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THE OREGON DAILY JOURNAL; PORTLAND. THURSDAY, -JULY 3, 1019. 3 3BBb" AH INDEPENDENT KKWSPAPEB C. B.v JACKSON j .. . . .Fnblishe mblfshed ' every asy.- afternoon an orntn feteept Sunday tftoMMi), a The Journel . HuiMing. H roadway and YemlnU street. 1'ortUnrf. Oregon, - '.Entered at th I'ostoffic at. Portland, Oreson. for tranroissknthrouglg the ssails fctcoml . . .. i I ' I,Kl'HONES Main 7178: Ho. A-S051. ATi department veaehed toy time ai6J .'.. 'n 4irrniMit Villi.. WCI1L Class matter. -v . 4 ICIt 111 MJWI SWS vesseaa Mwy t - kOHKItiS ADVERTISING BKPRE8ENTATTVB Iter.Jain.ft ft Kntor Co., J-" "V'?: U25 k-fftb avenue, New Tork; 00 Mailer Krnldin. Chicago: ' fcubrrtpUoo tcrrian by nail, or to any adarea In .v the Lnited Scute or Mexico: -' JMU.Y. (MOHNINO OB AFTEKSOOS) On )esr $s.00 One month $ .SO ST7XDAT. , fine year 82.50 4 One month. .. . .8 .25 1'AILY (MOBNINO OR A FTEBNOON ) AND SUNDAY 'One year ... .17.80 f One month.. ... -68 It 1 not the Almighty, but we who ere I reporo ible for the,, vice end misery that - fester amid our civilisation. The Creator : showers upon us bis gifts more than ' enough for alL But like iwioe scrambling for food,' we tread them in the mire tread them in the mire, while we tear and rend each other 1 Henry George. HIS THREAT i WILL leave . the Republican party the " moment it stands for the League of Nations," ex claimed Senator Brandegee of Connecticut, in a speech in the sen- . ate Tuesday. ' "-All that, was gained in battle In the would war was the, overthrow of Prussian militarism. - Nothing was settled on No Man's Land except that the armies of America and the allies were stronger than the armies of the two kaisers. , Was it only for that poor end that : we contributed our dead and spent our billions? If that is' all the Dene f it -we are to get out of it, why did we go to' war? , Were we not -fighting for the re moval forever of the menace of Prus sian militarism r w Was not the slogan of thaV war from the moment we entered it until :the Germans laid down ttheir arms, the declaration that we were fighting vto make "democracy safe"? How-can we remove the Prussian military menaoi and kill the terrible Prussian ; formulas forever if we agree with Senator Brandegee that everything was settled whn the tv. t kaisers fled and their "armed forces laid down their arms?. - After the Revolutionary war we adopted the constitution and organ ized the league of colonial states, which; we call the United States. That was' done to make secure at which had been won In- battle. - After the Civil war we passed the " fourteenth, and fifteenth amendments under which to secure forever the fruits for which the" war had been fought and won. After the Spanish war we passed the Piatt amendment guaranteeing ; the, liber ty of Cuba and began . the work ; of preparing the Philippines for independence by educating them and . reconstructing .them for the . duties of self government War itself r settles 'nothing. - It is what is required-in the peace treaty and what is done subsequent to the victory to. carry the spirit, of the conflfct Into- practical effect, that settles things. . That , is , why, after every war, America, as a constructive and prudential policy, has taken meas ures to make secure in peace that .which won In battle. t It was good Republicanism in 1865 to frame and pass the . amendments " which made secure that won in the Civi war. I t was good Republicanism in 1899': to guarantee the liberty of Cuba and reconstruct' the Philippines ' to . make secure that won in the Spanish war. It. was under Republi can presidents and Republican con gresses that those steps were taken But when there is proposed through the League of Nations to make secure that , won in the latest and most terrible war, just as was done through Republicanism In J.865 and 1899, Mr. Brandegee says:, "I will leave the Republican' party the mo ment It stands for the League of Nations." k But one conclusion is possible: Sen ator "Brandegee's Republicanism is not the Republicanism of Lincoln. It is old guard Republicanism. Putting the price of postage back ' to , two .: cents . deprived a lot- of lazy correspondents of their best excuse. FOR PEACE AND PROSPERITY f-HE, peace treaty, signed by all T parties to both sides of the world controversy,. stand3 as a period at the close of what has been the most stupendous paragraph writ ten In world '..istory: For the-past four . years - the .people of the earth fiave.' been writing that paragraph , in blood, and toil and terror. It is ended and the task ' of i writing the next succeeding paragraph has begun. . -. ' i - Just as the last, has been ' the darkest in the annals of the world, ha should the next to come be the brightest War and its horror , has become an . uneasy dream so far as future ; years ' are concerned. -No more should 'the ambition of one man or set of men, autocratically exerted, be able to, . turn whole nations into armed camps and en tire countrysides . into cemeteries. The next paragraph ; ought to deal with world peace, world develop ment and world prosperity. In the writing of It America should take high position. That she is trying to do ' through the League of Nations. It is effort to organize the whole world for rest, - peace and ' pros perity, ; , Next Saturday la also to bt a legal holiday, by reason of Governor Olcott's proclamation. . It Is an ex traordlnary Fourth. It is a Fourth in which all j the world is touqhed by the American Idea. It is a Fourth with ;many new republics, fashioned after the American model, tt is occasion for world rejoicing and for double time of rejoicing in this land of free institutions and free government. ; AS THE AD CLUB VIEWS IT IP THE usual atmosphere of the Portland Ad club could only, be made all Portland atmosphere all the time, Portland could not be stopped. And At would be & wonderful thing if the atmosphere of that - -club yesterday could' be an all Portland atmosphere every day. . SeveraU hun dred men at i the luncheon of : the club yesterday saw deeply and resented the discrimination against the Columbia ' gateway and Portland in the existing railroad rate struc ture. , v It was a whole roomful of. quiet but resentful indignation over , In justice, practiced against the Colum bia basin and against the Columbia route, an injustice that is to be tried out at the Portalnd rate hearing, July 21. x - The speakers were H. B. Van Duser, Arthur, Callan and. City At torney LaRoche, and the indictment they presented, though brief, was irresistible. Larry Hodges of the Oregonian, though but informally on the program, presented important facts. v Here, for example, is a fact offered In the discussion by Mr. LaRoche: The latest, most powerful locomo tive yet produced is used on the mountain' divisions on the -lines to Puget Sound. It is known as the Z3, and is the most highly intensified product of locomotive construction. It can pull only 1250 tons of freight up the grades and -around the sharp curves of these mountain divisions. A greatly inferior locomotive in use on .North Bank trains between Pasco and 'Portland pulls 4600 tons of freight through the Columbia gate way from the interior to Portland. There yov have the issue. There you have one of The powerful facts that; aroused resentment at the Port land Ad club yesterday. An inferior locomotive can pull into Portland from the interior nearly four times as much freight as the best loor- motive yet produoed can pull over heartbreaking grades to Puget Sound. And, to make the matter final and authentic, the facts are taken from railroad records, and are indisputable. If there ever was a just cause, if there ever' was an effort worthy of whole hearted and ' united support. that cause Is the case of the Inland Empire .hippers In the coming rate hearing. it would be a splendid thing if the Ad club, with its highly intelli gent and resourceful membership, would , set out to make its at mo-, sphere of yesterday an all Portland atmosphere. V would be a great prize and a great triumph to win for this city and the other Columbia river cities the , ' rights in transportation the same as our fathers won their rights to free government more than a cen tury ago. Is there any connection between the recent elevation of the price of gasoline and the cost of the numer ous new filling stations under con struction In various parts of the city? THE WALLA WALLA WARDEN m PENITENTIARY mav h a noon. a liar institution in which to take J . wa. ,' . i jn-jue. it uepenas upon tne management. .The population of such a place is not a source of pride, but the institution Itself, in its structure and its conduct, may be. Walla" Walla has such an institu tion, and in . the person of Warden Drum, such a management. Oregon is proud or its state hospital and of the highly efficient manner in which it has been j maintained and con ducted in past years by Dr Steiner and his staff, x. Cregon people know what has been done at that institu tion, and, knt-.ving . that, they can easHy j icturo what has been , done by Warden Drum with the Wash ington x state .penitentiary at Walla- walla. Old. fashioned in its con struction it is still maintained in a sanitary and spotless manner. There is not a weed in tlie half section of land on which- it centers, nor is there a waste place left unproduc tive, j ; Doubtless the Oregon penitentiary under the administration . of nr. Stelner, : will t soon reach as ' ;.igh a plane or efficient management as that shown at Walla Walla. " Dr. Steiner needs no model other than his achievements at the state hospiUL How. could b." man, sane or crazy, take a hatchet and chop to death hiii wife and children ? How could his mind jump suddenly from the realm of sanity to insanity, .from proper discharge of his usual aftd important duties to' a fiendish lust for the blood of bis own- children? Was there a long struggle to sup port his family that culminated suddenly in -dethronement of his reason? - Was there a hereditary taint? There should be scientific analysis of such' cases. i This one is so abnormal as to challenge metre than passing attention. HELP VANCOUVER wvvIIEN the war came Vancouver Ml proved Us ability to meet the U h needs of the government. Van ' couver barracks became. . the headquarters of the 30,000 men en listed in the , spruce production di vision. Because of manifest . trans portation advantages over Pugc Sound, ' Vancouver became the .site of the spruce cut-up. plant, the great est of -its. kind in T the world. The great Standifer shipyards ?,were lo cated at Vancouver and smaller ; in dustries served purposes linportant to the war ; there. Vancouver is the northward extension of Portland on the Washington shore of ; the Co lumbia. Or, if the Vancouverltes dis like such a definition of the related concerns of the two - communities, Portland, Js the southward extension of Vancouver on the Oregon side of the Columbia. ' If Portland Influence and Portland" arguments win favorable action on a project for a 35-foot channel from Portland to the sea, . the same influ ence should be applied In favor of a 33-foot channel from the mouth of the .Willamette ,to Vancouver., A tentative survey, to be accomplished this summer by the United States engineers, contemplates . a measuring of the cost and desirability . of a 33-foot channel project between Port land and the sea, but only a 30 foot channel from the mouth of the Willamette to Vancouver. The subject Is now In the hands of the United States engineers. They have asked; for the arguments sup porting the 35-foot project to Port land. Now is the time for Portland and Vancouver to join hands and work, for mutual' development, ; - '. 1 1 " - M-' t The Journal is the only . paper that makes an annual survey of the grain crop of the Oregon country. The accuracy of the reports of its market editor, Hyman Cohen, has come to be widely recognized,, al ways tallying up closely with the figures of the final harvest. The survey is now in. progress, and will be reported from day to day in the paper. The Journal is not only a paper for all the people but, with its market reports and agricultural pages, serves especially the great agricultural Industry, the basic In dustry of the Northwest. CATCH JOHN COWERS ALL people with a sense of Jus tice in Ineir hearts will Jiope for the speedy return of John Connors to the penitentiary, where he; evidently belongs. The man who breaks into a house to steal is bad enough, but not so bad as the -wretch' who stoops so far as tc traffic in the suffering and sor row of aged parents as Connors did' when he traded his false promises of 'pardon vto the parents of William Branson, who is now serving a life sentence for murder ' But .the incident again teaches, the lesson so often sought to be Im pressed od the public by . the state agencies dealing with the' parole and pardon ' of men' under sentence in the state prison. ' Paroles or pardons may not be bought directly or Indirectly. Rela tives or ' friends of convicts, or the convicts themselves, need no attorney and no outside Influence to bring their cases to the favorable attention of the parole board or of Jhe gov ernor. All such cases are takenup in their proper time and place, con sidered' and luefcided on their merits. Hired attorneys do no Kood and can yield no returns for the ' retainers they demand. ' . It would be! well if people were to understand jthat tais is true. It would guard jthem from , the ap proaches of unscrupulous men, would save their money and spare : their feelings. ! If Mr. and Mrs. Branson were not aged and Infirm their gullibility might afford some amusement. But they are well past the meridian of youth .nd : can ill afford to lose. Their misfortune is one ..they can with difficulty afford to bear. 7 TLe capture of ?, Connors will not bring about the return .of the money, but satisfaction only, -which, at the best. Is dry fodder; ,- The salary advance at the, city halt la understood to be ah emerg ency measure vto enable employes to meet the s ever increasing cost'bf living. On such a basis ft is diffi cult to see how any other - than a flat advance could be applied. Bacon comes as high to a low salaried man as to a high salaried man. If there are cases where advances should be made - on efficiency, . they .can' be applied later. - DOT HATE wllEN you want.' to shoot or J! choke or beat a- person and u J. can't, what should you do? Laugh, advised Dr. John ; H. Boyd, in his farewell t message to the Rotary, club Tuesday. "Laughing is fine sport," was the confidence conveyed from the experience of the man who has reached rarely attained altitudes in theological exposition and now , goes to point, out - tne heights to stuJents for the ministry. He wffb forgets to pack a sense or humor Into his grip for the Journey across, the little patch , of territory called life,, makes .a great mistake. There are- - those with whom you cannot quarrel , even if -they makej you madA enough to... fight. Laugh at them. Laugh at yourself. , You will live longer and more rjchly. t The man who " laughs ' is - never lonely, 'ins man who laughs finds it hard to hate. The man who laughs takes a tonio for his body, mind and soul. The mart who hates Jaundices all of his life with self -created poison., Laughter goes with : fellow ship and friendllnecj. Hate goes with the sneer and the turling lip. Better laugh. s FROM POTSDAM TO THE POTOMAC Senate Reactionaries In Line to Keep . - . Pruasianism Alive . From the New' Tork World '. ' The failure of the two peace confer ences at The Ha true was followed by In creased armaments, heavier taxation for the support of armies and navies and growing suspicion among nations until at lensth the world was Involved Ui a. devastating war. For the failure at The Hague as Tor the war useii imperial Germany was responsible. It la certain that It the League or na tions, many of its objects being the same as those so powerfully advocated at The Hague, Is to fail, armament will proceed on a scale never before Known. For that' failure and all Its consequences the obstructionists of the senate are pre paring to. assume the responsibility, we suppose. Standing- by itself, one of the most humiliating conditions imposed upon Germany at - Versailles Is the severe limitation of its military and naval forces. This would amount to a denial of v sovereignty were it not for the fact that by the covenant of the League of Nations the allied and associated powers agree to adopt for themselves the same policy that they have forced upon Ger many. ; . m When The Hague conferences failed to do away with war and Its costly bur dens the world was highly organised. industrially and commercially, and Im mensely rich. If the League of Nations is to fall, its results will, have' te be borne by a world distracted as never before in modern days, groaning under debt and taxation, with credit almost exhausted and threatened on all skies by agitation that Is violent if not revo lutionary. The Question before the senate differs little from that presented at The Hague in 1899 and again in 1907. It is militar ism vs. peace. Senators may say( and their understudies throughout the coun try may echo them, that they are u much opposed to war as anybody; but when . their arguments are compared with those of Germany at The Hgue they are found to be the same. The war lords In- Berlin talked peace at The Hague, but they voted against peace. They professed to abhor war. but they were preparing for war and they never failed to -vote in favor of war. It is not exactly a declaration of war that the United States senate is . now considering, although it Is doing its best perhaps to prolong the present war. What the senate has in mind is the same thing that the military party of Ger many had In mind at The' Haguei To defeat the league of Nations is to d-' dare In favor of. war on general prirH cipies or war at any time, and war Tor all time. This is the very essence of the Prus sian militarism that selfgoverning na tions shot ,to death on the battlefields of France and Belgium. How shall the United States profit by its lavish ex penditure of life and treasure to ac complish this end if the citadel of the evil is merely to be transferred from Potsdam to the Potomac? Leading Up to the Exploit of Transatlantic Flying From the Philadelphia Public Ledger. "It is conceivable," wrote Waldemar Kaempffert in 1911. "that there will be airplane liners which will travel from Europe to America in 24 hours." ; Benjamin Franklin, who closely re ported the aerial experiments he viewed in France in 1783, wrote:' "The improve ment in the construction and manage ment or tne Dauoons had already made a rapid progress, and one .cannot sav how far it may go. A few months since the idea of witches riding through the air upon 1 a broomstick and that of philosophers upon a bag of smoke would have appeared equally Impossible and ridiculous. These machines must al ways be subject to be driven by the winds. Perhaps mechanic art may find easy means to give them progressive motion in. a calm, and to slant them a little in the wind." A. V. Roe said In 1911: "I certainly think, before ' another 20 year s have passed we shall be crossing the At lantic in about 18 hours by airplane." "I do think," said Claude Grahame- White, "that the Atlantic will be crossed by an airplane In a few years' f time. When Psay this I think I am Indicating the confidence that I have in the Imme diate future, because such a feat will require a very remarkable machine to perform It." Edgar Allan Poe in his day fooled many, a reader in ' the New York Sun wltA his story. "The Balloon Hoax." which bore the headlines "Astounding News by Express, via : JNorfolkiv The Atlantic Crossed in Three Days! Slemal Triumph of Mr. Monck Mason's Flying John B. Moisant, i the American avi ator who was killed on the last day of 1910.' believed : that the - transatlantic flight would b accomplished, within" live years. . The first study of the atmoanhere and the air currents of . the North Atlantic from the point of view of the airman is to the honor of A. Lawrence Rotch of the Blue Hill , observatory . in Massa chusetts and his assistant, . Andrew Fanner. . in their "Charts of the At mosnhere for Aeronaut anil . ivi.H" published In 1911. it Is written : - . - "Given a dirigible balloon capable of sustaining a speea or zs miles an hour and remaining four days at an altitude of half a mite qualifications not yet lumneaj, ue Atlantic, ocean can be crossed In summer, in either direction, in one. or two dsys less time than hv the fastest steamship. Were St. Johns; N. V the starting point, the time xnigm oe reaucea to three days. During the summer fair weather.; with few storms, prevails over the North At lantic, and this route Is above the; fog." It was in 1918 that Lord Northcliffe offered the 850.000 prlie-of the London Daily Mail for the first transatlantic flisht by airplane within 78 hours, from the United States, Canada or New foundland to Ireland or Great ' Br its in. It was permiesable by the terms of the offer to alight on the water or to take on ruei en route. Walter Wellman's 1 attentat in dirigible "America' started at Atlantic City October 15, 1910. , When th at-. I ship was abandoned and its occupants took refuge on the Trent they had -been in the air 71 $4 hours and had covered a distance Of 1008 mires. On 'July 2. 1912, Meivln Vaniman (who had been Wellman's engineer and his crew of four perished in an explosion which de stroyed his larger and more powerful dirigible, the "Akron." It Is a dramatic circumstance that the monstrous dirigible that went to New foundland should have been swept, out to sea and lost on the eve of the mag nificent accomplishment of the cam parativery diminutive seaplanes. Letters From the People rCofnmnnicattana eent to . Th Innmal foe raouoeuon in Hue department nu)d be nu en ounr ne wi nf tii- mmt. eiwuiwi nil ciammi 3oO word, in Icnetb. and asset be aisned toy Che tmter. wtrnna matt eddreaa in fnu eauel aacota PBDjf Ue .ccntrUmttom. J The Way of Man With Woman . Portland. June 80. -To the Editor of The JournalMany persons accept liter any the Bible version of the, creation of the world, and believe it was built in six days. Science relates an orderly un folding of -nature, a slow process of evo lution covering many centuries. Thus alt life developed correspondingly to the earth's growth. Darwin claimed the race sprang, from a few primitive types, and no scientist has disproved "his theory ot evolution. As far back as it has been ' possible -to : : trace humanity, a Semblance of family life Is found, in a monogamous state, where women, were dominant socially and - economically, Scientists refer to this as the maternal system, i ChUdren's relationship was traced on their mother's side only, and property descended along the same line, The transition from this system to the paternal system had several causes, the chief of which - was the development of war. in which women were captured, by opposing clans -and made slaves and concubines. After a time the men of all clans saw how convenient it was .- to have women in a subjected state, so they began to enforce it right in their -own clans, and woman, with her weaker physique was too busy bearing and raising babies to fight her case an other example of "might makes right.' The , second cause was the rise of an cestor worship. As the male in his course of murder rape and plunder was considered more heroic, he naturally became the dominant figure in the fam ily life, and there are evidences that he used 'his physical strength as well as the power-of superstitions to maintain this position. , Then came polygamy, with Its .degra dation of women and a total disregard for her feelings ; for she is a jealous creature, as well as the male. No high regard for the feelings of woman is con sistent with polygamy. Man realised the value of fixing up the Bible to help his own case, and so woman's abuse and degradation, trails down throuxh long and dreary centuries. Even Herbert Spencer once said : "In all the history of life the saddest thing is the way women have been treated.' The revelations of science must . be rather disconcerting to students of old theology. Men have dictated to the mothers of the race too long. - They have made her what they willed. Some witty writer has said: "Like Strassberg geese, which are put into coops and stuffed' until they are all liver, so man has put woman in a coop and made her all temale." Jin editorial in a magazine has said "Let us elevate sex." Now, I would say, let's forget sex for a a while. " We have over-erophaat2ed sex as it is. Let's simply be human beings for a while ; which ' means being more : wholesome. Most men can't took at a woman without seeing a female instead or a woman. Sex teems to be uppermost in mind. Why can't they think of her as a hu man being, the mother of the racer The fact that the sexes dress so differently emphasises this condition. A man once wrote: "Women are required to clothe their bodies in cumbersome garments that are not only freaky and uncomfort able but fairly scream the advertisement, 'female within.' " Man wants her to spend her tiifte looking attractive and seductive. He demands he to be zasn lonable and affected. He has made con ve-itions for her to follow, for he won't let her be natural, , as ha thinks being perfectly natural is unladylikle un- Strassberg gooselike. ; Science reveals to us that everything has its reaction, every act Its compensa tion, so, considering the past in the light of science, we will look for the ruture to bring woman's emancipation and a final' reckoning. A WOMAN. Tne Cleveland Bond Issues ' Portland, June 26. To the Editor of The Journal Much is oeing said anci done ; against our president, mostly oe raiisa he haooens to be a Democrat. Now can you teU me what was the condition of the treasury gold reserve when Mr. Cleveland was elected to his second termT Were the plates already ens-raved for a bond issue under Ham son, or not? And who Is most to blame for: the Shard times during Cleveland's second termT In bit "Fort Team of American Finance" Alexander Dana Noree say: "By the close of January fl88) the treasury sold reserve had fallen to figure barely eight million over the tecal minimum (of $100,000,000). With Feb ruary's early withdrawals even larger. Secretary! Foster so far lost hope of warding off the crisis that lie care orders to prepare the engraved plate for a gold issne under the Keumption act. As a last resort, however, he bethought him-: aelf ot Secretary ,Manning'a gold borrowing op eration of 1S8S. In February Mr. Foster came In person to New Tort to urge the bank to rfTe P gold voluntarily in exchange for the treasury's legal teader : surplus. This, with same email amounts still paid through the costoms revenue, was enough ' to keep the treasury afloat until March 4, when the entire problem could be turned over to the new execu tive (Cleveland). To hi successor In th treas ury, Mr. Foster left exactly $100,082,410 in the gold reserve, and barely 825,000.000 is other forms of monej'." Correction as to "Lime Priee . Portland, June 28. To the Editor of The Journal In The Journal yesterday it was stated in a news dispatch from Corvallts that lime for agricultural use was selling at 8260 a ton in car lots. Is the state still running the lime plant, or has the job passed Into private hands? This price is something awful. ' '. , . . , W. D; ROBERTS. , (The figures that appesred in the news arti cle mentioned was palpably a typographical error. It should have Veen "82.80 a. ton."j . Asks "Amos" for More Light . HHlsboro, June 3d. Observing how "Amos,"' In his letter under the caption "Shifting Theologies.',, gives a truthful answer i to an Albany correspondent, would he not oblige me by disclosing the "unshifting theology" on which he re lies? ! CHARLES STRIKWERDA. - Candidates for 1320 ' Athena, June 2s.-To the Editor of The Journal General Vanderbilt has been suggested as candidate "for vice president on the Republican ticket In 1920. This is a very timely suggestion. General Vanderbilt. we know, came from the lower-walks of life and won all his distinction through dint of hard work and selferellafice. His career has -been one of arduous endeavor and patient and soeady advancement, and It Is very fitting indeed that he should now be rewarded by such honorable recognition. All we need now Is a man of the right calibre for president someone who has come from the .strenuous walks of life. Sorely the soil is prolific in fur nishing much good material to select from. ' As soon as the- golf season Is over and the yachting season Is given over to winter parties, perhaps wmt of our gifted eons, such as an Astor, a Morgan, a Guggenheim, or a John D, Jr.. can be Induced to, apply his busy mind to the tangled question of politics, and some one of them accept the mantle of distinction. Democratic America is COMMENT- AND : SMALL CHANGE , TCftthlna! ! !! fan nnl1r1w' mm m in the case o a straw hat. A prominent European musician has fled to the Alos to find m. refusro from the wrath of his jealous wife. Looks as though' Mount Hood were overlooking an opportunity for some publicity - All the heroes are' not coming across the water. There's the member of con gress who introduced a , resolution "smoking out" all members ' who have relatives In the government service. , .. . A physician says driving an automo bile will increase the girth of the chest about one inch .every two years. 'Re garding the decrease In the girth of the driver's pocketbook -no - wordis said. - OBSERVATIONS AND IMPRESSIONS ; OF THE JOURNAL MAN By Fred tin his capacity as Haroun al Baschid Mr. tockley does not disguise himself and so prowl ing, about for adventures. iNoj he lust sits still and leU the adventure eosbe questing, a tb nagasin poet call it. The Arabiaa Might peo ple hava It oa Ir. Loekley is one respect, how-ever.- for Uey go oa to the concluding -episode in all that Bagdad stuff, . whUe his vanish as swiftly aa they come, and you don't- get how anything turns out) V Some of these days, when my ship comes in and I have plenty of time, I am going to write a book. I will call it "Fellow Passengers." Some of the most Interesting Characters X have met have been those with whom I have been fellow passengers. I have met these fellow passengers in tanks and in air planes. In observation balloons and in army trucks, in camions and lorries, in launches and sailboats, on transports snd Atlantic liners, by train and by stage coach, and in various other ways. Some time ago, while a westbound pas eengerson a day coach, I noticed a young 'woman board the train at one of the smaller stations - in the Inland Empire. . She seemed very much dis turbed i and walked up and down the aisle ; several tunes before finding a seat- Presently she came down the aisle again, to the end of the car, and as she returned I noticed she. was study ing , each passenger closely. When she cams to my seat, she stopped and said, "Will -you please move over? - I want to sit with you." I have always made It , a practice to meet adventure half way, and so, without question, I moved over. ''-'.-i She sat down, and said, 'I want to ask your advice about a very Important matter." "Go ahead," I said; "I am all attention." "Before I ask your advice, X must make a preliminary statement," she sard. "I am so much upset that I must have the advice of someone whose mind is clear and In whose Judgment I have confluence. I have sized up all of the passengers in the car and I feel that I would rather trust you than any one else here. I am a trained nurse. I have two children. One Is three years old and the other five. I was married when I was 17 years old. My husband was a boozeflghter. When he was sober, he was very good to me, but a great deal of the time he was not sober. Just before- getting aboard the train I re ceived a telegram from a man I have known for some time, in which he said he was taking the next train, and as soon as : he arrived ' he would secure a license and a minister and we would be married. I was panic-stricken. I did the first thing that occurred to me. and that was to buy a ticket to the next station, get aboard the train and get away, i What do you think ! should do? Op you think I ought to go back and marry him?" . : To answer this question seemed like a pretty large order, soi l said, "Do you lovi him? Does he love you? Does he care fqr your , children? Canyou - be happy with him? Is he warning a salary that will support you?"i "Yes, I believe I love him." she said. "He Is very fond of -my children, and they are fond of him. I believe he would be good to them. Having had one unfortunate experi ence, I dread to give up my present in dependence for the uncertainty of mar ried life.: On the other hand, my child ren need a father. I am often desperately lonesome for a home of my own. He is steady and reliable, and makes plenty of money to maintain a home. But I am afraid to marry him.": . I asked her about the man's anteced ents, his family, whether he was the type of a man that she would select to be the father of her children, and a score of other questions. - As we were talking the brakeman came through and called the station. X said, "You have asked my advice. Here it is: Get off at this station, telegraph to him that you were called 'away but will be back on the next train, and for him to secure the license and get tne minister. Go back and marry him." ' The lines of trouble cleared from her face, and tak ing myl .hand, she said : "You don't know how you have helped me. . I simply had to have someone tell me what to flo. i will do just as you say." r A "moment later th train came to always profuse, as she should be, to her girxeu ana mov nnuvus v.i . k. : r.wsM of virtue Is one of her most distinctive traits. The Democratic party good timber. Whom will they select? i ' F. B. WOOD. . Labor Sesree fa urant County- . From the Canyon City Eatl Labor in Grant county is scarce, hard to get and hard to keep. Wages are high but that seems to make no difference. Farm help is almost out of the question, and many farmers and ranchers are now doing lots of their own work and have less leisure than ever. As a conse quence ' very little -.farm Improvement is going on and only those things that just absolutely have to be done are receiving any attention. Haying is in progress and most of the crews are short handed but worrying along as best they can. . - Qlden Oregon William Barlow Introduced the Wal nut in, the Northwest - . t ' When he arrived In Oregon In 1845, William Barlow1 was . disappointed, to find that there was no nut bearing trees, such as he had known in Illinois. In 1858, through a friend returning to the Kast, he ordered sent -to him by express a bushel of walnuts, of both the white and black varieUea.- When they reached Oregon City, the cost of them amounted to $65. When Mr. Barlow told his wife how much the nuts bad cost him she remarked:- "Well, X declare; I could have got that many walnuts lnlMiesourl for 60' cents." In the shipment there' just 765 'nuts. ' Mr. Barlow and his wife each ate one and be planted the re mainder. About 7S0 sprouted and grew. After transplanting 100 of them Mr. Barlow puf. the remainder on the market at $1.60 each. lie allowed a btg com mtssion to the nursery man who handled them. The whole venture left him a net profit. of $500. Besides,-the 100 trees he reserved formed the long- avenue of walnut trees : which have to this ... day made .the Barlow ,vhome at Barlow a famous landmark. ' ifj . NEWS IN BRIEF OREGON SIDELIGHTS , A new school house will soon be erect ed In district -No. 173, on Siltcoos lake. In Lane county, and an addition Is to be made to th school building at Isotl, - ' .: .' On the eve of the festivities, the Eu rene Register fires this parUng Bhot : r.viT . . . 1 A a. .. a. . A as III wns-ae-sat t f rAIAa i W 9 VVUIU I1SV HtM OV1U ssavaw w .brat if w hd succeeded in petting .. .. . . U , ,1,111 .A . am , V. ,r (11 ins poiea gu nuiamtiw su jj the Fourth.:. v - , The Fourth this year in Harney coun ty is destined to be as sane as it -can be made, for in fact there will be no "rousing' celebration in the towns of the county, according,; to the Crane American, which goes on to say that "at any rate it will be a Victory Fourth, without the wild frills of boundless irre sponsibility that we used to have." Lockley a Btop. she got- off, and I - saw her bead for the telegraph office. I have always been curious as to the end of that story but X never learned. ' . Not long ago, X Woarded- a southbound train at Portland. The porter showed me to my seat in the Pullman. I got out-a magazine and settled myself com fortably to do a little reading. . Just across the" aisle from me was a young woman. She was dressed in excellent taste, and was young and attractive. She started to sharpen a pencil. It fell and -rolled across the aisle toward me. I picked it up, started to return it, and then- said : "If you wish, I will sharpen lit Jfor you." She said, "I wish ; you rwjllllt " Aa T V, n nH. V, nw (K. njtnAll after sharpening it she asked me how far I was going. - I put my book down and we were- soon busy talking. She suggested that I come over and sit In her seat, where" we could talk with greater ease. She was bright, intelligent and well Informed. I said, ' "I- am glad you happened to drop your pencil, other wise you would have still been reading your paper and I my book." - e e '.-'''A'- - She gave me a curious smile and said. "You don't know women folks very well, do you?" I asked her what that had to do with it, She said, "Why, I dropped that pencil purposely, and took very good pains that it' should fall your way. I rather liked your looks and wanted to talk to you. -. I want to ask your advice about something, I want to put a hypothetical question to you. I want you to think carefully before you answer. Suppose you were a young woman of about 27. Suppose there was a first lieutenant stationed at Vancouver, by the name of Bob. Suppose Bob loved you as well as you loved him and had asked you to marry him. and you had consented. Suppose Bob's chum, the captain of his company, cams to you and said: "Bob Is an only son. . His parents are very wealthy. If he marries you, he will be handicapped for the rest of -his life. You are a divorced woman. You don't, exactly want your record gone into too carefully by the wives of the other of fleers with whom you will be associated. If you marry Bob, his career in the army will be wrecked. He will not stand It to see his wife humiliated by the wives of his fellow officers, so .he will resign. The government has spent a lot of money educating , him at West Point. Do you love him enough to give him up for his own good? You will have to da it in such a way that he will think you are tired "of him. Otherwise . he never will give you up.' - ..... "Now,, suppose you were a young wom an of 21 and that, all of the facts are as stated what would you do?" I didn't stop long to decide that question. I said, "If I had had one unhappy ex perience and was divorced, and if X was this girl and -found a man that ! could love and respect, a man who would make me happy and make k me forget the un happlness of the past, s. man that I could be good to. and make happy, -1 would marry him. t What are you going to dor She t said, "You are right. I am the one, and I love Bob more than I ever thought I could Jove anyone, and he loves me just as much as I love him. Because I do love him so much snd be cause I don't ' want to wreck his. ca reer, and be a stone around his neck to drag him down, X have written him that I find that X was mistaken, that I do not love him, and there is no good of his taking any action in the mat ter, - because I am going to San Fran cisco to marry a man I love, one who has cared for . me ever since J. was a girl. "Yes, it is a lie. all right. There isn't any,' such man, but Bob thinks too much of me to interfere with what he believes is my happiness. At first, I thougltt X would accidentally fall in the river, or take cyanide of potas sium by mistake, but that would bring him so much unhapplness that I decided hot to do it. Sometimes it seems that life is a - problem to which there is no answer." I got off at my station, and X have never seen ' nor heard of my fellow passenger since that day. - Curious Bits of Information For the Curious - . Gleaned From Curious Places ' "The average length of lire in the six teenth century was 21 years. It is now 45 years. But today in India, where living condiUons greatly .resemble those of medieval times, the average length of' life still -is only 24 years. Through better knowledge and sanitation, medi cal science has doubled the Span of life In the civilized world within less than 100 "years. : ' Transcends Party ' Interests . From the Eugene Guard . There are plentiful signs that thou sands of American me and women both wifhin and beyond the pale of political parties have approved and are heeding President Wilson's request - that , the League of Nations be not considered as a partisan issue. Former President Taft, former Attorney General Wlckersham and former Senator Burton of Ohio are among the notable Republicans who are urging ratification of the league by the United States senate, but they are not alone in this advocacy. Reports from every section of the country show that men and women who doubtless havs political preferences are subordinating these to their love f country ; that their concern itor peace In the -world, now and hereafter, transcends their regard for names and slogans of parties. The league has been the subject of many Indorsements by organizations representing almost every sort of Interest and ..activity commercials . Industrial, economic, civic and patriotic. In the membership- of these organizations there must have been men and women of dif ferent and dissident political views, but they, seem to have been one , In their belief that the League, of Nations Is art Insurance against -war,' and one also in their wish to establish it without delay. Hostile senators may continue to at tract attention by the4o-voclferous op position, but their din is no measure of the league's popularity. There are thou sands still -silent who -rfwill ex preps themselves in a voice of thunder when they know the time has come. Ragtag and Bobtail iStories from Everywhere Safe From Profiler, Anyway rpo FIND our what life in-the efono ' - age was.' like, a Norwegian named Smadburg i.-r going to take up that nun'o of living this month in a great Scandi navian foreat, which he will enter with out clothing and armed only with a stone ax. a flint, a tew stone arrow tips and fishhooks and considerable advlcn from Swedish scientists, says Cupper's Weekly. The moving picture men will camp on his trail, but he wilt cwipo from the profiteers entirely. - The Simple Lire . My tastes are simple, I admit. Each day my every wanaijmppUea. I never had desire to sit - , In councils- of the great and wise. As happy as a king I'd stand - If I but owned right here and sow A btisy city acre and A hundred thousand dollar cow.- . t "'.-. ',. ' - j No dainty viand ever " tempt , My palate or ray porkethonk; From costly habits I'm exempt. Kxtravaaanee still gets, the hook. -- - Just let me loiter. In the- shads .. And chew my erut of bread until .: I've sensed the taste of butter made From milk at fifty plunk a gill. Ah, life la still as fine as silk ' Or bank account without a doubt A pipe, a book, a elans of milk (What is there left to dream about f xea.bol For gloom: there's no excuse. ' The .atmpl life is mine, I vow An acre, say, at Tenth and Rprure; vj, - .A hundred thousand dollar cowl Thuadelhia Evening ledger. ' Uncle Jeff Snow Says: OF Course we're all "a-gom to the Fourth," as folks say ; but what with so many . places to go. to and so many ways of gittln there, I reckon we'll be divided up considerable around the Corners. I alius wished fer two Fourth" o' Julys when I was a, kid, and now, when I ain't no kid no more,- here they come, 'cordin' to Gov'nor Olcott's procla mation. However, there's a lot of kids that'll enjoy 'em Jlst as much as I would of. Mebby some of us old klda'll enjoy 'em, too. r The News .. in Paragraphs World Happenings Briefed for Benefit ' ' of Journal Readers v . GENERAL Bavaria will have a floating debt of 800,000,000 - marks at the end of this year. : ;., -., , , . Hogs In Chicago' Tuesday commanded . the highest price ever known, $21.75 a hundredweight. More than 1000 of the 1200 clerks em ployed in the city hall, at Chicago have gone on a strike for increased salary. Twelve miners are known to be dead and many more are exencted to die as the result of a mine exjiioston near Mc Alester. Okla. .j,, - Japan is sending reinforcements,-consisting of a brigade of infantry and a company each or cavalry and engineers, to Vladivostok. A fire inside the Imperial Tobacco company s warehouse at Norfolk, Vs., Tuesday .blew the top off the structure and did damage estimated at $1,000,000. ll'A fine of $4500 has been Imposed upon R. i B. Smith, president of the Butte. Mont,. Daily Bulletin company, who was convicted of sedition by a Jury last week. Gold coin valued at $5,715,000 was withdrawn from the subtreasury Tues day for shipment to South America, making f73.b32.Ooo exported since the embargo was lifted. -At ios Angeles Tuesday Mrs. Marie Regassint was shot to death and Nicola Tancredt, a wealthy Italian renident of Pasadena, was found In the same room with a bullet wound through his head. NoxiTHwisaa' notes Contracts for repair work in the bar racks at Vancouver have " been let -. i amounting to $50,000. Little Alice O'Neill of Troutdale won the gold medal for. third grade in Jri recent Victory loan essay contest. Edward Burke, for over 20 years one of the leading merchants In Baker, died at his home In that city. Tuesday. The Standard Oil company will start drilling at its well No. 1, near Mo cllps. Wash., - next week, with three shifts. j - John Hyslop, a young farmer, was found dead Tuesday at his home near Spokane With a bullet hple through the back of his head. . After falling down a stairway, Mrs. Jefferson Wiley of Myrtle Creek be came totally blind .as a result of in juries to the spine. The North Bend Mill te. Lumber com pany and the Buehner Lumber company of North Bend have announced a 10 per, cent increase In wages.. The Cove cherry fair is set for July 17. The crop Is said to be very large and . the fair Is expected to equal that of any held in recent years. The old Clatsop mill it Astoria re sumed. operations Tuesday after a shut down of several months. The plant will employ about 180 men. Lieutenant March Fetters, accom panied by his mechanic. Sergeant Owen' Kissel, flew In his airplane from Sjm. kane to Moscow, IdahoTuesday. Peter Koraeh Is dead and Mrs. Rons Kramich is suffering from stab wound said to have been inflicted by Peter Perkovlch at Seattle Tuesday night. Granges from all over the entire coun ty will meet at Kugene on July 18, when John G. Kletchum, lecturer of the na tional grange, will address the gather ing. William T. Booth, aged 84 and a Civil war veteran, died in Ha) em Tuesday at the home of his daughter, Mrs. Charles V. Calloway, wife of the state tax com missioner. -Commissioners of Clarke county have advertised for bids on the Vancouver- . Battle Ground road, which will be hard -surfaced this summer for a distance of eight miles. Having lost the fight to regain low telephone rates on suburban lanes out of Spokane, rural residents are retaliat ing by having the telephones removed from their homes. There are no new developments in the case of the two men who Monday nlarht held up Charles Car tm ill and W. M. Jar man, near Baker, and relieved them of $150 and other valuables. While D. D. Dickson was carrying the mail Monday, and when he wax half a mile from Homestead, In Baker county, his truck left the grade and overturned. - killing him instantly. It is now said that Ben W. Olcott wrfll not resign as secretary of state, , and will retain his office along with the office of governor until his term of secretary of state expires next year. All precedents of" the Catholic church . have been broken at The Dalles by th resignation of Rev. Father Nooy, priest of St, Petes's church, who has stiven up the priesthood to enter the contracting business."" '...,: !- -T-- Make "Fourth'? Your Own . Independence, Day (Stories of achievement lit the aneumn. taUon of War feavinaa tttaoips. sent to rJ he Journal and accepted for pubUcaUon. wui h be awarded Xhnft Stamp.), Be a signer of your own declara tion of Independence. Put your name today on a War Savings Certificate. Make July 4 your own Independence day. Throw off the shackles which keep you in a rut, or in debt, by sav ing regularly, and Investing safely Jn War Savings Stamps.. Your Interests and- your country's interests are Identical. Money saved and Invested safety expands Indus try and enterprise. It gives you steady employment and . prosperity and makes your country stable and prosperous. Buy W. S, S. ' Thrift Btamps and 1919 Wsr FsvLi-s Stamps now on sa.e at usuid agencies.-