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THE OREGON DAIITV JOURNAL, PORTLAND. MONDAY, JUNE 23. 1919. AS IMiEPENDENT NEWSPAPER JACKSON. . . , . . . Publisher ubLUbet ; errry day. afternoon and moraine (except Sunday afternoon), at The Journal Building, Broadway and Tamhiil street, I'nrtlanU. Oregon.' " ,'nfcered at tb Postoffice at Portland. Owiw. for transiaiaeion through tha mails a second " ctax matter. - . - 1KI.WHONKS Main 7173; Home. A-S061. A II departments reached by the number. ' Tell tb eerxU.r what department you want ISafOam; it KMUnur Co., tauuirV- Building, 581 lft ern, Kew Tors; 000 Mailert hubucrtiiUim Urns by mail, or to any address in tha United Stales or Mmco; - UAUL.T (MORNINO Oil AFTERNOON) "h, year. . . . .5.00 One month S .60 I ACXDAT (n year. . . ." .IJ.50 i On month . . . . . t .2 5 J'AILT (MOBNLVG OR AFTERNOON) AND . -r SUNDAY One rear . . . . . H7.S0 i One month. . ... .85 Con trie nr to. merely our own Judgment of the moral rectitude or turpitude of our own actions., Locke. TeSce OR CHAOS! IP NO league, what? Did we fight the war merely. to beat Germany? Are there no .- fruits to" be gathered from the victory? Did ' we spend all these billions and sacrifice all these crip pled and dead with no intent to use the victory for human betterment? No such course has been followed by America after other wars. The end ' aimed at in the Revolutionary war was freedom, and we did not, After York town, fold our hands and declare the work finished. What we did after Yorktown was to set about to preserve the fruits of victory. We framed and adopted a constitution. We organized a gov ernment through which to carry Into effect the principles for which the war had been fought. After Appo mattox ; we did not fold the drapery of our couch about "us and lie down to pleasant dreams. The end aimed at in that war was the preservation of the Union. We at once .busied ourselves with measures for making secure the policies won by force of arms. ..We did not, as the Lodges and Borahs Insist that we should now do, drop everything with . the collapse of those with whom we wer$ at war.- ;;" We began at once the -work of re construction and the adoption of amendments to the federal consiitu- j tion, to definitely carry out the prin ciples won by force of arms in the. field. - After the battles of Manila Bay and Santiago, we did not say to ourselves that the work was finished and that there Avas nothing more to do. The enti aimed at in thewar with Spain was to drive tyranny out, of its last refuge on this hemisphere. With the victory won, we went at once into Cuba and organized that government under, an enlightened system, and when we had finished, we turned the tfystem over to the Cubans, who are now Jn the full enjoyment of the fruits lof our work. We did not say to ourselves that, having delivered the Philippines from Spanish tyranny, there is nothing more for us to do; a course such as the Lodges and Borahs would now have us follow in Europe. We did not leave the Filipinos to their fate, to be seized and subjugated by some greedy nation. We set about to pre pare them for independence, estab- lish schools among them ; and by such processes we have done a work there that is a proud monument to civilization and an. example for emu lation by other nations. : In this most awful and most costly war in which America has partici- " pated, should we not do as we have done in past wars make secure all the fruits of victory? Do we not owe it to the living who fought and to the dead who perished fighting, to conclude a treaty that gives some thing In return for the mighty sacri fices made? ' The League of Nations is to the war of 1914 what the American con stitution was to the Revolutionary war, what the constitutional amend ments Were to the. Civil war and what our measures in Cuba and the Philippines, were to the Spanish war. It is the measure for securing to us compensation for our great expendi ture of; national resources, our 19 months of stress "and travail, and last and greatest of all the largest possible-compensation for the heroic boys who gave their all for ever that we might help lead peoples into greater safety and happier living , , To take; the league covenant out "of the peace treaty, 'as the Lodges arrd Borahs are trying to do, would b , a reversal of Amerjo&n policy. 2$ ymsvCtdl we eowledgTnen4 that all we went to war for was to defeat Germany. It would be a relinquishment of tv great part of .the Qbvious and precjous finuitc at victory. It would be a surrender8 .of an mpanillelcd opportunity, at." this lsychoiogieal nioment, to organize the world in a great movement to end war. It would be a base 'and 'cowardly betrayal of America by making her part in the war a mere military combat instead of a purposeful struggle to establish ; peace on earth and make self government forever safe. It would - be to leave 'weak nations - in Europe unprotected, to plunge despairing peoples looking to America for deliverance back into hopeless chaos, to turn millions over to be an easy prey, to Bolshevism and to make almost certain another war more formidable and more ter rible than that through which the world nas Just passed. When your landlord, who has al ways contended that he would rather walk, begins to ride around in a limousine it is at least a portent that Luc rent will not be raised again, unless the price of gasoline takes a jump. CITY SALARIES ECENTLY the people of Portland 1 K voted a flat increase of $400 each in teachers' salaries. The policy therein, approved was not fol lowed by the commissioners in their vote last Friday advancing salaries of city employes. Thje ruling high Hving cost was the basis for the . increases. If that is the reason, then it would seem that increases should have been uniform j cost" of service to other than Puget and proportionate as to necessity. Sound terminals in an effort seem It costs the 90 man or woman just jingly to make that equal which is as much to buy food, to pay rent and mot equal, and that seem fair which buy clothes as the $300 man or i woman. There is less margin be tween the demand for payment and the ability to meet that demand in the case of the $90 man than in that of the $300 man. The $300 man or woman would not go hungry, naked or without lodging if no increase were given. The $90 man or woman would come much closer to those alternatives. Who is willing to insist that the principle, of the $400 flat Increase for Portland teachers is not sound or just? HAIL THE GREETERS T OMORROW and for four days thereafter, Portland will be the i host of 500 glad hands from all narts of the United States, ihey are very animated hands, worn cal lous In the task of taking the weary wanderer who may happen to be a stranger in their home town in tow and making him feel at ease and at home. They are the delegates to the national convention of the Greeters of America, the largest organization of hotel men in the world. It will mean a good deal to Port land for them to be here, and to go away pleased with their visit and their entertainment. They are the chief dispensers of information about distant places that are good to go to. They are the men who ship their friends and patrons out to visit in pleasant climes, when the wanderlust is on and the vict im does not know where to go. No other organization, no other body of men, is so close to the travelling public. No other class of businessmen have so much to do with shaping and shifting the chan nel of tourist travel. Some of those who will visit Portland as delegates to the convention know Portland and the Northwest. Most of them have never been here and know the climate, the scenery and the pleasures of summer travel here only at second hand. While they are here they will learn. When they learn, Oregon will be the gainer. It is good that they are coming." The political bees are beginning to bumble hither and yon among the candjdatial clover. The air is vibrant with election promises, as witness what Roland Hartley is going to give in event he becomes governor of Washington: "Straight out Americanism, lower taxes, busi ness administration, less politics and more sound business and a fair deal to both capital and labor." Wouldn't it be Elysium if all campaign prom ises were kept and not so many forgotten? NOT HIGHER, BUT LOWER 7 Who I would oenent, the se attfe Times queries somber- were rates to be raised as a result of Portlands contest before the interstate com merce commission?" Neither Portland nor any other community is asking that "rates be raised." The Inland Empire Shippers' League, Portland and the other Co lumbia river communities are ask ing quite the reverse. The petition of the shippers' league asks merely that : the rates between the Inland Empire wheat fields and the water terminals be based oh the cost of haul, not on fiction as they now are down . the Columbia gateway. The league is willing that' Puget Sound terminals retain their present favorable rates, based as they are and should be, -on the cost of haul over the Cascades. But it contends that it is unfair for the same mountain rate to be charged over a route down which the loaded cars would roU of their own weight If given a cnance. It Is not asking that ; Its members or any one else be charged more, but that they be charged less where the cost of trans portation undoubtedly warrants a less charge for the service rendered. Contending thwt it is to the best interest of the farmers to have two cities -'competing for their business, the Times further says: "Under pres ent conditions they have the choice of , two transshipping centers, ' rates to - which - are on ; an ecruality," a , , . . - - - - v -- - - - - statement which is perfectly true, but which skips nimbly about the stump. Of course the rates are "on an equal ity" but not' an I equality of ; cost of transportation, or of operation, of justice or of equity to the grower out of whose! pockets the excess and unwarranted charge must come. That's the trouble. The grower is charged just as much; to ship his wheat or other produce down the Columbia grade as to have.it boosted over a mountain range, but it does not cost the railroads as mudli t haul it the one way, as - the other Every cent of excess . charge is un justly , filched out of "the , harvest money of the, farmer,", and . that is what he 'is contending ; against in the Columbia basin case. , "It (Seattle) asks no advantage over Portland or other neighboring porL," the Times declares, and adds, "it seeks no monopoly and un less the interstate commerce" commls- sion departs from the ' sound princi- j pies on which grates are now. based it is certain .there will be no mo nopoly." " Seattle does not have to ask for an advantage over other and neighbor ing ports, for it already has it in an unfair and unjust rate which sweeps away geographical advantages, throws an inequitable differential onto the is unfair. No one in this case-is seeking a monopoly. The petitioners .are ask ing that they be allowed to pay for what they. get, but not be required to pay for what they do not get. They are asking fair treatment for themselves, nothing more and noth ing less, and without unfairness or discrimination against Seattle or any other, port. A "tumultuous demonstration" greeted the reelection of Samuel Gompers as president of the Ameri can Federation of Labor Saturday at Atlantic City. And well it might. Mr. Gompers' leadership has piloted . organized labor through a Red Sea of troubles into safe and broad paths. He is a mighty asset for the work ers, not only of America, but' of the world. DOLLAR COFFEE P ROMINENT Portland coffee deal ers say, frankly and without qualification, that the proposed high cost of coffee is due solely to the manipulation of the market by speculators. Just as frankly they predict that the prices will fall as soon as the speculators are "called" by the public, and point to the time when orange speculators' who had sent out false reports about a shortage and then boosted prices, were broken when the public quit eating oranges at $1 a dozen. It is also pointed out that there is now a two years' supply of coffee in warehouses or at accessible storage points, so that there Is abso lutely no sound reason for advancing costs. It is pleasant to see business men stand against the trade with which they dear and for the public. It breeds confidence, even while we taste t.ie gold dust in the morning cup. In all the great assemblage of delegates at the labor convention at Atlantic City, only seven votes could be mustered against the League of Nations. The vote to indorse was 577 to 6even. The straw vote in The Journal was 28,005 for to 176 against. The vote of the delegates is almost as strong in proportion as that in The Journal. If senators defeat the treaty in the such sentiment they will day. face of rue the TWO ORPHANS A' 5 A matter of fact, though prob ably not in law, there is nothing so very startling In the ruling of the Inddstrial accident com mission that two small children under its jurisdiction are orphans, though their father is yet alive and they are in his care. There are many children, the world over, who are orphans in fact though not in law. r In the instant case the father and mother were separated and the moth er given the custody of her children. She married again, and her second husband and . the stepfather of his children, was killed in an industrial accident. The widow and children were given .the compensation author izeoby the statute, and in time the mofjier also died- Then the first hus band and the father of the children, again claimed them- The commis sion, notwithstanding the facts in the case, continued to hold that the children were orphans within . the meaning of the compensation ; act, and is still advancing then) the sti pend provided by the law in com pensation for the death of their step father. 4 It is a peculiar and a legal problem not often encountered. The children may need the money to which they are entitled under the law, ; and they may not Whichever way it may be, they raise the first proposition that a child may have living parents and yet be an orphan, or worse off than one. That Is what fills the baby homes, and institutions provided tor the care of defective and dependent children, the reform schools, the , in sane asylums and the prisons. "There is a lot of difference between, being a" progenitor and a parent." Senator Poindexter has started his boom to secure the popular indorse ment of the voters of Washington back of his ambition to b&'president of. the United, States. About the only justification for the boom' would seem to spring from the old but not infallible adage that the - early bird catches the worm. , Fifty thousand dead, a dozen vil lages obliterated, -21 miles of rait way destroyed and the countryside changed into a lake of redliot lava, boiling water and hot mud, were aspects in the recent volcanic erup tion in Java, The crater, 'long in active, had become a lake 300 yards deep and half a square mile in area. The eruption broke down the side of the crater and a stream of lava, mud and water eight miles wide, fir oded down the mountain side, destroying everything in its path. Thousands of bodies are now being cut out of the stone-hard lava by the relief parties. The eruption, because of the heavy mortality, ranks among the most disastrous in history. - Mayor Ole Hanson of Seattle has announced that he will not be a candidate at the next municipal elec tion, which causes us to wonder if the astute Ole put any extra empha sis on the "municipal" when he gave out his statement. WORLD IN PERIL BY PARTISANSHIP Great Party Organ Calls Republicans All to League's Support. From tha Philadelphia Ledger (Republican) The Republican party . has always prided itself on keeping step with prog ress. It is not a party of doubt or tim idity. It was founded upon and has ever been inspired by a sublime faith In the republic whose name it unhesi tatingly assumed. It believes that the American republic is big enough and firmly enough planted on this new conti nent to attempt great things, unprece dented things, daring things. Tf npnniil tedf stf fha nottirol r o rti pion and political organ of progressive mn-trnMK.. or, fw,,f TtJT constructive and formative ideas. Its present leaders illustrate this instinctive attitude by the fact that such of them as were not able to accept the exact form in which the proposed League of Nations was first presented to us took the utmost pains to make it clear that, while they were resolutely opposed to this "league," they were just as resolute ly in favor of "a league." That is, they would not consent to tying the essen tially creative and forward-looking Re publican party down to the Tory or "Doubting Thomas" policy of rejecting the whole grand project of leaguing the civilized nations of the world against war.. They were as much for a peace "league" as anybody, but feared that the Wilson "league" would not bring peace. . So they suggested amendments. Some of these amendments have now been adopted. We shall not pretend that we think that all of them were necessary or that the adoption of them has always been wise. Some of them were implicit in the first covenant, and had, perhaps, ! better have been left so than have ex cited the hostility which their empha sis has aroused. Others have doubtless further drawn the "teeth" of the "league," of which defensive instru ments that body never possessed a superabundance. But, in any event, the "league" constitution has now been brought nearer to the American taste. 5vioreover, it will not be amended again. It must be taken or turned down. The Republican party can kill it ! No one- can bind this country to such an international pact without the con sent of the Republicans'. Indeed, the Irreconcilable opposition of any very large section of the Republican party would put the newly-born instrument for the preservation of peace in an exceed ingly perilous position. For it is not enough to get the pact through the sen ate ; it must afterward be loyally and heartily worked by whatever party hap pens at any time to be in command of ( our machinery of government, be it ex ecutive, consultive or legislative. Again and again in the covenant it is provided that each nation must voluntarily take certain specified important action. The 'league" will speedily break down and fall on the dump of discarded human machines for hurrying the millennium If there be any weighty body of opinion in any of the larger nations which is so set against its principles and purposes as to refuse effective cooperation at such critical momenta. What this nation has to decide today is not .whether it will coldly tolerate the "league" in the frequently and falsely designated character of an un welcome European immigrant, but whether it will whole-heartedly adopt it as a true and legitimately born ""son" of American optimism, worthy of vig orous support and even of courageous sacrifice on our part. It is the very best that can be got today in the form of a peace-preserving pact between the free peoples who combined to present their living bodies as a barrier against the last great ef fort to knock down and sell into an odious slavery the whole human race. As the League to Knforce Peace lacontc- ically puts it: 'The issue now is This league or none. If we reject this league, we fall back upon the old sys tem of defending our various nations by costly competitive armaments, by strate gic frontiers and navy-patrolled seas, by "entangling alliances" and precarious "balances ' of power." -And, remember, this time: America will be most em phatically among those -present when it comes to piling up army and navy taxes, to drilling huge land and sea forces and to living under constant apprehen sion of the sudden loosing uporwus of the cyclone of war. The days xf our "splendid" and serene isolation are over. ; Is it not absolutely certain that the same practicality, the civilized loathing for war, the Christian belief in the best, which at all times actuates our literate, reasoning and humane people, will want at least to give to this . beat available effort at a peace league a fair trial? Oven those who honestly doubt its effi ciency will feel better, if it is the only plan that can now come out of the peace conference for practically applying "the common sense of most" to the vital problem of preserving peace, then the American people should be' the last im patiently to toss it back untried, and so kill the world's sole hope of escape from the recurrent horrors of war and the grinding burdens of perpetually pre paring to meet them. Should the Republican leaden then or any number of them stand - in the way of this general feeling? Undoubt edly they can create a very serious di vision in the nation -if they chose to employ all their vast powers of propa ganda, persuasion, organization and criticism against the long, intricate and probably vulnerable document that con tains the last word and latest com promise on this subject. But is that a business for the party of Lincoln, of the battle against slavery, of the better ment of industrial conditions in Amer ica, to be In? " -7 They criticized the "league coven ant while there was hope-that It might be amended. They were not deterred by the president's possibly " miscalculated attempt to minimize open criticism of what he so -well -"knew had been fought over In every line by the army of in ternational delegates . to the Paris con ference. But the covenant is. now a fait accompli. It carries in its fragile clauses the entire project of a "league of nations" for the banishment of -war. To ask the American people to reject it Is to ask the. American people to take up without hope of relief the militaristic burden which has for generations well nigh crushed ; Europe, ;( for we are now in the same boat with the rest of them), to take up this intolerable burden with out so much, as trying the only remedy prsposed. ? Is it sensible, la it "good politics." is it good patriotism, is it Republican, ta im pose this test upon the faith of the Re publican electorate in its leaders? Can any section of that leadership content itself with the policy of saying "No" to Wilson and "But" to -Taft? . "The Republican party has a roster full of inspiring missions. It has not fin ished with its constructive work, the work of its long array of architects of achievements from the great men who preserved the Union' to those who made that Union the best place on earth for the wage-earner and the enterprising manufacturer, and it has plenty to do without taking up an issue in which it can only win -by appealing to all that is most narrow and suspicious and re actionary and parochial amongst us. If it will consider the advice of a candid friend, who just as candidly, believes In the principle of a "league of nations," however faulty the present "league" may be, it will make it unanimous for a fair trial of this "league" and turn Us vigilant, vigorous attention to the rest of its important program. Letters From the People Communications sent to The .Journal for publication in this department should be written on only one fide of the paper, should not exceed 100 word in lensth, and must be aiened by the writer. whte mail addresa in full must accom pany the contribution, t Denounces Food Profiteers Winlock, Wash., June 18. To the Editor of The Journal I would like to express my opinion on A. J. Clark's let ter concerning the high prices the mer chants are charging. He blames the merchants, and then turns and blames the people. People have to live, and everything i3 high alike, and if you do Without one thing you have to use some- thing in its place So there you are A grocer, as I understand, is supposed to make from 15 to 25 per cent on his goods not 100 pen cent, as it seems some of them do. I believe in live and let live. But the saddest part is the little Btunted children who are growing up to make the next generation and who should have plenty of good food to make strong men and women to work and produce more for the money class to reap their cursed wealth from. I have far more respect for a bank rob ber, for he has no law to protect him and he risks his life in his act. There is a limit to everything, and it seems these profiteers have about gone the limit, and it Is time that something should be done, and done Quickly. A VICTIM. Porcine Prolificacy .Beaverton, June 18. To the Editor of The Journal In the Sunday Journal of June 15 is an article .from J. K. Conger of Castlerock, Wash., saying he has a brood sow that is the mother of 29 pigs In 13 months. Pretty good lor one brood sow in that length of time. But I wish to say that I am in the pig busi ness a little myself. My Duroc Jersey brood sow has Just become the mother of her third litter of pigs in the last 13 months, making her mother of 48 pigs in all. They are blooded stock but 1 haven't kept up the registry papers.. RALPH a STUMBATJGH. Lieutenant Brown's Nationality Portland, June 16. To the Kditor of The Journal It would be interesting to know by what right we claim Captain Alcock's navigator, Lieutenant Brown, as an American. Lieutenant Brown was born in Scotland of American parentage, served in the British army and had to swear allegiance, to the British govern ment before doing so.. Reverse the case : If he had been born in America of English parents and had served in the American army, would he be an Englishman? We can't have it both ways. We must be willing to give and take. - W. R. 'Mineral Wealth of Siberia From Popular Mechanics. An inscrutable dispensation seems to have placed the greatest mineral wealth in those lands least able to develop it Siberia is a case in point. The eastern half of that vast domain is exceedingly rich in mineral deposits, which, run the gamut from gold, silver and precious stones to graphite and salt. In the Ussuri region, north of Vladivostok, g61d is found everywhere, and only lack , C, enterprise . and facilities pre vents -extensive development. There is, indeed, more or less gold in practically every Siberian province. The (teal Central Oregon Climate From the Bend Bulletin If you want to do so you can make quite a case against our climate. A late, cold spring, ending on the first day of June with a real freeze ; dust, wind, hot days and ' cold nights ; that's one side of the shield. But when you get Jto be a real Central Oregon climate fan these occasional bits of odd weather and in convenience are excused for the sake of the air, the sky, the mountains, the frequent winter days "when the air ca resses you like a soft hand, the summer mornings when simply to breathe is a joy and your whole body tingles with life. Another Peace Condition From the Dec Maine Re later. One of the indispensable conditions of & peace of justice should be that Eng land quit misspelling the word "tire." Where He Can Get It From the Dallas Horning News. If the kaiser still wants a place in the sun, why not end him to the Sahara desert? Olden Oregon Early Investigator's Report on Willametttr Valley's Richness. In his report,' made in 1842, on the Oregon country, Lieutenant Wilkes ex pressed some impatience with what he considered the slothfulness of the white population that had come under his ob servation in the Willamette valley. This population was of an origin that ante dated the regular and systematic emi grations that began to erect the Oregon, of today, and which occurred In the years that Immediately succeeded the Wilkes expedition. Of conditions of production in the Willamette valley Wilkes reported : "All the care of stock which occupies so much time with us (of the eastern states) requires no at tention here, and on their rapid " in crease a man would alone support him self. The wheat of this valley yields 35 to 40 bushels for one sown, or 20 to 30 bushels to the acre. Its quality is superior to that -grown in the. United States, and its weight near four pounds to the bushel heavier. The above is the yield of new land, but it is believed that it will greatly exceed this after the third crop, when the land has been broken up and well tilled." That this expecta- COMMENT AND SMALL CHANGE , Here's best wishes, for the W. S. S. overhead special. . - ... ; . Hoo-ray for the Fourth of July and the Declaration of Independence. A California man recently laughed so hard that he died. Tickled to death, we would say. Portland shipyards seem determined to have steel ship contracts, even though they have to steal them. - . Judging by . the way things are going, the oid battleship Oregon will dissemble of its own accord before a decision as to lis disposition is determined upon. . . The American navy, had it been given the opportunity, would doubtless have made a much cleaner Job of sinking the Oernmn' ships than the Germans them selves made f It. On. 6 the new musical comedy suc cesses in New York is "The RByal Vag abond,'' .But our source of information fails to state whether or not the late kaiser is playing the title role. . . . - " A Grand Junction, Colo., man, 72 years old, , is taking his first vacation in 17 years. Probably it will be just a well if you fail to call this item to the attention of your employer. OBSERVATIONS AND IMPRESSION OF THE JOURNAL MAN By Fred Lockley . -. - - IHow lieutenant Julian Kay sot hit atart tn life, is related today, aitd also what he did with that start after lie got it, an recorded by Mr. !.-kley, Journal readers ill ha pleased to know that lieutenant Kay, while overseas, once bad the pleaaure of ordering General l'ershiutf around, and got by with it-J It was my good fortune a day or so ago to go over the Columbia river high way to Bonneville. I sat in the front seat.. Lieutenant Julian Kay was driv ing. He noticed the trench coat I had thrown over the back seat and said, "Were you overseas?" I nodded and said, "I presume you were also." "Yes. I returned- three months ago," he re sponded. We found we had been at many of the same places, though we had never met oyer; "there Lieutenant Kay did not know he; was giving me material for an article, but, with an occasional question, I secured a most interesting story. .- Lieutenant Kay hails from Elmira, Xew York. When 1 commented on his size, for he weighs over 200 and is six feet two inches high, he said: "I am the runt of the family. For five gen erations there' has not been a man in our family that has been as short as I am. My father weighs 265 and is six feet four inches high. My young est brother is fsix feet three. I was In the rrvotor transport corps. I have had some rather odd experiences in this work. One night in France there was congestion on the road and I was sent to straighten out the tangle. My or ders were to move everything to one side of the road and let the amunl tion go forward. I came to one car and told the chauffeur to pull to one side. With a good deal of emphasis he re fused to do so. I told him he could pull to one side at once or I would get a truck and pull him to one side. He said, 'Maybe you don't know that this is General Pershing's car.' I told him my instructions were to cfear the road and let the ammunition go by, and if General Pershing himself were there he would have to get out of the way. It so happened that General Pershing was there himself, and leaning forward he tapped his chauffeur on the shoulder and said, 'You had better- pull off the road and let the ammunition through.' I thought maybe I would hear from it. but evidently General Pershing realised I was doing my duty, and considered it a closed incident. : - "I have always been fond of work ine with machinery. When I was nine years old I equipped an old barn with an electric lighting system and fixed up a telegraph instrument in it that would work. When I was 15 I began to "feel that I knew more than my father. He did not agree with me. and so, gather ing un my savings, which amounted to about $30. I struck out for the West. When I got off the train at Denver to look around there had been a brisk shower and the sun had Just come- out. Everything looked so clean, bo bright, so beautiful,' that I decided ' here was the city I had been looking, for, so 'I didn't go back on the train. I went up town,' saw a card in the Western Union Telegraph company's window, 'Bov Wanted.' and applied for and landed the Job. I got by with tt. too, for whenever x was given a message 10 De liver, the other boys told me bow to get there. , . "By the time I was 16 I had saved $100 and decided it was high time to start in business for myself. I went to a friend who owned a lot in the resi dence' district and asked what he would lease the lot to me for. He said I could have the use' of it for nothing for five years and at the end of that time he would renew the lease and charge me a reasonable Tent. I skirmished around?! until I found a lot of second hand lum ber, which I bought. This took most BETTER HOUSING FOR BRITONS . ' By Ruth Russell Special Correspondence of The Journal and the Chicago Daily News.) London.' "If women could have some thing "to say about the building of the homes they have to live in !" At last .the women in one nation have been' given architectural suffrage. .This happened , when the report of the woman's subcommittee of the British ministry of reconstruction was Incor porated Into the memorandum of the national housing and town planning council. Which means that nine prac tical housekeepers are helping plan the 000,000 homes to be erected in England, Scotland and Wales. A Chicago girl is very active in pushing the reform. She is Stella M. Franklin, formerly secretary treasurer of the Woman's Trade Union league of Chicago. Lady Gertrude Em mett Is chairman of the subcommittee. When women have architectural en franchisement, what do they vote for? First come labor savers:.' The abolition of wood floors in kitchens and the sub stitution of nonabsorbent, easily cleaned material ; baseboards cut to make an obtuse angle with, the floor; outside doors built on raised thresholds so that in making the 'outward swing the mud mats are cleared ; draining boards on both sides of the kitchen sink. Then the "mind savers' are ssked fort "Sociable" windows in sitting rooms tion was later amply realised la well known, r .-," Curious Bits of Information A For the Curious 1 . Gleaned From Curio Flaoee Xrf all literary forgeries perhaps the most audacious was that perpetrated in 1796 by William Henry Ireland, a 19-year-old boy, who conceived the idea of writing a few posthumous plays by Wil liam Shakespeare and got so far in his undertaking to enlist the eminent scholar Samuel Parr as one of the most qualified persons who vouched for the NEWS IN BRIEF "OREGON SIDELIGHTS The free camping ground at Pendle ton has been very popular so far," and every night, the East Oregonlan says, from three to 10 parties stop there. Kv ery effort is put forth to make the grounds attractive. .. Action to bring adjacent territory within Ih legal boundaries of La Grande has been instituted. Approxi mately 1000 people are involved in the uronosed additions, which lie north and i aat nt the tncorporaticn. . . Invitation to the wayfarer, in the En terprise Reporter : "An automobile park is now necessary in all towns on main, highways where tourist travel Is heavy. The Enterprise park will furnish "an ex cellent park for weary travelers.", s "Those stating that Washington coun ty is not prolific are referred," says tha Hillsboro Argus, "to James B. Walker, of below Beaverton, who was in the city cashing in on 129 mole pelts, raised on a single acre of Walker s land." 'V- ;- Considering the number of ent'ries made, Astorians, in the opinion of the Astorian, "should feel Justly proud of the record of two prizes, each thorough ly merited, which were received by ex hibitors at the Portland Rose Festival. A first and a second isn't so bad." , of my $lt)0. With the advice and some help from" a friendly contractor I put up a sort of building. 1 decided to go into the automobile business, and this was to be. my start. 1 had sense enough to know that 1 couldn't secure any ma chines to repair unless I had an expert mechanic, so I hired a good repair man. I don't know to this day what there was about me to make him take a chance , on getting his first week's wages. I did some lively skirmishing to secure machines to repair. 1 went to my friends to ask them if I couldn't overhaul their machines. At the end of the week I had enough money to pay my "man. Things soon began coming my way. People who owned machines in that neighborhood got into the habit of dropping in if .they needed any re pairs or accessories. Before long I was as good at repairing as the man I had hired. Two years later I borrowed some money and, using what credit I had, I put4fp a good garage of pressed brick There was room In it for 60 cars. With in a year I was 19 years old then I was employing six men on the day force and seven men at night. I wanted to put in some lathes and some other ma chinery, so I took In a partner. Two years later I sold out to my partner. Today that garage that was started in a shack is one of the leading garages in the residence district in Denver. - "I went to Los Angeles and put a little over $3000 in the bank, which I had saved from the sale of my interest in the garage. I decided to look around a little before I went into business. I got a Job as repair man for the cater pillars on the Los Angeles aqueduct system. - The work paid well and I liked the outdoor life, so I stayed with that for some time. From Los Angeles I went to Sacramento, where I started a taxtcab business. I married in Sacra mento. This was four or five years ago. "When we declared war against Ger many I enlisted as a private. On my papers X stated that I had been en gaged - in the automobile business and in automobile repairs, care of tractors, and other similar work. They assigned me to the motor transport division. I had the good fortune to be able very shortly to demonstrate my ability, so my captain fixed it up for me to go to the officers training camp at the Presidio. I took special training along the lines required in the'' motor trans port corps. The three months spent in this work was almost a holiday and a recreation, because it was simply go ing pver the theory of what I had been practicing for years. ' I had good luck with my examinations, securing a grade of 96 per cent. Again I had good luck in being assigned a job that took me all over the United States. . My. assign ment was to look after the distribution of gasoline and oil in all the army cantonments In this country. This work took me from Fort Sewnrd Alaska, to Florida. I visited 165 different military establishments in most of the states In the Union. I saved the government hundreds of thousands of dollars In cut ting out expensive distribution and in cutting 1 out expenses in the use of gasoline and oil. "In France . I was also fortunate, my work there taking me pretty well all over France. My work did not take mo into the front -lines, so that I was never under direct fire from shells, though I was very often in camps where bomb ing rald3 by the Germans were carried on. "In my work I have met thousands of army officers, and I must say that as a class they .are a high type of men. There are a few exceptions a few cads, a few scrubs but, considering the large number of officers I met. there were surprisingly-few -who were not friendly, likable, capable chaps," windows low enough so that a woman seated at her sewing can look out occa sionally without difficulty ; sun, or at least bright aspect, for the living room "since it is here that the woman and children spend the greater part of their lives." Last comes the most radical sugges tion of all. It is for a "health saver" for children. "We take it for granted that a garden will be attached to every home," says the women's report- "It enables the woman to keep the baby and small children under observation and to keep them from the danger of the street while she is occupied with her housework. It also enables her to dry the washing in 'the open air." For wet weather ' there are to be "covered common play grounds." "Not more than 12 houses should be built to the acre in order to allow space not only for good sized in dividual gardens, but also for a common playground with covered shelters for use in wet weather. They should be easy of access to the houses they serve so the children need not cross the roads to reach them.". ' Of these suggestions Miss Franklin said : "They were not In- i spired simply by a desire Tor tne worn an's convenience, but with the knowledge that, as Lloyd George stated, We can not bring up Al citizens in C3 houses." (CoPTright, 1010, bjr Chicago Paily News Co.) srehutneness of supposed manuscript finds, to induce Richard Brlnsley Sheri dan, then lessee of Drury Lane, to give 300 for the right to produce one of the plays, and to have it duly committed to memory by a company of actors which Included John and Charles Kemble and Mrs. Jordan. Most readers have seen allusions to this famous hoax, but it is safe to say that very few ever -came across the feeble Imitation Elizabethan drama, remarkable only because of the juvenility of its author ,and his extra ordinary if short-lived success in his attempt. "Vortigern" depicts the career of the fabulous usurper of the ancient British throne whose name the drama bears.'- Ragtag and Bobtail Stories from Everywhere 'Isn't This Man the Limit? ANSAS" . prize absent-minded man, - Capper's Weekly, is former Attorney General Brewster. Brewster . carries a watch in his fob pocket .with out fob or chain, a reckless thing for a man of his preoccupied mind. The other day he took out his watch to note tbs time of day, and forgot to put it back. His mind was working fca a law Case, but he had a dim sense of having some thing in his hand. The distraction an noyed him, and he threw the object a tree. it cost him $4.60 to repair tZ, watch. When out seeking votes as a candidate last, fall and speaking to everybody in sight, at one meeting Brewster stepped up to a man, hand extended, and introduced himself. "My name Is Brewster," said the can didate smilingly. ' , - . "Yes," the man responded. "I have been driving you all day on this trip." Before and After He naid, "Well, regarding woman, ' To this sad experience I've come When a man put a ring on her finger, lie puts himself under her thumb I" Cartoon Magaalna. - Uncle Jeff Snow Says: We uster call It war with big head lines in all the papers when one bunch of Greasers consistin' of saver'l hundred shot at a similar bunch all day and killed a mule. Now we call It setllln down to a peaceful condition in Europe when half a million men or so taken a big city, capture a right smart chunk of the Rooshan navy and burns a few towns. The "whole world is upset In it.i nerves like Gila Bend Llvemash dowif in. Arlzony, long 'fore it 'was a state, who had been scalped and shot and hung and drug around town by his feet, and ylt -still -lived. He come back from New York city 'cause he 'lowed . things wasn't excltln" there, and the graveyard town got on his nerves. He come back to Arlzony, he 'lowed, where the neighbors tuck some. Interest In him even If they did make a mistake oncet in .a while, and where folks acted ltke they was alive. The News in Paragraphs World Happenings Briefed for Benefit of Journal Readers GENERAL Governor Thomas Rlgga of Alaska has ordered submarine chaser No. 10 to the vicinity of Yukatat village to quell a native uprising there. A suit to restrain the United States attorney from prosecuting Infractions of the war-time prohibition act has been filed at San Francisco. ,. A riot at Winnipeg Saturday night resulted in two men belnA killed and more than a score wounded. The city Is now under martial law. The third aero squadron at Hasel hurst field. New York, has been ordered to proceed to the Philippines, sailing from San Francisco, July 5. - The reserve officers' training corps camp opened Saturday at the Presidio. San Francisco. Out of approximately 600 men who have reported, 47 are from Oregon. A general strike is threatened by the Central Labor Council of Omaha un less the demands of.the teamsters, who have been on strike for 10 -days, are not met by Tuesday night. ' NORTHWEST NOTES . A temporary organization of the Am erican Legion was effected at Bend Sat urday night. Street Improvement and building con struction to the value of $200,000 are under way at Aberdeen, Wash. . rilot Rock is so law-abiding that Its jail, vacant for several months, has been rented by the city as a dwelling housf. The 12,000 fleeces of the Linn county wool pool were not sold at Albany Sat urday, as the bids were not satisfactory. The town of Kldgefteld is advertising for proposals for the hard surfacing of Pioneer avenue, Main street, and Lake street. The citizens of Silverton have sub scribed more than $1200 for a sold lorn' homecoming event to be held there July 4 and 6. t An exploding lamp at South Bend Sat urday night caused the destruction -of two of the largest residences In the Nod Hill section. The Hotel Elmore at Elmore Park, n the Tillamook line of the, Southern clfic, has been sold by C. I.. Lindsay u J. J. Krebs. Proposals that the government clear the channel of the Tualatin river In Oregon have been rejected by the board of engineers for rivers and arbors. Despondent over his falling health, George W. Brinnon, aged 82, shot him-, self through the heart Saturday at the home of his daughter, near Ontario, Or, A new pumping Irrigation system has just been completed by which water will be taKen irom iK r.wauna, near Klamath Fall, and placed on 8200 acres of fertile land. Charged with being disloyal, unethical and mercenary. John W. Arctander, Seattle attorney, is recommended for permanent disbarment by the state board of law examiners. Medford police are searching for. a negro woman who arrived at that cits' Saturday and. while walking with a. Tin- itor staying at one of the hotels, pkiced $500 from bis pocket- State Senator D. V. Northland has been elected president of the THoti State bank, a charter for which ha Just, been issued, and which will l es tablished at Tleton, Wash. Dr. Huarh F. McGauffhev. a noted Min nesota surgeon, died Saturday nhht in an ambulance while he was beingrush ed from a Tacoma hospital to t in sane asylum at Steilacoom. . A contract has been entered th Klamath county court with fit by i Pa. Frtiand ciflc Foundation company or for the construction of a steel Merrill crossing Lost river. f&f at The Crown-Willamette Pa com pany at Camas. Wash., h 1 vanced the scale of waces of Its e Hoye 3 mnti n hour, effective SS June I. Women as well as men sha in the rise. - Dorothea Merrill. 10 yearslld, wan Vint and killed at Seattle raturaay when her brother 8ta.nley, agpllS. play- fuUy pointed a revolver bo ner ana pulled the trigger, not know I it was loaded. Ttrr and Mrs. J. O. Goltnlof Salem have subscribed $1000 towat the new woman's dormitory at Wlllfietts uni versity. They are both al'nl of the school and their daughter flen grad uated thts year. Ackley brothers have be the con- st ruction of a logging ra will connect with the Ftra ad which road at nlrw and extend to thefwan Lake section of Klamath count! where the firm has valuable timber fldings. Personal Household Buying I Advise f Stones of ' actifevnnent srna aneuma. e lation of War Bavins Btamt sent to Th -Journal and accepted for Sllcation, wLUV he awarded s unrm Btampj i Methods of good hciehold buy ing are various. In til main, cash purchases,, personal seKlon, are to be commended. CreJ purchases and telephone orders' fit uently lead to unnecessary or extvagant out lay, wasteful expendife of money that, invested in ThrlPnd Savings Stamps, would earn future com petence. Cooperatlvepuylng - upon occasion produces adrable results. Thrift fftamM anii W War KlTlnn Stamps now on sala at Ml agencies.