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6 1C19. THE OREGON DAILY -JOUHNAU PQ RTIAIJD SATURDAY, JULY" 19, AS INDEPENDENT JVEWSPAPTB C. ft. JACKSON . .PsbUebaf -Publiebed every day,- aftenraoe end ornlM (eseept Bandar aftetnooe), at The Jo'1 Buildins. Broadway end Tamhiu . Portland, Orcfon. . Entered at tha Portoffice at Portland. Oreeon. . for trnnii.ion through tha seaila second claaa matter.- - ' . ' TlXKPHOSiES Main 1111 Heme. a-0l. AU (UpatmBU reached by theae ewnbere, Tell tha operator what dapartaaaat yea want. ' FOREIGN ADVKBTISINO REPRESENTATIVE Benjamin Kantnor Co.. BrMiewick . ,1: 225 Fifth itv Vlt Xorki 0 aUUen "... Building,' Chfcaea - : ' Suhaerintloa torma by mall. t ta any addraaa is tha United Statee or Mesieov DAILY CMORNINO OR APTTKNOOTf V -'vOse year... ..S8.0S r One stouts. STJNDAT One year. ... .82.80 J Om LSJ5SaV v DAILY. (MOEJllNO OB ArrBOON) ;AM SUNDAX "Ona year. .8T.SO Ona swots. .S .61 Let Bo vandaliua of ararica or negleot, no raracaa of Lime, teetify to tha ptaaant or to tha oomina genarationa that we ae forgotten, aa a people, the eoet of a free and undivided republic 5 -.General John A. Logaa. A BAD EXAMPLE I rN IIIS refusal to . audit bills for automobile . tires, gasoline and oil for the machines of the county commissioners. County Auditor "Martin is right - i. It- is very convenient, without doubt, for Commissioner Muck to have ' a " county .automobile, rolling ;on county tires, . lubricated with county oil and propelled with county gasoline, to bear him back and forth between his home at St. Johns and . : the commissioners' office at the court house. So -It is for Commissioner 4l6lman to equip his car with, county apark. plugs, .and for Commissioner Jloyt'" to replace his worn xmt rubber ' yith county, tires. But, it .is a 1 bad -example' v: ";'--r -r ' The taxpayers who have been buy r ing all these things for the conveni ence of their commissioners will be lieve" that thqse officials ought - to .be able to buy their 'own gasoline .out of the $3600 salary each of, them 'receives. There are . & lot of hm ; Mred . dollar men in the county serv ; ice - who-, could; demand and receive the assistance of the county In the operation,' of - their automobiles with a 'greater show, of Justice-, than the commissioners. If the commissioners aire entitled to gasoline - and other materials incident to the operation "of their private cars' so are all the , rest of the county officials and em- ployes. . " . :". i . Multnomah - county, already has a i flock of Automobiles on hand for use En the transaction of county business. little system-and business drgani raation In their use very likely would make them fully, adequate to meet . all official " requirements. Such an arrangement made by the commis sioners would Tmeet with more gen Jeralvrpublh, approval-;and square Jrriore nearly with official duty than - th& practice which the auditor, seeks to end by returning ; the commlssionr !cr& gasoline bills marked "audited 'and rejected.' Up at the Agricultural College they .have discovered breakfast that cost , from 8 to 12 cents, two course lun cheons that cost from 10 to 18 cento and three course dinners that cost from It to 27 cents each.- The an nouncement is attractive. ." If " the . college. can show housewives the way ' It will be Able to turn many a house hold from worry into gladness. , DR. SULZEB, THE POET jvR. HANS SUL2ER, who has been Portland's guest, - may be the - if ambassador from- Switzerland in - official life, a diplomat in train ing and a soldier by service, but he Is an artist and a poet by instinct- lie ; may not, as he modestly- con- . tended before his Auditors at the Chamber . of . Commerce '.Thursday 'noon, be possessed of a wide and "ready English vocabulary, IfSt it has fallen to the artistry .of ift vision nd the poesy of his diction to paint ;t he most flatteringly beautiful " word -picture of the American nation given Jby. any speaker whose eloquence has been listened j to or reported in long ume,. ; , . . ; He said to his auditors. ' - . 1 have always been t&ueht and have : -known that this Is a great nation. What 1- have . seen in ray journey through it lh impressed me more and more with its wonders., But Uw thing that' has touched me deepest of all the eights X have seen is the sequoia tree, because ;to my mind It tyTjifieg, the nation. It estands - a giant ; In the forests of 'the Jworld, larger, stronger than an thereat, as America stands ln the forest of the 'nations. Towering above its neighbors calmly, majestically and with dignity. It f aces all onslaughts upon it. unbend ing and unshakable as -America stands . 4 a gain st those thtnsrs which are not for I the best interests-of the world. It Is the protector of the teresW- reaching Jabove them to bear the thrust of the lirhtninsr and the bnffettna; of the storm Jas your nation stands In the midst of the nations to" guard -the' liberty f the "world.. . ' - - " And then,-turning' aside to com 'ilete his picture. Dr. , Sulzer saw this own country in the fir nestling at the sequoi's base." I "When I saw -the fir growing side "Jy side with, the . sequoia," he said. 'I thought of my own Svitzerland SINK 'or ORE. than; any other, one snare ODtainea oy any city or irauc xcmwiy ji mc tuiu merce of the world' ' , T 5 Some, statements are ooen to question. Some are de batable. .-Some have part of the truth on both sides. - : But the above statement by an eminent authority is undebat able and unchangeable. It is a fixed - and unalterable truth. Without transportation there can be no considerable city. With out transportation there can be no. commerce. If that be true, then it follows inexorably-that "transportation fixes the share obtained by any city or trade territory of the commerce of the world." : ' ' : , f - - -' ; ' ' - I.- Where' there is most favorable transportation there also are the big cities, because commerce and industry make cities. For that reason, nearly all of the consequential cities of the .world are on lakes, big rivers and the bays that indent the land from the ocean. That is because there is transportation by sea as well as by land, and that double transportation makes the commerce and industry build.'and sustain, the cities. ' The essence of transportation is what it cosCSr to use it. The freight rate is what determines whether or not a city has trans portation. ' - V- If the freight rate is prohibitively high;the transportation is without value.,, From this we deduce that the lower sthe freight rate the more valuable the transportation and . the greater the stimulus to commerce and industry jrwhich; in turn, means more employment, more wages, more business for every activity, more income for every professional man, more money in the channels of trade, more tenants for office everything to sustain population All of this hinges on the freight rate,cand the freight 'rate, therefore, is the desideratum, ?the key to growth tr decay the life or death of the city. . ' 11 yP ' - --y .1 ' " S :- ': Next week there begins, in reduce the freight rate down the for the railroads, plus the. cost of haul. : It is an effort involving the very essence of the growth and development lof the Oregon country. It is effort to secure the benefits resting on the un changeable maxim that transportation fixes the share obtained by any city or trade terntory of protected by the .shadow of America, growing in 'the same soil of liberty and f humanity, from I which truly great nations alone can spring, each doing in Its own measure of strength what it can for' the. betterment ; of the world." a It would be .well for America if all the ambassadors sent to live among , us had the same picture of us -that Dr. Sulzer words have spread upon the ' canvas of our memories. ' , An Aberdeen-father, to win a bet made with his wife wh'en thir son, now 15 years old, was bora, defeated th young man in a 100 -yard 'daah the other day, covering the course) in 11 4-5 seconds. If Dad were to start the young man Just one Jump ahead of a hazel . switch then we could Judge who really has the most speed.- .,;'.... DR. STEINER'S POULTICE v. 1 iaj i ji . i nun " D" ISCIPLRiB is being tightened , at the Oregon State penitentiary, according to announcements sent out through the Salom r press correspondents. Convicts who refuse to abide by the rules and to obey the ' orders promulgated by - the warden or' his deputies, will have their : minimum sentences ; shoved back a year, , thus postponing-their hope of early release on parole. Men Who escape,: or "attempt 'to escape, will face their maximum sen tences upon recapture and" return. Stern theugh they may be, the deci sions are salutary. If there is any place in the ad ministration of ' governmental affairs where promises must be made care fully, and kept when once made, it is in penal institutions. Promises too easily made, and J too frequently broken, have militated against the highest efficiency of .the parole sys tem, and the discipline of the Ore gon prison. But, with rules so stern and strict, much of the burden-will be shifted to the administrative of ficers of the prison. If their orders are to be the law from which there may be no remonstrance or appeal without punishment those orders must . at all times be : grounded on calm consideration and unwavering Justice, else I they will defeat them selves to breed discord instead of discipline.. fii-:t- y. w f The Oregon penitentiary : has been civio ulcer for some timer "The public, having ull confidence in Dr. Steiner's ability, expect -him to heal ft,: whether his poultices be astring ent or otherwise. The Portland woman ' who during the course of a family row, hurled a blacksmith's rasp at her escaping spouse, which, as usual when women attempt to hurl things at a mark, hit the -innocent bystander, in all prob ability was not trying to kill her hus band but simply, to. polish his domes tic manners up a bit ON THE DESCHUTES - - 0' N THE theory .that the - pro posed -Benham falls' reservoir will hold water rests ,-: largely the future development of Irri gation in ! the Deschutes valley. On this : thirteen million dollar project the ' federal '. government .-- is asked to cooperate.: - As - a preliminary 6tep the government has sent out three experts to study the geological formation.' of the country "and report thereon, m This commission v is com posed of Professor Crosby. of Massa chusetts, - noted geologist. Homer Hamlin of California and A. J. Wiley of Idaho, both of whom are con sulting engineers of the United States reclamation: service, .The experts ' havearrlved at Bend to begin'' the examination If the report .. Is - favorable it will no doubt be, followed by federal aid, whichwill 'help to bring under the Irrigation district the valley ofl the Deschutes and" mate thousands of acres of arid, land productive The ?f"Moarytf the country,,which - - l-s s thing transportation ' fixes the buildings and homes, : more of and expand the community. Portland the great struggle to Columbia to a reasonable profit the commerce of the world. is of volcanio origin, is peculiar. It will be interesting to know if f there are subterranean channels through which water will escape and make impounding impossible. , The experi ence with the Tumalo dam makes it imperative that a careful investiga tion be made before such a project as the one in contemplation is put into' execution. ; One result that will follow, the building of a. large reservoir will be the destruction of the present water power of the Deschutes as far north as the mouth of Crooked river. Bend will, have ' to get its power from some other source, v This, however, is a small matter compared to the great development of wealth through irrigation both local and general. I : The 'future growth of the region depends upon it. The forests, which are now. its greatest ; asset, though they will last for years, are being cut down! under 4he ' stimulation of the present demand for lumber: When they are gone the only re source is irrigation. . ..Boston, i in e bad i way. ' The streetcar men have struck and the Bostonese have to ride Shank's mare to and from their- customary pur suits. The fishermen's , union has struck "and they ; are without their usual phosphorescent pabulum with which to sustain their sorely taxed intellectuality. The marine workers have struck and the waves of the historlo harbor -sob beneath the idle docks. William Howard Taft, chair- re at of the war labor board, has thrown up his tiands in despair at brinaing , .about peace,, but. - thank goodness. . the beanerles, are , still running. ' . . PORTLAND STREET NUMBERS r HERE is nd question that great improvement could be made over the present system of naming and numbering the-streets of the city. The question of a change is one that has been long talked about out never soivea. it is worth a good deal of careful consideration on the part of the city council.: To the Portlands who has grown up In the maze of streets and who by absorption and -habit has become accustomed to finding numbers and places, there may not ; seem much need for change. But to the visi tor or the newcomer it is a different story. It would not be such a difficult task : to systematize thi naming , of our streets. That has been done in large part? in the : main ? portion of, the city. It is the numbering that causes most confusion, f It would re quire a ; little ' time, quite a- little patience and some little money to make the change, and it Is the latter, in all probability, that Is of the most concern. - - ' ' But the .first move would be to map . out the system and see on paper , that it would work if put into practice. The trouble Is that we all too often do not know where we are, or how to get. some place else. If there is to be' a change it would be well to know where-we are going to.be after wo make it. If the bakers do not stop boosting the price of bread, as they threaten to do 'again, we will have to begin to Fletcherize and make two swallows go where but one went tefore. EXPERTS NEEDED A N INV1TLNG field for" young men is highway engineering. The road building . era, which is universal In Us extent, is demand ing trained and technical men. Nor only I do- state highway ' departments have ' unfilled lists X but from the federal government and the county governments eomes the call for more p.neinftra. ' A n nrnfpcinn hlrhvcov engineering ! is comparatively new and is becoming recognized ; as such It differs from other forms of civil engineering and requires a special swim?: : trainings rtoad : building has grown expensive and no longer, can extrava gance be afforded. It Is a time for road experts who, ought to be given adequate : authority and , held , steictly accountable for results. 4 There Is the great f . problem of drainage 5 to be worked - out. This ' is - fundamental. Grades are to - b reduced and curves eliminated. Bases. J and yk surfaces which -will 'stand 'under the impact oJbeavy v autO:; trucks; are to. be constructed. Roads must be built to fit the 'ejwsr growing traffio due to the introduction of the motdr vehicle. As Samuel Hill expresses it, MTbe only material out of which to build roads is ' brains and then 'more brains.' Boad Improvement is not a pasBing phase- of our' -development on transportation and commercial lines. It . is permanent, ' and there always r will be a demand for " the highway engineer. - GUS TELLS Te PAER OF MARITIME LAW By Ralph Watson 1 "Tlease, Mister," T. Paer murmured meekly to the studious looking -man be hind the desk, "is this the legal libra ry 7" "We so maintain," the serious one answered - courteously, "but some con tend otherwise." . . "Can ' you find - out about the law here?" T. Paer quesUoned. "I want to hunt up a point" . " "Some people think they can,' the deBkman responded, "until the Judge gets a waUon at 'era." r-' "Is the publio welcome to look," T. Paer -persisted, "or is it a closed shop V "The public,' the custodian of the nooks replied. Judicially. "Is welcome once. If their hands are clean. ' Other wise it costs em'fivebones.: -"I just washed the dishes Hor Ma, T. Paer explained.'-'3'hey're . as dean as I could get em." '! ' Pass,' brother the other said fra ternally. ! belong , to the same lodge of sorrow," - :, ".. - "Darned If I can find it" T. Paer muttered to ' himself : a . few - minutes, later as he rummaged through a pile of books.' "I don't believe they is any such thing." ' "What?" asked the ' cherubic Individ ual . who was browsing over a volume across the table. "Can I be of any as sistance to you, my friend f "What'll It cost me if you are? T. paer asked suspiciously, "l ast a law. yer something once an 'it blamed near cost me my farm." "I never charge," the other answered graciously, "for curbstone opinions. Usually tsy ain't worth the cost of collection." . . , v : , "Welt" T. Paer told him. Tm trying to rind out what.. Is maritime ; law." "Easy," chirruped - the -cherub. "Ton don't need any law for that if you re member your Latin,"-'- - v -"1 never took ! Latln,"k T. Paer con fessed. "except vat a restrant and X dldnt like it much." - - " 'Maritime.' " the chance acaualnt ance defined, lockiAg his fingers . across his middle and gazing Judicially at the chandelier, " 'maritime is derived from 'mare,' the female of the equus. Joined by the intertix T.with the Latin noun time, meaning period of duration. Hence it logically follows that 'mari time law Is the rule ef action governing the period of " duration ol the female equus. In other words, and in the lan guage of the layman it la that rule of conduct or law by which you arrive at the age of the female horse, either past or present T'Goshr T. Paer said in an awed tone. -Is that aU It is? I thought it was something hard." 5 i " v "Nothing, Is hard in my business, my friend,'? the diagnostician said, "except the art of Betting Jobs; which is easy. he added, "if you got the proper touch." "It must, be fine ' to be smart" T. Paer said wistfully, "and get a lot of money by just slttin around In a padded chair an makln . your pants shiny." " "Yes,", the other agreed condescending ly, "it is an honor and a privilege to be admitted -to the bar." , - . "Uh huh.'! T. 'Paer, murmured remin lscenUy ; "I Vseta be, on paydays.) But" he sighed, "them days is gone .for rgood, I guess." . y . 'The times are decadent X fear." his companion agreed. - "But I referred to the legal bar." "There ain't any no' more,", T. Paer said mournfully. "Nothln but boot leggers an' moonshine." "You do not understand me," the otner saia - somewnat surriy. "X was refaxring to the practice of the law." ' "Oh," 7C. Paer said apologetically. "But what does the Port of Portland have to know about the ages of mares for?" : Tnav; the 'Other answered. . "is a privileged communication between law yer .arM client which X may not divulge m general conversation." "But" T. Paer- Insisted, "I thought l they was,to xtx up the dock." - . f "If ntn nlll .Kn.,ill . h 4Utn.b the UtUe man's adviser explained, "you will find, that to dock means to shorten the tall of the horse." vr f , x snoura.tnmK tneya need a horee doctor, - then, T, raer said practically "instead of hlrtn Que Moser." ; "They must- proceed," the other - an swered, "legally and with due clrcum spectlon and advice. Damages might accrue if they amputated the appendage too rigorously. v Well, I thank you, anyway," T. Paer said, pusslement in his voice; "but what might your name be?"- "I," the other answered, swelling his chest a little- "I am . Senator Moser, advisor of the Port of Portland in the intricacies of maritime law." . " Oh 1" T. Paer gulped, fingering his hat nervously as he backed out into the corridors "By gummy." he muttered. as he emerged bUnklnr into the sun shine, "X guess the female equus Is on Cats of Lower New York A Are All Business , From the New York Sun. Among the worthiest creatures in the animal kingdom Is the cat and particu larry the . kind of cat that : lives and works in lower Manhattan.. Observers whose -way takes them . through the streets S of the warehouses, wholesale groceries, markets and factories see tba cat occasionally by day as it passes from door to stairway or; from cellar to street,: Jilmbly avoiding the - shifting boxes and bales and the boots of the drivers r and passersby. Nimbly and gracefully the cat does It avoiding all appearance of haste or fear. Of the lat ter it probably has none ; cats are fatal ists, and it was one of the sights - of besieged , towns 'In Europe durtnjr1 the war to watch the cat disregard the roar ot tne shells and the nying stones and earth, while the dog, a sensitive creature with an imagination, sought refuge even as nta master man did -. In lower ; Manhattan dogs - rarely . are seen.1 They would not like It. for thin era are busy and noisy and there is nobody to play with. The downtown cat is not for play. Possibly, after generations -of lire in the mercantile world, a kitten would not know bow to play with a hall of yarn. These cats are serious animals, like Casslus, but not Quite so lean, and hungry. ,Tet they are not fat - You sever see Willard among them ; they are . all , Dempeeys. seemingly trained . to tne nour and with eeata: in either mitt tor the cornered rat. They have an un mistakable business look, a do it now, let' efficiency be our motto, expression. They have breathing spells, these cats. Sometimes at night, after; the last truck basoae and the watchman is making' his rounds, eats may be seen in the quiet cross streets . west et City Ha.ll park, basking in the light of the electric lamps. : Now and then a cat mother; win bring her litter to the . sidewalk as f if to teach them something about the sur face life of the city. - On Sundays and holidays the cats, which may belong- to Feline Union No. 19r. positively loaf in front ef their shops, sprawled on the sidewalk and confident that nobody will step on them. . '- - - v What do they live on when the stores are closed for three days at a stretch? Ask the ghost of any downtown rodent He known i f-H.i-- ;5".m r Commanica Horn aant' to The Joeraal for pobiieataoa in this departiaent ahonld te written en only one side ot tha paper, abould Bot exoeed sue erorda la leoata. aa aaost ee alsaae j to writer, wboea nuil addraaa in lull muat accoaa- panj tbe contribution. 1 i Quotes Mill on Prohibitions Walla Walla, Wash.. July 15. To the Editor of The Journal The "ardent dry." Jj Harold, says. "Antl-prohibl- bltionists have no argument" We have a strong argument for liberty and Jus tice. John Stuart Mills : in his unan swerable argument says; "The only nurnose for which sower can be riarht- fully exercised over any1 member of a civil community against his will is "to prevent harm to others. , His own good. either physical or moral. Is not a suffi cient warrant He cannot . rightfully be compelled . to do or forbear because it will be better for him to do so. be cause, in 'the? opinion of others, to do so would be wise, or even right These are good reasons for remonstrating with him. or reasoning with him.' or persuading him, but not for compelling him, or vis iting him with any evil in ease he do otherwise. To justify that tne conduct from which it la desired to deter him must be calculated to produce evU to someone -else. The only part of con duct of anyone,-for which he is amenable to society. Is that which concerns others. In the part which merely concerns him self, his independence is of right abso lute. Over himself, over his own body and mind, the individual is sovereign. Mankind are greater gainers by suffering each other to I live as seems good to themselves, than by compelling each, to live aa seems good to others. t Mr. Harold says that alcohol is an ab solutely useless and injurious drug. My mother used to tell my grandfather that when he would sit out in the -sun with his bottle of rum and old clay pipe en joying himself reading. I can remember her lectures on the evil of drink. -and she would say, ,"You .will surely kill yourself drinking and smoking.". Ma was correct ? He, was St years and two months old when he died with a smile of supreme happiness on his face, sit ting in the sun . in his old armchair, his bottle and pipe on the stand beside him a warning to the "wets." Though I do not use liquor nor to bacco, 1 recognise the natural right of one to please himself, as long as others are not harmed, v A. -JOHNSON. i, Mr. Liaseott In Rejoinder" Portland. July -IT. To the " Kdltor of The t Journal O. Harold- of Vancouver tells us the wets nave no argument We have this much of an argument: Since orohlbiUon has taken effect In this state and Washington there has been nothing but a continual, uproar and warfare. There can be no peace under the prohi bition law. ! It bas made more lawbreak ers, sneaks and hypocrites than any other law that was ever put Into effect In this state., and there has been more araftlnr than there was in the palmy days of the saloon. Wait until this coun try srets entirely dried up; then tne peo- Dle will bellow like a rumen ox caives when they are being weanea. , Suppose someone should say to tne people of ' Portland ; ; "AU those who want a good cool glass of beer hold up their hands." Nine-tenths of the hands would go up. This being a fact why should we be fastened under the ty ranny of a prohibition law? ; A few more lawa like prohibition and we will be fastened under a tyranny that only a revolution can break. V-v - I asked a man the other day now he liked prohibition. He said. "I can't ten youT- They won't even let one uua about It" The cause of the wets has been smothered on every hand. Who made national prohibition? The answer would be the representatives of the people. lent it a fact that California and other states -voted wet and their representatives - ratified national prohi bition ? Do; you call this representing the people? ' : i. : " ' Some say the Democratic party is re sponsible for national prohibition. This is not true. It is not a party issue. Prohibition has Ha friends and Its op ponents . in both parties.., "Amos" of Vancouver tells us it Is a. waste of grain to make liquor. How about near beer, the prohibition drink. . They throw aU the good in the grain away to keep the alcohol out of it and give us the slop. We get soup out of the whole prohibi tion deal. EDWIN A, UNSUUTl', t Championing the Kid's Rights , - Froaa tha Baker Democrat . The T. M. C A is a boon to those who are fortunate enough, to be members of the association, but the little youngsters who know nothing about th great or ganisation ; and who are not willing to pay membership dues in order to get a good old fashioned swim are certainly entitled to some .kind of a free cool bath outside of the tub. y . .Not so very long ago - Baker had a natatorlum at the Country club, - but even this is a thing i of the past Are the people of this city going ' to allow their resources to burn up and then re main in the same old rut without think ing about using the unfortunate occur rence as an inspiration to buud some thing far superior to what was de stroyed? Baker's progressive spirit has won for It a fine automobile tourists' park, immediate action for good roads, and many other Improvements, but still the kiddies lack a plunge. While - we are 'building conveniences for our wel come visitors why not also spend little money on our own children? , r-1 The Hot Wave's Way aj Bend . Froaa the Band Preea 'r, To write about the beat in Bend Is an unsafe venture for the reason that while it ia being written the thermome ter may bej hitting ; the SO mark, and when it Is read the wave may have passed and the breezes of the - snow. capped Cascades have . brought their cooling comfort . ; , : . i : But why fret and worry if the day Is hot the night -will be cool and the morning wiU be delightful. , There is no sUcky sweltering humidity that makes the B. V. Ds. stick to a persnlr tng skin ; it is only hot in an Invigorating way. Fretting about the heat only makes It the more difficult to bear. like tootnacne, corns ana outer kindred ilia The way to keep cool is to eat less. worry less ana wotk more. . v -. - Letters From the People COMMENT AND" SMALL CHANGE Vacation days! -i' . . . - e . - - - -. : . Isn't the world going along so fast that It's a wonder it isn't arrested for speeding. ""It's going to be some Job to get prices back to normal again, . That s all we can say about that - If it should be decided that buttermilk IS aa Intoxicant wobM th nw or th manufacturer be guilty of. vloUting the The real - charre aaralnat a "Pullman Porter' Who is said to have anrared in i the drug traffic, is that he overdid his business of putUng people to sleep.. . . i Chinese in San- SVanntem nrleVnT- to kill themselves over the peace treaty. -They would emulate what some United States senators have- done politically. There seems to feel a.' aort nt fMiina- In the foreign relations committee of the senate that President Wilson would ap- ixwr oeiora j as a witness jor tne prosecution. .. Someone has been unkind enoua-h tn remark that Mr. Rockefeller's expecta- liuu o live io oe iuu years oio lnctcates his disbelief in the aphorism that the Kwvu aim young. .- , , .. How -does a Draaldtnt stand -fteiwaw from home en a mission of so strenuous a nature, particularly if he isn't sure, meanwhile, whether be turned out the Ught in. the cellar. . . v ,. - . r The list of things the nackers sell mir. gests that by going a step farther and taking over the mall business, they would be In a position to completely stock up a Four Corners postofficei OBSERVATIONS AND IMPRESSIONS OF THE JOURNAL MAN By. Fred fBaraond Georn. the atorjr ot whoea vMihiM in tile araat war waa ODened in thia pace jreeterda, eoatinvaa. the narraUTt todar. cletauua' ua wore oz uti iwu vdip - uiu after tha data when tha German lliw warered anrgae back in ita final recearton. ,1 ... "I shall never forget toy IniUal ex-1 perience under fire at the front," said Raymond George, who served with - the Devil Dogs, but vwho. Is now with, the Warren Construction company at Portland. "The artillery - fire . was so ' heavy mat it was lrnposoioio to 1 get our . rations to ua We had reserve rations of four cans of monkey meat - and : French hardtack. This supply didn't last very long, so after the first day or, two we rustled cans of monkey meat and hardtack from the bodies of our dead pals. The, first pal' of mine to be , killed was iiester Jacobs, from Oregon. He was with his machine gun when It received a direct hit which vput the gun out of : action. killed the lieutenant and three men and wounded the rest of the gun crew. Their gun was about 20 feet from where I K With another marine i startea to take Iiester back to the first aid dressing station. The blood was spurt ing from a severed artery tn his leg, which was badly shattered. We hadn't gone over a hundred yards when we found that Liester was dead, so we laid him down and went back to our machine gun.,.. :-'" . . - . "There was no opportunity during the four or - five: days we, were holding the ground we had won to bury our dead. Some of our own. dead; irom wnom I secured rations, had been killed ' from three to four days. :t The men who had bled heavily were yellow, but ' where they had not bled much their faceg had turned black. They looked as swarthy as Mexicans. Many, particularly those who bad been dead three or four days, were bloated. It was all we could do to eat the hardtack and monkey meat we got from their packs, on account of the smell of decay. Wherever , we could, we rolled our dead pals into shell holes and scraped dirt over tnem. xou can, get an Idea of the severity of our fle-ht when I tell you tnat out oi me Fifth and Sixth regiments of the marine corns. 1800 were killed or died of wound Of course, a very large number oi tne wounded recovered and return ea to service. - The normal , strength .of our company, the Eighth company of the Fifth reerlment was 275 men. At the time the armistice was signed we had had 1400 replacements tn our company, which will give you some idea or our casualties. Out of the 20 replacement men I was with, only two are now auve and in good shape. Here In this little leather-covered pocket ;. memorandum book, are the signatures of nine of the men of the gun crew I served with. There are 12 men in a machine ' gun crew Sour .to operate the gun. and eight ammunition carriers; We had the French Hotcbkiss machine guns. They are-much heavier than the Vickere or tne uewia Of the nine men who signed in tthis little' book, four that I know of are dad.. one has his foot off. another Is badly wounded In the hip. and X don't know whether the other two are alive or dead. nrjiriT in ju.br we were relieved by the Twenty-sixth division the Yankee Ai-trinion. We traveled tor tnree oays xo a rest camp south ef Paris to be reor ganised. We were 4 supposed to stay at th -t eamn for a week or more. When we-liad been ' there three days orders 'came to report Immediately " at the - Soissone front We were- put - in eamiona. fie men to a camion, and you couldn't pack a can with sardines any closer-than that We traveled two days Olden Oregon History of Southern Oregon Begins . With Trading Post 1S80. t, Hudson's Bay company in 1880 es tablished its first trading post in South ern Oregon on the Umpqua river oppo site XCIk creek and named it Fort JJmp qua. Other trappers from the Willam ette visited the country In 1832. In 1837 Swing Young and a party of Willam ette valley settlers traveled through the region on their way to California; to purchase cattle. On the return trip the party was attacked several : times r by hostile Indians on the Klamath 'and Rogue "rivera One of the . party was killed and two others injured. This de terred travel for some time. In 1840 Jason Leer and Gustavus Mines sought to establish a Methodist mission among the Umpqua river Indians but the condi tions were not favorable and the project was abandoned. - ,'- t Fooling Birds and Boys .' ? - From the Detroit News O. F. Martin, horticulturist of Holton, says there- are two good methods of combating the - destruction caused by birds in cherry orchards : 1) plant suf ficient trees so that the birds cannot possibly eat all the crop. , 2) plant mulberry trees near the cherry trees to attract the birds , away, from the cher ries. A similar principle-bas often been appUed ; in- diverting a boy's - interest from two cents -worth, of cake by giv ing him 10 cents worth of candy, and Is known to be entirely sound. - Keeps You Guessing v.y From tie Kanaaa Citr Journal ' ."It is all right to talk about hitching your wagon to a star. ' "Well?" x " ' ' "But the question now is where can a fellow' park an automobile4 '' 1 NEWS IN . BRIEF OREGON SIDELIGHTS Colonel Clark Wood of the "Weston leader says he "would like to. see fc.llhu Root for the league." - . . v .- "And 'now,'" , says ' the Hood, River News, in that - Jollying way - itjtas "a five-snot for our very own drive the liost liake road fund. Thank you !" There's a general "scramble for men i to put up hay for big ranches and the smaller ones -'in Harney valley. the Crane American says. Bo far. men have been secured from Boise, . Ontario and Portland. Auto tourist travel through Baker Is in greater volume than ever before, and the city authorities are hustling to get the ' camp ground-; in shape tor the accommodation of these travelers. s Of a family of Kansans visiting in Eu gene the Register reports "They left Kansas sweTtertng 'In the -heat, j and found hot, dusty weather - all the way across the statee until they struck The Dalles. At Columbus, Mont, It waa 113 in the shade. The Eugene climate and weather seem very agreeable to them compared to the heat of the .East" The report naturally, concludes with the statement that they will probably locate in Eugene, ,- .... a .' .- "., ry Beginning with Fourth of July festivi ties, it has been everything from horse races to Chautauqua, tn Grant county, nnnle ot John Day. Canyon and surrounding country .are really tired out for they have been on tne irau oi joy for the past two weeks," says the Can yon City Eagle, "and many of them are nnw raadv to take to the mountains and summer resorts that every well regulat ed person plans xor tne gooa oia Bum mer time. JUockley- ad-land two nights by camion. We reached the Solssons front July 16. In spite ot being badly cut up and tired out both the Americans and the French were hurled at the Germans to break their morale. ; : The First division was sent to Join the Twentieth corps of the Tenth army, under General Mangln. Part of our division was in the line by the morn ing of July 18. Our chaps, the marines. didn't get into action until along toward the middle of -the afternoon of July 18. In spite of the fact that we were short a part of our Infantry and had no re serves, we covered the division front assigned to us. On one side of us were the French ; on the other, the Moroccans. The Germans had been planning for a big drive. We hit them a sledge ham mer blow which boke their line and pre vented them from carrying out the plan. Our division, the Second, came out about 60-60 that is, about BO per cent were able to continue-fighting, the other 60 per cent having been killed or wounded. "X. believe the turning point of the war was on- July 18. We stopped the Germans at Chateau-Thierry, but. at Solssons we began to drive them back. On tharaday we advanced one and a half kilometers,- which - is a little more than' a mile. That night our lines were about 800 yards from the German lines. We were in a wheat field. The Germans resisted desperately, trying to hold us with machine guns, and they had plenty of them. The wheat swayed and nodded. as if swept by a breeze ; but the breeze was caused by the constant firing over the field of machine gun . bullets. As we-crawled . through the wheat which was headed out and almost ready for harvest we could hear the bullets sing Just over . our heada v Often - a bullet would cut off it down on us. Amila ' a'"" ana vicinuy, ana iep a wheat head rand dropIBre being taken to organize a post of "' - "A '- the American Legion. 1 vie uew . awuy .viiwMiiuv auue ii our company. During our five days of fighting there the Germans made direct hits on four of our guns, killing or wounding -most of the gun crews. ' On J uly 21 we were relieved and traveled . rnr. V.-... . . a . I t tfor three days in box . cars to a point between Toul and Nancy. , We stopped at the little French village of Point St Vincent for about 'a week.'.. From there we went to Pont-a-Moussen to relieveyl the French. . The first night we wera there a German' raiding party was sent over to see what the unusual stir and 4 movement was about They captured two of our marines. Next night we put over a heavy barrage, sent out a bunch of our men, and brought in 10S German prisoners. One of the chaps in our company .was Fred Pabst His uncle Is at, the head of the Pabst Brewing company. Fred spoke perfect German. When we brought in the prisoners he talked to them. They really had very little accurate knowledge of how things were going, though most of them were mighty sick of. the war. .. ! "On August IS we were relieved by the Eighty-second division. -; This .was their first time to be In the -line. We left some of our men as Instructors to put them onto the ropes. The 'rest of us went back and put In two weeks jbf Intensive drilling With hand grenades, and also practicing a new form of i machine gun fire, elevating, transverse and firing at the same time. This, proved very help ful Mn the St Mihlel drive. 1 "The French, after four years of fight ing, had established a record of taking a French' Hotchkiss gun . apart and as sembling; it 84 seconds. A lad in our company' ICd Dunn of Denver, ' estab lished the world's record and .won 600 francs by taking down his gun and re assembling it in SO seconds." Curious Bits of Information For the Curious Gleaned From Curious Places The liaise Jelly-like animals which the scientist calls Foramlnif era. swarm so abundanUy. in the sea that their tiny cast-off shells In' some places make up a considerable pert of the sediments which are laid down on the sea bottom and which in time may become beds of rock In a land area. The small slse and the compactness of these shells pro tect them from some of the accidents that befall.the remains of larger- animals, so that irt many samples of well borings the Foramlnif era are the only shells that have survived In recognisable form the- vicissitudes of drilling. In ,the hands of specialists trained to identify fossils, the - Foramlnif era may furnish the only available clue to the age of rock enclosing them, and consequently to the existence of strata or structure favorable or unfavorable to the accumu lation of oil. gas or water, according to the United States geological survey. Borah's Background s fy:'y"y , Ftors the Chleaso Post . ' . . Un Borah's threat to .call Into being "a third party" if the G. O. P. does not go on record against the League of Na tions would be ' more - frightening did we not recall that the last time there was a third party,. Mr;. Borah shifted from foot to foot and never did say whether be was for it or against It The 191J question, "What of .Borah ?" still remains unanswered. ' ' . Discovered : -:; ! ' Froaa. Boy's 14 fa , . - , v Walter (hinting for a t!p)-j-And how did you find your steak, sir? Diner Oh, I, Just moved that little piece of potato and there it waa The News in Paragraphs World Happenings Briefed for Uenetlt '.' . of Journal Readers OREGON Js'OTES uu h.L on three-story KmOo! bu,ldln8: t Condon, to cost .JSove cho0, girls are making $4 a day orchards " na'nore In the cherry The salmon catch. voh v... tremely light for several weeks, la showing improvement at Astoria. Governor and Un niit v. i f.UL!,nM,t ' will leave Salem on m trip to ailowatpne National park. Tla Koblnion and Ernest Boynton. Pendleton ; boys who saw much service in thJ? I" war Pcted home iu Alfred Jurv h.. r,ui.n. " of the Bank of CottagV CVove. and N. . r win assume that poal- -" 1.01. Bids will be rilvwf ..... highway commission. Aue-uar r r.- mile of hlrhwav htu..n Th. t-i.ii. and Pendleton, The Ocorte XVn ,.lniviftn i. . . - . f I . 1 l. I . J Irish freedom was organised in Albanv Tih,'irUy v"'"g by supporters of the plan for an Irish republic Kusaell Brooks of Salem, who has been -appointed vice-oonsul to Holland, has received orders "to be ready to salt on Auguet 1 from Kew York. Crop prospects are reported anything but promiaing in Baker and Grand &I!SvaUv"-, Boih strlcta have suf fered from lack of moisture. . The new boat Willamette Flyer, built ..0rKOn V.lty'.,maaa its Initial run Thureday. It will be used as an ex- cursion boat between Portland and Ore- Four veara aarn Innii it r . i. ai .bany councilman, suffered a broken 'arm While cranking his automobile. l-hnra. day the same arm was broken while he was cranking the same machine. According to word received at Salem, Boston bonding attorneys have declared valid the transcript ot the aale of 800,-, 000 worth of highway bonds sold Tues day to Henry Teal of Portland. I. M. Myers, a resident of CoqulUe ValleV. haa trn . r-UmrirA villh man- slsughter in connection with the death of mr. oamoon, an eared woman, who waa run down at Marahfield by an automo bile driven by Myers. John Adams was arrested at Eugene for violating the prohibition law. A number of sealed bottles were taken an evidence, and when opened in court they were found to contain sweet cider with no percentage of alcohol. A gift of 180 acres of land on which there stands 8.000.000 feet of timber, ha been given to Willamette unieeralty by a donor whose name is withheld. The same donor' has given 600 for the equipment of an infirmary in Lausanne hall, A man calling himself F. "H. Wood." was, arrested In Seattle Thursday .v officials, who believe he is John W. Worthington. a Chicago broker, who i wanted In that city In connection with the alleged theft of HJ5.000 worth of bonds. ... . - ? .WASHINGTON , There are 17 labor unions In Centralla with a membership of approximately jooo. Chandler Brown, .aged 72 years, one of the oldest residents of Centralla, died Thursday morning. During the existence of Camp.Lawin only nine cases of typhoid fever devel oped in 125.000 men. . The forest fires above Ilumptullps havs been quenched after burning over COO acres of valuable timber. The Southwest Washington Pioneers' I association will hold its annual picnlo at Centralla this year. August 16 is the" date set According to figures compiled by Ag ricultural Agent Newhouse, Clarke, county's products ' this year will ba , worth $3,780,000. Two hundred ex-service men are liv ing In Kelso and vicinity, and step 1 The Commercial club of Hoouiam has undertaken to fill 80 acres of tidelands near that city, which It Is planned to make into factory sites. Dr; N. Fred Esslg, who practiced medl- Cine In Spokane for 82 years, is dead at the Mayo Brothers' hospital in Roch ester. He was 70 years old. The North Fork Logging company, operating near Artel, on the north fork of the Lewis river, has closed down In definitely. About 100 men were em ployed. - ' The Tacoma city council has offered the Tacoma Railway' Power company 81,600,000 for its street car lines with in the city, providing a vote of the-peo-ple sanctions the purchase. Marshal M. E. Hull, who has held the office at Kelso for the past four years, resigned this week, as the city admin istration .was unable to increase his sal ary to meet outside competition. At Seattle Thursday Colonel Charles H. Martin was decorated with the dis tinguished service medsl by General Harry F. Hodges. Colonel Martin was cited in France by General Pershing for distinguished service. GENERAL - Improvements Involving the expendi ture of 8181,000 have been authorised at the Ben tela arsenal. The Spanish cabinet headed by An tonio Maura, which was formed on April 16 last has resigned. Prices on all foodstuffs havs fallen with a crash In Berlin as a result of the lifting of the blockade. The Prince of Wales will sail from Portsmouth Asgust 6 on his trip to Canada and the United Statea Despondent ever financial worries, J. H. Marshall, painter of desert scenes, killed himself at Reno, Nev. H was 88 years old. lieutenant C. Q. Mauzy-was Instantly killed Thursday when his plane. In which he was circling for altitude over Los Angeles, caughtrflre at the height of 900 feet ' It is said at the navy department that approximately 17S ships, with an aggre gate tonnage Of more than 00,000. will constitute the newly-organized Pacifie fleet .5. -. Uncle Jeff Snow Says: To hear some of our most eloquent and famous reformers, a feller might think It didn't make a mite of dlffer'nce who owned the land of a country Jesso , their pet reform was set a-goln'. I heard one of 'em say a while back that all the" use he had for any land In Ore gon was to raise a umbreller on it II was talkin' then on land worth nigh a minion dollars a acre, and ct his meals on land worth about the same. And he slep on 'land Jlst like it and worked, when he worked at all. on more land of the same kind. But be argyfted away - that he didn't have no use fer land. Some- fishes don't have no use fer water, but they Is salted down. Fraternal Societies Asked To Support Campaign tStsrlee of sehleeeanent Is the soeoma latios of War kinnn Stance, eent to 1 he Journal and erl for pubUcaUoa. ui be awarded s limit Stasia 1 : The ' government of the United Statea' through Its war loan organ isation, is asking the cooperation of all the fraternal societies, in pro moting the war savings, or thrift, campaign. -: The thrift campaign Is intended to preserve the war lessons of savin; and thrift for the promotion of in dividual, community and national prosperity, and to develop the de mand for War Savings Stamps, as a method of helping finance the gov ernment' during the period of read justment Thrift f'smpa and 1919 Vit P..- 1 Stamps sow aa aa..a at tinuct sior..