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QjvwOiM uaiuy JOURNAL, PORTLAND, - FRIDAY, JUKE 27. IS19. 10 AX ' INDEPENDENT KTWSPAPEB C M. JACKSO.f..... .Publisher Published w ear, afternoon and morning Itictpt KlncUr afternoon), a The JJ HailUn, Broadway tot Yamhill street, 10 rt la ml, Oregon. - - bOHm u uw - for trsnjmiasion through tbe mails es second . viae matter. - - Ml T178: Homo. A-6, 051. Tell the operator . what department TOO want. HJREltiS DVERTII-NO BEPRE8EWJATTVE Benjamin A KntaoftCo.. Brunawtc Boildina-. 235 Flftli nnu. Wew Tork; 800 wallers Haildtn Chco. ' asbserlpUon ttrw bjr wail, or to any address to the I'n'ted States or Mexico: PAIL- MOBNI.NO OB AFTERNOON Ot.e year..... $0.00 ( One month $.60 SCJDAT , One year. , . . ..50 j One month . . . . . .2 5 t'AILT (itOBNINO OR AFTERNOON) AND , SUNDAX Out if . . M7-RO I One month. .. . .t .88 There is no debt with o much prejudice 'put off as that of justice. Plutarch. BACK FROM ELBA THERE is a deep meaning- in the return of the crown prince to I Germany. He thought the moment pro pitious to come "back from Elba." .lis friends in German;- must have so idvlsed him. It. means that the old junker party has gained a lot of its lost ground. It feels itself much stronger than in those troublous days when the army collapsed and the kaiser and crown prince-fled for their lives. There have been numerous re ports f 0t the increasing strength of the militarists. Public sentiment Is a fickle Jade. When the Junkers failed to win the ' war sentiment turned against them. But when a German republic is compelled to sign a harsh-termed peace treaty, ever . shifting sentiment swings back to ward the' junkers. The waves of the sea are not more restless. Nobody knows whether the fledgling republic or the old Prussian regime will rule Germany a year hence. Conversion of the people to democratic government' is only skin deep. So much of the republic as they have known has been full of ' trouble and turmoil. Millions of Germans have undoubtedly lost faith in popular government and are ready . to swing back to, the throne, with : a shadowy constitution and mock parliament. - The Junkers have never believed in anything else. Once a junker, always a junker, is true in Germany as well as in countries not so far away. The history of autocracies over thrown is a story of reaction against the new order and a return of the old. Bourbonlsm may die but it never surrenders. Its examplars bide . their time in the offing, waiting and plotting their return to power. The crown prince has Returned to Ger 5 . . . . .. ...... many wnn a complete oeiier mat I nml r)io rr ' nrl 11 w r j uuav a ism uiiiA au iiuvi auj ui s uv dead. The ; German people accepted the republican form because President Wilson made overthrow of the Ho henzollerns a condition of peace. With the peace treaty once signed, they will feel themselves free to restore the autocracy. Many of them look upon the peace that the repub lic has brought as worse than the war the autocracy led them into. The powerful, sagacious, everdomi nant and always intriguing' junkers will never . submit permanently to a system of popular government which, as they well know, is wholly inimi cal y to all for which they, stand. !, .. .1.1 M , ' l ticir urcains arc enii ui empire iiu "will always be of empire. "But one thing can save the-world from another mad Germany. The Paris; peace treaty cannot alone do it;,. The league. with all the big na- " tions backing and enforcing its pro visions Is the one and the only thing that can keep Germany within .bounds. It will be the most colossal &nf most tragic blunder of all his tory if the American senate defeats the league. Down in Florida recently a hostess served her guests with a fish salad so delightful to the taste, that, in response to the clamor of the guests, she was finally compelled to reluct antly admit that IV was shark meat, something that not even cannibals are : supposed to eat. The scene that followed is best left undescribed. PORTLAND THE SPINSTER IT IS claimed that spinsters, both male and female, are selfish that their thoughts are . centered . - upon themselves. Perhaps that is why Portland : has been called the "Spinster City." . But Portland Is no longer a spinster she is married to ."Old Man Oregon." j The wedding; ceremony took place on June 3, when Portland voted . for the coast highway, for state ; guarantee of Eastern Oregon irrigation bonds and for " market roads. ." . . The coast highway was the dream and desire of the coast counties The guarantee of Irrigation bonds was the special tneasure , of Eastern Ore gon irrigation communities and West ern Oregon drainage districts. The parket road j measure was the long time and especially desired aim of the farmers. ; " Portland's unhesitating support of these measures was In the face of the fact that .ultimately she must pay more than one third the cost, with but an indirect benefit ir, re turn. It was and Is a spirit of cooperation with interior Oregon which can be cited as proof that she is no longer the spinster city which a magazine writer said she was. "No American could sleep nights if he knew of conditions as they exist in Europe," is the declaration" of Henry P. Djfvison, head of the Red Cross, after a visit to various parts over seas. Frank A. Vanderlip tells a story not less amazing as to the peril of possible anarchy in future Europe. What a conflagration Ameri can senators fighting the League of Nations are playing with I A VOTE OF PROTEST THE vote against the Portland school bonds last Saturday was nearly two to one. That severely adverse verdict was returned after one of the strong est and most ably conducted pub licity campaigns in the history of Portland. The cause had all the ele ments ofa strong appeal. It was a reconstruction measure in that the proposed building operations were a strong assurance against local un employment. The meaning of the verdict is plain. The costly junket trips of Director Thomas are not satisfactory to the people; they were not willing to entrust the spending of 12,500,000 to a board on which one member is ready to spend so much school money on himself-; they were not willing to entrust the spending of so much money for which part was to go for sites so long as Port land juries and others fix extortion ate prices on land desired for public use and benefit. The vote was a direct protest. Whether true or not, it was public talk that Clerk Thomas runs the Portland schools and that the school board is largely his creature. Nor was there forgetfulness that the board created a $5000 position in which to shelve Superintendent Al derman, an act that many held' to be a wanton waste of public money. That very thing was talked about during the campaign and caused numerous people to say that if $5000 was expended on such a pretext in what ways might not some of lae $2,500,000 of bonds be similarly squandered. Nor was the manipulation of the school board by the legislature and the changes in the manner of elect ing members without Its bearing on the election. All that thim blerigging left its impress upon the minds of people and helped create distrust of the board, possibly with out the board being in the least responsible. All these and other things com bined killed the bond proposal and are a direct protest against things current and things past. Why should the heating company always choose Portland's smoothest streets for its pneumatio pavement cutting and trench digging? Why not select Burnside east of the bridge or Broadway just east of Union avenue? Those are streets that from the autoist's point of view could not be rougher, and, perhaps, an opera tion might make them smoother. THE BABY HOME TROUBLE RECENTLY Governor Olcott was petitioned to authorize Mayor Baker to assemble a jury com posed of the important civic clubs of Portland to hear both sides of the Baby ' Home story and look into the cause -: of the recent epi demic at the Institution. The governor's reply is that the state has appointed a child welfare commission under authority con ferred by the legislature, and that it is this commission's particular duty to inquire into the administration of all state-aid institutions. It is stated that the commission has already in augurated its investigation. Nothing should be done to lessen the obligation of the official state commission to enforce efficient ad ministration of state institutions and to insist on suitable care of the state's wards. Spasmodic effort can never make such progress in co ordinate institutional administration as an established commission work ing along the line of a well formu lated program. It is the duty of the child welfare commission to see to it that the prerequisite of state aid to the Baby Home or any "other like in stitution shall be adequate guardian ship of the life and health of the waifs commuted to its care. If it does not do so the manifest course is to have a public investi gation of the child welfare commis sion. Experts found 45,653 men in the American army, who, though men in stature, had the brains of children, their mental age being under 10 years. Of the number, nearly 5000 had a mental age of only. 4 years. There is no cure for them. , The mind stops growing, and they are simply cases ,of a : child's mind in a man's body. , If fathers, their chil dren .usually inherit their defective mentality. f Most of thesechild men land in the penitentiary. Drunken fathers left them this terrible legacy. What a fearful argument against booze I - "Oregon scenery Is the finest on the coast," said J. D. Brader, a Kan sas farmer, who is touring the West by automobile. His statements made to the Eugene Register, has two points of interest; First, the valu ation placed on Oregon scenery by visitors, and second, the fact that in these wondrous days there are farm ers full handed enough to be globe trotters. : HIS MESSAGE TO WOMEN SPEAKING not as a Democrat, but aa an American who believes in America above party, I should say that the women of America wBl make no mistake In the exerO else of the highest duties of citizenship if they hold to their independence, put ting tbe interests of the great republic always above party, and voting- from time to time jipon the issues that may be presented upon their merits and not from the standpoint of partisan politics. .These words are from a highly in teresting article by former Secretary of the Treasury McAdoo. It will appear in next Sunday's Journal. It is a wonderful thing to "believe in America above party." The two million boys who went over to France believed "in America" above everything, even above' life itself. The millions at home who neglected business and strove with all their power to back up the fighters be lieved "in America" above party. The brave mothers, who, without complaint, sent their sons to the front with their blessing, believed "in America," and glorified their belief with the greatest sacrifice that woman can make the gift of a son to No Mans LandT And sisters and wives in every walk of life swelled the great volume of devotion and consecration to the country because they believed "in America." We owe it to them and to the 50,000 noble dead w-ho went down in the struggle to go on making America worthy of the sacrifices they made. We owe it to them to make government and institutions so just and equitable that all will con tinue to "believe in America above party." ' There is no reason why all should not be for the, general welfare in peace as they were in war. If we go on perfecting and finishing .Amer ica,, as we can and should, if we always act on the thought of what will make the republic a better and purer republic, we will make that fellowship we knew so well in war an every day fellowship and' lead the nation under brighter skies and sweeter living. We talk about Americanizing our aliens. Let us also Americanize our selves. There is inspiration for all in Mr. McAdoo's article. - . t : : .. . A Maryland storekeeper displayed a sign notifying his customers o'. in creased prices on account 'of the war tax, and then raised -the price in excess of the tax. The govern ment is prosecuting him. The penalty is $1000 fine or imprisonment for a year, or both. Have Portland dealers carefully examined the law? LLOYD GEORGE TO AMERICANS GEORGE W. HARRIS of Washing ton, D. C., went abroad to se cure photographs of European statesmen which he could add to the already huge gallery bearing the mark of the "Harris & Ewing" copy right But he found more than sub jects of photography. He was al lowed1 seven minutes in which to record the likeness of Lloyd George and the great English statesman took two hours to give the American a message for Americans. Mr. Harris has come to Portland with that mes sage. Woodrow Wilson is the great est American and his countrymen should support his advocacy of the League of Nations, said Lloyd George to George Harris. Without the League of Nations the world will lack hope and the purposes of the war will be disappointed, was a further utter ance of the British leader. What a. boon to the United States it would be if some of our senators could be endowed with a Lloyd George faculty of discernment 1 News has reached the Paris nego tiators that an intercepted wireless message from a German commander indicates mat lie plans to attack the Poles as soon as peace is sighed. The seeds of discontent are planted by every peace treaty. The Paris treaty deprives Germany of 47,000 square miles of territory of which she , had robbed "other peoples. Unless pro vision is made for restraining her, Germany will seek by force of arms to regain this lost territory. Noth ing but the league pact to enforce peace will make the Paris peace treaty binding. i IN SUMMER TIME WHILE the sun is still high there comes a slackening in the work of the dayjacause of the order which forces the clock an haw ahead of accurate chronometerlng, Between the dropping of the tools of routine and the somnolence of dusk stretches an interval of adventurous charm. Hills and mountains to the east draw nearer under the level rays and seem to hold out beckon tag hands. Altitudes to the i west wear a purpling crown of. glory.; One may sit on a porch or pause from wholesome relation with a garden and be suddenly ; forgetful of imme diate environment under the spell of distant beauty. But-most delightful of all is to board street car or. auto mobile and reach spots beyond the city where artifice and necessity can not come, where a tiny fire suffices to transform the potatoes, the chops and the coffee into a marvelous ban quet, and the hush and softened light of eventide create a new world. There is so much room and gra- ciousness in the Oregon out-of-doors that a fairy dell awaits every seeker and an every-evening vacation is within the reach of all. Tribute to advertising as the basis of his success was, paid by Ben Sell ing, Portland merchant. In recent remarks before the Portland Ad club. Truth in advertising, he de clared, is the fundamental necessity of a permanently successful advertis ing policy The" tribute sprang from a rich and ripe experience and there was never a time when the lesson of Mr. Selling's career had greater value or valuation than now. FARMERS' FOES FIGHT SOLDIERS By Carl Smith, Washington Staff Correspondent of The Journal Washington, June 27. The same- old crowd that fought federal farm loan leg islation is disclosed behind the fight now ,being waged upon the soldier land settlement bill, providing 1500.000,000 for reclaiming: arid, swamp, cutover- and abandoned lands. This bill was largely formulated by Secretary Lane and was introduced by Representative Mondell, the Republican floor leader. When President Wilson was leading: the fiht for the farm loan bill, a propaganda was set going by Myron T. Herrick, Ohio banker and former ambassador to France, In opposition to it. Herrick is now found to have been ' contributing to the present fight against land settle ment legislation. Senator John W. Weeks of Massachusetts, who was de feated for reelection last November, was another opponent of the farm loan system. He is also a banker. He is now giving out Interviews in opposition to the soldier land bill and contributing pto a propaganda against it. Senator Warren G. Harding of Ohio is another leading opponent of the 6ane bUl and Senator Boies Penrose of Pennsylvania is another. AH of them take the posi tion that this . is; not proper worR for the federal irovemment and that the field should be left to private capital. The testimony of Mrs. Haviland H. Lund, who describes herself as secre tary of the National. Forward-to-the-Land league, before the public lands committee of the house, throws an In teresting light upon some of the activi ties of the afti-propaganda, of which she appears to2e the chief. Mrs. Lund explained that her plan la for land colo nization by private capital, with coop eration with labor to hold down Social istic tendencies, long term loans and 6 per cent return to the men who supply the money. She said Senator Curtis of Kansas Introduced one bill for her, but that, one fizzled. The following- ex tracts are given from her testimony : Mrs. Lund I have spent a great deal of time yith the so-called reactionary group because the others do not need converting. I wanted to show them the sound finance of this thing that we call cooperation. In that endeavor I was very fortunate in having such men as Myron T. Herrick and Mr. (Ralph) Ingalls to take up what I suggested. They took it up and In six years their expenditures have been something like 160,000. At any rate, these gentlemen. Senators Wadsworth and Smoot and Weeks and others I have mentioned, are preparing information for the use of the committee and they gave me per mission in magazine articles and news articles to say that they believe the financiers of the country must concern themselves with.- financing for the de velopment of-such natural resources and securing long term investments and low rates of interest. Chairman Sinnott Is Senator Weeks helping to finance?your plan? Mrs. Lund Yes, sir. Senator Weeks has given a good deal of money to it and he has recently sub scribed $5000 to our fund of $100,000 to carry on this work. I jfn with Colo nel Robert Bacon onlya week before he died and he said he would give a dinner to the capitalists, which Senators Weeks and Wadsworth and others would attend and at which they would advo cate this plan to the capitalists. Then I heard the news of his death the fol lowing week. Mr. Sinnott Iid Senators Harding and Wadsworth subscribe? Mrs. Lund Yes, sir; Senator Harding gave us some money. Mr. Johnson How is this money used? Mrs. Lund I have a letter from Sen ator Weeks which you may see. Sen ator Weeks subscribed $5000 to be used when the $100,000 was to be used. (She submitted letter of Weeks, May 21, 1919. containing promise of $5000 if total of $100,000 was made up, etc) Mr. Johnson How much did Senator Harding contribute to this fund? Mrs. Lund Senator Harding and Mrs. Lund Senator Harding and a small amounts of money. Three or four of them made contributions of small amounts of money simply to cover my own living expenses while I was work ing and it amounted to nothing else. As you wUI see, there are Socialists in both parties. Mr. Johnson Do you consider Sen ator Harding as one of the financiers of this proposition? Mrs. Lund Yes, Senator Harding is. Mr. Johnson Does he want 6 per cent profit? Mrs. Lund He did not say anything about profits one way or the other. He was interested in making the argument to show business men that it could be done. I think Senator Harding would be called a contributor. " . Mrs. Lund here testified that C per oent profit for those who finance the scheme is highly Important She told of paying R. B. Bolton,- Washington newspaper man. $50 to prepare , three anonymous -letters or circulars which were sent to members of the committee and were so worded as to appear to have come from- the national grange. He got them ap, she said : she did not direct what was to be said in them, Mr. Sinnott -Was this some of the money which Senators Harding and Weeks contributed that was paid him? Mrs. Lund It was out' of my little living fund. They did not know how 1 was going-to use It. May X make the statement that neither of the senators knew that I was using- it for other than my expenses? They knew I idid not have more than enough, and I had to borrow money this month , to make that up. Mr. Sinnott You did not report it to them? . Mrs. . Lund so. The witness testified to saving assist ed in the preparation of an article In "Sea Power," published under the name of. Senator Harding, s- Mr. Elston Is the composition of Senator Harding's article yours or his? Mrs. Lund It is his, although part f it is made up from my papers. Mr. Elston Is the .actual phraseology taken from your paper? Mrs. Lund A good deal of It, or some of -rltt ; is from the paper. Mr. ElBton Did you arrange for its publication? . Mrs; Lund Yes, sir. Mr. Elston You made all the arrange ments for having it published? Mrs. Lund Yes, sir. Letters From the People ( Communication cent to Tba Journal (or publication in this department should be written on only oo rid of the pper. (herald not exceed S00 wordi h lanth, and muat be. signed by tbe wnter. w vuil address in full must ccoin rsny the contribution. 1 A Number of Things HiUsboro, June 25. To the Editor of The Journal Kindly answer one or two questions for me in the correspondents column of your valuable paper which on March 80, section 2, page 1, stated that trout flngerlings would be distrib uted from June 1 on. Where and to whom must one apply for some? Since the tax assessor at his last visitation placed a price of $10 on my dog I am obliged to put all my taxable possessions out of sight and sound, to which end I'll dike my bottom land to convert it into a pond containing fish --inaccessible and invisible and thus uncountable, and by letting my arable upland revert to brush land I can raise gophers and moles there, which, being also undlscoverable to the minions of the law, possess the additional virtue of extracting coin from the habitual money getters the courthouse cUque. As I have no dictionaries or other books of reference I would ask you kindly to give the pronunciation of the words Kanaka, Celeriae, Dr. Aked, Ouija (board) and Mickey, on which latter word the HiUsboro school teach ers debated whether it was Mike Key or Mikky. I read an article by Arthur Conan Doyle in the September Metro politan, in which the Oulja board figured prominently, but not perspicuously. It appeared to be a thingumbob capable of conveying messages from the invisible realms, and aroused my curiosity to know more about it. And last, though not least, I'd like to get your opinions anent a cognate sub ject, often discussed In your editorials, namely, the eccentricities of spelling. On March 7, 1919. you stated that the defect of monstrous spelling handicaps the spread of English and hinders its adoption as the universal language. On February 22, 1919, you claimed that no body can spell aright, and on February 21, 1918, you quoted high authorities, according to whom about one third of the' letters used In ordinary spelling are superflous. In proof of this you cite the word "though," which you aim to rectify by spelling-it "tho." But. since the spoken word consists of only two sounds, your proposed correction also contains a superfluous' character, which supports the claim, which I herewith" set forth, that a radical departure from ridiculously wrong spelling to rationally correct spelHng cannot be effected with our alphabet so meager and incomplete that it lacks the little required to write correctly the insignificant little word "tho," whose one consonant we clumsily endeavor to represent by the use of two letters t and h, which the ancient Greek embodied in one letter called Theta, and the Hebrew in Teth. Before sppelling reforms can be successfully undertaken our alphabets must be made over, elaborated and amplified in order to realize the basic principle of correct spelling, that each sound should be rep resented by just one letter and not by a combination of letters. It is, therefore, up to us to Invent and construct competent alphabet and I write The Journal editor to start the ball rolling in this undertaking. And if this -pro posal strikes some of The Journal read ers as fantastic or visionary I invite them to take a peep at the alphabet used in shorthand, either Pitman's or Graham's, which can be mastered in one week, in striking contrast to long-hand spelling, defying- a lifetime's strenu ous effort. Do you agree with my con. tention that your reiterated demands for spelling reform might, perhaps not inaptly, be intensified into a call for spelling revolution? WILLIAM RICHTER. Money for Salaries . Portland, June 26. To the Editor of The Journal The school board seems to have plenty of money, notwlthstand lntr the fact that the bonds asked for were defeated. And the police depart ment and city hall people, whom the people, at the election lately held, re fused to give moro money, not trusting them, are still getting salaries increased. That seems to be the only thing they are doing at the city hail talking about more and more money, not considering that many employers have far less in come. But isome day the people will wake up. TAXPAYER. Olden Oregon Showing the Profiteer as Shameless in the Forties as Today. Probably one of the reasons why "the ooor ye have always with ye" is that in like manner the profiteer is every where present. Even in the heroic days of Oregon he was on the job. Lieutenant Howison In his report, made in 1846, alludes to this worthy's operations in , "' TT" " ",! land emigrants are almost Incredible. They would arrive on the Columbia in a state of absolute want. Their pro visions exhausted and clothes worn out, the rigors of winter beginning to de scend upon their naked heads, while no house had yet been built to afford them shelter; bartering away their wagons and horses for a few salmon, dried by the Indians, or bushels of grain in the bands of rapacious . speculators, who placed Viemselvea on the road to profit by their necessities, famine was staved off while they made rafts to float down to the Hudson's Bay company's estab lishment at Vancouver. Here shelter and food were invariably afforded them, without which their sufferings must soon have terminated in death,' Ideal Climate From Tbe Dalles Chronicle When one . reads of the terrible de struction wrought by a high wind which swept through. Minnesota yesterday. wiping out business blocks. leveUng proud structures, killing some hundred and Injuring bo many that the hospitals are overcrowded, one feels delight in liv ing in The Dalles. Heavy rains: washed out bridges, the. report adds. I Tie cli mate of this city is considered In happy contrast. , We are all so accustomed to regular fairyland weather, that we forget that other sections of the country are not blessed with the same brand of Ideal weather that we enjoy here. Climatically The Dalles can vie with, any section and not be bested. The winds of spring and summer are not destructive winds. They come as a cooling draft to temper the sun's heat. 'And the rains are not destructive rains. They fall gently. giv in tbe wheat and fruit .trees of this county moisture to grow. Our rains are harbingers of plenty. Many cities boasting such - climatic advantages as ' COMMENT ANt ; SMALL CHANGE Plenty of rain, now, for another week or so. -. - Fortunately a - woman doesn't mean many things she says about her best friends. The telenhone erirls' favorite Indoor sport seems to be deciding to strike and then changing their minds. Hindenbura thinks the German army could hold the Eastern front. Didn't know he had any license to even try to UUDK. ... Boston hones for beer. sari a die- patch, which reminds us that it used to be Oregon hops for beer. . But where is the demand for hop pickers now? There are so many advantages about living in the country that even the dis advantage of having small boys target shooting with 22s in the Immediate- neignoornooa or your , irons porcn, is somewnat atscountea. OBSERVATIONS AND IMPRESSIONS OF THE JOURNAL MAN By Fred I Of telling many Lincoln stories there 1 child, knew the sreat emancipator aa tlaroC aj- l.i smw. m ttMrnhaf tAin n W B HIIV, Bb m storlea to ctuldren. ana woe neaxv ""'- r though be eould careeb' then hae appseeiatea jt, that marvelous document, the Second Inansur aL Mr. Lockley closes bis record of Mr. trtditl interview with a sketoa or. lawer aaj iBim ha assisted in brinsinc to pass. J You don't run across many men now adays who knew President Lincoln per sonally. A. D. Cridge of The Journal 4 Knew ..mm. j x is t auicii Twas a personal friend of Abraham Lin coln and served throughout the Civil war as a chief inspector in the quarter master general's office. . "I have no memory of my first meet ing with President Lincoln, for I was a little chap about 2 years old at the time," said Mr. Cridge. "I had scarlet fever. In those days there were no quarantine regulations. . My mother thoucht it unwise for me to be out aur lnsr the day. to expose other children, so each morning at daylight she would take me out In the buggy for an air ing. One morning as she was wheeling me out. President Lincoln drove by. He stopped the driver, got out f the car riage, came over to mother and saia: I hear that your little boy is sick, furs. Cridge. I hope he is better, He start ed to lift up the veil that was over my face. Mother said : 'He has scarlet fever. It Is- contagious.' Lincoln looked at mother and said: "Don't worry, Mrs. Cridge. You little boy is going to get well. My mother said that though President Lincoln was not a doctor and probably knew nothing about ityet his calm assurance comforted her greatly. "When my brother Afton was about 7 years old this was in the summer of 1864 we were passing ! through the White House grounds and Afton and I pulled off some branches from the xu schia bushes. The gardener caught us. He said : 'So you are the boys that have been , ruining my flowers. I am going to turn you over to the policeman, and he will put you In Jail.' I was afraid of the dark, so I said : WIU it be darkr He said: Yes, the jail" is very dark not a ray of light.' Just then a tall, gaunt, bareheaded man sauntered slowly up the path. He stopped and asked the gardener what was the matter. The gardener pointed to the broken branches of the fuschlas and told him we had torn them off. Lincoln said: Let the boys loose. I will attend to their case.' Pointing to a bench nearby, he said : Let's talk this matter over.' He took, me on his lap and drew Afton close to his knee and said: Did you boys know that it hurts trees and bushes to have branches pulled off? We shook our heads. He said : "Well. I'll show you. Reaching out, he took one or two hairs on Alton's head and gave them a vig orous jerk. Afton clutched his head with his hand and said "Ouch t Then, taking one hair from my head, he pulled it out slowly. I didn't know whether to cry or what to do. He said : Now you see, boys, how it hurts. Now I will show you that it doesn't hurt to cut things off.' And, taking out bis knife, he cut a hair from each of our heads. Then, packing up tbe broken fuschia branch, he trimmed it carefully and said: Take this home to your mother.' He asked Afton what his name was and what my name was, and then he gave one of his winsome smiles and said: 'I know your father and mother well. I know that you boys- are net going to destroy any more of the flowers bre : are you? We promised we wouldn't. He said: "Now run along and any time you want flow ers, come and ask the gardener to cut them for you. "A few days after that, Mr. Lincoln sent word to my mother to have us come over to the White House every afternoon at 4 o'clock. We went over next day and were taken back of the White House, where a group of chil dren were sitting tinder the trees. The gardener stood nearby to keep grown folk from Intruding-. I presume there were a donn or 15 children in tbe group. Lincoln welcomed us with a smile, put me on his knee and said: 'You are just in time to hear a story. Very vaguely 1 remember the story. He told us about a wolf that had been bad. The Indians caught It and made soup of It. He said: 'What do you think of that story r I said, 1 don't believe it. I don't believe you can make soup out of a wolf.' He said : But these Indians were hungry, and if you were hungry, you would eat wolf soup, too. For weeks we used to go over each afternoon and Lincoln would tell us storlea He aald it rested him and took his mind off the war. His wife told my mother that her husband was wasting a lot of time tell ing stories to a bunch of children, but she couldn't do anything with him. One day I remember two of the children were very Impudent to lilm. I fhall never forget the look of grief that came over Lincoln's face. He said: 'You children will have to run along home. I can't let you spoil the afternoon for the other children.' I remember one of the things that used to make my brother and- my self behave at once was toe threat by my. aunt when we were naughty that she was going to tell Mr. Lincoln how bad we were and that he wouldn't let us we possess would set up aa health re sorts, where the citizens Of the world would flock to enjoy nature at her best. But familiarity breeds indifference. We do not realize the advantages of our climate until we read of high winds in other sections of the ' country, and earthquake shocks and other violent manifestations of nature. It's mighty pleasant in The Dalles where nature Is a signal aid Instead of a menace. Footing It f ' From the Towkers Statesman Redd The doctor said he'd have me on my feet in a fortnight, , , Greene And did he? Redd Sure. I've had to sell my au tomobile, -.j - - ' -.- j- ' -'"- --- ; - Perpetual Motion i rrotn the Dee Moines Becistef The United States senate is never without a question over which it can get excited. - . - , !. NEWS IN BRIEF OREGON SIDELIGHTS , Forest fires in Montana," pertinently remarks the Eugene Register, fremlnd us to practice extinguishing the match before it's thrown away." ;. The Canyon City Eagle, which bas been running a news notice to save a job for a . soldier, says it is now chang ing the notice Xa read, "Save a soldier for a Job." . '''Aa an Indication of the prosperity of Rakor. the Herald states that the lead ing hostelry is turning people away-. very nigni. xusine mvu id , conditions good. A much needed rain to make the ranchers perfectly happy is about all that is lacking. -' Of the reenforced concrete drinking fountain and water trough the Commer cial club has installed at the south end of the parking in WHIard street, CoquiUe, the Sentinel says: "It will last for gen erations. It is attractive in appearence and fills a long felt want in CoquiUe." Lockley go over and listen to him tell any more itorles. . :- "All sorts of people used to come to our housegenerals and other officers on account of the character of my fath er's work- General Hancock and Gen eral Garfield were two of our most fre quent visitors. General Hancock was a very large man. He was always doubt ful about sitting on any of our chairs for fear they would break. "One day my father said : I want you to pay good attention today. This is a day you must always remember. Pres ident Lincoln is going to he Inaugurated. I am going to take you to hear his in augUaal address.' It had been raining and the street across from the cap! to 1 was muddy. We were standing in front of the crowd. To keep me from talking. my father was picking holes in the mud with the end of his umbrella. He was making designs of Btars, triangles and squares. Just as President Lincoln stepped out to deliver his address, the sun broke through the clouds and it stopped raining. My father said: 'Be quiet now. Here comes the greatest and biggest man in the whole country, the president of the United States.' I looked up as Lincoln stepped out and called out, indignantly: Why, that isn't the president. That's the man who tells us stories.' Father said : 'Be still. He Is going to talk.' still felt very much cneatea ana aisappointea ana saia : 'You said he was the biggest man in the country. He isn't any bigger than Gen eral Garfield and .not half as big as General Hancock. We -moved west in 1869, and my moth er traveled up and down the coast much of the time, lecturing on education and woman's rights. My father continued his work in the war department at Washington. When my mother died in 1875 our household was broken up. I went to Arizona. For while I worked on a cattle ranch as a cowboy. Then X took a job freighting from Tucson, Arts., to Sliver City. N. M. One Sunday we stopped at a ranch. Three days later the, Indians killed everyone on the ranch. It was in the spring of 1877 that the Indians went on the warpath. A bunch of renegade Apaches attacked the Pima Indians on the Gila river. A volunteer force of 135 men was 'raised to fight the Indiana This force consisted of old time scouts prospectors and ex-soldiers of the Union and Confederate armies. We chased the Indians clear to Tonto basin. Seventeen of our party were killed and quite a number wounded. Every man in our party claimed to have killed from two to five Indiana, We found out after wards that there were only 60 Indians and that 63 had returned to the res ervation, so that our tally of slain sim mered down to seven dead Indians. . "From New Mexico t drove to Texas, where I' worked on the San Antonio Herald. I had been a printer ever since I could read ; in fact, before I could read, for my father used to put me up on a high stool and have me set reprint before X could read. In 1884 I came to Salem, and worked for E. O. Norton on the Oregon Vidette. I reported the legislature that winter. In Salem I was married to Eda Durkee, a Portland girl. We were married in the Methodist -parsonage at Salem. ' . - "Although my people were bitterly op posed to all military force. , nevertheless I joined company A. First regiment. Second brigade, Oregon state militia, at Salem in 1883. The captain was Ross C. Moores. The second lieutenant was Louis Stinson. "A year or two later I traveled all over Oregon organising the Knights of Labor. X organised lodges at Astoria, Pendleton. Eugene, Salem and many other cities. On this trip I gave many lectures on the (Swiss referendum and initiative. A few years ago, when W. 8. URen came to Oregon, the title twas reverted, and he worked for its al op tion under the title of initiative and referendum. I had written and lectured advocating it in 1881 In California. My father, who had studied its workings in Switzerland, also worked for its adop tion. From Seattle I drifted to San Fran cisco and worked for James II. Barry on the Star. I told Barry my father was so much more able a writer and so much better an editor than I was that I advised him to get him. He followed my advice and sent for my father, who worked for the Star for the next 14 years. "Like most of my people, I have always been somewhat ahead of the procession along progressive lines. I used to attend political conventions, and heard them pass resolutions declaring the Initiative and referendum mis chievous and un-American. In 1895, with a horse and buggy, X toured Cal ifornia, speaking tor farmers' alliances, meetings of the People's party and elsewhere, advocating government own erehlp of railroads, single 'tax. and the Initiative and referendum. Many of the measures so feared by the publio have been adopted, and now people wonder why they were so slow in taking them up. So, after all. the world is moving forward and getting better all the time." Curious Bits of Information i For the Curious 5 Gleaned From Curious Places To describe any one aa a "brick" la well understood as a terse expression of approval of the person - to whom the compliment Is applied. The phrase Is of ancient origin, and is referred to by Plutarch In his life of Lycurgus. An am bassador from Epirus visited Sparta, and was greatly Entertained and edified by what he saw during bis stay ; but one thing puzzled him the city had no walls. Inquiring- the reason of a phenomenon so rare in those warlike times as a city without defensive works, be was prom ised an answer on tbe following day. At sunrise the next morning he was es corted to a large plain near the city, where all the Spartan troops were drawn up. . "Here," said Lycurguav "are the walls of Sparta, and every man is a brick." Ragtag and Bobtail Stories from Everywhere Old Safe Give l'p Treasure TOR years, at Lufkln. Texas, a rur.ty old safe haa decorated one of the side streets, a seat for loafers and at hitching place for horses, says Capper's Weekly. The combination, lost years ago. finally rusted off and the other ' auy some or tne town kids pried the' safe, open, finding 12 $5 gold pieces. 40 ' silver doll one of the town's1 leading corporations, j xni noys gave up tne stock, but kept ; the cash... Somebody some day must have known there was money in that ' safe. Why didn't they get It out? The Shepherd o' the Hills To the Land of Lost Illusion), Tba shepherd leads his sheep; Baa-baas they of eerjr nation. , ' uy nta made lulled to sleep. -- Upward, onward, erer climbing. O'er the rocky traU ma stean: But they never faU nor (alter; Tney are walking in their sleep. On the heichts f Eldorado, ?ne shepherd murmurs soft ana clear, "Just one hundred bucks an acre. Little lambs, your fortune's here: Then ha shows them noHe timber RapresenUnc wealth untold: ail yoa'y ant to do is rat it, irub tne stumps and count your cold. Money? &sy, there's nothing, to HI In a year you can retire. And theM fields t ttay. - the (rsln lust f row Till It can't (row any higher! Tho poor boob fella, sad to relate. lrabs bis "overs, axe and hoe. Sows his grain, reaps thtettes and ferns- Land no good, stumps high and low. From tbe Ijind of Lost Illutnt The poor sheep mrmi their way: Dreams and bank roll both hre vanished- This tho end of a perfect day I In the town they watch them coming; No kind shepherd leads the way. ' He is busy rusttine more hrrj Suckers are oorn most every day! ' Bally Simple, amity. Or.. June 21. , Uncle Jeff Snow Says: The papers says Uhat a lot of them Hun officers and aristocrats that or dered the murderln' of women and children in the war is a-goin' to com mit suicide to show how much they hate to make peace with the rest et the world. All of which only reminds me of that mournful saytn' that nuthin' much that you want to happen happens. The. News in Paragraphs World Happenings Briefed for Benefit of Journal Headers GKNERAL . The national labor board has ended Its activities, preparatory to final dlssolu- . tion by the president. Brick and clay workers in Salt Lake have gone on strike for an eight-hour day, six-hour week and dally wage of $i.75. President Poincare, accompanied ' by Marshals Joffre, Foch and Petain. will visit Brussels July 21. Belgium's national fete day. At the request of the members, the New York Stock Exchange will be closed Saturday, July 5, as well as Independ ence day. Many restaurateurs and hotelkeepers In New York have determined to defy the law and will continue to sell beer and light wines after July 1. - President De Valera has warned Pre mier Clemenceau that Ireland would not be bound by a peace treaty signed on her. behalf by English peaco commissioners. Hundreds of tons of produce are rot ting on the piers of New York because of the strike of market teamsters, porters and chauffeurs, and the city is threat ened with a food shortage. Eighty saloonkeepers and 10 wholesale dealers In Chicago on Wednesday paid the Internal revenue tax for uie riscai year beginning July 1. Just as though prohibition had never been heard of. ' NORTHWEST NOTES More than 400,000 pounds of wool was sold at Bend Wednesday. Prices ranged from 42V4 cents to 64 H- Miss Gladys Flannlgan has been named by the Red Cross as the public health nurse for Umatilla county. H. A. Kaufman of Chehalis was paid 35 cents a pound, or approximately $6j, 000. for his 1917 crop of hops. Contract has been let for the last gap In the pavement between Chehalis and Toledo. Vash. The bid was $221,693.70. Dr. John Reynolds, who had been a practicing physician In Salem for more than 40 years, is dead at his home in that city. The Yakima city commission has fixed , August 14 as the late for a special elec tion on the issuance of $350,000 bonds for sewers. ( The Lane county court hw started a csmpalgn against the Canada thistle, which is becoming a great pest In that county. - Fire believed to have been started from embers In an abandoned camp Is raging in the yellow pine timber in the Deschutes naUonal forest One of the largest loganberry crops in the history of the wniamette valley is expected this year. Picking has begun in several localities. - Sinking a well for its municipal sup ply, Stanfield struck a gusher a 'few days ago at 180 feet depth, producing 150 gallons a minute. The first lots of 11 Yakima wool have been Sold In Boston. Vor fine wool 68 cents was received, and Inferior grades old at 47 cents. The applloaUon for a national charter for the Army bank at Orfe park. Camp Lewis, ha been granted by the controller of the currency. - A. A. Shepherd of Bend has been held to theVad jury under $5000 bonds on . Ji t x.n..ittmw a Ktatntorv crime against his il-year-old daughter. The Yakima county game ""'""'"'' has Planted in the lakes and rern" of that county this season 1.760,000 rainbow and 25,000 steelhead trout, -. . h. instruction camp of the Third Washington Infantry were Issued Wednesday. Troops are expected to reach American Lake July . -"The Idaho brsneh of the American LeT&l of World. War veteran, . hold- Ins its Iirst annual kum 135.1 .h.r. iso delegates were welcomed by Governor Uavls. Lieutenant A. L. Morrison of Camp Uwli arrived in Yakima Wednesday "charge of a recruiting party that will attWpt to enlist 800 men in the valley In tne next u uy. Mall carriers from all Prts of the state-win w m --- --- i Sunday, on the occasion of the annuel convention of the Oregon State Associa tion Of Letter earner o. wedding at the home of a neighbor, Alvln Iverson, 2 year monjotMr. and Mrs. J. Iverson. was drowned in an irrigation aitcn near ioyiiimi. - National Thrift Sunday Is Being Advocated f Stories of ecbleesment la tha aoctlTpu Ution of War Barings Stamps, sent to The Journal and accepted for publication, wUI bo awarded a Thrift Stamp.) The American Society for Thrift Is advocating the plan of establishing a national "Thrift Sunday" and sug gests that the Sunday preceding La bor day be so designated. A state ment Issued by the society - says: "American thrift was one of the great lessons of the war and hence every effort should be made-to per petuate It. Economio conditions make it necessary that we continue to live up to these ideals. It is not consistent with tha - teachings of thrift to set aside an additional holi day, but the best thought of the na tion can with appropriateness and profit be - concentrated on thrift, during one Sunday each year." Thrift SUmps and 1S19 War Sarins Stamps now os sale at usual atenciea.