - an a ........ . ..- tion for recall had been circulated, was reelected scnooi airivr i n y a maiorlty of nearly 4 to 1 over his . opponent. The American Fruit Growers. Inc.. the $100,000,000 Crutchfleld concern, has secured irvin unnner ui t mm manager of Its purchased holdings in that territory. . X II- nvriiiwwni "---- company, at Spokane, an experiment In cooperative community """''"'"'S' with a capitalization of $W.oo, has nroved a failure and has decided to dis organize. Thrifty Man' Benefits Neih r bors as Well as Himself fStoriee of aehlerement In the eeeomnla tlon of War Be-i-gs Stamps, sent to The Journal and accepted for publication, will be awarded a . Thrift Sump. "By lending your savings to the .government you not only benefit yourself and earn Interest, but-you let your money work for the devel opment of the country and Us In dustries. Every dollar accumulated through wise spending. Intelligent saving. afe investment and avoid ance of waste benefits not the saver alone, but all his neighbors. It Is a practical step toward making wise thrift a national happy habit which will assure the United States a still greater place in the commerce of the world. Thrift Stamps and 1019 WaOSslng Stamp now on sal at usual agencies.