THE OREGON DAILY JOURNAL; PORTLAND. THURSDAY, -JULY 3, 1019.
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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
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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
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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. ;
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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."" '...,:
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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.-