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THE OREGON DAILY JOURNAL, PO ETLAKD, WEDNESDAY, JULY r 2, . 1919.
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AX WDEFENDEXt FEWsTAPEB
S. JACKSON.
..PUhUaher
lubluhed every day,
an
( except Sander afternoon
Kaiiainc, Vntdnr and
Porurul, Oregon. -
at The Jearaal
Yamhill
J.ntred tt the Partofffc at Fortune. Oregon,
for trawraawiaa tareagk Ue aaaUs aa ascend
claaa mtUf. - "
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All eepataaeote reached by tbeae niaatwn.
Tell the operator wbat departaaent ra waafa
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u a. vnMM r Istnnnriek Bniluing,
225-ilfth inra. W
bniwcripUon term by wall, f to any edareao In
tea tinned fiutct m ltfeieo:
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Ob yee-...,.H-O0 J- On ntoatBV . . . . .60
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One year ... . $T.50 I On month. ...:. .69
Erery meaiura nut tx tted by
By una
for! the
: ,ra..4Lrn nnl la It itnl.1 In it to
hnft of tha araua man. withowt klfln-
cnca er privilege - Doe tt embody tha
highest eoaeepuaa of social Jsatice. without
reepact to person or claaa ar particular in
terest --WaodroW vTiiaasw . '
THE BO AD SCANDAL
I tHE need, of a closer inspection
of state highway wort, is roaae
apparent by the disclosure that
the pavement In Marion county
between Brooks and Salem. Is not
being laid according to specifications.
The development of a weakness at
tlils point naturally: leads tar the
suggestion that there may be weak
spot at other ' places. It is now in
cumbent on the state highway j com
mission to make a thorough investi
gation of , the work already finished
as well as that which is in a state
of - construction.. If it should de
velop that. the work is not up to
standard. ' contracts should be can
celled forthwith and the dishonesty
of - the contractor exposed to tue
public. ,
More than this,' the commission
. should, as it no doubt will, strengthen
its inspecting force by . employing
only tried and competent men.-
With paving . contracts amounting
"to" :- over S6J0O0.OOO. involving
mileage of nearly 295 miles outstand
ing and with many, others in pros
. pcet the commission has ; before It
a big task: in seeing that all condl
tkms are complied with and that
full -ue for such a large "expendi
ture of publfo money Is had. , : :
It' is not-an impossible task or
one in. which jit might be pleacTSd
. that the,- scope of the - work under
taken is too big to secure efficient
and faithful workmanship. While
road development is one of the most
urgent needs in Oregon its urgency
will 'not admifTbf slackness or dis
honesty. If honest work cannot be
had it would be far better to suspend
work altogether.
Not .only as a duty- to the publle
but to Itself should the highway
' commission make a searching investi
gation and take practical steps to
' justify public confidence in its
capacity and desire to get the best
results possible. , ,
More than 1.000,000 words were
written by Meriwether Lewis, Wil
liam Clark - and : their assistants to
tell from day; to day the story of
: their adventurous exploration of the
' "Oregon country. This im ; ona " of
the Interesting facts brought to light
by The Mentor, an 'unconventional
magazine of New York, which de
votes its May number exclusively to
pictures and text descriptive of the
Lewi! and - Clark- expedition. To
have f olfowed the path beaten out
by. the Intrepid explorers should, be
a cause of pride to every person
who has . come ; to i tha Pacifio
No rthwest from ; leas favtaed. - por
tions of the country. To know the
history of that original expedition
should be the ambition of every Pr
son ' entitled to the name, . Ore-
gonlan, by birth or adoption.
IS IT ALL BELOW?
riT IS funny about bootleg booze. It
seems to be more apparent in the
lower strata than in the upper. It
seems to have a harder time hid
ing itself down below than up above.
. It is a paradoxical sort of stuff. In
side It has a tendency to goto the
top. In making its presence known.
Outside it eems to be easiest to find
it down toward the bottom.
Maybe the. lower strata, ; unlearned
in biblical lore, has not yet discov
ered that silence is golden, in 1 more
ways than one. Maybe, too, the
. lower strata, not having so much of
the golden glamour about it, finds
more difficulty In securing the si
lencer It vis. a strange "world. "
..... There aeems to be something very
noisy about a, still, or v a .pint "of
moonshine, here and there. Their
gurgling cannot, be bidden from : the
official -and .eagle : eye ; and ear. - But
a case , or . two thatt a different
matter, not so -? noisy, if i properly
tsituated, . .
Once there ; was a man,. $o .the
fable tells us, who found a piece
of money at his feet. All 'his lifelong-
thereafter,- as he journeyed
sbout,. he - kept his eyes on the
frounl 'loci!- j for more. He never
looked up. lie ' found other small grain rates on the basis of the cost
pieces of change, now and " then, of serviee - aa shown by the ' investt
But he missed all of the big things, gation. '
throughout his. Journey, on a level!
withhis eyes, and above. ,
People were disappointed with him. j
Large -visions flaunted themselves
in his face but he failed to see unfavrable position, but, that is the
them v because he; was continually misfortune of the unfavorable geo
looking down.' He. missed " what he rraDhical -location of those porta. ; i
was hunting because he never looked
up. Some aid he waa Mve,
looker.
want to see.
It was .timely - action by Governor
Olcott in heeding the information
received' i from the Marion S'; county
farmer and reporting direct to the
state highway commission that th
road work was not up to specifica
tions. It! is a good thing that thia
Inefficient work has been discovered
hi ar1v. mo that a mora effective I
inspection may be applied. The I
Marion county farmer is entitled to
great credit for his vigilance, o - v 1
THE i PICTURE
P
EACE has been signed, and we
are starting well.
Government - reports Indicate
that
this nation will -become the
granary
i, V, 1 ) tMM(
time is
over, r the June estimate
products j are on a similar basis.
The .problem of unemployment has
shifted to the reverse side of the
picture with jobs clamoring for men
rather than men tor jobs. ; Labor, in
a ' I a a a. 11
national i oonveniion, uas snown ii
conservatism and sane control and
altogether the United States is on
solM rdund and ready to advance.
It-is i good i Picture to. look ; at:
nr., A.ttW .hirh nneinAaa mn twill I
. . ... . : . . ! j ; m I
taae coniwence to go lorwaru. .mu
world once more has turned itsliooi- me inters taie cummerce j cum-
back upon the past to face the future
with strength and confidence.
A great deal : of confidence v
shown by tha legislature and , the
people- in entrusting so much road
work to i the state highway commis
aionu The commission -owes It- to
itself T and to the public to take
measures that will prevent repetition
of the j road scandal in Marion
county ! Let us either have a dol
lar's worth of so una road for every
dollar of publio ; money spent or
have no roads at all.
ONE REASON
T
" m x i
"between a vermin Infested trench, j
soggy Witn mua and piooa. in I
TVance- and the trees and flow-
ers and fields of Oregon. " I
iuers wnjen ine noys wroie wnen i
thv werfl BOOO milM awar made itl.
pictured; me zona scenes or nome
Whre the lords of the mountains, are
In a itisterof lver aroearV?
And thel shadows ot ages' are drifted, i
In the banners the forests unfurl.
Those: Whose fortune. it was to re-
main at home and keep hefore" their
eyes the constant delight of the
beauty jof this Eden-like land can
have no such vivid pleasure in It as
the bronzed lads mat have come back
to it from a hell storm 'swept with
hate and destruction. . ,
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Watch them ; as, they gladden their
eyes with longed-for views, as they
lift their faces to the. caress of4 the
sea breeze, and as they listen to the
. . . ,l,
melody of the streams in. the moun-
tains. To them the raindrop is a dia-
mond locked in the heart of a rose.
r. H fcifl f k. A n
To them the. blue of the sky and the
gold of the sun are' reflected In the j
noddinsi blossoms Of wayside paths. I
mt. i -t m. l
is o nu, wc iiwire w w"
ueareQ,jJor wmcn uiey niaua ouenuK
of their lives, no wonder tney rougnt
so weUi or longed for a speedy return
when victory was won.
-
Why not offer ? the carp of our
sloughs to Major Geiger of the fed
eral health service t . The officer
seeks top feeding fish that can be
taught to eat mosquito larva In
Irrigation ditches. - The carp is a
top. feeding fish, but Judging from
n. T,aant biiMine- nrodurt f tba to extraordinary. It is SO equipment than of men, f0t.we must re
the present buzzinr product of the . lkm that it-is worth while member that much of ourapidlty was
sloughs he certainly seems to lack f1""15, uiai is worm s wniie to U tt fact that we had been making
public: spirit in mosquito destruc-
tiOn. ' -
PUGET SOUND CAMOUFLAGE
ROPAOANDISTS
m
"s o in e -1
whpr nn PntrRniind" ar inst
. T. I
now very busy -trying to con-i
vince the producers 'and business I
men of the Inland Empire , district
mat the uiumhia- Dasm water grade
rate case to be heard before theigtill "young as to years, but strong
interstate commerce -.commission " on
Tivlv QJ tts ea ' A el i A'n ja.4 OAat1ai4
-T " "e."
interests against
atle.
T. i rrooaganda. as is so- often
the case with- that' commodity, is
wrong in its premise, and, therefore,!
iWTOng m its conclusion. The netl-
tion of iV. inland mr.tr-a :snin-M
iOD-,o ho. ,ifhino. .i ,ts
"""o uv u. it
land any more than with Vancouver,
of Attorla-' or anv : other . ahinnlne?
pomtl jnj the olumbU basiVt
is founded upon the complaint of the
wneat crowers ana sniDDers or cast -
ern Orefon, Eastern Washington, an4
of Idaho, who . seek to have tue
interstate commerce commission give
memia rate cased on toe cost of me
service rendered ' .
The league In its petition is - not
asking for a I Portland ? rate. an As -
toria. rate, a Vancouver rate, or
for rates to Seattle, Tacoma or any
other Puget Sound It is ak -
?rt: ' ft j?Si,ri;9 t0 idewater
ports. It is ; doing nothing more
than! to petition the Interstate c&m -
merce commission to determine,. upon
us wu mvcbusauou, tne- cost oiiacuonary penoa snau oe swept away
transporting grain on all lines' to land every man be on an equality
tidfwafr- ioprntnau fi-nn v TnianH U'i.a s ir ;
-...'. - ..w.....
""ui, -i.w
)n may be irue that a readjust-
tment of rates based on such an
examination of cost of service would
throw Puset Sound ports into an
ot the Inland
Up aot be forced to
i sulfer in their proflia because xne
Cascade . mountains run - between
them and Puget' Sound. . .The grain
men did not i plant the' mountains
between their produce : and i their
markets. Neither did they carve the
gorge o the Columoia down to the
water leveL They are merely; asking j
that they be given the benefits of
what nature - has- tried tor do ' for
them. They want toHray tranaporta-
tuem. inej w vuj iwisjiwa- i
on ana pay a reasonaoie price iwr i
it. t no more. They want nn7SJt
Just rate. ipt- the utstandlna: lessons- ot:thTiaU
The publio service commission Of I
wch(n4A ;MnfmH::hi' ca f f I
behalf, that the petition ot In-1
land Empire league is discriminatory
as against Seattle and Puget Sound.
It is difficult to see the foundation
t VTrr.
All that: is asked
IW i MJ vaBB
is that rates be; fixed on a basis of
a just charge for. the service, ; ail ;
present ratess are unjust and dis-1
criminatory against the - shipper and J
the grower, forcing them to pay -a
mountain rate for a downgrade haul.
The grain rate case - Is a grain-
grower's ease, r wherein they : seek
Justice for themselves and injustice
for .no one. Puget Sound railroad
d shipping ; interests may attempt
ItO fool the publio, about the issues
involved, but It ? will take i some
Inovllns ' nrlt1 fmia ' InH ftirilMa rt i
jesB "" .msv j
mission.
A POLITICAL CAPTAIN
S
IX feet 2, straight, and 49. Homer
D.' Cummings is chairman ef. the
national Democratic committee.
and ho been a Portland visitor.
He is a lawyer, and one Of i the 1
cut. His father was an Inventor and
contributed several Important devices
to the mechanical world. - - I
A nadnnii Tamruafi M.afa.mo. t
' " v-"'"" I
I mi uuiuiiufis , receives no salary.
He has won all the honors of his
profession anu enough of competence
to enable him to give a great deal
of his time to the ever fascinating
ul ms nine xo ine ever lascmaunK
game of big politics. What is uuore,
ha has a" nrofomu, faith in hiaiwar began the development of two new
From a close knowledge of him.
Mr. Cummings thinks Woodrow Wil-1
v .
that he is the most practical states-
man In the world. The president's
ays'
Mr. Cummings, "but his feet are
if ;rraiv planted on the earth. In hi
ettBmnfihin. where can von nrtint
to a mistake of importance that he
has made f At times many of us
havl . thouaht him wrona .in anm
mtt?i.:buiTft has almosf invariably
turned out tSat he was right and
.h-. m-. C..nf
UUBC . Twuu - UUUAJfcOU Willi. IT1 UUK. ; I
nireu ju gisuce uaoi. hi evcuus i
and f search for niunaers . made Dy
this man in the White House "ooerat-1
cao- MAtAo.i I
Mt :
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sponsibiUties, you find them, if at
'aii 1 of minor character and very
f ' between. y ' '
F ceiVveen- r i .
vr. Cumminas ia in oolities wholl v
and onjy to forward the great move-1
4h, imwiA, !
7 Z . ' z - . -
that WOOdrOW Wilson has inaugur-
Ha tells you that Wilson and
nlg congress put 'into ; effect more
meaaure of reform thanlhad been
r enacted fia this country In two gener-
latinns ' II takfiS r the 1 PrncrensiVA I
intifMm vtf 'iti9 and one hv am I
o i ro" ... ivy i
oy me tTogressives aciuaay enacieainoray. precision and swiftness of con
into law' and put into Operation j by 1
thA Tfenwrat. v . ' . j
mo jjemocrave, - , - I
'itie i oi measures so translated
"unfc u tv8sivo iiauonn oi i
luui aiiiu uiaas uis ovoipsruva. 1
A strong Tace, eyes or tne clearest
blue., a firm mouth and voice
and manner : suggestlvei I of f great 1
reserve power, Mr Cummings seems j
U .fM v MaA!Mn
ul ,u"' W4 eva" VB,V""" 1
that : goes with his "high position,
In his nartv are ' Vice Chairman K-
me , of Montana, a, clean ' cut lawyer
of much prominence in- his : stete.
I m: personality and capacity.
1 - a was-. ... a -V - I M - - .
oi nnitM jauuesuu ux-iuwa, mown
. 1 nationally as a wizard In securing
I Mmnalm : t imria hv ematt : nAnnt
subscription ; Executive Secretary Hoi-
lister of Missouri, 39, quick, widely
I Informed and altoe-ethei , intrtin.
1 , -i-ii-T-
I - ...k .w . ,
i nuuiiui, ; nuw u uctu ua woman s
bureau of the national Democratlo
lnmmitM . - - . -
His -friends now at Mr.r Cum-teonanheV wamV 52
linings has a great deal of .confidence! she wiu never again be dangerous so
ia tn tho (lntcnm in 09n Th Mn.
1 f idence has been greatly stimulated
I hv so much-of ' the tonr ' of - the
J country as has-been made, covering
l about one third of-the states so far.
I The leadershiD of the onnoition.
j he Insists, , is pronouncedly reaction -
1 arv and l the - definlU? imn will h.
whether the progress made in prog -
j ressive ; legislation ' shall be undone ' So - the whole question reeolres rfSeif
ltnd the country swing back underl,nto th -possibility b that she may event-
reaction, or whether the nnWfJSftZZ
I movement is to continue until all i bodv under the -LtttM of Nations;
j the discriminations against the masses
Jwhich ran riot during the old Tt -
.,, r. . . .
.-u. - ....... ia i.ir PCpuiar
in his own state. He ( was me
Democratic nominee for cnuea
States f nator in 1916 and- ran tieck
and neck with President . Wilaon.
both of whom reduced the normal
Republican plurality of 25,000 and
30,000 to 7000.
Mr. Cummings and his associates.
In their visit to Pnrtland. left a most
favorable impression upon members
of their political party. . , i - ,
CAN DISARMED
HUNS RE-ARM ?
Arming of the Future to Be Pre Ten ted
Only ey the League.
r TPram tha Philadelphia PubHe Tdaar -The
clauses disanaiw the late eeatrai
empires are drastic and comprehensive.
They will leave them entirely stripped
of military and naval power in the Eu
ropean sense. - . t . . . ;
But if tha eiviiii m .
aepena pon these restricUons to extract
And that is that a "capable and
"unm people can improvise an
; SrmaaVnSha
could lgnoxe the British people as a
mmiary xactor oecause . they had no
army of continental magnitude ready-
when the war broke. j But. by reason of
the abUity of the French and tha Rus
sians to keep the Germans engag-ed
while the British enlisted and drilled
an amy, these unmilitary British were
able to create the force which really
-won tne war' during the two years,
1916 and Ml?, between their arrival in
the field and our later arrjbral.
The unready- British - were formidable
In the summer of 1915 and they were
impregnable in the summer of 1916. This
achievement ; was accomplished, remem
ber, under : the old, clumsy and hap-
haaard system of voluntary enlistment,
aB1 Vr fZHS
f 1.
land because we applied conscription at
ionce and 'because we had the benefit
f the 03CJ
conscripted our armies in the late sum-
mer of 1917, and we broke the German
oneasive in ue summer ox we lonowing;
year. When the armiauce -came that
autumn we had more than 2,000,000 men
tinder arms on the other side of the
i world. - - -
So much for the possibilities of raisins
and equipping an effective army out ef
.1. L A A m 1 1 1 . u .
Darftd neonia. Thia. it .hnmn h kent
in mind, was done under the present
rrS5 LlctJau??. '"LSX
jportant, the vital arm. Vast masses, of
trained men are still the decisive factor.
Artillery has increased enormously in
vain, Mvilm ha. hmmisnMitt fnf
purposes of pursuit,' almost negligible.
But it Is far more necessary than ever
before to assemble enormous numbers
of men and subject them to intensive
. v. ..n .
win prevail even a decade hence? This
forms or warfare on land wmcn'may
naralvzinar effect aa to revolutionize mU-
itary methods. These are the employ
Iment of aircraft and the tremendous in
explosives. If it should turn out that
war in future is to be waged not so
much against the armies in the field
arainst cities, industries, transportation
lines and civilian activities renerally of
the bellieerent . ooun tries, and if this
frightful and fiendishly cruel warfare is
to be carried on by swarms of raiding
aircraft dropping tons of terrifically pow
erful explosives, which will simply; wipe
whole communities out in a single blast
of limitless destruction then a nation
will not need the millions of Infantry
w SS. 3S
with a comparatively few skilled air
pilots fed by corps of chemists distil-
. .....
kitchens.
it ia not enouerh to retort that this is a
came at which two can play. It is a
rame dependent upon Invention and sci
..tifl. Mh r,mhl
ox uiNonrx huu viuj wire wi "id j -
ers . may - have been fortunate But
ven u science follows her usual course
and reveals her sscrets to a lot of acat-
tered searchers almost simultaneously,
anint i that the abdication of these
unhappy discoveries to warfare win not
require the prolonged drilling of mlghty
armi w m ram, mil wuiu m wuuuini
Uimt i d bv anv n.tion havinr
larae mercantile air fleet. And this
the peace treaty does not attempt to for
bid or even limit. -
However, even if war must still have
hntr anblea to carrv it on. a neonle like
the Germans, with a gift for orraniza-
wtttt the logic to recognise at once the eco-
scripUon might easily establish a new
world's record for putting a formidable
tit - with im inii.
u would probably be mora a-matter of
munitions for the aUies for years, and so
naa but punn u (sini u awea.
.,.li!Sl.rI,, iZL
pretty well put out of commission. But
thia brines us to another factor m the
situation. Germany win need, if she ta ever
I tcu" strike a dangerous blow at any
anemv. nreclsely the same sort of ore-
I liminarv coverinr br some power which
i is prepared for war that the French and
S?Iam! ?J? XS
1 ,1 nt.h a h. .hi. tn create a. t-
class army i year and a half if the
l tn. ,nrudv British were nreoarintr.
I for us, we would never have got into
this war at all : and a pertinent Question
1.J? ZlJZ JLVZl
to this hemisphere? A heavily worded
1 and - ever-mobilized Monro -i Doctrine
I would have been hardly sufficient.
I Now Owntnj and any possible lesser
i allies she may pick up tn nud-uurope
I will be in the same position, she must
I be covered by a friendly ana preparea
i ioair as sne stanos aione. -we au mow
that. ' Even the kaiser probably;Ttnow
that the best-armed Germany cannot,
unassisted, r hope to -establish . her rule
oer allea.M Bismarck: knewij it - well
when he was alive and warned-bis com
trymen against "any cock-of-the-walk
business. Kven if Germany were to be-
1 come-, again as strong as she was in
I probably has learned, not to
T " u . . ,
eould J ite possiwy?hoid i a defensive
l?l?v:l7
fray. These allies also would be in as
1 tooA a position to help arm the German
I forces as . the other members of . the
i -eagueT wouia fae a Die to arm "tneir own.
noreover. Cerman i.ndaitrial i-lviTl wm.M
very speedily tnrn their plowshare fac
tories Into sword work..
"Bat it 1 impossible, -foe Oermany to
ret allies!" Lret a pray that tbls la
true. But this Impossibility Is precisely
as strong as tha practicable worka
bility of tlie of Nations," and
no stronger. KiU i the "LMgue'Mn its
cradle, and he would ba a. rash man
who would guarantee that Germany win
never find herself in a formidable offens
ive "league" of er own. . i
in-iiniiiHu Hat t The Jannul for
abtteatioai at tiua department ahoaM be witilae
miA nr .ha mm. ugua B3I aweaan
SOO worda ta le&fth. end siaas.ba aiaiwd by Ota,
writa. wnoaa nul addicsa ta IUU aav actra-
pany tha ccntfibetwp. i ;u. '(
Qty Employes' Wages
Wtrtland. June i9-To i the Editor of
The Journal. In a recent issue of your
paper A Taxpayer deplores tne. laci
that cltv nail employes seem , to think
of nothing else but to have their salaries
raised and that 'some day the people
will get tired of this state of artatrs. - in
th.: fa nf facta and; fierures such criti
cism is hardly fair. ; It jioBts city hall
employes Just as much to live as any
one. It is an undeniable: fact that city
emnloves have not been raised in pro
portion to outsiders time and again in
order to meet the advanced cost of Irv
ine, and it Is another undeniable fact
that labor in general has not been ad
vanced in pay suincienuj- w mi u
continual Soaring of prices for ' the
necessities r. of life. v : These . conditions
force nearly everrone to aslc their em
ployer for more salary ini order to meet
these mostly - unwarranted .advance.
Who else can "anyone go to : for relief
but his immediate employer? ' It seems
hopeless to look toward the government
because the first thought is : Why
doesn't the government stop thia profi
teering? ; The city employes do not ask
for mora - in - order to lay .aometnine
aside for a-, rainy day i (which everyone
ought to he able to do), but just enough
to live decently. I i i !'
City employes, as others, when under
paid, wm become dissatisfied, dis
gruntled and ugly. , Their services be
come what they ought jnot be. They
feel sure of ; their job because nobody
wants it' for what It -pays. : Can a city
like Portland afford ' to hava such
service? I : ' '
In the main the city forces are com
posed, of good and efficient men and
women. Here and there a few from the
big ones down don't realize what a put-
Uo service, job means, and their conduct
is chiefly responsible for certain meas
ures getting defeated at the polls. For
instance, about two months ago -four
viewers were sent to .inspect the side
walks at East ; Seventy-second street
north of 'QUsan. ; The- weather was nice
and for two days this gang of , f oar
slept Under the cherry trees within one
block and a half from Glisen : street.
There., were a number. of disgusted wit
nesses mostly taxpayers) to this stunt
ana tnts particular act eausea many un
favorable remarks to be made about the
city employes as a whole as well as the
office which sends out four able bodied
men to do the work one man can do
easily in two nours. ' Why send four
men? ..This particular1 stretch of side
walk 'was ordered renewed . two years
ago and only held up to allow property
owners to meet war obligations. One
man can walk from Gllsan to Balsey
and bitck in half hour and make no
mistake In his report, because the walks
are extremely rotten the whole length.
Instead of that, at IS per day per man,
940 were spent for sleeping- in the shade
of the Old cherry trees. Such things is
what taxpayers have a right to get tired
of , but not - when worthy employes ask
for a decent wage. . v. . ,
am no city halt employe, never was
one and never expect, to be- one, - but
only another - - TAXPAYER."
; Behold the Mosquito .
Portland, t July 1 1. To the Editor
of The Journal. It is to be noted
in . last Sunday's Journal that D. C.
Ijewis adduces : as -an argrument for
dredging Columbia.' slough that It
wilt do away with - the mosquito pest
of the city- This argument is in line
with his defence of the China pheasant
within the city limits and the two mile
nine park around the city. As .to the
great swarm of mosquitoes coming from
the slough, scientists tell us that this
bird, travels on an average Just 38 feet
during its brief lifetime from the place
of - its birth and that only those that
get a drop of blood in that little journey.
of-24 nours are able to raise a family.
It is no wander that be is active and in
sistent. .The worst mosquitoes I ever
saw were on the summit of the Cascade
range south from, Clackamas Jake to
Ollalle . butte and I again around Band
mountain near Mount Washington.': In
both these sections there is no water ex
cept what comes from melting snow. -
If .anyone Is annoyed by this wild
Columbia slough Insect he should go up
to these two localities and have some
real sport. r -t .t,: - :o-.
Mr. Lewis seems to have the notion
that mosquitoes are like grasshoppers
or locusts that swarm for miles and
live for months, bet they are not. There
is ''enough moisture In the , bushes in
Boss City Park to maintain a Jiealthy
colony, as any one living there can testi
fy. Any garbage dump, any pile of old
cans, any rank . vegetation, any place
where'snow is melting- rapidly and green
things spring up with heavy dews will
produce a good healthy crop of the pest.
Any one wno defends and legislates in
behalf of iother wild pests is inconsistent
In attacking the relatively harmless Ore-
gon mosquito. ; O. Q. HUGHSON.
Considers the Canoe Menace
Portland June 2$ To the Editor of
The -JournaiWben t-1 looked on the
picture published, in- The Journal yes
terday of Edward Zollner, who was
drowned near St. Johns when his canoe
overturned, - X was compelled by my
feelings- and sympathy for the dear boy
and his .friends to utter my protest
against permitting' the keepers of boat-
houses to keep and rent the dangerous
things.-; While X am not In favor . of
placing ; too i many restrictions on pleas
ure seekers. At the same time there are
so many fine young- people risking and
losing their. . lives In those dinky little
canoes that I think it Is time they were
prohibited by law from being rented in
the city limits. Only a few days ago I
stood on the Broadway bridge and saw
a young man launch out upon tha deep
and dangerous waters of the Willamette
river la a canoe with a young woman
and a efafla about t years old his fam
ily, I suppose, i There was a small
steamer passing , at the time, and what
did the - poor foot do but paddle- hard
until j he get .' Into the . waves ; and he
stayed tn them as Ions: as - they lasted.
I thought at the time that he bad no
love for his wife and baby, so I only
suggest that some steps be taken to
protect Innocent women knd s children
from such recklessness." and the only
way X can see to do It is byprofaibiting
the renting of such craft- We protect
the public in other .ways. - Why not In
that way also? t R. R. BRAXTON
Why the Confusion? - V
. Portland. June- 2S To the Editor of
The Journal. Seventeen years ago on
my first - trip Into tha Cascade moun
tains, east of 'Portland and Just south of
Mount Hood, X found a beautiful stream
called Eagle creek. This stream beads
at Stoney Camp, one mile west of the
Plaza Camp! range station and 'flows
west for 35 miles, where it empties into
the Clackamas river, eight miles below
Estacada. This stream is full of trout
and "has miles - ef beautiful camp sites
and I have caught trout in it 17 inches
long. Since the Columbia highway has
been finished we have heard of another
Letters From the People
tOMMENT AND
SMALL CHANGE
What's the score?
- The TtmmiMwf aY a kAH r lit 4h
department threatens to make it hard
truing; gor someone.
-The President has aomethinr ta aav
when he gets borne and he isn't going
tq lose any time in saying it . .. .
Cigar makers in New York a.re out on
strike, which .may. or mav not be aad
news, depending bn whether or not you
ueir. : orano. i- - v.; .h-:i-.;v.u--;-'f
Sheep shearers' m Eastern - Orcna'
eaia 10 oe majung irom IZU to S3a
a day. which might lead to the conclu
tioa that someone ia being "fleeced." -
- We've heard of lounge lUards and
lunch; lizards and the like, but th
case of the lizard that lived in the lung
pi by tnenans cow,- tnqugn tney nad to
auu ue cow, is a new. one on ue. -
OBSERVATIONS! AND IMPRESSIONS
OF THE JOURNAL MAN. 1
By Fred
t A stcmishinK totals of tobaeee etmaomptioe ta
the United Btatca. era crarhtcaka preanttaS, to
ua br Mr. IrMe. who. wfaila a T. U. C. A.
wretary to Franca daring tha -war. Mated hnn
1 qaita a sood deal! In parvcyinS asaokaa to
thm boyn tn khaki In thia artloto Mt. Tuoekky
aaw taucbas apes ether incident ot tha (teat
war. 5 .-; ; -, . . ; , -; - ,- . -; .-.-
When I was tn France X walked many
a mile and spent many an hour trying
to secure smokes for the boys. ? A cigar,
ette or a cigar does not seem of very
much consequence: It represents at
most but a few cents. A handful of
sand does 'not amount' to much, either,
but take handfuls enough and you have
the Sahara desert or a thousand miles
of seashore. It . is the same way with
cigarettes and - cigars. I ran across
some statistics the-other day that : are
rather surprising. The internal revenue
collected from .tobacco for a year would
pay the salary of j tha president of the
United States for about 1000. years, or
would build 14 battleships. : The money
spent for cigars alone each' year would
pay for the building of the Panama
canal and we would still have left over
SSO.000,000. Two hundred and fifty-one
cigars are smoked every second In the
United States. Of v course, you .could
not smoke a cigar in a second. What
I mean is that if you divide the 11,711.
41 cigars smoked every 24 hours in
the United States, jit amounts to S04.935
each, hour, on 251 each second. If you
toob alt the cigars ' smoked in the
United States last year and put them
la a line, end to ; end, they would go
around the world ! more than 22 times.
If you- put all the cigarettes - smoked
last year end to ened they would .reach
rrom the earth to the moon and back
again, and yon would have enough
left over to go around the world more
than one and a half times. ..
While the internal revenue report does
not Indulge id - fiction, nevertheless it
is filled with Interesting statistics, For
example, the report shows that for the
year ending June so, Il7f xor every
man, woman aadV child In the United
States there was smoked on the aver
age 90 cigars a i year. or a total, of
9.218,901,113. At 6 cents apiece the total
cost for our' national cigar bill amounts
to 1460,000,000. an! average of about $23
a year for each j family. We smoked
during that same 'fiscal year 20.629,192,-
638 cigarettes, almost one a ftay ior
every man, woman ana . cniia in . ue
United States. In addition to met we
used 445.763.20S- pounds of chewing and
smoking tobacco, as well as 5,877,2io
pounds of snuff.' f v . ' w '
r '. t-'-tiate.'-vl - S - r .
X had always supposed ' that- human
ity's worst ' enemy was war, or, if not
war. ilauor or lust. In a recent Issue
of the Fourth Estate X happened upon
the following description of humanity's
worst enemy : i -, : '
I am more powerful than the com
TnlnMt 'armies of the World.
1 nave ' aestroyea more nea uiau
all the wars of the world.
X am mere deadly -than bullets and
"have wrecked more homes than the
"X steal, In the united states atone.
more than S30Q.000.000 each year. -
"I spare no one, and I find my vic
tims among rich and poor alike; the
young and old; the strong ana weaa;
widows and orphans know. me. -
"I loom up to such proportions inat
Eagle creek and a picture ta the Jour
nal today shows a bridge on the Colum
bia river, highway over tt. I - . y
Now why Is It that we nave two
streams within a! few miles vt Portland
of the same name? It causes lots Of
confusion to campers : and! sportsmen.
The Eagle creek I speak or is-reacnea
by the P. B. L A P. company's line,
which crosses it at Cedar Brook on a
steel bridge 114 feet high, "k: ' ' ;
i I have lived I Portland ) number of
years and find upon investigation that
the stream that flows into the Clacka
mas bad been on all our maps 'and
known j as Eagle creek for 30 years,
and that the other Eagla creek Just
came to view a few years ago. X think
something should be done to eliminate
the confusion ia this matter and would
like tor hear from other persons ort the
subject, JAUES.Q. MENANE JR.
' Some ef the ! War Restorations
Trom the Haw Tork Erenlag Post
, Sentiment, - effected more or less by
practical considerations, enters Into
certain minor restorations Imposed upon
Germany . by the treaty, s The French
battle flags of 1870 would naturally gp
back. ; Visiters to Berlin who have seen
the flaunting exhibit of the loot from
Peking during Boxer, days will'' read
with pleasure of the return to the Chi
nese of the celebrated astronomical in
struments, of a value more sentimental
than actual. : The Item concerning: the
skull of - the Oultan Okwawa plainly
relates to a real prestige which that
somewhat macabre symbol of power
exercises 'among the tribes of tha late
German East Africa. Most practical
of all, perhaps, is the stipulated sur
render of' the Koran text of the 'Caliph
Othmaa to' the king ot the Hedjaa. It
is -certain , that : with the ' trenchant- re
duction In Turkish power will come the
departure of the office of the caliphate
from the Turkish sultans, with such
political - Influence as still attaches r to
that office. ; Thus tha spiritual ' succes
sorsbip to the prophet will return to
Arabia and Into the same bands as the
political sovereignty, over tha original
borne of Islam.- -- .
.
- Protest by Grain Growers
- Frota the Xa Grande Obrnvar . r
To urge upon the rate-making powers
of the rauroeds the iniustice now pre
vailing relative to rates on grain ship
ments to Pacific ports, Edward Ostran
der, of 4 the . Inland : Empire Shippers
league, accompanied by - Ralph Watson,
a t prominent, tiewspaper j man of Port
land," are here today interviewing grain
shippers of the Grande Ronde valley.
. The intent of today's meeting is to
bring the grain grower into closer touch
with ' actual conditions and make : him
familiar With" the discriminatory charges
which are being levied upon his product
in order to get it to market-
.The old Spokane rate case, which bar
kens bacft to the days when the - inter
state commission was just fairly getting
Into action, recalls to many minds some
of the injustices that, the entire Inland
Empire had to - suffer because of the
NEWS IN BRIEF
i OREGON SIDELIGHTS ,
1 The! Eugene Register sices it tip about
right i in this laoontcism : .. "Real bay
weather.' . ' . ,
' Just to show how very good business
is. the La Grande Observer ,
carload of automobiles "only lasts in
the dealer's hand in la uranoe ions
enough to tighten the last bolt.' .
.- y - v . : .
Deer are more plentiful than for
manv vara in . the Greenhorn snoun-
tains, say residents of that section, as
quoted by tne itaaer iemocrmv. .
hunters will find good sport when the
open season rolls around.. t
v . - ' ' r '
Eugene people expect the parade to
be held during the Fourth of July cele
bration there to be the biggest affair
of tts kind ever pulled off in the upper
Willamette valley. They are talking
about a parade length of five miles,,
Lockley
X cast my shadow over every field of
labor from the turning of the grind
stone to the " moving of 'every railroad
train.
"I massacre thousands upon thousands
of wage-earners In a year. !
X lurk,in unseen places and do most
of my work silently. You are warned
against me, but you heed not.
- "I am relentless, X am everywhere
In the home, on the street. In the factory.
at railroad crossings and on the sea.
-f . destroy, crush or. . malm ; I give
Hotrtlnar. but takn all. -
X am Carelessness., ":s':i:-'
" After you "have been in France a few
months you become versed In the lan
guage of initials. You' possibly belong
to the S. O. S. of the A. E. F. When
you are off K, p. duty,' you ask the
aa. jr. V9 oireoc you to tne I. M. (J. A.
or the K. C. In fact, almost everything
over tnere' is Known by - tts initials.
ran across a British of Beer with the
initials M. X.. C. K on' his collar. The
C E. stood for civil engineer, not Chris
tian -Endeavor, but I have forgotten
wnat me m. i." stood ror. When a
man signs his name in a register and
follows it by the initials A. D. L M. D.
8. F. P. J. B. A. Fw it takes, consld
arable mental effort to figure out that
he is "Assistant Director Implements
and -Machinery - Department Section
Food Production Department, Board - of
Agriculture, and Fisheries. Yet, that Is
his actual title, v. -
: ... a. : :.:..... '-.la
One of the astonishing) results of the
war is the fact that many a lad who
was f considered here as worthless and
of no account. ' made good In splendid
shape under the test ; of - hardship and
danger-over there. A few days ago I
received from Bert Huffman, my old
time partner on the East Oregonian, a
little poem be had recently written, en
UUed rrhe Black Sheep.' There Is
so much truth in it that I am going
to quota it. Here it Is: -
I knew a kid who want away to war
A Sood-for-nothln". haram-M-anini chan!
Ha a aponead aad bummad and loafed to maka
- you -aora v . . :.-
r WhUe.owia' vary maa upon tha asap!
Hto folk all aaid ha'd ae te iafl. tha mumamt
Ha saemed tee black bep of tha whole aha-
HiJ eruaaa waraa't bad. bat lut that peaky tort
ton big to clear bun not aeough to bans.
aa' jret tbrongb.ail hia euaaadnaaa thara ran
A atraak of aomethin.' Wonderfully white; .
Ba waa the faakin' oCts better mail . ..
Thaa. half tha chape who couldn't, bear hia
-aishil i
Bo. when la iohied and went away to war
.. Tha Jokaa folk paaaad ware eraal-Uka aad
v- artaa i
Soma' aaid, ha'd tat hia nradin'a at the front
Bo me hqped that it would maka a maa of html
Than, i whan tha Uat of "ailaaint' bora hia name
They winked aad imlrked aad aaid he'd nut
' ' away ;
But naa there wu who pleaded In hia ahama
Ilia mother waila tba story of thatrayt
At laat it eaaa. Tha very earth, it said.
. Waa rippae aad riven by the ecreamiac ahel)
Aa' llierk between tha haea they fouad him.
da ,.. . ,
Ba'd aanpped te drac a comrade frost that
v-, m belli
AIi. wa who ait fo atmndy in oar ee
Who praea eur feather in a pradiA way;
Who caU our crime by aofter namee thaa hia
, What aift do wa. baaida hia great sift, layf
long and short haul and terminal rates.
While this case waa being threshed out
It did not touch a vital point which is
now being brought up by Mr. Ostrander
and Mr. Watson. Their mission here Is
to explain " the discrimination between
the' haul to Portland and the haul over
tho mountains to Puget Sound points.
While the matter isvery plain to the
layman, and it Is admitted by any -fair-minded
person who will study ths matter
that grain growers are being unjustly
taxed; for transportation charges,, for
some reason - the rate-making ; powers
have never " been convinced. ,.
The meeting today dealt with this
phase of the matter and proper steps
will be taken to make sufficient noise
to attract attention in the future.
Growers from different parts of the
valley were In attendance.
Curious Bits of Information
; For the Curious
f- Gleaned From Curious Places
Admiral Mayo told - at a dinner ' tn
Washington a story about - slang.
,It is all very well to decry slang,? he
began, but X know a case where
xaowieore or it wouia nave eavea a
man s life. v
;The man was a German spy. Dis
gelsed as a major- of the Australian
forces, he - penetrated the Australian
lines. His English was perfect, but not
so his Australian slang. Australian
slang, by the way, is the weirdest in
the world. Falr dlnkum In that lingo
means- a real Australian.. t
i- WeIl. the r German spy fraternized
with the Australian of flcersT" and all
seemed. to be going well, when a blond
giant gave him ' a searching look and
said: - ..V ; 'K: V- .'-rf--;
, Say. iiok here are you .fair dink
umT -ih it-.S-i-n.; -sii,-'---,-?''
. The German spy nodded and smiled.
-Tea,' ; he said, iX am " Major Fair
Dlnkum.'- - : ., i . .
-fThen he waa taken out ind sbot v
1 1, -j i i " i i i -i i -
Olden Oregon
United Brethren Were Among First
Choreh Colonies. . ,
! Among the church colonies that came
to Oregon was the United Brethren
Missionary colony. In 18S2, according to
Horner's History - of Oregon, Reverend
Thomas Jefferson Connor of HartsvUIe,
lad., ' was - delegated by tha United
Brethren conference,-then in session at
Canal, - O., to organise and conduct a
missionary colony to Oregon. Five hun
dred dollars had . been contributed by
the church for the project. The party
of 9 persons ; from various directtons
gathered at Council. Bluffs and began
the JSurnay to Oregon under the leader
ship of the Reverend Mr.' Connor. Leav
ing Council Bluffs early in May they
arrived in the Willamette' valley in Sepr
tember. Most of them settled in Benton
county, where they established churches.
Ragtag and Bobtail
v Stories from Everywhere
Fortunate for Farm
DURING a debate on the' farm ten-':
an try resolution in the Kansas letr
islature, one orator sought to enlist all
of the farmer members on bis side.
Every jnember of the house who waa
raised on a farm nleaae raise hist hand."
he pleaded. . -
All of the members, Including law
yers, held up their hands. .
"How many of you still live on the
farm?? he asked. :
About half ot the members raised their .
hands. : . - - - I ,
"How many of you who lert the farm
want to go back?" V i
Not a hand went up. !
Thd farms Vara in rreat liick. be
drawled.
- v Tffas Ever Thus
lre nevar known it yet to fall.
Whene'er I take any rod and 'book
. And thirk my lob and ateat- away -
- Until I find eotne rtoer Book.
Where ramor bath it, fiahea ra
and tiah: from early morn till sight,
With not a thing to cat and chink,
. , And nerrr get a aingle bite-
It never fafla that . eomeene'a there.
Soma amiling chnmrt, who'a aura to aay:
"I cneaa there' nothln' doln' her
l'oa ought f beam here yeetorrtai I"
?-. Buffalo New.'
' Uncle Jeff Snow Says
The Pro hi chaps uster be considered
Iuney cranks a few years ago. and
harmless at that. Then the friends and -
rouerers or jonn Barleycorn woke up to
their bein' dangerous, and also some
what respectable. Finally them Prohis
got one state after another and it was
too late to put aU the Protals in the
iuney houses. First thing we knowert
Uncle Sam had kicked . John outer the
White House entirely and outer the Cap
itol bulldin' next. Now he is goln' to his
own funeral hollerln "murder" at every
step. John was as over confident that
nobody could ever do him up, say about
ten years ago, as a whole lot of our land '
speculators air now.
The ; News in Paragraphs
World Happenings Briefed for Benefit!
( of Journal Readers
U ' 1 GENERAL
A cloudburst at Ravenna,' Neb., Mon
day caused damage estimated at
1100,000. v .. ' . -'. , -;
v Former GovernorGorte of New Jersey
has been elected chairman of the federal
trade commission for the i term of one
year. . -.. '
It Is announced that the $54,000,000
federal 4tt per cent land bank farm
loan 'bonds allotted to New York have
all been sold. .-
Bids for the eals or 15.884.453 cans
of vegetables bought for the army were
opened at Chicago Monday by the gov
ernment quartermaster's department.
After an all night debauch. John
Sowersby of Oakland, Cel., went home
arid began beating his wife, when the
woman whipped out a revolver and shot
him dead,
' Dr. W.. E. Waldo of Seattle was
elected president of Iota Tau Sigma, the
osteopathic medical fraternity, for
1919-20. at the annual banquet in Chi
cago Monday night.
The navydepartment has placed or
ders with West coast concerns for suf
ficient gasoline and fuel oil to supply,
the demands of the large naval force
recently ordered to the Paclf ia
Permission 1 to appeal without cost to
the United States court Of appeals has
been granted American citizens among
the 93 L W. W. convicted in Chicago
last August, for violation of the espi
onage law. ' i
Departure from Ellington field. Hous
ton, Tex., shortly of four De Haviland
battle planes for a flight along the
Tafln mut and thence OOOSlbly a
transcontinental trip, is announced , Try-
the air service. ;
-' ' NORTHWEST NOTES ' "
Voting machines have been purchased
for all of Seattle's 277 precincts, at a
cost of 1900 each.
Heavy snow drifts still blockade Mo
Kenste pass, and tt will be some time
before autos will be able to gat through.
The cherry season in the Lewlston
valley has -reached; a close. The value
of the crop will , reach more Uian
230.000. . . ,-'
All Infant weight records were broken
at Bend Monday when a 14 pound girt
waa born to Mr. and Mrs. George Green
of that city.'.
All the large restaurants In Astoria
are closed as a result of a strike called
Monday night by the cooks and waiters
for an advance in wages.
Khlahaldln peak on Unlmak Island
was in eruption throughout the day of
June 23. according to reports of Alaskan
travelers reaching Seattle.
Thirty men of Camas, Wash., who
were In the service, met Monday night
for the first time to organise a branch
of the American Legion there.
' The Holmes school ' building n Spo
kane waa damaged Monday to the ex
tent of flOO.OOtt by a fire caused by a
hot air balloon which hit on the roof. ,
Henry' CBryan, II years nld. wss
killed by a falling tree at the. Crane
logging camp on Coquille river. He had
worked -but two weeks when he met his
death. , .' :
tone of the largest rural Sunday school
gatherings ever held in I inn county
was that at Waterloo laat Sunday, when
1S00 persons gathered to enjoy the day's
program. .
The strike of mors than 200 employes
of the Spokane packing plants, which
began Monday morning, terminated
with the teturn of the employes to work
I Tuesday morning.
As a result Ot a pudiic meeting roini
held -In a. city pak by alleged radicals,
an ordinance has been paused In hro
kane making pubUo speaking in city
parks a misdemeanor.
Lincoln county will enjoy two novel
celebrations on July 4, one at wlts
which will b4 held by Indiansand the
othes at Waldport, where the girls' ath
letlo club wUl have charge.
Rapid Increase In farm land values
in the vicinity of Bend le shown In the
sale by A. E. Peterson of -hi f60-ecr
ranch for $14,000. He purchased the
property three years ago for $8000.'
A reunion of four generations repre
senting several states will be held July
4 at the home of Mr. and Mrs. F. M.
Klzer near Eugene Mr. KIer and bis
wife crossed the. plains by ox team 60
years ago., . . . .
- Roy Fults, aged JO, and Marvin Wal
den, .18, -confessed at Bend that they
had stolen five bicycles and had Inter
changed, the parts so carefully as to
make recovery of the wheels virtually
Impossible. . ,-:
In response to requests of bsnks of
the state to permit them 'to remain
closed from Thursday night until Mon
day morning. Oovernor JIart of Wash
ington has issued a proclamation mk-.
ing Saturday a legal holiday.
To stop the Jitney business between
Chehalis and Centralia, the Chehalis
city commiswron trtVs passed an ordi
nance forbidding Jitneys or for nire cars
making tripe over National avenue oft
ener than two trips each 4 hours. ,
Thrift Ideally Is Only
- Intelligent Saving
(Storlea of echterement in the accumti
letioa of War SaTtna Ktanpe. aent to 1 He
Journal and anrepted : for publication, wnl
be awarded e Thrift Biamp.
. Thrift is simply the application of
Intelligence to expenditure, says Dr.
Frank Crane. It does not mean only
saving. - It does not connote skimp
ing and penny pinching, nisardllne?a
and miserliness. That is often the
most foolish kind of waste waste
of health, of spirits and of the Joy
.of life.'
Thrift means intelligent ependln?.
To spend a dollar now may gave
you $3 next month.
Thrift Stampa and 1919 tVr KaTic;
Stamp D'jU.co at usual a. -n.