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' ' Ne ana caaslisht the laws at hospitality with impunity; and tbara ti bo station or iBdnanoe hownwr powerful, that oaa ptotaet ' tho oppreaeor, ia the end. from the vaar (caooa of tba oppressed. Aeaoo ! B. O HIS SILLY SPEECH THAT the pope at Rome might rule ,the world, and that re ligious liberty In the United States might be ,lost under the League of Nations was the hysterical arguments of Sherman of Illinois 1 In t speech in the senate yesterday. - How could the pope rule the world when he cannot rule Italy or even the city of Rome? Once popes tried to rule the world, but it came to a wretched failure. Th e system collapsed under . its own weight because even the benighted men-of ( the time would not consent to be governed by a single authority. In this enlightened age in which so many millions will permit themselves to Ire governed only by their own eon sent how infinitely less Is the chance for one man to put the world under his dominion! , How ' utterly ridiculous for the claim to be set up that one man could usurp power in . America and rule by his own' will over the 100.000,000- freemen - here.' One man , could not - even continue that kind of rule in Germany, or In Russia, or In Austria.' -All that remained for one-man ruleto be ended even In Europe ...was supplied in the Ar gonne and at the Marne. : Wh en Sherman sees one-man rule over the earth he sees red. He is out of his mind-or his mind is out of him. Even the Ijoys of 15 to 17 in America would not permit this country to go under one-man gov ernment, and if Sherman were one half tx senatorial stature he would know.it. .' Sherman doesn't know that the pope even ; wants to rule the world temporally. He sees, and all men see, ' where j the kaiser got to when he thought to rule the world. hat castle over in Holland is the St. Helena and the Argonne the Waterloo of his attempt to be a "one-man gov ernment.: , Six feet . of earth and a .terrible death are the end of theJ czar s attempt to -perpetuate one-man " government in a single country. ., If the pope desires but cannot rule ihe world now, how could he rule it under the league? ' There is not a thing in the league covenant that would give hlra added temporal power. " Any attempt to rule the United - States through the league would be promptly met by America's . negative vote in the assembly or council, and- that would end all so far as this country is concerned. Great : Britain would exercise the ' same, power in preventing ponti fical rule of ; that country. France threw the church out of state control long ago and if she did i( then she would do It f again with her vote in the league. Exactly the same thing is true of Italy. - Sherman's speech sounds as if it came from one in a pipe .dream. : ; - The league is not a Catholic league or a Methodist league or , a Baptist league or a Holy Roller league. Its character is not -whanged by the fact that a Catholic pope or a Methodist bishop, or a Baptist preacher sup ports or does not support It. ' It is a great International pact to - keep the . peace, Jo arbitrate between 'In ternational controversies, prevent - wars of conquest, reduce armaments and spread Americanism throughout the 'world, and as -auch the more membersot every religious 'or non religious organization that support It . the' better for mankind. ' . ' As to Sherman's claim" that ' it will be va Catholicized league, it is com mon knowledge that many If not most of the Irish Catholics in America . are openly fighting the league. ": Biff gatherings of '- Irish ' Catholics or Catholio Irishmen in Portland pased resolutions opposing it. Senators at- Washington ar re - cc:vi i thousands " of letters from Irish Catholics urging them to oppose ratification of the league. ; These facts expose 'the silliness of Sher man's, foolish and fanatical speech of yesterday, . ' This aherman contention shows to what straits the opposition is re duced in efforts to combat the league. His speech is an effort to fool people by appealing;? to Irelljious iprejudice. He stoops to despicable depths of trying to array religious denomina tion against religious denomination. He rants out his appeal to those who have prejudices against the Catholio, church," and, by misrepresentation, at tempts to line them up with him and his : noisy crowd against - the league. Worst of all, he insults the intelligence of . the American people by .supposing that he ' can drag out any, old ; scarecrow . and . fool : them as a farmer with a cast-off suit of clothes suspended near by frightens the birds away from his cherry trees. OREGON FOR OREGON THE .organization of Oregon fruit growers is along progressive lines. It is intended once and for all to oust the California cor porations from Oregon corporations which are fattening on the Oregon growers and iswaillng the ; profits of San Francisco stockholders. - It is pitiful to ead that half the Oregon . prune 'crop is handled by California concerns; that over 73 per cent of Oregon canned fruit goes out under California I labels, and that thousands of tons of ; our cherries, pears and other fruits are sold as California products. : Eleven of our largest packing houses and canneries are owned or controlled by California interests. ; , , : " . The totajifruit crop of Oregon is less than 10 !pcr cent of the fruit crop of California- but the big Cali fornia corporations put up our fruit under their label only because Ore gon fruit is better than their own. On the products of Oregon they are building up the reputation of-California as jl I state which produces wonderful fruits, and it should be stopped. ; That the Californlans .will fight to continue their strangle hold on one of our most Important industries is to be expected, but directors in the new association of the type of Sey mour Jones, J. 0. Holt and R. C Paulus are an assurance to the farm ers and people of the state of Ore gon that the domination by Califor nia of the fruit Industry of this state is shortly to come to an end. , The new association proposes to extensively advertise Oregon fruits under an Oregon label so that the whole world may know of the won derful products of this state. Call-? fornla.is to be given, a dose of her own medicine and. the way will be made supremely easy for those grow ers who become members of the new association to market their products -under a state wide and nationally advertised brand. . Judge Derr, Justice. of the peace at Vancouver, evidently has his own views of justice. In dismissing a case brought bya local. father who was suing I ' for 7 damage's Inflicted upon his offspring by a neighbor's dog, the Judge remarked: "I am sat isfied that the dog bit the boy, but probably the dog was Justified." DAYLIGHT SAVING THE daylight saving law seems not to .have many friends in congress. The senate, with' but six nega tive votes, has ordained that the law shall become a dead letter. The house, by a two , to .:one yote fixed its death at next October. So, with a little more patience it will come to pass that when the alarm clock emits its raucous signal in the morn ing it -will be seven o'clock by . the sun as- well as seven by the dial. The controversy over " daylight sav ing has .been exciting. Workers In the - city whose life is inside four walls exulted in the '"extra hour of afternoon sun while they; had. it. it was a preciou hour to them. They hoped for Its continuance. But out On the farms daylight sav ing brought complexities. The work out there is in the open and under that sun that is the brightening in fluence over the earth. The change to daylight saving created confusion out there that ended in the demand for repeal, j ; Congress decided for the farmers. It doesn't do that often, its legisla tion is usually a tax upon them without benefit in return. Every mint in the United States is busy night and day, so Washington tells us, turning out copper pennies. Maybe the government has discovered a; cation wide street ; car . conspiracy to get six cent fares., . THE SOUND'S FALSE CLAIM THE public service commission of Washington, in its champiotship of the " railroad terminals .jand large business interests of Puget Sound, contends in opposition to the Columbia river water grade rate case that the petition of the Inland Em pire Shippers' league seeks a tariff discriminatory against Puget 5 Sound. What the.publio service commission means .to say, If it wishes to plead the truth,? is that the existing rate Is! discriminatory in favor 6f Puget Sound's terminals and interests, and discriminatory against Southwestern Washington, Eastern Washington and the Inland Empire district. Investigation : shows that one ton of coal will haul 8571.34 tons . of general freight one mile ; over the tracks of j the Spokane; , Portland & Seattle road between the Inland Em pire country and Vancouver, on the water grader On the other hand, the same amount of fuel will haul but 5888.34 tons of general freight over the Washington line of the .Northern Pacific 'between Inland Empire points across the Cascade , mountains and into Puget 'Sound - terminals. ' . - Stating it another way, there is a 'discrimination of 2882.94 ? tons jTor every? ton mile of fuel i used i ove'r these - two roads .in favor -of Puget Sound terminals and interests and against' the- shippers - and producers of.? the .Inland. Empire, and . against the. business men , of Southwestern Washington and all other points served by the water grade. , For every ton of coal burned on the mountain haul the transportation of 2682.94 tons of freight for one mile is lost to the shippers in comparison with the service that would come to them ? for the same fuel expense over the water grade " Yet, the cost to shippers for trans portation is the same J JTr. both routes. The railroads charge as much on either route notwithstanding they can haul 8571.34, tons one mile; with a ton of coal in the water grade and only 5888.4 tons : the same dis tance with the same amount of fuel on the mountain grade. The ishington commission seems to be suffering from strabismus of Us logic. It Is looking at the question crosseyed. .The Inland Empire Ship pers' league is petitioning for the discrimination to be removed by the Interstate commerce commission;' It is already suffering from that disease. It is seeking a cure. The Washing ton commission is - asking that if continue to suffer. ' DOLLAR COFFEE ALMOST daily, there , are exorbi tant advances in the price of coffee. Leading interests assert that the advance has. Just be gun and that toffee is programmed to eell at tl a fcound and even more within a short time. Statistics are being used by both the bears and bulls. - - ' Speculators point to the very short supplies, held in this country and claim that present crop . prospects in South American plantations are vey bad.. ; ; On the other hand, leading roaster and jobbing interests acknowledge that there is such a shortage, but assert that the stock has been pur posely held short in order to be prepared for a break in price due to the Sudden appearance on the market of a two years supply held during the war in Brazil. The roasters claim that " the publio is being robbed merely to swell the profits of Brazilian .coffee gamblers, and that the excess money from the exorbitant prices does not go to the growers. ; ... Some speculators lay stress on the fact that conclusion of peace would greatly Increase exports to Germany and Austria, two of the largest cof fee consuming nations in the world. The bankrupt condition of the two countries Is used to combat this ar gument, the claim being that neither country is in ".position to consume and pay for, a peace time supply: Some of the big roasters and Job bers are openly advocating a boy cott of coffee by the publio in order that the Brazilian gamblers may be brought to their senses. Meanwhile, poffee prices, even more than other prices, are aviating, and consumers are holding their breath while waiting J to see if their fa vorite beverage is to go to $1 per. Down in Sonora the governor has issued a proclamation to the effect that any bootlegger caught manufac turing or selling alcoholic llqiuor be tween now and September when the state Is scheduled to go "wet," will be shot without trial, either civil or military. ; Under the circumstances it would not be surprising if it is a long time between drinks "down there. . . - i NOT TENANTS, BUT OWNERS FEW people pause to think that -when they buy Savings Stamps they save taxes. The -war is not over yet, for the taxpayer. The government won the. ; war on credit. Now it has got to pay thrbJJ and it is a big one. This yearvecy man, and his wife, helped in thisiask. Next-year they will dothe same, and the year after; and the year after that. Billionsi of dojlars will have to be provided ' to meet the cost of the war. All of us will be retired to meet and bear our individual share of the rJurden. ' ! If the r government can not raise these funds one way it will have to raise 'them, another, J ' ji, In the final . analysis the people of the . country, who are the .;. govern ment, will foot the bills. Every dol lar the individual Invests in War Savings ,or Thrift Stamps makes him the creditor of - the government by just that much.' He ; will i get his money back, with interest. The man who does not buy will pay his share and get no interest or no principal back. '-- -; The man who invests has an equity in the government and will be repaid that equity in money. The man who does not invest will be a renter, and his '- rental will not come ; back ; to him, not in money. The -government wants the people to own their share in the government. It would rather have them joint owners Jn the nation than; mere tenants. It makes better citizens, and -better : citizens make a better nation. ' -. lr .. , ROADS FOR ALL OREGON THERE- have' been ' differences pi opinion concerning Oregon's road building program City , folks hae favored ." state highways while, farmers , have advocated the lateral or market roads. These dif ferences of opinion have caused mis understanding and a lack of harmony among good roads, enthusiasts. r A new view, point; is indicated by the, returns from the recent election. An road . measures, carried. - Cities voted for market roads and the coun try voted for state highways. It Is the sensible view point. A complete system j of . highways re quires both ; market , roads , and tnain highways just as a railroad needs a trunk line, and branches. ; The united vote augurs well for better , roads throughout all "Oregon. And this great road system through out the state has a signal meaning: Farms will1 take on a new dignity and a new development. : That Is the big thing in the road building. Farmers will more and more mer chandise their own products. Farm ers j will more and ' more bring , into use the. latent - resources of their farms, because of the new accessi bility to marLet. A great deal more prosperity will hover over farm life, and that will mean more of general prosperity for all the great structure of social life that rests upon our basio industry.- - OLD FOES FACE NEW LAND BILL By Carl Smith, Washington Staff . Correspondent of The Journal " Washington, June 21.-" Reprentatlve N", J. Sinnott, chairman of the public lands committee of the house and pilot-in-hief of the Lane soldier land settle ment bill, in tha lower branch of con gress, has been del-Tins' into history. As sl result ot his research be la -xble to say that the principal arguments being made againtt the passage of such legis lation are "old stuff ." -When homestead laws were proposed.. TO. and more years ago they met with the same opposition, on the same grounds, and from the same sections of the country. The historian McMaater - tells how Andrew Johnson, then m member of the house, fought for homestead legis lation, and aays: - "Then went-up from some of the old states a cry ot opposition," It would draw population from them, leave them to pay the debt Incurred in acquiring the public domain, depreciate the value of their lands, for who would buy a farm in North Carolina when he could get kne for nothing In Alabama or Missouri, and would . tempt the scum of society in the old world tp come and squat on our public domains and scatter seeds of political pestilence on the frontier, and in a little while the agrarian laws of Rome would be reenacted in America. This wholesale robbery. of the old states for the benefit of the new should be denounced by every honest-man the land over. It is the most flagrant act of depredation on the public domain yet attempted - by- demagogues. -Jroperty and usefulness are the fruits of Industry and selfi-dependence, not of government bounties and land plundering.. There is no way of demoralizing any class more certainly than by means of gratuities. Undoubtedly many dtlsens would rather have a farm given them than buy It. But they are greatly mistaken If they think they are the people of the United States. The people approve not of ruch agrarian and Utopian schemes. Congress has no power to dispose of the public land save for national purpose. If it may donate land to the landless, it may. give money to the poverty stricken and take the value of 160 acres out of the treasury and bestow It upon -each individual of the favored class." . i a 9 -.a . .'i This is from .the mesage of President Buchanan, vetoing the homestead bill of I860: . ..' "That land of promise (the. . west) presents in itself sufficient allurements to our young and enerprising citizens, without any adventitious aid. The of fer of free farms would probably have a powerful effect in encouraging emigra tion, especially from states like. Illinois, Tennessee and - Kentucky, to the west of the Mississippi and could not falf to reduce the price of property within their limits. " An individual in states thus situated would not pay its fair value for land, when by crossing the Mississippi, he could go upon the public lands and obtain a farm almost without money and without price. The honest poor man, by frugality and industry, can In any part of our country, acquire a competence for himself and his family and in doing this he feels that he eats the bread of Independence. He desires no charity, either from the government or from his neighbors. This bill, which proposes to give him land at an almost nominal price, out of the property f the government, will go far to demoral ize the people, and repress this noble spirit of independence. It may introduce among us those pernicious social theories which thave proved so disastrous in other countries." , , Winnipeg's New Water Tunnel Is a World's Wonder . From the Chicago Post Winnipeg, the gateway to Canada's rich agricultural western provinces, and the greatest primary grain market in the world, has a new water supply sys tem. The new concrete conduit, eight feet in diameter, 96 miles long and cost ing $15,000,000, has Just been completed and the water has been turned Into the city mains. The aqueduct has been pro nounced one of the world's major en gineering feats. It is in its way a vic tory memorial. It was begua Jn 1914 and built in the four years of the war. It compares' with - the famous Brooks aqueduct and great Bassano dam in Eastern Alberta. ; . The new aqueduct, with a capacity of 85,000.000 gallons every 24 i hours, channels'-water from. Shoal lake, an arm of the Lake; of the Woods, the famous haunt of sportsmen,' southeast of Winnipeg. . Shoal . lake has an area of .107 square miles. The Lake of the Woods has an area of 1500 square miles. The Inexhaustible water supply of these lakes is 100 feet above, the level of the city. The flow of water is sustained by gravity. , - : - . The conduit tunnels under 'Red river, Whitemouth river and several smaller streams. - It passes ' 20 reef beneath the bed of Red river , through solid limestone. The length of river siphons and pressure sections is seven miles, y Winnipeg, in its early history, ob tained its water from Red river. - Fif, tean years ago, after several typhoid epidemics, 'a k system of - artesian wells were 4 established; ' These wells have been Lnntll now - the dtyi source . of water supply. While excellent for drink ing, the water was so hard it ruined boilers, water tanks and city mains and had to be chemically softened for "wash ing purposes. . . - w . The new . supply . of soft lake 'water wUI save the citizens annually 1, It 1.600 in chemical -softening plants ; 1 500,000 In scale and corrosion in pipes; $58,000 in cisterns and tanks; $41,000 . in boilers and $27,600 in hrt water heaters. It will cause - a tremendous reduction - in the yearly bills for washable clothes and soaps. . . - To build the aqueduet. the city con struct ad 'its own standard gauge rail way and a telegraph line. The ' road is 110 miles long and its locomotives and 1S cars are valued at $1,429.(22. Sev eral thriving towni sprang up along the steel avnd farmers - began to Battle in the country which was before a wilderness. The road will now bo main tained s In regular operation. The city also operated its own gravel pita, rock quarries and cement plants. f . Letters From the People (ConmnnieaHeBa sent to The Joaraaf for inblicatioa in tkia departatent ahould ba written aa oarty one Me of tha paper, ahould &H exceed 300 word in langtb, and nuat ba sizaau by tha writer, whoaa mail addreaa in full must aoeoaa paay tlie contribution.) , f School Bonds and Boards' Portland, June 19. To the Editor of The Journal As a loyal and patriotic citizen of this city, and as a booster for any program or project in any .wise for the interest of the community, I beg to say .a few words on the school bonds about to be voted on and to prove my interest I will state that I have had two children pass through Portland schools and another will be ready to start In an other year. In today's Journal appears a full-page advertisement signed by "Board of Directors School District No. U' It shows pictures of portables, or rather shacks, and I ask. , Are they a credit to this city or to the persons who ordered them built? Why this waste of money? A new addition to one or sev eral schools could have been built with the samo outlay, sufficient to care for the growing enrollment. A permanent investment would then have been to our credit-:-.' . Recently a million-dollar lot of road bonds were sold at a discount of nearly $60,000, A similar amount was sold pre viously at a much greater discount. Who, may I ask, is interested in these tremen dous losses to the taxpayers? Who, In particular, desires this present school bond issue? Surely not the public It -is said that a large increase of pu pils is expected in the fall. I can't see it Where the town was filled last year with shipworkers living in tent houses, hardly a tent house remains. Two thou sand men and families, I am told, were taken to a Lewis -river tie mill in one bunch. And where are the rest? I assisted with my vote to put over the C per cent limit on tax increases. Why? Because of the unaccountable reason that men are elected: to office who can spend money, but who do not seem able to- get a dollar's worth in return. Investing public funds means wise spending, hut show me anything savoring of wise spending in any of our political be souabbled (or scrambled) school board. The reason the people -of Portland will vote no bonds on Saturday is because we are being bled white. We are get ting insufficient value for funds ex pended. I have decided to vote no on all bond issues for school sites. Any district feeling the need of a new school should secure a bona-fide offer as a site and the publio can be the judge if such price is to be paid. We have been paying front-foot pricea for acreage. Let's stop it. By way of illustration, look at the South Portland playground site. We were assured that $100,000 would buy the ground and partially install apparatus, but we have seen $120,000 spent, and as yet we do. not own the grounds. Let us get down to business. Let us build a bigger and a better Portland. But let us. first of all. put in a. busi ness administration in the school board, cut out the politicians and then back up such a board to the limit. Then let us get a school clerk to replace the one who has long ago outlived his usefulness. Do -you, dear taxpayer, get a thousaad dollar vacation fund to allow, you to go gallivanting around the country, also drawing pay? -I don't. , Also, did you authorize the -school board to invest in full-page advertisements when there is no money to raise the teachers' salary or to even build portables? I didn't. And If new schools are necessary, such advertising Is a gross waste of taxpay ers money. I trust every taxpayer'wlll get out on Saturday and vote. Don't be a slacker. Vote your honest conviction, but vote; and I know what the result will be . E. R. REED. , History Repeats Itself . Albany, June 1$. To the Editor of The Journal Noah Brooks, in his hook "First Across the Continent," being the story of the Lewis and Clark expedition, relates that ' the people of the United States were greatly astonished to learn in 1SQ3 that Napoleon Bonaparte had sold this country, the vast region known as Louisiana an area of more than a million square miles. But here is the interesting part of the story : The pur chase of this territory could not be com plete without the approval of the bar gainthe price being $15,000,000 by the senate. Great opposition to this was Im mediately excited by people in various parts of the country, especially, New England-, where there was a very bitter feeling against President Jefferson, the prime mover in the business. - The pur chase was ridiculed aa a region uninhab itable and worthless. They derided the Jefferson purchase as extravagant folly. And, besides being a foolish bargain, they vehemently declared President Jef ferson had no right under the constitu tion to add any territory to the area of the Union. It sounds like the Borah-Lodge-Polndexter mouth ings against the League-, of Nations. The public sets down as fools those enemies of the Lou isiana purchase and what will It say of the Borah-Lodge-Polndexter crowd? It is a Bore-ah! REV. GEORGE H. BENNETT. V " The School Bond Advertising Portland, June 20. To the Editor of The Journal I notice extensive adver tising by "School Board of District No. 1," regarding the election to be held for approval of new bond Issue, and as the articles are marked "Advertisement," would you please inform me if the school board is using public money to pay for the election arguments published on an entire page of -the newspapers? "- TAXPAYER. Tha adrertisln la beta paid for ant of school funds. Thia use of rands baa evoked a great deal of public remark.) : the Printer's Art Tram tha Naw Tor .World. -' ew Tork is first in so .many things that the news of its additional distinc tion as the center of the world's,' print ing industry will be taken aa- a . matter of course. Tet, " after all, is not this a remarkable ; distinction? To - lead the world in the art preservative of arts, to have beaten Leipzig and Amsterdam and Paris and finally London, that Is surely evolution that would -have as tonished ; Ben Franklin no less than Guttenberg. . ' From tbe rude hand press at Mainz and th first font of movable types to the 2700 printing plants in New York, with a capital of $63,000,000, is from any point of view an astounding devel opment. And considering what even a little printing press can do, what Love joy's did, who can-estimate the, possi bilities "bf good or evil In these thou sands of clanking machines? Certainly no free people in the world's history has- ever had anything like this aggre gation of agencies of publicity. The "expansion Is wonderful enough on the commercial and the propogandist side. . Is it as wonderful "on the artistic side? Po American master craftsmen produce anything' to compare In finish and permanent value as works of the printer's ' art with the output of the COMMENT AND 1 - ' SMALL CHANGE, . Noeke, it seems, Is Germany's strong tnanski. ' :. ' "Old Harvard'-' haa another chance to celebrate, a a - ' , Are you numbered among the Port land people who go to church? If coffee continues to . go - up the chances are that less of it will go down. We read that the Huns are massing troops on the Polish frontier. Here's hoping "the Poles polish 'em up. ' Sam H.vMoore haa been added to the membership of the state lime board. The Moore the merrier, as it were. i . - ' - - - ' - a :". .... . t . i Tbe ordinary person will probably find but little reason for rejoicing in the re duction of the cable rates to the Philip pines. -' ' - .. - The odds, on whether or not Germany will sign the peace treaty seem to be about five to four. And. by the way, whi,t .are the odds on the coming affair at Toledo? . v ,. - . .. . ' Verily, times change. A man on horse back or a woman on a bicycle on the city streets is as much a novelty these days as were -motorcycles and automo biles a few years ago. - i OBSERVATIONS AND IMPRESSIONS OF THE JOURNAL MAN By Fred, Taking docs aa his text. Mr. Locklay ex pounds hnntaneneas ' is manner and form at once entertain roc and appaalinz. . Instsncas at rare sasseitv ar related, and operations ot tba Oregon Humana ' society are noted. 1 If you are not interested, in dogs, you had better not read any farther, for this article is going to be-about dogs, some one once said: "The more I see of. folks, the more I like dogs." I am going to qualify this by saying: 'The more X see of - some folks, the better I like most ilnfft " Tf HtlArn anA Anmrm had votaa. 1 oould run for most any old thing an&f be elected....- . ' ,...v --..Vr v V.: -v Ever since I have been married one of the valued members of our household has been a dog. ' We . started keeping bouse with an Irish setter. .When .Rex hit the long trail to the happy hunting grounds, we got a collie named Lassie. If the theosophlsts are right, the in some past age Lassie was a . high-born lady. In every line she showed birth, blood, breeding and intelligence. If there ever was a dog that showed loy alty and devotion, It - was Lassie. .In those days my son Lawrence was a little chap. He stoutly maintained he was not afraid to go to bed In the dark, but that he wanted Lassie to ' go up stairs with him Just "for company." Lawrence was nearly three years old. Lassie would go up with him,. lie by his bed until . she - thought it was - time for him to be asleep, and then very care fully put her front feet , on the side of the bed and look at him to see if he was asleep. If Lawrence was still awake. Lassie would groan, lie down and wait ; but if he was asleep, she would leave the room as quietly as the passing of a shadow, come down v and with a satis fied look and wag of her tail resume her place on the rug in front, of the fire place. She was his protector .nd de fender, his playmate and comrade. A few years later, when Lawrence no longer needed Lassie to take htm to bed, my wife's sister," vrith her two young children, came to visit us rfor a few weeks, and Lassie had to go upstairs with them until they were asleep. If there ever was d outraged look vand an anguished expression on a dog's face, It was on Lassie's when she had to as sume the responsibilities of nurse for these children. We would hear her set tle down on the floor of the Sipstalrs bedroom with a groan, and when she would finally come down there was no wagging of her tail, a - ' ,, . . " ; a .j, a"':, a. ' .r . ' -7 ; When Lassie, had lived with us for five or six years, so sensitive was she to the tones of 'our voices -and the ex pressions of i our faces that when, my wife and I wanted to have any argu ment we had to go out into the back yard or somewhere where Lassie couldn't hear us i because it made her feel so bad. " . . .. . - .- a -,; a ;' The responsibilities of maternity and the cares of motherhood weighed heavily on Lassie's conscience. She was a good mother to her. little . fuzzy-wuzzy pup pies, but she was torn between devotion to her family And love- for ua If we started out for e. walk she would run after -us for some distance and then run back to her puppies, and run back and forth, weeping and wailing, until finally, with an . anguished - look.- she would go back to her puppies and stay. It waa Lassie that convinced me that if there isn't, there should be, a heaven for dogs. ... - i . ;- a a When Lassie went the way of all flesh, she was succeeded by another collie named Wallace, or, to give him the name by which we always called him. "Watly." ; . ; Our present, collie's . name Is Donald. Recently he disappeared. We put an ad in the paper, offering a reward, and finally got ins touch with him, but be fore doing so my wife and I went Out to see if by any possibility he had been put in the city dog pound. If you-have never been there, some day take a trip out there.. If'you go by streetcar, take the Vancouver car and get off at the city limits and follow the main road a third of a mile and you will see the sign of the Oregon Humana society, Mrs. Jessie Cleek is in charge of the early printers of Yenlc or Amsterdam? Is there an Aldus Manutius or an Elze vir anywher among them? Count GreppI Centenarian Frots tha Boston Transcript 7 '-."O Count -GreppI of ROm celebrated his one hundredth birthday March 25. He has been a diplomat, a great society man. and is stIU In the very best of health goea to 'all the reception, the atres, and accepts all th Invitations he receiveaHe always lives in hotels, and evidenUy'-ha never .married, as there has been no , mention of wife or children in tbe accounts of his life, but only of a nephew, who helped him re ceive his guests. On th morning of his birthday the 'tineen Invited hlra to the palace- to present him to her chil dren; at noon th senators had a din ner for him. ' At his dinner 'm the evening "all aristocratic Rome was present.- ' ; And at the age of 100 he takes long walks every day -wUI Count Greppi's case should remind all the old fellows . that although th boy ar coming' horn to take charge of .the world, - the - older generation need not suffer Itself to be pushed back, into easy chairs by- the fireside, or in the remote corner jr tne piazza. . Olden Oregon One of the Reasons Why There Was An Earlr Rash Hither. There is little wonder that eastern men and women braved dangers in the early days to .reach Oregon, nor that In coming they passed over many a league of vacant and wild lands as good as the NEWS IN BRIEF OREGON SIDELIGHTS Enterprise restaurants and hotels, the Reporter says, that have been serving 40-cent meals have gone up to SO. The state pure food Inspector haa been In Klamath Falls looking over the grocery stores and, the Herald says, is Rvery high in his praise ot the cleanly manner In which they were conducted. . a a y"A great stimulus has been given to Sliver mlntnar en account of the high -price of the white metal." says the I Baker Democrat, "and here in . Baker county many old properties are oemg rehabilitated and new ones searched for by the ever-active prospector.", The Vuildlngs of the Eugene publio market have ail been repainted ana ren ovated. Market Director Ayres .. sayi the market is supplied with more and better produce than ever before, and that it is "one of the few markets In the state In cities of this size that have met with success." - "Everybody sits up and begins to take an interest," remarks the Eugene Reg ister, "when it is announced that in all ftrobabllity there will be fireworks on he night of the Fourth. Real, old fashioned fireworks, with a good-night piece at 'the end, leave the feeling that the Fourth has been properly cele brated." Lockley pound. The dog pound lives up to the reputation of the Humane society, which operates it There were dogs of every description and degree, from the '"yellow dog who Is everybody's friend; to the high-bred collie who had been there for a week and who was heart-broken at being kept in a pen and away from his owner. "No. that collie takes no inter est in life. He'll scarcely eat, and I be lieve If he stays there much longer he win die of a broken heart." said Mrs. Wieeic a ... We went up and down the building, looking in at tha different pens and making friends with tha various dogs. Most of them were willing to wag their tails and be friendly.- Out In the en closed yard .were a number of dogs, one. of which fairly begged to be adopt ed. It was a little thing and walked along on its hind legs daintily, holding its front paws against its side. . With laughing eyes, and tongue hanrtnar out. it came to the wire fence and tried to shake hands, i It was disconsolate when we left. ... - i - - ?' -: a .- r a. f.-i. . : In another department we saw a lot of cats In wire .cages. "I haven't the record for this year," said Mrs. Cleek, "but here is the report for the twb years ending March, 1915. 4 Our society in spected 4000 horses and mules. We con demned ' 61 of them and prohibited 212 owners from using horses that were in bad condition. We Inspected over 1400 cows and 895 dogs. We secured homes for1 89 dogs and. destroyed 189. We round homes for SIS cats and destroyed over 1000. We inspected 87 barns and during the two years we ' made over SI arrests. We operate an ambulance for horses.- We have placed watering palls at various points throughout the city and have sanded more than 1000 blocks of ; slippery pavement and put warning notices on over $00 grades. We have distributed nearly 60,000 pieces of literature and have carried on a 'hu manity first' campaign with the school children. . - a-;a .- "The first Humane , society was or ganized in 1835, near London. . The work was a tar ted in this country in 1865, by tienry sergn, secretary or the American legation in Russia- He was an pointed consul - at St. Petersburg by President . Lincoln. He resigned - from that place in 1864, coming back to the United States the following year, and devoted his entire energies to tbe pre vention or cruelty to animals. ."Th text in the Bible lnWhich we particularly believe is .'Blessed are the merciful, for they shall obtain mercy.' You will see that . we dispose of the animals here In-the'most humane way. A dog is placed In this chest, this metal collar being fastened around his neck. The metal chain connects the collar to the rod in the chest. The moment the lid of the chest is closed it closes tbe switch and the dog la electroculed. This smaller one is for cats. We sell the dogs here at from $1.50 to $10 each and the cats we give away. We have a particularly fine Persian cat on hand now to give away. People who leave the city often give us fine cats, so that anyone wanting a pet can secure one here for nothing. , I ' "Our main office is room 163 at the courthouse. You can get- a good deal of Innterestlng information about our work there." V . . a - a a On of th departments of the paper that I sgways try 9 to read is the lost and found column. There I find many a human interest story, I have always believed with Coleridge : "He prayeth well who loveth well both man and bird and beast. He prayeth best who loveth best all things both great and small, for the dear God who loveth us, he made and loveth aU." No matter if the day conies when w all have automobiles and airships, we shall always have a soft spot in our hearta for the horse, and the dog. for from them e get absolute devotion and loyalty, particularly from tbe dog. No matte if you get drunk and kick him, or if you starve him, you can get for giveness for 'past offenses by a friendly wrd or friendly caress. Mississippi valley affords, when one con siders th reports of th Oregon coun try that were before them. In his min ute report Lieutenant Wilkes, who was on this coast in the early .'40s, said of the Willamette valleys "In comparison with our own country, X should say that the labor required In this territory for sub sistence and to acquire wealth is In th proportion of one to three, or, in other words, a man must work through tbe year three times as long In the United States to gain the . like compensation." Curious Bits of Information' For the Curious . " Glassed Fraa Oaiioas Plaasa Within only- six centuries, as th .sta tisticians have figured it out, there wM be so many people dwelling on the earth that there will b only one square yard for each person and possibly some of us may have to sit oh ' the river bank and. let our feet hang over. : At- presenu it i estimated a muiion people are living on the earth,-or about 20 acres for each person. The most crowded part of the world in Asia, - Out of every 1000 persons now. living on the earth 650 live in Asia, f fh Europe, 109 Iff Africa. 93 In America and S in Oceania. Nature has a way of dealing with overcrowding. Every farmer knows that if he continues to grow the same' kind of crop on the same piec of land for a number of years, so many of Its enemies and dis eases appear that' finally it Is almost Impossible for him to get a yield. When many hogs are raised cholera appears. Doubtless - if humankind - multiplies too rapidly, nature has something up her sleeve which will give the survivors of th fittest all the , room they need to turn around in. .. ' Ragtag and Bobtail Stories from Everywhere , la Society in a Sunbonn.l V " rJVENNESSEE gave Its hero, Alvln - ' vi mi . aiiu mviuer ia great nublla "retention at th ranttal of the state, and hoth women rod on ; a railway train for the first time get ting io it, says capper's Weekly. York's . vta mower siooa in the reception line, with the governor, .wearing her simple best dress and hen sunbonnat. mi mm. ducted herself as if she had been used to SUCh functions all her lir TJvlna- In the mountains Is conducive to a self- respect so unconscious or Itself that It amounts to good breeding. For that matter, the best blood In America flows in uio veins or. inese hardy moun taineers. t Regarding Raiment To the Rar Tar Editor: Th follow. tng, credited to Cartoons Magazine, ap-, peered In your column Thursday t - That wife t Ifaavan y ftlioald ba bleat y Who nays alia lis old Clothes tha beat! To which permit me to add : The modern maid Haa tot the (alt . To wear searee any ' -. . Clothes at all. , RUSSELL SHAVER. ' , Uncle Jeff Snow ays; Tt'n mlo-htv VlQrrl A Mitt,, n.L., rk. the dealer don't pass you no cards, which is where them Huns landed at I Paree in the biggest game of poker ever ' piayea yit. The News in Paragraphs ; World Happenings Briefed for Benefit of Journal Readers ' : , GENERAL . . - Fuchow reports -8000 students arrested t and held by the Chines and Japanese i authorities. . . Official announcement I made that ! tne United Mates postal censorship has been discontinued. , if The steamer Monteagle arrived at Victoria Thursday with 747 Siberian troops on board. , All the American aoldlera now. have left Archangel except the engineers, who 1 ar cleaning up the American base there ' ana win sail before June 80. : Senator Gore of Oklahoma says con- , rrrvoH wjit ueuara a jcgai aiate ot peace f th peace treaty encounters delay when it comes up in the senate. Eight American steamers laden with f firovlslons for Germany are detained ' n the Downs on the British coast pend- 1 ing ma signing or tne peace treaty. -The Vancouver strike Is faillnaf. Rail- Way employes have returned to work. ,i telephone service is normal' and em bargo on freight shipments is shortly to be removed. , Senator Myers of Montana has pre sented a bill to prohibit all immigration , Austria-Hungary, Bulgaria and Turkey for 60 years. The honorary degree of doctor of laws was awarded by Harvard Thursday to Rear-Admiral William S. Sims, Major General K. H. Crowder, Henry P. David son and Robert Bacon. The concentration of troops, prepara tory to advancing farther into Germany If the Germans refuse to sign the terms ' 01 peace, win ,oegin next weanesoay throughout all the occupied area. The district court at Fairmont, Minn., has refused to postpone the cases of A. C Townsley and Joseph Gilbert, presi dent and organizer of the non-partisan . league, charged with conspiracy to vio late the state disloyalty law. ' NORTHWEST NOTES : Pendleton voters reelected E. L. Smith 1 as director and voted favorably on the $i) 8.500 school budget. Viscount K. Ishll, Japanese ambas sador to the United States, left SeatU Wednesday for Japan. 4". in r 1 1. . v. Jt m A A , a stack of hay were destroyed by fire near Hermlston a few days ago. Cement workers are on strike in Pen dleton, demanding $5 a day Instead of $4, which they have been receiving. Seaside will celebrate the Fourth of July this year In the good old-fashioned way, with a few new ideas injected. The Palles district In the Methodist centenary drive la over the top with 1 $101,640, or $1000 lever the assigned quota, . . Walter W. Gleason, operating th In- ' dependent mine, near Baker, report th t or Is as wide aa th drift and assaying $16 per ton.. J. P. Weyerhaeuser was reelected presidentf tha Weyerhaeuser Timber' company at the annual meeting of stockholders at Taooma. , -The executive committee of the Clark , county farm bureau met at Vancouver Thursday to discuss the building . of ' cooperative prune-drying plants. . The Knights of Columbus have opened , a free employment of floe in Astoria. The j object Is to find Jobs for all ex-soidler and sailors who are out of work. Authorities at the state hospital for the insane report the escape of Thomas r Loveall, age 61. who was committed to. the institution from Med ford 011 Jun 7. ' Michaet Earle, pioneer lumberman ' who died recently at Seattle, left an! estate ot more than $1,000,000. Larg amounts were bequeathed to trusted employes. : - ' Pendleton is to have a third flocr.ng mill. The men back of the enterprise j are H. W. Collins, grain manj E. .P. , Marshall, banker, and R. M. Crom melln, a. miller. " 5 Warning to prospctlv Investor In i Oregon against stock sold by th "Stand- , ard Oil company of Texas" has Just been received by Corporation Commis sioner Schulderman. Delrnar Perkins of Carlton has re ceived a third medal from th American , Jersey Cattle club. This was on a four-year-old cow which produced $13 pounds ' of butterfat in, lS'jnontne. Fred Bennlon, now a district super- vlaor In Montana, nas bn mace coun- , ty agent for Umatilla county and will enter upon his duties as soon as h can ' close up bis work in Montana. Silas I). Haven fell from a scaffold at the Todd shipyard in Tacoma and; In,t,nilv killed. Ilia wtf and aiv ' small children arrived from th Eaatf just a few hours be to re the accident. . In an effort i to establish the closed shop, building trades unions at Yakima have entered Into an agreement which ' forbids any of their members working on a job where non-uaionfjlabor is em ployed. - , -, ; ' Th sawmill, five homes and. a large number of logs were destroyed by fire at the Bunker Hill and Sullivan mine - near ' Kellogg, Idaho, Thursday. Some , estimates place the loss a .high as $200,000. - ' Florist Has Plan to Stimulate rP Habit of Saving i IStorisa of sehleeemant la taa SoetuBtala - tioa at War Saainsa Htsmps. aent to The Joarnal and accepted for publication, will ba awarded s Thrift Stamp.) ,. ssaiaaaiia A unique plan to . stimulate the habit of saving among his customers haa been devised and put into prac tice by F. H. Kramer, a public spir ited florist of Washington. t. C. For every -Thrift Stamp purchased at hts shop. Mr. Kramer gives a beautiful American Beauty rose, and .for every War Savings Stamp, six roses are given to the .purchaser, v , "It Is .not only good advertising for m but it oftentimes marks the beginning of habits of saving in per sons who, heretofore, have never evinced a desire tobe thrifty." said Mr. Kremer, in d 1 t li s s 1 n g his method. . - ; t . , j - .- Thrift Stanpa and ISIS War Ss'tIosj. BUrnps Sew aa sals at usual agencies.
