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OLD OR NEW?
IN EVERY forward step, civiliza
tion has had to fight Its way.
Proposal of a new Idea has
ever been the signal for. it to be
resistxL' t '
Christ pCched peace and goodwill
on earth x and was crucified for it.
For new Ideas, since accepted,
Galileo 4 was , sentenced to the
dungeons of the Inquisition, John
Hum - was executed and Columbus
loaded .with contempt and persecu
tion, r .
- Langley had a new Idea and died
of a broken heart because the world
Jeered - at him. But a heavier than
ait machine has flown over the
Atlantic. v . v
: At every step, progress is' assailed
and resisted. Religious liberty came
through the. blood of martyrs. The
aspirations of men for liberty filled
the world with seas of. blood through
thousands of years. Eight million
dead were laid low in Europe in
the late , struggle to. preserve . it. A
new Idea looking to the .betterment
of man has never been accepted and
Tfcot into effect 1 without a struggle.
I" Borah Is - against ; the Idea that it
'is , possible " to organize the world
for-permanent peace. . The resistance
of the , senatorial group to ' that ? new
-idea Ms the same kind of resistance
that burned John Huss to death,' that
crycif'ed Christ, that ; made .Tories
in the American revolution, that
opposed adoption i of the American,
constitution.
The human mind, especially a mind
iu autautcu jceuo, mves iu run la
ruts. It jeers at change. It feeds
on the past It hikis that things
will always be so because they
have ; always been so. V
The Ingersoll watch man had one
Idea. 'Ha enprlmentv1 with a rinlla
camera, a dollar typewriter, ' a -dollar
sowing machine, a dollar printing
press ?i and a dollar . dynamo. . His
family and .friends thought him
crazy. One day in an old junk
store, where he was trying to sell
a bill of. goods, he noticed the small
est clock he had ever seen. Instantly,
it fitted Into his idea of something
that - could be - widely sold for a
; dollar. " Why, could It not be made
'little smaller and be called a
waieh, to be sold for a dollar?
People laughed at him. but Inceri'
sou persisted. In 25 years he has
sold bis dollar watch - to " over 50,
000,000 people. He has more than
,100,000 retailers scattered all over the
world; and his factory Is turning
out dollar watches : at the ' rate of
over. 5,000,000 a year. . v
When electricity was. first d-
vrtnrvM the lano-han-a nnf7
vr v ftA4va .. pvuiici 9
threw up their, hands In holy horror
in never ending warning to all
people.' ''Electricity Is so dangerous,"
they said.. To put wires into our
houses is to Invite the lightning to
come in and . IU us T '
These grief Jdispensersare still with
mo. , ttt tu auYYaja uc. , a lie im
portant- thing to remember is that
those .who laugh the loudest and
scoff thelongest at new ideas are
those ; why have ; never had an idea
of their own. - ;
The United States railway ' mail
service, - which has completely revo
lutionized the postoffice system of
the world, was ridiculed when firBt
jjwscnica . oy uorije Armstrong
-of Chicago, - then assistant post-
idea and offered all kinds of imagin
ary , objections. They, said, "All the
letters will blow out of the oar and
someone -will have to follow1. the
train and pick ? them ' up.' Even
bankers and business men scorned
the ; Idea ' as impracticable. Today
the name of Armstrong may be for
gotten iut muuons or dollars are
invested' in his idea, and more than
20,000 mail clerks are employed In
the - service which his idea developed.
People laughed at the thought, of
flying machines. They . laughed poor
Langley r into Jiia grave., -The idea
was preposterous"- they said, "tor
years the United. States patent office
at Washington refused to eveij con
sider - patent - applications for flying
machines, saying, that the "heavier
thanJalr machines were Impossible;
fBut restless minds worked on and
on. They believed, tolled and experi
mented, and i today the airplane Is
the . fastest mode of looomotlon
known, to man, and Its future Js only
begun.! The'11 whole . story of man
discredits . those who oppose new
Ideas. - '. -
The whole story of man plases the
Borahs, Polndetters and Lodges in
the ranks of those who obstructed
the transition from' the ' old to the
new. - Borah thinks there should be
no League - of Nations . because' there
has never been a League of Nations,
and his ldea Is the idea of most of
the' senatorial opponents of the
league. '
They are In the same category as
those who rejected Christ, who re
pudiated religious liberty, wlfo jeered
at ' Columbus, 1 who burned Huss to
ashes, ; who rejected electricity, who
scoffed at the thought of flying. :
Their kind has Come down through
history opposing resisting, obstruct
ing. If their kind ; of rejecters of
men : had - been strong enough in
numbers ':. the human a race v. neyer
would' have come otit I of barbarism
Into civilization, never . would have
made its way -out of the darkness
of the dark ages into the enlighten
ment of the Twentieth century, never
would have passed from under the
tyranny of the ancient kings into
the free - citizenship now spread
broadly over--the world.
Thelr ' resistance to the . new and
great thought that the nations ean
be organised : for , permanent peace
is discredited and dlsaproved by all
that ihas happened in the .world
since the beginning, by all the phil
osophy of history C 17 the ; best
and highest Intelligence on the earth.
Senator Moses, discussing the
president's senate message on the
peace treaty, rises f to remark : that
It was - "an j appropriate description
of the League of "Nations as an In
ternational come-on ; same, and it
appears to me that any country that
wishes ; to work" the International
badg-er gum will find In the Leagrue
of Nations -the sliding- - panel with
which to operate." Judging from his
diction the senator has not spent all
of his life snuggled away in the bull-
rushes:. ! i-
THE - THOMASES
rnnc; attorney . ior tne unamner or
imbeV
1 Commerce reports that he finds
no Oregon law which sanctions
7 ' t . 1. v ir .ri.
- t w auwivrizes me puuiicnjr cam
paign conducted by the school board
in behalf of ; the recent, badly beaten,
school bond proposal.
The bills j to date for. that cam
paign, as shown by the Inquiry of
the ' Taxpayers League, ? aggregate
13002.09-U the money was not legally
spent by the school board. s should
the i taxpayers bT compelled to ' pay
the bills? :
The legal opinion secured by the
Chamber of . Commerce says:
The policy of the law is to require
of the municipal corporations a reason
ably strict observance ot their powers.
- Why not let the policy of the law
be the policy of the school board?
If the publicity .campaign had no
sanction In law what about School
Director ; Thomas - transcontinental
tour, also at the expense of the
taxpayers? J
School Director Thomas departed
on the Shrine special to attend the
National Education, . association con
vention, then a month away, i In . his
pocket he carried for the expenses
of his trip $600 of the taxpayers',
money. Now .the Taxpayers' Leagup
inquiry brings to light that School
Director Thomas had no formal ap
pointment by the school board as ;
delegate to the, N. E. A. convention.
When, a month before the conven
tion, the Shrine special! was leaving,
School Director Thomas decided to
attend , the convention. So he went
to the school, clerk's office and drew
from the cashier, without waiting
fdf the authority of the board, his
$600 in expense money. ; -
Hera the, question arises : What is
the, school clerk's authority that he
couldi without, order from the board
pay out 600? Is It a mere school
clerk's province to disburse public
funds without order, without vouch
er, without anything?
On , how many other . enterprises is
the. school clerk dispensing - school
money in the same way? -
Is the school elerk the whole "board,
or Is he the school clerk?
Where did his power come from,
and if he has authority to disburse
the - school money at will, why a
school board? "
Between i Director Thomas and
School Clerk Thomas; the Thomases
are highly evidential in Portland
school affairs. - :
Holland, In answering the warning-
of the council of five that it
would be 1 held responsible should
the German . crown prince ' escape
from Jthe jurisdiction of the kingdom
of - the Netherlands, is reported by
the press dispatches "to have been
quite curt" in the tone of its re
sponse.1 Evidently the 'council's
warning got their Dutoh up.
t 1 tons boyd -
i f. v- -
HIS farewell to: his Portland pas
torate will be preached today by
John Boyd. : .
t ' The congregation will" be re
gretfuL The ties of years have been
tenderly knit. ' That pulpit in-Dr.
Boyd's time has been resonant with
purpose service and eloquence.
Clergymen - do not always, have a
sense of humor. A rich .humor Is
lone ot. Dr. Boyd's many
f
virtue. U
flows unbidden at the right time and
in the right place. It Is l: a : trait
that sweetens life, makes men tinder
stand each, other and sharpens the
wits of genius. It has left Its shining
mark In the ties that bind Dr. Boyd's
pastorate to his congregation.
Others than members of his con
gregation - regret that' Dr. 80yd Is
saying farewell to Portland. Very
many' lobk upon It as, s : personal
disappointment- v f ;
Dr. Boyd's pastorate has; reached
out - beyond the : walls of his own
particular church. . He rendered sery
Ice "In the - highways . and byways.
He .tolled , amid worldly ; affairs as
well, as ' amid affairs - divine. - He
threw out ' lifelines as well as mes
sages of -' hope and promise. - ,
Many who have - not .worshipped
with him have been led by his ex
ample and inspired by his compan
ionship. As his - friends &now, his going is
not-' without the same regret to him
that is felt ; by those who remain
behind. It is the changed and light
ened work of the other, field that
made him choose Chicago. .
May his life be of Jull . length and
his powers, go long undiminished. :
' l
"Deplorable., is th word used by
the committee that made a. surrey of
the "Portland waterfront.: Nor la 'It
Uhe kind of a water frTmt for the real
port that Portland seeks to be. It is
& hand-me-down. It may have been
ample for the primitive Portland, but
it ought to go now. If present dilap
idated structures are not . replaced
iith modern' architecture, the busl
ess of the port will gradually move
lower down .the river and property
on the 'present waterfront lose .much
of Its value. , " 6 ' - , -
MR, BRYAN
M'
R. BRYAN is In Oregon.
He Is probably the most pop
ular orator of his time . and of
all time.- No orator has spoken
to so many people or is known per
sonally to somany, people.'. He has
addressed , the v representative : bodies
of 26 nations, the British house of
commons and house of 1 lords among
them. His theme . before them was
self-government with -Its I bid to the
lowly to have hope of a better day.
He has spoken many times and in
many places in every state in Amer
ica. . His oratory has 5 encouraged
plain people and charmed all people
around the world. To all he insisted
that none should . place v the sickle
where she : had not tended or gather
where he had not sown.
Mr. Bryan is more than an orator.
Twenty-three years ; ago he was urg
ing before the people the adoption
of these things:
Tariff reform tariff commission, reg
ulation of railroads, anti-trust legisla
tion, 'trade commission, "Income tax.
currency reform, abolition of the lobby,
campaign contributions; department of
labor, government works en eight hour
basis, popular election ot senators, good
roads, rural crsdltsr parcel post, con
servation, dollar diplomacy abolished,
use of United State money for mov
ing crops,- interest on government de
posits, - federal t compensation act. re
establtehment of merchant marine, pro
hlbltioO , -.v . , . ? ,
? For his advocacyiDf these reforms
Mr. Bryan was jibed with the slings
and arrows of critics. Pew messen
gers in a good cause were ever so
mercilessly caricatured ! and con
demned. . . t . ,:i j; V-V r '
But all these proposals . have be
come the law of the land. One after
another this pioneer; in - their advo
cacy has seen his despised propo
sals accepted j and solemnized by
statute. And all of them are sanc
tioned and sealed with the approval
of a mighty generation.; , t :
Who can tell to what "depths the
efforts of : this one remarkable man
moved the people to. ; this historic
advance to better i government- and
a cleaner; national conscience?
'"- ''yaaaaMaaaawiMaMaMaaawsaAAaa
A member of his staff Is clamor
ous to testify that the German crown
prince' opposed war; that he urged
peace late in 1914, and that he pro
posed it again in ill?. Old anybody
want the .war! i Was everybody
against the war? . Then why did
those serried German columns march
with thundering guns through Bel
gium, and across Luxemburr into,
France? , , 4 ,-
DECLARES - AGAINST THE SOUND
J B., CAMPBELL said recently to
the' Spokane Chamber of Com
meroe; .
PeODle would lust nmcmhur that
a freight rate Is nothing but a ; tax to
maintain -a mgnway rarmea out to pri
vate lnteresu for collection. "We hae
been taxed excessively. , The intermoun
tAtn country has been paying more than
Its share of this tax. That is the present
situation , In a nutshell. , . (
Mr. Campbell is the rate' and traf-
fio expert of the Spokane Merchants
association and of the SnnTtanrn Hham.
ber of Commerce who will' represent
of the Columbia basin rate case
to " be heard before the Interstate
commerce - Commission ; at ' Portland
on July 21 j .-,
He had Just returned from Wash
ington, where he had been sent in
the Interest of rate - adjustments de
sired by Spokane.' Hia remarks are
peculiarly pertinent because theyvun-
aouiwemy represent tne real Spokane
viewpoint as regards the 1 petition of
the Inland Empire Shippers' i league
in Its plea for a readjustment of rates
from Inland Empire shipping points
to v tide water harbors based on the
cost of the service." . '
Mr. Campbell is, direct and specif lo
in his thoilght regarding the water
grade, case. He said: -
,The Columbia basin fate case seems
to me to be what Spokane has been fighting-
for : a Just recognition of the natural
advantages - that the city enjoys as a
shipping center. , -
;That statement proves, by authori
tative expert testimony, that the In
terests of the Inland Empire district
are wrapped up in the determina
tion 'of the water, grade case. It is
evidence from an expert that the
present freight rate schedule from
the - great producing center of the
Inland Empire to the tidewater ports
Is based on ; the wrong foundation,
Is unjust and should be changed In
the interest of right and equity. Mr.
CalnpbeU further said; j ; f
It U time 'Spokane woke up to this
SeatUe situation. We ought to fight
them at every turn and call a halt J-O
this selfish opposition to just measures.
Ws ought to ston aU. buying in Seattle
and build up business connections with
Portland. It would be. much to the ad
vantage of Spokane. ,
-Mr. Campbell's attitude reflects
the "awakening of the intermountaln
people. For a - long time they have
sat under the shadow of the Cas
cade mountain range, paying tribute
to; that 3000 foot barrier every time
they shipped a pound of produce
to the seaboard, or from the sea
board. They . are now beginning . to
realize that theyt have been forced
to carry a foreign' load against their
interest and prosperity. " They see
that they have been, 'and are beinjc
wronged, and they want redress and
justice. -
-The. principles uneo which the In
land Empire Shippers' - leamie has
founded its complaint are , those for
which Spokane has been contending.
Spokane business men are willing to
pay, a, reasonable charge for trans
portation''' service given, them. They
ought not to. be asked, or required.
to : pay more than a reasonable
charge.
Communication between 'Germany
and America Is to be resumed and
trade between the two countries re
stored. These steps will give the
Germans food and their industries a
chance to operate, with the result
that the present anti-Junker govern
ment of Germany will be popular
ized at home. In the Changed condi
tions the German people will see im
mediate advantages resultant from
the signing of the peace treaty, and
have Increased . confidence in the
German statesmen who were cour
ageous ' enough to sign. ? There was
clever statesmanship at Washington
in lifting the ban against communi
cation and trade with Germany.
THE OLD BLOCKHOUSE
nBSCURELY placed ; in the dim
inutive city park of Dayton, Or.
JJ Is a memento -of the past around
which historic names and events
still hover and which everyi traveler
in that vlcrjnlty should see. It is
the original blockhouse of old J"ort
YamhilL Once It ' crowned an emi
nence at the border ; of . the Grande
Ronde Indian reservation and stood
as : a guarantee of ; safety to the
settlers. - Now it rests in theVshade
of trees and memories, and it bears
still the ax mar kg of the long-dead
hands that fashioned- it.
It Is - a far cry from the . auto
mobile and .the paved highway, that,
help one to behold this sliest sur
vivor of i Oregon's yesterday, to the
ox cart ana the Oregon trail which
modern - means of travel have dis
possessed. But hanging on the hewn
log walls are the maple yoke bows
that once strained against the patient
necks : of lumbering oxen aa they
drew the lares and penates- of the
pioneers into the new land. 'Within
are the muskets that once ' could be
beaded with deadly aim on stealthy
foes. Standing In a. dusty corner
is the spinning wheel with which the
mothers of the - state made thread
for the simple garments of their
children.- 1
While the blockhouse stood, 'the
center of Fort Yamhill ome 15 miles
from the town -v of, Sheridan Lieu
tenant Phil Sheridan General Sheri
dan of Civil war fameserved there
under the, command of Captain David
Russell. 5 It takes a mind which
stores the panorama of things that
have been, like that of Historian
Hlmesto recall the friendship be
tween Joel Palmer, Indian agent.
and the youngof fleer. It was to the
blockhouse as to a Jail that Sheri
dan' brought the; culprit "who had
been selling liquor to the Indians,
Another,- man had tried to- make the
arrest but desisted because the law
breaker threatened his life. Sheri
dan, asking permission of. Captain
Russell, Aq - apprehend him, answered
the question as toi whether he would
succeed by saying, "I'll either get
him or tie will get me." ' K- i f
7 The biockhouse: was moved t from
the : old f fort-to Dayton and , de
scendants 1 of, the Indians- whom It
was built to repulse helped move it
The lower logs, . which had rotted
were replaced, and it stands today
In a "new place amid modern 1 scenes
as sound as when It was first con
structed. ' There are ' . two " stories,
four Bquare, but with the - upper
story so placed on the lower that an
octagon is formed and the view
commands every avenue of approach.
Among nuuumgs it is , a wars or
pensioned for a hale old age. -
A heavy handicap rests on the o-
ganberry Juice industry In a 10 "per
cent federal tax on its gross business.
Another and equally; serious handi
cap is the almost prohibitive freight
rate on glass bottles used in the In
dustry, The big tax on the output is
unjust to an industry struggling to
rise out of its infancy. The handi
cap of bottles : should be;' the reason
for establishing a . glass works, v in
which .ve could manufacture our
own bottles. A factory ot the kind
at Stockton, Cal., is the' only one on
the coast. The field for such an in
dustry is Immense , and Its possibil
ities almom-bundless . " ' .
KEN YON REBUKES
SUBMARINERS
By Cart Smith, WashlngtonStaff Cor
... respondent of The l Journal i -
Washington, July . 12. StaadpAt Re
pubucan leadership in : congress, which
came so near to bearing fruit by abolishing-
- the : tariff commission and the
federal employment service, and by
crippling the federal trade commission.
received a severe lashing atJtbe hands o
Senator Kenyon of Iowa liv the hours
preceding: the Fourth of July adjourn
meat. "I think the action of the con
ferees he said, referring to the . ac
ceptance by Senators Warren and Smoot
of a cutting tn half of the employment
service , appropriation, "illustrates the
abundant capacity of Republican leader-
sam to maxe xn is taxes, tor tnia is cer
tainty -a serious mistake from every
standpoint. X I have observed that a
numbeisof bills at this session have had
arery difficult .time passing through the
sabmanne sone - or the conxerees, ana
this is one of .them." . 3 ..,.!
At another point he remarked t "We
have had these different : Instances that
X have referred to of the difficult . voy
age of bills that are for humanity, bills
for the curbing of packers, bills for econ
omy, and : Republican standpat , leader
ship .can take the responsibility for the
situation." - v. -4 V, . - ,i
Senator Kenyon . said the - trade com-
misslon had a "mild case of submarin
ing, .alluding to the cut which was
attempted in the appropriation for its
support: - He said that commission ' had
made a more thorough, smd searching
report of the - operations' of the pack
ers than had ever, before been produced,
and i people weret coming to v wonder
whether this is a government of the
packers, : by the packer and for ths
packers, or of ths American people. : Hs
described the elimination by . the con
f erees of the provision for a commission
to report upon a budxet system, and
quoted ths last national platforms to
show that both parties had declared in
favor of a budget system.
H recalled the recent fight ever the
vocational training bin for soldiers In
jured in the war, and said that, as he
thought it over, it was becoming clear
to ; aim that it was torpedoed in the
senate. The tariff commission-had also
been a target for standDS'isubmarinmar
Lsaid the Iowa senator. V.-
" The upshot of his little speech was
tnat ns conveyed fair notice of the in
teation of at seast one of the -progressives
to go on with the fixht. ADnarentlT
the truce which was patched up at the
opening-, ox tne session, whereby Pen
rose landed what he wanted and Warren
took what he . wished : and the other
standpat leaders 1 were enthroned as
iney aesirea, had sot fooled Kenyon.
Letters From the i People
'J 1 ..in ;
lOommanloAtioM astit ta The roama! for
paoueaoon in xcia oepartmeat (bonld ba written
on only, ona aid- of tha Hnr. ilmM nt
SOO wort, ta leoctfc. and mart be aisnad bj tfaa
w. nu aaaraaa la nui must aeoem-
uia conenpauon. - : .. . , ,
From an Unreconstructed Wet
" "Portland. July 11. To the Editor of
-xne Journal it seems E. w. xutkee is
just as enthusiastic for prohibition as I
am against it. . Ws wets , must admit
we are knocked out in-the first round,
and there is no use to cry over' sniited
beer, but this will not kill desire for
the gifts of nature. -We have national
prohibition, and it is too 'late to argue
the merits of 1 ths question. We most
dow to the law.! Only- time can tell
whether -ft is right or wrong, righteous
That San Francisco ( man is t right,
many 'voted for prohibition who desire
liquor. . Why? Because they thought it
would be a good thing for the rising
generation. - it is different with me; I
oeueve we snouia have; what this gen
eratlon desires ! and - let the next fix
things to suit themselvsa t The Ameri
can .saloon is passing, but liquor will
never pass. Evidently President WU
son is a student of human nature. He
realizes when we destroy what part, of
the people desire It creates: social unrest.
ana social unrest its a menace to the wel
fare ot this nation. This is the main
reason President: Wilson, with his- farr
seeing statesmanship, recommended to
congress to lift wartime prohibition.
I don't think a great question like
national prohibition should - be . adoptsd
without the popular will of this nation.
We wets can't go way back and sit
down until this is done. ? This is our
last and only hope.
One of your correspondents criticises
Mr. Gompers for the stand be has taken
against prohibition from the standpoint
of union labor. Mr. Gompers ia right.
He knows. prohibition will throw thous
ands out of work and throw them on
the labor market, . and i supply and de
mand regulate the price of labor, and
this will have.1 a tendency to lower
wages. Eventually the wet cause will
triumph. EDWIN A. LINSCOTT. .,
From an Ardent Dry ? W
Vancouver, Wash July 10, To the
Editor of -The Journal Regarding Mr.
Gompers and : prohibition, we should
differentiate betwixt . attitude and sen
timent. Mr. -' Gompers : attitude is op
posed ;to prohibition, i But, here, let us
not forget Mr, Gompers is holding down
a $7000 Job, and that those who pay him
are, as a rule, not prohibitionists. T On
the other hand. If Mr. Gompers is both
cane and fionesti his sentiment must be
in - favor of prohibition. Anti-prohlbi-tionsts
have no argument. They cannot
offer any. There is none to offer. Alco
hol is an absolutely useless and, injuri
ous drag. Those who use it are drug
fiends. That sane and soul saving re
ligion, utilitarianism, is now working
out our salvation. Its decalogue, articles
of faith and golden rule are embraced
in the one gedly commandment, "Away
with the useless." r -
The saloon is gone, praise the Lord.
May the United. States senate soon fol
low It. . Amen and amen. J. HAROLD.
Coast Happily Exempt From
' This Terror of the East
From, the Eugene Register
Kothlnsr is farther- from the thousht of
Oregohiana than faking advantage ot a
neighbor's -misfortune to point a moral.
but the Minnesota cyclone that resulted
in halt - a hundred deaths more than
twice as nafty Injuries aad heavy prop
erty losses calls attention in a way that
cannot be overlooked to one of the truly
satisfying features of the Oregon climate.
when they read of the devastation that
has been wrought and the suffering that
has . been entailed, residents of the Pa
cific Coast may well offer up a prayer
of thanks that they five in a region where
a suspiciously black cloud on the borison
is not an occasion for fear.
Summers that are free from torrid heat
and winters where sere cold is unknown
are Indeed delightful and are reasons
enough - for preferring Oregon as a
home, but they do not tell the full story
of Oregon? s climatic attractions. Heat
can be endured when, aa in the case of 1
tM Middle West, the sufferers assure
themselves that: it is. good for the corn;
and cold can be mitigated by wall-built
houses, efficient beating "systems and
arctic clothing;' bt anyone who has ex
perienced the terror that grips whole
communities when the black, cone-shaped
PEACE
By John Greefileaf Whittler
WHAT folly, then," the faithless critic cries.
w- With sneering lip, and wise world-knowing eyes,
"While fort to fort, and post to post repeat. .
The ceaseless challenge oF the war-drum's beat, c
And round the green earth, to the church-bell's chime,
The morning drum-roll of the camp keeps time.
To dream of peace amidst a world In arms.
Of Swords to ploughshares changed by Scriptural charms,:
Of nations, drunken with the wine of blood.
Staggering to take th Pledge of Brotherhood.
Jl
:
Still
shall tire glory and the
Along their train the shouting millions drwt
Oilll
dusty Labor to the nassinc. Brave
His
cap shall doff,, and Beauty's kerchief wave 1
Still
snail tne. hard to Valor
Still
nero-worship kneel before the Strong t v
Rosi i and sleek, the sable-rowned divine.
O'er his third bottle of sugtestlve-wlne, -To
blamed and sworded auditors, shall proVe r -
Their trade accordant with the Law of Lover '
And Church, for State, and State for Church, shall fight, i
Andjboth agree, that Might alone Is Rlghtl"
' Despite of sneers like these. 6 faithful few, -Who
dare to hold God's word tnd witpess true.
Whose clear-eyed faith transcends our. evil time.
And o'er the present wilderness of crime
i Sees the calm future, with Its groves of green,
V its J fleece-flecked mountains, and soft streams between
Stil, keep the pjth which duty bids ye tread
Though worldly-wisdom shake the cautious heads
No truth from Heaven descends upon our sphere.
Without the greeting of the skeptics sneer 1 - '
Denied and mocked at, .till Its r blessings fall.
Common as dew-and sunshine, over alL ! -
. i . ' . . .
; Lend,.once again, that hply song a tongue, 1
Which the glad angels of the Advent sung
Their cradle-anthem for the 'Savior's birth, , .
Glory to God. and peace unto the earthl
Through the mad discord send that calming word -
; Which wind and wave on wild Gennesareth heard,
Lift; In Christ's name his "Cross against the Swordi
OBSERVATIONS c
OF THE JOURNAL MAN
By Fred
- fTba atarvi af China's mtaAmW t4V- f. -i
timed today Ay Mr. Lockley. who enotca fnruwr
from . O. Clark' latter, in which la iaoorporatad
toe asaoenw j .own statement el their eaoaa J
- On the desk before nie is a letter,
dated June 10, Just received from my
long-time friend, J. C. Clark, secretary
f the boys work of the T. M. C, A. at
Shanghai, China. He says: - ; c ,
"There have been strikes and boycotts
m tne past, out never before one such
as 1 now taking- place - in . China, v The
students are the most intelligent class
in China. They are not tied by social,
business or official obligations to any
particular method, of thinking or .behaving-.
They are the" most patriotic citizens
in the country. They have struck, as
a publlo demonstration. They have the
support of j the teachers in the strike,
but not their active leadership or con
trol. The students have a wonderfully
efficient organisation for controlling the
students, i They have city, provincial
and national students' . organizations
formed so jthey can act together. -Representative
students are traveling all
over China to make the strike universal.
Delegations of students have visited
shopkeepers to urge them not to buy
or sell Japanese goods, to discontinue
the use of Japanese money and to ship
no merchandise on Japanese ' vessela
Great quantities of Japanese goods , be
longing to Chinese firms have been .car
ried out: to public places and burned,
and . while j the goods are being-burned,
the- students make - eloquent Jiddresses,
appealing to ths patriotism of ths Chi
nese and urging them to get rid of ths
corrupt Chinese officials.
j - . - -
"The peculiar feature of the strike Is
that there is perfect order, and deep
seriousness. We. of course, can take
no active ( pert in the strike, but we
have done what wo could to help by
suggesting! a dally flag raising, saluting
of ths flag, ' the singing of national
songs and other get together meetings.
One ot the most effective , plans being
used to force the corrupt officials out
of office is a universal refusal to pay
taxes. If this does not work they are
getting the agreement of all the mer
chants in China to close all of the shops
on a- given day and keep them closed
until the corrupt officials resign. It is
Inspiring to be where you can watch this
great waya of patriotism. Thre are
some llem jnts of a religious revival In
the movement, and if it is. wisely led
it will result in a great forward step in
Chinese life.- -
In a letter dated two days later Mr.
Clark says: "Today, June 12, will go
down as one -of the great days in China s
history. The students and merchants
have scored a democratic victory over
e corrutot officials in ; Peking. - The
three worst officials, Tsao Ju-lin, min
ister of communications. Iai cnang m u,
director of the mint, and Chang Chung
Hslang. minister to Japan, have been
smissed from oince. xney sxoppea
udvlna- to work as lecturers among
the Ignorant people. " Their-work resulted
in the shops in all tne rarge cuiea clos
ing and I refusing to do business till
those, men were removed from office.
Word came last night, and the leaders
met in the Y. M. C. A. aUtnldnignt ana
decided to ask the shops to open tooay
a s o'clock, v At 1 :45 the firecrackers
began to boom, and millions of crackers
exploding heralded the fact that the
doors were unlocked and the . wooden
shutters taken down. At the same time
the rainbow flag was hots ted over nearly
every shop door. Kverybody is happy,
for a great democratic movement has
arisen, in China and the first stage in iw
cloUd that Is the visible sign of a cyclone,
with Us sinister,, twisting tall that reaches
down to the earth. Is sighted, will not un
dertake tJo dispute Oregon's advantages
as a home state.' ...... p-
In the I Middle West ths storm-cellar
Is an iiitportant feature of most well
nlanned homes, and people with more
than usaallv commodious . underground
retreats afe quits popular In their neigh
borhoods. These cellars are not mere
excavaUons under houses, such as our
basements. , but . are dugouts similar to
those so common along the trench lines
of the war fronts. Sometimes especially
timorous! people build quite . elaborate
ones, linlhg them with concrete and keep
ing them furnished with beds so that they
can be inhabited with comfort when the
weather M threatening. People possess
ing these refuges are quite uaeiy to- oe
routed out of bed at all hours of the.
night by I frightened neighbors who have
been' studying the clouds that is. If
they so far forget themselves as to go to
sleep above ground with a storm in the
Offingvwf .v.;.;;: r"V-
Natives of the - Pacific Coast do not
appreciate at. its full importance . this
terror that stalks abroad in the Missis
sippi valley.- Cyclones of greater or less
magnitude are frequent enough that ho
inhabitant of the area subject to them
is ever entirely free of the menace of
the funnel-shaped cloud. Thew are pot
matters Of every day or every s wen oc
currence, of course, but they cms m
where in the Middle West of ten. sttoegh
that an unusually blac- aloud is rwir
watched without trepVattlonTand pcae
away from home oi a week's trip ,ara
: .- .
pomp of War
tune his song, .
AND IMPRESSIONS
Xiocklsy
development has. been passed, and it Is
a great success. . I am sure that most
people hers agree that this is really the
greatest student movement the1 world
has ever seen, and at the same time ens
of the finest demonstrations of passive
resistance to amtocratio power that has
ever taken place,? Watch tor the next
move by the students of China,'
... . a ..
-In explanation of why they struck, the
students issued the following statement
For the first time in the history of
wmna a genuine aenaocratio movement
has appeared. : The entire Chinese noniA
has risen. No officials head this move
ment, no great - men have attached
their names . to this cause, ' Spontane
ously out of the schools, among boys
and girls, among shopkeepers and mer
chants, among laborers and coolies, has
arisen uus nistorio defense of the rights
01 tjnina, uus aemana for good gov
ernment. vrf..';JS.-:.5':V; iVK,,iri- .::
. "On the' anniversary ot the 21 de
mands, when the Chinese people were
in mourning because of ths shams their
country had suffered at 1 the hands of
japan, news arrived that China had
been defeated at the Paris peace con
ference. - For months previous' to this
day, since the signing of the armistice.
China had high hopes that she .would
bays . an opportunity to develop '"as a
nation, that ths wrongs which she hAd
suffered from militarism while the na
tions of the world were fighting mili
tarism In Europe would bs righted. . Bat
now China . was hopeless. In Peking
was a government corrupt to the core.
In one-year it had borrowed 220.000,000
from Japan, ceding to her the richest
resources -of the land. Coal mines. Iron
mines, forests, future railroad rights,
control of the army, control of finances,
control of the few, great Industries of
the country, have been thrown away for
a mess of pottage. Great China, the
land richest in resources, richest In man
power, richest In territory had become a
plaything because of the militarism of
Japan and ; the eorruption of her own
officials. ;-- - w " '
"The Manchus were driven out by a
small band of intrepid revolutionists to
league with enlightened officials. But
the Chinese people took, no part in the
first revolution. The monarchist move
ment of Yuan Shlh-kai was killed by
Peking officialdom. But tha people of
China were silent.' Chang. Hsun's At
tempted restoration of th4 Manchus was
squelched by the very officials who are
betraying their country todsy. But ths
people took no interest.,
: " :f i: :: a ' a f -, - '.:( ?- :
"The students of China refused to
study, refused to partlclpats in ths ususl
affairs of life until . China was free.
They clogged the machinery of the na
tion. ..They brought the immediate res
titution of the rights of China and the
immediate democratization of the gov
ernment. These students were Chinese
trained.' They had never, most of them,
left the country. They had not forgotten
ths. nation : In . the glamor of foreign
travel. Their cry was, "Sell usj" sell
everything we have or may at any time
have, but let the nation live.'
"The students" now fighting your
battle. If thef fall now you will have
to take up the war against militarism in
the East sooner er later. You can pre
vent their failure by sympathizing with
their cause, by bringing pressure on
your government immediately to return
Tslngtau to China. The stuuents are
sacrificing themselves for you as well as
for China. - Help them to destroy the
Hun of the East."
never, comfortingly certain as to what
they will find when they get back.
We, are fohd of faying that life is
pleasant in Western Oregon, and we aret
right; it is-a ravorea region, noi me
least Of its Joys Is ths fact that its weath
er never turns Bolshevik and that people
can go to bed at night seeure In . tbs
knowledge that before morning they will
not be blown into the next county, s
'America
(Round Robin Version)
Richard Lialhlcun in New Tors World
, Mr Prtr. 'ua'of tbea,
noend-Bobbi O. O. P..
Abora oer lasd;
Botes Panroaa la er prlda, '
HI Jokoaoa U ear snide. "
By Bob La FoiletU aide
With Lodsa they etand. "
Kr B.-H-O. O. R,
Our Joa and loyalty .
: :f Wa aire thaa t; '
- Fhil Xsox wul (aaoluta,
Hbarnao bia hora will toot.-
V TTlChtias the Leoe with Beet.
. Abo with Bar- -
Iat Bofsh vn the Bfawa
Let Tailae Potaoextar whaasa
Hia hymA of hate: -;
With nam aad Jam aa4 trleka
' We'll play vat politics
iM taaeh the BoUhavtkS
... To . aoors . the : ateta . .
Onr earty'a fcoaa, to thee
W humbly bond the kaae,
, Thy Base we Croat; -r'
What thoosh oar country can.
What thoucfe the -world hall fall,
W hare one porpoaa, all
' Vi iUon to saat, -
The Ncrs in Parasrraph3
World Uappeninirs Briered forllenciit
of Journal Readers
OREGON NOTES
..Th rafXSy t Pendleton this week
reached 108 in the shsde.
.,T.h fntlre strAwberry crop of the Cove
district went at 14 a crate, a price hith
erto unthought of.
ul'"of dive into the Uma
tilla river, near Ilermiston. James Cor
plnger is supposed to be fatally injured;
The forest -fire which recently started
west of Elmire In the foothills of the
cpast range, burned over approximately
150 acres. -
K, KL- LovelAce, Whoss home was At
Rainier, was killed at Hammond camp
Friday afternoon by being crushed un
der rolling logs.
Pleadine- s-ulltv for aniline-
brew, G. B. Hansard of Coitage Grove
ls serving out a term of 125 days la We
Lane county JalL
F. W. Ogram. of Creswelt has traded
his three etory; business block In that
town for a farm of 140 acres at Lea
burg, on the MclCensle river.
Four applications for naturalisation
were granted by Judge Bingham at Ha
lem FrldAy Ths men were from Wal.es,
Norway, Canada and Austria.
. The payroll for hirhwey work in Ore
gon is nearly; $50,o0 a day. Klprlit
thousand men are employed At w a fees
ranging from 4 to f 15 a day.
Owners of nearly 8000 acres of prunes
In Lane county became members of tha
Oregon Fruit . Growers Cooperative As
sociation at a meeting held in Eugene
Friday.' v
Jess J.'Hurlbert of Hollywood, Cal.,
will make a number of geologto surveys
in Benton and Yamhill counties during
the next two weeks looking for new
oil fields. .!
State Forester Elliott at Salem Is re
ceiving reports regarding forest fires tn
various parts of Oregon. None of the
fires thus far reported has been ot a
serious nature. :
C. H. Sproat of Hood River has con
tracted his apple crop to a British ex
porting firm tor an average of fl.?5 a
box for all grades and varieties. This
is a record price for a pre-harvest sale.
Articles of Incorporation have been
iiica at o&iem vy tne uoiiins tour Minn
company of Pendleton. The capital stock
is 1300,000 and the purpose of the organ
isation, is to operste flour, grist and teed
mills.
WASHINGTON
Bids on nine state highway project
will be opened at Olympia Monday.
' Lelghton Corum. aged 11 years, wa
drowfted Friday night in a swimming'
tank at Hoquiam.
Sufficient money Is now Available foi
the paving of the North Bank highway
from Vancouver to Camas.
Governor Hart has accepted the resig
nation of E. F. Blaine, chairman of Uim
state publlo service commission.
A shipment of 820 tons of copper, sal
vaged from the wrecked steamer Marl-
posa, has been received at the Tacoma
smelter. r - .
A cooperative prune drier to care for
the prune -crops will be constructed by
the growers of Clarke county at a coat
of ,150.000. :
Since ths closing of the school term In
Vancouver, nearly 200 school children
have secured permits to work in can
neries and shipyards.
Twenty-five acres of wheat which gAve
promise of 35 bushels to the sere. And
en which there was no insursnce, burned
near wausDurg i- riaay.
Walla Walla is without a chief of po
lice, John H- Haven hAving resigned to
enter the service of the pacific Tele
phone & Telegraph company.
Five thousand clvio employes at Se
attle will receive an- emergency increase
in salaries of 12 per cent, effective
from August 1 to, January 1, 1920.
Victor Ryberg, a steam engineer of
Seattle, entered a Tacoma shooting- gal
lery Friday night and shot himself
through the head. No cause Is assigned.
Harvesting is not yet In full swing in
the Inland Empire, but a losd of barley
raised by John Morrow was received at
the Eureka mills in Walla Walla Frldny.
; More than $200 worth of women's
nothing stolen June v rrom uie name oi
R. C. Dillingham at Spokane, has been
recovered at Kansas City and Round-Up,
Mont. ...
General orders At Camp Lewis an
nounce ths arrival of Brigadier, General
James T. Dean from Washington. I). C,
to become executive officer at the can
tonment. . i. ! . . . , .
Accused' of defAlOAtlone Amounting to
f 16,000. James Khea, assistant cashier of
the National Bank of Commerce at Se
attle, was taken into custody by federal
officials Friday. ,
The state reclamation board has re
jected a bid of SO cents on the proposed
$400,000 bond Issue of the Whltentone
Horse Spring Coulee Irrigation district
In Okanogan county.
. . GENERAL
Twenty-eight reervs militsry aviators
have left Ban Dleso for serial patrol
duty along the Mexican border.
The strike of copper miners at Butte,
Mont., has been settled and none of the
men are refusing to resume work.
The United States treasury depart
ment Is preparing to prosecute aiocij
brokers who , have evaded payment of
income taxes, i
Congress Is considering legislation pro
posing that tolls on ships pasHinal
through the Panama canal be levied od
a tonnage basis. :
Official documents-setting forth the
ratification of the peace treaty by the
German national assembly at Weimar
have reached Paris. i
The new Cxecho-Fldvak cabinet con4
alsts of four National Socialists, font
Social Democrats, four Agrarian fioclaU
ists and two Slovaks.
T.Ititenant'Franlc B. Caldwell. memh
Of the British royal air forces, waa killei
.. . . i m, . .. .. j r, r . . . , .
fall from an airplane. -
' California cattlemen ' ere suffering
great financial loss through overproduce
tlon snd on account of low prices being
paid to them by meat dlstrlbutora
Erwln C. Baker of Indianapolis mads
a run on a motorcycle this week trtixtt
X31K1HO) TV rn.mil. , W . ' . (K . I . .
mlleh, in $9 hours and 47 minutes.
Advices from New Tbrk state that re
funds are available to pay the interest on
participation certificates -or tne evi per
cent nusaiani notes,, now aeiauuea.
The committee Investlgstlng war ex
penditures asserts that graft In connerv,
tlon with spruce production activities
In western foreats rout ths governmeaj
from $40,000,000 to $50,000,000.
Uncle Jeff Snow Says:
The Lord made some folks with ot
of brains they don't altogether una no.
more'n about one or two hours a yeal
and that ain't at lection time.
Returned Soldiers Are Strong
'For W. S. Stamps
fStotiaa of arhlcvamimt In tha aommn.
tattoo of Wat 8a1nct Stamp, aant to 1
Journal aad aeceptwl tot pubUcauoa. ul
bo awarded a Thrift Standi
Governmental Investments, of
course, make strong and natural ap
peal to the returned soldier. Sturdy,
clear thinking, reasonable, he realized
the solid merits, the sterling value
of governmental securities. i In War
Savings stamps, especially, the re
turned soldier is investing his army
savings, putting them where they
will reap high and ssfe harvest,
quarterly computed, non-subject ' to
taxation, depreciation, fluctuation or
similar financial evils. The fact that
they may be redeemed at actual
face value at any time, without
waiting for maturity should thii
seem desirable, adds final appeal to
the man Just out of khaki. An l
generous proportion of the "mtt'tary
money" sent home .during the wars
progress went into War t'avir j
stamps, too,
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Stampe and 191 V , r
. SUu, sow aa at at t, . 1 i